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BY SARAH CAMPBELL scampbell@salisburypost.com

SALISBURY — Joel Luther signed up for Advanced Placement classes to earn college credit and save money by skipping introductory college courses.

But the South Rowan valedictorian said the extra reading and writing required in AP classes got overwhelming.

He ended up dropping one of his AP classes during his junior year.

“With the other rigorous classes I was taking and the many clubs and extracurricular I was involved in, I simply could not handle the added pressure of that particular class,” he said.

LUTHER Still, Luther completed eight AP classes and landed an acceptance letter to Duke University.

And he said the extra work was well worth it.

“AP classes demand a level of rigor and discipline that prepares students for the challenges of college academics,” he said. “They lead to a greater depth of understanding of the course material and instill crucial time management skills.”

This year, nearly 600 students in the Rowan-Salisbury School System enrolled in AP classes.

Some took the courses hoping to boost their GPAs. Students can earn up to six quality points in Advanced Placement classes, a point higher than honors classes.

Others hoped to land college credit to bypass some of financial burden of higher education.

And some simply wanted a challenge.

School officials say AP classes benefit students regardless of the reason they sign up.

“The real upside is, every time you earn college credit,” said Kathy McDuffie, the district’s director of secondary education. “The more rigorous course load also gives students exposure to what it’s like in college.”

McDuffie said another perk is the extra support high school teachers offer

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Salisbury only other municipality in county to show support for project

BY SHAVONNE POTTS spotts@salisburypost.com

South Rowan ramped up its efforts to get more students to take the advanced classes by hosting an AP Symposium in May. “We were seeing some of our seniors receiving rejection letters from

LANDIS — The town board threw its support behind the Carolina Thread Trail project by signing a resolution this past week.

The Thread Trail is a 15-county regional network of trails and greenways designed for biking, walking and commuting. The goals of an enhanced quality of life and providing a place for people to connect to nature coincide with what the town has been working toward with its wilderness area at Lake Corriher.

“The board was very positive about the trail,” said Town Manager Reed Linn.

Linn called the trail “very interesting.”

The trail will link counties in both Carolinas.

“There are many benefits of the trail — connecting with neighboring communities and counties, serving as a conservation corridor and it will create jobs,” said Randi Gates, community coordinator for the Carolina Thread Trail.

She said the trail will also help with economic development, especially when potential businesses are looking to relocate to the area.

“When businesses move into an area they are looking at the quality of life,” she said.

The trail will also provide an avenue for free health and wellness opportunities through exercise and recreation, Gates said.

Gates presented these ideas and more to the board this past week during its meeting.

“It’s an invitation to participate.

We are working with citizens to plan and implement the trail,” she said.

Each community decides where the trail should be in their own area.

“It’s a very public input driven process,” Gates said.

By adopting the resolution, the town says it wants to connect with other communities that have sup-

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At $87 per test, costs can add up fast

BY SARAH CAMPBELL scampmbell@salisburypost.com

SALISBURY — The RowanSalisbury School System requires students enrolled in Advanced Placement (AP) classes to take the exam administered by the College Board, but the district doesn’t foot the bill.

At $87 per test, that cost can add up for students like Emily Peeler, a recent Carson High School graduate.

Peeler completed nine AP classes, racking up $783 in exam costs.

“The price of the exams definitely added up each year and

I thought they were actually pretty ridiculous,” she said. “Luckily, my parents supported me in taking AP classes and were able to pay for me to take the exams.”

Kathy McDuffie, the system’s director of secondary education, said the district used to absorb the cost, but that is no MCDUFFIE longer the case.

“With the budget cuts throughout the past several years, we just can’t continue to do that,” she said.

Students who receive free or reduced lunch are eligible for help paying for the exams, McDuffie said. She said the district will find a way to make sure all students who want to take the exams can.

South Rowan graduate Joel Luther said his parents ended up paying just under $700 for the eight AP exams he took.

“Luckily for us, that was spread over multiple payments, as I took the exams over a span of three years,” he said.

Joel Brittain, a recent West Rowan graduate, said his family did not have a problem paying for

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Salisbury High has most students taking the tougher classes

BY SARAH CAMPBELL scampbell@salisburypost.com

SALISBURY — The Rowan-Salisbury School System offered 20 college-level classes throughout the district this year.

Students had the opportunity to take Advanced Placement classes

in subjects such as biology, calculus, music theory and U.S. history.

Kathy McDuffie, the district’s director of secondary education, said the classes are open to all students, but those who are college-bound are particularly urged to enroll.

“The classes are for students who want to earn college credit in

high school or for those who have always excelled in school and are looking for more of a challenge,” she said.

Nearly 600 students took AP classes this year. Salisbury High had the most AP students with 173 and South Rowan had the fewest with 49.

Models audition at Livingstone for their time in the spotlight

BY KARISSA MINN kminn@salisburypost.com

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SALISBURY — Salisbury resident Amber Guinn, 20, waited in a line with hundreds of other aspiring models Saturday outside Livingstone College.

She is a fan of “America’s Next Top Model” and said she has wanted to try out for a long time.

“I’ve always liked modeling,” Guinn said. “When I was younger, I would act like I was on the show.”

Now, she might have the chance to stop pretending.

A casting call for Cycle 18 of the reality series “America’s Next Top Model” was held Saturday at Living-

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The nine to 14 cast members on the TV show, which airs on the CW network, compete for a modeling contract over a period of several weeks.

During this time, they live together in a house where cameras and microphones record their experiences.

The competitors are trained in modeling, judged by fashion experts in weekly competitions and eliminated one-by-one until a winner is chosen.

Some of the young women auditioning Saturday were used to cast-

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“In college when the professors give the material to you, it’s usually either sink or swim,” she said.

AP advantages Luther said the AP courses he took were more engaging than regular classes.

“The discussions and debates were often more intellectually stimulating and kept my interest,” he said. “AP classes teach you to think, work and write at a college level well before you arrive at college, giving you an advantage over students who may not be as well prepared.”

Emily Peeler, a recent Carson High grad, said she feels the nine AP classes she took will give her an edge.

“I definitely feel better prepared for college by PEELER taking AP classes and I am excited to be studying at N.C. State next year,” she said.

Matt Stevenson, a 2007 South Rowan alumnus who graduated from N.C. State this spring, said taking AP calculus and government gave him a taste of what was to come at State.

“The classes forced me to learn time management skills and prepare myself for college classes,” he said. “South Rowan’s AP teachers held the same high standards that college professors hold for you.”

Leah Robinson, a 2009 South Rowan grad and a chemistry major at Lander University in South Carolina, said she reaped financial benefits by doing well in her four AP classes.

“The GPA boost that these classes gave me not only helped with my college application process but also with receiving scholarships as well as financial aid and ultimately, in my case, resulted in an out-of state-abatement,” she said.

Robinson said the abatement allowed her to pay instate tuition, saving her $24,000 on her education.

Earning college credit in high school can also reduce the length of time a student spends in college.

“We regularly see students come to us at orientation as s o p h o mores,” said Dave Meredith, MEREDITH

of schools where one or two side their comfort zones.

“If a student turns in a AP classes is enough.”

Meredith said he also recbunch of sort of mediocre scores like 1s and 2s on the AP ommends students take AP Generally a student must score a 3 or higher to earn college credit. exams I give them the sort of classes in subjects where they College and university policies vary on how AP scores are used. mental benefit, but in the back feel confident.

“I think most students are of my mind I think their scores aren’t that good,” he capable of doing AP courses, 2008 2010 2009 said. “But if that’s all a kid especially if they pick their faSchool # of tests % of score # of tests % of score 3 # of tests % of score could do, at least I know they vorite subject, the one they admin. 3 or higher admin. or higher admin. 3 or higher love the most,” he said. pushed themselves.

McDuffie said although “Any college that is looking Carson 47 47 143 40 53 66 at a transcript beyond the students are encouraged to East 194 53 253 45 48 178 GPA is going to value a stu- take the higher-level classes, North dent who pushes themselves.” they also need to figure out a 89 16 125 27 31 64 McDuffie said AP teachers way to strike a balance.

Salisbury 298 59 286 63 56 197 “Colleges are looking for are taking steps to improve South 131 67 50 28 40 91 well-rounded students,” she test scores by offering study West 182 41 179 41 48 147 sessions after school and over said. “If the only thing they District 941 41 1036 46 48 743 are doing is taking AP classes the weekend.

She said environmental sci- because the work is so hard Editor's note: The most recent data available is from 2010. ence teachers from every they can’t do anything else, school worked together this then that’s not beneficial.”

Contact reporter Sarah year to host the first Saturday senior assistant director of ad- the test, they receive honors work for their class grade,” he study session at Carson High. Campbell at 704-797-7683. said. missions for UNC Chapel Hill, credit instead.

The all-day event had more “I would say 99.5 percent He said that could give stuthan 60 students moving from dents the flexibility to study of students take the test,” Mc- College prep station to station, working Brittain said he did not re- with teachers to sharpen their abroad or pick up another ma- Duffie said.

The College Board charges ceive college credit for the knowledge. jor or minor. $87 per test, a fee that is not three AP classes he took his AP overload? covered by the school system. junior year. He’s still waiting College admission Despite the benefits of takStatewide, more than for results from the five he Meredith said a strong ing AP classes, some students 80,700 students took the tests, completed this year. schedule is important for adSubmit your felt the same pressures with an average of 58 percent “The benefits I see in tak- mission to college. photos online Luther did. ing a lot of AP classes is scoring a 3 or higher.

“All things considered, I’d “It was very difficult someIn Rowan County, Salis- preparing yourself for college rather take a kid with a B in times with several AP classes bury High School had the and keeping yourself busy,” an AP course than an A in a at once as well as many other largest number of tests taken he said. “I’ve noticed that my regular course,” he said. “I activities. It was easy to be- in 2010 at 255. Fifty-nine per- peers who show less focus on know any selective universi90 DAYS UP TO 12 MONTHS come stressed out and feel cent of those students scored the classes they take are more ty is going to feel the exact overwhelmed,” Peeler said. a 3 or higher. likely to use drugs and make same way.

“During my junior and senior Forty-three tests were tak- other poor decisions in their “They are all going to say years I did not always get en at South Rowan in 2010, large amount of free time.” we want a student taking a demuch sleep ...”

Brittain said he took AP manding curriculum because with 67 percent of students with approved credit It became a bit of a jug- earning at least a 3. courses to ensure his accept- when they get to college all Same Day Service On Repairs & Relines gling act for Joel Brittain, a North Rowan had the low- ance to the University of the classes are AP.” Repairs $50 & up recent West Rowan graduate, est percentage of students North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Meredith said he would enRelines $175 per Denture when he ended up with four score a 3 or higher at 16 perMeredith, the school’s sen- courage students to find out Dentures $475 ea.; $950 set AP classes in one semester cent. More than 100 tests were ior assistant director of ad- about the admission criteria Partials $495 & up during tennis season. administered at the school missions, said with a compet- at the colleges where they are “Practice every day fol- that year. itive applicant pool, students applying.

Extractions $150 & up lowed by four AP classes Skylar Stamey, a 2010 with a more rigorous course “Some schools might say Most Insurance Accepted worth of work could get diffi- graduate of South Rowan load that includes AP classes one or two AP classes is good Now Accepting Medicaid cult,” he said. “All in all High and a student at North are more likely to stand out. enough while others might Dr. B. D. Smith, though, I was never depressed Carolina State University, Meredith said students want three or four,” he said.

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Gates said the city of Salisbury is the only other community in Rowan that has joined in the project.

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Flight fans flock to Transportation Museum display

BY DAVID FREEZE For the Salisbury Post

SPENCER — Tyler Wilhelm is a perfect example of all that is good about the Learning to Fly event at the North Carolina Transportation Museum.

Tyler is a rising junior at Carson High School and loves to fly. He is an expert member of the Rowan Aeromodelers Society, a group that flies scale-model, remote-controlled airplanes.

“Tyler is known for making his planes do crazy things, which is a real tribute to his skill,” said Will Douglas, club president.

Tyler admits to an interest in learning to fly real planes, too. He participated in a week-long flight camp recently that stoked his interest, and his skill at flying the model planes provided an extra advantage.

The Aeromodelers flew small planes Saturday, but kept some of the biggest on the ground for safety reasons. Douglas pointed out that

they don’t fly the big ones over houses or people.

Douglas said the club has 16 members who look forward to coming to the Transportation Museum for the Learning to Fly event.

A battery-powered plane can fly for up to 20 minutes, and can go as high as 2 miles and 2 miles in distance.

The limiting factor most of the time is the line of sight needed.

“You can’t fly what you can’t see,” Douglas said.

John Ayers, recently retired and one of the newest members, said he “jumped in with both feet. I learned to fly on a PC simulator, then a buddy box, and finally soloed. A buddy box allows an experienced pilot to fly the plane when needed, eventually allowing the new pilot take over.”

Ayers admits to wrecking a few planes, saying, “If you don’t have a few wrecks, you’re not having enough fun.”

A hot-air balloon was inflated

enough so that anyone interested could walk inside the vast airblown cavern Saturday.

Robert Wise of Statesville owns the balloon and wanted to demonstrate the 90,000-cubic-foot scale of the inflated balloon.

“It is about the same size inside as the space taken up by 90,000 basketballs. This balloon has been retired from flight, but we can still use it this way,” Wise said.

Wise and crew travel about 10 weekends a year to different festivals. They offer chartered flights, mostly in the spring and fall because of better lift, lower temperatures and less wind.

“It costs as much as $40,000 to own a balloon and nobody gets rich flying them,” Wise said. “Being able to take the family along on the trips is important, and I love giving back to the community.”

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Drought, hot weather take toll on crops in eastern NC

Retro Flower Show draws local gardeners

BY SUSAN SHINN For The Salisbury Post

ALISBURY — The beauty of summer gardens came indoors Saturday at the Retro Flower Show, sponsored

by Rowan County Master Gardener Volunteer Association.

The show takes its name from similar shows hosted in the 1950s and 1960s, said Master Gardener Carole Massey, chairwoman of the event.

“You don’t see flower shows like this anymore,” she said.

“It’s one-of-a-kind.”

The second-annual show dovetails nicely with the resurgence of gardens and gardenWayne HinsHaW/FoR tHE SAliSBuRy poSt ing, Massey said. Nearly a Betty and William Maclean look over the flowers in the horticulture division in the Rowan Retro Flower dozen of the county’s 42 Master Show held at the Extension Service Center.

Gardeners — many of whom had been onsite since early that morning — attended the afterIn the “Pines of the Tar Heel less, including connoon show, mingling, oohing State,” Sara Hill assembled de- tainer. Lamb also and aahing over entries and an- cayed pines, pine cones, sever- won this section, with swering questions. al types of pine and finished a tiny arrangement Massey said that the Fourth the display with three yellow of purple and cream of July holiday, coupled with roses. Its simplicity and eleflowers and greenFriday’s massive rainstorm, gance made it the grand prize ery. may have prevented some peo- winner in the artistic division.

Judge for the ple from making entries, but Hill also won class 4, entitled artistic division was the small crowd that attended “Dunn’s Mountain.” In her Pat Wayne, formerly was full of enarrangement, of Salisbury Flower thusiasm for she chose Shop, who taught a the gorgeous stones, logs, class on flower arflowers and red-twig dogranging in April. plants on diswood, dogwood Lamb took this play. leaves, Shasta class, and applied Two rooms daisies, sphagwhat she learned, in the Rowan num moss and a Massey said.

County Agriculpetite, yellow “It was a good tural Center Sunsprite roseclass,” Lamb said.

CAROLE MASSEY housed entries bud.

The horticulture Master gardener from Division I, In the “Flow- division had numerthe artistic diviers of the Piedous classes, from sion, and Divimont,” Hill put dahlias to roses to sion II, the horticultural divitogether a breathtaking bouzinnias to marigolds sion. quet of crape myrtle, lavender and more. Judge was Section A of the artistic divi- roses, pink hydrangeas, pink Robert Myers of A sion had five different classes calla lilies, purple Rose of Perfect Rose. Overall in its theme, “From the MounSharon, rosemary, dill and winner of this diviSara Hill's ‘B-Bop’ plant of Shrub Roses was tains to the Coast.” green foliage. sion was Hill, who en- in the horticulture division in the Rowan Jean Lamb won in the “ShiftWinner of the Celebrations tered a Be-Bop shrub Retro Flower Show held at the Extension ing Sands” class. She carefully section was Barbara Duffy, rose in the rose secService Center. Hill won the Award of placed sea oats (not the endanwhose A-shaped arrangement tion.

Artistic Excellence Award. gered ones), yellow-orange pro- of blue and purple hydrangeas “When it blooms fusion zinnias, purple euphorcould have been used for a like that, you have to bias and greenery into a conch shower or seasonal centertake advantage of it,” said Hill, flower gardens. “We just alshell, then placed that into a piece, Massey said. “It’s such a who kept the profusion of ways gardened at home.” She yellow shovel and surrounded nice flower for this area.” blooms in the refrigerator for a grows flowers and plants at her it with sand and shells.

Section C represented the week. “It doesn’t last that house and her daughter’s In the “High Rock Lake” most “hotly contested” categolong.” house. She entered in her name class, Lamb used a shallow ry, according to Massey: the The show’s sweepstakes and in Katherine Lamb’s name, blue, round bowl to represent miniatures. award went to Lamb, who had too. Both won awards. the lake. She filled it with “We love to do miniatures,” 26 entries that won awards.

Hill has green thumbs in her black-eyed Susans, Queen she said. “The only other place Lamb also won this award last blood, too. Her dad grew roses Anne’s lace, rocks and pines — we have this category is the year. and her mom grew flowers. A all natural items you find at the fair.”

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RALEIGH (AP) — Corn crops are dying and tomatoes are withering on the vine in portions of eastern North Carolina, where hot weather and dry conditions could add up to serious losses for the region’s farmers, according to agricultural agents.

Thirteen coastal counties are now in extreme drought, the second-highest of five drought classifications.

Sixty-eight other counties range from severe drought to abnormally dry, said Sarah Young of the state Drought Management Advisory Council.

Young said it was the first time since 2008 that any portion of the state has been labeled as being in extreme drought.

“I heard some of the corn in Pender County was burned all the way up to the tips, not from the wildfires they’ve been having, but the heat,” state climatologist Ryan Boyles said.

“We are seeing widespread losses and, in some cases, crop insurance is already being filed because no amount of additional rain could help.”

While some crops like cotton and soybeans are capable of weathering extreme conditions as long as they get occasional significant rainfall, others, such as corn, are more particular, officials said.

“That’s why they call them the billion-dollar rains,” Boyle said. “When the rain comes at the right time in the right areas, you’re talking about substantial money. If not, it’s substantial losses.”

Most corn crops pollinate and flower in June, requiring moderate temperatures and plenty of hydration.

However, this June many eastern parts of the state logged fairly consistent highs in the upper 80s to mid-90s.

Rainfall for the month was below normal, averaging 1.8 inches statewide — about half of the normal 3.5-inch average, weather service officials said.

April, May and June have been the driest on record for areas near Wilmington and New Bern, according to Boyles.

Also feeling the heat are growers of commercial vegetables like tomatoes, squash and cucumbers, says Robeson County horticultural specialist Kerrie Roach.

“Especially for tomatoes this year, it’s been really rough,” Roach said. “Tomatoes don’t set fruit when it’s above about 90 degrees, depending on the variety. So the heat this year has been especially limiting.”

Corn is North Carolina’s biggest row crop, with 900,000 acres planted in 2011, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics.

Corn harvested $327 million in income for the state’s farmers last year.

The largest state crop by revenue is still tobacco, valued at about $706 million. Industry officials estimated that North Carolina growers planted about 175,000 acres this year, an increase of about 7,000 acres.

North Carolina’s cotton crop has seen a large jump in acreage — 38 percent — due to the increase in commodity prices. USDA figures show growers planted 760,000 acres in cotton in 2011.

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Appeal revives state challenge to federal Voting Rights Act RALEIGH (AP) — A lawsuit challenging a major feature of the 1965 Voting Rights Act used to overturn how local elections in the eastern North Carolina town of Kinston are conducted deserves a new look from lower court judges, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington ordered that the fight over whether Kinston can hold nonpartisan elections deserves consideration, overturning a federal judge who dismissed the case last December.

The case involves a 2008 referendum by Kinston voters to establish nonpartisan local elections, a measure overwhemingly approved by town voters.

Nonpartisan elections are common across North Carolina, but the U.S. Justice Department said the effect in Kinston would be to effectively deny black voters the chance to vote for candidates of their choice.

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Rights Act allows the Justice Department to review election laws in places with a history of illegally hindering the voting rights of its citizens.

That section of the law is most extensively applied in the South, where the entire states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas are covered, along with virtually all of Virginia and large sections of North Carolina.

The department argued that although blacks make up a majority of Kinston’s registered voters, they have been a minority of actual voters in a series of recent elections.

Blacks are able to win elections in the town of about 23,000 because of a small but important segment of “crossover votes� from whites who vote straight-party Democrat tickets, the department contended.

The lawsuit filed in April 2010 by Stephen LaRoque and others contends that 2006 amendments to Section 5 in “erect a facially unconstitu-

tional racial-preference scheme� that deserve a look into the merits of the argument, the appeals court said.

LaRoque last November won re-election to the state House, where he served between 2003 and 2006. “That is really fantastic news, for not just folks here in Kinston but all across the nation,� LaRoque said.

Michael Rosman of the Center for Individual Rights, which is representing LaRoque and the other plaintiffs in the case, said Friday’s ruling allows the group to make its argument that the 2006 changes unconstitutionally freeze Southern communities in the civil rights-era battles. “It continues to subject certain states and localities to an onerous procedure for making any election changes based solely upon statistics and practices from the late ’60s and early ’70s,� said Rosman, the center’s general counsel.

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The appreciative group enjoyed an afternoon tea featuring cheese straws, cucumber sandwiches and sparkling fruit punch.

Lemon pound cake and orange-juice pound cake from Yoder’s Amish Market proved a big hit.

Curlee Brawley was the winner of the drawing for a 2-cycle Mantis tiller, donated by Faith Farm and Equipment.

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Emily had been to the museum before. “I am a history girl, and I love to get to ride things and be able to go inside them. I will be looking forward to my next trip,� she said.

Regular flight exhibits at the museum include a fullsize replica version of the Wright Brothers’ 1903 Flyer, and a Curtis Wright Flight Duplicator.

A DC-3 passenger aircraft is undergoing restoration.

Two men with local ties spoke in the afternoon in the roundhouse.

Col. Wesley Bean is a 1954 graduate of Spencer High School. He enlisted in the Air Force shortly after graduation, and served in Vietnam 1967.

One day, he met President Lyndon Johnson, who had just landed on Air Force One. Johnson wanted to talk with the men in the officer’s club and thank them.

Later in his career, Bean was assigned as chief of

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Col. Grey Medinger graduated from North Rowan High School in 1964 and played football at East Carolina University before serving in Vietnam in 1970-71.

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noon, with evening activity getting under way under better conditions.

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Employer celebrates 75 years of serving blind WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — Inside a crowded cafeteria, the lunchroom looks like any other at a large plant, with white walls, vending machines and faux wooden tables. But most of the workers at the factory have never seen it.

Last month, Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind, the largest employer for the blind and visually impaired in the U.S., celebrated its 75th birthday with cake and special guests.

Mayor Allen Joines and Mark Buddie, a former New York Yankees player and Wake Forest University baseball alumnus, attended.

“I am very proud to have Industries for the Blind a part of Winston-Salem,” Joines said.

The company employs 410 blind workers at its locations worldwide, providing training for the blind to gain employment.

Art Saunders, who was honored as employee of the year, was not born blind but lost his vision due to glaucoma. In his work there for the past six years, Saunders has found his niche in sewing military vests for servicemen.

“I just couldn’t stop” working after his blindness, he said. “I recently had a physical, and the doctor said I was fine. I just want to give back, and this is something that I enjoy doing.”

Danny Kelly, the vice president of operations, said the biggest challenge is finding employment for the visually impaired.

“I think about it every day, every minute of every day — what are we doing to grow our mission and further enhance the job opportunities for people who are blind,” Kelly said.

In 1936, Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind was established through the Lions Club as a nonprofit organization, employing six blind workers. The company has grown to produce products ranging from mattresses, eyeglasses and high-velocity cargo parachutes.

Mark Murray is the manager of the company’s mattress division and the winner of this year’s essay contest,

which earned him the opportunity to throw the first pitch of the season for the Dash.

Murray, a seasoned bowler and a pro at beep ball (a form of baseball for the blind), finds passion in his work and products.

In his essay “75 Years of IFB and What It Means to Me,” Murray wrote of the people who are helped through the program.

“It’s customers being amazed as they walk through the plant and see our visually impaired employees running machines and getting their work out,” Murray said.

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Various children’s activities, wild cow milking and a rodeo clown were among the highlights at the 875 Redmon Road setup.

FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — Local officials say 10 packs of wild dogs are roaming Fayetteville neighborhoods, menacing both people and pets.

The Fayetteville Observer reported Saturday that Cumberland County officials estimate that as many as 150 animals are currently on the loose in the city’s streets.

Fayetteville City Councilman Jim Arp says residents have told him the dogs are killing their pet cats.

John Lauby of the Animal Services Department says his animal control officers have shot and killed nine feral dogs in the past two weeks.

Lauby says there may be more packs than usual this year because more owners are abandoning their animals.

Lauby says he’s working on a plan to step up efforts collecting county pet licensing fees to increase spending for animal control.

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Court records show 65year-old Gary Hilton is being transferred from Florida to the federal courthouse in Asheville on July 25 for a first appearance hearing.

Hilton has been indicted on two counts of first-degree murder for the October 2007 slayings of a North Carolina couple.

Investigators say Irene Bryant, 84, was beaten to death and her 80-year-old husband shot after Hilton camped on the Pisgah National Forest trail waiting for victims.

It was a month before Irene Bryant’s body was found and four months before a hunter discovered her husband’s skeletal remains.

Administration is reviewing Greeneville, Tenn.-based Hawley Transport Services.

Federal reports mention no drug or alcohol violations for Hawley trucks and drivers in the past two years.

But Hawley truckers have been charged multiple times with speeding and violating driver-fatigue rules.

State traffic engineers are also studying the crash site for improvements that could make Interstate 40 safer.

Ronald Eugene Graybeal is charged with felony death by vehicle, driving while impaired and possessing marijuana and methadone.

Police say the 50-year-old Newport, Tenn., resident crashed into vehicles slowing in front of him June 30, killing three drivers.

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Authorities say no one was working at the Halifax Fertilizer Co. in Enfield when the fire started Friday night.

Enfield fire Chief Ronny Locke says the 18,000-squarefoot plant destroyed.

Locke said it will take several days for authorities to figure out what caused the fire.

Authorities say the fire may have started in the shop and moved to the warehouse.

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were familiar with how the locks worked.

Police are working to solve this case as quickly as possible, he said.

“There are a lot of people in these areas, and at 7 p.m., it’s still daylight,” Hunter said.

“They’re bold, whoever it is... but we’ve got our eyes open and we’re looking.”

Hunter said he doesn’t know if any of the pickup owners left their valuables out in the open, but local residents should know this is a common cause of break-ins.

“Leaving anything of value in plain view is just asking for somebody to break into your vehicle,” he said. “If you have things of value, lock them in your trunk where they can’t be seen.”

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SALISBURY — Six pickup trucks were broken into Friday evening while parked at Salisbury businesses.

Between 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Friday, police say, someone popped the locks on four vehicles at Cinemark Tinseltown movie theater off Faith Road, one at O’Charley’s on Innes Street and a steakhouse.

Several items were taken, including two firearms, said Sgt. Mark Hunter with the Salisbury Police Department. He could not give an estimate Saturday night of the total value of the items stolen.

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“So, I decided that we need to do something to offer more students information about our AP programs and why they need to consider taking these classes.”

Many of the AP classes are taught in a traditional classroom setting by a teacher from the school.

McDuffie said teachers are required to submit their syllabus to the College Board, the nonprofit organization that administers AP exams, for approval before they can begin teaching AP courses.

Teachers are not required to hold a specific degree or certification to instruct the classes.

Students who want to take classes that are not offered at their school can either travel to another school in the district or take it online through the North Carolina Virtual Public School.

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Steve and Melinda Russell, of 5311 Old Mocksville Road, got a call from their 15-yearold daughter, Brittany, while they were boating about 3 p.m.

“She told us the house was on fire, and I couldn’t half hear her,” Steve Russell said.

“I was scared.”

The couple rushed home to find their daughter waiting in an ambulance. Brittany at first appeared to be fine, emergency personnel said, but she was taken to Rowan Regional Medical Center for treatment of smoke inhalation.

Damage appeared to be contained to the kitchen.

Chief Jeff Whitley of Ellis Cross Country Fire Department said the blaze started while Brittany was cooking.

She was the only one home.

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Even those who weren’t as enraged said they found a sort of electronic catharsis in boiling down their emotions to 140 characters and posting them in anonymity on Twitter.

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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — For nearly two months, the murder trial of Casey Anthony was a living entity. It breathed daily across national television airwaves, then was reinforced nightly on cable TV programs that dissected every word uttered in the courtroom and fueled speculation on her fate.

When Anthony was acquitted of murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, hundreds of thousands of people captivated by the case — and certain of her guilt — poured their rage into postings on Facebook and the micro-blogging site Twitter.

Those and other social media sites provided a platform and a large audience for a decibel level of vitriol seldom seen before.

The threats, both veiled and blatant, were disturbing enough to make the judge hold off on releasing jurors’ names, and to make it all the more likely that Anthony will be secretly whisked away upon her release next week.

Postings continued to fill one “I hate Casey Anthony” Facebook page on Saturday morning, with nearly 39,000 people having “liked” the page.

Dr. Phyllis Chesler, a psychologist who authored “Mothers on Trial,” said the case connected with people by the millions because it taps primitive instincts rejecting the thought of a mother ever doing anything to harm her child.

“Once a mother is merely accused, she stands convicted, because the instinct is to blame the mother,” she said.

“She’s an outlaw even though she was found innocent.”

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News of the World prints final edition LONDON (AP) — Britain’s best-selling Sunday tabloid the News of the World signed off with a simple front page message: “THANK YOU & GOODBYE,” leaving the media establishment here reeling from the expanding phone-hacking scandal that brought down the muckraking newspaper after 168 years.

Journalists crafted the newspaper’s own obituary before sending the tabloid’s final edition to the printing presses Saturday night, apologizing for letting its readers down but stopping short of acknowledging recent allegations that staff paid police for information.

“We praised high standards, we demanded high standards but, as we are now only too painfully aware, for a period of a few years up to 2006 some who worked for us, or in our name, fell shamefully short of those standards,” reads a message posted on the tabloid’s website. “Quite simply, we lost our way. Phones were hacked, and for that this newspaper is truly sorry.”

Rupert Murdoch, whose media empire owns the paper, will arrive in London today on a scheduled visit, a person familiar with his itinerary told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

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He went on to snap up several other titles, gaining almost unparalleled influence in British politics through the far-reaching power of his papers’ headlines.

Malaysian authorities detain 1,667 at rally KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — At least 20,000 Malaysians defied government warnings by marching for electoral reforms Saturday, as police fired tear gas and detained more than 1,600 in the country’s biggest political rally in four years.

The crackdown on the opposition-backed demonstration in Malaysia’s main city, Kuala Lumpur, triggered criticism that Prime Minister Najib Razak’s long-ruling coalition was unwilling to allow public dissent or make election laws fairer ahead of national polls widely expected by mid-2012.

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Authorities blocked roads, shut rail stations and deployed trucks with water cannons near the Independence Stadium in downtown Kuala Lumpur where activists sought to gather. More than 200 activists had been arrested over the past two weeks for promoting the rally.

The large number of demonstrators who showed up despite the threat of arrests and the disruptions in transport links bolstered claims by activists that the government had misjudged public opinion by not allowing what they insisted would have been a peaceful rally.

40 killed in 24 hours in Mexican fighting MEXICO CITY (AP) — Fighting among the Zetas gang and other vicious drug cartels led to the deaths of more than 40 people whose bodies were found in three Mexican cities over a 24-hour span, a government official said Saturday.

At least 20 people were killed and five injured when gunmen opened fire in a bar late Friday in the northern city of Monterrey, where the gang is fighting its former ally, the Gulf Cartel, said federal security spokesman Alejandro Poire.

Eleven bodies shot with high-powered rifles were found earlier, piled near a water well on the outskirts of Mexico City, where the gang is fighting the Knights Templar, Poire said. That is an offshoot of the La Familia gang that has terrorized its home state of Michoacan.

Poire said an additional 10 people were found dead early Saturday in various parts of the northern city of Torreon, where the Zetas are fighting the Sinaloa cartel headed by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

Drilling raises fears among churches PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bishops, nuns and rabbis are joining the environmental and social debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale region, and many are seeking a balance that reflects their congregations.

“We have people’s lives who are being blessed or adversely affected by this,” said Bishop Thomas Bickerton of Pittsburgh, who leads more than 800 United Methodist congregations and 187,000 members in western Pennsylvania, where major drilling is taking place.

“The conversations within the church are rather lively and robust,” Bickerton said, and he thinks gas drilling “warrants some careful looking” by religious groups and public officials.

Bickerton told the Associated Press that it’s a delicate topic. On one hand, he’s very supportive of the economic development which gas drilling has spurred across the region. On the other, he said it appears the state has not thoroughly looked at all the issues around drilling, its impact on communities and the environment.

And as a West Virginia native, he’s seen how mining for another natural resource — coal — has helped and hurt communities.

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CHINA GROVE — Ivan Edwards Hinshaw, 84, passed away Friday evening, July 8, 2011, at his residence following a period of declining health.

Born April 2, 1927, in Alamance County, he was a son of the late William David and Lola Andrews Hinshaw.

A graduate of Liberty High and Burlington Business College, he had honorably served his country during the duration of WWII with the US Navy. Mr. Hinshaw retired after more than 25 years of service with Collins and Aikman and loved his family and golf.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Bernard Hinshaw.

Family members include his wife of 63 years, Millie Fogleman Hinshaw; his sons, Ed Hinshaw and wife Anna of Salisbury, Steve Hinshaw of China Grove, Keith Hinshaw and wife Wendy of Badin, and Larry Hinshaw of Orlando, Fl.; brothers, William Hinshaw of Harrisonburg, Va., Robert Hinshaw of Cary; sisters, Edith Moore of Asheboro, Myra Way of Alamance; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Visitation and Services: The family will receive friends Tuesday, July 12, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. with the service also at 3 p.m. at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church conducted by Pastor Ray Sipe. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

Memorials: Memorials may be made to Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 3070 E. Hwy. 152, Salisbury NC 28146.

Linn-Honeycutt Funeral Home in China Grove is serving the Hinshaw family. Online condolences may be made at www.linnhoneycuttfuneralhome.com.

STATESVILLE — Mary Fern Rumple Crouch, 81, of Statesville, passed away Saturday, July 9, 2011, at Jurney's Assisted Living in Statesville.

Mrs. Crouch was born Nov. 3, 1929, in Iredell County and was the daughter of the late Roy Daniel Rumple and Annie Mae Lindley Rumple.

She attended Statesville City Schools and on April 5, 1947, was married to Jack Dempsey Crouch, who survives of the home.

She attended First Wesleyan Church in Statesville and was a homemaker. She enjoyed spending time with her children and grandchildren. She also enjoyed music, telling funny stories and always tried to keep a happy spirit. She truly enlightened the world with her contagious smile and was loved by all.

In addition to her husband of 64 years, she is survived by three daughters, Joan C. Crouch of Salisbury, Deborah K. Crouch of Troutman, Beverly Crouch Kiser of Statesville; three grandchildren, Roman Lumsden of Arlington, Tex., Brandon Crouch of Statesville, Erin Clark of Greensboro; two sisters, Eva Rumple Leonard of Catawba, Betty Rumple Threatte of Statesville; and one brother, Roy Daniel Rumple of Statesville.

Mrs. Crouch was preceded in death by one son, R. Tommy Crouch; and one granddaughter, Gretchen L. Landau.

Services and Visitation: A celebration of life memorial service will be conducted 11 a.m. Monday, July 11, in the Nicholson Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Jerry Massey and Roy Church officiating. The family will receive friends following the service at the Crouch residence on Armfield Street. A private family burial will be held at a later date.

Memorials: Memorials may be made to Hospice and Palliative Care of Iredell County, 2347 Simonton Rd., Statesville NC 28625 or to Jurney's Assisted Living of Statesville, 1942 Van Haven Dr., Statesville NC 28677.

Nicholson Funeral Home is serving the family of Mrs. Mary Fern Rumple Crouch.

Online condolences may be made to the family at www.nicholsonfunerals.com.

COOLEEMEE — Mrs. Pauline Frances Moon Anderson, 82, died Friday, July 8, 2011, at Genesis Healthcare of Salisbury.

She was born July 11, 1928, in Gadsden, Alabama, to the late Paul and Ethel Moon.

Mrs. Anderson was a member of the First Baptist Church in Cooleemee where she belonged to the Ladies Night Out. She was a loving mother and grandmother and enjoyed raising roses.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Odell Anderson; two daughters, Carolyn Davis and Jane Anderson; a son, Steven Anderson; a granddaughter, Sonya Hamilton; two brothers, Ernest Moon and L.D. Moon; and two sisters, Ruby Bracey and Bonnie Hartman.

Survivors include a son, Howard Anderson (Arlene); a grandson, Eric Davis, all of Cooleemee; two great-grandchildren, Brandon Davis and Heather Hamilton; and several nieces and nephews.

Services: A funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m., Monday, July 11, at Eaton Funeral Chapel with the Rev. John Groff officiating. Interment will be in Bear Creek Baptist Church Cemetery.

Visitation: The family will receive friends from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 10, at the funeral home.

Memorials: They request that memorials be considered for Cooleemee Presbyterian Church, PO Box 27, Cooleemee NC 27014.

Eaton Funeral Service is assisting the Anderson Family. Online condolences may be made at www.eatonfuneralservice.com.

Kathy Wilson Sloop SALISBURY — Ms. Kathy Dianne Wilson Sloop, 57, of Salisbury, passed away Thursday, July 7, 2011, at her residence.

Ms. Sloop was born April 2, 1954, in Rowan County, daughter of the late Mr. Boyd Wilson and Mrs. Katherine Roseman Wilson.

She was a graduate of East Rowan High School and had previously worked in retail sales and at Food Lion. Ms. Sloop enjoyed spending time with her family.

In addition to her parents, she is also preceded in death by her daughter, Traci Sloop; and brothers Harlan Wilson and Larry Roseman.

Mrs. Sloop is survived by her daughter April Sloop of Salisbury; niece Alysha Wilson Bowers of Rockwell; sister Delores Wilson Bowers of Rockwell; and great-niece Abriana Williams.

Services: The funeral will be at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, July 13th, at the Powles Funeral Home Chapel conducted by Rev. Gene Sides, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church.

Burial will follow at First Baptist Church Cemetery in Rockwell.

Visitation: The family will receive friends on Wednesday, July 13th, at Powles Funeral Home from 12 p.m. Until 2 p.m.

Memorial: Donations to help with funeral expenses may be made to Powles Funeral Home, PO Box 248, Rockwell NC 28138.

Powles Funeral Home is assisting the Sloop family.

Online condolences may be made at www.powlesfuneralhome.com.

SALISBURY — George Henry Ballard, age 66, of Westbury, N.Y. (formerly of Salisbury), passed on Thursday, July 7, 2011, at Nassau Medical University Center, Long Island, N.Y. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced at a later date by Noble and Kelsey Funeral Home, Inc.

FAITH — Carl V. Holshouser, Jr., “June,” 72, of Faith, passed away Thursday, July 7, 2011, at The Brian Center of Salisbury.

June was born Aug. 12, 1938, in Salisbury, son of the late Carl V. Holshouser, Sr. and Addie Cauble Holshouser.

June attended Woodleaf School. He was owner and operator of June's Paint and Body Shop, drove a gas tanker and also worked for Kirt's Taxi for over 20 years.

June loved working on and fixing cars at his body shop and loved spending time with his family.

June is survived by his wife, Judy Miller Holshouser of Faith; daughter Maria Biggers of Faith; grandchildren Robin Foster, Shane Rabon, Candy Rainey and Arnie Rabon; and six great-grandchildren.

Memorials: May be made to American Cancer Society, 4-A Oak Branch Drive, Greensboro NC 27407.

Carolina Cremation of Salisbury (formerly Evergreen Cremation Services) is assisting the Holshouser family.

Online condolences may be made at www.mycarolinacremation.com.

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- Army Capt. David E. Van Camp, 29, of Wheeling, W.Va.; and - Army Capt. Matthew G. Nielson, 27, of Jefferson, Iowa; and - Army Spc. Robert G. Tenney Jr., 29, Warner Robins, Ga., died June 29 in Badrah, Iraq, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked their unit with indirect fire.

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- Army Pfc. James A. Waters, 21, of Cloverdale, Ind., died July 1 at Kandahar province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using an improvised explosive device.

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- Army Capt. Matthew G. Nielson, 27, of Jefferson, Iowa, died June 29, in Badrah, Iraq, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with indirect fire.

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- Army Staff Sgt. Michael J. Garcia, 27, of Bossier City, La., died July 4 in Logar province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using an improvised explosive device.

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- Army Staff Sgt. Joshua A. Throckmorton, 28, of Battle Creek Mich.; and - Army Spc. Jordan C. Schumann, 24, Port Saint Lucie, Fla.; and - Army Spc. Preston J. Suter, 22, Sandy, Utah, died July 5 in Paktia province, Afghanistan of injuries suffered when enemy forces attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device.

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- Army Sgt. Nicanor Amper IV, 36, of San Jose, Calif., died July 5 in Khowst, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with a rocket propelled grenade.

Ricky Haden Spry SALISBURY — Ricky Haden Spry, 56, of Salisbury, passed away on Saturday, July 9, 2011, at Rowan Regional Medical Center.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time.

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Pentagon chief says al-Qaida is on the ropes KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Al-Qaida’s defeat is “within reach,” U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Saturday during his first visit to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief. He said eliminating as few as 10 of the group’s top figures could cripple its ability to strike the West.

Panetta’s assessment could stoke the debate in Washington over how soon to pull the U.S. military from the land where Osama bin Laden’s network launched the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, against the United States. Some question why a continued military commitment is necessary if al-Qaida’s end is in sight, given that it was the reason the U.S. began the war.

Although not as specific as Panetta about what it will take to break al-Qaida, the top American commander in Afghanistan said in a separate interview that he agrees the group is on the ropes.

“There has been enormous damage done to al-Qaida” beyond bin Laden’s killing May 2 in Pakistan. Army Gen. David Petraeus said, “That has very significantly disrupted their efforts and it does hold the prospect of a strategic defeat, if you will, a strategic dismantling, of al-Qaida.”

Panetta said he hoped his shift from CIA director to defense secretary, combined with a change of U.S. civilian and military leaders in Kabul, will put the troubled U.S.Afghan relationship “back on the right track.”

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Alexandra Watts of Charlotte finishes her audition in front of a camera manned by WJZY producer Aaron Rotan.

Salisbury resident Lisa Clark, seated in background, helped direct those trying out as her daughter, Caroline, watched. wait to hear the results.

“It’s surreal. I’m still trying to figure out if I’m really here,” Ford said. “I’m really happy and excited that I got this chance.”

Ford, a student at North Carolina A&T State University, said she has modeled before in a training program at the John Casablancas Modeling and Career Center in

Charlotte.

“I love modeling, but I haven’t had a chance to do it because of school,” she said.

“I want to keep pursuing it.”

She’s also a big fan of “America’s Next Top Model.”

“I watch it all the time,” Ford said, “even the reruns.”

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Models wait outside in the sun before auditioning for ‘America’s Next top Model.’ month or two ago ... that they would be able to have their next event here,” Alexander said. “It didn’t take us long to decide to do it.”

Once the women arrived in the audition room, they were

Maklisha Ford of Kannapolis performs a runway walk for the camera during her audition at Livingstone College.

Livingstone graduate Ashley Foster of Salisbury poses Saturday while waiting in line for the ‘America’s Next top Model’ casting call.

With little rain, SC on edge of serious drought COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A Currently, 26 counties in the drought. The rest of the state few hot, dry months have eastern and southern part of is in an incipient drought, the South Carolina teetering on the state are in a moderate lowest level of drought. the edge of a major drought.

Crops are still OK in the fields, and lakes haven’t fallen to critical levels. But a few more weeks without significant rain and things may quickly get worse quickly.

Stream flows and lake levels across the state are starting to drop in what can be Auto General Liability some of the biggest harbinHomeowners Worker’s Compensation gers of a major drought.

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The gauges confirm what Dennis Chastain has seen with his own eyes around his home near Table Rock State Park.

