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Lt. Gov. Dan Forest shakes hands with supporters at his official gubernatorial campaign kickoff rally in Winston-Salem on Aug. 17.

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Trump admin could lower payroll taxes Washington, D.C. President Donald Trump says his administration is looking at tax cut proposals to continue economic growth, including lowering payrolls taxes. Trump talked about the economy and international trade during a meeting Tuesday in the Oval Office with the president of Romania. Trump says his administration is looking at a cut in the capital gains tax when investors sell assets. But mostly, Trump is pressuring the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates. He says, “They have to do a rate cut.” Trump says the word recession is “inappropriate” and if the Fed would do its job, “you would see a burst of growth like you’ve never seen before.”

Sioux City, Iowa Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren offered a public apology Monday to Native Americans over her past claim to tribal heritage, directly tackling an area that’s proved to be her biggest political liability.

“Like anyone who has been honest with themselves, I know I have made mistakes,” the Massachusetts senator said at the start of her appearance at a forum on Native American issues in this pivotal early-voting state.

“I am sorry for the harm I have caused.”

Her past claim to tribal ancestry, which culminated in her release of a DNA analysis last year, had drawn criticism from some Native Americans and dogged her 2020 campaign in its early weeks.

But Warren, who last week released a detailed policy agenda to help Native Americans, has since climbed in the polls.

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By Dan E. Way For the North State Journal RALEIGH — Taxpayers in N.C. will soon learn whether they will receive an unprecedented tax rebate from the state’s coffers.

Senate leader Phil Berger (R-Eden) has floated the prospect of returning a portion of the state’s $896.7 million budget surplus to taxpayers. The idea emerged from the ongoing budget gridlock between the Republican-led General Assembly and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, who vetoed the $23.9 billion spending plan lawmakers sent to him.

It’s uncertain what percentage of the tax overcollections could be channeled to rebates.

“Those are the calculations that we’re running now to see what that even looks like,” said Berger spokesman Pat Ryan. No target figures have been identified for how much money might be returned to taxpayers’ pockets.

“It could be a few hundred bucks per couple, or per taxpayer. There’s so many different variables that that’s like one back of the envelope calculation,” Ryan said.

Senate budget analysts are crunching numbers under different scenarios to determine the best plan. Issuing a rebate would require legislation separate from the budget bill. It’s unclear whether Cooper would support such a move or veto it. He didn’t respond to a request for comment.

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“After Governor Cooper’s office predicted a $600 million shortfall for this year, responsible Republican budget policies actually produced a $900 million surplus.”

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Forest makes bid for governor official Republican Lt. Gov. held rally in Winston-Salem to launch campaign

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal WINSTON-SALEM — Touting a new vision for the state of North Carolina, Lt. Gov. Dan Forest officially kicked off his gubernatorial bid on Saturday in front of an estimated crowd of 2,000 people at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds.

“Unity and opportunity set the stage for possibility,” said Forest, who went on to say that that “leaders get stuck fighting battles of the past too often instead of leading us into the future.”

The event was broadcast live on Facebook. Forest’s speech ran about 10 minutes with a theme that North Carolina needs a new vision.

Hank Henning from Guilford County said he came to the rally to “support Dan.” Another attendee said that she was there to support Dan Forest because “he’s definitely the kind of change we need in North Carolina” and that “Roy Cooper has to go.”

“The energy has been unbelievable,” said Forest campaign spokesman Andrew Dunn. “We have 150-plus volunteers here, and we’re expecting at least 2,000 Dan Forest supporters to show up.”

“At the heart of our campaign are the grassroots,” said Forest campaign manager Hal Weatherman at the beginning of the rally.

“We’ve built all of our campaigns from the bottom up.”

Weatherman said the campaign already has over 6,000 volunteers signed up.

The 51-year old is the son of former Congresswoman Susan Myrick and spent 21 years as an architect before running for office. Forest is the first Republican ever re-elected to the office of lieutenant governor in the state.

He and his wife Alice have four children and reside in the Raleigh area.

Summer Brooke and the Mountain Faith Band kept the crowd entertained prior to the introduction of speakers that included Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC5) and civil rights legend, 77-year-old Clarence Henderson.

Henderson, who is the coalition leader for African Americans for Dan Forest, was recently acknowledged by President Trump

this past 4th of July for his role in the famous 1960 sit-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter in downtown Greensboro.

“I support Dan Forest because he is the right person for the governorship of the state of North Carolina. He is a person who reaches out to the people,” said Henderson.

In his speech, Forest said he would lift up stories of those in need, calling their struggles the “soul” of his campaign and that celebrating the success stories from around the state would be the “heart” of it.

“I pledge to each of you and I pledge to all the people of North Carolina, I will run a campaign that appeals to your aspirations, not your fears,” Forest said while promising to visit all 100 counties.

Forest said various entities are trying to divide people by “following the playbook of identity politics” and that his campaign rejects those tactics.

“In our campaign, we will reject identity politics,” said Forest.

“Identity politics represents the death of democracy. It threatens to burn down the house that our Founding Fathers built, and the people of North Carolina will not stand for it.”

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Vickie Chaplin loads patient samples into a machine for testing at Myriad Genetics Friday, May 31, 2002, in Salt Lake City.

Guidelines say more women may need breast cancer gene test

could alert their daughters or other relatives to a potential shared risk.

“It’s important to test those people now,” Mangione said. “We need to get the word out to primary care doctors to do this assessment and to make the referrals.”

Private insurers follow task force recommendations on what preventive care to cover, some at no out-of-pocket cost under rules from former President Barack Obama’s health care law. The recommendations were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Cancer groups have similar recommendations for BRCA testing, and increasingly urge that the newly diagnosed be tested, too, because the inherited risk can impact choices about surgery

and other treatment.

Identifying BRCA mutation carriers “can be lifesaving, and should be a part of routine medical care,” Drs. Susan Domchek of the University of Pennsylvania and Mark Robson of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, who weren’t involved with the new guidelines, wrote in an editorial accompanying them.

But too few high-risk women ever learn if they harbor BRCA mutations, they wrote. For example, cancer groups have long recommended that all ovarian cancer patients be tested, but several studies have found testing is done in less than a third.

Don’t skip the genetic counseling, said the task force’s Mangione. BRCA testing can cause anxiety and sometimes gives confusing results, finding mutations that might not be dangerous — things the counselors are trained to interpret. There’s a shortage of genetic counselors, particularly in rural areas, and she said counseling by phone can work.

There’s a wide array of gene tests, some that search just for BRCA mutations and others that test dozens of additional genes at the same time. There’s even a direct-to-consumer kit sold by 23andMe — but Domchek and Robson warned it only detects the three mutations found most in women of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, not dozens of other mutations.

Ryan expressed dismay with media coverage of the budget surplus when asked if Berger’s office has received public support for a tax rebate.

“I don’t think anybody even knows about the surplus. The News & Observer, the state’s largest newspaper by circulation, hasn’t written about it,” Ryan said. “They’ve written more stories about the governor’s cat than this budget surplus… There’s been this sort of an odd budget blackout” among the state’s newspapers.

Brown also signaled frustration.

“After Governor Cooper’s office predicted a $600 million shortfall for this year, responsible Republican budget policies actually produced a $900 million surplus,” Brown said in his news release.

“The same people who made wildly inaccurate, doom-and-gloom predictions are now telling us that Medicaid expansion won’t cost the state a dime, and they’re holding the entire budget hostage over that one issue. They have no credibility.”

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REBATES from page A1 to be no spending or budget decisions made in this state whatsoever until there’s Medicaid expansion,” Ryan said.

Cooper has said he won’t negotiate a budget compromise unless the General Assembly votes to expand Medicaid, which could add 500,000 able-bodied adults to the federal health program. The standoff has lingered after Cooper’s June 28 veto of the budget bill because Republicans don’t have enough Democrat votes in the House to override the veto.

The state is operating under a continuation budget set at the previous year’s levels.

“In terms of the mechanics of how the checks get written or sent out, that’s why this takes a little while to work through what it looks like, and whether it’s workable. Those are questions we’re trying to answer now,” Ryan said.

“Then we need to speak to the caucus, so [it will be] probably a matter of weeks, not months,” until a decision is reached.

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FOREST from page A1 the state as “one North Carolina” and told the crowd, “We don’t have a political problem in America; we have a moral problem in America.”

While speaking about human dignity, Forest called out Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper for his veto of a “born alive” bill that would protect infants who survive an abortion attempt.

“Opportunity must start at home with family values, morality, character and personal re-

Most cancer isn’t caused by BRCA mutations

By Lauren Neergaard The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — More women may benefit from gene testing for hereditary breast or ovarian cancer, especially if they’ve already survived cancer once, an influential health group recommended Tuesday.

At issue are genes called BRCA1 and BRCA2. When they’re mutated, the body can’t repair damaged DNA as well, greatly increasing the chances of breast, ovarian and certain other cancers. Gene testing allows affected women to consider steps to lower their risk, such as when actress Angelina Jolie underwent a preventive mastectomy several years ago.

Most cancer isn’t caused by BRCA mutations — they account for 5% to 10% of breast cancers and 15% of ovarian cancers — so the gene tests aren’t for everyone.

But mutations cluster in families, and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has long rec-

ommended that doctors screen women who have relatives with BRCA-related cancers and refer those who might benefit from gene testing to a genetic counselor to help them decide.

Tuesday, the task force expanded that advice, telling primary care doctors they should also assess women’s risk if they previously were treated for breast or other BRCA-related cancers including ovarian, fallopian tube or peritoneal cancers, and now are considered cancer-free or their ancestry is prone to BRCA mutations, such as Ashkenazi Jewish women.

Why screen breast cancer survivors? After all, they already know there’s a risk of recurrence.

Take, for example, someone who had a tumor removed in one breast in their 40s a decade ago, when genetic testing wasn’t as common. Even this many years later, a BRCA test still could reveal if they’re at risk for ovarian cancer — or at higher than usual risk for another tumor in their remaining breast tissue, explained task force member Dr. Carol Mangione of the University of California, Los Angeles. And it

Private insurers follow task force recommendations on what preventive care to cover.

search Division, and longtime former General Assembly special counsel Gerry Cohen said they cannot recall a state tax rebate ever being issued.

A news release from Senate Majority Leader Harry Brown (R-Onslow) cited Fiscal Research Division data showing personal income tax final payments exceeded expectations by $150 million. That stems from 2.7% personal income growth that led the Southeast last year. Sales tax collections were $74 million higher than anticipated.

Cohen said lawmakers would have to grapple with logistical issues to rebate any surplus.

“Which people do you rebate to? The simplest way rather than sending people checks, which can cost some money, is to have a short-term cut in a rate, like cutting the state sales tax” for a limited period of time, Cohen said.

That would push money back to taxpayers in a stimulus fashion that could further boost the economy without choosing specific groups of winners and losers.

On the fiscal balance sheets a

short-term cut in a particular tax rate has the same effect as sending checks in the mail, and costs less.

But it would be impossible to determine who paid sales taxes, and whether the short-term advantages would be spread in proportion to how much they paid.

For that reason, some might prefer an income tax rebate. That, too, has complications.

“Do you send checks to everybody who actually owed any money last year? A lot of them may not be here anymore,” Cohen said.

Mailing checks would incur an administrative cost.

House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Kings Mountain) is not ruling out a tax rebate.

“Since the projected surplus figures were recently revised upward again, and budget funds remain blocked by the Governor’s veto, it’s one of a number of proposals lawmakers could consider to appropriate the hundreds of millions of dollars the state collected in revenue over expectations,” said Moore spokesman Joseph Kyzer.

“Given the Governor falsely pre-

dicted that deficits would result from previous budgets, and never signed the successful state spending plans that produced this surplus, it’s possible he could continue to obstruct additional efforts to appropriate those over-collections,” Kyzer said.

House Minority Leader Darren Jackson (D-Wake) and Senate Minority Leader Dan Blue (D-Wake) did not respond to requests for comment on a tax rebate.

The budget surplus surged from an unanticipated $643 million in May to $896.7 million.

Ryan said that growth in tax revenue, and the veto clamp put on new spending, triggered Berger’s desire to seek the simplest and fairest way to put the excess revenue back into taxpayers’ hands.

“I think a reasonable person could look at the situation and say ‘We’re sitting on all this money, and there’s not really a path forward on how to spend it right now so long as this [Medicaid] ultimatum is on the table,’” Ryan said.

“It might make sense to just give this money back to the people who sent it to us.”

sponsibility,” said Forest as he turned to education. Forest said he would “put students first” and empower parents with the ability to choose the school that works best for their child.

Forest called out Cooper for his attempts to dismantle the Opportunity Scholarships which provide funds for low-income students to attend the private school of their choice.

In his remarks, Forest also decried pushing kids into college to accumulate massive debt and then “sending them into the world

with no marketable skills.”

Forest linked good education to a strong economy and received a standing ovation for calling out high-profile Democrats for their socialist platforms.

“Regardless of what Nancy Pelosi says, or regardless of what crazy Bernie Sanders says, or AOC says, socialism does not work,” Forest said.

Support for capitalism, a free market economy and tax reforms, were key economy points for Forest, who said that families and small businesses “make better de-

cisions with their money than the government does.”

“You’ve probably heard the proverb, where there is no vision, the people will perish,” said Forest. “Well, I ask you this question again, what is North Carolina’s vision? Where are we headed?

How are we going to get there?”

As Forest began to conclude his speech, he said the state needed a new vision and the “right team” to lead the state into the future.

“What we need, is a new Governor,” Forest said, bringing the crowd to their feet again.

“At the heart of our campaign are the grassroots.”

Forest campaign manager Hal Weatherman

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The seal of the North Carolina Supreme Court is pictured in this undated file photo.

NC Courts’ School Justice Partnership rolls out toolkit

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal GIBSONVILLE — North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley led a press conference via Facebook Live last week announcing the rollout of the School Justice Partnership’s (SJP) Toolkit.

The School-Justice Partnership (SJP) is an initiative managed by the North Carolina Judicial Branch’s Administrative Office of the Courts whose goal is to reduce the number of juvenile referrals to the court system through collaboration by school resource officers, school officials and representatives of the courts.

“Our courts must be focused on helping our young people be successful. School Justice Partnerships are one of the most important investments in that success we can make,” said Beasley.

SJP efforts are being spurred along by the new “raise the age” law, which goes into effect on Dec. 1. The law will allow juvenile court delinquency cases to include 16- and 17-year-olds.

The SJP is currently in use in 35 counties, but the program is seeking to expand to all of the state’s 100 counties.

“It makes sense that when we’re able to divert cases out of the juvenile court or make it such that young people can have support through their schools and with law enforcement that we try to implement those programs,” Beasley said.

Beasley said that research shows that when a student is referred to the juvenile justice system, they are less likely to finish high school, more likely to repeat a grade and will be more likely to be charged with criminal offenses as an adult.

Roughly 40% of all juvenile justice complaints in North Carolina originate in schools and most referrals are for non-violent offenses.

Gov. Roy Cooper and officials from multiple law enforcement agencies, state and county education leaders and district attorneys joined Beasley at the event.

Judge Elizabeth Trosch, district court, Mecklenburg County, Dr. Sharon L. Contreras, superintendent, Guilford County Schools, and Brunswick County Sheriff John W. Ingram V, president, North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association all offered prepared remarks.

“Our communities must engage with kids to help keep them in school and out of jail,” Cooper said. “The Toolkit planned by the Judicial Branch can help build positive partnerships and I have directed the Juvenile Justice Section of the Department of Public Safety to help with implementing School Justice Partnerships across North Carolina.”

The 96-page long SJP toolkit offers a 10-step guide to implementing a program in a school, county or district. The toolkit also offers guidance on which offenses may qualify for minor punish-

ments such as suspensions or remediation through “restorative justice circles.”

Of the report, 37 pages were content-related. The remainder includes appendices containing data, an example of a Memorandum of Understanding or MOU and a “graduated response model” that suggests only “weapons, drugs, battery, and communicating threats” should see referrals to the justice system or courts.

Student perpetrators involved in referrals were extensively covered at the press conference. NSJ asked Sharon Gladwell, communications director for the NC Judicial Branch, about the rights of the victims of such student attacks.

Gladwell said that one of the core principles for SJP’s is that “Most student misconduct is best addressed through classroom, inschool, family, and community support strategies, and by maintaining a positive climate within the school rather than involvement of the justice system.”

“SJP’s do not negate the rights of a victim,” said Gladwell. “The Model SJP MOU expressly provides that the SJP shall not inhibit, discourage, or prevent individual victims of student misconduct from initiating criminal or juvenile charges against students nor shall it affect the prosecution of such charges.”

Gladwell was asked about parental involvement, which is only mentioned nine times in the SJP toolkit.

“The Toolkit identifies parents as being essential members of the SJP team, as they have a vested interest in how school discipline is administered for their children. The Toolkit also recommends parent contact as an appropriate intervention for minor school-based misconduct, rather than arrest and court referral,” Gladwell said.

NCDOT TO HOLD A PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE PROPOSED WIDENING OF N.C. 160 (STEELE CREEK ROAD) FROM THE SOUTH CAROLINA LINE TO I-485 IN CHARLOTTE

STIP PROJECT NO. U-5766 The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold public meetings regarding the proposed widening of a seven-mile section of N.C. 160 (Steele Creek Road) from the South Carolina Line to I-485 in Charlotte.

Two public meetings will be held to present the same information: Monday, August 19 4-7 p.m.

Kennedy Middle School 4000 Gallant Lane, Charlotte

Wednesday, August 21 4-7 p.m.

Southwest Middle School 13624 Steele Creek Road, Charlotte

At the meeting NCDOT representatives will display maps and be available to answer questions and receive comments. Comments will be taken into consideration as work on the project develops.

Written comments or questions can also be submitted at the meeting or by phone, email or mail no later than September 6, 2019.

Information will be posted on the U-5766 project webpage as it becomes available: https://www.publicinput.com/SteeleCreek-Widening For additional information contact: Brian Query, PE, Project Manager, NCDOT Division 10, by mail at 12033 East Independence Blvd, Suite H Matthews, N.C. 28105 by phone at (980) 262-6294, or via email at tbquery@ncdot.gov or Project Consultant, Aileen Mayhew, PE, Project Manager (Mott MacDonald) by mail at P.O. Box 700, Fuquay-Varina, N.C. 27526 by phone at (919) 552-2253 or via email at aileen.mayhew@mottmac.com NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this workshop. Anyone requiring special services should contact Kayla Weber by phone at (919)707-6061 or by email at knweber@ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494.

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Aquellas personas que no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494.

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CHARLOTTE — North Carolina’s previous governor, Republican Pat McCrory of Charlotte, said Gov. Roy Cooper and the mayors of the major cities of the state should be ashamed for ignoring how some sheriffs are endangering their residents by refusing to cooperate with federal immigration officials.

“Shame on our governor, shame on our mayor, shame on our county commission, shame on our city council,” McCrory said on his WBT radio show Aug. 16.

The former governor was reacting to a press release by Immigration and Customs Enforcement announcing the arrest of Oscar Pacheco-Leonardo, a 33-year-old Honduran national, on Aug. 9 in Mecklenburg County. ICE apprehended Pacheco-Leonardo nearly two months after the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office, led by Garry McFadden, ignored an ICE detainer and released him to the public.

Pacheco-Leonardo was charged with first-degree rape and two counts of indecent liberties with a child. He had been previously deported and illegally reentered the country.

ICE indicated that McFadden’s office didn’t even notify them before releasing a “serious public safety threat onto the streets of Charlotte where he was free to potentially harm others for nearly two months until his capture by ICE.” McFadden responded in a press release of his own, saying “ICE chose to issue voluntary ICE administrative detainers on Pacheco-Leonardo, knowing that it is against MCSO’s policy to honor such detainers. Based upon Pacheco-Leonardo’s previous deportation, ICE could have but did NOT seek a criminal arrest warrant for

Illegal Re-Entry.”

Gov. McCrory told NSJ he thinks McFadden is “splitting hairs” with his response.

“The silence from the governor and the mayors of Durham, Raleigh, Greensboro and Charlotte is deafening when it comes to sheriffs not cooperating with ICE officials with regard to extremely serious crimes including rape and offenses towards children,” McCrory told NSJ. “Liberals are all talk about the children in cages but what about the children being molested?”

Speaker Tim Moore (R-Kings Mountain) also expressed outrage following this revelation from ICE, tweeting on Aug. 16, “The North Carolina House will vote on H.B. 370 Require Sheriff Cooperation with ICE Detainers - a bill supported by the N.C. Sheriffs’ Association - as early as next week to end this outrageous refusal to protect the public from wanted criminals.”

Moore made good on his threats and the House then voted 62-53 on Aug. 20 to concur with Senate changes to House Bill 370.

It is likely to be vetoed by Cooper, who has publicly opposed the bill though, and it did not pass with enough votes to override Cooper’s action.

McCrory said he’s a “strong supporter” of the bill.

At times, McCrory believes the Republican legislature has not been strong enough on immigration. During his time as governor, he says they passed a bill that weakened e-verify, the federal employment verification check for immigrants, and that when he vetoed the bill, he was overridden.

“I think we need to work on this issue from both angles. One is enforcing the laws we have on the books towards those who commit further crimes, and second, for employers who illegally hire them.”

Supporters of McFadden and other recently-elected sheriffs in major urban centers like Durham, Wake and Guilford counties say they ran on this stance towards ICE, and the public understood what they were voting for.

Gov. Pat McCrory is pictured in this 2016 file photo.

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Planned Parenthood leaves federal family planning program New York Planned Parenthood says it’s pulling out of the federal family planning program rather than abide by a new Trump administration rule prohibiting participants from referring patients for abortions.

