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Deputies favoredA petition circulating in Indian Trail opposed plans to create a town police force and favors continued coverage by Sheriff’s deputies.

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A RETURN TO RALEIGHFormer state senator Fern Shubert says she wants her old seat back now that W. Edward Goodall has announced he will not seek re-election. Shubert did not seek re-election when she made an unsuccess-ful run for the GOP nomination for governor.

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WHAT’s INsIDE HAPPY BIRTHDAY!CLARIFICATIONA story in Satuday’s edition mischaracter-ized Senator Eddie Goodall’s new job as a lobbying position. Goodall instead will build a structure for a membership base of families and charter schools and visit schools around the state as well as edu-cating people about what public charter schools are. activity.

Best wishes are extended to everyone who is celebrating a birthday today, especially: Raymond Deese Jr., Evan Helms, Sherry Cox, Carley Moore, Carol Williams, Brady Seegers and David Tyson.Best wishes also are extended to everyone who is celebrating a birthday Monday, especially: Pam Shoemaker, David Williams, Jared Purser and Wendy Severt.

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

WHO’S IN JAIL?Th e jail has 256 inmates,

though the number fluctu-ates.

Th e jail technically has 264 beds, but that number is misleading. There are differ-ent classifications of pris-oners and each group has a certain number of beds. There are 24 beds classi-fied for short term, such as medical, and 10 for female prisoners, for example. If there are only eight female inmates, those two beds are left empty because a male prisoner is not allowed in that section.

THE OFFENDERS:Lar ceny including robbery

with dangerous weapon, possession of a stolen ve-hicle: 41

Pr obation violation or failure to appear: 36

Drug related: 34Dr iving charges including driv-

ing with license revoked, driving impaired and driv-ing under the influence: 24

Assault: 23Murder: 20Kidnapping: 16Se x offense, including rape or

sex with a minor: 15Breaking/Entering: 13Ot hers are for minor charges

such as property damage or failure to pay child support

BY JAsON deBRUYNStaff Writer

MONROEUnion commissioners

put themselves in position to lobby for a new place to properly house criminals.

The Union County jail is at full capacity, but building a new jail could cost $65 million; money the commissioners do not have.

Due to state budget cuts, Union Correctional, the state-run penitentiary in Monroe, closed Oct. 1, 2009. It has sat empty since then, but Sheriff Eddie Cathey suggested the county take over the building and use it as another county jail.

The state will not make decisions on its closed fa-cilities until at least Feb-ruary, but the legislature passed a law that would give priority to cities or counties that want to use the facilities as jails.

Union Correctional was built in the 1930s as one of 61 field-unit pris-ons to house inmates who worked on building roads. In addition to prison cells, it includes a vocational ed-ucation building, a dining hall, guard towers and an administration building.

The Union County jail was built in 1994 and has been under “classification full” for the past year.

In a letter to Alvin Keller, secretary of cor-rection, Cathey asked that the facility be turned over to the county because, “Although the county has plans for a 400-bed expan-sion, it is extremely un-likely that we will be able to expand our own inmate housing capacity for some years to come.”

Alamance and Rocking-ham counties have per-formed similar transfers and Cathey suggested that Union could share some

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County eyesclosed prisonfor new jail

E-J staff photos by Rick Crider

Mekel Rogers conducts the Union County Youth Symphony at a recent performance.

sYMPHONYO U T H

Amy Solka

Ian Searle

Samuel Strader

Alexandra BrownColby Hathaway and Kate Player

Closed prisonsAccording to Section 19.4

of the General Statutes:“In conjunction with the

closing of prison facilities, ... the Department of Correction shall consult with the county or municipality in which the unit is located ... about the possibility of converting the unit to other use. ... The De-partment shall give priority to converting the unit to other criminal justice use.” - includ-ing changing security custody levels.

BY TIFFANY LANEStaff Writer

MONROE“I didn’t even think anybody

was paying any attention to the things I was doing.”

A Few Good Men dubbed James Mungo Citizen of the Year. Like most winners, Mun-go never saw it coming.

“I didn’t think anything like that would ever happen,” he said. “I am honored and hum-bled.” His friends and relatives

say James Mungo has always been humble.

Comparing him to last year’s winner, Jeanette Sherrod, A Few Good Men President Rob-ert Heath said Mungo is “qui-etly making a difference in the community.”

A Few Good Men is a civic group dedicated to increasing minority achievement and mi-nority hiring.

This year, a six-man commit-tee sifted through five nomina-

tions for Citizen of the Year, then took it to the full 20-mem-ber organization to choose a winner.

It was James Mungo’s ser-vice to American Legion Post 212 and hospital visits to shut-ins that caught a few good eyes. Heath said he almost won last year.

The award might have sur-prised James Mungo, but his

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Few Good Men tap Mungo for annual honorVOLUNTEERISM- Member and officer of the Amer-ican Legion Post 212 for 33 years- Former chairperson and member of the statewide Drug and Alcohol Abuse Committee- Trustee of Watts Grove Baptist Church in Monroe- Director of a prison ministry- President of the Winchester Community Organization- Member of North Carolina’s Com-mission on Children and Youth.

James and Loma Mungo enjoy the news that he was chosen by A Few Good Men as its citizen of the year. He has been active in veterans and youth affairs.

Rick Crider photo

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Monday, Jan. 18•  EXERCISE  CLASS,

9 a.m. to 10 a.m., Ellen Fitzgerald Senior Center. Open to ages 55 and up. For details, call 704-282-4657.

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

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

•  TODDLER  TIME, 11:15 a.m., Union West Regional Library, for chil-dren ages 12 months to 36 months.

•  BABY  TIME, 11:30 a.m., Waxhaw Library. Details, 704-843-3131.

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

•  CAREGIVER  SUP-PORT  GROUP, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Outpatient Treatment Pavilion audi-torium, CMC-Union. De-tails, Kara Finch, 704-289-5502, kfinchcoa@carolina.rr.com.

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

•  INDIAN  TRAIL TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), private weigh-in, 6 p.m. to 6:45 p.m; meet-ing 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., Indian Trail United Methodist Church, 113 Indian Trail Road. First visit free. De-tails, 704-843-9365.

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

•  TOPS (TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY), 6:30 p.m. weigh-in, 7 p.m. meet-ing, First Baptist Church, 109 Morrow Ave. Details, 704-233-1610.

•  TURNING  POINT VOLUNTEER  ORIEN-TATION, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Janice Bellamy, 704-283-9150.

•  TOPS  (TAKE  OFF POUNDS  SENSIBLY), 6:30 p.m. weigh-in, 7 p.m. meeting, Bonds Grove United Methodist Church, Waxhaw. Details, 704-843-2735.

•  NAMI-UNION COUNTY, National Al-liance for the Mentally

Ill, 7 p.m., Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, 725 Deese St., Monroe. For details, call 704-882-1293 or 704-283-5128.

•  UNION  CHORALE, 7 p.m., Stallings United Methodist Church, 1115 Stallings Road. Details, Sandy McReynolds, 704-238-1555.

•  COMMUNITY  CA-REER  CONNECTIONS, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Lee Park Baptist Church. Call 704-289-4674.

• VETERANS OF FOR-EIGN WARS POST 5464, 7:30 p.m., 712 VFW Road, Monroe.

•  PROVIDENCE  VFD, training, 7:30 p.m., Sta-tion 5025, Hemby Road, Weddington. For details, call Dick Bonner, 704-846-1014 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., weekdays.

•  GRIFFITH  ROAD VFD  LADIES’  AUXIL-IARY, 7:30 p.m., station on Griffith Road at Broome Road. For details, call 704-289-8223, 704-283-6311 eve-nings.

•  UNION  COUNTY COMMUNITY  ACTION BOARD  OF  DIREC-TORS, 7:30 p.m., UCCA Head Start administrative offices, 150 Winchester Ave., Monroe. Details, 704-283-7583.

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

Tuesday, Jan. 19•  MONROE  INVES-

TORS, 8:30 a.m., Brown Derby, Skyway Drive, Monroe. Details, Elsie Smoluk, 704-363-8815.

•  COA  UNION  SE-NIORS  PROGRAM, 9:30 a.m., Emmanuel Baptist Church, bring covered dish.

•  TODDLER  TIME, 10 a.m., Union West Regional Library, for children ages 12 months to 36 months.

•  TODDLER  TIME, 10 a.m., Monroe Library, 316 E. Windsor St., for chil-dren ages 12 months to 36 months. For details, call 704-283-8184.

•  TODDLER  TIME, 10 a.m., 11 a.m., Waxhaw Li-brary, for children ages 12 months to 36 months.

•  BASIC  SPANISH, 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., must be member of Ellen Fitzger-

ald Senior Center and age 55 or over. Ellen Fitzger-ald Senior Center, 327 S. Hayne St. Details, 704-282-4657.

•  STORY  TIME, 10:30 a.m., Monroe Library, 316 E. Windsor St., for chil-dren ages 3 to 5. For de-tails, call 704-283-8184.

•  MARSHVILLE  RO-TARY  CLUB, noon, Pier Restaurant, Marshville. For details, call Johnny Pigg, 704-624-2602.

•  MONROE  ROTARY CLUB, noon to 1 p.m., Roll-ing Hills Country Club. Details, 704-283-4645.

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

•  UNION  COUNTY HIV  TASK  FORCE, 5:30 p.m., Union County Health Department. Call 704-283-9188 for details.

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

•  TOPS  NO.  373 (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), 6 p.m. weigh-in, 6:30 p.m. meeting, 805 South Bragg Street, Monroe. For de-tails, call 704-282-0073.

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

•  UNION  COUNTY WRITERS’ CLUB, 7 p.m., Union County Communi-ty Arts Council office, 120 N. Main St. For details, call Barbara Johns at 704-291-7829; or visit www.unioncountywritersclub.org.

• UNION COUNTY AN-TIQUE  TRACTOR  AND POWER  CLUB, 7 p.m., J.B.’s Fish Camp, N.C. 218, New Salem. For informa-tion, call 704-624-6105.

•  MS  SUPPORT GROUP, 7 p.m., Benton Heights Presbyterian Church, Concord High-way. Details, Carla Zottola, 704-282-0623. • FARMERS MARKET  EXTENSION CLUB, 7 p.m., Farm Bu-reau Directory Board Room.

• OVERCOMERS OUT-REACH, 7 p.m., Waxhaw Bible Church. For details, call 704-764-3960.

•  BENTON  HEIGHTS LIONS  CLUB  OF  MON-ROE, 7 p.m.,Brown Derby Restaurant on Skyway Drive. For details, call 704-283-6502 or 704-283-2400.

•  PRENATAL  CLASS, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., CMC-Union. Come during sev-enth month of pregnancy. Call 704-283-3254.

• PARENT MEETING, 7 p.m., Walter Bickett El-ementary School, spon-sored by Walter Bickett Parent-Teacher-Student Association.

• BOY SCOUT TROOP 1, 7 p.m., First Presbyteri-an, 302 E. Windsor St. For details, call 704-764-7589.

•  BINGO, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., American Legion Post 208, Highway 75 East, Waxhaw. Jackpot, $500. b

• MEADOW BRANCH LODGE No. 578 A.F. and A.M. meeting, 7:30 p.m., Stewart Street, Wingate. Supper 6:30 p.m. Call 704-289-5911.

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Ruby GayINDIAN TRAIL

Ruby Melton Gay, 93, of Indian Trail went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Fri-day, January 15, 2010 at Presbyterian Hospital, Matthews Ruby was preceded in death by her husband George B. Gay and adopted son Gary Gay. Ruby is sur-vived by her sister Mrs. Inez Hartis.

A home going cele-bration in loving mem-ory of Ruby M. Gay will be held Monday, Janu-ary 18, 2010 at Hartis Grove Baptist Church at 11 O’clock. The fam-ily will receive friends one hour before the service. Sr. Pastor Joe Kirkpatrick III of the church will be conduct-ing the service. Burial will follow the service at Lakeland Memorial Park. Heritage Funeral and Cremation Service, Indian Trail/Matthews is serving the fam-ily. Online condolences may be left at heritage-funeral.net.

PAID OBITUARY

DEATHS

John Ross Jr.MONROE

John Edward Ross, Jr., 74 , died Monday, January 11, 2010 at home.

Born May 12, 1935, in At-lanta, Ga., he was a son of the late John E, Ross. Sr. and the late Lizzie Lucky Ross.

Survivors include a brother, James Ross of Charlotte.

Visitation will be Mon-day from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at L.D. Grier Chapel in Monroe.

Howard A. HuntleyMONROE

Howard Alexander Huntley, 62, died Mon-day, January 11, 2010, at Carolinas Medical Center-Union.

Services will be at Piney Grove East Baptist Church in Wingate on Monday, January 18, 2010 at 2 p.m. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Born April 24, 1947, in Union County, he was a son of the late John Wesley Huntley and the late Martha Cuthbertson Huntley.

Survivors include three sons, Victor Huntley, Har-old Wright and Vinson Stitt, all of Charlotte; a daughter, Yvonne Huntley of Charlotte; two broth-ers, John Huntley Jr. of Winston-Salem and Neal Huntley of Matthews; four sisters, Mable Rush and Iris Pharr of Char-lotte amd Bertha Carelock and Willie Hunter of Mat-thews; and seven grand-children.

The family will be at the home at 951 Matthews School Road, Matthews, N.C,.

Visitation will be Sun-day from 1 to 7 p.m. at L.D. Grier Memorial Chapel. HIs body will lie in re-posed for one hour before the service.

Bobby Gene EarpJEFFERSON, S.C.

Bobby “Bob” Gene Earp, 75, 5980 Steen Road, died January 16, 2010, at home.

Born in Charlotte, he was the husband of Jo-sephine “Jo” Butler Earp and a son of the late John and Janie Barker Earp.

Besides his wife, he is survived by one son, the Rev. Jimmy Earp of Guntersville, Ala.; two daugthers, Monica E. Frank of Mint Hill, and Cindy E. Stokes of Mon-roe; six granddaughters, one grandson and one great-grandson; two broth-ers, Frank “Moon” Earp of Huntersville, and Ted J. Earp of Goldsboro; two sisters, Barbara E. Atkin-son of St. Cloud, Fla. and Wanda Kaye E. Privitte of Charlotte.

In addition to his par-ents, he was preceded in death by five brothers, J. Z. Earp, Walter Earp, Troy Earp, William Earp and Louis Merritt Earp; and three sisters, Marie E. Freeman, Jean E. Fite and Blondell E. Mullis.

The family will receive friends Sunday, January 17, 2010, from 1-2 p.m., at First Baptist Church of Jefferson.

Services will follow at 2 p.m. A private interment will be held.

Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church of Jefferson, Building Fund, PO Box 247, Jefferson, SC, 29718.

