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Getting better?County’s stress rating dropsBy SCOTT BAUGHMANDaily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — Rutherford County’s economic stress rating has gone down, according to a study by the Associated Press.

The new ranking of 168 is an improvement over a ranking of 13 in June. The ranking is based on coun-ties nationwide with a population of 25,000 or more.

Ranking counties according to unem-

ployment, bankruptcy and foreclosure rates, the AP Economic Stress Index calculates the recession’s impact on a scale of 1 to 100, with 100 being the worst result. Rutherford County’s final score was 15.71, down 1.03 points since June.

Neighboring counties were in simi-lar straits with Cleveland at 15.91, McDowell at 15.34, Polk County at 8.65

Please see Economy, Page 6A

On the road with the CIT

This Kel-Tec firearm was seized by Interdiction Team officers during a stop in Spindale. The owner of the gun, a 19-year-old man, was arrested on outstanding warrants and taken to the Rutherford County Jail.

By LARRY DALEDaily Courier Staff Writer

SPINDALE — Those who offer God’s love are the stars that inmates see in the “dark night” of prison, Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton said Thursday night at the annu-al business meeting of the 096 Chaplaincy Ministry.

Dalton commented, “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘The bright-est stars are seen in the darkest night.’ I will tell you, for those in prison, it is a dark night. But you are those stars that they see. You are that hope that they have.”

The lieutenant governor, from Rutherford County, spoke at the ministry’s annual business dinner at The Foundation at Isothermal Community College.

Dalton encouraged those attending to continue their good work with prisoners.

”I didn’t do a lot of criminal law,” Dalton, an attorney, said, “but I did enough of it. And there is no question. I know there are a lot of bad people in prison. I saw some; everybody in this room has seen some.

“But I will tell you there are far more good people who have done bad things. That have potential. That have abilities. There are good people who have done stupid things and gotten into trouble. And many of those people have been captive to drugs and alcohol and have had other problems. They are not people without redemption.

“But many of them have never known love. They have never known redemption from a higher

Please see Chaplains, Page 6A

Second of two partsBy LARRY DALEDaily Courier Staff Writer

RUTHERFORDTON — Because they are very mobile, members of the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Interdiction Team also work municipal streets and special assignments, as well as keeping an eye on the county’s main highways.

When a Daily Courier reporter rode with the Interdiction Team recently, a pass through Spindale resulted in the arrest of a teen who had hidden a handgun under the backseat of a vehicle. A 4-year-old girl was in that same backseat.

The officers made a stop on a vehicle for a traffic offense and asked for consent to search the vehicle. In their search, they found a load-

ed Kel-Tec .380 handgun under a notebook under the seat, and the stop took on a dif-ferent tone. The people who had been in the vehicle were ordered to put their hands on the hood of the patrol car.

“You find a weapon, all of a sudden the level goes up,” an officer explained. “It can go from being boring to a man with a gun, just like that. That’s why you always have to be on your toes, whether you are doing interdiction or whether you’ve doing city police work.”

The owner of the handgun had outstanding warrants on him for communicating threats, false imprisonment and assault on a female.

“Yeah, it sounds like he needed a gun,” an officer observed. “Being police officers, we’re

Please see CIT, Page 9A

Team has varied duties

By JESSICA OSBORNEDaily Courier Correspondent

SPINDALE – Firefighters around the county will be competing in the first-ever Rutherford County Firefighter Challenge Oct. 17 at Isothermal Community College.

“It’s an opportunity for firefighters in the county to come together as a group and enjoy themselves,” said Lynne Goode, interim emer-gency services coordinator at ICC. “It’s also a way to thank them for what they do and sav-ing our lives.”

Active members from the local Rutherford County Fire Departments will be compet-ing in teams of five, groups of two and indi-vidual in a series of consecutive timed events. All members forming a team must be active members of the same department. Individuals may have a maximum of one entry for each challenge category, which include Team,

Please see Firefighters, Page 6A

MARKING 35 YEARS

Dalton salutes chaplains

Firefighters preparing for competition

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Allison Flynn/Daily CourierTrinity Christian School held a 35 year celebration Saturday inside the school’s new gymnasium. The school began in 1974 with nine students and met in a home in Spindale. According to Board President Stephanie Hardin, there are now 161 students enrolled in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. Former board members Jim Bross and Gina Snyder, right, along with former headmaster Pat Keeter, left, took part in a note burning that was held during the event.

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Garrett Byers/Daily CourierR-S Central senior Sarah Beth Koonce (left) was crowned Miss Central 2009 during the Homecoming game Friday at R-S Central High School. Koonce’s escort for the event was Brett Thompson. R-S Central sophomore Alexis Greene (right) was crowned the 2009 Miss Hilltopper. Greene’s escort for the event was Seth Orr.

Bostic discusses recyclingBOSTIC — Town board members on Monday

discussed the state’s new recycling law for plastic bottles and decided to maintain the municipality’s current policy unless the number of those recycling and the volume of recyclables increase.

Plastic bottles are banned from North Carolina landfills and must be recycled.

Bostic currently picks up the recycle items on the third Saturday of the month. The town pro-vides bins for those who wish to recycle, and board members were told that some households do recy-cle.

Board members said they will consider making changes as needed.

The board also was given an update on the cost of improving the tennis court. The board tabled the issue.

County makes board appointmentsRUTHERFORDTON — County Commissioners

made a slew of appointments to various boards at their October meeting.

Brian Gill was appointed to the Chimney Rock Volunteer Fire Department Board of Trustees for Firemen’s Relief Fund to replace Bobby Smith, who has moved from the district.

Commissioner Margaret Helton was re-appoint-ed to the Jury Commission.

Keith Price was appointed to the Library Board by Commissioner Susan Crowe.

Susan Hendrix was appointed to the board of Western Highlands LME.

The Airport Appeals Board received four appointments with the Rev. Wayne Blackwood, Sammie Green, John Robert Howard and Phillip Miller serving.

Donna Robbins and Jim Proctor have been appointed to the Historic Preservation Commission to replace members who have resigned.

Brian Deck, Milagros Blanco and Robin Wiggins were appointed to SWEEP.

Mark Franklin, Tom Johnson, David Herndon and Wesley Smith were all reappointed to the Workforce Development Consortium.

GWU hosts antibiotics seminarBOILING SPRINGS — The Center for

Continuing Professional Education at Gardner-Webb University will present Antibiotics 101: A Practical Workshop on the Basics of Antibiotics. The two-day, two class program will be held on the Boiling Springs campus Thursday and Friday, Oct. 15 and 16, and the Hickory satellite campus Thursday and Friday, Oct. 23 and 24, starting both days at 8:30 a.m.

Gardner-Webb’s CCPE presents Antibiotics 101 in partnership with Campbell University’s School of Pharmacy, located in Buies Creek.

The instructor for the workshop is Tom Martin. Martin, a resident of Cleveland County, serves as Pharmacy Clinical Specialist for Critical Care at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte.

FSA announces loan program RUTHERFORDTON – Dianne Davis, County

Executive Director for USDA’s Farm Service Agency in Rutherfordton, announced the loan limit for its Guaranteed Loan Program has been increased to $1,112,000, effective October 1. The limit is adjusted annually based on the “Prices Paid to Farmers Index,” compiled by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).

The Guaranteed Loan Program allows com-mercial and farm credit lenders to extend credit to qualified applicants, who otherwise would not meet their standard lending criteria. Participating lenders can use the Guaranteed Loan Program to strengthen a loan’s viability through a guarantee of up to 95 percent of the loan amount. Farmers interested in guaranteed loans should apply through a conventional lender.

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Allison Flynn/Daily CourierA threat of rain didn’t stop people from coming out to the Eighth Annual Cliffside Day Saturday. Cars and trac-tors lined up behind Cliffside Baptist Church for the youth-sponsored car show while nearby at the church’s fel-lowship hall a crowd gathered to listen to performances by gospel groups

FOREST CITY — The Grahamtown Team will play host to a special meet-ing Tuesday at 4:30 at p.m. at New Bethel AME Zion Church on how churches can become involved in neighborhood revi-talization and restoration.

Special guests will be Paster Robert Coleman and working members of Hoppers Chapel in Shelby.

They will make a presenta-tion on how they are working with other churches throughout Shelby to revitalize the West Shelby neighborhood. West Shelby was known to have one of the highest crime rates in North Carolina.

By working with other church-es, they were able to “take back their neighborhood.” Hoppers Chapel is committed to ensuring

that people in the neighborhood have decent, affordable housing alternatives.

The church has bought nine deteriorated houses and two apartment complexes in the neighborhood and will be reno-vating them for rental housing.

A recent march of faith-based organizations in the neigh-borhood had more than 700 participants from different churches. People attending the meeting will hear first hand how Hoppers Chapel has galvanized the neighborhood residents and churches into action.

The Grahamtown Team, known as the G-Team, is a two-year organization that is work-ing to revitalize Grahamtown, a 100-year-old neighborhood in the heart of Forest City. The team worked with the town on a

strategic plan that won a state-wide planning award for com-munity development.

Recently, the town of Forest City has been awarded $1,100,000 in two different grants for neighborhood revital-ization.

The G-Team works as the town’s active partner in the Grahamtown revitalization efforts.

The meeting is open to the public.

Information on the countywide “Weed and Seed” initiative will also be available.

For more information or direc-tions, call Wilfred McDowell, GTeam chair, at 248-3135, or Danielle Withrow at the town at 248-5200

New Bethel AME Zion Church is located at 263 Forest St.

G-Team church meeting is set

From staff reports

FOREST CITY — The Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce plans to take its popular “Meet the Candidates” program to towns and com-munities throughout the county for the upcoming elections.

“Meet the Municipal Candidates” will be conduct-ed in Bostic, Ellenboro, Spindale, Forest City and Rutherfordton beginning Oct. 13 and ending Oct. 22.

Each meeting will begin at 7 p.m. and be conduct-ed by Chamber members residing in the particular municipality.

Chamber director Bill Hall said it was his under-standing that a forum for the Lake Lure and Chimney Rock candidates was being considered by the Hickory Nut Gorge Chamber of Commerce.

The Chamber introduced the municipal candidate forums several years ago as a part of the organiza-tion’s community service program.

“We want to make it easier for voters to attend these important information meetings,” said Chamber president Mike Campfield. “Hearing what a candidate has to say and being able to ask ques-tions promotes voter interest and helps in making ballot decisions.”

“Meet the Municipal Candidates” schedule: n Rutherfordton town council and mayor races,

Oct. 13, County Annex Building, Rutherfordton; n Spindale town council, Oct. 15, Spindale House; n Bostic mayoral race, East Rutherford

Elementary School, Oct. 19; n Ellenboro alderman candidates, Ellenboro

Elementary School, Oct. 20; and, n Forest City mayor and commissioner races, Oct.

22, Cool Springs County Schools Building.

Chamber forums are coming up

USDA announces DCP, ACRE sign-ups

RUTHERFORDTON – Dianne Davis, County Executive Director of the Rutherford County (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) announced that enrollment for the 2010 Direct and Counter-cyclical Program (DCP) and the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program has begun and will continue through June 1, 2010.

Davis adds eDCP is available to all producers who are eligible to participate in the DCP and ACRE Programs and can be accessed at www.fsa.usda.gov/dcp. To access the service, producers must have an active USDA eAuthentication Level 2 account, which requires filling out an online registration form at www.eauth.egov.usda.gov fol-lowed by a visit to the local USDA Service Center for identity verification. For those without internet access or if they prefer, producers can also visit the local USDA Service Center to complete their 2010 DCP or ACRE contract.

USDA computes DCP Program payments using base acres and payment yields established for each farm. Eligible producers receive direct payments at rates established by statute regardless of market prices. For 2010, eligible producers may request to receive advance direct payments based on 22 percent of the direct payment. USDA will issue advance direct payments beginning Dec. 1, 2009. Counter-cyclical payment rates vary depending on market prices. Counter-cyclical payments are issued only when the effective price for a commod-ity is below its target price. The effective price is the higher of the national average market price received during the 12-month marketing year for each covered commodity and the national average loan rate for a marketing assistance loan for the covered commodity.

The optional ACRE Program provides a safety net based on state revenue losses and acts in place of the price-based safety net of counter-cyclical payments under DCP. A farm’s payment is based on a revenue guarantee calculated using a 5-year average state yield and the most recent 2-year national price for each eligible commodity. For the 2010 crop, the 2-year price average will be based on the 2008 and 2009 crop years.

An ACRE payment is issued when both the state and the farm have incurred a revenue loss. The payment is based on 83.3 percent (85 percent in 2012) of the farm’s planted acres times the differ-ence between the State ACRE guarantee and the state revenue times the ratio of the farm’s yield divided by the state expected yield. The total num-ber of planted acres for which a producer may receive ACRE payments may not exceed the total base on the farm. In exchange for participating in ACRE, in addition to not receiving counter-cyclical payments, a farm’s direct payment is reduced by 20 percent, and marketing assistance loan rates are reduced by 30 percent.

The decision to enroll in the ACRE Program is irrevocable. The owner of the farm and all produc-ers on the farm must agree to enroll in ACRE. Once enrolled, the farm shall be enrolled for that initial crop year and will remain in ACRE through the 2012 crop year.

The June 1, 2010, deadline is mandatory for all participants. USDA will not accept any late-filed applications.

For more information on DCP or ACRE, please visit your FSA county office or www.fsa.usda.gov.

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4A — The Sunday Courier, Forest City, NC, Sunday, October 11, 2009

■ A daily forum for opinion, commentary and editorials on the news that affects us all.

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The first of a series of candidate forums for those people seeking elected offices in the county’s

municipalities was held in Lake Lure on Thursday night.

Forums are also scheduled for can-didates in Rutherfordton (Oct. 13); Spindale (Oct. 15); Bostic (Oct. 19); Ellenboro (Oct. 20) and Forest City (Oct. 22).

These sessions where candidates can outline their platforms and residents can question them are sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. The Hickory Nut Gorge Chamber conducted the Lake Lure session and the Rutherford County Chamber is sponsoring those events for the other towns. Both groups should be commended for these efforts.

Citizens should take advantage of these opportunities to meet and ques-tion the candidates for their local offic-es.

“Hearing what a candidate has to say and being able to ask questions promotes voter interest and helps in making ballot decisions,” Rutherford County Chamber President Mike Campfield said.

Some voters tend to think that municipal elections are not important. Nothing could be further from the truth. The men and women of our town boards make decisions that are impor-tant for all of us and it behooves us all to elect the best people possible to fill those posts.

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Town elections are important

RALEIGH — The decision by Dell Computers to shutter its Forsyth County plant will surely trigger a variety of responses from state leaders, local officials, workers and the critics of the lucrative incentives package that led to the plant’s construction.

The decision comes nearly five years after Dell announced that it would build the $190 million plant, and just four years after the plant opened. To lure the company, state and local govern-ment came up with more than $300 million in tax breaks and other incentives.

The deal even required a spe-cial legislative session for state lawmakers to approve all the goodies.

Now, the same state Depart-ment of Commerce that helped put together the package is fig-uring out how much Dell will retain or return.

It won’t be much. Most of the money hasn’t actually been handed out. And some of $8 mil-lion in state money that has been disbursed will be coming back to state coffers.

That fact is pretty good evi-dence that incentives law and policy ensure that the money, at least at the state level, is going out to companies only if they live

up to their end of these deals. That’s the good news. The bad news is, of course, that

more people in North Carolina will be unemployed.

It also doesn’t appear that the failure of the project will cause much soul-searching when it comes to the effectiveness of incentives.

“As a state, we will continue to aggressively pursue new busi-ness and job opportunities,” Gov. Beverly Perdue said in response to the announcement. “This state has been hit hard, but North Carolinians are resilient, and we know how to adapt and overcome challenges.”

That aggressive pursuit will no doubt include similar deals in the future.

The Dell closing, though, shows that no amount of incen-tives will overcome economic realities.

If a company chooses to build in an area, it does so for factors that far outweigh any incentives

offered by state and local govern-ment. Workforce, infrastructure and market issues drive the deci-sion-making.

When a company shutters a plant, market forces steer that decision too.

So, when Google and Apple decided to build server farms in western North Carolina, they did so mainly because of infra-structure, not lucrative incentives deals. The closing of furniture factories in the foothills meant major excess in the electricity grid for the power-hungry facili-ties.

Sometimes companies are equally able to meet their needs in two different areas or two dif-ferent states. Then these modern-day robber barons with their sev-en-figure salaries can play state and local governments against each other.

But the Dell bust — along with published reports back in 2005 implying that the state had over-paid — suggests that the state can do a better job figuring out when it is being played and when it has no choice.

Instead, we seem to be a state where interests that feed off the incentives feeding frenzy become more entrenched every day.

Mooneyham is executive director of

There is only one real hope for saving the worldI recently viewed a docu-

mentary dealing with the rise of the Nazi’s to power and the Axis governments committed to gaining world dominance.

Japan’s Tanaka had out-lined his plan for conquest which was leaked to the Western media that ini-tially gave rise to increased vigilance on the part of the United States. The will of the American public to fight wasn’t garnered until the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the famed Japanese Naval officer Yamamoto said, ”...we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.”

By this time, Hitler had invaded Poland, Bohemia, and other smaller nation states. The Nazis spread their malicious tentacles of death East and West, facing a massive front along the Russian border, having occu-pied France to the Southwest and Russia to the East.

Italy’s Mussolini had invad-ed the people of Ethiopia, having posed only a paltry resistance, and, with Nazi assistance, gained a foothold in Greece.

As I have had an interest in how World War I and II were fostered, it has been more than a slight curiosity how these wars actually began and what motivated these despots to conquer the world. Both Germany and Japan posited racial superiority as

both Hitler and the Japanese emperor also claimed a posi-tion of deity to their people.

Hitler had systematically dismantled the Protestant and Catholic churches, imprisoning and killing those who resisted the Third Reich.

German pastors like Bonhoeffer and Niehmoller still stand as symbols of faithfulness to Christ in the midst of Nazi horror. Steeples hoisting crosses and other Christian symbols were replaced with the dreaded Swastika. Children vowed allegiance to their, “lord and savior Furher“.

Hitler is exalted above Jesus Christ, the Japanese Emperor is exalted as deity, as well, to his people. An entire generation is deceived by these maniacal and mer-ciless rulers.

Recently, two schools made in the news, have many peo-ple concerned for where the United states is headed. A school in Asheville and one in New Jersey, were filmed with the students singing praise songs to President Obama. This has infuriated many and raised questions as to why this was allowed. As I watched and listened

to these children sing and praise their President, it gave me a shudder.

I asked myself what the response would have been if these songs had been sung to George Bush and what the outcry would have been. I know the answer to that question. I do not want my children singing those kinds of songs to any president.

I have purposely shied away from being critical of our President, giving him the benefit of time, to see if he could make a difference. Though billions have been spent in stimulus, the econ-omy struggles and unem-ployment rises. It seems he is catching heat from many groups for a lack of response to their respective agendas.

Part of many people’s dis-appointment is the seeming constant apologizing that the President has made for all the supposed ills of America. I hear this from many groups, including Democrats and Republicans.

This is a great nation and it’s greatness is what makes it distinct and differenti-ates it from other nations on earth. With Iran and North Korea developing nuclear weapons, we are on the prec-ipice of danger.

Many nations have been led down a perilous road of over-promising. This is to say, the State is not the savior of mankind. To re-distribute wealth to make everyone equal, know as egalitari-anism, runs completely

contrary to the American psyche.

This nation was founded upon the Biblical truth that we are “endowed by our Creator.” This endowment is both spiritual and natural. The storehouse of liberty and freedom never run dry if freedom and liberty are allowed to grow and flourish.

In other words, govern-ment is not the all-providing Savior. One does not have to be an anarchists or rebel-lious to understand the role and limits of government. Even Romans 13 tells us gov-ernment is a gift, if it walks in its respective role.

Sadly, the defense budget that was just passed was tagged with a bill dealing with hate-crimes legislation that had to do with crimes against homosexuals. The bill passed even with some of the more conservative Democrats voting against it.

Of course there are already laws that exist to protect everyone from attack or abuse. But political correct-ness pervades the think-ing these days and it seems almost everyone and every-thing is protected except Christianity and associated symbols.

Strange how a presidential praise song could be sanc-tioned at a public school, sung at a Parent-Teacher meeting, but if a song to or about Jesus Christ were to be sung a flurry of opposition and lawsuits would follow.

Even now, the Supreme

Court has agreed to hear a case involving a cross for-merly displayed on public property. But yet some courts are allowing Muslim wom-en, with Muslim-specific dress codes, wear and dis-play their clothing in public schools.

As many in government have said, as well as con-servative members of the Supreme Court, there is open hostility toward Christianity and an ever increasing tol-erance for Islam and other groups in our society.

The Old Covenant Scriptures prophesied of a coming Messiah. That Messiah came some 2000 years ago to establish a king-dom of conscience in the heart of mankind.

That kingdom, established and guided by immortal truth, will face opposition much as Psalm 2 predicted; “the kings of the earth have set themselves against the Lord and His anointed.”

The people of the earth that have tried to establish a new order in the earth have had successors in that effort. Their efforts, too, will not succeed. It is Christ and Christ alone that will ulti-mately rule and reign.

As St. Peter said to the Jewish Sanhedrin, “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved,” Acts 4:12. It was true then and so it remains: only one hope exists for the world.

State can do better in recruiting

Scott Mooneyham

Today in North Carolina

Fr. Jonathan Lankford

Sunday Conversation

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The Sunday Courier, Forest City, NC, Sunday, October 11, 2009 — 5A

LocaL/obituariesPET OF THE WEEK

This sweet kitten located in the cat room is an 8-week-old female looking to find a good home. She along with many other loving ani-mals is available for adoption from the Rutherford County Animal Shelter on Laurel Hill Drive in Rutherfordton. The shelter’s hours are Monday-Thursday Noon - 4 p.m. and Friday - Saturday 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. . For more information call 287-6025. For the Community Pet Center volunteers office call 287-7738.

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By LARRY DALEDaily Courier Staff Writer

RUTHERFORDTON — Three counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill were returned as true bills of indictment by a grand jury meeting this week.

Juan Camacho III is charged with those counts, as well as discharging a weapon into an occupied property, manufacturing marijuana, felony aid and abet, misde-meanor simple possession of schedule VI controlled sub-stance, driving while license revoked, operate vehicle with no insurance and fictitious/ altered title/ registration card/tag.

He is charged in connec-tion with the discharge of a shotgun into a 1994 Mercury Cougar on Old Wagy Road, while it was occupied by Ariana Sanchez, Kendall McMillan and Alejandro Sanchez, on July 27, 2009.

A true bill is returned when grand jurors are convinced there is enough evidence to proceed with the case. The grand jury met Monday.

True bills were returned against Michael William McMahan, who is charged with misdemeanor assault inflicting serious injury, lar-ceny from the person, first-degree burglary and first-degree kidnapping.

The incident occurred on June 9, 2009, and the alleged victim was Donald Arthur Higgins.

True bills also were returned against William Odell Wilson, who is charged with first-degree kidnap-ping, assault on a female, assault by pointing a gun and communicating threats. The alleged victim in the case is Holly Davis Wilson. The incident occurred on June 27, 2009.

Brennan Keith Atkins is facing a true bill indictment on a charge of assault inflict-ing serious bodily injury on Gary Steven Chapman on June 12, 2009.

Rodney Teris Boykins is facing a true bill indictment on charges of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury and possession of a firearm by a felon. He is charged with assaulting Cornelius E. Edgerton with a .9mm handgun on May 23, 2009.

A true bill was returned against Jason Dewayne Price, charged with taking indecent liberties with a child.

Others facing true bills and their charges are:n Jordan Lindsey James,

felony possession of schedule VI controlled substance.n Jason Bryan Buchanan,

felony breaking and/or enter-ing, larceny after break/enter and injury to personal prop-erty.n Cynthia A. Reynolds,

possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver schedule IV controlled sub-

stance, manufacture mari-juana, felony maintain vehi-cle/ dwelling/ place for con-trolled substance, trafficking marijuana, possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana, misdemeanor simple possession of schedule III controlled substance, pos-session of drug parapherna-lia and two counts of misde-meanor simple possession of controlled substance.

n Marqui Antowan Miller, three counts of driving while impaired.n Princeton Ellis Logan,

assault on a female and mis-demeanor domestic criminal trespassing.n Jason Bryan Buchanan,

felony breaking and/or enter-ing and larceny after break-ing/entering.n Erby Jack Padgett, three

counts of driving while impaired.n James Michael Camp,

simple possession of schedule IV controlled substance, pos-session of drug parapherna-lia, possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana, felony maintain vehicle/ dwelling/ place for controlled substance, trafficking opium or heroin, possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver schedule II con-trolled substance and posses-sion with intent to manufac-ture, sell and deliver schedule IV controlled substance.

Contact Dale via e-mail at ldale@thedigitalcourier.com.

Sheriff’s Departmentn The Rutherford County

Sheriff’s Department responded to 144 E-911 calls Friday.

Rutherfordtonn The Rutherfordton Police

Department responded to 45 E-911 calls Friday.

Spindalen The Spindale Police

Department responded to 22 E-911 calls Friday.

Lake Luren The Lake Lure Police

Department responded to eight E-911 calls Friday.

Forest Cityn The Forest City Police

Department reponded to 95 E-911 calls Friday.

