THURSDAY

RainlikelyHigh: 57Low: 43Complete report: Page 7A

DeathsRuby Griffin Deese

Denise Michelle Jones

WHAT’S NEWS

Cash-for-grades fundraiser nixed

GOLDSBORO (AP) — Administrators have nixed a North Carolina middle school’s cash-for-grades fundraiser.

The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Wednesday that Wayne County school administrators have halted the plan at Rosewood Middle School in Goldsboro.

The school was offering 20 test points to students in exchange for a $20 donation. Rosewood principal Susie Shepherd had said that she approved the idea after a par-ent advisory council presented it as a way to raise money. Shepherd rejected the sugges-tion that extra points on two tests could make a difference in a final grade.

School district administra-tors said no extra credit will be awarded and that any do-nated money will be returned.

SETTING IT STRAIGHT

A chart of student perfor-mance for grades three through eight on Page 1A of Wednesday’s edition shows the percentage of students who scored at or above grade level on reading and math.

BIRTHDAYSBest wishes are extended

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Evie Jo Larrimore, Carolyn Helms, Danny Hailey, Rebecca Tosti

Call (704) 261-2278 or e-mail birthdays@theej.com to add your names to the list.

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BY JASON deBRUYNStaff Writer

MONROEA man pleaded guilty to

two counts of murder and was sentenced to 36 years in prison.

“We’re very satisfied with the outcome,” District Attor-

ney John Snyder said.Ubaldo Trejo Martinez,

19, formerly of 886 Sun-set Drive in Monroe, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in late 2007. He pleaded to two counts of second-degree murder and one count of

kidnapping. Three others still have pending charges in the killing, but Snyder would not say if the plea deal came with stipula-tions that Martinez testify.

Martinez was charged in the Dec. 1, 2007, killing of Maria Elvira Celedon and

her boyfriend Carlos Ar-mando Arteaga DelAngel, who were killed in their home at 5703 Secrest Short Cut Road.

According to court files, when police arrived at the scene they found De-lAngel’s sister, Maricela

Arteaga DelAngel, who was with the 6-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter of the couple who were killed. Maricela DelAngel told po-lice she hid with the chil-dren in the bedroom until police came in the house.

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Man pleads guilty to murdersMartinez one of four charged in December 2007 deaths of couple

Staff photo by Ed Cottingham

Celebrating fallMary Little, an assistant teacher at the Wolfe School, dances with student Tyler Cur-rie at the school’s fall festival Wednesday. The party included a meal, games and music, and gave family members a chance to socialize with faculty and students.

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Odalais Zavala looks at the tree that fell from his neighbor’s yard onto his wife’s car at his home at 307 Hough St. in Monroe. Zavala said he was at work at the time but his wife was inside the house and heard the tree fall.

BY JASON deBRUYNStaff Writer

MONROEUnion County’s state

senator has been ranked the third most conserva-tive in the state.

A c c o r d -ing to rank-ings re-leased by the conser-vative John W. Pope C i v i t a s I n s t i t u t e , Sen. Eddie G o o d a l l , R - U n i o n , r a n k e d third with a conserva-tive index of 60 out of 100.

“I’m glad they have a system to rank what hap-pens based on conserva-tive votes,” Goodall said.

He argued that because Democrats have the ma-jority in the General As-sembly, they are more likely to be sponsors of bills that are heard and passed. Grading based on how conservative a legis-lator votes seemed more fair, he said.

See GOODALL / Page 2A

He’sNo. 3Conservative group likes how localsenator votes

Goodall fared well in the Civitas Institute’s conservative index.

BY TIFFANY LANEStaff Writer

MONROEVietnam veteran Med-

ford Epps spent five years filing claims for disabili-ty benefits. It wasn’t until his visit with the Union County Disabled Ameri-can Veterans that his claim went through. Epps has post-traumatic stress

disorder and diabetes.The DAV will head to

Golden Corral in Mon-roe this weekend to raise money for the nonprofit and encourage other vet-erans to join. Monday is dubbed “military appre-ciation Monday”; veter-ans and active military members are invited to the restaurant for a free

meal and fellowship. Nearly 1,300 veterans were served last year.

DAV Commander Steve Wharton said the organization’s main job is to help fellow veter-ans obtain medical ben-efits, compensation and pension by completing the “complicated” pa-perwork for them. That

is not the only need, he added, and money raised from the fundraiser will help veterans strapped for cash pay their bills or get automobile repairs.

“We do anything like an organization like the Red Cross does, but we do it strictly for veterans,” Wharton said.

See DAV / Page 3A

DAV prepping to show appreciation

BY JASON deBRUYNStaff Writer

MONROECounty commissioners

might soon archive meet-ings differently, some-thing they hope will ex-pedite public information requests.

Updating how minutes are taken would allow county officials to put commissioner actions online and in front of the public more efficiently, something they hope would make government more transparent.

Board of Commis-sioners clerk Lynn West records meetings and takes notes in order to

transcribe accurate min-utes, outlining not just the board’s action, but the key points of discus-sion. Commissioners commended West for her work, but said she faces an overwhelming work-load.

Commissioner Kim Rogers said commission-ers could not apologize for the workload in gen-eral, saying she ran in or-der to get things done and the extra minutes were an unintended consequence. Still, Rogers said some-thing needs to be done to take some of that work off West.

See MINUTES / Page 3A

Commissionerslook to improvetaking of minutes

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(Editor’s note: To list the event of your nonprofit civic, social or gov-ernmental organization, call 704-261-2252.)

Today•  UNION  WEST  RO-

TARY, 7:30 a.m., civic building behind Indian Trail Town Hall. For de-tails, call Sean Helms, 704-849-9332.

•    WAXHAW-WED-DINGTON  SUNRISE ROTARY  CLUB, 7:30 a.m., Rippington’s Restau-rant, 109 W. South Main St., Waxhaw. Details, Jer-ry Simpson, 704-363-2173.

• RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE, 9:30 a.m to 2 p.m., South Piedmont Com-munity College, 4209 Old Charlotte Highway, Mon-roe. Details, 704-283-7402.

•  BASIC  INTERNET CLASS, 10 a.m., Union West Library. Free. Regis-tration required; call 704-821-7475.

•  BABY  TIME, 10:30 a.m., Union West Library. Details, 704-821-7475.

•  KIWANIS  CLUB OF MONROE, noon to 1 p.m., Rolling Hills Coun-try Club. For details, call Fran Dandridge at 704-289-9429.

•  SENIOR  CITIZENS CANASTA, 12:30 p.m. , Ellen Fitzgerald Center. For information, call El-len Fitzgerald Senior Center at 704-282-4657.

• MICROSOFT WORD I/EXCEL  I/E-MAIL BASICS  CLASS, 3 p.m., Waxhaw Library. Free. Registration required; call 704-843-3131.

• HOMEWORK HELP NIGHT, 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Monroe Library. For grades one through eight. Details, Kim, 704-283-8184, ext. 238.

• THURSDAY TALES, 5 p.m., Monroe Library. For ages 5 and up and their caregivers. Details, 704-283-8184.

•  UNION  COUN-TY  CRIMINAL  JUS-TICE  PARTNERSHIP BOARD, 5:30 p.m., De-partment of Social Ser-vices Auditorium, 1212 W. Roosevelt Blvd.

•  WAXHAW  BOOK CLUB, 5:45 p.m., Waxhaw Library. Topic, “People of the Book” by Geraldine Brooks.

•  PILOT  CLUB  OF MONROE, executive board meeting, 6 p.m., Da-

vid Tucker Construction.•  ALCOHOLICS 

ANONYMOUS, Low Bottom group, 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., old Belk building, 200 Stewart St., Monroe. Details, 704-332-4387; 704-377-0244.

•  TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), 6 p.m. weigh-in, 6:20 meeting, Love Baptist Church, 707 Deese Road, Monroe. De-tails, 704-225-1720.

•  CORSETS  and CORPSES, 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., Monroe Library. Speaker, Regina Jeffers. Details, 704-283-8184.

•  WAXHAW  TOPS #613 (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Waxhaw Bible Church, 6810 Pleasant Grove Road. For details, call 704-843-5518 or 704-254-3880.

•  ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, Sunset group, 6 p.m., 1010 Mc-Manus St., Monroe. De-tails, 704-219-6245.

•  UNION  COUNTY CRUISERS, 6:30 p.m., Monroe Mall, next to Pizza Hut. Custom and classic cars. Details, 704-238-1600.

•  SENIOR  DANCE, 7 p.m.-9 p.m., Ellen Fitzger-ald Center, Line dancing and ballroom dancing. Details, 704-282-4657.

•  BINGO, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., Indian Trail VFW, 100 VFW Lane, Indian Trail; $500 jackpot. For details, call 704-821-9753.

• PARENTS WITH LD/ADD SUPPORT GROUP, 7 p.m., First Presbyterian, 302 Windsor St. For more details, call Carol Murray, 704-283-4740.

•  WEDDINGTON  OP-TIMIST  CLUB, 7 p.m., Weddington Optimist Park, state Route 84. For details, call Aubrey Moore, 704-283-1805 or Ron Stamey, 704-846-1754.

• BOY SCOUT TROOP 98, 7 p.m., Hemby Bridge Church, 6010 Mill Grove Road. For details, call 704-882-3482.

•  AUTISM  SOCIETY OF  NORTH  CAROLI-NA, Union County chap-ter family support meet-ing, 7 p.m., Walter Bickett Education Center, 501 Lancaster Ave., Monroe. Details, 704-724-0855.

•  MARSHVILLE  RE-SEARCH  CLUB, 7 p.m., First Baptist Church li-brary, Marshville. Details,

704-624-5289.•  AMERICAN  LE-

GION POST NO. 27, 7:30 p.m., Sutherland Avenue post.

•  COCAINE  ANONY-MOUS meeting, 7:30 p.m., at the Friendship Home, 2111 Stafford St. Ext., Monroe.

•  AL-ANON, 8 p.m., First Step Recovery Cen-ter, 1623 Sunset Drive, Monroe. Details, 704-283-0944, 704-764-7651.

Friday• RED CROSS BLOOD 

DRIVE, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monroe High School. De-tails, 704-283-7402.

•  EXERCISE  CLASS, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., Ellen Fitzgerald Senior Center. Open to ages 55 and up. For details, call 704-282-2657.

•  COUNCIL  ON  AG-ING  INDOOR  ATTIC SALE, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 1401 Skyway Drive, Mon-roe. Details, 704-292-1797.

•  MOMS  CLUB  INDI-AN  TRAIL  AREA, 9:30 a.m., Indian Trail Pres-byterian Church. Details, Kristen, momsclubita@yahoo.com or Kelly, 704-846-6737.

•  SENIOR  FITNESS CLASS, 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m., Bazemore Center, Winchester Avenue, Mon-roe. Free to all senior citi-zens. Details, 704-282-4654.

•  BABY  TIME, 10:30 a.m., Edwards Library, Marshville. Details, 704-624-2828.

•  TURNING  POINT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE GROUP, 4 p.m. at the shel-ter. Details, 704-283-7233.

•  MONROE  CRUISE-IN, 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., downtown Monroe. De-tails, 704-292-1705; www.monroenc.org.

•  ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, Low Bottom group, 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., old Belk building, 200 Stewart St., Monroe. Details, 704-332-4387; 704-377-0244.

•  ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, Sunset group, 6 p.m., 1010 Mc-Manus St., Monroe. De-tails, 704-219-6245.

• NARCOTICS ANON-YMOUS, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., Nicey Grove Bap-tist Church, 318 Camden Road, Wingate. Details, 704-221-7352.

•  OVERCOMERS OUTREACH  ANONY-MOUS, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., 1700 Secrest Shortcut Road. For details call 704-846-9223.

•  PAGELAND  SIN-GLES  DANCE, 7 p.m. to midnight, Pageland, S.C.,

American Legion Post 92. Live music, married cou-ples welcome. Bring cov-ered dish. Admission, $10. Must be 21. Details, Lloyd or Margaret Melton at (843) 634-3787 after 6 p.m.

• NARCOTICS ANON-YMOUS, 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., Friendship Missionary Baptist Church admin-istrative building, 501 Burke St. Details, 704-821-4256, 704-763-0784.

Saturday•  REPUBLICAN 

MEN’S CLUB, 8:30 a.m., Golden Corral. Guest speaker, N.C. Court of Appeals Judge Sanford Steelman. Details, Rick Alexander, 704-320-4219.

•  WIDOWS  GROUP, 9 a.m., The Pier, Marsh-ville. Details, 704-207-7311.

•  LEGION  POST  27 TURKEY SHOOT, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., U.S. 601 North, just past the Country Grill.

•  TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), 9 a.m. weigh-in, 9:20 meeting, Love Baptist Church, 707 Deese Road, Monroe. De-tails, 704-226-1520.

•  ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, Low Bot-tom group, 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., old Belk building, 200 Stew-art St., Monroe. Details, 704-332-4387; 704-377-0244.

•  OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS, 10 a.m., Central United Method-ist Church, room 106.

•  WINCHESTER ALUMNI  ASSOCIA-TION, 10 a.m., Bazemore Meeting Room, Win-chester Avenue.

•  MICROSOFT  PUB-LISHER  CLASS, 1:30 p.m., Union West Library. Free. Registration re-quired; call 704-821-7475.

• NARCOTICS ANON-YMOUS, 5:30 p.m. to 6: 30 p.m., Friendship Mis-sionary Baptist Church administrative building, 501 Burke St. Details, 704-821-4256, 704-763-0784.

•  BINGO, 7:30 p.m., Vietnam Veterans Asso-ciation Post No. 14, 620 Roosevelt Blvd., $2,500 program. Doors open at 5 p.m. For details, call 704-283-6165.

•  MONROE  SHAG CLUB, 8 p.m. to mid-night, American Legion Post 27, 700 Sutherland Ave., Monroe. Admis-sion, $5 for members, $7 for nonmembers. Details, 704-764-8808.

•  ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, Sunset group, 8 p.m., 1010 Mc-Manus St., Monroe. De-tails, 704-219-6245.

Ruby DeeseMONROE

Ruby Griffin Deese of Monroe went to meet her Lord Novem-ber 10, 2009, at CMC-Union surrounded by her family. She was born March 30, 1923, daughter of the late Edgar Lee Griffin and Alice Baker Griffin.

She was preceded in death by her hus-band, William Clegg Deese; two sisters, Dorothy Rorie, and Hazel Williams; one brother, Billy Parks Griffin. Funeral ser-vices will be held 2:00 p.m. Friday, Novem-ber 13, 2009, in Gor-don Funeral Chapel 1904 Lancaster Ave., Monroe, NC 28112, with burial to follow in Lakeland Memo-rial Park.

Mrs. Deesse is sur-vived by a son Gary Lee Deese of Monroe; daughter, Gillie Alice Deese husband Roger Clontz of Monroe; two grandchildren, Karisa Alice Deese, and Daniel Roger Clontz, of Monroe, along with numerous nieces, nephews, and extended family and friends. The family will receive friends on Friday, November 13, 2009, from 12:30 p.m. until 1:45 p.m. at Gor-don Funeral & Crema-tion Service. Online condolences may be made at www.gordon-funeralservice.com. Memorials may be made to West Monroe Baptist Church, 1212 Icemorlee St., Mon-roe NC 28110, or char-ity of choice. Gordon Funeral & Cremation Service is caring for the Deese family.

PAID OBITUARY

DEATHSDenise Jones

HUNTERSVILLE — De-nise Michelle Jones, 37, died Monday (Nov. 9, 2009) at Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte.

Funeral will be 11 a.m. Friday at Good Shepherd Funeral Home of Indian Trail, with burial in Sun-set Memory Gardens in Mint Hill.

Born Feb. 13, 1972, in Redbank, N.J., she was a daughter of Donald and Ellen Stillwell Millen of Huntersville.

Survivors include her husband, Todd Jones; three sons, Andrew Bow-ers of Clarksburg, W.Va., Joey Carter, Shawn Jones, both of the home; five daughters, Katrina Bow-ers of Clarksburg, W.Va., Chelsy Carter, Kayla Mil-len, Alice Jones, Ashley Jones, all of the home; one brother, William Millen of Huntersville; and three sisters, Heather Millen of Brooklyn, N.Y., Charlene Kirkpatrick of Hunters-ville and Amber Millen of Gastonia.

Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Online condolences may be made at www.goodshep-herdfuneralhome.net

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COMING EVENTS

AREA BRIEFSActor Modine to lecture at WU

WINGATEActor Matthew

Modine will give a guest lecture in the Recital Hall in Wing-ate University’s Batte Center today at 7:30 p.m. Modine, who has starred in films such as “Memphis Belle” and “Full Metal Jacket,” is in Union County working on a film based on “The Trial” by Robert Whitlow.

He will speak about professional acting in three venues: theatre, television and film. Part of his presenta-tion will specifically focus on the current role he is filming. This free event is ar-ranged in part by the Union County Com-munity Arts Council.

Judge to addressRepublican Men

MONROEN.C. Court of Ap-

peals Judge Sanford Steelman will be the guest speaker when the Union County Republican Men’s Club meets Saturday at 8:30 a.m. at Golden Corral. Steelman will discuss the judicial system and the upcoming judicial races. For informa-tion, call Rick Alexan-der at 704-320-4219.

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The Civitas Institute is a think tank that lobbies for conservative ideals. It ranked every member of the N.C. House and Sen-ate based on their votes on certain bills. Mem-bers of the Civitas group would determine what vote would be conserva-tive and scored which legislators voted conser-vatively most often.

Goodall voted favor-ably in Civitas’ opinion 30 out of 50 times. Union County’s other Republi-can legislator, Rep. Curtis Blackwood, ranked 30th out of 123 representa-tives. He voted favorably in Civitas’ eyes on 33 out of 50 bills and was scored

at 66 out of 100.Senators and repre-

sentatives were ranked separately; there are 51 senators.

Civitas Executive Di-rector Francis DeLuca said the group “tried to pick issues that covered the gamut,” in order to get a fair ranking. “We tried to rank the effec-tiveness on a broad range of issues,” he said.

This was the second year the Civitas Institute released conservative rankings. DeLuca said the group has made the list more user-friendly with reports on every leg-islator. He hopes to culti-vate deeper analysis and develop lifetime scores as more statistics are taken. The 2009 rankings looked at bills only from the 2009

legislative session.Goodall said he trusts

Union County voters will be pleased with the re-sults.

“I’m very consistent with the people I hear from,” he said, but added that he would be open to others who are liberal leaning.

DeLuca said the rank-ings help keep legislators honest.

“There are a lot of representatives who back home say they are conservative, then don’t show that when they get to Raleigh,” he said.

Rep. Pryor Gibson, a Democrat who repre-sents the eastern half of the county, did not fare well in the rankings. He received a score of 6.3 out of 100, good enough

for 83rd place. According to Civitas, he voted con-servatively on only three out of 50 bills.

He laughed when he heard the news. “There is no such thing as an accu-rate ranking system any-more,” he said, pointing out that the rankings are strongly skewed Repub-lican. He went on to say that he thinks the Civitas Institute has insinuated that it wants to do away with public schools in North Carolina because of its push for private and charter schools.

“I don’t believe I want to be ranked very high in that organization,” he said.

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CHICAGO (AP) — The new gold rush is on.

The price of the pre-cious metal is soaring, hitting a record $1,119 an ounce on Wednesday — confounding market ana-lysts who thought there was no way gold would re-main so expensive when it first cracked the unheard-of $1,000 mark last year.

The remarkable run has implications far be-yond savvy investors. In New York’s diamond dis-trict, more people started showing up late last year to sell their gold, and the crush hasn’t let up, said Anthony Iannelli, owner of Iannelli Diamonds.

