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Abby, Graham, Bridge, Sudoku............................. 5BClassifieds ....................... 8BComics, Crosswords .......... 6BCommunity calendar .......... 2AHoroscope ........................ 5BObituaries ......................... 5AOpinion ............................ 4AScoreboard ....................... 4B
Vol. 80, No. 155
Serving Lee, Chatham, Harnett and Moore counties in the heart of North Carolina
Sanford: Annie Bridges, 79; James Fore, 50; Clyde Stone Jr., 48Broadway: Mary Olsen, 96Lillington: Peggy Ross, 75
INDEX
OBITUARIES
HAPPENING TODAYLocal farmers will be selling their
fresh products from 9 a.m. to noon at Deport Park in downtown San-ford as part of the weekly Sanford Farmer’s Market. To get involved or to learn more, e-mail David Mont-gomery at [email protected].
CALENDAR, PAGE 2A
D.G. MARTINDid Joe Public in North Carolina really care about last week’s elections?
Page 4A
High: 87Low: 61
More Weather, Page 10A
RUSSIAN SPIES
TWO SUSPECTS ADMITTO USING FAKE NAMES
Two Virginia suspects in an alleged spy ring have admitted they are Russian citizens living in the U.S. under false identi-ties, as offi cials in Cyprus said another defendant in the bust has likely fl ed the island
Full Story, Page 10A
OUR NATIONCARS FOR THE BLINDNOT TOO FAR AWAY
Could a blind person drive a car? Researchers are trying to make that far-fetched notion a reality. The National Federation of the Blind and Virginia Tech plan to demonstrate a proto-type vehicle
Full Story, Page 7A
OUR STATEBILL REQUIRES TVs,COMPUTERS RECYCLED
A new bill may let North Caro-linians dump their old comput-ers on the street for recycling pickup alongside their plastic bottles and cans
Full Story, Page 6A
NASCAR: Offi cials consider tweaking Chase Cup • Page 1B
SPORTS
CAVS, BULLS PREPAREDTO FIGHT FOR LEBRON
The preliminary bouts are fi nished. It’s time for the main event in the fi ght for LeBron James, free agent extraordi-naire. Chicago vs. Cleveland.
To the winner, the crowned King. Maybe.
Full Story, Page 1B
QUICKREAD
The Sanford Herald
TO INFORM,CHALLENGE AND CELEBRATE
SATURDAY, JULY 3, 2010 SANFORDHERALD.COM • 50 CENTS
OUR NATION
ECONOMY NOT GROWINGENOUGH FOR REBOUND
The jobless rate fell to 9.5 percent in June, still far too high to signal a healthy econ-omy. It came in slightly lower than the month before
Full Story, Page 7A
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Sanford’s Family Fourth Festival begins at 4 p.m. today at Depot Park.
MANY WAYS TO MAKE YOURFOURTH OF JULY HOLIDAY WEEKEND
A BLAST★ FESTIVALS
✱ SANFORDWhat: Family 4th Festival — Side-
walk chalk contest, Pets and Pedals Parade, kids zone, bounce houses, crafts, food, pie eating contest and a performance by Heart of Carolina Jazz featuring the MLK Community Choir
When: Sidewalk chalk contest at noon today, festival 4-9 p.m. today
Where: Depot Park, SanfordCost: Free
ABERDEENWhat: Fun Family Fourth of July
— Activities, games, food and live music by The Entertainers
When: 5:30-10 p.m. todayWhere: Aberdeen Lake ParkCost: Admission to the park is
free, $3 wristbands for participating in games and activities
PITTSBOROWhat: Independence Day Festival
— More than 30 local artists will sell their creations, Johnny Wilson of The Big Time Party Band will provide beach music and the Chatham Area Shag As-sociation will offer free shag lessons
When: Noon to 4 p.m. SundayWhere: Downtown PittsboroCost: Free
FORT BRAGGWhat: July 4th Celebration — Kid-
die Land activities, “Wife Carrying Contest,” parachute demonstration, fl ag ceremony and live music by the 82nd Division All American Chorus, Colt Ford and Chevelle
When: 3 to 10 p.m. SundayWhere: Main Post Parade FieldCost: $5 for Kiddie Land activities,
PINEHURSTWhat: Fourth of July Celebration
— Games, food, pony rides and live music by The Vision Band
When: 5-10 p.m. SundayWhere: Fair Barn, 200 Beulah Hill
Road, PinehurstCost: Free
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★ FIREWORKSSANFORD
When: 9 p.m. SundayWhere: Sanford Health
and Rehabilitation, 2702 Farrell Road, Sanford
Admission: Free
ABERDEENWhen: 9:15 p.m. today
Where: Aberdeen Lake Park, Moore County
Cost: Free
CARYWhen: 9:15 p.m.
SundayWhere: Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary
Cost: Free
FORT BRAGGWhen: 9:40 p.m. Sunday
Where: Main Post Parade Field, Ridgeway Drive, Fort Bragg
Cost: Free
PINEHURSTWhen: 9:15 p.m. Sunday
Where: Pinehurst Harness Track, 200 Beulah Hill Road, Pinehurst
Cost: Free
★ SPORTS ON TV ★ NEW MOVIES
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✱ THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSERating: PG-13Run time: 2 hours and 4 minutesWhere: Spring Lane Cinemas in San-
ford, Regal Beaver Creek Stadium in Apex, Regal Crossroads 20 in Cary and Sandhills Stadium in Southern Pines
THE LAST AIRBENDERRating: PGRun time: 1 hour and 45 minutesWhere: Spring Lane Cinemas in San-
ford, Regal Beaver Creek Stadium in Apex, Regal Crossroads 20 in Cary and Sandhills Stadium in Southern Pines
ALSO IN THEATERSSanford Spring Lane Cinemas: Toy
Story 3, Grown Ups, Knight and Day, The Karate Kid, Shrek: Forever After, The A-Team, Killers and Marmaduke
WIMBLEDONWhen: Women’s fi nal 9 a.m. Satur-
day, Men’s fi nal 9 a.m. SundayChannel: NBC
✱ WORLD CUPWhen: Argentina vs. Germany 9:30
a.m. Saturday, Paraguay vs. Spain 2 p.m. Saturday
Channel: ABC
NASCAR COKE ZERO 400When: 7:30 p.m. SaturdayChannel: TNT
Banks and city, county, state and federal offi ces are closed Monday for the holiday.
The Herald’s offi ce will be closed Monday and will re-open Tuesday under regular hours.
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★ CLOSINGS
H A P P Y I N D E P E N D E N C E D A Y
Take5Don Hudsonwith
How muchshould govt.pitch in fornonprofi ts?
This week, we Take 5 with Don Hudson, founder of the Sanford Pot-tery Festival and local tour-ism advocate, on the role local govern-ment should play in helping fund nonprofi t organizations and Lee County’s growing arts community.
Q: The issue of government funding for non-profi t
agencies has generated a lot of debate recently, as has the tourism issue. As someone who’s had a vision for San-ford as a tourism destination, what’s your take on those questions?
How many people would rather see Historic Downtown Sanford fi ll up with the arts, culture, festivals and events or with homeless shelters, rehab centers, food banks and rescue missions?
That question came to me at the June 1 City Council meeting when I went to show support for the Temple Theatre to continue receiving funding from the city. Many people
See Take 5, Page 3A
Hudson
CHAMBER CHAT
Criteria forattractingnationalchain storesBy BOB JOYCEPresident, Sanford Area Chamber of Commerce
Every week, we get calls at the Chamber wondering when a new business will be
coming to Lee County. Most of the inqui-ries include a Target store or a book store or a restaurant chain.
My response is always the same – no community has a proven method of recruiting retail stores, especially national chains. In short, big businesses will come when their manage-
See Chat, Page 5A
Joyce
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LOCAL: Best wishes are extended to everyone celebrating a birthday today, especially Sinatra Jackson, Larry Holder, Chanda Stone, Virginia Wicker, Donna Jackson, Benjamin Wiley Dutton, Shaniah J. Smith, Ashlyn Smith, Michael Jerrod Joseph Lawson, James McLean II, Cora Glover, Maggie Jennings Knuth, Danny Oldham, Roy E. Calcutt, Betty Womble, Karen Snipes, Dianne McGowan, Shirley Chalmers and Lauren Shaw.
CELEBRITIES: Humorist Dave Barry is 63. Talk show host Montel Williams is 54. Country singer Aaron Tippin is 52. Actor Tom Cruise is 48. Actress Connie Nielsen is 46. Actress Yeardley Smith is 46. Actor Patrick Wilson is 37. Country singer-songwriter Sarah Buxton is 30. Actor Grant Rosenmey-er is 19. Actress Kelsey Batelaan is 15.
Birthdays
AlmanacToday is Saturday, July 3, the 184th day of
2010. There are 181 days left in the year.
This day in history:On July 3, 1863, the three-day Civil War
Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania ended in a major victory for the North as Confed-erate troops retreated.
In 1608, the city of Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain.
In 1775, Gen. George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cam-bridge, Mass.
In 1890, Idaho became the 43rd state of the Union.
In 1898, the U.S. Navy defeated a Span-ish fl eet outside Santiago Bay in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
In 1944, during World War II, Soviet forces recaptured Minsk.
In 1962, Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule.
In 1971, singer Jim Morrison of The Doors died in Paris at age 27.
In 1979, Dan White, convicted of volun-tary manslaughter in the shooting deaths of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone (mahs-KOH’-nee) and Supervisor Harvey Milk, was sentenced to seven years and eight months in prison. (He ended up serv-ing fi ve years.)
In 1985, the time-travel comedy “Back to the Future,” starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, was fi rst released.
In 1988, the USS Vincennes shot down an Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
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Rundown of local meetings in the area:
TUESDAY■ The Harnett County Board of Commis-
sioners will meet at 9 a.m. in Lillington.■ The Sanford City Council will meet at
7 p.m. at the Sanford Municipal Center in Sanford.
■ The Moore County Parks & Recreation Advisory Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. at Hillcrest Park in Carthage.
WEDNESDAY■ The Moore County Voluntary Ag. Advi-
sory will meet at 1 p.m. at the Soil & Water Conf. Room at the Ag Center in Carthage.
THURSDAY■ The Moore County Planning Board will
meet at 6 p.m. at the Commissioners Meet-ing Room in Carthage.
■ Moore County Soil & Water Conserva-tion will meet at 4 p.m. at the Soil & Water Conf. Room at the Ag Center in Carthage.
JULY 12■ The Siler City Planning Board will meet
at 7 p.m. at the City Hall Court Room in Siler City.
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TODAY■ Sanford’s third annual Family 4th Festival
will be held from 4 to 9 p.m. at Depot Park. Live music, free competitions and much more. Visit www.sanford-nc.com for more information.
■ Help the Lee County Arts Council kick off Sanford’s Fourth of July celebration by competing in a sidewalk chalk art event at Depot Park at 10 am. Demonstrate your fl air by creating an 8-by-10 image celebrating Sanford & Lee County. Entry for the event is free and judging for the top three designs will be held at 2 p.m. based on skill, creativity and theme. For more information, contact Rebecca at (919) 774-6139.
■ Local farmers will be selling their fresh products from 9 a.m. to noon at Deport Park in downtown Sanford as part of the weekly Sanford Farmer’s Market. To get involved or to learn more, e-mail David Montgomery at [email protected].
SUNDAY■ Pittsboro’s annual Independence Day
Celebration will run from noon to 4 p.m. in downtown Pittsboro. This year’s celebration will coincide with the monthly First Sunday event, which features local vendors, crafts-men, antique sellers and more. Music will be provided by Johnny Wilson of The Big Time Party Band. Go to pittsboroshops.com or call 960-5892 for more info.
WEDNESDAY■ Blood drive will be held from 1:30 to 6
p.m. at Belk, 1065 Spring Lane, Sanford. Free t-shirt for all donors. For appointments contact Lea Chandler at 774-4428 ext. 213.
■ Set Sail with the Amazing Steve Somers at 11 a.m. for a program of stories, music, magic, and puppets. The performance will take place at the Lee County Community Arts Center, 507 N. Steele St.. Parking lot and entrance to the building are on Bracken Street. Registration is not required and the performance is free and open to the public.
THURSDAY■ Blood drive will be held from 10 a.m.to 2
p.m. at Central Carolina Community College, 1105 Kelly Drive, Sanford. Free t-shirt for all donors. For appointments contact Mike Neal at 775-5401 or visit www.redcrossblood.org.
■ Bring your lawn chairs, blankets and picnic supper and “Function at the Junc-tion” at Depot Park. This free outdoor family event starts at 7 p.m. and includes a variety of music throughout the summer. For more information, visit downtownsanford.com or call 919-775-8332.
FRIDAY■ Blood drive will be held from 3 to 7
p.m. at Flat Springs Baptist Church, 4148 Deep River Road, Sanford. Free t-shirt for all donors. For appointments contact the church offi ce at 775-5922.
JULY 10■ The Lee County American Red Cross will
hold the class “Lay Responder CPR for Adult, Child and Infant with AED and Standard First
Aid” from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Call (919) 774-6857 to register.
■ Local farmers will be selling their fresh products from 9 a.m. to noon at Deport Park in downtown Sanford as part of the weekly Sanford Farmer’s Market. To get involved or to learn more, e-mail David Montgomery at [email protected].
JULY 11■ Applebee’s in Sanford will partner with
Grooming the Next Generation for Success, a community based youth group, to host a Flapjack Fundraiser Proceeds raised will help offset travel and lodging costs for the group to attend a seminar in California. The event will begin at 8 a.m. at the restaurant, located at 1325 Plaza Blvd. Tickets are $7 and can be purchased at the door or by calling 352-5597. Breakfast includes a short stack of pancakes, sausage, milk, juice and coffee.
JULY 12■ Young people can learn how to use
CAD software to draw cars, houses, cartoon characters, space shuttle or a project of their choice during the CCCC Continuing Education Department’s summer CAD Camp. Partici-pants must be age 15 or older. The camp
runs 1 p.m.-3 p.m. Monday through Thursday, July 12-15, in Room 217 of Wilkinson Hall, Lee County Campus, Sanford. The cost is $65. Register early to reserve a spot by call-ing (919) 775-2122, ext. 7793.
■ Chef Gregg Hamm, owner and operator of Café 121, in Sanford, teaches young chefs ages 6-10 the basics of food preparation and safety in the kitchen during the CCCC Continuing Education Department’s Kids’ Cooking Camp. The camp runs 8 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Monday through Thursday, July 12-15, at Café 121. Registration is $125. Register early to reserve a spot by calling (919) 775-2122, ext. 7793.
■ The Lee County Library offers free, family-friendly movies on Monday nights. Tonight’s movie, “Pirates of the Caribbean” will be shown in the auditorium at the main branch and begin at 7 p.m. Families are encouraged to attend; children under the age of 11 must be accompanied by an adult. The programs are free and advance registration is not required. For more information, call the library at (919) 718-4665 x. 5483.
■ Chatham County 4-H is offering all young people ages 11-18 the opportunity to partici-pate in the Hunter Safety program through the North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commis-sion. Participants will learn about fi rearms and ammunition, gun care and cleaning, archery safety, game identifi cation, fundamen-tals of shooting, hunter ethics and fi rst aid. Hunter Safety Education will be held that the Kiwanis Building in Pittsboro from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call the 4-H Offi ce at (919) 542-8202.
Submitted photoWhen Kelli Charles, a Fort Bragg elementary math and science teacher, attended
space camp June 11 to 17 in Alabama, she learned an important lesson conveyed more by experience than by reading the pages of a book — because of weightlessness, it is more diffi cult to navigate in space than on earth.
Charles was one of 220 teachers from more than 2,000 applicants chosen by Hon-eywell to attend the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, she said. There, she also took land and water survival training and participated in scenario-based space missions.
“It was a great experience. It’s a really good overview of what actually happens with a shuttle launch,” said Charles, 31, who has been teaching for nine years.
Charles said she enjoyed camp and received a lot of material to bring back to her students, but next year, she plans to take it a step farther and send a student to the lesson.
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Taylor (September 1908-April 2010), one hundred and one years to spread her love around her family of brothers and many many nieces and nephews. We the family of Aunt Ethel would like to Thank each of you for your love and
support during our bereavement. The staff of Victorian Manor, the staff was so attentive to all her needs, showed her love, friendship, and respect, we thank you. We thank L. Horton Community Funeral Home and Staff for their courteous professional care provided to us and our loved one; so many people showed up to assist us and traveled from afar to pay final respects; for every act of kindness shown, we thank you all. She lived her life with a plan in mind at all times, her family was her main concern, leaving four generations of nieces and nephews to carry the torch.
Special ThanksSeptember 21, 1908 - April 28, 2010
May God Bless each of you. From: The Nieces and Nephews of
Mrs. Ethel Williams Taylor
In Loving Memory of our Beloved Aunt Ethel Williams
Don’t be so sad, Being 60 isn’t so bad!
Take time to smile, You’ve got a while
Before everything goes south, And your teeth fall out!
Happy 60th Birthday Phil Kelly!
LEE COUNTY
Temple youth’s‘Jungle Book’ tobegin July 9
SANFORD — Thirty-eight local young actors, ranging in age from 8-18, have worked tirelessly to learn the script, the songs and the dances to Disney’s “The Jungle Book Kids,” this summer’s production of the Temple Theatre youth conservatory.
Performances for the fi rst conservatory are scheduled for:
■ July 9, 7 p.m.■ July 10, 2 and 7 p.m.■ July 11, 2 p.m.Tickets for the summer
conservatory performances are general admission and the cost is $10 for adults and $5 for children under 12. To book your ticket, call Temple Theatre’s Box Offi ce starting Tuesday any time between 2 and 6 p.m. at (919) 774-4155.
Temple Theatre’s youth conservatories are directed by Thomas E. Dalton, the theater’s director of education. Peggy Taphorn, Temple’s artistic director, manages the vocals and choreography. Sasha Fuller is the stage manager for this youth production.
— from staff reports
LEE COUNTY
Convenience centeron Colon Road shutclosed until Thursday
SANFORD — The Lee County Convenience Center located at 3927 Colon Road will be closed through Thursday to complete its resurfacing project.