White Columns of Blacksburg is serving the family. On-line condolenc-es may be sent at www.whitecolumnsfuneralser-vice.com.

Alastair Martin diesWHITE PLAINS, N.Y.

(AP) — Alastair Martin, a longtime amateur ten-nis champion who helped transform the game by opening major tourna-ments to professionals, has died. He was 94.

Martin died Tuesday of natural causes.

He was a longtime cham-pion of court tennis, a pre-decessor of modern tennis that was usually played indoors or in walled court-yards. The International Tennis Hall of Fame says he won 18 national titles in singles and doubles be-tween 1933 and 1971. Mar-tin also competed in mod-ern tennis championships in the 1930s and 1940s.

He was vice president of the U.S. Tennis As-sociation in 1967-68 and president in 1969-70, as the amateur era gave way and major tournaments opened to professionals.

Elizabeth HornePEACHLAND

Mrs. Elizabeth Arney Horne, 87, died January 14, 2010 at the Britthaven Nursing Home in Madi-son, N.C.

Services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. from the Chapel of Morgan & Son Funeral Home with burial to follow in the Peachland City Cemetery.

Born August 8, 1922, in Burke County, she was widowed by J.B. Horne in 1981 and a daughter of the late Roy and Ruth Cowan Jones.

Mrs. Horne is survived by a sister, Margaret Sher-ron of Madison, N.C.

The family will receive friends from 1 until ser-vice time on Monday.

The Morgan & Son Fu-neral Home is serving the family.

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BY TIFFANY LANEStaff Writer

MONROEFern Shubert announced Sat-

urday that she will run for the N.C. Senate.

Shubert served in the N.C. House for two terms from 1995 to 1998 and again from 2001 to 2002. She then served in the Senate until 2004.

“Next year is redistricting, and we don’t have time for on-the-job training. There’s an unfortunate tradition in North Carolina of gerrymandering,” she said, and wants to see dis-

tricts equally represented.

Soon after this year’s census, state legisla-tors will draw new districts. In the past, Union County hasn’t been treated fair-ly in the process, Shubert said.

“This region has absolutely been short-changed on state funding. We pay our taxes, but we don’t get our fair share back.”

If Shubert has any oppo-nents, they haven’t gone public yet. Filing begins Feb. 8.

Rep. Curtis Blackwood, R-Union, announced Thursday that he won’t seek a fifth term. Former county commissioner candidate Jeff Gerber plans to run for his seat.

Friday, N.C. Sen. Eddie Good-all, R-Union, said he won’t seek re-election, either. Goodall will work for the N.C. Alliance for Public Charter Schools. He de-scribes his new job as building a structure for a membership base of families and schools

and to visit schools around the state. He says he will also en-deavor to educate people what public charter schools are.

Goodall replaced Shubert when she ran for GOP nomina-tion for governor and lost 2004.

Goodall has done “a fine job,” Shubert said. “I had no desire to run until I realized that he was not going to be there.”

The two haven’t always seen eye to eye, she said, but their in-terests, especially in education, are closely aligned.

Public education “is not one size fits all” and should not be

“a political football,” she said, but cater to children’s best in-terests. If elected, she said she would promote charter schools and vocational training.

Shubert is state director of The National Right to Read Foundation and active in local politics. Last year, she spoke at tea parties in both Monroe and Raleigh.

Shubert wrote a column for The County Edge from 2005 to 2009 and served as Indian Trail’s town manager in 2006.

She works as a certified pub-lic accountant in Marshville.

Shubert seeks return trip to Raleigh, will run for state Senate

Shubert

BY JASON deBRUYNStaff Writer

INDIAN TRAILGrassroots support for

the Union County Sher-iff ’s Office is growing.

A group of people who call themselves the In-dian Trail Residents for Lower Taxes is circulat-ing a petition in support of the sheriff ’s office as the primary police protec-tion in town, rather than the town starting its own department.

Maintaining its contract with the sheriff ’s office “will keep our taxes low,” said Danny Figueroa, the groups spokesman. “We want to receive the best quality law enforcement for our tax dollar.”

Figueroa ran for town council in 2009.

Deputies patrol the en-tire county, but Indian Trail contracts with the sheriff ’s office to post ex-tra deputies dedicated to town limits.

The petition references

a 2008 University of North Carolina at Charlotte sur-vey that showed most residents felt safe in the town. Supporters of the sheriff ’s office say start-ing a police department will cost the town more money and end up raising taxes on its residents.

Some have disputed that a police department will cost more.

Jerry Wigen, chairman of the Indian Trail Citi-zens for Progress politi-cal action committee, said his position has long been that there is simply not enough definitive infor-mation. He said he does not know what a police department would cost, but that town officials should not rely so heavily on a college study. Wigen said he would like to see a study with professionals who have more experi-ence.

“Is that the right thing for our town?” he asked. “None of us really know.”

Still, support for the sheriff ’s office was wel-come by most officials.

“It certainly makes you feel good about the job you are doing and the job the officers are doing,” Sher-iff Eddie Cathey said.

Newly elected council-man Robert Allen said he was happy to hear that residents were satisfied with the services they were getting, and he sup-ports the sheriff ’s office contract. Allen was sup-ported by the Indian Trail Citizens for Progress dur-ing his campaign.

Figueroa said the group is still in its infancy but was excited to see it grow. He did not release the to-tal number petition signa-tures because he wanted to give an accurate num-ber and had not collected all the petitions around town. The last day to sign the petition is Feb. 26.

To sign the petition or for more information go to lowertaxesforit.org.

Petition backs using deputies

MONROEUnion County’s Dr. Martin

Luther King Jr. Committee is sponsoring a number of festivities for the national holiday, celebrated Monday.

The 17th annual Commu-nity Gospel Songfest is to-day at 6 p.m. at Nicey Grove

Missionary Baptist Church in Wingate. All choirs and praise teams are invited to participate.

Everyone is invited to downtown Monroe on Sun-day to see the MLK Holiday Parade at 3 p.m. An inter-denominational worship

service will be held at 6 p.m. Sunday at Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church near Waxhaw.

The committee’s main fundraiser, the MLK prayer breakfast, is Monday at Win-gate University’s LaVerne Banquet Hall. Keynote

speaker the Rev. Clifford Jones, pastor of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Charlotte, will speak at 6 a.m. The event sells out each year.

At noon Monday, groups, soloists and dancers can compete in the MLK talent

competition at Monroe’s Winchester Center Gym and Bazemore Center. The event is free and open to all area students. A light meal will be provided. Registration begins at 11:30 a.m.

For information on any events, call 704-289-1906.

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King

In case you were wonder-ing, the pony worked when we plugged it in.

We had to swap out a faulty saddle bag, but the pony ran like a thoroughbred pumped full of Mark McGwire’s left-over big-boy juice.

Let me explain. I usually write a column and move on to more pleasant and relax-ing activities, like amputat-ing my own toe. I don’t dwell on a piece after hitting the send button or reread it after it’s published because I inevi-tably find a mistake or omis-sion and begin slamming my head against the nearest solid object.

Sometimes, though, people who read the column, mostly prisoners, shut-ins and those who finish the Sudoku and don’t have anything else to do, ask me what happened next in a way that actually leads me to believe they are interested in what happened next.

“Hey, when you wrote about (fill in the blank), I kept won-dering if the guy with the monkey ever (fill in the blank) because that’s pretty much illegal in every state except Tennessee.”

And I realize I’ve written an unintended cliffhanger col-umn someone remembered after turning the page.

It happened again a few days after Christmas at the drive-through teller window when Bonnie said she wanted to know something.

“Did the pony work?”For a few seconds, I thought

this seemingly nonsensical statement was a coded mes-sage for, “Someone is robbing us. Call 911,” and I nearly sped away to avoid becoming en-tangled in a hostage situation that might take up most of my

afternoon.Then I understood. The

pony. Oh, yes, the pony col-umn.

Prior to the holidays, I wrote about buying my daughter a TV for Christmas, referring to it as a “pony” throughout so as not to spoil the surprise if she happened to read the column, which, of course, she did not.

Most people got it, except for those who informed me by e-mail that plugging a pony into an electrical outlet could be considered animal cruelty and that raising livestock at my current residence was a violation of a city ordinance.

In the piece, I explained that the pony/TV fell from the salesperson’s hand cart and hit the store parking lot pave-ment with a thud. The sales-person promised to retrieve a new pony/TV while I brought my truck around to the load-ing zone.

A cliffhanger was born.Would I actually get a new

pony/TV or would he slip me the same one that crashed to the pavement? Would a little girl’s pony/TV work when we switched it on Christmas morning, reaffirming the faith I placed in my fellow man to do as he said? Would it sit there cold and lifeless, a dark testament to my suckerness?

Would there be uncontrol-lable sobs and tears at what fate had wrought? Would my daughter be upset as well?

These questions were left unanswered - until now.

Yes, as I said at the begin-ning, the pony/TV worked. Either the salesperson had retrieved another pony/TV or the one that hit the pavement with a thud was undamaged. I embrace either of these Christmas miracles with a joyous heart.

But the cable box -- let’s call it the saddle bag/cable box if we’re going to continue to beat a dead horse here -- was anoth-er story, working for stretches of four to five hours before blinking out and requiring repeated calls to saddle bag/cable box technicians where I repeatedly was on hold for 20 to 30 minutes so I could even-tually repeat the same steps, leading me to repeat many ugly words that should not be repeated.

Following a saddle bag/ca-ble box swap and a Santa-like visit from High-Tech Sam, my brother and expert pony/TV wrangler, all was soon well and a plethora of shrill, brain-numbing images poured from the new TV, much to the de-light of us all.

So, for those who wondered, yes, the pony worked when we plugged it in.

For those who didn’t, just ignore this. Maybe there’s a Sudoku on the next page.

Scott Hollifield is editor/gen-eral manager of The McDow-ell News in Marion, N.C. and a columnist for the Media General News Service. Contact him at P.O. Box 610, Marion, N.C. 28752 or e-mail rhollifield@mcdowell-news.com.

Because good news is all too rare in our culture wars, Ameri-cans should welcome

a common-ground agreement released this week titled “Reli-gious Expression in American Public Life: A Joint Statement of Current Law.”

Drafted by a diverse group of religious-liberty advocates, educators and scholars, the document represents the first-ever consensus on how the law addresses the role of religion in the public square in the United States.

The strange bedfellows on the drafting committee – ranging from Colby May of the Ameri-can Center for Law and Justice to Marc Stern of the American Jewish Congress – don’t agree on what the law should be. But the group did reach agreement on what the law actually says. (Disclosure: I served on the drafting committee.)

Lasting many months, the long and winding drafting pro-cess was guided by the very able and diplomatic Melissa Rogers, director of Wake For-

est University Divinity School’s Center for Religion and Public Affairs. The end product pro-vides Americans with consen-sus answers to 35 key questions on the law governing religion in the workplace, religion and politics, religious displays on government and private prop-erty, religion in public schools and more. (The statement is posted online at http://divin-ity.wfu.edu/pdf/DivinityLaw-Statement.pdf)

As the document points out, much of the ignorance and confusion surrounding the role of religion in public life would likely dissipate if more Americans understood the

First Amendment’s distinction between “government speech endorsing religion, which the Establishment Clause forbids, and private speech endorsing religion, which the Free Speech and Free Exercise Clauses pro-tect,” to quote the U.S. Supreme Court (Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe, 2000).

Contrary to the charge from some on the right (and the wish of some on the left), religious ex-pression hasn’t been banished from America’s public square. In the words of the joint state-ment, “individuals and groups have the right to practice and promote their faith, not only within their homes and houses of worship, but also publicly in places such as parks, street cor-ners, the airwaves, open meet-ings and many other places subject to the same time, place and manner limits that ap-ply to other nongovernmental speech.”

This new agreement on what is and isn’t permissible under current law is modeled on com-mon-ground statements pro-duced over the past two decades

– nine in all – on the place of religion in public schools. The earlier documents have been widely used in school districts across the country to resolve conflicts and avoid litigation, thereby demonstrating the po-tential of national consensus statements to help local com-munities find their own com-mon ground.

Debate and disagreement

are vital in a democracy. But when people shout past one an-other using distorted or false interpretations of the law, de-bate can quickly degenerate into bitter and often personal attacks – and lead to unneces-sary lawsuits. If we are going to fight over religion in public life, we should at least get the facts straight.

Of course, one agreement on the state of current law, even one supported by people from all sides, won’t ensure civil discourse overnight – but it’s a start. When people who often face off in court come together and treat one another with fair-ness and respect, there’s re-newed hope that America still works.

Charles C. Haynes is senior

scholar at the First Amendment Center, 555 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001. Web: firstamendmentcenter.org. E-mail: chaynes@freedomfo-rum.org.

What the law really says about religion

A CAROLINA VIEW

Contrary to the charge from some on the right (and the wish of some on the left), religious expression hasn’t been banished from Ameri-ca’s public square.

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Barack Obama won election on a platform that includ-ed tougher air pollution standards, so no one should be surprised by new Environmental Protection Agency rules to significantly reduce smog.

What may be surprising, however, is that much of North Carolina will be out of compliance with them. If the current smog standard were reduced from 75 parts per billion to 65 or 70, much of North Carolina, includ-ing the Triad, would fail, and the state’s federal high-way money would be in jeopardy.

Smog is a combination of smoke and sulfur dioxide. Most smog originates from automobile tailpipes. Some comes from industrial and utility plant smokestacks. North Carolina’s heavy reliance on coal-powered elec-trical generation has long been a source of smog.

To their credit, the state’s utilities and political lead-ers put in place tough anti-smog standards, and the state’s two major electricity-generating utilities, Duke Energy and Progress Energy, are closing most coal-pow-ered plants, although Duke regrettably is also building a new one west of Charlotte. (Duke says it will be as clean as technology allows.) The state’s Clean Smoke-stacks Act allowed the utilities a headstart on air-qual-ity improvements. The utilities were able to pay for plant improvements without raising rates.

The legislature has also mandated that utilities de-rive more and more of their electricity from alterna-tive sources. So, a great many efforts are under way to tap wind and solar power, and to generate electricity from alternative, clean fuels that range from chicken waste to natural gas.

But the legislature has not adequately tackled the major source of smog - transportation. North Carolina needs more effective mass transit. We cannot continue to rely so heavily on the individual automobile and still have any hope of enjoying smog-free air.

The legislature should also give more serious consid-eration to adopting stricter automobile-emission stan-dards. California and many other states require cars to run much more efficiently. Higher mileage standards would be a great help in reducing smog and other pol-lutants in our air.

Efforts to eliminate smog are not limited to the appre-ciation of clear skies. Smog is bad for human health. It is a leading cause of asthma and bronchitis.