“They’re bringing in jewelry from the ’70s and

’80s they don’t wear any-more,” he said. “They’re following the news and see prices are high. They realize they have a little cache, and want to take it out of the vault.”

Typically, gold is a safe place for investors to park their money, not some-thing they buy to make money. It doesn’t earn any interest, and because it’s always sought-after, its value tends to be fairly stable.

For example, when gold first reached $1,000 it was in March 2008, shortly af-ter the collapse of invest-ment bank Bear Stearns. Investors bought it up then because they feared for the stability of the fi-

nancial system.This time is different.

Investors — think of them as the ’09ers — are buying gold to protect themselves against the falling dollar.

Currencies are weak investments around the world because of record-low interest rates. Foreign banks that hold substan-tial amounts of U.S. debt, such as China’s, want to diversify their holdings.

News earlier this month that India’s central bank bought nearly $7 billion worth of gold from the International Monetary Fund triggered a frenzy of gold buying.

The surge has been re-markable. Gold is up 7 percent just this month,

and 26 percent for the year. Some forecasters see it going to $1,200, $1,500 or beyond — unless the buying frenzy comes to a halt.

Some analysts are pan-ning the gold speculation.

“You just don’t see in-creases like this over the short term” that last, says Steve Condon, director of investor advisory servic-es for Truepoint Capital in Cincinnati. “This isn’t materially different from gambling.”

Nevertheless, people across the country are cashing in. More than 100 people a day now come to sell their gold at Ernest Perry’s antique and estate jewelry store in Charlotte,

N.C., up significantly in recent weeks.

But the rising price of gold has put a dramatic dent in jewelry sales, al-ready suffering from the recession. Far fewer cus-tomers are looking to buy gold jewelry because of the soaring price, Perry said.

“I think it will just about kill the gold jewelry busi-ness” if the price rises and remains above $1,500 an ounce, Perry said. He predicted silver would be-come the primary metal used in jewelry if gold prices drive customers out of the market.

For the most part, though, demand for gold is coming from investors and speculators, not from people who actually want to use it.

Demand for gold for jewelry and for industrial and dental uses was al-ready falling during the second quarter, according to the latest data avail-able from the World Gold Council.

Perry said customers looking to sell their gold should go to dealers with plenty of experience and expect to get, on average, about 70 percent of the current price. And there are other ways to get into gold than selling family heirlooms.

There are gold funds, publicly traded gold min-ing companies and gold bullion or coins, depend-ing on what makes some-one the most comfortable. No way is certain to be the safest or most lucrative.

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She later told police that she was awakened at about 3 a.m. by the sound of someone trying to break in. When she stepped out of her room, she said she was immediately confront-ed by a Hispanic man who made her lie on the floor in the bathroom. She said she heard gunshots and the shooters leave. When she got up, she said, she found that her brother and his girlfriend were dead. She said she was about to call 911 when she heard police radios outside the house and went to find the children.

Autopsies showed that Carlos DelAngel was shot six times and Celedon was shot nine times. Police found $47,000 in cash and $80,000 in cocaine at the house. After an investiga-tion, Martinez and four others were arrested in connection with the kill-ings.

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About 10,400 veterans live in the county, he said, many of them with gunshot wounds, post-traumatic stress disor-der, hearing loss or any number of back, ankle and knee problems. One member of the DAV is a former prisoner of war; others received Silver or Bronze Stars or Purple Hearts for combat action.

The DAV raised about $3,000 last year and spent around $5,000. The differ-ence came from funds left over from previous years.

The organization has 93 members — 1.2 mil-lion nationwide. Not all members of the DAV are disabled; some are on ac-tive duty.

Before Epps moved to Union County, he submit-

ted claim after claim to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in an attempt to get disability compensation. He some-times asked for help from local veterans services. “Each time, I was turned down,” he said. “I was re-jected by the VA.”

Epps finally had the Union County DAV write a claim for him “with their professional know-how,” he said, and now receives the benefits. A member of the organiza-tion, he said it benefits not only his physical health but mental health as well.

Dinner will be offered starting at 5 p.m. Monday.

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County Manager Al Greene said there have been more than 90 meet-ings this year that re-quired minutes.

“It is a tremendous workload,” he said. “We need to find a solution.”

The topic was intro-duced by Commissioner Allan Baucom, who said he was concerned that there were too many spe-cial meetings at which action was taken. Special meetings are typically not televised and recorded only on tape or with min-utes.

“When we don’t allow

the public to see the meet-ing, we take the transpar-ency in government and we make it opaque,” he said.

Baucom said special meetings were good and even necessary for infor-mational purposes, but should not generate as much action as they have this year.

Greene told the board that staff has been look-ing into new software that would enable the county to better record and ar-chive meetings, taking the onus off West to take such detailed minutes. He said he expected to have a proposal for the com-missioners in about four months.

Commissioners agreed that was the best plan of action and directed Greene to move forward

quickly.— Jason deBruyn can be

reached at 704-261-2243 or jdebruyn@theej.com.

RALEIGH (AP) — Gov. Beverly Perdue wants changes to state motor vehicle fleet rules be-cause some North Caro-lina government agen-cies have little-used state vehicles in their parking lots.

WRAL-TV reported this week that state agen-cies have paid millions of dollars for miles they didn’t drive on cars from the Motor Fleet Manage-ment Division.

“We need every dollar we can find, and if you’re paying for cars to sit in a lot, the whole system needs to be revamped,”

Perdue told the televi-sion station Tuesday.

Agencies pay a month-ly fee to the division for cars that increases as the number of miles driven rise. But they must pay a minimum fee based on 1,050 miles on each vehi-cle to cover maintenance, gas and insurance, re-gardless of whether the miles were driven.

The Department of Correction, one of the division’s customers with more than 2,400 cars a year, paid about $1.7 million for the fis-cal year ending June 30 on vehicles driven under

the minimum mileage threshold, WRAL report-ed.

Department spokes-man Keith Acree said state budget restriction likely have contributed to driving reductions of its motor fleet cars over the past year.

“It certainly sounds like something we could take a look at for ways to improve that,” Acree said.

According to the tele-vision station, the De-partment of Health and Human Services paid for more than $1 million for cars with unused mile-

age.Perdue said agencies

could end up returning some of the fleet’s more than 8,500 vehicles or have employees share vehicles. The law regard-ing usage of motor fleet vehicles also may need to be updated, she said.

Norris Tolson, co-chairman of a budget reform commission Per-due created earlier this year, said the panel will scrutinize the mileage charges.

“It’s one of those things that’s been sitting on the books for a long time,” Tolson said.

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Pet owners should ensure pet has ID

Saturday night at 10:30 p.m., I found a beautiful dog wandering on Landsford Road in Marshville. He was well cared for, and was wearing a green and silver ker-chief around his neck. He had on a collar — but no tag or ID of any kind. He was obviously lost, and was very sad.

I tried to find his owner the next day by knocking on a lot of doors, to no avail. He escaped by climb-ing a four-foot chain link fence, and I can only hope he made it home.

I would like to encourage pet owners to be more vigilant in their care of their animals, and for heaven’s sake put a tag on them so that if they do end up lost whoever finds them will have at least a chance of returning them to their homes. It’s so simple but so important, if you care for your pet.

Stella BaucomMarshville

AARP no longer canrepresent me

Normally I would just cancel a membership, but I felt that I needed to let you know why I am canceling,

I have been a member of AARP since I was 50, but I cannot sup-port an organization that does not represent me.

I do not support the Health Care fiasco that is currently in Con-gress. AARP has just thrown sup-port for this mess, without both-ering to find out how I feel. AARP did not send me a questionnaire or solicit my opinion in any way. Medicare probably has waste in

it, but Congress should eliminate the waste and funnel the money back into quality care for seniors, not rob the seniors.

This fiasco would take funds from seniors and in effect reduce quality of health care for seniors.

This money pit would also put undue financial burdens on my children and grandchildren, and future generations. How can this be a good health plan, when the senators and representatives do not wan to give up their current health care and reduce the cost of health care?

Deregulation would cause bet-ter health care and reduce cost of health care. I cannot support an organization that sells out the ones that they are supposed to be looking out for.

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Some are upset withthe wrong people

I have heard some citizens say that I set the county up at my farm last weekend with the bike rally. This is not so. I also want everyone to know the law officers were only doing their job as re-quired by law. Y9ou will only hear me say the best for them. Yes, it probably is an embarrassment to the county, but not to them. The embarrassment is truly on the county officials and their legal staff again wasting our tax reve-nue. (As if we have a lot of money to waste.)

Taxpayers, I have done every-thing I can to get the county of-ficials to address the problem with my farm since May 2007. I have been to court twice and have yet gotten to speak or testify. The county officials don’t want any-

one to testify under oath, so they keep using our legal system to their corrupt cover-up.

There has been three county commissioners to visit my farm. All three were impressed and thought it was a great idea.

Chairman Lanny Openshaw on a visit with his wife did say, “I hope you’ve got deep pockets, because that is the government’s way to keep you out of court.” This was when he thought it would come down under then-chairman Allan Baucom’s watch and it would embarrass commis-sioners Baucom, Mills and Press-ley. This visit is also the time he said he was going to have the FBI contact me. Now that it is under his watch, he has joined the same corrupt officials in this cover-up. He and Commissioner Tracy Kuehler should have been asking some bold questions after their visit to my farm because now I have some for them.

My sincere thanks to the Sher-iff ’s Office for a job well done. Please remember, taxpayers, I know everything about this case and all I ned is for everyone to be sworn in under oath (Commis-sioners, Board of Adjustment, county officials, along with Jerry Marsh and some of his friendly opposition to my rodeo.)

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Ask for a recount, Dan-ny Figueroa.

I don’t have any-thing against Dar-

lene Luther, and I don’t have a particular stake in shoving you onto the Indian Trail Town Council.

My interest in this race is en-tirely philosophical.

I object to quitting.When I was a kid, I played a

lot of mediocre softball. One particularly memorable game, my team was down 11 runs — OK, “mediocre” might have been a generous assessment of our talents, I admit — and we were down to the bottom of the ninth inning. We were lim-ited to nine batters per inning in that league, and it didn’t require algebra to realize that even if our side batted around, we were still losing by two.

Since we had yet to score in the entire game, I settled into the dugout with a book.

My coach was not having it. He walked up from his lonely post by third base and got right in my face.

“No, ma’am,” he said in a voice that chilled me to my 10-year-old bones. “My play-ers don’t read during games. I don’t care about the math! Are you a player in this game or aren’t you? No one asked you to be here, young lady, and if you’re going to just give up, we don’t want you anyway.

“Play it out.”I left the field feeling ill-used,

but his point sank in and took root.

Good sports play to the end.This is the electoral equiva-

lent of being tied at the end of a soccer match and refusing to take the field for the shootout. Take your penalty kicks, Mr.

Figueroa. Six hundred and forty four

people voted for you. The least you can do to say

thanks is to file a little ol’ piece of paper with the Board of Elections.

This isn’t like demanding a runoff or suing over hanging chads. This is a hand count of ballots to make sure that the machines scanned correctly. It’s just making sure that ev-ery vote really does count. It’s American.

Even my planning calendar is putting its oar in.

Surely it’s not a coincidence that on Thursday — which is, I remind you, the final day to file a request for a recount — the inspirational thought for the day will be “The only time you don’t want to fail is the last time you try. (Charles F. Ketter-ing)”

Do you know how few elec-tions come down to this few votes? It only happens in mu-nicipal election years when al-most nothing else is on the bal-lot. These are the years when

voter turnout is so shabby that a well-organized book club could swing an election.

In Weddington and Marvin, where Joe Barbara and L.A. Smith also lost by less than one percent, there was abso-

lutely nothing to drag people to the polls except the munici-pal elections.

In Indian Trail, we expect-ed higher turnout because people were wound up about the mixed drinks referendum, which makes your less-than-1-percent margin even more re-markable, Mr. Figueroa.

If it turns out that a hand count of the ballots reveals that, yep, you got 644 votes and Darlene Luther got 656 — or even if the numbers shift and you still lose — the fact is that you will have tried your hard-est.

Trying is important.Go for the recount, Mr.

Figueroa.

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• Betsy O’Donovan can be reached at bodonovan@theej.com or 704-261-2223.

Figueroa owes his supporters a full effort to win

A CAROLINA VIEW

“This isn’t like demanding a runoff or suing over hanging chads. This is a hand count of ballots to make sure that the machines scanned cor-rectly.”

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We in the Cape Fear region are used to turning out heroes. Many men and women have served hon-orably in the armed forces, in law enforcement and there are legions of residents who commit acts of heroism in everyday life. Even so, Kimberly Munley is a special breed.

The petite civilian police officer, born and bred right here, has been hailed for her role in stopping a horrific shooting at Fort Hood in Texas. Wounded herself, Munley nevertheless managed to continue firing until the suspect, an Army psychiatrist who apparently alarmed some colleagues with irrational or anti-American statements, was brought down.

Initially, she was credited with firing the four bul-lets that brought down Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, but investigators know that it often takes time to piece together facts from amid such chaos. A fuller picture will emerge; all who responded deserve commenda-tion.

Of course, those who know Munley weren’t sur-prised by her moxie. She earned the nickname “Mighty Mouse” from a fellow Wrightsville Beach officer after she helped subdue a violent suspect. She’s tough, she’s well trained and, in this case, she was determined to do her duty even at the risk of her own life.

Administrators at the hospital where she’s being treated say she’ll recover from her injuries. That’s comforting news for her family and friends, and also for the many people who will continue to benefit from her strong commitment to her job.

Former Carolina Beach Mayor Dennis Barbour has good reason to be proud of his daughter. She is a credit to all the uniforms she has worn, civilian and military. “It was an amazing and aggressive perfor-mance by this police officer,” Lt. Gen. Bob Cone told reporters.

It goes without saying that folks here in the Cape Fear region will be boasting for some time to come about the Hoggard graduate who showed tremen-dous bravery in a situation few of us can even imag-ine. The families of the 12 soldiers killed in the at-tack by Hasan are grieving and the injured are still recovering, but Munley’s courage and that of others who attempted to stop Hasan may have saved many other lives.

Fort Hood, like this area, has its share of heroes. But there is always room for one more.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Heavy government stimulus spending and near-zero interest rates did little to end a “lost de-cade” of stagnation and mushrooming debt in Japan. Some economists and lawmakers say the U.S. may wind up follow-ing the same trajectory.

Despite early signs of recovery and a strong U.S. stock market rally, fears persist that the failure to generate new jobs or ignite more con-sumer spending could drag the economy back into recession, or result in a protracted Japan-like period of poor economic and stock-market perfor-mance.

Japan is President Ba-rack Obama’s first stop on a tour of Asia beginning Friday — and the gloomy world economy will be high on the agenda. Both Japan, beginning in the 1990s, and the U.S., in the most recent economic cri-sis, had credit and hous-ing bubbles and both en-

gaged in huge amounts of overborrowing leading up to sharp economic down-turns. And both used historically low interest rates and government stimulus spending to try to lift their economies out of the ditch — with ques-tionable results in Japan.

“It seems to me we are on the exact same path that the Japanese took in their ‘lost decade’ — of running up huge govern-ment debts, of not stimu-lating growth and at the end of the decade having this massive debt,” said Kansas Sen. Sam Brown-back, senior Republican on Congress’ Joint Eco-nomic Committee.

Others cite differenc-es in the American and Japanese economies and business cultures to argue that things here are differ-ent and less susceptible to a prolonged period of eco-nomic lethargy. While the debate rages, both sides agree Japan’s painful ex-perience offers the U.S. a lesson of how attempts at

stimulus can go horribly wrong.

In the 1980s, Japan’s factories were humming and the country seemed on track to surpass the United States as the next global economic super-power. Japan’s banks were the largest in the world by market capitalization. Real estate and stock pric-es soared. Japan was buy-ing up large chunks of the United States.

Japan’s bubble econ-omy burst in 1990 and it lapsed into a lost decade that is fast becoming two lost decades. Struggling to regain its economic foot-ing and manufacturing competitiveness, Japan is about to lose its standings as the world’s second-largest economy and be replaced by China.

David Wyss, chief econ-omist for Standard and Poor’s, said a drawn-out period of economic stag-nancy like Japan’s is a possibility.

“But I don’t think it’s as likely over here. For one

thing, one of the prob-lems in Japan was the demographics. And we don’t have the problem of a declining population to deal with, although the la-bor force is going to slow down considerably as soon as the baby boomers retire,” Wyss said. He pre-dicted “a very sluggish re-covery here.”

Japan’s older population means more government social security spending and a movement by older Japanese away from sav-ing towards spending.

One other difference is that Japan’s crisis was largely created by corpo-rate debt excess, much of it borrowed against prop-erty with inflated prices, rather than personal debt and housing-market failures as in the United States.

Stock prices bottomed in Japan in 2003 until hit-ting an even lower low in 2008. Japan’s Nikkei stock index, now just under 10,000, still stands about 75 percent lower than where

it was 20 years ago.Some analysts say that

Japan’s example doesn’t show how stimulus can be ineffective so much as it shows the dangers of spending too little up front — or withdrawing it too quickly.

Japan protracted its re-cession twice by unwind-ing stimulus measures too early — in 1997 and in 2000 — the International Monetary Fund said in a recent report on Japan’s lost decade.

“An important lesson from Japan is that green shoots do not guarantee a recovery, implying a need to be cautious about the outlook today,” the IMF said in a reference to stimulus measures that the Group of 20 major economies now have in place. Finance ministers of G-20 nations agreed last weekend to keep stim-ulus measures in place for now, helping to fuel a stock market rally earlier in the week.

Years of expensive post

World War II spending on roads, dams and other projects, together with government stimulus spending to combat re-cessions, have left Japan with a national debt twice the size of its $5 trillion economy, the biggest defi-cit of any major economy.

The U.S. national debt of $12 trillion, by contrast, is approaching the size of the overall economy, $13.6 trillion as measured by the GDP. As staggering as that is, the ratio is half that of Japan’s.

Worrisome for both Ja-pan and the U.S. is the fact that interest rates are ex-ceptionally low right now, in part because of action by central banks in both countries. That makes servicing the national debt less expensive than it would otherwise be. But as interest rates be-gin to rise again, as they inevitably will, the costs of paying interest on new government bonds issued to cover deficit spending will soar.

U.S. risks following Japan’s example of stagnancy

DALLAS (AP) — The arrest of a United Air-lines pilot this week for allegedly drinking too much before entering the cockpit is the latest in a series of incidents involv-ing airline pilots and alco-hol.

The United pilot, Er-win Vermont Washing-ton, was about to take off from London’s Heathrow Airport for Chicago with 124 passengers on board. Instead, he was removed from the aircraft, sus-pended by his airline and now faces up to two years in a U.K. prison if convict-ed on criminal charges. He is the third U.S. pilot arrested in 13 months on alcohol-related charges.

Monday’s arrest raises more questions about what goes on in airplane cockpits. It follows the distracted flying incident in the U.S. last month, where Northwest Airlines pilots overshot Minneapo-lis by more than 100 miles because, they said, they were using their laptop computers.

In May an American Airlines pilot was ar-rested at Heathrow and charged with being un-der the influence of alco-hol. Another United pilot was arrested on the same charge in October 2008. And a Southwest Airlines

pilot was suspended in January after allegedly showing up for his flight in Ohio, reeking of alco-hol. He’s back on duty.

In 2008, 13 pilots vio-lated the Federal Aviation Administration’s alcohol-related rules. Pilots can’t fly if they have a blood-alcohol level of 0.04 per-cent or higher, half the le-gal driving limit in most states. They are prohib-ited from drinking any alcohol in the eight hours before reporting for work, a provision known in the profession as the “bottle-to-throttle” rule.

British law is even stricter with a 0.02 per-cent limit. That level can be reached with about one regular beer.