Arrestsn Chad Maurice Hannon,

31, of 530 Markenham Road; charged with failure to com-ply non-support; released on a $586 cas bond. (RCSD)

n Mark Travis Greene, 26, of 114 Londonberry Lane; charged with one county

manufacture a schedule VI controlled substance, pos-session with intent to sell or deliver marijuana, maintain-ing a place for a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia; placed under a $20,000 unsecured bond. (RCSD) n Debrah Thomas

Anderson, 50, of 150 Lavista Circle; charged with shoplift-ing concealment of goods; placed under a $800 secured bond. (FCPD) n David Clark Greene, 47,

of 446 New House Road; charged with possession drug paraphernalia and pos-session of a schedule II con-trolled substance; placed under a $1,600 unsecured bond. (FCPD) n Rona Susette Hines, 39,

of 203 Ohio St.; charged with simple possession of a schedule IV controlled substance, driving while impaired and driving while license revoked; placed under a $1,500 unsecured bond. (RPD) n Tuan Logan, 31, of 332

Laurel Hill drive; charged with misdemeanor stalk-ing, communicating threats and resisting a public officer; placed under a 48-hour hold. (RCSD)

EMS/Rescuen The Ruterford County

EMS responded to 25 E-911 calls Friday.

n The Volunteer Life Saving and rescue, Hickory Nut Gorge EMS and Rutherford County Rescue responded to 14 E-911 calls Friday.

Fire Callsn Ellenboro responded to

a smoke report and struc-ture fire Friday, assisted by Cliffside, Bostic and Cherry Mountain Fire Departments. n Forest City responded

to a residential fire alarm and an electrical fire Friday, assisted by S-D-O and Sandy Mush Fire Departments. n Hudlow responded to a

tree down Friday.

n Rutherfordton responded to an industrial fire alarm Friday. n Shingle Hollow respond-

ed to a motor vehicle colli-sion Friday. n Sandy Mush responded

to a motor vehicle collision Friday. n Union Mills responded

to a tree down and a motor vehicle collision Friday.

Trubie JolleyTrubie Ester Jolley, 87,

of 3000 McCraw Road, Mooresboro, died Friday, Oct. 9, 2009, at Hospice Cleveland County.

Born Aug. 22, 1922, she was a daughter of the late Lewis Jenus and Mary Etta McCraw Jolley.

She was a member of Prospect Baptist Church and was retired from Cone Mill.

She is survived by two sisters, Verdie Womack and Alma Joley, both of Mooresobor.

Funeral services will be held Sunday at 3:30 p.m. at Propsect Baptist Church with the Rev. Ernie Cole Officiating. Burial will follow in Cherokee Creek Baptist Church Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 2 to 3:15 p.m. prior to the service at the church.

Memorials may be made to Prospect Baptist Church Building Fund, 2711 Prospect Church Road, Mooresboro, NC 28114 or Hospice Cleveland County, 951 Wendover Hieghts Drive, Shelby, NC 28150.

McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

A guest register is available online at www.mckinneylan-drethfuneralhome.com.

Ella ClarkElla Mae Clark, 90, of

Marion, died Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009, at Sunrise Rehab and Care Center in Nebo.

She was born Sept. 22, 1919, in McDowell County to the late John Arrowood and Getty Dixon Arrowood.

She was a member of Macedonia Baptist Church.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Stanley Clark.

Surviving are three sons, Cecil Clark of Randleman, Eugene Clark of Marion and James Clark of Nebo; two daughters, Eula Grooms of Leicester and Margaret Tipton of Marion; one sis-ter, Sylvia Medford of Nebo; 10 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 1 p.m. in McCall Memorial Chapel at Kirksey Funeral Home in Marion. Burial will fol-low at McDowell Memoial Park. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the funeral home.

A guest register is available online at www.kirkseyfh.com.

Margaret HeadMargaret Lovelace Head,

86, of Kent Drive, Forest City, died Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009 at Hospice House of Forest City.

She was a native of Rutherford County and a daughter of the late Hampton Lovelace and Eva Powell Lovelace.

She was retired from Dicey Mills in Shelby and was a member of Florence Baptist Church, Florence Baptist Senior Group; the Forest City Senior Citizens and a gradu-ate of Ellenboro High School Class of 1941.

She was also preceded in death by a son, Beatty Joe Head, a sister, Jeanette Nance and brothers, Ben Lovelace, Kelly Lovelace, and Jack Lovelace.

Survivors include two sons, Leon Head of Temple, Ga., Phillip Head of Cornelius; two daughters, Saralyn Daves of Shelby and Peggy Jones of North Myrtle Beach, S.C.; two sisters, Betty Smith of Shelby and Nancy Gerrard of Charlotte; eight grandchil-dren; 10 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grand-child.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Monday, Oct. 12, at Florence Baptist Church with Dr. Bobby Gantt officiating. Interment will follow in Sunset Memorial Park. Visitation will be in the church Narthex from 10 until 11 a.m. prior to the service on Monday. Memorials may be made to Florence Baptist Church Building Fund, 201 South Broadway Street, Forest City, NC 28043.

The Padgett and King Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

An online guest registry is avail-able at www.padgettking.com

Ishel Eugene GoseyIshel Eugene “Bill” Gosey, of

Seitz Drive, Forest City, died Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009 at Rutherford Hospital.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by The Padgett and King Mortuary.

Marvin FishmanMILWAUKEE (AP) —

Marvin Fishman, one of the original owners of the Milwaukee Bucks, has died at the age of 84.

Raymond Brown NEWARK, N.J. (AP) —

Raymond A. Brown, a vet-eran defense lawyer who was involved in many of New Jersey’s most high-profile cases, has died. He was 94.

Among those on Brown’s client list were former boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and Mario Jascalevich, and Joanne Chesimard, who gunned down a state trooper in 1973.

Carter was convicted along with another man of murder-ing three people in bar.

Jascalevich, the so-called “Dr. X,” was accused of using the poison curare to kill five patients at a hospital.

Chesimard was convicted of shooting Trooper Werner Foerster as he lay on the ground.

Obituaries

Police Notes

Man indicted in shooting case

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Margaret Lovelace HeadMargaret Lovelace Head, 86,

of Kent Drive, Forest City, died Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009 at Hospice House of Forest City.

She was a native of Rutherford County and a daughter of the late Hampton Lovelace and Eva Powell Lovelace.

She was retired from Dicey Mills in Shelby and was a member of Florence Baptist Church, Florence Baptist Senior Group; the Forest City Senior Citizens and a gradu-ate of Ellenboro High School Class of 1941.

She was also preceded in death by a son, Beatty Joe Head, a sister, Jeanette Nance and brothers, Ben Lovelace, Kelly Lovelace, and Jack Lovelace.

Survivors include two sons, Leon Head of Temple, Ga., Phillip Head of Cornelius; two daughters, Saralyn Daves of Shelby and Peggy Jones of North Myrtle Beach, S.C.; two sisters, Betty Smith of Shelby and Nancy Gerrard of Charlotte and sister in law, Grace Lovelace of Spartanburg; eight grandchil-dren; 10 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Monday, Oct. 12, at Florence Baptist Church with Dr. Bobby Gantt officiating. Interment will follow in Sunset Memorial Park. Visitation will be in the church Narthex from 10 until 11 a.m. prior to the service on Monday. Memorials may be made to Florence Baptist Church Building Fund, 201 South Broadway Street, Forest City, NC 28043.

The Padgett and King Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.An online guest registry is avail-able at www.padgettking.com

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and Burke County at 14.82.In October’s report on the stress

index, the most stressed counties were Imperial County, Calif. (31.83); Yuma County, Ariz. (27.58); Merced County, Calif. (24.28); Lyon County, Nev. (24.02); and Lauderdale, Tenn. (23.56).

“The overall economic climate in the county has not changed very much since June,” said County Manager John Condrey. “Unfortunately unem-ployment has continued to hover around 15 percent. Nationwide, most economists are stating that the reces-sion is over. I don’t think anyone in Rutherford County would agree with that assessment.”

The forecast may call for an end to the recession soon, but as in previous economic downturns, unemployment is predicted to be a lagging indicator of recovery.

“As I understand, the continued increases in unemployment is one of the trends that is expected,” Condrey said. “That is not good news for the county because the need for jobs is particularly acute in our area, par-ticularly here and in the surrounding counties. We just need to continue working on the things we know can benefit the county.”

Job losses coming hard on the heels of other plant closings in 2008 and the early part of 2009 were one of the things that caused the county’s rate to peak so high and put it at number 13 on the list in June. A period of lower bankruptcy filings and less rapid job loss have helped reduce the economic stress level for the county.

Condrey said it was time to focus on doing what the county can to attract new businesses, to keep that stress index going down.

“We must continue to support efforts such as the schools and col-lege,” he said. “The widening of U..S 221 and the bypass around Shelby are very important for the future trans-

portation needs of the county. The Economic Development Commission must continue to work with pros-pects through the N.C. Department of Commerce, Duke Energy, private realtors and developers and through the clients received from our Web site.”

Condrey pointed to installation of a high speed fiber-optic network in the county as one positive for attracting new businesses.

“The county is continuing to recruit new business and doing whatever we can to attract jobs,” he added. “We believe that with our public school system, community college, local hospital, airport, overall beauty of the county from Chimney Rock to Cliffside and our outstanding work force, we have a good product to sell. Hopefully we can start seeing some positive signs for an economic upturn soon.”’

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Tandem and Individual.All competitors will be compet-

ing in their most recent department issued bunker coat, bunker pants, gloves, boots and helmet. Hoods, face shields and ear-flaps are not required. Articles of turnout gear must not be removed or lost during the com-petition. If dropped, they must be retrieved and correctly replaced by the competitor before continu-ing. Items not retrieved and/or cor-rectly replaced will result in a penalty. Officials will inspect all gear prior to participation. Competitors found to be non-compliant either during or after a competition will be disquali-fied.

All competitors must check-in at the designated check-in desk on the day of the event before 9:30 a.m. Competitors who fail to check-in before this time will be disquali-fied from all registered categories of the competition. The order in which teams, groups and individuals com-pete will be determined by their check-in order. All members forming teams and groups will be required to check-in together.

Once competitors have been called to their designated competition deck area, they will be allotted an elapsed time of two minutes to get to the

deck. Failure to have all members in decking area in the given amount of time will result in a penalty. Failure to appear on deck within four min-utes will result in disqualification of the team, group, or individual being requested.

Prior to the start signal, the first competitor must have their hands on the start pad. Failure to do so will result in a penalty. Individuals who begin their run before the start signal will be assessed a penalty. Teammates who begin their run before obtain-ing possession of the event baton will be assessed a penalty and will be required to retrieve baton before the next competitor may proceed to the next event.

For the running order, team mem-bers must be on their event pads and remain there when the first team member leaves the start pad. Once the competitor has possession of the event baton, the competitor can proceed to complete their challenge event. Passing of the baton must be made by hand to hand contact. This routine must be followed until the last competitor reaches the fin-ish pad. The challenge baton can be laid down, held or tucked in cloth-ing while the competitor completes their event, however the baton cannot be advanced. Team members who proceed to an event without the chal-lenge baton will be assessed a penalty and will be required to retrieve the

baton before the next competitor can proceed.

First, second and third place win-ners of each competition category will be awarded once all competitors have completed the course and all times have been calculated. The team’s time will equal the total time it takes for the first competitor to cross the start line until the last competitor crosses the finish line. The team’s penalties will also be added to this time, creat-ing the team’s total score. The three teams with the shortest total score will receive a team trophy. Individuals of each three teams will receive a unique RCFC event medal in recogni-tion of their achievement.

The community is invited to come out to show their support to their local department and all of the area’s firefighters.

Along with the firefighter chal-lenge, the Hudlow Volunteer Fire Department will be hosting its Eighth Annual Car, Truck and Bike Show, which will also be held at Isothermal, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will also be vendors, games for kids and a fire truck show.

The RCFC competition is also avail-able to all interested fire service members, whether from within or outside of Rutherford County.

“So far the competition has been kept in the county this year since it is the first year,” said Goode. “It may branch out next year.”

Health/educationFree breast exams: October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The Community Clinic of Rutherford County will offer free breast exams Oct. 23 and 30, from 9 a.m. until noon-12. You do not have to be a current patient of the clinic. Call 245-0400 for an appointment.

Free presentation: “In Our Own Voice” is a free community pre-sentation which addresses living with mental illness. The program, hosted by NAMI Rutherford, will be held Thursday, Oct. 22, 6:30 p.m., at Rutherford Hospital, Norris Biggs Conference Room. For more information call 288-3820, leave message, or via e-mail amyz59@hotmail.com.

red CrossThe following blood drives are scheduled:Oct. 22 — Corinth Baptist Church, 767 Pinehurst Rd., Ellenboro, 4 to 9 p.m., call Linda McCurry at 453-1775 for an appointment;Oct. 24 — Cliffside Masonic Lodge, Old Main St., 7:30 a.m. to noon; call Wayne or Betty Millis at 245-7606 an appointment, break-fast served; Oct. 26 — Red Cross Chapter, 838 Oakland Rd., Forest City, 2 to 6:30 p.m.; call 287-5916 for an appoint-ment.All presenting donors (in October) will be entered into a drawing for a chance to win one of three pairs of Delta Airlines tickets. For more information call 1-800-GIVE-LIFE or visit redcrossblood.org.

Meetings/otherLibrary guests: Alice Lee and Greg Schwendinger, founders of CasaSito Association that focuses mainly on rural education in Guatemala, will speak Monday, Oct. 12, 1 to 2:30 p.m., at Mountains Branch Library, Bills Creek Road right off of 64/74A between Rutherfordton and Lake Lure; they will be talking about life in Guatemala and volunteer oppor-tunities there; call 287-0069 for more information.

MiscellaneousFoothills Harvest Outreach Ministries will hold a canned food drive Oct. 12-17. During this week, a clothing item can be purchased at half price with a non-perishable food item (one for one). The store is located at 120 E. Trade St., Forest City.

Powder Puff football game: Tuesday, Oct. 20, begins at 6 p.m., at Chase High football stadium; all three high schools, (Chase, East and Central) are participating; admis-sion $4; also, a cheerleading com-petition will be held in between the second and third game.

Lights of Love: In memory or honor luminaries will be placed around Lake Imogene at Isothermal Community College CC on Nov. 14. The candles will be lit at sundown. Luminaries may be purchased at the local Wal-Mart entrances Oct. 23 and 24, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Oct. 25, from 1 to 9 p.m., or from any Pilot Club member. Contact Evelyn Lee at 245-4022, or Donna Ohmstead at 245-8867.

Hours changing: All Rutherford County Convenience Centers will be closed on Sundays, beginning Nov. 1. Also the convenience centers will now close at 7 p.m., beginning Nov. 2.

FundraisersBreast Cancer Awareness: Off The Beaded Path Bead Store in Forest City will hold a Breast Cancer Awareness earring drive during the month of October. Proceeds from this benefit will go to the ACS, Look Good Feel Good Program. For more information visit offthebeadedpath-beadstore.com.

Fish fry: Friday, Oct. 16, 4 to 8 p.m., Long Branch Road Baptist Church, Shiloh community; not set price; donations accepted; take outs available; proceeds for a new fellow-ship hall.

Poor man’s supper: Saturday, Oct. 24, 4 to 8:30 p.m., at the VFW Building, 940 Withrow Rd.; plenty of good country food; $5 per per-son; all proceeds got to the assis-tance of local veterans; sponsored by VFW.

Benefit program: For Casandra Staley (kidney transplant patient); Sunday, Oct. 25, 4 p.m.; Zion Grove A.M.E. Zion Church, Rutherfordton; on program — Bethlehem Young Adult Choir, Simpsonville, S.C.; Rev. Michael Smith & The Voices of Inspiration, Marion; St. John Mass Choir; The Dewberry Family and Green Creek Inspirational Choir, Tryon. Benefit Schooling Horse Show: Saturday, Oct. 31, 9 a.m., at The Squirrel’s Nest Farm, LLC; to ben-efit the Community Pet Center; for more information contact Deana Gilliam at 429-0688, or Sarah Lawing at 828-447-3405, or via email squirrelsnestfarm@skycatch-er.net.

power. They have never had anyone take an interest in them. That’s why you have turned lives around.”

The lieutenant governor cited the 25th chapter of Matthew, in which the “blessed” fed the hungry, gave drink to the thirsty, took in the stranger, clothed the naked, visited the sick and came unto those in prison.

“Many of the people in prison have always been hungry, always been thirsty, always sick, an outcast, for lack of compassion and spiritual nourishment,” Dalton said. “That’s why I encourage you to get involved. What you need to do and are doing is act out of compassion.

“Not everybody deserves a life sen-tence; they deserve a second chance,” Dalton told his audience. “And the key is to make sure they get that second chance so they can make the most of their lives and be the best that they can be. We don’t want to see them go back. We want to see them back in society.”

Dalton noted that a lot of inmates work at the governor’s mansion. “When it is a formal dinner or some-

thing, they will be wearing black coats and ties, and many people mis-take them for the executive security there,” he said.

Dalton also noted a personal experi-ence in which an inmate works as a receptionist in the lieutenant gover-nor’s office and does a good job. He said the man is “paying the price that the state imposed on him” for his mis-takes, but Dalton added, “Sometimes you have to look at those situations and say, there, but for the grace of God, go I. So I ask you to continue this great work that you do, because you are changing lives.”

Dalton noted a criticism that people have of inmates who embrace religion while in a correctional facility.

He noted that people say, “Those guys go to prison and then they get religion. They don’t really get religion. They just get religion because they got in trouble.”

But he said, “Well, maybe so, maybe not. That’s human nature. After 9-11 this was the most religious country in the world. We were very religious during World War II. We are very religious when our relatives get sick. When we are in trouble, we look to a higher power. Those in prison, I don’t think it is unusual that they would

look to a higher power. They are look-ing for that salvation. They are look-ing for that redemption. You gave them that hope. It’s really transform-ing, what you do.”

The lieutenant governor told the audience about a 6-year-old girl who helped integrate the Arkansas public schools as an example of the attitude that people should have.

“She marched to that school, 6-years old, with troopers lining the way,” Dalton said of the little girl. “Later they asked her, ‘How did you have the courage at 6-years old to do that?’ And she said, ‘I just did it because of what my grandmother told me. She said, “The Lord needs us to help him do his work.”’ So that is how she got through it. That’s what you’re doing. You’ve doing the Lord’s work.”

During the business portion of the meeting, leaders of the organization gave figures for the year on services and attendance and on professions of faith. The 096 Chaplaincy Ministry also announced that its budget was being reduced by $1,405 for the upcoming year, from $35,769 in 2008-09 to $34,364 in 2009-10.

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The Sunday Courier, Forest City, NC, Sunday, October 11, 2009 — 7A

RUTHERFORDTON — Keven McCammon, co-owner of Blue Ridge Designs, LLC Carolinas, is participating in the 2009-2010 Leadership North Carolina class.

He joins 46 other citizens from across the state as they meet in two-day ses-sions six times over seven months in various North Carolina cit-ies, including

Raleigh, Boone and Pinehurst, to explore issues critical to North Carolina’s future.

The class will delve into five key policy areas, including eco-nomic development, education, environment, government and politics and health and human services.

The program has gradu-ated more than 700 North Carolinians.

McCammon, who was also graduated from Leadership Rutherford, has served the county in several capacities, including chair of the land use management information task force and co-chair of the Daniel Road Project commit-tee.

County Commissioner Brent Washburn, a Realtor, and Kerry Giles, marketing direc-tor for the county Economic Development Commission, have also graduated from Leadership North Carolina.

The program began with an orientation session last week-end in Boone.

The class meets again on Nov. 7 in Raleigh to learn about gov-ernment and politics.

Giddings certified in WorkComp program

FOREST CITY — Rhett Giddings of Main Street Financial Group in Forest City recently earned the pres-tigious Certified WorkComp Advisor designation, conferred by the Institute of WorkComp Professionals.

The Asheville, N.C.-based organization trains insur-ance professionals to locate costly errors in Workers’ Compensation coverage.

“Companies are often unaware that they are pay-ing too much for Workers’ Compensation,” says Giddings. “With the training I received from the Institute, I now pos-sess the knowledge to detect errors, and potentially save money for our clients.”

Preston Diamond, president of the Institute of WorkComp Professionals, says it is difficult to detect errors in Workers’ Compensation insurance because it differs from other types of insurance coverage.

“Unless the insurance agent has the necessary training to locate and correct the errors in Workers’ Compensation coverage, the problems may go undetected and cause business owners to pay higher premiums than required,” says Diamond.

The certification training provided by the Institute is essential in reviewing Workers’ Compensation insurance reports.

There are approximately 300 insurance agencies that have staff members who have qualified for the Certified WorkComp Advisor designa-tion.

McCammon in Leadership N.C. class

Business Notes

An AP Member ExchangeBy MONICA YOUNGWinston-Salem Journal

WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — Every Wednesday night after she and her parents have supper at her grand-parents’ house, Logan Prysiaszniuk heads downstairs to her workshop.

Logan, 11, works alongside her mother, Kristina Prysiaszniuk, and her grandmother, Faye Kapp, to make colorful scarves from recycled sweaters. The basement workshop is the manufacturing center for Logi B. Designs, the company that Logan started last year with a $2,500 startup loan from her grand-mother.

Logan has been drawing and designing apparel since she was 5 and big enough to hold her own sketchbook. A lesson in recycling at Pinebrook Elementary prompted her to consider how she could make recycling fashionable, and she was inspired to start her venture.

“We were having a lesson on global warming. I want to be a fashion designer one day, and I just had this idea for scarves,” said Logan, a sixth-grader at North Davie Middle School.

She scours thrift stores for old sweaters, and as word of her business has grown, so has the number of

donations.She looks for unique patterns, bright colors, sweat-

ers that do not unravel and lightweight sweaters for spring scarves.

During their weekly Wednesday-night work ses-sions, the three of them chat and watch America’s Got Talent. Bins of bright yarn line the workshop walls. Stacks of colorful sweaters wait to be cut into strips. Containers of buttons and costume jewelry are lined in drawers, and two sewing machines sit atop a work table.

Kristina Prysiaszniuk’s job is to cut the sweaters into widths of consistent size for her daughter’s designs. Logan combines textures, patterns, and chooses but-tons and costume jewelry to embellish the scarves.

“We figured out that each scarf takes about two hours to make,” Kristina Prysiaszniuk said.

The average cost is $18 for a child-size scarf and $29 for the adult size. Logan sells her creations in Hip Chics, the boutique her mother owns in Clemmons.

Earlier this month, Logan, her mother and grand-mother attended a show in Ohio. Logan sold 83 of her scarves there in five hours.

At a recent trade show, Logan’s mother and grand

Please see Sweaters, Page 9A

Associated PressLogan Brooke Prysiaszniuk, 11, crafts one of her designer scarves, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009 at the home of her grandmother, Faye Kapp, in Mocksville. Logan, 11, works alongside her mother, Kristina Prysiaszniuk, and her grand-mother, Faye Kapp, to make colorful scarves from recycled sweaters. The basement workshop is the manufacturing center for Logi B. Designs, the company that Logan started last year with a $2,500 startup loan from her grandmother.

Girl makes scarves from sweaters

Home investment still sound choiceBy DAVE CARPENTERAP Personal Finance Writer

CHICAGO (AP) — For all the doom and gloom about the housing market, it still generally pays to own a home.

That might be a tough case to make right now to the 16 million homeown-ers who owe more on their mortgage than their house is worth. But history suggests the American Dream is a pretty safe bet.

Homes have appreciated by an aver-age of 4 percent a year since World War II. They act as hedges against inflation and bestow significant tax benefits. Real estate is a leveraged investment; a 10 percent down pay-ment produces a 1,000 percent return if the price of a home merely doubles.

Plus there are intangibles: Owning a home provides a sense of indepen-

dence, security and community. And you get to live in your investment. You can’t do that with a stock.

Of course, historical trends don’t pay the mortgage. People who wade in and out of the housing market too often, or who buy at the wrong time or price and need to sell quickly, can get burned.

But if you own for a decade or more, price appreciation usually overcomes even bad slumps.

Tony and Liz Iacobelli, who are far under water on the home they bought in the Phoenix suburb of Buckeye three years ago, aren’t panicking. They owe about $177,000 on their mortgage on a house worth only $132,000, which is about 40 percent of what they paid.

“Houses generally go up in price, and this one will again, too,” says

Tony, 51, a retired New York City policeman.

Several booms and busts have occurred in the modern era of hous-ing, which began when 30-year loans became widely available after World War II. This bust has been severe: Nationally, home prices are down an average 30 percent from their peak in 2006.

The collapse of the housing market may have put an end to the notion of using a home as a speculative invest-ment akin to a hot stock. And that may not be a bad thing, economists say.

“People should recognize that value comes from a lot of other things besides a possible return on the investment,” says Joel Naroff,

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In this June 23 file photo, a woman tours a home for sale in Menlo Park, Calif. For all the doom and gloom about the housing market, it still generally pays to own a home.

Associated Press

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NEW BUSINESSES

Owners Jesus and Cynthia Rivera have opened Uniquely Different at 208 Davis Street in Spindale, a thrift store offering a variety of new and used items. Items include, appliances, rims, strollers, car stereos, adult and children’s cloth-ing, shoes, baby items, pocketbooks, cell phones, movies, video games, furniture, and much more. The shop is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Phone: 828-375-0022.

Garrett Byers/Daily CourierSeams to Be Fabrics, located at 526 U.S. Highway 74 Business, opened for busi-ness about two months ago. Offering sewing classes, alterations and long arm rentals, Seams to Be Fabrics offers many different types of fabrics from cottons to fleece as well as batting, machine needles, notions, threads, zippers and pat-terns. Owner Karen Willette, left, who is pictured with co-workers Iris Waite and Patti Pollock, welcomes beginners and experienced sewers to stop by if they need help with a project or would like to set up their machine and sew. The store is open Mondays until Christmas from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call 245-5400 or visit www.seamstobefab-rics.com.

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chief economist at Naroff Economic Advisors.

Economists say home prices have risen by about half a percent a year above inflation, or roughly 4 percent, since the 1940s. That number, which is based on the median price of homes sold each year, was inflated a little by baby boomers starting fami-lies and building bigger houses. Since the National Association of Realtors began compiling statistics in 1968, the median sales price has climbed 6 percent annually, from $20,100 that year to $195,200 this past August.

