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BY CATHARIN SHEPARD

Staff writer

One-stop early voting for the May primary election starts this week.

Voters can cast ballots beginning this Thursday. The one-stop voting will run until Saturday, May 3. The pri-mary election will be held Tuesday, May 6.

The one-stop early voting sites in Hoke County are at the county offi ce building on Main Street in downtown Raeford and at the Rockfi sh Community Building. The voting sites will be open for one-stop early voting for a total of 191 hours, with the sites open from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Many of the local races are unopposed, including the offi ce of sheriff, medical examiner, register of deeds and the state Senate District 48 and District 66 races. The lo-cal county commission race is highly contested with two Republican candidates and 10 Democrat candidates vying for three seats on the Hoke County Board of Commis-sioners. Republicans John Harry and Angela Thomas and Democrats Richard Byrd, William “Brownie” Brown,

(See VOTING, page 4A)

BY CATHARIN SHEPARD

Staff writer

The fi eld of gleaming blue and silver pinwheels planted on Main Street wasn’t just for show.

Each pinwheel represented one reported case of child abuse that occurred in Hoke County last year – over 80 in total. And if there were also pinwheels for each reported incident of domestic violence and sexual assault in the county, the fi eld would have been a lot bigger.

“In Hoke County last year, 2013, 431 cases of domestic violence, 58 sexual assault cases. Unfortunately, about 86

percent of sexual assault cases go unreported,” Raeford Mayor John K. McNeill said.

McNeill was one of several speakers at the fi rst-annual Child Abuse and Sexual Assault Awareness ceremony at the Hoke County Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Center. The ceremony at the center located in downtown Raeford was meant to bring attention to the plight of children and adults who are victims of violence and sexual assault.

Unfortunately, Hoke County does not have a shelter for victims of domestic violence to turn to when they need a place to go, but the local center is working to bring a shelter

(See PINWHEELS, page 6A)

Pinwheels spin for child abuse, sexual assault awareness

Hoke County Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Center staff and volunteers Rosa Ludewig, Joyce Moore, Alisca Rob-inson, Beverly Anderson and Victoria Carter work to help victims of violence seek justice and rebuild their lives.

Two illegal gambling machines the Sher-iff ’s Offi ce seized in May 2013.

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Wednesday, April 23, 2014No. 7 Vol. 109

This Week

Four ambulance companies vie for contractMed1, AMR, Cape Fear Valley and FirstHealth propose plans

One-stop voting starts this week

Shooting turns to high-speed chase

BY CATHARIN SHEPARD

Staff writer

Hoke County Sheriff Hubert Peterkin said he has a message for the owners and operators of illegal video gambling parlors: do yourself a favor and shut down now.

Peterkin said his offi ce is preparing to clear Hoke of the illegal operations for the fourth time in 10 years. The machines keep coming back because lawyers keep fi nding ways around the law that bans them, he said.

“It’s a back and forth thing. They fi nd loopholes to start it back up,” Peterkin said.

However, his offi ce is conducting an active investiga-tion into the local gambling operations and plans to take action.

“They’re illegal here. We’re telling them, they’re il-legal,” he said.

A letter from Hoke and Scotland District Attorney Kristy Newton, sent to Peterkin earlier this month and provided to The News-Journal, reported that Newton’s offi ce is “actively prosecuting felony charges at this time” against the illegal gambling opera-tions.

“Law enforce-ment personnel from the Hoke County Sheriff’s offi ce, the Raeford Police Depart-ment, the Scotland County Sheriff’s Offi ce, the Lau-rinburg Police Department and the 16A District Attorney’s Offi ce have established a joint task force to investigate and prosecute illegal gambling activities(See GAMBLING,

page 4A)

BY CATHARIN SHEPARD

Staff writer

Four ambulance companies want to provide emergency transportation services for Hoke residents, according to documents presented to the Hoke County Board of Commissioners Monday night.

The commission received the results of a request for proposals sent out earlier this

year after the board members decided to consider contracting with a different com-pany. Currently, Med1 is serving out the last month of its three-year contract with Hoke County.

Current provider Med1, former service provider American Medical Response (AMR), Cape Fear Valley and FirstHealth of the Carolinas all submitted proposals to provide the county’s ambulance services.

Cape Fear Valley’s proposal was the least expensive, asking for a $549,000-a-year subsidy for the three years of the contract, an advanced life support (ALS) base rate of $450, a basic life support (BLS) rate of $350 and an $11 charge for mileage. Cape Fear Valley proposed to have four ambu-lances with paramedics in the county and has an ambulance fl eet standing in reserve. The company would have one fi xed station

and was the only company among the four to suggest having four substations through-out the county.

Med1’s proposal asked for an $875,000 subsidy the fi rst year of the contract, with an additional 5 percent increase or CPI in the second and third years. The proposed ALS base rate would be $450, the BLS base rate of $350 and an $11 charge

(See AMBULANCE, page 4A)

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Offi cers with the Raeford Police Department ar-rested two people earlier this month for allegedly shoot-ing a man multiple times, then leading authorities on a high-speed chase through Hoke and Robeson counties.

Investigators arrested

Bobby Dobbins, 20, of the 36400 block of Highway 1 in Aberdeen and Ebony Ross, 21, of the same ad-dress. Offi cers charged Dobbins with attempted fi rst-degree murder, as-sault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill infl icting serious injury and also with outstanding warrants from Moore County on charges

of robbery with a fi rearm, failure to wear a seatbelt by driver and driving while license revoked. He was held under a $252,100 bond.

Offi cers charged Ross with accessory after the fact, felonious speeding to elude arrest, failure to stop for blue lights and siren, and careless and reckless driving. She (See SHOOTING, page 4A)

Deputies with the Hoke County Sheriff’s Offi ce this week charged a man in con-nection with a breaking and entering at a local home.

Deputies charged Greg-ory Desean Love, 27, of the 100 block of Turnpike Pines in Raeford with breaking and entering, larceny of a fi rearm and larceny. He was held under a $10,000 se-cured bond.

Investigators called to the 100 block of Turnpike

Pines in Raeford regarding a suspicious person reportedly saw a man matching the caller’s description walking between his home and the victim’s residence, according to authorities.