The number of inci-dents involving alcohol is tiny compared to the thousands of flights each day around the world. But when it happens it’s usu-ally up to passengers or crew members to spot a pilot who isn’t fit to fly.

The FAA checks pilots’ backgrounds for alcohol-related offenses such as drunk driving, But Barry Sweedler, a former Na-tional Transportation Safety Board official who worked on alcohol-related issues, says the FAA does little enforcement. “They rely on other people to

find the bad apples,” he says.

U.S. regulators have approached the issue by encouraging pilots with a drinking problem to identify themselves and seek treatment. They are tested periodically and can regain their license, usually in about a year.

Sweedler estimates that there are hundreds of airline pilots who are alcoholics and take part in a federally sanctioned treatment program that includes periodic moni-toring.

“It’s the guy who thinks he can get away with it that’s scary,” Sweedler says. “I’m sure there are

pilots over the limit who are flying every day.”

Critics have pressed for a zero blood-alcohol level standard.

In the latest incident, a United co-worker turned in Washington. Experts say that’s rare. In other recent cases, passengers were the cops.

That’s what happened in Ohio. Passengers told security screeners that Southwest Airlines pilot David P. Shook smelled of alcohol. Shook dashed into a bathroom, took off his uniform jacket and called in sick, according to airport police. The air-line put the 11-year vet-eran on leave.

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ClassesChildren’s Thanksgiving

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ComedyJon Reep, Nov. 27-28 at 8 p.m.

at Spirit Square’s McGlohon Theatre. Tickets start at $25 and are available at the PAC box office in Founders Hall, by calling 704-372-1000 or on-line at www.CarolinaTix.org.

Jeff Dunham, Dec. 31 at 7 p.m. at Time Warner Cable Arena. Tickets are $49.50 and are available at the Arena box office, at www.TimeWar-nerCableArena.com or through Tick-etmaster.

DanceAlvin Ailey American Dance

Theater, Feb. 9-11 at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 12 at 8 p.m., Feb. 13 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Feb. 14 at 3 p.m. at the Knight Theater, 430 S. Tryon St. Tickets start at $34 and are available at the PAC box office in Founders Hall, by call-ing 704-372-1000 or online at www.CarolinaTix.org.

The Parsons Dance Company, March 25 at 7:30 p.m., March 26-27 at 8 p.m., March 28 at 3 p.m. at the Knight Theater. Tickets start at $24 and are available at the PAC box office in Founders Hall, by call-ing 704-372-1000 or online at www.CarolinaTix.org.

Exhibits/galleriesBob Trotman: Business as

Usual, through Saturday at the Mint Museum of Art, 2730 Randolph Road, Charlotte. Hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesdays, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Satur-days. Admission, which includes en-try to the Mint Museum of Craft + Design on the same day, is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, $5 for students and free for members and children 4 and younger. For information, call 704-337-2000 or go online to www.mintmuseum.org.

Passionate Journey: The Grice Collection of Native American Art, through Tuesday at the Mint Museum of Art, 2730 Randolph Road, Charlotte. Hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesdays, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays. Admission, which includes entry to the Mint Museum of Craft + Design on the same day, is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, $5 for students and free for members and children 4 and younger. For information, call 704-337-2000 or go online to www.mintmuseum.org.

Faces & Flowers: Painting on Lenox China, through Jan. 30, at the Mint Museum of Art, 2730 Randolph Road, Charlotte. Hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesdays, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays. Admission, which includes entry to the Mint Museum of Craft + Design on the same day, is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, $5 for students and free for members and children 4 and younger. For information, call 704-337-2000 or go online to www.mintmuseum.org.

American Quilt Classics, 1800-1980: The Bresler Collec-tion, through Feb. 6 at the Mint Mu-seum of Craft + Design, 220 N. Tryon St., Charlotte. Hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesdays, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays. Admission, which includes entry to the Mint Museum of Art on the same day, is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, $5 for students and free for members and children 4 and younger. For in-formation, call 704-337-2000 or go online to www.mintmuseum.org.

The Art of Affluence: Haute Couture and Luxury Fashions 1947-2007, through spring 2010, at the Mint Museum of Art, 2730 Randolph Road, Charlotte. Hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesdays, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays. Admission, which includes entry to the Mint Museum of Craft + Design on the same day, is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, $5 for students and free for members and children 4 and younger. For information, call 704-337-2000 or go online to www.mintmuseum.org.

The Height of Fashion: Plat-form Shoes Then and Now, through spring 2011 at the Mint Museum of Art, 2730 Randolph Road, Charlotte. Hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesdays, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Satur-days. Admission, which includes en-try to the Mint Museum of Craft + Design on the same day, is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, $5 for students and free for members and children 4 and younger. For information, call 704-337-2000 or go online to www.mintmuseum.org.

Loîs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vi-brant Color, Saturday through Feb.

27, at the Mint Museum of Art, 2730 Randolph Road, Charlotte. Hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesdays, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays. Admission, which includes entry to the Mint Museum of Craft + Design on the same day, is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, $5 for students and free for members and children 4 and younger. For information, call 704-337-2000 or go online to www.mintmuseum.org.

Film“Under the Sea,” at the Imax

Dome Theatre at Discovery Place, 301 N. Tryon St., Charlotte. Admis-sion to the theater is $8 for ages 14 to 59, $7 for those 60 or older or 2 to 13, free for those under 2. Combo passes including Discovery Place are $14 and $10.50. For information or show times, call 704-372-6261, ext. 300, or (800) 935-0553, or go online to www.discoveryplace.org.

“Adventures in Wild Califor-nia,” at the Imax Dome Theatre at Discovery Place, 301 N. Tryon St., Charlotte. Admission to the theater is $8 for ages 14 to 59, $7 for those 60 or older or 2 to 13, free for those under 2. Combo passes including Discovery Place are $14 and $10.50. For information or show times, call 704-372-6261, ext. 300, or (800) 935-0553, or go online to www.dis-coveryplace.org.

MusicDaughtry, today at 7:30 p.m. at

the Greensboro Coliseum. Tickets are $29.50 and $39.50 and are available through Ticketmaster.

Charlotte Symphony: Chang-ing Places, Changing Tunes, today at 8 p.m. at UNCC’s Halton Theater. Tickets range from $12 to $20 and are available at www.Caro-linaTix.org.

Jackson Browne, today at 8 p.m. at the Asheville Civic Center. Tickets range from $38.50 to $58.50 and are available through Ticketmas-ter.

Pinetuckett, Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Mineral Springs Music Barn, 5920 Eubanks St., Mineral Springs. Tickets are $8 for adults, $4 for chil-dren 12 and younger, and are avail-able online at www.MineralSprings-MusicBarn.com. For information, call 704-668-1689.

Jake Owen, Gloriana and Blaine Larson, Friday at 11 p.m. at Coyote Joe’s, 4621 Wilkinson Blvd., Charlotte. Tickets are $20 and are available at www.coyote-joes.com.

Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Bundy Auditorium at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster. For ticket information, call 803-286-1145, fax 803-285-6207 or e-mail plittle@lancastersc.com.

Thanksgiving concert, pre-sented by Carolina Voices’ Festival Singers, Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Providence United Methodist Church, 2810 Providence Road, Charlotte; and Nov. 15 at 4 p.m. at St. John’s Episco-pal Church, 1623 Carmel Road, Char-lotte. Tickets are $15 for adults, $13 for seniors and $7.50 for youth, and are available at www.carolinavoices.org., through Ticketmaster and at www.CarolinaTix.org.

Leo Kottke, Saturday at 8 p.m. at Spirit Square’s McGlohon Theatre. Tickets range from $22.50 to $27.50 and are available at the PAC box of-fice in Founders Hall, by calling 704-372-1000 or online at www.Caroli-naTix.org.

G e o r g e Jones, Satur-day at 8 p.m. at the Greensboro Coliseum. Tick-ets range from $35 to $55 and are available through Ticket-master.

Lyle Lovett and His Large Band, Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Belk Theater of the

Blumenthal Performing Arts Center. Tickets start at $39.50 and are avail-able at the PAC box office in Found-ers Hall, by calling 704-372-1000 or online at www.CarolinaTix.org.

A Deeper Shade of Blue, Nov. 20 at 7:30 p.m. at the Mineral Springs Music Barn, 5920 Eubanks St., Min-eral Springs. Tickets are $8 for adults, $4 for children 12 and younger, and are available online at www.Mineral-SpringsMusicBarn.com. For informa-tion, call 704-668-1689.

Doc Watson, Nov. 21 at 8 p.m. at The Neighborhood Theatre, 511 E. 36th St., Charlotte. Tickets are $32 and are available at www.Caroli-naTix.org.

R. Kelly, Nov. 21 at 8 p.m. at Ov-ens Auditorium. Tickets range from $45 to $95 and are available at the Bojangles’ Coliseum box office and through Ticketmaster.

Michelle Shocked, Nov. 21 at 8 p.m. at Spirit Square’s McGlohon Theatre. Tickets range from $17.50 to $21.50 and are available at the PAC box office in Founders Hall, by call-ing 704-372-1000 or online at www.CarolinaTix.org.

Billy Currington, Nov. 21 at 11 p.m. at Coyote Joe’s, 4621 Wilkinson Blvd., Charlotte. Tickets are $20 and are available at www.coyote-joes.com.

John McCutcheon, Nov. 22 at 7 p.m. at Spirit Square’s McGlohon Theatre. Tickets start at $17.50 and are available at the PAC box office in Founders Hall, by calling 704-372-1000 or online at www.CarolinaTix.org.

Miley Cyrus, Nov. 24 at 7 p.m. at Time Warner Cable Arena. Tickets range from $39.50 to $79.50 and are available at the Arena box office and through Ticketmaster.

Flat Out Bluegrass, Nov. 27 at 7:30 p.m. at the Mineral Springs Music Barn, 5920 Eubanks St., Min-eral Springs. Tickets are $8 for adults, $4 for children 12 and younger, and are available online at www.Mineral-SpringsMusicBarn.com. For informa-tion, call 704-668-1689.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Nov. 28 at 8 p.m. at Time Warner Cable Arena. Tickets range from $25 to $60 and are available at the Arena box office and through Ticketmaster.

Luke Bryan, Nov. 28 at 11 p.m. at Coyote Joe’s, 4621 Wilkinson Blvd., Charlotte. Tickets are $15 and are available at www.coyote-joes.com.

University Wind Ensemble, Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the McGee Theatre of Wingate University’s Batte Center. Free admission.

“With Instrument and Voice,” university choral concert, Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the McGee Theatre of Wingate University’s Batte Center. Free admission.

Carolina Homestead, Dec. 4 at 7:30 p.m. at the Mineral Springs Music Barn, 5920 Eubanks St., Min-eral Springs. Tickets are $8 for adults, $4 for children 12 and younger, and are available online at www.Mineral-SpringsMusicBarn.com. For informa-tion, call 704-668-1689.

Jimmy Wayne, Dec. 5 at 11 p.m. at Coyote Joe’s, 4621 Wilkinson Blvd., Charlotte. Tickets are $15 and are available at www.coyote-joes.com.

Martina McBride, Dec. 10 at 7:30 p.m. at the Greensboro Coli-seum. Tickets range from $29.75 to $59.75 and are available through Ticketmaster.

The Singing Christmas Tree, presented by Carolina Voices, Dec. 12 at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Dec. 13 at 3 p.m. at Ovens Auditorium. Adult tickets range from $16 to $26 and are available through www.Caroli-naTix.org., Ticketmaster and by call-ing Carolina Voices at 704-374-1564. Tickets half price for children 14 and younger.

A Rockapella Holiday, Dec. 15-16 at 7:30 p.m. in Spirit Square’s McGlohon Theatre. Tickets start at $34 and are available at the PAC box office in Founders Hall, by call-ing 704-372-1000 or online at www.

CarolinaTix.org.Band of the Irish Guards/

Royal Regiment of Scotland, Jan. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Belk The-ater of the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center. Tickets start at $19 and are available at the PAC box office in Founders Hall, by calling 704-372-1000 or online at www.CarolinaTix.org.

Boston Brass, Jan. 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the McGee Theater of Wing-ate University’s Batte Center. Tickets are $20 and are available by calling 704-233-8316 or online at www.win-gate.edu/culture.

Jake Owen, Blaine Larson, Jan. 29 at 11 p.m. at Coyote Joe’s, 4621 Wilkinson Blvd., Charlotte. Tickets are $15 and are available at www.coyote-joes.com.

Turtle Island String Quartet, Feb. 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the McGee Theater of Wingate University’s Batte Center. Tickets are $20 and are avail-able by calling 704-233-8316 or on-line at www.wingate.edu/culture.

Kathy Mattea and the Char-lotte Symphony, Feb. 5 at 8 p.m. at Ovens Auditorium. Tickets range from $20 to $50 and are available at the Bojangles’ Coliseum box office and through Ticketmaster.

David Nail, Feb. 6 at 11 p.m. at Coyote Joe’s, 4621 Wilkinson Blvd., Charlotte. Tickets are $10 and are available at www.coyote-joes.com.

Wingate University Choral 2010 Tour home concert, Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m. in the McGee Theatre of Wingate University’s Batte Center. Free admission.

The 5 Browns, Feb. 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the Knight Theater, 430 S. Tryon St., Charlotte. Tickets start at $39 and are available at the PAC box office in Founders Hall, by call-ing 704-372-1000 or online at www.CarolinaTix.org.

Get the Led Out, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. in the Belk Theater of the Blu-menthal Performing Arts Center. Tickets start at $19.50 and go on sale Dec. 4 at 10 a.m. at the PAC box office in Founders Hall, by call-ing 704-372-1000 or online at www.CarolinaTix.org.

University Wind Ensemble, Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the McGee Theatre of Wingate University’s Batte Center. Free admission.

University Men’s and Wom-en’s Choirs, Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the McGee Theatre of Wingate University’s Batte Center. Free admis-sion.

Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour, Feb. 26 at 8 p.m at the Knight Theater. Tickets start at $39 and are available at the PAC box office in Founders Hall, by calling 704-372-1000 or online at www.CarolinaTix.org.

African Children’s Choir, March 15-16 at 7 p.m. at the Knight Theater. Tickets start at $24 and are available at the PAC box office in Founders Hall, by calling 704-372-1000 or online at www.

CarolinaTix.org.John Mayer, March 15 at 7:30

p.m. at the Greensboro Coliseum. Tickets range from $37 to $66 and go on sale Nov. 20 at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster.

The Irish Tenors with the Charlotte Symphony, March 19 at 8 p.m. at Ovens Auditorium. Tick-ets range from $25 to $65 and are available at the Bojangles’ Coliseum box office and through Ticketmaster.

Celtic Crossroads, March 20 at 8 p.m. at Spirit Square’s McGlohon Theatre. Tickets start at $33.50 and go on sale Jan. 15 at 10 a.m. at the PAC box office in Founders Hall, by calling 704-372-1000 or online at www.CarolinaTix.org.

Tao, April 5 at 7:30 p.m. at the Knight Theater. Tickets start at $23 and are available at the PAC box office in Founders Hall, by calling 704-372-1000 or online at www.CarolinaTix.org.

University Wind Ensemble, April 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the McGee Theatre of Wingate University’s Batte Center. Free admission.

“Songs of the People,” uni-versity choral concert, April 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the McGee Theatre of Wingate University’s Batte Center. Free admission.

Bon Jovi, April 22 at 7 p.m. at Time Warner Cable Arena. Tickets range from $39.50 to $125 and go on sale Monday at 10 a.m. at the Arena box office and through Tick-etmaster.

OperaPorgy & Bess, May 14 at

8 p.m., May 15 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., May 16 at 2 p.m. in the Belk Theater of the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center. Tickets range from $15 to $95 and are available at the PAC box office in Founders Hall, by calling 704-372-1000 or online at www.CarolinaTix.org.

Theater“Charlotte’s Web,” presented

by Matthews Playhouse, today and Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday at the Matthews Community Center, 100 E. McDowell St., Mat-thews. Tickets are $9 and $10 and are available at www.CarolinaTix.org.

“South Pacific,” todayN at 7:30 p.m., Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in the Belk Theater of the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center. Tickets range from $25 to $74.50 and are available at the PAC box office in Founders Hall, by calling 704-372-1000 or online at www.CarolinaTix.org.

“Plaza Suite,” presented by CPCC Theatre, Friday and Saturday and Nov. 20-21 at 8 p.m. at CPCC’s Pease Auditorium, 1201 Elizabeth Ave., Charlotte. Tickets are $16 and are available at www.CarolinaTix.org.

It’s A Wonderful Life, Nov. 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the McGee Theater of Wingate University’s Batte Center. Tickets are $20 and are available by calling 704-233-8316 or online at www.wingate.edu/culture.

“Grease,” featuring Taylor Hicks as Teen Angel, Dec. 1-3 at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 4 at 8 p.m., Dec. 5 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Dec. 6 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at Ovens Auditorium. Tickets range from $25 to $80 and are available at the Bojangles’ Coliseum box office, at the PAC box office in Founders Hall, by calling 704-372-1000 or online at www.CarolinaTix.org.

“Sister’s Christmas Cate-chism,” Dec. 1-3 at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 4-5 at 8 p.m., Dec. 6 at 3 p.m., Dec. 8-10 at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 11-12 at 8 p.m., Dec. 13 at 3 p.m., Dec. 15-17 at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 18-19 at 8 p.m., Dec. 20 at 3 p.m., in the Booth Playhouse of the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center. Tickets start at $24.50 and are available at the PAC box office in Founders Hall, by calling 704-372-1000 or online at www.CarolinaTix.org.

“A Christmas Carol,” presented by Theatre Charlotte, Dec. 3-5 at 7 p.m., Dec. 6 at 2:30 p.m., Dec. 9-12 at 7 p.m., Dec. 13 at 2:30 p.m. at the theater, 501 Queens Road, Charlotte. Tickets range from $7 to $20 and are available at www.CarolinaTix.org.

“Biloxi Blues,” presented by The-atre Charlotte, Jan. 28 at 7:30 p.m., Jan. 29-30 at 8 p.m., Jan. 31 at 2:30 p.m., Feb. 3-4 at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 5-6 at 8 p.m., Feb. 7 at 2:30 p.m. at the theater, 501 Queens Road, Charlotte. Tickets range from $7 to $24 and are

available at www.CarolinaTix.org.“Spring Awakening,” Feb. 2-4

at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 5 at 8 p.m., Feb. 6 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Feb. 7 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in the Belk Theater of the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center. Tickets go on sale Dec. 4 at 10 a.m. at the PAC box office in Founders Hall, by calling 704-372-1000 or online at www.CarolinaTix.org.

Charlotte Squawks: Six De-grees of Desecration, Feb. 11 at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 12-13 at 8 p.m., Feb. 18 at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 19-20 at 8 p.m. in Spirit Square’s McGlohon Theatre. Tickets start at $29.50 and go on sale Dec. 4 at 10 a.m. at the PAC box of-fice in Founders Hall, by calling 704-372-1000 or online at www.Caroli-naTix.org.

“The Frog Prince,” Feb. 19 at 7 p.m., Feb. 20 at 3 p.m. in the McGee Theatre of Wingate University’s Batte Center. Each child’s ticket (12 and younger) free with a $5 adult ticket. For tickets, call 704-233-8316 or go online to www.wingate.edu/culture.

“tick, tick ... BOOM!,” March 11-13 at 7:30 p.m. in the McGee Theater of Wingate University’s Batte Center. Tickets are $20 and are avail-able by calling 704-233-8316 or on-line at www.wingate.edu/culture.