While the Obama administration concedes that meet-ing the new standards will be expensive - perhaps as much as $90 billion nationwide - it also will produce enormous savings by cutting smog. If the standards go into effect, Americans could save from $13 billion to $100 billion a year on avoided medical costs and higher worker productivity.

Tougher standards are almost certainly on their way. North Carolina will have no choice but to meet them.

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ScottHollifield

Columnist

Christmas and the rest of the story

The Enquirer-Journal Sunday, January 17, 2010 / 5A

We are alreadyhard at work

We, your Marvin Village Council, have been hard at work by having four coun-cil meetings since the new board took office in December. We won’t stop there as we have more meetings scheduled this first quarter.

Some changes have already been instituted while others are forthcom-ing. For those of you who haven’t been able to at-tend one of our meetings, we would like to give you a quick update of what we have accomplished thus far.

This council has a fidu-ciary responsibility to you the taxpayers. We have taken the first step in ad-dressing this by directing our staff to conduct an assessment of all village functions and personnel.

We will use this infor-mation to compare and benchmark the Village to its peer group in Union County. Two major line items in our budget are salaries and attorney fees. We want to make sure we are spending your tax dol-lars wisely.

Openness, transparency, and communication are goals most governments fall short of. However, in Marvin it will become a reality.

For the first time, one of the four council members will be available every Wednesday, in the Vil-lage Hall from 11a.m. to 2 p.m., or by appointment to discuss any issue that residents would like to re-view.

We believe this will give our residents an opportu-nity to meet their elected officials and establish an open door policy for the Village.

We believe in listen-ing to all of our citizens, not just special interest groups. Due to the low response rate on the Land Use Plan survey, we’ve halted further work on the plan until we can gain a higher percentage of resident’s feedback. The council has also created a conflict of interest form

which has already been signed by the mayor and council and will be given to all boards that volun-teer for our village.

Another first was achieved when the Coun-cil extended an invitation to the Homeowners Asso-ciations (HOA) Boards to schedule individual meet-ings with the Council.

The HOAs will have the opportunity to discuss is-sues and concerns most important to their indi-vidual subdivision and its residents.

This forum will assist us in building a sense of community between the village and its subdivi-sions.

On Dec. 18, a new park, recreation and greenway board was formed. We are looking for Marvin citi-zens that have a fresh out-look on developing new parks and recreational op-portunities.

In the past, this board has organized the MARES (equestrian) event, and the Council would like for this to continue. We will monitor the interest in this board and the MARES event over the next several months.

Our goal is to have bet-ter communication with you and to keep you in-formed of the progress we have made on all major initiatives in Marvin.

Nick DispeNziere, Mayor Pro Tem

This letter was also signed by three council members.

Former volunteer questions council

It’s not only what you do but how you do it, Marvin council.

“There is a volunteer form in the back of the room, sign up and volun-teer if you want green-ways in Marvin.” This was Councilman Ron Sali-mao’s response at the Jan-uary Village of Marvin’s council meeting after the four council members were chastised by numer-ous people who spoke out against the new council’s decision to disband the Park, Greenway and Rec-reational Advisory Board (PGRAB). If he thinks that people are going to re-spond to that form of chal-lenge or harsh request, then he has no idea. You need a leader to organize people and to make sure materials get ordered to build these trails and bridges.

If they think that Coun-cilman Anthony Burman can step into ex-PGRAB chairman Ray Williams’ shoes then you have no idea. They are huge shoes fto fill. Besides needing a leader, you need muscle,

manpower, determination and know how to get the job done correctly and for a fraction of the cost that any company could do it for. That’s why it’s called volunteering.

That’s exactly what chairman Ray Williams did well. The Village of Marvin disbanded the old

PGRAB at their first meet-ing after two new mem-bers, Anthony Burman and Ron Salimao, were sworn in, without any discussion, or rather any public discussion. What was discussed behind closed doors, only Nick Dispenziere, Terri Patton, Anthony Burman and Ron Salimao) would know.

Terri Patton said at a special meeting shortly af-ter disbanding the PGRAB that the council should start “community build-ing.” Someone should tell her this is not the way to do it. The last official sur-vey showed that 85 percent of residents want some form of park, greenway or trail system.

The new council has formed another board called Parks, Recreation and Greenways and has advertised for Marvin residents only to apply. To date no one has applied and rightfully so. Would you walk into the wolf ’s den knowing you stand the chance of been chomped?

The old PGRAB is a good group from the Mar-vin and unincorporated

Marvin areas that served as volunteers not only on the board but some who got down-and-dirty and built trails and bridges.

The council sanctioned the Parks and Greenways Master Plan in 2008. Will the new council stand by that master plan or will Terri Patton and Co. waste taxpayers money on changing that plan or scraping it completely to suit themselves?

PGRAB was merely an advisory board to the council and all laws and regulations were passed by the council. The coun-cil has still not given any reason why they disband-ed a volunteer board that reported to them.

Now they want new vol-unteers. Good luck, coun-cil members.

Towns within Union County used to defer to Marvin’s PGRAB and used our Master Plan com-pleted in 2008 as a valuable tool and wanted to emu-late the Marvin Parks and Greenway system in their own towns.

Dale Williams Ex co-vice chairman

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of the space with the state Division of Community Corrections.

The state prison would need renovations — it is without central air, for example. However, the fa-cility could be converted within county’s financial capability, Cathey said.

In a response letter to Cathey, Director of Engi-neering with the N.C. De-partment of Corrections William Stovall wrote that the Department of Corrections is required to consult with the legis-lature and has to operate in accordance with N.C. Property Office guide-

lines. Transfer of the property

would have to go through the Department of Ad-ministration. Jill Lucas, an information officer for the department, said the Department of Correc-tions will release a report on all the empty prisons by Feb. 1. Until then, she said, no decisions can be made.

According to county records, the 52.468-acre property has a land value of about $2 million, with the total market value of the property equaling ap-proximately $3.5 million.

Commissioners have said they are eager to ex-pand jail capacity and are considering other alterna-tives as well.

MungoContinued from Page 1A

wife didn’t raise an eyebrow.“If someone asks him to do some-

thing, he does it,” his wife, Loma Mun-go said, adding that his dedication to his family runs just as deep. The couple has five children, 10 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

“He’s a deserving candidate, ... uncle or not,” his nephew, Eric Mungo, said. “He thinks of others before he thinks of himself.”

James Mungo, 74, was born in Mon-roe, one of seven children. His father died when he was 5 and his older broth-ers and sisters quit school to help his mother take care of the children and household chores. Without reliable transportation, James Mungo said his family walked a lot.

He graduated from Winchester High School in 1954 and served in the U.S. Air Force from 1954 to 1958. He later at-tended Central Piedmont Community College to study auto body repair.

When he got arthritis, James Mungo stopped painting cars and worked for Oro Manufacturing Co. spray painting computer and aircraft parts. He retired in 1998.

“He’s such a jovial guy, ... on the golf course or at church,” Heath said.

James Mungo may be modest, but

did claim bragging rights on the golf course this week.

“I won the bragging rights trophy,” he said with an infectious laugh. He and a dozen friends play golf Monday mornings and pass around a traveling trophy to whoever comes out with the best score. James Mungo describes the trophy as “a little man on a little pedes-tal with golf clubs in hand.”

Eric Mungo said it was his uncle who taught him how to play. The pair get along great on the green, but watching football is another story. Eric Mungo roots for the Dallas Cowboys; his uncle is a die-hard Indianapolis Colts fan.

When the TV isn’t on a football game, Loma Mungo said her husband loves to watch westerns and ministry pro-grams.

Three months ago, James Mungo was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Mo-ments after walking in the door from a trip to the hospital, he said it has slowed down his volunteering, but has no plans to stop altogether.

“Hopefully they can get me straight-ened out,” he said, giving another hearty laugh.

A banquet for James Mungo will be held at 7 p.m. March 20 at Wingate Uni-versity’s LaVerne Hall. Tickets are $25 per person or $200 for a table of eight. Proceeds go to A Few Good Men’s schol-arship fund, given to Union County stu-dents.

BY JASON deBRUYNStaff Writer

MONROEWhile commission-

ers are looking at taking over more space to house inmates, jail officials are looking for ways to keep the jail population down.

The jail has been “clas-sification full” for a year, something District Attor-ney John Snyder said is a symptom of a growing county.

Current commissioners blamed previous boards for not having the proper foresight to expand the jail sooner, but now have to find ways to fit inmates in the jail.

Commissioner Kim Rog-ers said they might con-sider modular units for low-risk inmates.

Jail Administrator Capt. Ronnie Whitaker said the jail was piloting a pro-gram that would release inmates before trial on a sort of parole-like basis. That inmate would have to check in periodically, but would not be forced to stay at the jail. An admin-istrator has been hired and is examining prisoner records to see who would qualify for such a release.

From the district at-torney’s side, Snyder said his office was doing all it could to move criminals through. Due to budget cuts at the county level, he has one fewer prosecutor to move cases through; one assistant district attorney is dedicated to looking at who is in jail and under what charges. If someone is being held under minor charges, that attorney will work to get that inmate moved through the courts.

Slowing that process, however, are inmates who have private representa-tion. It can be more diffi-cult to move a case when the prosecutor must wait for the defense attorney’s schedule, Snyder said.

Man charged in murderof woman found at hotel

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (AP) — Police say a man wanted in the killing of a woman found dead in a North Caro-lina hotel was arrested after hospital employees recognized him from media reports.

Authorities told the Rocky Mount Telegram that 41-year-old Ronald Ricks Jr. was arrested Friday after he was released from Wake Medical Center in Raleigh for an undisclosed medical problem.

Investigators say workers at the hos-pital recognized Ricks when he was ad-mitted late Thursday.

Ricks is charged with first-degree murder in the killing of 38-year-old Me-lissa Jo Wise. Her body was found in a Rocky Mount hotel room Wednesday by a housekeeper.

Ricks is being held in the Nash Coun-ty jail. It wasn’t immediately clear if he had an attorney.

War resister has beenreleased from prison

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — A U.S. soldier who tried to go to Canada to avoid being deployed to Iraq has been released from a military prison after

serving nearly a year for desertion.The War Resisters Support Campaign

says that Cliff Cornell left a prison at Camp Lejeune on Saturday and is try-ing to return to Canada.

The solider from Mountain Home, Ark., went to Canada in January 2005, a month before his 3rd Infantry Division unit was scheduled to deploy to Iraq.

Cornell said he feared for his own life and couldn’t stomach the thought of killing. He returned to the U.S. when Canada refused his refugee status.

Man dies on interstatetrying to retrieve ladder

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say a man trying to get a ladder that fell off his truck out of a busy North Caro-lina highway was struck and killed on Interstate 40.

Police told The News & Observer of Raleigh that 43-year-old Gregory Miles of Zebulon was hit by two vehicles around 7:30 a.m. Friday on I-40 near Ra-leigh.

Investigators say Miles was trying to get the ladder out of the road and had parked his truck a short distance away.

Drivers of both vehicles that struck Miles stopped and will not be charged.

The incident snarled rush hour traf-fic, as two lanes of eastbound I-40 were closed for three hours.

DA, county officials work to keep jail population low

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Charlotte cyclists Scott Lindblom and Bill Preston take a break Saturday afternoon under a huge, leafless tree in Waxhaw. The town has applied to earn the “Tree City USA” designation.

BY ELISABETH ARRIEROStaff Writer

MONROEWaxhaw residents love their

trees. The town applied to become a

Tree City USA in December. If ap-proved, Waxhaw will receive assis-tance and national recognition for its urban and community forestry program.

Communities are expected to re-ceive official notification of their Tree Cty USA status within the next couple of weeks, town planner LeRae Davis said.

“The designation is part of our overall tree preservation project,” Denise Kuntz, chairwoman of the Beautification Committee, said. “It’s to show Waxhaw is taking steps to preserve them.”

She hopes the distinction will help the town get funding in the fu-ture.

In order to be considered for the title, towns must proclaim an of-ficial Arbor Day and show that they’ve already spent a significant amount of time working on the maintenance of their trees.

Specifically, The Arbor Day Foun-dation and the National Association

of State Foresters said Tree City’s must have a tree board or depart-ment, have a tree care ordinance and have a community forestry pro-gram with an annual budget of at least $2 per capita.

Kuntz said the committee has

spent several hours learning how to tell if a tree is viable or hazardous from urban forester David Grant.

Waxhaw’s Arbor Day will be the first Friday after March 15 of every year.

The possible distinction is the latest move the town has made to protect and acknowledge its many trees. In fall 2009, the town received a $10,950 grant from N.C. Urban and Community Forestry.

The town used the money to cre-ate an inventory of trees in down-town Waxhaw as well as select ar-eas.

“Once we’ve mapped it out, it will help us know which trees are pri-orities as far as maintenance and care,” Davis said.

Some older trees are well-known in the community because of the stories attached to them,” Kuntz said.

Waxhaw’s first mayor, James C. Davis, used to give legal advice to residents under two oak trees on North Providence Road, Commis-sioner Joyce Blythe said.

“He didn’t have an office for a while,” she said. “So he practiced law under those big ol’ trees that are still standing there.”

Waxhaw wants Tree City title

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BY RICHELLE BAILEYMedia General News Service

Even though meth lab busts increased slightly in North Carolina in 2009, the numbers continue to plummet in McDow-ell, which held the top spot in the state for lab seizures three years running.

Despite North Carolina’s small jump from 195 busts in 2008 to 206 in 2009, the total number of labs found in the state remains 40 percent lower than in 2005, when authorities uncovered 328.

“The decrease in the number of labs is due to a combination of factors,” said Lt. Shanon Smith, who heads the McDowell County Sheriff ’s Office’s narcotics unit. “The new law makes it more difficult for people to buy pseudoephedrine. Sec-ond, local, state and federal authorities have cracked down on them in McDowell County. More than 50 of our meth cooks got lengthy federal prison sentences of eight to 20 years.”

Smith said he and his detectives have seen an influx in crystal meth -- the pur-est form of the drug - being transported into the county.

“Why should they cook it when it’s just a phone call away?” Smith stated.

Meth is a highly addictive illegal drug

that can be cooked in labs located in homes, apartments, motel rooms and cars. They contain hazardous chemicals that can catch fire or explode.

Statistics from the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation show McDowell authori-ties busted one lab in 2001, seven in 2002, seven in 2003, 43 in 2004 (tied with Ruther-ford County for No. 1 in the state), 61 in 2005 (No. 1 in the state), 25 in 2006 (No. 1 in the state), five in 2007, six in 2008 and two in 2009.

“We’re realistic. We know we’ve still got some meth in the county,” said the lieutenant. “But the information we get concerning labs has dwindled down to nearly nothing. In 2004 and 2005, you could walk outside and throw a rock and it would land on a meth lab. We rarely get information anymore because the who’s who among meth cooks in this county is in federal prison.”