In the late 1990s, home values started growing like stocks. For the next five years, they appreciated at 8 to 9 percent a year, or about 5 per-centage points ahead of inflation.

You won’t find many skeptics among people who bought homes in the ’90s and still live in them. Their homes may be worth tens of thou-sands of dollars less than at the peak, but they’re still frequently worth twice what the buyers paid. For example, a house in Ewing, N.J., that sold for $160,000 for in 1996 was worth about $410,000 three years ago. It’s still worth $375,000 today.

Home buyer beware, however: Price declines do occur with some regu-larity. Besides the 30 percent price meltdown of the last three years, the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller index of home prices in 10 cities shows four declines lasting six months or more since 1990. The declines averaged 3 percent.

And whether large or small, a drop can be followed by several years of flat prices. After the 1990-1991 reces-sion ended a housing boom, prices didn’t start increasing nationally until 1997. So homeowners who buy at the wrong time can go years with-out gains.

The hefty costs of homeownership also can work against people who aren’t committed to settling in for a while. Transaction costs — home inspections, sales commission, fees, transfer taxes — run thousands of dollars every time you buy or sell.

And most people overestimate the tax benefits. They don’t realize the standard deduction they would get if they didn’t itemize might be nearly as great as their housing deduction.

For example, a homeowner with a $200,000 mortgage might pay $11,000 a year in interest and $2,000 in property taxes. That’s $13,000 — a healthy deduction, but just $2,100 more than the standard deduction of $10,900 for those mar-ried filing jointly.

And as a homeowner pays less each month toward interest and more

toward principal, the deduction will shrink — until it falls below the stan-dard deduction, which rises to keep up with inflation, Baker says.

Of course, paying principal builds equity and is the equivalent of a forced savings plan, which can finance big expenses such as col-lege tuition. In the long run, many people fund their retirement partly by selling a home they’ve owned for many years and moving into smaller, cheaper housing.

Another reason to buy a house is it’s a leveraged investment; you pay only a fraction of the price with your own money, which can produce an enormous return. If you make a down payment of 10 percent on a $200,000 house and it doubles in value to $400,000, your $20,000 investment has grown to $220,000, a return of 1,000 percent. That’s like buying a $40 stock and watching it soar to $440.

But how can you tell in the short run whether it’s better to buy or rent? There’s a way to gauge how expensive homes are — the price-to-rent ratio.

The ratio is determined by divid-ing the price of a home by the annual rent that could be earned from it. Since 1986, the ratio has averaged 9. Anything above that suggests it may be better to rent, depending on your area.

After soaring to 15 at the end of 2005 — above 20 in some areas — the nationwide ratio has dropped back to 10, according to Economy.com data, making ownership far more attractive.

Prospective buyers can do the price-to-rent calculation themselves. For example, if you can purchase a home for $180,000 but can rent a similar one for $18,000 a year ($1,500 a month), your price-to-rent ratio would be 10, making the buying price reasonable and close to average. And you would have the tax benefits and equity that you don’t get with renting.

It would be nice to say home prices rise reliably and steadily — and a few years ago they seemed to. But that “sure thing” is no longer.

Short-term prospects are cloudy. Many economists expect home prices to keep falling through 2010 as mounting unemployment, foreclo-sures and a glut of unsold homes all weigh on the housing market.

Robert Shiller, a Yale University economist and co-inventor of the Case-Shiller index, says he expects home prices to be roughly flat for five years.

Yet housing has proved a good investment if you stick with it. And with prices already having fallen so far, buying now could make it an even better one.

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10,322.76 6,469.95 Dow Jones Industrials 9,864.94 +377.27 +3.98 +12.40 +16.734,217.28 2,134.21 Dow Jones Transportation 3,875.72 +182.99 +4.96 +9.57 +3.50

410.42 288.66 Dow Jones Utilities 377.17 +9.92 +2.70 +1.73 +16.217,092.70 4,181.75 NYSE Composite 7,015.54 +340.97 +5.11 +21.86 +22.991,837.30 1,130.47 AMEX Index 1,810.64 +75.99 +4.38 +29.56 +40.282,167.70 1,265.52 Nasdaq Composite 2,139.28 +91.17 +4.45 +35.65 +29.691,097.56 666.79 S&P 500 1,071.49 +46.28 +4.51 +18.63 +19.16

11,195.31 6,772.29 Wilshire 5000 11,108.14 +508.39 +4.80 +22.24 +21.79625.30 342.59 Russell 2000 614.92 +34.72 +5.98 +23.12 +17.69

2,927.18 1,789.23 Lipper Growth Index 2,927.18 +144.73 +5.20 +33.20 +29.53

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THE WEEK IN REVIEW

PIMCO TotRetIs CI 107,798 10.89 +1.4 +18.7/A +6.8/A NL 5,000,000American Funds GrthAmA m LG 63,925 26.37 +3.6 +23.5/C +3.7/A 5.75 250American Funds CapIncBuA m IH 57,511 46.96 +1.4 +16.8/D +4.7/C 5.75 250American Funds CpWldGrIA m WS 55,088 33.12 +3.2 +28.3/C +7.7/A 5.75 250Fidelity Contra LG 53,656 55.33 +4.7 +19.3/D +5.4/A NL 2,500Vanguard TotStIdx LB 53,496 26.48 +4.1 +23.2/B +1.9/B NL 3,000American Funds IncAmerA m MA 47,865 14.90 +2.1 +17.7/D +3.0/B 5.75 250American Funds InvCoAmA m LB 47,348 24.72 +2.5 +19.8/D +2.0/B 5.75 250Vanguard 500Inv LB 46,574 98.84 +3.8 +21.0/C +1.1/C NL 3,000Vanguard InstIdx LB 41,003 98.21 +3.8 +21.1/C +1.2/C NL 5,000,000American Funds EurPacGrA m FB 40,009 38.06 +3.3 +35.7/A +9.6/A 5.75 250Dodge & Cox Stock LV 39,993 93.08 +3.6 +26.6/A +0.8/C NL 2,500American Funds WAMutInvA m LV 37,864 23.34 +3.0 +13.1/E +0.1/D 5.75 250Dodge & Cox IntlStk FV 35,309 32.17 +4.7 +40.7/A +8.3/A NL 2,500American Funds NewPerspA m WS 31,930 24.87 +3.4 +30.3/B +7.0/A 5.75 250Fidelity DivrIntl d FG 31,833 27.83 +3.6 +26.4/D +5.8/C NL 2,500American Funds FnInvA m LB 29,549 31.42 +4.2 +23.9/B +4.8/A 5.75 250American Funds BalA m MA 28,943 15.68 +2.5 +16.2/D +2.3/C 5.75 250PIMCO TotRetAdm b CI 28,858 10.89 +1.4 +18.4/A +6.6/A NL 5,000,000FrankTemp-Franklin Income A mCA 27,764 1.99 +4.3 +29.5/A +3.8/B 4.25 1,000American Funds BondA m CI 27,411 11.77 +1.7 +11.8/D +2.6/E 3.75 250Fidelity GrowCo LG 27,170 65.11 +4.5 +30.1/A +5.8/A NL 2,500Vanguard Welltn MA 27,044 28.09 +2.7 +23.9/B +5.3/A NL 10,000Vanguard 500Adml LB 26,919 98.85 +3.9 +21.1/C +1.2/C NL 100,000Vanguard TotStIAdm LB 25,590 26.48 +4.1 +23.2/B +2.0/B NL 100,000Vanguard TotIntl FB 24,646 14.50 +3.3 +36.0/A +7.4/A NL 3,000Vanguard InstPlus LB 24,229 98.21 +3.8 +21.2/C +1.2/C NL200,000,000Fidelity LowPriStk d MB 23,586 30.88 +2.8 +36.1/A +5.0/A NL 2,500T Rowe Price EqtyInc LV 14,741 20.33 +3.3 +21.1/C +1.6/B NL 2,500Hartford CapAprA m LB 9,356 29.24 +3.8 +33.4/A +4.9/A 5.50 1,000Pioneer PioneerA m LB 4,080 33.81 +2.9 +15.4/E +1.7/B 5.75 1,000Goldman Sachs ShDuGovA m GS 1,232 10.48 +0.3 +7.1/B +4.6/A 1.50 1,000Alliance Bernstein GrowIncA m LV 1,214 2.87 +2.9 +24.2/B -1.0/E 4.25 2,500DWS-Scudder REstA m SR 408 12.88 +5.5 +1.6/D +1.1/C 5.75 1,000Hartford GrowthL m LG 185 14.60 +4.3 +27.7/B +1.2/D 4.75 0

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CA -Conservative Allocation, CI -Intermediate-Term Bond, ES -Europe Stock, FB -Foreign Large Blend, FG -Foreign LargeGrowth, FV -ForeignLarge Value, IH -World Allocation, LB -Large Blend, LG -Large Growth, LV -Large Value, MA -Moderate Allocation, MB -Mid-Cap Blend, MV - Mid-Cap Value, SH -Specialty-heath, WS -World Stock, Total Return: Chng in NAV with dividends reinvested. Rank: How fund performed vs. others withsame objective: A is in top 20%, E in bottom 20%. Min Init Invt: Minimum $ needed to invest in fund. Source: Morningstar.

NYSE7,015.54+340.97

AMEX1,810.64 +75.99

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WEEKLY STOCK EXCHANGE HIGHLIGHTS

Stock Footnotes: g = Dividends and earnings in Canadian dollars. h = Does not meet continued-listing standards.lf = Late filing with SEC. n = New in past 52 weeks. pf = Preferred. rs = Stock has undergone a reverse stock split of at least50 percent within the past year. rt = Right to buy security at a specified price. s = Stock has split by at least 20 percent with-in the last year. un = Units. vj = In bankruptcy or receivership. wd = When distributed. wi = When issued. wt = Warrants.Mutual Fund Footnotes: b = Fee covering market costs is paid from fund assets. d = Deferred sales charge, or redemptionfee. f = front load (sales charges). m = Multiple fees are charged. NA = not available. p = previous day’s net asset value. s= fund split shares during the week. x = fund paid a distribution during the week.Gainers and Losers must be worth at least$2 to be listed in tables at left. Most Actives must be worth at least $1. Volume in hundreds of shares. Source: TheAssociated Press. Sales figures are unofficial.

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all about gun rights. We feel about the right to bear arms as strong as anybody. But there are certain citizens out there that don’t need those weapons in their hands. And a lot of time those weapons help facilitate crimes.

“And drugs fall into that same category. Drugs make good people do bad things. The first time you use drugs, you consciously decide that. But after that it becomes an addiction. You start doing things that you wouldn’t normally do. You can’t be addicted to drugs and work a job. You’re going to go out and steal. So we go into these neighbor-hoods where they have had a lot of breakings and enterings. We worked this neighborhood for hours at a time, and it freed the road guys up to do their jobs. Because we were mobile enough, they pulled us over here.”

But an officer emphasized that the Interdiction Team couldn’t work without the road officers.

“These guys, in Spindale, they’re having to answer calls, they’re having to serve warrants. We can help out because we are so mobile. They’re the backbone. We couldn’t do what we do if these guys weren’t out.”

In this particular arrest, a road officer was able to take the teen to the jail, freeing up the Interdiction Team officers to return to patrolling.

The Interdiction Team recently took part in the search for a serial killer terrorizing Cherokee County, S.C.

“We spent four days down on the state line and we would like to have been the ones that nabbed that serial killer.” an officer said, “But like the sheriff told us, we want to assist as much as pos-sible, but if we can deter him from coming into our county we’ve done our jobs. And that is what we were there for. If he comes into the county, we’re going to catch him because we’re going to be on the state line, and we’re going to prevent him from coming up here.”

The officers also emphasize that their work acts as a deterrent to community crime, too.

“You hear about the crimes,” an officer noted, “but you don’t hear about the ones prevented. When we call it interdiction, we leave it that way; we don’t call it highway interdiction or street crimes, because we do highway and street crimes.

“There is no telling, when we roll up, or a county car comes through, what crimes they have pre-vented. Someone may say, ‘He may come back, so I’m not going to break into this business.’ Moving around like we do, nobody knows where we are at. Just as we know the criminals, they know who we are.”

About an hour and a half before their shift ended, the Interdiction Team was called out to a possible domestic violence situation. A man reportedly had threatened to come up from South Carolina and kill his former wife. Officers responded quickly to the Cliffside area and set up to look for the vehi-cle, but eventually they were able to stand down because the potential victim was not at her home.

In interdiction work, officers never know from day to day what situation they might face.

Contact Dale via e-mail at ldale@thedigitalcourier.com

mother were wearing Logan’s scarves and were approached by a woman who owns a boutique in New York. She wanted to sell Logan’s scarves in her boutique.

Logan doesn’t sell her scarves online, but she does take e-mail requests for specific colors.

“It’s grown so fast. Scarves are just so hot right now. Even guys are wearing them,” Logan’s mother said.

“Not my scarves,” said Logan with a middle-school girl giggle.

With the attention has come a new wrinkle. As a small-business owner, Logan has had to figure out how many scarves she can reasonably make to match demand.

She has hired a woman to help with the sewing. Her grandfather, Jerry Kapp, has been enlisted to snip yarn for fringe while he watches ballgames.

“My goal was to help pay for college, but I have to be able to do my homework to get into college,” Logan said.

By tying her values to her passion for design, Logan is following a path that many other young entrepreneurs take, said Bren Varner, the director of the University Center for Entrepreneurship at Wake Forest University.

In a 2007 survey of nearly 2,500 youth from ages 8 to 21, the Kauffman Foundation found that 40 percent had either started or intended to start businesses, and 37 percent said they would con-sider it.

“Kids just make such great entrepreneurs,” he said. “They’re not beaten down yet by all the other obligations and everything else.”

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NC attorney found guilty hiding money

RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina attorney has been con-victed of trying to hide money from the IRS by divvying up large cash deposits into amounts that avoided federal alerts.

Multiple media outlets report defense attorney Johnny Gaskins was found guilty Friday of divid-ing $355,000 into deposits of less than $10,000 each, visiting multiple bank tellers at differ-ent branches. Banks must report deposits greater than $10,000.

Gaskins is free until sentencing in February.

The jury decided Gaskins can keep the money, earned between 2001 and 2006, because he reported the payments on tax forms and paid taxes on them.

Gaskins said he kept cash in a safe in his home, but after clients were robbed and killed in 2005, he feared for his safety. He said he didn’t want any teller to know he had so much cash.

Former pastor is convicted of killing

RALEIGH (AP) — A former pastor has been sentenced to life in prison for killing a 21-year-old North Carolina college student.

Multiple media outlets report that Robert Lee Adams Reaves

was convicted Friday of first-degree murder in the January 2008 death of North Carolina Central University student Latrese Curtis. Her body was found under an Interstate 540 exit sign.

Judge Don Stephens sentenced Reaves to life in prison without parole.

Prosecutors said Reaves killed Curtis in a jealous rage. They believe he followed her after she left his home, forced her car off the road and stabbed her dozens of times.

Moonshine found in WNC mountains

WILKESBORO (AP) — North Carolina authorities say they have found 929 gallons of moon-shine under a shed in the moun-tains.

State Alcohol Law Enforce-ment officials say 63-year-old Roger Lee Nance of Wilkesboro was arrested Wednesday on charges including possession of non-tax paid liquor for the pur-pose of sell.

The director of the agency says it’s one of the biggest mountain busts he can remember.

Crime Control and Public Safety spokeswoman Patty McQuillan says Nance stored moonshine in different-shaped containers under a shed in his backyard and was arrested fol-

lowing a two-month investiga-tion.

A number listed for Nance was disconnected and a woman who answered another number iden-tified herself as Nance’s daugh-ter-in-law and said she had no comment.

NC cops who shot SC killing suspect cleared

GASTONIA (AP) — The police officers who shot the suspect in a killing spree that left five people dead in South Carolina during the summer will not face any charges, a prosecutor said Friday.

The three officers had no choice but to fire on Patrick Burris after he shot one of them when they confronted him in a home on July 6, said Gaston County District Attorney Locke Bell, who reviewed a report on the shooting from the State Bureau of Investigation.

“I read the entire thing, and it was clearly a justified shooting,” Bell said.

Officers investigating an early morning burglary complaint at a vacant home in Gastonia found Burris. After learning he was wanted on a parole violation, they went to arrest him and he pulled out a gun, firing a shot that struck one of the officers but didn’t cause serious injuries, authorities said.

In an undated photo pro-vided by the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety, gallons of moon-shine are shown. North Carolina officials say the confiscation of almost 930 gallons of moonshine is one of the largest busts in state history. State Alcohol Law Enforcement officials say 63-year-old Roger Lee Nance of Wilkesboro was arrested Wednesday on charges including posses-sion of non-tax paid liquor for the purpose of sell.

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Stripper can’t avoid copsSHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — Police

say a Wisconsin woman stripped in front of her children in an attempt to avoid arrest for shoplifting, then scuffled with officers and exposed herself through a squad car window.

Julia E. Laack, 36, of Sheboygan was charged Friday with felony battery of a peace officer, resist-ing an officer, shoplifting and two counts of disorderly conduct, the Sheboygan Press reported.

The criminal complaint alleges Laack stole a bag of beef jerky and a lighter at a convenience store Thursday afternoon. Police went to her home. The complaint said she refused to come to the door and began screaming and swearing at three children in her house, telling one that the incident was all his fault.

Police entered and tried to calm her down. With her children pres-ent, the complaint said, she stripped to her underwear and told the offi-cers they couldn’t arrest her because she would be naked.

Laack struggled with the officers as they tried to arrest her, the com-plaint alleged, kicking one in the groin and spitting in the mouth of another.

While in the squad car on the way to the police station, the complaint said, Laack exposed her buttocks against the rear window.

Food stamps for booze?DETROIT (AP) — Viagra and

pornography are not staples on the government’s food stamp list. But authorities say a Detroit liquor store supplied them during a series of ille-gal deals.

Federal prosecutors filed fraud charges this week against three peo-ple who worked at Jefferson’s Liquor Palace.

The alleged scheme worked this way: Food stamp recipients would

get cash from the store in exchange for swiping larger amounts off their electronic cards. The store would then be reimbursed by the U.S. Agriculture Department.

And in some transactions, the government says the store provided informants Viagra, liquor and porn in exchange for swiping about $2,000 off food stamp cards.

The government says fraud at the store topped $130,000 over 2 1/2 years. The store is closed.

Man shoots fianceeWINTER SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) —

A man who thought there was an intruder in his house shot and killed his fiancee the day before they were to be married, police said Friday.

“Right now everything points to a tragic accident,” Police Chief Kevin Brunell told The Associated Press, adding investigators were awaiting forensic results.

John Tabutt, 62, told investiga-tors he got his gun when he thought he heard an intruder, then fired at a figure in the hallway, accord-ing to Brunelle. It was Tabutt’s live-in fiancee, 62-year-old Nancy Dinsmore, who family members say he was going to marry Saturday. Tabutt told authorities he thought she was next to him in bed the whole time.

Elderly man robs bank SAN DIEGO (AP) — A man in

his 70s has robbed a bank branch inside a San Diego supermarket.

Police investigators say the man handed a teller a note demanding cash Friday at the U.S. Bank inside a Vons supermarket in the Carmel Valley neighborhood. The man said he had a gun, but no weapon was seen. He escaped with an undis-closed amount of cash.

Investigators say the suspect may be responsible for similar robberies at banks in La Jolla and Santee.

Associated PressThree-year-old Audrey Carson of Omaha samples unusually early snow in Omaha, Neb., Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009. Several inches of snow accumulated in Omaha.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Blood gushed from a student’s neck and formed a puddle on the floor of a UCLA lab as instructors struggled to stanch the wound.

The 20-year-old woman was taken across the hall after being slashed in the neck by a classmate, and two staff members quickly applied pres-sure and put gauze on the wound. Stunned students watched in horror.

“Her eyes rolled back in her head, I called out her name and told her to stay with me. She wasn’t really responding. I think she could hear me,” said chemistry lecturer Stacie Nakamoto, whose lab the victim was brought into.

The victim, who Nakamoto and police would not identify, went to the hospital in critical condition. On Friday, her family released a state-ment saying she was showing signs of improvement and was expected to recover.

Damon D. Thompson, 20, was arrested shortly after the attack and booked for investigation of attempted murder.

Immediately after the attack, he

walked into the student information center three floors below.

“He was very calm and said he had stabbed someone,” said Carol Verduzco, an administrative assistant who works in the office.

She said she asked if he was jok-ing and then she called the police. Thompson waited in a chair for the few minutes it took police to arrive.

“I was in shock,” Verduzco said, not-ing she saw no blood on Thompson.

Los Angeles police detectives were interviewing witnesses to try to establish a motive for the attack. Thompson and the victim were not romantically involved, Detective Mike Pelletier said.

A knife was recovered at the scene, a laboratory on the sixth floor of the Young Hall chemistry and biochem-istry department in the heart of the university on the west side of Los Angeles.

Thompson remained in jail Friday on $1 million bail and was scheduled for arraignment Tuesday. Authorities did not know if he had obtained an attorney.

DENVER (AP) — In the first detailed public remarks by any par-ent of the two Columbine killers, Dylan Klebold’s mother says she had no idea her son was suicidal until she read his journals after the 1999 high school massacre.

Susan Klebold’s essay in next month’s issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, says she is still strug-gling to make sense of what hap-pened when her son and Eric Harris killed 12 students and a teacher in the shooting rampage at Columbine High School in suburban Denver. Twenty-one people were injured before Klebold and Harris killed themselves.

“For the rest of my life, I will be haunted by the horror and anguish Dylan caused,” she wrote. “I cannot look at a child in a grocery store or on the street without thinking about how my son’s schoolmates spent the last moments of their lives. Dylan changed everything I believed about myself, about God, about family, and about love.”

The killers’ parents have repeatedly declined to talk about the massacre. They gave depositions in a lawsuit filed by families of the victims, but a judge in 2007 sealed them for 20 years after the lawsuit was settled out of court.

In her essay, Susan Klebold wrote that she didn’t know her son was so disturbed.

“Dylan’s participation in the mas-sacre was impossible for me to accept until I began to connect it to his own death,” she wrote in excerpts released by the magazine ahead of Tuesday’s publication. “Once I saw his journals, it was clear to me that Dylan entered

the school with the intention of dying there. And so in order to understand what he might have been thinking, I started to learn all I could about suicide.”

In a statement with the essay, Oprah Winfrey wrote that Susan Klebold has turned down repeated interview requests but finally agreed to write an essay for O. A spokes-woman for the magazine said Klebold was not paid for the essay, and there were no plans for her to appear on Winfrey’s television show.

A spokeswoman for the Klebold family said there would be no further statements.

In the essay, Klebold said her son left early for school on the day of the shootings.

“Early on April 20, I was getting dressed for work when I heard Dylan bound down the stairs and open the front door. Wondering why he was in such a hurry when he could have slept another 20 minutes, I poked my head out of the bedroom. ‘Dyl?’ All he said was ‘Bye.’ The front door slammed, and his car sped down the driveway. His voice had sounded sharp. I figured he was mad because he’d had to get up early to give some-one a lift to class. I had no idea that I had just heard his voice for the last time.”

She said she had “no inkling” how sick her son was.

“From the writings Dylan left behind, criminal psychologists have concluded that he was depressed and suicidal. When I first saw copied pag-es of these writings, they broke my heart. I’d had no inkling of the battle Dylan was waging in his mind.”

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By TOM BREENAssociated Press Writer

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Weary of being stuck with what they call the false label of America’s unhealthiest city, Huntington residents are offering a wary welcome to a celebrity TV chef who hopes to help them shape up.

Jamie Oliver is starring in a reality TV show slated to be broadcast next year on ABC. In his native Britain, Oliver has done shows focused on improving school lunch meals and other dietary mat-ters with an aim toward get-ting people eating healthier and living better.

Oliver came to Huntington last month and the show is taping in West Virginia’s sec-ond-largest city throughout the fall.

Months before it airs, though, the show has opened still-fresh wounds from an Associated Press story last November that used fed-eral Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data to proclaim the five-county Huntington metropolitan area the country’s fattest and unhealthiest.

The AP analysis was based on a 2006 CDC report.

“The quick, sexy way to promote the show is, ’We’re here to save the fattest town in the world,”’ said Doug Sheils, director of marketing and public relations at Cabell Huntington Hospital. “That’s going to be a label we can’t shake for a long time.”

Sheils noted that the AP analysis, which drew the attention of Oliver’s produc-tion company to the area, was based on data for five counties, including coun-ties in Ohio and Kentucky. But it’s Huntington that gets stuck with a designation Sheils says it doesn’t deserve.

“One of the ways we

improve the health of our community is to recruit out-standing physicians from not only around the country, but around the world,” he said. “I’m worried that if we get pinned with that label, it’s going to be harder for us to recruit physicians and their families to come here.”

Oliver and others working on the show have taken pains to say those fears are under-

standable but unwarranted.Those conversations haven’t

made residents unfriendly to the crew working on the show, according to executive producer Craig Armstrong.

The show, which will fin-ish in Huntington in mid-November, should allay fears of a negative stereotype, Armstrong said.

“I know we’re here in one community, but in my

mind this is really about America,” he said Thursday. “When this show airs, I believe people will fully get it and understand its value.”

Those words echoed com-ments Oliver made at a pub-lic meeting held in city hall last month, when the celeb-rity chef said his aim wasn’t to attack anyone.

Shortly after that, though, local media outlets ran sto-ries about comments Oliver made to the British Sky News service in which he said residents he’d met with lacked information about healthy eating and cooking from scratch.

That set off a round of for-mal and informal meetings around the city, in which residents fretted that they would again be the poster child for problems like obe-sity and lack of exercise.