“My Mother’s Italian, My Fa-ther’s Jewish & I’m in Therapy,” March 16-18 at 7:30 p.m., March 19-20 at 8 p.m., March 21 at 3 p.m. in the Booth Playhouse of the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center. Tickets start at $24.50 and go on sale Jan. 15 at 10 a.m. at the PAC box office in Found-ers Hall, by calling 704-372-1000 or online at www.CarolinaTix.org.

“A Streetcar Names Desire,” presented by Theatre Charlotte, March 18 at 7:30 p.m., March 19-20 at 8 p.m., March 21 at 2:30 p.m., March 24-25 at 7:30 p.m., March 26-27 at 8 p.m., March 28 at 2:30 p.m. at the theater, 501 Queens Road, Charlotte. Tickets range from $7 to $24 and are available at www.CarolinaTix.org.

“Snow White,” March 26 at 7 p.m., March 27 at 3 p.m. in the Mc-Gee Theatre of Wingate University’s Batte Center. Each child’s ticket (12 and younger) free with a $5 adult ticket. For tickets, call 704-233-8316 or go online to www.wingate.edu/culture.

MiscellaneousAw Shucks Corn Maze, Thurs-

days through Sundays through Nov. 22. Hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thurs-days, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturdays, 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays. Open to 11 p.m. Fri-days and Saturdays on haunted trail nights. Cost, $9 general admission.

Southern Christmas Show, today through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday through Tues-day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednes-day through Nov. 21 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Nov. 22 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at The Park (formerly the Mer-chandise Mart) in Charlotte. Adult tickets are $7.50 with a VIC card at participating Harris Teeter stores, $8 online by phone or mail in advance, $9 at the door. Youth (ages 6 to 12) tickets are $3; under 6 free with paying adult. For information, call 704-376-6594 or go online to www.SouthernChristmasShow.com.

Elmo’s Green Thumb, today and Friday at 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m., Saturday at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., Sunday at 1 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. at Bojangles’ Coliseum. Tickets are $14, $18, $23 and $30 and are avail-able at the Coliseum box office and through Ticketmaster.

Carolina Renaissance Festi-val and Artisan Marketplace, Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 21-22 from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the fes-tival grounds on Poplar Tent Road off N.C. Highway 73 between Concord and Huntersville. Tickets are $18 for adults, $7 for children 5 to 12 if pur-chased at Harris Teeter or online at RenFestInfo.com; tickets at the gate are $1 more. Senior discount tickets for 60 and older are $17 at the gate. For information, go to the Web site or call 704-896-5544 or 877-896-5544.

Garrison Keillor, Nov. 22 at 7 p.m. in the Belk Theater of the Blu-menthal Performing Arts Center. Tickets start at $24.50 and go on sale Oct. 9 at 10 a.m. at the PAC box office in Founders Hall, by call-ing 704-372-1000 or online at www.CarolinaTix.org.

Christmas at Reed Gold Mine, Dec. 5 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Dec. 11-12 from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Reed Gold Mine, 9621 Reed Mine Road, Midland. Dec. 11-12 events require reservations; call 704-721-4653 or e-mail johnreed1799@gmail.com for information.

Lipizzaner Stallions, Dec. 6 at 3 p.m. at Time Warner Cable Arena. Tickets range from $24.50 to $34.50 and are available at the Arena box office and through Ticketmaster.

The Aluminum Show, Jan. 12-14 at 7:30 p.m., Jan. 15 at 8 p.m., Jan. 16 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Jan. 17 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Jan. 19-21 at 7:30 p.m., Jan. 22 at 8 p.m., Jan. 23 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Jan. 24 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.; Jan. 26-28 at 7:30 p.m., Jan. 29 at 8 p.m., Jan. 30 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Jan. 31 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the Knight Theater, 430 S. Tryon St., Charlotte. Tickets are available at the PAC box office in Founders Hall, by calling 704-372-1000 or online at www.CarolinaTix.org.

Spencer’s Theatre of Illu-sion, Feb. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Mc-Gee Theater of Wingate University’s Batte Center. Tickets are $20 and are available by calling 704-233-8316 or online at www.wingate.edu/culture.

What’sHappening

‘Elmo’s Green Thumb’ will run from today through Sunday at Bojangles’ Coliseum.

Lyle Lovett and his Large Band will perform Tuesday in the Belk Theater of the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center.

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The Enquirer-Journal Thursday, November 12, 2009 / 7A

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Retired Carolina Panther Mike Minter talks to Monroe students about their futures.

MONROE“If you do the things

you need to do now, you can do all the things you want later.”

Mike Minter, a retired NFL football safety who played his entire profes-sional career with the Carolina Panthers, shared these words of inspira-tion with students from Monroe Middle and Mon-roe High School during a motivational message he gave at the schools Oct. 28.

Minter encouraged students to stay in school

and get a good education. He told them they could make their dreams come true if they believed in themselves and worked hard to become the best they could be.

He also told them to al-ways make the decision to “do the right thing,” and to not follow negative in-fluences or negative peer pressure.

Minter joined the Pan-thers in 1997, and went to the Super Bowl with the team in 2004. An All-Pro safety, Minter officially retired from the Panthers

on Aug. 7, 2007.Minter has found suc-

cess as an author, (having written the book “Driven by Purpose ... The Power of a Dream”) a business-man and philanthropist.

As a motivational speak-er, he shares his formula for success: “Attitude, Academics and Athlet-ics.” Minter is currently a football coach at a private school in Charlotte.

— This article was provided courtesy of the Communications Office of the Union County Public Schools.

Minter brings motivationalmessage to Monroe students

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THINGS THAT GO FAST — South Piedmont Community held Things That Go Fast fes-tivals at its Polkton campus on Oct. 26 and its Monroe campus on Oct. 27. Students and staff enjoyed a NASCAR simulator, motorcycles, a chili cookoff and a dragster. The event also helped to raise more than $2,000 for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. Above, John Caudle, a student at the Anson County Early College, races in the NASCAR simulator.

HONOR ROLLSPoplin Elementary

Following are the honor rolls for the first grading period at Poplin Elemen-tary School:

Third gradeA — Sydney Clark, Abi-

gail Edmonds, Kierstin Hart, Abigail Johnson, Jacqueline Kasler, Reece McManus, Henry Mor-gan, Emily Rittberger, Eli Snead, Madeline Sproles, Stephanie Sutton, Jona-than White.

A/B — Payten Brown, Zayda Burts, Tyler Cook, Mathew Epp, Michael Fehl, Aneska Foster, Jack-son Fowler, Noah Helms, William Hergott, Cody Howell, Jasmine Joyner, Taylor Kitz, Megan Lan-drum, Caidan McKinnie, David Negru, Chase Peter-son, Enderia Richardson, Jose Sandoval, Stephanie Shue, Travis Silberquit, Mason Swiger.

Fourth gradeA — Lily Balcerek, Gar-

rison Batchelor, Chandler Cohn, Elizabeth Covert, Dakota Douglas, Jake Gomez, Maggie Horne, Marisa Howell, Collin Matias, Liam Raine, Heidi Renteria-Kessler, Bailey Taylor, Parker Watts.

A/B — Jennin Barnes, Justin Bays, Kathryn Bloom, Alexis Brene-man, Abigail Burchard, Matthew Cambria, Kiara Carol-Head, Gabby Chan-ganaqui, Daniel Chavez, Alec Colson, Ethan Como, Trevor Dill, Morgan Dool-ey, Hayley Flowe, Tyler Fowler, Reese Fuller, Bra-dy Graham, Austin Hub-bell, Alejandro Huerta, Logan Jackson, Austin Jonachova, Isabella Lu-carelli, Isabella Massaro, Katelyn Morelock, Anna Morgan, Juan Mosque-da, Elaina Nakos, Haley O’Donoghue, Michael O’Neill, Kiara Patter-son, Dylan Perkins, Evan Pressley, Kayla Prince, Victoria Rabon, Margue-rite Ross, David Sloan, Brandon Smith, Katelyn Spurlin, Caitlyn Starnes, Rebecca Tost, Jessie Wall, Sydney Wiedbrauk.

Fifth gradeA — Christopher Belk,

Hayley McNeill, Nik Mi-chaud, Maddie Seehafer, Brandon Widener.

A/B — Josh Blackburn, Salem Boulware, Mitchell Cope, Matthew Coppola, Imarri Cunningham, Bri-ana Curtin, Aleeya Davis, Madison Dickens, Tate Dill, Madison Gruca, Ash-lyn Haffner, Victoria Hilse, Aaron Horner, Sedrick Joyner, Isaac Lee, Gra-cyn Lewis, Jeremy Mace, Shane McAuliffe, Andrew McDow, Collin Quinn, Kaitlynn Qvaeschning, Alex Re, Joshua Reeder, Karl-Heinz Reichert, Na-talia Romero, Alex Rowe, Natalie Samsel, Jeremy Shue, Nicole Starrs, Brit-tanie Sutton, Mikayla Sut-ton, Emily Vance, Melanie Werth, Jordan Wyche.

Tabernacle Christian

Following are the hon-or rolls for the first grad-ing period at Tabernacle Christian School:

K-5A — Caraline Jordan,

Ethan Leonard, Alexis Morgan, Emily Purser.

A/B — Summer Adcock, Riley Benton, Malcolm Bess, Daylen Carpenter, Noah Mangum, Matthew

Meyer, Brent Royal, Jim-mel Streater.

First gradeA — Grace Baker, Sum-

mer Griffin, Avery Helms, Job Mangum, Isaiah Tarl-ton, Rebekah Workman.

A/B — Dillon Givens, Colton Medlin, Sarah Rape

Second gradeA — Will Adcock, Kian-

na Bess, Lauren Brown, Josiah Couick, David Leonard.

A/B — Wyatt Adcock, Jackson Gurley, Collin Royal

Third gradeA — Taylor Boyce, Ja-

clyn Ferguson, Hunter Hilton, Chris Hoover, Mi-chael Leonard

A/B — Gracie Brock, Trinity McClendon.

Fourth gradeA — Sarah Baker,

Weston Carpenter, Cay-leigh Garris, Ethan Grif-fin, Timmy Sessoms, Han-nah Tarlton

A/B — Alexis Judy, Christopher Thomas

Fifth gradeA — Tyler Helms, Heze-

kiah House, Timothy Jen-kins, Joshua McGougan, Jacob Purser

A/B — Rayven Jago, Philip Mangum, Rachel Workman

Fall is in the air...Celebrate fall with us at our

Hay Maze Adventure for children 12 and under

Located at the front parking lot of Monroe Crossing [formerly Monroe Mall]. Entry for children 12 and under

with a donation of 2 canned goods or $2.00.

The Hay Maze will be open November 9 – 15 from 8 am until 8 pm

Special guest “Cubby” and others of 96.1 The Beat will be on-site every day from 6 am – 8 pm

collecting food and donations for the Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Much like its death-defying dives for fish, the brown pelican has resur-faced after plummeting to the brink of extinc-tion.

Interior Department officials on Wednesday announced that they were taking the bird off the endangered species list, after a nearly four-decade struggle to keep the brown pelican popu-lation afloat.

The bird now prevalent across Florida, the Gulf and Pacific coasts and the Caribbean was declared an endangered species in 1970, after its population — much like those of the bald eagle and peregrine falcon — was decimated by the use of the pesti-cide DDT. The chemi-cal, consumed when the pelican ate tainted fish, caused it to lay eggs with shells so thin they broke during incubation.

The pelican’s recovery is largely due to a 1972 ban on DDT, coupled with efforts by states and con-servation groups to pro-tect its nesting sites and monitor its population, Interior Department of-ficials said.

“Today we can say the brown pelican is back,” said Interior Secretary

Ken Salazar in a confer-ence call with reporters in Washington. “Once again, we see healthy flocks of these grace-ful birds flying over our shores. The brown peli-can is endangered no longer.”

The official announce-ment came earlier at a press conference at Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge in Louisi-ana, which is dubbed the “Pelican State.” The bird

has been on the state’s of-ficial seal since 1804, but the pelican had virtu-ally disappeared from its coasts in the 1960s.

“It’s been a long jour-ney,” said Tom Strick-land, assistant secretary for fish, wildlife, parks for the Interior Depart-ment. “It’s tracked my whole adult life.”

Strickland acknowl-edged that the bird’s coastal habitat was in danger from rising seas

and erosion, but he said wildlife officials were confident the bird was ready to be taken off the list.

Anthony Walgamotte, a 75-year-old retired le-vee worker fishing along Irish Bayou outside New Orleans on Wednesday, said he never knew the bird was in trouble. Nearby, brown pelicans rested on pilings every few hundred yards.

“They’re plentiful

now,” he said.The plight of the brown

pelican has tracked closely with the devel-opment and birth of the nation’s environmental policy and the environ-mental movement. It was listed as endangered be-fore Congress passed the Endangered Species Act in 1973. And its struggle for survival, initially due to hunting for feathers to decorate hats, led to the birth of the National Wildlife Refuge System more than 100 years ago. That’s when President Theodore Roosevelt cre-ated the first refuge at Pelican Island in Flori-da.

Nowadays the bird is prevalent along the coasts of Florida, Ala-bama, Louisiana, Missis-sippi, Texas, California, Washington and Oregon, and its global population, including the Caribbean and Latin America, is es-timated at 650,000. It can often be seen dramatical-ly diving headfirst into the water to emerge with a mouthful of fish.

The Bush administra-tion in early 2008 pro-posed removing the bird from the endangered species list. In 1985, the Fish and Wildlife Service eliminated brown peli-

cans living in Alabama, Georgia, Florida and up the Atlantic Coast from the list.

Some environmental-ists Wednesday said that they would like to see populations in the West-ern Gulf and the Carib-bean stay on the list. Along the Gulf Coast the concern is that the population lives on low-lying islands and coasts vulnerable to hurricanes and the rising sea levels expected to come with global warming. In the Caribbean, the question is whether the popula-tion has been sufficiently monitored.

“We remain very con-cerned with the long-term viability in the face of global warming and hurricanes,” said Kieran Suckling of the Center for Biological Diversity. “We would prefer to see the federal government secure long-term agree-ments (along the Gulf) to ensure coastal nesting habitat is going to be re-stored and protected in perpetuity.”

The announcement does not remove all pro-tections for the species. It will still be protected by other laws, such as the Migratory Bird Trea-ty Act.

Brown pelicans removed from endangered list

Photo by CSU DELTA database project

Brown pelicans have made a comeback since being declared an endangered species in 1970 after their population had been decimated by the use of DDT.

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MONROEWeddington High’s Meredith

Branham has been voted the Southern Carolina 3A/4A Con-ference Player of the Year in girls tennis, while WHS coach Mike Murphy was named league Coach of the Year for 2009 by his peers.

“This year has been amazing be-cause at the very beginning of the season I was hurt and I didn’t even know if I was go-ing to be able to make it through the whole sea-son healthy,” Branham said. “Somehow I man-aged to get my hip feeling better and my back a lot better and I was able to play and I thought that I had a great season – I thought I competed well and had some re-ally good matches.”

Murphy became coach at Wed-dington during Branham’s fresh-man season. While Murphy has

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By Jerry SnOWE-J Sports Editor

MONROEHeavy rain storms that have

pounded the area this week continue to push back the soc-cer playoffs involving Union County schools, and most of the state for that matter.

Monroe High, which has reached the state quarterfi-nals in the 1A bracket, had its home match against Bishop McGuiness postponed for the second straight day on Wednesday. The Redhawks (17-4), who are ranked fourth in the state poll, will try to get the match in again today. So will Cuthbertson and Mar-vin Ridge (18-2-1), which were scheduled to play third-round matches on Wednesday.

The fourth-ranked Mavs have lost in the third round the last two years. Cuthbertson (17-4-1), ranked ninth in 2A, was sscheduled to host Shelby on Wednesday.

“We’ve got standing water on the sidelines,” said Cuthb-ertson athletic director David Malady of the field conditions. The crown is OK, but not the rest of the field. It’s just not safe to play. If it was just wet, if it was just rainy, if it was just windy, but it’s all three.

“The conditions aren’t right, especially for a playoff game.”

Malady isn’t convinced the Cavs will get the match in today. “It depends on which television station you watch,” he joked.

The next round is scheduled for Saturday. “I’m hoping we will have a window that we can play (the third round) Friday if we have to,” Malady said. “This weather is happening all over the state, and it’s worse in some places. I don’t know what the plan is, but I’m sure the state has some contingency.”

Monroe High has a ridicu-lously good football team, as evi-denced in last Friday’s 40-9 win over bitter rival Forest Hills.

The Redhawks have smashed through their schedule with little resistance, outscor-ing opponents by an average of 52 to 9 on the way to the school’s first-ever 11-0 record.

Up next is the playoffs, and the season won’t mean as much if their final record doesn’t have a zero in it. But no matter what happens the rest of the way,

Monroe is the only Union Coun-ty team this decade to put to-

gether a perfect regular season.Here’s a look at some,

but certainly not all, of the reasons why:

Improved defenseMonroe has four shutouts this

season, and has held three other opponents under 10 points.

The Redhawks aren’t big on defense, but they’re extra quick and have a lot of good tacklers.

The contributions of defen-sive linemen Miles Cook (6-1, 190) and Eric Horne (5-11, 255)

have been significant. Cook, an athletic end, leads the team in tackles (93) and shares the team lead in sacks (10). Horne is ac-tive, ranking third on the team in tackles (79). Senior lineback-er Marcus Mosley, who trans-ferred from Sun Valley right be-fore the season, has been a huge addition. Mosley has 84 tackles, 10 sacks, three caused fumbles and contributed a team-high nine tackles and an interception in the win over Forest Hills.

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Pistons whip CatsDetroit drops Charlotteto 3-5 on season 3B

WHO’S NEWSTyson accused of punching paparazzo

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mike Tyson allegedly hit a photographer at Los Angeles International Airport and

was detained on suspicion of bat-tery Wednesday, police said.

The paparazzo told police that Tyson struck him once, airport police spokes-man Sgt. Jim Holcomb said. The photog-

rapher fell to the ground and was treated for a cut to his forehead at a hospital.

Tyson’s spokeswoman Tammy Brook said the boxer was traveling with his wife and 10-month-old child Wednesday afternoon when he was attacked by an overly aggressive paparazzi. He acted in self-defense to protect his child, she said.

Tyson and the unnamed photog-rapher both want to press charges for misdemeanor battery, police said.

“There’s a lot of different ver-sions to this story and that’s all going to come out later,” Holcomb said. “There were numerous wit-nesses and that’s what this whole case is going to depend on.”

Tyson was being held at the airport police station and will be booked and released later, Holcomb said.

“Right now he is very compliant, very cooperative. He’s just waiting in one of our holding cells,” he said.

The photographer will also be booked once he is released from the hospital, police said.

Panthers’ Williams misses practice

CHARLOTTE (AP) — Carolina Panthers running back DeAngelo Williams has missed practice this

week because of a sore knee.

Coach John Fox said Wednesday that Williams tweaked it and will be evalu-ated. Williams rushed for 149 yards and two

touchdowns in Sunday’s loss to New Orleans.

Fellow running back Jonathan Stewart also sat out, but has rou-tinely missed Wednesday workouts to rest his sore Achilles’ tendon.

Defensive end Julius Peppers was limited with what Fox called a “messed up” right hand. Tight end Dante Rosario (knee) was also limited.

Fullback Brad Hoover remained sidelined with a sprained ankle, but backup Tony Fiammetta returned after missing a game with a concus-sion.

Receiver Muhsin Muhammad practiced after missing two games with a knee injury.

49ers forward will miss Friday’s opener

CHARLOTTE (AP) — Charlotte starting power forward Shamari Spears has been suspended for the season opener for breaking team rules.

Coach Bobby Lutz wouldn’t disclose the violation in announcing the move late Wednesday. Spears will miss Friday’s game against UNC Asheville.

Spears sat out last season after transferring from Boston College, where he played for two years.

