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Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver and former Clemson All-American Sammy Watkins (14) catches a pass in front of San Francisco 49ers defensive back Emmanuel Moseley (41) in Super Bowl 54. Watkins caught 5 passes for 98 yards during the game on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020 in Miami Gardens, Fla.

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Cooper, Forest lead fundraising for N.C. governor’s race The four candidates for North Carolina governor have filed their end of year fundraising results.

Democratic incumbent governor Roy Cooper led the field, raising $3.9 million.

Cooper’s campaign says he raised 90% of those contributions in-state. Cooper has a total of $8.2 million on hand for the March primary and November general election. Cooper’s primary opponent, Ernest Reeves, contributed $1,556 to his campaign.

Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Forest raised $1.4 million over the past six months, and enters the March primary with $932,000 on hand. That amount is significantly more than State Rep. Holly Grange, who raised $103,000 and has $27,000 on hand.

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Fourth Circuit hears arguments in hog industry suit NSJ staff

Virginia lawmakers advance plan to legalize casinos Virginia lawmakers are taking steps to legalize casinos in five cities around the state. A Senate committee advanced legislation Tuesday that would allow voters in Bristol, Danville, Richmond, Norfolk and Portsmouth to hold local referendums to approve casinos. A similar version is expected to advance in the House.

Advocates say largescale resorts with casinos in economically disadvantaged areas will create new jobs and boost tax revenues.

Lawmakers have shown little appetite so far for allowing casinos in the densely populated northern part of the state. Gambling behemoth MGM Resorts International in recent years opened a $1.4 billion resort and casino in Maryland just across the Potomac River from Virginia and next to Washington.

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RALEIGH — The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond heard arguments Friday in a case that could be a bellwether for North Carolina’s pork industry.

Dozens of lawsuits by individuals against hog farming operations have been filed under a legal theory that while hog farms are not alleged to have violated laws and regulations of the industry, they still constitute a legal nuisance to those who live near them and therefore can be liable for damages.

The first cases resulted in jury awards exceeding $500 million.

A North Carolina law that limits punitive damage awards reduced the judgments to around $100 million.

The verdicts rocked the indus-

try in the country’s No. 2 pork-producing state.

Last week a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit, heard oral arguments in Smithfield’s appeal of the first case, McKiver et al. v Murphy-Brown. The company says the lawsuits — and the high cost judgments — threaten livestock agriculture and North Carolina’s rural economy, “This suit is the tip of a spear aimed at North Carolina’s agricultural economy,” the company’s appeal brief says. “… A great deal depends on the outcome of these coordinated lawsuits, including the livelihoods of many in eastern North Carolina’s predominantly agricultural communities.”

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Farm families gathered on Bicentennial Mall in Raleigh in June 2018 for an Ag Rally in support of the Farm Act of 2018.

Trump reelection campaign efforts in NC galvanized by impeachment trial

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — With the 2020 election cycle heading into full swing, President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is ramping up efforts in every state, including North Carolina.

Trump faces no serious challengers and has posted record fundraising numbers for the past few quarters. With primaries starting, the Trump campaign is testing its organization.

Trump’s team is “pouring money into the contests, dispatching dozens of surrogates and staging pres-

idential rallies” which has the dual effect of putting 2020 Democrats on notice and reflects the growing enthusiasm for reelecting the president.

“Even though it’s a foregone conclusion that the president will win the Republican primary, we still want them to go out and vote,” Chris Ager, one of New Hampshire’s three representatives on the Republican National Committee, told the Associated Press. “We don’t want to cede the ground to the Democrats just because they have more enthusiasm.”

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Transportation, IT heads in NC governor’s Cabinet changing

By Gary D. Robertson The Associated Press RALEIGH — North Carolina’s transportation secretary is leaving the job at the end of the month, and another Cabinet member has been picked to succeed him, Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Tuesday.

Cooper named Eric Boyette, the current secretary of the Department of Information Technology, to replace Department of Transportation chief Jim Trogdon, who is retiring from state government with plans for private-sector work, according to a news release. Cooper said Boyette’s successor will be Tracy Doaks, the chief deputy state chief information officer.

The changes mark the first shakeup in the Democratic governor’s Cabinet since he took office over three years ago.

Trogdon, a retired two-star general in the North Carolina National Guard, had worked for DOT for nearly 28 years, with time working at the General Assembly and in the corpoSee DOT page A2

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Punxsutawney Phil declares early spring ‘a certainty’ NC’s Sir Walter Wally predicts 6 more weeks of Winter The Associated Press

“Here’s to the land of the long leaf pine.”

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PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s most famous groundhog on Sunday declared: “Spring will be early, it’s a certainty.”

At sunrise on Groundhog Day, members of Punxsutawney Phil’s top hat-wearing inner circle revealed the cuddly oracle’s prediction — his 134th, according to the Pennsylvania Tourism Office.

North Carolina’s Sir Walter Wally disagreed with his northern relative, predicting six more weeks of Winter in the Tarheel State. “Saw my shadow, I did! Six more weeks of winter will set in,” said the official twitter account of the state’s weather-forecasting rodent. “Then again, if what we’ve had so far counts as “winter,” is that all that bad?”

Awoken by the crowd’s chants of “Phil!” the groundhog was hoisted in the air for the assembly to hail before making his decision. He then grasped the glove of a handler as a member of his inner circle announced that

spring would come early this year.

The annual event has its origin in a German legend that says if a furry rodent casts a shadow on Feb. 2, winter continues. If not, spring comes early.

In reality, Phil’s prediction is decided ahead of time by the group on Gobbler’s Knob, a tiny hill just outside Punxsutawney.

That’s about 65 miles (105 kilometers) northeast of Pittsburgh.

Over the past five years — from 2015 through 2019 — Phil has predicted six more weeks of winter thrice and an early spring twice. According to records dat-

ing back to 1887, the Pennsylvanian prognosticator has predicted more winter more than 100 times, making this year’s forecast a rare one overall.

Phil’s prediction was mirrored by one of his fellow groundhogs in New York.

At the Staten Island Zoo, schoolchildren and elected officials cheered Sunday morning as a curtain was pulled back at a glass enclosure containing Staten Island Chuck. He also didn’t see his shadow.

NSJ staff contributed to this report.

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TRUMP from page A1 Both the Iowa Caucuses and the New Hampshire primary on Feb. 11 will serve as tests for the campaign’s messaging, but the ground game in critical key states like North Carolina may prove to be an even bigger statement for Trump’s team.

North Carolina will also be the backdrop for Trump’s anticipated acceptance of the party nomination at the 2020 Republican National Convention. Over 8,000 volunteers will be pitching to deal with over 50,000 expected RNC attendees, which will take place August 24-27 in Charlotte.

Michael Whatley, N.C. Republican Party Chairman, said he expects the President, as well as senior officials and Vice President Pence, to make additional campaign stops in North Carolina as both the convention and General Election approach. Trump is scheduled to visit the Tarheel State Friday in Charlotte.

The Trump Team, which is headquartered in N.C. GOP’s Raleigh office, is “already here on the ground,” according to Whatley.

“We are absolutely a crucial swing state and President Trump has to carry it in order to win,” said Whatley. “Both the Trump cam-

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Groundhog Club co-handler John Griffiths holds Punxsutawney Phil, the weather prognosticating groundhog, during the 134th celebration of Groundhog Day on Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa. Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020.

paign and the Democrats know that.”

Whatley said that the teams on the ground in North Carolina are focused on voter education, voter registration, and boosting both early and November election turnouts. The party has held events in 54 counties across the state so far and the enthusiasm is at “an alltime high.”

“People are very excited,” said Whatley. “And the impeachment, as ridiculous as it is, is actually doing a lot to galvanize support for the president because they understand what a witch hunt it is.”

The N.C. GOP will also be holding its annual convention from May 14-17, 2020, in Greenville at the Greenville Convention Center.

Council of State and other candidates will be in attendance along with 2,000 delegates from 100 counties for the official kick-off of the 2020 election.

South Carolina and Nevada canceled their nominating contests to show their allegiance to the president, but the campaign has nonetheless been in discussions about holding a Trump rally in Nevada ahead of Democratic voting.

The Trump campaign views the deployment as a supercharged version of traditional “bracketing,”

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erly influenced the outcome of the case and spilled over into four subsequent trials.

“After years of litigation, we are pleased to have the opportunity to bring our arguments before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. We are hopeful that the judges will remedy the errors of the trial court and protect the rights of an independent family farm that has been operating for 25 years without any regulatory violation and without neighbor complaints,” said Keira Lombardo of Smithfield Foods.

Friday’s case involved residents of Bladen County who owned property near a hog farm. In their complaint, the plaintiffs alleged that the farm generated noxious odors that they claimed constituted a public nuisance.

The three-judge panel is made up of Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, nominated to the court by President Ronald Reagan in 1984, Judge G. Steven, a George W. Bush nominee, and Judge Stephanie Thacker, appointed by President Barack Obama.

The appeals court’s decision will likely shape the other cases against Murphy-Brown which are still pending appeals. More than 500 individuals are involved in lawsuits filed against the Smithfield subsidiary.

The court could take weeks or months to announce a decision in the case.

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The legislature agreed in 2018 to an initiative championed by Trogdon for Cooper to authorize up to $3 billion in debt through the late 2020s to speed up local and regional road-building projects. Trogdon also led DOT’s efforts to repair and replace roads and bridges after historic storms like Hurricane Florence in 2017.

These and other natural disasters, however, cost the state hundreds of millions over the past few years, contributing to a cash-flow problem that forced DOT to halt hundreds of road projects temporarily. Legal settlements over property rights of way and project overruns also were to blame for the fiscal crunch. While the legislature agreed in November to a DOT cash bailout, some Republicans were critical of Trogdon — none more so than State Treasurer Dale Folwell.

Folwell called on Cooper in the fall to sack the secretary, saying the overspending and money transfers spoke to a lack of managerial control at the agency. Cooper’s office publicly told Folwell to butt out, and the governor expressed support for Trogdon and an improving financial situation.

In a Jan. 28 letter to Cooper alerting him to his impending retirement, Trogdon said he was confident DOT would keep working with the General Assembly this year to improve strategies to

bringing the president and other heavy hitters to step on Democrats’ messages at a pivotal juncture in the campaign.

It’s an “incredible opportunity” to contrast Trump’s agenda with the Democrats’ in states that they believe Trump has a chance of carrying in November, said RNC and Trump campaign spokesman Rick Gorka.

The nominating contests also represent an opportunity for the GOP to kick the tires on its voter mobilization efforts and turnout models. In New Hampshire’s Hillsborough County, for instance, party officials have been encouraging town committees to have ballot inspectors monitor polling sites “even though we know it’s going to be an overwhelmingly Democratic presence,” Ager said.

The Trump campaign is keenly aware that three of the four early states are also general-election battlegrounds. Trump won Iowa by 9 percentage points in 2016 and lost New Hampshire and Nevada by fewer than 3,000 votes and 37,000 votes, respectively.

“We’re focused on the general election in November, so it’s all about building that ground game and that momentum in November,” Gorka said.

In North Carolina, Chairman Whatley said that they are using the enthusiasm to help the ground game for other state-level races on this year’s ballot.

“We want to translate the excitement and enthusiasm for President Trump to make sure we win the governor’s race; we’re going to win the Senate race; we’re going to take back seats on the Court of Appeals and the [state] Supreme Court,” said Whatley.

The Republicans know judicial races can be expensive, as evidenced by the millions of dollars pumped into past races, much of which came from out of state. Last year, the N.C. GOP launched a “Judicial Victory Fund,” in a serious effort to win back some of the court seats.

Fundraising events for the Judicial Victory Fund have already begun, with former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker keynoting a fundraiser on Jan. 20 in Gastonia.

Between the 2016 election and through appointments by Gov. Roy Cooper after the departure of Chief Justice Mark Martin, the state’s Supreme Court became hyper-partisan. Republicans found themselves outnumbered six to one on the state’s highest court.

This year, three seats on the

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In this Sept. 12, 2018 photo, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, left, speaks at a news conference about Hurricane Florence preparedness as attended by state Transportation Secretary Jim Trogdon, right, listens in Raleigh, N.C. prepare and respond to the increase in natural disasters.

While Cooper’s statement Tuesday thanking Trogdon for his work was minimal, Republican legislative leaders were more effusive.

“I’ve always had a positive, productive relationship with Secretary Trogdon, and I’m sad to see him go,” said Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Eden) in a press release. “He’s a passionate public servant and cares deeply about

state’s Supreme Court are up for election and one of those seats is for chief justice. Senior Associate Justice Paul Newby, a Republican, is running against Cheri Beasley, a Democrat.

Cooper broke with tradition last year by skipping over Newby, the senior associate justice, and appointing Beasley to be Mark Martin’s replacement as chief justice. At the time of the appointment, Newby had served almost 15 years on the Supreme Court versus Beasley’s six.

Cooper also bypassed Democrat and Associate Justice Robin Hudson who at the time had 12 years of experience on the court.

By comparison, the state’s Court of Appeals has 15 judges and is more balanced with eight Democrats and seven Republicans. There are five seats up for election this year on the Court of Appeals.

Chairman Whatley said that in addition to a focus on judicial races, adding to the majorities in North Carolina’s state House and Senate is also a priority.

Whatley said that Republicans are confident it will be a “great night in November.”

Jill Colvin and Zeke Miller of the Associated Press contributed to this report.

the future of North Carolina. I wish him and his family happiness and success in this next chapter.”

Trogdon “demonstrated impeccable leadership for North Carolina throughout a series of devastating natural disasters, rapid population growth and unforeseen challenges facing our state’s transportation infrastructure,” House Speaker Tim Moore said in a release.

In an emailed statement Tuesday, Folwell said his call for Cooper to replace Trogdon “was never personal. It was, however, about the need for change at the top of an organization that has lost its financial way.”

Boyette’s state government career includes time at DOT, where he was inspector general and the Division of Motor Vehicles commissioner. Doaks joined the Department of Information Technology in 2015. Her career also has included IT work at other government agencies as well as Duke Medicine and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina.

A 2016 state law means Boyette and Doaks are subject to confirmation by the state Senate. While Cooper’s 10 Cabinet secretaries were confirmed by the chamber in 2017, the governor challenged in court the authority of the Senate to sign off on his choices. The state Supreme Court upheld the law in December 2018 as constitutional.

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Raleigh think-tank welcomes Rush Limbaugh says he’s been diagnosed new CEO, the ‘right AOC’ with lung cancer

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — As its 30th anniversary approaches, conservative think tank, the John Locke Foundation, has tapped Amy O. Cooke to be its new CEO as of Jan. 23.

“Amy is a strong, creative leader committed to expanding the John Locke Foundation’s influence and effectiveness — and to expanding freedom in North Carolina,” said John Hood, chair of the John Locke Foundation board of directors, in a press release.

Cooke, who uses the Twitter handle @TheRightAOC, will also have the title of publisher of the foundation’s main publication, Carolina Journal.

“My great, great, great grandmother, for whom I am named, was born and raised in North Carolina, and now I’m bringing our name back to her birthplace,” said Cooke.

“I can’t think of a greater honor than to lead the talented staff of one of the most well-respected statebased free-market think tanks in the country.”

Only three others have held the title of CEO, Marc Rotterman, John Hood and Kory Swanson.

Cooke hails from Colorado, where she spent 16 years at the Denver-based Independence Institute, serving as executive vice president and director of its Energy and Environmental Policy Center. She also founded the Coalition of Ratepayers, an advocacy group for small businesses and residential utility customers.

After the 2016 presidential election, Cooke was appointed to President Trump’s transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency.

Cooke told NSJ that North Carolina has a sort of “economic renaissance” going on.

“I am looking at North Carolina from the outside as major league,” said Cooke, adding that the state is reaping the benefits of officials brave enough to implement policy after decades of research.

“North Carolina has flattened its tax rate. It has, for the most part, voluntarily budgeted to inflation plus population,” Cooke said. “It’s actually a really exciting story and

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Amy O. Cooke is the new CEO for the John Locke Foundation. if there was anything that was compelling, it’s that story right there and the fact that I get to tell it.”

Cooke’s husband, John, is a Colorado state senator and a retired Colorado sheriff. She joked about seeing him now and then when he and his friends come to North Carolina to golf. Cooke is also a mother of five — three children of her own and two step-children.

While her children are grown up and her youngest daughter is finishing up her final year at Texas Tech online while being deployed to Kuwait, K-12 educational freedom is still on Cooke’s mind.

“I’m thrilled to be a part of a state that is so forward-thinking on school choice,” said Cooke.

Cooke says school choice options, including public charters and private schools through the state’s Opportunity Scholarship program, are making a difference.

Cooke cited the example of a working mother of two who said her family’s life was changed by the Opportunity Scholarship Program and how the program had made their American Dream possible as an im-

migrant.

“That was her American Dream — her kids’ American dream — was to get an education, go on to college,” said Cooke. “And she talked about working multiple jobs in order to pay for them to get them into schools that were best for them — not best for adults — but best for her kids.”

“And when you hear stories like that, you realize that’s what that’s where policy sort of meets the kitchen table,” said Cooke, who also said the story “gave me goosebumps.”

As she settles in to live in the Tarheel state, Cooke says she looks forward to traveling across the state to talk with newcomers and natives alike about why they call North Carolina home.

“I have the greatest job,” said Cooke, adding that she is passionate about letting newcomers to North Carolina know about the “what and why” about coming here.

“There’s an ‘it’ thing about North Carolina,” Cooke said. “It’s the ‘it place’ to be and what I get to do is traverse the state and connect the dots for folks.”

Shown is a sign for the I-540 Triangle Expressway, the highway which forced 87-year-old Lynn Council from his home in Apex.

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By A.P. Dillon North State Journal APEX — Community members in Southern Wake County came together to help 87-year-old Lynn Council pay off a 20-yearold loan on his former home that was threatened due to road widening from the Triangle Expressway I-540 project.

The state’s Department of Transportation and the Turnpike Authority made an offer to buy Council’s home on Holly Springs Road, but the offer wasn’t enough to cover the cost of a new home and the value of a federal home improvement loan on his old residence of around $20,000.

The improvement loan, which was given to elderly homeowners, stipulated its repayment upon the owner’s death or sale of the home.

Neither of those conditions applied to Council, who was being forced out to accommodate a future onramp for the expressway.

Word got out about Council’s situation and community members stepped in to help.

Attorney and former state Rep. Paul “Skip” Stam (R-Wake) volunteered to help with the legal aspects of Council’s case, as did Gerald Givens, president of the NAACP’s Ra-

leigh-Apex branch.

Stam, who took the case pro bono, met with NC DOT officials and members of the Holly Springs Town Council to find a solution to the $20,000 loan issue.

“It was an unexpected position for an 87-year-old man,” said Stam of Council’s predicament. “And not only that, he lost his wife last summer that he had been married to for more than 60 years.”

Stam said he talked to the Wake County manager many times about moving the lien, but unfortunately the rules were clear and did not allow for adjustment or transfer of the lien to Council’s new residence.

At a breakfast honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. held at Council’s church, family friend Doris Battle said she spoke with Holly Springs resident Garrett Raczek about the situation. After hearing the story, Raczek decided to set up a GoFundMe page to ask the public for help, and it worked.

The GoFundMe page raised over $24,300 through more than 630 donors.

“I totally thank you from my heart for what y’all did. I sure thank the Lord for the gifts. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you, Lord,” said Council.

The additional funds in the Go-

FundMe will go towards repairs on Council’s new home.

Council was already known in local circles and received media attention last year after he received apologies from the Apex Police Department and the Wake County Sheriff’s Office for a wrongful arrest and attempted lynching that occurred 68 years ago.

In November of 1952, Council was arrested on robbery charges by Chief Sam Bagwell of the Apex Police Department. Bagwell had allegedly beaten Council, trying to force a confession but Council refused and stood firm that he had not committed the crime.

The crime had happened outside of the Apex Police’s jurisdiction, so Council was then handed off to the Wake County Sheriff’s Office, where deputies tried and failed to get a confession.

Council was then taken from jail and driven out to a wooded area near where Ten-Ten Road now runs. Deputies strung him up by his neck from an Oak tree for at least a minute before letting him down.

The intimidation didn’t work.

In 2019, Council received apologies from those same departments and attended an unveiling ceremony of a bench installed in the front of the Apex Police offices.

The bench has a plaque with an inscription that reads, “We are indebted to you for speaking out and raising awareness of an incident that was all but lost to history. Your courage and resilience has brought a perspective to a time in our history that needed to be acknowledged and remembered.”

LOS ANGELES — Conservative radio host and Republican kingmaker Rush Limbaugh said he’s been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.

Addressing listeners on his program Monday, Limbaugh said he will take some days off for further medical tests and to determine treatment.

“I have to tell you something today that I wish I didn’t have to tell you,” announced Limbaugh, 69.

The cancer diagnosis was confirmed by two medical institutions in late January after he experienced his only symptom so far, shortness of breath, on his Jan. 12 birthday weekend, he said.