Cabell-Huntington Health Department Director Dr. Harry Tweel said he was worried that Oliver’s show would focus on the nega-tive and not on the efforts to improve residents’ health that came before and after the AP story.

Part of the sensitivity, Tweel said, comes from the perception that people in the region weren’t aware of the serious health problems many residents here face.

“People are just anxious about getting a fair shake,” he said.

Like others, Tweel is opti-mistic the show can have

benefits for the region by drawing attention to healthi-er lifestyles.

Obesity and related illness-es like diabetes are so com-mon in West Virginia that the extent of the problem has been easy to ignore, said state Delegate Don Perdue, who represents part of the area covered by the CDC sta-tistics.

“All the years of statistics don’t strike home as much as the threat of a national TV audience getting this percep-tion about Huntington,” said Perdue, who is chairman of the House of Delegates Health and Human Resources committee.

Even so, Perdue is worried about the show.

“If it’s accurate and not positive, that’s our fault,” the Wayne County Democrat said. “If it’s inaccurate and negative, that’s their fault.”

Until the show airs, though, all residents can do is wait and hope for the best.

“If Jamie’s coming into town to help make these pos-itive changes, obviously he has to start with something that’s not so positive,” said Tyson Compton, president of the Cabell-Huntington Convention and Visitors Bureau.

“We realize it’s Hollywood and it’s all about hype and hoopla and creating inter-est, but we hope this can put some of the positive things we’ve done in the national spotlight,” he said.

City hoping celebrity chef brings better health

Associated PressChef Jamie Oliver arrives for a taping of the “Late Show with David Letterman,” in this 2008 file photo taken in New York. Oliver is starring in a reality TV show slated to be broadcast next year on ABC. The show is taping in Huntington, West Virginia, through-out the fall.

One of the ways we improve the health of our com-munity is to recruit outstanding physicians from not only around the country, but around the world. I’m worried that if we get pinned with that label, it’s going to be harder for us to recruit physicians and their families to come here.

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Beliefs• Christian values• No increase in taxes• Complete the Cone Mills project without using town monies• Create and support new ways to fill empty buildings in Forest City• Support other agencies that will help create jobs for Forest City• Build our reserves-they are to low now• Keep our focus on the town’s business and not get caught up in activities outside of the town’s responsibility• Keep our focus on providing quality services to our citizens at the lowest price• Treat our citizens with respect and concern for we work for them and are accountable to them for our actions and decisions.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama fought to keep his proposed banking overhaul on track Friday, casting the political struggle ahead as one between big financial inter-ests and average Americans vic-timized by complex or unscrupu-lous financial transactions.

The president illustrated his call for a consumer finance agency by showcasing five unwitting borrowers and bank customers whose troubles ranged from massive overdraft fees to unwanted interest-only mortgages.

“My concern are the millions of Americans who behaved respon-sibly and yet still found them-selves in jeopardy because of the predatory practices of some in the financial industry,” Obama said from the East Room of the White House.

Taking time out of a day over-shadowed by his Nobel Peace Prize award, Obama confronted opponents, singling out the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which is conducting a $2 million adver-tising and organizing effort to defeat the consumer plan.

“They’re doing what they always do — descending on Congress and using every bit of influence they have to maintain a status quo that has maximized their profits at the expense of American consumers,” Obama said of his critics.

The proposed consumer agency is a central element of a package of financial regulatory changes the administration says would prevent crisis like the one that brought Wall Street to its knees last year.

Critics such as the Chamber of Commerce have said the con-sumer agency is unnecessary and would impose restrictions even on retailers.

“We disagree that adding a new agency atop a broken regu-latory system solves the problem

or closes regulatory gaps,” David Hirschmann, head of the cham-ber’s Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness, said in a state-ment issued before the White House event.

The chamber defended its lob-bying efforts.

“It is our constitutional right to petition our government on behalf of our members, the mil-lions of businesses trying to make their way out of this reces-sion,” said Thomas Collamore, a chamber senior vice president.

The stepped-up White House campaign comes days before a key House committee begins assembling some of the main components of a regulatory bill. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, who met Friday with Obama in the White House, has called a meeting of his commit-tee Wednesday to take up the creation of a Consumer Finance Protection Agency as well as new regulations on complex instru-ments known as derivatives.

Eager to put a face on the dry and complex subject of financial regulations, the president met with five individuals who had financial transactions go awry. Obama said the four women and one man were victimized by out-dated regulations.

“I was caught in a debt trap,” said Patricia Nelson, a 64-year-old Waukesha, Wis., retired nursing home worker who said she ended up paying $2,700 in interest on a $550 loan from payday lenders.

The White House seemed par-ticularly eager to pick a fight with the Chamber of Commerce, which has challenged Obama not only on financial regula-tions, but also on health care and on climate change policies.

White House officials want to cast the chamber as being out of touch and particularly vulner-able now, as a number of high-

profile companies have resigned their membership over the cli-mate change issue.

In his push to pass regulatory changes, Obama and his admin-istration also have been remark-ably hands-on.

The administration drafted its own proposed legislation.

This week, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner met with House Democrats, including Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., in the latest of several administration sessions with lawmakers to press the case for an overhaul.

The effort, especially the pro-posal for a consumer agency, has met with stiff resistance from the chamber, which has run radio and television ads against the president’s consumer effort, and from community banks that have been buttonholing mem-bers of Congress in their home districts to eliminate the con-sumer agency.

Frank, in an interview Friday with the Associated Press, pre-dicted that passage of a con-sumer agency in the House was “very likely.” But he indicated the final legislation will not go as far as the Obama administration wishes.

“There are some sensible com-promises we can make,” Frank said.

One of the key sticking points has been the administration’s call for states to be able to over-ride federal consumer regula-tions with their own tougher requirements. Banks complain that would subject them to myri-ad different rules.

Frank indicated that a mid-dle ground could allow states to enact regulations covering emerging consumer issues that are not addressed in federal law.

“Do we want to say, if a new pattern that comes up that’s abu-sive, that states can’t intervene?” he asked.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of job seek-ers competing for each opening has reached the highest point since the recession began, according to government data released Friday.

The employment crisis is expected to worsen as companies stay reluctant to hire. Many econo-mists expect a jobless recovery, putting pressure on President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats to stimulate job creation.

There are about 6.3 unemployed workers com-peting, on average, for each job opening, a Labor Department report shows. That’s the most since the department began tracking job openings nine years ago, and up from only 1.7 workers when the recession began in December 2007.

The highest point after the 2001 recession was 2.8 workers per opening in July 2003, as the econ-omy suffered through a jobless recovery.

Employers have cut a net total of 7.2 million jobs during the downturn. While layoffs are slowing, Friday’s report shows the other critical piece of a labor market recovery — hiring — has yet to begin.

“Fewer people are facing job loss,” said Heidi Shierholz, an economist at Economic Policy Institute in Washington, “but once you have lost your job, you are in serious trouble.”

The department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover survey found less than 2.4 million open-ings in August, the latest data available. That may seem like a lot of jobs, but it’s down from 3.7 mil-lion a year ago and half its peak in June 2007. It’s also the lowest tally on nine years of government records.

At the same time, the number of unemployed Americans doubled from the beginning of the recession to 14.9 million in August.

Economists fear the job market will take years to recover.

Shierholz said the economy faces a “jobs gap” of almost 10 million — the 7.2 million jobs lost plus the roughly 125,000 per month that would have been needed since the recession began just to keep up with population growth.

To close that gap and get back to pre-recession levels in two years would require more than 500,000 new jobs per month, a pace of job cre-ation that hasn’t been seen since 1950-51, Shierholz said.

Most analysts expect the nation to keep losing jobs through this year and the unemployment rate to peak above 10 percent by the middle of next year, even as the economy starts to recover.

“The recovery in output continues to be unac-companied by a recovery in jobs,” said Nigel Gault at IHS Global Insight. He expects the unemploy-ment rate, currently at 9.8 percent, will be at 8.6 percent in 2012.

Cynthia Rosso, a Potomac Falls, Va.-based mar-keting and communications professional laid off in March, is painfully aware of the competition.

A networking group where she once announced jobs she was trying to fill as a manager is now dominated by people looking for work.

Rosso went to a job fair over the summer but turned back after seeing a line snaking around the building. She later heard that 3,000 job seekers showed up to vie for the attention of a handful of employers.

The jobs crisis is likely to have political repercus-sions. The last time the unemployment rate topped 10 percent, in 1982, President Ronald Reagan’s Republican party lost 26 seats in midterm elec-tions.

State Attorneys General, from left, Andrew Cuomo of New York, Martha Coakley of Massachusetts, and Roy Cooper of North Carolina, right, take their seats in the East Room of the White House in Washington Friday, prior to President Barack Obama delivering remarks on regulatory reform.

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Health care bill will not bring immediate benefits WASHINGTON (AP)

— Sixty years is how long Democrats say they’ve been pushing for legislation that provides health care access for all Americans. They’ll have to wait another three if President Barack Obama gets a bill to sign this year.

Under the Democratic bills, federal tax credits to help make health insur-ance affordable for millions of low- and middle-income households won’t start flow-ing until 2013 — after the next presidential election. But Medicare cuts and a sizable chunk of the tax increases to pay for the over-haul kick in immediately.

The eat-your-vegetables-first approach is caus-ing heartburn for some Democrats. Three years is a long time to wait for dessert, and opponents could capital-ize on misgivings about the complex legislation to undo what would be a signature achievement for Obama.

“The real danger is that health reform could be vul-nerable to what we see with the stimulus package,” said Democratic health policy consultant Peter Harbage,

referring to criticism that Obama’s $787 billion eco-nomic plan hasn’t stemmed rising unemployment. “There needs to be more focus on what can you do quickly so that real people will start seeing change sooner, rather than later.”

Obama administration officials and Democratic lawmakers say the reason for the three-year wait is the time it’s going to take to set up insurance marketplaces, write consumer protection rules and reconfigure the bureaucracy to carry out the legislation. It took President George W. Bush’s adminis-tration two years to phase in the Medicare prescrip-tion benefit, a more modest undertaking.

“It’s very important to get the execution right,” White House budget director Peter Orszag told The AP.

There’s another reason, less talked about: to make the costs of the plan seem more manageable under congres-sional budgeting rules.

Lawmakers use a 10-year accounting window to assess new programs. Starting the Medicare cuts and some of

the taxes in the early years — and pushing the bulk of new spending into the latter years — helps keep the cost of the health care overhaul within Obama’s $900 billion limit. Bush used the same kind of maneuver to push the Medicare benefit through Congress.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., addressed the concerns in a recent news release captioned: “What You Get Right Away.”

Among the major short-term improvements in his bill would be a benefit for people on Medicare, who already have insurance cov-erage. Starting in 2010, those who fall into the Medicare prescription plan’s coverage gap would get a 50 percent discount off the price of brand-name drugs.

In 2011 and 2012, certain small employers with fewer than 25 workers could get a tax credit for up to 35 per-cent of what they contribute toward the cost of employee coverage. That could encour-age some companies that don’t offer coverage to do so, but it’s more likely to shore

up those who already do.To answer Obama’s call for

an immediate end to insur-ance company discrimina-tion against the sick, Baucus would set aside $5 billion from 2010-2013 to help states provide affordable coverage to people denied because of a medical condi-tion. The money would be apportioned to high-risk insurance pools that many states have set up.

It may not go far enough. State high-risk pools now spend about $1 billion a year and cover only 200,000 people.

“With $5 billion and (other) improvements, they probably can double that enrollment, maybe a bit more, but that may not reach everybody who needs the immediate help,” said Karen Pollitz, a Georgetown professor.

The House Democratic bill tries to provide some imme-diate relief. For example, insurance companies could not cancel coverage just because a policyholder devel-ops an intractable disease such as cancer.

Yet all of that has failed to make much of an impression

on the Congressional Budget Office, the umpire of the costs and benefits of legisla-tion. The CBO estimates that under the Senate Finance Committee bill, the number of uninsured will stay stuck around 50 million from 2010 through 2012, until federal tax credits start flowing the following year.

If there’s a silver lining in the three-year wait, it’s that it will give individuals and families time to prepare for a new federal requirement to carry health insurance, start-ing in 2013. That won’t be a problem for the majority who with employer or government coverage. But even with the tax credits that Democrats are proposing, many middle-class families that buy their own coverage still may be unable to afford it, and risk being assessed a penalty.

But lawmakers may have figured out how to use time to their advantage. The Senate Finance Committee voted to pare down the pen-alties and postpone them until 2014. Because the fines would be collected through income taxes, no one will get a bill until April 2015.

VALLEY CITY, N.D. (AP) — On Interstate 94, two signs on buildings outside Valley City express opinions on the health care debate. They are appropri-ate enough — from the perspec-tive of someone facing north, the signs are on the left and right of the city, the same ends of the political spectrum they repre-sent.

A sign supporting a “universal single payer” system is on the north side of I-94 west of Valley City. The project was initiated by Sharon Clancy of Valley City and is on Richard Munson’s farm.

Clancy said that of the $850 spent on the sign, a little more than half came from dona-tions of friends. For the rest, she approached the District 24 Democrats.

East of town, Keith Colville of Valley City helped make

the sign opposing government health care — “No Obamacare,” it reads. Colville, a member of local group called Committee for Community Involvement, and friends put up the sign on an old granary on Mark Ertelt’s farm.

Clancy and Colville shared their opinions on health care and what motivated them to put the signs up.

“I believe that good health is a right, not a privilege,” Clancy said, “and to me that means uni-versal health care. We already have single-payer on many levels: congressional, state Legislature, state public employ-ees, the military and Medicaid. Medicare is a blend of govern-ment, private and insurance.”

Colville said, “The one big thing I don’t like about gov-ernment health care is one of our checks and balances is the courts. Through the private sec-

tor, if you’ve got a beef you go to the courts. Have you ever tried to sue the government? It takes a lot of bucks and time, and it doesn’t get done very often.”

Clancy said, “I have experi-enced national health care in England; I have friends and rela-tions in England, and friends in Canada, and it works just fine.”

Colville agreed the health sys-tem has problems.

“Oh sure, our system is not good, but government-run health care is not good at all,” he said.

Colville said measures such as allowing competition between states, tort reform and control-ling illegal immigration would help restrain health care costs.

On the subject of costs, Clancy said, “I think we’re all about one health care issue away from bankruptcy.”

Obama sees help, hindrance on health billA sign on a barn supports

a single-payer health care system Monday, Oct. 5, a few miles west of Valley City, N.D., along Interstate 94. Putting up the sign was initiated by Sharon Clancy of Valley City, and a sign was put up on a for-mer grainery on the east side of Valley City that reads, “No Obamacare.”

Associated Press

Signs reflect debate on health care

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama sees both “unprecedented consensus” from out-side Congress on his drive to remake the nation’s health care system and obstructionism by some on Capitol Hill.

“The historic movement to bring real, meaningful health insurance reform to the American people gathered momentum this week as we approach the final days of this debate,” Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet video address.

The consensus “includes everyone from doctors and nurses to hospitals and drug manufacturers” — even Republican governors and former GOP lawmakers, Obama said.

It does not extend to congressional Republicans, however, as nearly all of them oppose the Democrats’ health care proposals.

The president noted that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Senate Majority Leaders Bob Dole and Bill Frist, all Republicans, and former Health and Human Service chiefs Louis Sullivan and Tommy Thompson, who both served in Republican administrations, have all come out in favor of overhauling health care.

“These distinguished leaders understand that health insurance reform isn’t a Democratic issue or a Republican issue, but an American issue that demands a solution,” Obama said.

Democrats have made significant strides since Labor Day, when they returned to the Capitol after an August spent absorbing attacks from noisy con-servative critics over health care.

A health care bill soon to emerge from the Senate Finance Committee is the only one judged to meet Obama’s conditions for expanding insurance cover-age without raising the federal deficit, while also slowing the rise in medical costs.

Yet Obama said he recognized the issue remains divisive among members of Congress.

“There are some in Washington today who seem determined to play the same old partisan politics, working to score political points, even if it means burdening this country with an unsustainable sta-tus quo,” Obama said.

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DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — The sun had just crested the dis-tant ridge of the Rocky Mountains, but already it was produc-ing enough power for the electric meter on the side of the Smiley Building to spin back-ward.

For the Shaw broth-ers, who converted the downtown arts build-ing and community center into a miniature solar power plant two years ago, each reverse rotation subtracts from their monthly elec-tric bill. It also means the building at that moment is producing more electricity from the sun than it needs.

“Backward is good,” said John Shaw, who now runs Shaw Solar and Energy Conservation, a local solar installation com-pany.

Good for whom?As La Plata County in

southwestern Colorado looks to shift to cleaner sources of energy, solar is becoming the power source of choice even though it still produces only a small fraction of the region’s electric-ity. It’s being nudged along by tax credits and rebates, a growing con-cern about the gases heating up the planet, and the region’s plenti-ful sunshine.

The natural gas industry, which pro-duces more gas here than nearly every other county in Colorado, has been relegated to the shadows.

Tougher state envi-ronmental regulations and lower natural gas prices have slowed many new drilling per-mits. As a result, pro-duction — and the jobs that come with it — have leveled off.

With the county and city drawing up plans to reduce the emis-sions blamed for global warming and Congress weighing the first mandatory limits, the industry once again finds itself on the losing side of the debate.

A recent greenhouse-gas inventory of La Plata County found that the thousands of natu-ral gas pumps and pro-cessing plants dotting the landscape are the single largest source of heat-trapping pollution locally.

That has the industry bracing for a hit on two fronts if federal legisla-tion passes.

First, it will have to reduce emissions from its production equip-ment to meet pollu-tion limits, which will drive up costs. Second, as the county’s largest consumer of electricity, gas companies probably will see energy bills rise as the local power coop-erative is forced to cut gases released from its coal-fired power plants or purchase credits from other companies that reduce emissions.

“Being able to put solar systems on homes is great, you take some-thing off the grid, it is as good as conserv-ing,” said Christi Zeller, the executive director

of the La Plata Energy Council, a trade group representing about two dozen companies that produce the methane gas trapped within coal buried underground.

“But the reality is we still need natural gas, so embrace our indus-try like you are embrac-ing wind, solar and the renewables,” she said.

It’s a refrain echoed on the national level, where the industry, displeased with the cli-mate bill passed by the House this summer, is trying to raise its pro-file as the Senate works on its version of the leg-islation.

In March, about two dozen of the larg-est independent gas producers started America’s Natural Gas Alliance. In ads in major publications in 32 states, the group has pressed the case that natural gas is a cleaner-burning alternative to coal and can help bridge the transition from fossil fuels to pol-lution-free sources such as wind and solar.

“Every industry thinks every other industry is getting all the breaks. All of us are concerned that we are not getting any consideration at all from people claim-ing they are trying to reduce the carbon footprint,” said Bob Zahradnik, the oper-ating director for the Southern Ute tribe’s business arm, which includes the tribes’ gas and oil production com-panies. None is in the alliance.

Politicians from energy-diverse states such as Colorado are trying to avoid getting caught in the middle. They’re working to make sure that the final bill doesn’t favor some types of energy pro-duced back home over others.

At a town hall meet-ing in Durango in late August, Sen. Mark Udall, who described himself as one of the biggest proponents of renewable energy, assured the crowd that

natural gas wouldn’t be forgotten.

“Renewables are our future ... but we also need to continue to invest in natural gas,” said Udall, D-Colo.

Much more than energy is at stake. Local and state governments across the country also depend on taxes paid by natural gas companies to fund schools, repair roads and pay other bills.

In La Plata County alone, the industry is responsible for hun-dreds of jobs and pays for more than half of the property taxes. In addition, about 6,000 residents who own the

mineral rights beneath their property get a monthly royalty check from the companies harvesting oil and gas.

“Solar cannot do that. Wind cannot do that,” said Zeller, whose mother is one of the royalty recipients. In July, she received a check for $458.92, far less than the $1,787.30 she was paid the same month last year, when natural gas prices were much higher.

Solar, by contrast, costs money.

Earlier this year, the city of Durango scaled back the amount of green power it was pur-chasing from the local

electric cooperative because of the price. The additional $65,000 it was paying for power helped the cooperative, which is largely reli-ant on coal, to invest in solar power and other renewables.

“It is a premium. It is an additional cost,” said Greg Caton, the assis-tant city manager.

Instead, the city decided to use the money to develop its own solar projects at its water treatment plant and public swim-ming pool. The effort will reduce the amount of power it gets from sources that contribute to global warming and

make the city eligible for a $3,000 rebate from the La Plata Electric Association.

Yes, the power com-pany will pay the city to use less of its power. That’s because the solar will count toward a state mandate to boost renewable energy pro-duction.

“In the typical busi-ness model, it doesn’t work,” said Greg Munro, the coopera-tive’s executive direc-tor. “Why would I give rebates to somebody buying someone else’s shoes?”

The same upfront costs have prevented homeowners from jumping on the solar bandwagon despite the tax credits, rebates and lower electricity bills.

Most of Shaw’s cus-tomers can’t afford to install enough solar to cover 100 percent of their homes’ electric-ity needs, which is one reason why solar sup-plies just a fraction of the power the county needs.

The higher fossil-fuel prices that could come with climate legislation would make it more competitive.

“You can’t drive an industry on people doing the right thing. The best thing for this country is if gas were $10 a gallon,” said Shaw.

The private residence, nestled in a remote can-yon, probably will pro-duce more power from the sun than it will use, causing its meter to spin in reverse like the Smiley Building’s. The cost, however, is steep: more than $500,000.

New energy winners are yet to be determined

Associated PressDusty Bender, left, and Allen Riling, both with Shaw Solar and Energy Conservation, install two of 105 solar panels on the roof of a barn on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009, north of Hesperus Colo. As La Plata County looks to shift to cleaner energy sources, solar is becoming the power of choice even though it produces only a small frac-tion of the region’s electricity. It is nudged along by tax credits and rebates, a growing concern global warming and the region’s plentiful sunshine.

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Seychelles captures 11 piratesPARIS (AP) — French soldiers successfully

defended two fishing boats from capture by pirates in the Indian Ocean on Saturday, and 11 men suspected of involvement in the failed attack were pursued at sea and captured, offi-cials said.

The chain of events illustrated the teamwork in the international community to crack down on piracy in the Indian Ocean.

After French soldiers chased away the pirates, the coast guard of the Seychelles archipelago, south of where the attack took place, chased the assailants. The coast guard captured two boats — a small craft with eight men aboard and a larger ship carrying three that was the pirates’ suspected mothership.

Iraqis take to streets to protest BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds took to the

streets Saturday throughout Iraq to demand open elections and improved public services, revealing a growing discontent among Iraqis that is overshadowing concerns about the abil-ity of Iraqi forces to take over from withdrawing American troops.

Low oil prices have left the Iraqi government struggling to restore infrastructure after years of neglect, corruption and insurgent attacks, as well as to rebuild their security forces before a planned American withdrawal in 2011.

About 200 demonstrators took to the streets in central Baghdad, chanting: “No water, no elec-tricity in the country of oil and the two rivers,” a reference to Iraq’s ancient name.

US troops help in Philippines MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The U.S. mili-

tary trucked in supplies and marshaled helicop-ters and Navy ships as the Philippines struggled with the aftermath of back-to-back storms that have left more than 600 dead.

After pulling six people from landslides late Thursday and early Friday, Filipino rescuers said they remained hopeful of locating more survi-vors in the stricken north of the country, but retrieved only bodies on Saturday.

With roads blocked and bridges washed away, the Philippine government’s resources have been stretched thin. Officials have asked U.S. troops in the country for an annual military exercise to extend relief operations.

Troops from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, based in Okinawa, Japan, had just finished rescue and cleanup work around the Manila, which experienced the worst flooding in over four decades after Tropical Storm Ketsana dumped record rains Sept. 26. Then Typhoon Parma struck Oct. 3 and has lingered as a tropi-cal depression for about a week, also over the main northern Philippine island of Luzon.

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — Heavily armed militants were holding up to 15 soldiers hostage inside Pakistan’s army head-quarters early Sunday after they stormed the complex in an auda-cious assault on the heart of the most powerful institution in the nuclear-armed country.

Ten people were killed in the attack, including two ranking officers.

The standoff was continuing 12 hours after assailants wear-ing military uniforms bundled from a white van and launched the strike, which appeared to be a warning to the military that its planned offensive on the insurgents’ stronghold along the Afghan border would be met with attacks against targets across Pakistan.

The government said the assault on the headquarters, which followed a bloody mar-ket bombing and a suicide blast at a U.N. aid agency in the past week, had strengthened its resolve to push into South Waziristan — a mountainous region home to al-Qaida lead-

ers where security forces have been beaten back by insurgents before.

The spasm of violence was confirmation that the mili-tants had regrouped despite recent military operations against their forces and the kill-ing of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud in a CIA drone attack in August. His replacement vowed just last week to step up attacks around the country and repel any push into Waziristan.

Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said “four or five” assailants were holding between 10 and 15 troops hostage in a building close to the main gates of the complex in Rawalpindi, a city near the capital, Islamabad. He said the building had no con-nection to any of the country’s intelligence agencies. No senior military or intelligence officials were among those being held.

He said special forces had sur-rounded the building. “They will decide how and when to act,” he said, declining to com-ment on whether authorities had

attempted to talk to the hostage takers.

Late Saturday, sporadic gun-fire was heard coming from the complex.

In its brazenness and sophis-tication, the assault resembled attacks in March by teams of militants against the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team in the eastern city of Lahore and a police training center, which the insurgents took over for 12 hours before security forces retook it.

It began shortly before noon when the gunmen, dressed in camouflage military uniforms and wielding assault rifles and grenades, drove in the van up to the army compound and opened fire, Abbas and a witness said.

“There was fierce firing, and then there was a blast,” said Khan Bahadur, a shuttle van driver who was standing out-side the gate of the compound. “Soldiers were running here and there,” he said. “The firing continued for about a half-hour. There was smoke everywhere. Then there was a break, and then firing again.”