The Salisbury, N.C., native scored 26 points and hit all 12 free throws in an exhibition victory last week.

The 49ers will also be without forward An’Juan Wilderness Friday because of a calf injury. Freshman Gokhan Sirin will serve a one-game suspension for participating with a professional club team last summer.

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Boys soccer

11-0 Redhawks have tons of firepower

UC’s Fab 5 Football Poll

toughest to leave out: Piedmont (7-4)

Monroe (11-0)Redhawks have devastated their

competition with their speed, 1.Last week: M 40, FH 9; Friday: vs. Cherryville

Porter ridge (7-4)Pirates have been UC’s biggest surprise,

heading to playoffs for first time.4.Last week: SV 21, PR 14; Friday: at Alex. Central

3.Last week: SV 21, PR 14; Friday: vs. N. Davidson

Sun valley (8-3)SV rallied from 0-2 start in SCC to gain

share of school’s first football title.

5. Forest Hills (8-3)FH coming off an ego-bruising loss to

archrival, but tend to shine in postseason.

Last week: Monroe 40, FH 9; Friday: at Ashe Co.

2. Marvin ridge (9-2)Mavs rallied from 10 down in fourth to gain share of first-ever league title.

Last week: MR 20, WHS 17; Friday: vs. Anson

E-J file photo

Monroe juniors Jamison Crowder (6) and Ricardo White (9) celebrate a Crowder touchdown during the Redhawks’ win over Mount Pleasant on Sept. 4. Crowder has scored 30 touchdowns over the last two seasons for Monroe, which opens the playoffs at home against Cherryville on Friday at 7:30 p.m.

Warriors take SCC honors in girls tennis

UC teamspostponeplayoffmatches

Getting to know ...T.J. Doster

Doster, a senior forward, scored 21 goals to help the Piedmont High boys soccer team finish 14-7-1 and advance to the second round of the 2A state playoffs this season. Doster is also a returning starter for Piedmont’s boys basketball team, which opens its season on Nov. 19 at Sun Valley.

Grade: Senior Height: 6-foot-3 Weight: 165

Born: May, 25, 1992 in Indian Trail, N.C.

Favorite home-cooked meal: Steak with mac and cheese

Favorite restaurant: McDonald’s

What’s in my iPod: Gucci Man, Lil’ Wayne,OJ da Juice

Last book i read: Hamletby Shakespeare

Favorite move: He Got Game

tv show i can’t miss: The Simpsons

Favorite soccer player: Jonas Nader

if i could go back in time and spend a day

with somebody it would be: Michael Jackson, because he’s cool, influential

Favorite pro team: Los Angeles Lakers

Booksmarks: MySpace, Facebook

Worst habit: Biting my nails

My greatest influence has been: Jonas Nader, he’s taught me everything

I know about soccer.

Favorite place to visit: ATL (Atlanta)

When my playing days are over, i plan to focus on: Having a family.

— Compiled by Eric RapePhoto illustration by Ed Cottingham

My View

Jerry SnowE-J Sports Editor

2B / Thursday, November 12, 2009 The Enquirer-Journal

Sunday’s GamesArizona 41, Chicago 21Atlanta 31, Washington 17New England 27, Miami 17Indianapolis 20, Houston 17Cincinnati 17, Baltimore 7Tampa Bay 38, Green Bay 28Jacksonville 24, Kansas City 21Seattle 32, Detroit 20New Orleans 30, Carolina 20San Diego 21, N.Y. Giants 20Tennessee 34, San Francisco 27Dallas 20, Philadelphia 16Open: Buffalo, N.Y. Jets, Oakland,

Minnesota, St. Louis, ClevelandMonday’s GamePittsburgh 28, Denver 10Thursday’s GameChicago at San Francisco, 8:20 p.m.Sunday, Nov. 15Buffalo at Tennessee, 1 p.m.Denver at Washington, 1 p.m.Tampa Bay at Miami, 1 p.m.Jacksonville at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.New Orleans at St. Louis, 1 p.m.Atlanta at Carolina, 1 p.m.Detroit at Minnesota, 1 p.m.Kansas City at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.Dallas at Green Bay, 4:15 p.m.Philadelphia at San Diego, 4:15 p.m.Seattle at Arizona, 4:15 p.m.New England at Indianapolis, 8:20 p.m.Open: N.Y. Giants, HoustonMonday, Nov. 16Baltimore at Cleveland, 8:30 p.m.

College football

College Football ScheduleAll Times EST

TodayEAST

South Florida (6-2) at Rutgers (6-2), 7:30 p.m.

SOUTHTexas Southern (4-4) at Grambling St.

(5-4), 8 p.m. MIDWEST

Bowling Green (4-5) at Miami (Ohio) (1-9), 6 p.m.

Ball St. (1-8) at N. Illinois (6-3), 6 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 13MIDWEST

West Virginia (7-2) at Cincinnati (9-0), 8 p.m.

Temple (7-2) at Akron (2-7), 8:30 p.m.

SaturdayEAST

VMI (2-7) at Army (3-6), NoonSt. Francis, Pa. (2-7) at Bryant (3-6),

NoonMonmouth, N.J. (5-4) at Cent.

Connecticut St. (7-2), NoonPenn (6-2) at Harvard (6-2), NoonRhode Island (1-8) at Maine (4-5), NoonIndiana (4-6) at Penn St. (8-2), NoonWagner (6-3) at Robert Morris (3-6),

NoonDuquesne (2-7) at Sacred Heart (2-7),

NoonJames Madison (4-5) at Massachusetts

(5-4), 12:05 p.m.Dartmouth (2-6) at Brown (5-3), 12:30

p.m.Columbia (2-6) at Cornell (2-6), 12:30

p.m.Lafayette (8-1) at Holy Cross (8-1), 12:30

p.m.Bucknell (3-6) at Colgate (8-2), 1 p.m.Lehigh (2-7) at Fordham (4-5), 1 p.m.Richmond (8-1) at Georgetown, D.C.

(0-9), 1 p.m.Hofstra (4-5) at Northeastern (1-8), 1

p.m.Yale (4-4) at Princeton (2-6), 1 p.m.Villanova (8-1) at Towson (2-7), 1 p.m.Delaware (6-3) at Navy (7-3), 3:30 p.m.Notre Dame (6-3) at Pittsburgh (8-1), 8

p.m. SOUTH

Georgia Tech (9-1) at Duke (5-4), NoonClemson (6-3) at N.C. State (4-5), NoonButler (9-0) at Jacksonville (5-4), NoonSyracuse (3-6) at Louisville (3-6), NoonTennessee (5-4) at Mississippi (6-3),

NoonHouston (8-1) at UCF (5-4), NoonFlorida St. (4-5) at Wake Forest (4-6),

NoonKentucky (5-4) at Vanderbilt (2-8),

12:20 p.m.Presbyterian (0-9) at Coastal Carolina

(4-5), 12:30 p.m.Marist (6-3) at Davidson (3-6), 1 p.m.Norfolk St. (5-4) at Delaware St. (3-5), 1

p.m.W. Carolina (1-8) at E. Kentucky (5-4), 1

p.m.Florida A&M (7-2) at Hampton (4-5), 1

p.m.Bethune-Cookman (4-5) at Howard

(2-7), 1 p.m.Tennessee Tech (5-4) at Jacksonville

St. (6-3), 1 p.m.Virginia Tech (6-3) at Maryland (2-7), 1

p.m.UAB (4-5) at Memphis (2-7), 1 p.m.San Diego (3-6) at Morehead St. (2-7), 1

p.m.N.C. Central (2-7) at Winston-Salem

(1-8), 1 p.m.Stony Brook (5-4) at Charleston

Southern (4-5), 1:30 p.m.Liberty (7-2) at Gardner-Webb (5-4),

1:30 p.m.Morgan St. (5-4) at S. Carolina St. (8-1),

1:30 p.m.New Hampshire (8-1) at William &

Mary (8-1), 1:30 p.m.Samford (4-5) at Wofford (3-6), 1:30 p.m.Jackson St. (3-5) at Alabama A&M

(5-4), 2 p.m.The Citadel (4-5) at Chattanooga (5-4),

2 p.m.Furman (4-5) at Georgia Southern

(4-5), 2 p.m.Northwestern St. (0-9) at Nicholls St.

(1-8), 2 p.m.Prairie View (6-1) at Alcorn St. (2-5), 3

p.m.Appalachian St. (7-2) at Elon (8-1), 3

p.m.Stephen F.Austin (7-2) at SE Louisiana

(6-3), 3 p.m.Miami (7-2) at North Carolina (6-3),

3:30 p.m.Florida (9-0) at South Carolina (6-4),

3:30 p.m.Alabama St. (3-5) vs. Southern U. (5-3)

at Mobile, Ala., 3:30 p.m.Boston College (6-3) at Virginia (3-6),

3:30 p.m.Arkansas St. (2-6) at Florida Atlantic

(2-6), 4 p.m.W. Kentucky (0-8) at Louisiana-Monroe

(5-4), 4 p.m.Lincoln, Mo. (0-10) at MVSU (2-7), 4

p.m.Louisiana-Lafayette (5-4) at Middle

Tennessee (6-3), 4:15 p.m.Southern Miss. (5-4) at Marshall (5-4),

4:30 p.m.Tennessee St. (3-6) at Austin Peay (3-6),

5 p.m.Webber International (3-6) at

Savannah St. (2-5), 5 p.m.North Texas (1-7) at Fla. International

(2-7), 7 p.m.Auburn (7-3) at Georgia (5-4), 7 p.m.Louisiana Tech (3-6) at LSU (7-2), 7

p.m.Alabama (9-0) at Mississippi St. (4-5), 7

p.m. MIDWEST

Northwestern (6-4) at Illinois (3-6), Noon

S. Dakota St. (7-2) at Minnesota (5-5), Noon

Michigan St. (5-5) at Purdue (4-6), Noon

Michigan (5-5) at Wisconsin (7-2), Noon

N. Dakota St. (2-7) at Indiana St. (1-9), 12:05 p.m.

Missouri (5-4) at Kansas St. (6-4), 12:30 p.m.

W. Michigan (4-6) at E. Michigan (0-9), 1 p.m.

Illinois St. (5-4) at Youngstown St. (4-5), 1 p.m.

Colorado (3-6) at Iowa St. (5-5), 2 p.m.Murray St. (3-6) at SE Missouri (1-8), 2

p.m.Campbell (2-7) at Valparaiso (1-8), 2

p.m.Tenn.-Martin (4-5) at E. Illinois (7-2),

2:30 p.m.Missouri St. (6-4) at S. Illinois (8-1), 3

p.m.Nebraska (6-3) at Kansas (5-4), 3:30

p.m.Iowa (9-1) at Ohio St. (8-2), 3:30 p.m.Dayton (7-2) at Drake (8-1), 4 p.m.W. Illinois (1-8) at N. Iowa (6-3), 7:35

p.m. SOUTHWEST

Texas (9-0) at Baylor (4-5), NoonUTEP (3-6) at SMU (5-4), 3 p.m.Cent. Arkansas (5-4) at Sam Houston

St. (4-5), 3 p.m.Tulane (3-6) at Rice (0-9), 3:30 p.m.Texas A&M (5-4) at Oklahoma (5-4), 7

p.m.McNeese St. (7-2) at Texas St. (6-3), 7

p.m.Troy (7-2) at Arkansas (5-4), 7:30 p.m.Utah (8-1) at TCU (9-0), 7:30 p.m.Texas Tech (6-3) at Oklahoma St. (7-2),

8 p.m. FAR WEST

N. Colorado (2-8) at Montana (9-0), 2 p.m.

BYU (7-2) at New Mexico (0-9), 2 p.m.N. Arizona (5-4) at Weber St. (5-4), 2

p.m.Sacramento St. (4-5) at Montana St.

(6-3), 2:05 p.m.E. Washington (6-3) at S. Utah (4-5), 3

p.m.San Jose St. (1-6) at Utah St. (2-7), 3

p.m.Idaho (7-3) at Boise St. (9-0), 3:30 p.m.Washington (3-6) at Oregon St. (6-3),

3:30 p.m.Stanford (6-3) at Southern Cal (7-2),

3:30 p.m.North Dakota (5-4) at UC Davis (5-4), 4

p.m.Fresno St. (6-3) at Nevada (5-3), 4:05 p.m.UCLA (4-5) at Washington St. (1-8), 5

p.m.Portland St. (2-8) at Idaho St. (0-10),

5:35 p.m.UNLV (4-6) at Air Force (6-4), 6 p.m.Arizona (6-2) at California (6-3), 7 p.m.South Dakota (5-4) at Cal Poly (4-5),

9:05 p.m.Wyoming (4-5) at San Diego St. (4-5), 10

p.m.New Mexico St. (3-6) at Hawaii (3-6),

10:05 p.m.Arizona St. (4-5) at Oregon (7-2), 10:20

p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 15SOUTHWEST

East Carolina (5-4) at Tulsa (4-5), 8:15 p.m.

Pro basketball

NBA StandingsAll Times EST

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

W L Pct GBBoston 8 1 .889 —Philadelphia 4 4 .500 3 1/2Toronto 4 4 .500 3 1/2New York 1 8 .111 7New Jersey 0 8 .000 7 1/2

Southeast Division W L Pct GBMiami 6 1 .857 —Atlanta 6 2 .750 1/2Orlando 6 2 .750 1/2Charlotte 3 5 .375 3 1/2Washington 2 6 .250 4 1/2

Central Division W L Pct GBMilwaukee 3 2 .600 —Cleveland 4 3 .571 —Chicago 4 4 .500 1/2Detroit 4 4 .500 1/2Indiana 3 3 .500 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBDallas 5 2 .714 —Houston 4 3 .571 1San Antonio 3 3 .500 1 1/2New Orleans 3 5 .375 2 1/2Memphis 1 7 .125 4 1/2

Northwest Division W L Pct GBDenver 6 2 .750 —Portland 5 3 .625 1Oklahoma City 3 4 .429 2 1/2Utah 3 5 .375 3Minnesota 1 7 .125 5

Pacific Division W L Pct GBPhoenix 7 1 .875 —L.A. Lakers 6 1 .857 1/2Sacramento 4 4 .500 3L.A. Clippers 3 5 .375 4Golden State 2 5 .286 4 1/2

Tuesday’s GamesOrlando 93, Charlotte 81Miami 90, Washington 76Denver 90, Chicago 89Portland 93, Memphis 79Dallas 121, Houston 103Sacramento 101, Oklahoma City 98Wednesday’s GamesToronto 99, Chicago 89Indiana 108, Golden State 94Boston 105, Utah 86Atlanta 114, New York 101Philadelphia 82, New Jersey 79Detroit 98, Charlotte 75Denver at Milwaukee, lateCleveland at Orlando, latePortland at Minnesota, lateMemphis at Houston, lateDallas at San Antonio, lateNew Orleans at Phoenix, lateOklahoma City at L.A. Clippers, lateToday’s GamesCleveland at Miami, 8 p.m.Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.Friday’s GamesNew Jersey at Orlando, 7 p.m.Utah at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.Golden State at New York, 7:30 p.m.Atlanta at Boston, 8 p.m.Dallas at Minnesota, 8 p.m.Portland at New Orleans, 8 p.m.Houston at Sacramento, 10 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Denver, 10:30 p.m.Toronto at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s box score

Pistons 98, Bobcats 75

CHARLOTTE (75)G.Wallace 5-10 2-5 12, Diaw 3-7 0-0 7,

Chandler 2-3 3-4 7, Felton 4-11 1-2 10, Murray 4-13 1-2 11, Augustin 0-1 3-4 3, D.Brown 2-4 2-4 6, Mohammed 5-7 3-4 13, Graham 0-0 0-0 0, Henderson 1-4 0-0 2, Ajinca 2-4 0-1 4. Totals 28-64 15-26 75.

DETROIT (98)Jerebko 2-5 0-0 5, Villanueva 13-17 2-2

30, B.Wallace 0-0 0-0 0, Stuckey 6-10 3-4 16, Gordon 10-16 1-2 22, Daye 1-3 0-0 2, Bynum 5-6 6-8 16, Summers 1-2 0-0 2, Maxiell 1-4 0-0 2, K.Brown 1-4 1-1 3, Atkins 0-2 0-0 0, Wilcox 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 40-72 13-17 98.

Charlotte 22 19 12 22 — 75Detroit 20 32 29 17 — 98

3-Point Goals—Charlotte 4-15 (Murray 2-5, Felton 1-3, Diaw 1-4, Augustin 0-1, D.Brown 0-1, G.Wallace 0-1), Detroit 5-14 (Villanueva 2-4, Stuckey 1-2, Gordon 1-3, Jerebko 1-3, Atkins 0-2). Fouled Out—K.Brown. Rebounds—Charlotte 40 (Mohammed 8), Detroit 43 (B.Wallace 9). Assists—Charlotte 17 (Diaw, Felton 4), Detroit 26 (Gordon 8). Total Fouls—Charlotte 20, Detroit 24. Technicals—Detroit defensive three second 2. A—15,417 (22,076).

Pro baseball

Major League Baseball

Free AgentsNEW YORK (AP) — The 156 players

who have filed for free agency. Eligible players may file through Nov. 19:

AMERICAN LEAGUEBALTIMORE (4) — Danys Baez, rhp;

Mark Hendrickson, lhp; Chad Moeller; c; Melvin Mora, 3b.

BOSTON (4) — Rocco Baldelli, of; Jason Bay, of; Alex Gonzalez, ss; Billy Wagner, lhp.

CHICAGO (4) — Ramon Castro, c; Octavio Dotel, rhp; Jermaine Dye, of; Scott Podsednik of.

CLEVELAND (2) — Jamey Carroll, 2b; Tomo Ohka, rhp.

DETROIT (6) — Adam Everett, ss; Aubrey Huff, 1b; Brandon Lyon, rhp; Placido Polanco, 2b; Fernando Rodney, rhp; Jarrod Washburn, lhp.

KANSAS CITY (4) — Bruce Chen, lhp; Coco Crisp, of; Miguel Olivo, c; Jamey Wright, rhp.

LOS ANGELES (6) — Kelvim Escobar, rhp; Chone Figgins, 3b; Vladimir Guerrero, dh; John Lackey, rhp; Darren Oliver, lhp; Robb Quinlan, of.

MINNESOTA (5) — Orlando Cabrera, ss; Joe Crede, 3b; Ron Mahay, lhp; Carl Pavano, rhp; Mike Redmond, c.

NEW YORK (6) — Johnny Damon, of; Jerry Hairston Jr., inf-of; Eric Hinske, of; Hideki Matsui, of; Jose Molina, c; Xavier Nady, of.

OAKLAND (4) — Bobby Crosby, 1b; Justin Duchscherer, rhp; Nomar Garciaparra, dh; Adam Kennedy, 3b.

SEATTLE (6) — Miguel Batista, rhp; Erik Bedard, lhp; Adrian Beltre, 3b; Russell Branyan, 1b; Endy Chavez, of; Mike Sweeney, dh.

TAMPA BAY (5) — Chad Bradford, rhp; Jason Isringhausen, rhp; Troy Percival, rhp; Russ Springer, rhp; Gregg Zaun, c.

TEXAS (7) — Joaquin Benoit, rhp; Hank Blalock, 1b; Marlon Byrd, of; Eddie Guardado, lhp; Andruw Jones, of; Ivan Rodriguez, c; Omar Vizquel, ss.

TORONTO (4) — Rod Barajas, c; John McDonald, ss; Kevin Millar, 1b; Marco Scutaro, ss.

NATIONAL LEAGUEARIZONA (3) — Doug Davis, lhp; Scott

Schoeneweis, lhp; Chad Tracy, 1b.ATLANTA (5) — Garret Anderson, of;

Mike Gonzalez, lhp; Adam LaRoche, 1b; Greg Norton, 1b; Rafael Soriano, rhp.

