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Vol. 80, No. 23

Serving Lee, Chatham, Harnett and Moore counties in the heart of North Carolina

Sanford: David Cottingham, 56Bear Creek: Martha Peoples, 54Broadway: William Lasater, 74Cameron: Preston Childress

INDEX

OBITUARIES

HAPPENING TODAYn A groundbreaking ceremo-ny for the Endor Iron Furnace Greenway Trail will be held at 2 p.m. at Riverbirch Corner shopping center. (Rain date is scheduled for Feb. 5).

CALENDAR, PAGE 2A

SCOTT MOONEYHAMThe U.S. Supreme Court’s campaign fi nance decision reverses many precedents

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High: 42Low: 20

More Weather, 2A

ECONOMY

ECONOMIC REBOUND REMAINS SLUGGISH

Evidence that the economic rebound remains sluggish emerged from reports Thursday on new claims for unemploy-ment aid and orders to U.S. factories. The number of people claiming jobless aid fell last week, but less than expected.

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PRAYER FOUND TO BEUNCONSTITUTIONAL

Using prayer to open a North Carolina county board of com-missioners meeting violates the First Amendment, a federal judge ruled Thursday, adopting recommendations made earlier by a magistrate judge

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SPORTS

LADY CAVALIERS PICK UP CONFERENCE WIN

The Lady Cavaliers put a complete game together and played with intensity for all four quarters during their 46-41 victory over Cape Fear Valley Conference foe Gray’s Creek

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QUICKREAD

The Sanford Herald

TO INFORM,CHALLENGE AND CELEBRATE

FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2010

Apple’s iPad eyed by teachers Page 8A

WHAT’S IN A NAME?The jokes about the name chosen

for Apple’s newest product are already fl ying even before it hits the shelves

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‘Catcher in the Rye’author dies at 91

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ENTERTAINMENTWEEKEND FILMS: ONE CLASSIC, ONE STINKER

Herald Film Critic Neil Morris, says “The Messenger” was a potential classic, but “When in Rome” may be one of the worst

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STATESTATE SUPREME COURT WILL HEAR LIFER CASE

North Carolina’s highest court will hear arguments next month about two convicted murderers who argue that the life sentences they received in the 1970s are now complete, offi cials said Thursday

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LEE COUNTY SCHOOLS

A head start

ASHLEY GARNER/The Sanford Herald

Lee County High School senior Taylar Ingersall, 18, (second from right) shows East Lee Middle School eigth graders Angel Salazar, 14, (from left) Cheyenne Sanders, 14, Valeria Villanueva, 13, and Chris Whiteley, 14, the old gym on Thursday as they tour campus.

Eighth graders get their fi rst taste of high school life in tour of Lee County, Southern Lee ThursdayBy CAITLIN [email protected]

SANFORD — Future Yellow Jackets and Cavaliers got their fi rst taste of high school life Thursday.

About 200 eighth graders from East Lee, West Lee and SanLee middle schools toured LCHS and Southern Lee High School Thursday, learned about upcoming course selection and preparing for college.

The three-hour tours were the fi rst of four such events planned to get the students ac-climated to their future campus-es. Tours are planned for today,

Feb. 4 and Feb. 5 as well.Sherry Andrews, director

of counseling at LCHS, went over requirements for getting into certain colleges, and the

cost of an education at various colleges in North Carolina with a small group of students from East Lee Thursday in the high school’s media center.

“If some of these schools are your dreams schools, this is what you’ve got to do to get in,” she told the group.

Andrews informed the students of how many credits they need to graduate high school, and talked about hon-ors classes, grade point average and course selection.

“You want to build that high school transcript as much as

STATE OF THE UNION

Q: What was your reac-tion to the president’s speech?

A: My fi rst thought is that it

was all style and no substance. It’s amazing that after a year in offi ce, the president’s Party still thinks they know better than the electorate. They’re

Local leaders debate addressGOP’s Linda Shook:Speech all style, no substance as usual

Q: What was your re-action to the presi-dent’s speech?

A: I think it was a speech

that sounded a lot more like Obama the campaigner — strong, powerful — than Obama the president. But at the same time, it struck a chord about

Dem Ty Stumpf: Obama returning to campaign mode

Ty Stumpf is the Lee Co. Democratic chairman

Linda Shook is chairman of the Lee

County GOP

See Shook, Page 6A See Stumpf, Page 6A

WEATHER

SnowforecastaffectseventsExperts say the area could accumulate six inches of snow

By CAITLIN [email protected]

SANFORD — The predicted winter storm that may hit the central North Carolina region this afternoon could cause several local groups to rethink their plans.

The National Weather Service in Raleigh has issued a winter storm watch in ef-fect this afternoon through Saturday afternoon, poten-tially bringing snow, ice and freezing rain.

Shane Seagroves, direc-tor of Lee County Emergency Services, said sleet and freez-ing rain could begin late this evening and change to snow after midnight. The precipita-tion could switch between

HAITI

Localteam ofdoctorsfl ying outGrace Christian’sannual trip to regionhas special meaning

Special to The Herald

SANFORD — About this time for the past seven years, Grace Chapel Church has organized and led a medical mission team that has traveled to villages in the Dominican Republic to provide critically needed medical care.

But this year, the devastat-ing earthquake in the bordering country of Haiti has ramped up the urgent need for highly-skilled medical caregivers. A local doc-tor and his wife say their trip south has taken on a “whole new meaning” this year, as the

See Haiti, Page 7A

“It can be really confusing because it’s such a big, open cam-pus. I was afraid my

freshman year. I think it’s important that they get to walk around and

see everything.”

— Taylar Ingersoll —Lee County High senior

See Tour, Page 7A

AP photo

President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday.

See Snow, Page 5A

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LOCAL: Best wishes are extended to everyone celebrating a birthday today, especially Zion Amir Creacy, Kathryn Sandra Bridges, Esther Fe’Olivo Manuel, David Anderson, Amber Rosser, Michael Boyette, Antonio Griffi n, Abraham Cox, Cheyenne Amber Bowman, Noah Steffen Fulks, Pamela McKoy, Pam Fundakowski, Dorothy Fetner, Kelly Creacy, Madison Elizabeth Shackelford, Dayton Lynn Jackson, Mary Brown, Cora Campbell, Joe Farlow, Ann McGregory, Lor-raine Buffkin, Kiya Clark, Ray Barker-Pate, Kimberly Leigh Wardin and Ada Elliott.

CELEBRITIES: Actor John Forsythe is 92. Actor Noel Harrison is 76. Author Germaine Greer is 71. Actress Katharine Ross is 70. Actor Tom Selleck is 65. Rhythm-and-blues singer Bettye LaVette is 64. Actress Ann Jillian is 60. Rock musician Tommy Ramone (Ramones) is 58. Rock musician Louie Perez (Los Lobos) is 57. Rhythm-and-blues/funk singer Charlie Wilson is 57. Talk show host Oprah Winfrey is 56. Country singer Irlene Mandrell is 54. Actress Diane Delano is 53. Actress Judy Norton Taylor (“The Waltons”) is 52. Olympic gold-medal diver Greg Louganis is 50. Rock musician David Baynton-Power (James) is 49. Actor Nicholas Turturro is 48. Rock singer-musi-cian Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera) is 46. Actor-director Edward Burns is 42.

Birthdays

AlmanacToday is Friday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of

2010. There are 336 days left in the year.

This day in history:On Jan. 29, 1860 (according to the New

Style calendar), Russian author and play-wright Anton Chekhov was born in the port city of Taganrog (TAG’-uhn-rahg).In 1820, Britain’s King George III died at

Windsor Castle.In 1843, the 25th president of the United

States, William McKinley, was born in Niles, Ohio.In 1845, Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The

Raven” was fi rst published, in the New York Evening Mirror.In 1861, Kansas became the 34th state

of the Union.In 1919, the ratifi cation of the 18th

Amendment to the Constitution, which launched Prohibition, was certifi ed by Act-ing Secretary of State Frank L. Polk.In 1936, the fi rst members of baseball’s

Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, N.Y.In 1963, the fi rst members of pro

football’s Hall of Fame were named in Canton, Ohio.In 1979, President Jimmy Carter formally

welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House, following the establishment of diplomatic relations.In 1998, a bomb rocked an abortion clinic

in Birmingham, Ala., killing security guard Robert Sanderson and critically injur-ing nurse Emily Lyons. (The bomber, Eric Rudolph, was captured in May 2003 and is serving a life sentence.)

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Rundown of local meetings in the area:

MONDAYn The Lee County Board of Commission-

ers will meet at 3 p.m. at the Lee County Government Center in Sanford.

n The Chatham County Board of Commis-sioners will meet at 9 a.m. at the Agricul-tural Building Auditorium in Pittsboro.

n The Harnett County Board of Commis-sioners will meet at 9 a.m. at the County Administration Building in Lillington.

n The Moore County Board of Commision-ers will meet at 4 p.m. in Carthage.

n The Siler City Town Board will meet at 7 p.m. at Siler City Town Hall in Siler City.

n The Harnett County Board of Educa-tion will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Lillington Education Building.

On the Agenda

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TODAYn Central Carolina Community College’s

Green Construction class continues work on a Habitat for Humanity home. The class meets 4 p.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at Southern Lee High School and 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays at the construction site in Sanford. New class members are invited, but must have some basic construction knowledge and experience. The class runs through the middle of May and costs $175 plus $1.25 insurance fee. Tuition assistance is available for qualifi ed students. For more information and to register, call 919-775-2122, ext. 7790.

n A groundbreaking ceremony for the Endor Iron Furnace Greenway Trail will be held at 2 p.m. at Riverbirch Corner shopping center. (Rain date is scheduled for Feb. 5).

n Temple Theatre will present the one-man show, “Blood Done Sign My Name,” the best-selling memoir by North Carolina author Tim Tyson adapted for the stage by playwright and actor Mike Wiley. The story focuses on the ra-cially motivated murder of a 23-year-old black U.S. Army veteran and the resulting social upheaval in Oxford. Show time is 8 p.m. For tickets, visit templeshows.com or call (919) 774-4155.

n Liberty Hospice is holding their annual Hospice Training from 6 to 9 p.m. at Liberty Homecare & Hospice Services offi ce located, 401 E. Third St, Siler City. To reserve your spot, contact Cyndi VanHouten at (919) 774-9522.

SATURDAYn The Lee County Quiz Bowl competition

will be held at 10 a.m. at the McSwain Center in Sanford. The contest will feature all four Lee County high schools.


n How can you identify trees when they have no leaves? Join the Grand Trees of Chatham during a free workshop from 1-4 p.m. to fi nd out how buds, bark and twigs can be used to recognize Chatham County’s native trees. The workshop will be held at the Triangle Land Conservancy’s White Pines Nature Preserve south of Pittsboro. Register by calling a(919) 933-3869 or sending an e-mail to [email protected].

n Liberty Hospice is holding their annual Hospice Training at 9 a.m. at Liberty Homec-are & Hospice Services offi ce, 401 E. Third St, Siler City. To reserve your spot, contact Cyndi VanHouten at (919) 774-9522.

SUNDAYn Jonesboro United Methodist Church

will break ground for a new sign donated in memory of Jerry Seaman, a dedicated JUMC member and community volunteer who was well known for his 30 years of service in the city and county school systems. The

groundbreaking ceremony will take place immediately following the 11 a.m. worship celebration. All are welcome to JUMC worship services and the ceremony.


n The Life Ministries for the Covenant and the Stars of Faith are sponsoring a Gospel Singing Festival at the Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center. Doors will open at 4:30 p.m., and the singing will last until 8. More than 10 promi-nent gospel singing groups from across the Carolinas will share their unique harmonies and spiritually uplifting messages with the public. There is no cover charge to attend.

n To benefi t Christians United Outreach Center, the Heartstrings praise band of Jones-boro United Methodist Church will present a public concert at 6 p.m. in the Wesley Center of the church, 407 W. Main Street in Sanford. An item of non-perishable food or a cash donation to CUOC serves as admis-sion to the evening of music and fellowship. For more information call the church offi ce at 775-7023 or go to the JUMC Web site, JonesboroUMC.org.

MONDAYn Lee County High School is having an

open house. Parents may pick up their child’s schedule from 6-6:30 p.m. in the Adminis-

tration Building Lobby. There will be a brief meeting with the administrators for parents in the cafeteria at 6:15 p.m. Parents may go to the classes from 6:30-7:40 p.m. After the last class, there will be refreshments in the Administration Building Lobby.

TUESDAYn There will be a public hearing on the

2010-2011 Community Services Block Grant at 4 p.m. at Johnston-Lee-Harnett Community Action Inc. conference room, 225 S. Steele St., Sanford.

n Four-week golf lessons begin at the Stevens Center, 1576 Kelly Drive in Sanford. For 11-16 year olds, from 6 to 7 p.m. $10 registration. To pre-register, call 776-4048 or visit stevenscenter.org.

WEDNESDAYn Diabetes Support Group will meet at 10

a.m. at the Enrichment Center.

THURSDAYn Grief Support Group will meet at 1 p.m.

at the Enrichment Center.

FEB. 5n Legal Aid Intake Day will be held from

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Enrichment Center. Types of cases accepted will be housing evic-tions, foreclosures, domestic violence, unem-ployment and benefi ts denials. Appointments preferred but walk-ins will be accepted. To schedule an appointment, call 800-672-5834 to be screened.


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Ashley Hughes, 5, laughs as dogs from Tenille and Louis’ Canine Concepts perform on Thursday at Broadway Elementary School for students who met their acceler-ated reader goals for the quarter.

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SANFORD

Endor Greenway groundbreaking planned for today

SANFORD — City govern-ment offi cials will hold a groundbreaking ceremony at 2 p.m. today in the old Elizabeth’s Pizza building (1129 Spring Lane) to mark the beginning of work on the Endor Iron Furnace Greenway Trail.

The fi rst section of the trail, approved in 2008 by the council, will stretch 1.7 miles from the back entrance of Kiwanis Park on Carbonton Road, across U.S. 1, and up to U.S. 421. The eventual plan is for the trail to stretch 28 miles to the Endor Iron Furnace near Cumnock and then back into downtown Sanford.

The public is invited to at-tend the ceremony.

CHATHAM COUNTY

High-speed chase ends in wreck

SILER CITY — A high speed police chase that began in Randolph County ended in Siler City Wednesday with a wreck of the vehicle law enforcement offi cers were pursuing.

Randolph County sheriff’s deputies responded to a home in Asheboro on a break-in in progress call. A woman at the home reported that a white male had en-tered her home by kicking the front door open.

The woman said she was hiding in a bedroom closet while the suspect was inside. The victim told deputies the man took a video camera, a jewelry box, jewelry, and change. She was able to give a description of the suspect and another man who was the driver of the car. As depu-ties arrived in the area, they located the suspects and gave chase.

The chase ended in Siler City when the car crashed into another vehicle which wasn’t involved in the chase.

Tony Lyn Cox, the driver, was charged with breaking and entering, larceny, posses-sion of stolen goods, and fl eeing to elude arrest. He was placed in the Randolph County Jail under $11,000 secured bond.

William Leroy Edwards

III, the man who alleg-edly entered the home, was charged with breaking and entering, larceny and pos-session of stolen goods. He was placed in the Randolph County Jail under $10,000 secured bond. Edwards was treated for minor injuries at Chatham Hospital in Siler City.

Investigators found property taken from the victim’s home in the suspects’ vehicle.

CHATHAM COUNTY

Man charged in Moncure drug sting

PITTSBORO — Chatham County drug agents ar-rested a Moncure man on drug charges after fi nding cocaine, marijuana and a handgun in his home Wednesday.

Gerrall Dangelo Johnson, 21, of 7454 Moncure-Pittsboro Road, Moncure was charged with posses-sion with intent to sell and deliver cocaine, maintaining a dwelling for drugs, posses-sion of cocaine, possession of marijuana, and posses-sion of drug paraphernalia.

During the search, deputies seized 3.7 grams of cocaine, less than an ounce of mari-juana and a .32-caliber hand-gun. Deputies performed the search after receiving information about illegal drug interactions at the residence.

Johnson was placed in the Chatham County Jail under $1,000 secured bond.

—by Gordon Anderson

AROUND OUR AREA CHATHAM COUNTY

School’s namesake Virginia Cross dies From staff reports

CHATHAM COUNTY — Virginia Wrenn Cross, for whom Virginia Cross Elementary School in Siler City is named, died Wednesday.

There will be a public viewing from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday at Smith & Buckner Funeral Home. The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Feb. 1. at First Baptist Church, 314 North Second Avenue in Siler City.

Cross spent her entire teaching career as a third grade teacher in Cha-tham County Schools.

After graduating from Meredith College in 1941, she began teaching at Moncure School, where she lived in the teacher-age.

After two years, Cross moved to Paul Braxton School in Siler City where she continued to teach third grade. In 1977, stu-dents moved into a new elementary school. Cross was a part of the move and taught at Siler City Elementary School until her retirement in June of 1993.

Not one to be away from education for long, she returned to

the school as a reading volunteer until health issues forced her to stop for a time. When the district’s newest elemen-tary school opened with her name in 2007, Cross talked about how the tribute was overwhelm-ing to her.

She noted that it pleased her most to be able to honor her par-ents and the values they instilled in her and her siblings by their own example.

Virginia Cross El-ementary School opened in October of 2007 with Cross greeting students

as they came into their new school for the fi rst time.

Virginia Cross

Results. Not rhetoric.President Obama has given us

plenty of the latter and too little of the former in his year in offi ce, and more was heaped upon us during his State of the Union address Wednesday night. There were hints, though, of contrition and signs the president may be learning on the job and — dare we hope for it — beginning to under-stand what America really needs from its commander-in-chief.

As Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell said in the Republi-can response to the Democratic president’s annual speech to Con-gress, Americans “have made it clear that they want government leaders to listen and act on the is-sues most important to them... We

want results, not rhetoric.”Was the address evidence the

president will fi nally begin to do what he says he’s going to do?