Planned Parenthood’s acting president and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson said the organization’s nationwide network of health centers will remain open and strive to make up for the loss of federal money.

About 4 million women are served nationwide under the Title X program, which distributes $260 million in grants to clinics.

Planned Parenthood says it has served about 40% of patients.

A federal appeals court is weighing a lawsuit to overturn the rule but has allowed the administration to begin enforcement.

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Illinois state senator condemns mock assassination of Trump at fundraiser Springfield, Ill. A Democratic state senator is apologizing for a mock assassination of Republican President Donald Trump staged at a weekend fundraiser.

WCIA-TV in Champaign reports that the incident occurred Friday night at Chicago Sen. Martin Sandoval’s golf outing in the Chicago suburb of Winfield. A man carrying what looks like a fake assault-style rifle points it at someone wearing a Trump mask.

A woman who attended posted the photos to social media.

Sandoval calls the incident “unacceptable.” He says he doesn’t “condone violence against the president or anyone else.”

Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker says “purposely pointing a fake gun at anyone is insensitive and wrong,” particularly after recent shootings in Texas and Ohio.

Tim Schneider is chairman of the Illinois Republican Party. He says Sandoval’s apology is “too little, too late.”

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PITTSBORO — Chatham County says the United Daughters of the Confederacy must soon come up with a plan for removing a Confederate monument from a county courthouse’s grounds.

Chatham County commissioners voted 4-1 Monday to ask the chapter to bring a removal plan by Oct. 1. If the deadline isn’t met, the county said it would declare the

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School receptionist allegedly sent inappropriate photos Burke County Authorities in Morganton have accused a school receptionist of sending inappropriate pictures to a student.

Leigh Perkins Greene, 51, was indicted on charges including attempted indecent liberties with a child by school personnel other than a teacher. The indictment says Greene sent obscene photos to a student at Patton High School through text messaging and Snapchat while she worked as a secretary. A school spokesperson said Greene was fired July 11 after she had been sending inappropriate pictures for a “couple of months.”

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Group fights to legalize fox hunting Madison County The North Carolina Trappers Association has proposed changing wildlife law to allow for hunting and trapping of foxes in Madison County. Regulating the fox population would protect properties and prevent the spread of disease, the group argued. Opponents worry that pets or children could be injured by traps.

Madison County commissioners will determine whether or not to accept the proposal.

RALEIGH — Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper is meeting with North Carolina public school teachers to try to build additional pressure upon Republicans to resolve the two-month budget stalemate to his liking.

Cooper planned a roundtable discussion with teachers at the Executive Mansion on Tuesday. Most traditional public schools begin next week.

There’s no current state budget law in place because Cooper vetoed the GOP’s spending plan in June.

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Buncombe County Sheriff’s officials in Asheville say a nursing home aide has been arrested on accusations she abused elderly, disabled patients. Tryquissa Maria Liverman, 34, was charged with three misdemeanors in connection with reported assaults on disabled patients at a rehabilitation center. Arrest documents accuse her of pinching and striking patients in the face.

Wake County An Apex man died after a stroke while taking down Christmas lights caused him to fall down stairs and land on his cat, fatally breaking the animal’s back. Frans Oudshoorn, 56, was found dead Aug. 9. Oudshoorn’s son came to the home Aug. 8 and found the cat dead. The son placed the animal in the freezer, intending to bury it later. He then cut his father loose from the Christmas lights and brought him a pillow and blanket at his father’s request. He returned the next afternoon and found his father dead.

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Coach, professor arrested in prostitution raid Alamance County Jason Fine, a professor in the department of biostatics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Jesse Carty, a coach for a girls fast-pitch travel softball team in Reidsville, were among 14 people arrested for soliciting for prostitution. The Alamance County Sheriff’s Office executed “Operation Summer Special,” targeting individuals who were potential customers who wanted to pay for sex. The charges filed against the men are misdemeanors.

Meal debts paid for students in North Carolina school system

Graham County Several residents of West Buffalo have been without landline phone service for several weeks due to a Frontier Communications outage. Frontier says the community is on the list for repair after weather downed lines in the area.

Residents in the area are concerned that the lack of internet and phone for nearly a month could cause a problem reporting emergencies. Frontier says it will be at least Friday before service is restored.

Guilford County An anonymous donor has ensured that some students at Guilford County Schools in High Point will be able to get a meal. An anonymous donor paid off the outstanding charges for students. The donation totals $10,500. Families whose meal balances have been paid will receive a letter letting them know they don’t owe the district any money.

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raises for teachers compared to the GOP proposal.

Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Eden) says Cooper has refused to sign any new budget unless the legislature first passes Medicaid expansion. “The budget he vetoed included the 6th and 7th consecutive pay raises for teachers,” said Berger in a statement.

“Instead of being honest with teachers by saying he’s holding up their pay raises over his Medicaid expansion ultimatum, he’s telling them that it’s really the mean Republicans who are blocking their raises, even though Republicans passed the budget that includes teacher raises.”

“I have to hand it to him, it’s a bold strategy to block pay raises passed by Republicans, refuse to negotiate unless the legislature passes Medicaid expansion, then blame Republicans for teachers not getting their raise,” said Berger.

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Company guilty of falsely labeling crabmeat Tyrrell County Phillip R. Carawan, owner of Capt. Neill’s Seafood, Inc. in Columbia, pled guilty in federal court to charges that he falsely labeled foreign crabmeat as “Product of USA.” Carawan admitted to mislabeling 179,872 pounds of blue crab, worth more than four million dollars after the company didn’t acquire enough domestic crab to meet demand.

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New Hanover County The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission is holding its next community meeting at a historical site near Wilmington, where members will hear updates on various projects in North Carolina. The commission will meet at the Popular Grove Plantation in Scotts Hill. Descendants of enslaved people known as Gullah, or Geechee in Georgia, live in small island communities scattered from Pender County in North Carolina to St. Johns County, Florida.

Their ancestors worked on plantations until freed by the Civil War.

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monument public trespass if the removal plan is not received by Nov. 1.

The county’s efforts could be complicated by a state law that largely restricts removal of such monuments on public land.

The monument was placed at the Pittsboro courthouse in 1907.

Commissioner Karen Howard says nobody has suggested destroying it, but she proposed moving it and forming a reconciliation panel.

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Durham County A tennis club for African American players that hosted International Tennis Hall of Famers Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe is being honored with a historic marker. The marker was dedicated Thursday at the site of the Algonquin Tennis Club, created in 1922 by the American Tennis Association. The association was formed to support African American players who were then banned from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association.

The club closed in 1964, and its historic clubhouse burned down several years later.

Pender County Authorities have filed multiple charges, including human trafficking, against a Burgaw man after a woman called 911 to say he was holding her and her 8-month-old baby against their will. James Bryan Peterson, 54, was arrested and jailed on a $2 million bond on charges including human trafficking an adult victim, human trafficking a child victim, first-degree kidnapping, and sexual servitude. The unidentified 24-year-old woman made the 911 call on Aug. 9 from a home in the town of Willard.

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Fishing, hunting fees will increase if new bill becomes law The Associated Press RALEIGH — An omnibus wildlife regulation bill now heading to Gov. Roy Cooper’s desk would create new fees and raise others — some for the first time in over 30 years — for activities related to hunting and fishing.

The House gave final legislative approval to the wildlife resources measure by a 10812 vote Monday night. It passed the Senate earlier this month.

Wild horse dies after tangled in barbed wire Carteret County The Corolla Wild Horse Fund has confirmed a young stallion became tangled in barbed wire near an Outer Banks beach and had to be euthanized.

The 4-year-old horse named Joaquin was spotted caught in a barbed wire fence Thursday. The post said a veterinarian determined his leg couldn’t be saved and euthanasia was “the most humane” option. Two of the 200 wild horses in the area have died this summer and another suffered injuries due to the wire.

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The bill, among other things, would raise the annual resident hunting and inland fishing licenses from $20 to $25. Higher license fees for non-residents also would go up.

Bill sponsor Rep. Jay Adams of Catawba County says new prices for various permits were vetted in committees and are in line with similar permits in surrounding states.

Adams says licensing revenues remain with the state Wildlife Resources Commission.

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EDITORIAL | FRANK HILL

‘When we hit the point of no return, it will be too late’

America may have a full-fledged generational political war before excessive debt tanks the American economy.

THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT announced last week that the budget deficit for FY 2019 grew to $866.8 billion in the first 10 months of the fiscal year, up 27% from FY 2018.

Headlines across the news media trumpeted the fact that the national debt was now 106% of GDP as if it spontaneously combusted out of thin air instead of being built up over the past 20 years during the terms of Presidents Bush 43, Obama and now Trump. The blame should be placed around the neck of every Congress and U.S. Senate convened since 2001, not on the executive in the White House.

How dangerous is this 106% of GDP statistic?

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan testified regularly before the House Budget Committee and the Joint Economic Committee from 1991 to 1994.

Democratic and Republican Members would ask this thorny question as if asking permission to keep spending money or cutting taxes like drunken sailors: “Dr. Greenspan: What is the point of no return when it comes to how much national debt we can accumulate before things get really bad for the American economy?”

National debt held by the public was 43% of GDP in 1991.

He would always answer in the same dry, matter-of-fact manner. “The monetary policies of the Fed and the fiscal policies of Congress must always be focused on the long-term health of the American economy. The optimal way to reduce deficits and avoid more debt is to restrain the rate of growth in federal spending to at or below the rate of growth in the economy.

Raising taxes are not the preferred way to reduce deficits but if they are part of a compromise with serious budget restraint that leads to balanced budgets, the long-term health of the economy would significantly improve instead of deteriorate over time.

“Generally, when a nation’s national debt approaches 100% of their GDP, that is when we have seen nations start to suffer in history. No one really knows what the point of no return is precisely. All I can tell you is

that when we hit the point of no return, it will be too late to do anything to avoid the consequences of any fiscal irresponsibility today.”

In FY 2018, tax revenues increased a healthy 3% over 2017 tax receipts.

The problem is spending. Total federal spending increased 8% over the same period of time.

Is America at the “point of no return” today with a $22 trillion national debt at 106% of GDP? The real number to worry about is the debt held by the public, which according to CBO is 78% of GDP. Debt held by the public is “real” debt on which interest had to paid regularly in cash. The rest of the debt is considered “intra-governmental” debt such as the transfers on paper between the so-called Social Security Surplus in the past and the regular budget.

CBO does not consider such intragovernmental debt to have any real economic impact today, which is why they look at the 78% of GDP figure instead of the 106% number. The economic impact that will take place is in the future when younger workers, mostly millennials, will be asked to pay 35% more in payroll taxes to fully fund the benefits boomers will be expecting in retirement. If the millennials rebel, as they most likely will, boomer retirees will be forced to receive lower Social Security and Medicare benefits up to 30% below what they thought they would be receiving.

America may have a full-fledged generational political war before excessive debt tanks the American economy.

Unless we arrest our deficit-spending through serious budgeting restraint and entitlement program reforms, our publicly held national debt will exceed 144% of GDP by 2049 according to CBO. Which is definitely far beyond the “point of no return” Alan Greenspan warned us about three decades ago.

EDITORIAL | STACEY MATTHEWS

Mainstream media leaves out vital facts in stories about Israel barring congresswomen Omar and Tlaib

Omar’s and Tlaib’s trip was sponsored

by Miftah, an organization that has published antiSemitic pieces on their website and which has praised terrorists who have murdered Israelis.

AFTER ISRAEL announced on Thursday that Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) were barred from entry into the country, the verbal equivalent of World War III started.

Waves of criticisms and condemnations rolled in, mostly from Democrats.

“It is disgusting that a bigot like Trump is attacking @RashidaTlaib and @IlhanMN in this way,” tweeted presidential candidate and Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) in response to a tweet from Trump opposing the two Congresswomen’s plan to visit Israel.

“Opposing Netanyahu’s policies is not ‘hating the Jewish people.’ We must stand together against those who promote hatred and racism in Israel, Palestine, the U.S. and everywhere,” Sanders concluded.

Another candidate for president, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), sent out a tweet stating that “Israel doesn’t advance its case as a tolerant democracy or unwavering US ally by barring elected members of Congress from visiting because of their political views.”

What neither Warren, Sanders nor any of the other Democratic critics will acknowledge is that Israel’s decision wasn’t about barring Tlaib and Omar because of mere policy and political disagreements.

It was about the two women’s support of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, better known as “BDS.” “The itinerary of the two Congresswomen reveals that the sole purpose of their visit is to harm Israel and increase incitement against it,” Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated in a tweet explaining his country’s decision to bar the congresswomen from entry.

The BDS website states that they are a “Palestinian-led movement for freedom, justice and equality,” but in the United States the movement has been condemned as anti-Semitic by political leaders in both parties in words as well as in actions.

In June, the Senate unanimously passed a resolution condemning anti-Semitism. That resolution did not mention the BDS movement by name, but it did reference “campaigns to boycott” as a form of antiSemitism. In July, the House overwhelmingly approved an anti-BDS resolution 398-17.

There are legitimate reasons to oppose BDS, which you don’t hear

much about from the mainstream media. For example, the founders of the movement have refused to distance themselves from the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, which supports the extermination of all Jews.

BDS founders also do not support the existence of a Jewish state.

In 2017, Israel passed a law that bars entry into the country from any person who expresses support for BDS. Tlaib and Omar both have not only enthusiastically supported the movement, but just a few weeks ago, Omar pushed for a House resolution that would have effectively sanctioned it, though BDS itself was not specifically mentioned in the resolution.

What was mentioned in it was appalling. In it, Omar equated support for boycotting Israel to the Boston Tea Party, and the 1930s and 1940s boycotts of Nazi Germany.

Tlaib was one of the co-sponsors of the resolution.

Also not widely mentioned in the mainstream media is that Omar’s and Tlaib’s trip was sponsored by Miftah, an organization that has published anti-Semitic pieces on their website and which has praised terrorists who have murdered Israelis.

The Washington Post benignly described Miftah as “a nonprofit organization headed by Palestinian lawmaker and longtime peace negotiator Hanan Ashrawi.”

Liberal comedian/TV talk show host Bill Maher discussed the BDS movement on his HBO show Friday night in the context of Israel’s barring of Tlaib and Omar.

He quoted the movement’s founder Omar Barghouti, who once said, “No Palestinian, rational Palestinian, not a sell-out Palestinian, will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine.”

“So that’s where that comes from, this movement. Someone who doesn’t even want a Jewish state at all,” Maher stated during the segment. “Somehow this side never gets represented in the American media. It’s very odd.”

Very odd indeed.

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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COLUMN | NAN MILLER

Guilty on all counts

With 9/11 came their chance to cite Western ‘policy’ — both foreign and domestic — as the real cause of calamities, both here and abroad.

IF SOMEONE ASKED YOU to guess who said that a sitting president “occupied a position … enjoyed by those who do business while others bleed” — then predicted the collapse of “a country where everything is built on the dollar,” no doubt you’d name one of the Democratic contenders for president in 2020. But that appraisal is actually found in Hitler’s Dec. 11, 1941, declaration of war on the United States. The sitting president was, of course, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the system Hitler held in contempt was our freemarket system.

We expect our enemies to denounce us, but when top-polling candidates running for president cast themselves as would-be transformers of a failed nation, it’s time to review how we got here and gauge where we’re headed if anti-Americanism becomes a winning platform in the 2020 election.

Prior to 1970, a leftist firebrand could be dismissed as a crank who would find fault in a rainbow if everyone else admired it. When Susan Sontag’s 1967 manifesto concluded “the white race is the cancer of human history,” critics were quick to charge her with “hip posturing.” They never dreamed that 10 years later a band of university scholars would become stars in their fields by calling dead white males the scourge of “humankind” — the origin of racism, sexism and imperialism, which have made the United States “a menace to the world and to itself,” as Princeton professor Richard Falk said while serving on the United Nations Human Rights Council.

With the 1980 publication of Howard Zinn’s “The People’s History,” anti-Americanism became the touchstone for enlightenment among leftist professors and among students who are required to read Zinn’s takedown of American history. Zinn was not the first to call for “demonstrations, marches, civil disobedience, strikes and boycotts … to redistribute wealth and to reconstruct institutions.” But when he recast the founders as mere patrons of “guns and greed,” he set the stage for UVA students to spray paint “racist + rapist” on Jefferson’s statue and for Columbia students to top his statue with a KKK hood — to name but two such plots.

Before 2001, our universities had served as de facto internment camps for leftists who share Zinn’s

contempt for American “imperialism” and his “utopian” vision that includes free “food, housing, health care, and education.” But with 9/11 came their chance to cite Western “policy” — both foreign and domestic — as the real cause of calamities, both here and abroad. It took Sontag exactly 13 days to tell The New Yorker that those monstrous attacks were “undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions,” and this time about half of us came to agree with “the queen of knee-jerk anti-Americanism.”

Armed with a new world view — anything Western bad — all the hard left lacked was a leader whose style could gild the message. Enter Obama, who was elected on a pledge to “transform this nation,” that is, to redistribute income here at home and to genuflect his way to peace with our enemies. What we got instead was an eight-year reign that left Al Sharpton in charge of recruiting victims, white people apologizing for, well, being white, and law enforcement set up as the measure of homegrown evil.

Now we learn that Obama’s successors occupy a moral ground even higher than that of their demigod — whose record on trade, health care and immigration fell short of their mission to install a free-for-all government— and to atone nonstop for American guilt. When top-polling Biden called our “English jurisprudential culture, a white man’s culture” that’s “got to change,” the distance between the Democratic platform and the deep end became one short stroke.

Pope Benedict XVI said it best: “The West … no longer loves itself. In its own history, it now sees only what is deplorable and destructive, while it is no longer able to perceive what is great and pure.” Leftists ignored “God’s Rottweiler” but are fond of quoting Samuel Johnson’s line “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel”— apparently unaware that Johnson’s real target had been scoundrels who claim patriotism as a cover for cowardice.

To hear the 2020 Democratic candidates speak is to see that anti-Americanism is now the first refuge of the hard left.

Nan Miller, Professor Emerita, Meredith College where she taught English and directed the Writing Center.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR | REP. DAVID LEWIS

Gov. Cooper should sign the Association Health Plan Bill Despite our booming business climate, small businesses struggle to afford health insurance for their employees and families.

THIS PAST WEEK, Gov. Roy Cooper was presented with Senate Bill 86, the Small Business Health Care Act, commonly referred to as Association Health Plans (AHPs). This bill would provide cost-effective health insurance options to small businesses and independent contractors who have been suffering from the high costs of health insurance. Passing with overwhelming bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate, we are left to wonder: Will Gov.Roy Cooper sign this bill into law?

North Carolina is a state proud of our small businesses and entrepreneurial spirit. We in the General Assembly know the importance of fostering this growth with sustainability and have taken great steps to make North Carolina a business-friendly state. Despite our booming business climate, small businesses struggle to afford health insurance for their employees and families.

The Small Business Health Care Act allows small businesses, independent contractors, sole proprietors and working owners to band together as one large group health plan and purchase affordable health insurance, expanding health insurance options and coverage for North Carolinians in the process.

The Small Business Health Care Act provides a tool

for our small businesses to combat the rising cost of health care under the Affordable Care Act and seek lower-cost coverage options for their employees. Many of our state’s largest trade associations could offer highquality health coverage to their employer members at an affordable cost under this legislation.

These plans are required to cover preexisting conditions, are regulated by the Department of Insurance and will operate as “large employers” under North Carolina law, which has stringent coverage requirements and rules to abide by.

This is simply an option for small businesses to offer affordable health insurance to their employees, expanding health insurance options and coverage for more North Carolinians in the process. S.B. 86 sends a clear message that North Carolina is open for business and willing to support our hard-working small businesses.

There is no valid reason for Gov. Cooper to veto this bill.

Representative David Lewis (R-53) represents Harnett County in the NC House and is Chairman of the Rules Committee

LETTER TO THE EDITOR | MARK FLEMING

Letter to North State Journal Re: Duke Energy story With clean energy being the most affordable energy solution available, the time for utility reform in North Carolina has arrived.

IF A FINGER MUST BE POINTED, at least point it in the right direction: this is a Duke Energy issue, not a solar issue. The sources of energy-related pollution are fossil fuel plants, in which Duke is heavily invested. If the utility would invest more in clean energy sources, which also happen to be more affordable for customers, the company’s emissions challenges resolve.

But if the utility divests of fossil fuels, an earnings challenge emerges. As is often the case, it’s a matter of Duke’s priority: shareholders versus customers. While attempting to discredit clean energy, the August 14 article underscores several key points that actually support the expansion of clean energy in North Carolina.

Transitioning to a clean energy economy isn’t a pipe dream. There’s data to support the enormous additional solar and wind potential left in North Carolina. For example, a recent report filed with the North Carolina Utilities Commission indicates that Duke plans to keep uneconomic coal plants running while unnecessarily emitting harmful air pollution.

The article also helps make the case for updating our power system to accommodate more clean energy. If starting and stopping fossil fuel plants is supposedly increasing pollution, then the utilities need to focus on clean solutions such as deploying more energy storage, which as demonstrated in the study, can cost-effectively mitigate the ramping concerns cited in this article without increasing air pollution. Instead of utilizing the status quo, why isn’t Duke using accessible, affordable, and clean technology solutions to address their reported concerns with ramping?

Duke’s own spokesperson acknowledges in the article that adding more solar would help mitigate their issue.

If increasing North Carolina’s solar capacity would help, let’s get to work. Wind energy plays a role, too. In fact, Duke recently touted the benefits of wind energy in its own publication, illumination, highlighting how much it helps stabilize farmer income in rural areas. In the Oklahoma communities referenced in the article, Duke notes that the county tax payments from wind made it possible for the local school district to build a new early childhood center and supply other much-needed resources.