CHICAGO (3) — Kevin Gregg, rhp; Rich Harden, rhp; Reed Johnson, of.

CINCINNATI (0)COLORADO (8) — Joe Beimel, lhp;

Jose Contreras, rhp; Alan Embree, lhp; Josh Fogg, rhp; Jason Giambi, 1b; Matt Herges, rhp; Jason Marquis, rhp; Yorvit Torrealba, c.

FLORIDA (4) — Kiko Calero, rhp; Brendan Donnelly, rhp; Nick Johnson, 1b; Ross Gload, 1b-of.

HOUSTON (8) — Aaron Boone, 1b; Doug Brocail, rhp; Darin Erstad, of; Mike Hampton, lhp; LaTroy Hawkins, rhp; Jason Michaels, of; Miguel Tejada, ss; Jose Valverde, rhp.

LOS ANGELES (15) — Brad Ausmus, c; Ronnie Belliard, 2b; Juan Castro, ss; Jon Garland, rhp; Orlando Hudson, 2b; Mark Loretta, 3b; Doug Mientkiewicz, 1b; Guillermo Mota, rhp; Eric Milton, lhp; Will Ohman, lhp; Vicente Padilla, rhp; Jason Schmidt, rhp; Jim Thome, 1b; Jeff Weaver, rhp; Randy Wolf, lhp.

MILWAUKEE (7) — Mike Cameron, of;

Frank Catalanotto, of; Craig Counsell, 2b; Jason Kendall, c; Felipe Lopez, 2b; Corey Patterson, of; David Weathers, rhp.

NEW YORK (7) — Alex Cora, ss; Carlos Delgado, 1b; Elmer Dessens, rhp; Ramon Martinez, ss; J.J. Putz, rhp; Brian Schneider, c; Gary Sheffield, of.

PHILADELPHIA (7) — Paul Bako, c; Miguel Cairo, 2b; Pedro Feliz, 3b; Pedro Martinez, rhp; Brett Myers, rhp; Chan Ho Park, rhp; Matt Stairs, of.

ST. LOUIS (9) — Rick Ankiel, of; Mark De Rosa, 3b; Troy Glaus, 3b; Khalil Greene, ss; Matt Holliday, of; Jason LaRue, c; Joel Pineiro, rhp; John Smoltz, rhp; Todd Wellemeyer, rhp.

SAN DIEGO (2) — Henry Blanco, c; Brian Giles, of.

SAN FRANCISCO (6) — Rich Aurilia, 1b; Bobby Howry, rhp; Bengie Molina, c; Brad Penny, rhp; Juan Uribe, 2b; Randy Winn, of.

WASHINGTON (5) — Josh Bard, c; Livan Hernandez, rhp; Austin Kearns, of; Ron Villone, lhp; Dmitri Young, 1b.

Transactions

Wednesday’s Sports TransactionsBASEBALL

American LeagueBOSTON RED SOX—Announced C

Jason Varitek has exercised his 2010 contract option.

SEATTLE MARINERS—Agreed to terms with DH Ken Griffey on a one-year contract.

National LeagueARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS—Named

Matt Williams first-base coach and Bo Porter third-base coach.

CINCINNATI REDS—Announced the resignation of trainer Mark Mann. Announced Lynchburg (Carolina) will replace Sarasota (FSL) as their Advanced-Class A affiliate next sea-son.

FOOTBALLNational Football LeagueNFL—Suspended CB Joselio Hanson

four games for violating the league’s ban on performance enhancing sub-stances.

BUFFALO BILLS—Activated WR James Hardy from reserve/physical-ly-unable-to-perform list. Waived RB Xavier Omon.

CLEVELAND BROWNS—Signed LB Josh Stamer.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS—Placed G Mike Goff on injured reserve. Signed LB Justin Rogers.

NEW YORK GIANTS—Placed LB Gerris Wilkinson on injured reserve. Signed CB D.J. Johnson off Denver’s practice squad.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES—Placed CB/KR Ellis Hobbs on injured reserve. Signed CB Ramzee Robinson.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS—Placed S Chris Horton on injured reserve. Signed RB Quinton Ganther.

HOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueCAROLINA HURRICANES—Recalled

D Bryan Rodney from Albany (AHL). Placed G Cam Ward on injured reserve.

DETROIT RED WINGS—Claimed F Drew Miller off waivers from Tampa Bay.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS—Recalled D Matt Corrente from Lowell (AHL). Placed C Dean McAmmond on injured reserve.

American Hockey LeagueGRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS—Signed

G Sebastien Centomo and LW/D Paul Crosty.

MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS—Recalled D Reid Cashman from Cincinnati (ECHL). Reassigned D Jason Jozsa to Cincinnati.

PROVIDENCE BRUINS—Reassigned G Matt Dalton to Reading (ECHL).

TORONTO MARLIES—Reassigned F Dale Mitchell to Windsor (OHL).

MOTORSPORTSNASCAR—Docked Kyle Busch 25

Nationwide points and fined crew chief Jason Ratcliff $5,000 after Busch failed inspection before last week’s race at Texas Motor Speedway. Fined crew chief Brad Parrott $5,000 and placed him on pro-bation until the end of the year for rules violations on John Wes Townley’s car.

SOCCERNational Indoor Soccer LeaguePHILADELPHIA KIXX—Signed M

Ricardinho, M Angel Rivillo, M Sandre Naumoski, M Ryan Heins and M Joe Taylor.

COLLEGENCAA—Suspended Hawaii men’s bas-

ketball C Douglas Kurtz six games for playing in a professional league in Brazil in 2007.

BIG TEN CONFERENCE—Named Rick Boyages associate commission-er for men’s basketball.

EASTERN NEW MEXICO—Announced the resignation of wom-en’s volleyball coach Kim Falkenhagen.

VIRGINIA—Announced F Jamil Tucker is taking an indefinite leave of absence from the men’s basketball team.

Scoreboard

AMERICAN CONFERENCE

East

W L T Pct PF PA AFC NFC Div

New England 6 2 0 .750 225 115 4-2-0 2-0-0 2-1-0

N.Y. Jets 4 4 0 .500 177 134 4-3-0 0-1-0 1-3-0

Miami 3 5 0 .375 193 204 3-3-0 0-2-0 3-1-0

Buffalo 3 5 0 .375 123 169 1-4-0 2-1-0 1-2-0

South

W L T Pct PF PA AFC NFC Div

Indianapolis 8 0 0 1.000 217 108 4-0-0 4-0-0 3-0-0

Houston 5 4 0 .556 215 188 4-3-0 1-1-0 1-2-0

Jacksonville 4 4 0 .500 157 198 3-2-0 1-2-0 2-2-0

Tennessee 2 6 0 .250 148 238 1-6-0 1-0-0 1-3-0

North

W L T Pct PF PA AFC NFC Div

Cincinnati 6 2 0 .750 180 135 4-2-0 2-0-0 4-0-0

Pittsburgh 6 2 0 .750 195 139 4-1-0 2-1-0 1-1-0

Baltimore 4 4 0 .500 206 154 4-3-0 0-1-0 1-2-0

Cleveland 1 7 0 .125 78 209 1-4-0 0-3-0 0-3-0

West

W L T Pct PF PA AFC NFC Div

Denver 6 2 0 .750 150 124 5-2-0 1-0-0 2-0-0

San Diego 5 3 0 .625 206 179 4-3-0 1-0-0 3-1-0

Oakland 2 6 0 .250 78 201 1-5-0 1-1-0 1-3-0

Kansas City 1 7 0 .125 126 205 0-4-0 1-3-0 0-2-0

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

East

W L T Pct PF PA NFC AFC Div

Dallas 6 2 0 .750 217 152 5-1-0 1-1-0 1-1-0

Philadelphia 5 3 0 .625 219 153 4-2-0 1-1-0 2-1-0

N.Y. Giants 5 4 0 .556 232 204 3-3-0 2-1-0 2-1-0

Washington 2 6 0 .250 113 154 2-5-0 0-1-0 0-2-0

South

W L T Pct PF PA NFC AFC Div

New Orleans 8 0 0 1.000 303 174 5-0-0 3-0-0 2-0-0

Atlanta 5 3 0 .625 202 166 4-2-0 1-1-0 1-1-0

Carolina 3 5 0 .375 148 196 3-4-0 0-1-0 1-2-0

Tampa Bay 1 7 0 .125 134 231 1-5-0 0-2-0 0-1-0

North

W L T Pct PF PA NFC AFC Div

Minnesota 7 1 0 .875 244 174 5-0-0 2-1-0 3-0-0

Green Bay 4 4 0 .500 215 172 3-3-0 1-1-0 2-2-0

Chicago 4 4 0 .500 180 191 2-3-0 2-1-0 1-1-0

Detroit 1 7 0 .125 133 237 1-6-0 0-1-0 0-3-0

West

W L T Pct PF PA NFC AFC Div

Arizona 5 3 0 .625 198 164 3-2-0 2-1-0 1-1-0

San Francisco 3 5 0 .375 174 174 3-2-0 0-3-0 3-0-0

Seattle 3 5 0 .375 167 167 2-4-0 1-1-0 1-2-0

St. Louis 1 7 0 .125 77 221 1-5-0 0-2-0 0-2-0

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TennisContinued from Page 1B

seen Branham progress as a player, Branham has seen Murphy develop into his coaching role.

“I’ve known coach [Mur-phy] for a very long time, since I was 4,” Branham said. “He’s taught me the love of the game and all the founda-tional elements of the game.

“… It means a lot that he came and coached for [Wed-dington] because at the time we had nobody that was wanting to be the coach at all and he stepped up to the plate and not only did he take the position, but I think he’s done an exceptional job as a coach.”

Branham felt he was de-serving of coach of the year.

“He wants the team to win, he works really hard but at the same time he’s very supportive and winning is not everything to him,” Bra-nham said. “He builds really strong relationships with each and every team mem-ber. Even if they don’t start, he has a great relationship with everybody.”

“… He’s so knowledgeable that I know in my match if I’m struggling I can call him back to talk to me. He’ll get my mind straight and give me a good game plan to use against somebody, which is really good.”

This is the first time that Murphy, who spent 14 sea-sons as a softball coach at Charlotte Catholic High, has been selected as coach of the year.

Marvin Ridge (14-3) and Weddington (13-3) each earned a share of the SCC championship this season af-ter finishing with 7-1 confer-ence records – although the Mavs won an eventual tie-breaker at a neutral location to earn a higher playoff seed.

Countering the dual team seeding, Weddington defeated Marvin Ridge in the SCC tournament, sending Meredith Branham to the re-gional playoffs with the doubles teams of Sarah Carroll and Samantha Wingo and Kindell Schmitt and Casey Rowe.

MR junior Hannah Flo-rian, a three-time all confer-ence selection, competed at regionals after finishing sec-ond to Branham.

The combination of Schmitt/Rowe finished their season at the state tourna-ment after placing fourth at regionals, while Branham moved on after finishing sec-ond in regionals.

The eventual state cham-pion, Charlotte Catholic (21-4), eliminated both schools in the 3A dual team playoffs – Weddington in round one and Marvin Ridge in round

three.“I thought we had an out-

standing year,” Murphy said. “In terms of what the team accomplished, we wanted to beat Providence and we wanted to win a conference championship. I think look-ing at it overall, I think we accomplished both even if it was shared with Marvin Ridge.”

“Basically if you want to win a state champion-ship, put us on your schedule because I think that’ll make it three years in a row we’ve lost to the even-tual state champion in one way or another,” Murphy joked.

Both Marvin Ridge and Weddington placed four players on the all-conference

team, but the Warriors will graduate two of those play-ers in Branham and Saman-tha Wingo, while the Maver-icks return every member of their starting lineup.

Like Branham, Wingo (20-1) was coming off an injury.

“[Wingo] is just very steady,” Murphy said. “She was very reliable to win wherever we put her. She had an outstanding year and that was coming off knee sur-gery; she exceeded even my expectations.”

First-year MR coach Mi-chael Watson had his expec-tations exceeded this season as co-conference champions

and is even more confident while awaiting next year with so many returning play-ers.

“It’s certainly encouraging when you have a young team that gets to experience the quarterfinals of a state tour-nament and a conference championship,” Watson said. “When they get to experience that we can only build on it for next year.

“So it’s exciting. [Our team] has put in a lot of hard work and I’m going to challenge them over the summer to im-prove. When you can return everyone like that, you certain-ly have a good chance to have a great year next year also.”

Southern Carolina 3a/4a

all-ConferenCe tenniS team

Marvin RidgeHannah Florian, Jr., 3-time all-leagueMinali Nigam, Jr.Danielle David, So.Mariel Emery, Fr.

ParkwoodAudrey Italiano, Sr.

Porter RidgeBrooke Ingram, Sr., 3-time all-leagueMadison Beltran, Sr.

Sun ValleyKatie Lefler, Sr.

WeddingtonMeredith Branham, Sr., 3-time all-leagueSarah Carroll, Jr., 2-time all-leagueKindell Schmitt, So.Samantha Wingo, Sr.

Player of the Year – Meredith Branham (Weddington)

Coach of the Year – Mike Murphy (Weddington)

WINGO

The Enquirer-Journal Thursday, November 12, 2009 / 3B

FirepowerContinued from Page 1B

Senior corner-back Bobby Blakeney leads the Red-hawks in intercep-tions (four).

Mon-roe has 19 takeaways and 33 sacks heading into the postseason.

Home run hittersThe Redhawks

have a lot of players capable of making a defender miss and then outracing the opposi-tion to the goal line.

Senior tailback Shamiir Hailey is the first that comes to mind. Hailey has a Union County record 1,794 rush-ing yards to go with 21 touchdowns this season.

On the perimeter are two gifted receivers. Senior Issac Blakeney, bound for Duke on scholarship, caught three TD passes last week. Blakeney is a matchup nightmare at 6-5, 195 with 4.47 speed in the 40-yard dash. On the other side is junior Jamison Crowder, who has caught a county-best 10 touchdown passes this year and returned a staggering seven kicks/punts for TDs in 2009.

Covington’s contributionSenior Donnard Cov-

ington missed the first

half of the season, and has been impressive in his return. In six games, Covington has scored 11 touchdowns and rushed for 471 yards (9.8 yards per carry) in addition to making 44 tackles as a linebacker. Covingtonm a two-time first team all-Union County selection, has averaged 10.3 tackles in his last three games.

Sowell settles inThe biggest ques-

tion for the Redhawks heading into the season was quarterback.

Junior Jalen Sowell has handled the role well for Monroe, throw-ing for 1,427 yards and 25 touchdowns against nine interceptions.

In addition to play-ing a visible position in a historically strong program, Sowell has the added pressure of being the son of the head coach, Johnny Sowell.

The younger Sowell doesn’t have a booming arm, but has the advan-tage of knowing his dad’s offense from a young age. Sowell doesn’t try to do too much, and spreads the ball around well to a fleet of talented receivers.

Looking aheadThe Redhawks have

good reason to feel confident heading into the playoffs.

If they make a deep run, which seems likely, the big test will come in the semifinals. Unless one of them gets upset, expect Monroe to play at 11-0 Albemarle in the state semifinal round on Dec. 4.

Cup field can’t keep pace with Johnson, againCHARLOTTE (AP) — This

season was supposed to have the most competitive title race since the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship format began six years ago.

Instead, it’s once again been the Jimmie Johnson show.

With only two races remain-ing to crown NASCAR’s 2009 champion, Mark Martin is the only driver with a realistic shot of dethroning Johnson. But with a 73-point cushion, Johnson only needs to hold steady the next two weeks to win a record fourth consecutive championship.

So what went wrong?Here’s a look at the trials

and tribulations of the drivers who were expected to chal-lenge Johnson when the Chase started eight weeks ago, only to be left behind the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports team:

—Martin, second in points, 73 out: He opened the Chase with a win at New Hampshire, the fifth win of the season for the resurgent 50-year-old. The sentimental favorite, Martin finished second in four previous title races, stayed neck-and-neck with Johnson through the first four rounds. His trouble came at Charlotte, when he ran into the back of Juan Pablo Mon-toya on a restart and couldn’t overcome the gaping hole in the front of his No. 5 Chevrolet.

Martin finished 17th at Charlotte, while Johnson

went on to win the race and finally put a cushion between himself and his teammate.

Martin’s only other setback came at Talladega, when he was collected in a last-lap ac-cident that sent his car flipping across the track for the first time in his storied career. That 28th-place finish likely sealed his fate, even though he heads this weekend back to Phoenix International Raceway, site of his first win this season.

—Jeff Gordon, third in points, 112 out: His Chase got off to a bad start with a me-diocre 15th-place finish in the New Hampshire opener that stuck him in a significant hole. But he ran great the next five weeks, grabbing five fin-ishes of sixth or better, including two second-places. Then came Talladega, where he ran out of fuel late and finished 20th to lose more ground to Johnson.

But if Johnson struggles the next two weeks, Gordon will certainly look back at Texas as where he failed to capitalize on an opportunity to really make it a tight title race. After John-son’s early accident opened up the field, Gordon had a chance to pounce but couldn’t because of his career struggles at Texas. He nearly went a lap down and wound up a frustrated 13th.

—Kurt Busch, fourth in

points, 171 out: Busch ran re-ally well most of the Chase, just not good enough to keep pace with Johnson. An 11th at Kansas caused him to fall back from the leaders, and a 17th at Martinsville in his only real off race sort of sealed his fate.

He could be closer because he ran very well at Talladega, only to be wrecked, like Martin, on the final lap as a likely top-10 fin-ish plummeted to a 30th-place re-sult. Busch bounced back with a victory last week in Texas, but it

was too little too late for the 2004 Chase winner.

—Tony Stewart, fifth in points, 178 out: The two-time series champion is perhaps the biggest disappoint-ment of the Chase. Although he did win at Kansas to gain some of his swagger back, he’s fallen tremendously

off the pace he set all season long as he cruised to a sizable “regular season” points lead.

Trying to become the first owner/driver to win a champi-onship since Alan Kulwicki in 1992, Stewart only briefly flirted with the possibility once the Chase began. He was just OK in the opener, but came back from an earlier accident at Dover to finish ninth. Then came the win at Kansas that pushed him back into contention.

The rest of the races, though,

have been memorable for Stew-art only in that he didn’t really stand out at all. His finishes were decent — four top-13 finishes in the past five races — but he never dominated and led just seven laps over that stretch. A disastrous 35th-place finish at Talladega didn’t help, either.

—Juan Pablo Montoya, sixth in points, 236 out: The biggest surprise of the Chase, Montoya has run much better than his spot in the standings shows. He opened the Chase with four top-four finishes and hovered inside the top three of the stand-ings all the way to Charlotte.

That’s where his luck ran out. Montoya was stacked up in traffic during a midrace restart and ran into Clint Bowyer. He also got hit from behind by Martin, and the damage at both ends made it difficult for Montoya to keep pace. He spun to bring out a much-needed caution, but it didn’t help as Montoya struggled the rest of the way and finished 35th.

Any chance he had to re-cover was lost when he ran out of gas at Talladega, finish-ing 19th, then wrecking last week at Texas to finish 37th.

—Denny Hamlin, eighth in points, 322 out: Hamlin is the most disappointed driver of the Chase, with good rea-son. He’s probably been the only one to keep pace with Johnson, only to have bad

luck and mechanical failures take him out of contention.

He was off at Dover to fall back in the standings, but he ral-lied and was back in contention at California until he wrecked while leading with about 60 laps to go. It was driver error, and it cost him considerably.

An engine failure the next week at Charlotte made his win at Martinsville a moot point — the victory was great, but it did little to help him in the standings. Then came another engine failure at Talladega, leaving Hamlin far lower in the standings than he should be.