Given his track record, it’s questionable. Under President Obama’s leadership and direction, Washington has become more and more disconnected from the rest of the nation. In taking what it believed was a mandate for change, his administration instead unleashed more government onto the nation in an attempt to address failings of commission (including, it must be noted, some from the Bush administration) and of omission. Along the way, in addition to demonstrating a disregard for the people’s agenda, President Obama seemed to

forget the core elements of many of his campaign promises and, in bait and switch tactics he must have thought the nation wouldn’t recognize, focused too much on priorities too low on most of our lists. Quite simply, the “change” on which Obama campaigned has been for the worse.

And when he has acted de-cisively, it’s been more for show. Case in point: the president’s proposed spending freeze, hyped leading up to the speech and outlined during it. Like many things Obama has promulgated, it sounds much better than it is.

The fact is, although he inherited a slumping economy and Bush-generated defi cits, little President Obama has done or

promised has actually produced fruit. Stimulus packages haven’t generated economic growth, unemployment skyrocketed past the ceiling he promised and defi cit spending continued to spiral out of control.

As he’s tried to move the government in directions vot-ers hadn’t anticipated, President Obama has wasted valuable political capital, alienating more and more of his core support from a year ago and setting him up for a struggle to fi ght the battle on which he should have been focusing more of his attention: the economy.

At one point Wednesday, he talked about “getting serious” about facing the challenges ad-

dressing our country. Where has he been the last 12 months?

President Obama was primed, and could have had, a truly historic term as president. It’s been record-setting, all right, but it’s time to move the needle. The good news is that there are signs President Obama seems to be focused — and has demanded lawmakers’ focus as well — on the subject of jobs. Although predictably short on specif-ics, the president did touch on coming changes that provide much-needed fi nancial breaks to families and the business in the private sector. Once again, it’s a start. Now let’s see if he can fi nally fi nish and make good on those promises.

American people want results, not rhetoricEditorial Board: Bill Horner III, Publisher • Billy Liggett, Editor • R.V. Hight, Special Projects Editor

Desire for new charterschool not a knock onB.T. Bullock Elementary

To the Editor:I was so happy to be quoted

about the movement to have a Montessori charter school here in Lee county, but I wanted to more clearly express my feelings about B.T. Bullock, the elementary school attended by my children.

From the very beginning of their experiences there, Ned, age 9, and Lucie, 6, have fl ourished in the presence of the incredible staff at Bullock. While the chance for them, and all kids in Lee coun-ty, to have the Montessori learning experience would be wonderful, I did not in any way mean to com-municate that I am dissatisfi ed with B. T. Bullock.

How lucky we would be to have the embarrassment of riches of Bullock along with a Montessori Charter school.

AMY WATKINSSanford

County’s use of gaschambers at animalshelter has to stop

To the Editor:I came across some articles

recently about Animal Gas Cham-bers in North Carolina. I am an animal lover and resident of New York City.

I began reading how the gassing is done, from start to fi nish, the process of gassing an animal takes about 25 minutes. One or more animals are placed in an air-tight chamber, and a high concen-tration of bottled carbon monoxide gas is released.

Cats and dogs are rendered unconscious within a minute, then eventually die from lack of oxygen. The animal is in a warm or hot box, usually with other animals. They don’t know what’s going on. The hiss of the gas is going on inside.

They get dizzy, and they panic, fi ghts can break out, and animals’ calls can sometimes be heard.

The American Humane Associa-tion, an animal- and child-welfare nonprofi t, says that lethal injection is the only acceptable method for putting down dogs and cats. It is imperative to have this issue brought to light in North Carolina so these animals can stop suffer-ing.

Lee County is one of 21 animal shelters with gas chambers only in North Carolina.

These issues need to be ad-dressed so something can be done about them. Please shed some light on the horrible death these animals are having and urge shelters to euthanize strays the Humane way.

LAUREN GERARDINew York City

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LETTERS

Letters Policy

The most revealing congressional reac-tion following President Obama’s State of the Union address came from Sen.

Richard Burr of North Carolina: “He sort of took us to the principal’s offi ce, didn’t he?”

And not just Congress, but all of us. The nation’s principal was calm but fi rm. Demo-crats were scolded for their resemblance to frightened rabbits. Republicans were repri-manded for obstructionism and betraying their responsibility to govern. Washington was rebuked for its partisanship and petti-ness. The Supreme Court was taken to task for favoring special interests. The American people were praised for their resilience, and gently chided for their cynicism and misun-derstanding of policy. Everyone was left with a pat on the head, a lesson or a detention.

From the text of the speech itself, it was diffi cult to discern an ideology — not because of its moderation but because of its contradictions. The president took credit for the stimulus package, demanded another one — and called for budget restraint. After a year of delaying other legislative priorities in his single-minded pursuit of health reform, Obama challenged Congress on fi scal reform and other matters: “How long should we wait?” Obama attributed the hated bank bailout to his predecessor — then insisted it had saved the economy, which he chalked up to his own everlasting credit. There were policy proposals along the whole ideologi-cal rainbow: tax increases and tax cuts, new spending and a budget freeze, cap-and-trade and oil exploration.

These tensions were refl ected in the president’s tone. He showed Reagan-like op-timism about America’s future, and Carter-like worry about America’s “defi cit of trust” and “deep and corrosive doubts.” He urged our politics to get beyond “the same tired battles,” while repeatedly returning to those battles in his self-excusing blame of the past. He “will not give up on trying to change the tone of our politics,” while making liberal use of partisan sarcasm.

There was only one theme that united all these various arguments and attitudes — the president’s unshakable self-regard. He admits miscalculations, but he is never wrong. He changes his strategy, but not his mind. On health reform: “I take my share of the blame for not explaining it more clearly to the American people.” If only Obama had made a few more speeches, Americans would have been delivered from their mis-conceptions. Even Obama’s apologies are unapologetic. He is like the job candidate discussing his fl aws during an interview: “I have to admit, I work too hard. I’m too detail-oriented.”

As should be obvious, I fi nd this attitude grating. I’ll take my share of the blame for reacting harshly to politicians who treat citizens as misguided children. Others fi nd Obama’s manner mature and reassuring — convinced the nation needs both presi-dent and principal.

I’ll also admit that in some important areas Obama is right. He has outlined a reasonable compromise on energy policy: promoting nuclear power, expanding oil and gas exploration and moving toward a cap-and-trade system that helps take America beyond a carbon economy. It is an approach that would eventually reduce the strategic infl uence of nations such as Saudi Arabia, Russia and Venezuela — a truly bipartisan goal. And the president is right to push for reform of an immigration system that is eco-nomically counterproductive and morally unsustainable.

But the State of the Union raises serious concerns about Obama’s economic ap-proach. From either a conservative or liberal economic perspective, his proposals seem timid — insuffi cient in scale to encourage a swift return to job creation.

The speech should raise questions among elected Democrats about the quality of Obama’s party leadership.

Obama used the Democratic majority as a foil. On the uninsured, he said, “I will not walk away from these Americans,” imply-ing that less-virtuous Democrats might be tempted. And he offered no path for con-gressional Democrats out of their health reform maze — a maze that seems to have no exit. On health care, Obama preened at the expense of his party.

And the speech raises concerns about Obama’s capacity to be a unifying national leader. An effective leader usually shares the passions and purposes of his countrymen. Rhetorically, Obama attempts to stand above the political process, above his own party, even above the country. He seems isolated in the tower of his own wisdom and purity. He judges. He lectures. We must strive to be worthy of him, not he of us.

Americans, no doubt, deserve some of Principal Obama’s reprimands. But once scolded, will they follow him?

Lessons for America

Court opens the spigot

To hear the cheering in some corners, the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision gutting federal

and state campaign fi nance laws might seem both partisan victory for Republi-cans and a reversal of some liberal shift of the 1960s.

It’s neither. Rather, the 5-4 decision by the

nation’s high court reverses legal precedent and political thought going back more than a century, thought that grew out of a period when industrial-ists robber barons had their way with government and political corruption was rampant.

Gee, sound familiar?Back in those days, one of the biggest

critics of corporate infl uence in politics was that well-known liberal Teddy Roosevelt. These days, it’s that well-known liberal John McCain.

But all those talking heads on cable news channels surely know a lot more than either of those guys.

The Supreme Court decision means that corporations and unions can now pretty much spend any amount of money at any time to try to infl uence an election. The only caveat is that they can’t openly conspire with the candi-dates and their campaign staffs about what to say and how much to spend.

State Board of Elections executive director Gary Bartlett says a North Caro-lina law that had restricted corporate and union sponsored ads that openly endorsed the election or defeat of a candidate now appears unenforceable.

To some self-proclaimed advocates of free speech, who associate billion dollar corporate treasuries with its exercise, striking down those state and federal laws is all good.

Corporations and unions are people too, you know.

OK, so they are associations of individuals. And those individuals have individual rights, including free speech rights. (A bit muddled in the debate is what happens when, in an era of multi-national corporations, some of those individuals are not from Boston, but from Bejing.)

But this new court defense of the unfettered fl ow of money into political campaigning ignores other rights equal-ly important to a functioning democ-racy. The right to vote, to expect that vote to mean something, to legitimately redress government for grievances, can all be drowned out in a system awash in stacks of cash far beyond the average person.

The high court also ignores reality on the ground. That reality, seen every day, is that the more the money spigot is open, the more corruption seeps into every crevice of government.

No one throws $50,000 at something without expecting something in return. John Roberts and Samuel Alito may know the law. They seem poor students of human nature.

Still, there’s no reason to believe that the ruling portends the end of the republic. ...

Excess never goes out of style. Nei-ther does the inevitable public backlash to it.

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David CottinghamSANFORD — David

Forrest Cottingham, 56, died Sunday (1/23/10) at his home.

He was a student at Central Carolina Commu-nity College where he also taught classes. He worked for GKN for 20 years, was a tool and die maker, machin-ist, pipe fi tter, had been in the Navy and was a creden-tialed speaker at the Interna-tional Church of God in Fayetteville. He was preceded in death by his parents, George and Mary Elizabeth Cottingham; a brother, George Ernest Cot-tingham; and a sister, Ada Jean Cottingham.

He is survived by a daughter, Desiree Winters; a son, David Edward Cotting-ham; two grandchildren; and siblings, Elizabeth Gerbozy, Jim Cottingham, Tom Cottingham, Curtis Cottingham, Mary Jane Wren, Margaret Vick, Flo-rance McWilliams, Elaine Sharkawi and Sarah Jo Campbell.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the International Church of God in Fayetteville at the Retired Military Association Building.

Condolences may be made at www.memorial-funeralhomeandcemetery.com.

Arrangements are by Memorial Funeral Home and Cemetery.

Martha PeoplesBEAR CREEK — Martha

Cotton Craven Peoples, 54, of 799 Mays Chapel Church Road, died Saturday (1/23/10) at UNC Hospital in Chapel Hill.

The funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at Lambert Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Siler City. A viewing will be held one hour prior to the service at the church.

Condolences may be made at www.cewilliefuner-alservice.com.

Arrangements are by C.E. Willie Funeral and Cremation Services of Pittsboro.

William LasaterBROADWAY — Funeral

service for William Thomas Lasater, 74, who died Tues-day (1/26/10), was con-ducted Thursday at Juniper Springs Baptist Church with the Rev. Michael Hall offi ciating. Eulogy was by Tom Shaw. Burial followed at Flat Branch Presbyterian

Church Cemetery in Bunn-level. Jerry Lee Parker sang and played the guitar at the graveside.

Pianist was Tom Shaw. Guitarists were Bryan Shaw and John David Shaw. Vo-calist who sang were mem-bers of his family consisting of Bryan Shaw, John David Shaw, Cindy Buchanan, Marianna Shaw and Tom Shaw. Soloist were Bryan Shaw, John David Shaw and Cindy Buchanan.

Pallbearers were Everette Coats, Gary Kelly, Claude Hall, Bobby Beard, Phil Kelly and Daniel Buchanan. Members of the Enrich-ment Center Saturday Night Dance Group and the Anderson Creek Alumni sat together as a group.

Arrangements were by Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home, Inc. of Sanford.

Preston ChildressCAMERON — Preston

Childress died Thursday (1/28/10) at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital.

Arrangements will be an-nounced by Fry and Prickett Funeral Home of Carthage.

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sleet, freezing rain and snow several times, he said, bringing two to six inches of snow and up to 3/8 inch of ice. He said this could be followed by extremely cold temperatures and winds blowing from 10-15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.

Accumulations of snow and ice are ex-pected to adversely im-pact travel and poten-tially result in downed trees and powerlines. After the precipitation sets in tonight, tem-peratures are expected to remain near or below freezing through mid-day Monday, the NWS reports.

A few local activi-ties have already been affected by the storm prediction.

Tonight’s Lee County High School basket-ball game has been postponed until Feb. 4. Southern Lee High School basketball regularly scheduled for tonight was played Thursday and wrestling matches were canceled.

The annual Lee County Quiz Bowl, which will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the McSwain Center, could

be postponed if the storm hits hard, said Jennifer Gillis with the Lee County Library. She said Thursday she’d wait until this after-noon to make a deci-sion.

And the ground-breaking of the Endor Iron Furnace Greenway Trail is scheduled for 2 p.m. today, though bad weather could push the event to its Feb. 5 rain date.

Kelly Wright, mar-keting director of the Temple Theatre, said she would be “shocked” if the theater canceled shows this weekend, because those involved with the show are stay-ing in the area. The weather could affect ticket sales, however.

Though the two oth-er predicted snow and ice “storms” this season brought little of either to the area, Seagroves said his team is prepar-ing for the worst.

“We’re going to hope that it completely miss-es us,” he said of the storm, though they’re fearing the storm could be followed by steady wind.

“That could cause some serious problems for us,” he said, refer-ring to the potential of ice-laden tree branches brought down by gusts of wind. He said the storm also could bring large amounts of snow.

North Carolina De-partment of Transporta-tion crews are working to pretreat roads and

bridges. They plan to continue spraying salt brine on these heavily traveled roads until precipitation starts falling.

Crews are also checking equipment such as plows and spreaders and prepar-ing to work special shifts to conduct snow removal.

DRIVING TIPS FROM NCDOTMotorists are asked to give snow plows and other

NCDOT equipment plenty of room and to avoid unneces-sary travel.

n If travel is unavoidable, clear windows and mirrors and reduce speed

n Leave plenty of room between your car and other vehicles

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The speech was all fl owery words and no solutions. It was typi-cal Obama-speak — all style and no substance. It was really a campaign speech.

His fuzzy math really bothered me when he said his administration has created or saved two million jobs. First of all, you can never validate how many jobs you’ve saved. And second, all of the growth has been in government. I wish he’d have been honest and said that all the jobs cre-

ated have been govern-ment jobs.

Q: Was there any-thing about the speech that you

liked or were surprised by?

A: What surprised me was when the president came

out in favor of nuclear power, clean coal and offshore drilling. That is defi nitely something on a bipartisan basis that will help us with our energy problems. I don’t know if that was just something he threw into the speech to make people happy, but I hope something comes of that. That was the only thing I connected with.

Q: What is your re-action to Virginia Gov. Bob McDon-

nell’s response?

A: What impressed me the most was that Gov. McDon-

nell looked straight at the camera. The presi-dent uses teleprompt-ers for everything, so he’s always looking to the left and the right and not straight at the viewer. The governor did that, and it was very powerful.

Beyond that, he just said things that made sense. People don’t want to be governed from the left or the right or the center — they want to be self-governed. The governor really struck a chord with that message.

getting past the gridlock that’s dominating Wash-ington right now.

I appreciated that message to the GOP, which was ‘you own this government too, and it’s time for you to do something. No isn’t always an answer.’

I appreciated that with everything going on, he was able to be a little light-hearted

about what goes on in Washington. While it’s certainly not a game, it was good to see a little levity. Sometimes it’s good humor and some-times he has to push back hard against the people who are trying to push him.

Q: Was there anything about the speech that

disappointed or both-ered you?

A: I think he could have been a little harder on the Re-

publicans. If they’re go-ing to stand in the way of meaningful health care reform, he could have asked what they’re going to offer instead. They’re not in support of trying to push any-thing forward. But I also understand that he was trying to move forward from the gridlock, and I

appreciate that. It’s very presidential.

Q: What is your reaction to Vir-ginia Gov. Bob

McDonnell’s response?

A: I wasn’t sur-prised by any-thing he said.

This notion of slowing down, doing less — it’s a mantra that’s old in the GOP, but it doesn’t solve problems and it’s typical. It just spoke to this notion the governor has that the country wants something dif-ferent — and we do. We want a health care sys-tem that works, protec-tion from our enemies and the chance to get an education that we don’t have to mortgage our future for.

Unfortunately, the Republican Party offers us no solutions as far as getting us to these goals.

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Teen charged with armed robbery

SANFORD — City police charged a teen-ager with armed robbery Wednesday.

Ricky Brown Jr., 17, of 504 Bragg St. was charged Wednesday with robbery with a dangerous weapon.

Brown is accused of robbing Kendrick Smith at gunpoint on Jan. 18 in the vicinity of 1116 Walden St. Brown was arrested in June of 2009 on charges of assault and fi ring into occupied property in con-nection with a shooting.

He was placed in the Lee County Jail under $100,000 secured bond.

—by Gordon Anderson

Lee Countyn Christopher Shane

Brown, 21, of 4409 Buck-horn Road was charged Wednesday with pos-session of a fi rearm by felon. He was placed in Lee County Jail without bond.

n Stewart James Tyner, 20, of 3812 Woodside Drive was charged Wednes-day with possession of a fi rearm by felon. He was placed in Lee County Jail without bond.

n Robert A. Lanane of 320 Thomas Road reported Wednesday that someone took three TVs, two com-puters, jewelry, and medi-cation from his residence.