Clean energy that benefits farmers and rural communities? Yes, please. How about Duke focus on our own service area and install more wind projects right here at home so that North Carolina customers are the beneficiaries?

With clean energy being the most affordable energy solution available, the time for utility reform in North Carolina has arrived. The stage is set to finally change the old, outdated utility monopoly model and open energy markets to competition. It’s time to expand clean energy choices for customers and encourage the kind of market competition that will drive down power bills, encourage investments and economic development opportunities, create meaningful tax revenue for counties that need it most, and decrease the air pollution that the author and the North State Journal are suddenly so concerned about.

Mark Fleming, president and CEO, Conservatives for Clean Energy

WALTER E. WILLIAMS

What will they learn at college?

FOR MANY PARENTS, August is a month of both pride and tears. Pride because their teenager is taking that big educational step and tears because for many it’s the beginning of an empty nest. Yet, there’s a going-awayto-college question that far too few parents ask or even contemplate: What will my youngster learn in college?

The American Council of Trustees and Alumni provides some answers that turn out to be quite disturbing.

ACTA evaluated every four-year public university as well as hundreds of private colleges and universities.

That’s more than 1,100 institutions that enroll nearly 8 million students, more than two-thirds of all students enrolled in four-year liberal arts schools nationwide. ACTA’s findings were published in their report “What Will They Learn? 2018-19.” It doesn’t look good.

The ACTA assigned grades tell some of the story. Just 23 (2%) of the over 1,100 colleges earn an A grade; 343 colleges (31%) earn a B grade; 347 (31%) get a C grade; 273 (24%) earn a D; and 134 (12%) colleges earn an F. If you’re thinking that your youngster will get a truly liberal arts education, you are sadly mistaken. It turns out that less than half of the schools studied require courses in traditional literature, foreign language, U.S. government or history and economics.

At some colleges, students can fulfill their humanities requirement with a course titled “Global X: Zombies!” A U.S. cultural pluralism requirement can be fulfilled with “The Economics of ‘Star Trek.’” And an arts and literature requirement can be fulfilled with either the “History of Comics” or “Game Design for Non-Majors.”

Colleges often do not live up to their own promises. In college mission statements, as well as their course catalogs, they frequently exalt the virtues of a “well-rounded” liberal arts education. The reality is something different with only 68% of the schools ACTA surveyed requiring three or fewer of the seven core subjects.

Their curricula poorly represent critical subjects such as U.S. history, economics and foreign languages.

The list of schools that received ACTA’s “A” grades includes Pepperdine and Baylor, known for their commitment to the liberal arts and academic excellence. But there are some lesser-known colleges such as Christopher Newport University, Colorado Christian University, Kennesaw State University, Bluefield College and Regent University that deserve accolades.

ACTA’s “F” list includes prestigious names such as University of California, Berkeley, Bowdoin, Hamilton and Vassar. Ivy League colleges received ACTA’s two “B’s,” four “C’s,” one “D” and one “F.” These grades reflect significant overall curricular weaknesses. For example, Yale doesn’t require college-level math courses; Harvard accepts an elementary-level foreign language study; and Brown has an “open curriculum,” which means students may take whatever classes they want, without strict requirements. Even though some of the best-known colleges earn poor marks for their general education curricula, it doesn’t necessarily mean they do all things poorly. A student can get an excellent education at these schools if classes are chosen wisely.

There’s another college-related issue not given much voice and that’s how important is a college education in the first place. That’s an issue raised by a Market Watch article, “Half of young Americans say their degree is irrelevant to their work.”

Parents think a college education is necessary for success. Their youngsters think differently. According to the TD Ameritrade study, 49% of young millennials said their degree was “very or somewhat unimportant” to their current job. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in an October 2018 report, found that many students are underemployed, filling jobs that can be done with a high school education.

More than one-third of currently working college graduates are in jobs that do not require a degree, such as flight attendants, janitors and salesmen.

The bottom line for parents and their youngsters is that spending four or more years in college and accumulating tens of thousands of dollars in debt is not the only road to a successful life.

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

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In this June 16, 2019, file photo, protesters march on the streets against an extradition bill in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong’s ‘front line’ protesters explain their stance

By Yanan Wang The Associated Press HONG KONG — The movement has reached a moment of reckoning after protesters occupying Hong Kong’s airport last week held two mainland Chinese men captive, beating them because they believed the men were infiltrating their movement.

The demands grew from opposing legislation that would have allowed Hong Kong residents to be extradited for trials in mainland China’s murky judicial system to pressing for democratic elections, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam’s resignation and an investigation into allegations of police brutality at the demonstrations.

When Hong Kong’s youth band-

ed together for this summer’s protests, they established a few rules: They would not have clear leaders, protecting individuals from becoming symbols or scapegoats.

And they would stick together, no matter their methods.

The peaceful protesters would not disavow the more extreme, sometimes violent tactics of the front-liners, who would distract the police long enough for others to escape arrest.

Two massive marches roused Chong and others who had given up on political change after the failure of Occupy Central, also dubbed the Umbrella Revolution.

On consecutive weekends in June, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to oppose the extradition bill. It struck

at fears that China is eroding civil rights that Hong Kong residents enjoy under the “one country, two systems” framework.

On June 12, three days after the first march, protesters blocked the legislature and took over nearby streets, preventing the resumption of debate on the extradition bill.

Police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets.

Lam suspended the bill indefinitely the day before the second march, but it didn’t mollify the protesters, who turned out in even greater numbers.

As their demands expanded, Lam offered dialogue but showed no signs of giving ground.

That’s when hard-liners like Chong and Wayne became convinced that peaceful protest might

not be enough.

They blocked roads with makeshift barricades and besieged the Chinese government’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong, defacing the national seal over its entrance. Week after week, they clashed with police, who became an object of their anger. Every round of tear gas only seemed to deepen their conviction that the government did not care.

“We’ve had numerous peaceful protests that garnered no response whatsoever from the government,” said J.C., a 27-year-old hairstylist who quit his job in July. “Escalating our actions is both natural and necessary.”

Then came the “white shirt” attack. On July 21, dozens of men beat people indiscriminately with wooden poles and steel rods in a commuter rail station as protesters returned home, injuring 44.

They wore white clothing in contrast to the protesters’ trademark black.

A slow police response led to accusations they colluded with the thugs. Police Commissioner

Stephen Lo said resources were stretched because of the protests.

Footage of the mob violence at the airport inflamed anti-protester sentiment in China, where the reporter became a martyr. In Hong Kong, pro-democracy lawmakers said it was something that “will not and should not happen again.”

Within the movement, some apologized for becoming easily agitated and overreacting. Others questioned whether provocateurs had incited the violence.

Through it all, the front liners called for unity. They pointed to the injuries sustained on their side and the rioting charges that could lock them up for 10 years.

On the night of the airport beating, Wayne couldn’t get through the crowd to see what was happening, but he understood how the attackers felt.

“I would have done the same thing,” he said. “It’s not rational, but I would have kicked him or punched him at least once or twice.”

Afghanistan mourns, vows to crush Danish PM: Trump’s idea of buying militants after attack Greenland is ‘absurd’

By Rahim Faiez The Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — As Afghanistan mourned the 63 people killed in a suicide bombing at a Kabul wedding, a brother of the groom spoke through tears of his weariness at the bloodshed in the country and the crushing guilt he felt at having to face his neighbors, many of whom lost relatives in the weekend blast.

“Around 20 victims’ families live in our neighborhood,” said 22-yearold Ramin, whose brother, Mirwais Alami, survived along with his bride, Raihana.

“We don’t know how we should look at them,” said Ramin, who like many Afghans uses only one name.

“Maybe they don’t want us, or like us, anymore.”

He was drained after a day of burying the dead, which included the 8-year-old brother of the bride.

The bomber detonated his explosives Saturday night in the middle of a dancing crowd in the wedding hall, wounding nearly 200 others.

The attack was claimed by an affiliate of the Islamic State (IS).

“We are just tired of this life,” Ramin said of the decades of war and insurgency that Afghanistan has endured. The country on Monday marked a subdued 100th Independence Day after the bombing, with President Ashraf Ghani vowing to “eliminate” all safe havens for the IS affiliate.

Many outraged Afghans are asking whether an expected deal between the United States and the Taliban to end nearly 18 years of fighting — America’s longest war — will bring peace as the IS affiliate poses a growing threat.

“We don’t care who will make a peace deal. We don’t care who will come into power,” Ramin said.

By Jan M. Olsen The Associated Press

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A man waves an Afghan flag during Independence Day celebrations in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 19, 2019.

“What we want is peace. We just want peace.”

A sharply worded Taliban statement questioned why the U.S. failed to identify the attacker in advance.

Another Taliban statement marking Independence Day said to “leave Afghanistan to the Afghans.”

In their nearly yearlong negotiations with the U.S., the Taliban want the approximately 20,000 U.S. and allied forces to withdraw from the country. For its part, the U.S. wants Taliban assurances that Afghanistan — which hosted al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden before 9/11 — will not be a launching pad for global terror attacks.

The U.S. envoy in talks with the Taliban, Zalmay Khalilzad, said Sunday the peace process should be accelerated to help Afghanistan defeat the IS affiliate. That would include intra-Afghan talks on the country’s future, a fraught process that could take years.

More than 32,000 civilians in Afghanistan have been killed in the past decade, the United Nations said earlier this year. More children were killed last year — 927 — than in any other over the past decade

by all actors, the U.N. said, including in operations against insurgent hideouts carried out by international forces.

After meeting with President Donald Trump last month, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan insisted he will do his best to persuade the Taliban to negotiate with the Afghan government to resolve the war.

Trump told reporters Sunday he doesn’t want Afghanistan to be a “laboratory for terror” and he described discussions with the Taliban as “good.” He was briefed Friday on the progress of the U.S.-Taliban talks, of which few details have emerged.

Some analysts have warned that Trump’s eagerness to bring at least some troops home ahead of next year’s election could weaken the U.S. stance in the negotiations as the Taliban might see little need to make significant concessions.

In a message marking Afghanistan’s independence and “century of resilience,” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the wedding bombing “an attack against humanity.”

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Greenland is not for sale and U.S. President Donald Trump’s idea of buying the semi-autonomous Danish territory in the Arctic from Denmark is “an absurd discussion,” Denmark’s prime minister said.

Mette Frederiksen, who was visiting the world’s largest island to meet Premier Kim Kielsen, told reporters: “Greenland is not Danish. Greenland is Greenlandic. I persistently hope that this is not something that is seriously meant.”

Frederiksen said Sunday that the Arctic, with resources that Russia and others could exploit for commercial gain, “is becoming increasingly important to the entire world community.”

Retreating ice could uncover potential oil and mineral resources in Greenland which, if successfully tapped, could dramatically change the island’s fortunes.

However, no oil has yet been found in Greenlandic waters and 80% of the island is covered by an ice sheet that is up to 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) thick, which means exploration is only possible in coastal regions.

Even there, conditions are far from ideal, due to the long winter with frozen ports, 24-hour darkness and temperatures regularly dropping below minus 20 Fahrenheit in the northern parts.

Trump is expected to visit Denmark Sept. 2-3 as part of his trip to Europe.

Trump said Sunday that he is

interested in the idea, but it’s not a priority of his administration.

“Strategically it’s interesting and we’d be interested, but we’ll talk to them a little bit. It’s not No. 1 on the burner, I can tell you that,” the president said.

It wouldn’t be the first time an American leader has tried to buy the world’s largest island. In 1946, the U.S. proposed to pay Denmark $100 million to buy Greenland after flirting with the idea of swapping land in Alaska for strategic parts of the Arctic island.

Under a 1951 deal, Denmark allowed the U.S. to build bases and radar stations on Greenland.

The U.S. Air Force currently maintains one base in northern Greenland, Thule Air Force Base 745 miles south of the North Pole.

Former military airfields in Narsarsuaq, Kulusuk and Kangerlussuaq have become civilian airports.

The Thule base, constructed in 1952, was originally designed as a refueling base for long-range bombing missions. It has been a ballistic missile early warning and space surveillance site since 1961.

Frederiksen, who became prime minister June 27, was on a two-day trip to Greenland before traveling to nearby Iceland for a meeting of the Nordic prime ministers.

“Thankfully, the time where you buy and sell other countries and populations is over. Let’s leave it there. Jokes aside, we will of course love to have an even closer strategic relationship with the United States,” Frederiksen said.

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SPORTS

Rowan Co. wins Little League Softball World Series, B4

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Wake Forest coach Dave Clawson talks with wide receivers Jaquarii Roberson, right, and Kendall Hinton, left, during a practice.

Clawson puts down roots at Wake Forest

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NC State, UNC officially announce beer sales Chapel Hill / Raleigh Fans of the Wolfpack and Tar Heels will have a little hop in their step this football season. Or hops, to be more accurate. Both schools formally announced this week that they would begin selling beer at football games this season. NC State will sell beer in cans and plastic bottles from when the Carter-Finley Stadium gates open 90 minutes before kickoff until the end of the third quarter, while Kenan Stadium will also offer wine. All six of the state’s public FCS programs will sell alcohol this season.

Duke, a private school, will not.

Former Duke and ECU coach McGee dead at 80 Columbia, S.C. Former Southern California and South Carolina athletic director Mike McGee, a native of Elizabeth City who won the Outland Trophy at Duke and also coached at East Carolina, died Friday. He was 80. Southern California said he died of natural causes at his home in Montrose, Colo.

McGee was the Gamecocks’ athletic director from 19932005 and served as AD at Southern California from 1984 until midway through the 1992-93 season. Before going to Los Angeles, McGee was AD at Cincinnati from 1980-84.

McGee was head football coach at his alma mater, Duke, for eight years and at East Carolina in 1970.

SOCCER

Courage fall short in effort to repeat as ICC champs Cary The North Carolina Courage were defeated 1-0

by Olympique Lyon in the Women’s International Champions Cup final in Cary, falling short of retaining the title they beat Lyon for by the same score a year ago.

Dzsenifer Marozsan had the lone goal, a blast in the 57th minute that proved to be the deciding factor. The final of the four-team tournament, held at WakeMed Soccer Park, drew 8,208 fans.

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Rashaan Gaulden is among the Panthers defensive backs battling for the starting spot at free safety this preseason.

Rough second game helps Panthers find some clarity in position battles The Bills pounded Carolina in Charlotte, but the rookies got extended time

By Shawn Krest North State Journal THE CAROLINA Panthers fell behind 24-3 and lost its preseason home opener to Buffalo, 27-14.

The team originally planned to play most starters after holding nearly everyone out of the first preseason game. However, when game time arrived, quarterback Cam Newton, linebacker Luke Kuechly, running back Christian McCaffrey and tight end Greg Olsen were among the players on the sidelines, which may have led to the team’s flat start in the contest.

Here’s a look at who took advantage of the opportunity in the game and who hurt their chances.

Defensive rookies and position battles First-round draft pick Brian Burns didn’t start, but the edge rusher came in on third down of the game’s first series and played most of the first half. After drifting around the line and corralling quarterbacks who left the pocket in his first game, Burns did more classic pass rushing against Buffalo, even lining up with his hand on the ground for several plays in the second quarter. He struggled to get through blocks when he made contact, which might explain his hesitancy to do so on many plays.

The much-traveled Demon Deacons coach has rebuilt programs time and again, but a new eight-year contract has him focused on building an ACC winner

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Fourth-rounder Christian Miller came in for Burns late in the second quarter. Just before halftime, he got around his block and pressured the quarterback. Late in the third quarter, he beat his man for a quarterback sack (which was wiped out by a penalty away from the ball).

Miller also made a third-quarter tackle where he pursued the running back on a broken play, tackling him at the line. The lone black mark on his night was a missed tackle in the backfield on a running back screen that ended up going for 47 yards.

The battle for one safety spot didn’t get much clearer after each of the candidates struggled.

Tre Boston started at free safety and was targeted on the first snap of the game for a completion. He got into position to make tackles at the line of scrimmage and in front of the first down line, but in both cases, the ball carrier was able to fight through him for valuable additional yards.

Ross Cockrell entered the game in the second quarter and was also targeted immediately for a first down. He was in position on a wide receiver screen but got blocked out of the play, which then went for 30 yards. He also missed a shoestring tackle that would have resulted in a loss. Cockrell was flagged for illegal hands to the face, wiping out a sack

by Miller.

Colin Jones got most of his play on special teams early. He was first downfield and made a hit on a

IF DAVE CLAWSON wasn’t a football coach, he’d probably be one of those handymen who go around flipping houses on HGTV. That’s because he’s made a living out of taking over programs in disrepair, building them back up and then moving on to the next fixer-upper opportunity every four to five years.

It’s a career track that produced successful results at Fordham, Richmond and Bowling Green before arriving at Wake Forest, where he has breathed life back into the Deacons by leading them to bowl games in each of the past three years.

But just when it appeared time for Clawson to get antsy and make another move, the 52-yearold New York native decided to break his pattern and sign an eight-year contract extension that will keep him in Winston-Salem at least through the 2026 season.

“You work really hard to get to a place like Wake Forest,” Clawson said earlier this summer at the ACC’s Football Kickoff event in Charlotte. “And you want to enjoy it.”

One of the big reasons Clawson decided to make such a definitive commitment to the Deacons, despite a change in leadership from retiring athletic director Ron Wellman to successor Jon Currie, is because of the commitment school administrators have made to him and his program.

The most visible aspect of that support is a state-of-the-art indoor practice facility that has helped level the playing field between Wake Forest and its ACC rivals. Improvements have also been made to the team’s offices, meeting space and weight rooms, as well as BB&T Field.

Locking Clawson into an extended deal was just one more move designed to secure the long-term future of the program.

“It’s a two-part deal,” Clawson said. “The school has made a serious commitment to football if you look at our facilities. This isn’t the same old Wake Forest. It’s kind of neat that you can end up with a much better job and you don’t have to move anywhere. This is a much different job than the one I took in 2013.”

Wake is only 28-35 in its five years under Clawson, but that includes consecutive 3-9 records in his first two seasons after inheriting a program that had grown stagnant under former coach Jim Grobe.

Although the Deacons have gone on to win three straight bowl games for the first time in school history since then, Clawson is convinced they can still set their sights even higher. He often speaks — both publicly and among his team — about playing to win championships rather than simply doing enough to qualify for the postseason every year.

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“This isn’t the same old Wake Forest.

It’s kind of neat that you can end up with a much better job and you don’t have to move anywhere.”

Dave Clawson, Wake Forest coach

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8.21.19

TRENDING

David Blatt: The former Cleveland Cavaliers coach has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

In a statement from the Greek club Olympiakos, Blatt said he was diagnosed with condition “a few months ago” and has experienced fatigue, weakness in his legs and balance problems.

Blatt was appointed coach of Cleveland in June 2014 and took the team to the NBA Finals in his first season, losing to the Warriors. He was fired partway through the 2015-16 season, in which Cleveland won the NBA championship for the first time under coach Tyronn Lue. Julio Urìas: The Dodgers pitcher has accepted a 20game suspension by Major League Baseball for a domestic violence incident. He can return to the majors on Sept. 2 and is eligible for the postseason.

The 23-year-old reliever from Mexico was arrested in May and accused of shoving a woman.

The charges were ultimately dropped, but MLB pursued its own punishment under the league’s domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse policy.

Stipe Miocic: The UFC heavyweight stopped Daniel Cormier, taking back his championship belt at UFC 241 on Saturday night in Anaheim, Calif.

Miocic (19-3) lost the first two rounds on every judge’s scorecard in his rematch with the 40-year-old Cormier (22-2). But Miocic landed several powerhouse right hands to Cormier’s head, buckling his knees and eventually forcing referee Herb Dean to stop the fight with 51 seconds left in the fourth round.

beyond the box score POTENT QUOTABLES

MLB

Josh Hamilton, the 2010 AL MVP the season the Rangers went to their first World Series, was back in Arlington for the first time in four years Saturday night for his induction into the team’s hall of fame. The former first overall pick from Raleigh had well-publicized struggles with drugs and alcohol before turning his life and career around, hitting 200 home runs in nine MLB seasons with the Reds, Rangers and Angels.

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“He was as good as you’ll ever see as a football player and as tough as they come.”

UNC coach Mack Brown on former Texas running back Cedric Benson, who died in a motorcycle accident Saturday night at age 36.

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SOCCER

GOLF

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“But at the end of the day, I’m the one with the green jacket.”

Tiger Woods after his PGA season ended when he did not qualify to play in the Tour Championship.

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Two-time NBA MVP Stephen Curry is helping Howard University launch a Division I golf program. The Golden State Warriors star guard and the school announced the sixyear partnership Monday. Howard officials say they plan to have women’s and men’s golf teams for the 2020-21 academic year.

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Russell Wilson, Ciara and Macklemore say they are honored to be a part of the Seattle Sounders ownership group. The Seattle Seahawks quarterback and his singer/songwriter wife, along with the Grammy Award-winning hip hop artist, said at a Sounders event Monday that a sense of community drew them into joining the group.

PRIME NUMBER

5 Total votes received in The Associated Press Preseason Top 25 Poll by schools from North Carolina, all going to Appalachian State. The Mountaineers received four votes in the first Coaches Poll, while NC State got 12 and Duke 10. Defending champion Clemson was first in both polls.

NHL

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The Carolina Hurricanes added defenseman Chase Priskie to their prospect pool, signing the Quinnipiac graduate and captain to a two-year entry-level contract.

Priskie was a Hobey Baker Award finalist and led NCAA defenders in goals last season with 17. He was a 2016 sixthround pick of the Capitals but became a free agent after he did not sign with Washington this summer.