—Carl Edwards, 11th in points, 440 out: This is the guy everyone said would beat Johnson this year. After all, he won nine races last season and was hot on Johnson’s bumper as the Chase wound down.

But he’s instead winless and been handcuffed by companywide struggles at Roush Fenway Racing.

His season has been so medio-cre, the preseason pick to win the title wasn’t even really con-sidered a factor once the Chase began. He’s only got one top-10 finish in eight Chase races, while an engine failure at Charlotte and a crash last week at Texas gave him two finishes of 39th. If he doesn’t make up some ground, Edwards won’t even be on the stage at the season-ending awards ceremony in Las Vegas.

JOHNSON

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Villanueva’s 30 lift Pistons over BobcatsAUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP)

— Charlie Villanueva had a sea-son-high 30 points and outscored Charlotte by himself in the third quarter, leading the Detroit Pistons to a 98-75 win over the Bobcats on Wednesday night.

The Pistons have a .500 record after winning two straight for the first time this season.

Gerald Wallace scored 12, Flip Murray had 11 points and Raymond Felton added 10 for the offensively challenged Bobcats, who have lost three straight.

Charlotte started the second quarter with a two-point lead, then got outscored 61-31 over the next two periods.

Villanueva had 18 points in the third — six more than Charlotte’s team had in the quarter.

Detroit coach John Kuester beat his mentor, Charlotte coach Larry Brown, who had Kuester on his championship-winning staff with the Pistons in 2004.

Brown said before the game he would have mixed emotions regard-less of the outcome.

The Hall of Fame coach had to be completely disappointed, though, with how poorly his team played at both ends of the court.

Charlotte entered the game averag-ing an NBA-low 85 points a game and didn’t even approach that lowly total, settling for jump shots and failing to

create shots off the dribble.The Bobcats’ 12-point quarter

wasn’t even their worse of the sea-son. They scored just 10 in three dif-ferent quarters against three teams this season.

Detroit didn’t have any trouble scoring and it was solid on defense as it has been — surprisingly — so far with its revamped roster.

Ben Gordon, who signed with the Pistons as a free agent along with Villanueva, scored 22 points. Gor-don has scored at least 19 points in every game this season.

Detroit’s Will Bynum scored 16 points and the 6-foot guard sparked a second-quarter run with a base-line drive and dunk past 7-1 center Tyson Chandler. Rodney Stuckey also scored 16 for the Pistons.

Boston 105, Utah 86BOSTON — Rajon Rondo had 14

points and 11 assists and the Boston Celtics beat the Jazz 105-86 to match their 8-1 start from their title-win-ning season two years ago.

Kevin Garnett scored 18 points, Paul Pierce had 13 and Ray Allen 15 for the Celtics. Boston has won two in a row since its only loss, to Phoe-nix on Friday.

Deron Williams, who was a game-time decision because of a bruised left calf, had 13 points, seven re-bounds and four assists in 33 min-utes for Utah.

Hawks 114, Knicks 101NEW YORK — Al Horford scored

a season-high 25 points and had nine rebounds, and Atlanta over-came a 14-point deficit to send New York to its fifth straight loss.

Josh Smith added 22 points and 12 rebounds for the Hawks. Toney Douglas scored a season-high 23 points in his first start for the Knicks (1-8), off to their worst start since also dropping eight of nine to open the 2002-03 season.

76ers 82, Nets 79EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. —

Marreese Speights had a go-ahead three-point play with 1:10 to play and Philadelphia extended New Jer-sey’s franchise-worst start to 0-8.

Thaddeus Young had 20 points to lead the 76ers, and Speights finished with 19 points and nine rebounds. Brook Lopez had 23 points and 14 rebounds for the Nets.

Pacers 108, Warriors 94INDIANAPOLIS — Danny

Granger scored 31 points and had a career-high 16 to lead Indiana to its third straight victory.

Roy Hibbert and Earl Watson each added 16 points for the Pac-ers. Corey Maggette led Golden State with 21 points, and Anthony Randolph had 17 points and 13 re-bounds.

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Encourage your children to read the newspaper.

DEAR ABBY: May I respond to your column regarding ex-cessive waits in doctors’ of-fices (Sept. 1)?

I am a board-certified inter-ventional cardiologist who has been practicing for 30 years. I work 85 to 90 hours each week. As hard as we try, our office schedule often falls behind. Despite recommen-dations that acute problems go to the emergency room, unscheduled patients come to the office with chest pains, and they must be attended to. Even scheduled patients can develop complex medical is-sues that require extra, un-planned time to evaluate and treat.

Our patients with a history of heart disease do not mind waiting when the office runs behind because they receive the same specialized extra-care treatment when they need it. Delays that result from

spending extra time evaluat-ing and treating sick patients with complicated problems is not “unprofessional” behav-ior as “Larry W.” implied. On the contrary, it relates to the art of medicine and caring for the well-being of each patient above all else.

And for the architect, I wonder when he last worked a 90-hour week, took seven or eight phone calls from his clients after midnight, and got up at 3 a.m. to do an emer-gency two-hour procedure be-fore returning to his office at

8 in the morning bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and running on schedule the rest of the day? -- DR. RON IN LAS VEGAS

DEAR DR. RON: I felt it was only fair to print your response to my follow-up col-umn on “Sick of Waiting in Denver.” That column elicited a mountain of letters, all of them offering reasonable ex-planations for the delays in medical offices. Read on:

DEAR ABBY: Many factors cause doctors to run behind. Routine physicals can reveal threats to life that must be dealt with immediately.

Also, people do not reveal the true reason for their visit when they call, so they are not given the appropriate amount of time for the appointment. A teenager brought in for vomiting could have the stom-ach flu, onset diabetes or even be pregnant.

A colleague once had a wom-

an complaining of abdominal pain who gave birth in the exam room. That definitely took more than 15 minutes! -- M.D. IN WOODSTOCK, ILL.

DEAR ABBY: My husband is a thoracic surgeon who spends four days a week in the O.R. and one action-packed day seeing patients in his of-fice in addition to his on-call schedules. When I ask my husband what held him up when he gets home late for dinner, his response is always the same: “I give each patient my undivided attention. I would never cut them off or hurry to see the next one un-til I know every concern was addressed.” If these readers who complained about wait-ing have a doctor as kind and caring as my husband, their wait is worth every second. -- MARRIED TO A WONDER-FUL MAN

DEAR ABBY: Every single

day, multiple patients wait un-til their appointment time is up to say, “There’s just one more thing I was afraid to bring up ...” Then they tell me about their chest pain, depression or possible abuse. These are things I cannot and will not ig-nore. But it does mean the next patient will have to wait.

Some people behave as if they’re going to a fast food drive-thru. And if things don’t change, that is exactly the kind of care they’ll end up getting. -- DELMAR, N.Y., DOCTOR

DEAR ABBY: When your doctor has to deliver devastat-ing news about your health and you have lots of ques-tions, lots of tears and your mind is filled with terror, you’ll appreciate the time be-ing spent with you -- which means someone else will have to wait. -- MEDICAL OFFICE MANAGER

Dear AbbyColumnist

Art of medicine can require long hours, long waits

Nov. 12, 2009

ASTRO-GRAPHBy Bernice Bede Osol

Whenever you get a bright idea in the year ahead, develop it to the fullest. You will be bet-ter at finding ways to put new thinking to work and making it pay off in material ways that will add to your holdings.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Don’t make a commitment unless you intend to give it your all. Once you give others your word, they will be depending on you to follow through, even if you run into a problem.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- If someone in particular keeps popping into your head, try to establish a line of com-munication. There is likely to be a reason why you’re thinking of this person, and you need to know what it is.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Provided you’re properly motivated, you can overcome some big obstacles and achieve some major objectives. It’s all up to you, so give yourself a

pep talk and keep your eyes on the prize.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Sound, logical thinking and knowledge acquired through experience will equip you to handle a complex development that might arise. Keep your wits at all times.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Whereas normally making unsolicited changes might in-timidate you, not so at this time. You’ll actually thrive on an array of changing conditions, engineering them to work well for you.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Think twice before listening to unsolicited advice. The person might mean well, but unless this individual is an expert on the subject, blaze your own path.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Don’t balk at being asked to work a bit harder than usual because the extra responsibili-ties are likely to hold rewards for you as well. You might get a bonus or a new job offer.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Because your charisma is ex-ceptionally strong, don’t be sur-

prised when people gravitate toward you. This might even in-clude someone who previously treated you with indifference.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- With a little bit of conscientious effort, you could considerably enhance both your life and the well-being of your entire family. Give domestic affairs top prior-ity.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Friends and associates respect what you have to say because they’ll instinctively know what you’re saying is likely to benefit them, even if they don’t like the message.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- If you’re looking to make a major purchase, this might be the day. Your commercial instincts are particularly strong, and you’ll recognize a good deal when you see it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Now is the time to take on those tough, long-neglected jobs because challenges aren’t likely to intimidate you. You’ll actually welcome doing things that might normally intimidate you.

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004 LegalsAMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

Under and by virtue of the power and authority con-tained in an Order bearing the caption “SunTrust Mortgage, Inc., Plaintiff vs. Ashley D. Helms and Spouse of Ashley D. Helms, Defendants”, 08 CVS 3399 Union County, and pursuant to the terms of the Order, the under-signed Commissioner will offer for sale that certain property as described be-low. Said sale will be held in the City of Monroe, Un-ion County, North Carolina at one o'clock (1:00) p.m. on Thursday, the 19th day of November, 2009 at the courthouse door, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situate in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:Being all of Lot 3 of the Ashley A. Helms Minor Subdivision containing 1.34 acres as same is shown on a map thereof recorded in Plat Cabinet J at Page 555, Union County Public Regis-try, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description.Also conveyed herewith is a twenty-five (25) foot ac-cess easement along exist-ing Stone Drive as further shown on a map recorded in Plat Cabinet J at Page 555, Union County Public Registry.Being a portion of the same property conveyed to Russell Alan Atwell and wife, Sherry J. Atwell, by General Warranty Deed from Wachovia Bank of North Carolina, N.A., dated March 24, 1993 recorded March 30, 1993, in Book 618 at Page 67, Union County Public Registry.The property is being sold "as is", without warranties, subject to all taxes, special assessments and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Any assess-ments, costs or fees result-ing from the sale will be due and payable from the purchaser at the sale.A cash deposit (no person-al check), or certified check in the amount of ten per-cent (10%) of the high bid, will be required at the time of the sale.The sale will be held open for ten days for upset bids as required by law.This the 8th day of Octo-ber, 2009.James C. Huff, CommissionerPost Office Box 2505Fayetteville, NC 28302(910) 864-6888November 5, 12, 2009

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

The Town of Unionville will conduct a public hearing beginning at 7:15 p.m. on Monday, November 16, 2009 at the Unionville Town Hall, located at 1102 Unionville Church Road, Unionville, to consider as-signing RA-40 zoning (cur-rently zoned Union County RA-40) to the following par-cels pending annexation (annexation # 17) located on Deese Road, Neal Boyce Road, and Baucom Deese Road:Tax Parcel numbers: 09-137-078R, 09-137-078, 09-137-078L, 09-137-078M, 09-137-078N, 09-137-078J, 09-137-080B, 09-137-080 01, 09-137-080A, 09-137-086, 09-137-087A, 09-137-087, 09-137-084, 09-137-084A, and 09-137-078P.The general public is invit-ed to attend the public hearing and make com-ment. As a result of testi-mony received at the public hearing, the Town Council reserves the right to make changes to the proposed request prior to adoption. For more information, call Jana Finn, Land Use Ad-ministrator, at 704-348-2729 during regular busi-ness hours.The Town of Unionville does not discriminate on the basis of disability. If you need an auxiliary aid or service or other accom-modations in order to at-tend or fully participate at this meeting, please con-tact the Town Clerk at 704-226-1989 as far in advance of the meeting as possible so that your request can be considered.November 5, 12, 2009

004 LegalsNOTICE OF PUBLIC

HEARING ON REQUEST FOR ANNEXATION

The public will take notice that the Town Council of the Town of Unionville has called a public hearing at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, No-vember 16, 2009 at Union-ville Town Hall, 1102 Un-ionville Church Road, Mon-roe, NC on the question of annexing the following de-scribed territories, request-ed by petition filed pur-suant to G.S. 160A-31:

PROPOSED ANNEXATION INTO THE TOWN OF UNIONVILLE

DESCRIPTION OF ANNEXATION

Beginning at a nail set in the centerline of Neal Boyce Road, SR 1621 and the centerline of Baucom- Deese Road, SR 1504 and running thence ten calls with Baucom-Deese Road; 1st. S 78-43-46 E 62.11 feet, 2nd. S 79-45-51 E 39.74 feet, 3rd. S 80-39-24 E 68.96 feet, 4th. S 81-52-11 E 45.01 feet, 5th. S 82-53-56 E 57.10 feet, 6th. S 84-57-21 E 67.84 feet, 7th. S 86-54-19 E 116.88 feet, 8th. S 88-28-10 E 62.16 feet, 9th. S 89-22-55 E 122.29 feet, 10th. S 89-20-45 E 256.72 feet, the cor-ner of the Worthington Subdivision recorded in plat cab. J file 749 and plat cab. K file 061, Union County Registry; thence with the Worthington Sub-division, S 00-56-17 W 741.55 feet, S 00-57-53 W 644.16 feet to the corner of the Primitive Hill Subdivi-sion recorded in plat cab. K files 356, and 462, Union County Registry; thence with the Primitive Hill Sub-division, S 76-19-29 W 480.99 feet, to the corner of the James R. and Reba H. Helms property, Deed Ref: 4769-575 (Lot 5 Lewis Neal Boyce Subdivision), thence around the Helms property; N 01-17-02 E 197.60 feet, N 87-54-42 W 190.59 feet, S 14-05-06 W 279.59 feet, S 76-08-36 E 257.15 feet, back to the Primitive Hill Subdivision; thence again with the Prim-itive Hill Subdivision, S 00-55-13 W 218.48 feet, S 01-08-51 W 453.32 feet, to the centerline of Deese Rd. SR 1622; thence 17 calls with Deese Rd. 1st. N 68-26-44 W 34.30 feet, 2nd. N 59-03-51 W 32.25 feet, 3rd. N 51-50-10 W 33.84 feet, 4th. N 46-42-10 W 32.19 feet, 5th. N 43-52-23 W 67.09 feet, 6th. N 44-28-12 W 42.29 feet, 7th. N 46-13-55 W 31.85 feet, 8th. N 49-00-53 W 30.01 feet, 9th. N 53-10-53 W 33.96 feet, 10th. N 57-31-37 W 32.26 feet, 11th. N 61-49-11 W 33.98 feet, 12th. N 65-39-00 W 45.74 feet, 13th. N 68-59-06 W 36.24 feet, 14th N 71-32-06 W 51.21 feet, 15th. N 75-01-52 W 34.82 feet, 16th. N 81-33-54 W 42.20 feet, 17th. N 88-45-02 W 19.15 feet to a nail set in the centerline of Deese Road and the cen-terline of Neal Boyce Road; thence 16 calls with Neal Boyce Road, 1st. N 19-14-13 W 174.27 feet, 2nd. N 18-32-47 W 57.22 feet, 3rd. N 17-07-03 W 55.78 feet, 4th. N 10-41-31 W 37.63 feet, 5th. N 04-17-02 W 44.35 feet, 6th. N 07-54-02 E 40.86 feet, 7th. N 16-06-44 E 43.26 feet, 8th. N 23-10-34 E 212.44 feet, 9th. N 22-16-28 E 55.04 feet, 10th. N 20-32-35 E 44.99 feet, 11th. N 16-22-00 E 53.37 feet, 12th. N 09-25-17 E 93.91 feet, 13th. N 05-05-16 E 90.30 feet, 14th. N 02-49-02 E 594.55 feet, 15th. N 03-34-05 E 208.90 feet, 16th N 06-01-49 E 293.18 feet to the point and place of Be-ginning, and containing 39.32 acres, as surveyed by Bobby F. Simpson, North Carolina Professio-nal Land Surveyor, Aug. 6th 2009.Sonya W. Gaddy Town Clerk/Tax CollectorNovember 5, 12, 2009

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

09 SP 1638Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Lonnell Bowman and Latonya Bowman (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Lonnell Bow-man and Tiney Latonya Bowman) to Joan H. An-derson, Trustee(s), dated the 1st day of December, 2008, and recorded in Book 05013, Page 0618, in Union County Registry, North Carolina, default hav-ing been made in the pay-ment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the under-

004 Legalssigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidenc-ing said indebtedness hav-ing directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Judicial Center in the City of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina at 1:00 PM on November 19, 2009 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situat-ed in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:BEING ALL OF Lot 42 of Eastwood Subdivision as shown on a map thereof re-corded in Plat Cabinet H, File 290A-291, a revision of Plat Cabinet H, File 78-79 of the Union County Regis-try, North Carolina. Togeth-er with improvements locat-ed thereon; said property being located at 5400 Tucker Phillips Drive, Wingate, North Carolina.Trustee may, in the Trust-ee's sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.Should the property be pur-chased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and convey-ance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/securi-ty agreement, or both, be-ing foreclosed, nor the offi-cers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or au-thorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or war-ranty relating to the title or any physical, environmen-tal, health or safety condi-tions existing in, on, at or relating to the property be-ing offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold sub-ject to all taxes, special as-sessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agree-ment upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rent-al agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement pro-rated to the effective date of the termination.THIS IS A COMMUNICA-TION FROM A DEBT COL-LECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICA-TION IS TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY INFOR-MATION OBTAINED WILLBE USED FOR THATPURPOSE, except as stated below in the in-stance of bankruptcy protection.IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DIS-CHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCYPROCEEDING, THIS NO-TICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATU-TORY REQUIREMENT 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 PER-SONALLY.This 29th day of October, 2009.