The site was originally set to reopen today, but because of the extent of needed surface work, coun-ty offi cials say concerns for the public’s safety over the holiday weekend led to the decision to keep the facil-ity closed longer.
“Lee County General Services apologizes for any inconvenience, but the completed job will provide users with a safer and cleaner facility,” said Jo-seph T. Cherry, Solid Waste superintendent.
Cherry said regular convenience center users are free to use any of the county’s fi ve other facilities for their solid waste and recycling needs. Those sites include:
■ 330 Country Estate Drive (775-1191)
■ 420 Rocky Fork Church Road (774-1326)
■ 211 East Wilson Road (774-7924)
■ 216 Woodland Trails Drive (258-5707)
■ 331 Landfi ll Road (499-2312)
For more information, call Lee County General Services at 718-4622.
— from staff reports
CHATHAM COUNTY
Trust fund designatesPittsboro as a ‘FitCommunity’
CHAPEL HILL — The town of Pittsboro has been awarded by the N.C. Health and Wellness Trust Fund with one of eight Fit Com-munity designations.
The designations rec-ognize the work that has been done to promote physical activity, healthy eating and tobacco-free lifestyles through programs, policies and environmental changes at the school and commu-nity levels. In addition, a total of $435,000 in grant funding was awarded to se-lected towns, counties and schools with demonstrated capacity to implement proj-ects that promote healthful changes.
“Community and school environments have a tremendous infl uence on individual health behav-iors,” said Chuck Willson, the trust fund’s chair-man. “These designees and grantees are clearly committed to fostering healthful changes in their communities and schools, and this is vital to the suc-cess of obesity prevention efforts and to improving the health of our popula-tion.”
In addition, the Chatham County Public Health Department received grant funding and technical as-sistance to support health and wellness.
— The Durham Herald Sun
AROUND OUR AREA
SANFORD■ Inaida Sulema Leiva
reported fi rst-degree burglary Tuesday at 1333 Brookhollow Drive.
■ Veronica Lanett Allen reported theft from a vehicle Tuesday at 511 Greensboro Ave.
■ Cathy Wicker Marks reported larceny Tuesday at 505 Hawkins Ave.
■ Diane Womack re-
ported motor vehicle theft Tuesday at 1891 Bragg St.
■ Latisha Manet Mur-chison reported larceny Tuesday at 225 E. Weath-erspoon St.
■ Kathy Hall Jordan reported credit card fraud Tuesday at 2917 S. Horner Blvd.
■ Advance Auto Parts reported shoplifting Tues-day at 2570 Lee Ave.
■ Rebecca Ervin Platt reported fraud Tuesday at 403 Abbott Drive.
■ Jessica Ann Spillman reported property damage Tuesday at 3310 N.C. 87.
■ Jesus Jose Munoz reported breaking and entering into a residence Tuesday at 57 Thornwood Court.
■ Crystal Diane McLean reported communicating threats Wednesday at 200 Cox Maddox Road.
■ Randy Scott Hinson
reported property damage Wednesday at 2758 Mal-lard Cove Road.
■ Vickie Jean Bony, 43, was charged Tuesday at 459 Roberts Loop with probation violation.
■ Donyelle Rhonda Green, 23, was charged Tuesday at 1400 S. Horner Blvd. with harassing phone calls.
■ Randy Junior Minter, 25, was charged Tuesday at 502 Forest Ridge Drive with assault on a female.
■ Shawn Reynard Miller, 47, was charged Tuesday at 200 North Ave. with larceny.
■ Isidro Rodriguez Lo-pez, 19, was charged Tues-day at 3207 Lee Ave. with possession of a controlled substance.
■ Shakita Coron Worthy, 23, was charged Tuesday at 1400 S. Horner Blvd. with failure to ap-pear.
■ Edwin Carroll John-son reported vandalism
Monday at 2244 Jefferson Davis Highway.
■ Berlinda Gail Brower reported larceny Monday at 200 North Ave.
■ Don Antonio Flour-ney reported theft from a vehicle Monday at 100 Cole St.
■ Greg Bryan Gardner reported property damage Monday at 305 S. Steele St.
■ Carrie Boyles Al-mond reported harassing phone calls Monday at 2009 Sutphin Drive.
POLICE BEAT
were there to do likewise. Several spoke eloquently.
Sadly, though, it seemed that the Council had framed the issues to force the Temple to justify its continued existence as against the competing needs of all local “non-profi ts” concerned with such things as domestic abuse, child literacy, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, drug rehab and spiritual renewal.
How many local governments do NOT support such things as the Boys and Girls Clubs, the arts and local theatre? There are many good reasons for local govern-ments to support worthy local causes. One is to insure that they have a place at the table to expect accountability and to offer helpful advice. Another is to keep faith with the many generous individuals and busi-nesses that have, over the years, freely given mil-lions of dollars to meet local needs. Many com-munities provide such support to non-profi ts to help them leverage more funding.
Not so in Sanford, where it seems an alter-nate reality is supposed to prevail.
We want to attract business, but we are loath to offer incentives. Instead, we tell ourselves that business should be drawn to all the other local advantages we have but that we do not think enough about to pro-mote.
We want tourism, but without any effort or expense to get it.
Q: What value do the arts bring to a com-
munity?
In a community with no coherent plan to support the arts and nurture a higher quality of life, we wonder why the companies that could choose to bring higher-end jobs into our com-munity choose not to do so. Then, we question the worthiness of the jobs we have locked ourselves into trying to attract.
We imagine that peo-ple who have never been as much as invited to visit Lee County are somehow going to be smitten with the urge to migrate here in large numbers to live out their golden years.
The greatest de-mographic shift in our lifetimes is under way now as affl uent baby boomers retire and many are expected to relocate to North Carolina. Com-munities are scurrying to get their fair share of the fi nancial boom that such an infl ux of people with disposable income and few needs promises to provide. Thus, it is becoming very fashion-able to say that Sanford is a place where the arts are strong.
Q: You can’t have a conversation about
the arts without discuss-ing Temple Theatre and the event you helped cre-ate, the Sanford Pottery Festival...
Prime examples given for the health of the arts in Sanford tend to men-tion the Temple Theatre and the Sanford Pottery Festival.
Would that be the same Temple Theatre that has seen the value of the annual contribution that the City of Sanford makes to it erode by 60 percent over the last 25 years?
Or would it be the pottery festival that has tried for years to draw
the attention of local governments to the fact that the logistical costs of producing such an event in Sanford add $25,000 to the cost of it before a single ticket is sold?
When the Temple Theatre made its case before the council, many other non-profi ts were ably represented. Some work at saving children; others at saving souls. At least one noted that its mission might not be esteemed as highly as “entertainment.” Salva-tion, I always believed, is between an individual and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Sanford and Lee County are at least 15 years behind on promot-ing tourism. The Temple Theatre and the Sanford Pottery Festival labor under huge disadvan-tages to promote their respective programs in a community that refuses to promote itself or any-thing within it. In such a community, aspirations tend to wither and bot-tom lines shrink for all.
Q: Having said, though, different ef-
forts to market and pro-mote the community are taking shape and gaining momentum...aren’t they worth supporting?
“Vision” without “value” is hallucina-tion. “Well centered” is nothing more than a wonderful opportunity to shine that a community can squander if it fails to muster enough faith in itself to take an inventory of its strengths and build upon them.
There are many good reasons, considering
especially the realities of our present economic times, for local govern-ments to assist non-profi ts that help people who need help. When far more has to be done with much less, it is not a good thing to break the backs of private generosity and initiative.
And, there are other reasons to support the arts, culture, festivals and events.
A community which does not appreciate the distinction between such needs might not be ready to have an effective dis-cussion about creating a tourism authority.
Diversity is important in a community and diversity cuts both ways. People with disposable income, advanced de-grees and comfortable re-tirements are people too. They are usually the ones who provide the bedrock upon which progress in any community is made possible. They pay the majority of taxes, con-sume the least services and frequently volunteer their time and expertise to help others.
Q: How do you see this community to
evolve moving forward?
If we choose wrong, we are likely to create a community with rela-tively more people who need homeless shelters, rehab centers, food banks and rescue missions. It will also be a community with relatively less of the people needed to support such services.
Take 5Continued from Page 1A
The Winston-Salem Journal
The state has a revised budget, and a lot of essential government programs have been
seriously reduced.But if this year looks bad,
next year looks worse. The 2011 General Assembly could face a
$3 billion budget shortfall even if this year’s revenue matches expectations.
Gov. Bev Perdue signed the $18.958 billion budget Wednes-day, thus offi cially enacting a $613 million cut on a budget that already includes major cuts. Schools, social programs and prisons all operated at seri-
ously reduced levels during the fi scal year that ended Wednes-day. Now, they have been cut again.
We will employ fewer teach-ers, and spend less on instruc-tional materials, mentoring new teachers and students with limited English profi ciency. There will be fewer school nurses, social workers and replacement schools. Reserves for unexpected enrollment growth will be razor thin.
There will be signifi cantly less in-home help for our senior citizens and infi rm and much less available to help needy families with children, or to spend on the disabled and
the mentally ill. Doctors who treat Medicaid patients will be paid less. Some UNC system students will pay higher tuition.
Similar cuts are set for other areas of state government. Those who want less govern-ment will see it, most likely in the form of potholes.
As bad as all of that sounds, it could get worse. If Congress
does not extend special Med-icaid aid for six months, then as much as $500 million in ad-ditional, already defi ned, state cuts will be made at Christmas.
Things would have been much worse last year and this year had Congress not provided North Carolina with billions in aid.
This year’s budget is full of references to programs, espe-cially for children, that will be maintained at nearly full levels because of it.
That federal aid will expire a year from now. In 2011, the legislature may have to replace as much as $1.4 billion in fed-eral aid just to keep the budget
where it is today. And, at the same time, the 2011 legislature will have to renew a series of tax increases passed a year ago and set to expire on June 30, 2011. If the legislature failed to do so and Congress did not renew aid, the budget shortfall could rise to $3 billion.
That means the state could need as much as $3 billion in new revenue just to stay where we are today — and where we are today is far below where we were just a few years ago. Unless the economy comes roaring back soon, state government’s ability to restore its essential programs looks dim for years to come.
State’s budget only going to get worseEditorial Board: Bill Horner III, Publisher • Billy Liggett, Editor • R.V. Hight, Special Projects Editor
Be careful beforesigning your land overfor natural gas search
To the Editor:I’d like to advise everyone think-
ing of selling their rights to natural gas on their land to be very careful about this.
You should watch the documen-tary “Gasland” before you do any-thing. This exposes the problems that people who sold their rights are having and the after effects in dealing with the companies after their health and water were contaiminated.
The fi lm also shows the animals and fi sh destroyed by this action. Think twice about this.
Is it really worth a few dollars?
PAUL BROWNSanford
Time to get tough on spill
To the Editor:By now it is clear that no one
knows how to stop the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. We have left it up to BP to come up with a solution and they have so far done nothing. The reason for this is that they have no real incentive to do more than what they have so far attempted.
Let me make some simple suggestions for President Obama that he has cautiously avoided. First, demand that every offshore oil operation come up with a plan to deal with similar catastroph-ies that may occur in the future. That’s not asking too much, is it? And yet, isn’t it strange that so far this has not been done.
Of course the oil companies will drag their feet. But, just to encour-age them, let’s have them stop pumping oil until that plan is in place. I am sure that will get them moving pretty fast.
JOE DI BONATimberlake
No to new taxes;yes to budget cuts
To the Editor:America has a money crisis. Yes
things are tight for governments now, things are tight for most families also. Government feels it has an ace in the hole by their ability to tax. And tax they do. They sometimes justify taxes by stating public health will improve as they have done with tobacco.
Smokers have a story to tell you about your future. It is a tale of taxes and control. It is all for your own good you know. The more control government takes over our daily lives, the more control it needs to supposedly cut costs and prevent unpleasant outcomes. It is a vicious circle and our friends in government know it.
The list of proposed or already enacted in some areas taxes is im-pressive: Taxes on junk foods, car-bonated or energy drinks, tobacco, alcohol, marijuana (where legal), gas/energy, airport, car rental, plastic bags, fast food ... etc.
The ultimate goal with taxation is to gain control of behavior, espe-cially with so called sin taxes.
Cut spending now and bring back control of the current insanity. The edge of the cliff will be coming up soon, step on the brakes.
Sky high taxes will not be just for smokers anymore, but for everyone.
DAVE PICKRELLPresident, Smokers
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4A / Saturday, July 3, 2010 / The Sanford Herald Opinion
Letters to the Editor
Did anybody care about last week’s elections?
It seems like a crazy question to ask during the week leading up to the Fourth of July celebration of independence, free-dom, and the right to participate in our own governance.
Crazy or not, it is a fair question to ask the 95 percent of North Carolina registered vot-ers who passed by that hard-earned right to participate in the political process.
For the rest of us, let’s begin a conversa-tion about some of the lessons and questions from last week’s results.
First of all, a self-congratulating com-ment about the results in the U.S. Senate primary. When Cal Cunningham called for a run-off after the fi rst primary, most politi-cal commentators said the contest would be detrimental to the eventual Democratic candidate, who would lose weeks of organiz-ing and fund-raising time for the November battle against Senator Richard Burr.
I took the other side: “To have any chance of winning in November, the Democrats need a jump-start of enthusiasm for their nomi-nee. She or he will stand a better chance of getting that kind of spirit when the nominee is a clear winner over another strong candi-date.”
Hardly anybody agreed.Surely, they had second thoughts when
they read the following report in the Raleigh News and Observer right after the run-off, “[According to a new Rasmussen poll]…. Marshall has received a bounce from her Democratic primary victory Tuesday and now trails Burr by a statistically insignifi cant margin of 44-43 percent, Rasmussen found... In a Rasmussen poll earlier this month, Burr held a 50-36 percent lead over Marshall.”
Elaine Marshall still faces a tough battle this fall as she sails into a Republican wind against a well-funded incumbent. But the primary run-off win has given her momen-tum and credibility she did not have after the fi rst primary. When she makes those manda-tory fund-raising calls this summer, she can talk like a winner, not like a mere beggar.
Secondly, there is the question raised by the victory of Bill Randall over Bernie Reeves in the Republican primary for the 13th con-gressional district, running between Raleigh and Greensboro, currently held by Democrat Brad Miller. Randall, a Tea Party conserva-tive, defeated Bernie Reeves, who claimed support from the old Jesse Helms network. This result might not be noteworthy, given the success of Tea Party candidates over old line Republicans in primary races across the county, but for one fact: Randall is African American, not who you think of as the model of a North Carolina ultra-conservative Re-publican.
It would be easy to mark Randall’s primary victory as an aberration, were it not for the victory of another African American conser-
vative in a Republican congressional primary runoff in South Carolina. In the solidly Re-publican, 80 percent white, 1st congressional district, Tea Party-backed candidate Ted Scott crushed Paul Thurmond, son of Strom. Un-like Randall, who has an uphill battle against Miller, Scott is a clear favorite to become the fi rst African American Republican congres-sional representative from the old Confed-eracy since North Carolina’s George Henry White left offi ce in 1901.
An African American Republican repre-senting a white majority district in the cradle of the Confederacy? Is something historic happening under our noses? Is there some-thing to celebrate here?
A “bittersweet celebration” is the way Al Sharpton described it to Dana Milbank of the Washington Post, admitting that “You’d have to say there has been some kind of shift in racial attitudes in that area,” On the other hand, voters merely chose “a black reaction-ary over a white reactionary.”
What to make of all this?I am stuck with Sharpton’s analysis until
somebody wiser — maybe you — explains to me what Randall’s and Scott’s victories show us about today’s changing politics and racial attitudes.
D.G. Martin hosts UNC-TV’s North Caro-lina Bookwatch, which airs Sundays at 5 p.m. For more information or to view prior programs visit the webpage at www.unctv.org/ncbookwatch. This Sunday’s (July 4) guest is Alexandra Sokoloff, author of “The Unseen,” a mystery set on the campus of Duke University and a Moore County house that had been the subject of ESP experiments of Duke Professor J.B. Rhyne.
Celebrating the Fourth
Becomingmoney savvy
In the conservative paradise, a nation of strong, hard-working individu-als borrow responsibly and save for
future needs. They don’t need govern-ment telling them how to manage their money. If they do foolish things, they pay the price.
I like that vision, but it has little to do with the world we live in. ...
So the conservative argument that the market punishes the careless, the lazy and the overconfi dent is only partly right. And what about the truly inno-cent bystanders, the ones in no money trouble who must cope with the result-ing sick economy and pay the costs of the cleanup?
Strong fi nancial regulation protects us all. The reform legislation in Washing-ton is almost a done deal. (It will soon head to the rule-making federal agen-cies, where a lobbyist army is waiting to infl uence the results.) A new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is supposed to erect a wall between the yeomanry and the more evil fi nancial products.
Rep. Jeb Hensarling, a Texas Repub-lican involved in negotiating the reform bill, complains that the new bureau would “take choices away from consum-ers and choke desperately needed credit out of our economy.”
As long as the rest of us have to pick up after Americans’ bad choices, we should have no problem limiting the menu. People of modest means should not be able to take out a no-money-down, $300,000 mortgage with a tiny teaser intro rate that explodes in their faces after a few years.
As for concern about choking off needed credit, has Congressman Hen-sarling looked at the mortgage market lately? It’s pretty much gone for all but the most sterling credit risks. Had a consumer protection agency put some brakes on the housing madness, the real-estate market would be in far better shape today, and there’d be a lot more mortgage money around.
Hensarling is hardly alone in prefer-ring a free-market fairy tale to the harsh realities here on earth. Like many other “conservative” members of Congress, he voted against the bank bailout, let-ting his colleagues do the heavy lifting. The bailout disgusted everyone, but it stopped a fi nancial collapse. ...
And spare us the phantasmagoria of a fi nancially savvy public. Yes, some got into trouble because they were greedy or too lazy to read their contracts. But America’s supreme economic authori-ties — including the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank — had down-played the risky nature of their ventures.
Protecting consumers is, of course, only part of the fi nancial overhaul legislation. Importantly, the bill seeks to stop banks from gambling with deposits backed by the taxpayers. ...