He said he has been amazed at how fast the small mountain streams that eventually turn into South Carolina’s rivers have slowed and dried up.

“I have noticed over about the last two weeks a dramatic drop in the flow of these little headwater streams,” Chastain said. “Just profound — like someone pulled the plug on a bathwater drain.”

Chastain is a member of Travelers - GMAC - Safeco the state Drought Response Committee, which monitors the effects of the drought across the state. He said the committee plans to meet by phone Thursday and may increase the severity of the drought in South Carolina.

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ing calls. Sierra Ingram, 21, of Salisbury, said she has done runway modeling and numerous photo shoots.

When asked what she’ll do if she makes it on the show, the Winston-Salem State University student answered, “I’m going to represent for Salisbury.”

Others with no modeling experience said they wanted to try something new.

Ashley Foster, 22, also of Salisbury, said she wasn’t too nervous waiting in line. The Livingstone graduate’s real passion is singing, but she decided to try modeling just to see what happened.

“Why not? Why not me?” she asked, echoing a popular phrase Saturday.

Many who came to Salisbury to audition were not from Rowan County. They traveled from Greensboro, Charlotte, Gastonia, Fayetteville and even as far as Cleveland, Ohio, for this summer’s only casting call in North Carolina.

They wore a variety of outfits, from sundresses to tube tops to T-shirts and jeans.

Fashionable high heels and platform shoes gave shorter ladies a boost and lifted the already statuesque to towering heights.

To qualify, auditioners had to be female, between 18 and 27 years old and at least 5 feet, 7 inches tall. They were required to submit identification and three photographs of themselves.

Some who didn’t meet these requirements were turned away at the registration table in the lobby of Varick Auditorium.

Once inside auditorium, those waiting to audition saw presentations about Livingstone and videos of upcoming show pilots on the CW. State Alexander, Livingstone’s executive assistant to the president and director of public relations, said CW affiliate WJZY has partnered with the college for a while.

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Boehner to seek smaller spending cutback Obama tried to build political support for an ambitious package of spending cuts and new tax revenue that would reduce the debt by $4 trillion over 10 years. But from the moment he proposed it, Republicans said they would reject any tax increases and Democrats objected to spending cuts in some of their most prized benefit programs, including Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers led by Vice President Joe Biden had already identified, but not signed off on, about $2 trillion in deficit reductions, most accomplished through spending cuts.

But after holding a secret meeting with Boehner last weekend, Obama and his top aides said they believed an even bigger figure was attainable if both parties made politically painful, but potentially historic, choices.

In the end, the pressure from both sides was pushing against Obama’s bigger goal.

“I believe the best approach may be to focus on producing a smaller measure, based on the cuts identified in the Biden-led negotiations, that still meets our call for spending reforms and cuts greater than the amount of any debt limit increase,” Boehner said.

“The president believes that solving our fiscal problems is an economic imperative. But in order to do that, we cannot ask the middleclass and seniors to bear all the burden of higher costs and budget cuts,” said White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer. “We need a balanced approach that asks the very wealthiest and special interests to pay their fair share as well, and we believe the American people agree.”

Pfeiffer said: “Both parties have made real progress thus far, and to back off now will not only fail to solve our fiscal challenge, it will confirm the cynicism people have about politics in Washington.

A Republican official familiar with the discussions said taxes and the major health and retirement entitlement programs continued to be sticking points.

Earlier Saturday, in his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama appealed to Democrats and Republicans to “make some political sacrifices” and take advantage of an extraordinary opportunity to tackle the government’s budget crisis.

He said that it will take a “balanced approach” that

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The Wireless Center in Strongsville, near Cleveland, advertises at curbside with a man in a gorilla suit. Manager Brandon Parham says he was watching last week as a kid dressed as a banana emerged from some bushes and took a flying leap at the store mascot.

Parham says the attacker looked like a Spartan from the movie “300” — except he was a banana.

The gorilla was knocked down but got back up, adjusted his head and went back to work.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican budget negotiators have abandoned plans to pursue a massive $4 trillion, 10-year deficit reduction package in the face of stiff GOP opposition to any plan that would increase taxes as part of the deal.

House Speaker John Boehner informed President Barack Obama Saturday that a smaller agreement of about $2 trillion was more realistic.

In a statement issued Saturday evening, Boehner said: “Despite good-faith efforts to find common ground, the White House will not pursue a bigger debt reduction agreement without tax hikes.”

The White House responded that Obama will continue to push to make as much progress on deficit reduction as possible.

Boehner’s statement came a day before he and seven of the top House and Senate leaders were scheduled to meet at the White House in a negotiating session and lay out their differences.

A deficit reduction deal is crucial to win Republican support for an increase in the nation’s debt ceiling. The government’s borrowing capacity is currently capped at $14.3 trillion and administration officials say it will go into default by Aug. 2.

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SUNDAY July 10, 2011

SALISBURY POST

Ronnie Gallagher, Sports Editor, 704-797-4287 rgallagher@salisburypost.com

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Mr. 3,000 Jeter reaches milestone with homer; goes 5-for-5

BY MIKE FITZPATRICK Associated Press

NEW YORK — The only way his 3,000th hit would have Yankees 5 felt right to Derek Rays 4 Jeter was if it came in a Yankees win.

So, as with everything else Saturday, he took care of that himself.

Jeter homered for hit No. 3,000 and raced right past the milestone in a scintillating performance, going 5 for 5 with a tiebreaking single in the eighth inning that gave New York a 5-4 victory over AssociAted press the Tampa Bay Rays. derek Jeter shows a smile as he rounds third base on his “It would have been really, really awk3,000th hit — a home run. ward to be out there doing interviews and

waving to the crowd after the game if we had lost. So that was going through my head in my last at-bat today,” Jeter said.

“If we didn’t win, it definitely would have put a damper on things.”

Jeter doubled and had three singles while starting a pair of Yankees rallies and finishing off their last one. He bounced a single through the left side his first time up to give him No. 2,999, then sent a no-doubt drive deep into the leftfield bleachers off Rays ace David Price in the third inning.

That made Jeter the 28th major leaguer to get 3,000 hits, one of baseball’s biggest milestones, and the first to do it with the Yankees. Former teammate Wade Boggs was the only other player to

reach the plateau with a homer.

“Hitting a home run was the last thing I was thinking about,” Jeter said.

His shot set off quite a celebration in the Bronx, with teammates mobbing Jeter at home plate in a pack of pinstripes before he took a curtain call and saluted the sellout crowd of 48,103. The game was held up for 4 minutes, and Jeter also acknowledged the Tampa Bay players who applauded.

“It was a great moment for Derek and his family and the history of the Yankee franchise,” said former teammate Johnny Damon, who led the cheers from the Rays dugout. “Derek stands for the good

See JETER, 4B

LEGION BASEBALL

South edges Winston

BY JORDAN HONEYCUTT sports@salisburypost.com

WINSTON-SALEM —The S o u t h S. Rowan 12 Rowan LeW-Salem 10 gion baseball team has definitely shifted its focus and overall attitude into fullblown playoff mode.

South rallied in the eighth inning to turn an 8-6 deficit into a dramatic 12-10 victory over Winston-Salem.

“It’s playoffs and these kids sure showed a lot of fight here tonight in what was an intense back-and-forth game,” South coach Michael Lowman said. “We were able to come out ahead.”

The visitors carried a 6-3 lead into the bottom of the sixth when Winston-Salem plated five runs due to reliever Jesse PARK Park inheriting a jam and an uncharacteristic error from shortstop Gunnar Hogan.

Park worked through the trouble and ended up with the win as South erupted for a sixrun eighth to take the lead for good.

Hogan also redeemed himself as he lined a double to center field that drove home a pair of runs, setting the table for Maverick Miles, who followed Hogan’s double with a two-run single.

The big stars of the night for South were Kyle Bridges at the plate and youngster Dillon Atwell on the mound.

Atwell relieved Park with

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thomas Allen gave the rowan Legion another superb pitching performance in a victory against surry county on saturday night.

Rowan takes Game 1

BY DAVID SHAW dshaw@salisburypost.com

SALISBURY — Rowan County’s playoff march is off Rowan 4 to a jackrabbit thanks Surry 1 start, chiefly to Thomas Allen.

The unbeaten righthander pitched like he had a bus to catch Saturday night at Newman Park, where Rowan

gained a fast-paced 4-1 victory against Surry County.

“It was a clean, fast game,” Allen said after hurling seven innings and winning his fifth decision. “Nobody needs a long game, especially in the playoffs.”

This one crossed the finish line in less than two hours, possibly Rowan’s shortest game of the season. More importantly, it earned the locals a second-round matchup with the visiting

Mooresville Moors tonight.

“We’re off to a good start with our pitchers,” coach Jim Gantt said after Rowan (19-6) won its seventh straight.

“Zack Simpson looked really good (Friday) night in the rainout and Thomas Allen was sharp tonight. I would like to see us swing the bats a little better, but in the playoffs you see everybody’s best.”

Rowan scored its first three runs against Post 123’s Taylor Hull, a

righthander out of Surry Community College who had won his previous three decisions. He retired the side in order in the first two innings before running into trouble in the top of the third.

“He throws the ball well,” said legendary Surry coach Barry Hall. “We won five of our last eight to get here and he’s carried us down the stretch.”

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Busch claims 99th career win

BY WILL GRAVES Associated Press

AssociAted press

Kyle Busch celebrates in victory lane after winning the inaugural race at the Kentucky speedway.

SPARTA, Ky. — Kyle Busch figured the best way to beat the traffic on Saturday night at Kentucky Speedway.

He simply stayed out of it.

Busch rolled to victory in the inaugural Sprint Cup race at the 1.5-mile oval, pulling away from Jimmie Johnson on a restart with three laps to go to collect his third victory of the season and jump into the points lead with two months to go before NASCAR’s Chase for the championship begins.

“This is cool man,” Busch said.

“This is right up there with the best of them.”

For now anyway. The way Busch

is surging, better days almost certainly lay ahead.

Track officials hope they can say the same for their venue, which experienced some ugly growing pains during its first step into the spotlight. A massive traffic jam made the trip in a tortuous test of patience.

Even the drivers weren’t immune.

Denny Hamlin nearly missed the driver’s meeting while getting stuck in the snarl.

Not exactly the kind of Cup debut Speedway Motorsports Inc. owner Bruton Smith was hoping for when he successfully lobbied NASCAR officials to let him move a date from Atlanta Motor Speedway to the quirky oval in the northern Kentucky hills.

“It was one of those things,” said

Hamlin, who finished 11th after starting from the back of the 43-car field.

“You’ve got a lot of fans that want to watch the first race. You can’t do anything about a two-lane road.”

And the drivers can’t seem to do anything about Busch, who moved into the points lead as the season reached its halfway point. He leads Edwards by four points heading into next week’s race at New Hampshire with about two months to go before the Chase for the championship begins.

Kevin Harvick began the night with the points lead, but slipped to third in the standings after finishing 16th.

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2B • SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2011

TV Sports Sunday, July 10 CYCLING 8 a.m.

VERSUS — Tour de France, stage 9, Issoire to Saint-Flour, France GOLF 3 p.m.

CBS — PGA Tour, John Deere Classic, final round, at Silvis, Ill. NBC — USGA, U.S. Women’s Open Championship, final round, at Colorado Springs.

7 p.m.

TGC — Champions Tour, First Tee Open, final round, at Pebble Beach, Calif.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 1:30 p.m.

TBS — Atlanta at Philadelphia WGN — Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh 8 p.m.

ESPN — N.Y. Mets at San Francisco MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 6 p.m.

ESPN2 — All-Star Futures Game, at Phoenix SOCCER 6:30 a.m.

ESPN — FIFA, Women’s World Cup, quarterfinal, Sweden vs. Australia, at Augsburg, Germany 11 a.m.

ESPN — FIFA, Women’s World Cup, quarterfinal, Brazil vs. United States, at Dresden, Germany 4 p.m.

ESPN — MLS, Seattle at Portland

Area schedule Sunday, July 10 INTIMIDATORS BASEBALL 5:05 p.m.

Kannapolis at Lakewood BlueClaws AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL 7 p.m.

Kannapolis at Kernersville Mooresville Moors at Rowan County Burlington at Mocksville Stanly at Randolph 8 p.m.

South Rowan at High Point

American Legion Standings Area III Southern Division Division Overall Rowan County 14-4 19-6 Mocksville 13-5 15-10 12-6 14-8 Wilkes County Mooresville Moors 10-8 13-9 Stanly County 10-8 13-9 Concord 8-10 9-12 7-11 9-15 South Rowan Kannapolis 6-12 6-14 x-Statesville 5-13 7-15 5-13 x-Mooresville Legends 5-13 Northern Division Division Overall Randolph 14-4 19-8 Winston-Salem 13-5 13-7 12-6 15-7 High Point Kernersville 11-7 20-11 Eastern Randolph 9-9 11-11 9-9 10-11 Burlington-Graham Western Forsyth 8-10 12-13 Surry 7-11 7-13 6-12 9-14 x-Lexington x-Thomasville 1-17 3-17

Playoffs Bracket A (double-elimination) Friday, July 8 Game 1 — Randolph 4, Kannapolis 3 Game 3 — Stanly 7, Kernersville 4 (8 inns.)

Game 4 — High Point 7, Concord 2 (7 inns.)

Saturday, July 9 Game 2 — S. Rowan 12, Winston-Salem 10 Sunday, July 10 Game 5 — Kannapolis at Kernersville Game 6 — Concord at Winston-Salem Game 7 — Stanly at Randolph Game 8 — South Rowan at High Point Bracket B (double-elimination) Friday, July 8 Game 2 — Mocksville 6, W. Forsyth 3 (7 inns.)

Saturday, July 9 Game 1 — Rowan County 4, Surry 1 Game 3 — Mooresville Moors 1, E. Randolph 0 Game 4 — Burlington 15, Wilkes 9 Sunday, July 10 Game 5 — Surry at Eastern Randolph Game 6 — Western Forsyth at Wilkes Game 7 — Mooresville Moors at Rowan Game 8 — Burlington at Mocksville

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0 Miles 2b 3 0 0 0 0 A.Ellis c 2 0 1 0 0 Oeltjen pr 0 1 0 0 0 DNavrr c 0 0 0 0 0 Blngsly p 2 0 0 0 Carroll ph 0 0 0 0 Guerra p 0 0 0 0 28 1 5 1 Totals 30 0 5 0 Totals San Diego 000 000 000—0 Los Angeles 000 000 01x—1 E—Uribe (2). Dp—Los Angeles 2. Lob—San Diego 11, Los Angeles 7. 2b—Bartlett (10), Headley (24), Maybin (11). Sb—Venable (15). S— Latos, Carroll.

IP H R ER BB SO San Diego 5 1 1 2 6 Latos L,5-10 71⁄3 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 Spence Los Angeles Billingsley W,8-7 8 4 0 0 5 4 Guerra S,3-3 1 1 0 0 0 2 HBP—by Guerra (Rizzo, Ro.Johnson).

T—2:36. A—38,529 (56,000).

New York ab Pagan cf 5 Turner 2b 5 Beltran rf 5 DnMrp 3b 4 3 Bay lf Duda 1b 2 Evans 1b 2 Thole c 4 RTejad ss 3 Dickey p 2 Byrdak p 0 Beato p 0 Hairstn ph 1 FrRdrg p 0

San Francisco h bi ab r h bi 1 2 Torres cf 4 0 1 0 0 0 BCrwfr ss 4 0 0 0 3 1 PSndvl 3b 4 1 1 0 3 0 Huff 1b 4 0 0 0 0 0 Schrhlt rf 2 1 1 2 0 0 Rownd lf 4 0 0 0 1 1 MTejad 2b 4 0 1 0 0 0 Whitsd c 4 0 1 0 1 0 Vglsng p 2 0 1 0 1 0 C.Ross ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 Burriss pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 JaLopz p 0 0 0 0 1 1 BrWlsn p 0 0 0 0 0 0 Affeldt p 0 0 0 0 RRmrz p 0 0 0 0 Burrell ph 1 0 0 0 34 2 7 2 Totals 36 5 11 5 Totals 000 020 003—5 New York 000 101 000—2 San Fran E—Dan.murphy (7), Torres (2). Dp—New York 1, San Francisco 1. Lob—New York 11, San Francisco 7. 2b—Beltran (27), P.sandoval (13). Hr— Pagan (3), Hairston (4), Schierholtz (7). Sb—Pagan (18), M.tejada (4). S—Dan.murphy, Dickey.

Sf—Schierholtz.

IP H R ER BB SO New York 7 7 2 2 0 4 Dickey 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 Byrdak 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Beato W,2-1 0 0 0 0 1 FRdrigz S,23-26 1 San Francisco Vogelsong 7 7 2 2 5 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 Ja.Lopez 1 2 1 0 0 Br.wilson L,6-2 1⁄3 Affeldt 0 2 1 1 0 0 2 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 R.Ramirez Affeldt pitched to 2 batters in the 9th.

PB—Thole 2.

T—3:00. A—41,028 (41,915). r 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0

Soccer World Cup Quarterfinals Saturday, July 9 England 1, France 1 (France wins 4-3 on PKs) Japan 1, Germany 0 Sunday, July 10 Sweden vs. Australia, 7 a.m.

Brazil vs. USA, 11:30 a.m.

Semifinals Wednesday, July 13 France vs. Brazil-United States winner, Noon Japan vs. Sweden-Australia winner, 2:45 p.m.

THIRD PLACE Saturday, July 16 Semifinal losers, 11:30 a.m.

CHAMPIONSHIP Sunday, July 17 At Frankfurt Semifinal winners, 2:45 p.m.

Transactions BASEBALL National League ATLANTA BRAVES—Placed 3B Chipper Jones on the 15-day DL. Recalled INF Brandon Hicks from Gwinnett (IL).

PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Reinstated 3B Pedro Alvarez from the 15-day DL and optioned him to Indianapolis (IL).

COLLEGE WESTERN COLLEGIATE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION—Colorado College, Denver, Minnesota Duluth, Nebraska-Omaha and North Dakota announced they are leaving to create the new conference.

Standings

Sprint Cup

Late Friday Angels 4, Mariners 3 Seattle

Los Angeles ab r h bi ab r h bi ISuzuki rf 4 0 1 1 Aybar ss 4 1 1 1 Ryan ss 3 0 1 1 TrHntr rf 3 0 0 0 Ackley 2b 4 1 1 0 Abreu dh 3 0 0 0 Olivo c 4 0 1 0 V.Wells lf 4 1 3 1 Smoak 1b 3 0 0 1 HKndrc 2b 4 0 1 0 Cust dh 4 0 0 0 Callasp 3b 4 0 1 0 FGtrrz cf 4 1 1 0 Trumo 1b 4 1 2 1 Seager 3b 2 0 0 0 Conger c 3 1 1 1 Halmn lf 3 1 2 0 Trout cf 3 0 0 0 Totals 31 3 7 3 Totals 32 4 9 4 Seattle 001 110 000—3 Los Angeles 100 100 101—4 No outs when winning run scored.

E—Ryan (8). Dp—Seattle 1, Los Angeles 1.

Lob—Seattle 4, Los Angeles 6. 2b—Halman (2).

Hr—Aybar (6), V.wells (13), Trumbo (15), Conger (5). Sb—I.suzuki (23), Halman (4). Cs—Trumbo (4). Sf—Ryan, Smoak.

IP H R ER BB SO Seattle 6 2 2 0 1 Beavan 61⁄3 J.wright Bs,4-5 1 1 1 1 1 0 Laffey 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 ⁄3 1 1 1 0 0 Pauley L,5-2 Los Angeles E.Santana 7 6 3 3 1 6 S.Downs 1 1 0 0 0 1 Walden W,2-2 1 0 0 0 0 1 Laffey pitched to 2 batters in the 8th.

Pauley pitched to 1 batter in the 9th.

T—2:37. A—40,161 (45,389).

Dodgers 1, Padres 0 r 0 0 0 0 0 0

Los Angeles h bi ab r 1 0 GwynJ lf 4 0 1 0 Furcal ss 4 0 1 0 Ethier rf 3 0 0 0 Kemp cf 3 0 0 0 Loney 1b 4 0 1 0 Uribe 3b 3 0

h bi 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

Lap Leaders: Ku.Busch 1-31; Ky.Busch 32; T.Kvapil 33; J.Yeley 34; K.Kahne 35; Ky.Busch 36-81; L.Cassill 82-83; Ky.Busch 84-141; B.Keselowski 142-157; Ky.Busch 158; T.Stewart 159; B.Keselowski 160-185; Ky.Busch 186-193; D.Hamlin 194-198; D.Ragan 199-201; M.Truex Jr. 202; B.Keselowski 203-239; Ku.Busch 240249; D.Reutimann 250-256; Ky.Busch 257-267.

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): Ky.Busch, 6 times for 125 laps; B.Keselowski, 3 times for 79 laps; Ku.Busch, 2 times for 41 laps; D.Reutimann, 1 time for 7 laps; D.Hamlin, 1 time for 5 laps; D.Ragan, 1 time for 3 laps; L.Cassill, 1 time for 2 laps; T.Stewart, 1 time for 1 lap; K.Kahne, 1 time for 1 lap; M.Truex Jr., 1 time for 1 lap; T.Kvapil, 1 time for 1 lap; J.Yeley, 1 time for 1 lap.

Top 12 in Points: 1. Ky.Busch, 624; 2. C.Edwards, 620; 3. K.Harvick, 614; 4. Ku.Busch, 606; 5. J.Johnson, 605; 6. M.Kenseth, 602; 7. J.Gordon, 553; 8. D.Earnhardt Jr., 548; 9. R.Newman, 538; 10. D.Hamlin, 529; 11. T.Stewart, 527; 12. C.Bowyer, 514.

Mets 5, Giants 2

Minors

ML Baseball

San Diego ab Venale rf 3 Bartlett ss 5 Headly 3b 3 Ludwck lf 4 OHdsn 2b 2 Maybin cf 4

Rizzo 1b 3 RJhnsn c 3 Latos p 2 Spence p 0 KPhlps ph 1

Racing

South Atlantic League Northern Division W L Pct. GB — Hagerstown (Nationals) 11 6 .647 x-Hickory (Rangers) 11 6 .647 — Kannapolis (White Sox) 9 7 .563 11⁄2 9 7 .563 11⁄2 Lakewood (Phillies) Delmarva (Orioles) 7 9 .438 31⁄2 Greensboro (Marlins) 7 9 .438 31⁄2 5 West Virginia (Pirates) 6 11 .353 Southern Division W L Pct. GB x-Savannah (Mets) 13 3 .813 — Asheville (Rockies) 9 8 .529 41⁄2 8 9 .471 51⁄2 Augusta (Giants) Greenville (Red Sox) 8 9 .471 51⁄2 Charleston (Yankees) 7 9 .438 6 6 11 .353 71⁄2 Rome (Braves) 1 Lexington (Astros) 5 12 .294 8 ⁄2 x-clinched first half Saturday’s Games Hagerstown 9, West Virginia 5, 1st game Hickory 6, Lexington 2, 2nd game Kannapolis 8, Lakewood 5, 9 innings, 1st game Augusta 14, Asheville 8 Greensboro at Savannah, 6:05 p.m.

Hickory 6, Lexington 1, 7 innings Rome 1, Greenville 0 Delmarva at Charleston, S.C., ppd., rain Hagerstown 5, West Virginia 0, 2nd game Kannapolis at Lakewood, 8:30 p.m., 2nd game Sunday’s Games Greenville at Rome, 2 p.m.

Augusta at Asheville, 2:05 p.m.

Greensboro at Savannah, 2:05 p.m.

Delmarva at Charleston, S.C., 2:05 p.m., 1st game West Virginia at Hagerstown, 4:05 p.m.

Delmarva at Charleston, S.C., 4:35 p.m., 2nd game Lexington at Hickory, 5 p.m.

Kannapolis at Lakewood, 5:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games No games scheduled

SALISBURY POST

SCOREBOARD

Quaker State 400 At Kentucky Speedway 1. (1) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 267 laps, 145.6 rating, 48 points, $213,316.

2. (17) David Reutimann, Toyota, 267, 105.8, 43, $147,883.

3. (5) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 267, 119.8, 41, $152,711.

4. (18) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 267, 85.5, 40, $135,860.

5. (7) Carl Edwards, Ford, 267, 108.2, 39, $134,491.

6. (13) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 267, 103.1, 38, $121,886.

7. (6) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 267, 118.6, 38, $114,108.

8. (8) David Ragan, Ford, 267, 94.1, 37, $89,850.

9. (3) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 267, 118.5, 36, $120,675.

10. (14) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 267, 75.2, 34, $117,436.

11. (26) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 267, 85.4, 34, $128,950.

12. (9) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 267, 97.2, 33, $119,883.

13. (4) Kasey Kahne, Toyota, 267, 94.6, 32, $102,233.

14. (15) Joey Logano, Toyota, 267, 80.8, 30, $86,600.

15. (2) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 267, 100.7, 29, $115,208.

16. (19) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 267, 85.8, 28, $125,311.

17. (12) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 267, 79.4, 27, $102,720.

18. (16) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 267, 72.7, 27, $83,950.

19. (22) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 267, 70.9, 25, $84,650.

20. (11) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 267, 69.4, 24, $106,566.

21. (21) Greg Biffle, Ford, 267, 85.1, 23, $90,000.

22. (28) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 267, 65.6, 22, $83,000.

23. (30) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 267, 52.3, 0, $90,233.

24. (10) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 266, 77.9, 20, $82,525.

25. (25) Casey Mears, Toyota, 266, 52.5, 19, $74,800.

26. (24) Bobby Labonte, Toyota, 266, 58.2, 18, $100,395.

27. (27) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 265, 56.5, 17, $101,014.

28. (23) A J Allmendinger, Ford, 265, 56.4, 16, $110,611.

29. (37) Travis Kvapil, Ford, 265, 41.3, 0, $85,733.

30. (29) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 265, 64.1, 14, $79,000.

31. (35) David Gilliland, Ford, 264, 44.9, 13, $80,982.

32. (39) Andy Lally, Ford, 264, 34.7, 12, $79,825.

33. (32) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, 264, 45, 11, $71,225.

34. (42) Mike Bliss, Ford, 264, 37.2, 0, $70,225.

35. (20) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, accident, 259, 49.1, 9, $114,333.

36. (34) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, engine, 198, 53.6, 8, $108,739.

37. (43) Scott Wimmer, Dodge, electrical, 90, 32.6, 0, $70,075.

38. (41) Tony Raines, Ford, vibration, 38, 32, 6, $70,000.

39. (31) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, brakes, 37, 29.5, 0, $69,950.

40. (36) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, transmission, 35, 37.6, 5, $69,850.

41. (38) Michael McDowell, Toyota, electrical, 32, 32, 3, $69,800.

42. (40) Scott Riggs, Chevrolet, brakes, 28, 27.3, 0, $69,745.

43. (33) Mike Skinner, Toyota, electrical, 17, 28.4, 0, $69,317.

Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 137.314 mph.

Time of Race: 2 hours, 55 minutes, 0 seconds.

Margin of Victory: 0.179 seconds.

Caution Flags: 6 for 32 laps.

Lead Changes: 20 among 12 drivers.

Golf PGA John Deere Saturday’s third round At TPC Deere Run Silvis, Ill. Purse: $4.5 million Yardage: 7,268; Par: 71 Steve Stricker 66-64-63—193 66-66-63—195 Brendon de Jonge Chez Reavie 66-62-68—196 Kyle Stanley 65-67-65—197 66-67-67—200 Cameron Percy Mark Wilson 65-67-68—200 Cameron Tringale 70-66-65—201 69-65-67—201 Dean Wilson Charles Warren 67-68-67—202 Aron Price 69-66-67—202 66-69-67—202 Zach Johnson Nathan Green 69-64-69—202 David Mathis 68-65-69—202 68-69-66—203 Marco Dawson Will MacKenzie 67-70-66—203 Brian Davis 70-66-67—203 70-66-67—203 Todd Hamilton Woody Austin 69-67-67—203 Scott Stallings 69-66-68—203 66-69-68—203 Cameron Beckman Michael Letzig 70-65-68—203 Davis Love III 64-70-69—203 66-68-69—203 Lee Janzen Matt McQuillan 64-69-70—203 John Mallinger 68-65-70—203 67-66-70—203 Arjun Atwal Steve Marino 64-66-73—203 Michael Thompson 71-66-67—204 69-68-67—204 Brett Wetterich Bryce Molder 71-66-67—204 Shane Bertsch 71-66-67—204 68-67-69—204 Brian Gay Chris Couch 70-65-69—204 D.A. Points 66-68-70—204 66-68-70—204 Charles Howell III Kris Blanks 63-71-70—204 Jim Herman 66-68-70—204 70-68-67—205 Michael Putnam John Merrick 67-71-67—205 Ben Martin 67-70-68—205 72-65-68—205 Sunghoon Kang J.J. Henry 68-68-69—205 Troy Merritt 68-68-69—205 68-68-69—205 Andres Gonzales William McGirt 67-67-71—205 Billy Mayfair 67-66-72—205 72-66-68—206 Jason Bohn Briny Baird 68-70-68—206 Scott Piercy 70-67-69—206 67-70-69—206 Craig Bowden John Rollins 72-65-69—206 Josh Teater 66-70-70—206 67-69-70—206 Chad Campbell Heath Slocum 70-66-70—206 Kirk Triplett 68-65-73—206 70-68-69—207 Kent Jones Frank Lickliter II 68-70-69—207 Tim Petrovic 69-69-69—207 68-69-70—207 Chris Kirk Michael Sim 67-70-70—207 David Hearn 67-69-71—207 69-67-71—207 Joe Ogilvie Steven Bowditch 67-68-72—207 Jhonattan Vegas 68-64-75—207 69-69-70—208 Rod Pampling James Driscoll 71-67-70—208 Troy Matteson 67-69-72—208 Michael Connell 69-66-73—208 69-68-72—209 Alex Prugh Duffy Waldorf 67-69-73—209 Chris Stroud 69-64-76—209 67-70-74—211 D.J. Trahan Jason Day 67-69-75—211

Champions Pebble Beach, Calif.

Purse: $1.6 million Second Round Jay Haas 68d-65p—133 Bobby Clampett 69p-66d—135 67d-68p—135 Brad Bryant Mark Brooks 71p-64d—135 David Eger 66d-70p—136 67p-69d—136 Jim Thorpe Russ Cochran 65p-71d—136 Jeff Sluman 68d-68p—136 68d-68p—136 Steve Lowery D.A. Weibring 68d-69p—137 Mark Calcavecchia 68p-70d—138 71p-67d—138 Mark Mouland Jay Don Blake 68d-71p—139 Mike Reid 68d-71p—139 71d-68p—139 Mark Wiebe Steve Pate 69p-70d—139 Fred Funk 70p-70d—140 73p-67d—140 Ted Schulz Morris Hatalsky 67d-73p—140 Bob Gilder 70p-70d—140 74p-66d—140 Mark McNulty Chien Soon Lu 70d-70p—140 Tom Pernice, Jr. 69d-71p—140 Bill Glasson 68d-73p—141 68d-73p—141 Jim Gallagher, Jr. Olin Browne 72d-69p—141 Hale Irwin 72d-69p—141 70p-72d—142 Lee Rinker Chip Beck 73d-69p—142 Andy Bean 74p-68d—142 73p-69d—142 Phil Blackmar Keith Clearwater 70p-72d—142 Robert Thompson 73p-70d—143 72p-71d—143 Mike Hulbert Mike Goodes 73d-70p—143 Joey Sindelar 74p-69d—143 72d-71p—143 Mark O’Meara Don Pooley 74p-69d—143 Bobby Wadkins 71d-72p—143 71d-72p—143 John Cook Keith Fergus 74p-69d—143 John Morse 72p-71d—143 74p-69d—143 Rod Spittle Robin Freeman 68d-76p—144 Barry Jaeckel 72d-72p—144 Lonnie Nielsen 73p-71d—144 Bruce Fleisher 70d-74p—144 Gary Hallberg 72d-72p—144 Jim Rutledge 72p-72d—144 Ronnie Black 72p-72d—144 Tom Kite 72d-72p—144 John Harris 72d-73p—145 Eduardo Romero 76p-69d—145 Tim Simpson 75p-70d—145 Jerry Pate 72p-73d—145 Tom Purtzer 72d-73p—145 J.L. Lewis 70p-75d—145 John Huston 75p-70d—145 Ben Crenshaw 76p-70d—146 Blaine McCallister 72d-74p—146 Peter Senior 71d-75p—146

Bauk dominating on showcase circuit Staff report Brian Bauk, a rising junior at Salisbury, turned in a scintillating mound outing for the South Charlotte Panthers in a 5-0 win against the Best Nine Cardinals of Martinez, Ga., at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary on Saturday.

B a u k pitched all seven innings, allowed six hits and struck out six.

“Bauk was f i l t h y , ” praised A.L. Brown’s Emp- BAUK sy Thompson, who coaches the Class of 2013 Panthers. “Fastball at 86-87 and a great breaking ball.”

Bauk, a pitcher/center

fielder with a bright future, has impressed Thompson all summer.

“We’ve got a lot of good players, but Bauk’s our best athlete, with his combination of running speed and arm strength,” Thompson said.

“And he swings the bat well.”

Thompson said Bauk made a remarkable defensive play when the Panthers recently made a 10-day road trip to Jupiter, Fla., to play in the USA Baseball 16-under national championships. The Panthers took third in the 72-team field — falling to Georgia Elite in the semis. Bauk’s play helped the Panthers win the bronzemedal game against the Orlando Scorpions, a prospect-laden team from central Florida.

“A drive to right-center with two men on, and Bauk not only runs the ball down in the

gap, he does a reverse pivot and throws an absolute rope to third base,” Thompson said.

“The runner tried to tag from second, and it wasn’t even close. That was as good a play as I’ve ever seen a kid that age make on a ballfield, and the place just TYLER erupted.”

Thompson said Bauk and catcher Eric Tyler, a rising junior at South, have made an impression on a lot of coaches.

“They’ve had some great experiences and they’ve gotten a lot of exposure,” he said.

“They’ve had a chance to face great arms, and they’ve handled themselves well.”

Moors win with pitching From staff reports

Mooresville Moors coach Josh Graham reported that his American Legion baseball team won Saturday’s playoff game against Eastern Randolph on a well-executed corner kick.

Graham was kidding, but the fourth-seeded Moors did win by a soccer-ish 1-0 score, riding the right arm of Taylor Thurber to victory. Thurber went the distance, fanning six.

Thurber, a Lake Norman hurler who was named 4A IMeck Pitcher of the Year, allowed the fifth-seeded visitors just two hits in a game that was over in less than two hours.

ER hurler Adam Kirkpatrick almost matched Thurber pitch for pitch, but the Moors bunched three singles — by Jake Beaver, Nick Keith and Joey McAlpin — to push across their lone run in the third inning.

In an interesting turn of events, Graham said all the Moors’ bats were declared illegal, roughly 45 minutes prior to gametime.

Pitching coach Jeremy Johnson scurried to Dick’s Sporting Goods, purchased two bats that met specifications and made it back to the Lake Norman field shortly before the first pitch.

Those two bats produced one run. It was enough.

The Moors will appear at Newman Park for a winners bracket game tonight.

With Keith probably pitching for the Moors and Bradley Robbins expected to be on the

hill for Rowan, it should be a tight, low-scoring game.

Penalty kicks could decide it.  South Rowan plays at High Point tonight. South lost to High Point 21-13 on opening night in a non-league game.

The game isn’t scheduled to start until 8 p.m. because of a Coastal Plain League game at Finch Field.  Mocksville is home tonight against BurlingtonGraham, which outslugged Wilkes 15-9 on Saturday.

D.J. Webb turned in another fine effort on the mound for Mocksville in Friday’s win against West Forsyth. Webb is 6-0.  Kannapolis goes to Kernersville tonight and has to win to extend its season.

 Youth baseball East Rowan’s 10U all-stars lost to Huntersville’s Stewards of the Game 10-5 on Friday night in the WNC Cal Ripken Area 4 Tournament in Lexington.  East Rowan’s 11U allstars defeated China Grove 91 in an elimination game in the WNC Cal Ripken Area 4 tournament in Ramseur.  East Rowan’s 12U All Stars defeated Union County East 8-5 Friday night in a postponed game from Thursday in the WNC Cal Ripken Area 4 Tournament in Unionville.

East then lost their regularly scheduled game to China Grove 4-0 on Friday night. East lost the third game they had on Friday night 8-5 to Union Coun-

ty West to finish the tournament 1-2.

 Hoops clinic Scooter Sherrill and Andre McCain, former West Rowan stars, are leading a strength and basketball development clinic to be held at Competitive Sports (645 Corporate Circle, Salisbury) on July 24-27.

Sessions are divided into groups for ages 7-9 and 10-12.

The cost is $80 per child.

Register by e-mail at ssabsports@gmail.com or call McCain at 704-738-7990.

 Knox workouts Voluntary summer football conditioning workouts for Knox will begin this week for rising 7th and 8th-graders.

Workouts are on July 11 and July 13 from 4-6:15 p.m.

 Minor leagues The Kannapolis Intimidators split two games on Saturday after being rained out on Friday.

Kannapolis beat Lakewood 8-5 in the opener as Brady Shoemaker and Drew Lee collected three hits apiece but lost the nightcap 3-1.  Daniel Wagner (South Rowan) was 1-for-2 and knocked in Winston-Salem’s only run in a 9-1 loss to Salem on Saturday.  Wade Moore (West Rowan, Catawba) was 1-for-2 for Hagerstown in a 9-5 win against West Virginia on Saturday.

Ortiz apologizes for late-game fracas BOSTON (AP) — Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz apologized Saturday for charging and swinging at Orioles pitcher Kevin Gregg.

Ortiz said wasn’t proud of his actions in the eighth inning of Boston’s 10-3 win over Baltimore on Friday night. He apologized to everyone, including Gregg.

“I haven’t had a fight since I was in kindergarten,” he said with a smile. “That’s not what the fans want to see. That’s not part of my personality. I don’t like being caught in a situation like that.”

Gregg threw two inside pitches to Ortiz, who started to the mound as benches and bullpens cleared without any punches. Ortiz then flied out and Gregg shouted at him, prompting him to charge the right-hander. Both were ejected.

“Nobody wants to see it,” Orioles manager Buck Showalter said before Saturday night’s third game of a fourgame series. “It’s a passionate game, with passionate people who care.”

Asked if he expected to get suspended, Ortiz said he knows major league baseball is going to take action for the confrontation, but “I wasn’t the one that started it.”

When he got home from the game, “I didn’t feel good about how that thing happened,” he said. “I apologize to everyone for the situation. I have a lot of friends on that ballclub. Even to Gregg. I don’t really know him but he doesn’t seem like the kind of guy that acts like that. I’m not happy about it.

That’s not what people come to see.”

Baltimore, with the second

worst record in the AL, fell behind 8-0 after one inning in the game. Ortiz drove in three of those runs with a homer.

“You’re wounded and you fight back,” Showalter said.

“You feel that way since spring training. You’re a family.”

Ortiz didn’t speak with reporters Friday night, but Gregg defended his actions right after the game.

“I think you show them that we’re not backing down. We’re not scared of them — them and their $180 million payroll,” he said.

“We have just as much right to play the game here and we’re going to do everything we can to win.”

Ortiz said he wouldn’t try to talk with Gregg.

“Why should I?” he said.

“It’s over. I’ve put that behind me.”

LPGA U.S. Women’s Open Scores Saturday’s second round The Broadmoor, East Course Colorado Springs, Colo.

Purse: $3.25 million Yardage: 7,047; Par 71 Mika Miyazato 70-67—137 Ai Miyazato 70-68—138 I.K. Kim 70-69—139 Stacy Lewis 68-73—141 Ryann O’Toole 69-72—141 Lizette Salas 69-73—142 Angela Stanford 72-70—142 Paula Creamer 72-70—142 Wendy Ward 73-69—142 Eun-Hee Ji 73-69—142 Sun Young Yoo 74-68—142 So Yeon Ryu 74-69—143 Karrie Webb 70-73—143 Cristie Kerr 71-72—143 Se Ri Pak 74-70—144 Inbee Park 71-73—144 Leta Lindley 73-71—144 Hee Young Park 73-71—144 Mariajo Uribe 75-69—144 Amy Yang 75-69—144 a-Moriya Jutanugarn 76-69—145 Jiyai Shin 73-72—145 Hee Kyung Seo 72-73—145 Azahara Munoz 74-71—145 Candie Kung 76-69—145 Mi-Jeong Jeon 72-73—145

Betsy King misses cut at 18 over COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Betsy King played one hole on a near-empty golf course Saturday morning, then said goodbye.

Not exactly the way one of the game’s greats hoped it would end. But not that big of a surprise, either.

The 55-year-old former Furman player briefly came out of retirement to play in the U.S. Women’s Open this week, leaving the door slightly ajar to more if she played well on a difficult course at the Broadmoor.

She didn’t, and tried to en-

joy the moment, even though going through the motions on a golf course has never been her thing.

“It was nice, very nice,” the soft-spoken King said. “But it’s hard when you’re not playing well.”

King missed shots, putts and finally the cut as she wound up 18 over, tied for 142nd out of 156. Her final farewell came early Saturday, when she returned to close out the rain-delayed second round.

An unusual way to end it for the six-time major winner, who knew the odds were against

her — returning to a major championship without playing a big-time round in six years.

“That’s the problem,” said one of her contemporaries, Juli Inkster, who didn’t make the cut, either.

“Trying to qualify for the Open and playing in the Open are two different things. I think she knew that going in.

But you’ve got to hand it to her for qualifying and doing this.”

King thought she was using the U.S. Open qualifying rounds as practice for a senior event coming up a few weeks down the road.

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Will Sapp knocked in two of Rowan’s runs in its playoff win over Surry.

Taylor Garczynski was the first Rowan batter to solve Hull when he grounded a leadoff single into right field. He advanced to second on Avery Rogers’ sacrifice bunt and reached third on an infield error. That set the stage for leadoff man Will Sapp, who drilled a scalding two-run double to right-center.

“Rowan is just solid,” said Hall, the East Surry High School coach with more than 600 career wins printed on the back of his bubble-gum card.

“By that I mean they have pitching, they play defense and they get timely hits.

That’s what you win with — and right now they have all three.”

Allen, meanwhile, retired 10 of the first 11 men he faced.

Blending giddy-up fastballs with deceptive changeups and an occasional slider, he held the guests scoreless until the sixth.

“The game really moved along,” Allen said after fanning seven and inducing 10 groundouts. “It felt like a blur.

I got in the dugout, thinking it was the third inning. Then I looked up at the board and it was the fifth. There was one inning when I threw only five pitches.”

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Caleb Henley struck out two in the eighth inning.

When he looked at the board in the sixth Surry had inched within 2-1, courtesy of Justin Young’s two-out, RBIsingle to center. Rowan answered in its half of the sixth when Matt Mauldin legged out a bunt single, stole second, took third on a Luke Thomas base hit and scored when Andy Austin lofted a shallow, sacrifice fly to right field.

“I was just trying to hit something to the right side,” Austin said. “But Mauldin, he’s got some wheels on him.”

Rowan scored its final run against reliever Dustin Johnson in the last of the eighth.

Thomas chopped a single into

left and pinch-runner Jared Mathis eventually crossed on Garczynski’s soft line drive to right.

“It’s a good feeling to get some momentum going,” Garczynski said after collecting three singles. “We came together tonight.”

• NOTES: Rowan southpaws Caleb Henley and Will Johnson each pitched an inning of scoreless relief. ... Secondbaseman Dakota Brown made the best defensive play of the night when he snagged Young’s second-inning line

drive. ... Garczynski, the right-handers who keeps his office tidy, fired a perfect relay from the foul line to thirdbaseman Rogers in the top of the fourth, holding a baserunner at second and wowing the big crowd. “If the runner had gone, we would have had him,” Garczynski said. “It’s good to show the arm off once in a while, just to make them think twice about it.” ...

Rowan split a pair of regulargames with season Mooresville (13-9), falling 6-1 on the road and winning 6-4 at Newman Park.

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Will Johnson set Surry down 1-2-3 in the ninth for his sixth save.

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JETER FroM 1B stuff in baseball. I’m proud of him. Everybody in this clubhouse respects Derek Jeter.”

What a moment for No. 2.

His second hit of the game — and right at 2 p.m.

Moments later, a montage of messages from ex-teammates, including Andy Pettitte, was shown on the big video board in center field. By the fourth inning, the screen showed DJ3K merchandise flying off the shelves at Yankee Stadium souvenir shops.

The home run was Jeter’s third of the season and first at home since an inside-the-park shot July 22, 2010, against Kansas City. But the 37-yearold captain was just warming up in a turn-back-the-clock performance — and the Yankees needed all of it.