“There were signs of forced entry at 110 Turnpike Pines so deputies cleared the residence. Deputies learned that the black male was seen entering the residence via a window and then seen leav-ing the residence through

the back door when deputies arrived on scene,” accord-ing to a state-ment from the sheriff’s offi ce.

Information from wit-nesses led to Love’s arrest, authorities said.

Man arrested for break-in, robbery

Love

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Governor McCrory has been at it again lately—incorrectly claim-ing that his decision to dramati-cally cut unemployment benefits is responsible for turning around the state’s job market. During a visit to Morganton recently, the Governor stated:

“There’s nothing worse than if you have a job opening and some-one decides to take a government check instead. So we had to bring the two together,” he said. “We made a decision [to cut unemploy-ment benefits]. And that decision alone is the one lone factor, in com-parison to any other state, which I think has helped North Carolina lower its unemployment rate drasti-cally in the last five months.”

While the Governor is correct that the state’s unemployment rate has dropped over the last year (from a revised 8.6 percent in February 2013 to 6.4 percent a little over a year later), he couldn’t be more wrong about why the rate has dropped—and what it means for the state’s economy. The unem-ployment rate is falling because the labor force is contracting, not because jobless workers are mov-ing into jobs.

Let’s take these one at a time.First, contrary to the Governor’s

claims, thousands of unemployed workers would love to find jobs, but there are just not enough available to meet the needs of the jobless. There are three unemployed workers for every one available job opening—that means that even if every single one of the job openings mentioned by the Governor were somehow

miraculously filled tomorrow, there would still be two unemployed workers left with nowhere to go.

And while some workers may not have the requisite skills to fill the few available job openings that do exist, it doesn’t mean that they don’t want to gain them. It’s just a lot harder to retrain when state workforce development funding has been cut (within the same bill that cut unemployment insurance), investments in the community col-lege remains low, and fewer staff are available at one-stop job centers to provide career counseling and support.

Next, the unemployment rate fell over the last year because the labor force dropped, not because the majority of unemployed people found jobs. Since the unemploy-ment rate is calculated by compar-ing the labor force to the number of unemployed people, when the labor force goes down, the unemploy-ment rate can also go down, even if the number of unemployed workers remains high.

And that’s exactly what hap-pened over the past year—the labor force contracted by more than 60,000—to the lowest levels since 2011. Meanwhile, our state’s over-all population experienced rapid growth. And whenever the popula-tion is growing but the workforce is shrinking, the economy is moving in the wrong direction.

If joblessness was truly being reduced, we would expect to see unemployed workers moving into employment, but we don’t. Just four out of every ten workers moved from joblessness into employ-ment last year. The rest gave up

and dropped out of the workforce altogether.

Lastly, the notion that cutting unemployment benefits is the sole factor explaining our state’s “spe-cial” job growth over the last year is ridiculous—for the simple reason that by any measure, North Caro-lina’s job creation over the last year hasn’t been special at all. If cutting unemployment benefits—a policy undertaken by no other state—were truly responsible for creating a special boom in job creation, then we would expect the state to have created jobs at a much faster rate than the rest of the nation.

But when we look at our state’s rate of job creation since February 2013, it turns out North Carolina experienced a 1.2 percent rate of employment growth over the last year while the national average of job creation was 1.6 percent. So much for the idea that cutting unemployment benefits made the state’s job creation more “special” than the rest of the nation.

Even worse for the governor, North Carolina’s job creation in 2013 was much less “special” than North Carolina’s job creation in previous years. According to preliminary estimates released last week, North Carolina created just 46,000 payroll jobs over the last year. This is significantly less than the 69,000 jobs created in 2012, and the 62,000 jobs created in 2011.

So the lesson here is simple—the Governor’s claims about unem-ployment are just wrong.

Allan Freyer is a Public Policy Analyst at the North Carolina Budget and Tax Center.

To the Editor:If you are a child abuser, then

it seems that Hoke County, North Carolina is the friendliest place in the world for you! Just yesterday a local court, at advice of the singularly ineffective local DSS personnel, for the second time, mind you, returned to his abuser’s care an abused child with bruises all up and down his little legs from his father whipping him. The DSS investigator, after interviewing the accused abuser and the child, had stated that this was an iso-lated incident and there was no

cause for concern. Isolated from what, I ask? Isolated from all the other incidents of both physical and mental abuse this child has suffered at this man’s hands that DSS hasn’t bothered to seriously investigate? Isolated from the next abuse he has already been threatened with? Or just isolated from any realm of reality?

Shame on Hoke County Court and the DSS for their careless at-titude toward a growing problem of child abuse.

One “isolated” incident is all it takes to seriously injure or kill a

small child. The emotional scars last a lifetime, isolated incident or not!

This child is a family member and his mother has tried valiantly to protect him, but both times DSS and the court has taken the easy way out and placed the child back into the hands of his abuser. So, it appears that Hoke County is where you should go if you have a problem with child abuse...unless you’re the child of course.

Mary EricksonMissoula, Montana

Abused child returned to abuser

The Hoke County Community Foundation recently sponsored a musical educational and perfor-mance event in Raeford. Funds for the event were provided through a grant from the Mary Archie McNeill Endowment. The idea was to bring something different and inspirational to the students of Hoke County and provide entertainment to the public while promoting the arts.

Music has long been recog-nized as a tool for the development of the mind. It is based on the mathematics of sound frequency and rhythm. Playing and listening to music actually conditions the brain and promotes the ability to learn and solve problems. Studies have proven this connection, but the last thing you want to do is tell kids that something is good for them. You have to take a more clandestine approach, in other words, seduce them into learning.

The agent of this seduction was a fine musician and educator, Joe Craven. Although a resident of California, he was raised in South Carolina and has not lost his south-ern charm. Joe has performed on many occasions in Aberdeen in conjunction with The Rooster’s Wife productions. He has also presented his message of music in many area schools. He is an accomplished player as well as a dynamic personality.

It is said that music is the universal language and much evidence reinforces the point. Joe believes that every person has the innate ability to make music at a basic level. He illustrates this by pointing out that the simple task of walking is done in perfect rhythm. While I am no big fan of

hip-hop, this musical phenomena has spread throughout the globe based on its universal rhythmic pulse. Music is a collaborative art form and is perhaps unique in that musicians can speak this language in groups of any size. Two can do more than one, and so it progresses to form mighty choirs, orchestras and even loosely organized drum circles.