Meth labs peaked in North Carolina in 2005, with 328 discovered that year. The number of labs dropped significantly starting in 2006, due in large part to a law that Attorney General Roy Cooper ad-vocated to cut criminals’ access to pseu-doephedrine, the key ingredient used to make meth.

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Jan. 17, 2010

ASTRO-GRAPHBy Bernice Bede Osol

If you’ve felt stymied with things over which you’ve had little control in the past, be of stout heart. Everything is about to change in the year ahead, turning former obstacles into steppingstones to huge success.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- This is one of those days when making friends is likely to be eas-ier for everyone, including you. Two people in particular could become real good pals.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- If something is in the pipeline from which you could derive sub-stantial gains, deal with it now. You are especially fortunate with regard to material affairs.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Although you do well in joint endeavors, it is likely that you will gain more from individual activities at this time. If possible, be your own person.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- You might not know it, but some-one who cares a great deal is trying to put something together that will please you. When you hear about it, you will be happy.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Dare to be an optimistic vision-

ary because Lady Luck is clearly in your corner right now. You have plenty of justification for your high hopes and great ex-pectations.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- You must have done something well lately because several peo-ple with real clout are speaking on your behalf to make sure that you get exactly what you’re go-ing after.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Hang out with the gang if you get the opportunity because your greatest benefits will come during a social situation. Keep a smile on your face, and have a kind word for everyone.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Even though you might be involved in working on behalf of another, you will somehow benefit in the process as well -- and quite handsomely, too.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Put the emphasis on the positive when making an analytical eval-uation of something vital to sev-eral people. It will help everyone concentrate on what’s good and enhance the chance for success.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Al-though your initial goal is to be of service to another, a unique twist could put you in a unique position of coming out as the pri-mary beneficiary.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)

-- If you have felt left out of the romance department lately, don’t despair -- things could take a turn of the best. Cupid has singled you out to meet someone special.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Whether this is a workday or not, you’re in line for a spe-cial bonus for something you do quite well. It could be a prize for being exceptional at a sport or a game.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Your mind is always open and receptive to new informa-tion. You are likely to hear about something that could be put to profitable use. Stay alert.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Opportunities likely to escape others won’t get past your sharp mind. Something you hear might not be gargantuan to most, but it could be significant to you.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- If you are inclined to socialize, seek out a companion who shares your interests. Something of value could be learned through an exchange of ideas and sug-gestions.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Many things may be said to you, but you’re sharp enough to sin-

gle out what is meaningful and work solely with those pieces of information that can further your aims.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Both co-workers and friends will have a great deal of respect for your views and opinions, be-cause when you speak, common sense propels your words.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Although a lot of what you do may not stem from original thinking, you’ll be quite astute at taking the ideas of others and applying them toward a current project.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- A frank discussion with a team-mate might resolve a problem that keeps creeping up, especially if that person is secure enough to share what he or she knows. Do your part to put others at ease.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- You have a faculty for translating complex issues into simple and understandable language. Proj-ects that require a lot of brain-power will be your cup of tea.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Tact and diplomacy are two of the most effective elements you can use to get through life more smoothly. You might find yourself in a situation where you’ll prove this to be fact.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- You’ll respond quite readily to new ideas that you believe could benefit your work or career. This will be especially true if they pertain to ways to advance your career.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Schedule an agenda that would satisfy your restless spirit, es-pecially if your plans pertain to more social interaction than that which is work-related. The more friends in your life, the merrier you’ll be.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Scan your junk mail for something that could provide a promotional idea for a cur-rent project. There is a unique concept out there waiting to be discovered.

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las Chad Drake was 5 years old on Dec. 18, 2009. He is the son of Chad and Amy Drake of M o n r o e . His grandparents are Ken-neth and Margaret Stegall of Monroe and Lynn and Vickie Drake of Monroe.

Nick’s great-grand-parents are Mr. and Mrs. Morris Greene and Betty Drake of Monroe and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Stegall and Betty Lee of Marsh-ville.

Brady DrakeBrady Nathaniel Drake

was 4 years old on Nov. 25, 2009. He is the son of Chad and Amy Drake of Monroe. His grand-parents are K e n n e t h and Marga-ret Stegall of Monroe and Lynn and Vickie Drake of Monroe.

Brady’s great-grand-parents are Mr. and Mrs. Morris Greene and Betty Drake of Monroe and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Stegall and Betty Lee of Marsh-ville.

Christopher Michael Moser

Christopher Michael Moser was 12 years old on Jan. 11, 2010. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mi-chael Lynn Moser (Mi-chelle Scott) of Monroe. His grand-parents are Joyce Bivens of Monroe and Sally Scott of Char-lotte.

Kyle Matthew Philemon

Kyle Matthew Philemon was 2 years old on Dec. 27, 2009. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Matthew P h i l e m o n (Ada Lou-etta Devine) of Union-ville. His g r a n d p a r-ents are Mr. and Mrs. Danny Phi-lemon of Unionville and Mr. and Mrs. Ned Devine of Iron Station.

Kyle’s great-grandpar-ents are Blondell Lane of Indian Trail, Heath Phi-lemon of Indian Trail, Rhyne Reel of Iron Sta-tion and Madge Devine of Iron Station.

Michael Phoenix Smith

Michael Phoenix Smith was 1 year old Jan. 6, 2010. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Jacob Smith ( S h a n a D a n i e l l e Greene) of M o n r o e . His grand-p a r e n t s are Jeffery G r e e n e and Donna W i l l i a m s of Monroe and Mike Smith and Bev-erly Smith of Monroe.

Phoenix’s great-grand-parents are Margie Greene of Monroe and Willie and Evelyn Smith of Charlotte.

Austin JamesDorton

Austin James Dorton was 12 years old Dec. 30, 2010. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Rich-ard Dor-ton (Nikki Tucker) of M o n r o e . His grand-parents are Mr. and Mrs. Logan Tucker of Monroe and Jerry Dorton and Elaine Barnette of Monroe.

Austin’s great-grand-parents is Colon Tucker of Monroe.

Angel Rayannah Boulware

Angel Rayannah Boul-ware will be 7 years old Feb. 8, 2010. She is the d a u g h t e r of Mr. and Mrs. Ray-mond Boul-ware (San-dra Irving) of Wedding-ton. Her grandparents are James and Ruth Irving of Monroe and Gloria White of Kannapolis.

Masyn D.SegeeJoanna Bess and Adam

Segee of Marshville an-nounce the birth of their son, Masyn Dowde, on Dec. 28, 2009, at Carolinas Medical Center-Union in Monroe. Masyn weighed 9 pounds 5 ounces and was 22 inches long.

His grandparents are Ken and Debbie Bess of Marshville, Blaine and Karla Segee of Wingate and Sonya and Tim Mor-ton of Monroe.

He is the great-grand-child of Neil Bess of Marshville, Bill and Helen Cox of Monroe, Roy and Margaret Segee of Char-lotte and Thurman Wil-loughby of Rockholds, Ky.

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Ashley Dawn YoungShaun Franklin Mangum

Young-Mangum Eddie Timmons of

Hartsville, S.C., and Ron-da Young of Monroe an-nounce the engagement of their daughter, Ashley Dawn Young, to Shaun Franklin Mangum.

Ashley graduated from Tabernacle Chris-tian High School in 2002 and from South Piedmont Community College in 2004. She is employed by United Sleep Medicine in Charlotte.

Her fiance is the son of Johnny and Patsy Mangum of Monroe. He is a 1997 graduate of Park-wood High School. He is employed by Union Coun-ty Public Schools.

A June 12, 2010, wed-ding is planned at Em-manuel Baptist Church in Monroe.

DEAR ABBY: After an on-again off-again affair with a married man for al-most 10 years, our relationship finally ended today.

During the time we “messed around,” I lost most of my friends because we socialized in the same cir-cles, and I felt ashamed of what I was doing, so I stopped going around with any of them. So here I sit, lonely and embarrassed.

How do I explain to people I meet why I don’t have many friends? I know time heals, and I need to focus on the good things in my life and move for-ward, but I feel isolated and stupid.

I never asked him to leave his wife nor did he promise he would. It was just a one-night stand that went on way too long. I did have relationships in between, but I’d always go back to him.

Can you please give me some sugges-tions on how to rebuild my self-esteem and learn to love myself again? -- KICKING MYSELF IN CALIFORNIA

DEAR KICKING YOURSELF: Glad-ly. A giant step in the right direction would be to stop kicking yourself be-cause you appear to be plenty bruised already. Then, instead of isolating yourself, get out and get busy: Join a gym. Scout out organizations where you can volunteer.

No one will know whether you have dozens of friends or only a few -- and don’t volunteer the information be-cause it’s no one’s business.

Take a class or two. Join a church if you feel you need spiritual guidance. And make a vow never to involve your-self with a married man again.

***DEAR ABBY: I work for a veterinar-

ian, and I would appreciate it if you would please print some “tips” for pet owners to make their visits go more smoothly.

1. When you call for an appointment, please give us YOUR name. Do not say, “This is Fluffy’s mother,” because we care for 23 cute, cuddly cats named Fluffy and also a couple of Pomerani-ans.

2. Always have your dog on a leash and your cat in a cat carrier. If you don’t own one, place him/her in a card-board box taped firmly shut. Cats are more secure in an enclosed space, so it will be calmer during the visit. Loose

cats can bolt at the sight of a strange person or pet and become injured, or even dash out an open door.

3. Please do not bring your other pets along “for company.” It is distracting for you and also for the pet who is be-ing seen. Also, it’s important that you be able to fully concentrate on every-thing the doctor has to say.

4. Please do NOT offer advice to oth-ers who are waiting.

5. DO ask us about anything you’re curious or worried about. We have heard it all and won’t be shocked, em-barrassed or think you are “dumb.” It is our job to make sure you are com-fortable and knowledgeable about your pet. Feel free to tell us the funny thing he did this week, or how she comforted you. We love to hear about our “patients.” -- FRONT DESK LADY

DEAR LADY: I hope my read-ers with pets will take your intelligent suggestions to heart. And I’m betting that your list of “tips” will be posted in veterinary practices far and wide. Thank you for sending them.

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Editor’s note: The Enquirer-Journal is following Hannah throughout the semester with monthly updates and excerpts from her blog.

BY TIFFANY LANEStaff Writer

MONROEForest Hills High School se-

nior Hannah Potter has less than a month left in Egypt. Potter attends Misr Language Schools near Cairo, where she began her studies last fall.

Used to playing sports and serving various student clubs at Forest Hills, she keeps her schedule full with Arabic les-sons and volunteering with younger school children. Pas-times have included an array of activities, from playing ping pong and seeing “New Moon” to attending prayer at a mosque and bargaining (in Arabic) for silver charms in the market-place.

Potter received a scholarship from the National Security Language Initiative for Youth to fund her studies. She hopes to pursue humanitarian work after high school.

Q: You saw a sheep sacri-ficed in the street during Eid, a holiday about a prophet in-structed to kill his son, then commanded to kill a sheep instead. How are Muslim re-ligious traditions different from and the same as Chris-tian ones? Which are you more comfortable with? Do you spend a lot of time with other Christians?

A: “Many of the stories from the Bible and the Koran paral-lel. Many of the beliefs, stories, and of course the values are the same in both religions as with many religions throughout the world. These similarities show

us that there is no point in all the arguing and competition amongst religions. We are all one people. ... In Islam, there are five pillars of religion: dai-ly prayer, pilgrimage to Mecca, fasting during Ramadan, giv-ing to the needy and belief in one God and the prophets Mo-hamed, Jesus and Moses. Most of the Muslims in Egypt are

Sunni Muslims, so most of the traditions I have become aware of are from this division of Is-lam. ... The main message of Is-lam that I have observed is com-passion, service and awareness of the well being of the people around you. Peace is another element that is highly empha-sized. Every time one greets another, they are wishing peace

upon the other. Of course, I am more comfortable with my reli-gious traditions, but I am very comfortable with Islam and its followers. I do spend a lot of time with Christians because many of my friends from my program are Christian.”

Q: During a soccer match between Egypt and Algeria, Cairo and the surrounding areas went crazy with fan-fare, waving flags, dancing in the streets and yelling from the rooftops for their home team. Being a soccer player yourself, have you become attached to their teams?

A: “When they won the first match, the streets were filled with people dancing, shouting, and being very excited. When they lost the second match against Algeria, the scene was the complete opposite. The streets were quiet, and in fol-lowing days there were actu-ally huge riots in some parts of the city. ... I don’t really watch soccer on the TV back home, but here there is not much of a way you can avoid it. After Ara-bic the other night, Egypt was playing Nigeria in the African Cup, and walking through the streets, I saw groups of men and children crowded around TVs watching the match and loud cheers could be heard, and you knew someone scored. I enjoy the excitement and sup-port the citizens of Egypt have for its team. There is so much unity.”

Q: You travel by taxi sever-al times a week. Do you drive yourself at home or rely on public transportation? If you do drive at home, do you miss it, or will you miss the taxis once you leave Egypt?

A: “Before coming to Egypt, I had never rode in a taxi in

my life. Living in Cairo, I don’t know how I would live without it, the metro or microbuses. I take around 20 taxis a week. Taxis are so convenient and it is always kind of interesting to see how the ride will go. At home, I do not drive, and I don’t depend on public transporta-tion because there really is not any. My parents and friends have always been good to me and taken me where I needed to go. I may get my license when I get back, but I am not sure. If not, hopefully everyone will be as helpful as they have in the past, ha.”

Q: Last month, you visited the Great Pyramids of Giza where you saw the Sphinx, came face to face with an-cient mummies and rode a camel. How do pure Egyp-tian experiences like that make you feel about heading home next month?

A: “Visiting the pyramids was unbelievable because it was amazing to think that these monuments had been built so long ago. I pass by them every-day to school, but being right beside them and touching them was remarkable. While we were there, my friend and I were say-ing, ‘It is our winter break and we are at the pyramids. How many people can do that?’ ... It is so crazy to think that the civilization in Egypt was one of the first ones to exist, and still today it is thriving with such a rich culture and atmosphere. These experiences are irre-placeable, and I feel like I have learned so much. Going home will surely be a transition, but I have my family and friends to look forward to. I really appre-ciate the opportunity I have to be on this journey, and is surely one that will affect the rest of my life.”

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Hannah Potter of Union County stands at the pyramids and looks over a camel during her semester studying in Egypt.

Nov. 8, School in Egypt“There are around eight other

kids on my bus ranging from first grade up. ... On the way to school I judge the smog level by noticing how soon I can see the pyramids. ...

“Our school has five divisions: the national, French, special needs, British and American. ... Morning lines is at 7:45. The Koran is read for around five minutes while we all stand. Then we chant something in Arabic that translates to ‘I am proud to live in Egypt.’ ...