KABUL (AP) — Thousands of foreign fighters have poured into Afghanistan to bolster the Taliban insurgency, the country’s defense minister said Saturday as he called for more international troops.

The remarks come as the U.S. debates whether to substantially increase its forces in Afghanistan or to conduct a more limited campaign focused on targeting al-Qaida figures — most of whom are believed to be in neighboring Pakistan.

The minister’s comments hit on a key worry of the United States — that not sending enough troops to Afghanistan will open the door back up to al-Qaida. They also sug-gest that the Afghan government is nervous about the U.S. commitment amid talk of changing the strategy and a surge in violence in recent months.

An American and two Polish troops were killed by bombs in the latest violence reported by NATO forces.

“The enemy has changed. Their number has increased,” Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak

told lawmakers in a speech. He said about 4,000 fighters, mostly from Chechnya, North Africa and Pakistan “have joined with them and they are involved in the fighting in Afghanistan.”

He gave no timeframe for the sup-posed increase in foreign fighters.

Wardak said Afghan intelligence services had asked for more interna-tional forces to cope with the foreign threat, and the minister’s spokesman said Wardak backed the call.

U.S. military officials said they could not immediately comment on the claim of a recent influx of foreign fighters.

Afghanistan’s interior minister, who also spoke to parliament, endorsed a strategy promoted by the top U.S. commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal to focus on protecting civilians rather than simply killing insurgents.

“If the target of this fight is only killing the Taliban, we will not win this war. If it is saving the Afghan people, then we have a possibility,” Interior Minister Hanif Atmar said.

Associated PressPakistan troops take positions close to its army’s headquarters after an attack by gunmen at the army’s head-quarters in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on Saturday. Gunmen wearing military uniforms and wielding assault rifles and grenades attacked Pakistan’s army headquarters Saturday, sparking a ferocious gunbattle outside the capital, authorities said.

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The Associated Press sent an interesting picture out across the wire, this past week.

In the photo, Carolina Panthers head coach John Fox is walking across the prac-tice field in Charlotte, his eyes looking down at the ground in front of him and his arms are outstretched as if he is saying, “You see, what has happened was ...”

Walking with Fox — his new boss, Panthers’ president Danny Morrison. Morrison is walking like a man who has never been wrong about any-thing. He looks stern, in the photo, and more than a touch unamused.

Today may very well be the most important day of John Fox’s career. Well, the next three Sundays, in fact, may be the most important Sunday’s in Fox’s time in Carolina.

The Panthers enter a stretch, over the next three Sundays, in which they will play the Washington Redskins (2-2), the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-4) and the Buffalo Bills (1-3).

These games are absolutely, positively must-wins. Anything less and, well, Mr. Morrison will not look any happier.

The Panthers bye week came at the very best possible time.

After three weeks of looking lost and as a result losing, this team needed a break. Nothing the Panthers have done has looked right; nothing they have tried has worked.

They now get to start over.Carolina must look at the

remaining 13 games as a whole new season, a new beginning.

The list of teams that have gone 0-3 and reached the play-offs is very thin. Paper thin.

But, the Panthers, to my mind, have most of the needed ingredients to be a playoff team.

First, they must get back to smash mouth football. The tandem of DeAngelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart need to be turned loose behind the mammoth offensive line that Fox has assembled. 14 carries a game simply will not work.

Second, Julius Peppers must play better. Period. The days of Mike Minter and Mike Rucker are over. These are Peppers’ Panthers now and he needs to step up to the plate and accept the responsibility — if he can’t, then he owes Jerry Richardson a rebate.

Third, there was once this guy named Jake Delhomme and he was kidnapped by aliens and replaced with a fel-low called, Jake Delhomme. The Panthers must get the original one back.

That is only three things, and the list is really much longer, but this column isn’t.

But, if those three things don’t happen — the AP will soon send down a very differ-ent picture of Fox.

n On a beautiful October afternoon, Saturday, just out-side of Gilbert Town, Sara and Chris said, “I do.”

The newlyweds took their vows outside and the rain, which had fallen heavily throughout the night, stayed away on the special day.

As I get older my memory gets fuzzier, but I believe I met Sara, who is my wife’s cousin, when she was about 14 or 15. She was at Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy then.

The new Mrs. Dimsdale made a lovely bride and I can only wish her and Chris all the best.

The best part: Tim Mathis and I stayed out of trouble.

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Garrett Byers/Daily CourierR-S Central’s Jacob Kinlaw (9) standing behind his offensive lineman Cody Sellers (61) tosses a 26 yard touchdown pass to Leon Brown, not pictured, during the football game against Freedom, Friday.

Hilltoppers clear 3A hurdle with winBy SCOTT BOWERS and KEVIN CARVERSports Reporters

RUTHERFORDTON — It has been a sore spot with R-S Central head coach Mike Cheek.

For whatever reason, the Hilltoppers, over the last five seasons, have struggled when facing 3A oppo-nents — including five straight first round losses in the 3A state playoffs.

In fact, one can count the

Hilltoppers’ wins against 3A oppo-nents over the last five years on one hand, and not even need a thumb.

But, Friday’s win may have a sig-nalled a bit of a turning point for the Boys in Blue. The Hilltoppers are now 2-1 on the year against 3A teams and if they can pull down victories over Patton and Burns, Central would equal its win total against 3A clubs over the previous five seasons in just one year.

“I think it comes back to our

seniors,” said Cheek. “They have been working hard for four seasons and they understand that we will face 3A teams in the playoffs, and that we must beat 3A teams to play at home in the playoffs.”n Freedom’s opening drive was

a blistering 67 yards that ended with the Patriots lone score, but the Hilltoppers responded quickly.

“When Freedom went down the

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Associated PressDuke’s Brandon King (22) has a pass broken up by North Carolina State’s Marty Stoner during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Raleigh, Saturday.

Duke stuns StateRALEIGH (AP) — Thad

Lewis threw for career-highs of 459 yards and five touchdowns in a dazzling one-man show to help Duke beat North Carolina State 49-28 on Saturday.

Lewis also ran for a score for the Blue Devils (3-3, 1-1 Atlantic Coast Conference), who snapped an 11-game losing streak to their instate rival and earned their first road league win in almost six years. Donovan Varner add-ed 154 yards receiving while Conner Vernon had 10 catches

and was one of five different players to catch a TD pass from Lewis.

But on this day, everything started with Lewis, a senior quarterback who has until now almost always seen his big pass-ing days go for naught.

He picked apart the Wolfpack’s defense, helping Duke roll to 502 total yards and convert 13 of 19 third downs to dominate the game in front of a stunned home crowd for the Wolfpack (3-3, 0-2).

Associated PressNorth Carolina’s Johnny White (34) stops Georgia Southern’s Ronnie Wiggins (23) on a punt return during the second quarter on Saturday in Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill.

UNC .bounces .back, .clubs .Ga . .Southern

CHAPEL HILL (AP) — Ryan Houston rushed for three touchdowns and Quan Sturdivant returned a fumble 49 yards for a score, one of six turnovers forced by North Carolina during a 42-12 rout of Georgia Southern on Saturday.

Bruce Carter brought back an interception 41 yards for a TD and the defense set up two quick scoring drives with takeaways for North Carolina (4-2).

Houston scored on rushes of 1, 1 and 7 yards. Shaun Draughn added a 16-yard touchdown run for the Tar Heels, who held the Eagles to 170 total yards and 75 through the air.

Adam Urbano had a 45-yard TD rush — the longest allowed this season by North Carolina’s stingy defense — for the Eagles (3-3).

The Tar Heels managed only a combined 10 points in consecutive losses to Georgia Tech and Virginia that dropped them out of the national rankings and into last place in the ACC’s Coastal Division.

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BASEBALLPostseason Baseball

DIVISION SERIESAmerican League

New York 2, Minnesota 0Wednesday, Oct. 7New York 7, Minnesota 2Friday, Oct. 9New York 4, Minnesota 3, 11 inningsSunday, Oct. 11New York (Pettitte 14-8) at Minnesota (Pavano 14-12), 7:07 p.m.Monday, Oct. 12x-New York (Sabathia 19-8) at Minnesota (S.Baker 15-9), 5:07 p.m.Wednesday, Oct. 14x-Minnesota at New York, 6:07 p.m. or 8:07 p.m. if only game

Los Angeles 2, Boston 0Thursday, Oct. 8Los Angeles 5, Boston 0Friday, Oct. 9Los Angeles 4, Boston 1Sunday, Oct. 11Los Angeles (Kazmir 10-9) at Boston (Buchholz 7-4), 12:07 p.m.Monday, Oct. 12x-Los Angeles (Saunders 16-7) at Boston (Lester 15-8), 8:37 p.m.Wednesday, Oct. 14x-Boston at Los Angeles, 9:37 p.m. or 8:07 p.m. if only game

National LeagueLos Angeles wins series, 3-0

Wednesday, Oct. 7Los Angeles 5, St. Louis 3Thursday, Oct. 8Los Angeles 3, St. Louis 2Saturday, Oct. 10Los Angeles 5, St. Louis 1

Philadelphia 1, Colorado 1Wednesday, Oct. 7Philadelphia 5, Colorado 1Thursday, Oct. 8Colorado 5, Philadelphia 4Saturday, Oct. 10Philadelphia at Colorado, ppd., weatherSunday, Oct. 11Philadelphia (P.Martinez 5-1) at Colorado (Hammel 10-8), 9:07 p.m.Monday, Oct. 12Philadelphia (Happ 12-4) at Colorado (Marquis 15-13), TBATuesday, Oct. 13x-Colorado at Philadelphia, 6:07 p.m. or 8:07 p.m. if only game

FOOTBALLNational Football League

AMERICAN CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PAN.Y. Jets 3 1 0 .750 74 57New England 3 1 0 .750 87 71Miami 1 3 0 .250 81 79Buffalo 1 3 0 .250 74 110

South W L T Pct PF PAIndianapolis 4 0 0 1.000 106 62Jacksonville 2 2 0 .500 97 86Houston 2 2 0 .500 94 92Tennessee 0 4 0 .000 75 108

North W L T Pct PF PABaltimore 3 1 0 .750 124 80Cincinnati 3 1 0 .750 84 76Pittsburgh 2 2 0 .500 85 78Cleveland 0 4 0 .000 49 118

West W L T Pct PF PADenver 4 0 0 1.000 79 26San Diego 2 2 0 .500 101 102Oakland 1 3 0 .250 42 86Kansas City 0 4 0 .000 64 112

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PAN.Y. Giants 4 0 0 1.000 107 64Philadelphia 2 1 0 .667 94 72Dallas 2 2 0 .500 96 78Washington 2 2 0 .500 56 62

South W L T Pct PF PANew Orleans 4 0 0 1.000 144 66Atlanta 2 1 0 .667 57 53Carolina 0 3 0 .000 37 87Tampa Bay 0 4 0 .000 54 107

North W L T Pct PF PAMinnesota 4 0 0 1.000 118 80Chicago 3 1 0 .750 105 78Green Bay 2 2 0 .500 104 93Detroit 1 3 0 .250 83 134

West W L T Pct PF PA

San Francisco 3 1 0 .750 102 53Arizona 1 2 0 .333 57 68Seattle 1 3 0 .250 74 82St. Louis 0 4 0 .000 24 108

Sunday’s GamesPittsburgh at Detroit, 1 p.m.Oakland at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.Cleveland at Buffalo, 1 p.m.Dallas at Kansas City, 1 p.m.Minnesota at St. Louis, 1 p.m.Cincinnati at Baltimore, 1 p.m.Washington at Carolina, 1 p.m.Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.Atlanta at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.Jacksonville at Seattle, 4:15 p.m.Houston at Arizona, 4:15 p.m.New England at Denver, 4:15 p.m.Indianapolis at Tennessee, 8:20 p.m.Open: San Diego, Chicago, Green Bay, New OrleansMonday’s GameN.Y. Jets at Miami, 8:30 p.m.

College Football Major ScoresEAST

Albany, N.Y. 55, Duquesne 10Army 16, Vanderbilt 13, OTBrown 34, Holy Cross 31Buffalo 40, Gardner-Webb 3Cent. Connecticut St. 42, Robert Morris 21Delaware 43, Massachusetts 27Fordham 35, Bryant 7Harvard 28, Cornell 10Lafayette 24, Columbia 21Lehigh 27, Georgetown, D.C. 0Maine 16, Hofstra 14Marist 31, Jacksonville 27New Hampshire 28, Villanova 24Penn 21, Bucknell 3Penn St. 52, E. Illinois 3Pittsburgh 24, Connecticut 21Rutgers 42, Texas Southern 0Sacred Heart 29, St. Francis, Pa. 7Temple 24, Ball St. 19Towson 36, Rhode Island 28Wagner 27, Monmouth, N.J. 24West Virginia 34, Syracuse 13William & Mary 34, Northeastern 14Yale 38, Dartmouth 7

SOUTHAlabama 22, Mississippi 3Alcorn St. 32, MVSU 10Appalachian St. 55, N.C. Central 21Ark.-Pine Bluff 20, Jackson St. 13, OTChattanooga 14, Samford 7Davidson 16, Morehead St. 10Dayton 35, Campbell 17Duke 49, N.C. State 28Elon 43, The Citadel 7Grambling St. 41, Alabama A&M 20Houston 31, Mississippi St. 24Jacksonville St. 41, Murray St. 7Marshall 31, Tulane 10Morgan St. 7, N. Carolina A&T 6North Carolina 42, Georgia Southern 12Old Dominion 34, Presbyterian 16Prairie View 24, Alabama St. 10Richmond 21, James Madison 17S. Carolina St. 37, Norfolk St. 10South Carolina 28, Kentucky 26Tennessee 45, Georgia 19Tennessee Tech 35, Tenn.-Martin 28Virginia 47, Indiana 7Virginia Tech 48, Boston College 14

MIDWESTAustin Peay 24, SE Missouri 14Bowling Green 36, Kent St. 35Cent. Michigan 56, E. Michigan 8Drake 19, Missouri S&T 0Kansas 41, Iowa St. 36Michigan St. 24, Illinois 14Minnesota 35, Purdue 20N. Iowa 42, N. Dakota St. 27North Dakota 31, Stony Brook 24Northwestern 16, Miami (Ohio) 6Ohio St. 31, Wisconsin 13S. Dakota St. 24, Missouri St. 17S. Illinois 43, Illinois St. 23San Diego 48, Valparaiso 7UC Davis 24, South Dakota 23, OTYoungstown St. 31, W. Illinois 21

SOUTHWESTArkansas 44, Auburn 23Navy 63, Rice 14Oklahoma 33, Baylor 7Oklahoma St. 36, Texas A&M 31SE Louisiana 51, Texas St. 50, OTSam Houston St. 44, Nicholls St. 21

FAR WESTArizona St. 27, Washington St. 14Montana 35, Cal Poly 23N. Arizona 23, Montana St. 10Oregon 24, UCLA 10Portland St. 23, N. Colorado 18Sacramento St. 38, Idaho St. 17Weber St. 31, E. Washington 13Wyoming 37, New Mexico 13

RACINGNASCAR-Sprint Cup

Pepsi 500 Lineup

(Car number in parentheses)

1. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 183.87.2. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 182.704.3. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 182.635.4. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 182.315.5. (1) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 182.246.6. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota, 182.223.7. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 182.182.8. (33) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 182.002.9. (5) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 181.979.10. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 181.717.11. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 181.644.12. (44) AJ Allmendinger, Dodge, 181.42.13. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 181.383.14. (12) David Stremme, Dodge, 181.346.15. (13) Max Papis, Toyota, 181.305.16. (07) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 181.214.17. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 181.137.18. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 181.096.19. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 181.032.20. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 180.968.21. (82) Scott Speed, Toyota, 180.945.22. (77) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 180.868.23. (09) Mike Bliss, Dodge, 180.845.24. (2) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 180.773.25. (9) Kasey Kahne, Dodge, 180.741.26. (78) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 180.65.27. (47) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 180.632.28. (43) Reed Sorenson, Dodge, 180.591.29. (26) Jamie McMurray, Ford, 180.524.30. (71) David Gilliland, Chevrolet, 180.524.31. (6) David Ragan, Ford, 180.51.32. (83) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 180.288.33. (66) Dave Blaney, Toyota, 180.144.34. (55) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 179.91.35. (96) Bobby Labonte, Ford, 179.672.36. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 179.269.37. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 179.14.38. (7) Robby Gordon, Toyota, 178.496.39. (19) Elliott Sadler, Dodge, 178.372.40. (34) John Andretti, Chevrolet, 178.293.41. (98) Paul Menard, Ford, Owner Points.42. (00) David Reutimann, Toyota, Owner Points43. (36) Michael McDowell, Toyota, 179.033.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAN.Y. Rangers 4 3 1 0 6 14 10Philadelphia 4 3 1 0 6 17 12Pittsburgh 4 3 1 0 6 12 12New Jersey 3 1 2 0 2 8 11N.Y. Islanders 2 0 0 2 2 5 7

Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAOttawa 3 2 1 0 4 7 8Montreal 4 2 2 0 4 10 15Buffalo 2 1 0 1 3 3 3Boston 3 1 2 0 2 9 12Toronto 3 0 2 1 1 8 12

Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAWashington 4 2 1 1 5 18 15Atlanta 2 2 0 0 4 10 5Carolina 4 2 2 0 4 11 12Florida 3 1 2 0 2 6 14Tampa Bay 3 0 1 2 2 7 12

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GANashville 2 2 0 0 4 6 4Columbus 3 2 1 0 4 10 10St. Louis 3 2 1 0 4 11 10Chicago 3 1 1 1 3 9 7Detroit 3 1 2 0 2 9 11

Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GACalgary 5 4 1 0 8 19 17Colorado 3 2 1 0 4 10 5Edmonton 3 1 1 1 3 11 12Minnesota 3 1 2 0 2 8 11Vancouver 4 1 3 0 2 13 14

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GALos Angeles 3 2 1 0 4 15 13Phoenix 3 2 1 0 4 10 5San Jose 4 2 2 0 4 16 15Dallas 3 1 0 2 4 11 10Anaheim 3 1 1 1 3 10 8

Friday’s GamesCarolina 7, Florida 2Dallas 5, Calgary 2

Saturday’s GamesN.Y. Islanders at Boston, latePittsburgh 5, Toronto 2Ottawa 4, Atlanta 2Anaheim 3, Philadelphia 2, SONew Jersey 3, Florida 2Detroit 3, Washington 2Tampa Bay 5, Carolina 2Los Angeles at St. Louis, lateBuffalo at Nashville, lateColorado at Chicago, lateColumbus at Phoenix, lateMontreal at Edmonton, lateMinnesota at San Jose, lateSunday’s GamesAnaheim at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.Dallas at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

ScoreboardRocky Mountain baseball: Game 3 in Denver off

DENVER (AP) — Colorado manager Jim Tracy suspected this might not be a night for baseball when even his dogs wanted to skip the morning walk.

Major League Baseball agreed with Tracy’s bea-gles.

Game 3 of the Phillies-Rockies playoff series Saturday night was postponed because of weather better suited for cross-country skiing.

The game will be played Sunday night, with Game 4 pushed back to Monday. Game 5, if nec-essary, will be played as scheduled Tuesday in Philadelphia, without a day off for travel.

“I think it’s a very wise decision,” Tracy told The Associated Press by phone. “You could have some-thing happen in weather like this where you could lose a player for half a year in 2010. I don’t think that would be good for anybody.

“There’s no question about the type of play that you would see in this kind of weather vs. if you have better conditions that they’re calling for Sunday. To be cold and wet and rainy and sleety or snowy is completely different than cold and dry and clear.”

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker became the first partnership in the Presidents Cup to go 4-0, winning twice Saturday behind an improbable rally by Woods and the pure putting of Stricker.

On the verge of defeat in morning foursomes, Woods made a 25-foot birdie putt to square the match on the 17th, then drilled a 3-iron to 8 feet on the final hole for an eagle that was conceded in a 1-up victory over Mike Weir and Tim Clark.

In afternoon fourballs, Woods only had to watch Stricker make one long birdie putt after another in a 4-and-2 victory over Y.E. Yang and 18-year-old Ryo Ishikawa, the first loss for the Asian duo.

Jim Furyk and Anthony Kim held on for a 2-up victory over Adam Scott and Angel Cabrera, assur-ing the Americans the lead going into the final day of 12 singles matches.

The International team picked up easy victo-ries in fourballs from Weir and Ernie Els, who had a 5-and-3 win over Zach Johnson and Justin Leonard; and Geoff Ogilvy and Robert Allenby, winning 2-and-1 over Lucas Glover and Stewart Cink. Glover is the only American without a point going into singles.

Woods and Stricker are the first partners to go 4-0 in any team competition since Larry Nelson and Lanny Wadkins won all their matches in the 1979 Ryder Cup at The Greenbrier.

FONTANA, Calif. (AP) — Joey Logano avoided a late-race collision and held off Brian Vickers to win the NASCAR Nationwide Copart 300 on Saturday at Auto Club Speedway for his fifth series victory of the season and second in two weeks.

The 19-year-old Logano started on the pole, but fell well back after an incident with Greg Biffle early in the race. Logano steadily worked his way back to front and caught a break when Biffle and Denny Hamlin col-lided with less than 10 laps to go.

Logano took the lead following a caution with two laps to go, then pulled away from Vickers. The win proved to be sweet vindication for Logano, who figured he had a top-20 car at best after a scrape with Biffle sent him into the wall.

Instead, Logano found himself in the perfect spot after Biffle, Hamlin and Brad Keselowski got mixed up running three-wide out of Turn Four.

Logano moved up then pounced after another late caution set up a green-white-checker finish. He roared to the front after the restart and simply had too much for Vickers.

“You don’t want to get me mad,” Logano said. “I just race harder.”

Carl Edwards finished third and pulled within 155 points of series leader Kyle Busch, who exited his No. 18 Toyota early in the race because of a fever.

Hamlin filled in capably for his teammate and appeared to have one of the strongest cars on the track when he found himself stuck between Keselowski and Biffle coming out of the fourth turn, relegating the car to a 31st-place finish.

Hamlin and Keselowski had a run-in during the Nationwide race at Dover two weeks ago, and Hamlin admitted he got so caught up focus-ing on Keselowski he never saw Biffle trying to pass on the outside.

ST. LOUIS (AP)—Vicente Padilla shut down Albert Pujols and the St. Louis Cardinals, put-ting the Los Angeles Dodgers back in the National League championship series with a 5-1 victory on Saturday night.

Andre Ethier missed the cycle by a single, Manny Ramirez had three hits and two RBIs and the Dodgers didn’t need help from another Cardinals fielding blunder to sweep their division series opponent for a second straight season.

Pujols and Matt Holliday were a combined 2 for 8 with a late RBI for the Cardinals, who never recharged after being the first National League team to clinch a division title.

Associated PressSt. Louis Cardinals’ Albert Pujols sits in the dugout during the eighth inning in Game 3 of the National League division baseball series against the Los Angeles Dodgers Saturday, in St. Louis.

Dodgers sweep Cards

Woods & Stricker 1st un-beaten team in 30 years

Logano races to 5th win of season Lightning strikes Hurricanes

TAMPA, Fla. (AP)—Ryan Malone had three goals, including a go-ahead score mid-way through the third period, and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Carolina Hurricanes 5-2 on Saturday night.

Malone made it 3-2 from the slot with 9:14 to play after receiving a nifty pass from Martin St. Louis. After Steve Downie extended the Tampa Bay advantage to 4-2 on a power-play goal at the 13-minute mark, Malone completed his hat trick on an empty-netter.

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OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Mark Ingram rushed for 172 yards and a touchdown and No. 3 Alabama stuffed No. 20 Mississippi 22-3 on Saturday.

Jevan Snead threw four inter-ceptions for Ole Miss (3-2, 1-2 SEC), tying a career high, and the Crimson Tide (6-0, 4-0) scored after a blocked punt and a fumble recovery on a punt return.

Leigh Tiffin hit five short field goals, passing his father Van Tiffin on the Crimson Tide career list for third place in career scoring.

Snead completed 11 of 34 pass-es for 140 yards. Twice Alabama defenders ripped the ball away from Ole Miss receivers who were bobbling it.

The Crimson Tide held the Rebels to 19 yards and one first down in the first half on the way to a 16-0 lead and allowed them past the 50 just four times over-all.

Arkansas 44, No. 17 Auburn 23

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Michael Smith rushed for 145 yards and a touchdown, and Arkansas held off a late Auburn rally to hand the Tigers their first loss.

Arkansas jumped out to a 34-3 lead before Auburn (5-1, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) responded with a three-touch-down flurry toward the end of the third quarter. Dennis Johnson helped the Razorbacks (3-2, 1-2) regain momentum with a 70-yard kickoff return, and Arkansas shut out the Tigers in the fourth.

Ryan Mallett threw for 274 yards and two touchdowns for the Razorbacks. Ben Tate ran for 184 yards and two TDs for Auburn.

No. 5 Virginia Tech 48, Boston College 14

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Tyrod Taylor, Ryan Williams and Virginia Tech’s swarming defense made sure the Hokies’ regular season losing streak against Boston College ended.

Taylor threw two early touch-down passes, and Williams ran for 159 yards and a TD.

The victory ended a three-game regular season skid by Virginia Tech (5-1, 3-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) against Boston College (4-2, 2-2).

No. 9 Ohio State 31, Wisconsin 13

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Kurt Coleman and Jermale Hines returned interceptions for touchdowns and Ray Small brought a kickoff back 96 yards, dealing the self-destructive Badgers their first loss of the season.

No. 13 Oregon 24, UCLA 10PASADENA, Calif. (AP) —

Kenjon Barner returned the second-half kickoff for a 100-yard touchdown, and Talmadge Jackson returned an intercep-tion 32 yards for another score just 13 seconds later.