004 LegalsSUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEAttorney at LawThe Law Firm of Hutchens, Senter & Britton, P.A.Attorneys for Substitute Trustee Services, Inc.P.O. Box 10284317 Ramsey StreetFayetteville, North Carolina 28311http://sales.hsbfirm.comCase No: 1014027November 5, 12, 2009

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF UNIONIN THE GENERAL

COURT OF JUSTICESUPERIOR

COURT DIVISIONBEFORE THE CLERK

09 E 617EXECUTOR’S NOTICE

HAVING qualified before the Honorable J. R. Rowell, Clerk of Superior Court of Union County, North Caro-lina, as Executors of the Estate of Wilhelmina Sim-mons Hamer, deceased, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned on or be-fore the 3rd day of Febru-ary, 2010, or the same shall be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All person indebted to said estate please make immediate payment.This the 5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th days of Novem-ber, 2009.Eugene F. Hamer, Jr.P.O. Box 25Carboro, NC 27510ExecutorSandra Cecilia HamerP.O. Box 608 Monroe, NC 28111-0608ExecutrixHarry B. Crow, Jr.Attorney for the Estate315-B North Main StreetMonroe, N.C. 28112Telephone: (704)283-1175Nov. 5, 12, 19, 26, 2009

PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE

The Town Council of the Town of Stallings will con-duct a Public Meeting on Monday, November 23, 2009 at 7:00 pm at the Stallings Town Hall to con-sider the following matter:TX09.11.01: Zoning Ordi-nance amendment to Sec-tion 152.172 Prohibited Signs and Section 152.176 (B) (2) Specifications for Signs Requiring a Permit. The amendment will re-strict the use of pole signs and require all ground and monument signs to have an architectural base.Citizens are invited to make written or oral com-ments. The Town of Stal-lings does not discriminate on the basis of disability. If you need auxiliary aid or service or other accommo-dations in order to attend or participate at the public hearing, please contact the Town Clerk (704-821-8557) as far in advance as possible so that your re-quest may be considered.Lynne HairTown PlannerNovember 12, 19, 2009

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

09 SP 1632Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Joseph Ray Sim-mons and Stephanie Sim-mons (PRESENT RE-CORD OWNER(S): Ste-phanie R. Paris and Jo-seph Ray Simmons) to

004 LegalsTrustee Services of Caroli-na, LLC, Trustee(s), dated the 13th day of December, 2005, and recorded in Book 4020, Page 16, in Union County Registry, North Carolina, default hav-ing been made in the pay-ment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the under-signed, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidenc-ing said indebtedness hav-ing directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Judicial Center in the City of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina at 1:00 PM on November 19, 2009 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situat-ed in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:Being all of Lots 21 and 22 of Shannon Ranchettes as shown in Plat Book 6, at Page 74 of the Union County Registry, to which reference is hereby made for a more particular de-scription. Together with im-provements located there-on; said property being lo-cated at 1812 Shannon Road, Waxhaw, North Car-olina. Parcel ID 06-054-026 (Lot 21) & 06-054-025 (Lot 22)Trustee may, in the Trust-ee's sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.Should the property be pur-chased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and convey-ance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/securi-ty agreement, or both, be-ing foreclosed, nor the offi-cers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or au-thorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or war-ranty relating to the title or any physical, environmen-tal, health or safety condi-tions existing in, on, at or relating to the property be-ing offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold sub-ject to all taxes, special as-sessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by

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004 Legalsthe clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agree-ment upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rent-al agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement pro-rated to the effective date of the termination.THIS IS A COMMUNICA-TION FROM A DEBT COL-LECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICA-TION IS TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY INFOR-MATION OBTAINED WILLBE USED FOR THATPURPOSE, except as stated below in the in-stance of bankruptcy protection.IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DIS-CHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCYPROCEEDING, THIS NO-TICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATU-TORY REQUIREMENT 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 PER-SONALLY.This 29th day of October, 2009.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEAttorney at LawThe Law Firm of Hutchens, Senter & Britton, P.A.Attorneys for Substitute Trustee Services, Inc.P.O. Box 10284317 Ramsey StreetFayetteville, North Carolina 28311http://sales.hsbfirm.comCase No: 1017807November 5, 12, 2009

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF UNIONIN THE GENERAL

COURT OF JUSTICESUPERIOR

COURT DIVISIONADMINSTRATOR’S

EXECUTOR’S NOTICEHaving qualified before the Honorable J. R. Rowell, Clerk of Superior Court to Union County, as Adminis-trator/Executor of the Es-tate of Windord Steve Helms, deceased, this is to notify all persons having claims against said Estate to present them to the un-dersigned on or before the 20th day of January, 2010, or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons inndebted to said Estate please make imme-diate payment.This 14th day of October, 2009.Angela H. Henderson and Ira Michael Helms Co-Administrators CTAc/o Larry E. HarringtonPost Office Box 1003Monroe, NC 28111October 22, 29, 2009November 5, 12, 2009

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF UNIONIN THE GENERAL

COURT OF JUSTICESUPERIOR

COURT DIVISIONADMINISTRATOR’SEXECUTOR NOTICE

Having qualified before the Honorable J. R. Rowell, Clerk of Superior Court of Union County, as Adminis-trator/Executor of the Es-tate of Audie M. Fergu-son, deceased, this is to notify all persons having claims against said Estate to present them to the un-dersigned on or before the 20th day of January, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate please make imme-diate payment.This 14th day of October, 2009.Brooks Reid Mullis Executorc/o Larry E. HarringtonPost Office Box 1003Monroe, NC 28111October 22, 29, 2009November 5, 12, 2009

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

09 SP 1637Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Fatima Dockery(PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Fatima Dock-ery and Jomoyatta Akila Kenyatta Kawan Proctor) to Trustee Services of Car-olina, LLC, Trustee(s), dat-ed the 15th day of August, 2007, and recorded in Book 4659, Page 0735, and Modification in Book 04874, Page 0293, in Un-ion County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Sub-stitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substitut-ed as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Caro-lina and the holder of the note evidencing said in-debtedness having direct-ed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the under-signed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Ju-dicial Center in the City of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina at 1:00 PM on November 19, 2009 and will sell to the highest bid-der for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:BEING all of Lot 15 of Cur-eton Subdivision, Phase 2C, Map 2, as shown on plat thereof entitled Cure-ton Phase 2C, Map 1, as recorded in Plat Cabinet J at Files 921 and 922, Un-ion County Public Registry. Together with improve-

004 Legalsments located thereon; said property being located at 2798 Collaroy Road, Waxhaw, North Carolina.Trustee may, in the Trust-ee's sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.Should the property be pur-chased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and convey-ance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/securi-ty agreement, or both, be-ing foreclosed, nor the offi-cers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or au-thorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or war-ranty relating to the title or any physical, environmen-tal, health or safety condi-tions existing in, on, at or relating to the property be-ing offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold sub-ject to all taxes, special as-sessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agree-ment upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rent-al agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement pro-rated to the effective date of the termination.THIS IS A COMMUNICA-TION FROM A DEBT COL-LECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICA-TION IS TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY INFOR-MATION OBTAINED WILLBE USED FOR THATPURPOSE, except as stated below in the in-stance of bankruptcy protection.IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DIS-CHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCYPROCEEDING, THIS NO-TICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATU-TORY REQUIREMENT 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 PER-SONALLY.This 29th day of October, 2009.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEAttorney at LawThe Law Firm of Hutchens, Senter & Britton, P.A.Attorneys for Substitute Trustee Services, Inc.P.O. Box 10284317 Ramsey StreetFayetteville, North Carolina 28311http://sales.hsbfirm.comCase No: 1007117November 5, 12, 2009

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

09 SP 1639Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by James Rogers and Leslie Dalton Rogers to Linda A. Lehneis, Trust-ee(s), dated the 30th day of September, 2004, and recorded in Book 3574, Page 515, in Union County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. hav-ing been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Caro-lina and the holder of the note evidencing said in-debtedness having direct-ed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the under-signed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Ju-dicial Center in the City of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina at 1:00 PM on November 19, 2009 and will sell to the highest bid-der for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:BEING all of Lot 38 of VIL-LAGES OF WESLEYCHAPEL, as same is shown on Plat recorded among the Land Records of Union County, North Carolina Public Registry in Plat Cabinet H, File Num-ber 539. Together with im-provements located there-on; said property being lo-cated at 413 Matfield Court, Monroe, North Caro-lina.Trustee may, in the Trust-ee's sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.Should the property be pur-chased by a third party, that person must pay the

004 Legalstax of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and convey-ance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/securi-ty agreement, or both, be-ing foreclosed, nor the offi-cers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or au-thorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or war-ranty relating to the title or any physical, environmen-tal, health or safety condi-tions existing in, on, at or relating to the property be-ing offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold sub-ject to all taxes, special as-sessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agree-ment upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rent-al agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement pro-rated to the effective date of the termination.THIS IS A COMMUNICA-TION FROM A DEBT COL-LECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICA-TION IS TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY INFOR-MATION OBTAINED WILLBE USED FOR THATPURPOSE, except as stated below in the in-stance of bankruptcy protection.IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DIS-CHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCYPROCEEDING, THIS NO-TICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATU-TORY REQUIREMENT 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 PER-SONALLY.This 29th day of October, 2009.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEAttorney at LawThe Law Firm of Hutchens, Senter & Britton, P.A.Attorneys for Substitute Trustee Services, Inc.P.O. Box 10284317 Ramsey StreetFayetteville, North Carolina 28311http://sales.hsbfirm.comCase No: 1015669November 5, 12, 2009

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

09 SP 588Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Priscilla Colson (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Priscilla A. Colson (Priscilla A. Colson aka Priscilla Colson, de-ceased) (Heirs of Priscilla A. Colson aka Priscilla Col-son) to Griffin Smith Cauld-well and Helder, Trustee(s), dated the 22nd day of September, 2003, and recorded in Book 3228, Page 294, in Union County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Sub-stitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substitut-ed as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Caro-lina and the holder of the note evidencing said in-debtedness having direct-ed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the under-signed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Ju-dicial Center in the City of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina at 1:00 PM on November 19, 2009 and will sell to the highest bid-der for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:Being all of Lot 1 Manor Place as shown on plat re-corded in Plat Cabinet H, File 732, Union County Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with improve-ments located thereon; said property being located at 912 Baucom Road, Mon-roe, North Carolina. Together with an easement for the purpose of instal-ling, constructing, repairing and maintaining a septic system designated as "Drainfield for Lot #1" and located on Lot #3 of said subdivision, all as shown in plat recorded in Plat Cabi-net H, File 732, Union County Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular de-scription. Also together with an ease-ment for the purpose of in-

004 Legalsstalling, constructing, re-pairing and maintaining a sewer line designated as "10 foot Sewer Easement to serve Lot 1, located on Lot #2 and Lot 3, all as shown on said plat, refer-ence to which is hereby made for a more particular description. Trustee may, in the Trust-ee's sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.Should the property be pur-chased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and convey-ance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/securi-ty agreement, or both, be-ing foreclosed, nor the offi-cers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or au-thorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or war-ranty relating to the title or any physical, environmen-tal, health or safety condi-tions existing in, on, at or relating to the property be-ing offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold sub-ject to all taxes, special as-sessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agree-ment upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rent-al agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement pro-rated to the effective date of the termination.THIS IS A COMMUNICA-TION FROM A DEBT COL-LECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICA-TION IS TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY INFOR-MATION OBTAINED WILLBE USED FOR THATPURPOSE, except as stated below in the in-stance of bankruptcy protection.IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DIS-CHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCYPROCEEDING, THIS NO-TICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATU-TORY REQUIREMENT 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 PER-SONALLY.This 29th day of October, 2009.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEAttorney at LawThe Law Firm of Hutchens, Senter & Britton, P.A.Attorneys for Substitute Trustee Services, Inc.P.O. Box 10284317 Ramsey StreetFayetteville, North Carolina 28311http://sales.hsbfirm.comCase No: 1006732November 5, 12, 2009

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

09 SP 1635Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by David Wayne Mumpower and Elizabeth Mumpower (PRESENTRECORD OWNER(S): Da-vid Wayne Mumpower and Elizabeth Farr Mumpower) to A. Grant Whitney, Trust-ee(s), dated the 16th day of March, 2004, and re-corded in Book 3386, Page 771, in Union County Reg-istry, North Carolina, de-fault having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. hav-ing been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Caro-lina and the holder of the note evidencing said in-debtedness having direct-ed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the under-signed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Ju-dicial Center in the City of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina at 1:00 PM on November 19, 2009 and will sell to the highest bid-der for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:Being all of Lot 1, contain-ing 1.017 acres, as shown on plat prepared by Carroll L. Rushing and Company, RLS, dated August 7, 1997, and recorded in Plat Cabinet F, File 306, Union County Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular de-scription. Together with im-provements located there-

004 Legalson; said property being lo-cated at 1500 Tom Helms Road, Monroe, North Caro-lina.Parcel ID Number: 08129025ATrustee may, in the Trust-ee's sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.Should the property be pur-chased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and convey-ance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/securi-ty agreement, or both, be-ing foreclosed, nor the offi-cers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or au-thorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or war-ranty relating to the title or any physical, environmen-tal, health or safety condi-tions existing in, on, at or relating to the property be-ing offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold sub-ject to all taxes, special as-sessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agree-ment upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rent-al agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement pro-rated to the effective date of the termination.THIS IS A COMMUNICA-TION FROM A DEBT COL-LECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICA-TION IS TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY INFOR-MATION OBTAINED WILLBE USED FOR THATPURPOSE, except as stated below in the in-stance of bankruptcy protection.IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DIS-CHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCYPROCEEDING, THIS NO-TICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATU-TORY REQUIREMENT 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 PER-SONALLY.This 29th day of October, 2009.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEAttorney at LawThe Law Firm of Hutchens, Senter & Britton, P.A.Attorneys for Substitute Trustee Services, Inc.P.O. Box 10284317 Ramsey StreetFayetteville, North Carolina 28311http://sales.hsbfirm.comCase No: 1008763November 5, 12, 2009

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

09 SP 1636Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Betsy Elizabeth Williams Aycock and Sanders Frank Aycock (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Betsy Eliza-beth Williams Aycock) to Deanna Daughhetee, Trustee(s), dated the 12th day of September, 2001, and recorded in Book 1644, Page 655, in Union County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Sub-stitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substitut-ed as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Caro-lina and the holder of the note evidencing said in-debtedness having direct-ed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the under-signed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Ju-dicial Center in the City of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina at 1:00 PM on November 19, 2009 and will sell to the highest bid-der for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:BEING all of Lot 3, contain-ing 0.94 of an acre, of Cor-inth Hills Subdivision, ac-cording to a plat by Walter Gordon and Associates, dated June 22, 1994 and recorded in Union County Register of Deeds in Plat Cabinet D at File 701. To-gether with improvements located thereon; said prop-erty being located at 3313 Luke Court, Monroe, North Carolina.Trustee may, in the Trust-ee's sole discretion, delay

004 Legalsthe sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.Should the property be pur-chased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and convey-ance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/securi-ty agreement, or both, be-ing foreclosed, nor the offi-cers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or au-thorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or war-ranty relating to the title or any physical, environmen-tal, health or safety condi-tions existing in, on, at or relating to the property be-ing offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold sub-ject to all taxes, special as-sessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agree-ment upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rent-al agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement pro-rated to the effective date of the termination.THIS IS A COMMUNICA-TION FROM A DEBT COL-LECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICA-TION IS TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY INFOR-MATION OBTAINED WILLBE USED FOR THATPURPOSE, except as stated below in the in-stance of bankruptcy protection.IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DIS-CHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCYPROCEEDING, THIS NO-TICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATU-TORY REQUIREMENT 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 PER-SONALLY.This 29th day of October, 2009.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEAttorney at LawThe Law Firm of Hutchens, Senter & Britton, P.A.Attorneys for Substitute Trustee Services, Inc.P.O. Box 10284317 Ramsey StreetFayetteville, North Carolina 28311http://sales.hsbfirm.comCase No: 1009775November 5, 12, 2009

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

09 SP 1634Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Sarah E. Hamil-ton to Joan H. Anderson, Trustee(s), dated the 23rd day of December, 2004, and recorded in Book 3650, Page 0187, in Union County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Sub-stitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substitut-ed as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Caro-lina and the holder of the note evidencing said in-debtedness having direct-ed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the under-signed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Ju-dicial Center in the City of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina at 1:00 PM on November 19, 2009 and will sell to the highest bid-der for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:Being all of Lot 4 of Stone-wood Subdivision as same is shown on a plat thereof recorded in Plat Cabinet F at Pages 259 and 260, Un-ion County Public Registry. Together with improve-ments located thereon; said property being located at 1025 Slate Ridge Road, Matthews, North Carolina. APN #: 07132418Trustee may, in the Trust-ee's sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.Should the property be pur-chased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and convey-ance “AS IS, WHERE IS.”

004 LegalsNeither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/securi-ty agreement, or both, be-ing foreclosed, nor the offi-cers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or au-thorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or war-ranty relating to the title or any physical, environmen-tal, health or safety condi-tions existing in, on, at or relating to the property be-ing offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold sub-ject to all taxes, special as-sessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agree-ment upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rent-al agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement pro-rated to the effective date of the termination.THIS IS A COMMUNICA-TION FROM A DEBT COL-LECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICA-TION IS TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY INFOR-MATION OBTAINED WILLBE USED FOR THATPURPOSE, except as stated below in the in-stance of bankruptcy protection.IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DIS-CHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCYPROCEEDING, THIS NO-TICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATU-TORY REQUIREMENT 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 PER-SONALLY.This 29th day of October, 2009.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEAttorney at LawThe Law Firm of Hutchens, Senter & Britton, P.A.Attorneys for Substitute Trustee Services, Inc.P.O. Box 10284317 Ramsey StreetFayetteville, North Carolina 28311http://sales.hsbfirm.comCase No: 1014691November 5, 12, 2009

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

NORTH CAROLINA, UNION COUNTY

07 SP 525Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Mark K. Sell-ers and Evelyn Sellers to Trey Snider, Trustee(s), dated May 15, 1998, and recorded in Book 1097, Page 648, Union County Registry, North Carolina.Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidenc-ing said indebtedness hav-ing directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at the Courthouse Door in Union County, North Caro-lina, at 10:00AM on No-vember 19, 2009, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following de-scribed property, to wit:LYING AND BEING LO-CATED IN MONROE TOWNSHIP, UNION COUNTY, NORTH CARO-LINA AND FURTHER DE-SCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT IRON SET11.92 FEET EAST OF CENTERLINE IN TUCKER ROAD (S.R. 1182), COM-MON CORNER WITH GLENN HELMS' LAND, NOW OR FORMERLY, AND RUNS THENCE WITHIN THE RIGHT OF WAY OF THE ROAD AND ABOUT PARALLEL WITH AND EAST OF CENTER-LINE, N. 19-55-00 E. 212.00 FEET TO AN IRON SET; THENCE RUNNING N. 85-55-07 E. 140.00 FEET TO AN IRON; THENCE N. 70-11-57 E. 385.90 FEET TO AN IRON ON VAN. J. LOVE LAND LINE, NOW OR FORMER-LY (BOOK 243, PAGE 662); THENCE WITH LOVE'S LINE, S. 25-41-26 E. 74.88 FEET TO AN OLD IRON, ANOTHER CORNER OF THE LOVE PROPERTY; THENCE RUNNING WITH ANOTH-ER LINE OF THE LOVE LAND, S. 37-16-44 W. 484.88 FEET TO AN OLD STONE; THENCE WITH THE GLENN HELMS LAND, NOW OR FOR-MERLY, N. 70-08-42 W. 333.55 FEET TO THE BE-GINNING, WHICH BEGIN-NING POINT IS INDICAT-ED BY A NAIL IN THE CENTERLINE INTERSEC-TION OF TUCKER ROAD

004 LegalsWITH GOLD MINE ROAD AT S. 20-48-44 W. 917.72 FEET, AND CONTAINING 3.21 ACRES TOTAL, AND BEING A PERIMETER DE-SCRIPTION OF TRACTS CONTAINING 1.87 ACRES (BOOK 278, PAGE 580) AND 1.34 ACRES (BOOK 150, PAGE 575) ACCORDING TO BOUNDARY SURVEYDATED 06/02/1997 BY F. H. MCWHORTER, AP-PROVED BY WILLIAM J. ALEXANDER, NCRLS.Said property is commonly known as 1404 Tucker Road, Monroe, NC 28110.Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, pursuant to N.C.G.S. 105-228.30, in the amount of One Dollar ($1.00) per each Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or fractional part thereof, and the Clerk of Courts fee, pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7A-308, in the amount of Forty-five Cents (45) per each One Hun-dred Dollars ($100.00) or fractional part thereof or Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), whichever is greater. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dol-lars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale and must be tendered in the form of certified funds. Fol-lowing the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts will be immediately due and owing.Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and convey-ance AS IS WHERE IS. There are no representa-tions of warranty relating to the title or any physical, en-vironmental, health or safe-ty conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, un-paid taxes, special assess-ments, land transfer taxes, if any, and encumbrances of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the cur-rent owner(s) of the proper-ty is/are Mark K. Sellers.PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agree-ment upon 10 days' written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, that tenant is li-able for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.Nationwide Trustee Serv-ices, Inc.Substitute Trustee 1587 Northeast Express-wayAtlanta, GA 30329November 5, 12, 2009

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