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Drive Shack welcomes golfers of all skill levels The three-story facility, which opens to the public Friday, features simulated courses for serious golfers and fun games for recreational players

Drive Shack — which is opening its second location, in Raleigh, this Friday — weaves golf, technology, food and drinks in a laid-back atmosphere that is more reminiscent of an upscale bowling alley than a country club.

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal RALEIGH — Golfers in the Triangle that have always dreamed of playing the Old Course at St. Andrews but couldn’t get the time off for work or afford the flight to Scotland now have another option.

OK, so they won’t actually be treading on the same hallowed grounds as Jack, Tiger, Old Tom Morris and the other greats of the game. But thanks to modern technology and the newly opened Drive Shack, they’ll be able to get a glimpse of the Swilken Bridge as they prepare to tee off and play a virtual version of the game’s most famous venue.

The ability to play courses such as St. Andrews without leaving the air-conditioned confines of a three-story driving range is just one of the features awaiting duffers and scratch players alike when the new golf and entertainment facility opens to the public on Friday.

There are also skills challenges that give players the feeling that they’re inside a video game, including one in which they hunt monsters and another that’s a golf version of the card game blackjack. Serious players can work on improving their swing with Pro Practice, an analytic device that uses “TrackMan” technology to provide data on ball distance, spin and speed, or by working with Jared Morrow, the PGA professional on staff.

The new facility, located just down the road from PNC Arena off Interstate 40, debuted last Friday with a gala event for invited guests and members of the media.

Among those in attendance were mascots from the three local ACC schools, along with sequin-clad

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employees that gave the evening the look and feel of a Hollywood opening.

As smoothly as things went, there were still a few kinks that need to be worked out before next week’s official opening. The most glaring was the that Drive Shack’s newly created address — 6901 Play Golf Way — is not yet programmed into all GPS systems, causing confusion among Uber and Lyft drivers trying to drop people off there.

The good news is that there is plenty of parking on site.

As much as there is to see and do, including 300-plus televisions all tuned to various sporting events, retro video games, a wide variety of food and drink options, and live music that will be featured on the weekends at the indoor-outdoor bar on the third floor, the centerpiece of the new facility is the 96 climate-controlled driving bays.

Each is equipped with a full set of TaylorMade RJ model clubs – available in men’s, women’s and youth sizes for both right- and lefthanders – an automatic ball delivery device, seating for up to six, television monitors and wait service.

In addition to individual play and team building events, frequent social events such as leagues, boozy brunches, college nights and seasonal events are also in the

Short-handed Duke prepares for Alabama Blue Devils suffer injuries while preparing for opener against Crimson Tide

By Shawn Krest North State Journal DURHAM — Following Duke’s second scrimmage of preseason camp, coach David Cutcliffe was pleased with his firstteam units.

“The first offense scored 24 points,” he said. “That’s an improvement. We had a nice two-minute drill. We took the ball 60 yards in a minute, 30 with only one time out. We had more explosive plays.”

The defense also impressed Cutcliffe.

“The first-team defense continued the trend of playing at a high level,” he said. “They held the second-team offense scoreless.”

Of course, in a week and a half, Duke’s offense and defense won’t be facing the Blue Devils’ second-teamers. They’ll be facing Alabama.

The Crimson Tide were No. 2 in the just-released AP and coaches polls, getting 10 and six first-place votes, respectively, in the two polls.

Nick Saban’s Bama teams have won four national titles this decade, including two in the last four seasons. This year’s team is also on the short list of contenders for the College Football Playoff.

“We know we’ve got a yeoman’s task,” Cutcliffe said. “When we look at Alabama tape, we realize you’re seeing one of the better college football teams of all time.

It’s going to be a great challenge to us.”

It’s a challenge Duke’s players haven’t seen yet this season.

The Blue Devils played at eventual national champion Clemson last year, losing 35-6. So returning players should have some idea what they’re in for.

Cutcliffe is encouraged by his team’s development this preseason, but he’s also wary of opening with the Tide.

“I don’t think any coach would feel good unless they had 100 percent of their players,” he said.

Cutcliffe and Duke are not in that position, by any means.

Duke’s roster was already on the wrong side of the talent gap with Alabama (although, in Cut-

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Duke will face Nick Saban and powerhouse Alabama in the Kickoff Classic in Atlanta on Aug. 31. cliffe’s defense, that would be true of every team, except possibly Clemson). That’s before the attrition started.

The Blue Devils got bad news on two contributors hoping to return from season-ending injuries last year. Running back Marvin Hubbard III and cornerback Mark Gilbert both had to undergo additional surgeries. Hubbard suffered a dislocated hip last year, while Gilbert ruptured his Achilles. Both needed work to clear out scar tissue and are out indefinitely. Of the two, Gilbert, who was an All-ACC candidate before the injury, is likely going to be a bigger impact loss against the Tide.

Once camp started, the hits kept coming. Wide receiver Jake Bobo, a sophomore who had 167 yards and a score in his freshman year last season, fractured his right clavicle at practice and underwent surgery. He’ll be out indefinitely. With several of last year’s top receivers — including TJ Rahming, Johnathan Lloyd, Chris Taylor and tight end Daniel Helm — gone, Bobo was expected to take on a larger role in the offense as a target for new starting quarterback Quentin Harris.

“If you churn, cream rises to the top. If you’re a veteran player and somebody is playing above you, you have a choice — you’d better churn.”

David Cutcliffe, Duke coach Harris is replacing Daniel Jones, who is starring for the Giants in the preseason after leaving early for the draft. It’s safe to say Cutcliffe expected to have Jones as his senior starter when he booked the Bama game.

The depth at that spot took a hit when redshirt freshman Gunnar Holmberg, expected to compete to be Harris’ backup, injured his right leg at practice. He’ll also need surgery.

“Unfortunately, Gunnar Holmberg has injured a knee,” Cutcliffe said, without specifying the injury. “He has an imminent surgery so he will be out indefinitely. It is not a ligament. At this day and

time, you try to go in and repair for long-term health. I am disappointed for him and I’m disappointed for us. I know he will do everything he can to be back for us as quickly as possible.”

Cutcliffe, however, is facing the challenge of playing the Tide short-handed head-on.

“It’s real easy to play the guy who knows what to do,” he said of his backup players. “If you churn, cream rises to the top. If you’re a veteran player and somebody is playing above you, you have a choice — you’d better churn.”

In other words, injury is creating an opportunity for someone, and they need to seize it.

“It’s going to be fun to watch the backs and the receivers compete within themselves,” he said.

“The bus waits on no one.”

And that bus will be leaving for Atlanta, and a date with Saban’s Alabama team, whether they’re ready or not.

“It’s a challenge,” Cutcliffe said.

“And the way you test if we’re taking that challenge is on the practice field.”

Cutcliffe has seen plenty of practice this preseason.

“So far, so good,” he concluded.

works, as is a weeklong Summer Swing Academy for junior players.

“We’ve tried to think of everything,” general manager Dan Godfrey said earlier this summer.

The Raleigh Drive Shack will become the company’s second location. The other, which has been in operation for about a year, is in Orlando, Fla. Further expansion is planned for West Palm Beach, Fla., Richmond, Va., New York City and New Orleans.

WAKE from page B3 It’s why his players weren’t surprised when they found out their coach would be staying for the long haul rather than going elsewhere to begin a new challenge.

“My sophomore and junior years, I used to give him some trouble, like, ‘Hey, what if Notre Dame or some big-time school starts calling,’” senior linebacker Justin Strnad said. “But he honestly loves it here. His daughter goes to school at Davidson, his son is here. I truly believe he loves coming to work at Wake Forest every day. I think it would take a crazy offer to get him to leave.”

Physical amenities and a supportive administration aren’t the only factors that have led Clawson and his family to finally start putting down roots in Winston-Salem.

Strong recruiting efforts since his arrival have built talent base and depth the Deacons haven’t had since their ACC championship season of 2006.

That’s especially true on the offensive side of the ball, where Clawson is blessed with two experienced quarterbacks that have won games for him — newly named starter Jamie Newman and backup Sam Hartman — along with returning 1,000-yard rusher Cade Carney and proven receivers Sage Surratt and Scotty Washington.

Despite all that returning talent Wake was picked to finish next-tolast in the Atlantic Division, proving that there’s still work to be done in changing the perception of the program.

Not that such things matter to Clawson or his players.

“We’ve outperformed our projections since I’ve been at Wake,” Carney said. “If we have to keep out-performing our projections that’s fine because preseason (projections) don’t matter. It’s not really fuel to our fire. We already have enough motivation.”

It’s an attitude that comes straight from the top with a coach that has enough confidence in the program he has built to stick around and maintain it instead of starting over again somewhere else.

“If you ask the coaches in the league, I think they take us very seriously,” Clawson said. “Changing media perception takes longer. People were able to think of us in such a way for so long because even when there was success it was looked upon as a fluke. But now I think we have something sustainable.”

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Ogletree wins US Amateur final at Pinehurst

The Rowan County softball team celebrates after winning last Wednesday’s Little League World Series championship game over River Ridge, La., in Portland, Ore.

Georgia Tech player tops Vanderbilt’s John Augenstein for the title

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Rowan Co. softball wins Little League World Series The team went undefeated in the postseason, beating River Ridge, La., to earn its second title in five years

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal MOST communities schedule parades for holidays such as the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving.

In Salisbury, they hold them in the seemingly random midsummer heat of August.

That’s when the local girls youth softball team returns home from the Little League World Series in Portland, Ore. Teams representing the Rowan County Little League have qualified for the nationally televised tournament four times in the past five years, advancing to the final game on each trip.

This year’s squad brought home its second championship trophy with a 4-1 victory against River Ridge, La., last Wednesday.

It was a victory celebrated literally from coast-to-coast, starting with a dogpile on a diamond in Oregon and continuing with a happy homecoming and yet another triumphant stroll through the streets of Salisbury.

“When we got home, we had a welcome in downtown where our bus stopped and we were greeted by friends and family, along with the Catawba (University) football team and a couple hundred community members,” said coach Steve Yang said. “It was very exciting for the players and their parents to see.”

It was especially meaningful for Yang, who was also the coach of the Rowan Little League entry that won the World Series in 2015.

His oldest daughter, Ellen, was a member of that team. Younger daughter Ashley continued the family tradition this year by contributing to a title of her own.

According to the coach, the siblings aren’t the only common bond between the two championship teams.

“In my opinion, no one gave this group of girls a chance from the beginning. But they worked and got better all summer,” Yang said. “That’s what makes them so special, kind of like the 2015 team. No one really gave those girls a chance, either. They just went along for the ride and just kept winning.”

In fact, they never lost once postseason play began, sweeping through the state, regional and national tournaments with an unblemished 17-0 record.

One of its closest calls came in the World Series semifinals against the host Oregon team.

Playing against a strong opponent with a decidedly partisan crowd behind it, Rowan County survived an eight-inning marathon by winning 3-2 when Riley Haggas drove home Campbell Schaen with an RBI single in the top of the second extra frame.

The following night, the North Carolina team didn’t wait to get its offense going.

It put three runs on the board in the top of the first on singles by Lauren Vanderpool and Schaen, a hit batter, a two-run double by Haggas and a squeeze bunt by Ashley Yang. Kennedi Fisher added some insurance by scoring on a wild pitch in the second to build a lead that was never threatened thanks to a nine-strikeout performance by pitching ace Schaen on the mound.

“In the top of the first, (Louisiana) was able to put a couple of runners on, but we were able to get out of it. Then we came back and scored three,” Steve Yang said.

“That was huge. I knew (Louisiana) was a good team, but scoring three runs off of Campbell Schaen would have been a monumental feat. We felt a lot more confident after that first inning.”

“In my opinion, no one gave this group of girls a chance from the beginning. But they worked and got better all summer.”

Steve Yang, Rowan County coach

As successful as the Rowan County Little League program has been, winning the title was a vindication of sorts for at least five team members who were also on a 2018 squad that lost in the regional final and missed out on a trip to Portland.

Besides Schaen, Haggas, Vanderpool, Fisher and Amy Yang, the other team members are Avrelle Harrell, Kynlee Dextraze, Emma Rae Cline, Cadence Lane, Arabelle Shulenberger, Andie Evans, Lexie Ritchie, Kassidy Sechler and Carmen Freeze.

It’s a group of players that came together six weeks ago and, according to their coach, bonded quickly into a championship unit.

Steve Yang said that the secret to Rowan County’s success has been the cooperation that exists between the Little League and several area travel programs.

“It takes a real commitment for parents and the players to do two different teams at one time and make it work,” Yang said. “They’ve really bought into that here, because in a lot of other communities, they play either one or the other. That’s how players develop. That’s how you get better as a league.”

And that, at least in Salisbury, is how parades get scheduled on seemingly random mid-August afternoons.

PINEHURST — Andy Ogletree was in danger of being blown out of the U.S. Amateur final. He kept his poise — and his confidence — and came back to win.

Ogletree won the U.S. Amateur on Sunday, rallying to beat John Augenstein 2 and 1.

“Everyone on (his Georgia Tech) team says Andy’s blood pressure’s got to be negative,” Ogletree quipped.

Ogletree was 4 down early in the morning round of the 36-hole final at Pinehurst’s renovated No. 4, but he won four of the final seven holes on the No. 2 course to claim the championship matchup of 21-yearold college seniors.

“I showed a lot of resilience out there and never gave up,” Ogletree said. “Kept telling myself I’m going to win this tournament and always believed that. Even when I was 4 down through six (holes), I just kept telling myself ... keep hitting fairways, keep hitting greens and it’ll eventually go your way.”

The Mississippian became the third Georgia Tech player to win the Amateur, joining 1997 winner Matt Kuchar and five-time champion Bobby Jones.

He ended it on the 17th, sticking his tee shot on the par-3 hole on the green and two-putting for par.

Augenstein placed his tee shot on the left fringe and four-putted for a double bogey.

“I fought my hardest, but in the end, I didn’t make enough putts or hit enough great shots to beat him,” Augenstein said. “He was really super solid and made no mistakes.”

Augenstein, from Kentucky, was the first Vanderbilt player to reach the final since Luke List in 2004. At No. 38 in the world amateur ranking, he was the highest-ranked player to reach the

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Andy Ogletree, right, is congratulated by his caddie Devin Stanton following his victory Sunday at the USGA Amateur Golf Championship at Pinehurst Country Club in Pinehurst.

PANTHERS from page B1 punt return but missed the tackle.

He entered the game at safety in the second half and was blocked out of the play when he tried to run blitz.

Rashaan Gaulden had the most bright spots for the safety candidates, but negative plays may have outweighed any positive impact.

He came from behind the play to tackle the running back at the line late in the first half. He also twice rushed the quarterback on safety blitzes. He had a costly illegal hands to the face penalty, however, which allowed Buffalo to convert a first-and-19.

Cole Luke got into the game in the fourth quarter and did well in limited time. He nearly had an interception when he broke on a short pass. He also broke up a play when he got through on a blitz.

Offensive rookies and position battles The rookie offensive linemen had a rough night. Greg Little entered the game in the second quarter and picked up a holding flag on his first snap. He also got flagged for an illegal chop block in the second half and flushed the quarterback from the pocket after he lost his man.

Beside him, sixth-rounder Den-

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Taylor Heinicke has been the most effective quarterback for the Panthers through two preseason games with starter Cam Newton sitting out that start of the exhibition season. nis Daley allowed his guy through to hit the quarterback — roughing the passer was called on the play.

Little, Daley and the center also miscommunicated on a stunt, allowing someone to get through un-

blocked for a sack.

Veterans Daryl Williams and Greg Van Roten started at tackle and guard, respectively and appear to be locking down the starting jobs.

semifinals and the only one in the top 100.

Ogletree kept himself within striking distance and was never worse than 2 down during the afternoon round. He squared the match on the 13th hole after landing his second shot within 5 feet of the flagstick and tapping in for a birdie, then took the lead on the 14th after Augenstein pushed a short par putt wide left.

“I just kept putting the pressure on John,” Ogletree said, “and it worked out for me.”

This was the first time the U.S. Amateur’s final was split over two courses, finishing at No. 2, which has become a regular USGA championship host. Overlooking the 18th green is a statue of the late Payne Stewart marking his victory in the 1999 U.S. Open with a fistpump.

During match play, neither of these players saw it very often.

Only one of Ogletree’s matches reached the 18th while three ended on the 15th hole or earlier. For Augenstein, four of his first five matches were wrapped up by the 16th, and — until the final four holes of the final — the only time he trailed came on the third hole of his semifinal match with William Holcomb V. Holcomb’s 1-up lead was gone a hole later.

Early on, it looked as though this was Augenstein’s match to lose. He went ahead 4 up during his hot start that included winning four straight holes and reeling off three birdies in a row on Nos. 3-5.

Ogletree clawed back, finished the morning round at 2 down to begin his comeback.

“I got off to the start that you always want to get off to on one of these days,” Augenstein said. “It’s 36 holes. If I was in his position, I’d be thinking the same thing — there was a lot of golf left. I wasn’t at all complacent about thinking I’ve got this thing won through six holes.”

North Carolinians Akshay Bhatia (Wake Forest), Parker Gillam (Cary) and Blake Wagoner (Cornelius) were all eliminated in the Round of 32. Bhatia lost to Augenstein.

The quarterbacks also had a long night. Kyle Allen started and was 2-for-8 on passes to receivers, with several bad misses and two passes batted at the line.

Will Grier entered next and

threw a pick-six that was far wide of his intended target. His decision making and accuracy were problems all night. He completed just one of his first seven attempts to wide receivers, overthrowing on most of the misses and finishing 4 of 14 to receivers. He bolstered his numbers with dump-offs to running backs who ran for good yardage.

Taylor Heinicke had the best night of the three, scrambling for yards and throwing the only touchdown pass of the game for the Panthers.

The running back battle also became interesting. Veteran Cameron Artis-Payne started and looked good as a power back, bulling for yardage. He was also the first option for kickoff returns.

Reggie Bonnafon had a good night catching the ball for long gains. He also was able to bull ahead for yardage on run plays. He seems to be at his best in the open field, on dump-offs or draw plays.

Fifth-rounder Jordan Scarlett had his first playing experience and mimicked Bonnafon, looking good catching the ball and showing elusiveness. He was also able to push the pile for extra yardage.

Elijah Holyfield saw his time diminish but was able to bounce off tacklers for yardage. He also picked up a blitz while blocking.

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Domestic visitors spent a record $25.3 billion statewide in 2018, an increase of 5.6 percent from 2017.

State tax receipts as a result of visitor spending neared $1.3 billion in 2018, and local tax revenues directly resulting from visitor spending totaled $774.6 million.

Visitor expenditures directly supported more than 230,000 jobs and generated more than $6.3 billion in payroll income across North Carolina.

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Raleigh’s LobbyGuard provides security as America heads back to school

By David Larson North State Journal RALEIGH — With many parents and staff increasingly anxious about student safety in light of recent school shootings, LobbyGuard Solutions, based out of Raleigh, is providing schools with new methods of securing their buildings.

Kevin Allen, the current president of LobbyGuard, has been with the company since its start in 2005 and before that when it was just an idea. Allen is a native of North Carolina, growing up in Graham, and attended UNC-Greensboro before getting involved in Research Triangle technology company Cii Technology Solutions.

Allen said the idea for the system came while he was working at Cii. They did not get enough foot traffic to justify a full-time receptionist, so instead they set up a phone in the lobby with instructions for visitors to hit a certain extension to alert people of their presence.

This was “deemed not to be professional enough,” and instead, they created a Powerpoint with options to check them in, ending with a button that sent an email to the company.

“We created that in the year 2000, and after three years of folks coming in and saying, ‘Hey, I’d really like to have this in my office,’ a light bulb went off in my head,” Allen told NSJ. “And so I said, maybe we can build this out and see where we can go with it.”

They added some features like a drivers license scanner, the ability to take a photograph of the visitor and a more customized interface.

Allen said they assumed the major interest for this product would be from similar small businesses that wanted a simple, professional way to address the visitor issue.

“But one of our first presentations was to Wake County Schools in 2003, and they loved it. We had no idea there was such a need for this at schools, but ever since then we’ve been growing our school install base.”

After receiving some funding from other investors, they spun LobbyGuard out of Cii’s corporate structure in 2005, with Kevin Allen at the helm. The demand for security solutions at schools and other buildings has rapidly grown their business around the country.

“We definitely have a heavy presence here in North Carolina with Wake, Mecklenburg, Person, Carteret, Buncombe and you can keep naming the major counties, and we pretty much have them covered,” Allen said.

But LobbyGuard is much more than a one-state business. Currently, together with Raptor Technologies their parent company, they monitor 30,000 schools in 48 states.

“We represent more than three times the rest of the folks in the industry combined,” Allen said of the recent joining of forces by LobbyGuard and Raptor, previously the two largest players in the market.

The software itself is a simple way to monitor everyone who enters a building, running them through a series of near-instant checks through sexual offender, criminal and even custom school databases. The school can create “red flag” lists of people who are not allowed into the building, like parents who do not have custody but attempt to pick up a student anyway. These incidents around custody are actually a much more common security problem than the ones that make the news, Allen said.

The LobbyGuard SL product, which is the basic package, is the most popular, although there are two others that add more features and hardware. LobbyGuard SL includes a camera, a visitor badge and a drivers license scanner, all connected to the school’s computers by USB. There is also a software program they provide that ties all the hardware together on one platform.

“One of the growing trends for school security across the country right now are what are called ‘man traps’ or vestibules,” Allen said. These require a visitor to en-

ter a first door where they wait in a room until they are approved and can enter the second door into the building.