He was reluctant to discuss personal matters and distract from his work, he said, and wasn’t seeking to cover up his illness. He realized it was better to be honest and avoid the speculation that would follow when he has to miss being on air for treatment or as the “It’s shocking result of treatment, Limbaugh added. to the industry, “But it is what it is. And you know me, and it should I’m the mayor of Realville,” he said. “My intention is to come here every day I can. be shocking And to do this program as normally” and to the political competently as usual.

He said he considers his listeners to be establishment.” to be part of a “family type relationship” with him, adding that his job has given Michael Harrison, him the “greatest satisfaction and happipublisher of ness” he’s experienced.

Limbaugh’s announcement comes at Talkers magazine a tumultuous political time, as the conclusion of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial nears.

Trump paid tribute on Twitter, writing: “Many people do not know what a great guy & fantastic political talent the great Rush Limbaugh is. There is nobody like him. Looking for a speedy recovery for our friend!”

“It’s shocking to the industry, and it should be shocking to the political establishment,” Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers magazine, the trade industry publication for talk radio, said of Limbaugh’s disclosure.

He started his first national radio show in 1988 from New York, later relocating to Palm Beach, Florida.

The hyper-partisan broadcaster has dominated talk radio with a raucous, liberal-bashing style that made him one of the most influential voices of American right-wing politics and inspired other conservative broadcasters including Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly.

“Rush you are in our prayers,” Beck tweeted. “We live in a time of modern miracles. Millions are praying you find one.”

Limbaugh said he intends to work as much as possible. He also said he had focused more “intensely” in the past two weeks on what he called his “deeply personal relationship” with God. The media figure’s endorsement and friendship is a conservative political treasure. His idol, Ronald Reagan, wrote a letter that Limbaugh read on the air in December 1992 and which sealed his reputation among conservatives: “You’ve become the number one voice for conservatism in our country,” Reagan wrote.

Two years later, Limbaugh would be so widely credited as key to Republicans’ takeover of Congress for the first time in 40 years, he was deemed an honorary member of the new class.

Limbaugh has frequently been accused of hatefilled speech, including bigotry and blatant racism through his comments and sketches such as “Barack the Magic Negro,” a song featured on his show that said Obama “makes guilty whites feel good” and that the politician is “black, but not authentically.”

His popularity has survived brickbats and thrived despite personal woes.

In 2003, Limbaugh admitted an addiction to painkillers and entered rehabilitation. Authorities opened an investigation into alleged “doctor shopping,” saying he received up to 2,000 pills from four doctors over a period of six months, but he ultimately reached a deal with prosecutors that dismissed the single charge.

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This May 14, 2012 file photo shows radio host Rush Limbaugh speaking during a ceremony inducting him into the Hall of Famous Missourians in the state Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo.

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North Carolina is one of the top pork-producing states in the country, with major operations centered in eastern North Carolina. North Carolina’s hog and pork processing industry generates more than $10 billion in economic output for the state, according to a new economic impact report prepared by N.C. State University.

The report shows that the pork production and processing categories directly contribute $5.9 billion in sales and provide 19,298 jobs. For every job in pork production, an estimated 2.2 additional jobs are created, meaning the industry supports more than 44,000 total jobs in North Carolina.

The state’s four largest hog producing counties — Duplin, Sampson, Bladen and Wayne — combine to contribute more than $7.1 billion to the state’s economy and support nearly 19,000 jobs.

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City declares ‘climate emergency,’ sets goals

Report: Hot tub water caused Legionnaire’s outbreak Henderson County Hot tub water that sprayed into the air likely caused an outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease that killed four people last year. The state Department of Health and Human Services released its final report on the outbreak, which infected people who attended the North Carolina Mountain State Fair. The final report tallied 136 cases of Legionnaire’s disease and one case of Pontiac fever in residents of multiple states, officials said. Ninetysix people were hospitalized. People were likely exposed to the bacteria in aerosolized water from hot tubs on display at the fair, the report said.

Buncombe County Asheville has become the first in the state to declare a “climate emergency” and has now set goals on warming greenhouse gases and renewable energy. Asheville City Council unanimously voted for the declaration after months of negotiations between officials and young climate activists. The council committed to an “equitable and just” citywide mobilization to end greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. The council also agreed to accomplish already existing goals, such as switching municipal operations to 100% renewable energy by 2030 and the whole community by 2042.

Woman charged with killing two pedestrians Gaston County Authorities say a woman is facing felony charges after two pedestrians were struck and killed. Gastonia police say the incident happened shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday.

Investigators say a vehicle traveled onto a sidewalk and struck 61-year-old Charles Henry Love and 31-year-old Keytiada Cooke. Love died at the scene. Cooke died at a local hospital. Police have charged 24-year-old Katelyn Abernathy with two counts of death by motor vehicle, felony hit and run causing serious injury or death, failure to maintain lane control, driving while intoxicated.

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Man arrested for punching high school referee Avery County Jerry Dale Jones, 47, of Newland was arrested after allegedly punching a high school basketball referee in the face, following a game at Mitchell High School.

Jones approached the referee and said, “That’s a (expletive) call,” before striking him. He then ignored commands from a sheriff’s deputy trying to break up the incident. Jones has been charged with assault on a sports official, disorderly conduct and resisting a public officer.

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Raleigh-Durham airport staffer charged with ‘secret peeping’

Missing, endangered teen located, safe Graham County Adrian “Grace” Burchfield, 17, was found safe a day after she went missing.

Alerts were sent out because Burchfield was believed to have gone missing after meeting up with a man she met online.

The man, who identified himself online as “John Waller,” allegedly from Oklahoma, had been having communication with her for some time. Burchfield will be returned to her family in a few days.

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Wake County A Raleigh-Durham International Airport employee has been charged with secret peeping after authorities were tipped off about “potential illegal activity” that happened at the airport. Brennan Stevenson, 30, was arrested Wednesday

by Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority law enforcement. He has since been removed from his position and is not allowed on airport property. Stevenson is charged with felony secret peeping, felony disseminating image obtained from secret peeping and felony possessing photographic image from secret peeping, police said.

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Police: ‘Dumpster diving’ at clothing store turned fatal Alamance Police in North Carolina were searching a landfill Tuesday for remains of a woman believed to have been killed after climbing into a trash container to look for reusable items.

The Burlington Police Department issued a news release Monday saying Stephanie Cox, 30, was apparently collecting items from a large trash container behind a clothing store in Burlington after midnight one day last week when a truck came to service the container.

“Cox is believed to have been attempting to collect items from a dumpster alone shortly after midnight on Thursday January 30th, 2020. It is believed that Cox did not exit the dumpster prior to it being serviced,” police said in the release.

Her car was found unattended on a service drive behind the shopping center.

Video indicates no one else was in the area until the garbage truck arrived.

Police say her family confirmed that it was common for her to collect things from trash containers.

“This case brings to light the dangers associated with collections from dumpsters,” police said. “The commonly known practice of ‘dumpster diving’ is not safe.”

Police believe her remains were transferred to a Montgomery County landfill. A search party is looking there for her body.

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Former legislator, mayor Oscar Harris dies at 80 Harnett County Oscar Harris, a former state senator, small-town mayor and close ally of Democratic governors, has died at age 80, his family said. Harris, who served five terms as mayor of the Harnett County city of Dunn before choosing not to seek reelection last year, died near his home late Tuesday from an apparent heart attack. Harris served four years in the Senate beginning in 1999. He was the campaign treasurer for Gov. Beverly Perdue and also served on the state Board of Transportation as an appointee of fourterm Gov. Jim Hunt.

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Police raid three businesses for illegal gambling Camden County Police raided three businesses for running illegal casinos. Investigators raided the North Highway 17 Recreation Center, The North Highway 17 Recreation Center Annex and Lambs Marina in Camden, seizing video slot machines, fish machines and $210,000 in cash. The raid followed a year-long investigation. No arrests have been made, but arrests are expected in the near future.

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Sampson County Early January storms caused the roof of Union Intermediate Elementary School to cave in at the school gym. The cave-in occurred at about 2:00 p.m. during the school day. The back portion of the gym wall collapsed as storms blew through the area while approximately 25 students were having class. Three students were hurt, requiring a trip to the hospital.

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Coast Guard officer-terror suspect sentenced for guns, drugs Currituck County Christopher Hasson, 50, a Coast Guard lieutenant with multiple homes, including one in Currituck, was sentenced Friday to more than 13 years in prison for firearms and drug offenses. Hasson was accused by prosecutors of being a domestic terrorist intent on committing politically motivated killings inspired by a far-right mass murderer. The severity of Hasson’s sentence hinged on two starkly divergent explanations for the cache of weapons seized from his Maryland home and the disturbing material found on his computer at Coast Guard headquarters in Washington.

RALEIGH — The March 3 primary will determine which of the five Democrats vying to be state superintendent will advance to the General Election in November.

The Democrats running are James Barrett, Constance Johnson, Michael Maher, Jennifer Mangrum and Keith Sutton.

James Barrett has worked as software engineering manager with Lenovo since 2015. Barret says his K-12 education was spent in North Carolina public schools. He also served on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board for the past eight years, serving two times as chair. The key areas he intends to concentrate on are testing reform, increasing resources, equity in resource deployment and school safety.

Barrett was criticized last year for his role in pushing for the creation of a Mandarin magnet school but cleared of a legal conflict of interest by the board’s legal counsel. The program passed with a 4-3 vote with implementation rolling out in 202021.

Constance Lav Johnson was a late entry into the 2017 Charlotte Mayoral race where she lost in the primary.

She is a former teacher and is the owner of City Political Magazine.

According to her bio, she earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology/ sociology and a master’s degree in education, guidance and counseling and is affiliated with the Greater Charlotte Alliance of Black School Educators.

Key areas Johnson’s website says she will focus on include making sure the “US Congress will ANTE UP for Teacher Pay,” recycling as a priority in NC schools, and free lunch and meals for all students.

Dr. Michael Maher taught high school science in Forsyth and Wake counties before taking a job at Saint Augustine’s University and then an administrative role at N.C. State University. Maher served as assistant dean of professional education at N.C. State and currently serves as the president of the N.C. Association of Colleges and Teacher Educators. He is also the vice chairman of the N.C. Professional Educator Preparation and Standards Commission.

According to his website, his focus areas will be transparency, literacy, EVAAS, testing, teacher pay, and safety. Maher says on his site that we have to be “much more mindful” with the number of charter schools

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In 1987, Jennifer Mangrum received her degree in elementary education from UNC-Wilmington.

She later obtained a master’s in early childhood education. After teaching second and third grade for 12 years, she went back to graduate school in 2001 and earned a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from UNC Greensboro. Mangrum went to work at N.C. State University in late 2004 and took a position at UNC Greensboro in 2008.

Mangrum ran unsuccessfully for state senate against Senate Pro Tem Phil Berger (R-Eden), losing by over 19,500 votes. Her website lists numerous issues: including school safety, teacher pay, expanding early childhood education opportunities, increasing per pupil spending, a redesign of the state testing system, prioritizing the “recruitment of educators of color” and creating a “culture of respect” for all state educators.

According to her campaign site, Mangrum “became a part of the collective voice for Save Our Schools and the Red for Ed movement.”

Keith Sutton has been a member of the Wake County School Board since 2009 and in the past served as president of the Triangle Urban League, as well as executive director for the N.C. NAACP. Sutton served as “excellence director” for BEST NC, an organization made up of mainly businesses and non-profits involved in education policy. He resides in Raleigh where he is an “education innovation consultant” with FocusED, LLC, a consulting organization he formed in 2017.

Issues Sutton has said he will focus on include raising the minimum wage for school support staff to $15 an hour, enhancing school safety, increased focus on social-emotional learning needs, reducing school suspensions, increasing teacher diversity, promoting racial equity and targeted support for underperforming schools.

The winning Democrat will face the winner of the Republican primary between Catherine Truitt, the chancellor of Western Governor’s University and a former education adviser to former Gov. Pat McCrory; and Rep. Craig Horn (R-Union), who is in his fifth term and is the chair of both the House K-12 Education and Education Appropriations committees.

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EDITORIAL | FRANK HILL

Medicare is for old people; Medicaid is for poor people (but not all of them)

Medicaid, however, is not available for every ‘poor’ man or woman as commonly accepted.

ONE OF THE BIGGEST HURDLES we face a nation in our political life together is the lack of basic factual information. It is next to impossible to solve political problems when every single issue is prismed through the spin machines and war rooms on both sides and basic facts are obscured purely for political purposes.

Such is the case with Medicaid. Hardly anyone outside of the health industry knows anything about it.

Including many elected officials. A Republican health care expert in Washington recounted a debate prep session he had with a Republican presidential nominee. After three days of making no progress, he said to the candidate: “Just remember: Medicare is for old people. Medicaid is for poor people.”

The candidate’s eyes lit up as he fairly leaped out of his chair. “I got it!” he shouted and walked triumphantly out of the room.

Except the statement is not entirely true.

Medicare is for “old people” over the age of 65. FDR first adopted 65 for Social Security in 1935 based on the precedent of Otto von Bismarck using it as the retirement age for the German retirement plan in 1889.

LBJ adopted it for Medicare in 1965.

Medicaid, however, is not available for every “poor” man or woman as commonly accepted. Medicaid covers women with infants or dependent children; aged, blind and disabled, and long-term nursing care.

People are surprised to learn that men of all races who are below or near the poverty level between the ages of 18 to 65 are not covered by Medicaid. Neither are childless women who are struggling.

In North Carolina, adults account for 231,000, only 11%, of the 2.1 million enrollees in Medicaid. Fifty-three percent of enrollees (1.1 million) are children; aged, blind and disabled people account for 21%, or 441,000, of the state’s Medicaid recipients.

Medicaid expansion is at the crux of the current budget impasse in North Carolina. Expansion would add up to 500,000 childless adults and other qualifiers to state Medicaid rolls. These are childless adults previously not eligible for Medicaid plus near-poverty level individuals

or families who either have not bought or can’t afford the lowest cost ACA plan in the exchange.

The total cost of expansion for North Carolina is estimated to be $4 billion annually. Instead of being matched at the traditional 67% federal Medicaid match rate for women with children; aged, blind and disabled and nursing home care, every new recipient — childless adults mostly — would be matched at a 90% rate by the federal government as mandated under Obamacare. State taxpayers would pay $400 million more per year in the 10% match, but everyone would “pay” as interest and the federal debt keep going up due to increased federal participation.

North Carolina’s taxpayers currently pay 33% of the cost of Medicaid, or $4 billion per year, while federal taxpayers and foreign debt holders pay the other $11 billion. Medicaid accounts for $15 billion (32%) of the entire state budget.

As health care costs rise exponentially due to technology and utilization, (who would have ever thought hearts and lungs could ever be transplanted when Medicaid was adopted in 1965?), the costs of Medicaid and Medicare keep exploding and increasing deficits at the national level and squeezing out education, public safety and transportation budgets at the state level.

There are no simple answers to health care as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren want you to believe. Putting everyone on what would be essentially “Medicaid for All” will infuriate the 180 million Americans currently on company-sponsored plans to name just one example.

Having a robust debate on how best to extend coverage to all Americans is a good thing to do in a campaign year. Having the right facts to back up those arguments is crucial to finding the right answer.

EDITORIAL | STACEY MATTHEWS

In times of tragedy, we are reminded to stop sweating the small stuff

“I just really now have to take time and call and say I love you. … I’m gonna try to do a better job of just reaching out and just talking to other people rather than always procrastinating because you never know.”

I WAS SITTING on the couch at Mom’s watching an old Western two Sundays ago when my mom told me to switch the TV over to Fox News.

“What’s going on?” I asked, not really wanting to change the channel because the movie was just getting to the good part.

“Kobe Bryant has died,” she answered in an “I can’t believe it” tone.

There’s no way, I told myself. This has got to be a hoax.

But it wasn’t. Multiple media outlets were reporting it, and cable news networks were showing live footage from the helicopter crash scene.

We’d find out later that not only did the 41-year-old Los Angeles Lakers basketball legend die in the crash in Calabasas, California, but his 13-year-old daughter Gianna did also, along with John Altobelli, his wife Keri and their 14-year-old daughter Alyssa, Sarah Chester and her 13-year-old daughter Payton, Christina Mauser, and pilot Ara Zobayan.

Even for people who don’t watch NBA games or who otherwise aren’t much into sports reeled from the news. The oldest person on the plane was 56. The youngest two were 13. All too young, way too young to die.

Every time you read stories about senseless tragedies like these, you are reminded about the fragility and preciousness of life and how important it is to live every day to the fullest.

This sentiment was expressed tearfully by Bryant’s former teammate Shaquille O’Neal in an emotional interview he gave just two days after the crash.

While discussing Bryant and his legacy, O’Neal also talked about how Bryant was like family to him, calling him his “little brother.”

O’Neal also talked about how he lost his sister Ayesha Harrison-Jex, 40, to cancer last October. Both of their deaths were a wake-up call to him, he said in so many words.

“We up here, we work a lot and I think a lot of times we take stuff for granted,” O’Neal said to the panel of former NBA players and

commentators. “Like, I don’t talk to you guys as much as I need to.

“I just really now have to take time and call and say I love you. …

I’m gonna try to do a better job of just reaching out and just talking to other people rather than always procrastinating because you never know,” he vowed.

In addition to slowing down and giving yourself time to connect with family, friends and other loved ones more often, another important thing to remember after tragedies like these happen is to stop sweating the small stuff.

Like traffic jams. Or when your burger comes loaded with those onions you asked them to leave off. Or when your cable and/or internet goes out (yes, I know that can test a person’s patience!). Or when you’re running late for work and realize you really have to stop and get gas.

To be sure, those are annoyances. But in the scheme of things?

They’re no big deal. They’re really not worth worrying over. They give you headaches sometimes, sure, but it’s more because they are things happening that you really can’t control.

Next time you find yourself in one of those inconvenient situations, instead of getting angry make a promise to yourself to call a loved one when you get a free minute just to say hello. Or if someone you love is with you in those situations, ask them about how their day is going and how they’re doing.

You’ll be pleasantly surprised at how quickly your annoyance with whatever situation you found yourself in goes away.

As the old saying goes, life really is too short to take for granted. So enjoy it. Show and tell your family and friends how much you love and care about them — and often.

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 | JEFF DAVIDSON

Hate bubbling over

How much do you have to hate America, our way of life, and everything that we stand for, to imply that it all has to be undone?

IT’S RUMORED that bad luck comes in “threes,” a holdover phenomenon from World War II. If soldiers sought to light three cigarettes with a single match, by the time the third soldier extended a cigarette, the enemy had fired.

Today, Democrats in the House of Representatives have to contend with three seething “cauldrons” of hate: Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib. These congresswomen arrived in Washington ready to vent at the touch of a hat.

Exactly who do Omar, Ocasio-Cortez, and Tlaib hate, other than Donald Trump, his family, his administration, the military, I.C.E. and law enforcement? They hate anyone who voted for Donald Trump, Jews and Israel, in particular.

What do Omar, Ocasio-Cortez, and Tlaib hate?

Pretty much any policy of Barack Obama that Donald Trump maintains (or improves), or decides was poorly conceived and reverses. For reasons that they can’t defend if reasonably challenged, they hate the phrases, “Make America Great Again,” and “Keep America Great.” They hate sensible budgets, people having to pay their own way, and fundamental differences between men and women.

If I happened to be a ranking member of Congress, perhaps with a committee chairmanship, I’d be aghast.

These three ladies are so vocal: I would be irate about how much airtime they grab and how de facto they represent the new face of the Democratic Party.

Do any levelheaded Democrats believe that advocating for open borders, condoning the activities of antifa, espousing that college should be free (which, of course, means that someone else pays), absolving all student debt, claiming that Medicare should be provided for all, weakening the military, and converting to a socialist state is going to win them a national election?

When you stroll through a supermarket today and see the abundance of fruits and vegetables, cheeses, nuts, meats, packaged goods, frozen foods, soft drinks, beers, wines and pharmaceuticals, etc., is there any

question about the bounty bestowed upon our society from centuries of capitalism?

When you visit an auto dealership and observe the abundance of cars, when you step onto a college campus — and there are 2,600 major colleges in the U.S. — and see the magnificent architecture, the fountains, the walkways, the vibrancy, why would you choose to mess with an economic system that delivered this?

When you contemplate the gleaming cities from coast-to-coast, the civic centers, skyscrapers, town halls, sports stadiums, ice-skating rinks, greenways, resorts, and endless highways and byways, why would you ever advocate a risky proposition — socialism — which has never benefitted a single generation in a single nation?

When you consider the miraculous breakthroughs benefitting people around the globe, from the smartphone, to the internet, to LASIK surgery, to pacemakers, to the world’s best dental care, what would prompt you to think that a socialist society could ever produce innovative entrepreneurs found in every state and every county in America?

How much do you have to hate America, our way of life, and everything that we stand for, to imply that it all has to be undone? How grossly do you have to ignore that people from across the globe want to emigrate here, while virtually no one — not Alec Baldwin, not Barbra Streisand, and not the foulmouthed Robert DeNiro — wants to leave?

How overly focused on disparities and injustices do you have to be — which occur in every nation, all the time — to say that this nation, above all others, is the most evil? Yes, unquestionably strive to alleviate the disparity, and eliminate the injustices. To throw out the all-time super-baby with the bath water, however, is beyond stupidity and beyond ignorance.