As we survey today’s crumpled land-scape of mass foreclosures, rampant debt and fi nancial fraud, the notion of a citizenry equipped to prudently manage their money without govern-ment regulation is lovely but utterly off the wall. That heaven will have to wait a good long time.
Froma HarropColumnist
Froma Harrop is a columnist with Creators Syndicate
Forgive us the wrongs we have done, as we forgive the wrongs that others have done to us. (Matthew 6:12 TEV)
PRAYER: Loving and forgiving God, thank You for the newness of life that comes as we experience Your forgiveness and as we forgive and are forgiven by others. Amen.
Today’s Prayer
D.G. MartinOne on One
D.G. Martin is host of UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch
... the state could need as much as $3 billion in new revenue just to stay where we are today -- and where we are today is far below where we were just
a few years ago.
The Sanford Herald / Saturday, July 3, 2010 / 5ALocal
James ForeSANFORD — James
Lewis Fore, 50, died Friday (7/2/10) at FirstHealth Moore Re-gional Hospital.
He was born Feb. 27, 1960 in Lee County. He worked as a truck driver.
He is survived by his wife, Lisa Dawn Stewart Fore; parents, James Way-lon and Anne Oldham Fore of Sanford; sons, Kevin Lewis Fore and Randall Lewis Fore, both of Sanford; stepsons; Jo-seph Stewart and Jeremey Hudson, both of Sanford; a daughter, Summer Rose Fore of Sanford; a step-daughter Ashley Hudson of Sanford; a sister, Con-nie Fore Burleson and husband Jason of Swan Quarter; and six grand-children.
The funeral will be conducted at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Da-vid Boroughs offi ciating. The family will receive friends two hours prior to the funeral service at the funeral home.
Condolences may be made at www.bridges-cameronfuneralhome.com.
Arrangements are by Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home, Inc. of Sanford.
Mary OlsenBROADWAY — Mary
Martha Trimble Ol-sen, 96, died Thursday (7/1/10).
She was born April 23, 1914 in Allegheny County, Pa., daughter of the late Harry Stewart Timble and Adabelle Blakley Trimble. She was preceded in death by her husband, Andrew George Olsen.
She is survived by a son, David Olsen and wife Juan of Lafayette, Calif.; daughters, Judy Womack of Broadway and Susan Olsen and husband Gary of Put-nam Valley, N.Y.; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Condolences may be made at www.bridges-cameronfuneralhome.com.
Memorials may be made to Community Homecare and Hospice, 809 Wicker St., Sanford, N.C. 27330.
Arrangements are by Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home, Inc. of Sanford.
Peggy RossLILLINGTON — Peggy
Brown Ross, 75, died Fri-day (7/2/10) at her home.
Arrangements will be announced by O’Quinn-Peebles Funeral Home of Lillington.
Tommy ThomasATLANTA, Ga. — Tom-
my Lee Thomas, 55, died Tuesday (06/26/10).
He was preceded in death by his father, Harvey T. Thomas Jr., formally of Sanford.
He is survived by his mother, Mary Rosser Thomas of Sanford; a son, Phillip Thomas of Douglasville, Ga.; daugh-ters, Rachel Johnson and Leah Thomas, both of Ocala, Fla.; brothers, Tim Thomas of Douglasville, Ga., Rocky Thomas of Dardanelle, Ark., Dennis Thomas of Douglasville, Ga., Donnie Thomas of Pinellas Park, Fla. and David Spivey of Sanford; sisters, Dianna Allen and Kelly Holt, both of Sanford; three grand-daughters; and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held at First Atlan-ta Methodist Church at a date to be determined.
In lieu of fl owers, memorials may be made to Healthfi eld Hospice, 34 Upper Riverdale Road, Suite 101, Atlanta, Ga. 30274.
Clyde Stone Jr.SANFORD — Funeral
for Clyde David Stone Jr., 48, who died Tuesday (6/29/10), was conducted Friday at the Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Curtis Norris offi ciating. Burial followed at Lee Memory Gardens.
Recorded music was played and the Rev. Cur-tis Norris sang a solo.
Pallbearers were Ray Campbell, Kevin Camp-bell, Mickey Conely, Albert Conely, Seth Cox, Stacy Haire and Kyle Lucas. Arrangements were by Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home, Inc.
OBITUARIES Annie Matthews BridgesSANFORD — Annie Geraldine
Matthews Bridges, 79, of the Deep River Community, of San-ford, died Friday, July 2, 2010, at Central Carolina Hospital.
Mrs. Bridges was born on Dec. 6, 1930, in Durham County, to the late June Matthews and Meta White Matthews. She was preced-ed in death by brothers, Bobby Matthews and Harold Matthews, and a sister, Margaret Samet.
She attended Sanford schools and was a member of Buffalo Presbyterian Church. Activities at her church included being receiv-ing treasurer, moderator of the Women’s Council and member of the choir.
She is survived by her hus-band, John Floyd Bridges; a son, Richard “Ricky” Bridges and
wife Cathy of Sanford; a brother, Reid Matthews and wife Elaine of Carthage; sisters, Joyce M. Harrington of Sanford, Thelma Harrington of Greenville, Willie Mae Warner and husband Chuck of Sanford and Pat Joye and hus-band Vernon of Sanford; grand-children, Jessica Anne Bridges Whitaker and husband Jarrett, Jonathan Thomas Bridges and Ja-mie Lynne Bridges McElreath and husband Thadd, all of Sanford, and three great-grandchildren, Thomas Austin Whitaker of Car-thage, Caitlyn MaryAnne Bridges and Jude Avril McElreath, both of Sanford.
The family will receive friends on Saturday, July 3, 2010, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home and also on Sun-day, July 4, 2010, at Flat Springs
Baptist Church Fellowship Hall following the graveside service.
The funeral service will be conducted Sunday, July 4, 2010, at 4 p.m. at Buffalo Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Paul Shields and the Rev. Bruce MacInnes of-fi ciating. Burial will follow at Flat Springs Baptist Church Cemetery.
Condolences may be made at www.bridgescameronfuneral-home.com.
Memorials may be made to Buffalo Presbyterian Church General Fund, 1333 Carthage St., Sanford, N.C. 27330 or Flat Springs Baptist Church General Fund, 4l48 Deep River Road, San-ford, N.C. 27330.
Arrangements are by Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home, Inc.
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All national chains have a business model — a set of criteria that must be met before they invest millions of dollars in personnel and inven-tory, not to mention signing long term leases on large buildings.
One of the fi rst criteria would be the economy — jobs and income. Conditions are improving for employ-ment in our region of the state although we still exceed the state aver-age in our percentage of unemployed workers. The Labor Market Infor-mation Division of the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina release fi gures this week for our region which includes Harnett, Chatham, Sampson and Lee counties.
In May of 2009, Lee County’s unemploy-ment was a crushing 14.1 percent, primarily because of our large manufacturing base. This May, our rate has dropped to 12.3 percent. The average unemployment rate for the state is 10.3 per-cent.
In contrast to Lee County, Sampson County, which has a more agrarian econo-my, suffered fewer job losses. Their current unemployment rate for May is 8.1 percent. In
Harnett, 10.4 percent of their workforce is out of work. Chatham County has been impacted least by this economic down-turn with only 6.9 per-cent of their workforce unemployed in May.
By the way, our manu-facturing wages are high-er than our neighbors: Lee County, $14.75 per hour, Chatham, $12.39, Harnett, $12.04, Samp-son, $12.48.
Current median household income esti-mates for our region is hard to fi nd but here are the numbers from 2007: Lee County $44,038, Sampson $34,516, Har-nett $39,649, Chatham -$53,164. With new cen-sus data on the way, we should know soon how we stack up.
As more people go back to work, our income as a community will increase and so will the possibility of getting more retail establish-ments.
Besides good jobs and disposable income,
what else do national stores look for when opening a new location? Rooftops. Site selection managers want to see a growing community with a population that can support their store. Our population is ap-proaching 70,000 in Lee County. Our trade area, which includes parts of Harnett, Chatham and Moore, exceeds 125,000. Growth from BRAC as well as normal growth will help.
We’ve been growing at a little over 2 percent per year for the past few years. New census data will help us prove this good growth.
What else can we do? We can continue to be a business friendly com-munity. We can work to streamline regulations and shorten application processes for business approvals. As a commu-nity and as a state, we have a good reputation for business friendliness. In fact, North Carolina was recently named
among the top six states in the country for retail and restaurant business growth.
According to a Pitney Bowes Business Insight report, franchisors and franchisees have been fl ocking to North Carolina – a trend which should continue for at least the next three years.
The Pitney Bowes report ranked North Carolina among the top 10 states for projected employment and retail sales growth over the next three years.
When researchers divided the country into six regions, North Caro-lina came out on top in the Southeast.
So, just be patient, and remember to always shop locally. Strong retail sales also will help con-vince new business to come to our community.
❏Bob Joyce is presi-
dent of the Sanford Area Chamber of Commerce.
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FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — The body of a woman was found near a North Carolina Army base and police are calling it a homicide.
Multiple media outlets reported Friday that Fayette-ville Public Works Commis-sion workers found the body near an abandoned dirt road close to Fort Bragg. The crew was working on a road project near the base.
Fayetteville police did not release the woman’s name. They said she appears to be in her early 30s, and inves-tigators said she likely died after midnight. They wouldn’t say how the woman died.
The death is the tenth homicide in Fayetteville this year.
Coast Guard suspends search for missing man
WILMINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a 54-year-old man who fell overboard off the North Carolina coast.
The Coast Guard said Fri-day that its crews searched 3,210 square nautical miles for Bobby Barbers of Engle-hard, a crewmember aboard the fi shing vessel Gallant Fox. Barbers was reported missing on Thursday, 30 miles east of Oregon Inlet.
According to a statement, the search is suspended pending further develop-ments.
Offi cials said Barbers had been wearing a black T-shirt, denim shorts, and no life jacket.
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Cochito of Norfolk, Va., joined an airplane and a helicopter in the search.
City, county join on incentives forCaterpillar
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Offi cials in North Carolina’s Triad have joined forces to offer $23 million in incentives to Caterpillar if it builds a plant in the region.
The Winston-Salem Journal reports that Winston-Salem joined Forsyth County in pitching a package to help the area beat out Montgom-ery, Ala., and Spartanburg, S.C. for the $426 million plant, which would provide 510 jobs.
Both city and county are of-fering upfront money toward buying a 100-acre site next to the Dell Inc. computer-assembly plant. Dell was lured to the area with more than $300 million in incen-tives, then announced last October it would close the plant, putting 900 people out of work.
Most state incentives were never paid, and Dell repaid local governments $26 mil-lion in upfront incentives.
Fire destroys storage warehouse at Fort Bragg
FORT BRAGG (AP) — Fire has apparently destroyed a warehouse holding musi-cal instruments and other band equipment at a North Carolina Army base.
Multiple media outlets reported Friday that the fi re collapsed a warehouse at Fort Bragg used by the 82nd Airborne Division band for storage and studio space. Authorities said another part of the warehouse was used for training in hand-to-hand combat.
The wooden and sheet metal warehouse collapsed as Spring Lake and Fayette-ville fi refi ghters helped Fort Bragg personnel put out the fl ames.
STATE BRIEFS
RALEIGH (AP) — A new bill may let North Carolinians dump their old computers on the street for recycling pickup alongside their plastic bottles and cans.
An amended elec-tronic waste bill that only needs the governor’s signature assigns shared responsibility for recycling electronics to manufactur-ers and local governments. Either manufacturers can shoulder most of the burden of recycling their products or they can pay for local governments to do more of the heavy lift-ing for them.
Either way, offi cials say the bill will hopefully encourage people not to toss their old gadgets in the trash.
“Consumers need this free and convenient recy-cling option to encourage
them to recycle,” said Sen. Don Vaughan who spon-sored the bill.
He added that the law would be a model for other states.
“What I believe we have is one of the best recycling plans anywhere in the country,” he said.
As the usage of cell phones, personal comput-ers and televisions in the United States continues to increase so does the amount of electronic waste, or e-waste. Elec-tronics contain potentially harmful materials like mercury. Unlike other re-cyclables, computers can require disassembly and are made of numerous materials.
“It’s defi nitely a differ-ent animal than a piece of paper,” said Scott Mouw, North Carolina’s recycling director.
People have a ten-dency to hoard unusable or obsolete electronics, Mouw said. In a February study, the N.C. Division of Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assistance estimated that there were almost 70,000 tons of electronic waste ready for disposal in North Carolina in 2007.
There is already a state e-waste law that bans the disposal of televisions and computers starting next year. The law also requires manufacturers to create a recycling plan, register with the N.C. Depart-ment of Environment and Natural Resources and pay annual fees, which are distributed to local governments for recycling programs.
The main difference with the amendment is that it allows computer
companies to choose from different tiered recycle plans. The more intensive the plan, the less expen-sive the annual fee that the company has to pay.
For example, a com-pany with a plan that includes a mail-back option and at least one waste collection site pays a $15,000 annual fee, but a company with a plan that includes collection sites in 50 counties only pays a $2,500 fee.
Having local govern-ments be in charge of electronics recycling may be the best option since people are already familiar with recycling in their communities, Mouw said.
“That’s the best kind of system for a citizen,” he said. “You load up your truck with everything with a chip and plug in it and you take it to one spot.”
RALEIGH (AP) — The man hired to get North Carolina’s ferries back on track after a federal investigation into illegal dredging said he was fi red after just two months for doing his job.
The News & Observer of Raleigh reported that Harold Finch, 58, came out of retirement with the Coast Guard on May 1 to lead the 500-employee ferry division. The agen-cy’s former director had
been convicted of lying to investigators about illegal dredging in the Currituck Sound.
Finch said his fi ring June 25 from the $92,500 job shows the Transporta-tion Department, which oversees the ferry division, lacks the courage of its convictions. “I thought I was brought in to fi x it, but I guess I tried to fi x too much,” Finch said, adding that he told the agency’s top offi cials about nepo-
tism, payroll padding and questionable spending.
The DOT’s inspector general is investigating several of Finch’s allega-tions about the division, which is based in More-head City, offi cials said. That investigation began before Finch was fi red, DOT spokeswoman Greer Beaty said Friday.
DOT offi cials said they fi red Finch because of personality confl icts with staff. They also said he fell behind on a 60-day busi-ness plan for the division.
“In the end, was Buddy going to be able to meet the expectations that I gave him for this job?” said Jim Trogdon, the DOT’s
chief operating offi cer. “My determination was no.”
North Carolina’s ferry division is the second-largest state operation in the country. It transports 2.5 million people a year on two dozen boats on seven routes.
Among the things he learned after taking the job was that the division had no detailed budget, Finch said. He said he or-dered his staff to estimate expenditures for the com-ing fi scal year.
Trogdon and Jim West-moreland, a deputy DOT secretary in charge of the ferry division, disputed Finch’s claim.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A second straight month of lackluster hiring by American businesses is sapping strength from the economic rebound.
The jobless rate fell to 9.5 percent in June, still far too high to signal a healthy economy. It came in slight-ly lower than the month before only because more than a half-million people gave up looking for work and were no longer counted as unemployed.
The private sector added just 83,000 jobs for the month. Looked at from that angle or almost any other, from a teetering housing market to falling factory orders, the recov-ery is limping along as it enters the year’s second half. And that is when the benefi ts of most of the government’s stimulus spending will begin to wear off.
The fate of the econo-my will hinge on whether it can stand on its own. President Barack Obama acknowledged the slow pace of the recovery and used the new jobs fi gures to argue for more stimulus spending and extended unemployment benefi ts.
“We’re not headed there
fast enough for a lot of Americans,” the president said. “We’re not headed there fast enough for me, either.”
Overall, the nation’s to-tal payroll actually shrank last month by 125,000, the fi rst decline in six months, the Labor Department said Friday. The loss re-fl ected the end of 225,000 temporary jobs helping the U.S. Census Bureau complete its 10-year head count.
The 83,000 jobs added by the private sector was a better performance than in May, when private job creation nearly stalled. But
it fell far short of what the economy needs — at least 200,000 jobs a month — to bring down the unemploy-ment rate.
Nobody, from Obama to Federal Reserve Chair-man Ben Bernanke to private economists, expects that anytime soon. And the government has mostly exhausted its real-istic options for nudging the economy along faster.
Benchmark interest rates, which at low levels can encourage borrowing to spur economic growth, are already near zero. Republicans in Congress object to additional stimu-
lus spending.Unemployment is
expected to stay above 9 percent through the mid-term elections in Novem-ber. And the Fed predicts joblessness could still be as high as 7.5 percent two years from now. Normal is considered closer to 6 per-cent, and economists say it will probably take until the middle of this decade to achieve that.
The jobless rate did come down in June from 9.7 percent the month be-fore. But that was mainly because 652,000 people abandoned their job searches.
Even among Americans with secure jobs, confi -dence is fading. One gauge of consumer confi dence fell in June to about 53, down nearly 10 points in a single month. And it’s well below the reading of 90 typically seen in a healthy economy.
Add to that jitters over Europe’s debts, an edgy stock market and cautious consumer spending, and the result is an economy essentially moving side-ways. It’s no surprise that businesses are reviewing their orders and seeing no reason to add to payrolls.
WEST VIRGINIA WASHINGTON
State, political elitesay goodbye to Byrd
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Craning their necks and clapping to Appalachian music, West Virginians bid farewell Friday to Robert C. Byrd, their beloved senator who rose from childhood poverty in a coal min-ing town to become the nation’s longest-serving member of Congress.
President Barack Obama, Vice Presi-dent Joe Biden, former President Bill Clinton and other dignitaries watched as Byrd’s casket was carried down the red-carpeted steps of the state Capitol where he began his political career in 1947. Byrd, who died Monday at 92, never lost an election.
“I’ll remember him as he was when I came to know him,” Obama said, “his white hair fl ow-
ing like a mane, his gait steady with a cane, deter-mined to make the most of every last breath. The distinguished gentleman from West Virginia could be found at his desk to the very end and doing the people’s business.”
Obama recalled an early discussion with Byrd, who as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan.
“He said there are some things I regretted in my youth,” Obama said. “I said, ’None of us are absent of some regrets. ... That’s why we enjoy and seek the grace of God.”’
