The Surry Arts Councilpresents Burton Cohen’s“The Wedding of theSiamese Twins” this week-end. This annual produc-tion celebrates the lives offamous twins and formerMount Airy residents Engand Chang Bunker.

Born in Siam in 1811,the twins later settled inMount Airy and marriedsisters Sarah and AdelaideYates of Wilkes County.They fathered eleven andten children, respectively,and died in Mount Airy in1874.

The play is presented inconjunction with the 21stAnnual Bunker Family Re-union; descendants from all

across the United Statestravel to attend this familyreunion each year.

Directed by Vince Han-cock with stage directionby Betsy Manieri, “TheWedding of the SiameseTwins” follows the lives ofEng and Chang Bunker,their romance with Sarahand Adelaide, and the rela-tionship between the twins.Having earned a large for-tune through their worldtours, Eng and Chang de-cided to settle in North Car-olina where they courtedand married the sisters.

“This is a show about

TOM JOYCESTAFF REPORTER

LOWGAP — Normal-ly, Lowgap is a tranquilplace protected by themountains, where resi-dents don’t worry muchabout weather-relateddisasters. That is, untilMonday night, when atornado plowed throughthe area.

“It sounded like it wasjust a roar,” said DorisScott of 128 Tree Lane,which was in the areacatching the brunt of thestorm that swept througharound 10:30 p.m. “And Iwondered if that was atornado.”

Scott’s theory wasconfirmed Tuesday whenrepresentatives of the Na-tional Weather Service inBlacksburg, Va., visited Lowgap and determined that atornado had in fact struck the community.

The strong winds, which were accompanied by light-ning, golf-ball-size hail and heavy rain, left hundreds ofdowned trees and structural damages, while causingnearly 400 power outages in the area, including atRaven Knob Scout Reservation. Roads also wereblocked by fallen trees.

However, no injuries resulted, according to SurryCounty Emergency Services Director John Shelton, whoreferred to the situation as “a close call.”

The National Weather Service surveyed and madephotographs of the damages and took various measure-

ments. The agency subse-quently determined that alower-grade tornado witha top wind speed of about83 mph had occurred,said Shelton, who accom-panied its representativesto Lowgap.

Along with the evi-dence of damage left be-hind, “we had some goodwitnesses there, and actu-ally one gentleman whosaw the rotation of thefunnel,” Shelton added.

The tornado centeredon a section about a mileand a half long andaround a hundred yardswide. The area affectedbasically stretched fromRamey Creek Road toFlippin Road along theN.C. 89 corridor.

“We have structuresthat were damaged, along

with rooftops” throughout the community, Shelton said.One home receiving heavy damage was that of Jerry

and Patsy Amburn on Blevins Store Road, near the scoutreservation. “The front part of their house was cavedin,” said Elizabeth Horton, the couple’s daughter.

The Amburns were in the kitchen when they heard “aloud noise,” Horton said. Although the two escaped in-jury, they soon noticed the damage to the front part ofthe home which is expected to cost thousands of dollarsto repair. “The insurance adjuster is coming today,” Hor-ton added Tuesday afternoon.

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ARARAT, Va. — From John Wayne to comedy, theCherry Orchard Theatre will give theater-goers this year achance to experience work by local playwrights and ac-tors.

Now running for 12 years, the Cherry Orchard Theatrein Ararat, Va., has set its 2010 summer season.

Producer Frank Levering said this year’s line-up in-cludes four original pieces, all by regional playwrights andstorytellers, and a weekend of live music from the 1960s.

“One of the things that really excites me the most is re-ally being a way for local artists to have a venue for theirwork. This year is a classic example of that. Dan Hornakis just such a talented actor, but we didn’t know he wassuch a talented playwright,” Levering said. “This year hehas had a chance to develop his play about John Wayne.We’ve got Heather Elliott, who is a first-time playwrightand she has written what I’m sure is going to be a terrificplay. Terry Ingalls has written a play about a relationshipwith her mother. The bottom line is that you have a lot oflocal folks with a lot of talent and this gives them a chanceto stretch themselves as playwrights and as actors andhave that experience that really helps you grow as anartist.”

The stage is set so that the actors and audience mem-bers are in close proximity. The audience gets a sunsetview of the Piedmont Triad behind the stage as the actorsplay out their scenes.

“It’s certainly an unusual theater space. It’s beautifulfor sure. It’s natural to the extent that birds and animalshowling out there are part of the theater experience. I liketo call it environmental theater in the sense that we are us-

MEGHANN EVANSSTAFF REPORTER

The number of teenage driver fatalities have decreasedin North Carolina this year, and officials say the numberhas decreased or remained the same in Surry County aswell.

Last year North Carolina State Highway Patrol officersinvestigated 47 teen driver fatalities from January to July26, 2009. In 2010, officers only investigated 28 teen driv-er fatalities during that period.

This 40 percent decrease at the state level is promising.But Col. Randy Glover, commander of the State HighwayPatrol, said in a press release, “Despite this significant de-crease, our job is far from over. We will continue to look atvarious ways in which we can build upon this recent re-duction. Our goal is to prevent a single teen from losingtheir life on the highways.”

Sgt. Todd Keller with Highway Patrol said the numberof teen driver fatalities has gone down in Surry and Yadkincounties so far this year.

Of the cause of the decrease, Keller said, “Hopefullyit’s education.”

Highway Patrol has a texting while driving programthat all of the local high schools take part in. For this pro-gram, troopers set up a driving course and let teens drivewithout distractions and then while texting to show thedifference in their driving ability. Throughout the yeartroopers also visit schools to give talks about safe driving.

John Shelton, director of Surry County Emergency Ser-vices, said there have been two deaths in Surry Countythis year where teens were driving at the time of the acci-

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Johnny Scott uses a chainsaw Tuesday to cut up downed trees left near his mother’s yard from the tornado.

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”The Wedding of the Siamese Twins” features Scott Needham as Chang Bunker and Greg Matthews as EngBunker, left. The play opens Friday in the Old Time Music Heritage Hall.

Teenage driverfatalities down

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Doris Scott, who lives on Tree Lane off N.C. 89, poseswith some of the debris left behind in her yard fromMonday night’s tornado at Lowgap.

Local playwrights tobe featured at CherryOrchard Theatre

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every relationship you’veever had and how those re-lationships change overtime,” said director VinceHancock. “Even in theclosest of relationships,there is a separation, butfinding that point whereone ends and another be-

gins is the show’s focus,particularly as these rela-tionships expand exponen-tially.”

”The Wedding of theSiamese Twins” featuresScott Needham as ChangBunker and Greg Matthewsas Eng Bunker; JamieDowell as Sally Yates andAmber King as AdelaideYates; Bob Keck as JamesCallaway; Sandra Douglasas Nancy Yates; Phil GobleJr. as David Yates; Daniel

Hancock as Tom Dwier;Caroline Willard as Caleband Jane Willard as Alex.Scott Needham is the light-ing designer, and CourtneyWillard is the creative de-signer.

“The cast has just beenincredible to work with.We do feel a certain senseof responsibility to thelegacy and tradition of theBunkers. Chang and Engare not just people we readabout in history books —they are three-dimensionalpeople to us, especially inthis community. They wereliving, breathing and feel-ing people with good mo-ments and bad moments,strengths and weaknesses,loves and hates. The castdoes a wonderful job por-traying all facets of theircharacters,” said Hancockof his cast.

The play will be per-formed on Friday at 3 p.m.and Saturday at 7:30 p.m.in the Old-Time MusicHeritage Hall (lower levelof the Andy Griffith Muse-um, 218 Rockford Street,Mount Airy).

Tickets are $10 or freewith the Surry Arts Councilseason pass. Before the per-formance on Friday, July 30,there will be a free lecture byjournalist A.C. Snow, awriter for the Raleigh Newsand Observer. Snow recentlywrote an article on Eng andChang as role models for aperfect marriage. His talkwill begin at 1 p.m. in theSiamese Twins Exhibit in thelower level of the Andy Grif-fith Playhouse. For more in-formation, visit the SurryArts Council’s Web site(www.surryarts.org) or call786-7998.

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ing that environment to complimentthe materials in the plays a lot oftimes,” Levering said.

Levering suggested that playgoersbring a lawn chair or blanket depend-ing on the weather. He said manypeople bring a picnic dinner and abeverage of their choice.

“Everyone is welcome to bringsomething to eat, and whatever theywould like to drink — within reason.Wine is okay. A lot of people bringwine or soft drinks. It’s a very family-friendly atmosphere and we try tokeep it that way,” said Levering.

He said it’s also a good idea forpeople to bring a sweater as the sea-son progresses, it tends to be a littlecooler up on the mountain after thesun goes down.

The season will open with “AnEvening with The Duke,” a one-manshow about legendary actor JohnWayne, written and performed byDan Hornak of Mount Airy. The play,spanning Wayne’s career from hisearly days as a fledgling actor till nearthe end, when the ailing star contin-

ued to perform, will run Fridaythrough Sunday.

The second piece, “Pearl, YourMother,” will run August 6-8 and Au-gust 13-15. Levering said, “the playpromises a night of laughter and com-edy when Heather Elliott and TerriIngalls join to present a series ofsketches and monologues about themother-daughter relationship fol-lowed by a story-telling event by Ter-ri about her mother,” said Levering.

“Mom was a bright, quick-wittedand funny woman who was also con-flicted and brilliantly manipulative.I’ve told ‘mom stories’ for years andfinally succumbed to suggestions toput them all together in one perform-ance,” said Ingalls.

The third show celebrates the 75thanniversary (1935 – 2010) of the BlueRidge Parkway. Written by FrankLevering, “Riders in the Sky: A BlueRidge Parkway Saga” taps regionalstorytellers and a communal campfireto unfold the creation and construc-tion of the parkway. The show runsAugust 20-22 and 27-29.

Labor Day weekend, Sept. 3-5,features a full-scale concert of folk,rock and pop music from the 1960s.Musician and instrument-maker KenBloom of Pilot Mountain – once a

student of Pete Seeger; singer-actressChristine Gorelick of Winston-Salem;and West Virginia singer-songwriterDeane Kern headline this “giant par-ty” of 60s standards and soulful folksongs. “This was a stirring, romanticworld of mind-blowing music,” Lev-ering said. “Bring a blanket – andyour love interest.”

The season closes with “ComeQuick, I’m Dying,” an original playby Heather Elliott, presented Sept.10-12. It’s a lighthearted and funnystory about a mountain woman whois concerned that her daughters aregoing to lose the old ways and les-sons of healing and herbology. Withher sister, a conservative and wackyfree spirit, she pretends to be dying inorder to bring her daughters home.

“We can do experimental and funthings at our theatre,” Levering said.“We can give local artists the oppor-tunity to spread their wings and trynew things. This summer will certain-ly do that.”

For more information contactFrank Levering at 786-4316 or at fur-banski@roadrunner.com; or checkout the Web siteleveringorchard.com.

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dent. He said this number is average for the year. In onewreck, a 16-year-old was killed at the intersection ofHighway 601 and Rockford Street. A 19-year-old died in awreck that took place on Highway 601 between MountAiry and Dobson.

“We get a lot of accidents by drivers under the age of21,” said Shelton. “It’s mostly from inexperience.”

According to Shelton, most of the serious accidentstake place on rural routes or certain stretches of Highway601 and U.S. 52. Shelton said the intersection of Highway601 and Rockford Street in Dobson is especially tricky.

Often the teen drivers in these wrecks are driving at ac-celerated speeds at the time of the accidents.

“Most of the time it’s driver error,” Shelton noted.Keller said speeding, distractions, and lack of seatbelts

are big issues with teen drivers. He said parents shouldmonitor their young drivers who have permits and givethem instructions on how to be safe drivers.

At the beginning of June the North Carolina StateHighway Patrol sponsored a statewide effort called Opera-tion Drive to Live to remind teenage drivers about safedriving. Surry County troopers called the operation a suc-cess. During the operation, troopers patrolled five highschools in Surry and Yadkin counties and issued 18 trafficcitations.

Keller said the Highway Patrol will hold another opera-tion over Labor Day.

Contact Meghann Evans at mevans@mtairynews.comor 719-1952.

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Arts Council’s upcomingmusical “Cats” will sitdown with local kids fortea, games, and other funactivities this Sunday.

Those attending willhave a chance to learn tomove like a cat, and will re-ceive a “feline” name andwill have a photo opportu-

nity with the cast. Eachperson will receive a freegift for attending as well asrefreshments.

Families are encouragedto read T.S. Eliot’s bookwith their children beforethey attend the tea.

Refreshments and enter-tainment will begin at 3

p.m. on the stage of theAndy Griffith Playhouse,located at 218 RockfordStreet, on Sunday. Ticketsare $10 for everyone at-tending the tea. Reserva-tions are required.

Performances of themusical “Cats” are on Aug.7 at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.,Aug. 8 at 3 p.m., and Aug.

9 at 7:30 p.m. at the AndyGriffith Playhouse (218Rockford Street, MountAiry). Tickets are $10 orfree with the SAC SeasonPass.

Call 786-7998 for moreinformation or to make areservation.

Tea time with the cast of Cats

ClarificationA story which appeared in the Tuesday edition of

The Mount Airy News should have stated Rep. SarahStevens was the co-sponsor of House Joint Bill 2075,the Safe Schools Act. Through the legislative process,this bill eventually became House Bill 1377. WhileStevens was not officially listed as a co-sponsor ofHouse Bill 1377, she is still considered to be one of theoriginators and sponsors of the Act.

She said a tarp was tem-porarily covering the openplace in the house and thather parents “are going to beable to stay there.”