“The main focus for students in this system is mainly to do well on the SAT. ... My host sister, who is in her last year of high school has probably eight private lessons a week in multiple subjects. She, however, doesn’t go to school much because she doesn’t gain any ben-efit from being there.

“The first few weeks I was very

frustrated with the manner that my classmates behaved. It was shock-ing to see how they disrespected the teachers and the level of apathy that they had toward their school work. After around two weeks, the students started acting better and I became more used to their behav-ior. Now, we have become friends for the most part. ...

Nov. 20, Halfway“There have been plenty of chal-

lenges in this journey, and times where I have felt like giving up. It was all worth it though, and I can-not imagine not being here. I just have this feeling that this is where I am really supposed to be. ...

“In Egypt I have made some friends that I know will be my friends for the rest of my life. We care for each other so much, and have helped each other through

the school frustrations, host fam-ily moves, culture conflicts, Arabic struggles, and everyday troubles. ... There is always something new to do or a new place to go to. ... Never really having set plans has made me so much more relaxed.”

Dec. 22, Talks in Taxis“The very first day of Arabic, our

teacher taught us how to say we are not married because we are too young. ... After learning our names and ages, many taxi drivers quick-ly shift the conversation to asking whether we are married. ... Many taxi drivers are very glad when I tell them I am from America. They immediately begin to talk about how Obama is ‘helwa’ (great), and Bush is ‘wahesh’ (very bad). Many drivers also love Jimmy Carter. ... He is the one who sealed the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.”

Excerpts from Hannah Potter’s blog

10A / Sunday, January 17, 2010 The Enquirer-Journal

MONROEA show for the bikers

of the union county area. That was the idea back in April of this year. When Mike heafner and stan gordon sat down and worked out the details on what was a “first” in our area. six months later, the show is going strong and enjoys a large list-ner base. Over the past months, many guests have been featured on this radio show that caters to the bikers, dirt enthusi-asts, racers and celebri-ties of the motorcycle community. We start out with a little music and an intro that gives the high-lights of the show. Local musicians of the band, Rekless Youth opened the show with their single “The Rest of My Life” for the first several months of the show’s airing. You see part of the whole ob-jective in this project was to highlight local people in their efforts to excel in the various venues of the

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The show features stan gordon (known as big Daddy stan), Mike heaf-ner as himself and Lau-ren gordon of iron horse. Lauren has grown up in the motorcycle business. Many people think Lau-ren is Mike’s daughter but in fact she is the daughter of stan and sherry gor-don of Wingate. Lauren is featured on the show each week as she brings the weekly trivia question and events calendar. she also handles the business end of the show.

When asked why they call him “big Daddy stan”, he explains i’ve got three of the best kids around and i’m a little larger than i should be, so, it is what it is.

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Mike has a quality that most people recognize, who knows him. he lis-tens to what you tell him about your experiences and makes you feel like what you’ve done is some-thing big. he promotes.

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Tobacco triesto avoid finesby government

WAshiNgTON (Ap) — Tobacco industry law-yers met secretly with solicitor general Elena Kagan in an effort to avoid the government’s last-ditch attempt to extract billions from companies that illegally concealed the dangers of cigarette smoking, The Associated press has learned.

Four cigarette mak-ers that control nearly 90 percent of u.s. retail cigarette sales have un-til Feb. 19 to persuade the government not to go to the supreme court and ask the justices to step into a landmark 10-year-old racketeering lawsuit.

in 2006, a judge ruled that the industry con-cealed the dangers of smoking for decades. Despite that finding, lower courts have said the government is not entitled to collect $280 billion in past profits or $14 billion for a national campaign to curb smok-ing.

As part of any effort to convince the govern-ment that it should skip a trip to the supreme court, the tobacco com-panies may have to drop plans to ask the justices to overturn the ruling that the industry en-gaged in racketeering.

On behalf of the in-dustry, Washington law-yers Michael carvin and Miguel Estrada made their pitch against seek-ing supreme court re-view in a mid-December meeting at the justice Department with Ka-gan, according to two Washington attorneys.

in the meeting, carvin and Estrada left the im-pression the industry might be willing to end plans to seek a high court appeal of its own, if the justice Depart-ment would do the same, said the Washington at-torneys, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

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The Enquirer-Journal Sunday, January 17, 2010 / 11A

WASHINGTON (AP) — The ill winds of an angry electorate are blowing against Democrats, the warning signs clear in a closer-than-expected Mas-sachusetts Senate race that may doom President Barack Obama’s health care agenda and foreshad-ow the party’s election prospects this fall.

Anti-incumbent, anti-establishment sentiment is rampant. Independents are leaving Obama. Re-publicans are energized. Democrats are subdued. None of it bodes well for the party in power.

“It’s going to be a hard November for Demo-crats,” Howard Dean, the Democratic Party chair-man in the 2006 and 2008 elections when the party took control of the White House and Congress, told The Associated Press in an interview. “Our base is demoralized.”

While he praised Obama as a good presi-dent, Dean said the Demo-crat hasn’t turned out to be the “change agent” the party thought it elected, and voters who supported Democrats in back-to-back elections now are turned off. Said Dean: “They real-ly thought the revolution was at hand but it wasn’t, and now they’re getting the back of the hand.”

Just how much voters have soured since Obama took over a country in cha-os is reflected in the presi-dent’s late-game decision to rush to Massachusetts on Sunday to try to stave off an extraordinary Re-publican upset in the race for a Senate seat held by Democrats for more than half a century.

Obama faced a no-win situation as he pondered whether to campaign with Democrat Martha Coakley. Had he decided against going, he would have enraged the base and been blamed if she lost. But a Coakley defeat fol-lowing a presidential visit would be embarrassing, raising questions about Obama’s popularity and political muscle.

Once heavily favored to cruise to victory, Coakley is in a tight fight with Re-publican Scott Brown, a little-known state senator, for the race to fill the seat left vacant when Sen. Ed-ward M. Kennedy died.

Losing the race would cost the Democrats their

60-vote coalition in the Senate. The president has been relying on that big edge to stop Republi-can filibusters and pass not only his health care overhaul but also the rest of his legislative agenda heading into the first elections since he took office.

A Suffolk University poll released late Thurs-day showed Brown with 50 percent of the vote and Coakley with 46 percent. The survey indicated that Brown’s supporters — a mix of disaffected Demo-crats, a large number of Republicans and a major-ity of independents — are far more enthusiastic than Coakley’s backers.

Voters are down on Washington. They are deeply divided over the health care plan in Con-gress and a majority thinks the country is on the wrong track. Nearly all remain anxious about the prolonged recession even though there are signs of recovery. Only about half approve of Obama’s job performance. Excessive spending and big govern-ment irk them. They’ve lost faith in institutions.

It was that same brew that helped Republican Chris Christie topple Democratic Gov. Jon Cor-zine in New Jersey, and Republican Bob McDon-nell overtake Democrat Creigh Deeds in Virginia. Those victories coupled with Tuesday’s vote in Massachusetts have Re-publicans and Democrats alike predicting a good GOP year in 2010 and a tough one for Democrats.

Democrats are likely to be punished more because they hold power. But the GOP also is feeling the ef-fects, as seen in the “tea party” movement whose followers are challenging establishment candidates in primaries nationwide.

“Washington is just not in touch,” Dean said. And now, he said, the tables have turned: “Republi-cans are unified against Democrats the way we were against them when Bush was president.”

In the country at large, a new Allstate/National Journal Heartland Moni-tor survey found that the public’s yearslong shift against institutions is in overdrive, fueling anti-es-tablishment sentiment. It also showed that Obama

has lost his luster — his job performance rating is at 47 percent — amid a belief that his admin-istration’s response to the recession has favored the wealthy and powerful over the middle class and average families.

The survey showed that people have little trust in any institution. They gave bottom-barrel ratings to government, major cor-porations, and financial entities. Many people say the country is heading the wrong way, levels similar to those during the George W. Bush years.

All that adds up to a warning for Democratic candidates — for politi-cians of any stripes, for that matter.

Passing Obama’s legis-lative priorities would be-come much more difficult with fewer seats. If Coak-ley does poorly but ekes out a victory, moderate Democrats in Congress may think twice about falling in lockstep behind the White House.

The public’s mood also could scare off establish-ment Democrats consider-ing entering races, such as

Beau Biden for Delaware’s open Senate seat, or cause

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Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, to retire.

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12A / Sunday, January 17, 2010 The Enquirer-Journal

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton was in a Honolulu hotel lobby and getting ready to fly to the South Pacific when she finished a se-ries of cell phone calls to Washington. The trip was still on, the secretary of state told reporters, de-spite the terrible earth-quake in Haiti almost a day earlier.

A few hours later she was hightailing it back to Washington.

The sudden change epit-omized the initial uncer-tainty, in the White House and elsewhere in govern-ment, about the scale of the disaster, the challenge of mounting a sufficient response and the risk that

the administration would be seen as not taking it se-riously enough.

President Barack Obama responded with urgency and the White House made sure people knew it.

But in those initial hours after the quake hit, shortly before 5 p.m. Tues-day, no one knew just how bad it was. “Biblical,” Clinton said of the dev-astation in Haiti, where she had honeymooned 34 years ago.

Communications were so thoroughly severed that Obama had trouble reaching President Rene Preval. Death and damage assessments were hard to come by.

“We do not have the kind of information yet that gives us a road map as to how we’re going to be able to respond effec-tively,” Clinton told re-porters in Hawaii at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday. She spent about the next four hours down the road at U.S. Pa-cific Command headquar-ters and emerged to say she would return imme-diately to Washington.

Although a response plan was still in the mak-ing, the military wasted no time preparing for what its leaders expected to become a taxing mis-sion of disaster relief, search-and-rescue and possibly street security.

Lt. Gen. Philip Breed- love, the Air Force’s dep-uty chief of staff for op-erations, got a midnight phone call Tuesday in Washington. It was his job to start pulling togeth-er air transportation and logistics experts.

By sheer coincidence, a senior Army general based in Miami happened to be in Haiti when the quake struck. Lt. Gen. Ken Keen, a deputy chief of U.S. Southern Com-mand, instantly became the chief architect of the military’s response plan. He would coordinate op-erations from the broken airfield at Port-au-Prince, the capital.

At the White House in the first hours after the 7.0-magnitude quake, Obama was twice briefed on the situation. At 10 p.m. Tuesday, his deputy national security adviser, Tom Donilon, convened a Situation Room session with national security and military officials.

That evening, the White House released a state-ment from the president in which he expressed sympathy for the victims

and said his government stood ready to assist. The White House said Obama was told about the quake at 5:52 p.m. EST Tuesday, about an hour after it struck, while conducting an Oval Office meeting on health care legislation. In his written statement, he emphasized the need to ensure that U.S. Embassy personnel were safe and to begin preparations to help Haiti.

As of Saturday, one embassy staffer was con-firmed dead; three other U.S. government officials were missing. The State Department said the total number of confirmed U.S. deaths stood at 15.

It was clear from the outset that the Obama White House was deter-mined that this should not be a repeat of the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. George W. Bush paid a huge po-litical price when people saw New Orleans drown-ing and governments at all levels were slow to re-spond.

The Haiti quake is dif-ferent, of course, not least because it happened hun-dreds of miles from U.S. shores. But this adminis-tration nevertheless was quick to talk up the need to help.

At about 2 p.m. Tues-day in Honolulu (7 p.m. in Washington), before Obama made his first public remarks on the quake, Clinton mentioned it at the start of a speech focused on Asian affairs. She said the U.S. was gathering information on the scale of the disaster but was pledging “full as-sistance” to Haiti.

Coast Guard cutters and aircraft were moved closer to Haiti.

At first light Wednesday, a Coast Guard helicopter evacuated four seriously injured U.S. Embassy workers to the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Although the Hai-tians took the heaviest blows, Washington had to worry about the 45,000 American citizens there, including the embassy contingent.

At 10 a.m. Wednesday, speaking publicly about the quake for the first time, Obama said the U.S. government was “just now beginning to learn the extent of the devas-tation.” Help was on the way, he said, adding that he had put Rajiv Shah, chief of the U.S. Agency for International Develop-ment, in charge of coordi-nating the U.S. response and working with other nations.

Shah, a medical doc-tor and food security ex-pert, had started his job at USAID just five days before the quake, tak-ing over an agency with reduced resources and influence, a leadership vacuum and weakened morale.

At about 1 p.m. Wednes-day, just before Clinton was to board a plane in Honolulu and fly through another 10 time zones to the South Pacific island of Papua New Guinea — and after that to New Zealand and Australia — Obama spoke to her at her hotel as her motorcade idled under a sunny sky.

Hotel guests gawked at the former first lady in sunglasses as she stood in a corner of the lobby to speak on her cell phone and confer quietly with aides. She then told re-porters traveling with her that the trip would go on, although perhaps with a condensed itinerary.

“These are also very important travel destina-tions for a lot of America interests,” she said. “And speaking with the presi-dent, he and I agreed that I should go on with the trip.” She added: “We feel an obligation” to contin-ue.

At that point there were not yet official estimates of the death toll in Haiti. After she announced at 1 p.m. (6 p.m. EST) that she would return to Wash-ington, Clinton said one reason was that unofficial estimates of 100,000 dead might turn out to be way low.

In the following hours, as she flew home, Obama held Situation Room meetings with senior ci-vilian and military aides who were coordinating the relief effort. Obama directed them to “work with and through” the crippled Haitian govern-ment “to the greatest ex-tent possible,” according to a senior administration official who described the session on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to dis-cuss private meetings.

At about the same time, Defense Secretary Robert Gates used a videoconfer-ence with leaders at U.S. Southern Command to in-sist there was “no higher priority right now” than the relief effort.

By Thursday the full scope of the U.S. effort was beginning to come into focus: Obama pledged an initial $100 million in aid; the first group of U.S. search and rescue teams were on the ground; a survey team had identi-fied priorities areas for assistance; the airport at Port-au-Prince was ready for limited use to deliver food and water; elements of the 82nd Airborne Di-vision were about to ar-rive; and the aircraft car-rier USS Carl Vinson and the hospital ship USNS Comfort were designated to head to Haiti.

By Saturday, Clinton had made her way to Haiti for a first look at how the relief effort was unfold-ing. Obama was again in front of the TV cameras at the White House, pro-moting “one of the larg-est relief efforts in our history” while trying to hold down expectations for quick success.

***Associated Press writers

Anne Flaherty, Darlene Superville, Jennifer Loven and Julie Pace contributed to this report.

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Slow start, then Obama gained momentum on Haiti

But in those ini-tial hours after the quake hit, shortly before 5 p.m. Tues-day, no one knew just how bad it was.

BY JUSTIN MURDOCKE-J Sports Writer

MONROEThe Cuthbertson High boys basketball

team had its biggest win in the school’s history on Friday, capping off a productive week for the first-year program.