“As I refl ect on the full sweep of 92 years, it seems to me that his life bent toward justice,” Obama said. “Robert Byrd possessed that quintes-sential American quality.”
WASHINGTON
Driving while blind?Maybe, with new car
WASHINGTON (AP) — Could a blind person drive a car? Researchers are trying to make that far-fetched notion a reality.
The National Federation of the Blind and Virginia Tech plan to demonstrate a prototype vehicle next year equipped with technology that helps a blind person drive a car independently.
The technology, called “nonvisual interfaces,” uses sensors to let a blind driver maneuver a car based on information transmitted to him about his surround-ings: whether another car or object is nearby, in front of him or in a neighboring lane.
Advocates for the blind
consider it a “moon shot,” a goal similar to President John F. Kennedy’s pledge to land a man on the moon. For many blind people, driving a car long has been considered impossible. But researchers hope the project could revolution-ize mobility and challenge long-held assumptions about limitations.
“We’re exploring areas that have previously been regarded as unexplorable,” said Dr. Marc Maurer, president of the National Federation of the Blind. “We’re moving away from the theory that blind-ness ends the capacity of human beings to make contributions to society.”
Job market not growing enough
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Flora Guan, left, and Jessica Yang, right, recent gradu-ates of San Francisco State University, fi ll out forms to take part in surveys with Fieldwork San Francisco at a National Career Fair in San Francisco.
TECHNOLOGY
Apple ‘stunned’ iPhones show too many barsNEW YORK (AP)
— Apple Inc. said Friday that it was “stunned” to fi nd that its iPhones have for years been using a “totally wrong” formula to determine how many bars of signal strength they are getting.
Apple said that’s the reason behind wide-spread complaints from users that the latest model, iPhone 4, can show a sudden plunge in signal strength when they
hold it in a way that cov-ers a small black strip on one edge of the phone. Users have jokingly called this the “death grip” for the phone.
That drop seems exaggerated because the phone can wrongly display four or fi ve bars of signal strength when it shouldn’t, Apple said.
“Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the fi rst place,” the company said
in a statement to users.Yet the statement that
the bar display is “to-tally wrong” is surprising, since there is no standard formula in the industry for translating signal strength to bars.
The company said it will fi x the formula to one recommended by AT&T Inc. through a free software update within a few weeks for the most recent iPhone models, 3G, 3GS and 4. However,
the “wrong” formula goes back as far as the original iPhone, launched in 2007.
AT&T, the iPhone’s exclusive carrier in the U.S., has borne much of the users’ blame for dropped calls and poor wireless performance. In saying that the phones have been showing too many bars, Apple is put-ting the spotlight on the network’s performance. AT&T declined comment Friday.
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Grammer, wife, ending 13-year marriage
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kelsey Grammer and his wife are divorcing after nearly 13 years of marriage.
Court records show Camille Grammer fi led for divorce from the “Cheers” and “Frasier” star Thursday in Los Angeles.
Grammer and his wife were married in August 1997 and have two children, ages 8 and 5.
The actor’s publicist, Stan Rosenfi eld, issued a state-ment seeking privacy for the family.
Camille Grammer is seek-ing physical custody of the children and visitation for the 55-year-old actor.
The fi ling cites “irreconcili-able differences” for the breakup but offers no details.
Jackson performs at Essence in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It’s been two years since singer Janet Jackson performed on a concert stage and her fans say that’s been two years too long.
Jackson marks her stage return Friday with an opening night, fi rst-time performance at the Essence Music Festival in-side the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans.
“I’m excited, we’re excited,” Jackson said in an interview prior to her appearance. “It’s been awhile since I’ve been on stage and we’re just excited to get back out there.”
Fans got a glimpse of her new, sassy, short-cropped hair and her signature, shapely fi gure on the fi nale show of American Idol where she rocked classics like “Again” and “Nasty” and her latest release, “Nothing,” from the soundtrack of the movie, “Why Did I Get Married Too?,” which she also starred in.
Will Bias, a frequent fest-goer from New Orleans, said he is defi nitely looking forward the show.
Travolta thanks Fla. fans for demanding ’Grease’
OCALA, Fla. (AP) — John Tra-volta is thanking his adopted Florida hometown, Ocala, after residents waged an online campaign to bring a limited rerelease of his hit “Grease” to the area.
The 1978 classic is being shown in select theaters nationwide as the “Grease Sing-A-Long,” with karaoke-style subtitles for the songs.
Ocala wasn’t on the dis-tribution list. So residents swamped an online poll that allowed the city with the most voting fans to get the fi lm. Ocala topped the poll by hun-dreds of votes.
Travolta released a state-ment through JTP Films thank-ing residents and promising to buy free snacks.
“Wish I could be there with you,” he said.
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Success or mess? Who’s the real Lohan?By SANDY COHENAP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES — There’s the Lindsay Lohan we all know: the one with two DUIs and repeat stints in rehab; the one in the tabloids, falling into a cactus and partying it up in Cannes when she should be in court; the one with a reputation so bad that reality star Tila Tequila once declared, “I must not be another Lindsay Lohan where I just fl ush everything I worked so hard for down the toilet for nothing.”
Then there’s another Lindsay: the one her mother defends as a nor-mal young woman coming of age in Hollywood; the one her business part-ners in the fashion world describe as prompt, professional and focused as she prepares to launch a 280-piece collection; the one Robert Rodriguez cast in his upcoming movie “Machete”; and the one taking on a role her peers declined — that of porn legend Linda Lovelace in a fi lm that has Hollywood abuzz.
So which one is the real Lindsay Lohan? And can the one who earned accolades as a young star and worked alongside Meryl Streep overcome her hot-mess persona?
The next chapter for each Lindsay has already
begun. She’s due in court Tuesday for a hearing to determine if she violated her probation on those drunk-driving charges — and faces jail time if she did.
But as soon as she’s clear of her legal troubles, she can start work on “Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story,” a gritty, violent tale about porn, prostitution and domestic violence that stands to be the make-it-or-break-it role of Lohan’s career.
Writer-director Mat-thew Wilder has total faith in his star, despite ample criticism from his peers over his choice. Though some have said she won’t make it through the monthlong shoot,
he’s confi dent she’s game for long days on set and his script’s emotionally challenging, sometimes shocking material. He says she’s got the chops and the depth to embody Lovelace, a woman who claims she was forced into prostitution and porn by her violent husband and once made a bestiality fi lm with a dog.
Casting Lohan, and having her promote her new role in Cannes — where she claimed her passport was stolen, causing her to miss a mandatory court date — helped secure fi nancing for “Inferno,” Wilder says. And he thinks her perfor-mance in his movie could turn Hollywood’s tides in her favor.
“Just because right now there’s all this nega-tive (stuff) being spewed about her, there’s this core of worth, personally and creatively,” he says of the 24-year-old actress. “When you put that out in front of people, that stands up.”
Then there’s her fashion brand, 6126. What began as a line of leggings has been reborn as a complete collection of sexy, spar-kly pieces perfect for the club-hopping set. The fi rst items are set to ship out at the end of the month to stores like Kitson and Nei-man Marcus.
Lohan guided the design team, picked out
all the fabrics and colors, and tried on hundreds of samples herself to get the look and fi t just right.
She’s also developing two handbag lines, and there are plans for shoes and cosmetics to follow as 6126 becomes “a complete lifestyle brand,” says her business partner, Kristi Kaylor.
As far as Kaylor is con-cerned, Lohan is “a total pro.” She knows the actress as a “genius designer” — responsive, engaged and serious about building a brand.
“She blows me away with her creativity,” Kaylor says. “I wish people could see the side of Lindsay that we do.”
The Lindsay she sees is as comfortable at market-ing meetings as she is in the front row of a high-profi le fashion show. She’s on time to her appoint-ments, quick to respond to e-mails and deeply involved in all aspects of her business. Kaylor sees her as a budding entrepre-neur.
Richard Luna, who’s been making purses for 25 years and is working with Lohan on her lines, describes her as “a very smart, sharp gal (with) a brand-development path that’s going to last several years.”
Lohan doesn’t seem too interested these days in having professionals
help shape her public im-age. She’s suspended her relationship with publicist Leslie Sloane Zelnick.
Instead, the actress pre-fers handling her own PR — 140 characters at a time. Active on Twitter (often late at night), she defends herself against tabloid rumors and calls out those she thinks are trying to bring her down.
“Samantha Ronson spit in my face,” she posted early one morning about her former girlfriend. “This is all because of a FALSE accusation by tabloids & paparazzi,” she wrote when her alcohol-moni-toring anklet went off last month. “I was given the wrong call time-now I know on purpose...it was a set-up,” she posted after apparently missing a photo shoot. “Thank goodness for Twitter,” she writes. “The truth can be stated!!!”
Perez Hilton, who refers to the starlet as “Lindsan-ity” and “LOLhan” on his popular celebrity blog, says the actress has lived such a drama-fi lled life — from a child star whose parents argued in the press to her own grown-up problems — that his read-ers just want to see what she’ll do next.
“It’s still interesting to see Lindsay misbehaving and acting like the same person she was in 2007,” he says, adding that he has met her many times and fi nds her “likable.”
He thinks the same readers who delight in her misbehavior are actually rooting for her to succeed.
AP photo
In this Dec. 6, 2005 fi le photo, singer and actress Lindsay Lohan appears on stage during MTV’s “Total Request Live”, in New York.
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Paris Hilton marijuana charges dropped in S. Africa
PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa (AP) — A court in South Africa has dropped a marijuana-smoking case against Paris Hilton.
The socialite appeared late Friday in a FIFA World Cup courtroom after being ar-rested on suspicion of pos-session of marijuana at a quarterfi nal match between Brazil and the Netherlands.
The authorities dropped the charges against Hilton, after her co-accused, Jen-nifer Rovero, “acknowledged to be in possession of can-nabis, and pleaded guilty,” said Brig. Sally De Beer, a spokeswoman for South African police.
Rovero, 31, from New York, was sentenced to a fi ne of 1000 rand ($130) or 30 days imprisonment, De Beer said.
A publicist for Hilton said the incident was a “misun-derstanding.”
“Paris Hilton was ques-tioned today by police in South Africa on allegations of smoking marijuana,” a publicist for Hilton, Dawn Miller, said in a statement.
“However I can confi rm that the incident was a complete misunderstand-ing and it was actually another person in the group who did it,” the statement said. “The case has been dropped against Paris and no charges will be made.”
Mexican murder suspect: U.S. consulate infi ltrated
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The drug-cartel enforcer told an unsettling story: A woman who worked in the Mexican border’s biggest U.S. consul-ate had helped a rival gang obtain American visas. And for that, the enforcer said, he ordered her killed.
Nonsense, says a U.S. offi cial, who said Friday the motive for the slaying remains unknown.
The employee, Lesley En-riquez, and two other people connected to the U.S. con-sulate in the city of Ciudad Juarez were killed March 13 in attacks that raised con-cerns that Americans were being caught up in drug-re-
lated border violence.Jesus Ernesto Chavez,
whose arrest was an-nounced Friday, confessed to ordering the killings, said Ramon Pequeno, the head of anti-narcotics for the Federal Police. Pequeno said Chavez leads a band of hit men for a street gang tied to the Juarez cartel.
Enriquez and her husband were killed in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, as they drove toward a border crossing. Chavez also is accused in a nearly simultaneous attack that killed the husband of a Mexican employee of the consulate.
USAID compound attacked in Afghanistan; 4 killed
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban suicide attack-ers stormed a four-story house used by an American aid organization in north Afghanistan on Friday, killing four people before dying in a fi erce, fi ve-hour gunbattle with Afghan security forces.
The pre-dawn attack ap-peared part of a militant campaign against interna-tional development orga-nizations at a time when the U.S. and its allies are trying to accelerate civilian aid efforts to turn back the Taliban.
It came on the same day that Gen. David Petraeus landed in the Afghan capital to take command of U.S. and international forces fi ghting the nearly 9-year-old war. Petraeus arrived from Brussels where he sought to reassure allies that the war against the Taliban was on track despite rising casual-ties and problems regaining control over key parts of the country.
Insurgents began their brazen attack in Kunduz at about 3:30 a.m. A suicide car bomber blew a hole in the wall around a build-ing used by Development Alternatives Inc., a global consulting company based in the Washington, D.C., area on contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID. The company is working on governance and community development issues in the area.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Two Virginia suspects in an alleged spy ring have admitted they are Russian citizens living in the U.S. under false identities, prosecutors said Friday, as offi cials in Cyprus said another defendant in the bust has likely fl ed the island after being set free on bail.
The defendants known as Michael Zottoli and Patricia Mills told au-thorities after their arrest that their real names are Mikhail Kutzik and Nata-lia Pereverzeva, prosecu-tors said in a court fi ling Friday. The pair were arrested in Arlington, Va., where they have been living as a married couple with two young children.
Zottoli and Mills, along with a third defendant, Mikhail Semenko, remained jailed after waiving their right Friday to a detention hearing during brief appearances in federal court.
They are among 11 people arrested this week. Six other defendants had already appeared in court in the Northeast, and one was granted bail that will include electronic monitoring and home detention.
In Friday’s court fi ling, prosecutors said Zottoli and Mills had $100,000 in cash and phony passports and other identity docu-ments stashed in safe de-posit boxes. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason B. Smith also wrote that Mills asked a family friend who has been caring for their two children since their arrest to take them to Russia to Mills’ sister and parents.
Semenko, who was in
the U.S. on a work visa, is not alleged to have used a false identity. But pros-ecutors said the FBI has searched his home and a second apartment that he recently leased and found computer equipment “of the type capable of being used for ... clandestine communications.”
Semenko’s visa has now been revoked, Smith said, and an immigration detainer has been fi led for him at the Alexandria jail.
Also Friday in the Cypriot capital of Nicosia, Justice Minister Loucas Louca it was unlikely that Christopher Metsos, 54, would be apprehended on the Mediterranean is-land because he believes that he is no longer there. Metsos is wanted in the United States on charges that he supplied money to the spy ring.
Metsos disappeared on Wednesday after a Cypriot court freed him on bail.
Louca strongly de-fended Cypriot authori-ties’ handling of the affair, which left the govern-ment deeply embarrassed and stung by rumors that it was somehow complicit
in Metsos’ disappearance. The island has close ties with Russia.
“If we wanted him (Metsos) to evade, as we have been accused, we wouldn’t have tried as hard to arrest him in the fi rst place,” he said.
Russian Foreign Min-istry said Friday that it had no reason to believe Metsos was in Russia.
“I do not have such in-formation. You’re knock-ing on the wrong door,” ministry spokesman Igor Lyakin-Frolov said.
Another suspect ar-rested in the U.S., Juan Lazaro, has admitted to living in New York for years under a fake iden-tity and lying about being citizen of Peru, as he had long claimed, prosecutors said.
Asked Friday about Lazaro, Peru’s President Alan Garcia said the suspect apparently told people he had ties to that country’s rebel groups.
“As I’ve been given to understand, he presented himself in the United States some time ago as a kind of ambassador of Peru’s domestic subver-sives. This information
we have from people who lived there,” Garcia said. He did not specify the source of the information.
The AP has been unable to reach senior Peruvian security offi cials to determine if they sus-pected Lazaro was truly connected to the rebel groups. The country’s de-fense minister said earlier in the week that he knew of no pending investiga-tions against Lazaro.
In Virginia, Zottoli, Mills and Semenko were charged with being for-eign agents, while Zottoli and Mills are also charged with conspiracy to com-mit money laundering.
In their fi ling, pros-ecutors said Zottoli and Mills gave information to authorities after being told about their Miranda rights to have a lawyer and to remain silent un-der interrogation.
According to court documents, Zottoli claims to be a U.S. citizen, born in Yonkers, N.Y., and is married to Mills, a pur-ported Canadian citizen. The FBI said the two lived together over the years in a number of locations, including Seattle, before moving to Virginia last year.
According to the charging documents, an undercover FBI agent posing as a Russian agent met with Semenko last Saturday in Washington, blocks from the White House. The agent gave Semenko a folded news-paper wrapped around an envelope containing $5,000 and directed him to drop it in an Arlington park. The documents say there is video of Semenko making the delivery as instructed.
RUSSIAN SPIES
Two suspects admit fake names
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This artist rendering shows Patricia Mills, left, and Mi-chael Zottoli, northern Va. residents accused of being illegal spies for Russia, in federal court in Alexandria, Va., Friday.
Joy and agonyThe World Cup favorite, Brazil, is sent home on a wild day
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BYRNES, HINCH OUT FOR DIAMONDBACKS
PHOENIX (AP) — The one-time rising young genius of baseball and his youthful hand-picked man-ager got the boot in Arizona.
General manager Josh Byrnes, so coveted three years ago that the Diamondbacks extended his contract to a whopping eight years, was fi red Thursday night along with manager A.J. Hinch, whose team was 34 games under .500 in his less than one full season on the job.
Kirk Gibson, a name as recognizable to fans as Hinch’s was obscure, moves up from bench coach to become interim manager. Former major league pitcher Jerry DiPoto moves from vice president of player personnel to interim general manager.
WORLD CUP
DONOVAN PROUD OF OVERALL U.S. EFFORT
CARSON, Calif. (AP) — A week after a disappointing loss in the World Cup, Landon Donovan said Friday he is proud of the U.S. team’s overall performance.
“At the same time, I think we felt that the Ghana game was a game we should’ve won,” Dono-van said after his fi rst practice with the Los Angeles Galaxy since returning from South Africa.
Ghana ousted the United States with a 2-1 overtime victory last Saturday in the World Cup’s second round.
Donovan, who with three World Cup goals was the undisputed star of the U.S. team, said he feels pride in the United States’ progress during the past several World Cups.
“People assume that there’s linear progression from World Cup to World Cup,” Donovan said. “It couldn’t be further from the truth. France and Italy were in the fi nal four years ago and neither of them got out of their group.
“The fact that we’ve now qualifi ed for six in a row, and that we’ve gotten out of our group two out of the last three, I think is a fantastic achievement for our country.”
NCAA PICKS FORMAT FOR 68-TEAM TOURNAMENT
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA has settled on the format for the new 68-team men’s bas-ketball tournament, though the announcement isn’t scheduled until sometime next week.