“No one was expectingit,” Horton said of the se-vere conditions.

Meanwhile, a tree fellon Gregory Golding’shouse on Sweet ParadiseWay. “It’s going to proba-bly have to be re-roofed,”Golding said.

Camp Weathers StormThe Boy Scout motto

“Be prepared” received areal-life application Mon-day night at Raven KnobScout Reservation, whichShelton said was at theedge of the path of destruc-tion.

“We had fairly shortwarning that this tornadicactivity was at hand,” saidKeith Bobbitt, an official atthe summer camp forscouts, which this week ishosting 400 boys alongwith 150 leaders and staffmembers.

“Most everybody wasalready at their campsite,”Bobbitt said of the timingof the late-evening storm.“They just stayed at their

sites until it was over.”Several tents were blowndown, but no one was in-jured.

Chainsaws and back-hoes had to be employed toremove trees blockingroads around the reserva-tion. “It was a challenge forsome of the staff,” saidBobbitt, who added thatcamp personnel had re-ceived training for such aweather-related emergency.

Electricity to the reser-vation was disrupted forabout four hours.

Sleeping bags and arti-cles of clothing were leftsoaked by the storm andBobbitt said HutchensCleaners & Laundry inMount Airy cleaned themall for free. This includedtwo van-loads of items,Bobbitt said.

The power disruptionfor Duke Energy customerspeaked at 394 outages at11:30 p.m. Monday, ac-cording to companyspokesman Andy Thomp-son. “We had several bro-ken poles and some lineswere down,” Thompsonsaid. A portion of Duke En-ergy customers had theirservice restored in the earlymorning hours Tuesday,and all were back on lineby about 9:45 a.m.

Shelton said members ofthe Skull Camp VolunteerFire Department workeddiligently to “keep areas ofegress and ingress open,”and that workers with theN.C. Department of Trans-portation also came in andcleared roadways.

Homeowners Clean UpThe sound of chainsaws

was heard frequently Tues-day as affected Lowgapresidents faced the task ofcleaning up fallen trees andother debris left by the tor-nado.

This included the yardof Doris Scott on TreeLane, which is aptly nameddue to being surrounded bythick woods. At least 40trees fell in the vicinity ofScott’s house, which wasspared from damage alongwith her outbuildings.

“I was really blessed,”she said in pointing out thatthe trees “went the otherway” when they fell.

The situation was inten-sified by the loss of elec-tricity. “Our lights went outabout 10:30,” Scott said.“And I just sat in a chairwith a flashlight and a cellphone. The lightning wasreally, really bad.”

Tuesday morning whenshe went outside and sur-veyed all the downed trees,

“I just could not believewhat I saw.”

Scott’s son, Johnny, wholives in King, was en routeto his job in Winston-Salem when his mothercalled to tell him what hadhappened. He turnedaround and headed to Low-gap so he could help clearaway debris from thestorm.

While armed with achainsaw, Scott said hehadn’t seen weather-relateddamage so severe sinceHurricane Hugo struck inthe late 1980s. That stormfelled numerous trees alongthe nearby Blue RidgeParkway and at PilotMountain State Park.

The tornado Mondaynight at Lowgap tended tobreak or twist the tops offtrees, which Shelton, thecounty emergency servicesdirector, said coincidedwith the fact that its forcewas centered about 30 feetoff the ground.

“Most of the event hap-pened in the woods line,thank goodness,” he said.Shelton added that themountainous terrain andheavy forestation aroundLowgap kept the tornadofrom having “enoughstrength to reach theground.”

Shelton said of torna-does in general: “They do

make a path and they docreate a well-defined pathwhen they come through.”

Though the unexpect-ed storm had disruptedhis day, Johnny Scottwas philosophical aboutthe situation Tuesday ashe cut up trees around

his mother’s property.“It could have been

worse,” he said. “It reallygives you a good perspec-tive of how powerful na-ture can be.”

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MOUNT AIRY — Mrs.Bonnie Kathleen SmithGoad, 89, of MountAiry, passed into themore immediate pres-ence of God on Mon-day, July 26, 2010. Mrs.Goad was born inForsyth County on Dec.26, 1920, to OscarSandy Smith and AnnieLaurie Cline SmithWomble. She was a de-voted and very activemember of Grace Mora-vian Church, where shewas past Sunday schoolteacher for the HerbertJohnson Class, past

treasurer; she sang inthe choir and was a for-mer member of theProvincial Elders Con-ference of Winston-Salem. Mrs. Goad was amember of the Order ofthe Eastern Star #18 andwas an avid reader. Sur-viving are a daughter,Judith (Judy) Duke ofLewisville; a son anddaughter-in-law, Smithand Nanci Jo Goad ofMount Airy; grand-daughters, Allison Par-rott and husband Jeffreyof Dalton, Ga., JenniferBarth and husband Bobof Stockholm, N.J., and

Joy Lee and husbandDavid of King; step-grandson, Jason Dukeand wife Sara of Al-pharetta, Ga.; great-granddaughter, ReaganLee; great-grandsons,Todd Parrott, JoshuaParrott, Jackson Barthand Harrison Lee; step-great-grandchildren,Benjamin Duke andOlivia Duke; a sisterand brother-in-law,Melinda Ann SmithDellert and husband Jimof Forest, Va.; brothersand sister-in-law, T.M.(Mac) Smith and wifeIna of King and O.

Manly Smith of Defuni-ak Springs, Fla.; andseveral nieces andnephews. In addition toher parents, Mrs. Goadwas preceded in deathby her husband, JamesThomas “Jimmie”Goad; a sister, MarthaLouise Smith Kiger;and a brother, CarlCline Smith. Funeralservices will be held atnoon Friday, July 30,2010, at Grace Mora-vian Church by the Rev.Tony Hayworth. Burialwill follow in God’sAcre. The family willreceive friends Friday at

the church from 11 a.m.until the hour of theservice. The familywould like to express itsdeep appreciation toMrs. Goad’s wonderfulcaregivers, CynthiaThomas and JenniferChase, whom theycouldn’t have made itwithout. Flowers willbe accepted, or memori-als may be made toGrace Moravian Churchat 1401 N. Main St.,Mount Airy, NC 27030.Online condolencesmay be made atwww.moodyfuneralser-vices.com.

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GOAD, Bonnie Kath-leen Smith, 89, of MountAiry, widow JamesThomas “Jimmie” Goad.

WILSON, David Leo,61, of Mount Airy, soneof the late Sherman LeoWilson.

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Ruling makes little sense

A ruling by Wake County Superior Court Judge PaulGessner recently was tone-deaf to the public’s right toknow, and in fact seems contrary to an executive ordersigned a year ago by Gov. Beverly Perdue. In that order,Perdue basically said that public employees should not ex-pect to have privacy if they send electronic messages dur-ing work hours to state-owned devices.

And that’s exactly what Pamela Maynard, an office as-sistant to former State Highway Patrol Maj. Everett Clen-denin, did. Clendenin resigned in the wake of disclosuresthat he and Maynard exchanged such messages, many of aromantic nature. Amanda Martin, representing media or-ganizations (including The N&O) in a lawsuit seeking themessages, noted that Maynard had sent 3,600 messages inone month alone to Clendenin’s state-issued BlackBerry.Gessner said if such messages are not official business,they’re not public. That doesn’t make sense. If they’re re-ceived by a state employee on gear the public paid for,they are part of the public’s business, especially if this oc-curs during work shifts.

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Notable Quotes“After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have

no monument than why I have one.”— Cato the Elder

One pint could save three livesFor many people giving

blood is not an option —not because they have adisease or condition thatwould keep them from giv-ing, but because they areafraid of needles.

It’s a sad but true fact,which is a shame becauseeveryone has to get pokedwith a needle once or twicein their lifetime and it real-ly doesn’t hurt if you relaxand don’t watch.

I gave blood for the firsttime in college, because Iwasn’t old enough whenmy high school’s blooddrive was held my senioryear. That has changedsome now, since anyone 16and older can give as longas their parents sign a con-sent form. One incentivehigh schoolers have is if astudent gives so manytimes before graduation, heor she gets to wear a redcord at graduation.

Blood is needed on adaily basis — for transfu-sions, to help people whohave been in wrecks, arehaving surgery, etc. Theironic thing is when peopleare on vacation in the sum-mer time the giving per-

centage dropsdrastically, butwhen people aretraveling wrecknumbers tend torise meaningmore need forblood.

In SurryCounty, blooddrives are heldalmost on aweekly, if notdaily basis,somewhere inthe county, andI’m sure there isone near yousome time eachmonth.

Take thisweekend, for instance. TheBannertown Volunteer FireDepartment’s Ladies Aux-iliary will be hosting itsfirst blood drive in manyyears on Saturday from 11a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the firestation on Reeves MillRoad. Saturday can be agood time to give becauseit doesn’t conflict withwork schedules for thosewho work Monday-through-Friday jobs.

For those on the otherside of Dobson, closer to

Elkin, HughChatham Memo-rial Hospital willbe hosting adrive Fridayfrom 9 a.m. to1:30 p.m.

People on thesoutheastern endof the county cangive Sunday atthe Shoals Ruri-tan Building be-tween 12:30 and5 p.m., whilethose on thenorthwesternside of the coun-ty have an op-portunity to do-nate blood Sun-

day at Mountain View Bap-tist Church in Lowgapfrom 1 to 5:30 p.m.

If a Monday better suitsyour schedule, The MountAiry News is hosting ablood drive at the Ameri-can Red Cross building onWestlake Drive from 1:30to 6 p.m.

Those are the drivesscheduled in just the nextweek. If you are interestedin giving and this week is-n’t suitable, watch eachMonday’s Mount Airy

News health calendar for alisting of upcoming blooddrives.

I had planned on givingfor the first time in yearsafter having a near-passing-out episode last time I gavein college nine years ago.But now that I’m pregnant,giving is out of the ques-tion.

Donating blood doesn’ttake long — about 15 to 20minutes — and while ap-pointments can be made,walk-ins are always wel-come at blood drives. Justthink of the number of livesyou could save with onepint of your blood — threelives. And about one in sev-en people who enter a hos-pital need blood.

Thinking of the impactthat is made by donatingjust one pint of blood, myhope is everyone who is el-igible will consider givingblood in the near future —even some time this week.

Wendy Byerly Wood isthe associate editor of TheMount Airy News. She canbe reached at wbyerly-wood@mtairynews.com or719-1923.

Why the union blocks reformAlmost everyone agrees

that improving the qualityof the educational work-force is an indispensableelement of any program toimprove school perform-ance.

I use the term “almost”because there is a signifi-cant player in North Caroli-na’s school-reform debatethat doesn’t agree: theNorth Carolina Associationof Educators, the state’slargest teacher union.

Oh, I know that theNCAE and its allies saythey favor measures to at-tract and retain good teach-ers. But as a practical mat-ter, they oppose virtuallyall policies that would ac-complish the goal — fromending tenure and payingfor performance toparental-choice measuresthat would give parentsmore freedom to chooseschools based on the quali-ty of teachers and academicprograms.

As a theoretical matter,this shouldn’t be surpris-ing. As a labor organizationseeking to advance the in-terests of the majority of itsmembers, a teacher unioncan’t be expected to con-clude that mediocre educa-tion is caused by mediocreeducators. It can’t embracepolicies based on the as-sumption that schoolswould improve if they hadthe tools they need to re-place current teachers withbetter ones.

Teacher unions like theNCAE simply want the ex-

isting public-school work-force to receivehigher salaries,richer benefits,and better work-ing conditions.But as seriouseducation ana-lysts across thepolitical spec-trum wouldagree, raisingoverall teacherpay — or raisingpay based onunion-backedcriteria such aslongevity andadvanced de-grees — will notimprove the av-erage quality ofteachers. It paysbad andmediocre teachers at leastas much as the good ones.

If you’ve ever beentempted to believe theunion spin that it’s impossi-ble to design a fair and ac-curate process for distin-guishing the good teachersfrom the bad ones, checkout a forum on teacherquality in the Summer2010 edition of Education-Next (available online atEducationNext.org).Hoover Institution econo-mist Eric Hanushek andEducation Trust CEO KatiHaycock approach educa-tion policy from differentpoints of view, but theyboth agree that teacherquality is measurable andimportant.

Based on research

Hanushek andhis colleagueshave conducted,he argues thatwhile objectivemeasures such asvalue-added as-sessments ofteaching per-formance havevalue, the resultdoesn’t differentmuch from amore subjectiveprocess based onprincipals watch-ing and evaluat-ing the teachersthey manage.His conclusion isworth quoting infull:

The long-runhope would bethat we develop

both better quantitativemeasures of a teacher’s val-ue added and better subjec-tive evaluations by princi-pals, supervisors, andpeers. This approach is un-likely to satisfy a regulato-ry view of allocation ofquality teachers, but if weare truly interested in im-proving student achieve-ment, we cannot shy awayfrom incorporating per-formance information of allsorts into our managementdecisions.

Unfortunately, state edu-cation officials defer to theteacher union on such mat-ters, and the union willnever go along with anyproposal to allow for largedifferences in tenure statusor pay based on teacher

quality — measured eitherthrough value-added testsor principal evaluation.

That puts the unionsquarely opposed to poli-cies embraced by the vastmajority of North Carolinavoters. In a January CivitasInstitute poll, for example,only 26 percent favored thecurrent practice of basingteacher pay on longevityand equality while 61 per-cent favored a merit systemwith differentiated pay andprincipal discretion. TheNCAE’s position also putsit squarely opposed to anypolicy offering a realprospect of improving edu-cation for the poorest-served students in our state.