Joe presented his message to several groups of students in an effort to create a spark that might grow into a fire. We will never know how effective this was, but we hope it was inspirational to some of the students.

A public concert was provided in the Mary Archie McNeill Au-ditorium at the Turlington School with Mary Archie in attendance. Uncertainty in the scheduling of the event left little time for promotion. The crowd was small but enthusiastic as Joe wove his provocative narrative in and out of songs performed expertly on several instruments. He effort-lessly shifted from jazz to blues to Caribbean to African to blue-grass, displaying virtuosity in every style.

To illustrate the accessibility of music to everyone, Joe performed on homemade instruments as simple as a cake pan and as exotic as his “canjo,” a stringed banjo-like contraption with a steel can as a body. He also used technology to transform himself into a small

ensemble by utilizing a “looper.” This electronic recording device allows the musician to build music by recording one piece at a time on top of the previous pieces. The result is quite amazing and allowed him to produce wonderful rhythmic backing for his music.

To illustrate the concept of a universal language, and to have some fun, Joe suggested that I collaborate with him on piano with an impromptu performance. Well, I couldn’t back down from the challenge, so I took my place at the piano. Joe then looked at me to get things started. I threw out a modal rambling in the key of D minor, and within seconds, Joe joined in with his sweet fiddle. I jazzed it up a bit and he took the lead. I followed and then shifted into a blues progression, all the while communicating directly with Joe, sometimes note for note. If only everyone could experience the joy of fitting musical pieces together in harmony and perfect rhythm, there would be less time and less need for conflict on this planet.

According to Joe, everyone has the ability to collaborate musi-cally to some degree, regardless of their level of perceived talent, a concept that he views as need-lessly discouraging to many.

Through programs such as this, we hope to illustrate to stu-dents in organic terms that art, with its ability to fulfill the artist and enrich others, is available to everyone at low cost. My friend Shirley Gibson commented, “He might not believe in talent, but he sure has a lot of it!” Well said!

More later.

Musicians don’t have time for conflict“All of you former students: [but] you did not design curricula, plan lessons, attend faculty meetings, assess papers, design rubrics, create exams, prepare report cards, and monitor attendance. You did not tu-tor students, review rough drafts, and create study questions. You did not assign homework. You did not write daily lesson objectives on the white board. You did not write poems of the week on the white board. You did not write homework on the white board. You did not learn to write legibly on the white board while simultaneously making sure that none of your students threw a chair out a window.” — Valerie Strauss, former teacher who is now a lawyer, in Washington Post blog entry “You Think You Know What Teachers Do, Right? Wrong.”

“Education in the United States is constantly being compared to the systems in countries around the world. One important characteristic of education in those countries, which is consistently linked to the suc-cess of their students, is the esteem with which they hold their edu-cators. It is time to treat our teachers with respect. It is time that we involve teachers in the discussion to set the direction for education in this country. They are the ones with the training and expertise. They are on the front lines in this battle. It is time that as educators we let our representatives at the state and federal levels know that we are headed in the wrong direction. It is time that, rather than be influenced by special interests, we focus on the students and the skills they need to be successful in our modern society. —Todd Gazda, a Massachusetts superintendent in blog post “Enough is Enough”

Today’s homework (Notes on education)

5 Things Every young personshould know

Weekly Wisdom From Readers Of The News-Journal For The Youth In Our Community.What are five life lessons

you’ve learned that you think all young people should know? That’s the question The News-Journal put to a list of respected local adults. The answers come from all walks of life. We want to pass on to our youth the wisdom of our community, a few lessons at a time. Here are five:

1.) As Abraham Lincoln said—“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” I would advise young people not to waste life, make it count for something and for someone.

2.) Live within your means –

learn to live by a budget – or find a partner who can. It takes abso-lutely no talent to spend money but managing it is far more difficult. A good manager can live on a little while still saving some. A bad manager can make a fortune and still end up over his head in debt. Some people have the knack and some seem to never learn. If you can’t set a budget and live by it, you need a partner who will take over the responsibility.

3.) Learn to do things for yourself. Most things in life are not that hard to do and only take a little effort to achieve. If you learn to do a few simple things for yourself like washing your own car,

mowing your own lawn and fixing simple things around the house, you will save a lot of money over your lifetime as well as avoiding the hassle of hiring others to do it.

4.) Be moderate in your behav-ior. Too much of most anything is bad and a small amount of most anything won’t ruin your life.

5.) Learn to think for yourself, then do it. There are a million people out there trying to lead you to do things that suit them. This is true in everything from politics to purchases. You need to consider the facts and make your own decisions based on your own life and needs.

April 23, 2014 THE NEWS-JOURNAL Raeford, N.C 3A

Obituaries

District Court

Police Blotter

Sheriff Blotter

Cases disposed of in Hoke County District Criminal Court, Judge Regina M. Joe presiding:

April 15•Willie James Alexander, 67,

113 McFayden Drive, Fayette-ville, improper equipment—speedometer, $25 fine and court costs

•Chiquita Nichole Allen, 24, 202 Woodrow Lane, Raeford, driving while license revoked, one day in jail, credit for one day served; driving while license revoked, second count, voluntary dismissal

•Frankie Ballard, 63, 504 Saunders St., Raeford, driving

while license revoked, 10 days suspended, 12 months unsuper-vised probation, court costs

•Sherri Leigh Deakins, 43, 269 Declaration Drive, Raeford, im-proper equipment—speedometer, $50 fine and court costs

•Montova Lawan Gaines, 31, 526 Johnson Ave., Graham, driv-ing while license revoked, 60 days in jail, credit for 60 days served

•Tammy Michelle Johnson, 41, 2109 Elvira St., Fayetteville, im-proper equipment—speedometer, $25 fine and court costs

•Felicia Annette Lindsey, 36, 2601 Cattail Circle, Fayetteville, driving while license revoked (two counts), speeding 71 miles per

hour in a 55-mph zone; for each count of driving while license revoked: 45 days suspended, 12 months probation, not to operate a motor vehicle until properly licensed, not to use or possess any controlled substances, submit to warrantless searches, random tests for same, transfer proba-tion to Cumberland County; pay court costs, attorney and court-appointment fees for first count, judgments for speeding and first count of driving while license revoked consolidated; sentences for both counts to be served con-secutively

•Rashanti Jamal Little, 25, 4453 N. Duffie Road, Red

Springs, possession of open container/consumption of alco-hol in passenger area, prayer for judgment, court costs; driving while license revoked, voluntary dismissal

•Kendrick McPhatter, 36, 604 Southern Ave., Raeford, driv-ing while impaired, Level 1, 12 months suspended, 12 months probation, court costs, surrender operator’s license, not to operate a motor vehicle until properly licensed, not to use, consume or possess any controlled substances or alcoholic beverages, submit to warrantless searches, random tests for same, transfer probation to Cumberland County.