No. 14 Penn State 52, Eastern Illinois 3

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Daryll Clark threw for three touchdowns and ran for anoth-er, Jared Odrick led a menac-ing defense with two sacks and linebacker Navorro Bowman returned a fumble 91 yards for a touchdown in the Nittany Lions’ most complete performance of the season against lower-divi-sion Eastern Illinois.

No. 15 Oklahoma State 36, Texas A&M 31

COLLEGE STATION, Texas

(AP) — Zac Robinson threw two touchdown passes and Oklahoma State overcame the absence of its top two playmak-ers.

No. 16 Kansas 41, Iowa State 36

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Todd Reesing threw for 442 yards and four touchdowns and Kerry Meier set two school receiving records in a game filled with big plays and missed extra points.

No. 19 Oklahoma 33, Baylor 7

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford threw for 389 yards and a touchdown in his return from a shoulder injury and Chris Brown had two short scoring runs.

No. 25 South Carolina 28, Kentucky 26

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Stephen Garcia threw for three touchdowns and ran for another and South Carolina stopped a potential tying two-point con-version in the fourth quarter, keeping coach Steve Spurrier a perfect 17-0 against the Wildcats.

field, like they did, and we came right back and scored, I thought that was key,” said Cheek. “Again, Jason and the coaches are working hard, the play-ers are working hard.

“I can give you a great example — Cameron Green. He acted in the most-unselfish manner by understanding that it wasn’t a night where he was going to get a lot of carries. The way Freedom defended us, we had to run the buck sweep and that calls on Cameron to make blocks and he did a great job opening up lanes.”

In addition to Green’s performance, seniors William Lynch, Jonathon Fuller, Leon Brown and Oddie Murray and junior QB Jacob Kinlaw all enjoyed big nights.n Kinlaw was 7-of-10 for 119 yards and two

touchdowns.n Murray rushed for 129 yards on just nine car-

ries, but left early in the third with an injury. Murray’s status for Friday against Patton is doubt-ful.n Lynch rolled for 112 yards on 13 carries.n Fuller came up with two tackles for loss and

two sacks.n The biggest night of all belonged to Leon

Brown. Brown put up 79 yards on two kick returns, 83 yards in receiving, 82 yards in rush-ing and he scored twice. In all, Brown tallied 244 yards.

Chase TrojansCHASE — Three first half fumbles that turned

into scores for the visitors were too much for Chase to overcome in a 48-7 loss to Burns, Friday night.

While the pigskin fell in favor of the Bulldogs, a number of Chase players had moments during the night.

Josh Waters continued to plug away making tack-les on special teams and defense. The best play of the night from him came in the first quarter. Burns’ Blake Pressley received a Blake Moffitt punt at the Burns 36-yardline, and tried to reverse field. Waters would have none of it, hitting Pressley low and for a three-yard loss on the return to the 33.

Dache Gossett nabbed an interception and rushed for 23-yards during the second half. Tajae McMullens had 33 yards rushing and Tyreece Gossett was responsible for the lone Chase touch-down.

Brian Woods and Carlos Watkins also had mul-tiple tackles on the night. Unfortunately, Watkins wouldn’t return after the half due to blood pres-sure issues.

The injury bug also plagued Chase again this week as Raheem Hampton broke his left foot and will likely sit out for the rest of the season.n Let there be light! Though the game went

from a scoreless first quarter to a 35-0 deficit by halftime for Chase, that may not have been the wackiest part of Friday night’s contest. A set of light behind the visitors bleacher on the left side at Allen Stadium went out with less than nine min-utes to go. After conferring with both coaches, they agreed that their was still enough light to fin-ish the game.

Chase finished up with 190 yards total on the night. The Trojans finished with 130 yards rush-ing, 37 passing and 23 on return yardage. Four Trojan rushers had 23 yards or more in that cat-egory.

Once Burns got going offensively, the Bulldogs quarterback Brandon Littlejohn finished the game with five touchdowns on 11-21 passing for 244 yards.n From one animal to another, Chase (2-6, 0-3)

is through with the Bulldogs of Cleveland County, but now face the Lions of Shelby this coming week at home.

Thomas JeffersonAVONDALE — The Gryphons’ Tony Helton

knows how hard it is to win in your first season of varsity football, and TJCA could hardly use the outbreak of illness and injury that has further complicated an already difficult challenge.

“We have 23 ballplayers, but several have been out with injury or illness and we had just 17 for the game,” said Helton.

The Griffs have struggled to find the end zone, and will enter a brutal four game stretch hav-ing scored just one touchdown in conference play. TJCA will face Moutain Heritage, Hendersonville, Polk County and Owen to finish the season.

“We are having a hard time getting into the end zone,” Heltons said. “It is pretty obvious that we need to hit the weight room and continue to get better. We must get stronger.”

FootballContinued from Page 7

Garrett Byers/Daily CourierR-S Central’s defense lead by William Brown (40) swarms Freedom’s Patrick Park (23) during the game Friday.

No. 3 ’Bama whips No. 20 Miss

Associated PressTennessee’s Monterio Hardesty (2) outruns Georgia’s Bacarri Rambo (18) during the second half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, in Knoxville, Tenn. Tennessee won 45-19.

Mine That Bird takes 6th place

ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) — Mine That Bird missed the winner’s circle again Saturday, finishing sixth behind upset winner Gitano Hernando in the $350,000 Goodwood Stakes at Santa Anita.

The Kentucky Derby champion is winless in four starts since his stunning 50-1 upset on the first Saturday in May.

Britain-bred Gitano Hernando won the 1 1-8-mile race, earning an automatic berth in the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 7 at Santa Anita.

Ridden by Kieren Fallon, Gitano Hernando covered the distance in 1:48.39.

Wake downs Terps, 42-32WINSTON-SALEM

(AP) — Riley Skinner threw for 360 yards and a career-high four touchdowns Saturday, shattering the Wake Forest record for yards passing in a career in a 42-32 victory over Maryland.

Chris Givens caught five passes for 116 yards and two scores for the Demon Deacons (4-2, 2-1 Atlantic Coast Conference), who moved into first place in the Atlantic Division by shredding Maryland’s suspect defense.

Wake Forest scored touchdowns on its first five possessions in building a 35-10 half-time lead. Skinner went over 8,000 yards pass-ing in the second quar-ter to move past Brian Kuklick. A week ear-lier he broke Kuklick’s career touchdown mark.

It looked easy against Maryland (2-4, 1-1), which couldn’t build on last week’s surprising win over Clemson. The Terrapins allowed 516 yards and their banged-up offense couldn’t keep up

Buffalo 40, Gardner-Webb 3

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Zach Maynard had 232 yards passing and three touchdowns and Buffalo raced to a big halftime lead in a 40-3 win over Gardner-Webb on Saturday.

A total of 132 yards in the air went to Brett Hamlin, who had one touchdown of 7 yards.

Buffalo (2-4) took a 33-3 halftime lead on two touchdown runs of 1 yard each from Ike Nduke, 2 yards by Bran Thermilus and two short tosses from Maynard to Jesse Rack. Nduke finished with 131 yards on the ground.

The Bulls took advan-tage of a muffed punt to score first. The extra point was blocked, and Gardner-Webb (3-2) drove down and R. Gates kicked a field goal for its only score.

Hamlin finished out the scoring in the third with a 7-yard pass

catch.Gardner-Webb’s Stan

Doolittle completed 16 of 29 passes for 159 yards but was sacked three times by a defense that pressured him all game.

App. State 55, N.C. Central 21

BOONE (AP) — Devon Moore rushed for 124 yards and Appalachian State dominated in the run-ning game to defeat North Carolina Central 55-21 on Saturday.

The Mountaineers (3-2) had 407 yards on the ground and six rushing touchdowns.

Appalachian State trailed 14-7 late in the first quarter, but responded with 27 straight points. Armanti Edwards put the Mountaineers ahead 34-14 on a 7-yard run with 3:15 left in the third quarter.

Edwards finished with 97 yards and two touchdowns.

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Leaves must be placed at curb for collection.For additional information call 245-0149.

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By DOUG FERGUSONAP Golf Writer

SAN FRANCISCO — Golfers from nine countries are staying together this week in a hotel that could pass for an Olympic village. They are playing for the flag, not cash, with a gold prize going to the winning team.

In some respects, the Presidents Cup is like an Olympic event.

On their way to Harding Park on Friday morning, Tiger Woods, Ryo Ishikawa, Camilo Villegas and other players learned they might have a chance to play for a gold medal.

“It’s a perfect fit for the Olympics, and I think we are all looking forward to golf getting into the Olympics,” Woods said.

It was reinstated, along with rugby sevens, for the 2016 and 2020 games fol-lowing a vote in Copenhagen by the International Olympic Committee.

“Awesome news,” Canadian Mike Weir said. “It means a world-class athlete like

Ryo Ishikawa ... can have the opportunity to win an Olympic medal for his coun-try, something none of us in golf would have thought pos-sible when we were growing up in the sport.”

The last time golf was part of the Olympics was in 1904, when George Lyon of Canada won the gold medal and the United States won the team title. That makes the Americans the defending champions in Rio de Janeiro, never mind the 112-year gap.

Woods, the world’s No. 1 player whose Olympic sup-port was seen as vital in golf’s bid, will be 40 when Rio rolls around; he’s already said he would compete, hopeful of adding a gold medal to his collection of green jackets and claret jugs.

British Open champion Stewart Cink isn’t sure he’ll get that chance.

“It’s great for golf,” Cink said. “I don’t know if it’s great for me or not because I’ll be 43 and I might be over the hill by then. But it’s

exciting. I think that when a sport gains Olympic status, it gets a lot more attention, and national sports institutes tend to pay a lot more atten-tion. So it will only do good for the game of golf.”

Ty Votaw, the PGA Tour’s vice president of commu-nications and international affairs, coordinated golf’s effort to get back in the games along with Royal & Ancient chief executive Peter Dawson.

Golf had support from every tour around the world, men’s and women’s, along the a variety of its biggest stars — from Woods and Jack Nicklaus and Padraig Harrington, to Annika Sorenstam, Lorena Ochoa and Michelle Wie.

Unlike other sports, there will be no Olympic trials for golf. Eligibility will be deter-mined by the world ranking, with the top 15 automatically exempt. PGA Tour commis-sioner Tim Finchem said if the Olympics were held now, some 30 countries would be represented in the men’s and

women’s competitions.Finchem was more

enthused by the growth he hopes golf will experience as an Olympic sport.

“We’ve said all along that there is good growth in the developing areas of the world, and there is,” he said. “But when you consider that over a hundred countries will now invest in the sport to grow the game, it will cata-pult the level of growth — particularly in Asia, Eastern Europe, also in South America and other areas that have not had the level of growth historically.”

He also expects a ripple effect across the board in the golf industry, from equip-ment manufacturers to golf course architects and even to resort courses around the world.

Some details have not been worked out, specifically where to play the Olympics and when. Golf already has a crowded summer sched-ule with three majors, a World Golf Championship, the FedEx Cup playoffs in

the United States and a Presidents Cup or Ryder Cup.

Finchem has said golf orga-nizations agreed to work together to squeeze in the Olympics.

Phil Mickelson said the players “are working hard on our games so that over the next six years, we are able to make the team.” He might have been half-joking since he will be 46 when Olympic golf returns in Rio.

Among the more likely candidates are the 18-year-old Ishikawa and Villegas, a 27-year-old Colombian, and Geoff Ogilvy, a U.S. Open champion from Australia who is one year younger than Woods.

“I think on a personal level, it will add a new dimension and another thing to strive for,” Ogilvy said in an e-mail. “I think the bigger picture is more interesting, as it will potentially expose a lot more of the world to our beautiful game, and encourage nations just getting into the game to grow the game, especially at a junior level.”

Golfers excited at prospect of Olympic gold

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Forest City, NC 28043828-245-3575 8-4:30 M-Fwww.rutherfordhosp.org

YOUTH CENTER ASSISTANT DIRECTOR POSITION

Lake Lure is seeking qualified and energetic applicants for the position of Youth Center Assistant Director. This position involves responsible and professional work in administering after school activities and programs. Applicants must possess a strong willingness to work with children. This part-time position is Monday through Friday from 3:00-6:00 p.m. during the school year and a summer program is offered from 1:00-5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. The pay is $9.50 per hour for this position and reports to the Chief of Police.

Applications are available online or at Lake Lure Town Hall.

Send application & resume by Friday, October 16, 2009 Lake Lure Police Department,

PO Box 195 • Lake Lure, NC 28746All applicants will be subject to thorough background

investigation and drug testing. EEO/AA/ADA Employer

Nice 2 Bedroom Townhouse Apt &

1 Bedroom Aptacross from Super 8

Motel in Spindale $385/mo. & $515/mo.

Call 828-447-1989

Furnished at Out Of The Blue Bed and

Breakfast with heated pool 287-2620

2BR & 3BR Close to downtown Rfdtn. D/w, stove, refrig., w/d hook up. No pets! 287-0733

2 Bedroom /1.5 BathRoseHill Townhouses

near Hospital 1st Months Rent Freewater included in rent!

Call 288-8462

Apartments

2 Bedroom/1.5 BathTownhouse Central h/a, washer/dryer,

quiet neighborhood near Forrest Hunt. $450/mo. 248-2205

or 429-2043

2BR/1BA in Ellenboro$350/mo. + $350 dep.

Ref’s. No pets!Call 828-453-8690

Richmond Hill Senior Apts. in Rfdtn 1BR Units w/handicap

accessible units avail. Sec 8 assistance avail.

287-2578 Hours: Mon., Tues., & Thurs.

7-3. TDD Relay 1-800-735-2962 EqualHousing Opportunity. Income Based Rent.

Apartments

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Out to LunchMy friend Janet and I hold

birthing classes for expecting par-ents on the weekends. In addition tocovering what to anticipate duringthe birth process, we also go overhow to care for the newborn baby athome.

After lunch at our last class, Janetwas showing everyone how to prop-erly swaddle a baby using a practicedoll. One couple just couldn't seemto get the hang of it, so Janet contin-ued to show them repeatedly.Finally it dawned on them.

"Oh I get it," the soon-to-be fathersaid. "It's just like making a turkeywrap for lunch."

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Mr. MomHaving a baby can create major

changes in a household. For some, thisincludes deciding who will stay homewith the baby. Over the past few years,the idea of being "Mr. Mom" hasbecome less appealing. In 2005, surveysfound that nearly 49% of fathers wouldlike to stay home. By 2008, the percent-age declined to 37% and today about31% of fathers would prefer to be thestay-at-home parent. And with today'sdemands, 53% of fathers spend less than2 hours per day with their children.

Road TripTraveling with children can some-

times be difficult, and it can be muchworse when someone suffers frommotion sickness. This temporary illnessis the result of a conflict in the brainbetween the eyes and the inner ear. Theinner ear detects motion, but the eyesfocused inside the car do not. The resultis nausea. If you suffer from motionsickness, try focusing on distant objectswhile traveling. Opening the windowfor fresh air or making frequent stopscan also help, although nothing feels asgood as reaching your final destination.

Fast FactsDear Classified Guys,I always knew bachelorhood couldonly last so long, but when I fell inlove, boy did things move fast. Inone year, we were married, bought ahouse and now we have a baby onthe way. Don't get me wrong, I'mreally excited. I even made the leapand bought an old minivan figuring itwill fit everything I need. Now withthe baby due soon, I've been tryingto install the car seat. Who knewyou need to be a rocket scientistto do it? Despite the fact that theinstructions are in English, they areimpossible to understand. The carseat instructions say to see the carmanual for proper installation. Thecar manual says to see the car seatmanual. Is this a joke? I thought thiswas a ten-minute job. My friends areno help. They don't have any kids.How does a soon-to-be dad properlyinstall a car seat?

• • •Cash: Sometimes it seems like the

people who create assembly instruc-tions must be comedy writers. Andthey probably should be since trying todecipher their instructions is enough tomake you laugh.

Carry: With so many car seat andautomobile manufacturers, creating a

standard installation is difficult. Since2002, new cars are required to have theLATCH (Lower Anchors and Tethers forChildren) system now available on carseats in an effort to make installation alittle easier. The system bypasses theuse of the vehicle's seat belt. However,that doesn't help if you have an older car.

Cash: Even though you don't havefriends to tap for knowledge, help isstill available nearby. Your local policestation can be a great place to begin.They often perform safety installationchecks on car seats at no cost.

Carry: Additionally, AAA has pro-grams to assist with child safety. Youcan check with your local branch to

find out when and where their nextsafety check is being held.

Cash: As yet another option, checkwith you local auto dealer. They maybe able to help with the installation orhave more detailed information aboutyour specific vehicle model.

Carry: For a soon-to-be dad, you'realready making good decisions. Sinceit's estimated that more than half of allcar seats are installed incorrectly, get-ting assistance is a great idea.

Cash: You can only hope that whenyou have to assemble the first bicycle,help is as readily available. Althoughmaybe by that point, your child will beold enough to help!

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NORTH CAROLINA,RUTHERFORD COUNTY

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE09 SP 337

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by MICHAEL PAUL CONNER AN UNMARRIED MAN to WILLIAM R ECHOLS, Trustee(s), which was dated August 29, 2007 and recorded on September 5, 2007 in Book 975 at Page 97, Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Brock & Scott, PLLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on October 21, 2009 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Rutherford County, North Carolina, to wit:

Situate, lying and being in Rutherfordton Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, being the same and identical property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 903, Page 806-808, Rutherford County Registry, and being described according to said Deed as follows:

Tract One: Situate in the town of Spindale, North Carolina, on the West side of Oakland Road (Frog Level Road) and on the East side of Pine Street, adjoining the lands of Paul B. Laughter and wife, on the North and Marvin L. Conner and wife, on the South and being the Northern part of Lot no. 8 of the Gaines W. Wood Subdivision as shown upon a plat which is of record in Plat Book 2, Page 80 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being also lot no. 7 of Block 1 of Rutherford County Tax Map R-18, which is on file in the office of the Rutherford County Tax Supervisor and bearing further described metes and bounds as follows:

BEGINNING on an iron pin on the West side of Oakland Road, the Southeast corner of Lot No. 7 of the aforesaid Gaines W. Wood Subdivision and runs thence with West margin of Oakland Road, South 16 degrees 30 minutes East 100 feet to an iron pin; thence North 84 degrees West 167 feet to an iron pin on the East edge of Pine Street; thence with the East margin of Pine Street, North 18 degrees West 100 feet to an iron stake; the southwest corner of the aforesaid lot no. 7 of Gaines W. Wood Subdivision; thence South 84 degrees 30 minutes East 170 feet to the BEGINNING.

SAVE AND EXCEPTING FROM THE ABOVE TRACT: Situate, lying and being in the Town of Spindale, North and being a part of that tract of land described in Deed Book 250 at Page 85, Rutherford County Registry, lying on the west side of Oakland Road also known state tax map 18, Block 1, as shown on the tax maps of Rutherford County, lying 20 feet west of center line of Oakland Road and being the old southeast corner of Lot No. 7 of the Gaines Wood Subdivision; runs thence with the west edge of Oakland Road North 17 degrees West 15 feet to a new iron pin corner; runs thence a new line, South 74 West 84.63 feet to an iron pin, a new corner; thence with the old line, Norht 84 East 86.20 feet to the point and place of BEGINNING.

Tract two: Situate lying and being in the Town of Spindale, Rutherford County, North Carolina, on the East side of Pine Street, and BEGINNING on an iron pin, the old Southwest corner of Lot #8 of the Gaines Wood Subdivision as shown Rutherford County Tax Map 18, Block 1, Lot 7; runs thence with the East edge of Pine Street, South 25 East 15 feet to a new iron pin corner; runs thence a new line North 74 degrees 00 minutes East 81.09 feet to a new corner; thence a new line South 84 West 84.70 feet to the point and place of BEGINNING.

Tract Three: Situate lying and being in the Town of Spindale on the West side of Oakland Road and on the East side of Pine Street and being shown on Rutherford County Tax Map 18, Block 1, Lot 6, and BEGINNING on an iron pin in the West edge of Oakland Road, set iron pin being the southeast corner of the old Laughter lot and the Northeast corner of the old Freeman lot; thence runs with the East edge of Oakland Road, North 17 degrees West 15 feet to an iron pin, a new corner; thence a new line South 84 degrees 36 minutes West 170.92 feet to an iron pin in the East edge of Pine Street; thence with the East edge of Pine Street South 7 degrees 00 minutes East 15 feet to an old iron pin corner, the Northwest corner of the Freeman lot; thence with the old Freeman line, North 84 degrees 30 minutes East 173.50 feet to the point of BEGINNING.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as:221 Oakland Road, Spindale, NC 28160

Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of Forty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Michael Paul Conner.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, EXCEPT IN THE INSTANCE OF BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION. IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY.

Substitute TrusteeBrock & Scott, PLLCJeremy B. Wilkins, NCSB No. 323465431 Oleander Drive Suite 200Wilmington, NC 28403PHONE: (910) 392-4988FAX: (910) 392-8587File No.: 09-16236-FC01

A TO Z, IT’S IN THE

CLASSIFIEDS!

WANTED: Fish Aquariums and

accessories of all sizesand types but prefer

29 gallons or larger for non-profit project. Call Don at 828-748-0102

to get more info or have your aquarium

picked up.

Miscellaneous

Young dark gray tabby cat w/pink collarFound 10/7 in the RuthCo Courthouse parkinglot. Call Animal Shelter

FEMALE BLACK LABOlder dog, red collar,

no tags! Found middle of Sept. off Railroad

Ave. in Rfdtn 447-1811

Found

Black adult femalecat w/white paws/red collar. Last seen Sat. 9/19 - Chase High area

447-1205 Reward!

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Must Sell! Old Pregnant Reg. Paso

Mare Delivers beautifulcolts. $400 obo. Also, 3 yr. Paso Stud Colt$200 obo 286-3349

Livestock

07 Buele Blast 500cc 3,800 mi. Windshield,

new rear tire. Exc. starter bike! $2,500 287-3843

Motorcycles

Original 72 Buick Lesabre Exc. cond.!

73,000 mi. $1,100 obo Call 286-3349

2005 Mercury SableAuto, a/c, pw, pl,

cd, cruise. Excellent condition! 88,000 miles$5,200 Call 287-0057

2002 ChryslerConcord Auto, a/c,

ps, pw, pl, pb. 98k mi. Clean, nice car! $3,000

firm 828-287-4843

2006 BMW 325i94,000 mi. Exc. cond.! Silver/gray leather, 6 spd. manual $15,800

firm 828-748-1294

Autos

We Haul Year Round Frozen Food Freight!

Pacific Northwest Freight Lanes 1 to 2

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T-600 KW w/Tripac. Avg. 6500 miles per

trip. Settlements upon trip completion Buel, Inc. 866-369-9744

8am until 5pm

Temporary position for Class A CDL

Driver, experienced tractor/trailer operator.

Oversize loadexperience required.

Insurance, 401K, holidays & paid

vacation, home every night. Must have valid driver’s license. Apply

in person to Blue Ridge Log Cabins, 625 East Frontage

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please

Start new career!Expanding retail co. needs Mgr Trainees and PT Sales. Exc. salary + bonus. No exp. nec. Medical.

Some physical work required. Forest City

location Email resume tomj23@earthlink.net

Established pest control co. is looking for a lead man w/exp.

in structural repairs, moisture control

needed immediately. Clean driving record,

drug test, criminal record req. Medical

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Applications can be made at Goforth Pest Control between the hours of 11:30-2:30, 667 N. Washington St., Rutherfordton

NOW HIRINGEarn $65k, $50k, $40k(GM, Co Mgr, Asst Mgr)

We currently have managers making

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864-909-1035

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Clearwater Creek, spectacular 2 acre lot

highest elevation,incredible views.

Motivated sellers,843-689-3950 or

stan.lewis@yahoo.com

Land For Sale

2BR/1BA 12x60 Central h/a. No pets! Section 8 Welcome! Call 828-247-1976

Single wide Shiloh: 2BR/2BA No Pets!

$425/mo. + $300 dep. 245-5703 or 286-8665

2BR/1BA in Concord Mobile Home Park, Lot

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3BR/2BA on priv. 2 ac. lot near Harris. Cent. h/a. $100/wk. + $200 dep. Call 247-0091

3BR/2BA MH in Mill Springs, 1 mi. from Lake Lure. All appl., garden tub, priv. lot. No pets! $550/mo. Call 828-691-0801

3BR/2BA in nice area Stove, refrig. No Pets!

$400/mo. + deposit Call 287-7043

Mobile Homes

For Rent

Paid off in 10 Years!! 3BR

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704-484-164010% down, 7.75%apr.,

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Mobile Homes

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2BR/2.5BA home on64/74 1 mile from Lake Lure Beach, Chimney Rock and Ingles. Lake Lure view. $700/mo.

Also, 2BR/2BAon 2 ac. in Rumbling Bald Resort, washer

/dryer, cen. h/a. $750/mo. Call Eddy

Zappel 828-289-9151 or Marco

954-275 0735

Beautiful 2BR/1BA on 3.5 ac. on Hudlow Rd.

Hdwd floors & bsmt.$500/mo. 704-376-8081

Nice 3BR/1BA Newly remodeled! East High area. $475/mo. + dep.

Call 828-748-0059

Homes

For Rent

Newly remodeled 2BR/1BA on 1.42 ac.

near Chase High. 2 out bldgs, city water. $45,000 864-909-1035

3BR/1.5BA Fernwood Circle in Rfdtn. Lots of updates, big backyard! $139K Call 305-0555

Homes

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ACADEMY HEIGHTS APARTMENTSNOW TAKING

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APARTMENT HOMESFOR THE ELDERLY(62 AND OLDER) ORDISABLED, located at 210 Club House Dr. in Rutherfordton. Rental Assistance Available. Call (828) 286-3599

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MOVING Oak coffee & end tables w/glass tops, exercise equip., 36” RCA Console TV, misc. Call 245-5703

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6B — The Sunday Courier, Forest City, NC, SUNDAY, October 11, 2009

NOTICE OF SALE

Pursuant to the provisions of G.S. 44A-40, various items of personal property contained in warehouses:

G16..................................Tony CrawfordC4....................................Angie FlackB13..................................Cindy MunnB29..................................Timothy SheffieldZ6....................................Pamela Thompson

will be sold at public auction at R/S Self Storage, 450 Thunder Road, Rutherfordton, NC 28139 at 12:00 PM on October 13, 2009. Sale is being made to satisfy the warehouse lien on said goods for storage charges due and unpaid. Due notice has been given.