Keep in mind, however,that in few other industriesor professions would it beassumed that the interestsof producers and con-sumers are always aligned.If our goal is helping NorthCarolina youngsters learn,we should adopt policieslikely to result in a signifi-cant turnover in the teach-ing profession — as badteachers are fired, mediocreteachers improve or depart,good teachers are rewardedand retained, and newteachers are brought intothe profession by the cre-ation of new schools.

The teacher union willnever stand for that. It can-not be persuaded. It mustbe bypassed.

Hood is president of theJohn Locke Foundationand publisher of Carolina-Journal.com.

Wendy Byerly Wood

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Mayor Ricky K. Draughn, P.O. Box 1021, Dobson, NC27017, 356-8201 (business), 356-4462 (home)

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HARRY R. WEBERAP BUSINESS WRITER

NEW ORLEANS —Battered BP began rein-venting itself in the shadowof the Gulf of Mexico oilspill Tuesday, naming itsfirst American CEO as it re-ported a record $17 billionquarterly loss. Its outgoingchief miffed the WhiteHouse anew with his part-ing comments.

Robert Dudley, who willreplace Tony Hayward onOct. 1, promised changes inlight of the environmentaldisaster. “There’s no ques-tion we are going to learnthings from this investiga-tion of the incident,” he toldreporters by phone fromLondon after the announce-ment was made.

One certain change isthat BP will become small-er. It announced it will sell$30 billion in assets and hasset aside $32.2 billion tocover costs from the largestoffshore oil spill in U.S.history.

Dudley, BP’s managingdirector and current pointman on oil spill recovery,defended his company’srecord and that of the em-battled chief executive hewill replace.

Hayward, whose verbalmiscues intensified theanger Gulf Coast residentsalready felt, will leave BPwith benefits valued atmore than $18 million. Hetold reporters he had been“demonized and vilified”but had no major regretsabout his leadership.

“Life isn’t fair,” he said,but he conceded that wasn’tthe point. “BP cannot moveon in the U.S. with me as itsleader.”

The White House wasnot impressed with Hay-ward’s comments.

“What’s not fair iswhat’s happened on theGulf,” press secretaryRobert Gibbs said. “What’snot fair is the actions ofsome have caused the great-est environmental disasterthat our country has everseen.”

BP PLC announced themove Tuesday with an airof making a fresh start,nearly 100 days into a cata-strophic mile-deep blowoutthat killed 11 workers,spewed 94 million to 184million gallons of oil andsapped 35 percent, or $60billion, of BP’s market val-ue.

“We are taking a hardlook at ourselves, what wedo and how we do it,” BPChairman Carl-HenricSvanberg said during a we-bcast presentation on thecompany’s earnings.

Svanberg said the com-pany’s priority was to stopthe Gulf leak permanently,clean up the spill and com-pensate people whoselivelihoods have been lost.But he added that the com-

pany was determined to re-store value to shareholders,whose dividends were axedby BP under U.S. politicalpressure.

Company sharesdropped 65 cents, or about1.7 percent, to close at $38in Tuesday trading in NewYork.

BP said it would becomea leaner, higher-qualitybusiness through itsplanned sale of $30 billionin assets. The company hasalready made a start withthe $7 billion sale of gas as-sets in the United States,Canada and Egypt toApache Corp.

Svanberg said theplanned asset sales did notnecessarily reflect a fearthat spill costs could soarabove the $32.2 billion setaside by the company.

Analysts were disap-pointed that BP intended tosell so many assets.

Oppenheimer & Co. an-alyst Fadel Gheit said BPshould be a 10 percentsmaller company after itsplanned sales but that BPshould remain the top oiland gas producer in theU.S., unless it sells off alarge portion of its Alaskaassets. The company wasreportedly considering thesale of its stake in the Prud-hoe Bay oil field to ApacheCorp., but instead soldApache properties in Texasand New Mexico, as well asEgypt and western Canada.The U.S. is home to 40 per-cent of BP’s assets and one-third of its worldwide oiland gas reserves.

Prior to the Gulf inci-dent, BP said its explorationactivities were focusedaround Angola, Egypt, thedeepwater Gulf of Mexico,Libya, the North Sea, Omanand onshore U.S.

Analysts also said BP’sestimate of spill costs wason the conservative side.Gheit predicts BP willeventually pay between $30billion and $60 billion.

Based on the upper esti-mate of oil spilled so far, BPcould be fined up to $4.8 bil-lion under the Clean WaterAct, or up to $18.8 billion ifit is found to have commit-ted gross negligence or will-ful misconduct. BP’s esti-mate assumes it would notget the harsher penalties.

JIM ABRAMSASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

WASHINGTON — TheHouse votes Tuesday tosend President BarackObama legislation thatfunds the troop surge inAfghanistan but is shorn offinancing for domestic pro-grams that Democratswanted to attach.

The nearly $59 billionmeasure to fund Obama’sadditional 30,000 troops inAfghanistan and other pro-grams is expected to winstrong support from Re-publicans. It faces someopposition from Democ-rats, frustrated both by thecourse of the war and angrythat their domestic priori-ties were ignored.

With the new warspending, the total amountthat Congress has allottedfor the wars in Iraq andAfghanistan will surpass$1 trillion.

Pentagon leaders hadwarned that money to fundthe troops could run out asearly as August 7, prompt-ing the House, which isleaving at the end of theweek for its August recess,to accept a pared-downSenate version of the legis-lation.

Last week the Senate re-jected a larger, House-fa-vored bill that would haveincluded billions of dollarsto help keep teachers on thejob, provide aid for collegestudents and beef up bordersecurity.

House AppropriationsCommittee ChairmanDavid Obey, D-Wis., saidhe was torn between hisobligation to bring the billto the floor and his “pro-found skepticism” that themoney would lead to a suc-cessful conclusion of thewar.

Even if there weregreater confidence in theAfghan government, Obey

said, “it would likely takeso long it will obliterate ourability to make the kinds oflong-term investments inour own country that are sodesperately needed.”

Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., cited recentlyleaked classified docu-ments he said revealedsome of the corruption andincompetence of theAfghan government.

“We’re told we can’t ex-tend unemployment, or payto keep cops on the beat orteachers in the classroom,but we’re asked to borrowanother $33 billion for na-tion-building inAfghanistan,” said McGov-ern. “I think we need to domore nation-building hereat home.”

Obama urged passage ofthe war-funding bill, sayingin a Rose Garden statementit was needed “to ensurethat our troops have the re-sources they need and thatwe’re able to do what’snecessary for our nationalsecurity.”

The president also ad-dressed the unauthorizedrelease of the sensitive doc-uments — thousands ofbattlefield reports — say-ing he was concerned they“could potentially jeopard-ize individuals or opera-tions.”

Republicans are chidingDemocrats for delaying formonths before ending upwith the same bill the Sen-ate passed in May.

“We’ve been through allof this wrangling, and forwhat?” House Republicanleader John Boehner said ata news conference. “Allwe’ve created is more un-certainty for our troops inthe field, more uncertaintyfor the Pentagon, and it’sall unnecessary.”

Obama requested theemergency funding lastFebruary. After the Senatepassed it in May, the Houseon July 1 approved its own

version, tacking on morethan $20 billion in domes-tic spending. The Senatelast week rejected that ap-proach, falling 14 votesshort of what was neededto break a GOP-led fili-buster.

The bill includes morethan $33.5 billion for theadditional 30,000 troops inAfghanistan and to pay forother Pentagon operationalexpenses, $5.1 billion to re-plenish the Federal Emer-gency ManagementAgency disaster relief fund,$6.2 billion for State De-partment aid programs inAfghanistan, Pakistan, Iraqand Haiti and $13.4 billionin benefits for Vietnam warveterans exposed to AgentOrange.

In addition to strippingmoney out for teachers andstudent aid, the final billomits more than $4 billionrequested by the adminis-

tration to finance settle-ments of several long-standing lawsuits againstthe government, including$1.2 billion to remedy dis-crimination by the Agricul-ture Department againstblack farmers and $3.4 bil-lion for mismanaging Indi-an trust funds.

“We have a moral andlegal responsibility to settlethose claims,” said HouseMajority Leader StenyHoyer, D-Md., adding thathe was “very disappointed”Senate Republicans did notgo along with paying thesettlements, although thecosts would not have addedto the federal deficit.

Associated Press WriterAndrew Taylor contributedto this report.

———The bill is H.R. 4899.Online:Congress:

http://thomas.loc.gov

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STEPHAN BERNARDAP BUSINESS WRITER

NEW YORK — News thatconsumers are more pessimisticput the stock market’s rally onhold.

Stocks fell modestly Tuesdayafter three days of big gains. TheDow Jones industrial averagerose 12 points for its fourthstraight advance, but the gainwas largely to due a jump inDuPont Co. after the chemicalmaker reported strong earnings.Broader market indexes fellslightly, and there were morelosers than gainers on the NewYork Stock Exchange.

The Conference Board’s re-port that its Consumer Confi-dence Index fell to 50.4 fromJune’s revised reading of 54.3distracted investors from anotherbatch of upbeat earnings reports.The market had expected the in-dex to come in at 51.

Consumer confidence has fall-en in recent months as peoplehave waited in vain for a turn-around in the job market. That hasmade many consumers hesitant tospend and in turn raised concernsabout the economic recovery.Most retail stocks fell after theconfidence number was released.

Companies have a very dif-ferent take on the economy fromconsumers. Chemical makerDuPont on Tuesday joined thegrowing number of big corpora-tions that have raised their earn-ings forecasts. DuPont also easi-ly beat analysts’ predictions forits second-quarter profit and rev-enue. The company’s stock rose$1.39, or 3.6 percent, to $40.38,and accounted for 10.52 pointsof the Dow’s advance.

Investors have been torn overthe past few months betweenbuying on companies’ upbeat re-ports and selling on governmentand private sector numbers thatkeep pointing to a slowing of theeconomy.

“Investors are really uncertainwhether to focus on the underly-ing economy or earnings,” saidTyler Vernon, principal and port-folio manager at Biltmore Capi-tal Advisors.

Although earnings had in-vestors’ attention the past twoweeks, the occasional economicnumber like Tuesday’s consumerconfidence survey can trumpcompanies’ results, Vernon said.When earnings reports are done,unsettling data on jobs, housingand consumer spending willdominate trading, and may welllead to more selling.

John Brady, a senior vicepresident at MF Global in Chica-go, said there is little that’s likelyto turn around consumer confi-dence in the near future. Con-sumers won’t become more opti-mistic until they see a drop inunemployment and clear signsthat employers are hiring.

“I don’t know what turnsaround confidence aside fromjobs growth,” Brady said.

The Dow rose 12.26, or 0.1percent, to 10,537.69 after gain-ing 405 points the past threedays on strong earnings andforecasts. The Dow has surged inJuly, rising almost 8 percent. Thesharp gains helped push the in-dex back into the black for theyear on Monday.

The Standard & Poor’s 500index fell 1.17, or 0.1 percent, to1,113.84, while the Nasdaq com-posite index fell 8.18, or 0.4 per-cent, to 2,288.25.

Losing stocks were ahead ofgainers by about 4 to 3 on theNew York Stock Exchange,where volume came to 4.7 bil-lion shares, up from Monday’s4.1 billion.

Bond prices fell, sending theiryields higher. The yield on the10-year Treasury note rose to3.05 percent from 2.99 percent

late Monday. That yield helps setinterest rates on mortgages andother consumer loans.

The fact that stocks didn’t fallfurther on the consumer newswas a sign that investors weren’tthat upset by the reading. Duringthe past few months, bad newsafter a big gain was likely tosend stocks tumbling. But ana-lysts said they saw more cashingin of gains rather than anxietybehind Tuesday’s trading.

“People say they want tobook their profits rather thanwait for another plunge,” saidRichard A. Dickson, senior mar-ket strategist, at Lowry Re-search.

The market had some othernegative economic news Tues-day, a report of a slowdown inregional manufacturing from theRichmond Federal Reserve. TheRichmond Fed’s manufacturingindex fell to 16 this month from23 in June.

News on the housing marketwas mildly upbeat. TheS&P/Case-Shiller 20-city homeprice index for May rose 1.3 per-cent from April. But the home-buyer’s tax credit that expiredApril 30 had an impact on thereading, and the report warnedthat the recent gains in homeprices are not likely to last.

Stocks fall slightly on consumer report

BP hopes to turnpage with new CEO,leaner company

Jobless ratesees littlechangeSTAFF REPORT

Figures recently released showthat Surry County’s unemploy-ment rate was at 11.3 percent inJune, just 0.1 percentage pointabove the revised May total.

After the May figure of 11.2 wasreleased, Bobbi Wessling, managerof the N.C. Employment SecurityCommission office in Mount Airy,said she expected the rate to staystagnant for the next few months.This has held true from April toJune, when percentages have re-mained slightly above 11 percent.

Statewide, the unemploymentrate crept from 10 percent in Mayto 10.1 percent in June. The stateunemployment rate has been be-low 11 percent since March, whenthe rate dropped to 10.9 percentfrom 11.8 in February.

Surry County was one of 45counties in North Carolina to see anincrease in its unemployment rate inJune. Latest figures show the laborforce in Surry County to be 33,590people, with 29,809 employed.

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Wilson comes up short at US amateur qualifierMARC PRUITTSTAFF REPORTER

ADVANCE — Qualify-ing for the 2010 U.S. Ama-teur wasn’t meant to be forformer Mount Airy golferKyle Wilson.