Its origins are grounded in seething hatred.

Jeff Davidson is “The Work-Life Balance Expert®” and he speaks to organizations worldwide.

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63% of American adults say it’s impossible to go through daily life without government agencies collecting data on them

Sixty-three percent (63%) of American adults say it’s impossible to go through daily life without government agencies collecting data on them. A Pew Research study found that 62% say you can’t get through the day without companies doing the same.

Most don’t see much value in all that data collection. “Roughly three-quarters of adults say they benefit very little or none from the data that companies (72%) or the government (76%) collect about them.” Solid majorities believe the risks of all that data collection outweigh the benefits.

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In this April 26, 2019, file photo, visitors to New York’s Times Square use umbrellas to shield themselves against the rain as they walk past the Armed Forces Recruitment Center.

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WALTER E. WILLIAMS

Economics reality I HAVE BEEN TEACHING economics since 1967 — 40 years of it at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. During that interval, economic reality has not changed. Just as Galileo’s law about the independent influence of gravity on falling objects has not changed, neither have the fundamental principles of economics.

Economics is fun and simple. It’s made complicated by some economics professors — fortunately, not by my colleagues at George Mason University. Let’s apply some simple tools of economics to reveal outright myths, lies and tricks.

Who is punished by tariffs on imported goods? Let’s go through the steps. The Canadian government imposes high tariffs on American dairy imports. That forces Canadians to pay higher prices for dairy products and protects Canada’s dairy producers from American competition. What should be the U.S. government’s response to Canada’s screwing its citizens? If you were in the Trump administration, you might retaliate by imposing stiff tariffs on softwood products built from pine, spruce and fir trees used by U.S. homebuilders. In other words, the U.S. should retaliate against Canada’s harming its citizens by forcing them to pay higher dairy product prices, by forcing Americans through tariffs to pay higher prices for wood and thereby raising the cost of building homes.

Many politicians, pundits and some economists would have us believe that corporations pay taxes, but do they? Economists distinguish between entities who ultimately bear the tax burden and those upon whom tax is initially levied. Just because a tax is levied on a corporation doesn’t mean that the corporation bears its burden.

Faced with a tax, a corporation can shift the tax burden by raising its product prices, lowering dividends or laying off workers. The lesson here is that only people pay taxes, not legal fictions like corporations.

Corporations are simply tax collectors for the government. Similarly, no one would fall for a politician telling a homeowner, “I’m not going to tax you; I’m going to tax your property.” I guarantee that it will be a person, not the property, writing out the check to the taxing authority. Again, only people pay taxes.

Here’s a question: Are natural or manmade disasters good for the economy? Dr. Larry Summers, top economic adviser to President Obama, said about the Kobe, Japan, earthquake: “(The disaster) may lead to some temporary increments ironically to GDP as a process of rebuilding takes place. In the wake of the earlier Kobe earthquake Japan actually gained some economic strength.” After devastating Floridian hurricanes, it’s not uncommon to read newspaper headlines such as “Storms create lucrative times,” or “Economic growth from hurricanes could outweigh costs,” or “It’s a perverse thing ... there’s real pain, but from an economic point of view, it is a plus.”

Then there’s Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman who wrote in his New York Times column “After the Horror,” after the 9/11 attack, “Ghastly as it may seem to say this, the terror attack — like the original day of infamy, which brought an end to the Great Depression — could do some economic good.” He went on to explain that rebuilding the destruction would stimulate the economy through business investment and job creation.

One would never hear my colleagues in George Mason University’s economics department spouting such insanities. Just ask yourself whether the Japanese economy would have faced even greater opportunities for economic growth had the earthquake also struck Tokyo, Hiroshima, Yokohama and other major cities?

Would the 9/11 terrorists have made a greater contribution to our economy had they also destroyed lives and buildings in Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles and Atlanta? The belief that a society benefits from destruction is sheer lunacy.

French economist Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) explained it in his pamphlet “What is Seen and What is Not Seen.” He said, “There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.” That’s why my George Mason University colleagues are good economists.

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

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NATION & WORLD Putin remains coy on his future political plans Pompeo

By Vladimir Isachenkov The Associated Press MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that a nationwide vote on constitutional changes he proposed wouldn’t be used to extend his current term in office, but remained tight-lipped about his future political plans.

Kremlin critics have seen Putin’s amendments as part of his efforts to stay at the helm after his current presidential term expires in 2024. The proposed changes, however, don’t make it clear exactly how he could do that.

Asked during a meeting with students and teachers if the vote could be used to directly extend his term in office, Putin said it’s not what he wants.

“I didn’t propose that to extend my authority,” Putin said. “The election of the head of state must be held on a competitive basis.”

Observers have speculated that once his term expires Putin could use the amendments to continue calling the shots as head of the State Council or as prime minister. The former position, however, is yet to be defined

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Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting with students and researchers of an industrial college in Cherepovets, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020. and the latter is clearly subordinate to the presidency, making it unlikely that Putin would want it for himself.

It has remained unclear why the Russian leader is rushing through constitutional changes four years before the end of his

term.

Putin, a 67-year-old former KGB officer, has led Russia for more than 20 years — the longest since Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

Putin prefers to keep his plans secret until the final moment.

Putin has argued that the

changes in the constitution he proposed in a state-of-the-nation speech on Jan. 15 are intended to boost the powers of parliament and strengthen democracy.

But the proposals also maintain and even strengthen presidential powers — something Putin described as a must for Russia.

The Kremlin-controlled lower house quickly approved Putin’s constitutional bill in the first of three required readings last month, and a second reading is set to be held later this month.

Lawmakers and a working group created by Putin have already come up with a variety of proposals in addition to what the original draft outlines.

Once lawmakers complete work on the constitutional amendments, they will be put to popular vote. It’s still unclear how it will be organized.

Putin said Tuesday that he wants a nationwide vote as “the highest form of democracy,” adding that it will “make people feel engaged, feel themselves as co-authors of the document.” He noted that he hopes that the work on the constitutional changes could be completed in just over three months.

UK and EU clash over trade with 11 months to make a deal

By Jill Lawless The Associated Press LONDON — Britain and the European Union set out clashing opening gambits Monday on striking a post-Brexit trade deal, making it clear that each side is willing to walk away without an agreement rather than compromise on key issues.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson sent a bravado-filled salvo toward Brussels three days after Britain left the bloc, the first country to exit. In a speech to business leaders and international diplomats in London, Johnson said “we want a free trade agreement” — but not at any cost.

“I see no need to bind ourselves to an agreement with the EU,” he said, insisting that Britain would “restore full sovereign control” over its borders, rules and economy.

EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier was equally emphatic that the EU’s 27 remaining nations wouldn’t agree to any British trade deal just to avoid a costly, chaotic “no-deal” at the start of 2021, when an 11-month post-Brexit transition period ends.

“We are in favor of free trade, but we are not going to be naive,” Barnier said. “If the request is to have broad access to a market of 450 million European consumers, zero tariffs, zero quotas — that won’t happen for nothing, or in any kind of condition.”

In their divorce agreement, Britain and the EU agreed to strike an “ambitious, broad, deep and flexible partnership,” including a free trade deal and agreements for security and other areas. The details are to be worked out during a transition period lasting until the end of 2020, in which relations stay essentially unchanged. For the rest of this year, the U.K. will continue to follow EU rules, although it will no longer have a say in EU decision-making.

After that, a cliff-edge looms.

But Johnson insisted the choice facing Britain was not “deal or no deal.”

“The question is whether we agree to a trading relationship with the EU comparable to Canada’s – or more like Australia’s,” Johnson said.

Australia does not have a freetrade deal with the EU, and Australia-style trade would mean a panoply of new tariffs and other barriers between the U.K. and the EU, its near neighbor and biggest trading partner.

Britain is aiming for a “Canada-style” free trade agreement with the EU, which would eliminate almost all tariffs and cover both goods and services. But it is adamant it won’t agree to follow

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is pictured during a speech at the Old Naval College in Greenwich, London, Monday, Feb. 3, 2020. the EU’s entire rule book in return for unfettered trade because it wants to be free to diverge in order to strike other new deals around the world.

The bloc insists there can be no trade deal unless Britain agrees to a “level playing field” and doesn’t undercut EU regulations, especially when it comes to the environment, workers’ rights and health and safety standards.

“There is no such thing like a free ride to the (EU’s) single market,” EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. “It is always rights and obligations in a good balance.”

Johnson, however, doubled down on Britain’s tough stance in Monday’s speech. He delivered it in the Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich on the River Thames, a spot steeped in Britain’s past military glories.

The vast hall, covered in paintings glorifying British achievement, is where Adm. Horatio Nelson lay in state after his death at the Battle of Trafalgar against the navies of France and Spain in 1805.

Even as he set out a vision of trade that would impose new barriers between Britain and the EU, Johnson said the U.K. would become a champion of free trade in a world where “the protectionists are gaining ground.”

And he sought to allay EU fears that a post-Brexit Britain will slash workplace and environmental protections in order to gain a competitive edge.

“The U.K. will maintain the highest standards in these areas — better, in many respects, than those of the EU — without the compulsion of a treaty,” Johnson said.

Johnson’s bullish message was

aimed as much at a domestic audience as it was at the bloc, but EU leaders are unlikely to be reassured by what they’ll see as British intransigence and wishful thinking.

“The U.K. can independently decide not to respect the rules,” said France’s Europe Minister Amelie de Montchalin, before pointedly adding: “But when it passes the frontier, it concerns the place where it arrives.”

She said the EU would be as vigilant about checking the product itself as about the way it is produced, making sure it would respect social, environmental and other standards that are cornerstones of EU policy.

“It is important for European citizens to know that the single market will be protected,” she said.

Barnier signaled that one flashpoint in the talks will be fishing.

He said the EU would link access to its market for British products directly to the access that EU boats are given to U.K. waters.

“That agreement on fisheries will be inextricably linked to the trade agreement,” he said.

Formal trade talks won’t start until next month, once they have been approved by all 27 EU nations.

EU leaders have repeatedly warned that the timetable is tight to strike any kind of deal. Freetrade agreements typically take years. The EU-Canada deal that the British government cited as a model took seven years to negotiate.

If there is no deal by the end of 2020, and the U.K. refuses to extend the negotiating period, Britain faces an abrupt, disruptive economic break from the bloc — with tariffs and other obstacles to trade

imposed immediately between the U.K. and the EU. That prospect alarms many businesses, especially in sectors such as the auto industry, which depend on the easy flow of parts across borders.

The devil will be in the details, and Britain’s position as outlined in a government document is less set in stone than Johnson’s speech suggested. It said Britain would negotiate with the EU “on access to waters and fishing opportunities,” and also spoke of possible “regulatory and supervisory cooperation” in financial services, a key area for the British economy.

However, Barnier said the EU would continue to prepare for no deal.

“If we cannot manage by the end of the year, there will be a widespread cliff,” he said.

Johnson, however, brushed off the idea of a “no-deal” Brexit — though that is essentially what Australian-style trade means.

One word was noticeably missing from his wide-ranging speech: “Brexit.” Asked whether he had banned the term, he said: “It’s not banned. It’s just over.”

Jill Rutter of political thinktank U.K. in a Changing Europe said there was a gap in both style and substance between the two sides.

“The U.K. PM has chosen a speech in a historic setting to lay down red lines, embellished with rhetorical flourishes, while the EU has laid out 167 paragraphs of negotiating demands in a functional conference room in Brussels,” she said.

“We have to hope that, behind the Johnson oratory, U.K. ministers have agreed to their own parallel version of the EU text.”

message in Europe, Central Asia trip: Beware of China

By Matthew Lee The Associated Press TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — The countries Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited on a five nation-tour over the last week varied from longtime-ally Britain to ex-Soviet republics in Central Asia.

But the message he conveyed to his hosts stayed the same: Beware of China.

In his trip to Europe and Central Asia, Pompeo denounced China’s human rights record, criticized its aggressive trade practices and urged his hosts to be wary of Chinese investment and influence. He warned that China poses a risk as countries develop next-generation, high-speed wireless networks.

His language was blunt. “The Chinese Communist Party presents the central threat of our times,” Pompeo said last week in London, just days after the European Union unveiled security guidelines for 5G wireless networks that stop short of a ban on Huawei in the latest setback for the U.S. campaign against the Chinese tech company.

Pompeo’s tough rhetoric, on a trip coinciding with the rapid spread of a new virus that originated in China and threatens global growth, underscores his preoccupation with the country and its recent diplomatic and trade victories.

His comments contrast with President Donald Trump’s more conciliatory language on China. That’s partly because Trump is working to complete a trade deal with President Xi Jinping.

When he signed the first phase of the agreement last month, Trump called Xi a “very, very good friend of mine” and said he planned to visit China in the not-too-distant future.

Trump said then that he and Xi have “developed an incredible relationship.”

Pompeo’s comments in London, however, maintain the tough approach that he and Vice President Mike Pence have espoused about China, driven mainly by the country’s repression of Muslims and ethnic minorities in its western Xinjiang Province, but also by what they say are Beijing’s predatory trade practices and development projects that they say put small and poor countries at great risk.

Pompeo’s visit to Britain came just 48 hours after the country, which is eagerly hoping to secure a massive post-Brexit trade deal with the U.S., ignored American threats and allowed Huawei to have a role in its 5G network.

The decision highlighted the limits of the Trump administration’s ability to lobby for its policies as it defied a U.S. threat to sever intelligence sharing if Huawei had any presence. U.S. officials believe that the security of information on a network that uses Huawei technology or equipment could be compromised.

Stung by the British move but still hoping to retain and boost the U.S.-Britain “special relationship,” Pompeo appeared to step back from the threat on intelligence sharing, saying that he was certain a way could be found to avoid it.

Yet, he made clear that the Trump administration would continue to confront China on multiple fronts, including commerce, infrastructure and technology, militarily and diplomatically, even as the administration pursues a second phase of a massive deal to end a current trade war with Beijing.

In Central Asia, where three of the five nations share borders with western China, Pompeo denounced Chinese human rights abuses.

“The United States urges all countries to join us in pressing for an immediate end to this repression,” he said on Sunday in Kazakhstan. “We ask simply for them to provide safe refuge and asylum to those seeking to flee China; protect human dignity; just do what’s right.”

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Duke football walk-ons win $50K NFL prize for 3D printing technology The trio designed the custom brace former Blue Devils quarterback Daniel Jones used to recover from a broken collarbone

By Shawn Krest North State Journal

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Former Duke walk-ons Kevin Gehsmann (center), Tim Skapek (third from right) and Clark Bulleit (second from right) were awarded $50,000 for winning the NFL First and Future Innovations competition during Super Bowl week in Miami for their work with Protect3d, a startup that uses 3D printing technology to make athletic braces.

THE FOUNDERS of startup companies face plenty of tough decisions in the early going. The former Duke football players who started Protect3d were no exception.

After winning the NFL First and Future Innovations competition, the group was award-

ed two tickets to Sunday’s Super Bowl. The problem? Three former Blue Devils — Clark Bulleit, Kevin Gehsmann and Tim Skapek — founded the company. Who would be left out?

Fortunately, the grand prize also came with $50,000 cash.

“It may have come off of the first little bit of the check,” Gehsmann admitted.

The three may have all walked on at Duke — Bulleit was a center, Gehsmann a linebacker and Skapek a kicker — and combined for all of 48 snaps in college, but the trio made a splash on football’s biggest stage.

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the Wednesday SIDELINE REPORT MLB

Durham native Click hired as Astros’ GM Houston The Houston Astros hired James Click as their new general manager Monday, taking the Tampa Bay Rays executive and putting him in charge of the scandal-ridden team a week before the start of spring training. Click succeeds Jeff Luhnow, who along with manager AJ Hinch was suspended by Major League Baseball in the wake of a sign-stealing scam and then fired by the Astros. The AL champion Astros hired Dusty Baker last week as manager.

The 42-year-old Click, a native of Durham, worked with the Bulls — the Rays’ Triple-A affiliate — during parts of his 14 seasons in the Tampa Bay organization.

FOOTBALL

Panthers to pick 7th in NFL Draft New York The final order for April’s NFL Draft is now set, and the Carolina Panthers will pick seventh overall. It will be the Panthers’ highest pick since they selected Cam Newton first overall in 2011. The Cincinnati Bengals, who went a league-worst 2-14, hold this year’s first pick, followed by Washington, Detroit, the New York Giants and Miami. The Dolphins have three picks in the first round, having acquired 18th overall from Pittsburgh and No. 26 from Houston, and the Las Vegas Raiders and Jacksonville Jaguars each have two firstrounders.

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Duke men, NC State women ranked 7th in latest AP polls New York The Duke Blue Devils are No. 7 in this week’s Associated Press Top 25 poll, climbing two places after wins over Pittsburgh and at Syracuse.

The top four remained the same, led by No. 1 Baylor with Gonzaga, Kansas and unbeaten San Diego State following. Duke — 18-3 prior to Tuesday’s game at Boston College — is one of three ACC teams in the poll, joining fellow top-10 schools Louisville (No. 5) and Florida State (No. 8). No other North Carolina teams received a vote.

NC State remained seventh in the women’s poll, and the six teams in front of the Wolfpack — including No. 1 South Carolina — stood firm.

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Point guards Tre Jones and Cole Anthony will be at the center of the season’s first matchip of rivals Duke and North Carolina.

Anthony’s back, but Duke awaits North Carolina is still looking to turn around its season, and Saturday’s visit by the rival Blue Devils will be key

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal CHAPEL HILL — Those who assumed that North Carolina basketball star Cole Anthony would be back on the court in time to play in an intense rivalry game were right.

Sort of.

While he wasn’t ready to make a grand return against NC State last week as many Wolfpack fans had feared, the talented freshman point guard will be at full strength and ready to go when the Tar Heels renew hostilities with Duke at Smith Center on Saturday.

His participation should make for great theater, especially given the propensity for hype of the four-lettered network televising the game. But based on the results of his first two outings since undergoing surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee, UNC might still be in for a long night against the seventh-ranked Blue Devils.

“We just have to regroup,” Anthony said after Saturday’s 71-70 loss to Boston College in Chapel Hill, the first of two defeats in a 48-hour span since his return.

“We can still obviously get a lot

better as a team, as a unit. We just have to stick together.”

Anthony, a projected lottery pick in this year’s NBA Draft, has been nothing short of sensational since getting back into action following an 11-game layoff.

He scored 26 points, going 14 for 14 from the free-throw line along the way, in Saturday’s re-debut — a game in which he was the driving force behind a second half comeback that saw the Tar Heels rally from an 11-point deficit.

Then Monday at Florida State, he led UNC in scoring with 16 points, in rebounds with eight and tied for the team lead with three assists. But as much as he contributed, his individual performance had little effect on his team’s results.

The Tar Heels lost both games to fall to 10-12 overall, 3-8 in the ACC, and Anthony took the blame.

“I let my teammates down,” he said after Monday’s 65-59 setback in Tallahassee. “It’s my fault.”

While Anthony had the ball in his hands on a disjointed final play against BC and went 5 of 22 from the floor and 3 of 8 from the line against FSU, he was hardly the only reason the Tar Heels fell deeper into a hole that will likely see them miss out on the postseason for the first time since 2002.

Decimated by injuries other than the one to Anthony and saddled with a rotation that includes See ANTHONY, page B3

Struggling UNC still a concern for Blue Devils Duke has plenty to worry about in the rivalry game

By Shawn Krest North State Journal DURHAM — This year’s first meeting of the Duke-North Carolina rivalry will make history.

UNC will enter the first matchup with the Blue Devils at 10-12, the first time the Tar Heels have had a losing record for the Duke game since the 8-20 season of 2001-02. It’s also the most losses UNC has had for its first Duke game in school history. The Heels have only been in double digits in the loss column twice when they played Duke for the first time in a season: 10 losses in that fateful 2001-02 season and 10 in 200910.

In fact, UNC and Duke have only combined for 12 losses twice in the last 10 years: 2013-14, when 18-7 UNC met 21-5 Duke, and 2009-10, when UNC was 1310 and headed to the NIT, while Duke was 19-4 and on its way to a national title.

The Tar Heels’ struggles have been widely publicized and analyzed as the season has worn on, but make no mistake: UNC still presents a danger to the favored Blue Devils in the big showdown for a number of reasons.

Throw out the record book The old cliché says that anything can happen when rivals meet. With hopes of an at-large bid fading, UNC will look at the two games with Duke as its proverbial Super Bowl, hoping to salvage a disap-pointing year by upsetting the Dukies.

It happens. In 1989, a UNC team headed for an eight-seed in the NCAA Tournament swept a Final Four-bound Blue Devils team by 19 and 12 points. In 1994, a Duke team that would finish 1318 and 2-14 in the ACC took UNC to double overtime in one of the best games of an epic series.

The last two times UNC has been seriously down, however, Duke has made sure to head off any chance of an upset by putting the games on ice early. In UNC’s 8-20 season in 2002, Duke won by scores of 87-58, 93-68 and 6048. In UNC’s NIT year in 2010, Duke won 64-54 and 82-50.