The Division I men’s basketball committee reached its decision after studying a number of op-tions and discussing feedback during meetings in Chicago, said David Worlock, associate director of the March Madness tourna-ment.
Details were not disclosed.The NCAA announced in April
that it would add three teams to the fi eld, the fi rst expansion for the tournament since it went from 64 to 65 in 2001 after going from 48 to 64 in 1985. The new format is scheduled to take effect next March.
NASCAR SPRINT CUP • COKE ZERO 400 • DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY
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Offi cials inspect repair to a pot hole at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla., on Friday. Engineers examined the superspeedway following Thursday’s practice sessions and found a 1-foot-by-4½-foot area in turn two that needed repair as a “precautionary measure.”
NASCAR considering changes to Chase againBy JENNA FRYERAP Auto Racing Writer
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR is considering tweak-ing the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, with chairman Brian France wanting to create more drama to the title-decid-ing format.
“We want to make sure (the
Chase) is giving us the biggest impact moments it was de-signed to do,” France said Fri-day. “Everything, to us, means pushing the winning envelope to mean what it needs to mean in our sport. We’re happy with the Chase, (but) if we can en-hance it in a pretty signifi cant way, we may do that.”
The Chase was one of several
topics France covered Friday at Daytona International Speed-way during a question-and-an-swer session.
Also under consideration are changes to the second-tier Na-tionwide Series that could affect the participation of Cup drivers, and scheduling requests made
More track problems at Daytona?By MARK LONGAP Sports Writer
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Daytona International Speedway offi cials are doing everything possible to avoid another pesky pothole.
Engineers, asphalt specialists and track work-ers spent Friday repeatedly checking every inch of the 2 1/2-mile superspeedway. The heightened surveil-lance came hours after inspectors found another damaged section of track between turns 1 and 2 — a few feet from the spot that nearly shut down the Day-tona 500 in February.
Workers used epoxy to repair a 1-foot-by-4 1/2-foot area as a “precautionary measure” late Thursday night, track president Robin Braig said.
“It’s going to get tested, but we are confi dent that the precautions we’re taking are going to make a great Coke Zero 400,” Braig said.
NASCAR’s most storied track hasn’t been fully re-paved since 1978, creating huge bumps through the high-banked turns and a slippery surface all around. The less-than-ideal condi-tions make for harrowing racing when cars are going
Coke Zero 400
Harvick on pole after rain washes out qualifying
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Sprint Cup points leader Kevin Harvick will start from the pole for Saturday night’s race at Daytona International Speedway after qualifying was rained out.
Only 12 cars complet-ed qualifying laps Friday before showers washed out the session. Sam Hornish Jr. turned the fastest lap, but he will start 29th based on points.
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NBA FREE AGENCY
A look at the day in NBA free agency
By The Associated PressA look at what happened on Friday,
the second day of the NBA’s long-awaited 2010 free agent period:
THE BIG 3LEBRON JAMES: Dressed casually
in a T-shirt and shorts, James met for nearly three hours with Pat Riley and the Miami Heat, then held court with the L.A. Clippers for about another hour. James’ take on how things are going: “Good,” the two-time MVP said.
DWYANE WADE: He met with the New York Knicks for a little over two hours, then added a second meeting with the Chicago Bulls to his agenda for the day. Wade says the meeting, which lasted 2 1/2 hours, was mutu-ally agreed upon. He said: “Things are getting very interesting.”
CHRIS BOSH: The Bulls started Bosh’s day with a meeting, and he was preparing to sit down with the Knicks toward the end of the day. Bosh has talked with plenty of teams, but if he has a plan after two days of the free-agent period, he’s not saying. “You’ve got to enjoy this,” he said.
Cavs, Bulls prepared to fi ght for LeBronBy TOM WITHERSAP Sports Writer
CLEVELAND — The preliminary bouts are fi nished. It’s time for the main event in the fi ght for LeBron James, free agent extraordinaire.
Chicago vs. Cleveland.To the winner, the crowned King. Maybe.With New Jersey, New York, Miami and the
Los Angeles Clippers having come and gone after making their pitches to land James, the Bulls and Cavaliers — considered co-favorites entering the summer’s LeBronathon — will have opportuni-ties to convince the reigning MVP that they are the team for him.
The Cavs will go fi rst at 11 a.m. on Saturday, when they will remind the Ohio-born, Akron-bred superstar that there’s no place like home.
The Bulls will follow at 2:30 p.m.Chicago is counting on making a lasting
impression as the last team through the door. The Bulls will tout their roster with young star guard Derrick Rose, Joakim Noah and Luol Deng. And Chicago could be working on a trump card to drop on James’ table if it gets a commitment from another high-profi le free agent such as Dwyane Wade or Chris Bosh, a potential coup that could deliver James.
It seems to be coming down to the wire, but
James is not feeling any pressure to make a deci-sion.
According to a person familiar with James’ options, he has no timetable to announce where he’ll play next. The person, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the meetings, denied
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Jill Riegelmayer of Cleveland holds one of ap-proximately 20,000 signs that where handed out to the crowd at Cleveland’s Independence Day celebration on Thursday as part of the city’s effort to persuade LeBron James to stay.
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ALL-STARSNorthview Blue wins three games
LAURINBURG — The Northview Blue All-Star baseball team is partici-pating in an 8-U All-Star Tournament all weekend in Laurinburg.
Northview played in three games on Friday, beating Supper Opti-mist in the opener 11-8 with catcher Connor Wells earning MVP honors. The All-Stars then routed New Bern Trent 16-1 with third baseman Hunter Tickle winning the MVP. In the third game on Friday, Northview defeated East Wake 5-1, with short-stop Thomas Harrington taking home the most valuable player nod.
The All-Stars will return to action at 9 a.m. Saturday.
BASKETBALLYouth hoops camp scheduled
SANFORD — Basketball Fundamentals will be coached at a youth camp by Larry Goins at the Stevens Center from 6-8 p.m. from July 26-29.
The camp is for 6-to-16-year-olds of all abilities.It will focus on dribbling, passing, shooting and layups. Registration is $20. For more informa-tion, call (919) 776-4048 or visit www.stevenscen-ter.org.
FOOTBALLYellow Jackets minicamp set
SANFORD — The Lee County Yellow Jackets football minicamp will run from 6-8 p.m. from July 12-14.
The camp is free and is open to all players interested in playing for the Yellow Jackets this season. The camp is designed for all rising 9th-12th-graders (varsity and junior varsity players). The locker room will be open each day at 5:15 p.m.
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Lee’s Chapel recently won the Lee County Men’s Softball championship. Team members are (top row, l-r): Jason Collins, Heath Thomas, Jonathan Coleman, Reggie Patterson, Kevin Horton, Ken Bogan, Derrick Lynch and Chris Bea-sley. Bottom row (l-r): Lexi Patterson, Brent Patterson, Bill Lanier, Callie East, Tommy East, Gordon Allen and Rodney Ray. Not pictured: Jonathan Gilmore and Josh Taylor.
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Gonzalez gets even, Jays beat Yankees to end skid
NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Gonzalez got even, hitting a go-ahead single in the 11th inning after failing to get a call in his previous at-bat, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the New York Yankees 6-1 Friday to end a fi ve-game losing streak.
Gonzalez singled for a 2-1 lead and Dewayne Wise’s bases-loaded triple capped a fi ve-run burst.
Robbed by left fi elder Brett Gardner’s catch in the eighth, Gonzalez came up again in the ninth with two outs, a runner on fi rst and the score 1-all. Gonzalez appeared to be hit in the left forearm with a pitch from Mariano Rivera and grabbed at the nicked spot, but plate umpire Mark Wegner ruled it a foul ball.
Toronto manager Cito Gaston came out to argue and Wegner consulted with two umpires before letting the call stand. Rivera struck out Gonzalez with the next pitch.
Arroyo, Phillips lead Reds past Cubs
CHICAGO (AP) — Bronson Ar-royo pitched six sharp innings and the Cincinnati Reds took advantage of Chicago’s mound wildness and defensive incom-petence to score nine runs in the seventh inning during a 12-0 victory over the collapsing Cubs on Friday.
Scott Rolen, Jonny Gomes and Ramon Hernandez drove in two runs each during Cincinna-ti’s biggest inning this year. The Cubs had six walks, an error and a run-scoring passed ball as 13 Reds came to the plate.
Brandon Phillips and Joey Votto added homers for the Reds, who won for the ninth time in 11 games to move 11 games over .500 for the fi rst time since June 9, 2006. They won their fi fth consecutive road game and are one of only two NL teams with a winning road record.
MLB
PGA TOUR
Rose back in the hunt at AT&T
IN BRIEF
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. (AP) — Justin Rose was happy to be lead-ing the AT&T National, especially because it was only fi ve days ago that he threw away a chance to win with a surprising meltdown in the fi nal round.
Tiger Woods? He’s happy to still be playing.
Rose played bogey-free Friday and wound up with the best score of the tournament, a 6-under 64, to build a one-shot lead over Jason Day and Charlie Wi going into the weekend at demanding Aronimink Golf Club.
Woods, who won this tournament last year at Congressional, hit the ball well for the second straight day. He again got nothing out of it, however,
and missed a 30-inch putt late in the round that brought him back to a 70. He was at 3-over 143, which made the cut on the number, although he was never in serious danger of going home early.
“I’m driving it on a string right now, and that’s fun,” Woods said. “But if you don’t make putts, no matter how good you hit the golf ball, you’re not going to shoot good scores.”
The scoring improved slightly in the second round, especially in the afternoon as the wind began to calm. Rose said his round was helped by being in the same group with Sean O’Hair (68) and J.B. Holmes (69), who also played well. They combined for 13 birdies and only one bogey over
the 54 holes they played collectively.For Rose, the timing could not
have been better.In his fi rst tournament since win-
ning the Memorial by closing with a 66, Rose had a three-shot lead at the Travelers Championship in Crom-well, Conn., when it all fell apart. He shot 39 on the back nine for a 75 and tied for ninth.
“I turned up here Monday morn-ing feeling like I was a better player than I was on Sunday, because you learn,” he said. “My game doesn’t go away overnight. You have an experi-ence like that, and if you ask yourself the right questions and if you deal with it in the right way, you become better.”
Bobcats’ Jackson vows to be trimmer, more focused
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — To understand why Ste-phen Jackson showed up for the Charlotte Bobcats’ summer camp featuring mostly undrafted rook-ies and journeymen, you need to know what he’s been dreaming about.
It’s a recurring night-mare, really.
Not even sleep allows Jackson to escape the way the franchise’s best season ended, with a listless performance in the fi nal game of Orlando’s four-game sweep in the fi rst round of the playoffs.
“I had a dream about that last game probably three times since the sea-son has been over with,” Jackson said Friday.
Jackson used color-ful language to describe how he relives the season fi nale, shaking his head as he thought about going 2 of 11 from the fi eld and committing four turn-overs to make for a quick exit in the Bobcats’ fi rst playoff appearance.
“It’s sad to say I wasn’t focused in the fourth game of a playoff series,” Jackson said. “That’s been kind of hard on me. I just want to get better.”
Combine that with coach Larry Brown’s strong suggestion that he become leaner, and Jackson was back on the court a couple weeks ago, the earliest he’s returned in the offseason in his 10-year NBA career.
“If I would have been 10 to 15 pounds lighter, I would have been mov-
ing a little better, my defense would have been better,” Jackson said. “A lot of things would have been better. So when he told me that, I defi nitely agreed with him.”
The 6-foot-8 Jack-son said he played at 240 pounds, bulking up because he began the season in Golden State, where he played mostly small forward. Jackson moved to shooting guard when the Warriors gave in to his trade demands after his run-ins with coach Don Nelson and shipped him to Charlotte in November.
He went on to aver-age 21.1 points in 72 games with the Bobcats, squashing any concerns about how his sometimes volatile persona would mesh with the demanding Brown. Jackson helped lead to the Bobcats to a franchise-record 44 wins and the seventh seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
But the postseason wasn’t kind. Jackson hy-perextended his left knee in Game 1, shot 6 of 18 and missed a key 3-point-er in the fi nal minute of a close loss in Game 3, then was a non-factor with eight points in the series fi nale.
“I know how important this comeback year after making the playoffs is to (owner Michael) Jordan and the organization and the city,” Jackson said. “That’s another reason I’m here working.”
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AP: Celtics agree to terms with Pierce
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Celtics have agreed to terms with captain Paul Pierce on a deal that could keep the MVP of their 2008 title run with the team for another four seasons.
The contract was not announced, but it was confi rmed to The Associated Press by a Celtics offi cial familiar with the deal who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the free agent signing period does not begin until Thursday.
“Both sides made it clear that staying together was best for the team,” the of-fi cial said.
Terms of the contract were not immediately available. The Boston Herald, which fi rst reported on the deal, says Pierce would get $61 million over four years, with a mutual option for the fourth year.
AP: Suns out of Amare picture
PHOENIX (AP) — A person with knowledge of the situation says Amare Stoudemire’s days with the Phoenix Suns are over after the team reached contract agreements with forward Hakim Warrick and center Channing Frye.
The person told The Associated Press that War-rick agreed to a four-year, $18 million deal on Friday, shortly after Frye agreed to a fi ve-year, $30 million offer to re-sign with Phoenix. The person spoke on the condi-tion of anonymity because the contracts can’t be signed until July 8.
The two agreements mean any deal with Stoudemire would put the Suns far over the amount the franchise is willing to pay. The two sides negotiated for three hours without success Wednesday night just before the dead-line for players to become free agents.
Stoudemire’s agent, Happy Walters, confi rmed that the Suns were no longer in the picture. He said Stoudemire was going to New York this weekend to meet with the Knicks “but we’re talking to other teams as well.”
Bucks sign G Salmons for $40M
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A per-son familiar with the negotia-tions says the Milwaukee Bucks have re-signed free agent guard John Salmons to a fi ve-year, $40 million deal.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on condi-tion of anonymity Friday be-cause teams can’t offi cially announce deals until July 8.
The 6-foot-6 Salmons ar-rived in a trade with Chicago last season and played a critical role in helping the Bucks reach the playoffs.
Boozer talking with Bulls
CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bulls have met with Utah’s Carlos Boozer, one of at least three power forwards on their free agent wish list.
Boozer met with the Bulls on Thursday and more talks could be held, the person told with The Associ-ated Press on condition of anonymity because they did not have authority to speak publicly about the team’s moves.
New York Knicks forward David Lee and Toronto’s Chris Bosh, two more power forwards, were also expected to meet with the Bulls on Friday.
Chicago has already made a pitch to Miami’s Dwyane Wade and are expected to talk with LeBron James on Saturday in the deepest free agency bonanza in NBA history.
Cavs introduce Scott as coach
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — Byron Scott insists he didn’t wrestle with his decision to coach the Cleveland Cavaliers even though he doesn’t know if LeBron James will be on his team.
The Cavaliers introduced Scott as their coach Friday afternoon as James was hearing a pitch from a fourth team, the Los Angeles Clippers. They are trying to lure him away from the only franchise he’s played for and the place he’s called home.
SPORTS BRIEFSWORLD CUP
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Netherlands’ Andre Ooijer, right, celebrates as Brazil’s Dani Alves lies on the pitch after the World Cup quarterfi nal soccer match between the Netherlands and Brazil at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Friday. The Netherlands won 2-1.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Tears rolled down Paulo Gama’s face and his girlfriend sobbed in his arms as he stared in disbelief at the video screen on Copacabana beach.
The fi nal whistle had signaled that Brazil — colossus of the soccer world and favorite to win the World Cup — was eliminated from the tourna-ment in a 2-1 loss to the Netherlands.
Across the famous beach, heads bowed and many of the 20,000 people there crumpled to the white sand. Grandfathers holding babies cried. Brazil’s colors of canary yellow and green streaked down faces painted with the national fl ag. Children looked up to their mothers at the grief around them.
“Tomorrow, the sun will not rise,” Gama said.
That was all he could say. It was all anyone could say in this land of Carnival and samba, where a passion-ate people mourn as acutely as they
celebrate.“It’s over. It’s over. I cannot believe
that it is over,” said Luciano Bar-reto, using the Brazil jersey in his hand to wipe his face. Earlier, when top-ranked Brazil took a 1-0 lead and looked like it was cruising toward an easy victory, that same shirt was proudly waved in the air with the certainty of a win and heading toward a sixth World Cup title.
Robinho, the nimble-footed, goal-scoring wizard, had given Brazil the lead in the 10th minute. Just two minutes before, he had a goal waved off for an offside call.
But the Netherlands found its foot-ing and equalized in the 53rd when a shot bounced off the head of Brazil’s Felipe Melo into his own goal.
The goal that crushed the hearts of 190 million Brazilian fans came in the 68th minute, when Wesley Sneijder scored with a header following a corner kick.
“Oh, my God! Only a miracle can save us now!” Vera Lucia said to the brilliant blue Brazilian sky seconds later. “Oh Lord, save us!”
Uruguay beats Ghana 4-2 in penalty shootout
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Victories — and defeats — don’t come any tougher than this.
Uruguay survived when Ghana missed a penalty kick at the very end of extra time, and it then won the shootout 4-2 after a 1-1 draw Friday. The wild win sent the South Americans into the World Cup semi-fi nals for the fi rst time in 40 years. It sent the fi nal African team home in tears.
Sebastian Abreu chipped in his penalty kick to give Uruguay a spot opposite the Netherlands in the fi nal four.
Ghana missed twice in the shootout, but wouldn’t have been there had Asamoah Gyan, who made two penalty kicks earlier in the tournament, not hit the crossbar on the fi nal play of overtime.
Netherlands stun Brazil
WIMBLEDON
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Britain’s Andy Murray holds his head during his men’s singles semifi nal against Spain’s Rafael Nadal, during their men’s singles semifi nal on the Centre Court at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, Friday.
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Rafael Nadal is back in the Wimbledon fi nal for the fourth time in his last four appear-ances, while Britain’s 74-year wait for a homegrown men’s champion goes on.
The top-ranked Spaniard took apart fourth-seeded Andy Murray 6-4, 7-6 (6), 6-4 on Friday to move within one win of a second Wimbledon title and an eighth Grand Slam championship.