Harnett Countyn John Phillip Camp-

bell, 30, of 550 Neill’s

Creek Road, Lillington was charged Tuesday with failure to appear. He was placed in Harnett County Jail under $150 secured bond.

n Amber Elizabeth Barile, 18, of 400 Clark Road, Lillington was charged Tuesday with lar-ceny, possession of stolen goods and conspiracy to commit larceny. She was placed in Harnett County Jail under $50,000 secured bond.

n Brittney Dawn McLamb, 20, of 215 Claude White Road, Cameron was charged Tuesday with larceny. She was placed in Harnett County Jail under $250 secured bond.

n Maurice Devonte Pur-cell, 19, of Lizzie Jeter Lane, Cameron was charged Tuesday with assault on a female and two counts of failure to appear. He was placed in Harnett County Jail under $100,000 secured bond.

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Chatham Countyn Tonya Harrington, 38,

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Dr. Brian Torgerson, his wife Candy (a registered nurse), four other Sanford doctors — Dr. Dean Kesler (OB/GYN), Dr. Marty Pate (gastroenterology), Dr. Steve Jurisich (general surgery) and Dr. Mike Tyler (family practice) — and three other registered nurses (Lizlie Suits, Sara Young and Emily Wallace) will join four pharmacists (led by John Triplett of Kerr Drug in Sanford), a children’s minister and the Rev. Rudy Holland, pastor of Grace Chapel Church, for the trip.

They will stay long enough at the Score International facilities in Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic to organize and further plan for the mis-sion before traveling to the town of Jimani, located on the Haitian-Dominican border, about 25 miles east of Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital and the proxim-ity of the epicenter of the earthquake, which killed at least 120,000 people.

“The human suffer-ing is immeasurable and the need so great,” Dr. Torgenson said. “I feel our experienced team is up to the challenge. We have been overwhelmed by the support of this commu-nity, both spiritually and fi nancially.”

He said because of that support, they’ve been able to purchase life-saving medical/surgical supplies and vital oral and intra-venous antibiotics, which are in such short supply in Haiti. Supplies have been donated by Medicine Park pharmacy, Cooper Phar-macy in Vass, the Helping Hand Clinic in Sanford and Central Carolina Hospital. The hospital has donated large quantities of surgical supplies.

“We ask for the prayers and continued support from our community,” he added.

Holland, who has participated in the medical mission trip for years, said the team is ready to not only assist in the humani-tarian need, but also the spiritual need in the devas-tated region.

“This is always part of our mission, and it will certainly be during the trip this year,” he said.

In addition, a group of 35 nurse anesthetist stu-dents and faculty members

from Union University in Tennessee will accompany the team to Jimani. All of the students are already registered nurses or nurse practitioners who are go-ing on to become nurse anesthetists.

A group from Union has participated in the prior medical missions orga-nized by Grace and know what to expect. According to Dr. Torgerson and oth-ers, those from Union are exceptionally valuable on these trips.

WHERE THEY’LL STAYSurrounding Jimani,

where the team will be staying, are many small villages also struck by the earthquake. At last report, some of the villages are still isolated and have not received aid of any kind. Tens of thousands of refugees are streaming out of Port-au-Prince toward the smaller villages in rural Haiti and the Dominican border.

The facility the team will staff has been inun-

dated with casualties as well as infectious diseases. Amputations are being performed routinely on infected open/compound fractures and crush inju-ries. There is a need for food, water, shelter, I.V. and oral antibiotics and other medical and surgical supplies.

The trip has been coor-dinated with Score Inter-national and Moises Sifren Juan, a hospital adminis-trator in La Romana in the Dominican Republic. This hospital has been used for surgical cases on prior trips. He has arranged for the team to go to the sister facility in Jimani.

The accommodations at Jimani will be very modest at best. The team expects to be provid-ing treatments 24/7 and sleeping in shifts on cots or fl oors and perhaps under a tent. Food and water will be furnished by World Vision International and other organizations. The team expects to be there for about fi ve days.

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Looking over some of the medical supplies that will be transported with the medical mission team from San-ford are (from left to right) Joel Murr, short-term mission trip director at Grace Chapel Church; Rudy Holland, pas-tor of Grace Chapel and Candy Torgerson, RN and Grace Christian School nurse.

possible,” she said to the students. “We defi nitely gear everything to your needs.”

Andrews said it’s key to address college prepara-tion and career paths at an early age.

“There’s so many choices. They need to hear it more than one time,” she said.

She also emphasized the importance of ad-vanced placement, honors and weighted courses be-cause the state is pushing kids to take more rigorous classes, she said.

Counseling and regis-teration are usually done in a mass setting, but Andrews said she’d like to change that.

“We’re going to see every kid individually. That’s my goal,” she said. The students she met with Thursday are those who will come to her for advising during their time at the school.

After learning about classes, students took a tour of the school’s campus. Because LCHS is spread out and disconnected, it can be daunting as a freshman, said tour guide and LCHS senior Taylar Ingersoll.

“It can be really confus-ing because it’s such a big, open campus,” she said. “I was afraid my freshman year. I think it’s important that they get to walk around and see everything.”

John Haas, a substitute teacher at East Lee who took the tour with his students, said he appreciates that the schools offer both tradition-al college prep and career and technical options.

“Things are being directed that way because that’s where a lot of people need to go,” he said. “This school seems to have a lot of opportunities. I think that’s good for the kids, too, because not every child is going to go to a four-year college. There are other ways to be successful.”

The students were given plenty of information about their high school careers and East Lee student Brandon Smith, 14, of Sanford said he learned a lot from Andrews about planning.

“My plans are to do ROTC. I wanted to do it for all four years,” he said.

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DURHAM — The iPad — the new mobile device introduced by Apple to great fanfare Wednesday — could be more than just another way to check your e-mail or play video games.

It has the potential to change the way teachers teach and students learn.

“This could be ex-traordinarily useful in an educational environment,” said Lynne O’Brien, direc-tor of Academic Technolo-gy & Instructional Services at Duke University. “In an educational environment, a lot of what people do is reading, but a device that lets you also work with text and visual materials, that allows you to pull up reference materials, for instance, has tremendous potential.

“This would accelerate the trend of the grow-ing use of multimedia

in teaching and learn-ing, allowing students and researchers to, say, examine photos and maps as they’re checking texts,” O’Brien added. “This might have the potential to pull all of those things together in a really conve-nient way.”

The news about the iPad, which is larger but similar in design to Apple’s popular iPhone, was a major topic of conversa-tion across local campuses Wednesday.

Paul Jones, director of the UNC Chapel Hill-based ibiblio.org digital archive, said many people were waiting to see exactly what the device would be like.

“It might be able to bring together several different kinds of activi-ties, and be something more than just an e-book reader,” Jones said. “It’s likely to be successful because it’s something slightly different, a step up

from the readers or tablets we’ve had.”

Academic circles have been abuzz over the po-tential prospects for some time.

An education blogger for the Inside Higher Ed Web site suggested that the device could combine course materials and col-laboration tools, bringing the futuristic vision of a “cloud-based, disaggregat-

ed, open educational ex-perience” one step closer to realization. Another expert wrote that it “could replace the conventional classroom.”

The device could also lower the cost of textbooks, said Kevin Smith, the scholarly communication offi cer at Duke.

“E-books are now a relatively small part of the market,” Smith said. “That’s because they have some built-in limitations and can’t really compete with print. You gener-ally only have temporary access, unlike when you buy print and you have it forever. But in many fi elds students want down-loads, where they could keep the material and make their annotations and be able to keep them. They could refer back to their notes, and that would be very valuable.”

Smith said he himself had been at the cusp of wanting to buy an e-book reader. “But now I am go-ing to wait,” he said. “This sounds really cool.”

O’Brien said the iPad

could be “a breakthrough technology, “much more than an e-book reader and more than a netbook.”

“On a campus, mobility is absolutely a huge, huge, trend, and this fi ts right in there,” she said. “This could change the para-digm.”

At the Apple store at the Southpoint mall Wednes-day afternoon, Matthew Beechhold of Chapel Hill said he was ready to buy an iPad when it becomes available this spring.

“It’s supposed to be like a giant iPhone and that’s been really suc-cessful,” said Beechhold, who works in the hospital and health care industry as a consultant. “I’d be interested. I would love to see something replace our PC-based technology.”

Jones is also a fan of Apple products.

“One of my goals in life is to be rich enough so that I could have an ac-count with Apple,” he said. “That way, whatever they develop they can just take money out of there and send me what it is.”

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Teachers see iPad’s potential in the classroomShiny gadget, icky name: iPad jokes fl y on Web

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — You have to wonder whether there were any women in the room when the marketing geniuses at Apple decided to call the company’s new gadget the “iPad.” Because the jokes about feminine hy-giene products are fl ying.

“Will women send their husbands to the Apple store to buy iPads?” went one joke on Twitter. And a “MadTV” comedy sketch from several years ago about an electronic sanitary napkin called the iPad went viral on YouTube.

So how did the company come up with the product name? And how could Apple have set itself up for such obvious punch lines?

Apple, a company notoriously secret about its product development process, declined to com-ment about the name or how many women were involved in the launch. Three Apple execs — all men — introduced the iPad at its unveiling in San Francisco.

But brand experts said the name’s not so bad.

“It fi ts with what Apple’s been doing con-sistently. They take literal words that exist and stick an ‘i’ in front of it. And it works for them. It’s not offensive despite the silly jokes,” said Tye Heckler, a vice president at Seattle-based Hecker Associates, which is responsible for the store names Cinna-bon, Panera and Star-bucks.

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Easley aide released after appearance

RALEIGH (AP) — A judge has decided that former North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley’s personnel assistant and special counsel while in offi ce can remain free while his corruption case is handled in federal court.

Federal agents escorted a handcuffed Ruffi n Poole into the courthouse in Raleigh on Thursday. He was indicted a week ago on 51 charges.

U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle released Poole on a $50,000 unsecured bond pending a potential trial. No future court date was set.

Blue Cross pays $95K penalty onillegal robocalls

RALEIGH (AP) — North Car-olina’s largest health insurer paid $95,000 to resolve a dispute with the state over 100,000 “robocalls” push-ing the company’s views on the national health care debate, offi cials for the state and the company said Thursday.

Attorney General Roy Cooper’s offi ce released a settlement agreement with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina. The dispute centered on a wave of calls last fall by an outside political consultant, Raleigh-based Campaign Connections.

The agreement said Blue Cross didn’t believe it delib-erately broke state laws that govern such mass dialings and that any error was tech-nical in nature.

Bill: DoD should care for Lejeune water victims

WILMINGTON (AP) — A Democrat-sponsored bill has replaced a Republican state senator’s plan that called for the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide health care to veterans and their relatives who were exposed to contami-nated water at Camp Lejeune.

Water was contaminated by a variety of known toxins at the base’s major fam-ily housing areas. Health offi cials believe as many as 1 million people may have been exposed to the toxins before the wells were closed 22 years ago.

N.C. to get $545M to upgrade rail corridor

DURHAM (AP) — North Carolina will get $545 million in federal stimulus funds to speed passenger trains between Charlotte and Raleigh, and beyond the state capital for connections to Washington, D.C.

The White House said Thursday $520 million will pay for dozens of projects to increase rail speeds between the state’s two largest cities to as much as 90 mph. Another $75 million would be used for improve-ments in Virginia to expand a Southeast rail network from Washington to Atlanta and beyond.

The money comes from $8 billion in competitive grants distributed among 31 states building high-speed-rail cor-ridors.

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North Carolina’s highest court will hear arguments next month about two convicted murderers who argue that the life sen-tences they received in the 1970s are now complete, offi cials said Thursday.

Shaula Brannan, as-sistant clerk at the state Supreme Court, said the court has scheduled arguments in the cases of Alford Jones and Faye Brown for Feb. 16. A judge ruled in December that both Jones and Brown

should be immediately set free, although state lawyers have managed to keep them behind bars by appealing the cases.

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inmates could immedi-ately qualify for release if the state is forced to apply credits earned behind bars to reduce the length of sentences. Many more could be released in the months and years to come.

While the state at-torney general’s offi ce has suffered a string of court losses in trying to keep the inmates in custody, they did win favor with one judge. Superior Court

Judge Gentry Caudill determined last month that the Department of Correction secretary has discretion in how to award good behavior credits, and said the sec-retary has decided not to apply those discounts to release the “life” prison-ers early.

Brown is currently be-ing held at Raleigh Correc-tional Center for Women. She was sentenced for her role in the shooting death of a state trooper during a bank robbery in 1975.

WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — Using prayer to open a North Carolina county board of commis-sioners meeting violates the First Amendment, a federal judge ruled Thurs-day, adopting recommen-dations made earlier by a magistrate judge.

“The Supreme Court has also emphasized that such legislative prayers must not advance a particular faith or belief, because to do so would have the effect of affi liat-ing the Government with that particular faith or belief in violation of the Establishment Clause,” U.S. District Judge James A. Beaty Jr. wrote.

His fi ve-page deci-

sion requires the Forsyth County board of com-missioners to stop its pre-meeting prayers.

The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina in March 2007 fi led a lawsuit on behalf of two Forsyth County residents who said many of the commission’s meetings opened with Christian-themed prayers.

Janet Joyner and Con-stance Lynn Blackmon also are members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a religious liberty watchdog group based in Washington, D.C., that helped with the case.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confi rmed Ben Bernanke for a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve.

The Senate voted 70-30 on Thursday to reappoint Bernanke amid criticism of his judgment ahead of the fi nancial crisis and his sup-port for massive Wall Street bailouts. His supporters credited him for engineering a fi nancial industry rescue in time to prevent a catastroph-ic collapse.

The vote was the closest ever for a nominee for Fed chairman. It came amid roiling public anger over the economy and stubbornly high unemployment that fueled a populist backlash against Bernanke. No Fed chairman has been rejected in the Senate.

Bernanke’s current term expires Sunday.

White House doles out $8 billion for fast trains

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is doling out $8 billion in grants for high-speed rail projects, an initia-tive touted as a jobs creator.

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden announced the grants at a town hall-style meeting in Tampa, Fla., Thursday — a

follow-up appearance to the president’s State of the Union address. The adminis-tration says the rail projects will save or create tens of thousands of jobs.

Thirteen rail corridors in 31 states will receive funds. Projects in California, Florida and Illinois are among the big winners.

Though the White House billed the program as “high-speed rail,” most of the trains won’t reach the speeds seen in Europe and Asia.

Toyota pedal maker says making redesigned pedals

WASHINGTON (AP) — The company that makes the gas pedal systems implicated in Toyota’s big recall says it is working with the automaker on a fi x.

CTS Corp. offi cials say they have ramped up production at three factories to manufac-ture redesigned pedals. The pedals are meant to solve problems with condensation that Toyota has said can cause them to react slowly when a driver presses on the gas. In rare cases, the gas pedals can get stuck.

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Jobless claims point to weak growthWASHINGTON (AP)

— Evidence that the eco-nomic rebound remains sluggish emerged from reports Thursday on new claims for unemployment aid and orders to U.S. factories.

The number of people claiming jobless aid fell last week, but less than expected. And orders for big-ticket manufactured goods rose but also fell short of analysts’ predic-tions.

Weak job creation, in particular, is restraining consumer spending and holding back the econom-ic recovery.

The reports follow President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Wednesday night, which focused on the economy and jobs. Obama called on Congress to enact a second stimulus package, urging that it contain help for small businesses and funding for infrastructure projects.

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short-term interest rate it controls at a record-low level of nearly zero and pledged to keep it there for “an extended period.”

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claims, the Labor De-partment said fi rst-time claims dropped 8,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 470,000. Analysts had expected a steeper drop to 450,000, accord-ing to Thomson Reuters.

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days in the state agencies that process the claims, a Labor Department analyst said. Those delays may still be affecting the data, the analyst said.

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Lowe’s employee Hank Fletcher, bottom, shows a washer/dryer set to Roy Doyle at a Lowe’s store in North Little Rock, Ark. The Commerce Department report on orders to factories for manufactured goods rose 0.3 percent in December.

The Sanford Herald / Friday, January 29, 2010 / 11AEntertainmentFILM REVIEW

By NEIL MORRISThe Reel Deal

In the timewaster “When in Rome,” Josh Duhamel plays

a sportswriter whose erstwhile football career ended when he was struck by lightning dur-ing a game. Amazingly, this ultimately irrelevant factoid is not the strang-est part of this awful fi lm — not by a long shot.

For starters, this lat-est cinematic IED from “director” Mark Steven Johnson (Ghost Rider; Daredevil) is another incarnation of the insidi-ously fashionable prem-ise of the hardnosed, talented working girl whose life is nonetheless an abject failure because she hasn’t gotten hitched yet. Let me say it here and now — henceforth, no fi lm with this plotline will ever get a positive review out of me.

Oh, if only the incom-petence stopped there. While in Rome for her sis-ter’s whirlwind wedding to a stereotypical Italian hot-blood, Beth (Kristen Bell) – a chronically single New York City-based art curator – meets-cute with the hunk of her dreams, Nick (Josh Duhamel), at least until Beth spies Nick smooching some bella donna. It doesn’t take a genius to fi gure out that the Italian lady in the red

dress will turn out to be some friend or relative, and, thus, where the story of Beth and Nick is headed.

That, however, is when the banal turns bizarre. In a fi t of self-pity, Beth pilfers three “magic” coins (and one poker chip) out of a Fountain of Love. Seems idiotic legend holds that doing so means the person who tossed it in will fall hope-lessly in love with you.

Set aside the crippling coincidence that the four coins Beth pinches all be-long to men living in New York City. What is just as off-putting as the folly that a woman is eternally defi cient until she has a man steered her life’s ship is the notion that any man consumed with undying love is essentially a stalker. In Beth’s im-broglio, she must suffer the obsessive affections of a street magician (Jon Heder), an Italian sketch artist (Will Arnett), a sausage magnate (Danny De Vito), and an ad body model (Dax Shepard, the lone oasis in this comedic wasteland), all whom are able to track Beth down whenever and wherever.