LobbyGuard integrates into this vestibule system by allowing staff to take a picture of the visitor, scan their drivers license and perform the checks while the visitor is waiting to receive their badge. If a normal visitor badge is printed, they allow the person in, but if it prints out as “void” the staff knows not to let them in the building and to notify security.

In addition to adding a layer of security, LobbyGuard also makes it easy to track things like volunteers, student late arrivals and teacher attendance. Having one system to manage all of these elements quickly and thoroughly is becoming the standard practice in American schools.

“The demand for visitor management in schools has doubled nearly every year in the past five years,” said Allen. “The entirety of K-12 schools in the U.S. is just about 130,000. Of that 130,000, by industry estimates roughly 40,000 have a solution in place today.”

Only a few years before this school year, the number was a fraction of that amount. Of those 40,000 schools, the recently combined company of Raptor Technologies and LobbyGuard Solutions accounts for about three quarters of that.

Despite this acquisition by their competitor, Allen said, “The plan is to stay in North Carolina and to stay as LobbyGuard. It’s important to our customers because they trust our brand and they trust our integrity. So, we will not be leaving North Carolina and we will not be changing our name.”

As another school year begins, Allen says his company and their product go a long way in protecting students, staff and visitors, but adds, “I would just advise everyone, don’t just rely on hardware and software. Also rely on human nature, keep your eyes and ears open, and report things if you see them. If you do that, you’ll have a great year and a safe year.”

Xerox investing in Triangle, bringing hundreds of jobs

By Emily Roberson North State Journal CARY, NC — Xerox will build a new Center of Excellence in Cary, creating 600 jobs, Governor Roy Cooper announced last week. The company will invest $18.4 million in Wake County.

“Xerox, which had many locations to choose from, selected North Carolina because they know we can offer the highly-skilled workers they

need, both now and in the future,” said Governor Cooper.

The Cary Center of Excellence will be the fourth of its kind for the company in North America, joining Xerox’s three other centers located in Palo Alto, California; Webster, New York; and Toronto, Canada.

“The opening of our fourth Center of Excellence is an essential investment in Xerox’s long-term future. This is a new multifunctional center that will be focused on ac-

celerating our digital journey,” said Naresh Shanker, chief technology officer, Xerox. “Being home to a host of tech companies and educational institutions, North Carolina was a logical choice for us.”

“North Carolina is a leading center for innovation,” said North Carolina Commerce Secretary Anthony M. Copeland. “Our state’s commitment to education and to the idea we must provide life-long learning opportunities for our workers is

something technology companies recognize and reward.”

The North Carolina Department of Commerce and the Economic Development Partnership of N.C. (EDPNC) led the state’s support for the company’s decision.

According to a Department of Commerce statement, Xerox’s project in North Carolina will be facilitated, in part, by a Job Development Investment Grant (JDIG) approved by the state’s Economic

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Investment Committee earlier today. Over the course of the 12-year term of this grant, the project is estimated to grow the state’s economy by $1.7 billion. Using a formula that takes into account the new tax revenues generated by the new jobs, the JDIG agreement authorizes the potential reimbursement to the company of up to $12,324,750, spread over 12 years.

Because Xerox chose to locate in Wake County, classified by the state’s economic tier system as Tier 3, the company’s JDIG agreement See XEROX, page C2

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C2 US gives Huawei a 90-day reprieve on technology trade ban New York Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says the U.S. will extend by 90 days the ability of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei to buy supplies from U.S. companies. It’s the second extension for Huawei, a company that the U.S. sees as a national security risk. The comments Monday from Ross on Fox Business News sent shares of U.S. computer chip makers bolting higher. Huawei is China’s biggest phone maker and sales to the company account for a significant portion of revenues for some U.S. suppliers. The Commerce Department said Monday that the delay will give users more time to transition away from goods made

by Huawei. The extension is being announced a day after President Donald Trump said the U.S. shouldn’t be doing business with Huawei.

Top US CEOs rethink the meaning of shareholder value New York The shareholder comes first has for years been the mantra of the Business Roundtable, a group representing the most powerful CEOs in America.

The group on Monday released a new mission statement that implies a foundational shift; a step back from shareholder primacy. The new mission statement on “the purpose of a corporation” emphasizes that all stakeholders are important and that includes workers, suppliers, customers and the communities where corporations operate.

JPMorgan Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon, who also chairs the Business Roundtable, said in a prepared statement that, “The American dream is alive, but fraying.” The perception that the American dream is out of reach for many people is a powerful narrative that has altered the political landscape ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

XEROX from page C1 also calls for moving as much as $4,108,250 into the state’s Industrial Development Fund – Utility Account. The Utility Account helps rural communities finance necessary infrastructure upgrades to attract future business.

Even when new jobs are created in a Tier 3 county such as Wake, the new tax revenue generated through JDIG grants helps more economically challenged communities elsewhere in the state.

“Another world-class business has selected Cary for a project that’s of vital importance to their company,” said N.C. Senator Wiley Nickel. “We’re very excited about Xerox’s decision to bring 600 jobs to Western Wake County. Cary is located in the heart of the Research Triangle and repeatedly ranks among the top places in the nation to begin or expand a business. This major expansion by Xerox solidifies Cary’s place as a national leader for good high paying technology jobs.”

“People from our region worked together to help make today’s announcement possible,” said N.C. Representative Cynthia Ball. “This spirit of collaboration will continue as we work to help Xerox grow and succeed here.”

Trump dismisses worries of recession, says economy is strong

By Kevin Freking The Associated Press BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. — President Donald Trump dismissed concerns of recession on Sunday and offered an optimistic outlook for the economy after last week’s steep drop in the financial markets.

“I don’t think we’re having a recession,” Trump told reporters as he returned to Washington from his New Jersey golf club. “We’re doing tremendously well. Our consumers are rich. I gave a tremendous tax cut and they’re loaded up with money.”

A strong economy is key to Trump’s re-election prospects.

Consumer confidence has dropped 6.4% since July. The president has spent most of the week at his golf club in New Jersey with much of his tweeting focused on talking up the economy.

Aides sought to reinforce that message during a series of appearances on the Sunday talk shows.

Larry Kudlow, Trump’s top economic adviser, dismissed fears of a looming recession and predicted the economy will perform well in the second half of 2019. He said that consumers are seeing higher wages and are able to spend and save more.

“We’re doing pretty darn well in my judgment. Let’s not be afraid of optimism,” Kudlow said.

Kudlow acknowledged a slowing energy sector, but said low interest rates will help housing, construction and auto sales.

Kudlow also defended the president’s use of tariffs on goods coming from China. Before he joined the administration, Kudlow was known for opposing tariffs and promoting free trade during his career as an economic analyst.

Kudlow said Trump has taught him and others that the “China story has to be changed and reformed.”

“We cannot let China pursue these unfair and unreciprocal trading practices,” Kudlow said.

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China accountable on trade. He said he fears Trump is driving the global economy into a recession.

“This current trade war that the president has entered our country into is not working,” O’Rourke said. “It is hammering the hell out of farmers across this country.”

Last month, the Federal Reserve reduced its benchmark rate — which affects many loans for households and businesses — by a quarter-point to a range of 2% to 2.25%. It’s the first rate cut since December 2008 during the depths of the Great Recession. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell stressed that the Fed was worried about the consequences of Trump’s trade war and sluggish economies overseas.

“Weak global growth and trade tensions are having an effect on the U.S. economy,” he said.

Breaking with historical norms, Trump has been highly critical of Powell as he places blame for any economic weakness on the nation’s central bank for raising interest rates too much over the past two years.

“I think I could be helped out by the Fed, but the Fed doesn’t like helping me too much,” Trump complained Sunday.

Peter Navarro, who advises Trump on trade policy, shared that sentiment.

“The Federal Reserve chairman should look in the mirror and say, ‘I raised rates too far, too fast, and I cost this economy a full percentage point of growth,’” Navarro said.

Trump acknowledged at least a potential impact on consumers when he paused a planned 10% tariff hike for many items coming from China, such as cellphones, laptops, video game consoles, some toys, computer monitors, shoes and clothing.

“We’re doing (it) just for Christmas season, just in case some of the tariffs could have an impact,” the president told reporters in New Jersey.

Navarro would not go even that far, saying Sunday “there’s no evidence whatsoever that Americans consumers are bearing any of this.”

Kudlow was interviewed on

NBC’s “Meet the Press” and “Fox News Sunday.” O’Rourke spoke on NBC, and Navarro appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” and CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

Trump’s trade war with China has been a target of criticism by Democrats vying to challenge him in 2020.

“There is clearly no strategy for dealing with the trade war in a way that will actually lead to results for American farmers or American consumers,” said Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, a Democratic presidential candidate. He said on CNN that it was “a fool’s errand” to think tariff increases will compel China to change its economic approach.

Trump maintained that China’s economy is struggling because of the tariffs and would like to make a trade deal with the U.S. He said he could make a “bad deal” and the stock markets would go up, “but it wouldn’t be the right thing to do.”

“I’m just not ready to make a deal yet,” Trump said. “China would like to make a deal. I’m not ready.”

34% of economists in survey expect a US recession in 2021 Experts say ongoing tariff disputes and higher budget deficits to blame for bearish economic forecast, as White House offers optimism in low unemployment rate and solid retail numbers The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A number of U.S. business economists appear sufficiently concerned about the risks of some of President Donald Trump’s economic policies that they expect a recession in the U.S. by the end of 2021.

Thirty-four percent of economists surveyed by the National Association for Business Economics, in a report being released Monday, said they believe a slowing economy will tip into recession in 2021. That’s up from 25% in a survey taken in February. Only 2% of those polled expect a recession to begin this year, while 38%

predict that it will occur in 2020.

Trump, however, has dismissed concerns about a recession, offering an optimistic outlook for the economy after last week’s steep drop in the financial markets and saying on Sunday, “I don’t think we’re having a recession.” A strong economy is key to the Republican president’s 2020 reelection prospects.

The economists have previously expressed concern that Trump’s tariffs and higher budget deficits could eventually dampen the economy.

The Trump administration has imposed tariffs on goods from many key U.S. trading partners, from China and Europe to Mexico and Canada. Officials maintain that the tariffs, which are taxes on imports, will help the administration gain more favorable terms of trade. But U.S. trading partners have simply retaliated with tariffs of their own.

Trade between the U.S. and China, the two biggest global economies, has plunged. Trump

decided last Wednesday to postpone until Dec. 15 tariffs on about 60% of an additional $300 billion of Chinese imports, granting a reprieve from a planned move that would have extended duties to nearly everything the U.S. buys from China.

The financial markets last week signaled the possibility of a U.S. recession, adding to concerns over the ongoing trade tensions and word from Britain and Germany that their economies are shrinking.

The economists surveyed by the NABE were skeptical about prospects for success of the latest round of U.S.-China trade negotiations. Only 5% predicted that a comprehensive trade deal would result, 64% suggested a superficial agreement was possible and nearly 25% expected nothing to be agreed upon by the two countries.

The 226 respondents, who work mainly for corporations and trade associations, were surveyed between July 14 and Aug. 1. That was before the White House an-

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nounced 10% tariffs on the additional $300 billion of Chinese imports, the Chinese currency dipped below the seven-yuan-to-$1 level for the first time in 11 years and the Trump administration formally labeled China a currency manipulator.

As a whole, the business economists’ recent responses have represented a rebuke of the Trump administration’s overall approach to the economy.

Still, for now, most economic signs appear solid. Employers are adding jobs at a steady pace, the unemployment rate remains near a 50-year low and consumers are optimistic. U.S. retail sales figures out last Thursday showed that they jumped in July by the most in four months.

The survey showed a steep decline in the percentage of economists who found the $1.5 trillion in tax cuts over the next decade “too stimulative” and likely to produce higher budget deficits that should be reduced, to 51% currently from 71% in August 2018.

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From the Mountains to the Sea, state hiking trail turns 42

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal NORTH CAROLINA — A hiking trail that stretches from one side of the Tarheel state to the other is turning 42 next month.

The Mountains to Sea Trail (MST) will be celebrating its anniversary Sept.

6-8 with Birthday Hike that will feature 33 guided hikes and connects 27 trail towns for the anniversary event.

The MST is an official part of the North Carolina Parks system which covers 1,175 miles of trail from the Great Smoky Mountains to the sandy beaches of the Outer Banks. But this trail is more than just mileage, it’s also about people.

“There are so few trails like ours where you have the mountains and you’re hiking up the Outer Banks and you’re hiking up Topsail Island. We are such a beautiful diverse state just to have all those experiences in one trail is pretty phenomenal,” Brown said.

“Something different about this trail is that you’re going into communities and meeting people in towns along the trail through North Carolina,” said Betsy Brown, Outreach Coordinator for MST. “It’s more of a cultural introduction to places that they might have not spent time in before.”

NCSU Vice Chancellor Emeritus Jerry Barker can vouch that the MST indeed is different, having hiked the entire stretch over the course of a few years.

Barker said that during that time, he racked up an average of 14 miles a day during “62 days of hiking, biking and paddling” by the point he had completed over 80% of the entire trail.

“I definitely saw more of North Carolina than ever before, and in a different way than speeding down a highway,” Barker told NSJ. “I biked about 100 miles, walked 200 miles along rural roadways, paddled about 160 miles and was on almost 600 miles of beautiful natural trail.”

The trail is broken into 18 segments, each with a guide, mileage, tips and difficulty ranking that can be found on the MST website. Barker utilized the segments to complete his hike.

“At age 65 I knew it would be very challenging to thru-hike the trail, carrying a pack and being gone from home for extended periods, so I started a section-hike,” Barker said. “Section hiking allowed me to hit the trail when conve-

nient in my schedule, when the weather was pleasant, and when friends could join me.”

Trail updates are also available for free on the MST website as well as a Google interactive map of the trail.

Barker said that some of his favorite spots included treks near the Blue Ridge Parkway, rock-hopping along rugged Harper Creek, and walking the beach at Ocracoke with lots of sea birds and dolphins in the breakers.

According to Brown, MST has a partnership with REI and their app called the “Hiking Project Online” which helps hikers stay on the trail. In addition to trail guides and online maps, people called Trail Angels are out there along the way to help.

“They can help in so many ways,” said Brown. “They could help shuttle you places, they can help you by letting you camp in their yard, they can help you do your laundry, they’ll feed you, they’ll do whatever it takes to help you get on that trail.”

“The great thing about it is they love doing it, they love the hikers, they have great experiences, and we just have some lovely amazing folks who love supporting hikers,” Brown said. “For whatever reason Trail Angels just love being supportive and we hear great stories of interactions with them.”

The trail was first proposed in 1977, and in 1997 Alan de Hart founded the Mountains-to-Sea Trail. The MST coordinated with over 70 different land managers across the state and works alongside state agencies like the North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation to maintain the trail.

Friends of the Mountain to Sea Trail is member-funded 501(c)3 organization, so donations are the main source of revenue and the organization relies on and credits their volunteers for much of the hands-on work of maintaining the trail.

“We have about 1,200 members so far and we’re constantly growing with people who support the trail,” said Brown.

“Obviously, we need financial support but people also give their time as a volunteer and they’ll put in their voice when we are starting to build Trail in new areas.”

Brown said they’re credibly fortunate to have received a grant from Duke Energy to help with the new crescent section of the trail they are trying to build in the southeastern area of the state near the Neuse River.

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C4 French couple could face jail time for taking Italian sand Rome A French couple faces up to six years in jail for taking around 88.1lbs of white sand from a beach on the Italian island of Sardinia.

Italian finance police said Tuesday they discovered the sand from a Chia beach stashed in 14 plastic bottles in the couple’s SUV during a check as it boarded a ferry Aug. 15 from Sardinia to France.

The couple told police they didn’t know it was against the law to take the island’s famed sand, which is protected as a public good. If found guilty, they face one to six years in jail for aggravated theft.

It’s not clear when a trial may be held.

Italian finance police say the sand theft was one of the bigger revealed during a recent crackdown.

US extends ban on passports for North Korea travel Washington, D.C. The Trump administration is extending a ban on the use of U.S. passports for travel to North Korea for another year.

A State Department notice released Monday says the ban will remain in place until Aug. 31, 2020, unless revoked by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

The ban was imposed in September 2017 by thenSecretary of State Rex Tillerson and renewed in 2018. Tillerson took the unusual measure following the death of an American student, Otto Warmbier, who had been detained in North Korea.

The State Department says it determined “there continues to be serious risk to United States nationals of arrest and long-term detention” for Americans traveling to North Korea, according to the notice that will be published in the Federal Register this week.

The ban allows certain categories of American citizens such as aid workers or journalists to obtain a special validation passport good for one trip to North Korea.

Lufthansa offers climate-friendly fuel, but at a price Berlin German airline Lufthansa is launching a website that allows customers to buy climatefriendly plane fuel to compensate for the emissions caused by their flight.

Lufthansa said Monday that the sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF, purchased that way will be added to one of the airline’s flights, reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by 80%.

The aviation industry has come under fire from climate campaigners for its comparatively large carbon footprint, though airlines note that it constitutes only 2% of man-made emissions worldwide.

Lufthansa’s Compensaid service comes at a steep price. A single economyclass ticket from Frankfurt to New York is $414 more expensive if customers buy SAF, a synthetic form of kerosene.

Passengers who opt to donate toward reforestation measures instead pay a 165-euro surcharge for the same flight.

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This Monday, Aug. 27, 2018 file photo, burners surrounded by playa dust climb onto an art installation titled, “Night of the Climb,” at Burning Man, in Gerlach, Nev.

Burning Man playa dust not serious health concern

By Kevin Freking The Associated Press RENO, Nev. — Breakfast, lunch and dinner at Burning Man is served with a side of playa dust that covers cars and clothing and finds its way into places where the sun doesn’t shine.

But experts say it doesn’t appear to pose any significant health risk to those who inhale it during the annual counter-culture festival in the desert 100 miles north of Reno, according to the Reno Gazette Journal. Burning Man 2019 starts Sunday, Aug. 25 and runs through Monday, Sept. 2.

Masks, bandannas and bedazzled respirators are wrapped around Burners’ faces in an effort to keep the chalk out of their mouths and nostrils, but the fashionable flair is often futile.

“Your eyelashes are covered, your clothes are covered - all the clothes you wear, they’re impossible to clean again,” said Wendover Brown, a frequent Burner who co-founded a fashionable protective mask company, Vogmask.

“It’s such a fine dust, those microscopic particles, they get into everything.”

Since 1990, Burning Man has been held on the Black Rock Desert playa, an ancient lake flat made of alkaline dust. As the event has grown from a few hundred to tens of thousands of attendees, the increased vehicle

In this Aug. 30, 2017, photo, Vanessa Shari, of Santa Monica, Calif., closes her eyes as the wind blows on the playa at Burning Man, in Gerlach, Nev. and foot traffic has led to more frequent dust storms.

“Normally, you could see 2 miles on a clear day on the playa.

During a dust storm, you can only see 2 yards, Brown said.

Air quality studies have found that the air quality at Burning Man during the peak days of the event is atrocious, far exceeding national air quality standards all days during the event and during many of the days leading up to it, when staff, volunteers and artists are on-site.

The most recently published air quality data was collected at

Burning Man 2017, and the concentration of particulate matter — which can be anything from dust to smoke and ash — was so high that it at times maxed out the monitoring instruments, according to a 2019 environmental report by the Bureau of Land Management.

During seven of nine days, the measurement of larger particulate matter exceeded 600 micrograms per cubic meter, which typically warrants a hazard notice — indicating the highest level of danger — from air quality officials. The measurement of small-

er particulate matter reached hazard levels as well, exceeding 250 micrograms per cubic meter, on five days of the event.

Brendan Schnieder, an air quality specialist with Washoe County, noted that Burning Man coincided with a wildfire in 2017, so levels of larger particulate matter were especially high.

“If this is a typical week at Burning Man, it would be a concern ... but I think people understand that, and a lot of them stay inside” their RVs or other shelters, he said.

Dr. Aleem Surani, a pulmonary medical specialist at the Northern Nevada Medical Group, said short-term exposure to playa dust is unlikely to cause any long-term health effects, even if repeated.

“Based on what I can extrapolate from, there’s no significant concern for the average person going to Burning Man,” Surani said.

Surani said it’s hard to say with certainty that there are no effects because the research isn’t there.

Most research focuses on prolonged, repeated exposure over decades, generally in workplaces such as mines, construction sites and agricultural facilities.

Granted, anyone attending Burning Man with pre-existing conditions, such as asthma, should use extra caution, he said.

Children and elderly people also should attend with caution.

“People are going to probably have gunk in their mouth and throat, and hopefully they’re drinking lots of water and taking it easy during the wind,” he said.

He said a doctor visit is recommended if any effects of breathing in dust persist beyond a week or two.

US airlines expect record crowds over Labor Day weekend The Associated Press DALLAS — Airlines expect record crowds over the week-long Labor Day period, continuing a rise in travel that has boosted the airlines’ profits all year.

The trade group Airlines for America forecast Tuesday that 17.5 million passengers will fly on U.S. carriers between Aug. 28 and Sept. 3. That would be 2.5 million passengers a day and a 4% increase over the same week last year.

The busiest day is expected to be Friday, Aug. 30, when the group forecasts just under 3 million people will board a U.S. airline.

The industry group credits low fares, and analysts point to steady if unspectacular economic growth and low unemployment as other factors supporting demand for travel.

The airline group says carriers have added seats even though Southwest, American and United have canceled thousands of flights while their Boeing 737 Max planes remain grounded.

Southwest, American and United had 72 Maxes when the planes were grounded in mid-March after the second of two deadly crashes. They expected to receive many more planes as the year went on, so they have had to make deeper cuts in their schedules for upcoming months.