Stone Cole Cole Anthony could present a problem for the Blue Devils. The high-scoring point guard returned from a knee injury last week and immediately put up 26 against Boston College. While the See BLUE DEVILS, page B3

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TRENDING

Kyrie Irving: The Nets guard will miss at least a week with a sprained medial ligament in his right knee. Irving had an MRI exam Sunday that confirmed the team’s diagnosis after he was injured Saturday in Washington. The former Duke star twisted his knee when he and Wizards guard Bradley Beal got tangled battling for a loose ball. Irving has previously missed 28 games in his first season in Brooklyn.

Torry Holt: The former Rams and NC State receiver was not among the five players voted into this year’s Pro Football Hall of Fame class. Holt’s former teammate Isaac Bruce, safeties Steve Atwater and Troy Polamalu, running back Edgerrin James and offensive guard Steve Hutchinson were voted in. It was announced last month that former NC State player and Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher was being inducted as a member of the Centennial Class of 2020, which commemorates the NFL’s 100th season.

Juan Thomas Jr.: The former Chicago White Sox minor leaguer who went on to coach a South Dakota youth team after his playing career ended has been charged with sexually assaulting a child and possession child pornography.

Thomas, a firstbaseman and right fielder who rose as high as Triple-A, was charged Wednesday in Lincoln County, South Dakota, with one count of raping a child younger than 13 and 10 counts of child porn possession. Thomas played the 1998 season with the WInston-Salem Warthogs, now the Dash.

beyond the box score POTENT QUOTABLES

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Webb Simpson birdied the final two holes of regulation to force a playoff with Tony Finau, then won the Waste Management Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale with a 10-foot birdie putt on the first extra hole. It is the Raleigh native and Wake Forest alumnus’ sixth PGA Tour title and first since the 2018 Players Championship. The 2012 U.S. Open champion improved to 2-5 in playoffs, three years after falling to Hideki Matsuyama in extra holes at TPC Scottsdale.

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“In so many ways, we were just soft.”

First-year Vanderbilt coach Jerry Stackhouse after Sunday’s loss to Florida, the team’s 26th straight SEC defeat dating back to March 2018.

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TENNIS

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“I know his last name was Andretti, but for our family it was always Petty.”

Kyle Petty on driver John Andretti, who died last Thursday at age 56 from colon cancer.

Graduate transfer quarterback Chase Brice, who backed up Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence the past two seasons, will join the Blue Devils. The 6-foot-2, 230-pound Brice, who threw for 1,023 yards, nine touchdowns and three interceptions in mop-up duty with the Tigers, will have two years of eligibility remaining.

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Novak Djokovic came back to edge Dominic Thiem 6-4, 4-6, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the Australian Open final Sunday night, winning his second straight title in Melbourne and the eighth of his career. Djokovic now has 17 Grand Slam titles, and the win returned the 32-year-old Serb to the world’s No. 1 ranking.

NFL

The Kansas City Chiefs are celebrating their first NFL championship in a half-century win with a parade Wednesday. “The Chiefs Kingdom Champions Parade” is set for 11:30 a.m., city officials announced Sunday night, shortly after the Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers 31-20.

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61.8 Shooting percentage through six games for New Orleans’ Zion Williamson ahead of Tuesday’s home game against Milwaukee, first among NBA players averaging at least 10 shot attempts per game.

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Hot, hot, hot! Manning tops list of NC college basketball coaches feeling the heat Wake Forest’s coach remains the top candidate to lose his job

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal THE DECISION by Wake Forest to retain Danny Manning as its basketball coach last spring came as a surprise to some considering that the Deacons have posted losing records — including 11-20 a year ago — in four of his first five seasons.

In reality, it was mainly done for financial reasons.

Manning is under contract through 2025 at a price tag of $18 million, a figure he’ll get whether he’s coaching or not.

It also didn’t hurt the former first overall NBA draft pick’s cause that the man who hired him, athletic director Ron Wellman, had already announced his retirement at the time the decision was made.

Bringing Manning back gives Wellman’s successor, John Currie, the option of choosing his own replacement coach if that’s the direction he decides to go. At the same time, it also gave the current coach

at least one more season to show he was up to the task of steering the program back in the right direction.

“With our returning players, our transfers who will become eligible next season and our incoming recruiting class,” Manning said in a release announcing his retention, “I believe that this team will have the ability, desire and chemistry to take a step forward next season.”

True to his word, Wake has made strides in 2019-20.

At 10-11 overall (3-8 ACC), the Deacons are just one win away from matching their total in three of the past four years. Though a winning season is still a possibility — though hardly a realistic one — the results of the final nine regular season games and ACC Tournament will likely determine Manning’s future at Wake.

It’s a possibility he addressed directly before the season began.

“This year is no different than my first year, my second year or last year,” he said when asked about his job security at the ACC’s Operation Basketball media event in Charlotte last October. “My mindset doesn’t change. I’ve been very fortunate to be in the situa-

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NC State coach Kevin Keatts’s honeymoon period is over in Raleigh, but the third-year coach has a top-10 recruiting class coming in for the 2020-21 season.

BLUE DEVILS from page B1 Tar Heels have lost both games with Anthony back in the lineup, he will be a major matchup issue for Duke.

While Tre Jones is one of the best on-ball defenders in college basketball and has a large collection of scalps from high-scoring opposing points that he’s shut down, Duke has shown a vulnerability to driving point guards this season. When the Blue Devils have struggled, it’s been largely because point guards get into the lane and either score at the rim or dish to shooters.

Perhaps in preparation to attack Duke’s perimeter defense, UNC’s Andrew Platek, normally a spot-up shooter, has also been driving the ball to the rim in recent games. Christian Keeling, KJ Smith and, if healthy, Jeremiah Francis give the Heels a collection of guards who can pressure Duke by getting the ball into the paint.

Bodies on Carey Vernon Carey Jr. broke out with back-to-back 26-point games in the last week, but prior to that, he’d gone the entire ACC season without a double-double as he tried to adjust to conference teams sending armies of bigs to double team and roughhouse him whenever he got the ball.

UNC’s frontline post players

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Coach Danny Manning has struggled to turn around Wake Forest, going 75-104 in five-plus seasons heading into Wednesday’s game at No. 5 Louisville. tion I’m in, but I understand what it is. There are a lot of things you can control, and you can’t worry about the things you can’t control.”

Manning isn’t the only basketball coach whose fate is undecided as the season makes the turn into its home stretch.

Unlike Manning at Wake, UNC Wilmington’s Rob Burke is also uncertain of how much longer he will be his team’s coach.

Only he’s not on the hot seat.

The 42-year-old career assistant took over as the Seahawks’ interim coach on Jan. 13 after permanent coach C.B. McGrath was abruptly fired after 11 straight losses to start the Colonial Athletic Association schedule.

While athletic director Jimmy Bass said at the time of the change that his school would conduct a “national search” for a successor, Burke has made a case for staying on the job by improving both the Seahawks’ effort and results since he’s been in charge.

“I’ve been very fortunate to be in the situation I’m in, but I understand what it is.”

Danny Manning, Wake Forest coach

UNCW is only 2-3 in his five games, but even in the defeats, the results have been much more competitive than they were during the long losing streak.

“He’s a very energetic guy, and I felt like we needed that as a team,” Seahawks guard Shykeim Phillips said of Burke. “When the team’s getting down, we just look to him and he gives us energy.”

While several other teams in

North Carolina could use a similar injection of energy — specifically two with the highest profile — there aren’t any other coaches around the state currently in professional peril.

UNC’s Roy Williams isn’t going anywhere despite the Tar Heels’ season-long struggles, and while the honeymoon is officially over at NC State for Kevin Keatts — you don’t see many posts on social media proclaiming him as a “winner” these days — he just received a contract extension and has a national top-10 recruiting class set to arrive next season.

The thing about coaching seats, though, is that they can start getting warm in a hurry if you don’t watch out.

“There’s always a sense of urgency,” Manning said. “It doesn’t matter what year. I played professional basketball for 15 years. You can lose your job anytime somebody came in and took it. That’s just what it is.”

— Garrison Brooks and Armando Bacot — likely can’t handle Carey on their own, but the one place where the Tar Heels have plenty of depth is in the post.

UNC can send Walker Miller and Brandon Huffman out to use their five fouls and lean on Carey.

Ol’ Roy can coach a little bit The Tar Heels entering the Duke game facing a talent mismatch is nothing new. Jabari Parker went 1-1 against the Tar Heels. Brandon Ingram went 1-1.

Jayson Tatum went 1-1. Marvin Bagley III and Wendell Carter Jr. went 1-2, while RJ Barrett and a mostly injured Zion Williamson were swept in the regular season before salvaging an ACC Tournament win.

Time after time, Roy Williams has come up with a way to take Duke’s most athletic scorers and NBA prospects out of their game and come away, more often than not, with a win. Granted, he usu-ally has more experience and talent on his roster than he’s working with this season, but the old coach will still find a way to throw a curveball at the fellow Hall of Famer on the other bench.

One thing is certain, from tight games to blown-out shoes, you can expect the unexpected when these two teams meet up.

And for the team that’s favored on paper, that’s reason enough to be concerned.

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North Carolina will need to contain Duke center Vernon Carey to have a chance at upsetting the No. 7 Blue Devils on Saturday at Smith Center.

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Roy Williams and North Carolina take a two-game losing streak into the Tar Heels’ first meeting with Duke on Saturday in Chapel Hill.

ANTHONY from page B1 players that were at Charleston Southern and William & Mary at this time last year, UNC is a flawed team with or without its star in the lineup.

Coach Roy Williams defended Anthony by saying, “Anybody that thinks he caused us to play poorly is an idiot.”

At the same time, though, Williams acknowledged that there’s a certain reacclimation process that has to take place now that Anthony is back in the lineup.

The momentum that the team seemed to be building during a three-game stretch in which it took Virginia Tech to overtime before beating both Miami and NC State has come to a screeching halt and the roles players had begun to learn and accept have now suddenly changed.

That’s especially the case with big men Garrison Brooks and Armando Bacot.

An integral part of the Tar Heels’ offense during Anthony’s absence, especially in the win against the Wolfpack, UNC’s inside game has been virtually nonexistent over the past two games.

“We’ve got to get to practice, try to work and see if we can get better.

It’s not frickin’ nuclear science out there.”

Roy Williams, UNC coach

Part of the problem is that its big men have been reduced to spectators while their ball-dominant point guard works to create scoring opportunities for himself.

“It’s an adjustment,” Bacot said after the BC game. “I feel like me and Garrison got a little stagnant, just watching instead of doing what we were doing — posting up, just giving Cole other options We’re just kind of leaving it all up to him, but that’s kind of unfair to him.”

Anthony and his bigs did a better job of meshing against Florida State and had their team in the lead into the second half before their chances at a badly need-

ed victory were ended by an 0-for17 shooting drought.

The fact they played the nation’s eighth-ranked team so closely on the road, despite that cold spell, is a source of optimism heading into Saturday’s showdown with Duke — especially since, as history has shown, the disparity in the rivals’ records isn’t always an accurate indicator of how competitive the games will be.

Not that Williams is feeling optimistic about anything these days — with or without Anthony on the floor.

“I don’t think about optimism, pessimism,” he said. “We’ve got to get to practice, try to work and see if we can get better. It’s not frickin’ nuclear science out there. We’ve got to get better and got to get the shots to go in and get some defensive stops, as well. We’re going to keep practicing.

“I think we’ve got some good things out of (the Florida State) game, but also the game of basketball there’s a winner and a loser and you’ve got to have your kids feel like they’re gaining something. I don’t know if our kids feel like we’re making any strides right now.”

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Hannah Cifers braves media obligations to fight near home Wake Forest-based UFC fighter would rather let her fighting do the talking

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The Hurricanes are relying on Trevor van Riemsdyk and the rest of the defense to elevate its play due to the long-term injury to Dougie Hamilton. (Karl B. DeBlaker / AP Photo)

Overlooked van Riemsdyk gets chance to show his worth With Dougie Hamilton injured, the Hurricanes are looking for their defensemen — including the 28-year-old pending free agent — to step up

By Cory Lavalette North State Journal RALEIGH — “Trevor’s obviously a pro.”

That seems like a throwaway comment, made Monday by coach Rod Brind’Amour about defenseman Trevor van Riemsdyk, but it’s much more than that.

In fact, it’s actually a compliment. It means the coach — known for his undisputed work ethic — sees a player who comes to the rink prepared, ready to work and with the right mindset and attitude to succeed.

While van Riemsdyk’s climb from undrafted college player out of the University of New Hampshire to NHL champion was meteoric — he signed with Chicago in March 2014 and lifted the Stanley Cup just 15 months later — that doesn’t mean it was easy.

He did, however, have one advantage many don’t. His older brother, James, was the second overall pick in the 2007 draft and had a half-decade of NHL experience under his belt when Trevor — the middle of three hockey-playing brothers from New Jersey who attended UNH — cracked the Blackhawks lineup.

“I’m definitely proud to have him as my brother, and he had a good few years in the league before I came out,” Trevor said of James. “I know I wouldn’t be where I am without him. Not just the name, It’s him showing me what it takes and showing me all those little things you can do to improve.”

Which brings us back to being a pro.

While expectations for James

were sky-high as a top draft pick, the younger van Riemsdyk wasn’t handed the same opportunities.

But he did have a good role model.

“It’s something I kind of watched my older brother do a bit,” the 28-year-old van Riemsdyk said of learning how to train and prepare. “It’s a whole other level of 24/7 taking care of yourself, doing all the little things to be ready every day, and I’ve been lucky enough to kind of pick his brain. … That (could) give you that one extra percent that might make a difference.”

Van Riemsdyk will need that edge, seeing that he’s the latest to try and fill the injured Dougie Hamilton’s spot on Carolina’s top pairing alongside Jaccob Slavin.

“It’s exciting to play a bit more in these situations,” said van Riemsdyk, who logged a season-high 21:44 — 3:18 more than in any other game this season — in Sunday’s 4-3 shootout win over Vancouver. “I know I can do it, so it’s something I’m excited to do and play well.”

Van Riemsdyk’s new defense partner doesn’t doubt he can do it either.

“Trevor, he’s easily able to fill that spot up there,” Slavin said following Monday’s practice at PNC Arena before the Hurricanes embarked on a four-game road trip. “He’s great defensively. … He’s got patience with the puck to make those little tight plays in the D zone or on the blue line.

Just solid defensively and knows where to be on the ice.”

And while it’s van Riemsdyk’s turn to try and fill the big hole left by Hamilton, Brind’Amour doesn’t expect one of his frequent third-pairing defenseman — or anyone, for that matter — to solely replace those missing minutes or contributions.

“With Dougie out, it’s not one guy that’s going to replace him,” Brind’Amour said Monday. “We need to put different guys in cer-

tain roles that maybe they haven’t done, and minutes have to be shared.”

Luckily for Carolina, van Riemsdyk — who has three assists through 33 games this season — is back to full strength following offseason shoulder surgery required after he was hurt in the playoffs against Washington last spring.

“It’s definitely been a slow progression forward,” he said of his recovery. “It’s been a little more challenging than I thought, maybe, when I was first coming back.

But I feel like it’s been getting better and better, and I kind of have been playing better and better. So, hopefully, just keep going in the right direction here and hopefully just lead to more team success.”

The chance to play more minutes and be with Slavin is also an opportunity for van Riemsdyk — a free agent after this season — to prove his worth to the Hurricanes.

“I’m just kind of focusing in on the games at hand right now and let that take care of itself whenever it may happen,” van Riemsdyk said of contract talks, which he said have not started between his representatives and Carolina. “It’s not really up to me. I love it here in Carolina, and I’m definitely going to enjoy this next little bit and we’ll see what happens after that.”

For now, he knows several teams — including James’ Philadelphia Flyers — stand in the way of the Hurricanes and their first goal of returning to the playoffs.

And being a pro, more than anything, means playing for the crest on the front of the sweater and not the name on the back — even if family gets in the way.

“I’m sure my dad’s looking at that (the standings) and stressing about it,” he said. “We’re both obviously going to play our hardest, and hopefully we both find our way in.”

3D PRINTING from page B1 Two days before the Super Bowl, the Protect3d (pronounced “protected”) team unveiled their revolutionary player safety innovation at a Shark Tank-style competition with three other companies. Protect3d produces a custom-made 3D printed brace for use by injured athletes. The process of 3D scanning the patient, producing the brace and having it ready for game use takes about 24 hours.

“We’ve always been interested in trying to apply our engineering classes and knowledge to the game of football,” Bulleit said. “Early on, we saw the best way to do that was with 3D printing.”

If might sound familiar: It’s the technology that allowed former Duke quarterback Daniel Jones to return to the field in 2018 just three weeks after breaking his collarbone. Jones’ three teammates were the ones that produced his customized brace, which redistributed the force of impact from any defenders tackling him to the noninjured portions of his body.

Prior to the Protect3d brace, Jones, like most athletes, tried using a bulky thermoplastic pad, which restricted his movement and caused scratches and bruising during games. The customized devices are much smaller and less

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Duke quarterback Daniel Jones wore a 3D printed brace created by three teammates that protected his healing collarbone during last season. restrictive, and Gehsmann proved during the First and Innovations presentation when he reached inside his suit jacket and revealed that he’d been wearing a brace on his shoulder the entire time he was on stage.

It may be hard to believe that the Blue Devils trainers and coaches were willing to let three student-athletes build a brace for their NFL prospect at quarterback, but it was the culmination of a long process of working with Duke athletic trainer Hap Zarzour.

“We had already gotten Hap really excited about the applications of 3D printing in football,” Bulleit said. “He actually came to us because we’d talked to him about 3D printing in athletics so much. So when they didn’t have a solution to protect (Jones’) swollen collarbone, he asked if we could improve on their current solutions.”

The process took a while, with the Protect3d team printing nine different prototypes.

“We got (Jones and Zarzour’s) feedback with every shape that we

RALEIGH — Last fall when the UFC announced it was holding a late-January event in Raleigh, one of the first responses came from Hannah Cifers.

“I’m available,” she responded to the announcement on Twitter.

Cifers, who hails from Oxford and trains in Wake Forest, was chosen for the event and faced Ange-la Hill in a fight that was part of the main card for Fight Night 166 in Raleigh. Cifers grew up on North Carolina farms and credits her strength to lifting heavy objects — everything from tractor tires to small animals — as part of her daily work. Cifers still schedules her MMA training around her farm work.

She was happy to have a fight on home turf.

“You don’t have to travel,” she said.

In addition to sleeping in her own bed, the hometown card meant that Cifers had the heavy support of the crowd at PNC Arena. “It’s my backyard,” she boasted on Twitter.

There were, however, some drawbacks.

“It’s a lot of pressure,” she said.

“You don’t want to let everyone down. So it’s pretty exciting, but you’re nervous, too.”

As the only fighter based in the Raleigh area on the card and the highest-profile North Carolinian in action, it also meant that Cifers would have more media responsibilities than usual. For the soft-spoken, introverted Cifers, that seemed to cause more pain than anything she might endure in the cage.

Twice while waiting to speak with Cifers, reporters were approached by members of the UFC media relations staff.

“Have you interviewed Hannah before?” they asked, attempting to prepare them for the short answers they were likely about to receive.

“I’m sorry,” Cifers said at the end of her availability. “I’m not good at this. I like training. I like to focus on the fighting. The rest of it…”

Luckily, Cifers has some impressive performances in the cage to fall back on. She had an 8-2 record with five knockouts and a submission when she joined the UFC. In her second UFC fight, she took a split decision victory over Polyana Viana despite breaking her arm in the first round.

Not only did Cifers gut out the win, she further cemented her legacy by refusing to take a post-fight ambulance to the hospital. While UFC fighters have their medical care covered by insurance, any ambulance trips come out of their own pocket. Besides, she told the media at the post-fight press

made and every material that we 3D printed,” Bulleit said.

The test of the concept was a success. Jones finished the season without reinjuring the collarbone and was successful — and healthy — enough to get chosen in the first round of the NFL Draft the following spring.

“I didn’t even notice it was there,” Jones said of the brace.

After the success with Jones, Protect3d has worked with several other Duke teams, including Duke lacrosse. Gehsmann said during the presentation that they’d custom printed a brace for a member of the Duke basketball team recovering from a broken bone in his hand. While they couldn’t name the player they helped, due to medical privacy reasons, freshman Wendell Moore was wearing a large plastic brace bearing his name while recovering from a broken hand in January.

Protect3d is also doing a pilot program with NC State athletics and is beginning work with several other colleges.

When the company was selected as a First and Future finalist, they headed south for Super Bowl week.

“We spent the beginning of the week down here in Miami Beach,” Gehsmann said. “We got here on Tuesday and presented on Friday.

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Wake-Forest-based UFC fighter Hannah Cifers competed at UFC Fight Night 166 in Raleigh. conference (which she attended), “I wanted to see the rest of the fights.”

“I didn’t really think it was broken,” Cifers told North State Journal. “I thought that would hurt a lot more. It didn’t hurt too bad.

Pain-wise, it didn’t hurt until after they did surgery on it.”