Whose love is for real? Will Beth and Nick get to-gether? How will I ever get back the 85-felt-like-185 minutes I spent watching this junk? Of course, what should you expect be-sides a cinematic cow pie from the screenwriting team behind “The Family Man,” “Evolution,” and the retched “Old Dogs?”

This fi lm’s surreal ten-or is a slipshod stab at a Bollywood-style romantic farce, an allusion driven home by the song-and-dance routine the cast performs over the closing credits, which is a Bol-lywood staple. It’s the best part of “When in Rome” — the actors fi nally seem to be having some fun, and the audience fi nally gets to bolt for the theater exit.

A stunning directorial debut The best war mov-

ies don’t always take place on the

battlefield.Film classics such as

“The Best Years of Our Lives,” “Coming Home,” “The Deer Hunter,” and “Born on the Fourth of July” are grounded in the unfortunate truth that the theater of war extends from the front-line to the home front. Even still, the backdrop for “The Messenger,” writer-director Oren Moverman’s astonish-ing debut, is especially resonant (and cinemati-cally uncharted). The film follows two soldiers assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service, responsible for visiting and informing families of the deaths of their loved ones.

Before even a modi-cum of character de-velopment, this is a profound premise. These “messengers” are themselves soldiers must repeatedly re-suffer their own wounds and de-mons through experienc-ing the raw grief of oth-ers. In many instances, the mere sight of them standing on a doorstep is enough to provoke grown men into fits of unbridled anguish.

One of the soldiers is

Sgt. Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), a highly decorated, seriously wounded, and psycho-logically scarred Iraq war vet winding down his remaining months of enlistment. His part-ner is Cpt. Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), a thrice-divorced recover-ing alcoholic ramrod who represses his own demons behind a façade of carefully proscribed Army protocols: Never touch the family mem-bers; use only clear words like “died” and “killed” in order to avoid the vagaries of euphe-misms such as “gone” or “fallen”; etc.

Early scenes in which Montgomery and Stone carry out their sad duty during a series of

home visits — and, in one case, inadvertently encounter the parents of a fallen solider in a grocery store — are the film’s heart-wrenching emotional core. Mover-man’s deft presentation keeps these honest and moving moments from becoming manipulative or polemical.

During one notifi-cation, Montgomery becomes drawn to Olivia (Samantha Morton), a war widow, and their re-lationship skirts proce-dural and ethical bound-aries. Moverman lingers over this subplot to the point that it becomes a tedious guessing game of “will they are won’t they” (and “should or shouldn’t they”). Ulti-mately, however, Mont-gomery and Olivia (and Stone, for that matter) are all lost souls whose

pain shares a common origin, each searching for the solace of a kin-dred spirit.

Besides its affect-ing subject-matter, the strength of “The Messenger” is its en-semble cast. Not since “The People vs. Larry Flynt” has Harrelson been this good, running the emotional gambit to play the tortured, complex Stone. Morton continues to solidify her standing as one of our best, most underrated actresses. But, this film truly belongs to Foster, who previously turned heads with roles in “Alpha Dog” and “3:10 to Yuma.” Here, the young method actor effort-lessly disappears into his role, producing the sort of stellar, transcen-dent performance that defines and catapults careers.

“The Messenger” makes an interesting companion to “The Hurt Locker,” the two being the most mature films yet set against the backdrop of the Iraq war. While “Hurt Locker” is largely defined by its milieu, the message of “The Messenger” applies just as intensely to any military conflict during any era.

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‘Catcher in the Rye’ author Salinger diesBy HILLEL ITALIEAP National Writer

NEW YORK — J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose “The Catcher in the Rye” shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91.

Salinger died of natural causes at his home on Wednesday, the author’s son, actor Matt Salinger, said in a statement from Salinger’s longtime liter-ary representative, Harold Ober Associates, Inc. He had lived for decades in self-imposed isolation in a small, remote house in Cornish, N.H.

“The Catcher in the

Rye,” with its immortal teenage protagonist, the twisted, rebellious Holden Caulfi eld, came out in 1951, a time of anxious, Cold War conformity and the dawn of modern adolescence. The Book-of-the-Month Club, which made “Catcher” a fea-tured selection, advised that for “anyone who has ever brought up a son” the novel will be “a source of wonder and delight — and concern.”

Enraged by all the “phonies” who make “me so depressed I go crazy,” Holden soon became American literature’s most famous anti-hero since Huckleberry Finn. The novel’s sales are aston-ishing — more than 60

million copies worldwide — and its impact incalcu-lable. Decades after pub-lication, the book remains a defi ning expression of that most American of dreams: to never grow up.

Salinger was writing for adults, but teenagers from all over identifi ed with the novel’s themes of alienation, innocence and fantasy, not to mention the luck of having the last word. “Catcher” presents the world as an ever-so-unfair struggle between the goodness of young people and the corruption of elders, a message that only intensifi ed with the oncoming generation gap.

Novels from Evan Hunter’s “The Blackboard Jungle” to Curtis Sitten-

feld’s “Prep,” movies from “Rebel Without a Cause” to “The Breakfast Club,” and countless rock ’n’ roll songs echoed Salinger’s message of kids under siege. One of the great anti-heroes of the 1960s, Benjamin Braddock of “The Graduate,” was but a blander version of Salinger’s narrator.

“‘Catcher in the Rye’ made a very powerful and surprising impression on me,” said Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon, who read the book, as so many did, when he was in middle school. “Part of it was the fact that our seventh grade teacher was actu-ally letting us read such a book. But mostly it was

because ‘Catcher’ had such a recognizable au-thenticity in the voice that even in 1977 or so, when I read it, felt surprising and rare in literature.”

“Many readers were created by ‘The Catcher in The Rye,’ and many writ-ers, too,” said “Everything Is Illuminated” novelist Jonathan Safran Foer. “He and his characters em-bodied a kind of American resistance that has been sorely missed these last few years, and will now be missed even more.”

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FIGURE SKATING

KERRIGAN’S FATHER HONORED AS FAMILY MAN

STONEHAM, Mass. (AP) — The father of fi gure skater Nancy Kerrigan was remembered by family and friends at a funeral Thursday as a family man who went out of his way for his three children and as a key to his daughter’s accomplishments.

More than 100 people at-tended a private service at St. Patrick Church in Stoneham. Friends and family paid tribute through somber readings and praise, and Jim Day, a family friend, eulogized Kerrigan by saying he set an example to his children and always put his family fi rst.

NFL

OCHOCINCO WANTS TO KICK IN PRO BOWL

CINCINNATI (AP) — Chad Ocho-cinco wants to show a Pro Bowl audience that he can kick it as well as catch it.

The Bengals receiver did some kickoffs Thursday during practice for the Pro Bowl in Miami, hoping to convince the coaches that he’s capable of going toe-to-toe in the all-star game.

Ochocinco told The Associated Press in a phone interview after practice that he’s planning to kick fi eld goals during practice on Friday. He’s hoping to persuade AFC coaches that he could be more than a just receiver during the game on Sunday.

CARDINALS CONFIRM WARNER APPEARANCE

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Cardinals and Kurt Warner have scheduled a news conference for 1 p.m. MST on Friday amid widespread speculation that the 38-year-old quarterback will announce his retirement from football.

The news conference fi rst was announced by Warner’s agent, Mark Bartelstein, on Wednes-day and was confi rmed, with details, in a Cardinals news release on Thursday.

It will be held in the team’s training center auditorium, a fa-cility used for major announce-ments.

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NBA

SPURS’ PARKER TO MISS SEVERAL GAMES

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — San An-tonio Spurs guard Tony Parker is expected to miss several games because of a mild left ankle sprain.

The Spurs said Thursday that the swelling in Parker’s ankle was minimal after being carried off the court Wednesday night in a win over Atlanta. No struc-tural damage was found.

SOUTHERN LEE BASKETBALL


Southern Lee’s Devan Daniel goes up for the shot as Gray’s Creek defenders try to converge during Thurs-day night’s game in Sanford

Lady Cavs slip by Bears


Southern Lee’s Josh Mellete looks for an opening as he makes his way past Gray’s Creek in Thursday night’s late game in Sanford.

By RYAN [email protected]

SANFORD — Donna Taylor saw something that she hasn’t seen from the Southern Lee Lady Cava-liers in quite some time.

The Lady Cavaliers put a complete game to-gether and played with intensity for all four quarters during their 46-41 vic-tory over Cape Fear Valley Conference foe Gray’s Creek on Thursday night in Sanford.

Taylor thinks that if the Cavaliers can

fi nish out the remainder of the conference season with that same enthusiasm, then they can beat anyone.

“I was real pleased with our hustle and inten-sity,” said Taylor. “I told our girls that if they play like every game, we can win every game. It doesn’t matter when it happens, all that matters is that it happened. Things are starting to click for us at the right time.”

Deaconsstung by Yellow Jackets

ATLANTA (AP) — D’Andre Bell led a balanced offense with 16 points, Derrick Favors blocked fi ve shots and No. 22 Georgia Tech pulled away early in the second half Thursday night for a 79-58 rout of Wake Forest.

Coming off a tough loss at Florida State, the Yellow Jackets (15-5, 4-3 Atlantic Coast Conference) ripped off a 19-4 run to break open a tight game. As usual in its ACC victories, Georgia Tech did its best work at the defensive end, holding the Demon Dea-cons (14-5, 4-3) almost 19 points below their scoring average for the season.

Wake Forest shot just 33 percent from the fi eld (21 of 64) and had only two players in double fi gures: Al-Farouq Aminu with 15 points and Ishmael Smith with 12.

Georgia Tech spread the offense around. Gani Lawal had 14 points and Brian Oliver added 13, while Iman Shumpert and Favors chipped in with 11 each. Favors and Lawal also had nine rebounds apiece, leading the Yellow Jackets to a 43-34 edge on the boards.

After the Deacons scored the fi rst two bas-kets of the second half to close a six-point defi cit to 35-33, Georgia Tech took control.

Lawal got it started, hit-ting a shot on the inside, drawing a foul on Aminu and knocking down the free throw to complete the three-point play. Shumpert followed with a 3-pointer, then swished a smooth jumper. Just like that, Georgia Tech had its fi rst double-digit lead of the night, 45-35.

The Yellow Jackets didn’t let up — at either end. Lawal got loose on the inside for a dunk, Oli-ver knocked down another 3, Favors went back inside for another easy one and Bell closed out the run with a pair of free throws.

Wake Forest, on the other hand, missed seven of eight shots from the fi eld and four straight free throws, allowing Georgia Tech to make it a laugher.See Cavs, Page 3B

SUPER BOWL XLIV

Who Dat gonna own this phrase?

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In this Thursday fi le photo, a store front displays “Who Dat!” t-shirts for sale in New Orleans.

By ALAN SAYREAP Business Writer

NEW ORLEANS — Who owns Who Dat?

Some small New Orleans T-shirt makers are asking that question after they were hit with cease-and-desist letters demanding that they stop sell-ing shirts with the traditional cheer of New Orleans Saints fans. The National Football League says the shirts infringe on a legal trademark it owns. Separately, two brothers and longtime Saints fans claim they own the phrase, which has been around longer than the

team itself.In full, the chant is: “Who

dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints,” but it’s often shortened to just the two words on shirts and signs.

Shirts bearing the Saints cheer are big business with the team preparing to appear in its fi rst-ever Super Bowl. The Saints play the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV on Feb. 7 in Miami.

Lauren Thom, owner of the Fleurty Girl T-shirt shop in New Orleans, said Thursday that she recently received a letter from

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NASCARGet in the driver’s seat for The Herald

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Are you a NASCAR fanatic? Think you have what it takes to be on our panel? If so, and if you want to try it out, write to us.

Tell us in 50 words or less why you love your favorite driver. Then tell us in 50 words or less what it is about your least favorite driver that makes you root against him.

Also tell us in 50 words or less what you think is the biggest issue facing the sport of NASCAR today.

Entries will be judged on creativity, racing knowl-edge and writing ability. The three winners will be e-mailed weekly ques-tions by Monday morning following each race during the season, beginning the day after the Daytona 500 on Feb. 15. Winners will each receive a $100 prize.

Entries must include your name, age, daytime telephone number, ad-dress and e-mail address. E-mail your entries to Sports Editor Alex Pod-logar at [email protected]. Entries are due on Feb. 10.

CALENDAR

Friday, Jan 29

Boys BasketballGrace Christian at Lee

Christian 7:30 p.m.Girls BasketballGrace Christian at Lee

Christian 6 p.m.

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Carolina Hurricanes’ Eric Staal, right, celebrates his goal with Joni Pitkanen (25), from Finland, and Brandon Sutter (16) during the fi rst period of an NHL hockey game against the New York Islanders in Raleigh.

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BASKETBALLYellow Jackets games moved to next week

SANFORD — The Lee County boys’ and girls’ basketball games scheduled for Friday night have been postponed to Wednesday.

The Yellow Jacket boys were scheduled to battle Tri-9 Con-ference foe Middle Creek and will now battle the Mustangs at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Sanford.

The Lady Jackets will travel to Middle Creek on Wednesday. The game is scheduled for a 7:30 p.m. tip.

GIRLS BASKETBALLLee Christian falls in second half

SANFORD — Alamance Christian pulled away from Lee Christian in the second half to prevail 41-29 in girls’ basket-ball on Thursday night.

Leading just 16-12 at the break, Alamance Christian held the Falcons to 29 percent shooting to break the game open.

Makaila Gillum had nine points and seven rebounds while Erica Davidson also had nine points for Lee Christian (0-15, 0-9). Katie Makepeace added seven points and nine rebounds.

RADIOThe PODcast moving to a new time and day

SANFORD — The PODcast, Sanford’s sports-talk radio show featuring The Herald’s Alex Podlogar and Ryan Sarda, will move to a new time and day this week.

The PODcast can be heard beginning this week from 9-10 a.m. on Fridays on WDCC 90.5 FM.

The PODcast has been on the air for over a year, and features local sports analysis as well as opinions on the big-gest sports news around the country.

NASCARPatrick to run at least 12-race NASCAR schedule

MOORESVILLE (AP) — Danica Patrick is planning to com-pete in at least 12 NASCAR races this season and could make her debut sooner than expected.

JR Motorsports announced Patrick’s schedule Thursday. Her fi rst race, though, is still uncertain. Patrick is waiting to decide whether to race in the Nationwide Series opener at Daytona International Speed-way on Feb. 13.

The team says it will decide who will enter that race after Patrick makes her stock car debut in the Feb. 6 ARCA race. If Patrick doesn’t race at Day-tona, she will make her debut the following week in Fontana, Calif.

SPORTS SCENE

Staal, Ward pace Canes

UPCOMING

RALEIGH (AP) — Cam Ward made 26 saves, and new captain Eric Staal scored his third goal in two games as the Carolina Hur-ricanes won their third straight by beating the New York Islanders 4-1 on Thursday night.

Matt Cullen, Stephane Yelle and

Jussi Jokinen added goals for the surging Hurricanes, who have won four of five. Since replacing Rod Brind’Amour as captain on Jan. 21, Staal has eight goals in five games. He scored twice in a road win over the New York Rangers on Wednes-day night.

Ward has only allowed three goals in his last three games.

Matt Moulson scored with 4:31 remaining to spoil Ward’s shutout bid. Rick DiPietro made 19 saves for the Islanders, who have lost three consecutive games.

Allenby the best on toughest courseSAN DIEGO (AP)

— Scott Piercy had the best score Thursday at Torrey Pines because he made nine birdies. Robert Allenby might have had the best round because he made no bogeys.

Adding to the complexi-ty at the Farmers Insurance Open was Phil Mickelson. He was so excited to get his season started that he played with caution, yet one of his best birdies came after he hit his tee shot into

the parking lot.A glorious day along the

Pacifi c coast ended under a clear sky, even if nothing about the leaderboard will clear up until the week-end. The tournament is played on two courses that couldn’t be more differ-ent — the North Course is 712 yards shorter than the South Course, which hosted a U.S. Open two years ago.

Piercy played the North and watched his scores go

south in a round of 8-under 64. He made seven birdies on the front nine and even entertained thoughts of a 59 until a bogey on his 11th hole. He was not the least bit devastated.

“I shoot 59 every day,” Piercy said. “I just have to keep on going, usually.”

He had a one-shot lead over Ben Crane, Chris Tid-land, Ryuji Imada and Matt Every, with Tom Pernice Jr. another shot back after a 66. They all played the North Course, and will have to tackle the big South on Friday.

That’s what made Allenby’s round so impres-sive.

One of the hottest play-ers in golf, Allenby made a couple of big par saves late in his day to protect a bogey-free round of 67, making him the only player among the top 15 after the opening round to play on the South.

He felt as though he were leading the tourna-ment, even if he was tied for seventh.

“I gauge myself off this golf course,” Allenby said. “This is a real golf course. If it wasn’t, they wouldn’t have had a U.S. Open here. I don’t want to say the other course is Mickey Mouse be-cause that would be rude. But it’s Mickey Mouse-ish.”


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The win improved Southern Lee to 8-9 over-all and 3-6 in league play, which is good enough for fi fth place in the confer-ence. Gray’s Creek falls to 1-20 overall and remains at the bottom of the con-ference standings with a 1-8 record.

Southern Lee’s Yasmine Butler led the team in scoring with 21 points. Anelia Smith, the team’s leading points-per-game scorer, had nine. Brianna Taylor contributed with eight.

The Bears were led by Taylor Collins’ 19 points.

The Lady Cavaliers will begin a tough stretch next week when they battle Overhills and Union Pines, respectively. Overhills (16-3, 6-2) is currently tied with Union Pines (14-5, 6-2) for second place in the Cape Fear Valley Conference. Westover, which was idle on Tuesday, is at the top of the conference with a 6-1 record.

“We’ve got some big games next week,” said Taylor. “We’re still trying to make some noise in the conference standings and we’re going to be look-

ing for the upsets against Overhills and Union Pines. I think if we play the way we did (against Gray’s Creek) then we have a good chance at getting the wins.”