Eduardo Nunez, perhaps Jeter’s heir apparent at shortstop, doubled to start the eighth against Joel Peralta (24). Brett Gardner dropped down a sacrifice bunt to push Nunez to third and up stepped Jeter again, looking to cap his big day in style.

Tampa Bay brought the infield in and Jeter poked a twostrike pitch up the middle, giving New York a 5-4 lead and prompting another round of “De-rek Je-ter!” chants. A sign in the stands read “Mr. 3,000.”

“I don’t think you can script it any better. This is already movie-ready,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said.

“It’s just remarkable the day that he had.”

Mariano Rivera got three quick outs for his 22nd save in 26 chances, his first outing since blowing a save Sunday against the Mets. Rivera was out of action for three days because of a sore right triceps before pronouncing himself available to pitch Thursday.

Jeter, who has slumped much of the season, matched a career high with the first five-hit game for any player at the new Yankee Stadium,

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While Yankee stadium erupts in cheers, derek Jeter (2) is greeted by Jorge posada and the rest of the Yankees after hitting a homer, his 3,000th hit. which opened in 2009.

The last player to reach 3,000 hits, Craig Biggio of the Houston Astros, did it with his third hit in a five-hit game on June 28, 2007.

Jeter’s run-up to 3,000 turned into a winding, drawnout journey, beginning with a calf injury June 13 that landed him on the disabled list for 20 days.

The teams were rained out Friday and settled on a Sept.

22 makeup date because the Rays didn’t want to play a split

doubleheader this weekend.

That left Jeter with only two more home games to reach the milestone before the AllStar break — the Yankees begin the second half with an eight-game road trip.

With a large throng of family and friends in town, he desperately wanted to hit the mark at home.

Lined up to pitch for the Rays? A pair of aces in Price and James Shields.

Pressure on Jeter, even in July? You better believe it.

But he delivered all day, even stealing a base Saturday after entering the game in a 4for-18 slide.

“Nobody better in the clutch,” said good buddy Jorge Posada, the first to greet Jeter with a bear hug after his home run. “He looks forward to that moment and today was a perfect example.”

After crossing the plate, Jeter pointed up to the box where his father and steady girlfriend, actress Minka Kelly, were sitting. His mom and

sister were absent, attending a christening.

“I was excited, but to be honest with you, I was pretty relieved,” Jeter said. “I’ve been lying to you guys for a long time saying I wasn’t nervous and there was no pressure. I mean, there was a lot of pressure to do it here.”

Price lasted only five innings, giving up four runs and seven hits.

“I’d rather not be the answer to that trivia question, but I am,” Price said. “It’s

tough. He’s one of the best players ever to play baseball.

He was going to do it off of somebody and it just so happened to be me.”

• NOTES: Jeter improved to 9 for 28 (.321) with two home runs against Price. Jeter also homered off Price in the AllStar lefty’s major league debut in September 2008. ...

Jeter was back in his familiar leadoff spot. He had been set to bat second Friday night before the game was rained out.

Damon eyes 3,000-hit milestone, too Associated Press

NEW YORK — Johnny Damon has his eye on 3,000 hits, too.

With former teammate Derek Jeter now a member of the exclusive club, Damon said he’s already started to think about his own chances of reaching one of baseball’s biggest milestones.

Tampa Bay’s designated hitter went into Saturday’s game against Jeter and the New York Yankees with 2,662 career hits. The 37-year-old Damon realizes he probably needs to last at least two seasons beyond this one to get to 3,000, but he said people close to him are encouraging him to play long enough to do it.

“It’s something that I never thought about before, but

with me climbing up on the charts and all that stuff, I’m hearing from friends and family and former teammates and they’re telling me to keep going as long as I can,” Damon said.

“Now it’s within sight, 350 away. And hopefully after this season it’ll be 250 out and it’ll be two more years. And hopefully in the meantime we can keep winning and I can keep being productive and help out a young team like this.”

Jeter homered in the third inning, his second hit of the game, to become the 28th major leaguer to reach the plateau — and first to do it with the Yankees.

Damon stood outside the Tampa Bay dugout and applauded along with other Rays players as Jeter saluted the

cheering crowd and his opponents.

“It’d be a great thing to see,” Damon said before the game. “Derek’s a class act.

He’s what a ballplayer should be.”

Damon and Jeter are the same age, and both were drafted out of high school in 1992. Damon said that’s one reason why Jeter’s accomplishments mean so much to him.

The two were teammates in New York from 2006-09, helping the Yankees win the World Series in Damon’s final season with the club. He played for Detroit last year, then signed a one-year contract with Tampa Bay in February.

Damon has lost some of his speed, but he’s been extremely durable throughout his ca-

reer and he’s still a pest at the plate. He was hitting .279 with nine home runs and 41 RBIs in his first season with the Rays.

He thinks 3,000 hits is definitely an attainable goal.

“Oh, no doubt,” he said.

“Might as well, if it’s there.”

Damon was back in Tampa Bay’s lineup Saturday, batting leadoff in his first game since getting hit on the left hand by a pitch from Minnesota’s Francisco Liriano on Wednesday.

His hand was still red and sore, but the swelling had gone down after he applied ice all night. Hours before the game, Damon took swings in the indoor cage at Yankee Stadium to test his hand and planned to take a full round of indoor batting

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detroit’s Johnny damon is closing in on No. 3,000. practice.

“The strength isn’t quite all there yet,” Damon said. “The first couple swings were horrible, but just trying to find a

way. ... I want to be in there.”

Damon began the day exactly 100 hits behind injured Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez on the career list.

Steelers’ receiver Hines Ward arrested Associated Press

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chipper Jones was selected to the NL All-star team.

Chipper on DL with medial meniscus tear Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — The Atlanta Braves placed third baseman Chipper Jones on the 15-day disabled list with a medial meniscus tear in his right knee prior to Saturday’s game against the Philadelphia Phillies.

Jones is scheduled to have a procedure today in Atlanta and likely will miss two to

three weeks. He was recently selected to his seventh AllStar team and is batting .259 with eight homers and 46 RBIs in 77 games this season.

Jones’ spot on the roster was filled by infielder Brandon Hicks, who was recalled from Triple-A Gwinnett.

Hicks batted .267 with 14 homers and 30 RBIs in 55 games for Gwinnett.

DECATUR, Ga. — Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward was arrested early Saturday outside Atlanta on a drunken driving charge, sheriff’s officials said.

The former Super Bowl MVP and reigning “Dancing With the Stars” champ was booked into the DeKalb County jail at 3:41 a.m. and charged with driving under the influence. A jail official said he was released on $1,300 bond, though the sheriff’s office website said his bond was set at $1,000. The discrepancy couldn’t be immediately resolved Saturday.

Atlanta lawyer Andrew Ree issued a statement saying the 35-year-old Ward cooperated fully with police and truthfully answered their questions.

“From our preliminary investigation we can tell you that we are confident that the facts will show that Hines was NOT impaired by alcohol while driving,” Ree wrote. “However, Hines is deeply saddened by this incident and apologizes to his fans and the Steelers organization for this distraction.”

Since being drafted in the third round out of Georgia in 1998, Ward has been a four-time Pro Bowl selection, playing on teams that won two Super Bowls.

to reveal his future plans.

John Huizinga, Yao's agent, said Saturday night that he was "not in a position to confirm" multiple reports that Yao Ming had informed the NBA that he planned to retire.

The 7-foot-6 Yao has been plagued by leg and foot injuries late in his career, and missed a total of 250 regularseason games over the past six seasons.

• TULSA, Okla. — Nolan Richardson resigned as coach and general manager of the WNBA-worst Tulsa Shock (1-10) and will be replaced on an interim basis by Teresa Edwards.

• NEW YORK — Toronto Raptors’ Sonny Weems has joined Zalgiris Kaunas of Lithuania, signing a contract that will keep him in Europe all season rather than risk sitting out an entire year if the NBA lockout lasts.

SOCCER

WOLFSBURG, Germany — However shocking the elimination of twotime defending champion Germany, the Women's World Cup took heart that the two most creative teams of Saturday's quarterfinals advanced.

Japan absorbed relentless but dull German pressure for 108 minutes before hitting back with an exquisite counter to stun a host nation fully expecting a hat trick of titles. The 1-0 victory gave Japan its first ever World Cup semifinal spot.

PRO HOOPS France also had all the moves HOUSTON — Yao Ming's American against England yet needed an 88th agent would not confirm reports that minute equalizer for 1-1 and then saw the All-Star center is retiring from England crumble under pressure basketball. But Yao has scheduled a when its last two players failed to hit July 20 press conference in Shanghai the target to give the penalty shootout

away 4-3.

GOLF COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — For months now, the battered country of Japan has been looking for a lift.

By using her blossoming golf game as a tool for charity, 21-year-old Mika Miyazato could turn the U.S. Women's Open into the feel-good story her country seeks — and back it with some cold, hard cash.

Miyazato shot 67 to grab the lead at 5-under-par 137 at the halfway point at the Broadmoor on Saturday, where rain once again stopped play early and brought up the prospect of a grueling, 36-hole Sunday.

• SILVIS, Ill. — Steve Stricker stood in the bunker left of the first fairway, eyed his ball in the rough on the edge of the trap, then looked at the flag 122 yards away.

All he wanted to do was get the ball on the green, which he did. And then came the shot of the day, a 75-foot putt for birdie that led to an 8-under-par 63 Saturday and a two-stroke lead after three rounds of the John Deere Classic.

CYCLING SUPER-BESSE, France — The attacks never came on the first mountain trek of the Tour de France, as defending champion Alberto Contador and his main rival Andy Schleck both held fire and let others contest victory during the eighth stage.

Three-time Tour winner Contador preferred to save energy on Saturday's stage in the Massif Central, which Rui Alberto Costa held on to win.

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RACE FROM 1B “It’s certainly good to know we’re figuring things out,” said Busch, who has 99 career victories across NASCAR’s top three series.

David Reutimann slipped past Johnson to finish second. Ryan Newman was fourth, followed by Carl Edwards and Matt Kenseth.

“He was strong all night long,” Johnson said of Busch. “Spent a lot of time chasing him (and) watched him inch away from me the longer the run went on.”

It’s a feeling the fans who spent hours in gridlock on Interstate 71 could echo. Cars were still packed up several miles from the track when the race began, with some eventually turning around when track officials went to their exit plan when the race reached its halfway point.

Speedway officials acknowledged the traffic was worse than they anticipated and promised to work on remedying issue before next year’s event.

“We expect the track to address this head on and have a much better situation for the fans moving forward,” NASCAR spokesman Kerry Tharp said.

Providing a more compelling race next time would certainly help.

The drivers spent the week talking openly about the buzz created by the Cup’s first new venue since Chicago and Kansas were added to the schedule in 2001 and the challenge of getting over the track’s signature bumps in Turns 3 and 4.

It was much ado about nothing. The three-wide racing promised by Smith never materialized and the bumps provided little drama as the race unfolded in a series of long green flag runs, most of them dominated by Busch, who led 125 of the 267 laps to win for the second time in three days.

Busch won the Trucks race on Thursday despite starting from the back. He wound up on the pole for the

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NEWPORT, R.I. — The long hair is long gone, the denim shorts have faded to memory, and there was Andre Agassi accepting induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame on Saturday with an overdue affection for the sport he once resented and a rejection of the “Image is everything” attitude that helped propel him to stardom.

In a tender tribute to family and philanthropy, Agassi was introduced by a student at the charter school he opened in Las Vegas and joined on center court by his wife, fellow Hall of Famer Steffi Graf.

Gone was the self-styled, long-haired rebel who rose to the No. 1 ranking in the world but, it now seems, didn’t enjoy a single moment of it. Instead, Agassi turned his speech into a love letter of sorts for tennis and even the father who pushed him — not always gently — to play, commanding him, at the age of 5, to someday win Wimbledon.

“I fell in love with tennis far too late in my life. But the reason I have everything I hold dear is because tennis has loved me back,” Agassi said. “If we’re lucky in life, we get a few moments where we don’t have to wonder if we made our parents proud. I want to thank tennis for giving me those moments.”

Sprinkling his comments with gratitude for fellow Hall of Famers Billie Jean King, Arthur Ashe and “the woman who still takes my breath away every day, Stefanie Graf,” Agassi also recounted a meeting with Nelson Mandela in which the former South African president told him, “You must live carefully.”

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Cup race after rain washed out qualifying, and he didn’t let the advantage go to waste as he moved within one victory of becoming the third driver in NASCAR history to collect 100 wins across the sport’s top three series. The 26-year-old has 22 career Cup wins, 48 in the Nationwide Series and 29 in Trucks.

“I’m hoping (No. 100) comes at Loudon (next week),” Busch said.

Kentucky Speedway is located halfway between Louisville and Cincinnati in northern Kentucky has been clamoring for a Cup date from almost the moment it opened in 2000.

Smith believed adding a new venue to the schedule would give the series’ dog days a much-needed boost.

Instead the fans who managed to make it inside were treated to a parade.

There were no green flag passes and no kind of chaos that dominated last week’s race at Daytona as drivers played nice at a track they’re still trying to get to know.

“I think it’s a challenging place,” Johnson said.

Not for Busch. There were few anxious moments, though he allowed Reutimann may have had the best car at the end of the night.

That wasn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Busch found himself pulling for Reutimann on the final lap, hoping Reutimann could give Johnson so much trouble the five-time defending series champion wouldn’t have enough to chase Busch down.

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“I didn’t always live carefully. I didn’t always pay tennis the respect it deserved,” Agassi admitted. “I didn’t know myself, and I didn’t realize that my troubles were of my own making.”

Also inducted into the tennis shrine was contributor Fern “Peachy” Kellmeyer.

The first woman to play on a men’s Division I college team, she paved the way for Title IX by fighting the system that prohibited athletic scholarships for women. She played in the U.S. Open at 15 and was the first employee of the WTA, sticking around for 38 years as it grew from a tour with $309,000 in total purses to one that paid out more than $89 million.

“Any women who have college scholarships should give thanks to Peachy Kellmeyer,” said Stacey Allaster, the ninth person to serve as the CEO of the WTA under Kellmeyer’s guidance. “She has been the glue of women’s tennis, holding the WTA together as CEOs and players come and go ... never letting us forget that

our past is our future.”

But even Kellmeyer knew she was just the opening act.

Next came Simone Ruffin, a student at the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy from third grade until she graduated as salutatorian in 2009. After a gentle dig at Agassi for “the mullet-wig thing,” she called him her “hometown hero” and thanked him for helping at-risk and forgotten children in the adult playground of Las Vegas.

Agassi has helped raise $150 million for education reform with his foundation. Another of the school’s students, A.J. Green sang the national anthem, leaving “America the Beautiful” to blues singer Keb’ Mo’.

“He gave more than just money, or material things. He gave us the tools to build our own lives,” Ruffin said of Agassi. “Because of him, I will never forget to look back and lift up others.”

An eight-time Grand Slam champion and 1996 Olympic gold medalist who was No. 1 in the world for 101 straight

weeks, Agassi plummeted to No. 141 in the rankings and by ‘97 was using crystal meth “a lot.” (He also admitted in his book “Open” that he wore a wig to combat premature baldness.)

Deciding to rebuild his career, he turned to tennis’ minor league tour and in 1999 he won his second U.S. Open, finished second at Wimbledon and won his only French Open to complete the career Grand Slam.

The women’s winner in Paris that year was Graf; they started dating shortly after the winners’ ball and married two years later. (Agassi’s first marriage, to actress Brooke Shields, lasted less than two years.)

He reached No. 1 again in 2003 at the age of 33 — the oldest player to reach the top ranking — and held it for 12 more weeks.

“Rock bottom’s an interesting place. I moved in and spent some time there,” Agassi said. “Going from 141 in the world back to No. 1 was not an accomplishment; it was the reflection of an accomplishment. It was a symptom of good choices.”

Bryans score first point against Spain After the disappointment of the singles losses Friday night, the U.S. sent the Bryan brothers onto the court fully confident of earning a point.

Fresh off their Wimbledon doubles championship, the Bryans have been rock solid in Davis Cup, entering Saturday's match with a 17-2 record. Granollers was a Saturday sub for Lopez, who had played a four-hour singles match the night before. Granollers and Verdasco had never played doubles together.

"It would have taken something pretty wild for those guys to have lost," U.S. captain Jim Courier said.

ISNER IN CHAMPIONSHIP NEWPORT, R.I. — John Isner knows he'll come out on top of Olivier Rochus — when they're posing for pictures.

The second-tallest player on the ATP tour, the 6-foot-9 Isner advanced to the final of the Hall of Fame Championship to play Rochus, who's the shortest at 5-6.

"It will be some good photo opps before and after the match," Isner said Saturday.

Isner beat Tobias Kamke a 7-5, 7-6 (4) in one semifinal for a shot at becoming the first No. 1-seeded player to win the tournament since it joined the ATP Tour in 1977.

AUSTIN, Texas — The Bryan brothers have given the Americans a fighting chance against Spain.

It will be up to Mardy Fish and Andy Roddick — who lost their first-round singles matches — to keep them alive in the Davis Cup. Twins Bob and Mike Bryan, the top-ranked doubles team in the world, earned the United States its first point of the Davis Cup quarterfinal against Spain on Saturday with a 6-7 (7), 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 doubles victory over Marcel Granollers and Fernando Verdasco.

Spain leads 2-1 and needs to win just one of Sunday's two singles matches to clinch the bestof-five series. The Spaniards are chasing their third Davis Cup championship in four years.

Spain's David Ferrer will play Fish in Sunday's first match and could wrap things up with a victory. If Fish wins, the quarterfinal will come down to Roddick's match against Feliciano Lopez.

"I like our chances," Mike Bryan said. "If it comes down to Andy, there's no better guy to have in that position than Andy in his hometown."

SOUTH FROM 1B two outs in the eighth, after Winston-Salem slugger Nick Flachofsky bashed a two-run shot over the left field wall, and shut the door, inducing a double play to end the game.

Atwell, a 15-year old high school freshman, seemed to show senior-like poise and composure in his biggest moment of the season.

“I just take deep breaths always out there to calm down and I trust those guys behind me. I knew Gunnar (Hogan) and Parker (Hubbard) were going to turn that double play,” Atwell said.

Bridges was huge with the bat for South, as he delivered a three-run homer over the “chainlink monster” in right and had four RBIs for the evening.

“I was sitting dead-red fastball, man, and he threw the ball right where I like it, down and in,” Bridges said.

In addition to being productive at the plate, Bridges had to make a few good plays with the leather too. including some impressive stretches and digs at first.

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better fielding tonight, to be honest, and its definitely a little nerve-racking at first for me when I don’t get down on balls and come with plays that I know I can make,” Bridges said.

Overall, while South left some opportunities on the field, the mood postgame was one of jubilation in the visiting dugout.

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Cheers of “Road Warriors” rang out from several players and all were smiling after their comeback win.

Perhaps no team has overcome the injuries and attrition like South has been forced to this season, especially on the mound and behind the plate, but South just keeps playing with their “bulldog” mentality.

“We have fewer options than some teams, with just one catcher and few pitchers, but these guys just keep going,” Lowman said.

“We know that Joe (Basinger) is going to fight through everything and nobody has shown as much guts as Atwell. That’s a tough kid right there.”

South’s “Road Warrior” moniker will be tested again tonight as they hope to be a “legion of doom” for High Point. South and High Point will do battle at 8 p.m. at Finch Field.

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Work on the gasoline pump plaza at the new Sheetz on Old Concord Road at Jake Alexander Boulevard is seen Friday.

Company working toward September opening date in three years, with North Carolina and West Virginia the prime targets SALISBURY — The Sheetz gasofor expansion. In North Carolina alone, line and convenience store going up Sheetz hopes to build about 10 new at the corner of Old Concord Road and stores a year.

Jake Alexander Boulevard is tenta“We picked North Carolina because tively scheduled to open for business it has one of the fastest growing popin mid-September, company officials ulations in the country and the weathsaid Friday. er is mild most of the year. You also The company is advertising jobs on get a lot of long-distance commuters,” its website and interviews have begun Sheetz said in Tuesday’s edition of the for the 45-50 people expected to work Altoona Mirror. The chain opened its there, said John Apa, manager of talfirst store in North Carolina in Walkent development for Sheetz. ertown in 2004 and now has 31, accordAnd while this store will be the first ing to its website. for the Altoona, Pa.-based company in The company also plans to expand Rowan County — and only the second into the Charleston and Huntington in the 704 area code, according to the markets in West Virginia. Sheetz has store finder on its website — its redhad locations in the northern part of and-yellow signs, fuel pump touch that state for years, including Morganscreens that let customers order food town and Berkeley Springs. while they gas up, and espresso bars Sheetz opened its first store in Alserving specialty coffee could become The new Sheetz will need 45 to 50 people to keep toona in 1952 About 75 percent of the a more common sight. company’s $4.9 billion in revenue come the convenience store running at full force.

Sheetz is looking to the South as the from gasoline sales, but not 75 percent chain plans further expansion from its cen- nia. Six stores will be added by August to of the profit. tral Pennsylvania hub. get to 400, executive vice president Joe The Altoona-based company has 394 Sheetz said.

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Graphic design shop now open on Main Street

BY CYNTHIA HOOPER For the Salisbury Post

SALISBURY — In the summer of 2008, Megan Ferden and Taylor Starrett’s career paths crossed while working in the same design department at a company in Mooresville.

They became friends, and as their friendship grew, they realized their professional goals were the same: to open their own graphic design shop in a small town where they could have a one-on-one experience with the customer, making whatever was needed, from wedding invitations to logos.

Ferden is from Manchester, Iowa, and graduated from University of Northern Iowa with a degree in graphic design. She moved to North Carolina in 2008, and she and her hus-

band fell in love with the area.

Starrett is a Salisbury native and graduated in 2008 with a similar graphic design degree from Savannah College of Art and Design. After graduating, she got married and moved back to Salisbury.

When brainstorming on a company name, they wanted it to have a personal connection to each of them while also tying in “graphic design.”

Both love the lily, and they had lilies in their weddings. So it was the perfect fit. After going through endless amounts of “generic” graphic design names fitting with “lily,” they started playing around with the word “letter and lettered.”

The Lettered Lily Design Studio was a clear fit. In all aspects of their

Business calendar July 11 — Chamber of Commerce Finance Committee – Chamber – 8:30 a.m.

11 — Chamber Business After hours – Yoder’s Amish Market, 4077 Statesville Blvd., 5-7 p.m. Call 704633-4221 or email info@rowanchamber.com to RSVP 12 — Chamber Small Business Counseling day – Chamber – 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Call 704-633-4221 for appointment 20 — Rowan Partners for education Board of directors – United Way – 7 a.m.

July 20 — Chamber Membership drive Team Captains Breakfast – Chamber – 8 a.m.

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Rowan lenders join new program for business loans SALISBURY — Five local lenders and the area’s leading business service providers have joined in an effort to get businesses and the North Carolina economy growing.

The five lenders — BB&T, Bank of the Carolinas, Citizens South Bank, Community Bank of Rowan and First Bank — have enrolled in a new program that makes it easier for businesses and nonprofits to borrow for operations and expansions.

The N.C. Capital Access Program establishes a reserve program that allows lenders to consider loans that fall just outside their usual underwriting standards. The local lenders are among 54 institutions, presenting 1,100 branches statewide, that have enrolled in NC-CAP. Interested businesses apply for loans through normal channels with their local lenders.

Local service providers that can assist include the Small Business Center at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College (contact Barbara Hall at 704216-3534) and the N.C. Small Business and Technology Development Center office at University of North Carolina at Charlotte (704-548-1090).

Any North Carolina business with 500 or fewer employees is eligible to apply for an NC-CAP loan. Nonprofit organizations are eligible for loans to support business purposes, such as childcare centers. Loans generally range from $10,000 up to the maximum of $5 million.

NC-CAP is made possible by $46.1 million in federal funding through the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010. Gov. Beverly Perdue designated the N.C. Rural Economic Development Center to administer the program in all 100 counties.

Banks or businesses requiring additional assistance may contact Lisa Theall at the N.C. Rural Center, ltheall@ncruralcenter.org or call 919250-4314.

The N.C. Rural Economic Development Center is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to develop sound economic strategies that improve the quality of life in rural North Carolina, with a special focus on individuals with low to moderate incomes and communities with limited resources. The center operates a multifaceted program that includes conducting research into rural issues; testing promising rural development strategies; advocating for policy and program innovations; and building the productive capacity of rural leaders, entrepreneurs and community organizations.

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Cabarrus Senior Resource Link to meet at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday The Cabarrus Senior Resource Link, professionals who work with seniors, will hold a monthly meeting on Tuesday, July 12 at 11:30 a.m.

For additional information and reservations, contact Susan Wear at Gentiva Home Health 704933-1001.

Citizens South earns 35th 5-Star Rating in a row GASTONIA — Citizens South Bank has been awarded its 35th consecutive 5-Star Superior rating for financial strength and stability from BauerFinancial, Inc.,of Coral Gables, Florida for the quarter ended March 31.

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Megan Ferden, left, and Taylor Starrett opened The Lettered Lily above Caniche.

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Company offers columbaria program for churches SALISBURY — East Coast Granite, Marble & Bronze LLC, a monument, columbaria and memorial provider, has started a program to assist churches in meeting needs for columbarium spaces. A columbarium is a sealed niche that houses an urn containing ashes of the deceased.

East Coast Granite will install a columbaria on a church campus, letting churches pay for it by pre-selling individual niches.

The company is offering 12-48 granite columbarium units with prices starting at $4,200 installed. The company provides free marketing assistance for selling individual niches.

“Corporately-owned cemeteries in this area are charging upwards of $2,600 for a columbaria niche,” said James Poe, an ECGMB partner. “With our Zero Cost program, a church can of-

fer a low-cost alternative to its members and their families.”

East Coast is assisting church pastors and leadership committees in columbaria design and development of a fundraising plan.

They are currently arranging meetings to present the program to area church leadership.

Poe said a 24-niche gray granite columbarium costs about $7,000 (not including site preparation and installation). A church could presell each niche for $1,000, resulting in a net margin of more than $15,000.

According to Poe, this program was developed in response to the cremation rate increasing in North Carolina and across the United States. ECGMB, 503 Faith Road, is next to Wink’s Barbecue restaurant.

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froM 1C “The national average (for profit) is 15 cents a gallon, we make less than that because we price aggressively,” Sheetz said. “People come in to buy gas, but we hope that is not the only thing they want. We hope to get them inside the store.”

Revenues inside the stores have grown at a nice clip, Sheetz said.

“We are not severely affected by the reces-

New, smaller casinos may be future of Atlantic City ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s plan to breathe new life into the struggling Atlantic City casino market may be paying off.

Three companies say they’re interested in building one of the two new, smaller casinos in Atlantic City that state lawmakers authorized earlier this year.

A group including the Seminole Indians of Florida, through their Hard Rock franchise; Las Vegas-based Pinnacle Entertainment, which scrapped plans to build a $2 billion Boardwalk casino; and a group of Atlantic City-area business people told New Jersey casino regulators Friday they want to participate in a pilot program to jump-start the nation’s second-largest gambling market.

New Jersey amended its law earlier this year to provide for a casino with as few as 200 rooms, and one that would eventually be 500 rooms. The idea was to lower the entry bar to the struggling market and spur new investment.

Friday was the date set by the New Jersey

Casino Control Commission for expressions of interest in building one of the new casinos.

“We’re happy that the governor and state legislature’s plan to reinvent Atlantic City is bearing fruit,” said Bob Griffin, CEO of Trump Entertainment Resorts and president of the Casino Association of New Jersey. “This shows there’s still room in this market.”

The applicants are AC Gateway LLC, the group that includes Hard Rock; Pinnacle Entertainment through a subsidiary called ACE Gaming LLC; and a group of local investors calling itself California Avenue Ventures, based in Northfield, just outside of Atlantic City.

State Sen. James Whelan, a former Atlantic City mayor who wrote the law authorizing the smaller casinos, said the California Avenue group includes Max Gurwicz Enterprises, an Atlantic County real estate company, and Howard Goldberg, who owns land on California Avenue near the Tropicana Casino and Resort. Messages left with both men’s’ offices were not returned Friday.

The harsh reality of the online coupon business is that the concept is easy to replicate. All you need is a sales team to craft deals with merchants, and an email service for blasting those offers to those who sign up.

Megan ferden, left, and taylor starrett opened the Lettered Lily above Caniche.

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Cabarrus Chamber official completes leadership training program KANNAPOLIS — Gwynn McCombs, vice president of membership and marketing for the Cabarrus Regional Chamber of Commerce, has graduated from the Institute for Organization Management, the professional development program of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

To graduate, McCombs had ti complete 96 hours of course instruction in nonprofit management. Other graduates from the Cabarrus Chamber include John Cox, Deborah Carter and Pam Hayworth. Tina Anderson, sponsorship sales and investor relations manager, recently completed her second of four years of this intensive week-long, leadership training.

In addition to the graduate recognition, participants can earn credit hours toward the Certified Chamber Executive (CCE) or Certified Association Executive (CAE) professional industry certifications.

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GRAPHIC froM 1C work, letters are a key element. Now the two women are turning their favorite flower into a piece of graphic design art.

The goal is to provide the area with a one-stop shop of graphic design services that include personal stationery and business branding and marketing materials.

“We strive to beat any price in our competitive area and online in order to keep business local and personal,” they promise. “We work with our customers on an one-on-one basis to give

them exactly what they are envisioning.”

The Lettered Lily Design Studio has assumed much of the former Pleasant Papers invitation stock and is carrying many of the same brands; Crane and Co., William Arthur, Caspari and Kate Spade. Invitations and stationery are featured in the showroom above Caniche in downtown Salisbury.

But The Lettered Lily offers other design options as well. The owners have equipment to engrave items, foil stamp napkins and books, and calligraphy. They can also create and design business cards, marketing materials such as posters and flyers, small business websites, la-

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Handbag trade-in event July 22-31 at Stitchin Post Gifts Stitchin Post Gifts will have a Brighton Handbag Trade-In event at 104 South Main St. July 22-31.

This annual event benefits Nazareth Thrift Store through their programs to help needy women get back into the work force. You can trade in your old handbag and help Nazareth Thrift Store at the same time. Purchase a registered Brighton handbag and receive a $25 or $50 bonus. For more information, call Stitchin Post Gifts at 704-636-4121.

Submit information about new businesses, honors and management promotions to bizbriefs@salisburypost.com. Include a daytime phone number.

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Earning a 5-Star rating indicates a bank is one of the strongest in the nation. This is the 35th consecutive quarter that Citizens South Bank has earned the honor.

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Citizens South Banking also has been added to the Russell Microcap Index for a year.

“We are pleased to be included among the well-respected companies in this index and are encouraged that our strategic initiatives have earned us this recognition,” said Kim S. Price, president and CEO. This “will expose our company and its stock to a wider audience of institutional investors which we believe will ultimately benefit our long-term shareholders.”

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sion because the stuff we sell is not expensive and part of people’s everyday lives. Rarely are people cutting out their daily paper, coffee and their sandwich at lunch. People trade down in the food market place, and they go to McDonald’s or Sheetz. That helped us get through,” Sheetz said.

To apply for jobs at the Salisbury Sheetz, go to www.sheetz.com and select “job opportunities.”

Applications are taken online and the job titles listed Friday were beverage host and hostess, for which the application period closes Tuesday, and shift supervisor, which closes Aug. 4.

its own in five U.S. cities, trying to rival Groupon by tapping Facebook’s base of 750 million users worldwide. Google has one, too, rolled out first in Portland, Ore. LevelUp comes from the folks behind Scvngr (pronounced “scavenger”), a mobile-gaming startup in Cambridge, Mass., created by 22-year-old Princeton dropout Seth Priebatsch.

LevelUp, whose name is gamer-speak for the act of rising to a higher status in a video game, launched in Boston and Philadelphia in March. It plans to expand this summer to major markets such as San Francisco, New York and Chicago, the home turf of market leader Groupon. Most of the businesses it works with are local, but deals have included larger brands, such as Levi’s.

Sucharita Mulpuru, a Forrester Research analyst who covers online shopping, says LevelUp will have trouble competing not just because of its size. If LevelUp proves successful, competitors may apply the company’s multiple deal model to their own sites.

Mulpuru believes Groupon in particular could simply copy LevelUp’s idea. In May, it did something similar by offering a half-off card for eight sandwiches at sub chain Quizno’s.

But in the tech sphere, it’s not unheard of for a tiny newcomer to best an early leader: Google surpassed Web search pioneers AltaVista and Yahoo, and Facebook triumphed over social networking site Myspace (which had itself trounced Friendster).

Much of Priebatsch’s confidence comes from his insistence that the current online coupon model, where sites take a big cut of the revenue from each deal, is unsustainable.

Groupon, for instance, takes up to half the price of the coupon, so if an Italian restaurant is offering $50 worth of food for $25, the merchant gets just $12.50.

That’s a source of many complaints from merchants. They benefit only when a Groupon customer brings friends who pay full price or comes back later to shop without the discount.

LevelUp is trying to persuade skeptical merchants to offer great deals by taking none of the revenue in the first round. After that, LevelUp takes 25 percent. Priebatsch believes that merchants will be more likely to offer bargains that can be used for repeat visits.

The setup also gives LevelUp an incentive to encourage repeat visits because it makes no money otherwise.

“If we can’t get customers to level up, we’re not doing anything of value,” Priebatsch says.

One Boston-based burrito chain offered $10 worth of food for $5 in the first level, $25 worth of food for $10 in the second and $45 worth of food for $15 in the third. Customers can use one level before buying the next.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Groupon’s online coupons save people cash, but they’re not always great deals for merchants. Some businesses complain that bargain hunters rarely return after scoring a cheap meal or massage.

A new site called LevelUp believes it has a way for restaurants, nail salons and other local businesses to keep people coming back.

To drum up repeat business, the company offers consumers a series of three deals, each better than the one before.

Online deal sites abound, but LevelUp hopes to stand out by giving people an initial offer that’s on par with competitors’ — and following that up with even better deals.

After three visits, LevelUp figures that customers will be familiar with the merchant enough to return, even without discounts.

It’s still too early to say whether enough consumers will be willing to pay full price— a key factor that will determine whether LevelUp becomes a serious threat to Groupon or remains one of hundreds of wannabes.

Groupon created a new marketing phenomenon catering to people’s hunger for bargains. It offers the chance to purchase discounts targeted to a person’s city and preferences. For example, someone might pay $20 for a $40 gift certificate to a spa, restaurant, car wash or yoga studio.

The Chicago-based company’s upcoming initial public offering of stock is expected to be in high demand, even though it lost $413 million last year on revenue of $713 million.

The harsh reality of the online coupon business is that the concept of offering customers deep discounts is easy to replicate.

All you need is a sales team to craft deals with merchants, and an email service for blasting those offers to people who sign up on a website.

But rivals have difficulty breaking through because market leader Groupon already has 83 million people subscribing to its daily offers by email, and second-place LivingSocial has 39 million. By contrast, LevelUp has just 100,000 subscribers.

Small businesses often prefer to partner with a service that can reach more potential customers, even though LevelUp is trying to sweeten the deal by taking no commission on the first of the three offers.

Others are trying to distinguish themselves by targeting niche audiences, such as nerds or moms, or people with specific interests, such as fitness or food.

Facebook is testing a deals program of

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Flat jobs data signals weakest recovery in decades (AP) — The job market is defying history.

A dismal June employment report shows that employers are adding nowhere near as many jobs as they normally do this long after a recession has ended.

Unemployment has climbed for three straight months and is now at 9.2 percent. There’s no precedent, in data going back to 1948, for such a high rate two years into what economists say is a recovery.

The economy added just 18,000 jobs in June. That’s a fraction of the 90,000 jobs economists had expected and a sliver of the 300,000 jobs needed each month to shrink unemployment significantly.

The excruciatingly slow growth is confounding economists, spooking consumers and dismaying job seekers.

Friday’s report forced analysts to re-examine their assumption that the economy would strengthen in the second half of 2011.

They had expected improvement in June after a bleak jobs report for May. They figured that hiring in May had been artificially weakened by temporary factors — a run-up in gasoline prices to $4 a gallon and factory disruptions caused by Japan’s earthquake and nuclear crisis.

But the June numbers were

even worse than May’s, even though gasoline prices are falling and factories revving up again.

“This is a remarkable, across-the-board backslide,” says economist Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy Institute.

Sometimes disappointing economic reports look better on closer inspection. This one gets uglier.

Workers’ hourly pay fell in June. They worked fewer hours. And 16.2 percent of those who wanted to work were either unemployed, forced to settle for part-time jobs or had given up looking for work. That figure was up from 15.8 percent in May. Among the frustrated is Cris Cohen, who was laid off in April from a job as a contractor for Cisco Systems in Raleigh, N.C. He’s been searching for work since then, futilely combing job listings, reaching out to friends and setting up a website with a resume and a blog.

“In the past when I’ve left jobs or been laid off, I’ve just contacted connections I have had, and that’s led to opportunities,” says Cohen, who has a wife and a 9-year-old son.

“Now, it’s just seems much more dry.... There’s just always that anxious feeling, that nausea.”

One problem is that after slashing jobs during the Great

End is near for endless data use on smartphones SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When Verizon Wireless killed off its unlimited data plan for new smartphone customers on Thursday, it marked another blow for endless Web surfing and video streaming.

The move by the nation’s largest wireless carrier has long been anticipated. More people are switching to smartphones and using an increasing amount of data for all manner of wireless activities.

The shift could help wireless carriers ensure that they can handle the traffic flowing over the new higher-speed “4G,” or fourth-generation, data networks.

AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile USA, the second- and fourthlargest U.S. carriers, respectively, have already set limits on monthly data usage. AT&T uses tiered data plans like the one Verizon is rolling out, while T-Mobile slows data speeds for unlimited data plan customers who use up their monthly allotment. Sprint Nextel Corp., the country’s third-largest carrier, still offers an unlimited plan.

The death of unlimited wireless data is happening as service providers see an explosion in data usage, due mainly to an ever-growing number of smartphone users.

According to market researcher comScore Inc., 77 million people in the U.S. had smartphones in the first three months of the year — up 11 percent from a year earlier.

And according to a Nielsen study, smartphone users’ average data growth climbed 89 percent to 435 megabytes in the same time frame.

Simply put, there’s more profit to be made with capped data plans. Steve Clement, a Pacific Crest Securities analyst, said this growth just won’t work with a fixed-pricing model over time, so to make money from the surging traffic the carriers have to try something else.

By moving away from unlimited plans, the carriers can profit more from the heaviest data users. And, as RBC analyst Jonathan Atkin pointed out, by offering low-level data packages — such as the 200 megabyte plans that T-Mobile and AT&T offer — they can bring in more users.

Part of the move to capped data is to get consumers accustomed to the idea that data isn’t a limitless resource. If carriers didn’t move to usagebased data plans while rolling out newer speedy data networks, the networks would get abused, Zachary Investment Research analyst Patrick Comack said. And while the pricing of Verizon’s network is higher than AT&T’s, its service is speedier, so it can charge a premium for now.

Verizon Wireless’ unlimited plan used to cost existing users $30 per month. With the new plans, smartphone users will choose between paying

Data plans available from major carriers Verizon Wireless no longer offer unlimited data plans to new smartphone customers.

With the change, here are the options available from the major wireless carriers: Verizon Wireless: The unlimited data plan that is going away costs $30 per month. For that, new smartphone customers will get 2 gigabytes of monthly data usage. They can also pay $50 for 5 gigabytes and $80 for 10 gigabytes. Customers should choose carefully.

Those who use more will be charged an additional $10 per gigabyte.

AT&T: Eliminated $30 unlimited data plan for new customers a year ago. Customers can now pay $15 for 200 megabytes of monthly data usage or $25 for 2 gigabytes. There’s also a 4-gigabyte plan for $45; with it, laptops can access AT&T’s cellular network through their phones using a technique known as tethering. With the cheapest plan, there’s a $15 charge for every 200 megabytes over the limit. The charge is $10 per extra gigabyte with the other two plans.

T-Mobile: Offers four plans with high-speed data.

Customers who go over their limits are still able to send and receive data without charge, but speeds will be lower. The limit is 200 megabytes for $10 a month, 2 gigabytes for $20, 5 gigabytes for $30 and 10 gigabytes for $60.

Sprint: Offers unlimited data use for $30 a month.

Some higher-priced calling plans come with data at no extra charge.

$30 for 2 gigabytes, $50 for 5 gigabytes or $80 for 10 gigabytes of monthly data usage.

Customers who use more than their allotment will be charged $10 more for each additional gigabyte.

AT&T, meanwhile, charges $25 per month for 2 gigabytes of data and $45 for 4 gigabytes. The over-allotment fee is the same.

Verizon and AT&T say much of the move away from unlimited data plans has to do with making users pay for the data they really use.

Current Verizon smartphone users will not be affected, regardless of whether or not they have a long-term contract with the company.

And given that 95 percent of the company’s current smartphone users use less than 2 gigabytes per month, chances are that most of the newcomers — which includes new customers and existing ones trading up to a smartphone — won’t be affected by the change.

Recession, employers are still reluctant to replace them.

They’ve learned to squeeze more work and revenue out of reduced staffs. Productivity and corporate profits have soared. But companies don’t want to add workers until they’re confident that consumers are spending enough to support higher sales.

Other factors are restraining hiring, too. More sophisticated software lets managers scrutinize changes in their businesses minute-by-minute.

They can postpone hiring until they’re certain they need more workers.

Employers have good reason to wait, says economist Ken Mayland at ClearView Economics. A political standoff over the federal debt limit threatens to send the U.S. government into default next month. That would send interest rates soaring and might tip the economy back into recession.

Even if President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans agree to raise the borrowing limit, the deal will likely require deep cuts in government spending and possibly tax increases.

Combined, those steps could slow the economy further.

The economy has already lost 493,000 government jobs since the recession ended, most of them eliminated by

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Now it faces the prospect of big cuts by the federal government, too.

Heightening the uncertainty are Europe’s debt crisis and the possibility that China’s efforts to tame inflation will slow its booming economy.

Both factors could destabilize financial markets and reduce U.S. exports, one of the economy’s few strengths.

“Why would an employer hire now?” Mayland says. “It’s hunker down and wait and see.”

The Federal Reserve has already lowered short-term interest rates to near zero.

And last month, it ended a Treasury bond-purchase program that was intended to strengthen the economy.

Congress, pointing to high budget deficits, won’t consider spending taxpayer money to jolt the economy with new government programs.

“We have painted ourselves into a corner,” Mayland says. “When you’re at zero interest rates and running a $1.5 trillion deficit, you don’t really have many policy options.”

Many analysts say the economy mainly needs time to recover from an implosion of the real estate market and a devastating financial crisis.

Normally, housing and construction would fuel a recovery. Lower interest rates would draw homebuyers into the market. Increased demand would encourage builders to hire construction workers and put up new houses.

Not so this time. Home prices are continuing to fall as banks dump foreclosed homes on the market. People’s home equity has shrunk.

The tepid recovery is taking a toll on consumers, whose spending accounts for 70 percent of economic activity. The Conference Board business group said last week that its consumer confidence index fell to 58.5 in June. A healthy reading is 90.

At this point after the previous three recessions, the index averaged 87.

The low reading suggests consumers will be wary about spending. That could leave businesses even more cautious about hiring.

Businesses are nervous about the economic outlook now that the Fed and Congress seem to have ended their efforts to stimulate growth, says David Rosenberg, chief economist at Gluskin Sheff + Associates.

“The policy cupboard is pretty bare, and we can see what the emperor looks like disrobed,” Rosenberg says.

“It’s not a pretty picture.”

Summer emerges as the new fall TV season NEW YORK (AP) — If September is what first comes to mind when considering new television shows, there are some 82 reasons to think again.

That’s the number of new programs that have or will premiere on cable networks post-Memorial Day through August, based on an informal survey. That doesn’t even include existing series that are starting new seasons (HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” USA’s “Burn Notice,” etc.) or new programs on broadcast TV (NBC’s “Love Bites” and ABC’s “101 Ways to Leave a Game Show”), because the latter usually aren’t built to last.

Eighty-two. Something new virtually every day.

The deluge illustrates rapid change in the television industry: It’s only been a few years that cable networks have actively sought to exploit the broadcasters’ summer vacation to suit their own needs, and already some executives wonder if they will have to look elsewhere on the calendar.

“The competitive landscape every year just gets harder and harder for everyone,” said Laureen Ong, president of the Travel Channel, whose new summer series include “Mancations” and “Paranormal Challenge.”

The new shows run the gamut. There are celebritybased reality shows, featuring the likes of Roseanne Barr, Brad Garrett, Sarah Ferguson and Ryan and Tatum O’Neal. Cooking (“Bobby Flay’s Barbecue Addiction”) and design (“Million Dollar Decorators”) are well represented.