April 15Carrying a concealed weapon,

indecent exposure, 100 block of Laurinburg Road, victim State of North Carolina. Police charged James Luther Parker of the 3400 block of Old Maxton Road in Raeford.

April 16Breaking or entering, 500

block of North Stewart Street, victim Maria Saucedo

April 17Larceny, 300 block of South

Magnolia Street, victim Hoke

County DSS

April 19Breaking and entering, 400

block of East Donaldson Avenue, victim Mary Louise Cooper

April 21

Larceny, 200 block of South Main Street, victim Kenneth Myrone Priest

Larceny, communicating threats, assault with a deadly weapon, 300 block of South Main Street, victim Patrick Locklear

April 13Assault on a female, 400 block

of Koppers DriveSimple assault, 100 block of

Covey CourtBreaking and entering, lar-

ceny, larceny of a firearm, 200 block of Bahia Lane

Possession with intent to sell or deliver a Schedule I substance, maintaining a vehicle for drug purposes, 1100 block of Turnpike Road

Fire investigation, 100 block of Manning Drive

Breaking and entering, lar-ceny, 5500 block of Arabia Road

Breaking and entering, lar-ceny, 400 block of Beard Road

Injury to personal property, 100 block of Rivercroft Drive

Simple assault, injury to personal property, 9900 block of Fayetteville Road

Injury to personal property, 4500 block of Fayetteville Road

Arrests: Mary Adkins, 100 block of Covey Court, wanted for arrest; Jordarian Lesane, Shady Lane, wanted for arrest; Tyrone Davis, 9300 block of Castlefall Drive in Fayetteville, wanted for arrest

April 14Injury to personal property,

1100 block of Posey Farm RoadAssault on a female, 400 block

of Green Tree Drive

Simple assault, 100 block of Cape Fear Road

Larceny of a vehicle, 400 block of Townsend Road

Assault on a female, simple assault, 6900 block of Red Springs Road

Larceny, 100 block of Tipper-ary Street

Larceny, 200 block of Carolina Industrial Park Road

Simple assault, 1100 block of Posey Farm Road

Arrest: Terrell Moore, 400 block of Ben Austin Road, order for arrest


communicating threats, 100 block of Cook Road

Recovered stolen vehicle, 100 block of Everitt Road

Communicating threats, sim-ple assault, 100 block of Branch Road

Larceny, 4500 block of Fay-etteville Road

Simple assault, 100 block of East Edinborough Avenue

Larceny, 100 block of Davis Bridge Road

Simple assault, assault on a female, 100 block of Sally Drive

Arrests: Rio A. Avery, 4100 block of Old Maxton Road, no operator’s license; Kenneth D. Penland II, 9800 block of Black Jack Drive, driving while license

revoked, failure to stop for au-thorities, operating a vehicle with no insurance; Lillian N. Locklear, 4500 block of Fayetteville Road, larceny; Nathaniel Johnson, 100 block of McDougald Drive, wanted for arrest; Jasmine Harris, 100 block of Sally Drive, order for arrest

April 16Simple assault, assault with

a deadly weapon, assault on an unborn child, 800 block of Edin-burgh Road


Breaking and entering, injury to real property, fire investigation, 100 block of Sundance Court

Injury to personal property, 4500 block of Fayetteville Road

Breaking and entering, lar-ceny, injury to personal property, 200 block of Leisure Trail

Injury to county property, 400 block of North Horace Walters Road

Larceny, 3800 block of Arabia Road


Assault on a female, 200 block of Bennington Drive

Arrests: Henry Love, 200 block of Springer Drive, unau-thorized use of a motor vehicle; Laquante Bratcher, 100 block of Cavalier Drive, wanted for arrest

Gertrude B. BrutonGertrude Brown Bruton, 74,

of 514 North Jackson Street died Tuesday, April 15, 2014.

Survivors include her husband, Leon Sr.; children, Tomeika Bru-ton-McClean, Tanya and Leon Jr.; nine siblings; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

The funeral was held at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 19 in Sandy Grove AME Zion Church in Lumber Bridge. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Claudie DialRev. Claudie

Dial, 94, of 110 Goose Pond Road died Monday, April 14, 2014.

He was an Army veteran.Survivors include sons, Elisha,

Samuel, Gary and Dozier; daugh-ters, Gwynn, Leatha, Dorothy Locklear and Ethel Rogers; and stepsons, David, Gary and Delmer Coffman.

The funeral was held at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 19 in Mount Elim Baptist Church. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Shirley J. SmithShirley Jean Smith, 58, of 111

Livia Lane died Tuesday, April 15, 2014.

Survivors include a daughter, Latisha; mother, Shirley; sisters, Deloris Patterson, Sharon Joy, Lenora McQueen, Laura Melvin and Carmita Graham; brothers, Victor and John; and a grandchild

The funeral was held at 4 p.m. Saturday, April 19 in Word of Life Temple. Burial was in Highland Biblical Gardens.

Eloise J. HedgpethEloise J. Hedgpeth of Red

Springs died Friday, April 18, 2014 in Autumn Care of Fayetteville at the age of 82.

She was born in Robeson County on December 9, 1931 to the late Neal Archie Johnson and Minnie D. Strickland Johnson. She was preceded in death by her husband, Bobby E. Hedgpeth, her daughter, Vickie Hedgpeth, and two sisters, Christine Hill and Helen Lyle. She was a member of Red Springs Pentecostal Holiness Church.