Taylor said that her team’s play on Thursday was much better com-pared to its play on Tues-day night. The Lady Cavs fell to Western Harnett 73-51 despite holding a three-point advantage at halftime.

“We were up by three against Western Harnett at halftime and then we came out with no inten-sity in the second half,” said Taylor.

“They had a big third quarter to put us away. We were never able to catch up from there. Our play against Gray’s Creek was signifi cantly better this time. We’ve got to keep this up.”

The only thing that went wrong for the Lady Cavs was their free throw shooting. Southern Lee missed 19 free throws against Gray’s Creek, which kept the score rela-tively close.

“We’ve got to make our free throws,” said Taylor. “This game shouldn’t have been as close as it was. We’ve got to do better with our free throw shooting.”

CavsContinued from Page 1B

the NFL demanding that she quit sell-ing Who Dat T-shirts.

“I don’t mind paying royalties,” Thom said. “I just don’t know who owns Who Dat or whether it’s in the public domain.”

The NFL doesn’t cut much slack when it believes it owns a trademark. This case is no exception.

In an e-mail, league spokesman Brian McCarthy said there have been “a handful of times this year when we sent letters asking establishments to stop selling merchandise that in-fringed upon the rights of the Saints.”

“We have enforced our rights in the mark Who Dat against companies that were making attempts to trade off the Saints’ goodwill and mislead fans to mistakenly believe the Saints were somehow affi liated or endorsed the product,” McCarthy said.

“This helps protect the local busi-nesses that are selling legitimate Saints merchandise and also the local print-ers that are making the licensed Saints apparel.”

Meanwhile, WhoDat Inc., con-trolled by longtime Saints fans and brothers Sal and Steve Monistere, also claims rights to the phrase.

In 1983, Steve Monistere produced the song, “Who Dat Say They Gonna Beat Dem Saints,” with Aaron Neville

and some Saints players.In a statement Thursday, WhoDat

Inc. said that before that recording, there were no branded items with the motto. The brothers said the com-pany has the only federal trademark for Who Dat. Steve Monistere said he and his brother were at the Saints’ fi rst game in 1967 and have been fans through all the ups and downs — mostly downs, of course.

Storyville shop co-owner Gabriel Harvey pulled his Who Dat shirts after getting letters from the NFL and WhoDat Inc.

“It seems unclear who, if anyone, owns it,” Harvey said. “A lot of people believe it belongs to the city and the people.”

SaintsContinued from Page 1B

AUSTRALIAN OPEN

Murray in position to be Great ScotMELBOURNE, Australia (AP)

— There he was, mouth agape, roaring like a Highlands warrior in full battle cry in “Braveheart.”

The force from Andy Murray’s lungs seemed to add heft to the fore-hand winner he hurled down the line. The match turned there — in the fi fth game of the second set — and it would not be long before the 22-year-old Scot was on his way to the Australian Open fi nal.

After dropping serve twice in the opening set to Croatia’s Marin Cilic, Murray recovered to win the semifi nal 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 and reach his second Grand Slam fi nal.

“It was really important because I don’t want to say the match was slip-ping away from me, but the momen-

tum was defi nitely with him,” Murray said.

Now, with only top-ranked Roger Federer or Jo-Wilfried Tsonga ahead, he is one win from breaking a drought for British men at the four majors that dates to Fred Perry in 1936.

That’s a lot of pressure on Murray. It proved too much for the likes of Tim Henman, John Lloyd and others. But the pressure valve was released, at least for a few sets Thursday night, in one riveting point.

Murray raced to the net to reach a ball that had caught the net and dropped onto his side. He then made a lunging volley to extend the rally and sprinted back to the baseline to chase down Cilic’s deep lob. Somehow, spin-ning as he swung the racket blindly

right to left, he hit a forehand winner past Cilic.

Then he roared a prolonged roar.The challenge from Cilic, who had

beaten Murray in straight sets in the fourth round of the U.S. Open, faded. The more than eight hours he had spent on court across fi ve matches had taken its toll.

“He played some really aggressive tennis ... was putting me under a lot of pressure,” Murray said.

“But, yeah, that shot made a big difference. I just managed to chase it down.”

After watching the replay, he added in his understated monotone: “I never realized my mouth was so big.”

And, by the way, he insists he prac-tices that shot.

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Sports ReviewEASTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away Confd-Cleveland 36 11 .766 — 8-2 W-6 18-3 18-8 19-6d-Boston 29 13 .690 41⁄2 5-5 W-2 13-7 16-6 19-8d-Atlanta 29 15 .659 51⁄2 7-3 L-1 18-5 11-10 16-10Orlando 29 16 .644 6 5-5 L-1 16-4 13-12 19-9Toronto 24 22 .522 111⁄2 6-4 W-3 16-6 8-16 16-15Miami 23 22 .511 12 5-5 L-2 13-11 10-11 14-10Charlotte 22 22 .500 121⁄2 7-3 W-1 18-5 4-17 15-16Chicago 22 22 .500 121⁄2 8-2 W-4 14-7 8-15 13-12Milwaukee 19 25 .432 151⁄2 4-6 W-1 14-7 5-18 11-12New York 18 26 .409 161⁄2 4-6 W-1 11-13 7-13 12-16Indiana 16 30 .348 191⁄2 5-5 L-1 10-12 6-18 12-16Detroit 15 29 .341 191⁄2 4-6 L-3 11-12 4-17 11-14Philadelphia 15 30 .333 20 5-5 L-2 7-15 8-15 8-17Washington 14 30 .318 201⁄2 2-8 L-4 8-15 6-15 10-16New Jersey 4 40 .091 301⁄2 1-9 W-1 3-17 1-23 3-21

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away Confd-L.A. Lakers 35 11 .761 — 7-3 W-2 23-3 12-8 20-8d-Denver 31 14 .689 31⁄2 9-1 W-8 21-3 10-11 18-8d-Dallas 30 15 .667 41⁄2 6-4 W-2 14-7 16-8 16-10Utah 27 18 .600 71⁄2 8-2 W-4 18-6 9-12 13-13San Antonio 26 18 .591 8 5-5 W-1 18-9 8-9 13-13Portland 27 20 .574 81⁄2 5-5 L-2 16-9 11-11 17-9Memphis 25 19 .568 9 8-2 W-3 17-5 8-14 16-14New Orleans 25 20 .556 91⁄2 6-4 W-2 16-4 9-16 18-10Phoenix 26 21 .553 91⁄2 3-7 L-2 17-6 9-15 14-11Houston 24 21 .533 101⁄2 4-6 L-3 13-8 11-13 18-13Oklahoma City 24 21 .533 101⁄2 5-5 L-3 12-10 12-11 9-15L.A. Clippers 20 25 .444 141⁄2 3-7 L-2 14-9 6-16 10-18Sacramento 16 28 .364 18 2-8 W-1 13-9 3-19 10-16Golden State 13 31 .295 21 3-7 L-3 9-12 4-19 7-19Minnesota 9 38 .191 261⁄2 1-9 L-5 6-17 3-21 4-26

Tuesday’s GamesL.A. Lakers 115, Washington 103New York 132, Minnesota 105Dallas 108, Milwaukee 107Charlotte 114, Phoenix 109, OTSacramento 99, Golden State 96Wednesday’s GamesL.A. Lakers 118, Indiana 96Cleveland 109, Minnesota 95Toronto 111, Miami 103Memphis 99, Detroit 93New Jersey 103, L.A. Clippers 87Milwaukee 91, Philadelphia 88Chicago 96, Oklahoma City 86Denver 97, Houston 92San Antonio 105, Atlanta 90

Utah 106, Portland 95New Orleans 123, Golden State 110Thursday’s GamesToronto at New York, 7:30 p.m.Boston at Orlando, 8 p.m.Dallas at Phoenix, 10:30 p.m.Friday’s GamesCleveland at Indiana, 7 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.Boston at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Minnesota, 8 p.m.Chicago at New Orleans, 8 p.m.Denver at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.Miami at Detroit, 8 p.m.Washington at New Jersey, 8 p.m.Portland at Houston, 8:30 p.m.

NBA Standings

Sports on TVFriday, Jan. 29

ATHLETICS8 p.m.ESPN2 — Millrose Games, at New YorkBOXING10 p.m.ESPN2 — Super middleweights, Jesse

Brinkley (34-5-0) vs. Curtis Stevens (21-2-0), at Reno, Nev.

EXTREME SPORTSNoonESPN2 — Winter X Games, at Aspen, Colo.7 p.m.ESPN — Winter X Games, at Aspen, Colo.1 a.m.ESPN2 — Winter X Games, at Aspen, Colo.

(delayed tape)

GOLF9:30 a.m.TGC — European PGA Tour, Qatar Masters,

second round, at Doha, Qatar (same-day tape)3 p.m.TGC — PGA Tour, Farmers Insurance Open,

second round, at La Jolla, Calif.TENNIS3 p.m.ESPN2 — Australian Open, men’s semifi nal,

at Melbourne, Australia (same-day tape)3:30 a.m.ESPN2 — Australian Open, women’s champi-

onship match, at Melbourne, Australia

BASKETBALLThe AP Top 25

By The Associated PressThe top 25 teams in The Associated Press’

college basketball poll, with fi rst-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 24, total points based on 25 points for a fi rst-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Kentucky (65) 19-0 1,625 2 2. Kansas 18-1 1,519 3 3. Villanova 18-1 1,503 4 4. Syracuse 19-1 1,455 5 5. Michigan St. 17-3 1,324 6 6. Texas 17-2 1,307 1 7. Georgetown 15-3 1,124 12 8. Duke 16-3 1,120 7 9. West Virginia 15-3 1,113 1110. Purdue 16-3 977 1311. Kansas St. 16-3 960 1012. BYU 20-1 894 1413. Gonzaga 16-3 847 1514. Tennessee 15-3 837 815. Temple 17-3 707 1616. Wisconsin 16-4 635 1817. Pittsburgh 15-4 599 918. Mississippi 15-4 411 2219. Connecticut 13-6 286 —20. Ohio St. 14-6 270 2121. Vanderbilt 15-3 264 —22. Georgia Tech 14-5 194 1923. New Mexico 18-3 180 —24. Baylor 15-3 157 2525. UAB 17-2 125 —

Others receiving votes: Florida St. 111, N. Iowa 106, Clemson 103, Wake Forest 98, Butler 69, Mississippi St. 42, Texas A&M 29, Oklahoma St. 25, Missouri 24, Maryland 22, Cornell 16, Old Dominion 11, Xavier 11, UNLV 6, Northwestern 5, Siena 3, Virginia 3, California 2, Louisiana Tech 2, Saint Mary’s, Calif. 2, Coastal Carolina 1, Harvard 1.

NCAA BoxscoresLate Wednesday

NO. 8 DUKE 70, FLORIDA ST. 56FLORIDA ST. (15-5)Singleton 5-10 2-7 14, Reid 3-6 0-0 6, Alabi

6-12 2-3 14, Dulkys 0-1 0-0 0, Kitchen 1-2 0-1 3, Jordan 0-1 0-0 0, Gibson 3-7 0-0 6, DeMercy 0-0 0-0 0, Loucks 0-6 0-0 0, Snaer 5-9 2-3 13. Totals 23-54 6-14 56.

DUKE (17-3)Singler 7-15 3-6 20, Mi.Plumlee 1-4 0-0

2, Thomas 2-3 2-3 6, Smith 4-15 3-4 11, Scheyer 7-12 4-4 22, Ma.Plumlee 0-2 0-0 0, Dawkins 1-3 0-0 3, Kelly 0-0 0-0 0, Zoubek 3-4 0-0 6. Totals 25-58 12-17 70.

Halftime—Duke 39-29. 3-Point Goals—Florida St. 4-13 (Singleton 2-4, Kitchen 1-2, Snaer 1-2, Dulkys 0-1, Jordan 0-1, Loucks 0-3), Duke 8-22 (Scheyer 4-6, Singler 3-10, Dawkins 1-2, Ma.Plumlee 0-1, Smith 0-3). Fouled Out—Zoubek. Rebounds—Florida St. 40 (Alabi 10), Duke 30 (Singler 7). As-sists—Florida St. 18 (Kitchen 10), Duke 16 (Scheyer 5). Total Fouls—Florida St. 20, Duke 19. A—9,314.

ETSU 72, CAMPBELL 57CAMPBELL (12-7)Rodriguez 4-14 4-6 12, Dodson 3-5 1-6

7, Hartley 4-6 4-4 12, Merthie 4-10 1-1 10, Taylor 2-4 0-0 4, Vejraska 3-7 1-2 7, Celestin 1-6 0-0 3, Kossangue 1-3 0-0 2, Krainiak 0-0 0-0 0, Reynolds 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 22-56 11-19 57.

ETSU (11-10)Hubbard 4-9 6-6 15, Brown 4-6 4-5 12,

Tubbs 7-12 0-1 18, Davis 4-5 1-2 10, Williams 4-6 2-4 11, Cooley 0-0 2-2 2, Jones 1-3 0-0 3, Poderis 0-0 1-2 1, Sollazzo 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-41 16-22 72.

Halftime—ETSU 34-22. 3-Point Goals—Campbell 2-11 (Celestin 1-2, Merthie 1-6, Hartley 0-1, Rodriguez 0-2), ETSU 8-16 (Tubbs 4-9, Davis 1-1, Hubbard 1-1, Wil-

liams 1-2, Jones 1-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Campbell 26 (Rodriguez 7), ETSU 33 (Hubbard 10). Assists—Campbell 9 (Hart-ley, Rodriguez 3), ETSU 15 (Williams 6). Total Fouls—Campbell 19, ETSU 16. A—3,591

NCAA StandingsAtlantic 10 Conference

Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCTTemple 5 1 .833 17 4 .810Charlotte 5 1 .833 15 5 .750Xavier, Ohio 5 1 .833 13 6 .684Rhode Island 4 2 .667 16 3 .842Richmond 4 2 .667 15 6 .714St. Louis 3 2 .600 12 7 .632Dayton 3 3 .500 14 6 .700La Salle 3 3 .500 11 9 .550St. Bonaventure 2 3 .400 9 9 .500G. Washington 2 4 .333 12 7 .632UMass 2 4 .333 8 12 .400St. Joseph’s 2 4 .333 8 12 .400Duquesne 1 4 .200 10 9 .526Fordham 0 7 .000 2 17 .105

———Tuesday’s GamesRhode Island 65, Dayton 64Wednesday’s GamesLa Salle 80, Fordham 73Charlotte 74, Temple 64Massachusetts 87, Saint Joseph’s 80George Washington 67, Saint Louis 62, OTThursday’s GamesDuquesne at Xavier, 7 p.m.

Atlantic Coast ConferenceConference All Games

W L PCT W L PCTMaryland 4 1 .800 14 5 .737Virginia 3 1 .750 12 5 .706Duke 5 2 .714 17 3 .850Wake Forest 4 2 .667 14 4 .778Florida St. 3 3 .500 15 5 .750Georgia Tech 3 3 .500 14 5 .737Virginia Tech 2 2 .500 15 3 .833Clemson 3 4 .429 15 6 .714Boston College 3 4 .429 12 9 .571North Carolina 2 3 .400 13 7 .650N.C. State 2 5 .286 13 8 .619Miami 1 5 .167 15 5 .750

———Tuesday’s GamesMaryland 81, Miami 59Boston College 75, Clemson 69North Carolina 77, N.C. State 63Wednesday’s GamesDuke 70, Florida St. 56Thursday’s GamesVirginia Tech at Virginia, 7 p.m.Wake Forest at Georgia Tech, 7 p.m.

Atlantic Sun Standings Conference All Games

W L PCT W L PCTCampbell 7 3 .700 12 7 .632Jacksonville 7 3 .700 11 8 .579ETSU 7 3 .700 11 10 .524Lipscomb 7 4 .636 10 10 .500Belmont 6 5 .545 11 10 .524Mercer 5 5 .500 9 11 .450N. Florida 5 6 .455 10 11 .476Kennesaw St. 4 6 .400 9 12 .429Florida Gulf Coast 4 7 .364 7 13 .350Stetson 3 8 .273 5 14 .263S.C.-Upstate 3 8 .273 3 17 .150

———Tuesday’s GamesLipscomb 78, Belmont 72Wednesday’s GamesKennesaw St. 71, Mercer 69ETSU 72, Campbell 57North Florida 55, S.C.-Upstate 53Florida Gulf Coast 64, Stetson 53Thursday’s GamesNo games scheduled

NBA All-Star Rosters The Associated PressChris Bosh, F-C, Torontox-Kevin Garnett, F, BostonAl Horford, F-C, Atlantax-Dwight Howard, C, Orlandox-Allen Iverson, G, Philadelphiax-LeBron James, F, ClevelandJoe Johnson, G, AtlantaPaul Pierce, F, BostonRajon Rondo, G, BostonDerrick Rose, G, Chicagox-Dwayne Wade, G, MiamiGerald Wallace, F, CharlotteWESTERN CONFERENCEx-Carmelo Anthony, F, Denverx-Kobe Bryant, G, L.A. Lakersx-Tim Duncan, F, San AntonioKevin Durant, F, Oklahoma CityPau Gasol, F, L.A. Lakersx-Steve Nash, G, PhoenixDirk Nowitzki, F, DallasChris Paul, G, New OrleansZach Randolph, F, MemphisBrandon Roy, G, Portlandx-Amare Stoudemire, F-C, PhoenixDeron Williams, G, Utah

FOOTBALLNFL Playoff Glance

By The Associated PressAll Times ESTDivisional PlayoffsSaturday, Jan. 16New Orleans 45, Arizona 14Indianapolis 20, Baltimore 3Sunday, Jan. 17Minnesota 34, Dallas 3N.Y. Jets 17, San Diego 14Conference ChampionshipsSunday, Jan. 24Indianapolis 30, N.Y. Jets 17New Orleans 31, Minnesota 28, OT Pro BowlSunday, Jan. 31At MiamiAFC vs. NFC, 7:20 p.m. (ESPN)Super BowlSunday, Feb. 7At MiamiNew Orleans vs. Indianapolis, 6:25 p.m.