Big-budget scripted series are bowing (“Falling Skies” and “Torchwood: Miracle Day”). There are plenty of odd professions in the spotlight (tattoo artists, aquarium makers, tow truck operators and — ewwwww! — the stars of “True Grime: Crime Scene Cleanup”).

Wrong as it may be to judge a series by its title, we confess to not setting the DVR for “Ratbusters NYC” and “Hillbilly Handfishin’.”

When John Landgraf, president and general man-

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Networks like FX, USA and AMC all learned over the past decade how one or two critically praised new series can transform their reputations, so it’s no surprise others have tried.

Same thing for nonfiction programming: History is one of cable’s top networks now, and it’s because of pawn shop operators and Arctic Circle truckers, not Civil War documentaries.

Summer became the favorite proving ground because, with broadcast networks offering virtually no new scripted series in those months, viewers are eager to experiment.

Lifestyle networks find summer a good time to start new programming because interest perks up in topics like travel and home decorating, said Eileen O’Neill, group president for Discovery and TLC. TLC runs on-air, feelgood campaigns spotlighting county fairs, swimming pools, flip-flops and other summer fun.

Over the years, aggressive summer slates helped erode the lines between broadcast and cable. History’s popular Monday-night lineup, for example, often beats fare on the broadcast networks.

The amount of new summer programming on cable now surpasses the traditional opening of the broadcast television season in late September, although the new broadcast fare is concentrated in a couple of weeks. This year, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox are scheduled to bring 23 new shows on the air during the early fall.

There’s evidence the logjam is starting to affect the viewers, Landgraf said.

It’s like being invited to a feast where all the world’s best cooks offer their signature dishes. Too much choice can actually be stressful.

“They’re jaded,” he said.

“They feel like they’ve seen everything before. To put something before them that feels in any way fresh is incredibly difficult.”

The good thing for viewers is that the competition forces more quality material to be made. “Mediocrity sinks like a stone in this marketplace,” Landgraf said.

To FX’s relief, the network’s new comedy “Wilfred”

has gotten off to a strong start.

There are other factors that limit where programmers can schedule new programming in the summer beyond the glut of competition. The NBA Finals in June are to be avoided. With good weather, people are often outside and not settled down in front of the TV before 9 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights are usually passed by because many young viewers have other social plans.

Spike, whose only new series “Bar Rescue” debuts in two weeks, generally avoids the summer because many of the young men it tries to reach are doing other things besides watching TV. The SyFy network is aggressively marketing a big premiere week for its scripted shows “Alphas” and “Legend Quest” during the second week of July. But its strategy may be different in the future, said Dave Howe, network president.

“You would never really launch a new season or a new show at any other time aside from the summer or January,” he said. “It’s unbelievably competitive now during the summer. Most networks, including us, are thinking we might be better off launching some other time of the year.”

China’s inflation jumps to 3-year high BEIJING (AP) — China’s stubbornly high inflation accelerated to a threeyear high in June even as the overheated economy began to cool.

Consumer prices rose 6.4 percent over a year ago, a sharp jump from May’s 5.5 percent rate, data showed Saturday. It was driven by a 14.4 percent rise in politically volatile food costs, up from May’s 11.7 percent.

Communist leaders have declared taming prices their priority this year,

but inflation has steadily risen this year even as economic activity gradually eased following repeated interest rate hikes and other controls.

Inflation is politically dangerous for the ruling Communist Party because it erodes economic gains that underpin its claim to sole power and can fuel unrest.

The Cabinet’s planning agency forecast earlier that June inflation would likely exceed May’s increase due to summer flooding that damaged crops and pushed

up the price of pork, vegetables and fruit.

Rapid growth in factory output, bank lending and other activity have all eased in recent months, indicating that efforts to steer the world’s second-largest economy to a more manageable growth pace after last year’s double-digit expansion are gaining traction.

Forecasters expect inflation to ease in coming months, but the government has conceded it will overshoot the official 4 percent target for the year.

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Customer Service Representatives This is a catalog order entry position requiring good computer skills, prior office experience, and a background in customer service. Must be a quick learner, have excellent verbal and written communication skills with attention to detail and possess the ability to work in a fast paced environment.

Position requires Pre-employment drug screen and background check. 40 hours per week, hours are 11 am-8 pm Mon – Fri. Only those applicants willing to work the above hours need apply.

Health, dental, life insurance, 401-K, vacation. Starting pay is $9.50 hr. To apply please send resume to: CSR Position P.O. Box 480 Granite Quarry, NC 28072 Or Fax: 704-279-8958 Or E-mail (Microsoft Word Document) to: tmoore@mckenziesp.com Manufacturer Taxidermy Supplies EOE/M-F

Seeking Employment Caregiver. Christian & loving, seeking clients, 10 yrs exp., references, 704-798-1737

MORE MILES MORE MONEY Hiring solos, teams & contractors $5,000 team sign-on bonus $1,000 Owner Operator sign-on bonus Great pay & Benefits The best equipment Lease/purchase program available Recent CDL grads welcome Requires CDL-A & 3 months OTR experience.

Also hiring qualified driver trainers - earn up to an additional $17,000/yr.

Don’t miss out! Call today!

888-808-6045

There is a NEW group of people EVERY day, looking for a DEAL in the classifieds.

Sales

Telemarketing/Outside Sales Rep. Base + commission. Email resume to: collect@vnet.net or fax 704-857-6700

Medical Installation

Haskell's Hardware in Landis is looking for: Experienced gutter installer & experienced insulation installer.

Must be willing to work out of town during the week. To apply please fax resume to: 704857-2377 or call 704857-2365.

RN – Emergency Department PRN and FT available – Night Shift Licensed by the State of North Carolina as an RN. BLS and ACLS required.

Previous ED experience preferred.

Apply online at www.davisregional.com

Could you use

Compster, fiberglass outside. 26"x26"x32" w/turning tool, $80. Good condition.

Small kitchen ceramic composter w/4 extra filters, $25.

Excellent condition. Metal inside dog kennel 30" x 4', $125. Excellent condition.

Call for appt. 704-630-0192

Cool stuff Zoombox video/game projector with screen $75.00, 704-264-7155 Dryer, heavy duty electric, large capacity, $75.

Dehumidifier, works great, $50. Two(2) NEW trailer tires, $25 each.

Wood kitchen table w/2 chairs, $25. 704-639-9745

10 ,000 extra this year?

Earn the extra cash you need in just 2-3 hours per day as a motor route carrier for The Salisbury Post. You’ll discover the satisfaction of running your own business - without sacrificing your time to the demands of a full-time job.

Interested persons must meet the following criteria:

• Available 7 days per week • Delivery hours are Mon.-Fri. 3:30 am to 6:30 am, Sat. & Sun. 1:30 am to 7:00 am • Dependable • Dependable transportation • Have a desire to own their own business • Drivers license required • Good driving record • Have a home phone number

If interested, please come by the Post at 131 W. Innes Street, Salisbury and fill out an application or give us a call at the Circulation Department (704) 797-4213, Monday - Friday 8 am - 5 pm *Profits vary and could be more or less than this amount

Power Tools Electric drill, Laser level, etc.

Call 704-433-8072 more information

for

Rims - 18 inch alloy aluminum truck/SUV 4wheel drive rims. $500 OBO. Contact by e-mail bgbunny88@yahoo.com Horse, $15; Rocking Activity Cube Toy w/blocks & balls $10; baby bath tub, $2. 704-431-4241 or 704603-4291 Saddlebags, Harley Davidson, leather.

Like new. $225. Call 704-680-3270 STEEL, Channel, Angle, Flat Bars, Pipe Orders Cut to Length. Mobile Home Truss- $6 ea.; Vinyl floor covering- $4.89 yd.; Carpet- $5.75 yd.; Masonite Siding 4x8- $14; 12”x16' lap siding at $6.95 ea.

School Desks - $7.50 ea.

RECYCLING, Top prices paid for Aluminum cans, Copper, Brass, Radiators, Aluminum.

Davis Enterprises Inc. 7585 Sherrills Ford Rd. Salisbury, NC 28147 704-636-9821 Swimming pool, EZ rise w/ 2 pumps & 1 cleaner.

16X30. 2½ ft. deep. $100 firm. 704-638-2548 Trailer, Agri-fab, covered.

New tires & tubes. No blower or motor. $85.

Box scrape for lawn tractor hook-up, complete. New, $125. Call 704-640-9877

Music Sales Christian Music Recording Studio Praise teams, choirs, soloist. 704-279-2274

Make music Piano, Wurlitzer full size beige. Needs tuning , cleaning. $300. 704-6370058

Sporting Goods Tippmann A5 Paintball Marker, APE Rampage board 5 firing modes, Flatline barrel, airthrough stock, and CO2 stabilizer with everything neccessary to play. $250.

Rockwell. 704-798-2565.

Television, DVD & Video TV - 13" digital Apex TV, like new. Remote and manual. $25. Call 704-279-4947

Fence/vineyard poles, 7 ft. long, 3½–3¾ “ wide, green treated, $3.50 ea. $600 avail. 704-245-3660

TV - Zenith 27" console TV on swivel base in cabinet with glass doors.

Remote, manual. $100.

704-855-8353

GREAT STUFF! GREAT PRICES!

TV, 46” RCA flat screen HD LCD. 120 Hz. NEW. STILL IN BOX. $700.

Please call 704-856-8792

Laminate flooring - new still in box. Traditional Oak. 20 boxes $15 per box. 704-831-0278.

Currently seeking applicants in W. Rowan/E. Iredell, China Grove, Rockwell & High Rock Lake area

METAL: Angle, Channel, Pipe, Sheet & Plate Shear Fabrication & Welding FAB DESIGNS 2231 Old Wilkesboro Rd Open Mon-Fri 7-3:30 704-636-2349

Edger, Craftsman, 3.5hp.

Like new. $75. Drop leaf old copper table, $65.

Call 704-640-9877

Stop Smoking~Lose Weight It's Easy & Very Effective.

Decide Today 704-933-1982

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Books.

Do-It-Yourself Popular Mechanic. All Collector Series 1-18. $60. 704-797-9020

HYPNOSIS will work for you!

Let's play!

Slot Machines, with coins, 3 for $150.00. Call 704-633-3076.

Let's ride!

Kids standing Raptor 100 electric scooter. $75.00 704-642-7155

Want to Buy Merchandise All Coin Collections Silver, gold & copper.

Will buy foreign & scrap gold. 704-636-8123 Buying military & war items: daggers, flags, swords, medals. Buying from vets & their families. 336-692-2703 Timber wanted - Pine or hardwood. 5 acres or more select or clear cut.

Shaver Wood Products, Inc. Call 704-278-9291.

Watches – and scrap gold jewelry.

704-636-9277 or cell 704-239-9298

Look for the

banner to find the freshest deals!

C43576

25 year old company hauling refrigerated product from the SE, to and from the NW and West coast. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, come join our family of Indepentent Contractors. NO runs in NJ, NY or New England. Spouse and pet rider policy. Call BUEL, INC. 866-3699744 today. PTDIA grads welcome. Call Monday - Friday 8am-5pm.

Johnson's Barber Shop is hiring an experienced barber. Call 704-798-6949 or 704638-6309

Blank CD's (100) and multi-colored jewel cases (100).

New-never opened. All for $25. 704855-8353.

Metal shed, 63 ¼” tall $50, refrigerator, full size $35. Call 704-640-5463

Other

CDL INDEPENDENT OPERATORS

BINGHAM-SMITH LUMBER & METAL CO. Save money on lumber.

Treated and Untreated.

Round Fence Post in all sizes. Save extra when buying full units.

Call Patrick at 980-234-8093.

DRIVERS WANTED

C48093

Employment

Seeking PT Pre-Calc/AP Calculus Teacher. Email resumes to mmitchell@ northhillschristian.com

Bath tub faucet, $5.

Video now games (2) $3 ea. Women's bathing suit, medium, yellow w/flowers, $3. 704-4314241 or 704-603-4291

2x4x14 $3 2x6x14 $5.50 2x4x16 $4.75 2x6x8 studs $3.25 2x4x93” $1.75 2x10x14 $5 D/W rafters $5 Floor trusses $5 each 704-202-0326

New Today banners run the first day your ad runs and are an additional $3

Call Classifieds today at 704-797-4220

Business Opportunities A COKE/M&M vending route! 100% Finc. Do you earn $2K/wk? Loc's in Salis.

800-367-6709 x 6020

SALISBURY POST Lost & Found

Instruction

Help Me Get Home!!

Education / Training

Electronic Health Record Specialist Training

Business Opportunities

Lost & Found

J.Y. Monk Real Estate School-Get licensed fast, Charlotte/Concord courses. $399 tuition fee. Free Brochure. 800-849-0932

Found big, black dog on Jake Alexander Blvd. near Goodwill on 7/3.

Please call 704-638-8944 or 704-798-8003 Found dog. Bulldog/Lab mix.

Female.

Black w/white patches. Wearing collar. Found 7/6 during storm in hospital area.

Lovable & friendly. Call 704-363-3935 to identify.

Instruction

Found dog. Small female dog. Found in Lane St. area Friday July 8th. Call 704-245-2750 to identify.

Notices

How to know you'll go! 4 min. recorded message.

Call now. 704-983-8841

Found: Ladies ring at Food Lion in China Grove. To claim it call & identify it. Call between 9am & 6pm, 704-8579697

Auctions

Carolina's Auction Rod Poole, NCAL#2446 Salisbury (704)633-7369 www.thecarolinasauction.com

Lost dog. Chocolate lab, male. Faith area. Wearing orange collar. 3 years old. Call 704-232-4927 Lost dog. Shih tzu mix. Tan & white female with severe underbite. Missing since July 4th from Dunham Ave/WInk's BBQ area. Call 704-433-6123

CNA Classes. Low cost.

Call 980-475-8520. Also offering a Saturday only class starting 8/8/11.

Auctions

Lost dog, mixed breed Collie/Spaniel Border mix.

Female, black.

About 30 lbs. Longish hair on ears. Near Fulton Heights/Jake Alexander.

Call 704-754-0093

Found dog. Midsized dog w/ a black face. Perky ears, not cropped. Short black/brown fur. No collar. Roaming in Water's Edge/Providence Church area. This area is very high traffic & I can't take dog in. 704-645-9119

Found puppy, possible Terrier mix, approx. 20 lbs. on E. Ridge Rd on 7/4/2011. Very friendly & playful. 704-433-0965

Auction Thursday 12pm 429 N. Lee St. Salisbury Antiques, Collectibles, Used Furniture 704-213-4101

My name is Blacky & I'm male. Missing since April 4th. Last seen in my cat house in my own bed.

Neutered.

Right eye brown, left eye green. I am very shy. 704-6334565. LM if no answer.

R. Giles Moss Auction & Real Estate-NCAL #2036.

Full Service Auction Company. Estates ** Real Estate Had your home listed a long time? Try selling at auction. 704-782-5625

Heritage Auction Co. Glenn M.Hester NC#4453 Salisbury (704)636-9277

Homes for Sale

Alexander Place

China Grove, 2 new homes under construction ... buy now and pick your own colors. Priced at only $114,900 and comes with a stove and dishwasher. B&R Realty 704-633-2394

Cleaning Services

Call 704-402-7750

Cleaning Services

Monday, August 1, 2011 Time: 8:00 PM Location: Station 71 – Link St., Rockwell, NC

South Rowan area. 220 Corriher Grange Rd. 3BR, 2BA. Open floor plan. 1,850 sq. ft. Gas fireplace.

3.4 acres fenced in.

Closed in patio. Monuments will be removed. Double garage and carport. 2 buildings. $149,900. 704-855-3914

Carport and Garages

Cleaning Services

Lippard Garage Doors Installations, repairs, electric openers. 704636-7603 / 704-798-7603

Complete Cleaning Service. Basic, windows, spring, new construction, & more. 704-857-1708

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ALL SERVICES!!

704-433-0585 We Build Garages, = 24x24 $12,500.

All sizes built! ~ 704-633-5033 ~

Concrete Work

All types concrete work ~ Insured ~ NO JOB TOO SMALL! Call Curt LeBlanc today for Free Estimates

Quality Affordable Childcare Clean, smoke-free, reliable. 18 yrs. exp.

6 wks & up. All shifts.

Reasonable Rates 704-787-4418 704-279-0927 F Ref. Avail. F

FREE ESTIMATES www.WifeForHireInc.com Licensed, bonded and insured.

Since 1985.

Cleaning Services

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$3,000 in Buyer's Closing Costs. 3 BR, 2 BA, newer kitchen, large dining room, bedrooms, nice split porches, huge detached garage, concrete drives.

R51548 $89,900. Monica Poole 704-245-4628 B&R Realty

Lovely 3 BR, 2 BA home, nice kitchen, split floor plan, covered deck, garden area, garage, storage building, privacy fence. R52207. $3,000 in closing, $139,900.

Poole, B&R Monica Realty, 704-245-4628

Beautiful 3 BR, 2 BA in a great location, walk-in closets, cathedral ceiling, room, double great attached garage, large lot, back-up generator. A must see.

R51757. $249,900. B&R Realty, 704-202-6041

FREE PICKUP OF DONATED: • Furniture • Appliances • Construction Materials • Architectural Salvage • Vehicles

TO ADVERTISE CALL

Health Benefits

Fencing Free Estimates Bud Shuler & Sons Fence Co. 225 W Kerr St 704-633-6620 or 704-638-2000 Price Leader since 1963

704-636-8058

Financial Services “We can remove bankruptcies, judgments, liens, and bad loans from your credit file forever!”

The Federal Trade Commission says companies that promise to scrub your credit report of accurate negative information for a fee are lying. Under federal law, accurate negative information can be reported for up to seven years, and some bankruptcies for up to ten years. Learn about managing credit and debt at ftc.gov/credit.

Need help understanding Medicare?

Call Wallace Foster 704-798-1014 More Details = Faster Sales!

Home Improvement

Brown's Landscape

Bowen Painting Interior and Exterior Painting 704-630-6976.

Home Improvement

OLYMPIC DRYWALL

Bobcat Service

Including carpentry, bathroom & kitchen remodeling, roofing, flooring.

Free Estimates, Insured ....

Our Work is Guaranteed!

~704-267-9275~ Billy J. Cranfield Construction Metal Roofs, remodeling, painting, kitchens & baths.

Licensed Contractor, 25 yrs exp. Insured

~ 704-202-2390 ~ Brisson - HandyMan Home Repair, Carpentry, Plumbing, Electrical, etc.

Insured. 704-798-8199 Browning ConstructionStructural repair, flooring installations, additions, decks, garages. 704-637-1578 LGC

Hometown Lawn Care & Handyman Service. Mowing, pressure washing, gutter cleaning, odd jobs ~inside & out. Comm, res. Insured. Free estimates. “No job too small” 704-433-7514 Larry Sheets, owner

The Floor Doctor

C47162

Complete crawlspace work, Wood floor leveling, jacks installed, rotten wood replaced due to water or termites, brick/block/tile work, foundations, etc.

704-933-3494

C48154

Cathy's Painting Service & Pressure Washing. Interior & exterior, new & repaints. 704-279-5335

Earl's Lawn Care 3Landscaping 3Mulching 3Core Aeration FREE Estimates

704-636-3415 704-640-3842 www.earlslawncare.com

GAYLOR'S LAWNCARE For ALL your lawn care needs! *FREE ESTIMATES* 704-639-9925/ 704-640-0542

LEE'S LAWNCARE Trim, Blow, Mow, Clean-up, Mulch, Presure Washing, Pine Needles. Free Estimates. Call Mike!

$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $

~ 704-431-3537 ~

We Buy Junk Cars!

Make Our Call The Last Call!

Best Prices Guaranteed!

Pet & Livestock Services

Stoner Painting Contractor • 25 years exp.

• Int./Ext. painting • Pressure washing • Staining • Mildew Removal • References • Insured 704-239-7553

Pet & Livestock Services

Little Paws Bed & Breakfast

We will come to you free of charge F David, 704-314-7846 or 704-209-1715 $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ F

Located at Small Animal Medicine & Surgery A deluxe boarding facility for dogs, cats, rabbits and “pocket pets”.

CASH FOR

3200 Sherrills Ford Road Salisbury, NC 28147 704-636-6613 www.sams-littlepawsdoc.com

cars, trucks, vans. Any junk vehicle. $275 & up.

Best prices guaranteed!!

Call Tim Anytime

Lawn Maint. & Landscaping

980-234-6649 CASH FOR JUNK CARS and Batteries.

Call 704-279-7480 or 704-798-2930

Outdoors By Overcash Mowing, shrub trimming & leaf blowing. 704-630-0120

Lawn Maint. & Landscaping

Roofing and Guttering SEAMLESS GUTTER Licensed Contractor C.M. Walton Construction, 704-202-8181

Guttering, leaf guard, metal & shingle roofs.

Ask about tax credits.

~ 704-633-5033 ~

Tree Service

• Junk Removal

I will pick up your nonrunning vehicles & pay you to take them away! Call Mike anytime. 336-479-2502

JULY 10

BowenPainting@yahoo.com

3Mowing, Trimming, & Edging 3Trimming Bushes

Junk Removal

A 10% BUYER'S PREMIUM WILL APPLY.

Emerson, GA NC A.L. # 4524 w w w . s an f o r d as s o c i at es . c o m Asa M. 'Montie' Marshall, IV Auctioneer Macon, GA NC A.L. # 4564

704-224-6558

Garages, new homes, remodeling, roofing, siding, back hoe, loader 704-6369569 Maddry Const Lic G.C.

TERMS: CASH, CASHIER'S CHECK, OR CHECK WITH BANK-LETTER GUARANTEEING FUNDS.

SANFORD+ associates, inc.

770-383-3380

_ Bush Hogging _ Plowing _ Tilling _ Raised garden beds Free Estimates

Kitchens, Baths, Sunrooms, Remodel, Additions, Wood & Composite Decks, Garages, Vinyl Rails, Windows, Siding. & Roofing. ~ 704-633-5033 ~

Home Maid Cleaning Service, 11 yrs. exp, Free Estimates & References. Call Regina 704.791.0046

B & L Home Improvement

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HMC Handyman Services. Any job around the house. Please call 704-239-4883

Piedmont AC & Heating Electrical Services Lowest prices in town!!

704-213-4022

Beaver Grading Quality work, reasonable rates.

Free Estimates 704-6364592

220 JULIAN ROAD SALISBURY, NC

Painting and Decorating

House Cleaning

Drywall Services

Since 1955

Lawn Maint. & Landscaping

Heating and Air Conditioning

Around the House Repairs Carpentry. Electrical. Plumbing. H & H Construction 704-633-2219

olympicdrywallcompany.com

Home Improvement

Quality work at affordable prices NC G.C. #17608 NC Home Inspector #107. Complete contracting services, under structure repairs, foundation & masonry repairs. Foreclosure repairs. Pier & dock repairs. Remodeling & renovations. 36 Yrs Exp. 704-633-3584 www.professionalservicesunltd.com Duke C. Brown Sr. Owner – “The House Whisperer!”

Grading & Hauling

$60 per hour.

Free Estimates.

Call Will Davis at 704-223-0631.

Builders Lic. #55140

704-642-1222

Professional Services Unlimited

A message from the Salisbury Post and the FTC.

New Homes Additions & Repairs Small Commercial Ceiling Texture Removal

1707 S. Main St., Salisbury

(704) 797-4220

Over 20 yrs experience!

Footing, Slabs, Walls, Driveways, Patios, Sidewalks. Please call DW 704-431-0581 for a free estimate.

704-279-2600

FOOD LION USED EQUIPMENT WAREHOUSE

704-797-4220

A HANDYMAN & MOORE Kitchen & Bath remodeling Quality Home Improvements Carpentry, Plumbing, Electric Clark Moore 704-213-4471

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Wonderful Home

What A Bargain

Reliable Fence All Your Fencing Needs, Reasonable Rates, 21 years experience.

(704)640-0223

Perry's Overhead Doors Sales, Service & Installation, Residential / Commercial. Wesley Perry 704-279-7325

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704-633-9295

Bring All Offers

East Rowan

China Grove

Computer Services

Child Care and Nursery Schools H

E. Spencer

Donations may also be dropped off at our store at our convenient drive-up drop-off

Carpentry

STORAGE SHEDS, CARPENTRY

BUYER BEWARE The Salisbury Post Classified Advertising staff monitors all ad submissions for honesty and integrity.

However, some fraudulent ads are not detectable. Please protect yourself by checking the validity of any offer before you invest money in a business opportunity, job offer or purchase.

Beautifully Landscaped

www.heritageauctionco.com

KEN WEDDINGTON Total Auctioneering Services 140 Eastside Dr., China Grove 704-8577458 License 392

Homes for Sale

Offical Notice Annual Stockholders Meeting

www.gilesmossauction.com

Rowan Auction Co. Professional Auction Services: Salis., NC 704-633-0809 Kip Jennings NCAL 6340.

knowing the Anyone whereabouts of Terry Green. Please have her call Danny 704-314-4355

Homes for Sale

S47043

Cross training for persons with healthcare (direct care, mgmt., admin, support, ancil. services, EMS) or Computer technology experience. Fed (US HHS ONC HIT ARRA) funded. Placement assistance provided. Visit www.cvcc.edu/hitwd or call 828327-7000-x 4816

Notices

C48156

Instruction

Free Stuff

SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2011 • 5C

CLASSIFIED

I buy junk cars. Will pay cash. $250 & up. Larger cars, larger cash! Call 704-239-1471

Manufactured Home Services Mobile Home Supplies~ City Consignment Company New & Used Furniture. Please Call 704636-2004

Miscellaneous Services Basinger Sewing Machine Repair. Parts & Service – Salisbury. 704-797-6840 or 704-797-6839

Graham's Tree Service Free estimates, reasonable rates. Licensed, Insured, Bonded. 704-633-9304 John Sigmon Stump grinding, Prompt service for 30+ years, Free Estimates. John Sigmon, 704-279-5763.

Johnny Yarborough, Tree Expert trimming, topping, & removal of stumps by machine. Wood splitting, lots cleared. 10% off to senior citizens.

704-857-1731

Lawn Equipment Repair Services

Moving and Storage

MOORE'S Tree TrimmingTopping & Removing. Use Bucket Truck, 704-209-6254 Licensed, Insured & Bonded

Lyerly's ATV & Mower Repair Free estimates. All types of repairs Pickup/delivery avail. 704-642-2787

TH Jones Mini-Max Storage 116 Balfour Street Granite Quarry Please 704-279-3808

TREE WORKS by Jonathan Keener.

Insured – Free estimates!

Please call 704-636-0954.

6C • SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2011 Homes for Sale

Bank Foreclosures & Distress Sales. These homes need work! For a FREE list:

East Salis. 3/4BR, 2½BA. Lease purchase option. New construction, energy star.

Green build. 704-638-0108

www.applehouserealty.com Fulton Heights

Look at Me!

3 BR, 2 BA, up to $2,500 in closing. Attached carport, Rocking Chair front porch, nice yard. R50846 $109,900 Monica Poole 704.245.4628 B&R Realty

Homes for Sale Salisbury

Convenient Location

Homes for Sale

Homes for Sale

Real Estate Services

Salisbury

REDUCED

B & R REALTY 704-633-2394

Special Financing

www.bostandrufty-realty.com

Century 21 Towne & Country 474 Jake Alexander Blvd.

(704)637-7721

2 BR, 1 BA, covered front porch, double pane windows, double attached carport, big yard, fence.

52179 $99,400 Dale Yontz B&R Realty 704202-3663

Very nice 2 BR, 2.5 BA condo overlooking golf course and pool! Great views, freshly decorated, screened in porch at rear. T51378. $94,000. Monica Poole 704.245.4628 B&R Realty

Move in Ready!

Salisbury

Great Location

Granite Quarry

504 Lake Drive, 3 BR, 1 BA, brick, carport, 1080 corner lot, sq.ft., hardwood floors, new windows, remodeled bath, new kitchen floor, fenced side yard, central heat/AC, close to town parks. $77,900. Call 704-279-3821

Completely remodeled.

3BR, 2BA. 1202 Bell St., Salisbury. Granite counter tops, new stainless steel appliances, new roof, windows and heat & air, hardwood floors, fresh paint. MUST SEE! Reduced to $116,000.

Will pay closing and minimum down payment. Call for appointment 704-637-6567

3 BR, 2 BA home in location! wonderful Cathedral ceiling, split floor plan, double garage, large deck, storage building, corner lot.

R51853 $149,900 Monica Poole 704-2454628 B&R Realty

High Rock Lake

Rockwell

Salisbury

3BR, 3BA. 2,600+ sq. ft. On 0.62 acre lot. Large great room. Front & rear decks.

30X42 detached garage.

Pier. For sale by owner.

Appraised at $415,000.

Asking $395,000. Please call 704-636-6864

Rockwell

Homes for Sale

Landis

www.bostandrufty-realty.com

Waterfront

Homes for Sale

Great Deal!

3 BR, 2 BA in Hunters Pointe. Above ground pool, garage, huge area that could easily be finished upstairs.

R51150A. $159,900.

B&R Realty 704-633-2394

2 BR, 1 BA, hardwood floors, detached carport, handicap ramp. $99,900 R47208 B&R Realty 704.633.2394 Salisbury

Lots of Room

Brand new! 3 BR, 2 BA, home w/great front porch, rear deck, bright living room, nice floor plan.

Special financing for qualified buyers. Call today! R52142 $90,000 Monica Poole B&R Realty 704-245-4628 Salisbury

Unique Property

Forest Glen Realty Darlene Blount, Broker 704-633-8867

CORBIN HILLS AT 5TH GREEN Salisbury. 521 Fairway Ridge Rd, end of a cul-desac. Approx 4000 sq. ft., 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, Two kitchens, dining with a view - feels like country living. Walkout basement, 2 fireplaces, Security system, 2 car garage. $325,000 Tel 704-637-1473

Homes for Sale Hurry! Gorgeous 4 BR, 2.5 BA, fantastic kitchen, large living and great room. All new paint, carpet, roof, windows, siding. R51926 $144,900 Monica Poole B&R Realty 704-245-4628 Salisbury

Motivated Seller

Mechanics DREAM Home, 28x32 shop with lift & air compressor, storage space & ½ bath. All living space has been completely refurbished. Property has space that could be used as a home office or dining room, deck on rear, 3 BR, 1 BA. R51824A $164,500 B&R Realty, Monica Poole 704-245-4628

3 BR 2.5 BA on 7.68 acres. Great kitchen w/granite, subzero ref., gas cooktop. Formal dining, huge garage, barn, greenhouse. Great for horses or car buffs!

R51894 $439,500. Dale Yontz.

704-202-3663 B&R Realty

Cute 1 BR 1 BA waterfront log home with beautiful view! Ceiling fans, fireplace, front and back porches.

R51875 $179,700. Dale Yontz 704-202-3663 B&R Realty Salisbury

Motivated Seller

Dawson Cape

3 BR, 2 BA, new home close to High Rock Lake!

Open kitchen/dining room combo, great fireplace, level lot on 1.52 acres.

R51601. $199,900 Monica Poole, B&R Realty, 704-245-4628

289 Forest Abbey. 3BR, 2½BA. Rec room, dining& breakfast, lovely lot. For more info: www.carolina centralhomes.com 980-521-7816 CarolinaCentralHomes

Great Front Porch

No. 61615 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Administrator of the Estate of Kessie Ree Stutts, aka Kezzie Stutts, this is to notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 15th day of October, 2011, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebted to said estate are notified to make immediate payment.

This the 6th day of July, 2011.

Kenneth L. Stutts, Jr. as Administrator for the estate of Kessie Ree Stutts, aka Kezzie Stutts, deceased, file#11e666, 477 First Turn Court, NW, Concord, NC 28025 Attorney at Law: John T. Hudson, 122 N. Lee St., Salisbury, NC 28144

AMENDED NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE 11-SP-141 Under and by virtue of the authority of the North Carolina statutes, the applicable declarations and/or restrictions filed of record, and Claim of Lien filed by EASTWOOD VILLAGE AT CORBIN HILLS MEMBERSHIP ASSOCIATION (hereinafter "the Association") recorded on December 13, 2010 in the Office of the Clerk of Superior Court for Rowan County, North Carolina, in docket #10-M-1014, and because of the owner's default in the payment of the indebtedness secured by the Claim of Lien, pursuant to demand of the Petitioner, the undersigned will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the property therein described, to wit: BEING all of Lot 101 (Unit 101) as shown upon the map of WILDWOOD VILLAGE TOWNHOUSES, Block 1, survey and map made by Teddy W. Deal, said map being recorded in Book of Maps, at Page 1832, to which reference is made, together with the townhouse unit and all appurtenances located on said lot, specifically including the rights and responsibilities of membership in Eastwood Village at Corbin Hills.

Address of Property: 302 Wildwood Drive, Salisbury NC 28146 Present Record Owner(s): CHARLES A. MCCULLOUGH LAURA BERTHA H. CLARK MCCULLOUGH The terms of the sale are that the real property described above will be sold for cash to the highest bidder and that the undersigned may require the successful bidder at the sale to immediately deposit cash or a certified check not to exceed the greater of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid, or Seven Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($750) may be required at the time of the sale. 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, Substitute Trustee, Attorney, Agent nor the holder of the Lien 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 conditions are expressly disclaimed. The Property will be sold subject to restrictions and easements of record, any unpaid taxes, superior and prior liens and special assessments, any transfer tax in association with the foreclosure and the tax of forty-five cents (45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) with a minimum tax of $10.00 and a maximum of $500.00 as required by N.C.G.S. 7A-308(a)(1). The sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as by law required.

The following disclosures are made in compliance with N.C.G.S. 42-45.2 and 4521.16A(b): Any tenant who resides in residential real property that is being sold in a foreclosure proceeding under Article 2A of Chapter 45 of the General Statutes and containing less than 15 rental units pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may terminate the rental agreement for the dwelling unit after receiving notice pursuant to G.S. 45-21.17(4) by providing the landlord with a written notice of termination to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days after the date of the notice of sale. Upon termination of a rental agreement under this section, the tenant is liable for the rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination payable at the time that would have been required by the terms of the rental agreement. The tenant is not liable for any other rent or damages due only to the early termination of the tenancy.

An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 4521.29 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.

Date and Hour for Sale: July 14, 2011 at 12:00 noon Place of Sale: Lobby, Rowan County Courthouse Date of this Notice: June 8, 2011.

HORACK, TALLEY, PHARR & LOWNDES, P.A., Attorneys for Eastwood Village By: Cynthia Jones, (NCSB #32755), 2600 One Wells Fargo, 301 S. College Street, Charlotte, North Carolina 28202-6038 Telephone: (704) 377-7208, Facsimile: (704) 372-2619

*Cash in 7 days or less *Facing or In Foreclosure *Properties in any condition *No property too small/large Call 24 hours, 7 days ** 704-239-2033 ** $$$$$$

Spencer

PUBLIC AUCTION JULY 16, 12NOON

Forest Creek. 3 BedNew room, 1.5 bath. home priced at only $82,900. R48764 B&R Realty 704.633.2394 Salisbury

New Listing

4BR, 3½BA in one of Rowan County's BestinNeighborhoods!

4BR, 3½BA one of Rowan County's StoneBest fireplace, 2 master suites.

Neighborhoods!

3,528 3,528 Sq. Sq. Ft. Ft. $349,000. $349,000.

704-239-3232 704-239-3232

Homes for Sale 211 S. Rowan Ave. Corner of 3rd St. Beautiful 6 room Victorian Home.

Open House Sunday, July 10. Auctioneer Keith J. Pierce, NCAL 154. See our web site www.carolinaauctions.com. 336813-3333 or 336-813-3333

TONS OF ROOM!

Genesis Realty 704-933-5000 genesisrealtyco.com Foreclosure Experts

Salisbury. 2 or 3 bedroom Townhomes. For information, call Summit Developers, Inc. 704-797-0200

Woodleaf area

Land for Sale Bringle Ferry Rd. 2 tracts.

Will sell land or custom build. A50140A. B&R Realty, Monica 704-245-4628 E. Rowan res. water front lot, Shore Landing subd. $100,000 Monica Poole B&R Realty 704-245-4628

Lots for Sale Western Rowan County

12+ Acres Fantastic GREEN home will save you money! 3 BR 2 BA energy efficient w/cathedral ceiling, great room, tiled floors. Newly decorated. Don't wait!

R52243 $149,900 Monica Poole B&R Realty 704.245.4628 Salisbury

Over 2 Acres

Cleveland. Great older home! 4 bedrooms 2 baths. Owner is offering a $3,000 remodel allowance and a home warranty! $121,500 MLS #91536.

704-906-7207 for showing or visit: www.dreamweaverprop.com

TWO HOMES FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!

Woodleaf area. 12+ acres of wooded land w/ approx.

200' road frontage. Timber valued at approximately $20,000. $95,000. Please call 704-636-6864

Woodleaf

New Listing

Knox Farm Subdivision.

Beautiful lots available now starting at $19,900. B&R Realty 704.633.2394

Manufactured Home Sales $500 Down moves you in. Call and ask me how? Please call (704) 225-8850 American Homes of Rockwell Oldest Dealer in Rowan County. Best prices anywhere. 704-279-7997

3 BR, 2.5 BA, wonderful home on over 2 acres, horses allowed, partially fenced back yard, storage building. $154,900 R51465 B&R Realty 704.633.2394

Kannapolis. Near Research campus. 3 bedroom 2 bath with loft. Back home is one bedroom one bath. $124,900. 704-906-7207 for showing or visit: www.dreamweaverprop.com

3 BR, 2 BA newer home with nice yard! Large living room, gas log fireplace, double attached garage.

Priced below tax value.

52488 $129,900 B&R Realty 704-633-2394

Salisbury

Small budget Lots for Space

Salisbury

Salisbury Area 3 or 4 bedroom, 2 baths, $500 down under $700 per month. 704-225-8850

Real Estate Services Allen Tate Realtors

UNBELIEVABLE PRICE!!!

Daniel Almazan, Broker 704-202-0091 www.AllenTate.com

Condos and Townhomes 4/5 BR,2 BA, move-in ready. Updated with lots of space, great city location, neighborhood park across the street, large kitchen, sunny utility room. Priced over $20,000 BELOW TAX Value. R52017A List Price: $94,900 B&R Realty Monica Poole 704.245.4628

1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments Available Now! Ro-Well Rockwell.

Apartments, Central heat/air, laundry facility on site, nice area.

Equal Housing Opportunity Rental Assistance when available; handicapped equipped when available.

704-279-6330, TDD users 828-645-7196.

1 & 2BR. Nice, well maintained, responsible landlord. $425-$445. Salisbury, in town. 704-642-1955

1, 2, & 3 BR Huge Apts!

Very nice. $375 & up.

One free month's rent!

10% Sr. Citizen's discount. 704-890-4587 2 BR, 1 BA at Willow Oaks (across from UPS).

Has refrig. & stove. All electric, no pets. Rent $425, dep. $400. Call Rowan Properties 704633-0446 AAA+ Apartments $425-$950/mo.

Chambers Realty 704-637-1020 Airport Rd., 1BR with stove, refrig., garbage pickup & water incl.

Month-month lease. No pets. $400/mo+$300 deposit. Furnished $425/mo.

704-279-3808

BEST VALUE Quiet & Convenient, 2 bedroom town houses, 1½ baths. All Electric, Central heat/air, no pets. $550/mo.

Includes water & basic cable.

West Side Manor Apts.

Robert Cobb Rentals Variety World, Inc. 2345 Statesville Blvd.

Near Salisbury Mall

704-633-1234

Condos and Townhomes

2BR and 1-1/2 BA Town Homes $600/mo.

Move in Now to Stay Cool

by Our Pool!

704-762-0795

PRIOR TO RENTING VISIT or CALL A PA R T M E N T S We Offer

PRICE~QUALITY~LOCATION 2BR ~ 1.5 BA ~ Starting at $555

Senior Discount

Water, Sewage & Garbage included

704-637-5588 WITH 12 MONTH LEASE

P.O. Box 1621 Concord, North Carolina 28026 Ph: 704-239-2074 jlbarch@ctc.net

S42814

CLANCY HILLS APARTMENTS 1, 2 & 3 BR, conveniently located in Salisbury.

Handicap accessible units available. Section 8 assistance available. 704-6366408. Office Hours: M–F TDD Relay 9:00-12:00.

1-800-735-2962 Equal Housing Opportunity. clancyhills@wcsites.net

Clean, well maintained, 2 BR Duplex.

Central heat/air, all electric. Section 8 welcome. 704-202-5790

Colonial Village Apts.

“A Good Place to Live” 1, 2, & 3 Bedrooms Affordable & Spacious Water Included 704-636-8385 Downtown Loft, 2BR, 2BA. All new appliances, Wi-Fi. $980/mo. Credit cards. 704-798-6429 Duplexes & Apts, Rockwell$500-$600. TWO Bedrooms Marie Leonard-Hartsell Wallace Realty 704-239-3096 marie@sellingsalisbury.com E. Lafayette St., Chateau Apts., 2 BR, 1 BA. Newly remodeled, appli. incl., $495/mo. 704-267-5243 Eaman Park Apt. 2 BR, 1 BA, newly renovated. $400/mo. No pets. Please call 704-798-3896 East Rowan area. 2BR, $450-$550 per month.

Chambers Realty 704-239-0691

Eastwind Apartments Low Rent Available For Elderly & Disabled.

Rent Based on Social Security Income *Spacious 1 BR *Located on bus line *Washer/Dryer Hookups Call Fisher Realty at: 704-636-7485 for more information.

Fleming Heights Apartments 55 & older 704-636-5655 Mon.-Fri. 2pm-5pm. Call for more information.

Equal Opportunity.

Housing TDD Sect. 8 vouchers accepted.

800-735-2962 Granite Quarry efficiency.

Incl. electric & water.

Refrigerator & stove. Level access. 704-638-0108

Lovely Duplex Rowan Hospital area. 2BR, 1BA. Heat, air, water, appl. incl. $675. 704-633-3997 Moreland Pk area.

2BR all appliances furnished. $495-$595/mo.

Deposit negotiable.

Section 8 welcome.

336-247-2593 Moving to Town? Need a home or Apartment?

We manage rental homes & apartments.

Call and let us help you.

Waggoner Realty Co. 704-633-0462 www.waggonerrealty.com

Mt. Pleasant, Collegiate Apartments. 1 & 2 BR, quiet historic district. $510$610 + deposit, no pets.

704-436-9176.

Rockwell, 1 BR, appl., central H/A, good neighborhood. $425 + dep.

704-279-6850/704-798-3035 Rockwell. 2BR, 1½BA duplex. Newly remodeled.

Appl. incl. $495/mo. Ryburn Rentals 704-637-0601 S. Fulton St. Very nice 1500 sq ft 3BR/2½ BA town house apartment. All elec., central heat/AC. Water incl., stove, refrig., dishwasher furnished.

Outside storage. No pets.

1 yr lease. $650/mo. & $500 dep. 704-279-3808

Salis. Nice modern 1BR, energy efficient, off Jake Alexander, lighted parking lot. $395 + dep. 704-640-5750

Colony Garden Apartments

704-797-4220

China Grove. One room eff. w/ private bathroom & kitchenette. All utilities incl'd. $379/mo. + $100 deposit. 704-857-8112

Salis. 519 E. Cemetery St. 1BR, 1 BA, No Pets, $300/mo + $300/dep. Sect 8 OK. 704-507-3915.

124 E. Monroe Street, 4BRs, 2BAs, Updates include: ALL floor coverings, light fixtures, electrical, plumbing, & HVAC, cabinetry, counter tops, & more. MLS 51155. $45,000 Wallace Realty, Terry Francis, 704-490-1121.

To advertise in this directory call

Apartments China Grove 2BR, 1½ BA $550/month, deposit req. Approx. 1,000 sqft.

Call 704-857-2415

East Spencer - 2 BR, 1 BA. $400 per month.

Carolina-Piedmont Prop.

704-248-2520

Apartments

C48157

No. 61580

3/4BR/2BA, 3+ acs, entire property has lake view + 3,200 sq.ft. shop. Granite counter tops, stainless steel appls, tile, wood & carpet flrs, 12'x36' deck, security sys.

This home is in immaculate condition! $299,500.

704-633-3584 or 704-239-5166. Shown by appt. only.

4 BR, 2BA, like new Craftsman Style, huge front porch, renovated kitchen and bath, fresh brick patio. paint, R51516 $123,900. Dale Yontz B&R Realty 704202-3663

No. 61616 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Administrator of the Estate of Nancy Lee Cooper Schroeder, this is to notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 13th day of October, 2011, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebted to said estate are notified to make immediate payment.

This the 6th day of July, 2011.

Alan L. Schroeder ad Administrator for the estate of Nancy Lee Cooper Schroeder, deceased, file#11e665, 224 Hillcrest Place, Salisbury, NC 28144 Attorney at Law: John T. Hudson, 122 N. Lee St., Salisbury, NC 28144

Wanted: Real Estate

Davis Farm

New Home Reduced

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Administrator of the Estate of Melvin Young, this is to notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 15th day of October, 2011, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebted to said estate are notified to make immediate payment.