Nadal was at his relentless best, whip-ping topspin forehands from corner to cor-ner, as he put on a bravura performance in front of a Centre Court audience that included David Beckham.
Nadal will be a heavy favorite in Sun-day’s fi nal against 12th-seeded Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic, who de-feated No. 3 Novak Djokovic 6-3, 7-6 (9), 6-3 to reach his fi rst Grand Slam title match.
Nadal won Wimbledon in 2008, beat-ing Roger Federer in an epic fi ve-set fi nal, but was unable to defend his title last year because of tendinitis in both knees. Defending and six-time champion Federer was upset in the quarterfi nals this week by Berdych, and Nadal now has the chance to reclaim his crown.
“For me, it was amazing day, very important victory for me, one of the more diffi cult victories of my career,” Nadal said. “I think it’s one of the biggest victories in my career.”
Nadal ended Murray’s hopes of becom-ing the fi rst British player to win the men’s title since Fred Perry in 1936. No Brit-ish man has even reached the fi nal since Henry “Bunny” Austin in 1938, and British men have now lost in 10 Wimbledon semi-fi nals since then.
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E—Cervelli (4). DP—Toronto 2, New York 1. LOB—Toronto 13, New York 8. 3B—Wise (1). SB—F.Lewis (6), Wise (2), Jeter (9), Swisher (1). S—Hoffpauir. SF—A.Rodriguez. IP H R ER BB SO TorontoCecil 6 4 1 1 6 5Camp 1 1-3 1 0 0 0 0S.Downs 1 2-3 0 0 0 0 0Frasor W,3-1 1 0 0 0 0 1Gregg 1 0 0 0 0 1 New YorkA.J.Burnett 6 2-3 4 0 0 3 6D.Marte H,9 1-3 0 0 0 0 0Chamberlain BS,2-4 1 2 1 1 1 0M.Rivera 1 1 0 0 0 1D.Robertson L,0-3 1 1-3 3 4 4 2 0Park 2-3 1 1 1 1 1
HBP—by Park (A.Hill), by A.J.Burnett (F.Lewis). WP—Cecil, A.J.Burnett 2. PB—Cer-velli.
Umpires—Home, Mark Wegner; First, Dan Iassogna; Second, Dale Scott; Third, Jerry Meals.
T—3:49. A—45,792 (50,287).
NL BoxscoreREDS 12, CUBS 0
CINCINNATI CHICAGO ab r h bi ab r h biBPhllps 2b 3 2 1 2 Colvin lf 4 0 0 0Janish 2b 1 0 0 0 Fontent 2b 3 0 1 0OCarer ss 5 1 1 0 D.Lee 1b 3 0 0 0Votto 1b 3 2 1 2 ArRmr 3b 4 0 0 0Rolen 3b 4 1 1 2 Byrd cf 4 0 1 0Ondrsk p 1 0 0 0 Fukdm rf 2 0 0 0Owings p 0 0 0 0 SCastro ss 3 0 0 0Gomes lf 3 2 2 2 K.Hill c 3 0 0 0Bruce rf 2 2 0 0 Dmpstr p 2 0 0 0Heisey ph-rf 1 0 1 0 Schlittr p 0 0 0 0RHrndz c 4 1 1 2 Howry p 0 0 0 0CMiller ph-c 1 0 0 0 Stevens p 0 0 0 0Stubbs cf 5 0 1 0 Nady ph 1 0 0 0Arroyo p 2 1 0 1 JRussll p 0 0 0 0Cairo 3b 1 0 0 0 Totals 36 12 9 11 Totals 29 0 2 0
Cincinnati 001 000 920 — 12Chicago 000 000 000 — 0
E—Fontenot (6). DP—Chicago 1. LOB—Cin-cinnati 5, Chicago 5. 2B—Gomes (17), R.Hernandez (10). HR—B.Phillips (10), Votto (19). SB—Gomes (2). IP H R ER BB SO CincinnatiArroyo W,8-4 6 2 0 0 2 3Ondrusek 2 0 0 0 0 2Owings 1 0 0 0 1 3 ChicagoDempster L,6-7 6 1-3 2 5 2 5 9Schlitter 1-3 2 5 5 3 0Howry 1-3 1 0 0 0 0Stevens 1 2 2 2 0 1J.Russell 1 2 0 0 0 0
PB—K.Hill.Umpires—Home, Mark Carlson; First, Larry
Vanover; Second, Angel Campos; Third, Jeff Kellogg.
T—2:51. A—40,361 (41,210).
AUTO RACINGNASCAR-Sprint Cup-Coke Zero 400 Powered By Coca-Cola Lineup
By The Associated PressAfter Friday qualifying; race SaturdayAt Daytona International SpeedwayDaytona Beach, Fla.Lap length: 2.5 miles(Car number in parentheses)1. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, Owner
Points.2. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, Owner
Points.3. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, Owner Points.4. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, Owner Points.5. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, Owner Points.6. (2) Kurt Busch, Dodge, Owner Points.7. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, Owner Points.8. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, Owner Points.9. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, Owner
Points.10. (16) Greg Biffl e, Ford, Owner Points.11. (5) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, Owner
Points.12. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, Owner Points.13. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, Owner
Points.14. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, Owner
Points.15. (33) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, Owner
Points.16. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota, Owner Points.17. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, Owner
Points.18. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, Owner
Points.19. (00) David Reutimann, Toyota, Owner
Points.20. (9) Kasey Kahne, Ford, Owner Points.21. (43) A J Allmendinger, Ford, Owner
Points.22. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet,
Owner Points.23. (98) Paul Menard, Ford, Owner Points.24. (83) Reed Sorenson, Toyota, Owner
Points.25. (6) David Ragan, Ford, Owner Points.26. (12) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, Owner
Points.27. (82) Scott Speed, Toyota, Owner Points.28. (47) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, Owner
Points.29. (19) Elliott Sadler, Ford, Owner Points.30. (77) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, Owner
Points.31. (78) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, Owner
Points.32. (7) Robby Gordon, Toyota, Owner Points.33. (34) Kevin Conway, Ford, Owner Points.34. (37) Robert Richardson Jr., Ford, Owner
Points.35. (71) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet, Owner Points.36. (26) David Stremme, Ford, Owner
Winner.37. (09) Bobby Labonte, Chevrolet, Owner
Winner.38. (38) Travis Kvapil, Ford, Attempts.39. (36) Steve Park, Chevrolet, Attempts.40. (13) Max Papis, Toyota, Attempts.41. (46) J.J. Yeley, Dodge, Attempts.42. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, Attempts.43. (66) Dave Blaney, Toyota, Attempts. Failed to Qualify44. (55) Michael McDowell, Toyota.45. (64) Todd Bodine, Toyota.
TENNISWimbledon Results
By The Associated PressFridayAt The All England Lawn Tennis &
Croquet ClubWimbledon, EnglandPurse: $20.3 million (Grand Slam)Surface: Grass-OutdoorSinglesMenSemifi nalsTomas Berdych (12), Czech Republic, def.
Novak Djokovic (3), Serbia, 6-3, 7-6 (9), 6-3.Rafael Nadal (2), Spain, def. Andy Murray
(4), Britain, 6-4, 7-6 (6), 6-4.DoublesWomenSemifi nalsElena Vesnina and Vera Zvonareva, Rus-
sia, def. Gisela Dulko, Argentina, and Flavia Pennetta (4), Italy, 6-3, 6-1.
Vania King, United States, and Yaroslava Shvedova, Kazakhstan, def. Liezel Huber and Bethanie Mattek-Sands (5), United States, 6-4, 6-4.
GOLFAT&T National Par ScoresBy The Associated PressFridayAt Aronimink Golf ClubNewtown Square, Pa.Purse: $6.2 millionYardage: 7,237; Par: 70Second Rounda-amateurJustin Rose 69-64 — 133 -7Jason Day 66-68 — 134 -6Charlie Wi 69-65 — 134 -6Jeff Overton 68-68 — 136 -4Charley Hoffman 69-67 — 136 -4Ryan Moore 67-70 — 137 -3Bo Van Pelt 69-68 — 137 -3Robert Allenby 70-67 — 137 -3John Mallinger 67-70 — 137 -3Kris Blanks 69-68 — 137 -3Brian Gay 67-70 — 137 -3J.B. Holmes 70-67 — 137 -3Nick Watney 66-71 — 137 -3Joe Ogilvie 66-72 — 138 -2Arjun Atwal 66-72 — 138 -2Ryuji Imada 68-70 — 138 -2Steve Marino 68-71 — 139 -1Bryce Molder 69-70 — 139 -1Graham DeLaet 70-69 — 139 -1Andres Romero 71-68 — 139 -1Carl Pettersson 67-72 — 139 -1Billy Mayfair 68-71 — 139 -1
Nicholas Thompson 72-67 — 139 -1Ted Purdy 69-70 — 139 -1Daniel Chopra 69-70 — 139 -1Jim Furyk 69-70 — 139 -1Lucas Glover 71-68 — 139 -1Sean O’Hair 71-68 — 139 -1Aaron Baddeley 69-70 — 139 -1George McNeill 71-69 — 140 EBrett Quigley 67-73 — 140 EGarrett Willis 71-69 — 140 EJonathan Byrd 70-70 — 140 EJimmy Walker 71-69 — 140 EStuart Appleby 71-69 — 140 ENathan Green 71-69 — 140 EJustin Leonard 71-69 — 140 EVaughn Taylor 70-71 — 141 + 1Bob Estes 68-73 — 141 + 1Ben Crane 71-70 — 141 + 1Vijay Singh 71-70 — 141 + 1David Toms 70-71 — 141 + 1Marc Leishman 71-70 — 141 + 1Tim Petrovic 72-69 — 141 + 1Brandt Snedeker 71-70 — 141 + 1Spencer Levin 72-69 — 141 + 1Derek Lamely 69-72 — 141 + 1Michael Letzig 67-74 — 141 + 1Troy Merritt 69-73 — 142 + 2Ricky Barnes 70-72 — 142 + 2Pat Perez 74-68 — 142 + 2Chris Stroud 71-71 — 142 + 2Jeff Quinney 74-68 — 142 + 2Tim Herron 68-74 — 142 + 2Brendon de Jonge 70-72 — 142 + 2Briny Baird 70-72 — 142 + 2Robert Garrigus 73-69 — 142 + 2Chris DiMarco 72-70 — 142 + 2Richard S. Johnson 72-70 — 142 + 2Scott Verplank 71-71 — 142 + 2Tom Pernice, Jr. 69-73 — 142 + 2Webb Simpson 72-70 — 142 + 2John Merrick 72-70 — 142 + 2Steve Elkington 73-70 — 143 + 3Scott McCarron 68-75 — 143 + 3Tiger Woods 73-70 — 143 + 3D.A. Points 74-69 — 143 + 3Michael Connell 77-66 — 143 + 3Jason Dufner 70-73 — 143 + 3Charles Howell III 71-72 — 143 + 3Fredrik Jacobson 70-73 — 143 + 3Failed to qualifyGreg Owen 69-75 — 144 + 4J.J. Henry 70-74 — 144 + 4James Nitties 75-69 — 144 + 4Matt Jones 72-72 — 144 + 4John Senden 73-71 — 144 + 4James Driscoll 73-71 — 144 + 4Tom Gillis 68-76 — 144 + 4Troy Matteson 72-72 — 144 + 4Jarrod Lyle 74-70 — 144 + 4Lee Janzen 73-71 — 144 + 4Greg Chalmers 72-73 — 145 + 5Rocco Mediate 71-74 — 145 + 5Boo Weekley 76-69 — 145 + 5Dustin Johnson 71-74 — 145 + 5Jeff Maggert 75-70 — 145 + 5Bill Lunde 74-71 — 145 + 5Shaun Micheel 75-70 — 145 + 5Chris Couch 75-70 — 145 + 5Mark Wilson 73-72 — 145 + 5Chris Riley 70-76 — 146 + 6Joe Durant 77-69 — 146 + 6Jerry Kelly 74-72 — 146 + 6D.J. Trahan 74-72 — 146 + 6Kevin Sutherland 74-72 — 146 + 6Josh Teater 73-73 — 146 + 6Paul Goydos 70-76 — 146 + 6Rickie Fowler 69-77 — 146 + 6Rod Pampling 73-73 — 146 + 6Matt Bettencourt 72-75 — 147 + 7Cameron Beckman 72-75 — 147 + 7Y.E. Yang 75-72 — 147 + 7Matt Every 73-74 — 147 + 7Chad Collins 73-75 — 148 + 8Alex Prugh 72-76 — 148 + 8Scott Piercy 78-70 — 148 + 8Roland Thatcher 69-79 — 148 + 8Chris Tidland 76-72 — 148 + 8Alex Cejka 74-74 — 148 + 8Brian Davis 73-76 — 149 + 9Blake Adams 72-77 — 149 + 9J.P. Hayes 76-73 — 149 + 9Davis Love III 78-72 — 150 + 10Matt Hill 77-73 — 150 + 10Notah Begay III 75-76 — 151 + 11Michael Allen 74-77 — 151 + 11a-Byeong-Hun An 78-74 — 152 + 12Mathew Goggin 75-79 — 154 + 14Kevin Stadler 75-83 — 158 + 18
TRANSACTIONSBy The Associated PressFOOTBALLNational Football LeagueDETROIT LIONS—Signed CB Dre’ Bly to a
two-year contract. Released CB Paul Pratt.
AMERICAN LEAGUEEast Division
W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwayNew York 48 31 .608 — — 5-5 L-1 26-13 22-18Boston 47 32 .595 1 — 6-4 L-1 27-16 20-16Tampa Bay 46 32 .590 11⁄2 1⁄2 4-6 W-2 20-19 26-13Toronto 41 40 .506 8 7 3-7 W-1 21-19 20-21Baltimore 24 54 .308 231⁄2 221⁄2 5-5 L-1 16-25 8-29
Central Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwayMinnesota 43 36 .544 — — 3-7 L-1 25-15 18-21Detroit 41 36 .532 1 5 4-6 L-2 25-11 16-25Chicago 40 37 .519 2 6 7-3 L-1 20-19 20-18Kansas City 34 45 .430 9 13 5-5 W-1 18-21 16-24Cleveland 31 47 .397 111⁄2 151⁄2 5-5 W-5 16-20 15-27
West Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwayTexas 47 31 .603 — — 7-3 L-1 28-12 19-19Los Angeles 45 36 .556 31⁄2 3 6-4 W-1 23-18 22-18Oakland 39 41 .488 9 81⁄2 6-4 W-1 24-16 15-25Seattle 33 45 .423 14 131⁄2 6-4 L-1 20-18 13-27
NATIONAL LEAGUEEast Division
W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwayAtlanta 46 33 .582 — — 5-5 W-1 28-9 18-24New York 44 35 .557 2 — 5-5 L-1 28-12 16-23Philadelphia 41 36 .532 4 2 6-4 L-2 20-15 21-21Florida 37 41 .474 81⁄2 61⁄2 5-5 L-1 21-23 16-18Washington 35 45 .438 111⁄2 91⁄2 4-6 W-1 21-16 14-29
Central Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwayCincinnati 46 35 .568 — — 8-2 W-3 27-19 19-16St. Louis 43 36 .544 2 1 5-5 L-2 25-14 18-22Milwaukee 36 43 .456 9 8 7-3 W-1 17-22 19-21Chicago 34 46 .425 111⁄2 101⁄2 3-7 L-3 19-22 15-24Houston 32 48 .400 131⁄2 121⁄2 6-4 W-2 16-24 16-24Pittsburgh 28 51 .354 17 16 3-7 W-2 17-19 11-32
West Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwaySan Diego 46 33 .582 — — 6-4 L-1 24-19 22-14Los Angeles 43 35 .551 21⁄2 1⁄2 5-5 W-3 24-15 19-20Colorado 42 37 .532 4 2 6-4 W-1 24-14 18-23San Francisco 40 38 .513 51⁄2 31⁄2 2-8 L-6 25-17 15-21Arizona 31 48 .392 15 13 4-6 W-1 18-18 13-30
MLB Standings
AMERICAN LEAGUEThursday’s GamesCleveland 6, Toronto 1N.Y. Yankees 4, Seattle 2Oakland 8, Baltimore 1Tampa Bay 5, Minnesota 4, 10 inningsL.A. Angels 2, Texas 1Friday’s GamesToronto 6, N.Y. Yankees 1, 11 inningsOakland at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.Seattle at Detroit, 7:05 p.m.Baltimore at Boston, 7:10 p.m.Chicago White Sox at Texas, 8:05 p.m.Tampa Bay at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.Kansas City at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.Saturday’s GamesToronto (R.Romero 6-4) at N.Y. Yankees (Pettitte 9-2), 1:05
p.m.Tampa Bay (W.Davis 5-9) at Minnesota (Liriano 6-6), 4:10 p.m.Oakland (Braden 4-7) at Cleveland (Westbrook 5-4), 7:05 p.m.Seattle (J.Vargas 6-3) at Detroit (Verlander 9-5), 7:05 p.m.Baltimore (Guthrie 3-9) at Boston (Lester 9-3), 7:10 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Danks 7-6) at Texas (Tom.Hunter 4-0),
8:05 p.m.Kansas City (Chen 4-2) at L.A. Angels (E.Santana 8-5), 9:05
p.m.Sunday’s GamesOakland at Cleveland, 1:05 p.m.Seattle at Detroit, 1:05 p.m.Toronto at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m.Baltimore at Boston, 1:35 p.m.Tampa Bay at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m.Chicago White Sox at Texas, 8:05 p.m.Kansas City at L.A. Angels, 8:15 p.m.Monday’s GamesBaltimore at Detroit, 1:05 p.m.L.A. Angels at Chicago White Sox, 7:05 p.m.Boston at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.Cleveland at Texas, 8:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.Kansas City at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.———
NATIONAL LEAGUEThursday’s GamesCincinnati 3, Chicago Cubs 2, 10 inningsWashington 2, N.Y. Mets 1Pittsburgh 3, Philadelphia 2Milwaukee 4, St. Louis 1Colorado 7, San Francisco 3Houston 6, San Diego 3, 10 inningsFriday’s GamesCincinnati 12, Chicago Cubs 0N.Y. Mets at Washington, 7:05 p.m.Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.Florida at Atlanta, 7:35 p.m.San Francisco at Colorado, 8:10 p.m.Milwaukee at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.Houston at San Diego, 10:05 p.m.Saturday’s GamesCincinnati (Cueto 8-2) at Chicago Cubs (R.Wells 3-6), 1:05
p.m.Florida (Ani.Sanchez 7-4) at Atlanta (Hanson 7-5), 4:10 p.m.N.Y. Mets (Dickey 6-1) at Washington (Strasburg 2-2), 4:10
p.m.Milwaukee (M.Parra 2-5) at St. Louis (Carpenter 9-1), 6:35
p.m.Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 4-3) at Pittsburgh (Maholm 5-6),
7:05 p.m.San Francisco (Zito 7-4) at Colorado (Jimenez 14-1), 8:10
p.m.Houston (Norris 2-5) at San Diego (Correia 5-6), 8:35 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 7-4) at Arizona (R.Lopez 4-6), 9:40
p.m.Sunday’s GamesN.Y. Mets at Washington, 1:35 p.m.Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 1:35 p.m.Milwaukee at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m.San Francisco at Colorado, 3:10 p.m.Houston at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 4:10 p.m.Florida at Atlanta, 5:05 p.m.Monday’s GamesChicago Cubs at Arizona, 4:10 p.m.San Francisco at Milwaukee, 4:10 p.m.Atlanta at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.Cincinnati at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.Florida at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10 p.m.