Still, even if she didn’t know it was broken, Cifers was fighting at a distinct disadvantage.

“I knew something was wrong with it. When I shook my hand out, it just felt like it was loose from my arm. I just knew I couldn’t use it, but I thought it was just bruised badly or something.”

Cifers said stopping the fight was never a consideration.

“Doesn’t matter,” she said. “You keep go-ing.”

She also went right back to working on the farm after suffering the injury, although she said it took a while before she was lifting heavy things again.

“It was a setback at first at work, because a lot of farm work is tough to do with one arm,” she said. “But after time I was able to get back to working on stuff. The time between the surgery and when I started going back to work I was trying to gradually go back to using it. I did try to ease into it not just try to pick up something extremely heavy with it. But gradually doing it I felt comfortable with it.”

Despite having the crowd loudly in her favor, Cifers wasn’t able to get a win for her Raleigh people.

A veteran of 13 UFC fights, Hill scored a knockout at the end of the second round, taking Cifers to the floor and getting full mount position on her, allowing Hill to rain down punches and elbows against her prone, defenseless opponent.

Hill then bounced up and shushed the pro-Cifers crowd, while covered with the hometown hero’s blood.

Next time, Cifers will likely be fighting someplace much farther from home. Her previous UFC fights were in Anaheim, Denver and Las Vegas. She’ll also probably have to pack a bag and hit the road, but the good news is someone else will be the hometown hero in demand, and she’ll get to just focus on the fighting.

The first half of the week we were indoors most of the time, preparing for what ultimately felt like game day for us.”

Once they won and got their giant check — both in size and amount — from NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, the pressure was off and the Blue Devils could enjoy the fruits of their victory.

“Afterwards, we were able to enjoy Miami Beach over the weekend, and to cap it off with the Super Bowl was one of the coolest things I think any of the three of us have ever experienced,” Gehsmann said.

So, while San Francisco 49ers Laken Tomlinson and Daniel Helm weren’t able to come away from the Super Bowl with a victory, three other former Blue Devils were big winners.

“We know how intellectually advanced they are individually,” coach David Cutcliffe said, “but it’s especially rewarding to watch from afar as they use principles learned from athletics — teamwork, leadership, work ethic, innovation and selflessness — to achieve success. All three are outstanding representatives of their families, Duke University and our program. We could not be more proud of them while knowing their finest accomplishments are yet to come.”

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China’s virus outbreak weighs on global business

By Joe McDonald The Associated Press BEIJING — Global business is catching a chill from China’s virus outbreak.

Mink breeders in Denmark called off a fur auction because Chinese buyers can’t attend due to travel curbs imposed to contain the disease.

Airlines have canceled 25,000 flights to and within China after ticket sales collapsed, according to travel data provider OAG. General Motors Co. and other automakers are telling employees to limit travel to China, their biggest market.

On Tuesday, the Chinese gambling enclave of Macau announced it was closing casinos for two weeks as a precaution. The territory is a big moneymaker for U.S. casino operators Wynn Resorts Ltd. and Las Vegas Sands Corp.

Global companies increasingly rely on China, the world’s No. 2 economy, as a major buyer of food, cars, movie tickets and other goods.

But that has left them more exposed than ever to the pain of its latest abrupt slump.

The Singapore Air Show, due to open next week, announced Tuesday it is canceling a business conference due to the absence of Chinese participants.

Tourism revenue in Thailand and other Asian destinations that rely on China for up to 30% of their foreign visitors plunged after Beijing canceled group tours. Businesspeople were told to put off foreign trips.

“Many national as well as international events are now already canceled,” the chief executive of Kopenhagen Fur, Jesper Lauge Christensen, said in a statement.

The cooperative of 1,500 Danish breeders who account for 40% of global mink production called off this month’s auction of 2 million skins. Most of the group’s exports usually go to China and Hong Kong.

Italy could lose up to 4.5 billion

euros ($5 billion) in tourism revenue this year as virus fears keep visitors away, polling agency Demoskopika said in a study released Tuesday.

In Milan’s luxury MonteNapoleone shopping district, dozens of luxury brands decked out their windows for Chinese New Year.

But wealthy Chinese shoppers have failed to arrive in their usual numbers.

The Italian National Fashion Chamber estimated that industry sales will decline 1.8% in the first six months, because of the virus. It had been expected to grow 3%.

Chinese visitors are responsible for about one-third of all luxury purchases globally. In Italy, they spend more than Russians, Arabs and Americans combined.

Chinese authorities have suspended most access to Wuhan, a manufacturing center at the center of the outbreak, and surrounding cities in Hubei province with a total of 50 million people.

The eastern city of Hangzhou, the home of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group and a center for telecom technology companies, imposed restrictions on movement in the city and said checkpoints will be set up to examine passersby for the infection’s fever.

The government extended the end of the Lunar New Year holiday to keep the public at home and reduce chances infection might spread.

China already was dealing with the impact of a tariff war with Washington and a separate outbreak of African swine fever that does not infect people but has disrupted pork supplies, causing food prices to soar.

Streets and subways in many cities are still largely empty even after most of China officially returned to work this week. Thousands of restaurants and cinemas have been closed to prevent crowds from gathering. Hollywood studios lost Lunar New Year ticket sales, usually a revenue high point for the industry.

NC film industry has blockbuster year

By Emily Roberson North State Journal RALEIGH — North Carolina wrapped up 2019 with production companies spending more than $167 million in direct in-state expenses, the most money spent on television and film projects in the last five years. Combined, the proj-

ects created 11,820 job opportunities for North Carolina’s highly-skilled film professionals.

The year concluded with three more North Carolina Film and Entertainment Grant recipients completing production: “Halloween Kills”, “The Georgetown Project”, and “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”. Together, these three film

productions had a direct in-state spend of more than $56 million while creating more than 3,200 job opportunities, including nearly 500 well-paying crew positions.

“North Carolina continues to be a desirable production location for the film industry,” said N.C. Commerce Secretary Anthony M. Copeland. “With our infrastructure

Officials express confidence China can weather the latest trouble but forecasters say it could knock up to 1 percentage point off this year’s growth, which might fall to as low as 5.2%. The economy already was expected to slow after hitting a multi-decade low of 6.1% last year.

Forecasters including Barclays and Morgan Stanley say the outbreak could depress this year’s global economic growth by 0.2 to 0.4 percentage points.

China suffered similar woes during the 2003 outbreak of SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome. Growth rebounded quickly afterward, and the global impact was limited.

This time, even if China recovers quickly, the worldwide impact could be bigger than SARS, forecasters say. That is because China now accounts for 16.3% of global economic activity, more than triple 2003’s share of 4.3%, according to the International Monetary Fund.

The anti-virus measures will drag down Chinese activity this quarter, which “will pose pressure on the global economy and spark fears in financial markets,” Louis Kuijs, head of Asia economics for Oxford Economics, said in a report.

The lockdown of Wuhan, a manufacturing center of 11 million, has disrupted production of liquid crystal and light-emitting diode panels, according to IHS Markit technology research, now a part of Informa Tech. That has depressed supplies and pushed up prices for manufacturers that use them in computer displays, TV sets and other products.

As the curbs wear on, the impact could spread, depressing auto production and sales and prices of oil, iron ore and other materials from Australia, Brazil and African suppliers to China’s huge industries, forecasters say.

China is the world’s biggest importer of many commodities, including oil. The price of Brent crude, the benchmark for international oil trading, has fallen to about $55 per barrel from $70 in early January, partly due to weak Chinese demand.

Lower oil prices mean cheaper gas for Western consumers but they hurt exporters such as Indonesia that use the revenues to help pay for schools, health care and social services.

Demand and prices “will depend

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and experienced film talent, North Carolina can confidently support television and film projects anywhere in the state, which is an economic development success for everyone.”

Debuting this fall, “Halloween Kills” is the latest installment of the famous “Halloween” movie series. Laurie Strode returns to this feature film with her daughter, granddaughter, and the residents of Haddonfield, as they try to end Michael Myers’ reign of terror

on Halloween night. Filmed in the greater Wilmington area, the project is eligible for a rebate up to $7 million through the North Carolina Film and Entertainment Grant.

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the BRIEF Arkansas-based Westrock Coffee to acquire NC company Concord, N.C. Arkansas-based Westrock Coffee Company will acquire North Carolina-based S&D Coffee & Tea in a deal worth $405 million, the company announced Friday.

Westrock Coffee said it will be headquartered in Little Rock, and the company will employ 1,700 people globally. S&D Coffee & Tea, based in Concord, N.C., manufactures and supplies coffee and tea for restaurants and convenience stores. “This is tremendous news for our company and a validation of the work we’ve been doing for our customers and the growers who support our business,” said Westrock CEO Scott Ford, formerly the CEO of Alltel Corp. “It’s going to be great news for Little Rock down the road as we work with our new team members to expand our growth organically and through acquisitions.” Ford said the transaction is expected to close

by March 1. Westrock primarily serves retailers including Walmart, Sam’s Club and CVS, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.

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US antitrust chief leaving Google probe because of lobbying

By Marcy Gordon The Associated Press WASHINGTON, DC — The Justice Department official leading the investigation of big tech companies’ market dominance is stepping aside from the department’s Google probe because of his previous lobbying work for Google as a private attorney.

Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim, the department’s

antitrust chief, is recusing himself from the investigation into Google, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday. The person wasn’t authorized to discuss the investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.

Delrahim lobbied on Google’s behalf in 2007 when the Mountain View, California-based internet company faced antitrust scrutiny over its acquisition of DoubleClick, a competitor in digital advertising.

The Justice Department’s ethics office apparently found no potential conflict of interest when Delrahim sought guidance as the investigation of Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple began last spring. But as the competition probe progressed, Delrahim “revisited” potential conflicts with the ethics staff, and he and the ethics office “have decided that he should now recuse himself from a matter within the tech review in an abundance of caution,” said a department statement, which did not mention Google.

Associate Deputy Attorney General Ryan Shores will continue to oversee the tech review, the statement said.

Scrutiny of Big Tech has deepened and widened across the federal government, U.S. states and abroad. The Federal Trade Commission also is conducting a competition investigation of the four tech giants, and state attorneys general from both major political parties have opened antitrust probes of Google and Facebook.

The House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust has been con-

ducting a sweeping bipartisan investigation of the big tech companies and their impact on competition and consumers.

Delrahim has suggested in speeches that he’s taking a broad view of how competition is harmed, when assessing whether big tech firms should be broken up. He also has made clear that he is aware that just two companies dominate digital advertising, though he hasn’t named the two, Google and Facebook.

Justice Department and FTC officials haven’t publicly named the companies under investigation or indicated whether they plan to move against any particular company.

The companies have said they’ll fully cooperate with the investigations. But in congressional testimony, their executives have pushed back against accusations that they operate as monopolies, laying out ways in which they say they compete fairly yet vigorously against rivals in the marketplace.

Delrahim’s recusal was first reported by The New York Times.

Asheville-based grocer to close all stores, pursue sale of assets Asheville Earth Fare, a specialty natural and organic grocery store and full-service supermarket, announced this week that it will begin inventory liquidation sales at all of its stores. One of the state’s six locally-based grocers, the company has implemented numerous strategic initiatives aimed at growth and expansion and enhancing the customer experience, but has not met financial goals. “While many of these initiatives improved the business, continued challenges in the retail industry impeded the company’s progress as well as its ability to refinance its debt. As a result, Earth Fare is not in a financial position to continue to operate on a goforward basis. As such, we have made the difficult, but necessary decision to commence inventory liquidation sales while we continue to engage in a process to find potential suitors for our stores,” a press statement read.

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Survey: U.S. factories expand for first time since July Washington, DC U.S. factories expanded unexpectedly last month, snapping a five-month losing streak. The Insitute for Supply Management, an association of purchasing managers, said Monday that its manufacturing index rose to 50.9 in January from 47.8 in December.

Anything above 50 signals expansion. The index had showed U.S. manufacturing contracting from August through December, partly because President Donald Trump’s trade war with China had raised costs and uncertainty. Economists had expected another bad month in January. But new orders, production and export orders all grew last month. Factory hiring dropped for the sixth straight month but at a slower pace than it did in December.

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Even smaller companies are directly affected by the outbreak because of increasingly tight links with China’s nimble, efficient manufacturers.

Many manufacturers have yet to feel the impact, because factories closed for up to three weeks ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday. But forecasters say delays in reopening will quickly depress demand for imported components and materials such as copper and steel.

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Zuckerberg says Facebook must stand up for free speech Media mogul responds to recent criticism of vulnerability to outside influences The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during a speech Friday in Utah that he doesn’t want his platform to be used to “rip society apart” but that at some point the social media company must stand up for free speech.

Zuckerberg said the company’s upcoming steps to protect free expression are “going to piss off a lot of people,” The Salt Lake Tribune reported.

The company has come under pressure to do more to clamp down on fake accounts, misinformation and other forms of misuse after Russian actors used Facebook and other social media platforms to interfere in the 2016 U.S. elections. The 2020 election will be a test of whether they’ve done enough.

“The last thing I want is for our products to be used to divide people or rip society apart in any kind of way.”

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren has been one of those critics, criticizing Facebook’s policy of not fact-checking politicians’ speech or ads the way it has outside parties fact-check news stories and other posts.

“The last thing I want is for our products to be used to divide people or rip society apart in any kind of way,” said Zuckerberg during a speech in Salt Lake City. “But at some point, we’ve got to stand up and say, ‘No, we’re going to stand for free expression.’ Yeah, we’re going to take down the content that’s really harmful, but the line needs to be held at some point.”

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit in Salt Lake City on Friday, Jan. 31, 2020.

Zuckerberg told the audience at a technology conference called the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit that Facebook had used artificial intelligence and other tactics to try and detect and get rid of content that promotes terrorism and child trafficking or inciting violence.

But he said Facebook has to draw a line about what constitutes censorship.

“Increasingly, we’re getting called in to censor a lot of different kinds of content that makes me really uncomfortable,” Zuckerberg said. “It kind of feels like the list of things that you’re not

allowed to say socially keeps on growing ... And I’m not really OK with that.”

Zuckerberg said he has not done a good job of communicating to the world what the company’s core mission is, but that he now realizes his company doesn’t have that luxury anymore.

After mixing up the name of the Utah city where Facebook is building a $1 million data center — he called it Eagle Rock and it’s actually Eagle Mountain — Zuckerberg quipped: “Let’s be real here. Communicating is not my best thing, all right?”

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entertainment ‘Bad Boys’ tops box office for third straight week

By Jonathan Landrum Jr. The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — “Bad Boys of Life” went for a three-peat at the box office during Super Bowl weekend.

The Sony Pictures’ film starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence brought in $17.6 million to claim the No. 1 spot for the third straight week. The studio said the third installment became the highest-grossing film in the franchise with $148 million, eclipsing “Bad Boys II.” The earning for “Bad Boys” is the best box office turnout compared to other No. 1 titles (“Glass,” “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” and “Split”) during the NFL championship weekend over the past four years.

Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Comscore, said box office numbers are typically low-

er during football’s championship weekend. But he said Hollywood is banking on Super Bowl commercials of films to help boost numbers moving forward.

“It’s a longer-term benefit for Hollywood to have trailers presented to a massive worldwide audience,” Dergarabedian said. “Studios bet big during the telecast by dropping trailers, which they’re doing for the first time. They are hoping to build media buzz and get people talking.”

The World War I tale “1917” notched second as the film continues to build momentum as an Oscars contender. It has been an impressive feat for the Sam Mendes-directed war movie after going from 11 screen s in its first week to nearly 4,000.

Each week, “1917” has been holding on strong since receiving 10 Oscar nominations including best picture.

Dergarabedian called the war film’s surge a “dream scenario.”

“It’s a winner all day long,” he said. “It’s had this picture-perfect platform release on its road to the Oscar telecast.”

It was a bumpy start for newcomers “Gretel & Hansel” and “The Rhythm Section,” which barely cracked the top 10.

After “Dolittle” placed third, the re-imagined ancient fairy tale “Gretel & Hansel” opened at No. 4 with $6.1 million, but received mixed reviews including a C- from CinemaScore.

“The Rhythm Section,” an action drama starring Blake Lively, pulled in $2.8 million barely notched “Knives Out.” “It does get increasingly difficult for films that don’t over-perform on Super Bowl weekend to build any head of steam going forward,” Dergarabedian said. “Particularly if they don’t have good reviews.”

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.

Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore.

1. “Bad Boys for Life,” $17.6 million, ($30.8 million international).

2. “1917,” $9.6 million, ($20.9 million international).

3. “Dolittle,” $7.7 million, ($17.7 million international).

4. “Gretel & Hansel,” $6.1 million, ($1.4 million international).

5. “The Gentlemen,” $6.01 million, ($3.9 million international).

6. “Jumanji: The Next Level,” $6 million, ($5.3 million international).

7. “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” $3.1 million, ($3.2 million international).

8. “The Turning,” $3.05 million, ($1 million international).

9. “Little Women,” $3.01 million, ($7.5 million international).

10. “The Rhythm Section,” $2.8 million.

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Just under 100 million people watch Super Bowl on Fox New York The Super Bowl put a halt to a four-year decline in viewership, with an estimated 99.9 million people watching the Kansas City Chiefs come back to defeat the San Francisco 49ers in what is annually the most-watched television event of the year.

The Nielsen company said viewership rebounded slightly from the 98.5 million who watched in 2019. An exciting game that featured a fourth quarter comeback and two teams that haven’t been in the ultimate game lately most likely helped drive public interest. Super Bowl viewership had been slowly eroding since its peak in 2015, when 114.4 million watched a thrilling finish between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks. The peak moment for social media activity came just at the end of the halftime show starring Lopez and Shakira, Nielsen said.

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The final grant recipient of 2019 is “The Georgetown Project,” a thriller about a troubled actor who begins to unravel while shooting a horror film. His estranged daughter wonders if he’s slipping back into old habits or if there’s something more sinister at play. Qualifying for a rebate up to $3.3 million, the Miramax project filmed in the greater Wilmington area,

with extensive production at EUE/ Screen Gems Studios.

The Triangle was home to film crews working on an untitled documentary film surrounding Virginia cold case murders, as well as the hit HGTV show “Love it or List it,” which filmed multiple episodes focused around area homeowners.

“Television and film production saw great activity in North Carolina last year,” said NC Film Office director Guy Gaster. “These high-profile projects filmed at the end of the year have brought added

exposure to our state’s film industry and will serve as a great springboard as we move ahead in 2020.”

Governor Roy Cooper recently revived the Advisory Council on Film, Television and Digital Streaming. The council plays a critical role in advising the state on economic development strategies to increase film and television production in North Carolina.

The North Carolina Film and Entertainment Grant provides financial assistance to attract feature film and television produc-

tions that will stimulate economic activity and create jobs in the state.

Production companies receive no money up front and must meet direct in-state spending requirements to qualify for grant funds, which are paid out following the completion of the project and a successful audit. The program is administered by the North Carolina Department of Commerce and promoted by the North Carolina Film Office, part of VisitNC and the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina.

New York Next year, you’ll be able to see the original Broadway cast of “Hamilton” perform the musical smash from the comfort of a movie theater.

The Walt Disney Company said Monday it will distribute a four-year-old live capture of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s show in the United States and Canada on Oct. 15, 2021. The groundbreaking, biographical hip-hop show about the life of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton won 11 Tony Awards and made numerous tours. The film was made at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway in June of 2016 and will star all of the original Tony Award winners — Miranda as Alexander Hamilton; Daveed Diggs as Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson; Renée Elise Goldsberry as Angelica Schuyler; and Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr.

Others who star include Christopher Jackson as George Washington; Jonathan Groff as King George; Phillipa Soo as Eliza Hamilton; Jasmine Cephas Jones as Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds; Okieriete Onaodowan as Hercules Mulligan/James Madison; and Anthony Ramos as John Laurens/Philip Hamilton. “We are thrilled for fans of the show, and new audiences across the world, to experience what it was like onstage – and in the audience – when we shot this,” said the show’s director, Tommy Kail.

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Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Ser-

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CABARRUS COUNTY 19sp726 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY KIMBERLY ANN SKINNER AND DAINE WENDEL SKINNER. II DATED DECEMBER 23, 2004 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 5730 AT PAGE 109 IN THE CABARRUS COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and

vices 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 February 12, 2020 at 1:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 26 of Ramsgate, Phase 2, Map 1, as shown on a map thereof recorded in Map Book 52 at Page 32, Cabarrus County 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 1125 Manston Place 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 “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 Gerrion A. Bell.

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.: 16-01539-FC02

failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:00AM on February 14, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Kimberly Ann Skinner and Daine Wendel Skinner. II, dated December 23, 2004 to secure the original principal amount of $185,442.00, and recorded in Book 5730 at Page 109 of the Cabarrus County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record.

Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 2456 Wind-

ing Brook Dr, Kannapolis, NC 28083 Tax Parcel ID: 56237082660000 Present Record Owners: Daine Wendel Skinner II and wife Kimberly Ann Skinner And Being more commonly known as: 2456 Winding Brook Dr, Kannapolis, NC 28083 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Daine Wendel Skinner II and wife Kimberly Ann Skinner.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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 of-

fered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law.

Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is January 15, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 19-108174

North State Journal for Wednesday, February 5, 2020

C4 CABARRUS NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 723

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Mercedes B. Edwards to Lutzel Broadway and Associates PC, Trustee(s), dated the 1st day of October, 2014, and recorded in Book 11136, Page 0123, and Modification in Book 13358, Page 0125, 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

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 462

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Charles W. Wise to John B. Third, Trustee(s), dated the 7th day of June, 2017, and recorded in Book 12524, Page 0052, 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 February 10, 2020 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:

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CABARRUS COUNTY 17SP674 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY GARY W. BARRINGER AND DEBORAH Y. BARRINGER DATED AUGUST 30, 2005 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 6204 AT PAGE 208 IN THE CABARRUS COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee

CUMBERLAND IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CUMBERLAND COUNTY 19sp1653 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY KEVIN L. MCCRIMMON DATED NOVEMBER 29, 2006 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 7435 AT PAGE 305 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because

19 SP 1637 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 Rodrigo A. Suarez and Melissa D. Suarez to Kenneth C. Praschan, Trustee(s), which was dated June 26, 1997 and recorded on June 27, 1997 in Book 4682 at Page 0112, 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

19 SP 1631 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 James Brown a/k/a James M. Brown and Anna Brown to Quality Trustee Services, Inc., Trustee(s), which was dated August 3, 1998 and recorded on August 6, 1998 in Book 4913 at Page 0392, 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

19 SP 213 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 J.C. Stocks and Shirley Brunson Stocks to Louise Britt, Trustee(s), which was dated April 28, 2006 and recorded on May 1, 2006 in Book 7219 at Page 491, 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 February 19, 2020 at 1:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit:

18 SP 1479 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 P. Sirney and Anne E. Sirney to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), which was dated July 15, 2002 and recorded on July 19, 2002 in Book 5795 at Page 457, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

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 February 10, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cabarrus, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING ALL OF Lot 2302 of OXFORD COMMPNS, MAP 3 as shown on a map there of recorded in Map Book 54 at Page 84 of the Cabarrus County Public Registry, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2624 Brackley Place Northwest, Concord, 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.

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

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

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

of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed.

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

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

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return

the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

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

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

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE

will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:00AM on February 12, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Gary W. Barringer and Deborah Y. Barringer, dated August 30, 2005 to secure the original principal amount of $221,000.00, and recorded in Book 6204 at Page 208 of the Cabarrus County Public Registry.

The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 490 McCoppin Ct Northeast, Concord, NC 28025 Tax Parcel ID: 56218723860000 Present Record Owners: Gary W. Bar-

ringer and Deborah Y. Barringer And Being more commonly known as: 490 McCoppin Ct Northeast, Concord, NC 28025 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Gary W. Barringer and Deborah Y. Barringer.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated

with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law.

Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is January 6, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 13-052838

of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:30AM on February 17, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Kevin L. McCrimmon, dated November 29, 2006 to secure the original principal amount of $59,200.00, and recorded in Book 7435 at Page 305 of the Cumberland County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

9497-89-4014Present Record Owners: Crimmon

and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law.

Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder

BEING all of Lot 182 of Ramsgate, Phase 3, as same is shown on map thereof recorded in Map Book 72 at Page 48-50, Cabarrus County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4224 Pegwell Avenue, Concord, North Carolina.

Being the same property conveyed to the Borrower(s) herein by Deed recorded contemporaneously herewith.

Parcel #: 5538-29-9196

The date of this Notice is January 27, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 12-024704

property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on February 19, 2020 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 84 in a Subdivision known as LAFAYETTE VILLAGE, Section 16, according to a plat of the same duly recorded in Book of Plats 33, Page 64, Cumberland County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 1935 Aspen Cir, 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. 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 Rodrigo A. Suarez and wife, Melissa D. Suarez.

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.: 19-19048-FC01

property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on February 19, 2020 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 5, Block “B” OF A REVISION OF A PORTION OF PONDEROSA, SECTION ONE, per a plat of same duly recorded in Book of Plats 29, Page 27, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

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

Said property is commonly known as 5449 Mesa Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28303.

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 James Brown and wife, Anna Brown.

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.: 19-15104-FC01

of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED.

agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY, STATE OF NC, AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN BOOK 6845 PAGE 369 ID # 1400-845065 BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT 2, PROPERTY OF JC STOCKS AND ROOSEVELT STOCKS, FILED IN PLAT BOOK 90 AT PAGE 42.

BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO JC STOCKS AND WIFE SHIRLEY B STOCKS FROM ROOSEVELT EDWARD STOCKS AND WIFE MAMIE J STOCKS AND JC STOCKS AND WIFE SHIRLEY B STOCKS HAVING CONVEYED TO JC STOCKS BY DEED DATED 4/8/2005 RECORDED ON 4/12/2005 IN BOOK 6845, PAGE 369 IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY RECORDS, STATE OF NC. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 10109 Turnbull Road, Fayetteville, NC 28312.

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

19, 2020 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 No. 50, in a subdivision known as “A Revised Plat of Beaver Run, Section One”, according to a plat of the same duly recorded in Book of Plats 62, Page 24, Cumberland County Registry.

Being the same property conveyed to Anne Elizabeth Sirney and Richard Sirney by deed recorded in Book 3623, Page 561, Cumberland County Registry.

19 SP 1330 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

the county courthouse for conducting the sale on February 19, 2020 at 1:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit:

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 record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Kevin L. McCrimmon.

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: 1279901 (FC.FAY)

Address of property: 439 Perth St, Fayetteville, NC 28314 Tax Parcel ID:

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

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Harold W. Gilchrist and Valerie A. Edwards a/k/a Valerie A. Gilchrist to M. Douglas Crisp, Trustee(s), which was dated January 13, 1998 and recorded on January 21, 1998 in Book 4791 at Page 167, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

And Being more commonly known as: 439 Perth St, Fayetteville, NC 28314

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: 1287462 (FC.FAY)

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens

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 February

NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY

Kevin L. Mc-

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE

Said property is commonly known as 999 Flintwood 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

BEING ALL OF LOT 236 IN A SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS SOUTHGATE, SECTION FOUR, ACCORDING TO A PLAT OF SAME DULY RECORDED IN BOOK OF PLATS 41, PAGE 72, CUMBERLAND COUNTY REGISTRY. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 1305 Kienast Drive, 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

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 JC Stocks.

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

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 Richard Sirney.

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.

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 Harold W. Gilchrist and Lance M. Bert.

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.

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SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice to the landlord,

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.: 19-12960-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 [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

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

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.: 18-11558-FC01

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.: 19-11612-FC01

North State Journal for Wednesday, February 5, 2020

CUMBERLAND 19 SP 827 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 George W. Moore and Eva Wright Gaines to H. Terry Hutchens, Trustee(s), which was dated June 10, 2009 and recorded on June 18, 2009 in Book 08180 at Page 0214, 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 fore-

19 SP 1569 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 Xavier T. Tucker and Silviarena V. Tucker to David W. Allred, Trustee(s), which was dated August 12, 2003 and recorded on August 12, 2003 in Book 6224 at Page 521, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

closed, 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 February 12, 2020 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 NO. 24, Block “A”, in a Subdivision known as Hollywood Heights, Section 11, according to a plat of the same duly recorded in Book of Plats 22, Page 28, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

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

Said property is commonly known as 919 Louise Circle, 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. 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 Eva Wright Gaines.

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

the county courthouse for conducting the sale on February 12, 2020 at 1:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit:

($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.

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.

BEING a11 of Lot 38. in a Subdivision known as ARRAN LAKES WEST, SECTION I, according to a plat of same being duly recorded in Book of Plats 45, Page 49, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. And being the same property conveyed to Grantors by Deed recorded in Book 3532, Page 334, which currently has the address of 5903 RUSTLEWOOD DRIVE

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

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

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CUMBERLAND COUNTY 19sp1702

er of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:30AM on February 17, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed George Hamer and Jennifer Hamer, dated April 24, 2008 to secure the original principal amount of $92,150.00, and recorded in Book 7873 at Page 770 of the Cumberland County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY GEORGE HAMER AND JENNIFER HAMER DATED APRIL 24, 2008 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 7873 AT PAGE 770 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and hold-

19 SP 1601 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 Kelley Michelle Mattingly to John G. Briggs, III, Trustee(s), which was dated December 19, 2014 and recorded on December 19, 2014 in Book 09564 at Page 0724, 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

19 SP 1572 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 Luis M. Osejo and Danielle E. Osejo to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), which was dated January 27, 2010 and recorded on January 29, 2010 in Book 08331 at Page 0479, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

Said property is commonly known as 5903 Rustlewood Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28304.

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

Address of property: 2205 flowers Ct, Fayetteville, NC 28304 Tax Parcel ID: 0405-69-0845

Twin-

the county courthouse for conducting the sale on February 12, 2020 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 9, in that subdivision known as Doves Nest as per plat thereof duly recorded in Plat Book 79, Page 87, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

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

Said property is commonly known as 4061 Doodlebug Dr, Hope Mills, NC 28348.

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

the county courthouse for conducting the sale on February 12, 2020 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 5, Block C, in a subdivision known as Emerald Gardens, Section II, Part I, according to a plat of the same being duly recorded in Plat Book 35, Page 62, 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 2103 Decor Street, Fayetteville, NC 28304.

19 SP 1621 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit:

NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Stacey Catena Barr and Joshua Barr to Jackie Miller, Trustee(s), which was dated January 18, 2007 and recorded on January 18, 2007 in Book 7478 at Page 0311, 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 February 12, 2020 at 1:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CUMBERLAND COUNTY 19SP1404 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY JAMALL MYERS AND STACIE MYERS DATED NOVEMBER 11, 2004 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 6712 AT PAGE 473 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and hold-

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CUMBERLAND COUNTY 19SP78 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY BERNARDINE B. COUEY DATED JULY 12, 2013 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 09243 AT PAGE 0317 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and hold-

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CUMBERLAND COUNTY 19sp1603 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY DANIEL EDWARD KASZA AND CASSANDRA ELIZABETH KASZA DATED JUNE 14, 2013 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 9221 AT PAGE 671 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein

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

BEING all of Lot No. ONE (1), in a subdivision known as “THE PALMS-PROPERTY OF STEVE GODWIN AND BROADWELL LAND COMPANY”, according to a plat of the same duly recorded in Plat Book 52, Page 30, Cumberland County, North Carolina Registry.

Also conveyed is a twenty four (24) foot wide easement for ingress and egress extending from Hinsdale Avenue and running North 85 degrees 03 minutes West 52.56 feet, all as more specifically shown on plat entitled “The Palms - property of Steve Godwin and Don Broadwell” duly recorded in Book of Plats 52, Page 30, Cumberland County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 306 Hinsdale Avenue, Fayetteville, NC 28305-5324.

er of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:30AM on February 17, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Jamall Myers and Stacie Myers, dated November 11, 2004 to secure the original principal amount of $58,800.00, and recorded in Book 6712 at Page 473 of the Cumberland County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 5119 Houston Rd, Fayetteville, NC 28311 Tax Parcel ID: 0429-13-1574-

er of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:30AM on February 17, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Bernardine B. Couey, dated July 12, 2013 to secure the original principal amount of $147,959.00, and recorded in Book 09243 at Page 0317 of the Cumberland County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 4645 Hummingbird Pl, Fayetteville, NC 28312 Tax Parcel ID: 0477-14-1532-

contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:30AM on February 17, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Daniel Edward Kasza and Cassandra Elizabeth Kasza, dated June 14, 2013 to secure the original principal amount of $105,500.00, and recorded in Book 9221 at Page 671 of the Cumberland County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record.

Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 1502 Bridgeton Way, Fayetteville, NC 28312 Tax Parcel ID: 0456-00-7782

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 Xavier T. Tucker and Silviarena V. Tucker.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued

Present Record Owners: er and wife, Jennifer Ilene Hamer

George Ham-

And Being more commonly known as: 2205 Twinflowers Ct, Fayetteville, NC 28304 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are George Hamer and wife, Jennifer Ilene Hamer.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly

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 Kelley Michelle Mattingly.

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

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 Luis M. Osejo and Danielle F. Osejo.

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.

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 Stacey & Josh Barr, LLC. An Order for possession of the property may be issued

Present Record Owners: and Stacie Myers

Jamall Myers

And Being more commonly known as: 5119 Houston Rd, Fayetteville, NC 28311 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Jamall Myers and Stacie Myers.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly

Present Record Owners: Couey

Bernardine

And Being more commonly known as: 4645 Hummingbird Pl, Fayetteville, NC 28312 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Bernardine Couey.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens

Present Record Owners: Daniel ward Kasza and Cassandra Elizabeth Kasza

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And Being more commonly known as: 1502 Bridgeton Way, Fayetteville, NC 28312 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Daniel Edward Kasza and Cassandra Elizabeth Kasza.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens

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

are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law.

Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor 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

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

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.

C5 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.: 19-07176-FC01

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.: 19-09332-FC01

the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is January 27, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 19-108496

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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.: 19-12385-FC01

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.: 19-17955-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.: 19-19176-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

are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law.

Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of

and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law.

Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on

and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law.

Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate

the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is January 13, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 19-107224

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or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is January 6, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 19-105209

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the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is January 6, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 19-107743

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North State Journal for Wednesday, February 5, 2020

C6 CUMBERLAND IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CUMBERLAND COUNTY 19SP1658 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY CHOCONDA BURNS DATED MAY 8, 2009 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 8147 AT PAGE 41 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority con-

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CUMBERLAND COUNTY 19sp1628 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY MARCO ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ AND ELIZABETH F. RODRIGUEZ DATED AUGUST 25, 2008 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 7981 AT PAGE 143 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and hold-

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CUMBERLAND COUNTY 19sp1625 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY JAMIE S ARMITAGE DATED NOVEMBER 29, 2006 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 7434 AT PAGE 596 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 1689

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Roy Garcia a/k/a Roy I. Garcia, Dunia Garcia a/k/a Dunia L. Garcia (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Roy Garcia and Dunia Garcia) to Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, Trustee(s), dated February 25, 2008, and recorded in Book No. 7818, at Page 545 in Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 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 Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 1438

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Melvin L. McGee, (Melvin L. McGee, deceased)(Heirs of Melvin L. McGee: Aisha L. Mickle, Angela Broadnax, Alfreda McGee, Katrina Rivers, Marcus McGee, Melvin McGee and Unknown Heirs of Melvin L. McGee) to Linear Title and Closing Ltd., Trustee(s), dated the 25th day of March, 2016, and recorded in Book 09830, Page 0553, 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 February 17, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 1452

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Hester Lloyd McFayden, Jr., (Hester Lloyd McFayden, Jr., Deceased) (Heirs of Hester Lloyd McFayden, Jr.: Glenda G. McFayden, Tommy Lynn McFayden and Unknown Heirs of Hester Lloyd McFayden, Jr.) to M.D. Parker, Trustee(s), dated the 29th day of October, 1999, and recorded in Book 5184, Page 0257, 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 undeArsigned, 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 February 17, 2020 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: TRACT ONE: BEGINNING at the Northwest corner of the Dorothy Jean Atkinson Averitte and husband, Clarence McFadyen Averitte, property as recorded in Book 2791,

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 1239

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Natalie Elizabeth Finch to Kathryn Richards & Jerry B. Flowers, III, Trustee(s), dated the 23rd day of January, 2013, and recorded in Book 09098, Page 0358, and Modification in Book 10075, Page 0592, 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

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 1045

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Ricky E. Locklear and Diane T. Locklear (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Ricky Enman Locklear) to Barrington & Jones, Trustee(s), dated the 31st day of December, 2007, and recorded in Book 7779, Page 0431, and Correction Affidavit in Book 8208, Page 830, in Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Cumberland County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 1450

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by John M. Ingram, Jr. and Dacia L. Bethel to David W. Allred, Trustee(s), dated the 10th day of April, 2012, and recorded in Book 08874, Page 0474, and Modification in Book 09673, Page 0473, and Modification in Book 10277, Page 0818, 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

tained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:30AM on February 10, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Choconda Burns, dated May 8, 2009 to secure the original principal amount of $142,907.00, and recorded in Book 8147 at Page 41 of the Cumberland County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 1651 Hazelhurst Dr, Fayetteville, NC 28314 Tax Parcel ID: 9486-17-3989Present Record Owners: Choconda A.K. Burns And Being more commonly known as: 1651 Hazelhurst Dr, Fayetteville, NC 28314 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Choconda A.K. Burns.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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 of-

fered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law.

Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you

are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is January 6, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 17-094948

er of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:30AM on February 10, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Marco Antonio Rodriguez and Elizabeth F. Rodriguez, dated August 25, 2008 to secure the original principal amount of $132,738.00, and recorded in Book 7981 at Page 143 of the Cumberland County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record.

Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 2108 Birchcreft Dr, Fayetteville, NC 28304 Tax Parcel ID: 0405-19-3304

Present Record Owners: Marco Antonio Rodriguez And Being more commonly known as: 2108 Birchcreft Dr, Fayetteville, NC 28304 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Marco Antonio Rodriguez.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments

including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law.

Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate

the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is December 31, 2019.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 19-107739

contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:30AM on February 10, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Jamie S Armitage, dated November 29, 2006 to secure the original principal amount of $51,000.00, and recorded in Book 7434 at Page 596 of the Cumberland County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 5804 Lagu Pl, Fayetteville, NC 28314

Tax Parcel ID: 0408-51-4021 Present Record Owners: Jamie S. Armitage And Being more commonly known as: 5804 Lagu Pl, Fayetteville, NC 28314 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Jamie S. Armitage.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly

are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law.

Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Or-

der for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is December 31, 2019.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 19-107085

foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on February 17, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Fayetteville in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all Lot 12 in a subdivision known as WINDTREE, SECTION 2, PART B, and the same being duly recorded in Book of Plats 52, Page 28, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4633 Pine Needle Court, Fayetteville, 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 are expressly 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 its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

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

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

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

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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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

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

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

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

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return

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

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

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

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

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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 termi-

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

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Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. 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 N.C.G.S. 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-

County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: The land referred to herein below is situated in the County of Cumberland, City of Hope Mills, State of North Carolina, and is described as follows: Being all of Lot 38 in a subdivision known as corrective map for Mt. Vernon Estates, Section Three, according to a plat of same being duly recorded in Plat Book 85, Page 93, Cumberland County, and being the same property conveyed to Terry Lee Meadows and Connie Ann Meadows by deed recorded in Book 5671, Page 237, Terry Lee Meadows tiled in Cumberland County on March 17, 2009 (see Death Book 264, Page 344), and the property passed to Connie Ann Meadows as the surviving tenant by the entirety. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 8545 Congressional Avenue, Hope Mills, North Carolina.

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0339-69-0425

This being the same property conveyed to vin L. MecGee from Connie Ann Meadows, married in a deed dated March 22, 2010 recorded April 7, 2010 in Book 8369 Page

Melunand 127.

page 687, said corner also being in the western line of Tract 3 as described in the Commissioner’s Report recorded in Book 601, Page 218, and proceeding thence for a first call along the western line of said Tract 3, North 31 degrees 08 minutes West 219.62 feet to a point; thence a new line, North 58 degrees 22 minutes East 131.42 feet to a point; said point being located South 58 degrees 15 minutes West 25 feet from the eastern line of Tract 3 mentioned above; thence a new line 25 feet West of and parallel to the eastern line of said Tract 3, the line also being the western line of Tract 4 as described in Book 601, page 218, South 31 degrees 08 minutes East 130 feet, more or less, to a point in the northern property line of the Averitte property referred to above; thence along the northern property line of the Averitte property, South 27 degrees 50 minutes West 155.84 feet to the point and place of beginning, containing 0.62 acres, more or less, and being a part of the 3.89 acre conveyed by Deed recorded in Book 2756, page 432.

TRACT TWO: ALSO, a perpetual easement for ingress and egress to the above described property, said easement being described as follows: BEGINNING at the Northeast corner of the Dorothy Jean Atkinson Averitte and husband, Clarence McFadyen Averitte, property as recorded in Book 2791, page 687, the same also being the Southeast corner of the property of which this is a part (Book 2756, page 432), and also being in the dividing line between Tracts 3 and 4 of the Report of Commissioners

location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on February 17, 2020 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 4, in a subdivision known as Warrenwood Estates, Section II, according to a plat of the same duly recorded in Book of Plats 35, Page 1, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 900 Fremont Circle, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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

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

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

of Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on February 17, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 10 & 12 of the Atkinson Property per Plat recorded in Plat Book 9, Page 35, Cumberland County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1732 Railroad Street, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this

foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on February 17, 2020 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 33 in a Subdivision known as Hillendale West Section One, according to plat of same duly recorded in Book of Plats 42, Page 25, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1011 Landau Road, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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

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

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

Property Commonly Known As: gressional Avenue Hope Mills,

8545 ConNC 28348

“The property address and tax parcel identification number listed are provided solely for informational purposes, without warranty as to accuracy or completeness and are not hereby insured.”