This the 6th day of July, 2011.

Joyce Y. Eagle as Administrator for the estate of Melvin Young, deceased, file#11e619, 12255 Old Beatty Ford Road, Rockwell, NC 28138 Attorney at Law: John T. Hudson, 122 N. Lee St., Salisbury, NC 28144

704-746-4492 Oak Island, NC. Mobile home and lot for sale by owner. $120K OBO. 252 NE 68th St., 980-6227713 or 704-933-1110

Salisbury

No. 61614

Great Oak Island Location

Built on your lot $129,900

Sale By

By Builder ForForSale Builder

Near the Lake

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Executor for the Estate of Steven Curtis Jordan. This is to notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before 10/15/2011, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebted to said estate are notified to make immediate payment.

This the 8th day of July, 2011.

Teresa Hill Jordan as Executor for the estate of Steven Curtis Jordan, deceased, file#11e682, 402 West 21st St., Kannapolis, NC 28081

Rowan Realty www.rowanrealty.net, Professional, Accountable, Personable . 704-633-1071

HIGH ROCK LAKE VIEW!

Salisbury

No. 61613

www.rebeccajonesrealty.com

Homes for Sale

Resort & Vacation Property

2 Story/ Basement

Spencer

3 BR, 2 BA, Well established neighborhood.

All brick home with large deck. Large 2 car garage.

R50188 $163,900 B&R Realty 704.633.2394

Rebecca Jones Realty 610 E. Liberty St, China Grove 704-857-SELL

William R. Kennedy Realty 428 E. Fisher Street 704-638-0673

South Rowan

Lots of Extras

KEY REAL ESTATE, INC. 1755 U.S. HWY 29.

South China Grove, NC 28023 704-857-0539

2205 Woodleaf Rd., Salisbury, NC 28147 Located at Woodleaf Road & Holly Avenue www.Apartments.com/hollyleaf

C46365

Homes for Sale

SALISBURY POST

CLASSIFIED

Salisbury 1BR. Wood floors, appls, great location. Seniors welcome. $375-$395/mo. + dep. 704-630-0785 Salisbury city. 2BR, 1BA. Spacious, good location.

Water included. $450 + dep.

704-640-5750 Salisbury near VA 2BR, 1BA,, central HVAC, $550/mo, app. reqd.

Broker. 704-239-4883 STONWYCK VILLIAGE IN GRANITE QUARRY Nice 2BR, energy efficient apt., stove, refrigerator, dishwasher, water & sewer furnished, central heat/ac, vaulted ceiling, washer/dryer connection. $500 to $550 /Mo, $400 deposit. 1 year lease, no pets. 704-279-3808 WELCOME HOME TO DEER PARK APTS. We have immediate openings for 1 & 2 BR apts.

Call or come by and ask about our move-in specials. 704-278-4340 for info. For immediate info call 1-828-442-7116

SALISBURY POST Apartments Spencer. 1BR upstairs apt.

Appls & utilities furnished. $525/mo. One yr lease, refs & dep. req'd. 704-603-8068

Condos and Townhomes Kannapolis. 2BR, 2BA 2story brick front townhouse.

Kitchen & dining combo, large family room. Private deck. $550/mo. 704-5345179 or 704-663-7736

Houses for Rent

Houses for Rent

Classic Style!

Salisbury, near hospital.

4BR, 3½BA. Swimming pool. Full court basketball court. 4,800 heated sq.ft. $2,000/mo. + deposit.

843-543-5794

Salisbury. 2BR, 1½BA. Fresh paint, refinished hardwoods, 1500 sq.ft. Townhouse, on National Historic Register w/ tall ceilings, jetted jacuzzi tub, expansive huge kitchen, rooms, covered front porch & charm to spare! Also, additional unit w/ downstairs BR w/ full BA. 704-616-1383 E. Lafayette, 2 BR, 1 BA, has refrigerator and stove. Gas heat, no pets.

Rent $595, deposit $500.

Call Rowan Properties 704-633-0446 East Salisbury. 3BR, 2BA duplex. All electric.

Central air. Level access.

Call 704-638-0108

Salisbury 2BR, 1½BA. brick at Ro-Med, available now. Credit check, lease. $550/mo. plus security deposit. Call 704-782-5037

Salisbury. 1620 S. MLK Jr. Ave, Unit 204, 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo, washer dryer hook up, open floor plan, 2nd floor condo. $700/mo + $500 deposit.

Section 8 approved. 704-436-8159 Wiltshire Village Condo for Rent, $700. 2nd floor.

Want a 2BR, 2BA in a quiet setting? Call Bryce, Wallace Realty 704-202-1319

Houses for Rent

East. 2BR, 1BA house with pond on six acres outside Granite Quarry.

Detached garage $900/ mo.

Call Waggoner Realty at 704-633-0462 Fairmont Ave., 3 BR, 1 ½ BA, has refrigerator & stove, large yard. Rent $725, dep. $700. No Pets.

Call Rowan Properties, 704-633-0446 Faith. 1BR brick. Trash, lawn, & water service. No pets. $450/mo + deposit.

704-857-4843 LM Granite Quarry. 3BR, 2BA, carport & storage.

Safe. All electric, near elementary school. No pets. $750/mo. 704-202-0605

3 BR, 2 BA, close to Salisbury Mall. Gas heat, nice. Rent $695, deposit $600.

Call Rowan Properties 704-633-0446 3-4 BR, 1 BA, near Livingstone College. Has refrig. & stove. No pets.

Rent $650, dep. $600.

Call Rowan Properties 704-633-0446 Available for rent – Homes and Apartments Salisbury/Rockwell Eddie Hampton 704-640-7575

China Grove 2BR/1BA, CHA, all electric, refrigerator & stove, W/D connections, back deck, easy access to 29A, close to elementary school and Head Start. $575/mo. + $575 deposit. Section 8 accepted. 704-784-4785 City location. 2BR, 1BA. Clean and cozy, fenced, carport, AC, hdwd floors.

No pets / no smoking, ref req'd. $575/mo + dep.

704-636-5658

Salisbury. 2BR. Very nice.

Large master. COUNTRY CLUB/PARK AREA. $799/ mo. 704-630-0695 Salisbury. 3 & 2 Bedroom Houses. $500-$1,000. Also, Duplex Apartments. 704636-6100 or 704-633-8263

Kann.–604 Peach St, 2 BR, 1 BA, $695/mo; 414 Walter St., 3 BR, 2 BA, $675/mo.

KREA 704-933-2231 Landis.

2BR, 1BA. Good school district.

Lease option or owner financing. 704-202-2696 Rentals available in Kannapolis, China Grove, Salisbury, Granite Quarry. Call Rebecca Jones Realty 704-857-7355. www.rebeccajonesrealty.com

Rockwell 2BR/1BA, appls, central heat/air, storage bldg., hardwood floors. $600/mo 704-279-6850 or 704-798-3035 Rockwell. 1BR, central heat & air. Appl., hardwood floors. Storage building. $475/mo. + dep. 704-2796850 or 704-798-3035 Rockwell. 4BR, 3BA. 2,700 sq.ft., large lot, fenced backyard, separate garage, $1,400/mo.

704-279-2360 Salisbury 3BR/1BA. fenced yard, $650/month (gas included). Sec 8 OK. Rowan Realty.

Call Shelly 704-202-7996 3BR/2BA, Salisbury garage, water, range & refrig., no pets, lease & dep. $900. 704-636-0996 Salisbury, 2 BR houses & apts, $525/mo and up.

704-633-4802 Salisbury, Church St., 2BR/1BA, total remodel, W/D hook-up, $650/mo + dep. 704-985-2792

Office and Commercial Rental

Salisbury. 4BR, 1BA. New carpet, new vinyl throughout. Section 8 accepted. $500/mo. plus deposit. 704636-6696 or 704-279-9167

Office Suite Available.

Bradshaw Real Estate 704-633-9011

Salisbury

Salisbury

Office Space Commercial Property for Rent/Sale. Old Concord Road. Rebecca Jones Realty 704-857-7355 Salisbury

Great Space!

Vintage Charm!

Office Suite for Lease. Two large rooms, 26' x 13' and 10' x 16'. Also included is a large shared kitchen/break room space with private BR. 1 year lease preferred; $750 monthly rent includes all utilities. Free Wi-Fi. Call 704-636-1811.

Office and Commercial Rental Warehouse space / manufacturing as low as $1.25 per sq.ft. Per yr.

Deposit. 704-431-8636

Autos

We have office suites available in the Executive Center. First Month Free with No Deposit! With all utilities from $150 and up. Lots of amenities.

Call Tom Bost at B & R Realty 704-202-4676

Manufactured Home for Rent

Salisbury, Kent Exec.

Park, $100 & up, 1st month free, ground floor, incls conf rm, utilities.

No dep. 704-202-5879

Spencer Shops. Looking for grocery, video, pizza, & shoe stores to join our center. 704-431-8636

HIGH TRAFFIC AREA IN ROCKWELL! Spencer. 2BR, 1½BA vintage home. Wood floors, large yard, carport. $700/mo. + $700 dep. 1 yr. Lease. 704-223-4662

Cooleemee. 2BR $100 / wk, $400 dep on ½ ac lot.

336-998-8797, 704-9751579 or 704-489-8840 East Area. 2BR, water, trash. Limit 2. Dep. req.

No pets. Call 704-6367531 or 704-202-4991

BMW 323i, 1999 convertible, titanium silver metallic w/light gray leather interior, V6 auto trans., AM/FM/CD/Tape, power options, dual power seats, alloy rims, READY FOR SUMMER!! 704-603-4255

Cadillac Deville DHS, 2002. Black Onyx w/black leather interior, 4.6L (279) SFI DOHC 275 HP V8 Northstar Engine, auto trans., power everything, AM/FM/ CD/DVD. Front & rear heated seats, shades chrome rims, LOADED! 704-603-4255

Granite Quarry, 3 BR, 2 BA, DW. $675/mo. 3 BR, 2 BA, $550/mo. No pets + deposit. 704-239-2833 Rockwell. 2BR, 1BA. Appl., water, sewer, trash service incl. $450/mo. + dep.

Pets OK. 704-279-7463

Buick LeSabre Custom, 2003.

Sterling silver metallic exterior with medium gray interior. $7,749. Stock # F11362B. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Rooms for Rent Beside ACE HARDWARE, #229 E Main St Hwy 52, 2,700 sq. ft. finished store front. May subdivide storefront into two separate 22' x 56' sections, 1,232 SF each.

Call 704-279-4115 or email thadwhicker@cozartlumber.com

MILLER HOTEL Rooms for Rent Weekly $110 & up 704-855-2100

Cadillac CTS, 2006.

Infrared exterior with ebony interior. $17,549. Stock # T11408B. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Financing Available!

Chevrolet Impala LS, 2010. Gold Mist metallic exterior with gray interior. $14,849. Stock #P7713 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com Ford Fusion SE, 2006.

Tungsten clearcoat metallic exterior with charcoal black interior. $11,649.

Stock # F11136A. Call 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

West & South Rowan. 2 & 3 BR. No pets. Perfect for 3. Water included.

Please call 704-857-6951

West & North Rowan Cty., 3BR/1½BA, free water & sewer, all elec. $695/mo. 704-633-6035

Honda 2005 Accord, fully loaded, $300 down, Good credit, bad credit, no credit, no problem!

Call 704-872-5255

Honda, 2004, Accord EX. $500-800 down, will help finance.

Credit, No Problem! Private party sale. Call 704-838-1538

Rowan.

2BR. East trash and lawn service included. No pets. $450 month. 704-433-1255 Faith. 2BR, 1BA. Water, trash, lawn maint. incl. No pets. Ref. $425. 704-2794282 or 704-202-3876

Autos FINANCING AVAILABLE REGARDLESS OF CREDIT!

Autos

950 Briggs Rd. 2BR, 1BA. No yard maint. Low util., priv. $575/mo. + dep. 2 person limit. 704-637-3939

www.bostandrufty-realty.com

Salisbury. 4BR. Basement, fenced. RENT TO OWN. 5% dn & $799/mo.

704-630-0695 Salisbury/Spencer 2, 4 & 5 BR $450-$850/mo. 704202-3644 or leave message. No calls after 7pm

Office and Commercial Rental

5,000 sq.ft. warehouse w/loading docks & small office. Call Bradshaw Real Estate 704-633-9011

www.rebeccajonesrealty.com

Granite Quarry. 427 Park Ave. 3BR, 2BA. $750/mo. + $750 dep. No Sect. 8. 704-855-5353 Houses: 3BR, 1BA. Apartments: 2 & 3 BR, 1BA Deposit required.

Faith Realty 704-630-9650

224 Messick Farm Rd. Woodleaf area. 3BR/2BA. Must see, looks like new! S/W with heat pump, H/C, appliances, storage bldg, water, sewer, night light, trash pickup, on 1 ac private lot. Located 15 mins to Salisbury / 25 mins to Mocksville / 7 mins to Cooleemee / 20 mins to Statesville. Refs & deposit required. No pets, smoke free home. Long term renters only.

Call 704-639-6800

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Corvette Convertible, 2002.

Millennium Yellow w/black leather interior, 5.7 auto trans., power options, AM/FM/CD, black top, chrome rims, LOW MILES! Call Steve at 704-603-4255

FIND IT SELL IT RENT IT in the Classifieds

Woodleaf 3BR/1BA, refrigerator and stove included, washer/dryer hook up. $625/month + deposit. No pets. References & credit check required. No Section 8. 704-490-6048

Office and Commercial Rental $$$$$$ $$$$$$$ Rockwell Offices 3 months free 704-637-1020 450 to 1,000 sq. ft. of Warehouse Space off Jake Alexander Blvd.

Call 704-279-8377

Dogs

Dogs

Giving away kittens or puppies?

Boston Terrier, full blooded, female, 2 mo., black & white. Shots & wormed. $250. 704-279-6260

Great Family Dog!

Puppies, CKC Pomeranians. 8 wks. $200. Chihuahuas, 12 wks, $200.

Dachshund/Chihuahua mix, $100. Cash. 704-633-5344

Kitten Rescued Longhair male kitten 7weeks, tuxedo color, siblings adopted, playful and loving, litterbox trained.

704-239-0920 leave message

Boxer Puppies AKC Brindle males, white females w/brindle marking. 1st shots wormed. $350. 704-928-9879

Kitten, free cuddly black tabby female kitten, liter box trained, very lovable.

704-202-6372

Numerous Commercial and office rentals to suit your needs. Ranging from 500 to 5,000 sq. ft. Call Victor Wallace at Wallace Realty, 704-636-2021

Office Complex

Dogs

Dogs

Cats

Granite Quarry-Summer Special. Great deals on two units left. Please call 704-232-3333.

Space perfect for hobbyist, storage or small contractor, gated facility with 24 hour monitoring and utilities available.

Salisbury. Perfect location near Court House & County Building. Six individual offices. New central heat/air, heavily insulated for energy efficiency, fully carpeted (to be installed) except stone at entrance, conference room, employee break room, tile bathroom, complete integrated phone system with video capability in each office & nice reception area.

Want to lease but will sell.

Perfect for dual occupancy.

By appt only. 704-636-1850

Cats

Cute kittens Two 2 mos kittens 1 black male and 1 tortoise shell female. Pls call 704636-1054 Free cats & kittens to good home. Owner in poor health & unable to care for them. Need homes now!

704-640-5463 Free kittens. 2 months old. 1 black & white, 1 grey & 1 yellow. Declawed. 704-603-4416

Kittens, 8 weeks old.

Very cute & friendly. Free to good homes. Call 704798-6283 Kittens, free. 5 orphans, 8 weeks old, partially box trained, variety of colors. affectionate & playful. 704-855-2715 Kittens, free. Our "OctoMom" kitty has reproduced again. 5 little offspring left to choose from in Kannapolis. 1 orange and 4 tiger-gray striped. Begging for your call at 704-938-9842

Puppies, Alaskan Malamutes. 8 males, 2 females.

Also, 1 13 wk old female.

Very beautiful! $300. Call or text 704-492-8448

Free dog. Cone Hound needs good home with lots of room to run. 980234-5368 Free to good home.

Giving away 2 Dogs.

Please call for more info.

704-603-4265

Goldendoodle Puppies.

F2B, parents on site, 1st shots, wormed, & dew claws removed. 3 M and 2 F. 704-202-5220 Puppies, (5) lab mix, 8 weeks old, dewormed, healthy, loving & playful.

To good homes please.

704-279-8602

Yorkie Puppies www.yorki-shop.com For information call Rhonda 704-224-9692

Sweet Pug O' Mine!

Horses

Lost Jack Russell, last seen July 1 around 10pm. Has collar on that says “Dogs rule cats drool”. White with black eyes Granite Quarry area Will @ 704-431-5931

Non-Shedding Chihuahua puppies, adorable and lots of colors. CKC registered and very small. Parents on site. $250 and up.

704-279-3119 Lv Msg.

Puppies.

Min. ShortHaired Dachshunds, 4 females & 1 male. $300 females, $250 male. Parents on site. 704-310-9607

Saddle really nice saddle $450. Please Call 704-640-5463

Pug Puppies. CKC. Fawn 2 M $375 ea., Shots. Cash.

Ready to go. Please call 704-603-8257.

West Highland Terriers

Other Pets vvvvvvvvv Check Out Our July Special! Dentals 20% off.

Rowan Animal Clinic.

Please call 704-636-3408 for appt.

Pet & Livestock Supplies 3 females. Asking $500 1st shots. Parents on site.

Call 704-633-9277

Puppies and kittens available. Follow us on FaceBook Animal Care Center of Salisbury. Call 704-637-0227

IF YOU GOT A BUG AND NEED TO SELL IT. WE HAVE THE READERS READY TO BUY IT.

You can also find exterminators for those pesky bugs.

To advertise call (704) 797-4220

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YOU’RE SUCH A BIG BOY NOW!

Happy 4th Birthday, Griffin! From Hal & Barbara

Happy 15th Birthday Montell aka Tank Tank! Love, Mom, Gma, Aunt Necole, Uncle Broderick, Alexus, Sha, Pierre, Cara, Greg, Ebony and kids

We want to wish our sister, Sonya, a very joyous 40th birthday.

We love you. Love, Karen & Sharon

We want to wish our Aunt Sonya a very Happy Birthday.

We love you! Love, Adam, Susan & Derrick

Happy Birthday, Shane C! Have a blessed day!

Your LCC Family & Auntie

Happy 4th Birthday, Griffin ~ our little bug! Can't believe how much you've grown! Love you so much, Mommy & Daddy

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Lots of love & hugs, Gigi & Pop-Pop Happy Birthday, Griffin! You are getting to be such a big boy!

We love you! Nana Faye & Paw-Paw Edd

www.TeamBounce.com 704-202-6200

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Trucks, SUVs & Vans

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

ELLIS AUTO AUCTION 10 miles N. of Salisbury, Hwy 601, Sale Every Wednesday night 5:30 pm.

Ford Taurus SE, 2006. frost clearcoat Silver exterior with metallic medium/dark flint interior. $9,749. Stock# F11328A. Call 1-800-542-9758. www.cloningerford.com

Ford Mustang GT, 2003, coupe. Excellent condition. 1 owner (older adult). Very low miles!

67,000 miles. Routine service. No accidents or maintenance issues. $10,500. 704-633-1080

Great SUV! Great Price!

Honda 2007 CRV EX-LN, 4WD, gray leather interior, exterior, GPS silver navigation system, roof rack, 46,000 miles, one owner. $20,900 ($1,000 below Kelley Blue Book!)

704-633-1854

Mercedes S320, 1999 Black on Grey leather interior, 3.2, V6, auto trans, LOADED, all power ops, low miles, SUNROOF, chrome rims good tires, extra clean MUST SEE! 704-6034255

Toyota Avalon XLS, 2007.

Titanium metallic exterior with light gray interior. $15,549. Stock #T11301A. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Don’t take chances with your hard earned money. Run your ad where it will pay for itself. Daily exposure brings fast results.

VW LUX, 2008, United Gray w/black leather interior, 4 cyl. Turbo, all power options, AM/FM/CD/MP3, SUNROOF, paddle shift, alloy rims. GROCERY GETTER WITH AN ATTITUDE! Call 704-603-4255

CASH FOR YOUR CAR! We want your vehicle! 1999 to 2011 under 150,000 miles. Please call 704-216-2663.

Mercury Milan I4, 2008.

White suede exterior with camel interior. $16,949.

Stock # F11277A. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Infinity G5, 2003. Black Obsidian/Black Leather, 3.5L V6, auto trans, BOSE AM/FM/CD, SUNROOF, all power, alloy rims. LUXURY FOR HALF THE PRICE!!!!

704-603-4255

Weekly Special Only $10,995

Nissan Altima 2.5 S, 2008. Black exterior with interior. charcoal $15,249. Stock # P7655A 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

2000 BMW Z3, Titanium Silver Metallic w/black leather interior. 2.5L V6, 5 speed manual, all power, dual heated seats, alloy rims, AM/FM/CD, power top, BREEZE THROUGH SUMMER WITH GREAT GAS MILEAGE! Call Steve today! 704-603-4255

Nissan Maxima SE, 2006.

Winter Frost Pearl w/ tan cloth. 3.5L v6, auto. Trans., all power, Bose radio, sunroof, dual power seats. Alloy rims, great power!

Smooth Ride! 704-603-4255

Transportation Financing

Ford Expedition XLT, 2003. Black clearcoat exterior with flint gray interior. $10,549. Stock # T11334A. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

Ford Ranger, 2003, XLT extended cab. Like new.

69,000 miles. 6 cylinder.

Automatic trans., full power instrumentation, door locks & windows.

Cruise, tilt, trailer hitch, AM/FM/CD, vent shades, sliding back window and much more! $9,965 firm.

704-640-1944

Authorized EZGO Dealer. 6 volt & 8 volt batteries. US 52, 5 miles south of Salisbury.

Beside East Rowan HS & Old Stone Winery.

Look for EZGO sign.

704-245-3660 Trailer, 2 axles, 5x12', lights and electric brakes. $450 obo. Call 704-431-4403

Chevrolet Tahoe, 1999. 2 tone tan & black w/tan leather int. 5.7 V8, auto. trans. 4X4. All power, AM/ FM/CD/tape. Cold front & rear air. Alum. rims, extra clean. Ready for test drive.

Call Steve at 704-603-4255

Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer Ed., 2003 True Blue Metallic/ Med Parchment leather int., 4.0L (245), SOHC SEFI V6 AUTO, loaded, all pwr, AM/FM/CD changer, steering wheel controls, alloy rims, heated seats, rides & drives great! 704-603-4255

GMC DENALI XL, 2005.

White/Tan Leather, 6.0 V8, auto trans, fully loaded AM/FM/CD, NAVIGATION, all power, DVD, TV, chrome rims, 3rd seat READY FOR TEST DRIVE! 704-603-4255

Transportation Dealerships CLONINGER FORD, INC. “Try us before you buy.”

511 Jake Alexander Blvd. 704-633-9321 TEAM CHEVROLET, CADILLAC, BUICK, GMC. www.teamautogroup.com 704-216-8000

Chrysler Town & Country Touring, 2007. Modern blue pearlcoat exterior with medium slate gray interior. $16,749. Stock #T11364A1 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Ford Explorer XLT, 2004.

Medium wedgewood blue clearcoat metallic exterior with graphite interior.

Stock # $10,749.

F11281BY. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Troutman Motor Co. Highway 29 South, Concord, NC 704-782-3105

We are the area's largest selection of quality preowned autos. Financing avail. to suit a variety of needs. Carfax avail. No Gimmicks – We take pride in giving excellent service to all our customers.

Call Steve today! 704-603-4255 www.JakeAlexanderAutoSales.com

Boats & Watercraft

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

Chevy Silverado, 1993.

4x4, camper shell, good/ fair condition. As Is. $2250.

704-639-1957 after 6pm.

Dodge Dakota SLT, 2006.

Red exterior with medium slate gray interior. $15,849.

Stock # F11286A1Y. Call 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Ford F-150 SuperCrew XLT, 2007. Oxford white clearcoat exterior with tan interior. $16,549. Stock # F11371A. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Dodge Durango Limited, 2004. Khaki exterior w/dark khaki interior. $12,949.

Stock #T11445BY. Call 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Ford F-250 Super Duty XLT, 1999. Oxford white clearcoat exterior with medium graphite. $9,949.

Stock # K7704A. Call 1800-542-9758. www.cloningerford.com

Jeep Wrangler X, 2003, Bright Silver Metallic/ Gray Cloth, 4.0L HD 5speed manual transmission, AM/FM/CD, cruise, cold AC, 20 inch chrome rims, ready for Summer!

Please call 704-603-4255

GMC SLE 1500, 2004.

V8. Full power steering wheel controls. Runs like new. Sprayed in bed liner.

Extended cab. $13,500. 704-614-2547 or 704-633-8421

Great Deal!

Tim Marburger Honda 1309 N First St. (Hwy 52) Albemarle NC 704-983-4107

Transportation Financing

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

Jeep Grand Cherokee, 2007. Black Clearcoat ext. w/medium slate gray int. $12,749. Stock #T11290BY. 1-800-542-9758. www.cloningerford.com

Kia Soul, 2010. Molten exterior with black interior. $16,549.

Stock # F11353A2. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Chevrolet Silvarado 1500, 2000 w/camper shell. Excellent condition. 75,800 miles. $5,995. 704-2791520 or 704-433-4716

Mazda Tribute i Sport, 2009. Mystic Black ext. w/charcoal int. $18,349.

Stock #F11341A. Call 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Ford Windstar SEL, 2000.

80,000 miles.

Please call 704-603-4126

Toyota Camry Solara SE, 2006. Cosmic blue metallic exterior with charcoal interior. $15,949. Stock #T11385A. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Mazda 6 S, 2003. Steel gray metallic/gray leather interior. 3.0L V6, 5 speed manual, AM/FM/CD, all power alloy rims. Perfect 1st time car. Call Steve at 704-603-4255

Chevrolet Suburban 1500, 1995. Beige ext. $11,249.

Stock #F11286A2. Call 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

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Service & Parts

Tim Marburger Dodge 287 Concord Pkwy N. Concord, NC 28027 704-792-9700

Handicapped Equipped

Lincoln Town Car, 2004 Executive series Light French Silk Metallic with Shale/Dove Leather interior loaded! 4.6 V8 auto trans, AM/FM/ CD/Tape all power, dual power seats, alloy rims nonsmoker. Like New Condition! 704-603-4255

Forest River Greywolf, 2009. White exterior with interior. gray/burgundy Sleeps 7. $11,997.

1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Inflatable Parties

WHATEVER THE OCCASION… GIVE YOUR KIDS SOME JOY!

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Recreational Vehicles

KIDS OF JOY

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704-279-1015

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SOFT SERVE ICE CREAM TRUCK We cater: Graduations, Birthdays, Corporate, Church or any event

Happy 4th Birthday to a wonderful “nephew” Griffin!

We love you! Aunt Elisha and Uncle Robert

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Happy Birthday, Griffin! Can't believe you're already 4!!

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Happy 4th Birthday, Griffin! You're a great brother!

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Honda Odyssey, EX-L, 2003. Sandstone metallic exterior. $12,249.

Stock #T11090A2. 1-800542-9758 www.cloningerford.com Nissan Frontier Nismo Off Road, 2005. Gray exterior with charcoal interior. $16,549. Stock # T11420A 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Boat

Saturn ION 2, 2007.

Silver exterior with gray interior. $12,249. Stock # F12017AY. Please Call 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

LET'S GO FISHING!

Toyota Corolla CE, 2006.

Desert Sand exterior with beige interior. $10,249.

Stock #T11337A. Call Now 1-800-542-9758. www.cloningerford.com Scion TC, 2007 Base.

Flint mica exterior with dark charcoal interior. $13,349.

Stock # T11447A. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

18' Monark aluminum trihull.

90HP Mercury motor, 6HP trolling motor, fish finder. Lots of extras. $3,500. Ed 607-857-6136 Cleveland, NC.

Recreational Vehicles

BMW X5, 2003. Topaz blue metallic/tan leather interior.

4.4L V8, auto trans., AM/FM/CD, sunroof, all power, 20” aluminum rims.

Perfect color combo! 704603-4255

Dodge Grand Caravan SXT, 2005. Linen gold metallic clearcoat exterior with medium slate gray interior. $8,749. Stock #T11433A. Call 1-800-542-9758. www.cloningerford.com

Ford F150, 2004. Crew cab. Dark shadow gray metallic w/flint cloth interior.

4.6L v8. Auto. Trans., 2WD, AM/FM/CD. Cold air, aluminum rims, side runners.

Great truck! 704-603-4255

Honda Pilot EXL, 2005, Redrock Pearl w/Saddle int., VTEC, V6, 5-sp. auto., fully loaded, all pwr opts, AM/FM/CD changer, steering wheel controls, pwr leather seats, alloy rims, 3RD seat, sunroof, nonsmoker, LOADED! 704-603-4255

Nissan Titan LE, 2006.

Gray exterior with steel interior. $18,549. Stock # F11268A. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

SWEET RIDE! Mercedes Benz E500, 2003. Desert silver metallic w/ash leather int., 5.0L SOHC SMPI 24-valve aluminum alloy V8 engine, auto stick trans., all power, sunroof, ally rims, AM/FM/ CD/MP3, Ready For Test Drive. 704-603-4255

Chevrolet Corvette, 1993.

LT1 engine. Black Rose exterior.

Runs great! $12,000 obo. Call 704-6034126 or 704-533-1195

Volvo S80, 2007, Willow green metallic w/sandstone leather interior, 3.2L I6 engine, auto trans., AM/FM/CD, all power, SUNROOF, LIKE NEW! Call 704-603-4255

Allegro 1999 RV (32 Ft.). Well maintained, no smoke, no pets, excellent condition. One slide, queen bed, low mileage.

Mid-$20's negotiable.

704-633-1161

Chevrolet HHR LT SUV, 2010. Victory red metallic exterior with cashmere interior. K7726. $16,749.

1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Ford Escape XLT, 2009.

Gray exterior with charcoal interior. $14,849. Stock #P7712. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Ford Ranger XLT, 2006.

Redfire clearcoat metallic exterior with medium dark flint interior. $16,249. Stock # P7715.

1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Jeep Grand Cherokee Loredo, 2006. Black w/ medium slate gray cloth interior. All power, AM/FM/CD changer, dual power seats.

Low miles! Awesome condition! Steve 704-603-4255

Toyota Highlander Limited, 2003, Vintage Gold Metallic/Tan Leather, 4.0L 4speed auto trans. w/Snow Mode AM/FM/Tape/CD, all power, SUNROOF, dual power & heated seats , extra clean, ready for test drive.

Call Steve at 704-603-4255

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Today’s celebrity birthdays Composer Jerry Herman is 80. Singer Mavis Staples is 72. Actor Mills Watson (“B.J. and the Bear,” “Lobo”) is 71. Guitarist Jerry Miller of Moby Grape is 68. Actor Ron Glass (“Barney Miller”) is 66. Actress Sue Lyon is 65. Folk singer Arlo Guthrie is 64. Banjo player Bela Fleck of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones is 53. Country singer Gary LeVox of Rascal Flatts is 41. Actress Sofia Vergara (“Modern Family”) is 39. Actor Adrian Grenier is 35. Singer Jessica Simpson is 31.

Bassist John Spiker of Filter is 30. Actress Heather Hemmens (“Hellcats”) is 27.

Betty Ford helped pave road to recovery for stars

Elizabeth Smart to be ABC commentator

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Long before it became reality show fodder, Betty Ford helped create the original celebrity rehab.

The center that bears her name has a legacy of rehabbing Hollywood’s elite. In the process it became a household name, a punchline, but — above all — a highly respected addiction treatment center.

Since its opening in Rancho Mirage, Calif., in 1982, stars such as Elizabeth Taylor, Johnny Cash and, most recently, Lindsay Lohan, have been among the more than 90,000 people who have received treatment at the center.

Taylor met one of her husbands, Larry Fortensky, while in treatment. Kelsey Grammer credited his stay there with saving his life. So too did Oscar-winner Marlee Matlin, who paid tribute to the former first lady on social networking site Twitter on Friday evening.

“She & Betty Ford Center helped me beat my addiction & she was an angel to many,” Matlin wrote. Betty Ford died Friday at the nearby Eisenhower Medical Center at the age 93.

Located in the desert about two hours east of Hollywood, the Betty Ford Center is by no means the closest place offering addiction treatment. But its association with entertainment industry came from its reputation as a place where addicts — famous or not — could get top-notch care.

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Elizabeth Smart is taking a job with ABC News as a commentator focusing on missing persons and child abductions.

The Utah woman who was kidnapped from her bedroom at knifepoint, raped and held captive at age 14 by a Salt Lake City street preacher can provide viewers with a unique perspective, network spokeswoman Julie Townsend told the Associated Press.

A deal with the now 23year-old has been the works for several months and she could be on the air within weeks, Townsend said.

“We think she’ll help our viewers better understand missing persons stories,” Townsend said in a telephone call from New York City.

“This is someone with the perspective to know what a family experiences when a loved one goes missing.”

Smart was kidnapped from her family home in the dead of night on June 5, 2002, by Brian David Mitchell, an itinerant street preacher whose writings have revealed he took the blond-haired, blueeyed girl to practice polygamy.

Mitchell, 56, was convicted in December on federal charges of kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor across state lines for sex.

He was sentenced in May to life in federal prison without parole.

At a news conference after the sentencing, Smart said she was looking forward to a new and “beautiful” next chapter

tress Mackenzie Phillips, another Betty Ford alumna, wrote on the site, “RIP Betty Ford. A pioneer in treatment of addicts. We owe Mrs. Ford our gratitude and prayers.

And love. She was one classy woman.”

Ali McGraw, who was treated at the center in 1986, said in a statement Friday that she is grateful for what Ford has done for her.

“She changed so many of our lives with her courage and intelligence, her honesty and humility, and her deep grace,” McGraw said. “Her vision impacted my own life as few people have.”

Taylor’s first stay at the center came in 1983 and provided another high-profile face to those struggling with addiction.

Cash soon became a patient after he broke five ribs and relapsed into abuse of painkillers.

“I ended up in the Betty Ford Center for 43 days,” Cash told the Associated Press in 1986. “I’ve had no drugs since then. It has been the best three years of my life, the most productive and the happiest.”

Other musicians, including Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler and jazz singer Etta James, who battled heroin addiction, also received treatment at Betty Ford.

One of Ford’s defining characteristics was her candor, and that included confronting her own addiction head-on. She revealed a long-

time addiction to painkillers and alcohol 15 months after leaving the White House, and regularly welcomed new groups of patients to rehab with a speech that started, “Hello, my name’s Betty Ford, and I’m an alcoholic and drug addict.”

“People who get well often say, ‘You saved my life,’ and ‘You’ve turned my life around,’ ” Ford once said.

“They don’t realize we merely provided the means for them to do it themselves, and that’s all.”

The center distinguished itself from later iterations of rehabs that catered to the wealthy, ones that resembled spas more than an environment to honestly confront one’s demons.

In recent years the stigma of rehab has lessened to the point that it has become fodder for reality television, with shows such as VH1’s “Celebrity Rehab” and A&E’s “Intervention” showing both the impact of drug abuse and offering some insight into its treatment.

But the Betty Ford Center wasn’t part of the trend. Ford was fine with famous patients discussing their treatment at the center — provided they stayed sober — but the facility keeps its clients confidential.

Dr. Drew Pinsky, an addiction specialist who also hosts “Loveline” and “Celebrity Rehab,” wrote in a statement to the Associated Press that Ford was a pioneer who had given

BETTY FORD a voice, and help, to millions.

“Betty’s deep appreciation of the pain of addiction sufferers motivated her to simply put aside her fear of personal harm and tell her story,” Pinksy wrote. “With that one gesture of courage and honesty Betty Ford swept aside an eternity of discrimination. She knew that in doing so she would give millions of addicts and especially women with addiction, the opportunity for recovery and a flourishing life.”

In 1996, Grammer described to Jay Leno how his treatment at Betty Ford helped restore his joy of living. The comedian also quipped about the center’s stature and its famous patients.

“When I was on my way to the Betty Ford Center, I turned to one of my friends and said, ‘You know, I’ve finally made it. I’m going to the Betty Ford Center,’” he said.

When a judge sent Lohan to the center for three months late last year, many experts said it would be her best shot at recovery.

of her life, including working on behalf of missing children.

“I am looking at all the different options and trying to decide where I can make the biggest difference, where I can have the biggest effect for good,” Smart said May 25 outside Salt Lake City’s U.S. District Court.

She and SMART her father, Ed Smart, also used the news conference to highlight several missing persons cases and talked about the creation of the Elizabeth Smart Foundation, which will focus on protecting children from falling victim to kidnapping and sexual crimes.

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Europe’s debt crisis creating busy summer talks.

After rating agency Standard & Poor’s said that even the market-friendly French model for a bond rollover would likely be seen as a “selective default” by Greece, Germany is pushing again for its original plan: a bond swap where, instead of buying new bonds, banks and other private investors would exchange their bonds for ones with longer maturities.

“If this French model — depending on how it is shaped — has this problem (of triggering a default rating) too, then we can go back to the model that we had proposed,” German Finance Ministry spokesman Martin Kotthaus said Friday in Berlin.

A bond swap is commonly seen as a more radical option than a rollover, because it would be easier to verify how many investors are actually taking part and thus leave more room for naming and shaming.

“We have to walk a very narrow path between a voluntary contribution, and at the same time a substantial one,” Kotthaus said.

The situation in Greece and the currency union’s other struggling members — already bailed out Ireland and Portugal as well as Spain and Italy — is also set to overshadow the other main topic at next week’s get-together: how to deal with banks that fail stress tests.

The results of EU bank stress tests are due next Friday and are seen as an important gauge for the region’s credibility, after last year’s exercise glossed over massive problems at Irish banks.

The EU’s new banking regulator has stressed that this year’s tests are much stricter and insists that states have the necessary backstops in place to deal with the results.

“Before the stress tests are

published, the affected states have to be in a position to say ‘this is how we will react,’” said a eurozone official. That involves boosting safety funds and coming up with models for an orderly restructuring in some cases, the official added.

He was speaking on condition

of anonymity because EU finance ministers, who will join eurozone colleagues Tuesday, still had to finalize decisions on backstops.

Fears over the potential costs for states to deal with failing lenders is already pressuring bank shares.

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BRUSSELS (AP) — The eurozone’s hope that it could enjoy a summer lull in its crisis has vanished as quickly as it appeared.

Last week, it seemed all sides would get a time out.

Greece had avoided a default on its huge debts. Banks had agreed to roll over their holdings in Greek bonds, and finance ministers signaled that a second bailout would be agreed — though not before the autumn.

But while few observers believed that Europe’s crippling debt crisis had been resolved, the good mood was shattered after ratings agency Standard & Poor’s warned that the banks’ plan to contribute to a new Greek rescue package would likely cause a default.

Rival agency Moody’s then reignited market jitters in countries outside Greece when it slashed Portugal’s credit grade to junk, saying a bank contribution plan would likely push it to take a second bailout.

And with Greece due for another review of its finances in August, the European Union’s traditionally quiet summer period looks set for a repeat of the June drama.

That month, Greece’s international debt inspectors spent weeks in Athens trying to save a faltering bailout while eurozone states fought about the role of private creditors and Greeks held days of violent protests.

At what was meant to be their last meeting before the summer, eurozone finance ministers on Monday face the challenge of rebuilding an eroding consensus on how to bailout Greece again.

“It will be a difficult Eurogroup, because positions are hardening,” an EU official said of the meeting on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the bank

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WEATHER UNDERGROUND’S NATIONAL WEATHER The main weather producer on Sunday will be a front that will move through the Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley. While moisture associated with this front will gradually wane as the day progresses, it will still produce rain and thunderstorms from eastern Colorado through Minnesota and Wisconsin. Elsehwere, typical Summer afternoon thunderstorms will develop in the Southeast, with Georgia and South Carolina likely experiencing the most intense of these thunderstorms. A low pressure system will slowly approach the West Coast, continuing the cooling trend for the West Coast after a warm previous week. Monsoon moisture in the Southwest will continue to threaten the area with afternoon scattered thunderstorms as well. Parts of drought-ravaged southern Texas may get a few showers, but it will only be a drop in the bucket compared to what the region needs to pull out of the extremely dry period. The Northeast will rise into the 80s and 90s, while the Southeast will see temperatures in the 90s and 100s. The Southern Plains will rise into the 90s and 100s, while the Southwest will see similar temperatures. The Northwest will rise into the 80s.

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The dogged pursuit of Osama bin Laden CIA analyst followed trail for a decade

BY ADAM GOLDMAN MATT APUZZO

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ASHINGTON — After Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden, the White House released a photo of President Barack Obama and his Cabinet inside the Situation Room, watching the daring raid unfold.

Hidden from view, standing just outside the frame of that now-famous photograph was a career CIA analyst. In the hunt for the world’s most-wanted terrorist, there may have been no one more important. His job for nearly a decade was finding the alQaida leader.

The analyst was the first to put in writing last summer that the CIA might have a legitimate lead on finding bin Laden. He oversaw the

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collection of clues that led the agency to a fortified compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. His was among the most confident voices telling Obama that bin Laden was probably behind those walls.

The CIA will not permit him to speak with reporters.

But interviews with former and current U.S. intelligence officials reveal a story of quiet persistence and continuity that led to the greatest counterterrorism success in the history of the CIA. Nearly all the officials insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters or because they did not want their names linked to the bin Laden operation.

The Associated Press has agreed to the CIA’s request not to publish his full name and withhold certain biographical details so that he

would not become a target for retribution.

Call him John, his middle name.

John was among the hundreds of people who poured into the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center after the Sept.

11 attacks, bringing fresh eyes and energy to the fight.

He had been a standout in the agency’s Russian and Balkan departments. When Vladimir Putin was coming to power in Russia, for instance, John pulled together details overlooked by others and wrote what some colleagues considered the definitive profile of Putin. He challenged some of the agency’s conventional wisdom about Putin’s KGB background and painted a much fuller portrait of the man who would come to

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President Obama and members of the national security team follow the Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden’s hideout on May 1. Hidden from view, standing just outside the frame of See HUNT,4D the photograph, was a career CIA analyst whose job for nearly a decade was finding the alQaida leader.

‘Unknown’ resting place no more Graves of Confederates at Bentonville marked der C. McClurg, chief of staff of the 14th Army Corps, described the fightENTONVILLE — Lising: ten closely. The “Minieballs (sic) were screams are almost whizzing in every direction. audible here, outside the ... (T)he roar of musketry Harper House, 146 years af- and artillery was now conter the largest and bloodiest tinuous. ... I saw the rebel battle ever fought on North regiments in front in full Carolina soil. view, stretching through the Gen. William T. Sherfields to the left as far as the man’s troops had just eye could reach, advancing marched from Fayetteville rapidly and firing as they through Averasboro to Bencame. ... The onward sweep tonville, on their way to of the rebel lines was like Goldsboro to join other the waves of the ocean, reUnion forces in the waning sistless.” days of the Civil War. The first day of fighting Gen. Joseph E. Johnston ended at nightfall, allowing and about 20,000 Confederate the other half of Sherman’s troops stood army to join in their way, the battle. lying in wait The Union in BenArmy eventonville’s tually overfields, paspowered tures and Johnston’s piney woods.

Confederate The Confedsoldiers, erates would who were fight bravely barely able JOHN MINTZ and desperto retreat Archaeologist ately but across Mill prove no Creek. match for Union forces that Union soldiers started to folwere three times as large. low, but Sherman decided Now, all these years later, they should instead head on some of the Confederate sol- to Goldsboro. diers speak from their According to one account, graves. Workers at the Ben- 543 men were killed, more tonville Battlefield set head- than 2,800 were wounded stones to mark the graves of and nearly 900 went missing 20 unknown Confederate sol- at the battle of Bentonville. diers.

During the battle, SherThe headstones, which man commandeered the were dedicated recently, are home of John and Amy the culmination of some 21st Harper, who farmed 825 century detective work and acres, to use as a Union field a 116-year-old photograph. hospital.

But first, a little history.

After the fighting ended, The battle of Bentonville the Union transported its lasted three days, from wounded to hospitals in March 19 through March 21, Goldsboro and other North 1865.

Carolina cities, pardoning at A month earlier, Gen. least 45 Confederate soldiers Johnston had assumed comin the process. Those solmand of all Confederate diers remained at the Harpforces from Florida to North er House.

Carolina. His mission: To A marker near the house stop Gen. Sherman’s forces quotes Lt. Col. Jacob W. from connecting with Gen. Griffith of the 1st Kentucky Ulysses S. Grant’s troops in Cavalry on March 27, 1865: Virginia.