The Cavaliers (6-9, 3-5) handed Berry Academy its first loss in the Rocky River Conference in dramatic fashion, pulling out a 59-58 home win in triple overtime.

On Wednesday, Cuthbertson went on the road and escaped with a 58-52 victory over Weddington, which cur-rently sits in first place in the Southern Carolina Con-ference.

CHS junior guard Cody Esser has been a bright spot offensively, scoring 19 points in both wins. Esser knocked down five 3-pointers in each game, including four in the first half of Friday’s win over Berry Academy.

Cuthbertson coach Mike Helms has also been impressed with the play of freshman guard Emmitt Afam, who was key in Friday’s contest.

Afam scored nine points, including seven in the overtimes with leading scorer and rebounder Mike Cuthbertson on the bench after fouling out.

With his team trailing by two with 24 sec-onds left in the first extra session, Afam knocked down two free throws to force dou-ble overtime.

“Emmitt really came up big for us,” said Helms. “Cody was hot early, so (Berry) tried to take him away and Emmitt really car-ried us. We put a lot on his shoulders and he handled it pretty well for a freshman in that situation.”

See HUGE / Page 3B

from staff reportsWINGATE

Four Bulldogs scored in dou-ble figures, and the Wingate University women’s basketball team held Brevard to 17.7 per-cent shooting from the field to secure an 82-56 victory in South Atlantic Conference action on Saturday.

The bulldogs improved to 9-6 overall and 2-3 in the SAC. Bre-vard fell to 6-9 on the year and 0-6 in the conference.

Senior center Stacie Rhodes

had 15 points and nine rebounds to lead the Wingate attack. Ju-nior forward Stefani Shuey and sophomore guard Kurie Wash-ington added 13 points each, while freshman guard Britney Mitchell chipped in with 12 points. Sophomore guard Steph-anie Whitenack handed out a game-high eight assists for the Bulldogs.

Sophomore guard Lindsay Brendle led the Tornados with 11 points. Sophomore guard Hol-li Flippo added 10 points. Junior

forward Amanda Whitaker had four points and a game-high 10 rebounds for Brevard.

The Bulldogs used a 5-0 run, capped by a three from Washington, to take a 20-11 lead at the midway point in the first half. A jumper from Rhodes pushed the lead to 10 with 8:45 remaining in the half. The Tornados trimmed the lead to five on a pair of free throws from sopho-more guard Anna Schlobohm

one minute later. Wingate answered with a 9-2

run to take a 35-23 lead at the 1:43 mark. Rhodes started the

spurt with a jumper, while Mitchell capped it with a fast break bucket. The Bulldogs took a 37-27 lead heading to halftime.

Wingate used a 29-7 run in the opening six minutes of the second

half to blow the game open. Five different Bulldogs scored in the decisive run, which was capped

by a jumper from Shuey at the 13:51 mark. A jumper from Schlobohm, along with a free throw from senior guard Millie Wharton cut the lead to 16 at the 9:41 mark.

Brevard would get no closer the rest of the way.

The Bulldogs knocked down 11 free throws in the final nine minutes to secure the victory. The two teams combined to shoot 88 free throws in the game, with Brevard going 32-for-47 and Wingate hitting 29-of-41.

BY JERRY SNOWE-J Sports Editor

INDIAN TRAILThree games in four days sounds more like

an NBA schedule, but several Union County schools endured such a stretch this week.

It couldn’t have gone any better for Porter Ridge’s girls, who went 3-0 against some strong competition.

The Pirates opened the week with their biggest win of the year, going on the road and handing Parkwood its first loss of the season (51-42). It also avenged the 14-1 Pirates’ only loss this season.

The very next night, PR still had enough en-ergy to pound archrival Piedmont by 30 (66-36).

Porter Ridge maintained first place in the Southern Carolina Conference on Friday with a 58-47 win over Weddington. The Pirates, now 3-0 in league play, have five days off for exams be-fore visiting winless Cuthbertson next Thursday.

The Pirates had their best team ever last year, winning a share of the South Piedmont Confer-ence and then beating powerhouse Concord in the championship game of the SPC tournament.

But Porter Ridge lost two of its top three play-ers from last year, including co-county player of the year Britney Mitchell (now playing for Wing-ate) and point guard Lea Saunders (transferred).

The Pirates had some experience returning, but the big question was point guard. Saunders was a three-year starter at the position and Mitchell played point whenever Saunders didn’t.

Coach Ina Thompson turned to her top two returners — Kelley Godbout and Raven Falls — to run the team, and they have delivered.

Falls, a senior now in her third year as a starter, has always been a wing capable of slash-ing from the wing and scoring in transition.

Falls contributed 14 points to the Pirates’ win over Weddington on Friday, and shared the ball handling duties with Godbout.

See PIRATES / Page 3B

from staff reportsWINGATE

Josh Roper tied the Bre-vard College single-game scoring record on his game-winning free throw with six seconds remaining to help his team to a 88-87 road win over Wingate on Saturday.

Roper finished with 33 points on 13-20 shoot-ing. Jona-than Whit-son added 30 points and 10 rebounds, connecting on his first 14 free throw a t t e m p t s . Shane Gal-loway added eight points and six rebounds, while Drew Schauss added seven and a steal in their fourth South Atlantic Confer-ence win of the season.

Larry Staley led Wingate (10-6, 3-2 SAC) with 20 points and five steals as five Bulldog players scored double figures for the home team. Jaime Vaughn added 18 points and Paidrick Matilus and Ethan Kincaid each had 13 points as Wingate came back from a 10-point halftime deficit in tying the game up late.

Sports

SUNDAYCincinnati’s Marvin Lewis was named the AP’s NFL Coach of the Year on Saturday. Lewis beat out New Orleans’ Sean Payton for the award. The Bengals finished 10-6 and won the AFC North.

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Jackets down Unc

Zachery Peacock knocked down a jumper in the final 30 sec-onds to lift Georgia Tech to a 73-71 road win over North Carolina on Saturday. The Tar Heels have lost two straight games in the ACC.

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January 17, 2010 The Enquirer-Journal Sports Editor Jerry Snow

Out in front again

top Honor

Brevard men nip Bulldogs

E-J staff photo by Rick Crider

Central Academy’s Mike Ryan, left, was 4-0 heading into his last match of the day at the Monroe Duals on Saturday. Final results of the tournament were unavailable when The Enquirer-Journal went to press. See Tuesday’s issue for full details.

Pirates have inside track ona second straight league title

Photo by Jamie Belk

Senior Raven Falls, left, not only scored 14 points on Friday, but she’s helped the Pirates resolve their ball handling issues this season.

Four score in double figures to lead WU women to victory

AFAM

STALEY

Cuthbertson’sboys coming off two huge wins

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Getting physical

2B / Sunday, January 17, 2010 The Enquirer-Journal

Friday’s GamesCharlotte 92, San Antonio 76Philadelphia 98, Sacramento 86Chicago 121, Washington 119,2OTMemphis 135, Minnesota 110Atlanta 102, Phoenix 101Detroit 110, New Orleans 104, OTIndiana 121, New Jersey 105Toronto 112, New York 104Dallas 99, Oklahoma City 98Miami 115, Houston 106Milwaukee 113, Golden State 104L.A. Lakers 126, L.A. Clippers 86Portland 102, Orlando 87Saturday’s GamesNew Orleans at Indiana, latePhoenix at Charlotte, lateSacramento at Washington, lateNew York at Detroit, lateSan Antonio at Memphis, lateMiami at Oklahoma City, lateMilwaukee at Utah, lateCleveland at L.A. Clippers, lateToday’s GamesDallas at Toronto, 12:30 p.m.Utah at Denver, 9 p.m.Monday’s GamesPortland at Washington, 1 p.m.Detroit at New York, 1 p.m.Oklahoma City at Atlanta, 2 p.m.Sacramento at Charlotte, 2 p.m.Milwaukee at Houston, 3 p.m.New Jersey at L.A. Clippers, 3:30 p.m.Philadelphia at Minnesota, 3:30 p.m.San Antonio at New Orleans, 3:30 p.m.Chicago at Golden State, 4 p.m.Phoenix at Memphis, 5:30 p.m.Dallas at Boston, 8 p.m.Orlando at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

College basketball

Saturday’s boxscores

#5 Syrac. 72, #10 W. Va. 71SYRACUSE (17-1) Jackson 3-5 2-4 8, Johnson 4-7 5-7 13,

Onuaku 3-4 0-0 6, Rautins 5-12 0-0 12, Triche 6-8 2-3 16, Jones 0-0 0-0 0, Jardine 1-3 2-4 4, Joseph 4-6 5-8 13. Totals 26-45 16-26 72.

WEST VIRGINIA (13-3) Ebanks 4-12 0-1 8, Jones 3-10 4-5 11,

Smith 1-3 0-0 2, Butler 5-13 1-2 13, Bryant 4-8 6-9 18, Thoroughman 1-1 0-0 2, West 0-1 0-0 0, Mazzulla 0-1 0-0 0, Jennings 0-1 0-0 0, Pepper 5-8 2-2 15, Mitchell 0-1 0-0 0, Flowers 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 24-61 13-19 71.

Halftime—Syracuse 26-25. 3-Point Goals—Syracuse 4-12 (Triche 2-3, Rautins 2-7, Jardine 0-1, Johnson 0-1), West Virginia 10-26 (Bryant 4-7, Pepper 3-6, Butler 2-6, Jones 1-2, Smith 0-1, West 0-1, Flowers 0-1, Ebanks 0-1, Mitchell 0-1). Fouled Out—Jones, Rautins. Rebounds—Syracuse 35 (Jackson 10), West Virginia 29 (Butler, Ebanks, Jones 6). Assists—Syracuse 9 (Triche 5), West Virginia 17 (Butler 5). Total Fouls—Syracuse 19, West Virginia 24. A—15,271.

#20 G.T. 73, #12 UNC 71GEORGIA TECH (13-4) Favors 3-5 1-2 7, Lawal 5-15 2-2 12, Bell

2-4 1-2 5, Shumpert 10-17 7-9 30, Udofia 1-5 0-0 3, Peacock 3-10 0-0 6, Oliver 3-6 0-0 8, Foreman 0-0 0-0 0, Sheehan 0-0 0-0 0, Rice Jr. 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 28-65 11-15 73.

NORTH CAROLINA (12-6) Graves 6-13 7-8 24, Thompson 4-8 4-5 12,

Davis 4-8 4-5 12, Ginyard 1-4 0-0 2, Drew II 1-8 0-0 2, T.Wear 3-7 0-0 6, Strickland 0-2 3-4 3, McDonald 2-6 2-2 8, Henson 1-2 0-0 2, D.Wear 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 22-58 20-24 71.

Halftime—Georgia Tech 42-28. 3-Point Goals—Georgia Tech 6-13 (Shumpert 3-5, Oliver 2-5, Udofia 1-2, Bell 0-1), North Carolina 7-17 (Graves 5-8, McDonald 2-4, Thompson 0-1, Drew II 0-1, Henson 0-1, Ginyard 0-2). Fouled Out—Thompson. Rebounds—Georgia Tech 36 (Lawal 12), North Carolina 41 (Davis 8). Assists—Georgia Tech 11 (Shumpert 6), North Carolina 14 (Drew II 9). Total Fouls—Georgia Tech 20, North Carolina 17. A—20,704.

#24 Clemson 73, NCSU 70CLEMSON (15-3) Stitt 3-7 3-4 9, Smith 2-4 7-8 11, Potter

1-7 0-0 2, T.Booker 9-16 2-3 20, Grant 4-4 3-5 11, Johnson 3-7 0-0 7, Young 3-6 0-1 9, Jennings 0-0 0-0 0, D.Booker 1-1 2-2 4, Hill 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 26-53 17-23 73.

N.C. STATE (12-6) Gonzalez 0-2 0-0 0, Degand 3-9 5-6 11,

Wood 4-9 0-0 11, T.Smith 5-10 6-10 16, Horner 0-2 2-2 2, Howell 5-12 3-4 13, Vandenberg 0-0 0-0 0, Williams 0-1 0-0 0, Davis 0-0 0-0 0, Mays 4-9 8-8 17. Totals 21-54 24-30 70.

Halftime—Clemson 45-28. 3-Point Goals—Clemson 4-17 (Young 3-4, Johnson 1-4, T.Booker 0-1, Smith 0-1, Stitt 0-3, Potter 0-4), N.C. State 4-21 (Wood 3-8, Mays 1-5, Horner 0-1, Gonzalez 0-1, Howell 0-2, Degand 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Clemson 28 (T.Booker, Smith 6), N.C. State 39 (Howell 12). Assists—Clemson 11 (Smith 4), N.C. State 9 (Degand, Mays 3). Total Fouls—Clemson 20, N.C. State 20. A—17,984.

Maryland 73, B.C. 57MARYLAND (11-5) Milbourne 5-8 3-5 13, Williams 0-3 0-0 0,

Hayes 3-7 0-0 7, Mosley 2-4 2-2 6, Vasquez 7-13 1-2 17, Bowie 6-13 2-2 15, Pearman 0-0 0-0 0, Tucker 5-6 1-1 14, Gregory 0-3 1-2 1, Padgett 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 28-57 10-14 73.

BOSTON COLLEGE (10-8) Raji 5-8 4-6 14, Trapani 3-9 2-4 9,

Southern 1-3 0-0 2, Paris 0-2 0-0 0, Sanders 4-15 0-0 10, Jackson 3-10 3-4 11, Roche 1-3 0-0 3, Ravenel 1-1 0-0 2, Elmore 3-6 0-0 6, Dunn 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 21-57 9-14 57.

Halftime—Maryland 38-28. 3-Point Goals—Maryland 7-12 (Tucker 3-3, Vasquez 2-4, Bowie 1-2, Hayes 1-3), Boston College 6-17 (Sanders 2-5, Jackson 2-6, Roche 1-1, Trapani 1-4, Paris 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Maryland 28 (Milbourne, Mosley, Williams 6), Boston College 40 (Trapani 9). Assists—Maryland 17 (Vasquez 9), Boston College 15 (Jackson 5). Total Fouls—Maryland 18, Boston College 15. A—8,606.