Wilson, a rising junior atWestern Carolina, shot 68-73 during his two rounds ofplay Monday and yesterdayat Oak Valley Golf Club inAdvance, missing out on aspot in the country’s mosthigh-profile event for ama-teur golfers by four shots.

“I’m just looking at it asanother stop along the wayin my career,” Wilson said.“Honestly, I didn’t play allthat bad. To qualify for theAmateur, you have to playgreat golf for two days. Ijust played good golf.”

Wilson’s opening roundof 68 put him in a tie for

fourth place after the firstround, right in the thick ofthe hunt.

But he didn’t let thatconsume his day.

“I didn’t hang around atthe course (Monday) to seewhere I finished up,” Wil-son said. “I just turned inmy card and saw it was thelowest score of the morn-ing times, so I knew Iwould be in a good posi-tion. My college teammateswill tell you that I’ve donea lot less scoreboard watch-ing this year, so I didn’t re-ally feel the need to do itthen, either.”

Wilson’s round yester-day got off to a rocky startwhen he three-putted thefirst two holes of the day,dropping a shot immediate-ly that became tough forhim to get back.

“The first hole, I hit myapproach to about 50 feetand just didn’t make the

putt for par,” Wilson said.The second hole there is apar 5, and I knocked it onin two (shots) and just got alittle unlucky with mybirdie try. Unfortunately,

my putting failed me allday.”

Wilson needed 34 puttsduring his round yesterdayand hit 15 greens in regula-tion.

“I just wasn’t hitting theball close enough to givemyself makeable putts, andthat was my downfall,”Wilson said. “I don’t thinkI’ve ever seen so many lipouts, or putts burning theedges as I did (yesterday.) Ireally don’t think I hit a badshot for the entire 36 holes,I just wasn’t putting myselfin the right places to shoot alow number, especially(yesterday.)”

Despite the setback,Wilson said the experiencewas overwhelmingly posi-tive.

“This isn’t somethingthat will haunt me the restof the summer,” Wilsonsaid. “I mean, I put myselfin a position to secure oneof the three spots. I had tomake the cut after the firstday, and I did that. Therewere 77 other golfers whowere trying to qualify, and I

needed to beat 74 of themand came up a little short.I’m looking at it as a goodstepping stone for my up-coming season at school.”

Wilson said that he stillhas a lot of work to do onhis game and that he’ll con-tinue to push to be the bestplayer he can be for theCatamounts this year whenhe returns to school nextmonth.

“I’m just going to haveto step up my play, butplaying pretty well thisweek and making the cut atthe North Carolina Ama-teur has given me a lot ofconfidence,” Wilson said.“I’m happy with where mygame is overall, but I knowI can keep improving andworking. And that’s whatI’m planning to do.”

Contact Marc Pruitt atmpruitt@mtairynews.com

or 719-1921.

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Former Mount Airy golfer Kyle Wilson.

Area briefs …SCCvolleyballcamp

Surry Community Col-lege will hold a volleyballcamp Aug. 2 through Aug.4 at the SCC gym in Dob-son. Two separate sessionsare scheduled, the firstfrom 9 a.m. until noon isfor individuals with lessthan one year experience.The camp is open to ages6-16 with a cost of $30($20 with two or morefrom same family) and in-cludes a camp t-shirt.Camp registration begins at8:30 a.m. (first session)and 12:30 p.m. (secondsession). For more campinformation or to requestcamp brochure, contactSurry coach Jan MarionKiser at 464-6233 or MarkTucker at 386-3217.

Mount Airygolf clinic

The Lady Bears/CrossCreek Women’s Golf Asso-ciation clinic will be heldon Aug. 3-4 for girls ages11-18 at Cross CreekCountry Club from 9 a.m.until noon. Registration islimited to the first 20 peo-ple to sign up for a fee of$15. Applications will beaccepted by contactingTommye Phillips at 786-5366 ortphillips@mtairy.k12.nc.us.

RCC summercamp signups

Reeves CommunityCenter is set to hold a pairof youth basketball campsin August. August 9through 12 is the kinder-garten through second-grade camp, with eachsession set for 6 to 8:30p.m.

The following week,Aug. 16 through 19, is thethird-grade through sixth-grade camp, with camptimes the same.

Cost is $40 for resi-

dents and $50 for non-res-idents, with a 20-percentdiscount for participantpackage holders. Thecamp will be directed byformer North Surry stand-out and Lenoir-Rhynebasketball player WhitneyCuller, along with severalSurry Storm BasketballClub coaches.

Reeves also will hold ayouth volleyball campAug. 2 through 5 from 6to 8:30 p.m. for secondthrough seventh graders.The camp will be dividedinto two divisions (secondthrough fourth gradersand fifth through seventhgraders) and will be di-rected by the Surry StormVolleyball Club.

Cost is $40 for resi-dents and $50 for non-res-idents, with a 20-percentdiscount for participantpackage holders.

Red CrossCharityTournament

Pilot Knob Park Coun-try Club in Pilot Mountainwill host the Surry CountyChapter American RedCross Golf Tournament,Aug. 12. at 8 a.m. Pre-reg-istration ends Aug. 5 withon-site registration begin-ning at 7 a.m.

The tournament willconsist of four personteams in a captain’s choiceformat. Registration is$100 per person withsponsorship available for$500 per team. Prizes andgifts will be awarded andbreakfast will be providedat 7 a.m.

For more informtioncontact Cathy at 374-0491or Tom at 401-6044

Surry HOFapplicationsavailable

The Surry CountySports Hall of Fame beganin 2005 as a means to pre-serve the history of sports

in Surry County. The Hallof Fame will recognizeand perpetuate the out-standing athletic traditionof Surry County by honor-ing and memorializing in-dividuals and/or organiza-tions that have made ex-ceptional contributions tothis tradition.

Nominations applica-tions for the 2010 class ofthe Surry County SportsHall of Fame are nowavailable and will be ac-cepted through Aug. 27. Aceremony honoring the in-ductees is typically held inOctober and their namesunveiled on the Hall ofFame monument in FisherRiver Park.

Nomination applica-tions may be obtained atthe Surry County Parksand Recreation Depart-ment, Elkin Recreationand Parks Department,Armfield Recreation andCivic Center and ReevesCommunity Center. Nom-inations also can be re-ceived on the Surry Coun-ty Parks and RecreationWeb site at www.co.sur-ry.nc.us or by contacting amember of the Hall ofFame Committee.

Grayson Co.softball league

Grayson County Parksand Recreation in Virginiais taking applications forwomen’s softball teamsfor a women’s slow-pitchsoftball league. Cost is$275 per team. ContactRoby Webb for more in-formation at (276)-744-3892 or (276)-235-0658.Franklin footballcamp

RCC signupsReeves Community

Center will hold signupsfor all fall sports leaguesAug. 2 through 6. Leaguesare available for youthvolleyball (ages 6-12),youth soccer (ages 4-12),fall baseball (ages 8-12)

See BRIEFS, page 8A

MACC crowns junior champ

App St needs to find new QB to remain SoCon’s bestCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) —

Appalachian State coach JerryMoore has been through this be-fore, trying to find a replacementfor a top-flight, national champi-onship winning quarterback.

The last time, it worked outwell. Armanti Edwards took overfor Richie Williams and won twonational player of the yearawards, two Football Champi-onship Subdivision champi-onships and four Southern Con-ference titles.

With Edwards learning to playwide receiver in the NFL, Mooreis trying to decide between a jun-ior and a redshirt freshman tolead a team that many expect tocontinue to dominate one of thetoughest leagues in FCS. He saidTuesday he is confident either

DeAndre Presley, who started agame last year when Edwardswas injured, or Jamal Jackson cankeep the Mountaineers on top.

“It’ not like we don’t havesomething to work with,” Mooresaid. “It’s our job as coaches toget those guys in position to showtheir stuff.”

But Elon, an FCS playoff teamwhose only SoCon loss came toAppalachian State last season,brings back its record-settingquarterback Scott Riddle, who injust about any other conferencewould already won player-of-the-year honors.

“Going out my senior yearwith a conference championship,wouldn’t be any shame to it,”Riddle said. “I am looking for-ward to what this team can do.”

On Monday, SoCon coachespicked Appalachian State to winthe league, followed by Elon,Furman, Samford, Chattanooga,Wofford, Georgia Southern, TheCitadel and Western Carolina.Media members picked the sametop four.

While the Mountaineers haveto replace Edwards’ 10,392 yardspassing, 4,361 yards rushing and139 touchdowns, they have awealth of talent returning at other

positions as they try to tie Geor-gia Southern’s record of sixstraight SoCon titles. Ninestarters return on offense, includ-ing running back Devon Moore,who led the league with 1,374last season, and seven on defenseon a team that lost in the nationalsemifinals to Montana.

Moore’s task will be blendingin the newcomers and new assis-tants for defensive backs and of-fensive linemen into his efficientmachine. The Mountaineers are61-12 in the past five years, in-cluding one of the most famousupsets ever in college football,the 34-32 win over No. 5 Michi-gan in 2007.

“We’ve got pretty good foot-ball players,” Moore said.

“We’ve got to become a prettygood football team.”

Elon has the opposite prob-lem. The Phoenix bring back Rid-dle, but not a lot of other startersfrom a team that went 9-3 lastseason, making their first evertrip to the FCS playoffs.

Riddle should pass Edwards’league record for career passingyards by the second game of theseason. He already owns the So-Con records for most comple-tions and touchdown passes.

But he will be missing the re-ceiver who accounted for nearlyhalf his yards last season. TerrellHudgins, who caught 123 passesfor 1,633 yards is trying to makethe Dallas Cowboys’ roster.

“It’ not like we don’thave something to workwith,”

— ASU coach Jerry Moore

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MLB in a ‘no-hit’ frenzyMike FitzpatrickAP Sports Writer

Five no-hitters — two ofthem perfect games — andanother gem that wasspoiled by an umpire.

By now, San FranciscoGiants broadcaster MikeKrukow and others aroundbaseball are beginning toexpect a piece of pitchinghistory every week.

“I do. I can’t explain it,”said Krukow, who pitchedin the majors from 1976-89.“Amazing. I think it’s pret-ty cool. The Year of thePitcher.”

Matt Garza tossed Tam-pa Bay’s first no-hitterMonday night in a 5-0 vic-tory over the Detroit Tigers,becoming the fifth big lea-guer to turn the trick duringa season of mastery on themound.

The last time there werefive no-hitters in one yearwas 1991, when Hall ofFamer Nolan Ryan threwone of seven in the majors.

Now, arms are in chargeagain — so much so thatno-hit alerts seem common-place.

Ho hum, anothershutout. Complete game?Yawn.

“Pitching has gotten bet-ter,” Rays manager Joe

Maddon said. “I don’tknow that the hitting hasgone back a bit, but thepitching has definitely got-ten better.”

The numbers back himup.

Fourteen times a pitcher

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MLB

NATIONAL LEAGUE

East Division

W L Pct GB

Atlanta 57 41 .582 —

Philadelphia 53 46 .535 4 1/2

Florida 50 49 .505 7 1/2

New York 50 49 .505 7 1/2

Washington 42 57 .424 15 1/2

Central Division

W L Pct GB

St. Louis 55 44 .556 —

Cincinnati 55 46 .545 1

Milwaukee 48 53 .475 8

Chicago 46 54 .460 9 1/2

Houston 40 59 .404 15

Pittsburgh 34 64 .347 20 1/2

West Division

W L Pct GB

San Diego 58 39 .598 —

San Francisco 56 44 .560 3 1/2

Los Angeles 53 46 .535 6

Colorado 51 48 .515 8

Arizona 37 62 .374 22

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Monday’s Games

Philadelphia 5, Colorado 4

Chicago Cubs 5, Houston 2

Milwaukee 3, Cincinnati 2

Florida 4, San Francisco 3

Tuesday’s Games

Arizona at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

St. Louis at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Houston, 8:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 10:05 p.m.

Florida at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games

Chicago Cubs (R.Wells 5-7) at Houston

(Norris 2-7), 2:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (Tr.Wood 0-1) at Milwaukee

(Narveson 8-6), 2:10 p.m.

Arizona (E.Jackson 6-9) at Philadelphia

(Halladay 11-8), 7:05 p.m.

Atlanta (T.Hudson 10-5) at Washington

(L.Hernandez 7-6), 7:05 p.m.

Florida (Sanabia 1-1) at San Francisco

(J.Sanchez 7-6), 7:05 p.m.

St. Louis (J.Garcia 9-4) at N.Y. Mets

(J.Santana 8-5), 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Ohlendorf 1-8) at Colorado

(Cook 4-6), 8:40 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kuroda 8-8) at San Diego

(Richard 7-5), 10:05 p.m.

Thursday’s Games

St. Louis at N.Y. Mets, 12:10 p.m.

Atlanta at Washington, 12:35 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Colorado, 3:10 p.m.

Florida at San Francisco, 3:45 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 6:35 p.m.

Arizona at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE

East Division

W L Pct GB

New York 63 35 .643 —

Tampa Bay 60 38 .612 3

Boston 56 44 .560 8

Toronto 51 49 .510 13

Baltimore 31 68 .313 32 1/2

Central Division

W L Pct GB

Chicago 54 44 .551 —

Minnesota 54 46 .540 1

Detroit 51 47 .520 3

Kansas City 42 57 .424 12 1/2

Cleveland 41 58 .414 13 1/2

West Division

W L Pct GB

Texas 58 41 .586 —

Oakland 50 48 .510 7 1/2

Los Angeles 52 50 .510 7 1/2

Seattle 39 61 .390 19 1/2

Sunday’s Games

N.Y. Yankees 12, Kansas City 6

Tampa Bay 4, Cleveland 2

Toronto 5, Detroit 3, 1st game

Minnesota 10, Baltimore 4

Oakland 6, Chicago White Sox 4

Seattle 4, Boston 2

Detroit 6, Toronto 5, 2nd game

Texas 6, L.A. Angels 4

Monday’s Games

N.Y. Yankees 3, Cleveland 2

Toronto 9, Baltimore 5

Tampa Bay 5, Detroit 0

Minnesota 19, Kansas City 1

Chicago White Sox 6, Seattle 1

Boston 6, L.A. Angels 3

Tuesday’s Games

N.Y. Yankees at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.