“There are forty-five of The day before the Benthe wounded of our army at tonville battle began, Johnthe house of Mr. Harper. ... ston learned that Sherman They are in suffering condiwas en route to Goldsboro to tion for the want of proper link up with 40,000 more supplies and there is no surUnion troops. Johnston’s sol- geon to attend them. Mr. diers were mostly enHarper and family are doing trenched by the time Sherall their means will allow for man’s army arrived in Benthe sufferers. Their wounds tonville. have been dressed and six or The Confederate soldiers eight amputations percharged the Union’s left formed skillfully by the surwing but failed to overrun geons of the enemy.” the line.

Within 31⁄2 months, 23 of According to a diorama at those soldiers had died, said Derrick Brown, assistant the battlefield, Col. AlexanBY GREG BARNES

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“... We are giving them a voice by marking the approximate locations of their final resting places.”

Workers dig holes for the individual markers that were placed at 20 Confederate grave sites at Bentonville Battlefield. Until recently, historians had believed the 20 soldiers were buried in a mass grave, marked by the large monument above, but an old photo and ground-penetrating radar revealed the individual resting places.

During the battle of Bentonville, Gen. William T. Sherman commandeered the home of John Harper to use as a Union hospital. After the battle ended, it also housed wounded Confederate troops. manager of the Bentonville Battlefield. Twenty-one were believed to have been buried near the Harper home; one was later exhumed and buried elsewhere.

The bodies of the 20 soldiers remained in unmarked graves for 30 years until the Goldsboro Rifles, a State Guard unit, apparently moved them to an area near a large monument it erected at the battlefield, Brown said.

At a dedication for the monument in 1895, someone took a picture that reveals 20 headstones and foot stones directly behind the monument.

The picture made its way to the state archives offices, only no government preservationists knew that in 2006, when they began looking in the 6,000-acre battlefield for what they suspected were mass graves of Confederate soldiers.

Their belief in the mass graves was bolstered by an inscription on the monument, which says “about 360 Confederate dead are buried here.”

But during their search, Brown said, a local resident happened to mention that he had an old photo of the monument showing what appeared to be wooden headstones and foot stones.

“We were extremely happy,” Brown said. “That narrowed things down, but it also kind of baffled us. You heard for years and years and years that there were mass graves.”

The revealing photograph also posed a question: Did the Goldsboro Rifles place wooden headstones and foot stones at the monument solely as a symbolic gesture for its dedication ceremony?

Enter John Mintz, an assistant state archaeologist who began scanning the area depicted in the monument picture with ground-penetrating radar. The radar does not reveal bones or coffins, only voids in the ground.

Mintz said he and others used the radar to compare undisturbed ground and known graves at the battlefield before using it on the suspected grave sites.

When the radar con-

firmed the voids at the suspected graves, the archaeologists began to dig gingerly, uncovering just enough dirt at a few of the graves to reveal rectangular wooden boxes, displaced nails and the extreme tips of a few bones.

Mintz said less than a centimeter of bone was ever exposed. The preservationists repeatedly stressed the importance of honoring the dead by not disturbing hallowed ground.

“It is very important because these individuals interred here were someone’s son or grandson or could have been someone’s father,” Brown said. “Plus, these soldiers no longer have a voice, so we are giving them a voice by marking the approximate locations of their final resting places.”

The mystery solved, the Bentonville Battlefield enlisted the help of the Harper House Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which donated $6,000 to buy headstones for the 20 graves.

The markers, which are now in place, all say the same thing: “Unknown Confederate soldier Died of wounds Battle of Bentonville 1865.”

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State homes in on teacher effectiveness

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MANAGERS PAST AND PRESENT

Salisbury’s new search he last time Salisbury had to find a new city manager, Mayor Wiley Lash served as interim or “coordinator,” officially. He had already decided not to run for re-election, so the City Council asked him to step in.

It was 1985, and Salisbury was accustomed to promoting from within. City Manager Harvey Mathias had come up through the system under Francis Luther, just as Luther trained under the tutelage of Charles Lineback.

But after only three years in the top job, Mathias had enough of life in the fishbowl and resigned to go to work for the League of Municipalities. The city was shocked.

“Salisbury city government without Harvey Mathias,” said a Post editorial, “is going to seem like CBS without Dan Rather or the Jacksons without Michael.”

With the Institute of Government’s help on background checks, Lash and the council winnowed the 124 applications that came in from all over the country down to nine, then five — and turned the final decision over to a new mayor and a new City Council.

That mayor was Dr. John Wear — father of current Mayor Susan Wear Kluttz.

Wear and his fellow council members (Bill Murdoch, Jim Dunn, Darrell Hancock and John Ramsay) hired David Treme, then city administrator of Georgetown, S.C., a town of 10,000. Wear said Treme was the only candidate unanimously liked by the previous council and the new council members.

A lot of water has passed under the Yadkin River bridge since then. Treme is retiring Aug. 1, and Salisbury City Council is searching for a manager for the first time in a quarter of a century. The city plans to use a recruitment firm and conduct the same kind of search Lash and city staff led in 1985, looking inside and outside the city.

They’ll be seeking someone with the same strengths the city advertised in 1985.

Candidates should have “demonstrated skills in financial management, personnel, economic development, citizen involvement, inter-governmental and public relations,” an ad in the Post read.

The council should also look for openness, inner strength, integrity and resilience — the ability to work through crises with openness and candor.

Experience running a municipal broadband network is a powerful plus.

Mayor Kluttz would do well to emulate Lash and include the next city council in the decision. The 1985 search went through Election Day, and Lash included the councilmen-elect in interviews with prospects. That way everyone — outgoing council members and new ones — got the manager they thought was best.

Salisbury city government without David Treme is going to seem like Fox TV without Bill O’Reilly or Lady Gaga without makeup — possible, but so far unimagined.

The city needs a strong, experienced leader to usher in a new era.

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Common sense

(Or uncommon wisdom, as the case may be)

If you don’t think every day is a good day, just try missing one.

— Cavett Robert

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’ve heard so much about testing in the schools that it’s all a blur to me. When I heard some news about testing last week, I became more confused.

North Carolina schools are going to have fewer tests — but test results are going to play a bigger role in how teachers are evaluated.

Could that be right?

To straighten this out, I called Dr. Lou Fabrizio, who has ELIZABETH been director of accountability COOK policy and communications for the state Department of Public Instruction for many years — from the ABC accountability program to No Child Left Behind and now Race to the Top. The state Board of Education voted last week to make student progress a factor in evaluating teachers’ effectiveness, he said, and tests are one way of measuring that progress. “ ‘Teacher effectiveness’ is the new buzz phrase,” Fabrizio says.

• • • That didn’t sound so new to me. Haven’t we been holding teachers and schools accountable for test scores since the 1990s?

Yes, Fabrizio said, but this is different.

North Carolina’s ABC ac-

countability program takes more of a whole-school approach. If students in a school did well on ABC tests and made expected growth as a group, all the teachers at that school received preset bonuses — regardless of how their own classes did.

The bonuses went away three years ago when the state ran out of money, but ABC tests are still here — giving schools a figurative thumbs up or thumbs down based on students’ scores.

Now, though, the state Board of Education has voted to bring test scores into evaluations of individual teachers, and those evaluations will be done every year.

Test data won’t be the only factor in the evaluation; there are five others. But it will be an important factor.

This, Fabrizio said, is a new way of looking at things, trying to tie student performance to the actual classroom teacher.

ABC looked at the whole school. No Child Left Behind emphasized teacher quality, based on certification.

Now, Race to the Top — a $4.35 billion federal program designed to spur reform — requires measures of teacher effectiveness.

• • • Bringing standardized test results into the evaluation process has raised some fears.

Here’s an excerpt from a New York Daily News editorial: “Desperate to insulate its

members from actual accountability, the statewide teachers union is suing to throw out New York’s brand-new system for rating teacher effectiveness. ...

“New York committed to a teacher evaluation system — including the smart use of test data — in exchange for a $700 million grant from President Obama’s Race to the Top program. The goal was to enable administrators to systematically assess teacher performance and to weed out bad apples.”

• • • Bad apples. Teachers are bound to resent references like that. We all know exceptionally good teachers, and we all know one or two not-sogood teachers. One bad apple can spoil not only the whole bunch but also an entire year of your child’s education.

North Carolina is getting $400 million from Race to the Top. As part of the agreement, last week the state board added this to the N.C. Professional Teaching Standards: “Standard VI: Teachers contribute to the academic success of students.

“The work of the teacher results in acceptable, measurable progress for students based on established performance expectations using appropriate data to demonstrate growth.”

A similar standard was also added to principal evaluations.

• • • What if there is no test data?

All 11 states receiving Race to the Top funds are grappling

with that, Fabrizio says.

The N.C. General Assembly OK’d a bill last month that limits the state to tests the federal government requires. That nixes end-of-course tests in algebra 2, physical science, civics and economics and U.S. history.

And some subjects — art, music — don’t lend themselves to student performance data.

Fabrizio says the state will have dozens of working groups “helping guide the state board on how might we go about doing this without having a lot more tests.”

Is North Carolina making any progress in student achievement with tests?

Fabrizio says yes. The ABCs got teachers to focus on the N.C. Standard Course of Study. If you look at measures like statewide SAT scores and National Assessment of Education Progress tests, he says, “it is very clear that with data going back to the early 1990s ... we’ve made lots of progress.”

More so in math than reading, he said.

So here we go into yet another approach to improving public education, this time evaluating teachers and principals annually and bringing students’ test scores and other signs of progress into the process.

Let’s hope the state finds an accurate way to measure teacher effectiveness — and rewards it.

• • • Elizabeth Cook is editor of the Salisbury Post.

Mook’s Place/Mark Brincefield

General Assembly on bold path of reform

BY REP. HARRY WARREN Special to the Salisbury Post

hether one agrees or disagrees with the ideological approach of the new leadership in Raleigh, no one can deny that this General Assembly has taken bold steps to reduce the physical size of our state government, reduce the fiscal operational cost of that governWARREN ment and started meaningful reform policies affecting education, health care, property rights, the Second Amendment and illegal immigration, to mention a few.

More than 20 separate bills were passed that affected K12, community colleges and the university system .

• SB 8 Remove the Cap On Charter Schools authorizes the State Board of Education to grant final approval of charter school applications and raises the charters enrollment cap by 20 percent.

• HB 344 Tax Credits for Children with Disabilities provides for up to $6,000 in tax credits for students whose needs might be better met in a private or specialized public school that charges a fee.

• SB 125 Regional School Es-

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tablishment permits local Boards of Education to establish regional schools.

• HB 720 School & Teacher Paperwork Reduction Act directs the State Board of Education to identify required reports and to eliminate all unnecessary reports and paperwork at the beginning of the school year.

• HB 134 Opt out of the William D. Ford Loan Program returns the control of the student loan process to the community colleges’ individual boards.

An additional 15 educationrelated bills were passed addressing the length of the school year, local control of the school calendars for make-up days, testing reforms, course requirements and more.

Annexation reform was addressed statewide with HB 845 Annexation Reform Act of 2011 — finally giving property owners in a proposed annex area a meaningful voice in the process.

Additionally, it requires a services implementation dateline and establishes municipal financial liability for the installation of needed services.

HB 709 Protect and Put North Carolina Back to Work bill made changes to the Workers Compensation Program that included reforming the appointment process of commissioners and raising the length of coverage for temporary totally disabled persons from 300 weeks of compensation up to 500 weeks.

I am a primary sponsor of nine public bills, three of which were signed into law by the governor.

• HB 49 Laura’s Law, named for 17-year-old Laura Fortenberry who was killed by a drunk driver, created stricter punishment for “Aggravated Level One” offenses.

• HB 427 Run and You’re Done allows for the confiscation of a vehicle under certain conditions when used to elude police or arrest. The proceeds from the sale of the vehicle go to the school system.

Other bills that I either cosponsored or supported include HB 215 Ethan’s Law (Unborn Victim’s Act) and HB 227 Disturbing/Dismembering Human Remains Act in response to the murder of 10-year-old Zahra Baker from Hickory.

• The third bill is HB 36 Employers & Local Government Must Use E-Verify. This bill caused more controversy than I anticipated, but I have found that getting a bill passed or modified to your satisfaction can be as challenging as herding cats.

When the General Assembly reconvenes on July 25, I intend to present HB 366 Special Elections to the Senate Judiciary 1 Committee.HB 366 requires that all special elections and referendums must be held during a municipal or county general election. This will ensure transparency by elected offi-

cials, reflect the will of the greatest number of people and save millions of dollars annually for the state.

Over 396 bills were signed or allowed to slip into law this session. A record 15 bills were vetoed by Governor Perdue.

More than 900 bills were filed.

I was a primary sponsor or cosponsor on 127 bills.

Several of the bills that the governor vetoed included some significant reforms and, most likely, overrides of her vetoes will be attempted on at least the following five : • HB 351 Restore Confidence In Government, Photo ID to Vote • HB 854 Abortion, Woman’s Right to Know (House vote was 71-48.)

• SB 781 Regulatory Reform Act of 2011 (House vote was 6543 with eight absent and four not voting; Senate voted 43-0.)

• SB 709 Energy Jobs Act (House voted 69-42 with eight absent, one n/v.)

• SB 33 Medical Liability Reforms (House voted 62-44 with eight absent, six n/v.)

It is an honor and a privilege to represent District 77 in the House. I will resume my monthly town hall meetings on Aug. 26 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the County Commissioners Chamber (130 W. Innes St.). I hope to see you there.

• • • Harry Warren of Salisbury represents District 77 in the N.C. House.

SALISBURY POST

SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2011 • 3D

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Kickball is just one job perk I

Help wanted Unfilled openings show need for retraining effort ast week, at last, the president conducted the sort of innovative, job-creating event voters have been waiting to see. It was precisely the sort of event the people have been expecting the incumbent to start doing to win re-election in this jobsstarved economy.

MARTIN But unSCHRAM fortunately for Barack Obama, the president who dreamed up, set up and then headed up this handson leadership-you-can-believe-in event was Bill Clinton.

As faithful readers know, this corner has long been urging President Obama’s policy experts and political strategists to rethink and retool — to get their leader more visibly involved in innovative efforts that actually create jobs. So far, his visits to places that are good news blips of job-creation have mainly convinced Americans who are already disappointed (see also: distressed and even depressed) that perhaps America’s 44th president just doesn’t feel their plight and pain.

But last week, America’s 42nd president showed us he not only gets it but also is charting a new course to do something about it as a private citizen.

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LETTERS Stoplight timing is on the blink Can the stoplight at Depot and Innes Streets be fixed?

Every night sometime after 10 p.m. and before midnight (when it becomes a flashing yellow light), this stoplight becomes an irritation to every driver on Innes Street.

The Lee and Depot Street lights are fairly coordinated during the day, and this promotes traffic moving smoothly in both directions.

After 10 p.m. the Depot Street light changes. It stays green on Innes for six seconds and green on Depot for 15 seconds. It forces most drivers in both directions to stop twice for two streets that have little to no traffic on them.

Surely those who programmed this light don’t feel there is more traffic on Depot Street after 10 p.m. Are they purposely trying to stop or slow traffic at that time?

As a person who drives on Innes regularly during these hours, this light is a constant irritation.

If machines must tell us what to do, those who program these machines can make their directives as convenient to people as possible.

Can this nightly irritation please be fixed?

— David Hagy Salisbury

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Write Letters to the Editor, Salisbury Post, P.O. Box 4639, Salisbury, NC 28145-4639. Or fax your letter to 639-0003. Email: letters@salisburypost.com

On June 29, the Clinton Global Initiative organization focused for the first time on a United States crisis, convening a two-day gathering in Chicago of some 750 leaders of businesses and non-profit organizations. And Clinton set the theme by titling his opening presentation: “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.”

So what can be done?

The former president served up a brain-boggling statistic that set the mission for the conference: There are 3 million job openings that remain unfilled because applicants for those positions have lacked the training necessary to do the work. But if the job applicants were suitably trained right now, America’s devastating 9.1 percent unemployment rate could be instantly reduced by at least 3 percentage points — dropping the unemployment rate by onethird, to a much more economically manageable and politically palatable 6.1 percent.

“Posted job openings ... are being filled only half as fast as they were filled in every previous recession since World War II,” said Clinton.

How could a nationwide worker retraining effort be financed? “The banks in America have well over $2 trillion in cash not committed to loans,” Clinton said.

He announced several “commitments” from businesses and labor groups to pay for some retraining efforts.

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Former President Bill Clinton, right, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner share the stage during the June 30 closing session of the Clinton Global Initiative. The two-day event focused on job creation and economic growth in the United States.

But of greater long-term importance may well be the presentations of innovative approaches and solutions offered by politically and professionally diverse leaders.

Mississippi’s Republican Gov. Haley Barbour, said community colleges are uniquely positioned to train local job seekers. “Our community colleges are very good,” he said. “But they weren’t getting the incentives or rewards for job training. It was all going to universities.” He added: “We have to quit stigmatizing skills training.” He said Mississippi has begun funding job training at community colleges instead of new spending on unemployment insurance.

Georgia’s former Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond said he set up a program that connects

prospective untrained workers with companies that have openings. Georgia pays companies to train workers for six weeks; after that, companies can offer any or all trainees permanent jobs. Since 2003, he said, 62 percent of the trained workers were hired.

The conference also heard about worker retraining successes produced by Chicago Career Tech, a recently formed organization that provides middle class unemployed with classroom and handson training at more than 150 Chicago area businesses and nonprofits.

And the conference heard from the Chicago’s new mayor. “We in the public sector, we don’t create jobs,” said Mayor Rahm Emanuel. “We create the conditions so you can invest and create jobs in our

city.”

After watching anew the mastery of Clinton, his first White House boss, Emanuel may be in the best position to dial the BlackBerry number he knows by heart — having served as chief of staff and offer a trusted bit of on-the-job training for a class of one, his last White House boss, Obama, whom he served as chief of staff.

There is still time for the Oval Office’s eloquent and never redundant incumbent to master Bill Clinton’s innovative “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs” leadership. It may be the 2012 key to whether Obama remains employed for four more years.

• • • Martin Schram writes political analysis for Scripps Howard News Service.

Lessons from the ‘DSK moment’ he chambermaid who accused a powerful French politician of attempted rape in a New York hotel last May turns out to be a liar. As her credibility crumbles, so does the legal case against the man, Dominique Strauss-Kahn. His supporters are already dismissing the whole affair as a witch hunt and hinting that he could still run for president of France.

What is the lesson here? Did the district attorney STEVE & act too hastily?

COKIE ROBERTS Probably, yes. But the maid told a compelling story reinforced by forensic evidence and officials were under enormous time pressure, seizing Strauss-Kahn only minutes before he flew back to Paris.

The more important point is this: Women should be encouraged, not discouraged, by this whole sordid story. The judicial system responded to the complaint of a poor immigrant woman when she charged a wealthy, influential man with sexual assault. And the result has emboldened other women to end their silence and speak out — against DSK (as Strauss-Kahn is known) and men like him who treat women as disposable playthings.

Sylvie Kauffmann, the first female editor of the Paris daily Le Monde, told The New York Times that this “DSK moment” will have a lasting effect on French politics and culture. Helen Perivier, a French academic who studies gender issues, agreed that the episode “raised questions that went well beyond his particular case and that of his guilt. People have started raising questions about the relations between men and women in France, and those questions won’t go away.”

They won’t go away in this country, either. Not after Arnold Schwarzenegger and John Edwards both admitted fathering children with female subordinates — a family nanny and a campaign aide. Not after a governor, Eliot Spitzer of New York, and a U.S. senator, John Ensign of Nevada, were forced to resign after their lurid sex lives came to light. Not after another governor, Mark Sanford of South Carolina, served out his term ignomin-

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Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, center, is surrounded by media Wednesday as he returns to his rented house in New York.

iously after his affair went public.

These cases are all different but one thread runs through them: men treating women badly, their wives or girlfriends or both. And many of those women have had enough. Take Tristane Banon, a young writer who interviewed DSK eight years ago.

His former wife is her godmother; his daughter is her close friend. Yet, she alleges, DSK started ripping off her clothes and wrestling her to the floor. “When I realized that he really wanted to rape me, I started kicking him with my boots,” she told the French weekly L’Express. “I was terrified.”

At the time, she declined to press her case because “everyone told me it would never succeed,” including her own mother, an official in DSK’s Socialist Party. Her career would be ruined, her reputation stained as the “girl who had a problem with a politician.”

But now it’s DSK who has the problem, and Banon has filed a formal complaint accusing him of attempted rape. “If I want one day to put an end to this hell that has lasted eight years, it needs to be tried in court,” she said. “There is no good solution, only one that means I can finally look at myself in the mirror.

For once, I want to be in control of what happens. I want people to listen to me, because I have, perhaps, finally a chance to be heard.”

Kauffmann said that Banon is not alone. “There’s an awareness and a willingness to speak out that wasn’t there before,” she told the Times.

“Even if DSK manages to come back and run, it will be part of the discussion. He’s still a guy who had a sexual encounter with a maid at noon in a luxury suite before having lunch with his daughter and flying back to his wife.”

How men treat women should be “part of the discussion” in American politics as well. Do male candidates regard women as equals or inferiors? Do they seek their advice as well as their affection? Do they behave morally as well as legally?

DSK probably broke no law when he pressured an economist who worked for him at the International Monetary Fund into a brief affair.

But she felt too vulnerable to resist.

“I was damned if I did and damned if I didn’t,” she said.

We don’t know exactly what happened in that hotel room last May. But we do know that DSK has a long record of abusing women. And we know that such a record should disqualify a man from holding public office, in Paris or Washington or anywhere else.

••• Steve and Cokie Roberts’ new book, “Our Haggadah” (HarperCollins), was published this spring.

Email: stevecokie@gmail.com.

n California, the first faint signs have emerged that we may once again be on the threshold — precipice for you pessimists — of a new Age of Excess.

The sniper-eyed trend watchers at The Wall Street Journal have zeroed in on a San Francisco Internet startup — and haven’t we been here before, oh, say a decade ago — whose “social calendar” posted on the wall announces a wine and cheese mixer on Wednesday, DALE a rooftop barbeMCFEATTERS cue on Friday and an air guitar concert on Saturday.

Mark it down to a generational difference but a chance to perform on air guitar is not enough to lure me into giving up part of my weekend. Comp time, yes; a little bonus, even better.

Our office, headquarters to three big Washington bureaus, does not have a wall social calendar. We have a bulletin board back in the mailroom with grimly official notices — apparently the government ships you to Guantanamo if you remove one without authorization — on the Polygraph Protection Act — who knew? A stern statement from the U.S. Wage and Hour Division notes that the minimum wage is $7.25, not, one would think, a problem in Silicon Valley; and a bulletin from the U.S. Occupational and Safety Administration insists that we should not be afraid to report any hazards or dangerous conditions in the workplace, which rather dilutes the message by saying we have 30 days to report any employer retaliation.

On Thursday the high-tech outfit offers companywide kickball competition. Maybe it’s true that the West Coast is a much mellower place and the employees much more caring and sharing than the more tightly wound East Coast. Our company’s softball team was kicked out of Washington’s media league because our second baseman, a top aide to a senior Democratic senator, threatened to kill a guy on the other team for barreling into the base standing up. She would have, too.

To keep the mood light, there’s Mustache Monday where all the employees wear fake mustaches.

The Journal reports on one firm that keeps three kegs of beer on site with built in iPads to offer information on what’s on tap. I would have thought simply tasting the beer would have settled that but that’s perhaps why I missed the last dot-com bust and why I’m going to miss this one too.

One startup has an indoor tree house where a stressed employee can go to commune with the universe or just take a nap. I can see this presenting certain management problems: “D.K., you have to come down now. It’s time for the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance meeting.

“I know you consider SarBox ‘sucky’ but the Feds say we have to do it.

“I hate to play hardball here. But if you don’t come down we’ll take away your foosball table. And your juice bar privileges. There, that’s better.”

When I joined the newspaper business, the competition for talent wasn’t quite as ferocious, certainly not perk-wise.

My first day in the city room I was told to pick any desk and sit at it until somebody told me to move. Through hard work and enterprise, I was finally assigned my own drawer in somebody else’s desk. Finally, I rose to the heights where I officially had first dibs on a desk when the owner wasn’t there.

Like most city rooms, it was over blessed with oddballs, cranks, eccentrics and transient misfits, some of them quite talented, most of them very funny. But if I had walked in on Mustache Monday, I would have fled, for the lack of a tree house probably to the Yucatan Lounge across the street.

• • • Dale McFeatters writes columns and editorials for Scripps Howard News Service.

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ashington — A debt crisis is a terrible thing to waste in a presidential election season, and Democrats and Republicans alike are responding on cue.

Latest to the fray is Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann.

In a new “Waterloo” television ad running in KATHLEEN Iowa leading up to the PARKER Aug. 13 straw poll, she promises she won’t vote to raise the debt ceiling — before even seeing the terms of the deal.

Though Bachmann is the most outspoken among Republicans, she is not alone.

Several members of the Republican Study Committee, headed by Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, have signed on to a “Cut, Cap and Balance” plan pledging not to vote for any debt ceiling increase without serious spending cuts, spending caps and a balanced budget amendment passed by both the House and Senate.

Alas, this will never happen. A constitutional amendment has to pass both chambers by a twothirds vote (290 in the House; 67 in the Senate).

Thus, the signees won’t vote to increase the debt limit unless John Boehner and Mitch McConnell somehow magically convince 50 or so Democrats in the House and about 20 in the Senate to vote for a balanced budget amendment.

The pledge is, therefore, an impossible standard.

As a side note, Bachmann hasn’t signed the pledge, much to the disappointment of fellow conservatives, including Sen. Jim DeMint. But Bachmann, who is establishing herself as the hardest of the hard right, told a South Carolina town hall meeting that the pledge wasn’t strong enough because it doesn’t also include a demand to repeal President Obama's health care overhaul.

Objectively, however, Bachmann and others are missing the big picture.

They may be stirring the hearts of tea partiers steeped in stubbornness (is there no end to tea metaphors?), but are they being responsible?

What they're missing (or ignoring) is the enormous opportunity for conservatives that has taken shape since the beginning of the year. Just a few months ago, Obama was asking for a “clean” debt-limit increase. That is, an unconditional hike without spending cuts and no reforms.

Republicans responded by making clear that there would be no increase to the $14.3 trillion debt limit without fundamental reforms, including entitlements, and without spending cuts larger than the debt-limit hike, enforceable limits on future spending, and no tax increases.

Fast-forward through a few months of intransigence — and a few friendly rounds of golf — and the conversation has become something much different.

The president’s proposal for a deal that would save $4 trillion over the next 10 years through cuts to all major spending areas, including entitlements and

the Pentagon, is otherwise known as a “sea change.”

Of course, a quarter of that $4 trillion in savings would come from $1 trillion in new tax revenues, so the deal is far from perfect at this stage. Even so, in any other season Republicans would be staging parades.

No plan will please all.

Spokesfolks on both sides have made the requisite statements. Nancy Pelosi rejected cuts that would balance the budget “on the backs of America’s seniors, women and people with disabilities.” Boehner insisted that he won’t support raising taxes “on the very people that we expect to reinvest in our economy.”

So the meeting scheduled today among top leaders to reach an agreement — or not — will be a test of wills, but also of courage and of compromise. Few honest brokers think that we can prevent a financial catastrophe without both cuts and revenue increases, but there are surely ways to get there from here without necessarily punishing the weak or the strong.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, for example, has said he won’t support raising taxes but is amenable to closing tax loopholes to create revenue. Democrats who resist any cuts to Social Security might find acceptable a suggestion to revise the way inflation is calculated in determining cost-of-living adjustments to beneficiaries.

Where there are wills, there are ways.

Meanwhile, not raising the debt ceiling is fraught with risks, not the least of which is creating greater uncertainty in financial markets in an already fragile recovery. Even prolonging raising the ceiling is potentially hazardous before a default happens, as investors take preventive actions that could distort the money markets.

Republicans have made enormous advances toward government reforms that were viewed as unachievable a year ago. Voting no may have become the aphrodisiac of small-government conservatives, but it is not necessarily an act of bravery or wisdom.

Sometimes it’s just stubborn.

• • • Kathleen Parker’s email address is kathleenparker@washpost.com.

Few honest brokers think that we can prevent a financial catastrophe without both cuts and revenue increases.

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dominate Russian politics.

That ability to spot the importance of seemingly insignificant details, to weave disparate strands of information into a meaningful story, gave him a particular knack for hunting terrorists.

“He could always give you the broader implications of all these details we were amassing,” said John McLaughlin, who as CIA deputy director was briefed regularly by John in the mornings after the 2001 attacks.

From 2003, when he joined the counterterrorism center, through 2005, John was one of the driving forces behind the most successful string of counterterrorism captures in the fight against terrorism: Abu Zubaydah, Abd al-Nashiri, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Ramzi bin Alshib, Hambali and Faraj al-Libi.

But there was no greater prize than finding bin Laden.

Bin Laden had slipped away from U.S. forces in the Afghan mountains of Tora Bora in 2001, and the CIA believed he had taken shelter in the lawless tribal areas of Pakistan. In 2006, the agency mounted Operation Cannonball, an effort to establish bases in the tribal regions and find bin Laden. Even with all its money and resources, the CIA could not locate its prime target.

By then, the agency was on its third director since Sept. 11, 2001. John had outlasted many of his direct supervisors who retired or went on to other jobs. The CIA doesn’t like to keep its people in one spot for too long. They become jaded. They start missing things.

John didn’t want to leave. He’d always been persistent. In college, he walked on to a Division I basketball team and hustled his way into a rotation full of scholarship players.

The CIA offered to promote him and move him somewhere else. John wanted to keep the bin Laden file.

He examined and re-examined every aspect of bin Laden’s life. How did he live while hiding in Sudan? With whom did he surround himself while living in Kandahar, Afghanistan? What would a bin Laden hideout look like today?

The CIA had a list of potential leads, associates and family members who might have access to bin Laden.

“Just keep working that list bit by bit,” one senior intelligence official recalls John telling his team. “He’s there somewhere. We’ll get there.”

John rose through the ranks of the counterterrorism center, but because of his nearly unrivaled experience, he always had influence beyond his title.

One former boss confessed that he didn’t know exactly what John’s position was.

“I knew he was the guy in the room I always listened to,” the official said.

While he was shepherding the hunt for bin Laden, John also was pushing to expand the Predator program, the agency’s use of unmanned airplanes to launch missiles at terrorists. The CIA largely confined those strikes to targets along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan. But in late 2007 and early 2008, John said the CIA needed to carry out those attacks deeper inside Pakistan.

It was a risky move. Pakistan was an important but shaky ally. John’s analysts saw an increase in the number of Westerners training in Pakistani terrorist camps. John worried that those men would soon start showing up on U.S. soil.

“We’ve got to act,” John said, a former senior intelligence official recalls.

“There’s no explaining inaction.”

John took the analysis to then CIA

surrounded himself only with his couriers and family and did not use phones or the Internet. The CIA knew that top al-Qaida operatives had lived in urban areas before.

A cautious Panetta took the information to Obama, but there was much more work to be done.

The government tried everything to figure out who was in that compound.

In a small house nearby, the CIA put people who would fit in and not draw any attention. They watched and waited but turned up nothing definitive. Satellites captured images of a tall man walking the grounds of the compound, but never got a look at his face.

Again and again, John and his team asked themselves who else might be living in that compound. They came up with five or six alternatives; bin Laden was always the best explanation.

This went on for months. By about February, John told his bosses, including Panetta, that the CIA could keep trying, but the information was unlikely to get any better. He told Panetta this might be their best chance to find bin Laden and it would not last forever.

Panetta made that same point to the president Panetta held regular meetings on the hunt, often concluding with an aroundthe-table poll: How sure are you that this is bin Laden?

John was always bullish, rating his confidence as high as 80 percent.

Others weren’t so sure, especially those who had been in the room for operations that went bad. Not two years earlier, the CIA thought it had an informant who could lead him to bin Laden’s deputy. That man blew himself up at a base in Khost, Afghanistan, killing seven CIA employees and injuring six others.

That didn’t come up in the meetings with Panetta, a senior intelligence official said. But everyone knew the risk the CIA was taking if it told the president that bin Laden was in Abbottabad and was wrong.

“We all knew that if he wasn’t there and this was a disaster, certainly there would be consequences,” the official recalled.

John was among several CIA officials who repeatedly briefed Obama and others at the White House. Current and former officials involved in the discussions said John had a coolness and a reassuring confidence.

By April, the president had decided to send the Navy SEALs to assault the compound.

Though the plan was in motion, John went back to his team, a senior intelligence official said.

“Right up to the last hour," he told them, “if we get any piece of information that suggests it’s not him, somebody has to raise their hand before we risk American lives.”

Nobody did. Inside the Situation Room, the analyst who was barely known outside the close-knit intelligence world took his place alongside the nation’s top security officials, the household names and well-known faces of Washington.

An agonizing 40 minutes after Navy SEALs stormed the compound, the report came back: Bin Laden was dead.

Two days after bin Laden’s death, John accompanied Panetta to Capitol Hill. The Senate Intelligence Committee wanted a full briefing on the successful mission. At one point in the private session, Panetta turned to the man whose counterterrorism resume spanned four CIA directors.

He began to speak, about the operation and about the years of intelligence it was based on. And as he spoke about the mission that had become his career, the calm, collected analyst paused, and he choked up.

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By tracing a trusted al-Qaida courier, CIA operatives homed in on the walled compound where Osama bin Laden was living.

Director Michael Hayden, who agreed and took the recommendation to President George W. Bush. In the last months of the Bush administration, the CIA began striking deeper inside Pakistan. Obama immediately adopted the same strategy and stepped up the pace.

Recent attacks have killed al-Qaida’s No. 3 official, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, and Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.

All the while, John’s team was working the list of bin Laden leads. In 2007, a female colleague decided to zero in on a man known as Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, a nom de guerre. Other terrorists had identified al-Kuwaiti as an important courier for al-Qaida’s upper echelon, and she believed that finding him might help lead to bin Laden.

“They had their teeth clenched on this and they weren’t going to let go,” McLaughlin said of John and his team.

“This was an obsession.”

It took three years, but in August 2010, al-Kuwaiti turned up on a National Security Agency wiretap. The female analyst, who had studied journalism at a Big Ten university, tapped out a memo for John, “Closing in on Bin Laden Courier,” saying her team believed al-Kuwaiti was somewhere on the outskirts of Islamabad.

As the CIA homed in on al-Kuwaiti, John’s team continually updated the memo with fresh information. Everyone knew that anything with bin Laden’s name on it would shoot right to the director’s desk and invite scrutiny, so the early drafts played down hopes that the courier would lead to bin Laden. But John saw the bigger picture.

The hunt for al-Kuwaiti was effectively the hunt for bin Laden, and he was not afraid to say so.

The revised memo was finished in September 2010. John, by then deputy chief of the Pakistan-Afghanistan Department, emailed it to those who needed to know. The title was “Anatomy of a Lead.”

As expected, the memo immediately became a hot topic inside CIA headquarters, and Director Leon Panetta wanted to know more. John never overpromised, colleagues recall, but he was unafraid to say there was a good chance this might be the break the agency was looking for.

The CIA tracked al-Kuwaiti to a walled compound in Abbottabad. If bin Laden was hiding there, in a busy suburb not far from Pakistan’s military academy, it challenged much of what the agency had assumed about his hideout.

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Hart amps up action, keeps signature style “Iron House,” by John Hart.

Thomas Dunne Books. 2011. 421 pp. $25.99.

Local launch John Hart will be at Literary Bookpost, 110 S. Main St., at 6 p.m. Wednesday, one day after the publication of ‘Iron House’ to meet friends and fans and sign his book. Refreshments are included for what promises to be a crowd. Books for the signing must be purchased at Literary Bookpost.

Deirdre Parker Smith, Book Page Editor 704-797-4252 dp1@salisburypost.com www.salisburypost.com

BY DEIRDRE PARKER SMITH dp1@salisburypost.com

John Hart the S focus of Summer Reading Challenge This year’s Summer Reading Challenge culminates in a special event on Sept. 29 featuring Edgar Award-winning author John Hart and his new book, “Iron House.”

Hart, who has remembered his Salisbury roots with special events for each of his books, will be interviewed onstage by Deirdre Parker Smith, book editor of the Salisbury Post.

The challenge is moving to Trinity Oaks this year, to provide more room and better acoustics.

Hart will discuss his books, “The King of Lies,” “Down River,” “The Last Child” and his thriller, “Iron House.”

Challenge organizer Barbara Setzer, who was the original driving force for the Summer Reading Challenge, said, “Since John’s book is coming out July 12, we thought it was a good time to talk about his new book and his career.”

The evening will include light refreshments and questions from the audience; Hart will also sign books.

As always, the Summer Reading Challenge, now in its seventh year, is free and open to the public.

The format for the challenge has changed slightly this year. Instead of tackling several books and having a panel discussion, the focus is all on Hart, giving readers plenty of time to read his book and come up with questions to spur the discussion. .

Diane Hundley, director of marketing and sales for Trinity Oaks, is looking forward to the event. “You cannot believe how excited I am.

“Having provided the reception for the last several years, we are now thrilled to host it.

“With our residents’ interest in literature and literacy, this is a great opportunity for us to combine our passions.”

Other sponsors for this year’s event include the Salisbury Post, Catawba College, F&M Bank, Livingstone College, Literary Bookpost and Marathon Business Center.

Trinity Oaks is at 728 Klumac Road. “We’ll have plenty of people to provide directions,” Hundley said, and plenty of extra parking.

“Folks here are looking forward to reading it.”

Hart has appeared at previous Summer Reading Challenge events to discuss his first book, “The King of Lies,” and his third, “The Last Child” and is happy to return to see old friends and loyal fans.

As always, participants do not have to read the book. Discussion will include his previous books, “The King of Lies,” which was set in and Salisbury, as was “Down River.” His searing story of a lost child and her brother’s desperate search in “The Last Child” was a departure from the previous novels, upping the danger and emotional impact.

“Iron House” takes Hart into a new genre, the contemporary thriller, complete with chases, guns, a fair amount of violence and Hart’s trademark — complex characters who show the consequences of their actions in Hart’s deeply emotional and vivid writing.

Get your books at this Wednesday’s signing at Literary Bookpost (starting at 6 p.m.) and then join an appreciative crowd for the Sept.

29 discussion.

Rowan bestsellers Literary Bookpost

1. Paper Covers Rock, by Jenny Hubbard.

2. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, by Tom Franklin.

3. Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers.

4. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett.

5. The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain.

6. What Can I Say? I'm a Product of the 60's,

by Anne Stuart Welch.

7. Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese.

8. My Name Is Mary Sutter, by Robin Oliveira.

9. You're Only Old Once!: A Book for Obsolete Children, by Dr. Seuss.

10. Jay's Jokes, by Jay Nodine.

IndieBound bestsellers Fiction 1. State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett.

2. The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain.

3. Smokin' Seventeen, by Janet Evanovich.

4. Maine, by J. Courtney Sullivan.

5. Caleb's Crossing, by Geraldine Brooks.

6. The Snowman, by Jo Nesbo.

7. The Tiger's Wife, 8. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by Stieg Larsson.

9. The Hypnotist, by Lars Kepler.

10. Now You See Her, by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge.

Nonfiction 1. Go the F**k to Sleep, by Adam Mansbach, Ricardo Cortes (Illus.).

2. In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson.

3. Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand.

4. The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, by David McCullough.

5. Bossypants, by Tina Fey. 6. Area 51, by Annie Jacobsen.

7. Lost in Shangri-La, by Mitchell Zuckoff.

8. The Social Animal, by David Brooks.

9. Plenty: Vibrant Recipes from London's Ottolenghi, by Yotam Ottolenghi.

10. The Psychopath Test, by Jon Ronson.

ALISBURY — Everyone has been asking: “What’s it like? Is it good?”

What’s it like? It’s like a 400 page thriller. High body count.

Lots of body parts. Guns. Revenge. Broken hearts, broken minds, broken families.

The hero is an assassin for a mob boss, but Hart makes him sympathetic — meaning you don’t want this assassin to get assassinated — or worse, caught.

That’s a strange thing to say in our increasingly violent world, but the thing about Hart’s book is the violence is contained and neatly wrapped up. The complications are deeply emotional, which keeps this from being a simple guns and blood book.

There’s not much character development in an action movie, but in this book, as is Hart’s style, characters and setting are important and compelling parts of the story.

Along with the expendable victims, Hart draws complex plot-drivers — Michael, the assassin; his damaged brother, Julian; Abigail Vane, Julian’s adoptive mother; and the most elusive character, the truth.

His villains are thoroughly evil, especially the amoral, psychopathic, violent, Jimmy. Jimmy is so over the top, he makes Hannibal Lecter seem rational.

It’s a complicated plot involving death, love, healing, revenge, repercussions, suffering, schizophrenia.

It starts with the death of Michael’s mentor and father figure, the mob boss Otto Kaelin. How he dies triggers the first wave of violence and sends Michael on the run.

But for the first time in his 33 years, Michael is in love, and his greatest desire is to get out of the mob scene — to have a family and to feel love, given and received.

Life has made him what he is. When the hard knocks came, he hit harder.

“He’d come into the business fighting for his life, and that was all about up close and personal. It was about food and shelter and keeping the blood in his veins. Those lessons came fast on the street, and Michael knew as a child that it was better to be vicious than soft, fast than slow. He learned to steal and scheme and wound, and that was his gift, an utter lack of mental weakness.”

Hart opens with Michael’s childhood, setting up his motivation for getting out and making things right.

He and his brother, Julian, are orphans placed at Iron

House, a brutal boy’s home, high in the mountains of North Carolina.

Julian is soft and slow and easy prey for the vicious boys who taunt him, beat him, drag him into abandoned rooms to torture him. Michael is Julian’s savior, and when Julian finally snaps, Michael knows he has to take the blame, to protect Julian.

Michael runs away just as they are to be adopted, and the brothers are separated, seemingly forever. Michael grows up in the streets, and learns to always fight back.

Julian ends up the son of a beautiful, rich woman, whose husband is a well-placed, welloff senator in North Carolina.

After Michael’s mob-father dies, he knows he will have to fight back with deadly force, to keep what matters to him — his dear Elena, and his brother, Julian.

The bodies pile up fast, as Michael takes care of a few things, without showing a moment of indecision or emotion.

The cat-and-mouse games rev up the pace almost immediately, a sense of fear and urgency pushing the action along relentlessly.

As with any bona-fide thriller, some things happen predictably. A loved one will be

in grave danger, the hero will have to make impossible choices, collateral damage piles up.

Hart keep his package tight, though, and doesn’t stray far off his central plot. The subplots are kept to a minimum, too, and the way Hart ties it all together and creates yet more openmouthed moments. The connections may be a stretch, but they build extra tension and emotion.

It’s not just about Michael surviving — it’s about a brave new world of sometimes shocking revelations.

That Hart can make a trained, controlled, hard-edged assassin a hero is one thing.

That he can bring the story deeper into the theme of family shows his particular skills.

Can someone like Michael be loved? In this world, yes. Can he have a conscience? Absolutely.

His hardness includes a sense of obligation to family that borders on the obsessive.

When so many thrillers have cardboard characters who behave exactly as directed, Hart’s characters are, if not flesh and blood, certainly soul and emotion.

Elena might be the one weak link. We really don’t know her enough. She is understandably thunderstruck when Michael’s careful lies fall away.

Hart doesn’t show or tell why

Michael is so in love, but her innocence and unexplained past most certainly play into Michael’s psyche.

Hart draws Julian with care and raw emotion, maintaining the razor edge that is his mental health.

Abigail Vane is a cautionary character — a woman who would do anything for her son, or herself; but a woman who barely disguises her disgust with her husband. Abigail likes money and power and is willing to overlook the senator’s strange appetites if she gets what she wants.

This book, although it is divided into chapters, reads as a continuous thought process.

Hart has said he had trouble with this, his fourth novel, but he and his editors have made this work a solid, wild ride.

His publishers think it’s his best work yet.

I’ll leave that to his third novel, “The Last Child,” but he’s certainly tapped into a powerfully popular genre, and he does it in Hart style — tone of the Gothic South, deep emotion, tangled lives.

He’s gotten away from Salisbury in his writing — almost.

There’s a Volonte motel in this one, as there was in “Down River.” Maybe it’s the one thing that will appear in all his books — a tongue-in-cheek reference to his old stomping grounds.

And though part of the novel is set in New York City, the meat of the action takes place in North Carolina, with locations like Chatham County and Asheville. He creates Iron Mountain and another, Slaughter Mountain, that could be anywhere in the deep woods and hollows of our Blue Ridge.

Hart’s own sensibilities come through here — he has a deep love for his family and for the land. Cities are tools only.