Saturday, July 3AUTO RACING7:30 p.m.TNT — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, Coke Zero
400, at Daytona Beach, Fla.CYCLING11:30 a.m.VERSUS — Tour de France, prologue, at
Rotterdam, NetherlandsGOLF8 a.m.TGC — European PGA Tour, Open de
France, third round, at Paris1 p.m.TGC — PGA Tour, AT&T National, third
round, at Newtown Square, Pa.3 p.m.CBS — PGA Tour, AT&T National, third
round, at Newtown Square, Pa.6:30 p.m.TGC — Champions Tour, Montreal Champi-
onship, second round, at Blainville, Quebec (same-day tape)
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL4 p.m.FOX — Regional coverage, N.Y. Mets at
Washington, Tampa Bay at Minnesota, or Florida at Atlanta
8 p.m.WGN — Chicago White Sox at TexasSOCCER10 a.m.ABC — FIFA, World Cup, quarterfi nal,
Germany vs. Argentina, at Cape Town, South Africa
2:30 p.m.ABC — FIFA, World Cup, quarterfi nal,
Paraguay vs. Spain, at JohannesburgTENNIS9 a.m.NBC — The Championships, women’s,
men’s doubles and women’s doubles cham-pionship matches, at Wimbledon, England (live and same-day tape)
WNBA BASKETBALL5 p.m.ESPN2 — Seattle at Los Angeles Sparks
Sports on TV
reports James had set July 5 as a deadline.He might be close to deciding. Just not
yet.While other teams have made splashy
presentations to James over the past two days at his business offi ces in downtown Cleveland, the Cavs have been making them-selves more appealing to him. On Friday, they introduced Byron Scott as their coach, and he didn’t waste any time making a pre-diction on where he thinks James is headed.
Nowhere.“I think at the end of the day, he’s going
to make the right decision, and he’ll be here in Cleveland for the rest of his career,” said Scott, who insisted he did not consult with James before agreeing to a contract. “His legacy of winning championships in his hometown will be like nothing he’s seen in his life. There’s nothing like winning at home. I won three titles in my hometown, and there’s not a better feeling.”
The Cavs will tug at James’ heart on Sat-urday. They are asking Cleveland fans to line East 9th Street and form a tunnel to welcome James to his meeting. Fans will carry signs saying “Home,” and the team is hoping the message hits James where he lives.
On Friday, he listened intently to presen-tations by the Heat and Clippers. Miami used every precious second of its promised time with the King — and then some.
Team president Pat Riley, coach Erik Spoelstra, billionaire owner Micky Arison
and former center Alonzo Mourning spent nearly three hours meeting with James, try-ing to convince him to continue his career in sunny South Florida under the palm trees and the state’s friendly income tax laws.
The majority of Miami’s delegation ar-rived at 10:20 a.m. James showed up two minutes before the scheduled 11 a.m. look-ing like a summer camp counselor in T-shirt, shorts and a backpack.
At 1:50 p.m., the Heat’s brass paraded sin-gle fi le through the lobby of the IMG building without saying a word. Before getting in their cars, they passed the Clippers’ two-man contingent of acting general manager Neil Olshey and executive Andy Roeser.
Olshey joked that Riley went into over-time with James.
“We showed up on time,” Olshey said. “Riles went a little late. He has more to say. He’s written a few books, so maybe they were going over his motivational strategies.”
Roeser didn’t care what they were talking about. “We were happy to see they left empty handed,” he said.
The Clippers wrapped up their meeting with James in about an hour. When they concluded, James was asked how things were going as he headed out the door.
“Good,” he said.Riley felt the same way.“This is a very fl uid process,” said Riley,
who wore his 2006 NBA championship ring, one of seven he owns. “We’ve had fi ve meetings across the country in the span of 40 hours. We will continue with the process. It’s still early in free agency, but we feel very good with how our presentations have gone thus far.”
by track operators International Speedway Corp. and Speedway Motor-sports Inc. for the 2011 season.
But it was the Chase that received the most attention as France admit-ted NASCAR is continuously trying to improve its championship system.
Introduced in 2004 as a radical new system for crowning the Cup champi-on, 10 drivers competed over the fi nal 10 races of the season. The inaugural year was a smashing success, as fi ve drivers went into the season fi nale in mathematical contention to win the title that ultimately went to Kurt Busch, who beat Jimmie Johnson by eight points in the fi nal standings.
Two years later, Johnson began his run of four consecutive titles, even as NASCAR widened the fi eld to 12 drivers and created a seeding sys-tem based on bonus points earned through “regular-season” victories.
Now, as NASCAR goes through a self-evaluation period designed to
renew interest in a series that has suffered through sagging attendance and television ratings, changes to the Chase are again on the table.
France would not talk specifi cs, but in general terms, his ideas sounded as if NASCAR is considering both elimi-nations and tweaking the system to ensure that several drivers are in title contention during the season fi nale. In the past several years, Johnson has had to only preserve a decent fi nish to wrap up the title with little to no competition.
“We like a playoff-style format for sure,” France said. “The big design is to have playoff type moments that only can be, in any sport, created when there’s a lot on the line at any one moment. That’s what the essence of Game 7s, eliminations and all that are.
“What we’re talking about is en-hancing it in a way that will bring out more of the winning moments, the big moments that happen in sports. And if there’s a way we can do that, and there are a couple of ways, we’re going to give that a lot of weight.”
195 mph inches away from each other.Some drivers love it. Others, such as
Dale Earnhardt Jr., have been critical.Everyone weighed in nearly fi ve
months ago, when a small hole be-tween turns 1 and 2 took center stage at NASCAR’s marquee event, marred an otherwise spectacular season-opening race and prompted offi cials to apologize for more than two hours of delays.
Days after the race, engineers decided a strip of pavement would be removed and reinforced with a concrete patch. The patch is about 6 feet wide and 18 feet long. Although offi cials believed it would hold up through Saturday night’s 400-mile race, they also scheduled a $20 million repaving that begins Monday.
But more damage developed after several practice sessions Thursday. Nationwide and Sprint Cup series cars turned laps for several hours — the fi rst real test since February’s race.
“It is the only area on the track that we’ve seen any deterioration or any added pressure, stress to the pavement,”
Braig said. “We’ve used every piece of technology available to scan the entire surface since the Daytona 500, but it’s 32 years old. We did core samples and knew it was deteriorated enough that now’s the time to repave.”
Until then, the focus will be on the re-pairs. How well will the patches hold up during a 250-mile Nationwide race and a 400-mile Cup race? There’s also practices, qualifying runs and a Grand-Am Series race on the road course that also runs through turns 1 and 2.
And what would the fallout be if there are more delays in Saturday night’s main event? The Daytona 500 took more than six hours to complete and had hundreds, maybe even thousands, of fans heading to the exits during the delays. The Coke Zero 400 is at night and rain is in the forecast.
“There’s not really a reason to be concerned about it,” two-time Cup champion Tony Stewart said. “It’s either going to work out fi ne or come apart. The big patch that they put down seems to be working pretty well. I don’t have a big sense of concern about it. If it comes apart, they’ll do what they need to do to fi x it.”
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LeBronContinued from Page 1B
DEAR ABBY: I’m 13, the young-est of three children, but I am treated with no respect. My parents (mostly my dad) treat my brother like he’s a prince. Even if he loses a football game he is praised. I just started playing vol-leyball and my team won, but my parents haven’t said anything to me.
Dad treats me and my sister as if we are in the 18th century. We’re supposed to work all the time while our brother is spoiled. Even when we fi nish working they don’t appreciate it, and I’m always to blame.
Abby, I feel so disrespected. Please help me. I have talked to them about it, but it doesn’t seem to get through.
— NEEDS RESPECT IN TAMPA, FLA.
DEAR NEEDS RESPECT: Does your sister feel the same way you do? If so, you should approach your mother together and discuss it. Even if your father doesn’t, she should be praising you when you do something right.
I hope you and your sister continue to strive to excel and be recognized, because you may fi nd that while your father isn’t capable of giving you the affi rmation you need, others will as you achieve your goals. So bide your time and persevere. If you do, you won’t be sorry.
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DEAR ABBY: A friend of mine, “Ashley,” is being married in Sep-tember. She invited me to be one of her bridesmaids and my two chil-dren to be ring-bearers. I accepted because I felt obligated and didn’t want to hurt her feelings, but now I regret my answer.
Abby, I cannot stand there be-side her and support her marrying the man she has chosen. He is dis-honest and in debt because of his poor decisions. After three years of dating, Ashley gave him a deadline to propose, and he waited until the last minute. I understand this is her choice — I just cannot support it.
She continues to say how she misses spending time with me, but makes no effort to get together. Needless to say, our friendship is not what it was at one point. My question is, how do I back out now, before it’s too late? And how do I explain things without creating an enemy?
— MOMMY OF TWO
DEAR MOMMY: Tell her imme-diately, and here’s how: “Ashley, I can’t be in the wedding. I don’t think this man is good enough for you, and I think you are doing something you will regret later. Please don’t think I don’t care about you because I do, but the children and I cannot be a part of this.”
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DEAR ABBY: Yesterday, after my neighbors went out, the hose on their washing machine broke.
Because the faucet had been left in the open position, hot water gushed out all day long, soaking through the fl oor and fl ooding their basement. Abby, their base-ment had just been refi nished. The repairs will cost thousands of additional dollars.
My dad warned me about this potential problem years ago. Ever since, I have always turned my faucets off when I am not actually doing laundry.
Please print this so your readers will know to shut off the washing machine faucets unless their ma-chine is in use.
— GRATEFUL DAUGHTER IN COLORADO
DEAR GRATEFUL DAUGHTER: Thank you for a valuable remind-er. Better to take an extra second to turn off the taps than spend hours bailing, mopping and kick-ing yourself!
Universal Press Syndicate
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don’t worry about something you cannot change. Put your work aside and enjoy doing something that interests you that will make you feel good about yourself. Don’t let anyone put limitations or demands on you -- be clear about what you will put up with. 3 stars
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): New friends can be made while traveling or attending a conference or taking a course. High energy, coupled with accuracy and speed, will show everyone you mean business. Don’t be afraid to show your emotions. 4 stars
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Past emotional situ-ations will surface. Let your experience guide you to a better ending. Anger solves nothing. Expanding your interests and trying new activi-ties will lead to meeting someone with whom you have a lot in common. 2 stars
CANCER (June 21-July 22): You can turn a wrong into a right and appeal to the people you need in your corner if you speak from the heart and share your feelings. If you wait for things to come to you, you will miss out on something good. Changes at home will be positive. 5 stars
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Travel, intrigue and financial gains can all play into your life. Good fortune is within reach. Uncertainty will be what holds you back. Be ready to take action and get in the game. 3 stars
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Focus on love, rela-tionships and making things the best you can at home. Don’t over-spend or go overboard in order to have fun. There are plenty of ways to spice things up without going into debt. 3 stars
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You cannot give in to ultimatums or unreason-
able demands. It may be emotionally draining but, by procrastinating or giving in, an ongoing dilemma will eventually lead to a dead end. Do something creative that will ease your stress. 3 stars
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It’s time to cut your losses so you can move on to a friendly situation. Don’t be fooled by some-one you have trusted in the past. Everyone is looking out for his or her own interests. 3 stars
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Careful what you say or do -- you may be blamed for meddling. An investment that inter-ests you will probably not be as good as you hoped. If you really want to invest, consider learn-ing a new skill or picking up additional knowledge. 5 stars
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Taking charge will show everyone where you stand and what your intentions are. You can expect to have a prob-lem with a neighbor or relative who wants to call the shots. Consider a partnership in order to complete what you’ve started. 2 stars
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Consider past rela-tionships so you don’t make the same mistake. Be honest with yourself and the people trying to help you and you will find a way to change your lifestyle and your future. 4 stars
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You have to make up your own mind if you want to have any say in the way things transpire. Step things up a bit, take control and, before you know it, you will have an equal share in whatever you pursue -- a relation-ship, project or a deal. 3 stars
Birthday Baby: You will use everything within your means to get your way. You are smart and agile and will not tolerate bullies.
The Sanford Herald / Saturday, July 3, 2010 / 5BFeaturesDEAR ABBY
Girl resents attention parentslavish on her older brother
Abigail Van Buren
Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or
P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
Billy GrahamSend your queries to “My
Answer,” Billy Graham Evangelistic Assoc.,
1 Billy Graham Parkway, Charlotte, N.C., 28201
America isstill a greatnation
Q: My friend keeps sending me e-mails about what’s happening in the world, and some of them are really scary. We seem to be headed downhill faster and faster -- economically, socially, morally, you name it. I don’t see much of anything good happening in our coun-try, do you? -- Mrs. P.F.
A: Yes, we live in unsettled and uncertain times, and only God knows what the future holds for us (for our fu-ture is in His hands). If all we had to go on were the daily headlines (or your friend’s e-mails), we’d be right to be alarmed.
But this weekend I hope you’ll also take time to look on the other side, and pause to thank God for all the good things we still enjoy as a na-tion. Tomorrow we will be cel-ebrating July 4th, commemo-rating our birth as a nation. Think of the freedoms we still enjoy, and the opportunities and resources God has given us. Why not let this holiday be a time of thanksgiving for this nation, and for God’s blessings to us?
After all, in spite of our problems (and they are many), our nation is still the greatest nation on earth, and God has not completely with-drawn His blessings from us. The Bible’s words concerning ancient Israel could be ap-plied to us as well: “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord” (Psalm 33:12).
But I hope you’ll also make this holiday a time of inter-cession, asking God to inter-vene and bring us back to Himself. Many of the dangers we face are self-infl icted, because we’ve left God and His will out of our lives.
MY ANSWERODDS AND ENDS
Candidate wins NV primary with queen of clubs
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The 10 of clubs wasn’t quite good enough.
That’s what Carl Moore Sr. drew Thursday in the tiebreaker between two rural Nevada county commission candidates who sought the Republican nomination in the June 8 primary.
Nye County Commissioner Andrew “Butch” Borasky, who survived a recall last year and is seeking a second term, drew a queen of clubs to advance to the November general election.
The drawing took place in a court-room in Pahrump, 60 miles west of Las Vegas.
Both tied with 381 votes in the primary. They remained tied after two recounts. State law calls for candidates to draw lots to get a winner when an election is deadlocked. It can be cutting cards, throwing dice, drawing straws or fl ipping a coin.
Before the big moment, Borasky and Moore agreed on procedure, down to the color of the deck that Clerk San-dra Merlino used â ” red. Merlino then shuffl ed the cards seven times and fanned their fate out on a table.
“We decided on high card,” Borasky told The Associated Press in a telephone interview afterward. “There was no dis-agreement between us. We shook hands before and after.”
Moore, co-owner of a family-owned hardware store, did not immediately return a phone message seeking com-ment.
Report: Japan hot-dog king hungry for July 4 win
TOKYO (AP) — Former world hot-dog eating sensation Takeru Kobayashi of Japan wants to compete in this weekend’s annual Fourth of July contest on Coney Island, but still can’t agree to a contract with the organizers.
Kobayashi, one of the world’s pre-mier competitive eaters, won the contest for six years up to 2007 and then had to settle for second-place fi nishes behind American Joey Chestnut. He moved to New York in March so he could train with local hot dogs.
But his chances of getting revenge this weekend against Chestnut, from San Jose, Calif., seem slim because of a contract dispute with the event’s orga-nizer. Kobayashi, 32, has balked at sign-ing an exclusivity clause with the group, and can’t compete unless he does.
“I really want to compete in the event,” Kobayashi told Japan’s Kyodo news agency.
In a report from New York on Friday, Kyodo quoted Kobayashi as saying the event “holds a special place in my heart,” but added he did not agree with the conditions.
Kobayashi became a celebrity and a hero in Japan by eating his way to victo-ry from 2001 to 2006, a feat that remains unmatched. But Chestnut has won the title for the last three years, setting a world record by scarfi ng down 68 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes last year. Two years ago, Chestnut beat Kobayashi in a fi ve-dog eat off, after they tied at 59 franks each.
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J. T. Davenport & Sons, Inc.Drivers Needed
J.T. Davenport & Sons, Inc. has openings in our Transportation Department for Drivers. We offer above average pay, weekly bonus, free uniforms, and a $500 sign-on bonus. Applicants
must have a valid CDL Class A license and pass DOT physical and drug screen. Route experience preferred but not mandatory.
As part of the Davenport team, you will receive medical/dental benefits, vacation. PTO, Holiday, sick pay, participation
in a company matched 401(K) plan and much more! We are accepting applications at our corporate office and at the
Employment Security Commission in your area.