Detroit at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

Oakland at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.

Seattle at Chicago White Sox, 8:10

p.m.

Boston at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games

Minnesota (Duensing 3-1) at Kansas

City (Bannister 7-9), 2:10 p.m.

Boston (Beckett 1-1) at L.A. Angels

(Pineiro 10-7), 3:35 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (A.J.Burnett 8-8) at

Cleveland (Carmona 10-7), 7:05 p.m.

Baltimore (Guthr ie 4-10) at Toronto

(Mills 0-0), 7:07 p.m.

Detroit (Bonine 4-0) at Tampa Bay

(Niemann 8-3), 7:10 p.m.

Oakland (Cahill 9-4) at Texas

(C.Lewis 9-6), 8:05 p.m.

Seattle (J.Vargas 6-5) at Chicago

White Sox (Buehrle 9-8), 8:10 p.m.

Carolina LeagueNorthern Division

W L Pct. GB

Potomac (Nationals) 17 12 .586 —

Wilmington (Royals) 18 13 .581 —

x-Frederick (Orioles) 15 15 .500 2 1/2

Lynchburg (Reds) 13 17 .433 4 1/2

Southern DivisionW L Pct. GB

x-Winston-Salem (CWS)16 14 .533 —

Salem (Red Sox) 15 15 .500 1

Myrtle Beach (Braves) 14 17 .452 2 1/2

Kinston (Indians) 12 17 .414 3 1/2

x-clinched first half

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Monday’s GamesLynchburg 7, Frederick 4

Winston-Salem 7, Kinston 2

Potomac 10, Wilmington 1

Salem 5, Myrtle Beach 4

Tuesday’s GamesLynchburg at Frederick, late

Kinston at Winston-Salem, late

Myrtle Beach at Salem, late

Potomac at Wilmington, late

Wednesday’s GamesKinston at Winston-Salem, 12 p.m.

Potomac at Wilmington, 12:05 p.m.

Lynchburg at Frederick, 7 p.m.

Myrtle Beach at Salem, 7:05 p.m.

This date in baseballJuly 28

1931 — Bob Fothergill of Chicago hit ahome run and a triple in an 11-run eighth in-ning. The White Sox set an AmericanLeague record by recording 12 hits in the in-ning and beat the New York Yankees 14-12.

1940 — King Kong Keller hit three homersto give the New York Yankees a 10-9 winover Chicago in the first game of a double-header split.

1951 — Clyde Vollmer of Boston hit a grandslam in the 16th inning, the latest ever hit ina major league game.The Red Sox beat theCleveland Indians, 8-4, in 16.

1958 — For the sixth time in his career,Mickey Mantle hit home runs from bothsides of the plate. New York beat the Athlet-ics 14-7.

1971 — Sixteen-time Gold Glove winnerBrooks Robinson committed three errors inthe sixth inning against the Oakland A’s.Frank Robinson’s three-run homer in theninth won the game for the Orioles.

1976 — John Odom (five innings) and Fran-

cisco Barrios (four innings) combined on ano-hitter as the Chicago White Sox beatOakland 2-1.

1979 — Dave Kingman of the Chicago Cubshit three home runs in a game for the sec-ond time in the season and became thesixth player in major league history to ac-complish the feat. Kingman’s homersweren’t enough as the Cubs lost to the NewYork Mets 6-4.

1983 — AL president Lee McPhail ruledthat George Brett’s “pine tar” home runagainst New York on July 24 should count.The umpires had disallowed the homer be-cause the pine tar on Brett’s bat exceededthe 18-inch limit. The rest of the game wasplayed Aug. 18 with the Kansas City Royalsbeating the Yankees, 5-4.

1990 — Shawon Dunston tied a majorleague record with three triples and led theChicago Cubs to a 10-7 win over the Mon-treal Expos.

1991 — Dennis Martinez pitched a perfectgame as the Montreal Expos beat Los An-geles 2-0 at Dodger Stadium.

1993 — Ken Griffey Jr. tied a major leaguerecord by homering in his eighth consecu-tive game, but it wasn’t enough for the Seat-tle Mariners in a 5-1 loss to the MinnesotaTwins.

1994 — On the night the baseball playersset an Aug. 12 strike date, Kenny Rogers ofthe Texas Rangers pitched a perfect gamefor a 4-0 victory over California.

1999 — For the first time in 12 years, theU.S. baseball team beat the world championCubans, scoring five runs in the ninth inningfor a 10-5 victory at the Pan AmericanGames. Marcus Jensen’s three-run homerbroke a 5-5 tie.

2001 — Vinny Castilla hit three homers anddrove in five runs, but Houston still lost 9-8to Pittsburgh. Down 8-2 with two outs in theninth inning, the Pirates scored seven runs,including Brian Giles’ game-winning grandslam.

2004 — Troy Percival recorded his 300thsave after John Lackey allowed three hitsover 8 1-3 innings to help Anaheim beatTexas 2-0.

2006 — Houston rookie Luke Scott hit forthe cycle and drove in five runs, but the As-tros lost to Arizona 8-7.

2009 — Chicago White Sox ace MarkBuehrle set a major league record by retir-ing 45 straight batters over three starts.Coming in with 28 straight, including 27 in aperfect game in his last start, Buehrle re-tired the first 17 Twins to surpass the recordof 41 straight set by San Francisco’s JimBarr in 1972 and tied by Chicago teammateBobby Jenks, a reliever, in 2007. The streakended with two outs in the sixth and Min-nesota went on to win 5-3.

NASCAR

Sprint Cup

Schedule

Feb. 6 — x-Budweiser Shootout (KevinHarvick)

Feb. 11 — x-Gatorade Duel 1 (JimmieJohnson)

Feb. 11 — x-Gatorade Duel 2 (KaseyKahne)

Feb. 14 — Daytona 500 (Jamie McMur-ray)

Feb. 21 — Auto Club 500 (Jimmie John-son)

Feb. 28 — Shelby American, Las Vegas(Jimmie Johnson)

March 7 — Kobalt Tools 500 (Kurt Busch)

March 21 — Food City 500, Bristol, Tenn.(Jimmie Johnson)

March 28 — Goody’s Fast Pain Relief500, Martinsville, Va. (Denny Hamlin)

April 10 — Subway Fresh Fit 600, Avon-dale, Ariz. (Ryan Newman)

April 18 — Samsung Mobile 500, FortWorth, Texas (Denny Hamlin)

April 25 — Aaron’s 499, Talladega, Ala.(Kevin Harvick)

May 1 — Heath Calhoun 400, Richmond,Va. (Kyle Busch)

May 8 — Southern 500, Darlington, S.C.(Denny Hamlin)

May 16 — Autism Speaks 400, Dover,Del. (Kyle Busch)

May 22 — x-Sprint Showdown, Concord,N.C. (Martin Truex Jr.)

May 22 — x-NASCAR Sprint All-StarRace, Concord, N.C. (Kurt Busch)

May 30 — Coca-Cola 600, Concord, N.C.(Kurt Busch)

June 6 — Gillette Fusion ProGlide 500,Long Pond, Pa. (Denny Hamlin)

June 13 — Heluva Good! Sour CreamDips 400, Brooklyn, Mich. (Denny Hamlin)

June 20 — Toyota/Save Mart 350, Sono-ma, Calif. (Jimmie Johnson)

June 27 — Lenox Industrial Tools 301,Loudon, N.H. (Jimmie Johnson)

July 3 — Coke Zero 400 Powered ByCoca-Cola, Daytona Beach, Fla. (KevinHarvick)

July 10 — LifeLock.com 400, Joliet, Ill.(David Reutimann)

July 25 — Brickyard 400, Indianapolis

Aug. 1 — Pennsylvania 500, Long Pond,Pa.

Aug. 8 — Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dipsat The Glen, Watkins Glen, N.Y.

Aug. 15 — Carfax 400, Brooklyn, Mich.

Aug. 21 — Irwin Tools Night Race, Bristol,Tenn.

Sep. 5 — Labor Day Classic 500, Hamp-ton, Ga.

Sep. 11 — Richmond 400, Richmond, Va.

Sep. 19 — Sylvania 300, Loudon, N.H.

Sep. 26 — AAA 400, Dover, Del.

Oct. 3 — Price Chopper 400, Kansas City,Kan.

Oct. 10 — Pepsi Max 400, Fontana, Calif.

Oct. 16 — NASCAR Banking 500, Con-cord, N.C.

Oct. 24 — TUMS Fast Relief 500, Mar-tinsville, Va.

Oct. 31 — AMP Energy 500, Talladega,Ala.

Nov. 7 — Lone Star 500, Fort Worth,Texas

Nov. 14 — Arizona 500, Avondale, Ariz.

Nov. 21 — Ford 400, Homestead, Fla.

x-non-points race

———

2010 Driver Standings

Through July 25

Points

1, Kevin Harvick, 2,920. 2, Jeff Gordon,2,736. 3, Denny Hamlin, 2,660. 4, JimmieJohnson, 2,659. 5, Kurt Busch, 2,658. 6,Kyle Busch, 2,630. 7, Jeff Burton, 2,615.8, Matt Kenseth, 2,573. 9, Tony Stewart,2,544. 10, Carl Edwards, 2,496.

11, Greg Biffle, 2,462. 12, Clint Bowyer,2,446. 13, Mark Martin, 2,384. 14, DaleEarnhardt Jr., 2,353. 15, Ryan Newman,2,299. 16, Jamie McMurray, 2,295. 17,Kasey Kahne, 2,290. 18, David Reuti-mann, 2,269. 19, Joey Logano, 2,241. 20,Martin Truex Jr., 2,145.

Money

1, Jamie McMurray, $4,687,502. 2, KurtBusch, $4,628,322. 3, Jimmie Johnson,$4,408,193. 4, Kevin Harvick, $4,306,470.5, Kyle Busch, $3,792,817. 6, Jeff Gor-don, $3,595,042. 7, Denny Hamlin,$3,498,233. 8, Matt Kenseth, $3,307,517.9, Kasey Kahne, $3,299,607. 10, TonyStewart, $3,208,357.

11, Jeff Burton, $3,176,307. 12, DavidReutimann, $3,162,218. 13, Dale Earn-hardt Jr., $3,155,253. 14, Carl Edwards,$3,138,541. 15, Greg Biffle, $3,058,162.16, Joey Logano, $3,007,293. 17, RyanNewman, $2,982,052. 18 Juan PabloMontoya, $2,978,237. 19, Clint Bowyer,$2,778,329. 20, A J Allmendinger,$2,764,493.

20, Clint0GOLF

PGA Tour

ScheduleJan. 7-10 — SBS Championship (GeoffOgilvy)

Jan. 14-17 — Sony Open in Hawaii(Ryan Palmer)

Jan. 20-24 — Bob Hope Classic (BillHaas)

Jan. 28-31 — Farmers Insurance Open(Ben Crane)

Feb. 4-7 — Northern Trust Open (SteveStricker)

Feb. 11-14 — AT&T Pebble Beach Na-tional Pro-Am (Dustin Johnson)

Feb. 17-21 — WGC-Accenture MatchPlay Championship (Ian Poulter)

Feb. 18-21 — Mayakoba Classic at Riv-iera Maya-Cancun (Cameron Beckman)

Feb. 25-28 — Waste ManagementPhoenix Open (Hunter Mahan)

March 4-7 — Honda Classic (Camilo Vil-legas)

March 11-14 — WGC-CA Championship(Ernie Els)

March 11-14 — Puerto Rico Open(Derek Lamely)

March 18-21 — Transitions Champi-onship (Jim Furyk)

March 25-29 — Arnold Palmer Invita-tional (Ernie Els)

April 1-4 — Shell Houston Open (Antho-ny Kim)

April 8-11 — The Masters (Phil Mickel-son)

April 15-18 — Verizon Heritage (JimFuryk)

April 22-25 — Zurich Classic of New Or-leans (Jason Bohn)

April 29-May 2 — Quail Hollow Champi-onship (Rory McIlroy)

May 6-9 — THE PLAYERS Champi-onship (Tim Clark)

May 13-16 — Valero Texas Open (AdamScott)

May 20-23 — HP Byron Nelson Champi-onship (Jason Day)

May 27-30 — Crowne Plaza Invitationalat Colonial (Zach Johnson)

June 3-6 — the Memorial Tournament(Justin Rose)

June 10-13 — St. Jude Classic (Lee

Westwood)

June 17-20 — U.S. Open Championship

(Graeme McDowell)

Aug. 5-8 — WGC-Bridgestone Invita-

tional, Akron, Ohio

Aug. 5-8 — Turning Stone Resort

Championship, Verona, N.Y.

Aug. 12-15 — PGA Championship, She-

boygan, Wis.

Aug. 19-22 — Wyndham Championship,

Greensboro, N.C.

Aug. 26-29 — The Barclays, Paramus,

N.J.

Sept. 3-6 — Deutsche Bank Champi-

onship, Norton, Mass.