American and United have taken the plane out of their schedules until early November. Southwest

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In this Nov. 20, 2018, file photo travelers wait in line to board a flight at Baltimore-Washington International doesn’t plan to use Max jets until early January so that it doesn’t have to scrub flights over Christmas and New Year’s. Boeing predicts the plane will be flying in November, but the company has been overly optimistic before.

If the plane is grounded much longer than anticipated, airlines will have to buy other planes, said the trade group’s economist, John Heimlich.

“But we’re far away from that,” Heimlich said on a call with reporters. “There is a lot of confidence that with all the attention and scrutiny given to this airplane that it will be in flight before they have to consider such extreme

measures.”

Heimlich said getting through the summer without those planes was the biggest hurdle for the airlines that use them. He said the holidays should be easier because airlines have had more time to adjust their schedules.

Airlines with Max jets have moved their remaining planes around to make sure they cover major routes between big-city airports or hubs. That could leave some less-traveled routes with fewer flights.

On those secondary routes, “there could be lower capacity and therefore slightly higher prices,” said Haley Berg, an economist

at Hopper, a travel data firm. She said consumers should be checking prices for Christmas travel already and should buy tickets no later than Halloween.

For example, Southwest suspended service between Los Angeles and Pittsburgh after the Max was grounded. The airline said this week it will also drop some routes from Dallas, Los Angeles and Boston.

It’s not clear that every change is due to the grounded planes, but Southwest cited the Max when it decided to reduce total flying this year instead of expanding it nearly 5%.

The airline trade group said traffic on U.S. carriers was up 4.4% in the first half of this year, outstripping the increase in seats, so planes were more crowded than they were last year.

Combined with an increase in revenue per mile of nearly 1%, the pretax profit of U.S. airlines was 9.3% in the first half, up from 7.2% a year earlier, the group said.

Transportation Department figures show that fares have been at or near record lows, after adjusting for inflation.

The average domestic fare in 2018 was $352, the lowest since the department started keeping track in 1995, after considering inflation. The average in this year’s first quarter was up $1 after inflation from early 2018, however. The numbers don’t include extra fees, which make up a growing percentage of airline revenue.

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entertainment This image released by Universal Pictures shows Jacob Tremblay, from left, as Max, Keith L. Williams as Lucas and Brady Noon as Thor in the film, “Good Boys,” written by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky and directed

by Stupnitsky.

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Ending a drought for R-rated comedies, ‘Good Boys’ is No. 1

By Jake Coyle The Associated Press NEW YORK — The R-rated comedy, left for dead by some Hollywood studios, again reached No.1 at the box office over the weekend thanks to the raunchy coming-ofage tale “Good Boys,” about a trio of 12-year-olds on a crude misadventure.

“Good Boys” surpassed expectations to debut with $21 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, dethroning the “Fast & Furious” spinoff “Hobbs & Shaw,” which slid to second with $14.1 million in its third weekend. Not since Melissa McCarthy’s “The Boss” came in No. 1 all the way back in April 2016 has an R-rated comedy topped the North American box office.

“This is like a unicorn sighting,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for data firm Comscore.

In recent years, R-rated horror has largely taken the place of R-rated comedy at the box office, as Hollywood has increasingly ceded the genre to TV and streaming services. But Universal Pictures, which released “Good Boys,” has kept the flame. The studio was behind “The Boss” as well as the intervening years’ highest grossing domestic comedies: 2017’s “Girls

Trip” and 2018’s “Night School.”

“Good Boys” broke out of a crowded late-summer field of new releases. The weekend’s other new widely released films — the animated sequel “The Angry Birds Movie 2,” the shark attack sequel “47 Meters Down: Uncaged,” the Bruce Springsteen-inspired drama “Blinded by the Light” and Richard Linklater’s Cate Blanchett-led “Where’d You Go Bernadette” — all fizzled.

“Good Boys” rode a buzzy premiere at South By Southwest, good reviews (80% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and the imprimatur of producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (“Good Boys” is much like a tween version of “Superbad”) to notch the best opening for an original comedy this year. Second place is Universal’s body-switch comedy “Little.”

Directed by Gene Stupnitsky (who co-wrote the script with Lee Eisenberg), “Good Boys” stars Jacob Tremblay, Keith L. Williams and Brady Noon as sixth graders trying to make it to their first kissing party. The movie’s muchwatched red-band trailer traded on its ironies. As Rogen says, Tremblay, Williams and Noon are all too young to see their own movie alone.

Jim Orr, distribution chief for

Universal, credited Rogen and Goldberg’s Point Grey Pictures and the film’s clever marketing for the film’s performance.

“This is a genre that is very difficult to do and we’re having great success as a studio with a very diverse slate,” Orr said. “One of the common denominators there is our marketing department. They just over-deliver constantly with a broad range of films.”

The challenge of “Good Boys” was to turn out moviegoers older than the movie’s pipsqueak protagonists, and it did. Only 7% of the audience was under age 18, according to Universal, though 41% was under 25. Crowds split evenly between the sexes: 52% male, 48% female.

The release strategies behind some of the weekend’s other new films were harder to discern.

Sony’s “The Angry Birds Movie 2,” on a budget of $65 million, opened with a paltry $10.5 million domestically, though it added $19.4 million internationally.

Hoping to snarl kids before school starts, Sony released the film on Tuesday. But it didn’t come close to the $38.2 million domestic debut of the first installment in 2016 despite notably better reviews (76% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes).

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Vince Gill weighs hard truths with emotional depth on ‘Okie’

By Kristin M. Hall The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vince Gill might make people break down in tears when they listen to his vulnerable new record in which he sings about regret, marriage, faith, sexual abuse and hard choices. But then again, so did he.

When the country singer recorded his song “When My Amy Prays,” about his relationship with God through his wife Amy Grant, he choked up. His normally pristine tenor voice faltered. He decided to leave it as is.

“I don’t so much anymore feel like I want to get impressed by music as much as I want to get in it and be moved,” said the 21time Grammy winner at his home in Nashville after finishing a recent European tour with The Eagles. “There’s a lot of life tied up in these songs and it gets somewhat emotional sometimes.”

“Okie,” out Friday, is one of his most personal and honest albums in years, full of songs that he waited a lifetime to write and record. Forty years into an unprecedented career, 62-year-old Gill has always been known for his emotionally wrought performances of songs like “Go Rest High on That Mountain,” written after the death of his brother, or heart-wrenching love songs like “Whenever You Come Around.”

But “Okie” reveals a lot about Gill’s core truths, whether it’s spiritual or life lessons or wisdom he’s gained from other songwrit-

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In this Feb. 1, 2016 file photo, Vince Gill poses for a photo at his home in Nashville, Tenn. ers like Guy Clark and Merle Haggard.

“These days it’s awful hard to get a fair assessment of what truth is,” Gill said. “Because people are afraid to tell the truth sometimes because they’ll get barbecued for it, you know. And that’s no way to live. It’s no way to be.”

One of the most striking songs on the album is “Forever Changed,” about child sexual abuse. Gill doesn’t assume he knows what that is like, but he said he was inspired by an experience he had as a seventh-grade kid.

“I was on the basketball team and the basketball coach, the gym

teacher called me into his office,” Gill said. “I’m sitting on his desk and the hand goes on my leg and it goes further and further up.”

Gill said he ran away and nothing further happened, but he thought about it a lot and kept trying to find the right words.

“Sometimes the innocent don’t have a voice,” said Gill. “When you’re a kid and somebody is abusive to you, you don’t know how to handle it. You don’t know how to deal with it.”

He sang the song when he was rehearsing for a show years ago and a woman in his band heard it and ran off the stage crying.

“She came to me later and said,

in Hollywood,” however, grossed $53.7 million overseas after expanding to 46 markets — the largest foreign launch for any Quentin Tarantino film, and the best worldwide haul for any film this weekend.

The “Good Boys” debut gave Universal, also behind “Hobbs & Shaw” its third straight weekend at No. 1 and 10th this year — second only to Disney.

With two weeks to go, the overall summer movie season is running 1.9% behind the pace of last summer, according to Comscore.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included.

1. “Good Boys,” $21 million ($2.1 million international).

2. “Hobbs & Shaw,” $14.1 million ($45.7 million international).

3. “The Lion King,” $11.9 million ($33.8 million international).

4. “The Angry Birds Movie 2,” $10.5 million ($19.4 million international).

5. “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,” $10.1 million ($4.4 million international).

6. “47 Meters Down: Uncaged,” $9 million.

7. “Dora and the Lost City of Gold,” $8.5 million ($6.6 million international).

8. “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” $7.6 million ($53.7 million international).

9. “Blinded by the Light,” $4.5 million.

10. “Art of Racing in the Rain,” $4.4 million.

‘How did you know that’s my story?’” Gill said.

On “What Choice Will You Make,” Gill writes from the perspective of a woman abandoned and shunned because of an unplanned pregnancy, and he asks the listener to just empathize. In a time when women’s reproductive choices are highly politicized, he just wanted to put people in her shoes when no answer seems like the right one.

“Its intent is not me telling you what you should or shouldn’t do,” he said. “I like seeing it be told in the hands of kindness, rather than the hands of judgment.”

Gill’s learned a lot about leading with kindness and his own faith from his wife, the Grammy-winning contemporary Christian music star. Gill didn’t grow up in the church, but he thinks most people assume him to be “a Bible thumper” because of his wife. But he said he’s just striving to be a good person and treat all people with respect.

Charlie Worsham is one of many young country artists that Gill has taken under his wing over the years and they wrote a song together on the album called “Black and White,” which questions the nostalgia for so-called simpler times when the country today seems so divided.

“I got to bear witness to someone with a good heart and with a sharp mind be able to put, so eloquently into three minutes, what I think a lot of people are carrying in their hearts right now,” Worsham said, “no matter what their political beliefs are.”

Even if the album feels weighty in its topics, Gill wants to lift people up with his songs.

“There’s a glimmer of hope in some of these songs,” he said. “I think if you don’t have any hope, then you’re lost.”

25th Bond movie gets a title: ‘No Time to Die’ New York The 25th James Bond movie has a title: “No Time to Die.” Producers announced the moniker Tuesday for the film that has long been referred to simply as “Bond 25.”

“No Time to Die” returns Daniel Craig to the role of 007. Lea Seydoux, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw and Ralph Fiennes return as cast members. Rami Malek plays the villain.

“No Time to Die,” directed by Cary Fukunaga, is to be released in the U.K. on April 3, 2020, and in the United States on April 8.

A few setbacks have marked the production. An explosion during shooting at Pinewood Studios in June injured a crew member and damaged the sound stage.

Craig hurt his foot in May while performing a stunt in Jamaica that required minor ankle surgery.

Brad Paisley out; Reba, Dolly, Carrie Underwood to host CMAs Nashville, Tenn.

Carrie Underwood, who has hosted the Country Music Association Awards since 2008 with Brad Paisley, is losing her partner-in-crime.

But she won’t be on her own: The CMAs announced Monday that “special guest hosts” Dolly Parton and Reba McEntire will join Underwood during the Nov. 13 event. The organization says the show will celebrate “legendary women in Country Music throughout the ceremony.”

The CMA Awards will air live on ABC from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee.

Though female acts are finding success on the country music scene, they’ve received little love on country radio as male acts continue to dominate.

The last time a woman won CMA’s top prize, entertainer of the year, was in 2011 when Taylor Swift won the honor.

Nominees for the CMA Awards will be announced Aug. 28.

Florida battery charge dropped against singer Chris Brown Tampa, Fla. A felony battery charge has been dropped against singer Chris Brown, who had been accused of attacking a nightclub photographer in Florida two years ago.

Hillsborough County prosecutors filed a notice Friday to drop the charge.

The State Attorney’s Office released a statement saying there was insufficient evidence.

Tampa police say Brown was at the former AJA Channelside club following a concert in April 2017 when he punched a photographer working for the club. Brown was gone when police arrived.

Brown was arrested more than a year later in Palm Beach County. He was met by officers with a warrant while walking off stage after a July 2018 show.

Brown’s attorney, Kevin Napper, told the Tampa Bay Times Brown had been wrongfully accused and that prosecutors made the right decision.

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TAKE NOTICE CABARRUS NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 205

cord, No. 11 Township, Cabarrus County, State of NC, as more fully described in Book 691, Page 189 ID#11-7-82 being known and designated as Lots Nos. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31, Block A, C.W. Swink Property, filed in Map Book 3, Page 36. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 45 Dulin Avenue, Concord, North Carolina.

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Barbara Page Overcash to D. Storey, Trustee(s), dated the 11th day of December, 2007, and recorded in Book 07959, Page 0066, 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 August 26, 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: All that certain parcel of land in the City of Con-

Being the same fee simple property conveyed by Warranty Deed from Arthur K. Plummer, Daniel James Rogers, Sr and Tommie King Moose, as Trustees of South Side Baptist Church to Leonard Mack Overcash and Barbara Page Overcash, Husband and Wife, dated 07/08/1988 recorded on 11/21/1988 in Book 691, Page 189 in Cabarrus County Records, State of NC.

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described as follows: Being all of Lot 804 as shown on a revised plat of Dominion Grove at Highland Creek Phase 4, Map 7 recorded in Plat Book 50 at Page 80, a revision of Plat Book 50, Page 37 in the Cabarrus County, North Carolina, Public Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 9699 Brandybuck Drive, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Rodolfo Emmanuel Rodriguez and Melissa Lopez, Husband and Wife to Christina M. Bramhall, Trustee(s), dated the 29th day of October, 2010, and recorded in Book 09351, Page 0075, and Modification in Book 11675, Page 0263, 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 August 26, 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

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

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

TAKE NOTICE

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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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 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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CUMBERLAND 19 SP 933 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 Sarah Elizabeth Focken and Mark Anthony Focken to Michael J. Broker, Trustee(s), which was dated June 12, 2012 and recorded on June 13, 2012 in Book 08923 at Page 0030, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

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

NORTH CAROLINA, CABARRUS COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Jason O. Collet to Dale Fussell, Trustee(s), which was dated November 2, 2007 and recorded on November 5, 2007 in Book 07894 at Page 0108, Cabarrus 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 September 4, 2019 at 2:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, to wit:

19 SP 211 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CABARRUS COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Marianne W. Geiger and Gerard Geiger a/k/a Gerard R. Geiger to Andrew Valentine, Trustee(s), which was dated October 20, 2006 and recorded on October 23, 2006 in Book 7099 at Page 320, Cabarrus 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 September 4, 2019 at 1:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cabarrus County, North

CUMBERLAND 19 SP 102 AMENDED 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 Richard Lupyak to Doran J. Berry, Trustee(s), which was dated May 7, 2004 and recorded on May 13, 2004 in Book 6521 at Page 547, 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 September 9, 2019 at

19 SP 605 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 Michael E. Dion to Francis B. Simkins, III, Trustee(s), which was dated July 22, 2016 and recorded on July 22, 2016 in Book 9905 at Page 687, 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 September 4, 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:

19 SP 960 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 Steven J. Zamora and Amber Elia Zamora to Michael J. Broker, Trustee(s), which was dated March 2, 2012 and recorded on March 5, 2012 in Book 08846 at Page 0756 and rerecorded/modified/ corrected on March 13, 2012 in Book 08852, Page 0628 and rerecorded/modified/corrected on June 21, 2012 in Book 08929, Page 0457, 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 Septem-

ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED IN CABARRUS COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEING LOTS NOS. 26, 27 AND 28 IN BLOCK 6 AS SHOWN ON THE MAP OF ROYAL OAKS, A MAP OF SAID PROPERTY BEING ON FILE IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR CABARRUS COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, IN MAP BOOK 5, PAGE 82.

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

Said property is commonly known as 902 Virginia Street, Kannapolis, NC 28081.

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.

Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lot 176 of Brandon Ridge subdivision, Phase II, as shown on plat thereof recorded in Map Book 47, Page 51 and 52, in the office of the Register of Deeds for Cabarrus County, North Carolina, reference to which plat is hereby made for a more particular description.

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

Said property is commonly known as 3918 Kellybrook Drive Southwest, Concord, NC 28025.

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

1:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING ALL OF LOT NO. 126 IN A SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS WATERS EDGE, SECTION 2, F, PART 2, ACCORDING TO PLAT OF THE SAME DULY RECORDED IN BOOK OF PLATS 53, PAGE 11 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA. A.P.N. #: 0407-07-1543 Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 6004 Dalton Road, Fayetteville, NC 28314.

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.

BEING ALL OF LOT 164 IN A SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS MEADOWBROOK, SECTION ONE, PART ONE, PLAT OF THE SAME BEING RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 86, PAGE 85 CUMBERLAND COUNTY REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 5919 Lively Court, Fayetteville, NC 28306.

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 war-

ber 4, 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: BEING all of Lot 81, in a subdivision known as THE GREENS, and the same being duly recorded in Book of Plat 55, Page 68, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

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

Said property is commonly known as 3424 Hastings Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28311.

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

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 Jason O. Collet.

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

“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 Marianne W. Geiger.

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

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 Richard Lupyak.

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

ranty 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 Michael E. Dion.

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

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 Steven J. Zamora and wife, Amber Elia Zamora.

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

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

PREMISES IN SEVENTY-FIRST TOWNSHIP, CUMBERLAND COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:

Said property is commonly known as 5701 Ederton Court, Fayetteville, NC 28304.

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Ora Vaughan Tompkins to Old Republic National Title Insurance Company, Trustee(s), which was dated May 24, 2013 and recorded on July 10, 2013 in Book 09240 at Page 0040, 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 September 4, 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:

19 SP 917 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 Joseph Francis Kuryla and Kristin Elizabeth Kuryla to Michael J. Broker, Trustee(s), which was dated March 30, 2009 and recorded on April 2, 2009 in Book 08114 at Page 0422, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

File No.: 18-24049-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.

NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Terry A. Kinkel and Sharon H. Kinkel to Kathryn Richards & Jerry B. Flowers, III, Trustee(s), which was dated June 22, 2015 and recorded on June 23, 2015 in Book 09672 at Page 0462, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

File No.: 19-03656-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.

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

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 August

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 953

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

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.

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

19 SP 461 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

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

for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Dale S. Fellows and Candace A. Fellows to David Silverman, Trustee(s), which was dated October 10, 2011 and recorded on November 7, 2011 in Book 08758 at Page 0587, 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 August 28, 2019 at 1:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for

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

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.

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Angel M. Dominguez and Jeniffer Dominguez to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), which was dated July 20, 2012 and recorded on July 23, 2012 in Book 08951 at Page 0888, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY

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.

FAX: (910) 392-8587

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.

19 SP 701 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

19 SP 899 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

File No.: 17-11651-FC02

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 is commonly known as 6016 Bartlett

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

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200

Lot 192, in a subdivision known as SECTION 2”G”, PART 2, and the recorded in Book of Plats 54, Page County Registry, North Carolina.

Focken and husband, Mark Anthony Focken.

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

19 SP 37 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

File No.: 17-10728-FC01

BEING all of WATER’S EDGE, same being duly 24, Cumberland

Court, Fayetteville, NC 28314.

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

NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY

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.

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 September 4, 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:

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 Sarah Elizabeth

NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY

17 SP 515 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by James Edward Harris and Doreen M. Harris (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): James Edward Harris) to Donald W. Courtney, Trustee(s), dated the 18th day of October, 2010, and recorded in Book 08506, Page 0346, 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 August 26, 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:

Pin # 9497-98-6269 Propertyaddress:6016BartlettCourt,Fayetteville,NC28314 A.P.N.: 9497-98-6269

BEING ALL OF LOT NO. 59 IN A SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS ARRAN LAKES, SECTION VI, ACCORDING TO A PLAT OF SAME DULY RECORDED IN BOOK OF PLATS 43, PAGE 46, CUMBERLAND COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA REGISTRY AND BEING THE SAME PROPERTY AS CONVEYED TO GRANTOR BY DEED RECORDED IN BOOK 2870, PAGE 767, AFORESAID REGISTRY. BEING THE SAME PREMISES THAT WAS CONVEYED UNTO ORA VAUGHAN TOMPKINS AND WIFE, MARRILIE TOMPKINS, NOW DECEASED. (DATE OF DEATH: JANUARY 17TH, 2013) FILED IN THE RECORDS OF THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY RECORDER’S OFFICE, STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, BY DEED FROM JULIAN MARTINEZ SURITA AND WIFE, ALICE R. SURITA, DATED AUGUST 21ST, 1985, AND RECORDED SEPTEMBER 17TH, 1985 AT DEED BOOK 3095 PAGE 195 IN THE RECORDS OF THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY RECORDER’S OFFICE, STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 4, 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: BEING all of lot Number 174 in a subdivision known as LEGION HILLS, SECTION FIVE, PART ONE and the same being duly recorded in Book of Plats 101, at page 115, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

Parcel Identification No. 0425-14-8112 Properly Address: 3813 Wildflower Road, Hope Mills, NC 28348 Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 3813 Wildflower Road, Hope Mills, NC 28348.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent

cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED IN EASTOVER TOWNSHIP, CUMBERLAND COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEING ALL OF TRACT NO. 1 AS SHOWN ON A PLAT ENTITLED SUBDIVISION AND RECOMBINATION SURVEY FOR JACK GARY MCLAURIN AND RHONDA TERESA MCLAURIN RECORDED IN BOOK OF PLATS 101, PAGE 165, CUMBERLAND COUNTY REGISTRY. BEING A PART OF THE LAND DESCRIBED IN A DEED RECORDED IN BOOK 4777, PAGE 512, CUMBERLAND COUNTY REGISTRY. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 2764 Beard Road, Fayetteville, NC 28312.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent

property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on August 28, 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: BEING ALL OF LOT 82, IN A SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS MONTCLAIR, SECTION EIGHT, PART ONE, ACCORDING TO A PLAT OF SAME DULY RECORDED IN BOOK OF PLATS 42, PAGE 74, CUMBERLAND COUNTY REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 605 Missenburg Court, Fayetteville, NC 28314.