J.T. Davenport & Sons, INC.1144 Broadway Road
Sanford NC 273321-800-868-7550
EOE
J.T. Davenport & Sons, Inc.Yard Jokey
J.T. Davenport & Sons, Inc. has an opening in our Transportation Department for a Yard Jokey. This position is responsible for placing trailers at dock doors for loading and
unloading, ensuring seals are in place for outbound freight, and handling all yard activities with company equipment. Applicants
must have experience and pass pre-employment screening.
As part of the Davenport team, you will receive medical/dental benefits, vacation, pto, holiday, sick pay, participation
in a company matched 401 (k) plan and much more! We are accepting applications at our corporate office and at the
Employment Security Commission in your area.
J. T. Davenport & Sons, INC. 1144 Broadway Road
Sanford, NC 27332-9793EOE
ANNOUNCEMENTS
0107 Special NoticesJunk Car
Removal ServiceGuaranteed top price paidBuying Batteries as well.
499-3743
Paying the top price for JunkVehicals No Title/Keys No
ProblemOld Batteries Paying.$2-$15 842-1606
WILL MOVE OLD JUNKCARS! BEST PRICES PAID.Call for complete car delivery
price. McLeodʼs AutoCrushing. Day 499-4911. Night
776-9274.
GARAGE /ESTATE SALES
0151Garage/Estate
Sales
Yard Sale SaturdayCorner of US 1 & 15-501
Lots of Good StuffStarts at 8am
Ends Whenever
2 Family Yard SaleSat. Only 7am-Until
3228 Green Valley Rd.Lots of Baby Girl, Men and
Women's Clothes, Toys, Mov-ies, Household Items and
Much More!
5 Family Yard Sale @ Davi-son's Steaks parking lot. Boy
clothes NB-2T most $1-$2, 1stBday Winnie the Pooh partysupplies, 16-18w Maternity
clothes, Adult clothes most $1,Microwave cart, Lots of HHItems $1 Or Less. 7am-Until
Giant Yard Sale3824 Lemon Spring Road
Got stuff leftover from youryard sale or items in your
house that you donʼt want?Call us and we will haul itaway for free.356-2333 or
270-8788
Multi Family Yard SaleSaturday 6am-11am
505 Walnut Driveoff Spring Lane
BR Furn, Clothing,HH Items and More !!!
Yard Sale 7:30-12:30July 3rd 3064 Cox Mill Road
0-10 Boys Clothes, GirlsClothes, Woman's Plus Size
Clothes, Toddler Toys,HH Items, and etc.
Yard Sale Sat 8-2 912 ColonRd. Weedeater, Porch Swing,Dresser & Nightstand, Micro-
wave, Tables, HH Items.
Yard Sale Saturday 7am-UntilMisc., HH, and Yard Items,
Across from hospitalat Dr. Vision Office
Yard Sale: Sat. 7am 1224Lemmond Drive
Mostly Kids Stuff. Boys: 18mon - 2T & Girls: 6x
Yard SaleSaturday 7am-Noon2604 Meadow Drive
HH Goods, Baby/ToddlerClothes & Toys, Adult Cloth-
ing, Etc.
EMPLOYMENT
0232 General HelpAutomotive Tech Needed. Toppay and excellent benefits. In-surance, paid holidays, vaca-tion, and uniforms. Experience
and tools required. Weeklyand sign up bonus available.
We stay busy year round.Call: 910-497-0750
Lube and Tire Tech alsoneeded.
Hiring OTR Drivers. Must have2 yrs. driving experience,clean driving record, CDL
req'd. Home every 3-4 days.Apply in person. Call:
919-775-2622
0232 General HelpWanted: Kennel Tech
Must be physically able to carefor pets and working dogs.
Must have flexible schedule:morning, weekends, and holi-days. Must provide resume in
person to:Tarheel Canine Training Inc.230 W. Seawell St. (Sanford)
Please No Applications OrPhone Calls
Wilson Machine & Tools islooking for a second shift su-
pervisor who has CNC Lathe &Mill experience. Two to three
years' minimum experience re-quired for this position. Thisposition will also require thisperson to setup and operatemachines while working and
helping other employees in theshop. Salary can range from45K to 55K depending uponexperience and ability beforebeing hired to this position.
Wilson Machine & Tool is alsolooking for two second shiftCNC lathe setup/operators,and a second shift CNC Millsetup/operator. Salary is de-pendent upon the amount of
experience when hired.
Wilson Machine & Tool is alsolooking for one shift handy-man; that will be required to
saw parts for production, cleanout machines, floors, and
more! Salary starting at $8.00per hour!
Should you be qualified and in-terested in joining our small
but growing company, contactRay Wilson (919-776-0043)
between the hours 8:00am to3:00pm, Monday thru Friday.
Wilson Machine & Tool4956 Womack RdSanford, NC 27330
(919-776-0043)
0260 RestaurantThe Fairview Dairy Baron 109 Carbonton Road
is now taking applications forCashiers & Wait StaffMust apply in person.18 and Older Only.
0268Part-time
EmploymentCaregiver Needed for Monday
& Wednesday Afternoonsfrom 1pm-8pm for elderly
dementia patient.If interested please call
919-258-6682
0288 Elderly CareCNA seeking employment. Willprovide light housekeeping &
routine personal care. Contact:919-895-9250
PETS
0320 Cats/Dogs/PetsBeautiful Loving Well
Trained KittensTo a Good Home.
919-718-0688
Free Puppies11 week old Labs
Call: 774-3162
One Real Cute PuppyFree To A Good Home
Black about 8 weeks oldCall 898-2918 7am-8pm
Sweet, Loving,Full Blooded Yellow Lab forSale. Good with Kids and
other Dogs.Family Moving NeedsEXCELLENT home.
$100.919-356-6781
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FARM
0410 Farm MarketDixie Lee & Crowder Peas,Okra, Squash, Black & Blue
Berries, Canteloups& Watermelons Across fromThe Lee County Court House
775-3032
LOGAN FARMSNew Crop Sweet Corn776-2277 or 776-1898
MERCHANDISE
0509Household
GoodsA New Queen Pillowtop Set$150. New In Plastic, Must
Sell! 910-691-8388
Maytag Oversize Washer andDryer Capacity Plus. Like
New. $350 For Both Or $175Each. Very Good Condition.
Leave Message 919-776-7205
0533 FurnitureA All New Furniture
Factory DirectBed Sets $195 5PC $495Sofa & Loveseats $495
Sectional $495 Dining $145910-639-9555
A Brand New PillowtopQueen Sets $125King Sets $225
Twin $115 Full $125All models brand new!
910-639-9555
Old Oak Antique Buffet100 years old
Has mirror. Asking $300Call: 775-3140
REAL ESTATE FOR RENT
0610Unfurnished Apartments
Beat the Heat!Move your family into a cool
and comfortableapartment home!
Now takingapplications!Westridge
APARTMENTSPathway Drive
Sanford, NC 27330(919)775-5134
2 BR UnitAVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY
Washer/Dryer hook up ineach unitSection 8 wel-
comedDisability accessible units
EHO
0620 Homes for Rent$1000/mo 4BR/2.5BA Very
Large Home. Security & Refer-ences Required.
Rosemary Street Properties919-548-3458
2 Story Home For Lease orRent 3BR 2BA 2 Car Carportoutside building with heat andair. No Pets Inside or outside.
$750/mo 919-777-8907
3BR/2.5BA Northpoint Town-home, Hawkins Ave.
Garage & close to pool. Likenew in great neighborhood.
Yard maintenance & pool privi-leges included. $850/mo
Call: 252-204-2198
509 Bragg St. 2BR/1BA$450/mo
$450/dep with referencesNo Pets. 919-356-2273
For Rent: 4BR Small RanchStyle House
in Carolina Trace CommunityFor info call Reggie
919-368-4318
Nice 3br 2ba Brick Housewith Basement
in Lemon Spring Area.$700/mo + Dep
No Pets. 919-499-3098
0655Roommate
WantedWanted: Roommate
$300/mo. Half Utilities. PrivateHome, Pool & Yard. In the
country. 919-356-5304
0675Mobile Homes
for Rent2br Mobile Home for Rent
Johnsonville Area on privatelot washer & dryer, water
furnished, no pets,$400/mo + Dep 919-499-5558
2BR/2BA$425/mo
Call:499-7672 or919-935-9116
3 Mobile Homes For RentBlack Pearl Lane (Cameron)
$350-$375910-639-5010
3BR/2BA$550/mo$550/dep
Call: 910-528-7505
4BR/2BA DW $650/moHarnett County/Broadway
No Pets. References.Call: 919-499-8190
0675Mobile Homes
for RentFor Rent/For Sale
Very Nice 3BR/2BA SWUS 421 S. From Sanford
919-708-7354
0685Bargain
Basement3 white support columns with
base and caps. 8 inch diam. atbase tapers to apx 7 1/4 inch
at top. Sell new for over$150.00 each, will sell all 3 for
$140.00.Call 718-1842.
30" (White) ElectricSelf Cleaning Range
1 Year Old. Asking Price $200.(919)777-6721Ask For Peggy
585 Proform Treadmill. All Ex-tras! Used Very Little. Exc.Cond. $150. WoodburningStove, Used 1 Year $100.
919-775-9848
Antique Steel Bed Comes withHead board and Foot Board
with Rails $75919-718-0688
Authentic Dooney & BourkePocketbook
NewCall: 919-776-2129
Dell Dimension Computer 3.4Ghz HT CPU. 1GB DDR2
Ram. 80GB SATA HD. $175For Tower. LCD & Acces. Also
Avail. 774-1066
King Size Quilts w/ ShamsNever Used for Sale
$35, $50, $75919-777-0908
Motorcycle Helmet $15 . Com-puter Desk, Exc. Cond., 2
Drawers, $20. Bones DVD Se-ries #2,3&4, $20.
Call: 910-703-3651
Nutrisystem Combo Box$100
Call: 919-478-3637
Old Scandalli Accordion$250
Call: 775-3140
Peavey PV Amp. $250Call: 919-478-3637
Safe Combination$25
Call After 5pm 919-775-2060
Singer 2/3 Sized Walking FootUpholstery Sewing Machine
$175. Commercial Sewing Ma-chine Table $75. Call:
919-718-6009
Sofa, 2 Chairs, Coffee Table,Natural Rattan, $150 OBO, La-dies Dress Suit Size 12-14 $5.
919-258-6233
Upright Piano $75. ExerciseBike $20. White Wedding
Dress Size 12 $20. NumerousSize 12 Dresses $5 each.
Portable Play Pen $20. Cradle$25. 499-2538
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
0710 Homes for Sale2000 sq. ft home on over 5
acres in Lemon Springs area.Only $89,900! Recently reno-vated, new kitchen cabinets,
new carpet throughout, freshlypainted. and much much
more! Call 919-774-6319 askfor Curtis or Rick at Homes By
Vanderbuilt.
Homes For Sale3685 sq. feet. New home stick
built on your lot. $169,900turn key.919-777-0393
0720 Duplex/Apts$380/mo 1BR/1BA. Park Like
Setting. Water & Cable In-cluded. Security & References
Required. Rosemary StreetProperties. 919-548-3458
0754Commercial/
Offi ceChurch Space For Rent
$400/mo-utilities includedCall: 919-336-2848
Warehouse Space Also Avail-able
0793Monuments/Cemeteries
4 Grave Spaces in middle sec-tion of Lee Memory Gardens.Will sell individually. Please
call 919-837-5806 or919-542-9514
One Burial Plot that includesopening & closing of grave.
$800 919-258-3309
TRANSPORTATION
0804 Boats for Sale1998 Sweetwater 18ft. Pon-toon Boat, 50 HorsepowerJohnson Outboard. 2009
Wesco Trailer. 919-776-0862
0832 Motorcycles2005 Harley Davidson
XL1200R-Yellow. 890 miles.Like New. $7000
Call: 919-353-1067
0860 Vans for Sale97 Isuzu Oasis LS Minni Van
Everything Works, GreatShape. Made by Honda. ColdAC, $3,200 OBO Runs Great
Call 774-8017 9am-9pm
0864Pickup Trucks
for Sale1993 Toyota T-100 greenw/beige trim long bed andtoolbox. Good Condition.Call 499-6927
0868 Cars for Sale1996 Cadillac El Dorado
$2000 OBO 919-498-5163
2003 Nissan Murano SLAWD, Leather, Sunroof,
Heated Seats, GreatCondition, $12,500.Call: 919-356-5602
Affordable Auto Sales498-9891 Sale!
Clean used cars.No credit check financing. Low
down payments at $500 dn.
Deadline is 2pm the day
before!
Contact the Classifieds to advertise your yard sale, sell your house, or
place a personal ad.
The Classifieds… just a phone call away
Classified office hours are Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm.
919-718-1201 919-718-1204
or submit your ad 24/7 at www.sanfordherald.com
Please Call 919-708-6777MALLARD COVE APARTMENTS
Apartments Available Now
1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Luxury ApartmentsStarting at $525/monthSwimming Pool, Tennis Court, Car Wash, Playground, Pet Friendly
SANFORD HOUSING AUTHORITY
Are You Elderly or Disabled?Need Affordable Housing
Call 919-776-1201 or 919-775-1312Southeast Auto Outlet, Inc.
919-718-9324
Truck For Rent$28
per day!$250
Deposit
5 tons of screened top soil
delivered $100
Larger and Loads Available
Crush and Run also Available
(919) 777-8012 (919) 258-0572Cell: (919) 842-2974
UniversalPressure Washing
Residential/Commercial
PRESSURE WASHINGRepair Service
The Handy-Man
Repair Service
Bath RemodelingWill Terhune
919-770-7226
DOZER SERVICEDOZER FOR HIRE
No Job Too SmallStructure DemolitionLandscaping, Ponds, LotClearing, PropertyLine/Fence Clearing
Affordable Rates CallBent Tree Grading
Fully Insured Free Estimates
356-2470
ons, Lot
g
Rates Call
Used Tractors19 thru 40 HP
2 & 4 Wheel DriveDiesel 3-Point Hitch
Front Loaders
Carpenter Saw & Mower
919-774-6820919-352-2410
LETT’S TREE REMOVAL SERVICE
Remove trees, Trim and top Trees, Lot clearing, stump
grinding, backhoe work, hauling, bush hogging, plus we buy tracts of
timber. We accept
Visa and Mastercard. Free estimates and
we are insured.
TREE SERVICE
Call 258-3594
PAINTING/CONTRACTORLarry Rice
Painting/ContractorResidential
Commercial
Fully insured.No job to small.Free estimates
919-776-7358Cell: 919-770-0796
Phil StoneTREE REMOVAL
• Full Tree Service• Stump Grinding
• Chipping• Trim & Top Trees
• Fully Insured
Sanford’s #1 ChoiceFor All Your Tree Needswww.sanfordtreeremoval.com
919-776-4678
FREE ESTIMATEOwned & Operated By
Phil Stone & Sons
24-HR SERVICE
WILL PAYCA$H
FOR YOUR USEDMOBILE HOMEWe Also Move Mobile Homes!
919-777-4379
R E M O D E L I N G
Associated Builders
of Lee Co., Inc.
Specializing In:
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We cover your home andsteel your heart.
We build decks and dreams.
Jim (919)935-9137
Time (919)258-3637
J & TMetal Roofing
&Deck Building
DECKS BY MIKEThe Sandhills Premiere Deck Builder
We Offer The Highest Quality
Built Deck At An Affordable Price
Over 10 Years of ExperienceFREE ESTIMATES INSURED
WE BUILD ANYTHING WOOD
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Well Houses
Trellises, GazebosArbors, Pergolas
Yard BridgesBreezeways
CALL (910) 391-6057 NOW!Mon - Sat 9-7 for Estimate
8x10 $80010x12 $120010x16 $200010x20 $200012x12 $144012x16 $192016x16 $256020x20 $4000
DECKS$
WE ALSO DO REPAIRS AND ADD-ONS TO DECKSCall Danny
SOMERSET
FLOORS Sanding &
Finishing
Hardwood Flooring
3 coats of poly.
MOWER REPAIR
Sloan Hill Small Engine Repair
919-258-6361 - Shop919-770-0029 -Cell
Call for your service or repair needs
Davis General Repairs LLC
919-499-9599
HARDWOOD FLOORS
HARDWOOD FLOORS
Wade Butner 776-3008
Finishing & Refinishing
D.A.Y. Taxi Service(919)353-0063
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154 McIver St.Sanford NC
Contact Jordan at 718-1201 [email protected] Holly at 718-1204 [email protected] or
your display advertising Sales Rep. for more information.1x2 24 Runs $125 – only $5.21 per day 1x3 24 Runs $150 – only $6.25 per day
Ask us how $25 can double your coverage!
Helping Hand
Proudly Serving Lee County
AND MORE ....
Doris' Beauty Salon607 Bragg Street
June Specials 919-774-7652
Men’s Haircuts .. $5.99 Boys ......$5.99Girls Under 10 Years ....................... $7Girls Over 10 Years ......................... $9Women Cuts .................................. $10Perms Short Hair .......................... $35Highlights Short Hair .................... $35Color Short Hair ............................ $35Longer Hair - ExtraEyebrows & Chin ............................. $8
Stylist: Doris Locklear WebsterBring Ad - Parking in Rear
Since 1978
Sweet Corn isNOWReady
Spivey Farms
499-0807Mon-Sat: 8-6
Location: Hwy 87 S., turn left on Swanns Station Rd. take
immediate right on Barbecue Church Rd., go 4 miles and turn
left on McCormick Rd.
CROWNLawn Services
Mow, Sow, Weed & Feed
Serving Moore, Lee, Chatham, & Wake Counties
670 Deep River Road Sanford NC 27330
919-353-4726
HEATING AIR CONDITIONING
LeeMoore
ChathamHarnett
FOR 125 YEARSCALL
“The King’s Men”
919 776-5118
HorseQuality
Coastal Hay
HAY SERVICE
Round & SquareBales Available
Eddie & CorbittThomas Farms856 Cox Maddox RdSanford, NC 27332
(919) 258-6152(919) 353-0385
AUTO REPAIR
Jimmy Norton’sGarage
Wrecker ServiceComplete Car Repair
Same Day ServiceJimmy Norton
(919) 776-35371108 Minter School Road
Sanford. NC 27330