Paul noncommittal aboutfuture with Hornets

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Chris Paul jumped at thechance to express his love for New Orleans during hisannual youth basketball camp on Tuesday.

Only the subject of his future with the Hornets gavehim pause.

Paul said his meeting with Hornets general managerDell Demps, head coach Monty Williams and teampresident Hugh Weber on Monday “went really well.”He added that he was “excited” by Williams’ approachto coaching.

Paul even went so far as to say he’s “never been ableto envision” continuing his NBA career anywhere butNew Orleans, the city where he became an NBA All-Star, the face of his franchise and one of the most popu-lar figures in the community.

And yet, when given the chance to say without reser-vation that he did not want to be traded, Paul said nowwas not the time.

“There will be a time,” Paul said, trying to repeatedlyto turn the focus of his comments back to his work inthe community and his camp at Tulane University.

“I stay committed to the city of New Orleans,” Paulsaid. “Everything else we talked about (in Monday’smeeting with the club), like Mr. Demps said, we want tokeep some of that stuff private.”

Across town, the Hornets were holding an event toformally introduce Demps, a first-time general managerwhose first order of business has been to prove to Paulthat the Hornets can become a contender quickly.

Paul has two years remaining before he can opt outof his current contract with New Orleans.

However, in recent weeks, Paul has said he wants toplay for a team that could compete for a title right awayand would welcome a trade if the Hornets were unableto make significant improvements this offseason.

Demps sought to make it clear that the team is not in-terested in entertaining trade offers for Paul and that hehoped any skepticism of the team’s ability to appeasetheir star guard would subside over time.

“I don’t know what else I could do,” Demps said.“As an organization, I think we’re looking forward toChris leading us and we’re looking forward to puttingpieces around him. I’m excited about it and he seemsexcited.”

Tuesday, July 27

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

WGN — Chicago Cubs at Houston, 8 p.m.

WNBA BASKETBALL

ESPN2 — San Antonio at New York, 7:30 p.m.

ESPN2 — Phoenix at Seattle, 9:30 p.m.

Sports Briefs

Sports on TV

GREENSBORO (AP)— Fans will be able tobring their cell phones ontothe course at next month’sWyndham Championship.

Defending championRyan Moore hopes to givethem something to talkabout.

Tournament officialssaid Tuesday that theywould allow fans to usemobile phones at Sedge-field Country Club — aslong as the devices are keptin silent mode and calls aremade only in designated ar-eas around the course.Also, fans won’t be al-lowed to take pictures orvideo during the four com-petitive rounds.

Tournament directorMark Brazil, a member ofthe PGA Tour’s tournamentadvisory council, said thegroup discussed changingthe cell phone policy aftersome fans complained theywere out of touch with theirfamilies and businesses

without their mobile de-vices. He said the tour hasconfidence in his event’snetwork of volunteers andsecurity workers to enforcethe trial rules.

“We’re going to be kindof the guinea pig tourna-ment on allowing this,”Brazil said. “We’re just go-ing to test it here.”

Though wireless deviceshave long been a no-no onthe tour, Moore said heusually hears rings fromcontraband cell phonesroughly once or twice pertournament. He joked thathe might send some textmessages from the course,then said he expects fans touse their phones responsi-bly.

“People are going tosneak (phones) in anyways,somehow get them in. It’sadults. I feel like if you letthem actually bring themout there, they’ll probablyrespect the fact that you letthem have it and actually

go use those (designated)areas a lot more,” he said.“People appreciate the factthat you’re not treatingthem like a 10-year-old:’You’re not responsibleenough to do this.’ They’reactually letting them haveit, and just say, ’Please, justbe respectful of play.’ Ithink people will do that,for the most part. I reallydo.”

Moore said he wants togive fans more reasons toreach for their phones andtext their buddies.

I’m “going to do every-thing I can to come out ofthe way and play this eventevery single year,” he said,and not just because heclaimed his first tour victo-ry here last year. Rather,it’s a gesture of gratitude tothe people who gave himhis first shot on the tour sixyears ago.

He hadn’t yet turned proin 2004 but had just wonthe U.S. Amateur when hewas invited to play thatyear’s Greensboro event,which at the time was heldin the fall across town atForest Oaks Country Club.Since finishing tied for24th that year, he hasskipped the tour stop in theNorth Carolina Triad onlyonce.

“When people take careof you and treat you right,you remember it,” Mooresaid. “That’s how this tour-nament has been for me.”

But for Moore, nothingtopped last year. He beatKevin Stadler with a birdieon the third hole of a sud-den death playoff to claimhis only win on tour. Hisbest result this year was hissecond-place finish at theAT&T National earlier thismonth.

“What the win did forme last year, it wasn’t quitewhat I thought it would dofor me — it actuallyshowed me a little bit moreof how far off I was, whichis weird,” Moore said. “Isimply just came in here,this is a golf course that fitsmy game ... and I just kindof got some good momen-tum and I played some re-ally good golf that week.”

Trees thebiggestobstacle atSahalee

SAMMAMISH, Wash.(AP) — Corey Pavin’sthought process was sound.His execution was a littleoff.

Standing in the middleof the 11th fairway onTuesday morning, Pavindecided to take the twomammoth fir trees creatingfield goal uprights in frontof the green out of play.Hitting a low, stinging fair-

way wood could keep theball under the tree limbsand leave a reasonablepitch on the long par-5.

Five shots later, Pavinfinally had a shot that was-n’t engulfed by one of thegiant trees at SahaleeCountry Club.

“What am I supposed todo?” Pavin pondered with alaugh to his caddie.

Avoiding the thousandsof trees framing the fair-ways of Sahalee is a goodfirst move.

After two weeks ofplaying links golf in Scot-land — first at the BritishOpen and then the SeniorBritish Open last week atCarnoustie — the USGAcould not have picked amore stark contrast for theplayers in this week’s U.S.Senior Open. Small shrubsand fescue grass is gone,replaced by lush, damp,emerald green rough andtrees that create a sense ofclaustrophobia.

“After playing links golffor the last two weeks thenstanding on that first tee, itlooks like you have to walksideways,” Tom Lehmansaid. “The trees reallymake it feel like there’s noroom.”

Truth is, there isn’tmuch room out there.

The USGA has set thecourse so most fairways areon average about 26 yardswide, followed by graduat-ed rough that has become

the USGA’s setup for allmajor championships.

But by the time some-one’s shot finds the deepestof the 4-inch rough well offthe fairway, it has likelybeen engulfed by hangingbranches. The sight ofcedar and fir limbs fallingfrom the air and the clangof balls hitting tree trunksare ominous and all too fa-miliar.

“It can be intimidating,especially coming fromCarnoustie last week. Thetallest tree over there wasprobably a 3 1/2-footbush,” Peter Jacobsen said.“And you come here andanybody who is not fromthe northwest has neverseen 100-foot firs and 100-foot cedar trees so it is dif-ferent. And as tight as fair-ways are, you just reallyhave to keep the ball inplay.”

When the PGA Champi-onship was held at Sahaleea dozen years ago, playersraved about the overallcondition of the course. Butit wasn’t considered a fa-vorite of players becausethe constricting nature ofthe trees took away aggres-siveness and forced a con-servative hand.

“Most tour players areused to golf courses thatare a little more open,” Ja-cobsen said. “There isnothing open about thisgolf course.”

has carried a no-hitter intothe eighth inning this year.That’s the most throughJuly 26 since at least 1974,as far back as such recordsgo at STATS LLC.

As a comparison, it hap-pened six times by that datelast season.

“I don’t know if thereare any explanations for it,”Minnesota manager RonGardenhire said. “It runs incycles and you just gothrough it.”

CC Sabathia got it start-ed with a near no-no atTampa Bay on April 10,and the list of close callsfeatures youngsters fromRicky Romero and TravisWood to established stars

such as John Lackey andDaisuke Matsuzaka.

Of course, several fin-ished the job. Oakland left-hander Dallas Braden re-tired all 27 batters againstTampa Bay on May 9 andPhiladelphia ace Roy Halla-day duplicated the feat 20days later at Florida, mak-ing this the only season be-sides 1880 to include a pairof perfect games.

Arizona’s Edwin Jack-son and Colorado’s UbaldoJimenez also threw no-hit-ters — not to mention theperfect game Detroit right-hander Armando Galarragawas denied because of amissed call at first base byumpire Jim Joyce.

“It’s pretty unbelievable.I don’t know. It’s not aneasy thing to do,” saidBoston Red Sox pitcherClay Buchholz, who tosseda no-hitter in his second ma-jor league start on Sept. 1,2007.

“I don’t remember everhearing about it happeninglike this. Maybe guys arepreparing a little bit betterand sticking to their gameplan throughout the game. Ittakes a lot of luck to do it.That’s one of the key things.You’ve got to have a coupleof good plays in the field.”

Ted Lilly of the Chicago

Cubs and Gavin Floyd ofthe crosstown White Soxeven had dueling no-hittersgoing into the bottom of theseventh inning at WrigleyField on June 13.

Tampa Bay has been in-volved in three no-hittersthis season, shut down byBraden and Jackson beforeGarza’s gem Monday on anight when the Rays didn’tmanage a hit themselvesuntil Matt Joyce’s sixth-in-ning grand slam off Tigersstarter Max Scherzer.

“Pitching is starting totake over the game andthat’s good,” Florida right-hander Ricky Nolasco said.“That’s the way it shouldbe.”

That figures, comingfrom a pitcher. But there areseveral reasons why base-ball’s balance of power hasswung to the guys on themound. Among them:

— Testing for steroidsand amphetamines.

— An increased empha-sis on defense.

— The sport-widespread of bat-breaking cutfastballs.

— Advances in medi-cine that help revive injuredarms.

— Better teaching andcompetition at youth, col-lege, minor league and in-

ternational levels.“These are the best

pitchers in the world, andthe pitchers that havethrown the no-hitters arepretty darn nasty,” Houstonthird baseman Chris John-son said. “If they are ontheir game, it’s a battle.These guys have a chanceto do it every night.”

Former big league pitch-er and current Los AngelesAngels broadcaster MarkGubicza has a simple theo-ry of his own.

“I think the resurgenceof the power arm is why.Outside of Dallas Braden,who doesn’t have overpow-ering stuff but spots the ballpretty well, you can see anoverwhelming majority ofpitchers now that have plusfastballs in the 93-96 (mph)range and sometimes topout at 98. There are more ofthem that we’ve seen prob-ably since maybe the late60s and early 70s,” he said.

“Unless the (radar) gunsaren’t right, I’ve never seenso many guys with suchgood fastballs. And whenyou have a guy who canspot a fastball, you can bevery successful.”

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Christ CommunityChurch will sponsor a freebasketball camp for fourththrough eighth grade boysand girls Aug. 2 through 4from 8 a.m. until noon atMillennium Charter Acade-

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“It was kind of easythrowing to him. I think Icould have complete somepasses to him left-hand-ed,” Riddle said.

The Phoenix will needtheir younger player tocontribute quickly if theywant to compete for theconference title, coachPete Lembo said.

“We need six or sevenreceivers to step up. Weneed the entire offensiveline to step up,” Lembosaid.

And the Southern Con-ference isn’t necessarilytop heavy. CommissionerJohn Iamarino pointed outthe league has sent five of

its nine members to theFCS playoffs since 2005.

One of those teams isFurman. The Paladins areaccustomed to success,making the FCS playoffs15 times since 1982, butare in the middle of one oftheir longest postseasondry spells, after stayinghome the past three years.

Coach Bobby Lamb hasno problem with his teambeing picked third, butsaid he won’t have a realidea of how much they canaccomplish until playersreport to practice nextmonth.

“I think these guys arevery hungry. They see thechampionships on the wall,They see the championshiprings in my office. Certain-ly they want to get back tothat level,” said Lamb,who played quarterback

for the Paladins and was anassistant on their only na-tional championship teamin 1988.

The intriguing newcom-er to the top half of the So-Con standings is Chat-tanooga. The Mocs fin-ished 6-5 and 4-4 in theleague in 2009, the firsttime in a decade they did-n’t finish with a losingrecord.

Chattanooga’s push fora winning conferencerecord for the first timesince 1991 starts with atough opener against Ap-palachian State.

“We probably did get afew breaks our way,” saidMocs coach Russ Hues-man about his rookie sea-son last year. “We’ve gotour work cut out for us thisyear.”

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Kathy Goins is truly oneof those cooks who ab-solutely loves to experi-ment with new and inter-esting recipes. On her din-ing table were dishes shewould be carrying to a fam-ily reunion this past Satur-day.

A beautiful BlackberryWine Cake was in the mid-dle of the table, which alsofeatured Tex-Mex dishesand a Greek salad. Our fea-tured cook noted that shesubmitted the BlackberryWine cake recipe to theCarolina Country magazineand received an award forits publication. For the cakeshe uses fresh blackberrieswhen they are in seasonand prefers blackberrywine that she makes in hervery own kitchen.

A resident of theFranklin community, sheand her siblings grew up ona series of Navy basesaround the United Stateswhile their father was inservice. Their mother wasfrom Cana, Va., and theirfather hailed from FlatRock. She recalled,“Whenever possible, wecame ‘home’ to Mount

Airy, a place where ourgrandparents, aunts, unclesand cousins lived. Being inMount Airy was very dif-ferent from our life asNavy brats. One great-un-cle, Garland Hawks, ownedapple and peach orchardsin Cana, while Uncle BillyHawks raised tobacco inShoals. All of them keptkitchen gardens and cannedquarts of beans, tomatoes,sauerkraut, peaches andberries. One of the bestmemories I have is pickingblackberries with my sis-ters and cousins on UncleBurlie’s farm. We all gotscratched up, bug bit andsunburned. Plus we ate asmany juicy, ripe blackber-ries, warm from the sun, aswe picked. Heavenly.”