Survivors include two daugh-ters, Patsy Page and husband Layton of Clement, and Catherine

Austin and husband Tony of South-ern Pines; a son, Eddie Hedgpeth of Raeford; four grandchildren, Amy Slaughter, Julie Johnston, Jan Hughes-Austin, and Terra Register; six great-grandchildren; a sister, Peggy Whitfield of Acworth, Georgia; a niece, Lynn Ringwalt of Ellijay, Georgia; a nephew, Danny Hill of Red Springs; mother-in-law, Blanche Hedgpeth; three brothers-in-law, Jimmy Hedgpeth, Vardell Hedgpeth, and Steve Hedgpeth; several great-nieces and nephews.

A graveside service was held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 22 in Alloway Cemetery, Red Springs.

Memorials may be made to 3HC (Home Health & Hospice), 2402 Wayne Memorial Drive, Goldsboro, NC 27534.

Etienne Oggeri Etienne Oggeri died Tuesday,

April 15, 2014 in FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital.

He was born in Dalat, South Vietnam. It was there that he met his present wife, Lechi, sister of Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, First Lady of South Vietnam. Her disapproval of the relationship led to his expul-sion from the country and they eventually settled in Fayetteville.

He was a renowned big game hunter. He became an intelligence research analyst at Fort Bragg. Af-ter his retirement, he started writ-ing books. One of them, “I Killed for a Living,” was published by Safari Press, California and was selected as one of the American Classics of the Big Game Hunt-ing series.

He is survived by his wife, Lechi Oggeri, a local artist of Fayetteville.

A funeral service will be private.Online condolences may be

made at lafayettefh.com.

Eloise J. Hedgpeth

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A story in The News-Journal incorrectly reported that the Sheriff’s Office asked the county for funding for 20 vehicles with four-wheel drive capabilities. The Sheriff’s Office is seeking funding for four vehicles with four-wheel drive capability and 16 vehicles with all-wheel drive capability.

Correction

April 17Sexual offense, 900 block of

Camden RoadBreaking and entering, lar-

ceny, 7900 block of North Old Wire Road

Shoplifting, 4500 block of Fayetteville Road

Larceny, injury to personal property, 500 block of Ray Street

Larceny, 100 block of Thorn-cliff Drive

Arrest: Marvin Harris, 100 block of Ashley Drive, failure to appear


100 block of Wallflower StreetBreaking and entering, lar-

ceny, 200 block of Buckeye DriveSecond-degree trespassing,

200 block of Remington DriveArrest: Raheem Nielly, 1000

block of Patrick Drive in Fayette-ville, order for arrest

A man from Fayetteville died Monday morning after pulling out in front of an oncoming truck, ac-cording to a report from the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.

Bruce Lee McMillan, 35, of the 2900 block of Trace Avenue in

Fayetteville pulled out of a parking lot on N.C. Highway 211 and into the path of a flatbed tractor-trailer, authorities said. McMillan was pronounced dead at the scene. The wreck happened around 6:30 a.m. near the intersection of Plank Road

and Army Road near McCain.Thomas Cole Hudson, 57,

drove the flatbed truck involved in the accident. The truck belongs to a transport company located in Pitts-boro. Hudson told authorities that McMillan stopped at the entrance

of the parking lot but then hit the gas and pulled out in front of his vehicle, according to the report.

McMillan was driving a 1993 Ford Escort and Hudson was driving a 1995 Kenworth tractor-trailer.

Man dies in wreck on 211 Monday

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Award-winning American Indian musicians and artists with ties to the local area will perform this Saturday at the fourth annual River People Music and Culture Festival.

The event set for 6 p.m. at the Givens Performing Arts Center on the UNC-Pembroke campus will include a wide variety of musicians, including the Grammy and Nammy (Native American Music Award) winner Star Nayea; some members of the band Ulali performing under a new name, Ulali Project; former X-Factor contestant Tyler Cole (Brent Tyler); and pianist and singer Shane Baker.

The Ulali Project consists of two original members of Ulali: world renowned singer, Pura Fé, and cousin, Jennifer Kriesberg. They will be joined by local singers, Charly Lowry of Dark Water Rising, and Layla Locklear of Lakota John and Kin. Known for their unusual harmonies, Ulali was one of the first groups to fuse traditional Native American music with modern influences. They inspired the creation of other Native American women groups.

“Harmony is a strong tradition among our east Carolina tribes. As river and coastal people, we are born in harmony,” Pura Fé said. “Ulali is the songbird songs of our women. Together, with our younger sisters, we are going to bring it on home!”

The group contributed to the soundtrack of the film Smoke Signals, and several albums and documentaries. Their song “Mahk Jchi” was featured on Robbie Robertson’s Music for the Native Americans and was performed live on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Singer/songwriter Star Nayea is a three-time Native American Music Award winner and ap-peared on the 2006 Grammy-winning compilation, Sacred Ground: A Tribute to Mother Earth. Nayea, known for her powerful vocals and songwrit-ing, has toured and recorded with Testament, Robbie Robertson, Indigenous, and Robert Mirabal. During part of her performance, she will be joined by youth from the Lumbee Boys and Girls Club.

At this year’s festival, local artists from The River Roots

Art Guild will be on site with handmade items on display. Guests can sample the work of some of the area’s most gifted artisans, with opportunities to purchase beadwork, basketry, jewelry, pottery, sculpture, paintings and more.

Other events that coincide with the River People Music and Culture Festival include the River Roots Art Showcase on Friday, April 25 from 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the lobby of GPAC. The free event will showcase local artists, dancers and musicians. The River People Matinee Concert is on Monday, April 28 at 10 a.m. in GPAC. The matinee, which fea-tures Star Nayea, Tyler Cole and other local talents, is a free concert for schools and is also open to the public. This event is sponsored by the North Carolina Arts Council Grassroots Arts Project.

Tickets to attend the River People Music and Culture Festi-val are $10 for adults and $5 for students with valid ID. Children 5 and under are free. Group rates are available. For more information, contact 910.521.6361 or 6634, or visit www.uncp.edu/gpac.

Festival highlights American Indian performers, artistsfor mileage. Med1 proposed to

have four ambulances staffed with paramedics and three ambulances in reserve, with one fixed station.

FirstHealth of the Carolinas’ proposal asked for a $785,000 subsidy the first year, an $835,000 subsidy the second year and an $885,000 subsidy the third year. The proposed ALS base rate would be from $663.14-$857.68, the proposed BLS base rate would be between $512.74-$633.59 with a $13.30 mileage charge. FirstHealth proposed to have four ambulances staffed with paramedics and has an ambulance fleet standing in reserve, with one fixed station.