Pro tennis

Australian Open SeedsAt Melbourne ParkMelbourne, AustraliaJan. 18-31

Men1. Roger Federer, Switzerland2. Rafael Nadal, Spain3. Novak Djokovic, Serbia4. Juan Martin del Potro, Argentina5. Andy Murray, Britain6. Nikolay Davydenko, Russia7. Andy Roddick, United States8. Robin Soderling, Sweden9. Fernando Verdasco, Spain10. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, France11. Fernando Gonzalez, Chile12. Gael Monfils, France13. Radek Stepanek, Czech Republic14. Marin Cilic, Croatia

15. Gilles Simon, France, withdrew, knee injury

16. Tommy Robredo, Spain17. David Ferrer, Spain18. Tommy Haas, Germany19. Stanislas Wawrinka, Switzerland20. Mikhail Youzhny, Russia21. Tomas Berdych, Czech Republic22. Lleyton Hewitt, Australia23. Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spain24. Ivan Ljubicic, Croatia25. Sam Querrey, United States26. Nicolas Almagro, Spain27. Philipp Kohlschreiber, Germany28. Jurgen Melzer, Austria29. Viktor Troicki, Serbia30. Juan Monaco, Argentina31. Albert Montanes, Spain32. Jeremy Chardy, France33. John Isner, United States

Women1. Serena Williams, United States2. Dinara Safina, Russia3. Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia4. Caroline Wozniacki, Denmark5. Elena Dementieva, Russia6. Venus Williams, United States7. Victoria Azarenka, Belarus8. Jelena Jankovic, Serbia9. Vera Zvonareva, Russia10. Agnieszka Radwanska, Poland11. Marion Bartoli, France12. Flavia Pennetta, Italy13. Samantha Stosur, Australia14. Maria Sharapova, Russia15. Kim Clijsters, Belgium16. Li Na, China17. Francesca Schiavone, Italy18. Virginie Razzano, France19. Nadia Petrova, Russia20. Ana Ivanovic, Serbia21. Sabine Lisicki, Germany22. Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakia23. Dominika Cibulkova, Slovakia24. Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, Spain25. Anabel Medina Garrigues, Spain26. Aravane Rezai, France27. Alisa Kleybanova, Russia28. Elena Vesnina, Russia29. Shahar Peer, Israel30. Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukraine31. Alona Bondarenko, Ukraine32. Carla Suarez Navarro, Spain

Australian Open DrawAt Melbourne ParkMelbourne, AustraliaJan. 18-31q-qualifier; ll-lucky loser, w-wild-card

MenRoger Federer (1), Switzerland, vs.

Igor Andreev, RussiaJuan Ignacio Chela, Argentina, vs.

Victor Hanescu, RomaniaStephane Robert, France, vs. Potito

Starace, ItalyOscar Hernandez, Spain, vs. Albert

Montanes (31), SpainLleyton Hewitt (22), Australia, vs.

q-Ricardo Hocevar, BrazilChristophe Rochus, Belgium, vs.

q-Donald Young, United StatesPaolo Lorenzi, Italy, vs. Marcos

Baghdatis, CyprusFrederico Gil, Portugal, vs. David

Ferrer (17), SpainFernando Verdasco (9), Spain, vs.

w-Carsten Ball, Australiaq-Ivan Sergeyev, Ukraine, vs. Dudi

Sela, IsraelRajeev Ram, United States, vs. q-Ste-

fan Koubek, Austriaq-Ivan Dodig, Croatia, vs. Juan Carlos

Ferrero (23), SpainJuan Monaco (30), Argentina, vs.

Ernests Gulbis, LatviaMartin Vassallo Arguello, Argentina,

vs. Michael Llodra, FranceCarlos Moya, Spain, vs. q-Ilya

Marchenko, Ukraineq-Dieter Kindlmann, Germany, vs.

Nikolay Davydenko (6), RussiaNovak Djokovic (3), Serbia, vs. Daniel

Gimeno-Traver, Spainw-Marinko Matosevic, Australia, vs.

Marco Chiudinelli, SwitzerlandKristof Vliegen, Belgium, vs. Michael

Berrer, GermanyDenis Istomin, Uzbekistan, vs. Jeremy

Chardy (32), FranceMikhail Youzhny (20), Russia, vs.

Richard Gasquet, FranceJan Hajek, Czech Republic, vs. Robby

Ginepri, United StatesLukasz Kubot, Poland, vs. Mischa

Zverev, GermanySantiago Giraldo, Colombia, vs.

Tommy Robredo (16), SpainJo-Wilfried Tsonga (10), France, vs.

Sergiy Stakhovsky, UkraineFabio Fognini, Italy, vs. Taylor Dent,

United Statesw-Ryan Harrison, United States, vs.

Janko Tipsarevic, Serbia

Simon Greul, Germany, vs. Tommy Haas (18), Germany

Nicolas Almagro (26), Spain, vs. q-Xavier Malisse, Belgium

Benjamin Becker, Germany, vs. q-Gre-ga Zemlja, Slovenia

Alejandro Falla, Colombia, vs. Marcos Daniel, Brazil

Marcel Granollers, Spain, vs. Robin Soderling (8), Sweden

Andy Roddick (7), United States, vs. Thiemo de Bakker, Netherlands

Teimuraz Gabashvili, Russia, vs. Thomaz Bellucci, Brazil

Feliciano Lopez, Spain, vs. Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay

Rainer Schuettler, Germany, vs. Sam Querrey (25), United States

Tomas Berdych (21), Czech Republic, vs. Robin Haase, Netherlands

Daniel Brands, Germany, vs. Evgeny Korolev, Kazakhstan

w-Sebastien Grosjean, France, vs. ll-Marsel Ilhan, Turkey

Olivier Rochus, Belgium, vs. Fernando Gonzalez (11), Chile

Marin Cilic (14), Croatia, vs. Fabrice Santoro, France

q-Guillaume Rufin, France, vs. w-Ber-nard Tomic, Australia

Igor Kunitsyn, Russia, vs. Jose Acasuso, Argentina

Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Spain, vs. Stanislas Wawrinka (19), Switzerland

Viktor Troicki (29), Serbia, vs. Nicolas Lapentti, Ecuador

Philipp Petzschner, Germany, vs. Florian Mayer, Germany

James Blake, United States, vs. Arnaud Clement, France

Michael Russell, United States, vs. Juan Martin del Potro (4), Argentina

Andy Murray (5), Britain, vs. q-Kevin Anderson, South Africa

Marc Gicquel, France, vs. Simone Bolelli, Italy

Jarkko Nieminen, Finland, vs. w-Nick Lindahl, Australia

Florent Serra, France, vs. Jurgen Melzer (28), Austria

John Isner (33), United States, vs. Andreas Seppi, Italy

q-Louk Sorensen, Ireland, vs. Yen-hsun Lu, Taiwan

Daniel Koellerer, Austria, vs. q-Anto-nio Veic, Croatia

q-Matthew Ebden, Australia, vs. Gael Monfils (12), France

Radek Stepanek (13), Czech Republic, vs. Ivo Karlovic, Croatia

Julien Benneteau, France, vs. q-David Guez, France

Mardy Fish, United States, vs. w-Andrey Golubev, Kazakhstan

w-Jason Kubler, Australia, vs. Ivan Ljubicic (24), Croatia

Philipp Kohlschreiber (27), Germany, vs. Horacio Zeballos, Argentina

q-Blaz Kavcic, Slovenia, vs. Wayne Odesnik, United States

Lukas Lacko, Slovakia, vs. Leonardo Mayer, Argentina

Peter Luczak, Australia, vs. Rafael Nadal (2), Spain

WomenSerena Williams (1), United States, vs.

Urszula Radwanska, PolandPetra Kvitova, Czech Republic, vs. Jill

Craybas, United Statesq-Renata Voracova, Czech Republic,

vs. Andrea Petkovic, GermanyAyumi Morita, Japan, vs. Carla

Suarez Navarro (32), SpainSabine Lisicki (21), Germany, vs. Petra

Martic, CroatiaVarvara Lepchenko, United States, vs.

Alberta Brianti, ItalyKristina Barrois, Germany, vs. Akgul

Amanmuradova, Uzbekistanq-Han Xinyun, China, vs. Sam Stosur

(13), AustraliaVera Zvonareva (9), Russia, vs.

Kristina Kucova, SlovakiaChang Kai-chen, Taiwan, vs. Iveta

Benesova, Czech Republicq-Zuzana Kucova, Slovakia, vs. Gisela

Dulko, Argentinaq-Shenay Perry, United States, vs. Ana

Ivanovic (20), SerbiaElena Vesnina (28), Russia, vs.

Tathiana Garbin, ItalyKimiko Date Krumm, Japan, vs.

Yaroslava Shvedova, KazakhstanStefanie Voegele, Switzerland, vs.

Melinda Czink, Hungaryw-Stephanie Cohen-Aloro, France, vs.

Victoria Azarenka (7), BelarusCaroline Wozniacki (4), Denmark, vs.

Aleksandra Wozniak, CanadaTamira Paszek, Austria, vs. Julia

Goerges, GermanyGalina Voskoboeva, Kazakhstan, vs.

Tsvetana Pironkova, BulgariaLucie Hradecka, Czech Republic, vs.

Shahar Peer (29), IsraelDaniela Hantuchova (22), Slovakia, vs.

Viktoriya Kutuzova, Ukrainew-Jarmila Groth, Australia, vs.

q-Sofia Arvidsson, SwedenStephanie Dubois, Canada, vs. Agnes

Szavay, HungaryMarina Erakovic, New Zealand, vs. Li

Na (16), ChinaAgnieszka Radwanska (10), Poland, vs.

Tatjana Malek, GermanyMelanie Oudin, United States, vs. Alla

Kudryavtseva, RussiaJulie Coin, France, vs. w-Alicia Molik,

AustraliaAlize Cornet, France, vs. Francesca

Schiavone (17), ItalyAnabel Medina Garrigues (25), Spain,

vs. Karolina Sprem, CroatiaAnastasiya Yakimova, Belarus, vs.

w-Casey Dellacqua, AustraliaArantxa Parra Santonja, Spain, vs.

Sybille Bammer, AustriaLucie Safarova, Czech Republic, vs.

Venus Williams (6), United StatesElena Dementieva (5), Russia, vs. Vera

Dushevina, RussiaKirsten Flipkens, Belgium, vs. w-Jus-

tine Henin, BelgiumSorana Cirstea, Romania, vs. w-Olivia

Rogowska, AustraliaJelena Dokic, Australia, vs. Alisa

Kleybanova (27), RussiaVirginie Razzano (18), France, vs.

Ekaterina Makarova, RussiaKlara Zakopalova, Czech Republic, vs.

Sara Errani, Italyq-Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium, vs.

Alexandra Dulgheru, RomaniaAnna Chakvetadze, Russia, vs. Flavia

Pennetta (12), ItalyKim Clijsters (15), Belgium, vs. q-Val-

erie Tetreault, Canadaw-Sesil Karatantcheva, Kazakhstan,

vs. Tamarine Tanasugarn, ThailandChan Yung-jan, Taiwan, vs. Kaia

Kanepi, EstoniaEdina Gallovits, Romania, vs. Nadia

Petrova (19), RussiaAravane Rezai (26), France, vs. Sania

Mirza, IndiaOlga Govortsova, Belarus, vs. q-Angel-

ique Kerber, GermanyAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russia,

vs. Anastasija Sevastova, LatviaAnastasia Rodionova, Australia, vs.

Svetlana Kuznetsova (3), RussiaJelena Jankovic (8), Serbia, vs.

Monica Niculescu, RomaniaPatricia Mayr, Austria, vs. Katie

O’Brien, Britainq-Yuliana Fedak, Ukraine, vs. Polona

Hercog, Sloveniaq-Kathrin Woerle, Germany, vs. Alona

Bondarenko (31), UkraineMaria Jose Martinez Sanchez (24),

Spain, vs. Evgeniya Rodina, RussiaZheng Jie, China, vs. Peng Shuai,

Chinaw-CoCo Vandeweghe, United States,

vs. Sandra Zahlavova, Czech Republic

Rossana de Los Rios, Paraguay, vs. Marion Bartoli (11), France

Maria Sharapova (14), Russia, vs. Maria Kirilenko, Russia

q-Yvonne Meusburger, Austria, vs. Timea Bacsinszky, Switzerland

Anna-Lena Groenefeld, Germany, vs. Roberta Vinci, Italy

Vania King, United States, vs. Dominika Cibulkova (23), Slovakia

Kateryna Bondarenko (30), Ukraine, vs. Ioana Raluca Olaru, Romania

Pauline Parmentier, France, vs. Elena Baltacha, Britain

Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, Czech Republic, vs. q-Regina Kulikova, Russia

Magdalena Rybarikova, Slovakia, vs. Dinara Safina (2), Russia

Transactions

Saturday’s Sports TransactionsBASEBALL

American LeagueCHICAGO WHITE SOX—Agreed to

terms with RHP Bobby Jenks and OF Carlos Quentin on one-year con-tracts.

National LeagueCINCINNATI REDS—Agreed to terms

with RHP Nick Masset on a two-year contract.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Agreed to terms with RHP D.J. Carrasco on a minor league contract.

FOOTBALLNational Football LeagueWASHINGTON REDSKINS—Re-

assigned linebackers coach Kirk Olivadotti to defensive assistant. Named Lou Spanos linebackers coach.

COLLEGECALIFORNIA—Named Jeff Genyk

special teams coordinator and tight ends coach.

Scoreboard

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away Conf

Boston 27 11 .711 — 4-6 L-1 11-6 16-5 19-7

Toronto 20 20 .500 8 7-3 W-1 12-6 8-14 14-13

New York 16 23 .410 11 1/2 5-5 L-1 9-11 7-12 11-15

Philadelphia 13 26 .333 14 1/2 6-4 W-1 6-13 7-13 7-15

New Jersey 3 36 .077 24 1/2 1-9 L-7 2-17 1-19 3-21

Southeast Division

W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away Conf

Atlanta 26 13 .667 — 5-5 W-3 16-4 10-9 15-10

Orlando 26 14 .650 1/2 4-6 L-2 14-4 12-10 17-9

Miami 20 18 .526 5 1/2 4-6 W-2 11-10 9-8 12-7

Charlotte 18 19 .486 7 7-3 W-3 15-4 3-15 14-14

Washington 12 26 .316 13 1/2 2-8 L-4 6-11 6-15 10-15

Central Division

W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away Conf

Cleveland 30 11 .732 — 7-3 L-1 14-3 16-8 17-6

Chicago 18 20 .474 10 1/2 7-3 W-4 14-7 4-13 13-12

Milwaukee 16 21 .432 12 4-6 W-1 11-7 5-14 9-11

Indiana 14 25 .359 15 5-5 W-3 10-9 4-16 10-13

Detroit 13 25 .342 15 1/2 2-8 W-2 9-9 4-16 9-12

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Southwest Division

W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away Conf

Dallas 26 13 .667 — 6-4 W-1 13-7 13-6 16-10

San Antonio 24 14 .632 1 1/2 7-3 L-1 17-6 7-8 12-10

Houston 22 18 .550 4 1/2 4-6 L-1 12-5 10-13 17-12

Memphis 20 18 .526 5 1/2 7-3 W-2 13-5 7-13 13-13

New Orleans 20 18 .526 5 1/2 7-3 L-1 15-3 5-15 14-8

Northwest Division

W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away Conf

Denver 25 14 .641 — 5-5 W-2 17-3 8-11 13-8

Portland 25 16 .610 1 6-4 W-2 16-7 9-9 17-7

Utah 22 17 .564 3 6-4 W-3 15-6 7-11 10-12

Oklahoma City 21 18 .538 4 6-4 L-2 11-9 10-9 8-14

Minnesota 8 33 .195 18 1-9 L-4 5-15 3-18 4-24

Pacific Division

W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away Conf

L.A. Lakers 31 9 .775 — 7-3 W-2 22-3 9-6 20-8

Phoenix 24 16 .600 7 5-5 L-2 15-4 9-12 13-9

L.A. Clippers 17 21 .447 13 5-5 L-3 12-8 5-13 10-17

Sacramento 15 23 .395 15 2-8 L-2 12-9 3-14 9-16

Golden State 11 27 .289 19 4-6 L-3 7-10 4-17 7-15

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NEW YORK (AP) — Marvin Lewis had much more than game plans to deal with this season.