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

28, 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:

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 VAUGHAN WILLIAM TOMPKINS.

(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 Angel M. Dominguez.

(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 Candace A. Fellows.

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

($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 Joseph Francis Kuryla and wife, Kristin Elizabeth Kuryla.

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,

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.

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 pri-

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.

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,

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.

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

All that certain lot or parcel of land situated in or near City of Fayetteville, Cross Creek Township, Cumberland County, NC and more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 84, in a subdivision known as James Creek North At Treyburn, Section 2, according to a plat of the same being duly recorded in Book of Plats 119, Page 74, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Subject to restrictions, easements and rights-of-way of record. Being the same property conveyed to James Edward Harris, unmarried by Deed from AWR Builders, Inc. recorded 08/08/2007 in Deed Book 7668 Page 337, Document No. 36593, in the Register of Deeds Office of Cumberland County, North Carolina. Tax ID#9477-42-7410. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1823 Brawley Avenue, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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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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

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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.: 19-02724-FC01

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.

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.: 18-23919-FC01

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.: 19-08133-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

Said property is commonly known as 5203 Tara Way Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28304.

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

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

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 Terry A. Kinkel and wife, Sharon H. Kinkel.

BEING all of Lot 7, Cumberlane Subdivision, according to a plat of the same duly recorded in Book of Plats 36 Page 1 Cumberland County Registry

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.

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.

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.: 17-19399-FC01

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.: 17-00683-FC02

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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: 1276527 (FC.FAY)

File No.: 19-07826-FC01

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 982

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Amanda M. Hannan, free trader (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Amanda M. Hannan and Eric Humphrey) to Francis B. Simkins, III, Trustee(s), dated the 17th day of June, 2015, and recorded in Book 09669, Page 0512, 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 August 26, 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 Nos. 23 and 24 in a Subdivision known as DUCK’S LANDING, according to a plat of the same duly recorded in Book of Plats 60, Page 112, Cumberland County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2016 and 2012 Wood Duck Drive, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

APN#: 0405-35-8999 & 0405-46-0002 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,

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: 1274075 (FC.FAY)

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TAKE NOTICE CUMBERLAND NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 617

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Felisha Brown to Devan L. Shumway, Trustee(s), dated the 16th day of March, 2015, and recorded in Book 09611, Page 0487, and Modification in Book 10367, Page 561, 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 un-

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 658

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Deborah J. Elliott, (Deborah J. Elliott, deceased)(Heirs of Deborah J. Elliott: Ronetta F. Elliott, Steven Elliott, Kimberly Melvin, and Unknown Heirs of Deborah J. Elliott)(Kimberly Melvin, deceased)(Heirs of Kimberly Melvin: Kayla Melvin, Javarus Melvin, and Unknown Heirs of Kimberly Melvin) to Michael Lyon, Trustee(s), dated the 23rd day of July, 2014, and recorded in Book 09480, Page 0131, 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,

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 929

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Timothy R. Woike, Jr. and Ashley M. Thompson to Diedre Rhodes, Trustee(s), dated the 27th day of January, 2017, and recorded in Book 10027, Page 0285, 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

19 SP 916 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 Brian T. Niebel and Aubrey J. Niebel to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), which was dated July 22, 2013 and recorded on July 23, 2013 in Book 9251 at Page 0172, 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 August 28, 2019 at 1:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for

18 SP 1398 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 Gwendolyn M. Huff-Lay to Kathryn Richards & Jerry B. Flowers III, Trustee(s), which was dated May 15, 2015 and recorded on May 15, 2015 in Book 09649 at Page 0448, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

dersigned 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 August 26, 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 15 in a subdivision known as Drexel, Section Three Plat of the same being recorded in Plat Book 53 Page 9 Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 3952 Foster 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

North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on August 26, 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): 0407-21-6985Land Situated in the City of Fayetteville in the County of Cumberland in the State of NC Land Situated in the Township of Seventy-First in the County of Cumberland in the State of NC Being all of Lot #23, in the Subdivision known as Dunkirk Heights, the property of Mike E. Bobbitt, a plat of which is duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Cumberland County, North Carolina, in Plat Book 37, Page 23. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 6442 Ginger Circle, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Commonly known as: 6442 Ginger Circle, Fayetteville, NC 28314

12:00 PM on August 26, 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 141, in a subdivision known as Oakdale, Section 1, and the same being duly recorded in Plat Book 34, Page 23, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 525 Alleghany Road, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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Property Address: 525 Alleghany Rd., Fayetteville, NC 28304 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

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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 UNIT 5, BUILDING 30 IN A SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS THE CROSSINGS AT MORGANTON, SECTION III, PHASE THIRTY AND THE SAME BEING DULY RECORDED IN CONDO BOOK 4, PAGE 200 CUMBERLAND COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 295 Warton Lane, Unit 5, Fayetteville, NC 28314.

the county courthouse for conducting the sale on August 28, 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: BEING ALL OF LOT 255, IN A SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS WESTPOINT, SECTION 6, PLAT OF THE SAME BEING RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 84, PAGE 48, CUMBERLAND 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 property is located, or the usual and customary location at

Said property is commonly known as 1524 Stackhouse Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28314.

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BERLAND COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:

NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Caren W. Alford to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), which was dated March 3, 2004 and recorded on March 12, 2004 in Book 6454 at Page 0433, 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 August 28, 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: ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED IN THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, CUM-

19 SP 683 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 Andrew D. Lawson and Megan Lawson to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), which was dated November 16, 2015 and recorded on January 7, 2016 in Book 09783 at Page 0879, 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 August 28, 2019 at 1:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for

19 SP 911 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 Jerry Sluss a/k/a Jerry L. Sluss and Ildaura Sluss a/k/a Ildaura S. Sluss to Jennifer Grant, Trustee(s), which was dated March 19, 2015 and recorded on March 19, 2015 in Book 09613 at Page 0820, 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 August 28, 2019 at 1:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for

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

BEGINNING AT A STAKE IN THE NORTHERN MARGIN OF ROLLINGWOOD CIRCLE IN A NORTHWARDLY DIRECTION 710 FEET FROM THE INTERSECTION OF THE NORTHERN MARGIN OF WEST ROWAN STREET AND THE EASTERN MARGIN OF ROLLINGWOOD CIRCLE, THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF A TRACT OF LAND DESCRIBED IN A DEED FROM CUMBERLAND HOMES, INCORPORATED, TO A.L. DAVIS AND WIFE, WINIFRED COLE DAVIS, REGISTERED IN BOOK 455, PAGE 64, AND RUNNING THENCE WITH THE NORTHERN MARGIN OF ROLLINGWOOD CIRCLE NORTH 87 DEGREES 33 MINUTES WEST 55.17 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF A TRACT OF LAND DESCRIBED IN A DEED FROM PLAYER REALTY COMPANY TO C.T. WORRELL AND WIFE, REGISTERED IN BOOK 434, PAGE 153, THENCE WITH THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID TRACT, NORTH 04 DEGREES 29 MINUTES 17 SECONDS WEST 119.88 FEET TO A STAKE ROLLINGWOOD COURT, THE NORTH 87 DEGREES 57 MINUTES 36 SECONDS EST, 101.94 FEET TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE DAVIS LOT ABOVE REFERRED TO; THENCE WITH THE WESTERN LINE OF THE DAVIS LOT, SOUTH 16 DEGREES 35 MINUTES 01 SECONDS WEST 130.94 FEET TO THE BEGINNING, AND

cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: All that certain lot or parcel of land situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 10 Block “A” of Eureka Springs subdivision, plat of which is duly recorded in Book of Plats 15, Page 20 Cumberland County Registry.

Being the same property or a portion of the same property conveyed to Andrew D. Lawson by Instrument dated August 07, 2006 from Chae Un Nicholson, widow filed on August 08, 2006 in Book 7325 at Page 139 in the Cumberland County records.

Commonly known as: Moon Circle, Fayetteville,

1912 NC

Half 28311

Parcel Number: 0520-49-5882 Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior

cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 135 in a subdivision known as ARRAN LAKE, SECTION FOUR, according to a plat of the same recorded in Plat Book 30, Page 15 Cumberland County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 1516 Paisley Avenue, Fayetteville, NC 28304.

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.

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 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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($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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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.

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.

request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

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 Brian T. Niebel.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and

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 All Lawful Heirs of Gwendolyn M. Huff-Lay. 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.

BEING ALL OF LOT NO. 26, PRACTICALLY ALL OF LOT NO. 27 AND A SMALL PORTION OF LOT 25, IN BLOCK “A”, OF ROLLINGWOOD COURT AS PER PLAT IN PLAT BOOK 9, PAGE 59, CUMBERLAND COUNTY REGISTRY, WHICH DESCRIPTION IS INTENDED TO COVER ALL THE LAND LYING BETWEEN THE DAVIS LOT ON THE EAST AND THE WORRELL LOT ON THE EAST AND THE WORRELL LOT ON THE WEST AS HEREINABOVE REFERRED TO. BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO CAREN W. ALFORD BY DEED FROM FRANCES J. CAMP, RECORDED 02/18/1999 IN DEED BOOK 5036 PAGE 871.

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

Said property is commonly known as 427 Rollingwood Circle, Fayetteville, NC 28305.

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

conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 1912 Half Moon Circle, Fayetteville, NC 28311.

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

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 Jerry L Sluss and wife, Ildaura S. Sluss.

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

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: 1271764 (FC.FAY)

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Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 19-08450-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

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.: 18-11444-FC01

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 All Lawful Heirs of Caren W. Alford.

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.: 19-02730-FC01

the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Andrew D. Lawson.

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.

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 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.: 19-06050-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,

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.: 19-07882-FC01

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TAKE NOTICE DAVIDSON NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF DAVIDSON GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION 19 CVS 1233 The Bank of New York Mellon as Trustee for C-BASS Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2002CB3 Plaintiff, v.

All Lawful Heirs of Clorann T. Lindsay a/k/a Clorann Traynham Lindsay; Craig D. Lindsay a/k/a Craig Donnel Lindsay; Any Spouse of Craig D. Lindsay a/k/a Craig Donnel Lindsay; Tabrisha C. Lindsay; Any Spouse of Tabrisha C. Lindsay; Associates Financial Services of America, Inc.; Blaine Weiss as Trustee Defendant(s).

To: Blaine Weiss as Trustee; Tabrisha C. Lindsay; Any Spouse of Tabrisha C. Lindsay 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: The Court determine the Deed of Trust dated January 25, 1999 and recorded on February 16, 1999 in Book 1120 at Page 1165 and rerecorded on March 10, 1999 in Book 1124 at Page 0841 was drafted and recorded in a manner sufficient to give a reasonable title searcher notice of the

JOHNSTON 19 SP 379 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, JOHNSTON COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Antonio Baker and Qiana Baker to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), which was dated March 4, 2010 and recorded on March 30, 2010 in Book 3827 at Page 183, Johnston County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee

16 SP 564 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, JOHNSTON COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Susan Elizabeth Bavaro-Fisher and John R. Fisher, Jr. to W.R. Starkey, Jr., Trustee(s), which was dated February 22, 2008 and recorded on February 26, 2008 in Book 3500 at Page 216 and rerecorded/modified/corrected on May 28, 2013 in Book 4298, Page 519, Johnston County Registry, North Carolina.

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

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 315

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Timothy L. Tart and Elaine M. Tart (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Timothy L. Tart) to Karen M. Donaldson, Trustee(s), dated the 24th day of January, 2008, and recorded in Book 3488, Page 339, in Johnston County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Johnston County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on September 3, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 141

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Walter R. Starling, III, a married man and Patricia D. Starling, a married woman to Law Office of Scott Beasley, Trustee(s), dated the 16th day of January, 2009, and recorded in Book 3645, Page 950, in Johnston County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Johnston County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location desig-

ONSLOW NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 461

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Terry Glenn Gray, Jr. and Rebecca Gray aka Rebecca M. Gray to Andrew N. Lock and William T. Morrison, Trustee(s), dated the 14th day of September, 2010, and recorded in Book 3473, Page 552, 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

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 559

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Nolan T. Lynch and Tiffani Lynch to Kenneth Ording, PC, Trustee(s), dated the 22nd day of April, 2013, and recorded in Book 3972, Page 920, 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 August 29, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Onslow, North Carolina,

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 560

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Joseph T. Dowdy and Morganne A. Wick to Jackie Biggs, Trustee(s), dated the 3rd day of July, 2018, and recorded in Book 4805, Page 912, 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 August 29, 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 5, as shown on the map entitled “FI-

interest of the Plaintiff’s lien on the property located at 3806 Abbotts Creek Church Road, Kernersville, North Carolina 27284.

The Court reform the Deed of Trust recorded in Book 1120 Page 1165 and rerecorded on March 10, 1999 in Book 1124 at Page 0841 in the Davidson County, North Carolina Public Registry to include the legal description as follows: Being two parcels of land situated in Abbotts Creek Township, Davidson County, North Carolina, described as follows: Tract 1

corner of Wells Fargo Bank, said iron pipe is also the beginning point of Tract 2 of this description; THENCE with the line of Joe Green South 21 degrees 34 minutes 02 seconds East 50.00 feet to a new iron pipe, the northeast corner of said Craig Lindsay; THENCE with the north line of said Lindsay the following two calls South 70 degrees 24 minutes 08 seconds West 51.00 feet to a new iron pipe; THENCE North 86 degrees 58 minutes 11 seconds West 119.96 feet to an existing iron pipe the point and place of beginning containing 27,243 sf more or less.

Tract 2 Beginning at a new iron pipe, said pipe being the southeast corner of Wells Fargo Bank (deed book 2264 page 423), and being South 86 degrees 35 minutes 35 seconds East 12.16 feet from an existing iron pipe which is the northeast corner of Tract 1 of this description, THENCE with the said Wells Fargo Bank line North 22 degrees 00 minutes 01 seconds West 134.05 feet to a new iron pipe in the line of James Stokes, THENCE with the Stokes line South 85 degrees 42 minutes 31 seconds East 127.99 feet to an existing iron pipe, the southeast corner of James Stokes in the line of Thomas Teague (deed book 1352 page 1889); THENCE with said Teague line South 16 degrees 31 minutes 05 seconds East 126.70 feet to an existing iron pipe in the line of Joe Green (deed book 1647 page 1343); Thence with said Green line North 86 degrees 35 minutes 35 seconds West 113.64 feet to the point and place of beginning containing 14,459 sf more or less.

The descriptions for tracts 1 & 2 were drafted from a survey by Horner and Associates. Job number 7327. A reduced copy is attached for a more perfect reference.

This property is subject to any easements, restrictions and rights of way of record and the right of way of Abbotts Creek Church Road.

The Court enter an Order that such reformation shall relate back to the original recording date of the Deed of Trust

on February 16, 1999.

The Court declare the Deed of Trust dated January 25, 1999 and recorded on February 16, 1999 in Book 1120 at Page 1165 and rerecorded on March 10, 1999 in Book 1124 at Page 0841 a valid First Lien on the Property as drawn.

That the Plaintiff’s lien on the Property be foreclosed by judicial sale pursuant to the provisions of N.C.G.S. § 1-339.1, et seq., by the Plaintiff’s Counsel or by a Commissioner especially appointed by the Court to serve without bond, with proceeds of the sale applied as follows: To the cost of this action; To the compensation allowed by the Court for a person holding the sale pursuant to the N.C.G.S. § 1-339.11; To the amount due to the Plaintiff under the Note and Deed of Trust, including reasonable attorney’s fees and costs provided therein; and The surplus, if any, to be paid to the Office of the Clerk of Superior Court of Davidson County pending a determination of those persons entitled thereto.

That the Property located at 3806 Abbotts Creek Church Road, Kernersville, NC 27284 shall be sold at a public sale to the highest bidder.

That Jeremy B. Wilkins is hereby appointed as Commissioner to conduct the sale pursuant to N.C.G.S. §1339.11.

In the alternative, that the Court declares that title to the Property described herein is subject to a constructive trust and equitable lien to the benefit of the Plaintiff, consistent in all regards with the terms and conditions of the Deed of Trust.

That the Court’s Order shall be duly recorded in the Davidson County Register of Deeds and indexed according to those parties named in said Deed of Trust and according to those parties named in this action for the purpose of establishing record notice of this proceeding in the chain of title to the Property.

That the Plaintiff have and recover its cost in this action including reasonable attorney’s fees; and For such other and further relief as the Court deems just and proper.

You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than October 1, 2019 and upon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought.

This, the 14th day of August, 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

Being all of Lot No. 12, of Edgewood Subdivision, according to a survey by Linwood E. Byrd, Inc., Registered Surveyors, dated November 18, 1981 and recorded in Plat Book 23, Page 155, Johnston County Registry.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior

conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 708 East Stanley Street, Four Oaks, NC 27524.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release,

and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Qiana Foxx.

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.

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property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on August 27, 2019 at 12:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Johnston County, North Carolina, to wit: Lying and being in Johnston County, North Carolina, more particularly described as follows: Being all of that certain 1.17 acre tract (formerly known as Lot 9, Crooked Branch), as more particularly shown on a plat styled “Final Plat Wayne Strickland,” and recorded on Plat Book 48 at Page 131.

Also included herewith is that certain 1997 Gold Medal manufactured home bearing serial number GMH236997NCAB, which is permanently affixed to the real property described above (see Declaration of Intent recorded September 29, 2016, in Book 4840 at Page 254, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Johnston County, N.C.).

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

Said property is commonly known as 154 Crooked

Branch Drive, Selma, NC 27576.

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 Susan Elizabeth

Bavaro-Fisher and husband, John R Fisher, Jr. 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.

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BEGINNING at a spike in the centerline of SR #1519, a new corner with Victor E. Tart, said spike being further identified as being located South 77 degrees 09 minutes 21 seconds West 303.02 feet from the centerline of Interstate 40; thence runs a new line with Victor E. Tart and passing through an iron stake in the Southern right of way of SR #1519, South 04 degrees 12 minutes 39 seconds West 118.06 feet to an iron stake, another new corner with Victor E. Tart; thence South 70 degrees 23 minutes 47 seconds East 237.29 feet to an iron stake, another new corner with Victor E. Tart; thence as another new line with victor E. Tart South 23 degrees 50 minutes 58 seconds West 198.16 feet to an iron stake, another new corner with Victor E. Tart; thence as another new line with Victor E. Tart North 69 degrees 51 minutes 26 seconds West 199.87 feet to an iron stake, another new corner with Victor E. Tart; thence another new line with Victor E. Tart and passing through and iron stake in the Southern right of SR #1519, North 4 degrees 12 minutes 49 seconds East 309.51 feet to a spike in the centerline of SR #1519, thence as the centerline of SR #1519 North 87 degrees 55 minutes 25 seconds East 30.18 feet to the point of Beginning, and contains 1.134 acres, according to a map entitled “Timothy Lee Tart and wife, Joann Tart” prepared by Stancil and Associates, dated September 3, 1986, and revised March 21, 1988. Together

with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 808 McGee Road, Benson, 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.

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nated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on September 3, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 11, Clearview Estates, Section One, as shown on a map recorded in Plat Book 58, Pages 323 and 324, Johnston County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 52 Season Lane, Selma , North Carolina.

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 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 no-

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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($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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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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sewer facilities become available for lot 5. When such sewer facilities become available to Lot 5B, such lot shall be required to connect to the sewer system and cease using Lot 5B for septic disposal purposes.

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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Beginning at an existing iron pipe, the northwest corner of Craig Lindsay (deed book 618 page 232) on the east side of Abbotts Creek Church Road, state road #1734, THENCE with said road and Lindsay line South 17 degrees 03 minutes 29 seconds East 124.81 feet to an existing iron pipe, Lindsay’s southwest corner; THENCE crossing Abbotts Creek Church Road North 86 degrees 02 minutes 14 seconds West 42.77 feet to a new iron pipe on the west side of said road; THENCE North 21 degrees 37 minutes 36 seconds West 200.94 feet to a new iron pipe on the west side of said road; THENCE North 15 degrees 38 minutes 40 seconds West 132.16 feet to an existing iron pipe on the west side of said road; THENCE crossing said road South 85 degrees 47 minutes 46 seconds East 55.31 feet to a new iron pipe on the east side of said road in the line of Wells Fargo Bank (deed book 2264 page 423); THENCE South 17 degrees 33 minutes 25 seconds East 132.81 feet to an existing iron pipe, the southwest corner of Wells Fargo Bank on the east side of said road; THENCE with the Wells Fargo bank line South 86 degrees 42 minutes 56 seconds East 170.26 feet to an existing iron pipe, said iron pipe being the northwest corner of Joe Green (deed book 1647 Page 1343), Said iron pipe being north 86 degrees 35 minutes 35 seconds west 12.16 feet from an iron pipe, the southeast

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 September 3, 2019 at 12:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Johnston County, North Carolina, to wit: The following described property: AllthatcertainlotorparceloflandsituatedinJohnstonCounty,NorthCarolinaandmoreparticularlydescribedasfollows:

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-

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 August 29, 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 3, Block C, as shown on plat entitled “Section I, McArthur Heights”, made by L.T. Mercer, Registered Surveyor, dated April 4, 1963, recorded in Map Book 8, Page 16, Onslow County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 5162 Gum Branch Road, Jacksonville, 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

and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 3, Block B, according to a map entitled “Chadwick Shores, Inc.” , prepared by Jan K. Dale, RLS. Said map being duly recorded in Map Book 19 at Page 75 and 76 in the office of the Register of Deeds for Onslow County. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1753 Chadwick Shores Drive, Sneads Ferry, North Carolina.