Goins says she loved tofollow her aunts, motherand grandmothers aroundin the kitchen. She said, “Iremember stirring cake bat-ter, shucking corn and be-ing allowed to have thescraps from a pie crust tomake my own ‘pie.’GrannyBessie (Davis Midkiff) putbrown sugar on top andbaked it along with her pie.I learned to roll out home-made ‘dumplings’ cut themin strips and let stand be-fore dropping them intoboiling chicken stew.”

She noted that reuniontime meant all of her moth-er’s sisters worked in thekitchen to prepare the food.

“I sliced bananas for thepudding, homemade ofcourse, not instant! Iwatched my GrandmaHawks make biscuits byadding lard and buttermilkto the top of a 10-poundcanister of flour. She nevermessed up the rest of theflour and would pat outthose ‘cathead’ biscuits be-fore baking in the woodstove. Hot biscuits withKaro syrup and butter wereyummy.

“I started cooking formy family at age 10. Mamawent to work and dependedon us to do the chores,homework and to cook theevening meal. During thefirst week of Mama’s em-ployment, we had four orsix kitchen fires in thekitchen. My older sisterjust didn’t have the knackfor cooking. That left me,as next in line, to try cook-ing for all of us. And wefound out that all the time Ispent in the kitchens whenwe came to Mount Airypaid off. I could cook!Mama was a good cookwho liked to try newrecipes, especially Orientaland Italian foods. She madechop suey, lasagna, Italian-style spaghetti and her spe-cialty, pork ribs and sauer-kraut that melted in yourmouth.”

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Cooksof the week

Photos by Eleanor Powell Kathy Goins prepares BlackberryWine Cakes, Enchiladas and Greek Salad for theGoins family reunion.

The Blackberry Wine Cake is topped with a glaze andfresh blackberries.

Tortillas are topped with olives.

Kathy’s grandsons, Jonathan Lee, left, and Matthew can’t wait to sample the food.

Greek Potato Salad is a favorite dish.Enchiladas are topped with cheese.

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cook for her husband, Doug, and their family and enjoysexperimenting with new recipes. “I love Tex-Mex flavorswith green chilies, cumin and chili powder. I love to bake,too – cakes, pies, cobblers, homemade yeast and quickbreads, plus iron skillet cornbread and biscuits. I taughtour children to cook, both our daughter and three sons.Cooking is a like skill that everyone needs to learn.

“Today I am teaching my grandchildren to cook andbake. Jonathan Lee, 11, our oldest grandson, likes to makebacon and eggs, egg bread and other treats. His brother,who is 7, likes to microwave popcorn and he does it with-out burning the corn. Ella Goins, 4, likes to help me peelvegetables and stir cake batters. She made her first poundcake last week.”

While packing up the food and heading to the reunion,our featured cook said she thoroughly enjoys teaching thisnew generation all about the joy of cooking and the bless-ings of cleanup.

Follow along as this talented cook shares some of herfavorite recipes.

BLACKBERRY WINE CAKE

1 (18-oz.) box white cake mix1 (3-oz.) box Royal Gelatin, blackberry-flavor (mi-

nus 1 tablespoon dry mix)*1 cup blackberry wine1/2 cup oil4 eggs1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring1/2 teaspoon lemon flavoring1/2 cup chopped nuts (walnuts or pecans), optional** 1 to 2 cups fresh or frozen blackberries, optional***

Blackberry Wine Glaze:1 cup sugar2 tablespoons cornstarch plus 1 tablespoon dry

blackberry gelatin mix 1 stick butter1/2 cup blackberry wine

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour a 10-cupBundt pan; sprinkle bottom with nuts if using. Combine thecake mix and gelatin mix. Add wine, oil and eggs, beatingon low speed just until moistened. Add flavorings and beatfor 2 to 3 minutes at medium speed, scraping bowl as need-ed. Batter will be thin. Pour into prepared pan. Bake 45 to50 minutes until top is browned and cake tests done.

Glaze: Stir the sugar, cornstarch and gelatin dry mix to-gether in a medium saucepan. Put on medium heat and stirin the wine. Add butter cut in chunks. Cook and stir untilmixture comes to a boil, reduce heat and cook additional 2to 3 minutes until thickened and glossy. When cake isdone, let it stand 5 minutes before removing from pan. Puton a cake plate and pour half of the hot glaze over it. Al-low to cool completely. When serving, spoon some of theremaining sauce on each slice.

*May substitute raspberry or black cherry gelatin forthe blackberry flavor. **I like the nuts, but we have aller-gies in the family, so I leave them out. ***I placed 2 cupsfrozen, sweetened blackberries in a half-gallon Mason jarand added 2/3 of a bottle of red wine. Then I let it sit for aweek or so to develop the flavor. When I bake my cake, Ireserve half the berries for the glaze and put the otherberries in the cake batter. I just add the berries to the boil-ing mixture and stir gently. They make a nice presenta-tion.

GREEK POTATO SALAD

6 medium potatoes, peeled and cubed1 cup chopped celery with leaves 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsleySalt and fresh ground pepper to taste 3 boiled eggs, quarteredSliced pickled beets 3 Roma tomatoes, quartered1 large cucumber, peeled and chopped 1/2 teaspoon onion powder1/2 cup mayonnaise or to taste Shredded lettuceBlack Peppercorn or Cucumber flavor ranch dressing

Cook potatoes in boiling water until just fork tender.Drain, run cool water over them and drain again. Whilepotatoes are cooking, chop the celery and parsley. Putmayonnaise, celery, parsley, onion powder, salt and pep-per in large bowl. Stir well. Add partially-cooled potatoesto bowl and mix gently. Chill until ready to serve. Prep theother vegetables/garnishes.

To serve, put lettuce on a platter or shallow bowl.Mound the potato salad in the center of platter, then alter-nate the eggs and tomatoes around the mound, pressing tomake them stay in place. Sprinkle with the chopped cu-cumber and crown with sliced beets. Add fresh groundblack pepper to taste. Serve with Black Peppercorn or Cu-cumber flavor ranch dressing on the side.

Note: May add sliced black olives to the garnishes.

“This recipe for Double Duty Enchiladas is a hit withgrandchildren, men and women. I take it to potluck din-ners and bring home a scraped clean pan!”

DOUBLE-DUTY ENCHILADAS

Chicken and Black Bean Filling

1 1/2 pounds of boneless, skinless chicken breast orthigh meat

3 cups water2 teaspoons chicken-tomato bullion base1 teaspoon cumin 1 to 2 teaspoons chili powder1 teaspoon onion powder1/2 teaspoon garlic powder1 can black beans, rinsed and drained

Ingredients for tortillas:20 small flour tortillas1 (14-oz.) can Rotel tomatoes and green chilies 2 (19-oz.) cans enchilada sauce2 cups thick white sauce*3 cups shredded 6-blend Mexican cheese2 cups shredded Colby-Jack or Cheddar cheese 1 (4-oz.) can green chilies, drained1 teaspoon cumin, 1/2 teaspoon chili powder, 1/2

teaspoon onion powder2 tablespoons chopped red onion, optional 2 tablespoons sliced black olives, optional

Cook chicken in water seasoned with bullion, cumin,chili powder, onion and garlic powder. Bring to a boil, de-crease heat and simmer 15-20 minutes until meat is ten-

der. Let cool slightly in broth. Make a white sauce of 4 ta-blespoons cornstarch, 2 cups milk, salt and pepper totaste. Cook and stir on medium heat until thickened andsmooth. Stir in 1 teaspoon cumin, 1/2 teaspoon chili pow-der, onion powder and the can of green chilies. Take offheat and add 1 cup of the mixed cheese to mixture; stir un-til cheese is melted. Check the seasonings and adjust totaste. Shred the cooled chicken and add to white sauce.

Divide into 2 bowls, adding the black beans to onebowl with 1/2 cup Rotel tomatoes and green chilies. Mixremaining Rotel tomatoes into 1 can of enchilada sauce.

Assembly: Coat two 9x13-inch baking dishes withcooking oil spray. (I line one with aluminum foil for freez-ing.) Spoon about 1/3 cup of the mixed enchilada sauceinto one pan, and 1/3 cup plain sauce in the other pan.Take 10 tortillas and spoon in 2 tablespoons of the chick-en-cheese mixture, spreading it to within 1 inch of theedge. Roll up and place seam side down in plain enchiladasauce baking dish. Set first pan aside. Now spoon thespicy black bean and chicken mixture into remaining 10tortillas, roll and place seam side down in Rotel pan. Pourthe Rotel-enchilada sauce over the black bean enchiladas,top with onion and black olives. Pour the plain sauce overthe chicken enchiladas. Sprinkle each pan with 6-cheeseblend and Cheddar cheese. (If you like soft enchiladas,cover pans loosely with non-stick foil.) Bake at 350 de-grees for 30 minutes. (Remove foil and bake additional 5minutes to brown topping.)

“This pound cake is luscious with a deep lemon flavorand velvety texture.”

ELLA’S LEMON POUND CAKE

1 stick butter1/2 cup butter-flavor Crisco 2 cups sugar5 eggs 3 cups all-purpose flour1/2 teaspoon baking powder1/2 teaspoon salt1 tablespoon lemon extract 1 teaspoon vanilla extract1 cup vanilla or lemon yogurt

Coat tube or Bundt pan with Crisco and flour. Beatbutter and Crisco until light and fluffy, add sugar gradu-ally, beat until creamy and light. Add eggs, one at a time,beating well after each addition. In separate bowl, com-bine flour, baking powder and salt. Add flour mixture,alternately with the yogurt, beginning and ending withflour. Blend well, stir in extracts. Set oven temperatureto 300 degrees and put cake pan in the middle of the rackin lower half of oven. Bake for 50-60 minutes or untilcake tests done. Cool in pan 10 minutes, then removeand cool before serving.

JONATHAN & MATTHEW’S EGGBREAD

1 or 2 slices of bread per serving1 or 2 eggs per serving1 to 2 teaspoons butter plus cooking spraySalt and pepper to taste

Heat skillet on medium heat, coat with non-stickspray, add butter. Cut a hole in center of bread slice witha biscuit or cookie cutter. When butter is sizzling, laybread in skillet, crack eggs into center of bread, seasonto taste. Let egg cook until whites firm up, then flip overand cook until yolk is as done as you like it. Add morebutter to pan and toast the center circles of bread to servealong side of the egg bread. Serve hot!

Contact Eleanor Powell at epowell@mtairynews.comor call 719-1933.

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Two students, Karen Walls and HenryHiggs, expect to take their plans furtherthan the classroom; both are using their fi-nal class project to start or expand theirown business.

Walls, from Yadkinville, hopes to opena food franchise sometime next year. “I’vebeen looking at this opportunity forawhile,” said Walls. “I couldn’t have writ-ten the business plan by myself withoutthis class, and it is a tool I will definitelyneed when I start going after investors.”

Higgs is using his business plan to turnhis part-time waxing business into a full-time endeavor.

Throughout the semester, students havegained insight from members of BusinessNetworking International. Following theirmotto, “givers gain,” several local businessmen and women took the opportunity tospeak to the class about real-life experi-ences, business strategies and issues thatface entrepreneurs such as strategic plan-ning, guerilla marketing, pricing strategies,the cost of credit card business, being self-

insured and starting their own retirementplans.

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The following BNI members spoke tothe Small Business Management class thissemester:

� Paul Bunke — Edward Jones Invest-ments

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Carroll County Intermediate School has announcedits ninth-grade Student of the Month for March, RyanRuiz. He was nominated by Mrs. Reece for being anexcellent student. He is always prepared for classwith materials and completes all of his work on time.Mrs. Reece also complimented him on giving 100percent effort every time. He is involved in clubs,sports and his family.

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Third-grade Principal’s — AllA’s — Bryan Castillo, MadisonCombs, Roxton Edwards, IsaacMcCraw, Cassell McMillian,Joshua Rotenizer, Chelsey Snavely,Luke Stillwell, Clay Shumate.

Third-grade A — Chase Arp-Cornell, Zackery Ashburn, LukeAyers , Luke Dowell, Lukas Easter,Blake Hawks, Faith Jones, DaisyLindsay, Jacob Melton, KorbinMonday, Jonathan Woods.

Third-grade B — DianaChaney, Lexus Dalton, CarolynDoby, Cameron Easter, GaryGandee, Victoria Gandee, AlexisGrimes, Mason Gwyn, RyanMathies, Taylor McCraw,

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All A’s — Elizabeth Combs, Cam-ryn Cornell, Christian Crotts, ChloeEaster, Landon Haynes, JacobKing, Keelan Lewis, Daphne Utt.

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Fifth-grade Principal’s — AllA’s — Lauren Burkhart, SydneyHawks, Jubilee Melton.

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Fifth-grade B — Raven Beck,Dakota Hawks, Dustin Haynes,Hailey Little, Aliyah Moses, JohnPoindexter, Savanah Poling, ChaseRobinson, Alexis Taylor.

Sixth-grade Principal’s — AllA’s — Maycee Cain, NickFranklin, Rylee Haynes, BrennaHill, Carlie McMillian, Kasey Per-rin, Isaac Smith, Bailey Surratt.