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

recorded in Book 601, page 218, and proceeding thence for a first call, North 31 degrees 08 minutes West 127.21 feet to a point; thence South 58 degrees 15 minutes West 25.0 feet to the northeast corner of Tract 1; thence along the eastern property line of Tract 1, South 32 degrees 01 minutes East 130 feet, more or less, to a point in the northern property line of the Averitte property as recorded in Book 2791, page 687, it also being in the southern property line of the property of which this is a part; thence along said property line North 27 degrees 50 minutes East 25 feet, more or less, to the point and place of beginning, and being a 25 foot wide strip of land lying contiguous to the eastern property line of Tract 1.

Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 145 Sally Hill Circle, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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CUMBERLAND AMENDED 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

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 374

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Susanne Burgio Richardson and Rick Huskins (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Susanne Burgio Richardson) to The Law Firm of Hutchens, Senter and Britton, Trustee(s), dated the 15th day of May, 2015, and recorded in Book 09654, Page 0240, 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,

DAVIDSON NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF DAVIDSON GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION 19 CVS 2319 Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, successor by merger to Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, National Association, as Trustee, f/k/a Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association, as Trustee for SACO I Inc. Mortgage Pass-

19 SP 507 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, DAVIDSON COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Joseph V. McCollum and Angela McCollum to Amy E. Johnson, Trustee(s), which was dated October 14, 2005 and recorded on November 14, 2005 in Book 1658 at Page 1715, Davidson 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 February

19 SP 501 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, DAVIDSON COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Carol Desir a/k/a Carol S. Desir to David L. Brunk, Trustee(s), which was dated March 21, 2007 and recorded on March 22, 2007 in Book 1773 at Page 1437, Davidson County Registry, North Carolina.

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 February 17, 2020 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.

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 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.

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: 1274075 (FC.FAY)

Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on February 17, 2020 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 20 in a Subdivision known as Murray Fork, Section Six, according to a plat of the same duly recorded in Book of Plats 46, Page 18, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Tax ID: 0408-31-7645. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 301 Rail Fence Court, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return

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

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

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

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

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: 1263677 (FC.FAY)

Through Certificates, Series 1999-2 Plaintiff, v.

Jerry L. Lindsay a/k/a Jerry L. Lindsey; Any Spouse of Jerry L. Lindsay a/k/a Jerry L. Lindsey ; Beatrice L. Lindsay a/k/a Beatrice H. Lindsay; Homeplus Finance Corp.; TRUSTEE SERVICES OF CAROLINA, LLC Defendant(s).

To: Jerry L. Lindsay a/k/a Jerry L. Lindsey; Any Spouse of Jerry L. Lindsay a/k/a Jerry L. Lindsey; 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: 1.

The Deed of Trust recorded on February 26, 1992 in Book 800 at Page 978 in the Davidson County Registry was drafted and recorded in a manner sufficient to give a reasonable title searcher notice of its claim to a lien in the amount of $66,050.00 on the Property located at 165 Rockaway Drive, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27107.

2.

That the Court reform the Deed of Trust

recorded in Book 800 at Page 978 in the Davidson County Registry to include the intended Grantors: Jerry L. Lindsay a/k/a Jerry L. Lindsey and Beatrice L. Lindsay a/k/a Beatrice H. Lindsey.

3.

The Court enter an Order that such reformation shall relate back to the original recording date of the Deed of Trust recorded on February 26, 1992 in Book 800 at Page 978 in the Davidson County Registry.

4.

The Deed of Trust recorded in Book 800 at Page 978 in the Davidson County Registry is a valid first lien on the Property and that its lien is superior to the claims of all other defendants in this action.

5.

Plaintiff’s valid, first position lien or trust on the Property be foreclosed by judicial sale pursuant to the provisions of N.C.G.S. § 1-339.1, et seq., by Jeremy B. Wilkins as Commissioner especially appointed by the Court to serve without bond, with proceeds of the sale applied as follows: a.

To the cost of this action; b.

To the compensation allowed by the Court

for a person holding the sale pursuant to the N.C.G.S. § 1-339.11; c.

To the amount due to the Plaintiff under the Loan, Note and Deed of Trust, including reasonable attorney’s fees and costs provided therein; and d.

The surplus, if any, to be paid to the Office of the Clerk of Superior Court pending a determination of those persons entitled thereto.

6.

That the Property shall be sold at a public sale to the highest bidder.

7.

In the alternative, that the Court declares Borrowers/Mortgagors hold the Property described herein 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.

8.

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 to establish record notice of this proceeding in the chain of title to the Property.

9.

That upon final sale, confirmation of sale and conveyance of the Property, the underlying obligation secured by the Loan, Note and Deed of Trust shall be satisfied; 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 March 18, 2020 and upon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought.

This, the 29th day of January, 2020.

BROCK & SCOTT, PLLC ____________/s/_________________ Matthew Herrle, NCSB #34815 Attorney for Plaintiff P.O. Box 3004 Wilmington, NC 28406 Phone: 910-392-4988

10, 2020 at 11:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Davidson County, North Carolina, to wit: ALL THAT PARCEL OF LAND IN DAVIDSON COUNTY, STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK 1132, PAGE 1399, ID# 09034B0000001, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT 1, HIGH ROCK VILLAGE, FILED IN PLAT BOOK 15, PAGE 29.

($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 Joseph V. McCollum.

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.: 19-11970-FC01

Said property is commonly known as 203 Turner Street, Thomasville, NC 27360.

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.

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

BY FEE SIMPLE DEED FROM PAUL ALLEN COLE, JR. AND JAN COOK COLE AS SET FORTH IN BOOK 1132, PAGE 1399 DATED 04/30/1999 AND RECORDED 04/30/1999, DAVIDSON COUNTY RECORDS, STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 240 VILLAGE RD, Denton, NC 27239.

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

ALL THAT CERTAIN PROPERTY SITUATED IN THE TOWNSHIP OF THOMASVILLE IN THE COUNTY OF DAVIDSON AND STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN A DEED DATED 10/30/1998 AND RECORDED 11/06/1998, AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF THE COUNTY AND STATE SET FORTH ABOVE, IN DEED VOLUME 1106 AND PAGE 221.

And being more particularly described by metes and bounds according to said Deed as follows:

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 February 10, 2020 at 11:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Davidson County, North Carolina, to wit:

BEGINNING at an iron pipe at the eastern edge of Turner Street, said iron pipe being located 443.13 feet from the southeastern corner of the intersection of Turner Street and Ensley Street; thence South 75 deg. 46’ East 132.30 feet to an iron pipe; thence South 11 deg. 18’ West 50.00 feet to an iron pipe; thence North 75 deg. 47’ West 133.45 feet to an iron pipe at the eastern edge of Turner Street; thence North 12 deg. 37’ East along the eastern edge of Turner Street 50.00 feet to the point of beginning.

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION DAVIDSON COUNTY 19SP161

will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:00AM on February 10, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Davidson County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Tommy E. Cope and Linda M. Cope, dated August 3, 2017 to secure the original principal amount of $177,204.00, and recorded in Book 2279 at Page 1919 of the Davidson County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY TOMMY E. COPE AND LINDA M. COPE DATED AUGUST 3, 2017 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 2279 AT PAGE 1919 IN THE DAVIDSON COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee

JOHNSTON NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, JOHNSTON COUNTY 19 SP 421 Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Lonnie Ricky McGee, in the original amount of $78,000.00, payable to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for EquiFirst Corporation, dated December 12, 2003 and recorded on December 17, 2003 in Book 2605, Page 206, Johnston County Registry.

Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Anchor 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 Johnston County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidenc-

19 SP 503 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 Joel W. Givens to First American Title Insurance Company, Trustee(s), which was dated November 17, 2003 and recorded on December 5, 2003 in Book 02598 at Page 0533, 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

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION JOHNSTON COUNTY 19sp702 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY JEFFREY J. BAER DATED JULY 10, 2003 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 2503 AT PAGE 917 AND MODIFIED BY AGREEMENT RECORDED AUGUST 1, 2017 IN BOOK 5001, PAGE 499 IN THE JOHNSTON COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein

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

Address of property: 257 Oakmont Ter, Lexington, NC 27295 Tax Parcel ID: 11328D0000008 Present Record Owners: Tommy E. Cope and Linda M. Cope

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 Johnston County, North Carolina, at 2:00PM on February 18, 2020, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property, to wit: Beginning at a point in the Raleigh Road said point being South 8 deg. 30 min. W. 16 1/2 ft. from W. Reggie Honeycutt’s Line and runs thence with the center of said road S. 8 deg. 30 min. W. 250 ft. to a stake a new corner with Graham Penny; thence with his line N. 82 deg. 30 min. W. 190 ft. to a stake another corner with Graham Penny; thence continuing along another new line of Graham Penny N. 8 deg. 30 min. E. 211 ft. to a stake another corner with Penny; thence S. 82 deg. 30 min. E. 90 ft. to a stake another corner with Penny; N. 8 deg. 30 min. E. 39 ft. to a stake another corner with Penny; thence S. 82 deg. 30 min. E. 100 ft. to the Beginning, containing 1 acre according to a survey made by W.J. Lambert, in October, 1965, and being part of a 10 acre tract conveyed to Maie McGee by deed dated 12-15-1950, and recorded in Book 487, Page 597, Johnston Co. Registry.

property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on February 18, 2020 at 12:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Johnston County, North Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lot 118, of Garrison subdivision, as depicted in Map Book 49, beginning at page 40.

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

Said property is commonly known as 109 Brandon Dr, Clayton, NC 27520.

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

contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:00AM on February 11, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Johnston County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Jeffrey J. Baer, dated July 10, 2003 to secure the original principal amount of $110,127.00, and recorded in Book 2503 at Page 917 of the Johnston County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 129 Slate Ln, Clayton, NC 27520 Tax Parcel ID: 17I07004C

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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. 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 Carol Desir.

And Being more commonly known as: 257 Oakmont Ter, Lexington, NC 27295 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Tommy E. Cope and Linda M. Cope.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00),

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.: 19-05099-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

whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law.

Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

vided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is December 16, 2019.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 18-097808

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SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is pro-

Together with improvements located hereon; said property being located at 3068 Old Fairground Drive, Angier, NC 27501. Tax ID: 13D04019 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 fractional part thereof, or Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), whichever is greater.

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 Lonnie Ricky McGee. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Joel W. Givens.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and

Present Record Owners: Stevens

Sherri Lynn

And Being more commonly known as: 129 Blue Slate Ln, Clayton, NC 27520 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Sherri Lynn Stevens.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly

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-

are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law.

Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of

Anchor Trustee Services, LLC Substitute Trustee January N. Taylor, Bar #33512 McMichael Taylor Gray, LLC Attorney for Anchor Trustee Services, LLC 3550 Engineering Drive, Suite 260 Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 404-474-7149 (phone) 404-745-8121 (fax) jtaylor@mtglaw.com

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.: 19-10549-FC01

the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is January 21, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 19-108454

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C8 JOHNSTON IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION JOHNSTON COUNTY 18sp221 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY ANGELA BAKER MOORE AND MATTHEW MOORE DATED NOVEMBER 27, 2013 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 4387 AT PAGE 205 IN THE JOHNSTON COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION JOHNSTON COUNTY 17SP89 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY JOSEPH N. CANZANIELLO AND LORETTA CANZANIELLO AND FRANK CANZANIELLO DATED AUGUST 22, 2003 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 2533 AT PAGE 638 IN THE JOHNSTON COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION JOHNSTON COUNTY 19SP167 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY KAREN WYNTER AND PAUL WYNTER DATED AUGUST 19, 2016 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 4817 AT PAGE 787 AND CORRECTED BY AFFIDAVIT RECORDED SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 IN BOOK 4838, PAGE 718 IN THE JOHNSTON COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION JOHNSTON COUNTY 18sp175 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY JAMES M EDWARDS JR. DATED APRIL 5, 2012 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 4103 AT PAGE 605 IN THE JOHNSTON COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA

contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:00AM on February 18, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Johnston County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Angela Baker Moore and Matthew Moore, dated November 27, 2013 to secure the original principal amount of $153,889.00, and recorded in Book 4387 at Page 205 of the Johnston County Public Registry.

The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 187 Plymouth Dr, Clayton, NC 27520 Tax Parcel ID: 05G03047M Present Record Owners: Angela Baker Moore and Matthew Moore

will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:00AM on February 18, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Johnston County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Joseph N. Canzaniello and Loretta Canzaniello and Frank Canzaniello, dated August 22, 2003 to secure the original principal amount of $64,858.00, and recorded in Book 2533 at Page 638 of the Johnston County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 104 E Fayetteville Street, Micro, NC 27576 Tax Parcel ID: 10006002A Present Record Owners: Joseph N. Canzaniello and Loretta Canzaniello and Frank Canzaniello

failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:00AM on February 18, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Johnston County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Karen Wynter and Paul Wynter, dated August 19, 2016 to secure the original principal amount of $263,830.00, and recorded in Book 4817 at Page 787 of the Johnston County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 397 berry Ln, Clayton, NC 27527 Tax Parcel ID:

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the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:00AM on February 18, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Johnston County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed James M Edwards Jr., dated April 5, 2012 to secure the original principal amount of $104,287.00, and recorded in Book 4103 at Page 605 of the Johnston County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

And Being more commonly known as: 187 Plymouth Dr, Clayton, NC 27520 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Angela Baker Moore and Matthew Moore.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale

And Being more commonly known as: 104 E Fayetteville Street, Micro, NC 27576 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Joseph N. Canzaniello and Loretta Canzaniello and Frank Canzaniello.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00),

05I04002L Present Record Owners: and Karen Wynter

Paul Wynter

And Being more commonly known as: 397 Sugarberry Ln, Clayton, NC 27527 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Paul Wynter and Karen Wynter.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly

wards, Jr. And Being more commonly known as: 301 East 3rd St, Princeton, NC 27569 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are James M. Edwards, Jr.

will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law.

Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law.

Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is pro-

are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law.

Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law.

Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION JOHNSTON COUNTY 18SP377

contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:00AM on February 11, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Johnston County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Darlease H. Wormack, dated May 4, 2005 to secure the original principal amount of $120,000.00, and recorded in Book 2893 at Page 21 of the Johnston County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 506 Cherry St, Selma, NC 27576 Tax Parcel ID:

14006009A Present Record Owners: Glenda F. Hodges And Being more commonly known as: 506 Cherry St, Selma, NC 27576 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Glenda F. Hodges.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments

including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law.

Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

er of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:00AM on February 18, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Johnston County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Douglas S. Parsons, dated March 29, 2018 to secure the original principal amount of $220,833.00, and recorded in Book 5126 at Page 90 of the Johnston County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Present Record Owners: Parsons

cumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any resale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid.

The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION JOHNSTON COUNTY 19SP602 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY DOUGLAS S. PARSONS DATED MARCH 29, 2018 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 5126 AT PAGE 90 IN THE JOHNSTON COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and hold-

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 507

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Debra Kay Gallina and John Tellez (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Debbie Gallina and John Tellez) to R. Isaac Parker, Trustee(s), dated the 27th day of November, 2018, and recorded in Book 5255, Page 323, 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 cus-

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 663

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Curtis L. Leach, Jessica L. Leach (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Curtis L. Leach and Jessica L. Leach) to Daniel Gonzalez, Trustee(s), dated March 29, 2019, and recorded in Book No. 5318, at Page 956 in Johnston County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 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 Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on February 18, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash

ONSLOW NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 1002

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Charles Smith, Zyanya Smith (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Charles Smith and Zyanya Smith) to Diedre Rhodes and Donna Bradford, Trustee(s), dated June 3, 2015, and recorded in Book No. 4311, at Page 121 in Onslow County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 Onslow County, North Carolina and the holder of the

Address of property: 519 mead Dr, Clayton, NC 27527 Tax Parcel ID: 16K05031P

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tomary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on February 18, 2020 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 96, The Meadows Section Eight, Adams Point Subdivision, as shown on Plat of same recorded in Plat Book 81, pages 87 and 88, Johnston County Registry of Deeds. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 756 Fieldtrial Circle, Garner, North Carolina.

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

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

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

the following real estate situated in Clayton in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Lying and being in the Wilders Township, JOHNSTON County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows: All of Lot 59 in River Dell East at Flowers Plantation, Phase Four, as shown on the plat recorded in Plat Book 84, Pages 434-435, Johnston County Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description.

Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 14 Ross Farm Lane, Clayton, North Carolina.

PIN/PARCEL NUMBER: 16K05100P Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §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 N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

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 Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 10:00 AM on February 13, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Jacksonville in the County of Onslow, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 5, Block B, Carolina Country Estate, Section II, Subdivision as recorded in Map Book 17, Page 42, Onslow County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 202 Country Road, Jacksonville, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §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 N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

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And Being more commonly known as: 519 Southmead Dr, Clayton, NC 27527 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Douglas S. Parsons.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and en-

vided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

For additional information, please see Auction.com.

The date of this Notice is January 13, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 15-067454

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or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is January 10, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 19-104684

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SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on

Address of property: 301 East 3rd St, Princeton, NC 27569 Tax Parcel ID: 04005037 Present Record Owners: James M. Ed-

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The date of this Notice is January 13, 2020.

Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY DARLEASE H. WORMACK DATED MAY 4, 2005 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 2893 AT PAGE 21 IN THE JOHNSTON COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA

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SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens

NOTICE OF SALE

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 18-099140

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on

or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

For additional information, please see Auction.com.

The date of this Notice is January 10, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 17-089427

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or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is December 31, 2019.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 18-100448

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or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is December 17, 2019.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107

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

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

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

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return

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

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

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

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

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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 are expressly 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 its sole discretion, if it believes 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.

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 are expressly 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 its sole discretion, if it believes 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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North State Journal for Wednesday, February 5, 2020

ONSLOW NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 1010

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Dorothy Royal and Richard Royal (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Dorothy Royal and Richard L. Royal) to PRLAP, Inc., Trustee(s), dated the 19th day of March, 2007, and recorded in Book 2839, Page 845, 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 February 13, 2020 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: TRACT I: North eastern portion of Lot 14, Sholar Estates at #229 Lloyd Street, Holly Ridge, N.C.

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 convey-

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

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

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

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

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 the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed.

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

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

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include,

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

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not

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

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sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Located in Stanly County, North Carolina Lying and being at the northeast intersection of Wiscassett Street and Long Street in the City of Albemarle, and BEGINNING at a point, the northeast intersection of the rights of way of Wiscassett Street and Long Street, and runs thence with the east right of way line of Long Street, North 06-15-35 East 128.60 feet to an existing rod in said right of way line; thence South 83-49-25 East 86.17 feet to an existing iron rod; thence South 03-44-22 West 127.99 feet to an existing iron pipe in the north right of way line of Wiscassett Street (said point being North 84-16-47 West from an existing axle); thence with the north right of way line of Wiscassett Street; North 84-16-47 West 91.80 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING, and containing 0.26 acre, more or less,

and being a part of Lots Nos. 71 and 72 of Efirds Addition to Albemarle, Plat Book 1, Page 15-A. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 926 Wiscassett Street, Albemarle, North Carolina.

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

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

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

Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special

assessments, and prior liens or 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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tained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 2:00PM on February 13, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Union County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Ronald S. Nally and Patricia A. Nally, dated March 10, 2006 to secure the original principal amount of $189,000.00, and recorded in Book 4093 at Page 526 of the Union County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 2802 Gilead Ln, Waxhaw, NC 28173 Tax Parcel ID: 06207333 Present Record Owners: Ronald S. Nally and Patricia A. Nally And Being more commonly known as: 2802 Gilead Ln, Waxhaw, NC 28173 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Ronald S. Nally and Patricia A. Nally.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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 of-

fered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law.

Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you

are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is January 23, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 08-102559

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 February 18, 2020 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 19, Block 13, in MORNING CREEK AT BRANDON OAKS, PH, 5B, MAP 1, as same as shown on map thereof recorded in Cabinet G at File 617, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Union County, North Carolina, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description thereof.

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

Said property is commonly known as 14000 Fenwick Drive, 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 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 Enrique Padilla.

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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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 February 11, 2020 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 9B of WEDDINGTON HILLS, PHASE III, as shown on plat duly recorded in Plat Cabinet E, File 821 and revised in Plat Cabinet E, file 964, Union County Registry, 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 6068 Blue Bird Hill Lane, Matthews, NC 28104.

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 Glenda Taylor-Sanders and husband, Tony Vernard Sanders.

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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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 February 11, 2020 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 Number 1 as shown on that map or plat Book C, page 452 as shown in the Union County Registry, to which plat reference is hereby made for a complete description of said lot by metes and bounds.

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

Said property is commonly known as 3216 Hwy 205, Marshville, NC 28103.

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 Carol H. Ferguson.

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.: 19-13782-FC01

and being more particularly described as follows: TRACT 1: BEING all of LOT 43 SERENITY HILLS as shown on that plat recorded in PLAT CABINET D, FILE 57, UNION County Registry, to which reference is hereby made for a more particular description.