(CBS)

TENNISAustralian Open Results

ThursdayAt Melbourne ParkMelbourne, AustraliaPurse: $22.14 million (Grand Slam)Surface: Hard-OutdoorSinglesMenSemifi nalsAndy Murray (5), Britain, def. Marin Cilic

(14), Croatia, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2.WomenSemifi nalsSerena Williams (1), United States, def. Li

Na (16), China, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (1).Justine Henin, Belgium, def. Zheng Jie,

China, 6-1, 6-0.

TRANSACTIONSBy The Associated PressBASEBALLNational LeagueCOLORADO ROCKIES—Agreed to terms

with INF Jason Giambi on a one-year contract. Agreed to terms with LHP Jimmy Gobble and RHP Justin Speier on minor league contracts.

LOS ANGELES DOGERS—Agreed to terms with OF Timo Perez and LHP John Koronka on minor league contracts.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS—Signed OF Jim Edmonds to a minor league contract.

DEAR ABBY: My 31-year-old son, “Joey,” who needs a heart transplant, almost died a few weeks ago. The doctors told us he wouldn’t make it through the weekend. I was beside myself. On what we thought was his death-bed, I told Joey I would give him anything he wanted if he pulled through. He wanted a very expen-sive sports car.

Well, my son pulled through, but has other physical challenges. My husband and I are sending him $500 a month until he starts receiving money from Social Se-curity. It’s the best we can do right now. The problem is, Joey keeps hounding me about the sports car. I cannot afford this gift. We have offered to have his current vehicle reconditioned or give him my year-old car with its very low mileage.

I do not want this to become an issue with my son. I have told him his heart condition is the priority and to let everything else fall into place. It’s eating me alive that I can’t give my son what I promised. On the other hand, his request is unreasonable. Please help.

— JOEY’S MOM IN LAS CRUCES

DEAR MOM: Unless you put a stop to it now, this WILL become an issue with your son. Surely he is in touch enough with reality that he knows your fi nancial situation

— and if he doesn’t, please inform him. While you’re at it, explain that when you thought he was on his deathbed, you were out of your mind with grief — and you can’t be held to a promise made under such duress. At $500 a month, you can hardly be accused of being a with-holding parent, so stop beating yourself up.

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DEAR ABBY: My 21-year-old daughter, “Crystal,” has been engaged to her boyfriend, “Aaron,” for several months. When she was here recently I asked her to clean out some of the stuff from under her bed and in her closet. She proceeded to throw out her year-books, photos from high school dances — even old journals!

It seems she had an unpleas-

ant experience with Aaron when a roommate mentioned an old friend of hers — a boy, but not a boyfriend. Aaron became very “hurt” by the conversation. So now Crystal wants no reminders of her past -- especially regarding other boys.

Is this normal? I don’t know what to do. I wonder whether they need counseling before they marry, but I don’t want to interfere. My daughter becomes angry with me over little things. She even ignored us when we asked her to come celebrate her

brother’s birthday. She just wants to be with her true love; nobody else seems to matter.

— A WORRIED MOM

DEAR MOM: Your idea of pre-marital counseling is an excellent one. Aaron appears to be extremely insecure, and your daughter is so in love she can’t see the handwriting on the wall. When you invited her to celebrate her brother’s birthday, did you also include her fi ance? If so, and she still didn’t want to come, Aaron may be trying to dis-tance her from the family.

Assuming that Crystal intends to be married in your church, have a talk with your clergyperson about this. If there is a problem looming on the horizon, premarital coun-seling may bring it out — and help them to deal with it before it gets out of hand.

Universal Press Syndicate

Happy Birthday: You can make a difference to your future by looking at your past. Get rid of whatever is holding you back. You have the strength, cour-age and wherewithal to get what you want out of life if you show determina-tion and put your skills to work. Action will be the name of the game. Believe in yourself. Your numbers are 5, 9, 17, 28, 33, 41, 44

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Touch base with someone from your past who can shed light on a situation you face in your personal life. Experience in such matters will help to clear up questions, allowing you the mental freedom you need to move forward.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Don’t fight a losing battle. Stick to your original plans and you will reach your goal. Money deals can be made but they must be within your budget. Don’t leave any-thing to chance or you will take a loss.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Patience and tolerance may not be enough when it comes to dealing with personal matters and partnerships. Have everything looked at by a mediator/lawyer before you decide to deal with someone who isn’t rational.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Expect some-one to make a change that will throw you off-course. Showing your versatility and ability to stick to a schedule will impress someone who can improve your future. Dealing with authority figures or partners will be difficult. Stick to the truth.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You are capable of doing anything you put your mind to and, if you do, you will raise your pro-file and gain the respect you long for. Don’t focus on the people who let you down. A couple of positive actions will bring you a big return.

The Sanford Herald / Friday, January 29, 2010 / 5BFeaturesDear Abby

Cash-strapped parents regret deathbed promise made to son

Abigail Van Buren

Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or

P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Billy GrahamSend your queries to “My

Answer,” Billy Graham Evangelistic Assoc.,

1 Billy Graham Parkway, Charlotte, N.C., 28201

Urge cousin to face need for Christ

Q: My cousin always claimed to be an agnostic -- a person who doesn’t know if God is real. Last month, he had a heart attack, and although he’s getting better, I know he could have died. Do you think God is giving him a second chance? -- Mrs. B.McK.

A: Yes, I believe God is giving him a second chance -- and I pray he won’t ignore it or laugh it off. God loves your cousin and wants him to discover the joy that can only come from knowing God and being in His presence forever. The Bible says that God “is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9).

Situations like this should remind us that life is short, and we never know how long we’ll have on this earth. Your cousin didn’t plan on having a heart attack; he probably thought he’d go on living for many years. Perhaps he is like the rich man in one of Jesus’ parables who said to himself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry” (Luke 12:19). But God called him a fool, and that very night he died and entered eternity — without God and without hope. That can happen to us.

Pray for your cousin, that he may realize the seriousness of what’s happened to him, and turn in faith to Christ. Ask God also to give you an opportunity to share your concern with him and urge him to face his need to put his trust and faith in Christ.

Make sure also of your own relationship with God. God loves you (just as He loves your cousin), and the most im-portant decision you will ever make is your decision to give your life to Jesus Christ.

My AnswerOdds and EndsSafety fears mean barren bleachers at S.C. games

CENTRAL, S.C. (AP) — Well, at least there won’t be any hecklers.

The bleachers will be barren Friday at a high school basketball doubleheader between two rivals in northwestern South Carolina. School offi cials say no fans will be allowed in because of safety concerns.

Attendance at the boys’ and girls’ varsity games in the town of Central will be limited to players, coaches, offi cials, game personnel, school administrators, police and the media.

Seneca Police Chief John Covington says he supports the decision because disturbances and violence have recently been spilling into the parking lot and neighborhoods after games.

Video: Man hugging, kissing chicken on NYC subway

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s transit agency is investigating a video posted online that shows a man kissing and snuggling a live chicken aboard a subway.

Spokesman Charles Seaton said Thursday it was looking into whether the Tuesday incident on the uptown No. 6 train was a prank.

He says no passengers reported it.The video shows the man hugging,

kissing and caressing a chicken as he lays on the subway train’s fl oor. Some pas-sengers look on and laugh, while others seem to be hustling out of his way and into to the next car.

The video was posted on a riders blog, YouTube and was picked up by Go-thamist, a local blog network.

Police: S.C. man used hostage hoax to rob bank

CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — Police say a South Carolina man robbed a bank of hundreds of dollars by convincing a bank teller that a woman and child would be killed if he didn’t pay a ransom to their captor.

Court documents show 55-year-old Chester Wodecki was arrested Tuesday and charged with a federal count of bank rob-bery the next day.

Police say Wodecki told the teller at First Citizens Bank in Conway that the woman and child were being held hostage at a grocery store. But authorities say the story was a hoax that Wodecki invented because he needed money for rent and other bills.

Police say Wodecki took about $2,400 from the bank.

Offi cials at the Horry County jail did not know if Wodecki had an attorney, and his home phone number was unlisted.

Driver missing after truck hits train in Washington

STANWOOD, Wash. (AP) — The keys were in the ignition of a pickup truck that hit a freight train at a Washington state crossing, but there’s no sign of the driver or any trauma.

Snohomish County sheriff’s Lt. John Flood told The Daily Herald he hasn’t seen a case like it in 20 years.

Railroad workers and emergency responders searched the tracks and dug through the mangled wreckage after the crash early Thursday.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe spokes-man Gus Melonas says the 43-car train was traveling about 25 mph when the truck hit a rail car from the rear.

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Abundant Life MinistriesPastor William E. Gorham

will deliver the message at the 10 a.m. Sunday worship service.

Ladies night will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday at 218 Sim-mons St., Sanford.

The church is located at 1315 Horner Blvd. in Sanford.

Beaver CreekBaptist Church

Communion will be taken during the 11 a.m. Sunday service.

The Cancer Support Ministry meets at 7 p.m. every fi rst Tuesday of each month to help those who are battling cancer and their families. Everyone is invited.

The church is located at 2280 Nicholson Road in Cameron.

Buffalo Presbyterian Church

The Rev. Paul J. Shields will present the sermon, “We Have Met the Enemy, and He Is Us,” at the 11 a.m. Sunday worship service.

The church is located at 1333 Carthage St. in Sanford.

Center United Methodist Church

The Pioneer Club and Methodist Youth Fellowship will meet at 3 p.m. Sunday.

The church is located at 4141 S. Plank Road in Sanford.

Church of Many ColorsPastor Gerome Williams

Sr. will speak at the 11 a.m. Sunday worship service.

The church is located at 2320 Pilson Road in Lemon Springs.

East Sanford Baptist Church

The Rev. Robbie Gibson will speak at the 11 a.m. Sunday worship service. AWANA will meet at 5:20 p.m. followed by the Rev. Robbie Gibson at the 6 p.m. worship service.

The men’s prayer breakfast will be held at 6:15 a.m. Tuesday at Mrs. Wenger’s

Restaurant.The church is located at

300 North Ave. in Sanford.

Ephesus Baptist Church

Four Heart Harmony will perform at 7 p.m. Sunday at the church. Everyone is invited.

The church is located at 2724 White Hill Road in Sanford.

Exousia Christian Fellowship, Inc.

Pastor Steve L. Chesney will deliver the message during the 11 a.m. Sunday worship service. A couples Sunday school class will be held at 9 a.m. each Sunday during the month of Febru-ary. This class will focus on strengthening your relation-ship. Anyone that is married or planning on getting mar-ried is welcome to attend. Please bring your spouse or signifi cant other with you.

The church is located at 700 Bragg St. in Sanford.

Fair Promise AME Zion Church

The $25 deposit for the June 10-14 cruise is due Sunday. For more details, call the church from 2 to 6 p.m. (919) 776-4622.

The Board of Stewards will sponsor a fi fth Sunday fel-lowship dinner following the morning worship service. Donation: Adult $10 and children (age 5 - 12) $5. Eat in or take out.

First Congregational Christian Church

Guest speaker, Jerry Cole, will deliver the message at the 11 a.m. Sunday worship service.

The church is located at 328 McIver St. in Sanford.

Fruit of the SpiritA phophetic explosion will

be held at 7:30 p.m. Sunday with Prophet Gregory Bradley of Philadephia, Pa. speak-ing.

Grace Chapel ChurchPastor Joel Murr will speak

at the 10:30 a.m. Sunday worship service. AWANA

meets at 6 p.m. and youth Bible studies, women’s Bible studies and worship service begin at 6:30 p.m.

The church is located at 2605 Jefferson Davis Hwy. in Sanford.

Johnsonville AME Zion Church

The Presiding Prelate of the Eastern North Carolina Episcopal District, Bishop R.K. Thompson, will be the guest speaker at the 11 a.m. Sunday worship service.

Jonesboro United Methodist Church

A groundbreaking ceremo-ny for a new church sign in memory of J.L. Seaman will follow the 11 a.m. Sunday worship service.

The JUMC Heartstrings Praise Band will present a concert to benefi t CUOC at 6 p.m. Sunday in the Wesley

Center. Requested admis-sion is a non-perishable food item or cash donation for Christians United Out-reach Center.

The church is located at 407 W. Main St. in Sanford.

Mays Chapel Baptist Church

Missions Focus Day will be observed beginning at 9:30 a.m. Sunday with Michelle Moseley speaking on her experience with Campus Crusade for Christ. Brunch will immediately follow the service. Everyone is invited to attend.

The church is located at 24 Rosser Road in Bear Creek.

Mt. Calvary Baptist Church

The Sons of Destiny will host the gospel caravan at 6 p.m. Sunday with the Jonesboro Male Chorus, the

Gospel Messengers and Mattock Memorial Ensemble of Fayetteville.

The church is located at 1867 Colon Road in Sanford.

New Life Praise Church (SBC)

Greg Lamb will be the speaker for the 10:30 a.m. Sunday worship service. A special tribute to hymn writer Fanny Crosby, viewing her biography and singing some of her hymns, will be the focus of the 6 p.m. wor-ship service.

Adult Bible Studies, Kids Klub and Uth meet from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday.

The church is located at 2398 Wicker St. in Sanford.

Olivia Presbyterian Church

The men of the church will sponsor an all-you-can-eat pancake supper from 6 to 8 p.m. today. Adult price is $7 and children under 12 is $3.50. Proceeds will to toward the heating and air conditioning fund.

Pineywood Baptist Church

A gospel singing will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday with the Gospel Echoes of Cam-eron. Everyone is invited.

Poplar Springs United Methodist Church

A singing worship service by the church’s choir will be held at 11 a.m. Sunday.

The church is located at 1809 Poplar Springs Church Road in Sanford.

St. Peter ChurchThe Quarterly Conference

of the Holy Church of God in Christ without Blemish, Inc. will convene today through Sunday. Elder David Pat-

terson will speak at 7 p.m. today at the church.

An ushers workshop will be held at 3:30 p.m. Satur-day; hour of education at 4 p.m.; hour of missions at 5 p.m.; fellowship dinner at 6 p.m.; and worship service at 7 p.m. with Minister Beverly Berryman.

Church school will be held at 10 a.m. Sunday with Superintendent Kathy Elliott presiding followed by worship service at 11 a.m. with Bishop W.L. Berryman speaking.

The church is located at 2739 Pilson Road in Lemon Springs.

Sanford Freewill Holiness Church

‘The Anointing’ will sing at 6 p.m. Sunday at the church. Everyone is wel-come.

The church is located at 3000 Lemon Springs Road in Lemon Springs.

Solid Rock Community Church

Pastor Craig Dodson will speak on “How Do We Respond to God’s Will” at the 10:30 a.m. Sunday wor-ship service. Nursery and children church provided. Transportation available, call (919) 776-1066.

The church is located at 3220 Keller Andrews Church Road (Lee Christian School).

St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church

The fourth Sunday after the Epiphany will be ob-served with two services held by Father Craig J. Lister. The fi rst service is at 8 a.m. and the second service at 10 a.m. There will be a fi fth Sunday luncheon following the second service in the Lower Parish Hall.

The church is located at 312 N. Steele St. in Sanford.

Tempting Congregational Church

The N.C. Conference of Congregational Churches will host a ministers conference from 9 a.m. to 12 noon Saturday at the church. The theme of the conference will be Personal Empowerment in preaching the kingdoms message. All ministers in all churches are invited to attend.

Trinity Lutheran Church

The fourth Sunday after Epiphany service will be ministered by the Rev. Tim Martin. The fi rst service will be held at 8:15 a.m. with Holy Communion and the second service at 10:30 a.m. followed by coffee hour. The fi fth Sunday breakfast will be held at 9:15 a.m. Bring your favorite breakfast casse-role, muffi ns, etc. drinks will be provided. Confi rmation class follows the 10:30 service.

Gamblers Anonymous (GA) will meet 8 p.m. Friday.

The church is located at 525 Carthage St. in Sanford.

Garden Guide

n To benefi t Christians United Outreach Center, the Heartstrings praise band of Jonesboro United Methodist Church will present a public concert at 6 p.m. Sunday, January 31, in the Wesley Center of the church, 407 W. Main St., Sanford. An item of non-perishable food or a cash donation to CUOC serves as admission to the evening of music and fellowship.

The ten-member band has been a fi xture at JUMC’s 8:30 a.m. worship service since it began nearly a decade ago. The ensemble has evolved over the years to its current make-up of three guitars, dobro, drums, bass and four vocalists, two of whom do double duty on keyboard. Members are Mike Baker, Charles Dycus, Richard Galloway, Van Groce Jr., Jayme Miller, Emily Oakley, Reinette Seaman, Robert Watson, Cliff Wheeler, and the church’s director of music ministries, Dwayne Williams.

The praise band’s purpose, according to Williams, is to use their combined talents to witness through song, to bless and be blessed by playing music that glorifi es God.

The band has regularly taken its contemporary sound to churches throughout the area, and is “coming home” in order to give people the double opportunity to enjoy their music and to support CUOC. A time of fellowship will follow the program, with light refreshments provided by Jonesboro UM Women.

For more information, call the church offi ce (775-7023) or go to the JUMC website (JonesboroUMC.org).

Jonesboro United Methodist Church

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claimed. This sale ismade subject to allprior liens and en-

cumbrances, and un-paid taxes and assess-

ments including butnot limited to any

transfer tax associat-ed with the foreclo-sure. A deposit of

five percent (5%) ofthe amount of the bidor seven hundred fif-

ty dollars ($750.00),whichever is greater,is required and must

be tendered in theform of certified

funds at the time ofthe sale. This sale

will be held open tendays for upset bids as

required by law. Fol-lowing the expirationof the statutory upsetperiod, all remaining

amounts are IMME-DIATELY DUE AND

OWING. Failure toremit funds in a time-ly manner will result

in a Declaration ofDefault and any de-posit will be frozen

pending the outcomeof any re-sale.