WATER TREATMENT PLANT MODERNIZATION

Broad River Water AuthoritySpindale, North Carolina

Sealed Bids for furnishing all materials, labor, tools, equipment and appurtenances necessary for the construction of the Water Treatment Plant Modernization will be received by the Owner at the Rutherford County Annex, 289 N. Main Street, Rutherfordton, NC 28139 in the County Commissioners Conference Room, until 2:00 p.m., local time, on November 6, 2009, and then at said location publicly opened and read aloud.

Bidder Pre-Qualification: Pre-qualification of Bidders has been completed. Only Bids submitted by properly pre-qualified Bidders will be opened. Copies of Contract Documents may be obtained at the office of the Engineer, Jordan, Jones & Goulding, 6801 Governors Lake Parkway, Bldg. 200, Norcross, Georgia 30071, upon payment of $350, non-refundable, for each set.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all Bids, to waive informalities and to readvertise.

SURPLUS PROPERTY SALE

Surplus property now being sold by Isothermal Community College is listed on the state surplus property website. For a list of items go to www.ncstatesurplus.comand click on the “Available Items On Bid”, then choose Spindale for location.

ALL ITEMS ARE SOLD AS IS!

Bidders are invited and encouragedto inspect the property at the college prior to submitting bids.

BID CLOSING DATE IS OCTOBER 20, 2009 at 1:00 PM

Call Debbie Melton in the business office at 828-286-3636 ext. 258

to set up an appointment to view property.

Property viewing hours are Monday through Thursday

from 1:00-3:00 p.m.

STATEWIDE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING NETWORK

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Redskins in familiar spot facing winless PanthersMIKE CRANSTONAP Sports Writer

CHARLOTTE — At this rate you’d expect the Redskins’ next opponent will be a directional school, or maybe even a Championship Subdivision team.

In a stretch that would make even cupcake-collecting college coach-es blush, Washington (2-2) visits Carolina (0-3) on Sunday set to become the first NFL team in 55 years to play a winless teams in each of the first five weeks of the season.

Granted, the opener was a loss to the still unbeaten New York Giants. Since then the Redskins eked past struggling St. Louis, became the first team in 20 games to lose to Detroit and barely edged woeful Tampa Bay.

According to STATS LLC, the last team to face five winless opponents in a row was the 1954 Giants. No

team has faced six straight teams without a victory, and 0-4 Kansas City sparkles on the schedule next week like a homecoming opponent.

“Oh, wow,” Redskins running back and captain Rock Cartwright said when told of matching the 55-year-old mark. “I mean, if that’s the case, then we probably should be 4-0. But that’s not the case.”

Their offense is struggling so much against the weak competition that longtime assistant Sherman Lewis was brought in this week to be an “extra set of eyes.”

Team officials downplayed talk that’s a bad sign for embattled coach Jim Zorn, whose task is to keep des-perate Carolina winless.

“The hardest teams to beat are the ones that are searching for a win right now,” Redskins quarterback Jason Campbell said. “The reason for

it is because teams feel like they are back against a wall and they tend to play with a lot more urgency and a lot harder.”

The Panthers are in that position. They’ve gone from NFC South cham-pions to disarray thanks to injuries, a disappointing defense and Jake Delhomme’s bushel of turnovers. They had a bye last weekend and were forced to ponder the statistic that only three teams since 1990 have made the playoffs after starting 0-3.

“As a coach and as a player in the National Football League, you’re going to get beat physically some-times,” Panthers coach John Fox said. “That team practices and gets paid, too. But it’s when you don’t execute that it drives you crazy, and we’ve got to get it fixed.”

It’s easy to see why both teams are

in such predicaments. They can’t score or hold onto the ball.

The Panthers’ minus-8 turnover margin is the worst in the league, with Delhomme committing 15 in his last 15 quarters dating to January’s playoff loss to Arizona. The Panthers, who haven’t had the dominating run game of a year ago, are averag-ing 12.3 points a game, 29th in the league.

Campbell threw a career-high three interceptions last week and has fumbled a league-high seven times. Washington is averaging 14 points a game, 27th in the NFL.

So maybe it’s not a surprise the Panthers, despite being outscored 87-37 this season, are favored.

“We’ve got a lot of 0-fers that we’ve been playing against this year so far, but that’s just part of it,” Redskins receiver Antwaan Randle El said.

Baltimore looks to end surging Bengals runBARRY WILNERAP Football Writer

NEW YORK — Even in defeat at New England, the Baltimore Ravens were impressive. They showed lots of moxie in staying close to the Patriots despite turnovers and overall carelessness.

That game very well could be an anomaly for what has become one of the most bal-anced teams in the league. In last year’s playoffs and cer-tainly in the first month of this season, the Ravens have matured exponentially on offense and remained solid on defense.

Sure, they struggled against Tom Brady, Randy Moss and company at times last weekend, but who doesn’t, particularly in Foxborough? With any chance at a come-back victory depending on getting downright stingy on defense, though, the Ravens performed well enough.

And if Mark Clayton doesn’t shy away from get-ting hit on a fourth-down

pass, who knows?“When your offense has 70

plays, or your offense keeps the ball for eight minutes on a drive, it’s great,” Ravens defensive end Trevor Pryce said. “Your best defense is the one sitting on the side-line. So, we don’t mind at all.”

Now comes Cincinnati, soaring after three straight last-minute wins, including an overtime thriller against Cleveland. (Did we put thrill-er in the same sentence as the Bengals and Browns?) The Bengals are 9-point underdogs at Baltimore.

“We’ve got to quit making it hard on ourselves,” guard Bobbie Williams said. “We’ve got to stop doing that.”

The Ravens, angry after the loss in New England, will put an end to those close calls.

RAVENS, 26-13

Oakland (plus 15) at N.Y. Giants

Banged-up Giants get another pushover as they try to get healthy before the real

competition shows up.BEST BET: GIANTS 30-7

Houston (plus 5) at ArizonaCardinals have been medi-

ocre at home, losing both games. If Texans can run, they can win.

UPSET SPECIAL: TEXANS 24-21

Jacksonville (off) at SeattleWith Matt Hasselbeck

uncertain to play, no line here. With or without the Seahawks QB, we like the revitalized Jaguars.

JAGUARS, 17-13

Minnesota (minus 10) at St. Louis

No hype, no hoopla, just a total mismatch. Even if the Vikings are a bit flat, they can handle Rams.

VIKINGS, 23-10

Dallas (minus 9) at Kansas City

Chiefs show up at a good time for the inconsistent and vulnerable Cowboys.

COWBOYS, 24-7

Washington (plus 5½) at Carolina

If the Panthers can’t get off the schneid this week, there’s no hope for them.

PANTHERS, 17-10

Tampa Bay (plus 14) at Philadelphia

Fresh from a bye, with Donovan McNabb a possible starter, Eagles should soar.

EAGLES, 31-7

Cleveland (plus 6) at Buffalo

Wouldn’t T.O. fit better in Cleveland’s locker room these days?

BILLS, 17-10

Pittsburgh (minus 12) at Detroit

Steelers hope to have Troy Polamalu back. They won’t need him this week.

STEELERS, 30-14

Atlanta (pick-em) at San Francisco

Niners are 2 seconds from being 4-0, but Falcons match up well and are rested after

a bye.FALCONS, 24-21

New England (minus 3½) at Denver

The mentor (Bill B) against the student (Josh McD). Time for Denver’s nice run to end.

PATRIOTS, 20-14

Indianapolis (minus 3) at Tennessee

From 10-0 in 2008, Titans could be halfway to 0-10 after this one. Peyton Manning playing as well as ever.

COLTS, 27-17

N.Y. Jets (minus 2½) at Miami (Monday night)

Other than Mark Sanchez, Jets performed well at New Orleans. Can Dolphins unnerve him, too?

JETS, 21-20

RECORD:Versus spread, 3-10 (27-32-

1 season); Straight up, 11-3 (46-16 season)

Best Bet: 1-3

Redskins’ Jason Campbell (17), left, and Panthers’ Jake Delhomme (17) have each struggled on the field and off the field with fans who are not impressed with the perfor-mances of their QBs.

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FOREST CITY – His only intention in writing “The Shack” was to print 15 copies at Office Depot for his children.

With more than 7.5 million copies in 46 languages in cir-culation, William Paul Young is still amazed at its success and blessed by sharing his journey with others.

On Saturday, Oct. 31, Young will be speaking at Gardner-Webb University on the book, faith and whatever comes to mind.

“I will for sure talk about how the book came to be,” Young said in a phone interview with The Daily Courier recently. “And there will be a Q&A... I’m sure it will be in a lot of different direc-tions. I never plan anything – I anticipate God will show up.”

“The Shack” is the story of one

man’s journey back into a rela-tionship with God. According to Young, the shack in the book is a metaphor for our own soul or heart.

“The shack is a house on the inside we build,” Young said. “You build this false facade and hope you can paint it fast enough to keep people from see-ing what it really looks like.”

Spoiler alert: In the book, main character Mack goes back to the shack where his daughter, Missy, was murdered. It is in the shack he comes to grips with what has happened in his life and embraces God’s love for him – and his for God.

“That’s where you hate your-self,” he said. “If you are ever going to come to healing, you have to go back into it.”

The book has sparked conver-sations, group book studies and is being used in curricu-lums not only in high schools

and colleges but in seminaries, too, Young said.

“It’s being used in so many different ways,” Young said. “It opens up conversations and peo-ple feel free to talk about their journeys and sadnesses.”

The book also explores forgiv-ing those who have hurt you the most. In Mack’s case, it is the man who killed his daugh-ter. Young said the book is even being read in prisons and he’s been asked by them if he really believes God could forgive them.

“I’ve been in prisons and had prisoner’s ask me ‘Do you really think Papa’s fond of me?,’” he said.

His book has been one that’s been in the making for 50 years, Young said. His own life and experiences bleed through in the characters of Mack and Willie,

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From staff reportsFOREST CITY — Popular

author Silas House will bring his newest novel, “Eli the Good” to Fireside Books & Gifts, Tuesday, Oct. 13, for an author reading and signing. The event is free.

House, who lives in eastern Kentucky, is the author of three novels: Clay’s Quilt (2001), A Parchment of Leaves (2003), The Coal Tattoo (2004), a play, The Hurting Part (2005), and Something’s Rising (2009), a creative nonfiction book about social protest co-authored with Jason Howard.

The author serves as Writer-in-Residence at Lincoln Memorial University, where he also directs the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival. He is a contributing editor for No Depression maga-zine, where he has done long fea-tures on such artists as Lucinda Williams, Nickel Creek, Buddy Miller, Kelly Willis, Darrell Scott, Delbert McClinton, and many others. He is also one of Nashville’s most in-demand press kit writers, having written the press kit bios for such art-ists as Kris Kristofferson, Kathy Mattea, Leann Womack and many others.

House is a two-time finalist for the Southern Book Critics

Circle Prize, a two-time win-ner of the Kentucky Novel of the Year, the Appalachian Book of the Year, the Chaffin Prize for Literature, the Award for Special Achievement from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and many other honors. Recently House was personally select-ed by the subject to write the foreword for the biography of Earl Hamner, creator of The Waltons. In 2005, he also wrote the introduction for the new HarperCollins edition of Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Moses.

House’s work can be found in Newsday, Oxford American, Bayou, The Southeast Review, The Louisville Review, Night Train, and others, as well as in the anthologies New Stories From the South 2004: The Year’s Best, Christmas in the South, A Kentucky Reader, Of Woods and Water, A Kentucky Christmas, Shouts and Whispers, High Horse, The Alumni Grill, Stories From the Blue Moon Café I and II, and many others.

“House is a favorite of many customers who enjoy authors such as Tony Earley and Ron Rash,” said Valerie Hoffman, manager at Fireside.

He is also working on his fifth novel, Evona Darling. He lives in

Eastern Kentucky, where he was born and raised.

About “Eli the Good” Eli the Good, is the story of

10 year-old Eli Book who, dur-ing the Bicentennial Summer of 1976, watches as his fam-ily deconstructs around him. There is his beautiful and dis-tant mother, Loretta; his trou-bled father, Stanton, who is just coming to terms with his time in Vietnam; Eli’s wild and con-fused sister Josie, who is ques-tioning everything about herself and everyone around her; Eli’s beloved aunt Nell, a former war protester who moves in with them under mysterious circumstances; Eli’s tough and determined best friend Edie, who is the only person with whom he can completely be himself. Eli the Good is a ten-der look at childhood and all its complexities, as well as the terrible nature of the wars that occur on a global scale as well as the wars that are waged in people’s own homes.

Contributed photoAuthor Silas House will be at Fireside Books & Gifts Oct. 13 for an author reading and signing.

Popular author will bring newest novel to Fireside

Want to go? William Paul Young, best-

selling author of “The Shack,” will be speaking at Gardner-Webb University’s Lutz-Yelton Convocation Center Saturday, Oct. 31, from 10 to 11 a.m.

Tickets, if purchased before Oct. 16, are $20 per person and $25 per person if purchased at the door. Groups of 25 or more can purchase tickets in advance for $16 per person. All purchas-es include a ticket to the 1 p.m. Gardner-Webb runnin’ Bulldogs vs. Stony Brook Seawolves homecoming football game.

For more information, go to www.supportgwu.com and click on homecoming button or call the Gardner-Webb University Office of Alumni Relations at 704-406-3862.

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Gail and Robert Smathers of Ellenboro, recently returned from a second honeymoon trip to Renfro Valley, Ky., where they took in a live performance by country music star George Jones. The couple traveled with Toney Tours and received a big surprise when they were invited backstage to visit with Jones and have a picture made. Although, meeting their country music idol was the highlight of their trip, the couple also enjoyed many other stops includ-ing the big flea market and the Lincoln Memorial Museum.

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Contributed photoThe Pilot Club of Rutherford County recently voted Violet Lutz (right) as their Pilot International Foundation Club Sweetheart. Joyce Ferguson, Pilot Club president and last year’s sweetheart, made the presentation. The criteria for this award is that the Pilot member must be active in an assigned role within the club, as well as active in a project that exemplifies the brain-related service focus of the Foundation. The member must also be faithful in attending meetings and give gener-ously of his/her time to assist with service projects and fund-raising activities.

FOREST CITY — One of the most significant chapters of North Carolina’s craft heritage took place in neighboring Polk County in the early days of the 20th century. Mike McCue, art historian and collector, of Tryon, will discuss the history of the famed Tryon Toy Makers and Wood Carvers, for the Rutherford County Historical Society, on October 20, at 7:00 p.m. at St. John’s Historic Church on Main Street in Rutherfordton. The event is open to the public without charge.

After the death of George Vanderbilt in 1914, the co-founders of Biltmore Industries in Asheville, Eleanor Vance and Charlotte Yale, chose to relocate from Asheville to Tryon, in Polk County. On the eve of World War I they established a new enter-prise that created exceptional and imaginative wooden toys and other items with the labor and craftsmanship of dozens of local young adults and children. By the 1920s their organization had its own workshops and a charming retail cottage called the Tryon Toy House. That busi-ness remained successful into the 1940s.

Before coming to Tryon, Vance and Yale studied woodcraft in

England and visited hand-loom crafters in the northern British Isles. While many of their toys exhibited European flair, sev-eral of their products celebrated the indigenous themes of North Carolina. One of their most pop-ular toy sets was the Mountain Home group, consisting of a hinged “log cabin” wood stor-age box filled with hand-painted “mountaineer” figures and ani-mals such as mules, pigs, and fowl. Included were a churn, and iron pot, and split rails to make a fence around the homestead. Other folk toys included a moun-tain sled with oxen to dray it, and a toy on wheels, featuring a hunter and a hound dog, that was pulled by a string.

In 2005 an important trove of original Tryon Toy Maker design drawings, documents, and pho-tographs, known as the Pauline Miller Cowan Collection, was presented to the University of North Carolina at Asheville for its special collection. The most extensive public collection of Tryon Toy Maker artifacts is held by the North Carolina State Archives in Raleigh.

For many years McCue has studied the history of the Tryon Toy Makers and Wood Carvers. In 2005 he co-chaired a land-

mark exhibition of more than 500 objects, designs, and pho-tographs of the Tryon Toy Makers at the Tryon Fine Arts Center. He plans to bring sev-eral items made by the Tryon Toy Makers and Wood Carvers to display during his lecture in Rutherfordton.

McCue is an award-winning author who has served as a citi-zen panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C. He is a board member of the American Historical Print Collectors Society, and has served as chair for that organization’s jury for the annual Ewell L. Newman Book Prize.

McCue, a graduate of Harvard College, is currently writ-ing eight articles for the New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, soon to be published by the University of North Carolina Press. His other books include, Paris & Tryon: The Art of George C. Aid (1872-1938), and Tryon Artists 1892-1942: The First Fifty Years.

For more information call Robin S. Lattimore at (828) 447-1474, or email robinlattimore@rutherfordton.us.

History Society will discuss Tryon Toy Makers

This 1917 photo-graph shows a young man working for the Tryon Toy Makers in Polk County. The image is from the John C. Campbell Folk School collec-tion. (Courtesy of Condar Press and Bartol Photography)

N. Henderson’s Queen

Contributed photoAshlee Sims, a senior at North Henderson High School, was crowned homecoming queen on Oct. 2 during the half-time presentation. Ashlee, daughter of Danny and Donna Sims of Edneyville, was escorted by her father. She is the granddaughter of Carolyn Shipman of Edneyville, and Melvin and Nancy Sims of Rutherfordton. Her great-grandmother is Lela Sims of Spindale.

RUTHERFORDTON — The following babies were born at Rutherford Hospital.

Tony Guzman and Ashley Rose, Forest City, a girl, Angelina Leann Guzman, Sept. 20.

Thomas and Valerie Williams, Spindale, a boy, Jude Dominick Andreas Williams, Sept. 20.

Brandon Benfield and Clare Wylie, Forest City, a boy, Byron Matthew Leon Benfield, Sept. 21.

Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Rowe, Mill Spring, a girl, Leah Faith Rowe, Sept. 21.

Mr. and Mrs. Travis Mace, Rutherfordton, a girl, Emma Lynn Mace, Sept. 22.

Mr. and Mrs. David Lovelace, Bostic, a boy, J.D. Lovelace, Sept. 24.

Roger and Stacy Laws, Rutherfordton, a girl, Abigail Louise Laws, Sept. 25.

Caitlin Hughes Larry, Forest City, a boy, Noah Jackson Hughes, Sept. 25.

Daniel Greene and Kayla Carver, Forest City, a girl, Addison Danielle Greene, Sept. 26.

Kimberly Gregory, Spindale, a boy, Nicholas William Joe Gregory, Sept. 26.

Mr. and Mrs. Preston Hamrick, Forest City, a boy, Grayson Randy Hamrick, Sept. 28.

Marcus Watkins and Tricia Eddy, Forest

City, a boy, Noah James Watkins, Sept. 28.

Calvin Bell and Surica Huskey, Forest City, a boy, JáQual Tayun Bell, Sept. 28.

Derrick Godfrey and Akievia Whiteside, Spindale, a boy, Kahleek Rashaud Godfrey, Sept. 29.

Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Francis, Forest City, a girl, Kaitlyn Faye Francis, Sept. 29.

John and Shaneal Bradley, Bostic, a boy, Jason Michael Bradley, Sept. 29.

Paul Jackson and Melissa Lovette, Forest City, a girl, Zaniya Denise Jackson, Sept.

29. Mr. and Mrs. William

Huddleston, Ellenboro, a girl, Kelly Grace Huddleston, Sept. 30.

Samuel and Megan Steffey, Forest City, a girl, Alexis Danielle Steffey, Sept. 30.

Adam Casturao and Christy Owensby, Rutherfordton, a boy, Dakota Bradley Casturao, Oct. 2.

Antoine Lowrance and Alexis Huskey, Bostic, a girl, Ariel McKee Lowrance, Oct. 2.

Billy Terry, Jr. and Ashley Riley, Forest City, a boy, Riley Christian Terry, Oct. 3.

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The bride-elect is the daughter of Darren and Sharon Street of Spindale. The groom-elect is the son of Ronald and Shelba Splawn of Forest City.

Kristen is a 2007 graduate of R-S Central High School and attended Isothermal Community College. She is employed by Hibbett Sports of Forest City.

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NFL Punt, Pass and Kick

Garrett Byers/Daily CourierRutherfordton Elementary students took part in the NFL’s Punt, Pass and Kick Program at the end of September. The program is a national skills competition for boys and girls between ages 8 and 15; the girls and boys compete in four separate age divisions. The program is free to organizers and those who wish to partici-pate. Taking part from Rutherfordton were, front row from left, Jake Laughter, Taylor Stofer, Lorenzo Woods and Tiahna Guyan. They will advance to the sectionals at Watauga College on Oct. 18. Sectional winners will advance to the nationals, which will be held at a Carolina Panthers game in January. Also taking part were, second row from left, Charmee Miller, Courtney Poteat, Skylar Moran, Shakir Twitty, Shaquan Hampton and Cameron Snethen.

EngagementsKristen Street and Jordan Splawn

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Michelle Lynn Jordan and William Harrill Withrow III, of Summerville, S.C., exchanged wed-ding vows Sunday, October 11, 2009 at Magnolia Plantation in Charleston, S.C., with Chaplain David Morrison officiating.

James Withrow, vio-linist, presented music at the 11 a.m. wedding.

A reception followed the ceremony. Guitarist and Soloist William New provided music at the reception.

The bride, daughter of Pamela Ann Lovell of Greer, S.C., was escorted to the altar and given in marriage by her paternal grand-

father, Curtis L. Jordan. She holds a masters in business administra-tion from the University of South Carolina and is employed as a resource manager for the Department of the Navy.

The groom is the son of William H. Withrow II and Genna L. Withrow of Ellenboro. He holds a bachelors in criminal justice from Central Missouri State University and serves at the rank of first lieuten-ant in the United States Army.

The couple honey-mooned at Disney World, Orlando, Fla. They reside in Columbia, S.C.

Jordan, Withrow united in marriage

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The Queen Family

Jean Gordon/Daily CourierThe Queen Family was among entertainers at the annual Mountain Heritage Festival at Western Carolina University Saturday. Several Rutherford County residents attended the event, including Mark Shehan, who sold roasted corn from his vendor station.

FOREST CITY — With the hectic fall season underway, organizational gurus offer a variety of ways to keep your family and the home structured and efficient.

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Regina Leeds, Zen Organizer, asks... When you think of getting organized, what tasks come to mind? Filing away endless stacks of office papers? Folding laundry that has accumulated in piles on your bedroom floor? Clearing the kitchen counter and dining room table of your kids’ school sup-plies?

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LAKE LURE — New books at the Mountains Branch Library, Lake Lure, include —

FICTION“206 Bones” by Kathy Reichs“Spartan Gold” by Clive Cussler“Skull Duggery” by Aaron

Elkins“In the Woods” by Tana French“The Spire” by Richard North

Patterson“The Last Song” by Nicholas

Sparks“Rough Country” by John

Sandford“Smooth Talking Stranger” by

Lisa Kleypas“Take Two” by Karen

Kingsbury“Vanishing Act” by Fern

Michaels“The Year that Follows” by

Scott Lasser“Rude Awakenings of a Jane

Austen Addict” by Laurie Rigler“The Price of Blood” by Declan

Hughes“Black & White and Dead All

Over” by John Darnton“The Dawning of Power” by

Brian Rathbone“The Sweetgum Ladies Knit

for Love” by Beth Patillo“The White Queen” by Phillipa

Gregory“The Law of Nines” by Terry

Goodkind“The Lost Symbol” by Dan

Brown“Hothouse Orchid” by Stuart

Woods“The Year of the Flood” by

Margaret Atwater“Evil at Heart” by Chelsea CainNON-FICTION“Wake Up Laughing” by Rachel

St. John-Gilbert“One Last Dance: Patrick

Swayze” by Wendy Leigh“I am Scout: The Biography

of Harper Lee” by Charles J. Shields

“Geocaching for Dummies” by Joel McNamara

“The Hidden Life of Deer” by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

“Embellish, Stitch, Felt” by Sheila Smith

JUVENILE AND ADULT“The Last Holiday Concert” by

Andrew Clements“Blue Moon” by Alyson Noel“Evermore” by Alyson Noel“Max: A Maximum Ride

Novel” by James Patterson“Life as We Knew It” by Susan

Beth Pfeffer“The Dead and Gone” by Susan

Beth Pfeffer“Catching Fire” by Suzanne

Collins

SPINDALE — New books at Spindale Public Library are:

FICTION“The Lost Symbol” by Dan

Brown“A Change in Altitude” by

Anita Shreve“An Echo in the Bone” by

Diana Gabaldon“Little Bird of Heaven” by Joyce

Carol Oates“Plum Pudding Murder” by

Joanne Fluke“The Perfect Christmas” by

Debbie Macomber“Locked” in Marcia MullerNON-FICTION

“Spindale: The Story of a Southern Textile Town” by Robin S. Lattimore

“Have a Little Faith” by Mitch Albom

“The Murder of King Tut” by James Patterson

CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT

“The Happiest Hippo in the World” by Danielle Steel

“Skippyjon Jones Lost in Space” by Judy Schachner

“Ready for Anything” by Keiko Kasza

FOREST CITY — New books at Mooneyham Public include:

FICTION“The Traffickers” by W.E.B.