Former Hoke service pro-vider American Medical Re-sponse (AMR)’s proposal was the most expensive of the four submitted to the county. AMR asked for a $1.1 million subsidy the first year of the contract, a $1.13 million subsidy the second year and $1.16 million the third year. The company proposed an ALS base rate of

$550, a BLS base rate of $450 and a $15 mileage rate. AMR would provide four ambulances staffed by paramedics and has an ambulance fleet standing in reserve, with one fixed station.

The county has paid Med1 a subsidy of $595,000 a year for the last three years, as well as paying mileage. The company returned each year requesting additional funding to offset what the company reported has become a nearly $3 million loss due to uncollectible bills from people who did not pay for their transport service. The Med1 contract with the county requires the company to provide emergency medical transport service to all people without regard to their ability to pay.

The four companies that submitted proposals were also the same ones that submitted proposals three years ago. Then, Med1’s bid was the lowest. In 2011, FirstHealth proposed charging $600,000 for the first year, $650,000 the second year and $700,000 the third year with a

mileage rate of $11.74. Cape Fear Valley EMS proposed $600,000 maximum for the three-year contract with an $11 mileage rate. AMR proposed charging $595,000 the first year with an increase in the second and third year of the contract and proposed a $19.25 mileage rate.

The commissioners tabled the discussion at the meeting Monday because County Manager Tim Johnson was out of town and the board wanted to speak with him as part of the selection process before moving forward.

Other businessIn other business, the com-

missioners approved a four-item consent agenda including the lease of a new map copier for the Register of Deeds and a proposed purchase order cut-off by the finance office. The board heard proposals for the county’s banking services and reports from the tax collector and tax assessor. The board held a closed session for the purposes of economic development.

in Hoke and Scotland counties,” the letter said.

The agencies formed the task force in response to “the recent, widespread” operation of gambling parlors in the community, Newton said. Law enforcement officials have battled the operations for a number of years, but ongoing litigation and misinterpretations of legal decisions kept agencies from being able to act to close down them down, she added.

“For an extended time period, our hands were tied and we were not permitted to enforce the law because of injunctions and pro-hibitions put in place by various courts across the state,” the district attorney wrote.

But a clarification from the United States Supreme Court now means that law enforcement has a way to put a stop to the operations, she said.

“The (United States) Supreme Court has now clarified that the laws prohibiting gambling are constitutional and given us the green light to enforce the law,” Newton wrote.

The surge in local gambling parlors “likely resulted from a mis-understanding about a local court decision,” she said. The Supreme Court dismissed one gambling case in Scotland County for reasons related to that specific case, the dis-trict attorney said. That made some people come to believe that some types of the gambling machines are legal when they are not.

“The Court did not issue a ruling that gambling is legal. The Court made a narrow ruling in a single case, based on the facts of that particular case,” Newton said in the statement.

Local actionInvestigators with the sheriff’s

office have identified all of the video gambling operations in the county and know the identities of the own-ers, operators and the vendors who sell the machines, Peterkin said. The sheriff declined to say how many parlors are in the county due to the ongoing investigation.

Peterkin said that the first step is sending out a warning to all of the parlors that they are on the wrong side of the law and will face prosecution if they don’t shut down.

“Now that we’ve gotten clarity on the ruling that was made in court, the task force will make a concerted effort to inform the operators that they are totally wrong in operating the machines,” he said.

Those that don’t close their doors will face serious criminal charges, the sheriff added.

“Most of these businesses are operating at a felony level,” he said.

The existing video gambling establishments should “go ahead and shut down the operation,” and people interested in starting new ones should not waste their time, Peterkin said.

“Don’t do it, save their money. Don’t buy the building, don’t sign the lease, because this is getting ready to stop,” he said.

Not all counties are enforcing the law or doing so in the same way. Peterkin said that if any local government is involved in illegal sweepstakes gambling by allowing parlors to operate on their watch, those governments could be just as liable as the people who run the gambling operations.

“Any county or city govern-ment that allows this could be held accountable the same way as the business owners,” Peterkin said.

On the other hand, some coun-ties have made large busts against the gambling parlor operators. Pitt County authorities seized video gambling machines from nearly 30 businesses earlier this year. Last year, Cumberland County authori-ties conducted multiple operations to put a stop to the illegal gambling.

“Anyone with information about illegal gambling activities is encour-aged to contact the appropriate law enforcement agency,” Newton said in the statement.

Not permittedCounty Planner Robert Farrell

said that all of the video gambling parlors in Hoke County are operat-ing without county permits.

“(They) all opened without

receiving any permits from the planning department and have not gotten any kind of permit, period,” he said. There may be a few ex-ceptions in terms of electrical or similar inspections where the own-ers moved into an empty building, completed a bit of electrical work, then had the inspection performed before bringing the machines in.

“A lot of these are going into existing storefronts. They could have tried to weasel past us a little bit,” Farrell said.

If the businesses were legal, the zoning office would have more power in taking action regarding the lack of permits, but since they are not legal, it’s a criminal matter under the sheriff’s office authority, Farrell said.

“With it being an illegal matter, it’s something we have looked into pursing through the zoning depart-ment. However, we just don’t carry the same might as the sheriff’s of-fice, so we really appreciate them,” he said.

Farrell said has spoken with the parlor operators and the sheriff, dis-trict attorney and County Attorney Grady Hunt about the matter. Law-suits between counties and parlor operators have confused the issue in some places, he said.

“It’s just recently come back up and I believe the reason that it has…they believe that they have found another loophole in the state law that would allow them to open up,” Farrell said.

But there haven’t been any such lawsuits or loopholes in Hoke County and the video gambling is still illegal, the county planner said.

“Right now in Hoke County, anybody that comes up to me and says they want to open one of these, I tell them they’re not allowed,” he said.

A fire inspector with the Hoke County Fire Marshal’s office said that at least one of the gambling establishments did undergo a fire inspection. However, that office does not have the say in whether a business is legal to operate or not, Peterkin said.

“We don’t give them permission to open it,” he said.

Charles Daniels, Freddie McPhaul, Michael Lindsay, Cliff Overby, Jean Powell, Harry Southerland, Allen Thomas and Tony Hunt are running for the board.