SPECIAL NOTICEFOR LEASEHOLD

TENANTS: If you area tenant residing inthe property, be ad-vised that an Order

for Possession of theproperty may be is-sued in favor of thepurchaser. Also, ifyour lease began or

was renewed on or af-ter October 1, 2007, beadvised that you mayterminate the rental

agreement upon 10days written notice to

the landlord. Youmay be liable for rentdue under the agree-ment prorated to theeffective date of the

termination.

The date of this No-

001Legals

erly right-of-way line of Pinehurst Street;

thence as the wester-ly right-of-way line of

Pinehurst Street South 51 degs. 27

mins. East 152.07 feet to the BEGINNING and being all of Lot No. 10 and a portion

of Lot No. 9, Block G,as shown on Map No.

2, Pinehurst Division,recorded in Map

Book 6, page 47, Lee County Registry.

And Being more com-monly known as: 800

Pine Ridge St, San-ford, NC 27330

The record owner(s) of the property, as re-flected on the records

of the Register ofDeeds, is/are Richard

E. Johnson and Hat-tie Johnson.

The property to be of-fered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, trans-

fer and conveyance "AS IS, WHERE IS." Neither the Trustee

nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being

foreclosed, nor the of-ficers, directors, at-torneys, employees,

agents or authorized representative of ei-

ther Trustee or the holder of the note

make any representa-tion or warranty re-lating to the title or any physical, envi-

ronmental, health or safety conditions ex-isting in, on, at or re-lating to the property

being offered for sale. Any and all re-sponsibilities or lia-

bilities arising out ofor in any way relat-

ing to any such condi-tion expressly are dis-

001Legals

Under and by virtue of the power and au-thority contained in

the above-referenced deed of trust and be-

cause of default inthe

payment of the se-cured indebtedness

and failure to per-form the stipulation

and agreements therein contained

and, pursuant to de-mand of the owner

and holder of the se-cured debt, the under-

signed substitute trustee will expose

for sale at public auc-tion to the highest

bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at

the county court-house of said county

at 10:30 AM on Febru-ary 4, 2010 the follow-ing described real es-

tate and any other improvements which

may be situated thereon, in Lee Coun-

ty, North Carolina,and being more par-

ticularly described as follows:

BEGINNING at a stake in the intersec-

tion of the westerly right-of-way line of

Pinehurst Street and the northerly right-of-

way line of a street undesignated as to

name on the map to which reference is

hereinafter made but which is now known as Pine Ridge Street;

thence as the norther-ly right-of-way line of

Pine Ridge Street South 35 degs. 39

mins. West 95.30 feet to an iron; thence North 54 degs. 01

mins. West 151.41 feet to an iron; thence North 35 degs. 23

wins. East 102.17 feet to an iron in the west-

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IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICEOF NORTH CAROLI-

NASUPERIOR COURT

DIVISIONLEE COUNTY

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IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE

OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED

BY RICHARD E.JOHNSON AND

HATTIE JOHNSON DATED AUGUST 12,1994 AND RECORD-ED IN BOOK 538 AT

PAGE 973 IN THE LEE COUNTY PUB-

LIC REGISTRY,NORTH CAROLINA

NOTICE OF SALE

EXECUTOR NO-TICE

HAVING qualified as Executor of the estate

of Bobby Joe Mcken-dall, deceased, late of

Lee County, North Carolina, this is to

notify all persons having claims against

the estate of said de-ceased to present

them to the under-signed within three

months from January15, 2010 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All

persons indebted to said estate please

make immediate pay-ment. This 15, day of

January, 2010.Bobbie Mcdonald

390 Grant StreetSanford, NC, 27330

Executor/trixof the estate of

Bobby Joe Mckendall(1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/5)

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EXECUTOR NOTICE

Having qualified as Executor of the estate

of Annie Lee Cox Johnson, deceased,late of Lee County,

North Carolina, this is to notify all per-

sons having claims against the estate of

said deceased to pres-ent them to the un-

dersigned within three months from January 8, 2010 or this notice will be

pleaded in bar oftheir recovery. All

persons indebted to said estate please

make immediate pay-ment. This 8, day of

January, 2010.Gary S. Beal

317 Winterlocken Drive

Sanford, NC, 27330

Melanie J. Under-wood

507 Gulf St.Sanford, NC 27330

Executor/trixof the estate of

Annie Lee Cox John-son

(1/8, 1/15, 1/22, 1/29)

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Miles $6000. 2 Dirt Bikes 100 & 150, Run Good,

$700 Each. 919-718-5130

1993 Centra, Everything Works, New Fuel Injection System/Shift Cable, 2 Door Automatic, $1200, 214K.

Call: 919-663-3263

240Cars - General

200Transportation

Ask about our YARD SALE SPECIAL

8 lines/2 days*$13.50

Get a FREE “kit”:6 signs, 60 price stickers,

6 arrows, marker, inventory sheet, tip sheet!

*Days must be consecutive

190Yard Sales

My name is Bobby Clegg my dog Luke has been

missing for 2 months.I will gladly pay a $300 R E W A R D

to anyone who will bring him to 426

Lower Moncure Road Sanford.

He is a light brown Boxer with a black beak he weighs 50

pounds.919-718-7712919-356-8671

Missing: Small White Maltese Male

Saint Andrews Church Rd & Tramway Rd Area

Missing since Tuesday. REWARD OFFERED

776-1156

Missing Red Bone Hound in Lemon Springs Area. Reward! 353-5268

Missing from Seminole/Broadway Area

Appx. 6m. Old KittenLight gray, Long Haired,

with white on face & bellyPlease call 919-498-4977

Missing From Kendale Area

Black & White Male Cat Looks Siamese, Has No Collar. Missing Since Sunday Please Call

776-1204 with any info

130Lost

Lost Wedding RingJan 9th; believed lost near Civic Center. Pear Shaped Diamond w/2 Stones, Plati-num. Call:910-508-0768

130Lost

Don’t be alone for Valentines Day!

Female Companion Desired!

Professional gentleman needs live-in companion. Room & board included.

Plus small salary. No smoking/drugs. Call Will:

(919)995-8945

120Personals

WILL MOVE OLD JUNK CARS! BEST PRICES

PAID. Call for complete car delivery price.

McLeod’s Auto Crushing. Day 499-4911.

Night 776-9274.

Quality Used TiresMounted & Balanced

919-498-5503Seminole Road

Broadway

BIG BIG SALE Except 3-4 items Everything Must Go! Tools, What-not Stands, Pic-tures. 9-4:30 Tues-Fri. Al’s Sales 1429 Carthage St.

774-4733

ARRA Weatherization Bidders Conference

ARRA Weatherization Bid-ders Conference will be

held at Johnston-Lee-Harnett Community Action, Inc. at 1102 Massey Street, in

Smithfield, North Carolina at 9:30 a.m. for Weatheri-zation Contractors and at 1:00 p..m. for the HVAC

Contractors on February 5, 2010. All potentialContractors will be

required to attend the ARRA Weatherization Bidders

Conference. All instructions for the request for bids will be provided at the ARRA Weatherization Bidders

Conference. All questions will be answered at the ARRA Weatherization Bidders Conference.Johnston-Lee-Harnett

Community Action, Inc. encourages minority and

women business enterprises to apply. Johnston-Lee-

Harnett Community Action, Inc. must receive all appli-cations by 2:00 p.m. on February 19, 2010. Late request for bids will not be considered. Please contact

Waymon Gainey at 919-934-2145 or Sonya

Snead at 919-209-9770 to request application and the

request for bids generalinstructions.

110Special Notices

100Announcements

PUBLIC NOTICE

...TAKE notice that as of January 22,2010,Gregory A. Keily,Plaintiff, is no longer responsible for the debts of Barbara R.Keily , Defendant.This is the 21 day ofJanuary, 2010.

(1/22,1/29,2/5,2/12)

David R. Caudle

President & Attorney at Law

State Bar Number 6075

2101 Rexford Road,Suite 165W

Charlotte, North Car-olina 28211

http://www.caudle-lawfirm.com

09-SP-0334

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or in any way relat-ing to any such condi-tion expressly are dis-

claimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid

taxes, special assess-ments, land transfer taxes, if any, encum-

brances of record, in-cluding prior Deeds

of Trust.

TheSubstitute

Trustee reserves the right to require a

cash deposit or certi-fied check made paya-

ble to the Substitute Trustee (no personal

checks) for five per-cent (5%) of the pur-chase price or seven

hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever

is greater, at the time of the sale. The sale will be held open for

ten (10) days for upset bids as by law re-

quired. Following the expiration of the stat-

utory upset bid peri-od, all remaining

amounts are due im-mediately. If the

Trustee is unable to convey title to this

property for any rea-son, the sole remedy

of the purchaser is the return of the de-

posit. Reasons ofsuch

inability to convey in-clude, but are not lim-ited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the sale and reinstatement of the

loan without the knowledge of the

Trustee. If the validi-ty of the sale is chal-lenged by any party,the Trustee, in their

sole discretion, ifthey believe the chal-

lenge to have merit,may declare the sale

to be void and return the deposit. The pur-

chaser will have no further remedy.

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION

FROM A DEBT COL-LECTOR. THE PUR-

POSE OF THIS COM-MUNICATION IS TO

COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFOR-

MATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR

THAT PURPOSE, EX-CEPT AS STATED

BELOW IN THE IN-STANCE OF BANK-

RUPTCY PROTEC-TION. IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PRO-TECTION OF THE

BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE

BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A

BANKRUPTCY PRO-CEEDING, THIS NO-

TICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO

STATUTORY RE-QUIREMENT AND

FOR INFORMATION-AL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED

AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO

COLLECT, ASSESS,OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION

OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY.

This the 12th day of January, 2010.

The Caudle Law Firm, P.A.,

Substitute Trustee

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amination that said street address is cor-rect and matches the

above legal descrip-tion. The above legal description describes

the property being sold and shall be con-

trolling.

PRESENT RECORD OWNERS as reflected on the records of the

Register of Deeds not more than 10 days

prior to posting the notice are Christo-pher A. Tabon and

Timmy R. Tabon

Trustee may, in the Trustee's sole discre-

tion, delay the sale for up to one hour as

provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

In the event that this sale is one ofresidential real prop-erty with less than 15 rental units, an order for possession of the

property may be is-sued pursuant to

NCGS §45-21.29 in fa-vor of the purchaser

and against the party or parties in posses-sion by the Clerk of

Superior Court of the County in which the

property is sold. Any person who occupies

the property pur-suant to a rental

agreement entered in-to or renewed on or

after October 1, 2007,may, after receiving

the notice of sale, ter-minate the rental

agreement upon 10 days written notice to

the landlord. That upon termination of

a rental agreement, the

tenant is liable for rent due under the

rental agreement pro-rated to the effective date of the termina-

tion.

Shouldthe

property be pur-chased by a third par-

ty, that person mustpay the tax of forty-

five (45) cents per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required byNCGS §7A-308 (a)(1).This sale is also sub-

ject to any applicable county and/or state

land transfer and/or revenue tax, and the

successful third party

bidder shall be re-quired to make pay-

ment for such tax.The property to be of-fered pursuant to this

notice of sale is being

offered for sale, trans-fer and conveyance

"AS IS, WHERE IS".Neither the Trustee

nor the holder of the note secured by the

Deed of Trust/Securi-ty Instrument, or both, being fore-

closed, nor the offi-cers, directors, attor-

neys, employees,agents or authorized representative of ei-

ther Trustee of the holder of the note

make any representa-tion or warranty re-lating to the title or any physical, envi-

ronmental, health or safety conditions ex-

isting in, on, at, or re-lating to the property being offered for sale,

and any and all re-sponsibilities or lia-

bilities arising out of

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NOTICE OF SUB-STITUTE TRUST-

EE'S SALE OFREAL ESTATE

UNDER ANDBY VIRTUE OF the power and authority

contained in that cer-tain Deed of Trust

executed and deliv-ered by Christopher

A. Tabon and Timmy R. Tabon, Wife and Husband, dated the

29th day of June,2006, and recorded in the Office of the Reg-ister of Deeds for Lee County, North Caro-lina, in Book 1037 at Page 20 and because

of default in the pay-ment of the indebted-ness thereby secured

and failure to carry out and perform the

stipulations and agreements therein contained and, pur-suant to demand of

the owner and holder of the indebtedness

secured by said Deed of Trust, the under-

signed Substitute Trustee will expose

for sale at public auc-tion to the highest

bidder for cash at the usual place of sale in

the County Court-house of Lee County,

in the city of Sanford,North Carolina, at

10:00 am on the 2nd day of February, 2010,all that certain parcel of land, more particu-larly described as fol-

lows:

IMPROVEMENTS:House and lot/Condo-

minium/or Lot

LEGAL DESCRIP-TION: BEING of all

Lot 3055 in a subdivi-sion known as CARO-

LINA TRACE LAU-REL THICKET

NORTH SHORE, and the same being duly recorded in Book of

Plats 14, Page 29, Lee County Registry,North Carolina.

ADDITIONAL POSSI-BLE STREET AD-

DRESS FOR REFER-ENCE PURPOSES

ONLY:3055 Bourbon Street,

Sanford, NC 27332Notice & Disclaimer:

The listed street ad-dress may be incor-

rect and is stated hereby for informa-

tional and reference purposes only. The Substitute Trustee makes no certifica-tions or warranties that said street ad-

dress is accurate or correct. It is each po-

tential bidder's duty to determine with

his/her own title ex-

Development Depart-ment, 900 Woodland

Avenue, Sanford, NC 27330 or by calling

(919) 718-4656. Upon request and with 24-

hour notice, the County will provide

an interpreter for the hearing impaired or

any other needed type of auxiliary aid.Cualquier cuidadano

que tenga preguntas o comentarios de las co-sas al referido, puede comunicarse a el de-

partamento de desar-ollo para

Sanford/Condado de Lee, llame al (919) 718-

4656.By: Gaynell M. Lee,

Clerk to the Lee County Board ofCommissioners

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tion to rezone a total of 35.78± acres of

land located north of Deep

River Road, being south and east of

Wake Stone’s office and quarry operation

located at 9725 Stone Quarry Road. Specif-

ically, the request is to rezone approxi-

mately 21.78-acres ofland from Residential Agricultural (RA) dis-

trict and approxi-mately 14-acres of

land from Heavy In-dustrial Conditional Use (HI-CU) district (approved for a spe-

cialty processing and sizing operation) to

Heavy Industrial Conditional Use (HI-CU) district for min-

ing and quarry opera-tions. More specifi-

cally, the 35.78± acres of land will be added

to the existing quarry operations and will include a future pit

area, stone crushing and processing, relo-cation of the office & scales facility, a new

driveway entrance/exit, and a protective berm con-struction. The prop-

erty is the same as de-picted on Tax Maps

9677, 9677.02, 9678,and 9668.04, Tax Par-

cels 9667-88-5704, 9667-98-1178, 9677-09-0108

and a portion of 9668-90-3134, Lee County

Land Records Office.

2. Application by Solid Rock Communi-

ty Church to rezone 3.94-acres of land lo-

cated at 989 White Hill Road from Resi-dential Agricultural

(RA) district to Office & Institutional (O&I) district. The proper-ty is the same as de-

picted on Tax Map 9529.02, Tax Parcel

9529-78-8667, Lee County Land Re-

cords, and is all ofthat property shown on a survey map re-corded in Plat Cabi-

net 2009, Slide 29, Lee County Registry of

Deeds.Application for a Var-

iance3. Application by

Solid Rock Communi-ty Church for a Var-

iance to reduce the to-tal amount of land-scape plantings re-

quired within a buf-fer yard between an

institutional use and residential properties

as stated in the Uni-fied Development Or-

dinance, Article 7 Landscaping and Buf-fering Standards, Ta-ble 7-3, Table 7-4 and

Section 7.5.4.2.2. The subject property is lo-

cated at 989 White Hill Road, Sanford,

NC and is the site ofSolid Rock Communi-

ty Church which is currently under con-struction. The prop-

erty is the same as de-picted on Tax Map 9529.02, Tax Parcel

9529-78-8667, Lee County Land Re-

cords, and is all ofthat property shown on a survey map re-corded in Plat Cabi-

net 2009, Slide 29, Lee County Registry of

Deeds.The public is cordial-

ly invited to attend.Further information

may be obtained from the Sanford/Lee

County Community

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LEE COUNTYPUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby giv-en that the Lee Coun-ty Board of Commis-sioners and Planning Board will hold joint

public hearings on Monday, February 15,

2010 in the Commis-sioners’ Board Room

at the Lee County Government Center,

106 Hillcrest Drive,Sanford, NC. The

Boards will consider two (2) applications

to amend the Official Zoning Map of Lee

County, NC. The hearings will begin at

6:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as deemed

practical by the Board.

Upon conclusion ofthe joint public hear-

ing, the Lee County Board of Adjustment

will hold a separate public hearing in the Gordon Wicker Con-ference Room of the Lee County Govern-ment Center to con-sider an application for a Variance. The applications are de-

scribed below:Applications to

Amend the Official Zoning Map of Lee

County1. Application by

Wake Stone Corpora-

CREDITORS NOTICE

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA

COUNTY OF LEE

Having qualified on the 30th day of De-

cember, 2009 as Exec-utor for the Estate ofMildred Jewell Grif-fin, deceased late of

Lee County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons,

firms and corpora-tions having claims against the estate to present them to the

undersigned on or be-fore April 10, 2010 or

this notice will be pleaded in bar of

their recovery. All persons, firms and

corporations indebt-ed to said estate

should make immedi-ate payment.

This the 5th day ofJanuary, 2010.

William L.Jewell, III, Executor

479 Matade-quin Lane

Old Church,VA. 23111

W.W. Seymour, Jr.,Attorney at Law, PA

Process Agent and Attorney for Estate:

PO Box 3516Sanford, NC 27330

tice is January 14,2010.