Lewis won The Associated Press 2009 NFL Coach of the Year award for guiding his team to the playoffs during a season marked by tragedy.

The Bengals won the AFC North with a 10-6 record, just their second division title since 1990, both under Lewis. They did so despite the deaths of wide receiver Chris Henry and Vikki Zimmer, the wife of defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer. Several players’ fami-lies also were directly affected by the tsunami in the Samoan Islands.

For holding his team togeth-er under such circumstances and lead-ing a turnaround from a 4-11-1 record in 2008, Lewis earned 20 1/2 votes Sat-urday from a nationwide panel of 50 sports writers and broadcasters who cover the league. He beat Sean Payton

of New Orleans (11 1/2), Norv Turner of San Diego (9) and Jim Caldwell of Indianapolis (7). Andy Reid of Phila-delphia and Ken Whisenhunt of Ari-zona had a single vote each.

“I’m flattered,” said Lewis, whose seventh season as Bengals coach end-

ed with a 24-14 home loss to the Jets in the wild-card round. “I never took any credibility to it, that it could occur, but I am flat-tered. I would trade it to still be playing.

“To me, this is more a recog-nition of the organization, for the coaching staff and the hard work they’ve done, and for the players.”

Few coaches have dealt with such a season of grief. Vikki

Zimmer, who used to bake treats for the players, died unexpectedly in Oc-tober. Two weeks earlier, defensive linemen Jonathan Fanene and Do-mata Peko and rookie linebacker Rey Maualuga struggled to contact family

in American Samoa after the tsunami devastated the region.

In December, wide receiver Chris Henry, on injured reserve with a bro-ken left forearm, fell from the back of a pickup truck after an argument with his fiancee and was killed.

So Lewis was as much a therapist and psychologist for his team as he was a strategist.

“Just look at that load right there he’s beared,” veteran guard Bobbie Williams said. “With Chris, Vikki Zim-mer, the Samoan Islands. ... There’s been a lot of weight on his shoulders, and through the not-so-good seasons when it seemed like the world might have been crashing down, he’s been that rock for the team and for the city. ... When you look at it, you’re like, ’Dang, that’s a lot, that’s a lot.’ But you know what? He’s still there and he’s still rolling and he’s still coach.”

And he’s Coach of the Year, the first for the Bengals since the team’s found-er, Paul Brown, won the award in 1970.

Bengals’ Lewis voted NFL’s top coach

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Maybe a little rest was all Drew Brees and Reggie Bush needed to shift the Saints’ league-leading offense back into overdrive.

That, and a visit from Ari-zona’s porous defense.

Brees threw three touch-down passes, Bush scored on an 83-yard punt return and a spectacular 46-yard run, and New Orleans overwhelmed the defending NFC champion Cardinals 45-14 on Saturday.

One win from the Super Bowl, New Orleans will host an NFC title game for the first time in franchise histo-ry next weekend. The Saints will play the winner of Sun-

day’s game between Dallas and Minnesota.

Jeremy Shockey caught a touchdown pass in his return from a three-game absence. Devery Henderson and Marques Col-ston also had touch-down catches, and Lynell Hamilton had a short touchdown run for the Saints.

Coming off its 51-45 overtime win over Green Bay in the wild-card round, Arizona wound up yielding 90 points in the post-season, the most ever allowed in consecutive playoff games in one season.

Even the Saints’ sometimes soft defense played well, forc-ing two turnovers, harassing Warner often and knocking Arizona’s 38-year-old quar-

terback out of the game briefly when, during Will Smith’s interception return, he was blind-sided by Bobby McCray’s block.

Warner was 17 of 26 for 205 yards, but was unable to move

Arizona consistently. The Cardinals punted

twice and missed a long field goal in the first half before heading into halftime down 35-14. Arizona punted twice

more in the third quarter, with Bush scoring on the sec-ond to make it 45-14.

Bush finished with 84 yards rushing, 24 yards receiving and 109 yards on three punt returns. Colston caught six passes for 83 yards.

The victory wound up be-ing so easy for New Orleans that coach Sean Payton be-gan pulling his regulars ear-ly in the fourth quarter and going with basic run plays to chew up clock. It was more like what Saints fans had gotten used to in the first 12 weeks of the season, when New Orleans was blowing out opponents en route to a 13-0 start.

Saints cruise past Cardinals

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Booker, Clemson top NCSURALEIGH (AP) — Trev-

or Booker scored 20 points and No. 24 Clemson held on to beat North Carolina State 73-70 on Saturday.

Tanner Smith added 11 points,including two late free throws, for the Tigers (15-3, 3-1 Atlantic Coast Conference). They never trailed but blew nearly all of a 21-point lead before coming up with two key defensive stops in the final minute to snap a pesky streak of letdowns that dated to 1997-98.

Julius Mays had 17 points for the Wolfpack (12-6, 1-3), who trailed 71-70 and had the ball when Je-rai Grant appeared seem-ingly out of nowhere to block Richard Howell’s open layup with about 35 seconds left. Clemson milked some clock before Smith hit his free throws with 18.6 seconds left and N.C. State called its final timeout.

The Tigers refused to give Wolfpack sharpshoot-er Scott Wood an open look, and Mays’ 3-pointer with about 5 seconds left went around the rim and out with the rebound go-ing out of bounds under the basket. Mays launched a desperation 30-footer that went off the front of the rim.

Grant fin-ished with 11 points for the Tigers, who have been plagued by the letdowns that have followed some significant victories. After beating a ranked team, they had lost the following game 14 con-secutive times before this one — which down the stretch bore a strong re-semblance to the Tigers’ most recent attempt. After upsetting then-No. 12 But-ler in November, they blew

a 23-point lead and lost to Illinois.

But this time, Clemson, which routed North Caro-lina by 19 points last time out, made just enough plays to hold off an N.C. State team that was trying to win consecutive games

against ranked teams for the first time

since 2006-07.Tracy Smith

scored 16 points, Howell finished with 13 points and 11 rebounds, and

Farnold Degand and Wood added

11 points apiece for N.C. State, which was coming off an upset at No. 25 Flor-ida State.

This one certainly didn’t seem like it would be headed to a tight finish after Clemson took appar-ent control with an over-whelming first half high-lighted by two big runs.

PiratesContinued from Page 1B

“Both of them have done a great job of step-ping into that role for us this year,” Thompson said. “They give us differ-ent things. Raven’s more of a slasher. She can open things up the lanes and gaps for oth-ers to get shots. We alternate the two of them. I feel confident in both of them.”

Godbout has developed into one of the county’s top players.

She’s the only player in Union County who ranks among the top 10 in scoring (second, 17.1 ppg), steals (second, 3.9 spg), assists (fifth, 2.6 apg) and re-bounds (sixth, 7.6 rpg).

The Pirates might not have as much depth as they did last year, but their blend of experience and youth has obviously been working out.

Porter Ridge is starting a freshman at forward (Jada Huntley had nine points and nine rebounds on Friday) and Thomp-son also plays freshman

Jasmine Huntley as a reserve point guard.

Senior forward Cayleigh Weekley, who made all-tournament at the Holiday Classic, has three years of varsity experience.

Senior center Kara Hastings, in her third year of varsity, has aver-aged 11 points in the last two games. Hastings, a

prolific shot block-er, had 10 points, eight rebounds, four assists, two blocks and two steals on Friday.

“She’s making some great moves around the basket and finishing,” Thompson said of Hastings. “She’s making some big shots that are

freeing up the outside shooters. Because she’s an inside threat now, it’s helping our shooters.

It also helps that she’s such a good passer. That really helps us out without a true ball handler. Then once she gives it up she goes to that block and she’s very confident and comfort-able turning and making a move. Kara’s doing a great job for us. She’s really helping this team be what it is right now.”

GODBOUT

E-J staff photo by Ed Cottingham

Pirates center Kara Hastings, right, scored 12 points in a win over rival Piedmont on Wednesday, and followed up with 10 points and eight boards on Friday.

Vasquez, Maryland whip B.C.

BOSTON (AP) — Greivis Vasquez scored 17 points and dished out nine assists on his 23rd birthday to lead Maryland to an easy 73-57 victory over Boston College on Saturday.

Adrain Bowie scored 15 points, Cliff Tucker had 14 and Landon Milbourne added 13 for the Terrapins (11-5, 2-1 Atlantic Coast Conference).

Corey Raji finished with 14 points and seven re-bounds for Boston College (10-8, 1-3). Reggie Jackson added 11 points and Joe Trapani had nine points and nine rebounds for the Eagles, who lost their third straight conference game.

Maryland, which never trailed, led 38-28 at half-time.

The Eagles had trailed by 18 points late in the first half before scoring the final 10 points, making it look like they may have momentum in the second half.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Mar-cus Morris had 20 points, Xavier Henry added 14 and No. 3 Kansas overcame a sloppy start to rout Texas Tech 89-63 on Saturday.

Kansas (16-1, 2-0 Big 12) wasn’t sharp at the start of its conference home opener, but it worked the ball inside to start the rout and extend their nation-best home winning streak to 52 straight.

John Roberson had 16 points for Texas Tech (12-5, 0-3), which hadn’t won at Allen Fieldhouse

in 10 previous trips.The Red Raiders, who lost by 58

points here two years ago, trailed by 24 at halftime and opened con-ference play with three straight losses for the first time since an 0-9 start in 1999-2000.

#5 Syracuse 72, #10 W. Va. 71MORGANTOWN, W.Va. —

Brandon Triche scored 16 points for Syracuse, which nearly blew a 10-point lead in the final minute.

Kris Joseph and Wes Johnson

added 13 points apiece for Syra-cuse (17-1, 4-1 Big East), while Andy Rautins had 12.

Syracuse led 65-55 with 1:18 remaining after a free throw by Johnson.

Darryl Bryant led West Vir-ginia (13-3, 4-2) with 18 points and he hit two 3-pointers in the final 33 seconds, including one with 3 seconds left for the final margin.

Joseph missed two free throws with 2.5 seconds left. West Vir-ginia’s Da’Sean Butler got the re-

bound but couldn’t get off a qual-ity shot as time ran out.

Syracuse beat West Virginia for the 11th time in the last 12 meetings. It was the first match-up between top 10 teams in Mor-gantown since 1960, when the third-ranked Mountaineers beat No. 9 Villanova in Jerry West’s senior year.

#9 Tenn. 71, #21 Miss. 69, OTKNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Wayne

Chism scored 26 points, includ-

ing six consecutive free throws in overtime, for Tennessee.

The Volunteers (14-2, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) had hit only 60 percent of their free throws before DeAundre Cran-ston’s fifth foul sent Chism to the line with 49 seconds left and the game tied at 65.

Chism was perfect on all 10 of his free throw attempts in the game and had his 14th ca-reer double-double grabbing 12 rebounds.

Kansas overcomes sloppy start to smash Texas Tech

E-J staff photo by Rick Crider

Cavs junior Cody Esser had 19 points in the win over Berry, two days after he scored 19 against Weddington. He made five 3-pointers in each game.

HugeContinued from Page 1B

The Cavaliers are back in action on Thursday at home against Porter Ridge.

High scorersBefore Friday, only Parkwood High’s Maurice

Leak had scored 30 or more points in a game among Union County’s boys this season.

Leak, a senior guard, dropped 30 in a win over Central Academy at the CMC-Union Holiday Classic at Wingate University last month.

On Friday, Monroe High’s Issac Blakeney and Sun Valley’s Shaun Stewart both eclipsed 30 points.

Blakeney, a 6-foot-6 senior center, poured in a career-high 35 points in a win over Piedmont. Blakeney, who scored 16 points in the first quarter, had 17 made field goals and was 1-for-5 from the free throw line.

Stewart, a sophomore guard, had 33 points in the Spartans’ 87-83 double overtime win over Parkwood. Stewart went 16-for-20 from the free throw line to go along with his eight made field goals.

Odds and ends ...... Sun Valley’s boys played two double overtime

games this week. In addition to Friday’s win over Parkwood, the Spartans dropped a 95-87 decision to Marvin Ridge on the road last Tuesday.

... Weddington senior forward Dexter Harding av-eraged 15.0 points and 13.7 rebounds in three games this week, helping the Warriors to a 2-1 record. Hard-ing dominated with 26 points and 13 rebounds in a win over Anson on Tuesday, then followed up with 13 points and 16 rebounds in Wednesday’s loss to CHS.

... Parkwood junior Marcus Leak had two dunks in Tuesday’s home win over Porter Ridge. Leak, a 6-3 forward, caught one with two hands off the rim in the first half and added a one-handed flush in the second half.

Ga. Tech holds off Tar Heels

CHAPEL HILL (AP) — Zachery Pea-cock made the go-ahead shot with 25.7 seconds left to rescue No. 20 Georgia Tech, which blew a 20-point first-half lead before holding on to beat No. 12 North Carolina 73-71 on Saturday.

Iman Shumpert finished with a ca-reer-high 30 points to lead the Yellow Jackets (13-4, 2-2 Atlantic Coast Confer-ence), who figured out a way to pull out a win after falling behind in the wild final minutes.

Peacock managed just six points, but his shot in the lane that rolled around the rim before dropping through ended up being the biggest play of Georgia Tech’s first win in Chapel Hill since 1996.

Will Graves had 22 of his career-high 24 points in the second half to lead the Tar Heels (12-6, 1-2), but he missed a des-peration 3-pointer at the final buzzer for the win.

The Tar Heels were coming off an 83-64 loss at Clemson on Wednesday night, the most lopsided defeat for the Tar Heels in seven seasons under coach Roy Wil-liams.

That same night, the Yellow Jackets lost 82-75 at Virginia, a team picked to finish near the bottom of the league.

It was nearly a disastrous loss for the Yellow Jackets, who ran out to a 29-9 lead and led by 16 points with about 12 min-utes to play.

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