That Hart can continue to write in so many voices is a plus. His heroes are good guys given bad luck, but the way they solve their problems is always different. Violence is a necessary part of these comingof-age-feel stories, and there is always some sort of redemption, for which the hero pays a steep price.

Lose yourself in “Iron House,” and keep your eyes wide open.

Author learns how to create a sympathetic killer S

ALISBURY — John Hart, raised in Salisbury, has impressed his publishers and his readers with three emotional, character driven books.

As his fourth, “Iron House,” a thriller, comes out Tuesday, he took time to talk about writing a thriller and making a killer a likable hero. (See review above).

“I knew when DEIRDRE I wrote the book, PARKER SMITH for Michael to work, there had to be a good reason for why he is the way he is. ... The life chose him because of his circumstances.”

John begins “Iron House” when Michael is a boy, living with his brother, Julian, in a horrific children’s home full of dysfunctional, angry or terrified boys. He uses it to show Michael’s selfless acts and his talent for survival — the ability to think and act quickly.

“It was very much a question in my mind,” how to justify his actions, John said. Michael is a mob assassin who’s found a glimmer of light in his future and tries to move toward it.

“I kept thinking of Johnny in ‘The Last Child,’ who barely had a way out. Michael is the one who has no way out,” John says.

“I said to Pete (Wolverton, his agent) ‘I gotta make readers like this guy.’ ” John pursues Michael’s past in flashbacks. “It never let up for Michael,” John says, where Johnny in “The Last Child” finds relief and acceptance.

Michael’s glimmer of light is Elena, his girlfriend, who seems

to fade into the background for part of the novel.

“It’s kind of the same thing with Julian ... it’s a very pointed question, ‘Whose story is this?’ and it’s Michael’s and not anyone else’s. He has to be the big thread that runs throughout.”

Elena and Julian take their leave but return. John says the book is “about family at so many levels, the mafia, the birth family, Iron House, Elena.

I felt like every piece had to be there. Part of the fun of the book was seeing how an innocent handles this revelation” that Michael is a killer. “I needed Elena for that. No one else is innocent; she’s the mother figure, the vehicle of new life ... the gateway to the future.

There needs to be a certain purity there. ... It’s kind of fun to have an innocent bystander.”

The surviving characters in “Iron House” — and there are lots of casualties — easily set the stage for a sequel. Each one has more story to tell.

“This was a bit of an experimental quest to see if I could write a character worthy of a recurring role. ... I’ve never written a tough guy, a guy with this skill set. Flawed, capable people make good recurring characters.”

John could see writing another book with the same characters if “Iron House” does well. there’s plenty of back story to explore, such as Elena’s past and who Michael’s father might be.

The book he’s working on now features Detective Hunt from “The Last Child” in something of a prequel to that story.

John likes to call his writing method grope-and-hope, letting

scenes.”

Although his killer starts his journey in New York City, John brings the story back to his home territory of North Carolina.

“There was no resistance. I hear the publishers are very happy with the setting. My problem was writing the New York scenes convincingly, but you don’t have to get too specific; it’s the same with the guns.”

Readers don’t have to know what it weighs and how many bullets it can hold, not most Author John Hart readers.

“I do shoot, I enjoy that, but I his characters take him to new didn’t do anything special for places in the story, but a thriller this” book. It’s the presence of is a little different. the gun that matters. “It’s so “The writing was harder than funny writing stuff you’ve nevI thought; it took longer. I er experienced. ... what do I thought I’d hammer out a plotknow about stone cold killers?” driven novel, which is not a lot Or lying senators? “Let me of effort, comparatively speakjust say we do draw from the ing. I tried to do more with world around us. It’s not intendmore plot, make the characters ed to be a John Edwards characdeep enough with a plot that’s ter, but it’s not too much of a just on fire, but I couldn’t turn stretch. ... I try to keep ‘politics’ back on what I enjoy — writing out of the stories.” deep, messed-up characters. It Julian, Michael’s brother, is became more difficult, there mentally ill, another unknown was so much more action, more experience. “I did some bare violence.” bones research into schizophreAbout that violence ... “One nia ... the story comes first alof my favorite ‘Last Child’ reways, over verisimilitude, over views said something like all the rest. I didn’t want to they’d never seen so many delve too deeply into it in case it deaths done in such a reasondidn’t fit the characters. I want able way.” layman’s terms to be OK — it’s Certain maniacs in the new not meant to be a textbook. book enjoy horrifying torture.

“My hope and belief is I’ll get “It had to have a lot of action. new readers and people who You can’t cringe from the place like my writing. The thriller auwhere the story takes you. ... dience is different; but there’s You can’t flinch from that. ... I still stuff there that I hope aplearned that from ‘The King of peals to people. I hope it’s perLies’ with the girl in the storm fectly balanced between a sewer (she is brutalized). It was See AUTHOR, 6D tough, same as these torture

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Memoir covers good times and bad for baby boomer

Author captures part of long-distance runner’s life

“What Can I Say? I’m a Product of the 60’s,” by Anne Stuart Welch. Author House.

150 pp. Hardback 24.95; paper $17.

“Sarah’s Long Run 11,134 she responded, “Sweat!”

Miles,” By David Burl Morris.

What followed was a Crazy Feathers Publishing. transcontinental run across 110 pp. $10.

Australia and then her record-setting run around

BY DAVID FREEZE the U.S. that concluded in For the Salisbury Post October 1988.

Morris recaps more than SALISBURY — Sarah a year’s events in just 100 Covington Fulcher currently pages, and most are filled owns the world’s record for with various media accounts the longest run as recorded and pictures. by the Guinness Book of Morris left me looking World Records. for more details, and espeFulcher ran 11,134 miles, cially an up-close accountaveraging more than 25 ing of Fulcher’s daily strugmiles a day, for 438 days. gles as she accomplished a She journeyed around the record that will probably perimeter of the United never be broken.

States, eventually traveling Author Morris is from through 34 states.

Salisbury, and said he plans She and author David to bring some of the shoes Burl Morris will be at Liter- Fulcher used in her runs, inary Bookpost on Saturday, cluding the first pair of July 16, 2:30-4 p.m., to disNikes ever made. Many of cuss and sign the book, the shoes she used were do“Sarah’s Long Run.” nated to overseas missions.

Fulcher was born in New Fulcher has been told she Jersey on St. Valentine’s will be a Ripley’s Believe It Day 1962. She suffered from or Not cartoon. congenital hip dysplasia and Both Fulcher and Morris eventually was required to will be at Literary Bookpost, wear an orthopedic splint to 110 S. Main St., Saturday, reshape her shallow hip July 16, 2:30-4 p.m. to sign sockets in order to make her their book and discuss her legs straight and normal. run.

She moved with her family to North Carolina and excelled at track and field events as a teen.

Struggling with identity issues and looking for something exciting, Fulcher dropped out of the University of North Carolina and missed her college athletic career. She joined the Marines, and after finding boot camp too easy, was honorably discharged after efforts to harness her free spirit failed. Many short-lived ventures followed while Fulcher continued to search for a meaningful existence.

When asked her favorite thing to do,

BY DEIRDRE PARKER SMITH dp1@salisburypost.com

SALISBURY— Anne Stuart Welch’s memoir, “What Can I Say? I’m a Product of the 60’s” proves that she’s been there and done that.

And she had one heck of a time along the way.

The cover covers (pardon the pun) the era — images of Vietnam, Martin Luther King Jr., Bobby and John F. Kennedy, the Beatles, a peace sign, the moon landing. And on the back is a photo of a 45 record, a piece of the past if ever there was one. It’s by her favorite group, The Tams, and it’s her theme song, “Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy.”

But, she has her serious side, too, and did a tryout with the FBI before she finished college. They didn’t hire her, but she became the first female officer of the Alcohol Beverage Control Commission.

That move earned her a place on television and in the

newspapers, not good for an undercover agent, but she forged ahead. Her nightsand-weekends schedule hanging out in illegal clubs slowed down a budding relationship, but she enjoyed her work.

Her job changed to Alcohol Law Enforcement agent, and she tells various stories of her cases, careful not to mention real names.

She struggles with the typical stereotypes and being the only female in an office, but she gives as good as she gets. After being dragged into countless topless bars by other agents, she arranges a special night for her co-workers, makes up a story about a bust, and takes them to see the Chippendale dancers.

After her father dies, she enters into an ill-fated marriage and quits her job to follow her husband. She’s miserable, and ends the marriage quickly.

A relationship with an older man results in pregnancy and an abortion. She makes friends easily and has several relationships, some of which turned out well, others badly.

Her friends are her family, and she relies on them,

entertains them, travels with them. Setbacks don’t last long and she is proud of her reputation as a tough girl.

Her travels take her overseas frequently, and she decides to move out of the U.S. permanently, first to Costa Rica, then Brazil. Unfortunately, her experiences in building a house and trying to become a permanent resident are fraught with disaster, and she finally returns to her hometown of Salisbury, with her beloved dog, Powder Puff.

Welch was born here, to Edgar and Elaine Welch. She graduated from Boyden High School before moving

on to her adventurous, full life.

The book tells much about where she went and what she did, hinting at who she really is, deep down, and the effects of the era of the 1960s.

Welch will sign her book and greet friends on Friday, July 15, 6:30-8:30 p.m. during Night Out on the Town at Literary Bookpost, 110 S. Main St.

Local author and columnist to sign latest mystery Local novelist Janet McCanless will be at Literary Bookpost on Friday, July 15, 6:30-8:30 p.m. during Night Out on the Town.

McCanless will be signing copies of her newest Beryl’s Cove mystery, “Back to Beryl’s Cove: Trainride to Homicide.” Copies of the book will be available at the signing in both hardcover and paperback, along with McCanless’ four previous mysteries.

In “Trainride to Homicide” the delightful bunch from Beryl’s Cove is back, and this time, Suzanne’s college reunion is coming up, with a train excursion from the coast all the way through the Mid-

west and to Chicago.

Instead of sightseeing and revelry, the alumni are confronted with murder most foul as Steve Thomas, with an able assist from his gorgeous wife, tries to solve the case and clear up the mystery. After meeting with an old law enforcement ally, they unravel a tangled web of deceit and intrigue that only gets more complicated the deeper they dig.

Back in Beryl’s Cove, things are not going well, ei-

ther, and once the Thomases return home, they are greeted with one crisis after another, but it’s an elderly, Indian wise woman who is able to put things in perspective for Suzanne.

On a mountain retreat, hoping to put it all behind them, Steve offers the biggest surprise of all as they confront the biggest change ever in their lives.

One surprise follows another in this, the latest chapter in the Beryl’s Cove series, as plot twist after plot twist takes the

reader on another high adventure.

A bonus section with an in-depth character study of all the Cove residents, and delicious recipes from North Carolina, follows.

As a bonus to McCanless’ in-store visitors during the book signing, attendees will find a platter of coffee cake made with a recipe from this latest Beryl’s Cove book.

BY EDWARD A. HIRST

He can’t drive his car since he owes $2,000 in parking tickets, he is behind on his taxes and hounded by creditors.

“When the lights go out it’s time to pay the bills,” Weingarten writes. Over the course of the story we learn The Great Zucchini is addicted to gambling and this is story of his struggle with his own personal flaws.

The title of the book comes from an experiment to see if rush hour commuters would recognize the talents of a world-class violinist playing for handouts. One January morning, commuters entering a D.C. subway station had no idea that the young man with the ball cap and jeans was one of the finest classical musicians in the world.

Earlier that morning Joshua Bell took a cab three blocks from his hotel to the subway entrance to protect his violin, a 1713 Stradivarius worth an estimated $3.5 million. For 45 minutes of playing he earned $32.17 in tips from just over a thousand subway passengers who passed him. Days before he played at a venue where the decent seats were $100 each.

In the Pulitzer Prize winning story “Fatal Distraction” he writes of the tragic phenomenon of parents who have

left their young children in hot cars. He explores the events through careful reconstructions to let the parents tell their stories of blame and guilt.

Computer classes: No classes are scheduled for July.

Summer Family Movie Night at Headquarters — Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., “How to Train Your Dragon”; July 26, 6:30 p.m., “Ramona and Beezus.” Part of the centennial celebration. All movies are rated G, PG or PG 13 — some movies are inappropriate for younger audiences. Children should be accompanied by an adult. Free popcorn and lemonade.

Book Bites Club — July 26, 6:30 p.m., “The Princess Bride”

by William Goldman. Book discussion groups for both adults and children are held at South Rowan Regional Library the last Tuesday of each month.

The group is open to the public and anyone is free to join at any time. There is a discussion of the book, as well as light refreshments at each meeting.

For more information please call 704-216-8229.

Children’s Program — This summer the Rowan Public Library invites kids to join the library for a summer of exciting programs and great reads with One World, Many Stories.

Weekly programs run un-

til July 28. New for this year, limited family programs at Cleveland Town Hall. Prizes are awarded for every five, 10, 15 and 20 hours read, and door prizes are given at the school-aged programs.

Program groups and times: • 12-24-month-olds: Mondays, 10:30 a.m., East Branch; Tuesdays, 11 am, Headquarters; Thursdays, 10:30 am, South Library (four-week program).

• 2-year-olds: 10:30 a.m.

Tuesdays, East Branch; Wednesdays, South Library; Thursdays, Headquarters (four-week program).

• 3- to 5-year-olds: 10:30 a.m. Mondays, South Library; Wednesdays, Headquarters; Thursdays, East Branch (seven-week program).

• Rising first through fifth graders: Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m., South Library; Wednesdays, 2 p.m., Headquarters; Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m., East Branch; Thursdays, 10:30 a.m., Cleveland Town Hall, select programs only; (seven-week program).

July 11-14 (Cleveland included): Criss Cross Mangosauce, Bilingual Extravaganza.

are happy.”

He’s hoping “Iron House” will be a boost for his previous books, “The King of FROM 5D Lies,” “Down River” and “The Last Child.” thriller and character driv“The Last Child” did “so en. My publishers, my editor well in trade paperback. It’s thinks it will (be appealing). in the national Costco, WalEarly indication is good, it’s mart, Target, the first time gotten lots of starred rein those chains. Target will views, from Library Journal, have all four books on its Booklist” and more. shelves next week. I owe it “I was very satisfied with to ‘Last Child’ and the pub(the book) and I didn’t exlisher who decided to put pect to be. I sent it to New me out in trade paperback.

York thinking I have not de- The first two are doing livered; I expected disapvery well, too. With mass pointment, but they said it market (paperbacks), then was the best one yet. You get it’s gone in a month. But so close to what you’re dowe’ve hit over 400,000 in ing. trade paperback on “The “I’m very happy others Last Child.”

“Iron House,” which has already had three print runs, may go back to print this week, John says. “Indie Next (representing independent book stores) lists it as a No. 1 pick for August — that’s a big deal. The publishers made hay of that.” Other picks have included “Unbroken,” “The Passage” and “Room.”

“I don’t want to be disappointed by expecting too much, but it is encouraging.”

“Trade paperback is very encouraging; you can’t put just anything in trade, like Grisham, he just doesn’t sell very well in trade; but it keeps you front row center.”

For the first time, John Hart’s name is bigger than

the title of his book.

“I was having dinner with Michael Connelly in Concord, of all places, and he sent me (a photo) of the jacket and he said, ‘They’re branding you now. Look at your name.’

It’s a new type font, bigger. If you put all four in a row and look at it you can see the progression.”

John says he’s looked at what other young writers are doing and “not a lot of us are doing better book after book.

“A lot of writers think they’re as good as their last book — I say you’re as good as your next book; there are too many hungry people out there.”

Literary Bookpost is at 110 S. Main St., downtown Salisbury. For additional information about this event, call 704- 630-9788 or visit www.literarybookpost.com.

Writer to sign books, Check out Gene Weingarten’s collection of stories teach class on dialogue Rowan Public Library

Gene Weingarten is a twotime Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist known for both his serious and humorous work.

A former editor, he now writes “Below the Beltway,” a weekly humor column for the Washington Post that is nationally syndicated.

In 2010, he published a collection of 20 of his best feature stories that originally appeared in the Washington Post. The book is titled “The Fiddler in Subway: The True Story of What Happened When a World-class Violinist Played for Handouts.” He has the ability to simply tell each story as he sees it from his perspective.

Many of the topics don’t sound funny, such as living with terrorism in Jerusalem or life in a remote Alaskan village plagued by alcoholism and suicide.

The book begins with the story of The Great Zucchini, one of the most popular entertainers of preschool age children in the Washington, D.C. area. Eric Knaus, as The Great Zucchini, makes an annual income of $100,000 working two days a week, yet he has no idea where his money goes.

AUTHOR

SALISBURY — Awardwinning author, editor and teacher Valerie Nieman will visit the Literary Bookpost on Saturday, July 16, for a meetand-greet followed by a special writing workshop on dialogue.

Nieman’s latest novel, “Blood Clay,” is a story that readers say they “can’t put down,” a crime drama that reflects on home, race and the cost of truth-telling, and a lyrical look into the changing face of the New South.

“Val Nieman has written what is destined to become a classic novel of Southern life,” said author Elizabeth Stuckey-French.

“Blood Clay” centers on Tracey Gaines, who has moved to rural Saul County, N.C., to escape the wreckage of a divorce, becoming a teacher at an alternative school. She devotes herself to renovating an old farmhouse but finds she can’t as easily build connections in this new place.

When a tragic event and her solitary testimony divide the community, she finds an ally in Dave Fordham— a native son who struck out for new opportunities, only to face his own trauma and a forced return home.

Nieman will read from and discuss her novel from noon until 2 p.m. Following the meet-and-greet, a writing workshop will be offered from 2-4 p.m. The workshop is limited to 15 writers, and the $50 fee includes a personally inscribed copy of Blood Clay.

“Dialogue is one of the knottiest craft issues for writers,” Nieman commented. “We’ll look at strategies to make your dialogue work on every level — advancing the plot, illuminating character, shaping the

reader’s understanding of time and place, adding humor and drama. Participants may bring selections from their work-in-progress for critiquing and revision. We’ll write through an exercise, and I’ll provide a packet of additional handouts and exercises for continued writing.”

Nieman is the author of a collection of short stories, “Fidelities”; a poetry collection, “Wake Wake Wake,” and two earlier novels. She has received an NEA creative writing fellowship and the Greg Grummer Prize in poetry, among other awards.

A graduate of West Virginia University and the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, Nieman teaches writing at N.C. A&T State University in Greensboro, as well as workshops for the North Carolina Writers Network and the John C. Campbell Folk School. She is the poetry editor for Prime Number magazine.

For more information or to register for the workshop, contact the Literary Bookpost at 704-630-9788 or by email at mail@literarybookpost.com.

Literary Bookpost is at 110 S. Main St., downtown Salisbury.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE Saturday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 5, tampa Bay 4 chicago White sox 4, Minnesota 3 toronto 5, cleveland 4, 10 innings Boston 4, Baltimore 0 Kansas city 13, detroit 6 texas 7, oakland 6 L.a. angels 9, seattle 3 Sunday’s Games tampa Bay (shields 8-6) at N.Y. Yankees (sabathia 12-4), 1:05 p.m. toronto (cecil 1-4) at cleveland (c.carrasco 8-5), 1:05 p.m.

Baltimore (atkins 0-0) at Boston (Weiland 0-0), 1:35 p.m. detroit (Verlander 11-4) at Kansas city (Francis 3-9), 2:10 p.m.

Minnesota (swarzak 1-2) at chicago White sox (peavy 4-2), 2:10 p.m. oakland (cahill 8-6) at texas (M.Harrison 6-7), 3:05 p.m. seattle (F.Hernandez 8-7) at L.a. angels (Haren 9-5), 3:35 p.m.

Monday’s Games No games scheduled Tuesday’s Games all-star Game at phoenix, aZ, 8:05 p.m.

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Associated Press LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers got their first hit with two outs in the ninth inning and still beat the San Diego Padres 1-0 when Dioner Navarro singled in Juan Uribe for the unlikely victory.

Uribe was down to his last strike when he drove a pitch from Luke Gregerson (22) over the head of left fielder Chris Denorfia for Los Angeles’ first hit and only the second hit of the game for either team. The Padres have never had a no-hitter in their 43-year history.

Navarro then looped a 3-1 pitch into short right-center to give the Dodgers three consecutive shutout victories for the first time since July 1991. Los Angeles has won nine of its last 19 games, and seven of those victories have been shutouts — including the last five.

Aaron Harang started for San Diego and worked six innings, finishing with six strikeouts and three walks. Josh Spence came on and struck out his only batter, Andre Ethier, before Chad Qualls escaped a jam to keep the game scoreless.

Braves 4, Phillies 1, 11 innings PHILADELPHIA — Alex Gonzalez hit the go-ahead RBI single and Brian McCann added a two-run homer in the 11th to lift the Atlanta Braves over the Philadelphia Phillies.

It was the second straight extra-inning game for the teams, following Philadelphia’s 3-2 victory in 10 innings Friday.

The Braves (54-37) have won 10 of 12, and closed the Phillies’ lead in the NL East to 21/2 games. Philadelphia (56-34) remains one win shy of tying the club record for victories in the first half.

Philadelphia starter Cliff Lee accounted for the Phillies’ only run with his first career homer off Tommy Hanson, but both pitchers were gone by the time this one ended.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Saturday’s Games atlanta 4, philadelphia 1, 11 innings L.a. dodgers 1, san diego 0 chicago cubs 6, pittsburgh 3 colorado 2, Washington 1 cincinnati 8, Milwaukee 4, 10 innings Florida 6, Houston 1 st. Louis 7, arizona 6 san Francisco 3, N.Y. Mets 1 Sunday’s Games Houston (W.rodriguez 6-5) at Florida (Volstad 4-8), 1:10 p.m. atlanta (d.Lowe 5-6) at philadelphia (Hamels 10-4), 1:35 p.m. chicago cubs (r.ortiz 0-1) at pittsburgh (Maholm 5-9), 1:35 p.m. colorado (chacin 8-6) at Washington (Zimmermann 5-7), 1:35 p.m. cincinnati (Willis 0-0) at Milwaukee (Wolf 6-6), 2:10 p.m. arizona (duke 2-3) at st. Louis (J.Garcia 8-3), 2:15 p.m. san diego (stauffer 5-5) at L.a. dodgers (Lilly 5-9), 4:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (pelfrey 5-7) at san Francisco (cain 7-5), 8:05 p.m.

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Funeral set for Rangers fan

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san diego second baseman orlando Hudson flips the ball to first in time to retire rafael Furcal of the Los angeles dodgers.

Cubs 6, Pirates 3 PITTSBURGH — Ryan Dempster won for the first time in five starts despite arguing with manager Mike Quade after he was lifted after five innings, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Rockies 2, Nationals 1 WASHINGTON — Ubaldo Jimenez allowed one run in eight innings and Todd Helton homered, doubled and drove in both runs as the Colorado Rockies beat the Washington Nationals.

Marlins 6, Astros 1 MIAMI — Ricky Nolasco tossed a seven-hitter for his sixth career complete game, Logan Morrison hit a bases-loaded triple in Florida’s four-run fifth inning and the Marlins beat the Houston Astros.

Reds 8, Brewers 4, 10 innings MILWAUKEE — Jay Bruce hit a solo homer to start the 10th inning and Cincinnati exploded for five runs to beat the Milwaukee Brewers after the Reds met before the game to clear the air following more than a week of frustration.

Cardinals 7, Diamondbacks 6 ST. LOUIS — Albert Pujols tied it in the eighth inning with his first home run since returning the disabled list and rookie pinchhitter Tony Cruz hit a game-ending RBI double in the ninth.

Giants 3, Mets 1 SAN FRANCISCO — Tim Lincecum labored through six innings to win for the second time in his past eight starts and Pablo Sandoval had two hits.

Hamilton lifts Rangers to walk-off win

Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas — When a fan fell out of the club level of seats at Rangers Ballpark while trying to catch a foul ball last July, the team immediately assessed the railings around the stadium. In the wake of an eerily similar fall a year and a day later, this one fatal, the Rangers are again facing questions about safety at the stadium and evaluating what they can do.

Funeral services will be held Monday for Shannon Stone, a Brownwood firefighter who died less than an hour after he tumbled headfirst over a rail out of the seats in left field during a game Thursday night. He fell about 20 feet onto concrete behind the outfield wall.

The Rangers have already been in contact with city officials, as well as ballpark contractors and architects, about how to ensure safety for fans attending games.

Associated Press — ARLINGTON, Texas Josh Hamilton hit a game-ending, two-run homer and the Texas Rangers beat the Oakland Athletics 7-6 on Saturday night to extend their winning streak to six games.

Hamilton connected on a 2-0 pitch from closer Andrew Bailey (0-2) with two outs in the ninth, sending a long drive into the second deck in right field. It was Hamilton’s fourth hit of the

game, and his 11th homer of the season.

The winning homer comes during an emotional stretch for Hamilton, who two nights earlier tossed a ball into the stands toward a Brownwood firefighter who tumbled over the rail and fell about 20 feet to concrete below. The man died less than an hour after the fall.

Blue Jays 5, Indians 4 — Jose CLEVELAND Bautista led off the 10th inning with his second homer of the

game, lifting the Blue Jays to the victory.

White Sox 4, Twins 3 — Alexei CHICAGO Ramirez hit a game-ending RBI single with two out in the ninth inning, sending Chicago to its first win over the Twins in seven meetings this season.

The White Sox also ended a nine-game losing streak to Minnesota dating to last season.

Red Sox 4, Orioles 0 BOSTON— John Lackey rebounded from the worst start of

his Red Sox career with 6 2⁄3 shutout innings and Boston extended its winning streak to five games.

Royals 13, Tigers 6 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Alex Gordon belted a three-run homer and Kansas City roughed up Charlie Furbush, then weathered Luke Hochevar’s struggles to get the win.

Alcides Escobar drove in three runs and scored three times for the Royals, who led 92 after three innings.

S AT U R D AY ’ S B O X S C O R E S American Yankees 5, Rays 4 Tampa Bay New York ab r h bi ab r h bi damon dh 4 1 1 0 Jeter ss 5 2 5 2 Zobrist rf 3 1 1 1 Grndrs cf 4 2 1 1 Longori 3b4 0 0 0 teixeir 1b 3 0 2 0 Ktchm 1b 3 0 0 0 cano 2b 2 0 0 1 BUpton cf 3 1 1 2 Martin c 2 0 1 1 Joyce lf-rf 4 1 2 1 posada dh 4 0 0 0 srdrgz 2b 4 0 0 0 anJons rf 3 0 0 0 Jaso c 1 0 0 0 eNunez 3b 4 1 1 0 shppch c 2 0 0 0 Gardnr lf 2 0 0 0 Brignc ss 1 0 0 0 ruggin lf 2 0 0 0 29 5 10 5 Totals 31 4 5 4 Totals Tampa Bay 010 200 010—4 New York 002 020 01x—5 dp—tampa Bay 3. Lob—tampa Bay 5, New York 9. 2b—Jeter (13), e.nunez (8). 3b—damon (4).

Hr—B.upton (15), Joyce (12), Jeter (3). sb—Zobrist 2 (10), B.upton (21), Joyce (5), Jeter (8), Gardner (23). cs—Jeter (3). s—Brignac, Gardner. sf— cano.

IP H R ER BB SO Tampa Bay price 5 7 4 4 3 3 2 ⁄3 1 0 0 1 0 B.Gomes 1 0 0 0 2 1 Howell 2 1 1 0 1 Jo.peralta L,2-4 11⁄3 New York 52⁄3 3 3 3 3 9 a.J.Burnett 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Logan H,4 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Wade H,3 2 1 1 1 1 robertson W,2-0 1 rivera s,22-26 1 0 0 0 0 1 HBp—by price (cano). t—3:09. a—48,103 (50,291).

Red Sox 4, Orioles 0 Baltimore Boston ab r h bi ab r h bi Hardy ss 4 0 1 0 ellsury cf 4 0 3 0 Markks rf 3 0 1 0 pedroia 2b 3 2 1 0 adJons cf 3 0 0 0 adGnzl 1b 3 1 0 0 Guerrr dh 4 0 0 0 Youkils 3b 4 1 3 2 Wieters c 4 0 1 0 d.ortiz dh 3 0 1 0 d.Lee 1b 3 0 1 0 reddck lf 4 0 2 2 Mrrynl 3b 3 0 0 0 sltlmch c 4 0 0 0 reimld lf 3 0 0 0 J.drew rf 4 0 0 0 andino 2b 3 0 0 0 scutaro ss 4 0 0 0 Totals 30 0 4 0 Totals 33 4 10 4 Baltimore 000 000 000—0 Boston 000 030 10x—4 e—d.lee (5). dp—Baltimore 2, Boston 1. Lob— Baltimore 6, Boston 8. 2b—ellsbury (26), pedroia (18), Youkilis 2 (26), reddick (5). 3b—ellsbury (2). sb—Markakis (8). cs—ad.jones (1).

IP H R ER BB SO Baltimore 2 7 3 3 3 1 simon L,1-2 4 ⁄3 3 1 1 0 1 Hendrickson 21⁄3 Ji.Johnson 1 0 0 0 0 0 Boston 2 3 0 0 1 7 Lackey W,6-8 6 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 2 d.bard H,20 11⁄3 papelbon 1 0 0 0 0 1 HBp—by Lackey (Markakis, d.Lee). Wp—Lackey 2. Balk—simon. t—2:48. a—38,205 (37,493).

White Sox 4, Twins 3 Minnesota ab revere cf 3 acasill 2b 3 Mauer c 4 cuddyr rf 3 thome dh 4 Valenci 3b 4 LHughs 1b3 Nishiok ss 3 repko lf 2

Chicago h bi ab r h bi 0 1 pierre lf 3 2 1 0 2 2 alrmrz ss 4 1 3 2 0 0 Konerk 1b 2 0 0 1 0 0 Vizquel 3b 0 0 0 0 0 0 a.dunn dh 4 0 0 0 0 0 Quentin rf 4 0 1 1 0 0 rios cf 4 0 0 0 1 0 rcastr c 2 0 1 0 1 0 przyns c 1 1 1 0 Bckhm 2b 4 0 1 0 Morel 3b 3 0 0 0 teahen 1b 1 0 0 0 Totals 29 3 4 3 Totals 32 4 8 4 Minnesota 002 000 010—3 Chicago 100 001 011—4 two outs when winning run scored. e—Morel (7). Lob—Minnesota 3, chicago 8.

2b—a.casilla (14), r.castro (3), pierzynski (15), Beckham (10). Hr—al.ramirez (9). s—revere, repko, al.ramirez. sf—a.casilla, Konerko.

IP H R ER BB SO r 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1

Minnesota duensing 7 5 2 2 1 2 2 ⁄3 0 1 1 1 0 perkins H,11 1 0 0 0 0 Nathan Bs,3-6 1⁄3 2 ⁄3 1 1 1 1 0 Mijares L,0-1 0 1 0 0 0 0 al.Burnett Chicago Buehrle 8 4 3 0 1 8 1 0 0 0 0 1 crain W,5-2 al.Burnett pitched to 1 batter in the 9th.

HBp—by perkins (pierre). pB—r.castro. t—2:36. a—30,055 (40,615).

Blue Jays 5, Indians 4 (10) Toronto

Cleveland ab r h bi ab r h bi Yescor ss 4 0 0 0 Brantly lf 5 0 0 0 ethms rf 4 2 1 0 acarer ss 4 0 1 0 cpttrsn rf 0 0 0 0 Hafner dh 4 0 1 0 Bautist 3b 4 2 2 2 Kearns dh 0 1 0 0 Lind 1b 5 0 3 1 csantn c 2 2 0 0 a.Hill 2b 5 0 0 0 Gsizmr cf 4 1 2 2 encrnc dh 4 0 0 0 t.Buck rf 4 0 1 1 Mccoy dh1 0 1 0 Laport 1b 3 0 0 1 snider lf 5 1 1 0 Valuen 2b 4 0 0 0 JMolin c 4 0 2 1 Hannhn 3b 4 0 0 0 rdavis cf 4 0 0 0 Totals 40 510 4 Totals 34 4 5 4 Toronto 101 110 000 1—5 Cleveland 010 200 001 0—4 e—t.buck (1). Lob—toronto 8, cleveland 3. 2b— e.thames (6), J.molina 2 (9), t.buck (10). Hr— Bautista 2 (31), G.sizemore (9). sb—Mccoy (3). sf—Laporta.

H R ER BB SO IP Toronto Morrow 8 3 3 3 2 8 1 2 1 1 0 0 rauch W,3-3 camp s,1-2 1 0 0 0 0 0 Cleveland 6 7 4 3 1 2 tomlin J.smith 1 0 0 0 0 0 r.perez 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 Masterson c.perez L,2-4 1 2 1 1 0 1 HBp—by tomlin (e.thames). Wp—Morrow. t—2:59. a—27,661 (43,441).

Royals 13, Tigers 6 Detroit

Kansas City h bi ab r h bi 1 0 Getz 2b 4 2 2 1 1 1 Mecarr cf 4 2 2 2 3 2 aGordn lf 4 1 2 3 1 1 Butler dh 5 1 3 2 1 1 Hosmer 1b 5 0 0 1 1 0 Francr rf 4 1 0 0 1 0 Maier rf 1 0 0 0 2 0 Betemt 3b 4 2 1 0 1 0 treanr c 2 1 1 1 aescor ss 3 3 1 3 Totals 38 612 5 Totals 3613 1213 Detroit 002 400 000—6 Kansas City 135 013 00x—13 e—r.santiago (2), raburn (9), a.escobar (8). dp—Kansas city 1. Lob—detroit 8, Kansas city 6.

2b—V.martinez (22), avila (18), raburn 2 (14). 3b— a.escobar (4). Hr—a.gordon (11). sb—Getz (16), treanor (2), a.escobar (14). sf—treanor.

IP H R ER BB SO Detroit 2 9 9 4 2 2 Furbush L,1-3 2 ⁄3 2 2 1 2 2 Wilk 22⁄3 1 2 0 1 1 perry 12⁄3 oliveros 1 0 0 0 0 0 Kansas City 2 9 6 6 3 4 Hochevar 3 ⁄3 2 0 0 0 2 GHlland W,3-1 21⁄3 teaford s,1-1 3 1 0 0 0 2 HBp—by Furbush (a.Gordon). Wp—perry, G.Holland. t—3:24. a—25,941 (37,903). ab dirks lf 5 rsantg ss 5 Boesch rf 5 Micarr 1b 4 VMrtnz dh 4 Kelly 3b 4 avila c 4 rburn 2b 3 c.Wells cf 4

r 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 0

Rangers 7, Athletics 6 Oakland ab JWks 2b 5 crisp cf 4 Matsui lf 1 sweeny lf 0 Wlngh dh 4 ssizmr 3b 4 deJess rf 3 carter 1b 3 cJcksn 1b 1 powell c 4 pnngtn ss 4 Totals 33

r 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 6

Texas h bi ab 1 1 Kinsler 2b 5 1 1 andrus ss 4 0 1 JHmltn lf 5 0 0 aBeltre dh 4 2 1 MiYong 3b 4 0 1 N.cruz rf 4 0 0 Morlnd 1b 4 0 0 torreal c 4 1 0 enchvz cf 4 1 0 1 1 7 6 Totals 38

r 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1

h bi 1 1 2 1 4 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 0

7 13 7

Oakland 040 010 100—6 010 040 002—7 Texas two outs when winning run scored. e—J.weeks (4), torrealba (7). Lob—oakland 5, texas 6. 2b—c.jackson (10), Kinsler (21), J.hamilton 2 (15), torrealba (15). Hr—crisp (4), Willingham (11), J.hamilton (11), a.beltre (18). cs—Matsui (1). sf—andrus.

IP H R ER BB SO Oakland 6 9 5 5 0 4 Mccarthy devine H,7 1 2 0 0 0 0 Balfour H,14 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 ⁄3 2 2 2 0 0 a.bailey L,0-2 Texas c.Lewis 6 5 5 4 3 9 1 1 1 1 0 11⁄3 tom.Hunter 1 0 0 0 1 d.oliver W,2-5 12⁄3 t—2:43. a—34,066 (49,170).

Angels 9, Mariners 3 Seattle

Los Angeles ab r h bi ab r h bi isuzuki rf 5 1 2 0 Mizturs 3b 4 2 1 1 ryan ss 5 1 1 0 trHntr rf 5 2 3 5 ackley 2b 5 1 2 1 abreu dh 4 0 0 0 olivo c 5 0 2 2 V.Wells lf 5 0 2 1 aKndy 1b 4 0 1 0 HKndrc 2b 4 0 1 0 smoak dh 4 0 0 0 aybar ss 4 0 1 0 seager 3b 4 0 0 0 trumo 1b 4 2 2 1 Halmn cf 4 0 2 0 conger c 3 1 1 0 peguer lf 4 0 2 0 trout cf 3 2 1 0 Totals 40 312 3 Totals 36 9 12 8 Seattle 000 120 000—3 Los Angeles 004 030 11x—9 e—pineda (1), aybar (6). Lob—seattle 11, Los angeles 7. 2b—ackley (2), olivo (9), M.izturis (20).

Hr—tor.hunter 2 (11), trumbo (16). sb—Halman (5).

IP H R ER BB SO Seattle 5 6 7 7 2 7 pineda L,8-6 Gray 2 3 1 1 1 0 ray 1 3 1 1 1 0 Los Angeles pineiro W,5-3 7 10 3 3 1 7 takahashi 1 2 0 0 0 0 cassevah 1 0 0 0 0 1 Wp—ray. t—2:44. a—44,111 (45,389).

National Cubs 6, Pirates 3 Chicago

Pittsburgh h bi ab r h bi 2 1 presley lf 4 1 2 0 3 1 darnad ss 5 0 1 0 2 0 Walker 2b 3 0 1 1 2 1 aMcct cf 3 0 0 0 1 1 overay 1b 2 0 0 0 2 1 Leroux p 0 0 0 0 0 0 paul ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 dMcct p 0 0 0 0 2 0 BrWod ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 Moskos p 0 0 0 0 0 0 Fryer c 0 0 0 0 0 0 GJones 1b 3 1 0 0 0 0 JHrrsn 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 McKnr c 4 1 2 0 0 0 Watson p 0 0 0 0 correia p 1 0 0 0 diaz rf 3 0 2 2 Totals 37 614 5 Totals 34 3 8 3 Chicago 211 100 001—6 Pittsburgh 001 200 000—3 e—s.castro (17). dp—chicago 1, pittsburgh 1.

Lob—chicago 8, pittsburgh 8. 2b—Fukudome (14), s.castro (24), presley (2), Mckenry (3), diaz 2 (10).

3b—presley (3). s—dempster 2. sf—c.pena.

IP H R ER BB SO Chicago dempster W,6-6 5 7 3 3 3 4 samardzija H,4 2 1 0 0 0 1 K.wood H,11 1 0 0 0 0 1 Marmol s,19-25 1 0 0 0 1 0 Pittsburgh 9 5 5 1 2 correia L,11-7 32⁄3 2 0 0 0 3 Leroux 11⁄3 d.Mccutchen 2 1 0 0 0 2 Moskos 1 2 1 1 0 0 Watson 1 0 0 0 0 1 Moskos pitched to 2 batters in the 9th.

Wp—correia. t—3:03. a—39,235 (38,362).

ab Fukdm rf 4 castro ss 5 arrmr 3b 5 c.pena 1b4 Byrd cf 5 asorin lf 4 rJhnsn lf 0 K.Hill c 4 Barney 2b 4 dmpstr p 0 campn ph 1 smrdzj p 0 JeBakr ph 1 K.Wood p 0 Marml p 0

r 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0

Dodgers 1, Padres 0

San Diego Los Angeles ab r h bi ab r h bi Venale rf 3 0 0 0 GwynJ lf 3 0 0 0 Bartlett ss 4 0 0 0 Furcal ss 4 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 oHdsn 2b 4 0 0 0 ethier rf Headly 3b 2 0 0 0 Kemp cf 3 0 0 0 denorfi lf 3 0 0 0 Loney 1b 3 0 0 0 Maybin cf 3 0 1 0 Uribe 3b 4 1 1 0 rizzo 1b 3 0 0 0 dNavrr c 4 0 1 1 rJhnsn c 3 0 0 0 carroll 2b 2 0 0 0 Harang p 2 0 0 0 rdLrs p 1 0 0 0 spence p 0 0 0 0 Velez ph 1 0 0 0 Qualls p 0 0 0 0 Guerrir p 0 0 0 0 Kphlps ph 1 0 0 0 Macdgl p 0 0 0 0 Madms p 0 0 0 0 oeltjen ph 0 0 0 0 Grgrsn p 0 0 0 0 Hwksw p 0 0 0 0 28 1 2 1 Totals 28 0 1 0 Totals San Diego 000 000 000—0 Los Angeles 000 000 001—1 two outs when winning run scored. e—Bartlett (15), Headley (10). Lob—san diego 5, Los angeles 7. 2b—Uribe (12). cs—Gwynn Jr. (3). s—oeltjen.

IP H R ER BB SO San Diego Harang 6 0 0 0 3 6 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 spence 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 Qualls M.adams 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 1 Gregerson L,2-2 2⁄3 Los Angeles r.de La rosa 6 1 0 0 4 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 Guerrier Macdougal 1 0 0 0 0 1 Hwkswrth W,2-2 1 0 0 0 0 1 Wp—r.de La rosa. t—2:49. a—29,744 (56,000).

Giants 3, Mets 1 San Francisco New York ab r h bi ab r h bi pagan cf 4 0 0 0 rownd cf 4 1 2 0 turner 2b 4 0 1 0 Mtejad 2b 4 1 1 0 Beltran rf 2 1 1 0 JaLopz p 0 0 0 0 dnMrp 3b 4 0 1 1 romo p 0 0 0 0 Bay lf 4 0 0 0 psndvl 3b 4 1 2 1 duda 1b 3 0 0 0 Burrell lf 2 0 0 0 evans ph 1 0 0 0 torres cf 1 0 0 0 thole c 2 0 1 0 schrhlt rf 4 0 1 1 rpauln ph 1 0 0 0 Huff 1b 3 0 0 1 rtejad ss 2 0 0 0 cstwrt c 2 0 0 0 capuan p 2 0 0 0 Bcrwfr ss 4 0 0 0 Harris ph 1 0 0 0 Linccm p 1 0 0 0 parnell p 0 0 0 0 scasill p 0 0 0 0 Byrdak p 0 0 0 0 Burriss ph-2b 1 0 0 0 Hairstn ph 1 0 0 0 Totals 31 1 4 1 Totals 30 3 6 3 New York 100 000 000—1 San Fran 200 000 10x—3 e—B.crawford (5). dp—san Francisco 1. Lob— New York 8, san Francisco 8. 2b—turner (14), Beltran (28), dan.murphy (18), thole (10), p.sandoval (14).

IP H R ER BB SO New York capuano L,8-8 6 4 2 2 4 5 parnell 1 2 1 1 0 1 Byrdak 1 0 0 0 1 0 San Francisco Lincecum W,7-7 6 4 1 1 4 6 s.casilla H,3 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 2 Ja.lopez H,14 1 ⁄3 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 romo s,1-2 t—2:41. a—42,117 (41,915).

Braves 4, Phillies 1 (11) Atlanta

Philadelphia ab r h bi ab r h bi schafer cf 4 0 1 0 rollins ss 4 0 0 0 alGzlz ss 5 1 2 1 Mayrry cf 5 0 1 0 Mccnn c 5 1 1 2 Utley 2b 4 0 0 0 Fremn 1b 5 0 0 0 Howard 1b 5 0 0 0 Uggla 2b 5 1 1 1 ibanez lf 5 0 1 0 Heywrd rf 3 0 0 0 ruiz c 4 0 1 0 Lugo 3b 3 0 0 0 dBrwn rf 4 0 0 0 McLoth lf 4 0 0 0 WValdz 3b 4 0 1 0 Hanson p 2 0 0 0 cl.Lee p 2 1 1 1 Hicks ph 1 0 0 0 BFrncs ph 1 0 0 0 Venters p 0 0 0 0 Bastrd p 0 0 0 0 oFlhrt p 0 0 0 0 J.perez p 0 0 0 0 sherrill p 0 0 0 0 Mrtnz ph 1 0 1 0 Hinske ph 0 0 0 0 stutes p 0 0 0 0 Wrmrz pr 0 1 0 0 Kimrel p 0 0 0 0 Totals 37 4 5 4 Totals 39 1 6 1 Atlanta 000 010 000 03—4 Philadelphia 001 000 000 00—1

e—cl.lee (1). Lob—atlanta 4, philadelphia 7.

2b—Mayberry (6). Hr—Mccann (15), Uggla (15), cl.lee (1). s—schafer.

IP H R ER BB SO Atlanta 7 4 1 1 1 6 Hanson Venters 1 0 0 0 0 1 o’Flaherty 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 1 1 sherrill W,2-1 Kimbrel s,28-33 1 0 0 0 0 0 Philadelphia 8 3 1 1 2 9 cl.Lee Bastardo 1 0 0 0 0 2 J.perez 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 3 3 1 1 stutes L,3-1 t—3:15. a—45,637 (43,651).