07-95484Grady Ingle

Substitute Trustee8520 Cliff Cameron

Drive, Suite 300Charlotte, NC 28269

(704) 333-8107http://shapiroattor-

neys.com/nc/

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Notice Sale of Personal Property

USA Mini Storage

CHRIS BURCH-DRYER,LIV-INGROOM&BEDROOM

FURNITURE,BIKE,VACUUM CLEANER

ANTHONRY DORSETT-TOYS,MISC.

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Only a partial list of articles stored. Complete bin of contents to be sold to the highest bidder. Sale starts at 10:00am Sat Jan. 30, 2010 at 2417 Jefferson

Davis Hwy. All announce-ments day of sale prece-dence over all previously written material. Sale con-ducted by USA Mini Stor-

age. Mgmt. 919-774-6653

IN CASE OF INCLEMENT WEATHER AUCTION WILL

BE FEB. 6, 2010 AT 10:00am

Council’s Auction 7pm Sat 30th: Eddy Deals

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with county water& paved road

Holly Springs Church Road at Georgie Drive

Broadway, NC 27505Help-U-Sell Chatham-Lee

Realty & Auction(919) 708-5464 David Poe, Auctioneer NCAL

8721For further information, visit

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HARNETT CO. LAND AUCTION

Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 at 6:30 PM

Courtyard by Marriott, 4129 Sycamore Dairy Rd.

Fayetteville, NCSelling 3 Tracts: 1 & 2 -

29 acres each, 3 - 11acresAll with county water

& 30’ ROWSelling 15 homesites, 6 to 3.5 acres each

920Auctions

900Miscellaneous

MH for Rent No Pets, Total Electric, Rental & Credit

Application Req. Sec Dep. Req $400/mo 499-5523

CLASSIFIED LINE ADDEADLINE:2:00 PM

DAY BEFOREPUBLICATION. (2:00 pm Friday for Sat/Sun ads). Sanford Herald,

Classified Dept., 718-1201 or 718-

1204

830Mobile Homes

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825Manufactured

Homes

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Town House - - 1 Level - 3 BR /2 BA Firel Place

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PUBLISHER’SNOTICE

All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act 1968 which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or dis-crimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handi-cap, familial status, or national origin or an inten-tion to make any such pref-erence, limitation or dis-crimination.”This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertisement for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper available on an equal opportunity basis.To complain of discrimina-tion call 919-733-7996 (N.C. Human Relations Commission).

No maintenance home in Hampton Ponds. 2BR plus

possible 3rd. Beautiful kitchen w/ sunroom on

small lake! $249,900. Call Brenda, Broker-777-3297

Model Now Open COPPER RIDGE

1+ acre homesites US #1 @ Farrell Rd

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Huge 3BR/2.5BA plus sep-arate apt on lower level.

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6 New Models Open@ NOTTINGHAM US #1 @ Burns Dr.

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820Homes

*Houses/Mobile Homes/Real Estate Policy: One (house) per

household per year at the “Family Rate”.Consecutive

different locations/addresseswill be billed

at the “Business Rate”.

820Homes

W. Chatham County32 Acres Of Beautiful Roll-

ing Land. Big Trees & Creek. 20 Miles N. Of

Sanford. $138,000919-478-1618

Save up to $10,000 on Homesites Copper Ridge,

Chancellor's Ridge, Carolina Trace and

Carolina Seasons. Visit www.grocecompanies.com and dial 919-770-4883 or

770-2554

810Land

800Real Estate

Office Space near Courthouse Fronting Horner

Blvd. Free Rent 60 Days for more in and up fit. New Carpet & Paint. Call 919-775-1497,

770-4883 or 770-2554

765Commercial

Rentals

3BR/2BA$575/month $575/deposit

Call: 910-528-7505

3BR 2BA DW on private lot, Johnsonville area. $550/mo., $550/dep Available Immediately!Ref. req’d. 498-1650

2BR/1BA Mobile Home In Seminole MHP. $415/mo w/ a $300 Deposit. Must See! Call 919-770-5948

740For Rent - Mobile

Homes

RENT MBR,MBR, SR, DTV, W/DACC. NO SMK/DK $300/MONTH & 1/3

UTILITIES. CALL: 776-3867

$24.95 Nightly$160 Weekly 2 nights freeCable/Fridge/Microwave

Call for more info919-498-5534

735For Rent - Room

Short Stay?Try Candlewood Apts.

Adcock Rentals774-6046

Sanford GardensAge 62 and disabled under

62 who may qualify Adcock Rentals 774-6046 EHO

N. Horner Blvd, 1 bedroom apt. $360.

Deposit/References(919)356-4687

Move In Special!Free Rent

2BR, Spring Lane Apartments

Adjacent To Spring Lane Galleria

919-774-6511simpsonandsimpson.com

Furnished Studio and1BR Apt. $115-$130

a week. All utilities paid 919-771-5747

Celebrate the New Year in your new apartment

home at

Westridge Apartments

Be sure to inquire aboutour move-in special!

1&2 BR UnitsWasher/Dryer

hook up in each unit Section 8 welcomed

Disability accessible units Equal Housing Opportunity

Pathway DriveSanford, NC 27330

(919)775-5134

Appletree ApartmentsRent Special! 2 br apts,

$495/mo. 919-774-0693.

2BR/1.5BA$535/month

$535/deposit Call:910-528-7505

1 & 2 BR AptsRent start at $355

Equal Housing OpportunityWoodbridge Apartments

(919)774-6125

730For Rent -

Apts/Condos

West Sanford Home For Rent 4BR 2.5 Bath

LG Screened In Back PorchNice Neighborhood

New Fridge, New Paint and Carpet, Excellent

Condition $1050/month Call Eddie (919)708-2036

THE SANFORD HERALDmakes every effort to follow

HUD guidelines in rental advertisements placed by

our advertisers. We reserve the right to refuse or change ad copy as

necessary for HUD compliances.

Rent to Own: West Sanford location. 3-4BR,1BA, over 1500 sq. ft., $650/mo.

204 Hillcrest Dr. 919-946-7078

Lease to Own 3BR 2 BA 1 Level w/ fire place Town

Home in town. $119,000 or $775/mo w/ $150 mo Credit on Purchase in 18 Months 919-775-1497, 770-2554 or 770-4883

Charming 3 BD/1 bath 2-story cottage. New carpet, tile, fp, screen porches. Ref req’d. W. Sanford 700/mo

919-775-3679

Carolina Trace 3BR/2BA,$900/mo. plus dep.

Amenities incl.910-639-3250 lv. msg.

2BR House For Rent In John-sonville, $450/Month. Call: 353-2375 or 258-

5818 After 5:30

1, 2, 3 BR Rentals Avail.Adcock Rentals

774-6046adcockrentalsnc.com

720For Rent - Houses

700Rentals

Looking to purchase small timber tracts.

Fully insured. Call919-499-8704

695Wanted to Buy

Rottweilers PuppiesAKC Registered

6 Weeks Old with ShotsDewormed

919-356-0651

Registered Pit Bull Puppies For Sale. Old Red Nose

and Razor Edge Bloodlines.Shots up to date. Several Colors to Choose from. $250 (919) 478-9298

Pets For Sale: 2 Male Mini Dachshund Puppies- Full

Blooded, 6 Wks Old, Have Worming & First Shots.

$200. Call: 919-499-8566

Free Puppies To Good Home! 258-6438

AKC German Rottweiler Puppies black and

mahogany color 3 females 8 weeks old excellent

temperament & dispositionBoth parents on site $500

919-545-1861

*Pets/Animals Policy: Three different (Pet) ads per household per year at the

“Family Rate”. In excess of 3, billing will be at the

“Business Rate”.

675Pets/Animals

CLASSIFIED SELLS!“CALL TODAY,

SELL TOMORROW”Sanford HeraldClassified Dept.,

718-1201 or 718-1204

665Musical/Radio/TV

GOT STUFF?CALL CLASSIFIED!

SANFORD HERALDCLASSIFIED DEPT.,

718-1201 or 718-1204.

660Sporting Goods/Health & Fitness

Thomasville Solid Oak For-mal Dining Room Set: Table

w/ 2 Leaves, 6 Chairs, Matching Hutch $2500.

Large Martha Stewart Sofa $1000. 919-498-3941

For Sale Jenny Lynn Bed, Antique Chester Drawers

$280. Matt & Springs Free!776-6037

650Household/Furniture

Firewood, 16 in. split oak & mixed hardwood, deliv-ered & stacked truck load.

$50 No Checks Please 498-4852 - 258-9360

640Firewood

Firewood For Sale deliv-ered & stacked. Seasoned or green. As low as $60 a

Load. Call David Jones: 919-356-3779

Fire WoodMixed HardwoodsFull Size Pick Up

Split & Delivered $85499-1617/353-9607

Fire Wood For SaleSeveral Different Size Loads

258-3594/499-3053

F I R E W O O DSeasoned or Green3/4 ton pickup load

$80 a load/$90 stackedDump Truck Load

also Available 258-9792 499-8972

640Firewood

Appliance Repair - all brands. Free estimate.All

work guaranteed. Call Mr. Paul anytime 258-9165.

615Appliances

HAVING A YARD SALE?

The DEADLINE for

Ads is 2 P.M.the day PRIOR to publication. PREPAYMENT IS REQUIRED FOR

YARD SALE ADS. THE SANFORD HERALD,

CLASSIFIED DEPT. 718-1201 or

718-1204

Good Pallets 36x48 Inches $2 Each Other sizes Avail.

Possible Free Delivery 336-581-3250 anytime

120 Gallon Propane Tank Does Not Leak. Is nearly full of propane. 919-721-0970

$400 Located at Quail Ridge in Tramway

1 Sun Series 424 SL Tan-ning Bed $1200

1 Lassik Series 726 Needs Timer $400

1 New Gas Heater Vent Free $400

1 Pig Cooker Wood & Charcoal $500

1 Gun Cabinet $1751 China Cabinet $250

1 Gas Heater For Mobile Home $200

1 12” Craftsman Planner $150

1 Computer Bunk Bed $140

Call 1-910-891-8959 Any-time

605Miscellaneous

Waveless Waterbed $200. Camper Shell For Small

Truck $50. Call: 919-776-7187

Set of Ivy Patterned China $75. Upright Vacuum $25.

Call: 770-0586

Ladies Wool Sweaters(3) $8 Each. Ladies Jeans(4) Size 14; $8 Each. Ladies

Shoes Sizes 6.5-7; $5 Each. Touch Lamp $10.

776-9091

Brown computer desk with hutch for sale

$25.00 call 919-776-0936

Black & Decker toolbox w/ Craftsman tools & more for $75. Various new Rods & Reels nothing over $15.

Call: 919-721-2847

Antique Elgin TreadleSewing Machine $50

(919)776-6224

Antique Desk $100,Electric Type Writer $20, Calculator $10, PolaroidInstamatic Camera $15

919-776-9256

7 Different Breeds Of Ban-tam Chickenss Staring At $5. Call: 919-776-8586

4 Vera Bradley Purses $20 Each. Chester Drawers

$20. VHS Tapes $2 each. Baby Changing Table $20.

Kodak & Canon Digital Cameras $20 Each. 770-

0586

3 Pair of Haggar Slacks New 38 40 Waist 32

Length & 1 Pair of Izod Slacks 38 32

$30 Each 919-258-9398

25” Cable Ready Sylvania Stereo TV w/ Remote & Digital Converter $100. New Dooney & Bourke Large Purse. 919-770-

1408

*“Bargain Bin” ads are free for five consecutive days. Items must total $250 or less, and the price

must be included in the ad. Multiple items at a single price

(i.e., jars $1 each), and animals/pets do not qualify.

One free “Bargain Bin” ad per household per month.

601Bargain Bin/$250 or Less

600Merchandise

Free Mixed German Shepherd Puppies

7 week old FemalesVery Cute, Cuddly

and Adorable919-777-0601

7 Puppies 9 weeks oldPit Bull & Lab Mix

Free to Good Home919-669-0806

520Free Dogs

Free Chocolate Lab Mixed Puppies to Good Home.

6 Males 1 FemaleCall After 5pm919-258-0567

2 Free Yellow LabFemale Puppies8 Weeks Old

919-258-5026

520Free Dogs

500Free Pets

Information Technologies Specialist

Microsoft Certified Software administrator/

Engineer. Must be able to set-up and maintain all

network functions including password access to new

users/addition of terminals, write crystal reports for custom software data compilations, network

security functions, maintain user database and email

accounts. Current network size 45 devices between three locations linked byT-1 connection. Familiar

with SQL server and ODBC connectivity a plus.

Benefits. Send resume and salary requirements to

[email protected] or mail to Gray Flex Systems

Inc., Attn: IT Specialist, P.O. Box 1326, Coats, NC

27521, or Fax 910-897-2222.

Electrical Controls DesignerResponsible for layout,

assembly, wiring, testing, programming and

installation of electrical control panels for custom automated machinery. Typical devices include AC/DC drives, PLC’s,

relays, pneumatic valves, and a variety of inductive

and optical sensors. Requires skill with power drills, taps, and general

hand tools. Must be affluent in PLC controls. Candidate must be able to work from & create blueprints, charts, sketches. Must be able to

create or modify PLC Programs & Electrical Cad type drawings. Must also be able to create written

and provide oral instructions for others. May be required to fill in where additional work is required due to absenteeism. Must

work with minimum supervision. Candidate is

required to have own tools. Benefits. Send resume and

salary requirements to [email protected], or mail to Gray Flex Systems, Inc., Attn: Electrical Con-

trols, P.O. Box 1326, Coats, NC 27521, or Fax

(910) 897-2222.

455Help Wanted -

Trades

Join our dynamic team at Cambridge Hills Assisted Living. We currently have

positions available for CNA’s and a Part Time

Weekend Activities Assis-tant. Must be energetic, out-going with a creative imag-ination. We offer life and medical insurance, paid

time off, 401k with compa-ny match and more. Call (919)545-9573 ext.102

440Help Wanted -Professional

Sales positions avail. Salary + comm. Must have

high energy and be self-motivated.

Toyota of Sanford Call 919-895-6526 EOE DFW

430Help Wanted -

Sales

WeldersSoutheastern Tool &

Die, Inc.is looking for

experienced welders to join our team. Ideal candidates will be profi-

cient in MIG, TIGand wire welding of

various materials including steel, aluminum

and stainless steel. Ability to read blue prints will be a

plus. Thisis a fast paced, job shop

environment. Openings on 1st and 2nd shift.

Southeastern Tool & Die offers an excellent salary

and full rangeof benefits, including insurance, 401K, and

profit sharing.Interested candidates,

please send resume and cover letter to:

Southeastern Tool & Die, Inc.; Attn: HR; 105 Taylor

Street,Aberdeen, NC 28315 or

fax to 910-944-1235.

We offer• BOLD print

• ENLARGED PRINT

• EnlargedBold Print

for part/all of your ad!Ask your Classified Sales

Rep for rates.

420Help Wanted -

General

B11CLASSIFIEDS

NOW HIRINGVolt Workforce Solutions is hiring ASSEMBLY TECHNICIANS for a

large manufacturing facility in Sanford, NC.

Positions are 1st shift, starting pay rate $9.50/hr with a $.50 increase every six months,

capping at $11.50/hr at two years.

Multiple positions available!!

All applicants must:

Call Volt Workforce Solutions today at 919-577-1110 and mention ASSEMBLY TECH for more information!!

B12CLASSIFIEDS

(919) 258-0572Cell: (919) 842-2974

UniversalPressure Washing

Residential/Commercial

PRESSURE WASHINGHome EnergyManagement

I have reduced my home power energy consumption 25%.I have reduced my

propane consumptionfor hot water by 33%.This is REAL savings and I may be able to

help you achievesimilar results!

919-935-3899Home Energy Consultant

(Homeowners Only)

PAINTING/CONTRACTORLarry Rice

Painting/ContractorResidential

Commercial

Fully insured.No job to small.Free estimates

919-776-7358Cell: 919-770-0796

HARDWOOD FLOORS

HARDWOOD FLOORS

Wade Butner776-3008

Finishing & Refinishing

HorseQuality

Coastal Hay

HAY SERVICE

Round & SquareBales Available

Eddie & CorbittThomas Farms856 Cox Maddox RdSanford, NC 27332

(919) 258-6152(919) 353-0385

Phil StoneTree Removal

Tree Removal, StumpGrinding, Trim & Top Trees,

Bushhogging, Backhoe Work & Landscaping

FREE ESTIMATESFULLY INSURED

We accept MasterCard & Visa

Quality Service to Lee& Surrounding

Counties for 15 Years

TREE REMOVAL

24 HourEmergencyService

Call776-4678

LETT’S TREE REMOVAL SERVICE

Remove trees, Trim and top Trees, Lot clearing, stump

grinding, backhoe work, hauling, bush hogging, plus we buy tracts of

timber. We accept

Visa and Mastercard. Free estimates and

we are insured.

TREE SERVICE

Call258-3594

THEHANDY-MAN

REPAIR SERVICE• Carpentry• Dry Wall• Electrical• Painting• Plumbing

BATH REMODELING

Will Terhune919-770-7226

REPAIR SERVICE

Since 1978

Jonathan Holder

Cell: 919-721-1633Home: 919-776-0836

LANDSCAPING

HOLDER'SHAULING &

LANDSCAPING

*Dump Truck andTractor Service

Gravel, Top Soil,Mulch, Sand

Pine, Red Cedar, Oak,Cypress, Walnut, Poplar

(great for fire wood)

Delivery available

Contact Jordan at 718-1201 [email protected] at 718-1204 [email protected] or

your display advertising Sales Rep. for more information.1x2 24 Runs $125 – only $5.21 per day1x3 24 Runs $150 – only $6.25 per day

Ask us how $25 can double your coverage!

or your display advertising sales rep for more information.

WinterDRIVEWAY SPECIAL5 Ton Crush & RunDelivered $100

Larger Loads and Tractor Spreading Also Available

(919)777-8012

BrastonGail Antiques

* Collectables* Antiques

* Used Furniture * Antique Lumber

336 Wicker Street(919)777-9000

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