TRACT 2: BEGINNING at a point in the edge of a 20-foot wide Drainage and Utility Easement, the southernmost corner of Lot #43 of SERENITY HILLS SUBDIVISION (Plat Cabinet D, File No. 57, Union County Registry), and running thence with the western line of Lot #43, North 05 degrees 40 minutes 59 seconds West 254.07 feet to a point, the northwest corner of Lot #43 thence South 84 degrees 19 minutes 01 seconds West 197.52 feet to a point in a line of the ROCKY RIVER ESTATES SUBDIVISION (Plat Cabinet C, File No. 617, Union County Registry); thence with nine lines of the ROCKY RIVER ESTATES SUBDIVISION: (1) South 48 degrees 25 minutes 48 seconds East 63.68 feet; (2) South 49 degrees 26 minutes 37 seconds East 48.22 feet; (3) South 53 degrees 54 minutes 28 seconds East 35.07 feet; (4) North 88 degrees 49 minutes 14 seconds East 57.17 feet; (5) North 81 degrees 16 minutes 31 seconds East 45.36 feet; (6) South 51 58 minutes 37 seconds East 38.28 feet; (7) South 48 degrees 05 minutes 05 seconds East 70.86 feet; (8) South

17 degrees 32 minutes 23 seconds East 66.14 feet; and (9) South 50 degrees 06 minutes 25 seconds East 4.96 feet to the BEGINNING, and containing 0.72 acres, more or less, according to a survey dated September 30, 1993 and updated January 7, 1997, by Derick L. Miles, NCRLS. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 212 Meadow Wind Court, Monroe, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §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 N.C.G.S. §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 are expressly 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 its sole discretion, if it believes 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 a point in the northwestern right-of-way line of Lloyd Street, 60.00 foot right-of-way, that is North 49 degrees 06 minutes 24 seconds East 532.27 feet from the point of intersection of the northwestern right-of-way line of Lloyd Street with the northeastern right-of-way of Camp Davis Road, 60.00 foot right-of-way, said beginning point also being North 49 degrees 06 minutes 24 seconds East, along said line of Lloyd Street, 40.50 feet from the southwestern corner of Lot 14, Sholar Estates as the same is shown on the map recorded in Map Book 12, at Page 65 of the Onslow County Registry; running thence, from the point of beginning, North 40 degrees 48 minutes 50 seconds West 40.76 feet to a point; thence, North 40 degrees 52 minutes 48 seconds West 63.36 feet to a point, thence, North 40 degrees 57 minutes 02 seconds West 159.53 feet to a point in the northern line of said Lot 14; thence, North 49 degrees 05 minutes 49 seconds East 40.50 feet to the northeastern corner of said Lot 14; thence, South 40 degrees 54 minutes 45 seconds East 263.65 feet to the southeastern corner of said Lot 14 in the northwestern right-of-way line of Lloyd Street; thence, South 49 degrees 06 minutes 24 seconds West, with said line of Lloyd Street, 40.50 feet to the point of beginning, containing 10,662 square feet or 0.2448 acres, the same being the northeastern portion of Lot 14 as referenced herein above. Including the Unit located thereon; said Unit being located at 229 Lloyd Street, Holly Ridge, North Carolina.

TRACT Southwestern portion tates at 227 Lloyd

II: of Lot 14, Street, Holly

Sholar EsRidge, N.C.

Beginning at a point in the northwestern right-of-way line

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Hunter C. Thompson and Heather L. Thompson to Pamela S. Cox, Trustee(s), dated the 9th day of December, 2016, and recorded in Book 4549, Page 340, 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

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Stephen S. O’Rourke and Alicia Kay O’Rourke aka Alicia O’Rourke (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Stephen S. O’Rourke) to Khechok Langchung / Assistant Controller, Trustee(s), dated the 12th day of October, 2015, and recorded in Book 4391, Page 748, 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 February

STANLY NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 168

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Terry L. Sells and Missy Sells (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Terry Lane Sells) to Brent F. King, Trustee(s), dated the 17th day of July, 2000, and recorded in Book 0756, Page 0136, 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

UNION IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION UNION COUNTY 19sp644 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY RONALD S. NALLY AND PATRICIA A. NALLY DATED MARCH 10, 2006 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 4093 AT PAGE 526 IN THE UNION COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority con-

19 SP 603 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 Enrique Padilla and Serena J. Meyers to Woodward E. Farmer, Jr., Trustee(s), which was dated January 30, 2002 and recorded on January 31, 2002 in Book 1748 at Page 190, 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

19 SP 746 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 Glenda Taylor-Sanders and Tony Vernard Sanders to Investors Title Insurance Company, Trustee(s), which was dated September 18, 2018 and recorded on September 19, 2018 in Book 7236 at Page 0618, 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

19 SP 752 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 E. Steve Ferguson a/k/a Steve E. Ferguson and Carol H. Ferguson to Robert W. Garrison, Trustee(s), which was dated March 12, 2004 and recorded on March 23, 2004 in Book 3385 at Page 768, 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

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 762

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Deno Kanos, Heirs of Deno Kanos: Victoria Constance Kanos, Katherine Elaine Kanos, Demetri Konstantinos Kanos, Unknown Heirs of Deno Kanos, Demetri Konstantinos Kanos (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Deno Kanos) to Grady I. Ingle, Trustee(s), dated October 2, 2018, and recorded in Book No. 07246, at Page 0032 in Union County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 Union County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Judicial Center in Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:00 PM on February 13, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Monroe in the County of Union, North Carolina,

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AM on February 20, 2020 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 6, as shown on that plat entitled, “FINAL PLAT TURNER FARMS SECTION V” prepared by Parker & Associates, Inc., and recorded in Map Book 69, Page 166, Onslow County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 417 Old Stage Road, Richlands, 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

20, 2020 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 60 as more particularly shown in that plat entitled “Section II-A Northside at The Commons”, and said map being recorded in Map Book 36, Page 4, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Onslow County, reference to said map being hereby made for a more perfect description of said property. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 320 Commons Drive, South, Jacksonville, North Carolina.

Subject to any restrictive covenants recorded in Book 1500, Page 10, Onslow County Registry.

Deed Type: North Carolina General Warranty Deed between William A. Hines and wife Janine Hines and Stephen S. O’Rourke and wife, Amy L. O’Rourke dated: 5/7/2008, recorded date: 6/6/2008 in Book 3077, Page 828.

Consideration: $10.00 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the

in the City of Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on February 12, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Stanly, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Land in Stanly County, North Carolina, described as: Book 576 Page 477

of Lloyd Street, 60.00 foot right-of-way, that is North 49 degrees 06 minutes 24 seconds East 491.77 feet from the point of intersection of the northwestern right-of-way line of Lloyd Street with the northeastern right-of-way of Camp Davis Road, 60.00 foot right-of-way, said beginning point being the southwestern corner of Lot 14, Sholar Estates as the same is shown on the map recorded in Map Book 12 at Page 65 of the Onslow County Registry; running thence, from the point of beginning, North 40 degrees 54 minutes 45 seconds West 263.58 feet to the northwestern corner of said Lot 14 thence, North 49 degrees 05 minutes 49 seconds East with the northern line of said Lot 14, 40.50 feet to a point; thence, South 40 degrees 57 minutes 02 seconds East 159.53 feet to a point; thence, South 40 degrees 52 minutes 48 seconds West 63.36 feet to a point; thence, South 40 degrees 48 minutes 50 seconds East 40.76 feet to a point in the northwestern right-of-way line of Lloyd Street, thence, South 49 degrees 06 minutes 24 seconds West, with said right-of-way line, 40.50 feet to the point of beginning containing 10,693 square feet or 0.2455 acres, the same being the southwestern portion of Lot 14, as referenced herein above. Including the Unit located thereon; said Unit being located at 227 Lloyd Street, Holly Ridge, North Carolina.

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Benjamin S. Kendrick and Karina Kendrick to Jennifer Grant, Trustee(s), dated the 1st day of February, 2016, and recorded in Book 06609, Page 0172, in Union County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Judicial Center in the City of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:00 PM on February 13, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Union, North Carolina,

Also conveyed herewith is an undivided interest in the easement appurtenant to said subdivision, which is shown on plat recorded in Plat Cabinet B at File Number 74-B, Union County Register of Deeds, to which plat reference is hereby made for a more complete description.

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

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Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 70, Brook Valley Subdivision, Phase I, according to the plat thereof, recorded in Plat Cabinet G, File 981, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2006 Formosa Drive, Monroe, 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

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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Rodney Wynn aka Rodney P. Wynn and Tracy H. Wynn (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Rodney P. Wynn) to Richard L. Brown, Jr., Trustee(s), dated the 17th day of April, 2003, and recorded in Book 3063, Page 316, in Union County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Judicial Center in the City of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:00 PM on February 20, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Union, North

WAKE 15 SP 2958 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 Pamela K. Poynter to John C. Morisey Jr. and Steven R. Mull, Trustee(s), which was dated October 10, 2003 and recorded on October 10, 2003 in Book 010490 at Page 01963, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 14 of Block A of Greenbrook Section I, as shown on the plat recorded in Plat Cabinet B at File Number 74-A, Union County Register of Deeds, to which plat reference is hereby made for a more complete description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2617 Bobwhite Circle, Wingate, North Carolina.

property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on February 19, 2020 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lot 22, Phase 2, of The Meadows at Eaglechase Subdivision, recorded in Map Book 1986, Page 716, Wake County Registry.

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

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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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mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587

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

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

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the

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 Jasper Deonta Goodman.

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.: 19-13193-FC01

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Jasper D. Goodman and Karen Goodman to CB Services Corp., Trustee(s), which was dated January 9, 2009 and recorded on January 29, 2009 in Book 013366 at Page 01024, 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 February 19, 2020 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for

cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY IN THE COUNTY OF WAKE, STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA: LOT 19, BLOCK D OF BILTMORE HILLS, AS SHOWN ON A MAP THEREOF RECORDED IN BOOK OF MAPS 1960, PAGE 59, WAKE COUNTY REGISTRY BEING AND INTENDING TO DESCRIBE THE SAME PREMISES CONVEYED IN A DEED RECORDED 08/04/2008, IN BOOK 13201, PAGE 2604.

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

Said property is commonly known as 741 Fitzgerald Drive, Raleigh, NC 27610-4711.

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.

19 SP 1723 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

provements thereon, lying, being and situate in County of Wake, State of North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

(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.

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.

5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587

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 2672 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY

NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Roy Spores and Sharon Spores to First American Title Insurance Co., Trustee(s), which was dated April 13, 2007 and recorded on April 19, 2007 in Book 012504 at Page 00058, 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 February 19, 2020 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: All that piece, parcel or lot of land, with im-

19 SP 1782 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 Kelvin L. Harrington a/k/a Kelvin Harrington and Olivia P. Harrington to TRSTE, Inc., Trustee(s), which was dated May 14, 2007 and recorded on May 15, 2007 in Book 012547 at Page 01189, 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 February 14, 2020 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION WAKE COUNTY 19sp3000 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY JANIE V. SOWELLS AND EUGENE C. PERRIN DATED JANUARY 11, 2006 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 011771 AT PAGE 00936 IN THE WAKE COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION WAKE COUNTY 18SP1671 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY KATHY L. WILLIFORD AND HENRY ALLEN UTLEY, SR. DATED DECEMBER 21, 2007 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 12897 AT PAGE 354 AND MODIFIED BY AGREEMENT RECORDED SEPTEMBER 25, 2017 AT BOOK 16917, PAGE 1380 IN THE WAKE COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for

Said property is commonly known as 5205 Heelands Court, Raleigh, NC 27610.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Pamela Poynter.

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

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

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE

BEING all of Lot 178, according to the Survey of Southern Trace Subdivision, Phase Six, as recorded in Book of Maps 2004, page 35-37, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, State of North Carolina.

Being the same property conveyed by Michael W. Cochran and spouse, Jamie L. Cochran to Roy Spores and spouse, Sharon Spores dated 6/30/2006 and recorded 6/30/2006 in Book 12042, Page 1572 in the Register’s Office for Wake County.

The Parcel/TMS number for said property is 0322171.

Property address: 4900 Redgrass Circle, Garner, NC 27529 Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 4900 Redgrass Circle, Garner, NC 27529.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent

County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 243 Abbington Ridge Subdivision, as shown on plat entitled “Recombination of Lots 241-297, Abbington Ridge Phase 3 as shown in BM 2004, Pages 1099 and 1100” and recorded in Book of Maps 2006, Pages 783784, Wake County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 4033 Laurel Glen 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 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.

cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 11:00AM on February 17, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Wake County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Janie V. Sowells and Eugene C. Perrin, dated January 11, 2006 to secure the original principal amount of $85,600.00, and recorded in Book 011771 at Page 00936 of the Wake County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 3317 East Jameson Rd, Raleigh, NC 27604 Tax Parcel ID: 0140389 Present Record Owners: Janie Sowells and Eugene C. Perrin And Being more commonly known as: 3317 East Jameson Rd, Raleigh, NC 27604

cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:00AM on February 17, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Wake County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Kathy L. Williford and Henry Allen Utley, Sr., dated December 21, 2007 to secure the original principal amount of $155,295.00, and recorded in Book 12897 at Page 354 of the Wake County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 7 0 7 Springview Trl, Garner, NC 27529 Tax Parcel ID: 0010887 Present Record Owners: The Estate of Kathy L. Williford and Henry Allen Utley, Sr. And Being more commonly known as: 707 Springview Trl, Garner, NC 27529

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 Sharon Spores.

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 Kelvin L. Harrington and wife, Olivia P. Harrington.

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

The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Janie Sowells and Eugene C. Perrin.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law.

The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are The Estate of Kathy L. Williford and Henry Allen Utley, Sr. 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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds

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

File No.: 19-00400-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.

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC

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.

Wilmington, NC 28403 Phone: (910) 202-2940 Fax: (910) 202 2941 File No.: 19-10435-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.

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Aaron B. Anderson Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5710 Oleander Drive, Ste. 204

Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107

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SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is January 17, 2020.

in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any resale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid.

The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

For additional information, please see Auction.com.

The date of this Notice is January 17, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 11-021496

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WAKE 17 SP 2642 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 Caroline W. Ndirangu and Harun Njamba to Allan B. Polunsky, Trustee(s), which was dated September 29, 2011 and recorded on September 30, 2011 in Book 014481 at Page 00292, 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

19 SP 2845 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 Deborah Anne Coleman to Angela M. Burton, Trustee(s), which was dated April 6, 2018 and recorded on April 9, 2018 in Book 017092 at Page 01501 and rerecorded/modified/corrected on May 25, 2018 in Book 017136, Page 00880, 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

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION WAKE COUNTY 19SP1236 NOTICE OF SALE IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY SHERMAN LAMONT PEACOCK DATED FEBRUARY 17, 2005 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 11227 AT PAGE 1706 AND MODIFIED BY AGREEMENT RECORDED APRIL 14, 2015 IN BOOK 15979, PAGE 1047 AND FURTHER MODIFIED BY AGREEMENT RECORDED JANUARY 24, 2017 IN BOOK 16675, PAGE 1668 AND FURTHER MODIFIED BY AGREEMENT RECORDED JUNE 29, 2018 IN BOOK 17170, PAGE 2161 IN THE WAKE COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA Under and by virtue of the power and authority con-

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION WAKE COUNTY 17sp3139 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY JAMES S. MALPEDE AND JOELIS A. MALPEDE DATED AUGUST 14, 2007 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 12708 AT PAGE 2590 AND MODIFIED

BY AGREEMENT RECORDED MARCH 28, 2014 IN BOOK 15615, PAGE 1903 IN THE WAKE COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION WAKE COUNTY 19SP1888 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY CLAUDE EDWARD WILLIE, III AND LINDA SHIPMAN WILLIE DATED JANUARY 23, 2006 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 11806 AT PAGE 2600 IN THE WAKE COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE

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 February 12, 2020 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING ALL OF LOT 382, CHURCHILL SUBDIVISION, PHASE 3, AS SHOWN ON A MAP RECORDED IN BOOK OF MAPS 2008, AS PAGES 1885-1890, WAKE COUNTY REGISTRY, TO WHICH REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE FOR A MORE PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION OF SAME. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 1204 Agile Drive, Knightdale, NC 27545.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time

of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the 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 Caroline W. Ndirangu and husband, Harun Njamba.

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.: 17-16113-FC01

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 February 12, 2020 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 44, as shown on a plat entitled WOODS OF BLAIR HILL SUBDIVISION, recorded in Book 2008, Pages 1439 - 1442, of the Wake County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 623 Rockbank Loop, Wendell, NC 27591-6402.

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 Deborah Anne Coleman.

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.: 19-17586-FC01

tained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 11:00AM on February 21, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Wake County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Sherman Lamont Peacock, dated February 17, 2005 to secure the original principal amount of $120,800.00, and recorded in Book 11227 at Page 1706 of the Wake County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Tax Parcel ID: 0166220 Present Record Owners: Sherman Lamont Peacock

are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law.

Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

Address of property: Cir, Raleigh, NC 27603

2000 Kanga

failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 11:00AM on February 21, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Wake County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed James S. Malpede and Joelis A. Malpede, dated August 14, 2007 to secure the original principal amount of $417,000.00, and recorded in Book 12708 at Page 2590 of the Wake County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: leaf St, Raleigh, NC 27614

2740 Peach-

will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 11:00AM on February 21, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Wake County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Claude Edward Willie, III and Linda Shipman Willie, dated January 23, 2006 to secure the original principal amount of $92,000.00, and recorded in Book 11806 at Page 2600 of the Wake County Public Registry.

The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee

Address of property: 2904 Snowberry Dr, Raleigh, NC 27610 Tax Parcel ID: 0079883 Present Record Owners: Claude Edward Willie, III and Linda Shipman Willie

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION WAKE COUNTY 18SP89

will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 11:00AM on February 21, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Wake County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Ty C Freeman and Michelle B Freeman, dated January 16, 2001 to secure the original principal amount of $127,893.00, and recorded in Book 8782 at Page 240 of the Wake County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY TY C FREEMAN AND MICHELLE B FREEMAN DATED JANUARY 16, 2001 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 8782 AT PAGE 240 IN THE WAKE COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee

Address of property: 5809 Phillips Landing Drive, Wake Forest, NC 27587 Tax Parcel ID: 0162901 Present Record Owners: Ty C. Freeman and Michelle B. Freeman

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 1158

2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 4 according to a plat of survey entitled “A Minor Division of Lot 1 creating Lots 3 and 4 for Robert A. and Annie Mae Leach” dated May 19, 2000 by M. M. Weeks Land Surveying and recorded in Book of Maps 2000, Page 1580, Wake County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 9957 Fanny Brown Road, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Rafael Alvarado and Yulma Yanet Alvarado (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Rafael Alvarado and Tulma Y. Alvarado) to Brock & Scott, Trustee(s), dated the 30th day of March, 2006, and recorded in Book 011888, Page 02445, in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on February 17,

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION WAKE COUNTY 19SP2599 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY ROBERT SPARKS DATED MARCH 27, 2006 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 011881 AT PAGE 00849 IN THE WAKE COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 924

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Zumbu Kombo and Cheryl Kombo aka Cheryl Y. Kombo to CB Services Corp., Trustee(s), dated the 3rd day of November, 1999, and recorded in Book 008454, Page 00166, in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location

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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 agree-

said county at 12:00PM on February 10, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Wake County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Robert Sparks, dated March 27, 2006 to secure the original principal amount of $135,900.00, and recorded in Book 011881 at Page 00849 of the Wake County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 2630 Andover Glen Rd, Raleigh, NC 27604 Tax Parcel ID: REID 0280312; PIN 1725834997 Present Record Owners: The Heirs of Robert Sparks And Being more commonly known as: 2630 Andover Glen Rd, Raleigh, NC 27604 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the

designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on February 10, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 25 River Landing Subdivision as the same is shown on plat thereof recorded in Book of Maps 1985 page 1974 Wake Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 6133 River Landings Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina.

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

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

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

And Being more commonly known as: 2000 Kanga Cir, Raleigh, NC 27603 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Sherman Lamont Peacock.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly

Tax Parcel ID: 0274335 Present Record Owners: James Malpede and Joelis A. Malpede

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And Being more commonly known as: 2740 Peachleaf St, Raleigh, NC 27614 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are James S. Malpede and Joelis A. Malpede.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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 of-

And Being more commonly known as: 2904 Snowberry Dr, Raleigh, NC 27610 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Claude Edward Willie, III and Linda Shipman Willie.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00),

And Being more commonly known as: 5809 Phillips Landing Drive, Wake Forest, NC 27587 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Ty C. Freeman and Michelle B. Freeman.

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00),

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate

fered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law.

Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you

whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law.

Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

The date of this Notice is January 15, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107

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are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is January 15, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107

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vided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is January 15, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107

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SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is pro-

whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law.

Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is pro-

vided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

For additional information, please see Auction.com.

The date of this Notice is January 10, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107

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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 termi-

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

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: 1238669 (FC.FAY)

records of the Register of Deeds, is/are The Heirs of Robert Sparks.

Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107

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, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid 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. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law.

Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING.

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-

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SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is December 26, 2019.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells

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.

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: 1261914 (FC.FAY)

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