Marlins 6, Astros 1 Florida ab r h bi ab r h bi Bourn cf 3 0 1 0 Bonifac 3b 3 2 1 0 Kppngr 2b 4 0 0 0 infante 2b 4 1 0 0 pence rf 4 0 0 0 Gsnchz 1b 2 1 1 0 ca.Lee lf 4 0 1 0 Hrmrz ss 3 1 0 2 Wallac 1b 4 0 0 0 Morrsn lf 4 0 3 3 Jhnsn 3b 4 1 2 0 Wise lf 0 0 0 0 Barmes ss2 0 1 0 stanton rf 4 0 0 0 WLopez p 0 0 0 0 camrn cf 3 0 0 0 Bogsvc ph 1 0 1 1 J.Buck c 4 1 2 1 delrsr p 0 0 0 0 Nolasco p 4 0 0 0 anrdrg p 0 0 0 0 Quinter c 3 0 0 0 Myers p 1 0 1 0 angsnc ss2 0 0 0 Totals 32 1 7 1 Totals 31 6 7 6 Houston 000 000 100—1 Florida 110 040 00x—6 e—Barmes (4). dp—Houston 1, Florida 2. Lob— Houston 5, Florida 6. 2b—ca.lee (24), Bogusevic (1), Myers (1), Morrison (18). 3b—Morrison (2).

Hr—J.buck (10). sb—Bonifacio (13).

IP H R ER BB SO Houston 41⁄3 4 6 5 4 4 Myers L,3-9 1 0 0 0 0 W.Lopez 12⁄3 del rosario 1 2 0 0 0 0 an.rodriguez 1 0 0 0 0 1 Florida Nolasco W,6-5 9 7 1 1 1 8 HBp—by Myers (G.sanchez). Wp—Nolasco. t—2:29. a—20,402 (38,560).

Houston

Rockies 2, Nationals 1 Colorado ab splrghs cf 4 M.ellis 2b 4 Helton 1b 3 tlwtzk ss 3 s.smith rf 4 Wggntn lf 4 cGnzlz cf 0 istewrt 3b 2 iannett c 3 Jimenz p 3 street p 0

Washington h bi ab r h bi 2 0 Berndn cf 4 0 1 0 1 0 espinos 2b 4 0 0 0 2 2 Zmrmn 3b 4 0 1 0 1 0 L.Nix lf 4 0 1 0 0 0 Morse 1b 4 0 2 0 0 0 Werth rf 3 0 0 0 0 0 Flores c 3 0 0 0 0 0 dsmnd ss 3 1 2 0 0 0 Marqus p 1 0 0 0 0 0 ankiel ph 1 0 0 1 0 0 detwilr p 0 0 0 0 stairs ph 1 0 0 0 coffey p 0 0 0 0 Totals 30 2 6 2 Totals 32 1 7 1 Colorado 000 110 000—2 Washington 000 001 000—1 dp—colorado 2, Washington 2. Lob—colorado 6, Washington 5. 2b—M.ellis (5), Helton (17). 3b— desmond (3). Hr—Helton (10).

IP H R ER BB SO Colorado Jimenez W,4-8 8 5 1 1 1 8 street s,26-28 1 2 0 0 0 1 Washington Marquis L,7-4 6 5 2 2 4 1 detwiler 2 1 0 0 1 1 coffey 1 0 0 0 0 0 Wp—Marquis. t—2:38. a—29,441 (41,506). r 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Cardinals 7, Diamondbacks 6 Arizona ab KJhnsn 2b4 s.drew ss 5 J.Upton rf 4 cYoung cf 4 Monter c 5 Brrghs 3b 2 rrorts 3b 1 Blmqst lf 3 Mirand 1b 3 Brazon p 0

r 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 0

St. Louis h bi ab 1 1 theriot ss 5 0 0 Freese 3b 5 2 0 pujols 1b 4 2 1 Hollidy lf 5 2 0 Brkmn rf 3 0 0 rasms cf 5 1 1 YMolin c 4 1 0 crpntr p 2 0 0 punto ph 0 0 0 MBggs p 0

r 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0

h bi 1 0 0 0 3 3 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0

patersn p dHdsn p demel p Nady 1b

0 2 0 1

0 0 0 0

0 2 0 0

0 tMiller p 0 0 0 0 2 Motte p 0 0 0 0 0 Lynn p 0 0 0 0 0 Jay ph 1 1 1 0 salas p 0 0 0 0 t.cruz ph 1 0 1 1 schmkr 2b 4 1 3 1 Totals 34 6 11 5 Totals 39 7 15 5 Arizona 031 001 100—6 St. Louis 100 002 031—7 one out when winning run scored. e—Burroughs (1), c.young (2), J.upton (8), rasmus (3). dp—arizona 1, st. Louis 2. Lob—arizona 8, st. Louis 12. 2b—K.johnson (17), J.upton (23), c.young (25), Y.molina (18), c.carpenter (2), t.cruz (5), schumaker (11). Hr—pujols (18). sb—c.young (12). s—Burroughs, d.hudson.

H R ER BB SO IP Arizona d.Hudson 5 8 3 2 3 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 demel H,5 Brazoban Bs,1-1 2 4 3 3 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 0 paterson L,0-3 ⁄3 St. Louis c.carpenter 6 9 5 4 4 3 M.Boggs 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 t.Miller 2 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 Motte Lynn 1 0 0 0 0 1 salas W,5-2 1 0 0 0 0 1 M.Boggs pitched to 2 batters in the 7th. d.Hudson pitched to 3 batters in the 6th.

HBp—by M.Boggs (c.Young). Wp—d.Hudson. pB—Y.Molina. t—3:16. a—42,745 (43,975).

Reds 8, Brewers 4, 10 innings, Milwaukee h bi ab r h bi 0 0 rWeks 2b 5 1 2 0 2 0 Morgan cf 5 0 1 0 0 0 c.Hart rf 4 1 1 1 1 1 Fielder 1b 3 0 0 0 0 0 Kotsay lf 4 0 1 1 3 1 estrad p 0 0 0 0 1 1 McGeh 3b 2 0 1 0 3 1 JoWilsn lf 1 1 1 0 1 0 YBtncr ss 5 1 2 1 1 1 Lucroy c 5 0 1 0 0 0 Marcm p 1 0 0 1 0 0 Gamel ph 1 0 0 0 2 3 saito p 0 0 0 0 0 0 Hwkns p 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kottars ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 axford p 0 0 0 0 counsll 3b 1 0 0 0 Totals 46 814 8 Totals 38 4 10 4 Cincinnati 030 000 000 5—8 Milwaukee 210 000 000 1—4 e—Bray (1), cueto 2 (4), counsell (2), Y.betancourt (10), Lucroy (5). dp—cincinnati 1. Lob— cincinnati 12, Milwaukee 12. 2b—rolen (19), F.lewis (6), Jo.wilson (4), Y.betancourt (13). Hr— Bruce (21), r.hernandez (10). cs—c.hart (5). s— renteria, Marcum.

IP H R ER BB SO Cincinnati 6 3 3 4 2 cueto 61⁄3 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 chapman ondrusek 1 2 0 0 1 0 Bray W,2-1 1 0 0 0 1 1 cordero 1 2 1 1 0 1 Milwaukee Marcum 6 6 3 3 3 4 saito 1 2 0 0 0 2 Hawkins 1 0 0 0 0 1 axford 1 0 0 0 0 0 estrada L,2-6 1 6 5 2 0 1 ondrusek pitched to 1 batter in the 9th.

Wp—cueto. t—3:46. a—43,119 (41,900).

Cincinnati ab stubbs cf 6 cozart ss 5 Bray p 0 cairo ph 1 corder p 0 Votto 1b 5 Bphllps 2b6 Bruce rf 4 rolen 3b 5 FLewis lf 4 ondrsk p 0 renteri ss 0 rHrndz c 5 cueto p 3 chpmn p 0 Heisey lf 2

r 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 1

Calendar July 12 — all-star game, phoenix.

July 24 — Hall of Fame induction, cooperstown, N.Y. July 31 — Last day to trade a player without securing waivers. aug. 15 — Last day to sign selections from 2011 amateur draft who have not exhausted college eligibility. sept. 1 — active rosters expand to 40 players. sept. 30 or oct. 1 — playoffs begin. oct. 19 — World series begins.

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The Long Bridge framed with azaleas, built in 1840s, is one of seven bridges on the grounds. It in part of the 50 acres of gardens at the Magnolia Plantation and Gardens.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Of all the historic places to visit in Charleston, the Magnolia Plantation Gardens rate near the top of the list for their pure natural beauty.

Cool shaded walkways wander through camellias and azaleas. The stone-packed paths leisurely follow the edge of the Ashley River, offering a very relaxing walk.

Staying alert, walking up on a Great Egret hiding in the tall plants next to the Cypress Lake is almost as breathtaking as seeing the 1840s Long Bridge reflecting in the dark murky waThis tulip grows along the walkway that follows ters with pink azaleas framing the edge of the Ashley River. the entrance.

The plantation property has been in the Drayton family for 15 ering along the river and wetlands. Great egrets WAYNE generations, more than 340 sun themselves on the edge of the lake next to years, through good and bad the cypress trees. The water mirrors the giant HINSHAW times starting in 1676. Episcopal white water fowl as they walk in the duckweed Church rector and plantation owner John Draylooking for food. ton is credited with being the first to introduce Fifty acres of the Flowerdale garden is the azaleas to America. Before the Civil War, famous oldest part of the garden with formal plantings of photographer Matthew Brady visited and phoannuals enclosed by boxwood hedges. The flowtographed the gardens. In later years Eleanor ers there include lilies, tulips, and irises. CaladiRoosevelt, George Gershwin, Henry Ford and ums grow along the river walkway where you Orson Welles toured the gardens, seeing the might see a bright green American chameleon great live oaks hung with Spanish moss and encrossing the path in the sunshine. joying nature’s beauty.

There is the Cattail Wildlife Refuge with a During the Civil War, U.S. Navy Union officer tower for bird observations. Five hundred camelPercival Drayton encountered in battle his broth- lias mixed with Burford holly form the Maze. er Thomas, who was a commander of the Confed- Seven scenic bridges span the lake and various erate troops in Port Royal, S.C. The plantation ponds of water in the gardens, with the Long house was burned during the war. Some credit Bridge,built in 1840, being the prettiest of them.

Sherman’s troops for the fire while others think The dark murky water in the ponds and lake the newly freed slaves set the house afire. The looks so mysterious with the sun reflecting off house was replaced after the war with a pre-Rev- the surface, making heavy shadows in the water. olutionary War home from Summerville that was They look like they could hold some centuriestransported down the Ashley River and placed on old mysteries in their depths. the original foundation. Recovering from poverty after the war, Rev. Drayton opened the gardens to the public in 1870 as the first manmade tourist attraction in the United States.

An unusual feature in the gardens is the family tomb. The large underground vault is the final resting place for many with the Drayton name.

The first burial was in the 1700s; the last was in 1916. The entrance to the tomb is away from the banks of the Ashley River with the above-ground marble marker up in the gardens. The plaque on the tomb was cracked during the 1886 earthquake in Charleston. There are bullet marks on the chiseled angels on the marker. One of the cherubs is missing its nose. Reportedly a Union soldier with General Sherman's troops fired his rifle at the cherubs and struck it with his bayonet, breaking off the nose.

The Biblical Gardens feature plants such as fig bushes that are mentioned in the Bible, along with a few sculptures. The Camellia Collection dates from the 1820s with about 900 varieties, many of which were created at the gardens. The Cypress Lake has 100-year-old cypress trees tow- Walkways take visitors under large oak trees hanging with Spanish moss.

p Cypress trees reflect in Cypress Lake, with red azaleas in the foreground. t An American chameleon suns itself on the walkway. q The walkways feature an occasional sculpture.

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Home births are on the rise, up 20 percent In 2005, they published a study in the British Medical Journal based on nearly 5,500 home births involving certified professional midwives in the United States and Canada.

The study, considered one of the largest for home births, showed 88 percent had positive outcomes, while 12 percent of the women were transferred to hospitals, including 9 percent for preventive reasons and 3 percent for emergencies.

The study showed an infant mortality rate of 2 out of every 1,000 births, about the same as in hospitals at the time, Davis-Floyd said.

“Women who are truly educated in evidence-based maternity care understand the safety and the multiple benefits of home birth,” she said.

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“It was never on my radar, until we couldn’t afford otherwise,” she said. “I’m granola, but not that granola. It cost us $3,300, as opposed to over $10,000 in a hospital.”

Her midwife was prepared with the drug Pitocin, oxygen and other medical equipment.

“They were both born over the toilet,” she said. “It was a nice position. It’s a way that we’re used to pushing.”

Dr. Joel Evans, the rare board-certified OB-GYN who supports home birth, said the medical establishment has become “resistant to change, resistant to dialogue, resistant to flexibility.”

“Women are now looking for alternatives where they can be treated as individuals, as opposed to being forced to comply with protocols, which however well meaning, have the impact of both medicalizing childbirth and increasing stress and anxiety around delivery,” said Evans, founder and director of the Center for Women’s Health in Stamford, Conn., and an assistant clinical professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

By some accounts, in 1900, 95 percent of U.S. births took place at home. That slipped to half by 1938 and less than 1 percent by 1955.

Today, most midwife-attended births take place in hospitals in the U.S., and many midwives are licensed nurses.

But there are also close to 1,700 midwives who practice outside of hospitals, said Davis-Floyd. In 27 states, socalled “lay” midwives who lack nurses’ training but are licensed and certified as professional midwives can attend births legally.

Some women chose home births after learning about it from TV shows or documentaries. The show-all “House of Babies” on Discovery Health Channel from 2005 to 2009 was filmed at a Miami birth center run by a midwife. Actress Ricki Lake screened her movie, “The Business of Being Born,” around the United States in 2007 after giving birth at home to her second child. The film also showed Lake’s filmmaking partner, Abby Epstein, documenting her own frantic taxi ride to a New York hospital after abandoning her home birth because the baby presented feet first, with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck.

Michael Robertson, 27, of Poulsbo, Wash., knew nothing about home birth before watching the TLC series.

“I just really had my mind set on a water birth, like on the show,” she said. “It looked so cool, so relaxing.”

She had two babies at home, but opted for a planned hospital delivery for her third child due to complications. She’s glad she had the choice. “If you don’t know your options, you don’t know what’s out there to begin with,” she said.

“I don’t think an OB will say to you, ‘Hey, did you know there was this thing called home birth.’”

Most studies of home birth have been criticized as too small to accurately assess safety or distinguish between planned and unplanned deliveries, according to researchers Kenneth C. Johnson and BettyAnne Daviss.

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NEW YORK (AP) — One mother chose home birth because it was cheaper than going to a hospital. Another gave birth at home because she has multiple sclerosis and feared unnecessary medical intervention. And some choose home births after cesarean sections with their first babies.

Whatever their motivation, all are among a striking trend: Home births increased 20 percent from 2004 to 2008, accounting for 28,357 of 4.2 million U.S. births, according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released in May. White women led the drive, with 1 in 98 having babies at home in 2008, compared to 1 in 357 black women and 1 in 500 Hispanic women.

Sherry Hopkins, a Las Vegas midwife, said the women whose home births she’s attended include a pediatrician, an emergency room doctor and nurses. “We’re definitely seeing well-educated and well-informed people who want to give birth at home,” she said.

Robbie Davis-Floyd, a medical anthropologist at the University of Texas at Austin and researcher on global trends in childbirth, obstetrics and midwifery, said “at first, in the 1970s, it was largely a hippie, countercultural thing to give birth outside of the hospital. Over the years, as the formerly ‘lay’ midwives have become far more sophisticated, so has their clientele.”

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which certifies OBGYNs, warns that home births can be unsafe, especially if the mother has highrisk conditions, if a birth attendant is inadequately trained and if there’s no nearby hospital in case of emergency. Some doctors also question whether a “feminist machoism” is at play in wanting to give birth at home.

But home birthers say they want to be free of drugs, fetal monitors, IVs and pressure to hurry their labor at the behest of doctors and hospitals. They prefer to labor in tubs of water or on hands and knees, walk around their living rooms or take comfort in their own beds, surrounded by loved ones as they listen to music or hypnosis recordings with the support of midwives and doulas. Some even go without midwives and rely on husbands or other non-professionals for support.

Julie Jacobs, 38, of Baltimore, who has multiple sclerosis, said she “chose midwives and hypnosis because I wanted to surround myself with people who would support me as a birthing mother, rather than view me as an MS patient who would be a liability in need of interventions at every turn.”

Her first two children were born in a freestanding birth center operated by midwives.

After the center closed, her third child was born at home in 2007. “If I had been in a hospital I probably would have had C-sections for all three,” she said. “With the first, I would have been terrified to try a home birth. After the second one I was like, hey, I can’t necessarily walk in a straight line, but I can do this.”

Some home birthers cite concerns over cesarean sections. The U.S. rate of C-sections in hospitals hovers around 32 percent, soaring up to 60 percent in some areas. In some cases, there’s a “too posh to push” mentality of scheduled inductions for convenience sake (Victoria Beckham had three).

Gina Crosley-Corcoran, a Chicago blogger and pre-law student, had a C-section with her first baby and chronicled nightmarish pressure from nurses and doctors to abandon a vaginal birth with her second. She followed up with a third child born at home in April.

“I do think there’s a backlash against what’s happening in hospitals,” she said.

“Women are finding that the hospital experience wasn’t a good one.”

In Portland, Ore., acupuncturist Becca Seitz gave birth to both her children at home, the first time in 2007 because she and her husband were without insurance.

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NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Jennifer Lynn Jones of China Grove, N.C., and Jared Matthew Cook of Concord, N.C., were married at 4 p.m. Saturday, June 25, 2011, on the beach. The Rev. Darrell Coble of Concord officiated the ceremony which was followed by a reception at Ducks Beach Club.

The bride was escorted by her parents, Robert and Diane Jones.

Matron of honor was Rita Phelps Ramsey of Mount Ulla.

Bridesmaids included Meredith Kirkley Jones, sister-n-law of the bride of China Grove; Jenna Cook, sister of the groom of Concord; Ashley Norwood Johnson, cousin of the bride of Concord; Madilyn Jones, niece of the bride of China Grove; Ali Baker Craft, friend of the couple of Kannapolis; Holly Burris Wyke, friend of the couple of Concord; Ashley Cohen Bustle, friend of the couple of Huntersville, N.C.; and Kara Bingham, friend of the couple of Lewisville, N.C. Flower girl was niece of the bride’s brother Sophia Rose Blackledge of China Grove.

Father of the groom Tommy Cook stood as best man.

Groomsmen were Brian Jones, brother of the bride of China Grove; Andrew Jones; nephew of the bride of China Grove; Kyle Jackson, friend of the couple of Tampa, Fla.; Andrew Baker, friend of the couple of Kannapolis; Zach Little, friend of the couple of Harrisburg; Ryan Craft, friend of the couple of Kannapolis; Jonathan Thrasher, friend of the couple of Tampa, Fla.; and Justin Sistrunk, friend of the couple of Concord. Ring Bearer was Aaron Jones, nephew of the bride of China Grove.

Harriett Butts of Rockwell, N.C., was the wedding director. Music for the ceremony was provided by Brandon Glenn of Kannapolis.

The bride is the daughter of Robert and Diane Jones of China Grove and the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Woody Hurst and the late Mrs. Alta Murph of China Grove. A 1999 graduate of South Rowan High School and 2003 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Jennifer is a kindergarten teacher for Rowan-Salisbury School System.

The groom is the son of Tommy and Kim Cook of Concord and the grandson of Mrs. Kathleen Cook and the late Earl Cook, Kannapolis and Mrs. BJ Kincaid and the late Carl (Mickey) Kincaid of Kannapolis.

A 1999 graduate of Concord High School and 2004 graduate of North Carolina State University, Jared is employed by Wells Fargo Advisors.

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KANNAPOLIS — Tiffany Lauren Haney and Robert Samuel Powell were united in marriage Friday, June 17, 2011, at The Lakes. Dr. Jeffrey Richards officiated the noon ceremony, which was followed by a reception.

The bride was escorted by her father, Clinton Haney. The groom placed a single white rose on a chair in loving memory of his father, Sam Powell. Following the ceremony, Robert presented the rose to his paternal grandmother.

The bride is the daughter of Clinton and Mary Haney of Hillsborough and Thomas and Teresa Empie of Concord. She is the granddaughter of Grace Haney of Catlettsburg, Ky., and Rosa Carver of Vanceburg, Ky. A 2007 graduate of Northern High School in Durham, Tiffany graduated from

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The groom is the son of Robin Powell of Salisbury and the late Sam Powell. He is the grandson of Bob and Candy Snider of Salisbury and Levi and Katie Powell of Kannapolis. A 2007 graduate of North Hills Christian School, Robert graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2011 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in Finance. He is a numismatist with Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas.

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Emily Joy Rider of Rockwell graduated cum laude from Toccoa Fall College in Toccoa, Ga., May 7, 2011, with a Bachelor of Science in Cross-Cultural Communication and a minor in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages).

A dean’s list student all three years, Emily did her 2010 summer internship in Croatia teaching English with Pioneers Missions organization.

A 2005 graduate of Graystone Day School, she earned an Associate of Arts from RowanCabarrus Community College in 2008. She plans to teach English to Asian immigrants in New York City with Urban Impact YNC. Follow her blog at tonguesofmen.wordpress.com Emily is the daughter of R. Bruce and Lisa Rider of Rockwell.

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Mr. and Mrs. Harold Reid of Woodleaf are pleased to announce Marilyn Lowe Upright of Concord and Michael Darrell Upright the engagement of their daughter, Noel Joy Boyette of Salisbury, to of China Grove are pleased to announce the engagement of their Ben Tyler Poole, also of Salisbury. daughter, McKenzie Denise Upright, to Logan Matthew Brady, son The bride-to-be of Carlton and Cathy Brady of Asheboro. is the granddaughThe bride-to-be is the ter of Ms. Joyce granddaughter of Larry Royal of KannaDarrell and Colleen M. polis and Ms. Mari Upright of Kannapolis Helen Boyette of and the late Evelyn W. Cary. A 2005 gradLowe of Concord. A uate of A.L Brown 2003 graduate of High School, Joy Northwest Cabarrus graduated from High School, McKenzie Rowan-Cabarrus received a Bachelor of Community Science in CommunicaCollege in 2008. tions with a major in She is employed Advertising from

by Lowe’s Home Appalachian State UniImprovement. versity in 2007. She is The future groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Poole Jr., of employed by U.S. Salisbury and the grandson of Ms. Frances Poole of Winter Haven, Lawns in Kannapolis in Fla. A 2009 graduate of East Rowan High School, Ben also gradubusiness development. ated from the EMT/B program at RCCC and the Firefighter 1&2 The future groom is program at Davidson Community College in 2009. He is employed the grandson of Gayle

by Norfolk Southern.

G. and the late Boyd E. The couple will be married Aug. 20 at First Baptist Church of Sutton of Elon and the Gold Hill.

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The wedding is Sept. 24 at Trinity United Methodist Church in daughter, Rebecca Yates, 2-1/2; and grandmother Tonya Yates. R131511 Kannapolis.

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A daughter, Evelyn Gray, was born to Mary Holmes and Steve Chick of Savannah, Ga. on May 5, 2011. She weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces. She has a sister, Morgan. Grandparents are John and Patti Heilig of Salisbury and Catherine and Ron Fagin of Savannah, Ga.

EmaLee Tice A daughter, EmaLee Dawn, was born to Shannon Cleveland and Andrew Tice of Two Harbors, Minn. on June 16, 2011, at Rowan Regional Medical Center. She weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces. She has a sister, Crystal, 3. Grandparents are Scott and Angel Resanovich of Salisbury, Cheryl and Patrick Schreifels of Saint Cloud, Minn. and Terrence Tice and Kim Jones of Elk River, Minn. Great-grandparents are Charles and Diane Taylor of Salisbury, Charlie and LaDrene Anderson of Saint Cloud, Minn. and Jim and Connie Tice of Saint Michael, Minn.

Samiya Greene A daughter, Samiya Deyon, was born to Sharonda Brooker of Salisbury and Quintin Greene of Lexington on June 23, 2011, at Forsyth Medical Center. She weighed 2 pounds, 10 ounces. She has a sister, Qu’Arie, 1. Grandparents are Robin Jones of Salisbury and Stephanie Farrar of Lexington. Greatgrandparent is John Brooker of Salisbury.

Post 107 elects officers New officers for American Legion Post, Salisbury 107, were elected and installed on June 8 and will be serving for the 20112012 years.

President: Terry Fox Love; vice president: Edith Watt; secretary: Deborah Turnbull; treasurer: Moree Grandford; chaplain: Sonja Fields; sergeant-at-arms: Toyna Clodfelter; member chairman: Joyce Smyre.

New members joining: Barbara Blackwell, Ollie Mae Caroll. Other members: Clara Barger, Doretha Bryant, Kathleen Chambers, Fannie Bulter, Kelis Grandford, Dorothy Gilmore, Deloris Hemphill, Joan Lark, Mary Leager, Mary Neely, Jaliyah Oats.

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Unfaithful wife says she ‘Desiding the case’ for love needs some time to move on I you.

If you are lucky, you have at least one male family member or friend who fits the bill.

A book you could read and also give to your wife is: “Getting Past the Affair: A Program to Help You Cope, Heal, and Move On — Together or Apart,” by Douglas K. Snyder (and others), (2007, The Guilford Press).

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Dear Amy: I recently joined a group of musicians who gather for a weekly jam session.

Often some friends of the band drop by to enjoy the music. During breaks I’ve chatted with “Charlene,” who has known the group for years.

She and I are just acquaintances, but I’ve come to enjoy our casual conversations.

Recently someone confided in me that Charlene caused offense by making a thoughtless remark.

She apparently repeated the comment to more than one person, so the odds are low that she was simply misunderstood.

No one wants to confront her about this. Instead they’re Dear Depressed: It’s rich, giving her the (increasingly) isn’t it? Your cheating wife cold shoulder. needs time to process her grief over the ending of her affair before she can be a full partner in your marriage.

And yet, she does need this time. And you will be forced to submit to this process and be patient while she grieves and feels guilt over a relationship she never should have had in the first place.

This situation scores very high on what I like to call the Grand Meter of Life’s Injustices.

This is absolutely not fair to you. And you deserve as much support as you can muster while going through this process.

Counseling (both individual and joint) will help, but beyond counseling I suggest you spend time with friends — friends who will hear your story, share the emotional burden, commiserate and support

It’s rich, isn’t it? Your cheating wife needs time to process her grief over the ending of her affair before she can be a full partner in your marriage. And yet, she does need this time.

And you will be forced to submit to this process and be patient ...

I’m in a bind. Should I, as a short-term acquaintance and relative newcomer, let Charlene know that there’s a problem and give her the chance to repair the damage?

I wasn’t a witness to her “crime,” and can only report what I heard secondhand.

If I do speak to her, how should I broach the subject?

— Seeking Harmony Dear Seeing: If “Charlene” asks you, “Why are my old friends in the band being so cold toward me?” you should tell her what you’ve heard.

Otherwise, this is her mess to sort out.

If the statement attributed to her is one you would find equally offensive, and if knowledge of this is preventing you from getting to know her better, then you should raise the question directly for your own edification.

• • • Dear Amy: “Sleepless in Chicago” raised the perennial issue of reclining airline seats. As the airline representative you quoted says, what’s new is how little space there is now between seats.

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the same way that I have. I have desided and god nose it is time that I never will be sadisfied untill we marry and if you ever entend to have me why not now as well as any time. You promist to tell me this week what you was going to do and I hope you will say that you ar reddy for me to come after you. Wile it is not worth while for me to say no more than I have all redy said though, I am very lonesome to night. All of our folks is in beds of sleep. I will stop it is geting late. Please let me hear from you at once. Put your answer on Mr. Milton’s hands or to Cap. Rights and I will get it.

If you are en the notion to make your home with me let me no when and all about it as I will come to see you any time you say and any where you say if you rather. Do not fail to let me here from you this week. I will be at centre Wednsday morning. Good by Darling. W.D. Thompson” Thankfully, this request was graciously granted and the youngsters married on August 30, 1883. They eventually became parents of seven children, with four of these marrying and making their homes here in Salisbury (names of spouses are included in parentheses): Lallie (Jim Wright), Fannie (White Goodson Sr.), Hannis (Lillian), and my father, David D.

(Grace). The other three included Annie, Oma and Edward Thompson.

Sometime after my grandmother Fannie’s death, my grandfather met another fine lady from Norwood named Lucy McSwain and remarried. This union produced two more children: Lois (Pete Haire), who resided in Norwood, and Melvin (Ruby), who settled in Lexington.

Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity to know and love Fannie and W.D. Thompson. My grandfather died in 1933, 10 years before I was born. I’m so delighted and grateful, though, that he penned this sweet proposal to his sweetheart and that she said “yes.” I just know that they would have loved me!

How could they have not?

Margaret Shumate lives in Salisbury.

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Dear Amy: I have recently found out that my wife of more than 10 years was having a sexual affair.

This has completely destroyed everything I believed in.

I thought we had a perfect marriage because we got along so well.

I made the decision to stay with her ASK and try to AMY make things work.

It has been some time since the truth came out and our lives are slowly getting better, but there are still thoughts of mistrust I can’t get over. I am also trying to rebuild our relationship.

She says she still needs to get over her actions before we can move on, but I struggle with that because it should be me trying to get over her actions.

How backward is this?

How do we move on if we both want our marriage to work?

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f I had been living in Norwood, N.C., in June of 1883, I would have chosen Fannie Crump as my very best friend. I’m sure you will all agree that best friends always share all their innermost dreams, experiences and secrets with each other. The excitement of sharing all this with just one special MARGARET someone is SHUMATE what makes this relationship — well, special.

Fannie Crump was 18 years old and had a 23year-old admirer named William David Thompson.

On June 4, 1883, she received the following handwritten message from this obviously love-smitten young man. If I had been her BFF, I am sure she would have run flushed and flurried to locate me so that I could also read these momentous tender words.

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New officers include Carl Repsher, president-elect; Jayne Helms, secretary; and Bill Lee, treasurer.

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Seamus Donaldson stepped aside, John Henderlite stepped up and Reid Leonard was honored as the Salisbury Rotary Club held its annual changing of the guard on June 28.

Donaldson, out-going p r e s i d e n t , DONALDSON talked about highlights of the past year — switching to an electronic weekly bulletin and supporting the Flight of Honor, the Polio Plus campaign, the scholarship raffle and the CART (Coins for Alzheimers Research Trust) fund.

Most important, the club launched the Patriot’s Flag Concourse, a memorial to honor all branches of the armed forces. A groundbreaking at City Park will be held in August.

Leonard, whose idea sparked the flag project, was named a Paul Harris Fellow in honor of his longtime service to the club.

Henderlite, accepting the gavel as the new president, said the club had increased its level of giving in the past year and credited Donaldson for HENDERLITE setting high standards for the group.

Sonny Carpenter and Cynthia Thomas were recognized

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like cat bait.

When animals don’t behave normally, you have to suspect rabies. So, we watched the baby opossum for a time to see if it showed signs of the disease. Occasionally, we had to shoo away our enthusiastic cat.

The little orphan didn’t seem scared of us, probably because it was unlikely that he’d ever seen a human. Human generally do not wander around our backyard after midnight, and if the tiny opposum’s mother was any kind of mom, she would not have allowed her kid to stay up past six in the morning.

The witless creature eventually climbed into a low shrub and decided to take a nap right there. It was exhausted. My cat would have no trouble reaching it at that height.

My daughter and I knew that if we left, that little guy was toast. We were concerned, as well, that it was not old enough to feed itself.

We weren’t sure exactly what opossum ate, but we knew they ate cat food.

We put some in a little dish and placed it near the baby opossum’s perch. We thought that if it ate the cat food, it probably could take care of itself.

About that time, my husband wandered around the corner of the house.

He crouched down beside us to see what we were looking at. Spying the opossum and the little dish of food, he said, “You’re starting young, I see.”

“What do you mean?”

“Training,” he said.

“Training what?”

“You’re training that animal to raid our cat’s food. No wonder the cat wants to eat it.”

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with this beautiful Shih Tzu?” The woman told me that her sister had adopted “Presley” as a puppy and she lost her job and then her home. The woman continued to tell me that she took this dog in, but she worked two jobs and had two other dogs to care for at home and could no longer provide Presley with the kind of home she wanted for him.

I asked her if I could hold him, and she told me that he was afraid of strangers. I told her that I was known as the Pied Piper of dogs and not to worry.

She handed me the trembling, dirty dog, and as soon as I held him, Presley’s tail starting wagging and he was licking me like I was his best friend!

The woman began to smile, along with the lady that showed me around the shelter. The woman told me she had been dreading for weeks having to bring him to the shelter because she knew he would be terrified left in a cage. After holding him for only a minute, I knew that this dog was THE ONE! I told the woman that I had a Shih Tzu at home that would be a great companion, and I asked her and the shelter woman if I could take him home.

The woman started crying in relief, and the people surrounding us, watching this scene unfold, started clapping with great joy and enthusiasm. The shelter woman told me that since he had not even been checked in yet, he was mine to take.

The couple walked out, with my assurance that Presley would always be loved and cared for.

As I drove home with

Chance of a Lifetime

Presley in the back seat, I was trying to think of a new name for him, since I did not like his given name. I thought to myself, “What were the chances of me being in that shelter at that exact time when this dog was brought in?” After months of looking, I had found the perfect dog and companion for Snickers. Without much further thought, I said his new name out loud, “Chance of a Lifetime Doering.”

Chance had been given a third and last time to be loved and cared for the rest of his life.

When Chance arrived home, I found out immediately that he was terrified of men, and after calling the woman I had taken him from, she confirmed that he had been abused by a man.

Chance refused to go near Don and hid under the bed in fear. After two weeks of Don trying to soothe Chance, I sug-

gested Don try hand feeding him. After a couple of tries, Chance trusted that Don would not harm him.

For the next two years, we took Chance on many walks around parks and he continued to fear men. I would ask the men to stoop down and hold out their hand and Chance would tentatively give it a sniff and allow the man to pet him. I was amazed that a dog less than one year old would retain this fear for so many years.

Chance has been part of our family for seven years now and he finally is not so terrified of men, but there is still that hesitation. Chance has been the most loving and faithful dog I have ever been privileged to love, and he follows me everywhere around the house. He is truly a blessing to be a member of our family.

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e have two cats that bask in my daughter’s adoration. Unfortunately my oldest son is allergic to cats, so they bask outdoors.

The cat’s dishes are on my back deck in a hopeless attempt to feed the LAURA cats… my SNYDER cats… and nothing but my cats… so help me God. God’s other creatures have other ideas, however.

Every night opossums, raccoons, neighbor dogs, and other riff raff come to our back deck to feast from our cat food buffet.

Every night we chase them away.

I wouldn’t mind feeding the entire block’s army of woodland and domesticated animals, but what have they ever done for me?

At least my cats will occasionally catch a mole digging up my yard and let my daughter smother them with her hugs. Of course, they probably catch moles only because the line is too long at their food dish. I’m fairly certain that their catching moles is not due as much to their undying gratitude as is it to the fact that they like to play with things that move… or twitch.

The other day, my daughter interrupted my cat’s soon-to-be death pounce when she spotted a baby opossum. He was no more than six inches long; just the right size for a mid-afternoon snack. The opossum was so tiny, it really should have been with its mother. Because opossum are nocturnal, it certainly shouldn’t have been wandering around at one in the afternoon acting

while back, I wrote a story about our first dog, Scalawag and her run-in with a skunk. In our 40 years of marriage, my husband and I have shared our life with several dogs and experienced the joy, love and loyalty each of them had blessed us with.

When we moved JENNIFER to SalisDOERING bury in March of 2003, Snickers, our brindle Shih Tzu, had recently joined our family. Snickers is the first purebred dog that we ever adopted; all the rest of our adopted dogs were the “Heinz 57” variety of mutts and came from various shelters.

After living here a while, I started looking for a companion for Snickers.

There were many days Snickers was left home alone, and I knew she would be happier with another dog to play with. I started looking in shelters in Salisbury and surrounding areas. I always feel so sad when I visit shelters and see those big brown doggie eyes begging me to give them a home, and it is very heartbreaking for me. I was looking for a smaller dog, about the size of Snickers, and all I saw were big dogs.

In early November, 2004, I happened to be in downtown Charlotte for a doctor’s appointment when I realized I had time to visit the Mecklenburg Animal Shelter. Once I arrived, a woman at the shelter showed me around the dog area and again, all I saw were large dogs, my heart wishing I could give all of them a home.

After about an hour of looking, feeling defeated in my quest again, I was preparing to leave the shelter when in walked a young man and woman carrying a very dirty, shaking, grey and white purebred Shih Tzu. I walked up to the couple and questioned them, “What are you doing here

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elizabeth Charlton, right, gets help with her backpack as she prepares to portray a Civil War soldier at a Memorial day event at bellevue Cemetery in Lawrence, Mass. a century and a half ago, women weren't allowed into military service; masquerading as men was the only way in for those who weren't satisfied with supporting the war effort from home or following their husbands' military units around.

Playing with the boys Women re-enact Civil War as men — quite accurately

BY DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press

BALTIMORE (AP) — Hoop skirts and washboards don’t appeal much to Joyce Henry, so she found another way to relive the Civil War — as a man.

With her breasts tightly bound, shoulder-length red hair tucked under a shaggy auburn wig and upper lip hidden by a drooping mustache, Henry impersonates Lt. Harry T. Buford, a real-life Confederate soldier.

The impression could hardly be more accurate since Buford, too, was a woman. He was invented by Loreta Janeta Velazquez, a Cuban-born woman from New Orleans who fought as a man in a series of Civil War battles including the First Battle of Bull Run, according to her autobiography.

Researchers have documented more than 200 such cases. And today, a small number of women follow suit by donning blue and gray uniforms as Civil War re-enactors.

A century and a half ago, women weren’t allowed into military service; masquerading as men was the only way in for those who weren’t satisfied with supporting the war effort from home or following their husbands’ military units around. As the country marks the 150th anniversary of the War Between the States, some female re-enactors still cling to secrecy — not just for historical accuracy but because uniformed women aren’t always welcome in the male-dominated hobby.

Some of these women are easily spotted by their lack of attention to detail. Others go to great lengths and expense to avoid detection. Henry, of Williamsburg, Va., said she even got an FBI expert to teach her to apply facial hair.

“My goal has always been to be as authentic as possible,” said Henry, a former Petersburg National Battlefield ranger who is now head coachman at Colonial Williamsburg. She said she has spent nearly $3,500 on her Civil War outfit and gear, including an $850, custom-tailored, gray wool frock coat.

But just having the right accouterments isn’t enough. To pass muster as a man, the normally exuberant Henry says she “flatlines” herself: “You have to alter your mannerisms, the way you speak, the way you use your hands, the way you walk, the way

you use your facial expressions.”

Even then, getting in may not be easy.

Audrey Scanlan-Teller, a re-enactor in the Washington area, was initially denied a role in this year’s 150th anniversary commemoration of the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter, S.C., because of her gender. She successfully appealed to the National Park Service, citing a 1993 federal court ruling barring gender discrimination at park service events.

The Fort Sumter re-enactors were screened by a private-sector committee. Chairman Jeff Antley, of Mount Pleasant, S.C., said his Union troop commander initially rejected Scanlan-Teller because historical records prove there were no women, whether in uniform or civilian clothes, at the fort during the 1861 engagement — and organizers wanted to recreate those conditions.

Antley said he knew nothing of the dispute until the park service told him to let Scanlan-Teller in.

He recognized her right to join the nearly 1,000 other re-enactors at the April event and said he has no argument with women who portray male soldiers convincingly.

“If you want to do this, do it the best you can and you’ll gain respect — and she did,” he said. “She did as good a job as she could have done. I didn’t see her in the ranks.

I didn’t notice her.”

Susan Kinne of Woodsville,

N.H., had a more frustrating experience when she was barred in 2008 from sharing sleeping quarters with her Civil War band mates during a weekend field-music camp at Fort Delaware State Park in Delaware City, Del. “I had to sleep with women I didn’t know and it bugged me,” said Kinne, 52, a tenor horn player in the 12th New Hampshire Serenade Band and the Baltimorebased Federal City Brass Band.

Event organizer Ronald Palese of Gettysburg, Pa., said the rule against cross-gender sleeping arrangements protects female students, some as young as 10.

“When you deal with children, you cannot step over a line,” he said.

But Kinne said the dictum violates a sacred principle among serious re-enactors: They’re not in costume — they’re in character.

“When you are in character, it’s ‘Private Kinne.’ It’s never ‘Sue,’” she said. “We are all men.”

At other events, “I’ve slept in the tents with the guys, I eat with the guys, I go in the woods and go to the bathroom with the guys,” she said. “I do everything they do, and it’s expected, and it should be expected.”

Women who fail to hide their femininity in uniform are branded “farby Barbies.” The phrase is derived from a derogatory term hardcore re-enactors apply to those whose impressions fall short of historical standards.

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Joyce Henry, third from left, was disguised as a man during a re-enactment of the Civil War battle of bentonville, N.C. in March of 2000.

She is among a small number of female re-enactors who participate in such events as men, much like the more than 200 women who fought in disguise during the War between the States.

Female re-enactors seeking to avoid the farby label can turn to Wendy King Ramsburg of Hedgesville, W.Va. She runs an invitation-only website for women military re-enactors.

Ramsburg suggests wearing vests, jackets and trousers one size too big to hide telltale curves.

She also provides instructions for making an authentic chest binder she says flattens and protects one’s breasts better than the sports bras some female re-enactors wear.

Her online group numbers about 20, but Ramsburg said she doesn’t know how many women pursue the hobby. She protects her group members’ privacy and refused to divulge even her own unit’s name for fear of being targeted by sexist detractors.

The discrimination is often covert, Ramsburg wrote in an email.

“For example, insisting that a female send in a picture to prove that she meets a specific set of requirements when males registering for the same event are not burdened with this requirement.”

Ramsburg said some privately run events have rules stating, “Women discovered in uniform will be dismissed from the field.”

And some enforce a 5-foot height requirement, ostensibly for safety, that limits female participation.

None of the women interviewed for this story said they dress up as men to press an agenda. Some are tomboys who’ve always preferred rough-and-tumble play. Most are history buffs who want to know firsthand what Civil War fighters, often their own ancestors, experienced.

Lauren Wike literally wrote the book on Civil War female fighters. She and DeAnne Blanton documented 240 of these women in their 2002 volume, “They Fought Like Demons.” The book is treasured by many of today’s female re-enactors.

Wike, of Fayetteville, N.C., started the project after a ranger ejected her from a 1989 living-history event at Antietam National Battlefield near Sharpsburg, Md. She said the ranger told her, “We don’t allow women in uniform here.”

She sued the National Park Service and won a federal court victory in 1993. Now the agency incorporates into its biennial training for living-history staffers a reminder that excluding women

who portray male soldiers isn’t just unconstitutional — it’s historically inaccurate.

“In view of the fact that at least one woman (and possibly six women) did participate in the battle of Antietam, the presence of female volunteers appearing as male soldiers should be treated as an interpretive opportunity rather than as a liability,” reads a memo used in the training.

Mike Litterst, spokesman for the park service’s Civil War sesquicentennial events, said four parks — Antietam, Appomattox Court House, Gettysburg and Shiloh — have information about women fighters in their programs, brochures or websites.

But Wike, 55, said she still hears from women who must fight for acceptance as uniformed reenactors.

“It’s amazing to me that 18 years after what I went through, women still confront the issue,” she said.

Wike also objects to today’s U.S. military ban on women in combat and infantry roles.

“It’s ridiculous that there are still barriers to women in today’s military,” she said. “I think the only reason that women were successful as soldiers during the Civil War is because nobody knew that they were women. They were disguised, so all of the prejudices, all the stereotyping, was not a factor. And that’s the only reason women are barred from combat today.”

Some women just find a uniform more convenient than wearing period women’s clothing. Elizabeth Charlton of Lawrence, Mass., wore bright red trousers and a navy coat and cap as she carried the colors of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia 6th Regiment Company I down Pratt Street in Baltimore last spring.

The parade commemorated the four Massachusetts soldiers and 12 civilians who died April 19, 1861, when Southern sympathizers attacked federal troops passing through the city en route to Washington.

Charlton, a married mother of three, said she started re-enacting more than 10 years ago, portraying the wife of a soldier killed in Baltimore. When her local military re-enactor unit had an opening in the color guard, she volunteered and found pants preferable to a hoop skirt.

“It’s much easier to get dressed,” she said.