The Republican candidates will not appear on the May primary bal-lot as there are three seats and two Republican candidates. Harry and Angela Thomas will appear on the

November General Election ballot.The state Senate District 21

race is also contested, with four Democrats running including Hoke native and incumbent Sen. Ben Clark. Candidates Sylvia Ad-amcyzk, Billy King and Eronomy Smith are the other three Democrats seeking the seat.

If necessary, the county will hold a second primary in the sum-

mer. The Board of Education filing period opens July 7 and runs until August 4. The Soil and Water Con-servation Board filing period will run from June 9-July 7.

One-stop voting for the general election begins Thursday, October 23 and runs through Saturday, November 1. The general election is Tuesday, November 4.

was held under a $30,000 bond.Raeford Police Department As-

sistant Chief Maj. Marc Godwin said the incident started when of-ficers responded to a call about a shooting around 3:45 p.m. April 10. When they arrived, authorities found Michael Locklear, 24, of the 100 block of Yadkin Trail suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to

one of his legs. “Officers arrived on scene and

were given a description of the vehicle, a white Cadillac,” Godwin said. “Within a couple of minutes, a detective noticed the vehicle just outside the city limits and he at-tempted to stop the vehicle, and then a chase ensued.”

The car chase went through Hoke and into Robeson County

before the vehicle wrecked and overturned on Highway 71 just south of the Lumber Bridge in-tersection, Godwin said.

Locklear was taken to the hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries. The two suspects sustained minor injuries in the wreck and were taken to a hospital where they were treated and released.

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The McLeod Tennis Courts were the center of the boys’ Southeastern Conference Ten-nis Tournament last week at Hoke High. The vision of host-

ing the conference tournament was a dream of Hoke High tennis coach Nelson James and Athletic Director Gary Brigman the courts opened in 2012.

“I have heard nothing but positive comments on the con-ference tournament and even

with six courts, everything went really smooth,” Brigman said.

So far, the McLeod Tennis Courts have hosted the NC Turkey Festival tennis tourna-ment two years and the boys’ Southeastern Conference one year. Hopefully, the courts will

Shown is an arial photo taken by head tennis Coach Nelson James using his GoPro camera mounted on a quad helicopter. The McLeod Tennis Courts opened in 2012 and were named after the McLeod family of Raeford.

Courtney Pate, seen here last week in a conference track meet in the 100-meter hurdles, won her heat and won first place in the main, helping lead the Hoke County High School Lady Bucks to another win. The Lady Bucks have seven first-place wins this year and one fourth-place finish. The conference tournament track meet is next Tuesday and Wednesday in Pinehurst.

Dustin Vivirak, seen here dur-ing the 100-meter hurdles last week, won his main event for the boys’ track team, helping the Hoke County High School Bucks get the win. The boys have four first-place wins and two second-place wins this season and will compete in next week’s Southeastern Conference tournament in Pinehurst.

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Hoke High hosts SEC Tennis Tournament

John Sellers, seen here in an earlier tournament for the Bucks tennis team, made the NC High School Athletic Association 4A East Regionals, which will be played in Wilmington in May.

Noah Thaggard, seen here in an earlier tournament for the Bucks tennis team, made the NC High School Athletic Association 4A East Regionals, which will be played in Wilmington in May.

By hal nunn

Sports writer

For those who know the name Larry Long, you know the kind of person he is when it comes to family, friendship and, of course, racing. For those of you who don’t know him, this Saturday is your opportu-nity to meet the man they call The Legend, Larry Long. Bill Doliber, President of Rockfish Motorsports Speedway, and Eddy Pollard, flag-man for the raceway, were talking a while back about when would be the right time to honor the man who has done so much for his community and racing in general. They both agreed that now is the right time and this Saturday, there is a full day of Riding with a Legend, A Tribute to Larry Long.

Larry D. Long was born in 1945 in Fayetteville and attended Rockfish Elementary through the 6th grade. He attended 71st High School and was a 1963 graduate. After high school graduation, he went to Atlanta, Georgia and at-

tended the school of Radio and TV Broadcasting and graduated in 1964. He started working in radio at WFBS in Spring Lake after graduation and has worked at various radio stations, including AM1400 WMFA, AM1490 WAZZ and several others, covering sports and mostly racing. He worked on a television show for PAX-TV called the Carolina Clash Racing Show and has been the track announcer at several racetracks including Fayetteville Motor Speedway, Dub-lin Motor Speedway, Lake View Speedway, County Line Speedway and currently at Rockfish Motors-ports Speedway. He also broadcast high school football games for Hoke County with C.D. Bounds back in the 70s. Larry also started Fast Lane Racing News back in 1983, covering racing in the Cape Fear region as well as NASCAR. He is the editor and publisher of the newspaper.

The events at Rockfish Motor-sports Speedway start at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 26 with the gates

opening, a l u n -cheon at 3 p.m., dr ivers’ m e e t -ing at 4 p.m. and practice s tar t ing at 4:30 p.m. Heat races will begin at 5:30 p.m. All class-es will run at Rock-fish Mo-torsports S p e e d -way in-c lud ing a special event for the 600cc M i c r o Sprints. For more information, visit www.rockfish-motorsports.com.

They call him The Legend, Larry Long will be honored this Saturday at Rockfish Speedway in Hoke County on, Riding With a Legend Night. The Speedway will rec-ognize Mr. Long in all his support for racing in the Cape Fear Region.

Rockfish Speedway to honor Larry Long

Bayonet at Puppy CreekThe Bayonet at Puppy Creek

will host the Partners In Educa-tion – Hoke County golf tourna-ment May 10, 2014 beginning at noon. Lunch will be provided by Logan’s Roadhouse and the tournament is sponsored by the local non-profit that serves as a liaison between community businesses and the Hoke County Public School system. First place will be $400 cash, second lace

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Saturday morning group winners from week before last were Don Frykholm, Al Smith, Lee Har-

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host the girls’ Southeastern Conference tournament in the near future.

In the matches, the singles champion was Colt Auman from Richmond County. He defeated Jacob Johnson from Pinecrest 6-1, 6-2. The doubles champions were Andrew Balzer and Brandon Ingram from Rich-mond. They defeated Robert Beacham and Walker Davis from Scotland County. John Sellers and Noah Thaggard won the consolation bracket in doubles and both will be representing Hoke County in the regionals in May. There were 36 entries in singles and doubles and Sellers and Thag-gard placed 5th overall.