Sixth-grade A — Ethan T.Ayers, Chase Bowman, JoshuaBrooks, Emily Bryant, WesleyEaster, Jordan Edwards, ChaseGoins, Forrest Johnson, GraceMarsh, Katie Monday, Lexie

Palacio, Samantha Semones.Sixth-grade B — Ethan J. Ay-

ers, Maiyah Bobbitt, Austin Cagle,Hannah Cagle, Gerardo Castillo,Matthew Collins, Lakin Cox, RileyHenderson, Jacob Shelton, JoshTaylor, Jarrett Thomas, TrevorThompson.

Seventh-grade A — AustinBowman, Heather Gwynn, Miran-da Haynes, Sarah Linville, MorganWilliams.

Seventh-grade B — MakaylaCombs , Casey Fields, MorganGalyean, Hannah Gwynn, FrankieHaynes, Chandler Hiatt, PearlMoore, Robin Moses, Laken Ro-drigue, Gina Rotenizer, ElijahSmith, Bailey Strickland, JennaTowe, Nicholas Towe, Haley Turn-er, Elizabeth Vaughan.

St. Paul Honor Roll Gentry Honor RollGentry Middle School

has annoucned its honorroll for the fourth quarter ofthe 2009-10 school year.

Sixth grade — ColtonAcord, Aubree Akers, Katri-na Akers, Wyatt Angel,Camden Atkins, CloeyBarker, Cody Bennett, Lak-en Brindle, Adam Butcher,Alondra Carrasco-Perez, Ja-cob Cavanaugh, AndrewCave, Taylor Coble, AmyCockerham, Austin Critz,Bailey Cutler, KimberlyDavis, Jordan Doss, Aman-da Downing, MarlaynaEast, Aysia Edwards, Bran-don Edwards, CheyenneEdwards, Joshua Eleva,Dakota Ellis, Bailey Gam-ble, Haley Gates, PetraGoettel, Charley Golding,Renae Griffith, Emily Harri-son, Cidney Hawks, LoganHawks, Jade Hazelwood,Maricela Hermenegildo,Jessica Hernandez, ColtenHodges, Dakota Hodges,Taylor Holt, Bailey Hop-ping, Heather Horton, AlexJones, Andrea Keen, AlyssaKilgore, Michaela Kluttz,Dulcea Lachino, KeatonMassey, Luke Mauldin,Matthew Mayes, TaylorMcBride, Madison Mead-ows, Tanner Mears, MasonMitchell, Savannah Mont-gomery, Eduardo Morales,Addison Moser, BaileyMoser, Austin Moxley, Ale-na Munoz, Dustin Nichols,John Nichols, HannahNixon, Ashley Oakley, Re-becca Parsons, KasandraPena, Taylor Pyles, VanesaSanabria, James Sawyers,Meosha Seymour, HeavanShinault, Kenlei Sias, Madi-son Simmons, Desiree Size-more, Bridgette Slate,Abryanna Smith, HannahSouthern, Katlyn Southern,Mary Spencer, Katie Stan-ley, Breon Strickland,Chasen Summers, OliviaSwift, Chantea Taylor,Bucky Tilley, April Torres,Brady Watts, Turner Watts,Hunter Williams, LexieWood, Michael Wright andBetzabel Zavala.

Seventh grade — JobeAngel, Sydney Atkins, Jor-dan Badgett, Caitlin Bob-bitt, Jordan Bowman, Bran-don Cain, Marlen Castillo,Mason Chaney, JenniferChildress, Blake Coalson,Caleb Cockerham, CameronConaway, Hortenzia CortesAlonso, Kaitlyn Cox, Alli-son Donathan, ErinDraughn, Devin Easter,Nathan Eaton, Lisa Felts,Heather George, DakotaGoss, Hannah Harrison,Bryan Hawks, MeganHawks, Morgan Hawks,Mackenzie Haynes, VictoriaHull, Jacob Humphries,Mary Hunter, AlexandraJones, Blake King, TylerLove, Sarah Lowe, MarlenLuviano, Daisy Martin,Sarah Martin, JessicaMelton, Cheyenne Mont-gomery, Lindsey Mont-gomery, Benjamin Nichols,Edward Pierce, Devin Puck-ett, Riley Roundy, AustinRozier, Sylina Ruiz, TaylorShelton, Melanie Shur,Cameron Southern, MasonTaylor, Brooke Tonnesen,Anna Tucker, Barbara Wag-oner, Casey White, Court-ney Wiles, Bryson Wolfeand Casey Wright.

Eighth grade — BlazeAcord, Sarah Barnes, Zeba-diah Benge, Marlee Bunker,Chenoa Card, RockyCollins, Alexandria Cooke,Jared Crowder, Anna Culler,Bailey Culler, Riley Fillius,Justine Frost, CoreyGalyean, Ahlora Gartland,Sarah Glasco, AbagailGolding, Laura Gomez,Katlin Goodson, KirstenGoodson, Samantha Grif-fith, Malea Gwyn, KailenHauser, GerardoHermenegildo, KatlynHodges, Samuel Holder,Marissa Hull, Grey Hunter,Jasmine Johnson, SummerJohnson, Brittany Kirby,Tiffany Lambert, DianaLopez, Cole Mauldin, Lo-gan McCraw, Kayla McMil-lian, Lana Mickey, AllisonPuckett, Caleb Ramey, SaraRichardson, Kenyon Shore,Ashton Shupe, Sydney Sis-son, James Stewart, Antho-ny Tate, Meredith Taylor,Hayley Tickle, KaitlynTickle and Noah Weddle.

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Cemetery plots SkylineMemorial Gardens 4plots in the upright sec-tion of Gethsemanes,section 141 will sell 2 or4. 3 plots in the bronzesection of Gethse-manes (2) in section 70(1) in section 71 alsohave two vaults forsale. 336-368-4180

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Local businessmanand family have im-

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Quite Clean Nice2BR/2BA lawn main,

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a reflection of your own insecurity?Think through a decision or actionclearly. Tonight: Dinner for two.VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)���� If you can, try to handle a

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be important in your dealings. Yousee a situation a lot differently.Investigate an alternative more open-ly. How you handle a family membercannot always be the same. Tonight:Put your feet up in your favorite spot.SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)���� Let your imagination come

forward. Your style of communicat-ing with a person who seems inclinednot to answer needs to be revised.Your creativity comes out in this situ-ation. Tonight: Be light and easy.SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)��� Knowing what is important

and your understanding evolve. Youmight want to revise your money sit-uation. Be aware of what is going onbehind the scenes and others’ inclina-tions. Get street smart fast. Tonight:Be cynical with a financial offer of“let’s make a deal.”CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)����� You have the knowledge

and ability to transform your direc-tion. Realize what needs to happen inorder to change gears. As you change,others change. Be more direct in yourdealings than in the past. Tonight:Hook up with friends.AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)���� Clearly, your mind is

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a meeting or interaction if you lookcarefully. Put out your sails and glideright on in. Within hours, you’ll havean answer to what has been a hassle.At first you might not like it, but youwill. Tonight: Relax with a trustedfriend and/or loved one.

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ST. LOUIS — Heavystorms and scorching tem-peratures have failed to de-ter rock bands from per-forming at an outdoor sta-dium in St. Louis, but abombardment of pigeondroppings proved too muchfor the Kings of Leon.

The band halted the Fri-day night concert at theVerizon Wireless Am-phitheatre after three songswhen the infestation ofbirds in the arena’s raftersdropped their onslaught offeces.

A statement from theband’s management com-pany, Vector Management,said bassist Jared Followillseemed to be a particulartarget of the pigeons,whose droppings were apotential health hazard.

“I’m surprised theystayed on for as manysongs as they did,” AndyMendelsohn of VectorManagement said in thestatement. “Jared was hitseveral times during thefirst two songs. On thethird song, when he was hitin the cheek and some of it

landed near his mouth, theycouldn’t take it any longer.

“It’s not only disgusting— it’s a toxic health haz-ard,” Mendelsohn said.“They really tried to hangin there. We want to apolo-gize to our fans in St. Louisand will be back as soon aswe can.”

The crowd grew restlessafter the band walked off,then an announcement wasmade that the show wasover for “safety reasons.”The concert promoter, LiveNation, did not respond tointerview requests on Mon-day but said fans will get afull refund.

Mendelsohn said bandrepresentatives had beenwarned of a “significant”pigeon infestation in therafters, but were told ef-forts were being made tocorrect the problem.

The opening bands, ThePostelles and The Stills,performed and were appar-ently hit with their share ofdroppings too.

“We couldn’t believewhat The Postelles and TheStills looked like after theirsets,” Followill said in thestatement. “We didn’t wantto cancel the show, so we

went for it. We tried toplay. It was ridiculous.”

Health experts say pi-geon droppings have beenassociated with three dis-eases: Histoplasmosis,cryptococcosis and psitta-cosis. Histoplasmosis andcryptococcosis are fungal

diseases with symptomsthat can include fatigue andfever. Psittacosis is a rareinfectious disease charac-terized by fever, rash,chills, headache and some-times pneumonia. Onlyabout 50 cases of psittaco-sis in the U.S. are reportedannually.

Dear Dr.Graham: Whatmakes Jesus dif-ferent from anyother great manwho ever lived?In my opinion,you could evensay He was afailure becauseHe never didanything impor-tant while Hewas on earth, didHe? — J.S.

Dear J.S.: Je-sus never com-manded massivearmies or found-ed major univer-sities or accumu-lated greatwealth while Hewas on earth —yet 2,000 yearslater millions upon millionsof people build their liveson His teaching and look toHim for their eternal salva-tion. And across the worldcountless hospitals and or-phanages and schools havebeen built in His name. No,Jesus wasn’t a failure!

But what made Him dif-ferent from anyone elsewho ever lived? He wasunique for one reason: Hewasn’t only a man, but Hewas also God. This stag-gers our imagination, butJesus Christ was God in hu-man flesh — fully man,and yet also fully God. Asthe Bible says, ‘He is theimage of the invisibleGod.... For God waspleased to have all his full-ness dwell in him’ (Colos-sians 1:15,19).

And that helps answer

your secondquestion: Whatdid Jesus actual-ly accomplish?During His dayson earth Jesusperformed thegreatest deedanyone couldever accomplish:He broke downthe barriers be-tween us andGod. Our great-est need was tobe reconciled toGod — but howcould that hap-pen, since wewere separatedfrom God be-cause of oursins? It was onlypossible if Godacted to save us

— and that is what He didwhen Jesus Christ died onthe cross for us.

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Children pressuring dad for divorce from new wifeDear Annie: I am 55

and have been married toJim, age 73, for five years.Jim’s wife died six yearsbefore we met, and his twochildren became furiouswhen he began dating, say-ing he was being unfaith-ful. They badgered Jim un-til he deeded them hishouse and property. Jimalso gave each kid$250,000 in cash and paidoff the mortgages on theirhomes.

The deeds specify thatJim can stay on the proper-ty as long as he lives, butmake no provision for asurviving spouse. When wemarried, Jim asked the kidsto allow me to continue tolive there after he dies, butthey refused. After that,whenever the kids askedfor money, Jim told them itwas time they lived withintheir means. (They havegood jobs.) They becamehostile and accused Jim ofchoosing me over them.

They have notallowed him tosee the grand-children for threeyears. The onlytime they speakto him is to de-mand he divorceme.

Withouttelling Jim, I sentboth his childrena polite e-mailasking what itwould take for usto be a familyagain. They toldJim about the let-ter, and he ac-cused me of in-terfering in hisrelationship withhis kids, saying itwas none of mybusiness and Ihave “ruined allpossibility of rec-onciliation.” I was shockedby his reaction, but apolo-gized. However, Jim willnot accept my apology.

Was I out ofline? What abouthis kids? Is thereany hope for thisfamily? — Tiredof Drama

Dear Tired:Jim is worndown fromfighting with hiskids, defendinghis marriage andmissing hisgrandchildren.Although yourintentions weregood, the e-mailwas the strawthat broke thecamel’s back.His selfish chil-dren used it asan excuse to at-tack him inforce. Ask Jim togo with you for

counseling to see whetheryour relationship can with-stand the pressure. If hewon’t go, go without him.

Dear Annie: My bestfriend is having an onlineaffair. She feels it is only aminor form of cheatingsince they are not meetingin real life. Frankly, in mybook, it’s cheating all theway around.

I told her that if her hus-band asks me about it, Iwill not lie to him. But I amso uncomfortable with thesituation that I no longercall her or visit their home.Even if she were to stop e-mailing this guy, I stillwould not lie to her hus-band if he asked whywe’ve stopped speaking. Isthis friendship a write-off?— Confused in California

Dear Confused: It cer-tainly sounds like it. Yourfriend is behaving terribly,and we agree that youshould not be a party to herlies. The most you can do issuggest she get into coun-seling with her husband sothey can figure out why sheis willing to risk her mar-

riage for her online buddy.Otherwise, keep your dis-tance.

Dear Annie: I wouldlike to respond to “V.W.,”who has an autistic childand whose relatives don’tunderstand how demandingit is. I have three children,one of whom has alreadybeen diagnosed with As-perger’s and the other twoare showing similar traits.

I found support throughmy child’s school and thelocal county services. Thecounty provides respitecare, and the school hasspecial classes where Ihave made friends withother parents. Also, I dis-covered care.com and sit-tercity.com, where you cansearch for trustworthy sit-ters in your area, some ofwhom may have experi-ence dealing with autisticchildren.

A starting point is ask-ing the school nurse, schoolcounselors or family doc-

tors what services areavailable in your area. Sup-port makes a big differ-ence. — N.Y.

Dear N.Y.: Thank you.Websites like the ones youlisted provide child care,senior care, pet sitters,housekeeping services andeven tutors. We appreciatethe information.

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