Griffin“The Deep Blue Sea for

Beginners” by LuAnne Rice “Blindman’s Bluff” by Faye Kellerman

“The Birthing House” by Christopher Ransom

“Intervention” by Robin Cook“South of Broad” by Pat Conroy“Smash Cut” by Sandra Brown“Dying for Mercy” by Mary

Jane CLark“Rhino Ranch” by Larry

McMurtry“The Rapture” by Liz Jensen“The Invisible Mountain” by

Carolina De Roberts“The Scoop” by Fern Michaels“Evil at Heart” by Chelsea Cain“Spartan Gold” by Clive Cussler“The White Queen” by

Phillippa Gregory“Alex Cross’s Trial” by James

Patterson“206 Bones” by Kathy Reichs“Red Bones” by Ann Cleeves“Twisted Tree” by Kent Meyers“The Last Song” by Nicholas

Sparks“Traveling with Pomegrantes”

by Sue Monk Kidd“Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown“Arctic Chill” by Arnaldur

IndridasonNON-FICTION “The Year Before the Flood, A

Story of New Orleans” by Ned Sublette

“True Compass Memoir” by Edward M. Kennedy

“Soul of a Dog” by Jon Katz“Paul Harvey’s America” by

Stephen Mansfield“Have a Little Faith” by Mitch

AlbomYOUNG ADULT AND

JUVENILE“Stick Man” by Julia

Donaldson“Viola in Reel Life” by Adraina

Trigiani“If I Stay” by Gayle Forman

RUTHERFORDTON – New books at the Rutherford County Library are:

FICTION“Capitol Offense” by William

Bernhardt“Dixie Hearts” by Andrea

Boeshaar“The Lost Symbol” by Dan

Brown“The Christmas Dog” by

Melody Carlson“South of Broad” by Pat Conroy“Shootout on the Sabine” by

Kent Conwell“The Fate of Katherine Carr”

by Thomas Cook“Necessary as Blood” by Debbie

Crombie“An Echo in the Bone” by

Diana Gabaldon“Too Many Yesterdays” by Sara

Hylton“The Secret Diaries of

Charlotte Bronte” by Syrie James“The Calligrapher’s Daughter”

by Eugenia Kim“The Phoenix Transformed” by

Mercedes Lackey“Dexter By Design” by Jeff

Lindsay“A Bad Day for Sorry” by

Sophie Littlefield“Perfect Christmas” by Debbie

Macomber“No Time to Wave Goodbye” by

Jacquelyn Mitchard“The Professional” by Robert

Parker“Alex Cross’s Trial” by James

Patterson“Rules of Vengeance” by

Christopher Reiche“206 Bones” by Kathy Reichs“Rough Country” by John

Sadfored“A Change in Altitude” by

Anita Shreve“The Lost Art of Gratitude” by

Alexander mcCall Smith“This Is Where I Leave You” by

Jonathan Tropper“By Heresies Distressed” by

David WeberNON-FICTION“Barack and Michelle: Portrait

of an American Marriage” by Christopher Anderson

“The Way of Boys: Raising Healthy Boys in a Challenging and Complex...” by Rao Anthony

“Arguing with Idiots” by Glenn Beck

“The Governor” by Rod Blagojevich

“6-Week Cure for the Middle-Aged Middle” by Michael Eades

“Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson” by Ian Halperin

“Blood in the Sand” by Benny hinn

“The Age of Wonder” by Richard Holmes

“Eat Well Live Well with Gluten Intolerance” by Susana Holt

“True Compass: A Memoir” by Ted Kennedy

“In the President’s Secret Service” by Ronald Kessler

“A Big Little Fife: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog” by Dean Koontz

“Spindale: The Story of a Southern Textile Town” by Robin Lattimore

“I’ll Scream Later” by Marlee Matlin “Catastrophe” by Dick Morris

“The Murder of King Tut” by James Patterson

“End the Fed” by Ron Paul“Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home,

Coming Back” by Reynolds Price“2, 4, 6, 8: Great Meals for

Couples or Crowds” by Rachel Ray

“The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American...” by Jeff Sharlet

“Christmas with Southern Living 2009” by Southern Living

“100 Days of Weight Loss: The Secret to Being Successful” by Linda Spangler

“Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places” by Bill Streever

“Complete Idiot’s guide to Canoeing and Kayaking” by Dennis Stuhaug

“The Time of My Life” by Patrick Swayze

“You Were Born For This” by Bruce Wilkerson

YOUNG ADULT NON-FICTION

“Pretty Dead” by Francesca block

“Split in Two: Keeping It Together When Your Parents Live Apart” by Karen Buscemi

YOUNG ADULT FICTION“Fire” by Kristin Cashore“Catching fire” by Suzanne

Collins“Sea Change” by Aimee

Friedman“Among the Betrayed” by

Margaret Haddis“Among the Impostors” by

Margaret Haddis

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BREVARD — The 11th Annual Fall Storytelling Festival will be Saturday, Nov. 14, at Transylvania County Library. Sponsored by the North Carolina Storytelling Guild and Transylvania Friends of the Library, the festi-val features national favorites Jay O’Callahan and Connie Regan-Blake, along with three NCSG regional tellers and two Asheville area tellers, Marvin Cole and Sandra Gudger. Morning sessions include stories for small children and storytelling workshops with O’Callahan and Regan-Blake. Afternoon and evening concerts entertain family and adult audi-ences. In conjunction with the festival Connie Regan-Blake will perform a story concert, “Finding Your Way Home,” Friday at 7 p.m.

Events schedule: 9 to 10:30 a.m. — Jay

O’Callahan Workshop, “Stories Are Like Fireflies”

10 to 10:45 a.m. — Stories for Young Children

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. — Connie Regan-Blake Workshop, “Stage Presence & Deep Listening”

Noon to 1 p.m. — Youth Storytelling Showcase1 to 1:45 p.m. — Pre-Concert Showcase of NCSG

Tellers2 to 4:30 p.m. — Family Storytelling Concert,

featuring NCSG regional storytellers, with head-liners Jay O’Callahan and Connie Regan-Blake

6:30 to 9:15 p.m. — Storytelling Concert for Youth and Adults, featuring headliners Jay O’Callahan, Connie Regan-Blake, and NCSG regional storytellers

All concerts and events are free and open to the public.

Transylvania County Library is located at 212 South Gaston St., Brevard.

For more information contact Sandra Gudger at 828-274-1123 or visit www.ncstoryguild.org.

Storytelling Festival scheduled in Brevard

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Contributed photoRev. and Mrs. Robert Milam, Sr. of Forest City cel-ebrated their 67th wedding anniversary on September 29, 2009. They have four sons, Jerry Milam, Alan Milam, David Milam, and the late Robert Milam, Jr.

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a family in front of the TV, or better yet the fireplace, and going through the photos. Decide which ones to keep, which should be destroyed for-ever (so long, squinty eyes!) and in which order they should be displayed.

Photo boxes, albums and scrap-books are all great options -- and that’s not even counting the online possibilities.

A Place for Family RecipesOne of the benefits of an organized

kitchen is a clean, clear kitchen table. While the kids are off doing their homework, spread out your favor-ite recipes, reminisce, prioritize and arrange them in a protective box or binder.

Need suggestions to get you start-ed? I like to divide my recipes by type, then put them in sheet covers in a binder.

For these and other organizational projects visit www.reginaleeds.com.

Martin Named VOA PresidentDavid Martin, of BSA Troop 126, Ellenboro, was elected as president of the Venture’s Officer Association of the Piedmont Council on Sept 24, at the association meeting. David is an Eagle Scout and son of Ronnie and Lisa Martin. Venturing is a coed program of Boys Scouts of America for ages 14-21. His duties will include planning council activi-ties and training for the upcoming year. The council area covers seven counties. David’s term will be for one year. Venturing is a coed program of Boys Scouts of America for ages 14-21. David is also president of Venturing Crew 126 of Ellenboro, Corinth Baptist Church. BSA Troop 126 is sponsored by Bethel Baptist Church in Ellenboro.

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FOREST CITY — The Chase High Speech and Debate team kicked off their tournament season on Saturday, Oct. 3, at North Mecklenburg High School in Huntersville. Approximately 25 teams from across North Carolina com-peted for the Carolina’s Cup.

Chase High School had an excellent show-ing as several of the Trojans were able to take spots in overall competition.

Matthew Melton with a varsity debut record of 3-1 took the 5th overall spot in Varsity Lincoln Douglas debate.

Haley Hunt took the 5th overall spot in Varsity Dramatic Interpretation, and the team of Michael

Thurman and Taylor Moore placed 5th in the event of Impromptu Duet Acting.

The Trojans also showed their strength in interpretation events by dominating several categories.

Novice Dramatic Interpretation — Jacob Scoggins ranked 4th overall, Amanda Eason was 3rd overall, and teammate Shanice Goode, was runner up.

Novice Humorous Interpretation — Angel Proctor took 2nd place overall and was runner up of that Division as well.

Varsity Humorous Interpretation — Chase students locked out the top two spots. Jay Mills ranked 2nd overall just behind teammate Bridgette Brainard,

who was named tour-nament champion in this category.

Duo Interpretation — Chase High teams proved why they are some of the best in the State with all of Chase’s offerings in this category taking a top spot: 4th overall in Duo Interpretation, team of Paige Baynard and Monica Poteat; 3rd place honors, team of Michael Thurman and Taylan Doherty; and the veteran team of Chase McKnight and Taylor Moore took the top spot and were named the champions of Duo Interpretation.

Chase was only one point shy of 3rd place overall. They finished 4th overall out of the 25 schools in attendance.

Contributed photoMembers of the Chase High Debate Team who participated last week at North Mecklenburg High School are pictured (l-r): in front — Bridgette Brainard, Chase McKnight and Taylor Moore; middle — Monica Poteat, Paige Baynard, Shanice Goode, Michael Thurman, Taylan Doherty and Angel Proctor; in back — Haley Hunt, Amanda Eason, Matthew Melton, Jacob Scoggins and Jay Mills.

CHS Debate brings home top honors

DILLSBORO — Vietnam veterans and those who lost a loved one in the war will have an opportu-nity to remember their fallen heroes when the Vietnam Veterans Moving Wall comes to Dillsboro’s Monteith Park, Oct. 15-19.

The wall is a half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. It has traveled to hundreds of sites across the county since 1984, and will be on display 24 hours a day while in Dillsboro.

On the Vietnam

Veterans Moving Wall are the names of 58,253 soldiers who gave their lives, including about 1,300 unaccounted for and considered missing in action. Thousands visit the moving wall each year to see the names and pay tribute to those who served.

Veteran John Devitt conceived the idea of a traveling wall upon visiting the memorial in Washington, D.C., in 1982. He teamed with veterans Norris Shears and Gerry Hayer to cre-ate this moving tribute to their fellow soldiers.

It was first dis-played in Tyler, Tex., in October of 1984. Now there are two replicas which travel through-out the country each year from April through November.

Dillsboro’s effort to host the wall was spear-headed by local veteran Allen Fields, who owns a small music gift shop and recording studio called A House Beside the Road.

For more information, call the Jackson County Visitors Center at (800) 962-1911, or visit www.MountainLovers.com.

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Celebrate fall with the irre-sistible earthy flavor of pump-kin combined with a touch of sugar and spice. With some pumpkin harvests down this year, you can opt for canned to get your pumpkin fix. These recipes are all easy to make and will be a special treat for your family and friends. Extra pumpkin puree can be used in spaghetti sauce, chili, mashed potatoes, muffins, applesauce, oatmeal or pancakes.

Pumpkin Pudding1 (15-ounce) can canned

pumpkin1/2 teaspoon pumpkin-pie

spice1-1/2 cup milk3-1/2-ounce package instant

vanilla pudding Mix pumpkin and pumpkin-

pie spice together in a bowl with a wooden spoon. Slowly stir in milk. Mix well. Add the instant pudding mix, and stir slowly for about one min-ute until it thickens. Portion into serving dishes, and chill the mixture in the refrig-erator until ready to serve. Garnish with whipped cream (if desired) and a dusting of crushed gingersnap cookies. Makes six servings. — Karen

Pumpkin Latte1 cup milk1 tablespoon canned pump-

kin2 tablespoons vanilla extractcinnamon, ground to taste

(up to 1/4 teaspoon)1/2 cup strong coffee, or 1/4

cup espressoIn a saucepan, heat milk and

pumpkin until steaming. Stir in vanilla and cinnamon. Put mixture in a blender or use an immersion blender, and blend for 15 to 20 seconds until thick

and foamy. Pour into tall glass, then add coffee (or espresso). — Debbie

Pumpkin Waffles2 cups flour1/4 cup sugar1 tablespoon baking powder1 teaspoon ground cinnamon1/2 teaspoon salt2 eggs1-1/2 cups milk4 tablespoons butter, melted1/2 cup canned pumpkin

Combine the first five ingre-dients, and mix well. Add the remaining ingredients, and mix well. Spray a preheated waffle iron with nonstick cooking spray. Pour 1/4 cup batter onto the waffle iron. Cook approximately four min-utes. — Kim

Pumpkin Dump Cake1 (29-ounce) can pure pump-

kin1 (12-ounce) can evaporated

milk3 eggs1 cup sugar1 teaspoon salt3 teaspoons cinnamon1 box yellow-cake mix1 cup chopped pecans3/4 cup melted margarinePreheat oven to 350 F.

Grease 9-by-13-inch pan. Mix first six ingredients until well combined, and pour batter into pan. Sprinkle cake mix on top and then a layer of pecans. Pour melted margarine over top. Bake 50 minutes. Serve with whipped topping or ice cream. — Tammy

Sunday Break

Talk of suicide threatens expecting mother and babyDear Abby: A woman I

work with is pregnant. While this may seem like exciting news, it is the opposite. She is already depressed and often talks about suicide.

My real concern is for her baby. She often says how, if she has a girl, she’ll drown it, suffocate it, etc. She says it openly. Everyone in the office has heard her make these statements.

The baby’s father is an alco-holic, and he is the one who wants the kid — not her. She already has an older child she has nothing to do with.

I feel something should be done to keep her baby from being harmed, but what can I do? Can Child Protective

Services be of any help when it comes to an unborn baby? Or should we co-workers speak up and ask her to seek help? — Worried

Dear Worried: Of course you should speak up! Hormones have a lot to do with the way people think and react — as anyone knows who has had anything to do with women who suffer from PMS. Your co-worker should be urged to level with her OB/GYN about the feel-ings she is experiencing.

I discussed your letter with Child Protective Services and was informed that no intervention can be done until a baby is actually born. However, when your co-worker goes to the hos-pital to have her child, you should notify the hospital officials because, if neces-sary, an intervention can be done, and CPS can become involved when she delivers.

It goes without saying that when anyone talks about suicide, that person should be advised to discuss their feelings with a counselor at one of the suicide prevention hotlines. Both numbers are toll-free: (800) 784-2433 and (800) 273-8255.

Dear Abby: I am a 22-year-old woman, fairly mature, intelligent and sta-ble. I’m 5-foot-3 and wear a size 5 or 6.

I have this friend, “Tish,” who is stunningly gorgeous. She looks like a model, stands about 5-foot-8 and wears a size 1 or 2. She dresses stylishly and has the figure to pull off many outfits that I never could. Tish is also a nice person who has never said anything to put me down. I feel no ill will toward her, just inferior when I’m around her.

I have had super-short hair most of my life, but have been growing it out for the past year to “reinvent”

myself. When I saw Tish last week, she had donated her shoulder-length hair to Locks of Love and now sports an ultra-chic haircut that makes her look better than I ever did. I cried for almost an hour after she left.

I know my feelings are stu-pid and childish. How can I get rid of these unwant-ed feelings? — Pale in Comparison

Dear Pale: You say you feel inferior when you’re around Tish. How do you feel when you’re not around her? And why are you constantly com-paring yourself to her?

Figure out what’s behind it, or your feelings of inferiority will extend.

Abigail van Buren

Dear Abby

Dear Dr. Gott: I am an 82-year-old lady and have been very active all of my life. Five months ago, I was diagnosed with a very rare form of cancer. I had a tumor on the outer side of my urethra. After several opinions, it was determined that I would have to have my bladder and urethra removed, as well as have a complete hysterectomy.

The operation was suc-cessful, but I now wear a urostomy pouch. My reason for writing is that, about a month ago, both of my feet started swelling. I saw my primary-care doctor, who told me that it was caused by the removal of lymph nodes during my surgery. I then called my surgeon, who agreed it was due to the lymph-node removal.

Is this a temporary situ-ation or permanent? It is only affecting my left leg now. I am taking a diuretic and elevate my leg when-ever possible. What else can I do?

Dear Reader: There are two circulatory systems within the body. The first and most well-known is the blood. This system carries red and white cells, plate-lets, plasma and nutrients throughout the body to sustain the muscles and organs.

The second is the lym-phatic. This system is vital to keeping the body

healthy. It circulates protein-rich lymph fluid throughout the body, which collects waste products, bacteria and viruses. These substances are carried until they reach a lymph node, which then filters the fluid, removes the waste, and flushes it out of the body.

When something causes the lymphatic system to back up, fluid builds up in the extremities. If a block-age occurs in the upper body, it may affect one or both arms, but most commonly affects one or both legs. There are some genetic causes of primary lymphedema; however, most cases are considered secondary, meaning they were caused by some other condition. Surgical removal of the lymph nodes, cancer, injury, infection and radia-tion treatments are the main causes of secondary lymphedema.

In your case, the combi-nation of your cancer and the removal of some of your lymph nodes likely caused your current problem.

Unfortunately, there is no cure for lymphedema; however, there are ways of controlling the swelling.

Leg swelling caused by surgeryIn addition to the month of

October being Adopt a Dog Month as we highlighted last week, October 16 is National Feral Cat Day. This designa-tion has been made by Alley Cat Allies, a national non-profit organization dedicated to education and action on behalf of feral cats. There are many non- profit organiza-tions that support humane solutions to the feral cat prob-lem. There are millions of stray or feral cats roaming the streets of cities and towns all over the United States. The problem is as huge or bigger in New York City as it is in rural communities like ours. The overwhelming number of these cats, if they are caught, are brought to animal control units and routinely destroyed like varmints. There are more positive, effec-tive and humane solutions.

Did you know that in Rutherford County alone, over 90% of the cats and kittens com-ing into Animal Control are destroyed? There are relatively few adoptions which are the only ways out for these animals. Not all of them are feral. Some are simply previously owned cats who have strayed. So, this means that they are or were someone’s pets.

More often than not, no distinction is made at pounds between a stray but tame cat and a wild or feral cat. This is largely because, regardless of the cats’ origin or background, there just isn’t enough room to house them all. This problem needs to be addressed in our community and it begins with informa-tion about these cats and how to help them. There are many websites that provide exten-sive information about the problem and how to resolve it in a compassionate manner. Among them are:

The Feral Cat Coalition: www.feralcatcoali-

tion.com Alley Cat Allies: www.alleycat.org The Feral Cat Project: www.feralcatproject.

comSave a Kitty: www.saveakitty.comThere are many others. All enlist the

aid of local communities and residents in addressing the problem. If you have a feral cat colony living near you or are interested in learning more about these cats, visit one or more of the above web sites. Call the Community Pet Center at 287-7738 if you need assistance or have questions.

Feral Cat day is coming up on Oct. 16

PUZZLEYour Birthday, Oct. 11;

You should be able to mix business and pleasure more effectively than ever before, with the far-more-favorable results.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Something of a positive nature that has been stirring behind the scenes for quite some time could suddenly emerge. It’ll prove to be beneficial both professionally and socially.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Even though this might be a day of rest, you’re not likely to feel fulfilled unless you have a busy agenda on the calendar. Make sure that you have lots of activities planned.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Don’t be surprised if you find yourself needing some complex targets to shoot for. The more significant an objective is, the better you’ll like it and the more sat-isfying the results will be.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Involve yourself in conversations with as many smart people as you can, because valuable information can be derived from simple comments. Draw out those who fit this bill.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Even though you might be socializing with friends, you’re likely to hear about a new channel of earnings from an unexpected source.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — When ironing out an agreement with a friend, be as liberal with the terms as possible because it should encourage your pal to act similarly. If he or she doesn’t, back out of the deal.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Conditions are favorable for finalizing things you’ve had on the back burner for some time.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — This is an excellent day to introduce some new acquaintances to a few of your old bud-dies.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Your chances for material gratification look exceptionally good.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Family and friends will automatically look to you for their cues as to what’s going on.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Even though conditions might be a bit unpredictable, they should work out quite well.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Without any plans, you could find yourself dis-cussing your hopes and desires with someone who will have much to offer in the way of getting you started toward your goals.

IN THE STARS Five smashing pumpkin recipes

Dr. Peter M. Gott

Ask Dr. Gott

by Sara Noel

FrugalLiving

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Produced byJo-Ann Close and Lynne Faltraco

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local

he said. “This is what God is to me,” he said. In essence, God is all about love,

Young said. And the ways the book is working in others’ lives is both joyful and humbling.

“I have over 50,000 e-mails from all over the world,” Young said. “But the person who sticks out to me most is a pastor’s daughter I met in Florida.”

She grew up learning that when you were bad, God punished you, Young said. So when she learned she had cancer, she felt it was a direct result of something displeasing she’d done in her life.

“She told me she wasn’t afraid to die, she was just afraid of the look of disgust God would give her,” he said.

“She said the book changed her... she was no longer afraid to walk through the thin veil.”

Of reading the book, Young said he would tell those who hadn’t read it or were struggling to get through it, to hang on.

“The first five chapters are very wrenching,” he said. “It’s a mystery suspense wrapped up in it.”

Young is looking forward to his appearance at Gardner-Webb. His

speaking engagement is scheduled as part of the university’s homecoming weekend activities.

“I’m going to the homecoming game and I love colleges anyway,” he said.

The whole journey – writing the book, selling millions of copies – Young said it’s not about him at all.

“This is a God thing,” he said. “There is no way to look at it and say it’s not.”

Contact Flynn via e-mail at aflynn@ thedigitalcourier.com.

FOREST CITY — The Rutherford County Historical Society book club and his-tory discussion group is currently reading, “Lost Plantations of the South,” by Marc Matrana, M.D. The book will be discussed on Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 7 p.m.. at the County Annex, 289 N. Main Street, Rutherfordton.

Matrana will speak to the group via a speaker phone and answer ques-tions and take com-ments about his new book. Matrana is a native of Louisiana and is currently the chief resident at the Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans. In addition

to his medical career, Matrana has developed a solid reputation as a historian and author of award-winning books about the South.

“Lost Plantations of the South,” was pub-lished by the University Press of Mississippi in September 2009. The book details the his-tory of 60 plantation estates across 13 south-ern states and the story of their demise due to war, neglect, fire and vandalism. The book contains 189 vintage photographs selected from the archives of the Library of Congress.

Matrana is an advo-cate for the preserva-tion of antebellum-era

homes and buildings and encourages adap-tive reuse of vacant his-toric structures. He also encourages community efforts that help steer commercial develop-ment away from historic sites and homes.

“Lost Plantations of the South” is available at the Rutherford County Library. In addition, copies of Matrana’s first book, “Lost Plantation: The Rise and Fall of Seven Oaks,” can also be found at local librar-ies.

For more informa-tion contact Robin S. Lattimore at 447-1474, or by e-mail at robin-lattimore@rutherford-ton.us.

Young

Continued photoBettina Donovan has volunteered more than 13 years at Mountains Branch Library, Lake Lure. She is retiring at the end of this month, said librarian Melanie Greenway.

GIVING HER TIME

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Historical Society Book Club reading ‘Lost Plantations

FOREST CITY — Friends of Mountains Branch Library announce the 2009 Photo Contest Winners. The winning pictures will be featured in the Mountains Branch Library 2010 calendar.

First place — Blaine Cox, Lake Lure, “Morning Moonset”; Dale Gray, Lake Lure, “Gold Finch on Blackeye Suzie”; Billie Nicholson, Lake Lure, “Blueboat & Reflections” Emily Gillespie, Lake Lure, “Rainbow over the Rock”;

Also Rob McComas, Mill Spring, “Sunset Sunrise, fishermen”; Jeffrey Smith, Rutherfordton, “Leaves on Deck” ; Sheila Spicer, Rutherfordton, “Wild Turkeys”, Mike Lumpkin, Lake Lure, “Rainy View from Bayfront;

Also Beth Henson, Lake Lure, “Gazebo”; Chris Wolfe, Lake Lure, “Turtles”; Jane Howell, Lake Lure, “Rocky Broad #1”; and Bruce and Tina Ahart, Lake Lure, “Bottomless Pools.”

Oct. 13 – Fireside Book Club meets/attends signing at 6 p.m.

Oct. 22 – First Meeting of The Civil War Era Book club at 6 p.m. Interested in the Civil War Era? In brushing up on your History? Everyone is welcome.

Nov. 6 – Author Event: Ed Southern visits Fireside for a reading/signing from 5 to 7 p.m.

Nov. 13 – Author Event: Local author Jim Schroyer visits Fireside with his debut novel, “Crossroads: The Wisdom of Grace,” from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Fans of Jan Karon will enjoy this novel.

Nov. 21 – Author Event: Bestselling authors Joan Medlicott and Celia Miles return to Fireside for a read-

ing/signing, from 1 to 3 p.m. All events are open to the public.

New Releases/BestsellersADULT RELEASES“The Last Song” by Nicholas Sparks“The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown“Don’t Look Twice” by Andrew

Gross“Going Away Shoes” by Jill

McCorkle

CHILDREN’S“Dear Vampa” by Ross Collins“Vunce Upon a Time” by Jotto

Seibold“Do Not Build a Frankenstein” by

Neil Numbermann“The Happiest Hippo in the World”

by Danielle Steel

Library’s photo contest winners announced

Upcoming events, new releases at Fireside

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