Week before last on the team photo cutline, Dustin Locklear was left out of the team photo. He is a member of the Bucks tennis team but was not present for the photo.

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to the county, McNeill said.“Keep these people in your

thoughts and prayers and support our center,” he said.

Guest speaker Allen Thomas, a candidate for county commis-sioner, spoke about his personal experiences with domestic vio-lence and child abuse. Thomas’ father abused him and his mother, and murdered his mother when Thomas was a college student, he said.

“My dad, I love him so much, he was the man who taught me how to play baseball, how to go fishing, but he also had another side to him that was full or rage and anger, particu-larly when he would drink alcohol,” Thomas said.

His father would strike him with a weightlifting belt, choke him and throw him against the wall. Then he would say that he did it because he loved his son.

“He would sit me down and say, if I didn’t do this, I didn’t love you,” Thomas said.

For a child growing up in an abusive home, where the abuser tries to isolate the child from seeing that what’s going on is not normal, a youngster can grow up believing that abuse is the way that things should be. But Thomas’ mother’s death broke the cycle.

“That was the trigger that woke me up…had my mother not died, there’s a chance I could have

grown up being an abuser just like him. We have to make sure we have more advocates who are here and ready to stand to make sure that the voices of those women and children are heard,” Thomas said.

Victims of child abuse and domestic violence don’t just suffer while they’re in a violent situa-tion, he said. The fallout from it continues long after it’s stopped.

“Do you know what happens when someone kills a mother? I am evidence to what happens. I have suffered,” Thomas said. “When you saw me smiling, I was suffering. When you saw me talking to you and asking you how you were doing, I was suffering. When my birthday came around and my mother wasn’t there to say, son, happy birthday, I was suffering. When I walked across the stage as ECU, I was suffering. Right now, I’m suffering. We have to do something to stop this.”

The National Children’s Al-liance reported that in 2012, an estimated 1,640 children in the United States died from abuse and neglect. In 2013, children’s advocacy centers around the country helped over 294,000 child victims of abuse, according to the alliance. The center also reported that an estimated 686,000 chil-dren in America were victims of abuse and neglect and that Child Protective Services agencies provided preventative services to

over 3.8 million children across the country. Children under one year of age were the most likely to suffer from abuse or neglect, the alliance reported.

Victims’ advocacyStatistics like those are why

people like victim’s advocate Alisca Robinson work long hours and sometimes walk into situa-tions not knowing what they will need to do to help.

“You’re getting called out of your bed at two or three in the morning to go meet a victim. You don’t know if it’s domestic violence or sexual assault. You don’t know what you’re going to walk into and what you’re going to see,” Robinson said.

From the moment they’re called to the hospital or to a home to help a victim, the advocate works to support that person through a variety of means. The advocates stand by the victims’ side at the hospital, help them fill out police reports, guide them to find a counselor and offer help in handling the court case.

“This is a traumatic situation so you don’t expect them to know what to say in court, what not to say in court, or what the court proceedings are,” Robinson said.

Only about three percent of rapists ever serve time in jail, center executive director Victoria Carter said.

“About 97 percent of rapists never spend one day in jail, so think about the victims that are suffering because their perpetra-tor is out and they don’t know if they’ll take action or make good on their promises,” she said.

Much of the time, rape victims are too afraid or humiliated to report that they’ve been assaulted. Robinson said she often has to gently coax the story out of rape victims in order to help them go to the police and seek justice.

“I have had cases where my clients will sit there and they won’t open their mouth. All you’ll see is tears running down their face. They want to tell you so bad, who did it, where it happened, go get them, but they’re too scared to do so. They’re too ashamed. They’re in fear that if they tell, they’re going to come back after them,” Robinson said.

Part of the reason victims often don’t seek help is because they fear being blamed for their rape, Thomas said.

“We have to make sure we do all we can to educate our law enforcement, our social workers, to make sure that we are doing a procedure that is not mistaken as victim blaming. I’ve heard from victims who said it was almost like being assaulted again,” he said. “They were asked, what were you doing, what were you wearing, where were you coming from, were you flirting with the person who assaulted you? So we have to make sure that we’re doing all that we can to support them when they need us the most.”

A study conducted by the National Center for Injury Preven-tion and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Preven-tion (CDC) in 2010-11 asked a nationwide sample of 16,507 adults whether they had experi-

enced intimate partner violence or sexual assault. One in five of the women respondents reported that they had been the victim of sexual violence, according to the report. The Department of Defense and the National Insti-tute for Justice backed the study. In the same study, a third of the women respondents said they had been a victim of rape, beating or stalking or a combination of types of assaults.

The same study reported that one in seven men have also been the victim of domestic violence, and one in 71 men have been victims of rape. Many of the cases of rape com-mitted against men occurred when they were children under the age of 11, according to the report.

While people often imagine rape as something that happens in a dark alley and is a crime commit-ted by a stranger, about two-thirds of rape victims know the person who raped them, according to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN).

While statistics vary from study to study, some victims’ ad-vocacy groups such as the Enliven Project and the National Center for Prosecution of Violence Against Women suggest that false rape allegations are much less common than the public tends to think. Around 2-8 percent of all reported rapes are false reports, according to a study by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Other studies, though criticized by some researchers for their methodol-ogy, showed false accusations range from anywhere between 1.5 percent and about 38 percent of all reported cases.

During the ceremony, the Hoke County Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Center also held a balloon release to send off 58 blue balloons, one for each re-ported case of sexual assault in the county last year.

For more information about the center’s services or to volunteer or donate, contact the center’s staff at 878-0118.

Raeford Mayor John K. McNeill, one of the event speakers, releases a balloon at the ceremony.

Participants at the ceremony release 58 balloons, one for every incident of sexual assault re-ported last year in Hoke County.

Democrat, NC Senatorial District 21

Senator Ben Clark RE-‐ELECT

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Lt. Col., U.S. Air Force Re>red

Serving as your state senator has certainly been an honor and a privilege. With your support, I look forward to continuing to serve you energetically and faithfully in the years ahead. I will continue to provide principled leadership and outstanding constituent services. Let us continue our fight for the cause of right by fighting for pay raises for our teachers and state employees, the expansion of Medicaid and good jobs.

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