Subject to restrictive covenants recorded in Book 600 at Page 145, Onslow County Registry.

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-

NAL PLAT ALMA FARMS PHASE I SECTION I” White Oak Township, Onslow County, NC dated October 6, 2016, prepared by Lanier Surveying Company, said map recorded in Map Book 72, Page 45, Onslow County Registry, reference to said map being hereby made for a more particular description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 103 Garrett Drive, Jacksonville, North Carolina.

Together with and subject to an easement over and across Lot 5B and across that portion of those areas designated as “offsite septic supply line and access easement” as shown on map recorded in Map Book 72 at Page 45 of the Onslow County Registry for the purposes of placing, repairing and maintaining pipes, drain fields, leach lines, and repair areas associated with waste water disposal system on and for Lot 5 owned by Grantee.

The easement granted hereby in favor of Lot 5 shall extend only to Lot 5B and the area designated for “offsite septic supply line and access easement” as the same is shown on Map Book 72 at Page 45 of the Onslow County Registry.

The easement over and across lot 5B shall terminate when

SUBJECT, HOWEVER, to all taxes, special assessments and prior liens on encumbrances of record against said property and any recorded releases.

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

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TAKE NOTICE of Deeds of Randolph County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on August 27, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Randolph, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lots 8, 9, and 10 of Sunset Acres, a plat of which is duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Randolph County, North Carolina, in Plat Book 9 at Page 9. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 708 Verta Street, Archdale, 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 pur-

suant 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: 1254395 (FC.FAY)

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 185

Randolph, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Tax Id Number(s): 7778841583

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Donnie Louis Burns and Patricia Baker Burns, husband and wife to Michael Lyon, Trustee(s), dated the 28th day of December, 2015, and recorded in Book 2474, Page 1179, in Randolph County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Randolph County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on August 27, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of

Land Situated in the Town of Pleasant of Garden in the County of Randolph in the State of NC.

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 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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18 SP 347 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

SAIDSECONDARYROADNORTH60DEG.03’WEST91.69 FEET TO A POINT IN THE INTERSECTION OF THE CENTER LINES OF SECONDARY ROAD NO. 2843 AND A PRIVATE DRIVE; RUNNING THENCE ALONG THE CENTER LINE OF SAID PRIVATE DRIVE NORTH 41 DEG. 01’ EAST 287.29 FEET TO A POINT IN THE CENTER LINE OF SAID PRIVATE DRIVE IN LARRY BRIM’S WEST LINE; RUNNING THENCE ALONG LARRY BRIM’S LINE SOUTH 59 DEG. 56’ EAST 116.40 FEET TO AN EXISTING IRON PIN, LARRY BRIM’S CORNER; THENCE CONTINUING ALONG LARRY BRIM’S WEST LINE SOUTH 29 DEG. 24’ WEST, AND CROSSING ONE EXISTING IRON ROD, 263.94 FEET TO THE BEGINNING, CONTAINING 0.923 ACRES, MORE OR LESS.

DRIVE NORTH 42 DEG. 31’ EAST 168.30 FEET TO THE BEGINNING, CONTAINING 4.279 ACRES, MORE OR LESS.

BEGINNING AT A NEW IRON PIPE SET IN THE NORTHEASTERN RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF HAPPY HOLLOW ROAD (SR 2843) AT A POINT WHERE IT INTERSECTS WITH A PRIVATE DRIVE; SAID POINT BEING THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF RUTH BRIM (BOOK 1149, PAGE 512); RUNNING THENCE ALONG HAPPY HOLLOW ROAD NORTH 60 DEGREES 16 MINUTES 03 SECONDS WEST 164.42 FEET TO A NEW IRON PIPE SET IN HAPPY HOLLOW ROAD, MARKING A NEW CORNER OF DIANE B. SURRATT (NOW OR FORMERLY IN BOOK 1149, PAGE 512); RUNNING THENCE ALONG THE NEW SURRATT LINE NORTH 41 DEGREES 23 MINUTES 25 SECONDS EAST 25.58 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE CONTINUING ALONG THE SURRATT LINE NORTH 41 DEGREES 23 MINUTES 25 SECONDS EAST 247.83 FEET TO A NEW IRON ROD, MARKING A CONTROL CORNER, SAID IRON ROD BEING SET SOUTH 25 DEGREES 49 MINUTES 19 SECONDS EAST 331.993 FEET FROM THE NORTHERN CORNER OF THE 4.279 ACRE TRACT OF WHICH THIS PROPERTY IS PART; RUNNING THENCE ALONG THE REMAINING BALANCE OF THE PROPERTY SOUTH 60 DEGREES 06 MINUTES 47 SECONDS EAST 161.42 FEET TO A POINT IN THE PRIVATE DRIVE; THENCE ALONG THE PRIVATE DRIVE SOUTH 40 DEGREES 47 MINUTES 29 SECONDS WEST 246.24 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE CONTINUING ALONG THE PRIVATE DRIVE SOUTH 40 DEGREES 47 MINUTES 29 SECONDS WEST 26.15 FEET TO THE POINT AND PLACE OF THE BEGINNING, CONTAINING 1.001 ACRES MORE OR LESS ACCORDING TO A “FAMILY SURVEY AND DIVISION FOR DANNIE CHRISTOPHER TEAGUE AND WIFE DEIDRE RENEE TEAGUE” DATED FEBRUARY

20, 2002, BY CAGLE SURVEYS, BEARING JOB NO. 9529.

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

Said property is commonly known as 4003 Happy Hollow Road and 3.3 acre parcel adjacent to 4003 Happy Hollow Road, Asheboro, NC 27205.

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 Diane B. Boswell a/k/a Diane B. Thornburg a/k/a Diane B. Surratt.

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.: 16-04906-FC01

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

Said property is commonly known as 2822 Pugh Drive, Franklinville, NC 27248.

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 All Lawful Heirs of Jennifer Beth Amos.

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.: 17-03249-FC02

ux., by Deed dated September 3, 2004, and recorded in Book 1024, Page 121, Stanly County Registry.

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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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.

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.

RANDOLPH AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 324

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Jerry Ray Stone, (Jerry Ray Stone, Deceased)(Heir of Jerry Ray Stone: Jerry Eugene Stone and Unknown Heirs of Jerry Ray Stone) to Jerone C. Herring, Trustee(s), dated the 10th day of July, 2002, and recorded in Book 1773, Page 0050, in Randolph County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register

NORTH CAROLINA, RANDOLPH COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Diane B. Boswell a/k/a Diane B. Surratt a/k/a Diane B. Thornburg to Hutchens & Senter, Trustee(s), which was dated September 30, 2002 and recorded on October 7, 2002 in Book 1785 at Page 0331 and rerecorded/modified/corrected on August 6, 2018 in Book 2609, Page 140, 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 the county courthouse for conducting the sale on August 27, 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: RICHLAND TOWNSHIP, RANDOLPH COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA: TRACT 1: BEGINNING AT A NEW IRON PIN IN THE NORTHERN EDGE OF THE PAVED PORTION OF SECONDARY ROAD NO. 2843, LARRY BRIM’S SOUTHWEST CORNER; RUNNING THENCE IN THE RIGHT OF WAY OF SAID SECONDARY ROAD NORTH 72 DEG. 14’ WEST 84.28 FEET TO A POINT IN THE CENTER LINE OF SAID SECONDARY ROAD; RUNNING THENCE ALONG THE CENTER LINE OF

19 SP 29 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 Kenneth J. Amos and Jennifer Beth Amos to Jackie Young, Trustee(s), which was dated August 5, 2009 and recorded on August 6, 2009 in Book RE2141 at Page 1094, 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

STANLY NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 99

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Aaron Scott Wallace (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Aaron Wallace) to Uwharrie Mortgage Inc., Trustee(s), dated the 26th day of June, 2013, and recorded in Book 1455, Page 967, in Stanly County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Stanly County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on August 28, 2019 and will sell to the highest bid-

UNION 14 SP 650 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, UNION COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Tina D. Mosley to Emmett James House or Bill R. McLaughlin, Trustee(s), which was dated September 21, 2007 and recorded on September 27, 2007 in Book 4696 at Page 659, Union 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

19 SP 313 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, UNION COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Jamie H. Lein and Kelly C. Lein to Trste, Inc., Trustee(s), which was dated November 11, 2003 and recorded on November 17, 2003 in Book 3282 at Page 326, Union 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 Septem-

19 SP 372 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, UNION COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by James O. Berry to Allan B. Polunsky, Trustee(s), which was dated May 2, 2008 and recorded on May 2, 2008 in Book 04884 at Page 0423, Union 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 August

Being all of Lot 50, Section 3, Map 2, Murphy Acres Subdivision, as shown on plat recorded in Plat Book 44, Page 37, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Randolph County, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 6634 Rayle Farm Court, Pleasant Garden, North Carolina.

The property address and tax parcel identification number listed are provided solely for informational purposes.

Commonly known as: 6634 Rayle Farm Court, Pleasant Garden, NC 27313 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

TRACT2:BEGINNINGATAPOINTINTHECENTERLINEOF A PRIVATE DRIVE, LARRY BRIM’S NORTHWEST CORNER IN JACKIE AUMAN’S LINE; RUNNING THENCE ALONG JACKIE AUMAN’S LINE NORTH 60 DEG. 39’ WEST 102.50 FEET TO A STAKE IN JACKIE AUMAN’S LINE; THENCE CONTINUING ALONG JACKIE AUMAN’S LINE NORTH 58 DEG. 42’ WEST 373.13 FEET TO AN EXISTING IRON PIPE, JACKIE AUMAN’S CORNER; THENCE CONTINUING ALONG JACKIE AUMAN’S LINE SOUTH 28 DEG. 05’ WEST 429.53 FEET TO AN EXISTING IRON PIPE SITUATED 17.00 FEET NORTH OF THE CENTER LINE OF SECONDARY ROAD NO. 2843; RUNNING THENCE WITHIN THE RIGHT OF WAY OF SECONDARY ROAD NO. 2843 SOUTH 53 DEG. 09’ EAST 205.00 FEET TO A POINT IN THE CENTER LINE OF SAID SECONDARY ROAD; THENCE CONTINUING ALONG THE CENTER LINE OF SAID SECONDARY ROAD SOUTH 60 DEG. 03’ EAST 166.25 FEET TO A POINT IN THE CENTER OF A PRIVATE DRIVE; RUNNING THENCE ALONG THE CENTER LINE OF SAID PRIVATE DRIVE NORTH 41 DEG. 01’ EAST 287.29 FEET TO A POINT IN THE CENTER LINE OF SAID PRIVATE DRIVE; THENCE CONTINUING ALONG THE CENTER LINE OF SAID PRIVATE

the county courthouse for conducting the sale on August 27, 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: Tract No. 1: BEGINNING at a post oak in Redding’s line; running East 6 chains and 63 links to a stone; thence North 6 chains and 50 links to a stone; thence West 6 chains and 63 links to a stone in Redding’s line; thence South 6 chains and 50 links to the BEGINNING, containing 4 3/10 acres more or less.

Tract No. 2: BEGINNING at a stone, original Charles M. Julian corner; thence South 88° 30’ East along D.H. Hall’s line 437.85 feet to an iron pole; thence South 7° 10’ West along a new line 905 feet to a point in J. C. Harvell’s line; thence North 88° 30’ West along J. C. Harvell’s line 437.85 feet; thence North 07° 10’ East along C.T. Redding’s line 905 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING, containing 9 acres, more or less and being a part of that Tract of land as shown by deed recorded in Book 621, Page 33, Randolph County Registry.

der for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Stanly, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at an iron pin the South line of Quail Trail Road, the Northwest corner of Lot Number 91, and runs thence with the South line of said road, South 56-35 West 150 feet to an iron pin, a new corner; thence a new line, South 29-09 East 161.3 feet to an iron pin, a new corner; thence North 60-51 East 150 feet to an iron pin, the Southwest corner of Lot Number 91; thence with the West line of Lot Number 91, North 29-09 West 166.8 feet to the point of Beginning, and being all of Lot Number 92 and the eastern half of Lot Number 93 as shown on a map of Part Three of MOUNTAIN VIEW ESTATES, prepared by Glenn K. Martin, Registered Surveyor, on March 22, 1966, and recorded in Plat Book 5, on page 185, Stanly County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 49404 Quail Trail Road, Norwood, North Carolina.

The property hereby conveyed is conveyed subject to the Protective Covenants recorded in Book 215, Page 693, Stanly County Registry.

LESS AND EXCEPTING that certain 1919 square foot tract of real property conveyed to Dean Witmore, et

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 September 3, 2019 at 12:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Union County, North Carolina, to wit:

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For reference see dated December 12, 2011, from Kenneth E. Nagel et al. to Scot Torrence and wife, Denise Torrence, as recorded in Book 1389, Page 910, Stanly County Registry.

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.

($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 is commonly known as 1005 Makin Drive, Indian Trail, NC 28079.

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 Tina D. Mosley.

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

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and

ber 3, 2019 at 12:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Union County, North Carolina, to wit:

and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED.

BEING all of Lot 89 of FIRETHORNE SUBDIVISION AND GOLF CLUB, PHASE 3, MAP 2, as shown on that plat recorded in Plat Cabinet G, at File Number 311 Union County Register of Deeds, to which plat reference is hereby made for a more complete description.

Said property is commonly known as 1025 Seminole Drive, Marvin, NC 28173.

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 Jamie Lein.

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

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

27, 2019 at 12:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Union County, North Carolina, to wit:

and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED.

BEING ALL OF Lot 27, BARRINGTON SUBDIVISION, PHASE 1, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, RECORDED IN PLAT CABINET I, FILE 783 AND REVISED IN PLAT CABINET J, FILE 243, IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS OF UNION COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.

Said property is commonly known as 2516 River Oaks Drive, Waxhaw, NC 28173.

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 James O. Berry.

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

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

Being all of Lot 186 of Bent Creek, Map 2, as same is shown on map thereof recorded in Plat Cabinet F at Files 840-841 in the Union County Public Registry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 1275231 (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: 1278150 (FC.FAY)

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.: 14-13795-FC01

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.: 19-07762-FC01

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.: 19-07320-FC01

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TAKE NOTICE UNION 19 SP 366 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, UNION COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Kathy M. White and Michael N. Kachur to Constance R. Stienstra, Trustee(s), which was dated July 24, 2009 and recorded on August 12, 2009 in Book 05194 at Page 0036, Union 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

WAKE AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY 18-SP-2117 Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Stacey B. Haywood, and Theodore A. Haywood, in the original amount of $56,799.00, payable to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for DHI Mortgage Company, dated November 22, 2005 and recorded on November 23, 2005 in Book 011700 at Page 01788, and re-recorded on 03/21/2006 in Book 011867 at Page 2756, Wake County Public Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Stone Trustee Services, LLC 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 evidenc-

19 SP 822 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 Beverly A. Wicker to Jennifer Grant, Trustee(s), which was dated February 12, 2013 and recorded on February 12, 2013 in Book 015141 at Page 00429, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

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 August 27, 2019 at 12:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Union County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING ALL OF LOT 21, CHESTNUT PLACE, AS SHOWN ON A PLAT DULY RECORDED IN PLAT CABINET J FILE 526, UNION COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, REFERENCE TO WHICH IS HEREBY MADE FOR A MORE PARTICULAR METES AND BOUNDS DESCRIPTION. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 1005 Mossy Branch Court, Indian Trail, NC 28079.

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

ing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Wake County, North Carolina, on September 6, 2019 at 1:30 pm , and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property, to wit: Being all of Lot 33, Widewaters 2004/857, Wake County Registry Tax ID: 1744628533 Said Property is commonly known as 1010 Delta River Way, Knightdale, NC 27545 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, pursuant North Carolina General Statutes §105-228.30, in the amount of One Dollar ($1.00) per each Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or fractional part thereof, and the Clerk of Courts fee, pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes §7A-308, in the amount of Forty-five Cents (0.45) per each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or major fraction thereof, of the final sale price. If the Clerk of Court’s fee determined by the formula is less than Ten Dollars ($10.00), a minimum Ten Dollar ($10.00) fee will be collected. If the Clerk of Court’s fee determined by the formula is more than Five

for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING ALL OF LOT 74, GARRISON SUBDIVISION, PHASE II-C, AS SHOWN ON A MAP RECORDED IN BOOK OF MAPS 2012, PAGE 335, WAKE COUNTY REGISTRY, TO WHICH PLAT REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE FOR A FULL AND COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF SAID LOT. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

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 September 4, 2019 at 12:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder

Said property is commonly known as 109 Gap Drive, Holly Springs, NC 27540.

19 SP 1516 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

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 Shirley Lewis and Ronzie Lewis to Thomas E. Brock, Trustee(s), which was dated December 31, 2001 and recorded on January 2, 2002 in Book 009237 at Page 02572, 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 September 4, 2019 at 12:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder

18 SP 1701 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 Rusheem K. Wynn to Adams, Portnoy & Berogren, PLLC, Trustee(s), which was dated April 26, 2004 and recorded on May 4, 2004 in Book 10805 at Page 2445, 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 Septem-

18 SP 25 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 Cindy P. Hicks to First American Title Insurance Company, Trustee(s), which was dated October 28, 2004 and recorded on October 29, 2004 in Book 011079 at Page 00773, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

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

BEGINNING at an iron stake in the Northern boundary of East Nelson Avenue, 58 feet in a westerly direction from the Southwest corner of Lot No. 18 as shown an plat recorded in Book of Maps 1885, page 112, in the office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County; runs thence in a Northerly direction parallel with the line of Lot No. 10 and Lot 17 132 feet; thence in a Westerly direction parallel with the line of East McLeon Avenue 58 feet to an iron stake; then in a Southerly direction parallel with the first line 132 feet to the Northern boundary of East Nelson Avenue; thence in an Easterly direction along the Northern boundary of East Nelson Avenue 58 feet to the BEGINNING. SEE ESTATE FILE 83-E-37 in the office of the Clerk of Superior Court of Wake County, North Carolina.

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

Said property is commonly known as 619 East Nelson Avenue, Wake Forest, NC 27587.

ber 4, 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 Lots 217, Triple Creek at Valley Stream Subdivision, recorded in Map Books 2002, Page 302, Wake County, North Carolina.

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

Said property is commonly known as 4912 Alenja Lane, Raleigh, NC 27616.

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.

for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: Lying and being in the City of Raleigh, St. Marys Township, WAKE County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All of Lot 28 in The Villages At Pearl Ridge Subdivision, as shown on a map thereof recorded in Book of Maps 2004, Pages 1117-1120 (with said Lot being shown on Page 1118), Wake County Registry, to which map reference is hereby made for a more particular description.

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 September 4, 2019 at 12:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder

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

19 SP 1358 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

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 Daniel J. Laughlin to Jennifer Grant, Trustee(s), which was dated December 20, 2012 and recorded on December 27, 2012 in Book 015076 at Page 02323, 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 August 28, 2019 at 12:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for

18 SP 1883 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Myrtice O. Becoat to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), which was dated May 21, 2003 and recorded on June 4, 2003 in Book 010173 at Page 01527, 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 August 27, 2019 at 12:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake

Said property is commonly known as 4218 Grandover Drive, 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

Being all of Lot 30, Williamsburg Manor, Phase II, Block B, as depicted in Book of Maps 1973, Page 468, Wake County Registry Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 1135 Nottingham Circle, Cary, NC 27511.

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.

County, North Carolina, to wit: All that certain parcel of land situate in the City of Raleigh, County of Wake, and State of North Carolina, being known and designated as follows: Being all of Lot 224 of Evian at Neuse Crossing, Phase #9, as shown on plat recorded in Book of Maps 1992, Pages 1388, 1389 and 1390 of the Wake County Registry.

Subject to Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions for Neuse Crossing Subdivision recorded in Book 4718, Page 156 and Book 5696, Page 787 of the Wake County Registry.

Tax ID: 0000198708 Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 3501 Limber Lane, Raleigh, NC 27616.

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 Michael N. Kachur.

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,

Hundred Dollars ($500.00), a maximum Five Hundred Dollar ($500.00) fee will be collected. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale and must be tendered in the form of certified funds. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts will be immediately due and owing.

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, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, and encumbrances of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner of the property is Stacey B Haywood and Theodore A Haywood.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes §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.

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 Beverly A. Wicker.

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

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 Shirley M. Lewis and Ronzie Lewis.

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 Rusheem K. Wynn.

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

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 Cindy P. Hicks.

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,

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 All Lawful Heirs of Daniel J Laughlin.

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

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 All Lawful Heirs of Myrtice Becoat.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued

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 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.: 19-03149-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.

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 (North Carolina General Statutes §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 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 Substitute 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.

By: ________________________________________ Attorney At Law Stern & Eisenberg Southern, PC Attorneys for Stone Trustee Services, LLC David R. DiMatteo #35254 Christopher J. Culp #13466 5970 Fairview Road Suite 126 Charlotte, NC 28210 (704) 879-2777 (803) 929-0830 Posted: ____________________ By: _______________________

Stone Trustee Services, LLC Substitute Trustee

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.

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.: 19-04527-FC01

Trustee Services of Carolina, 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 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 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.: 19-00100-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

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.

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.: 18-19578-FC01

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee

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 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.: 17-17316-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.

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.

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

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.: 19-07282-FC01

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.: 18-20985-FC01

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