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TUESDAY Partly cloudy High: 84 Low: 62 Complete report: Page 8A Deaths Galen H. Carter Roy Lee Goodman Beatrice Presson Griffin Mary Agnes Threatt WHO’S NEWS Republicans plan Saturday protest MONROE The Union County Young Republicans will host a TEA Party on Saturday to protest government spending and the federal deficit. The Young Republicans will meet from noon to 2:30 p.m. at the Old County Courthouse, 300 N. Main St., in Monroe. The event will include music, snow cones, informational booths, and speakers including Michael Munger, an economist at Duke University who was a Libertarian candidate for gov- ernor in 2008; Indian Trail Mayor John Quinn; Dr. B.J. Lawson, a former congressio- nal candidate in the 4th District; and Becki Gray, the vice president for outreach with the John Locke Foundation. BIRTHDAYS Best wishes are extended to everyone who is celebrat- ing a birthday today, especial- ly: Elizabeth Bagley Zimmer, Lesa Williams, Diane Halls, John Burns, Alana Massi, Lisa Love, Pete Helms, Daknylin Bivens, Ray K. Duncan, Lona Burns, Ronnie Burns, and Polly Love. Call (704) 261-2278 or e-mail [email protected] to add your names to the list. INSIDE Classified 5B Comics 4B Obituaries 2A Opinion 4A Sports 1B State 2A Stocks 8A + E nquirer- J ournal September 8, 2009 • 50 cents Monroe, N.C. Your county• Your news•Your paper Gardening Sick of finicky plants? Tom Walden offers choices that blend beauty and brawn. 5A Prep football Two games in, Monroe’s Shamiir Hailey has racked up 42 points. See our full list of scoring leaders. 1B The A fatal accident Driver killed after car overturned FROM STAFF REPORTS WINGATE Latoya Bennett, 25, was killed Monday when she lost control of her car on Summerlin Dairy Road. “I really don’t think speed was a factor, but where she ran off the road is,” said State Highway Patrol Trooper Dexter E. Altman. “There’s a bridge and an embankment. “She lost control, went off the road, and down the embankment.” Rescue workers from Wingate and Marshville fire departments, as well as Union EMS, worked to free Bennett from the car, but she was pronounced dead at the scene The accident scene was discovered by a passing motorist, who stopped to move a large rock from the road. He saw Bennett’s car, which was overturned on the far side of the creek that runs under the bridge just east of the intersection of Walk- ers Grov Road. He called 911 at 2:29 p.m. Investiga- tors said they believe the rock was forced into the roadway when Bennett’s car ran down the embank- ment. Bennett, the mother of a 7-year-old girl, lived on East Sunset Drive in Monroe. Survivors also include her mother, Lela Covington. Multilingual libraries Staff photo by Rick Crider First responders and emergency personnel from Wingate and Marshville work at the scene of a fatal accident on Summerlin Dairy Road near Wingate. When will purses reopen? BY TIFFANY LANE Staff Writer MONROE She remembers him well — 20 years old, stand- ing on the stage to get his high school diploma with extended family in the audience. “Tears are running down his face be- cause he did it. He worked his tail off, ... and he didn’t give up because there are people in the school sys- tem who won’t let him give up.” Former South Provi- dence School principal Dana Crosson has dozens of stories like this. South Providence is an alternative school for sixth- through 12th-grad- ers who have academic or behavioral difficulty in a Schools f lex to keep at-risk students The Career Academy of South Providence is open to students ages 16 to 21 who have been unsuccessful in school for three or more semesters with a history of failing core classes. Dropout prevention coun- selors, principals and other administration will determine eligibility once an application is submitted. “It’s not a watered-down level,” said assistant super- intendent for administration Mary Ellis. Each participating student must still meet the same state and district requirements as every other student and pass the necessary End-of-Course exams. The goal is simply to offer an alternative path to success. The five classes needed to graduate are English 1, algebra 1, biology, U.S. history and civ- ics and economics. Ellis said some students might have passed a certain class, but not the End-of- Course exam or vice versa, whether because of personality conflicts between the teacher and student, too many ab- sences or a personal obstacle. Coursework catch-up is tailored to each student. Some might go to school all day with their classmates, others might go to school in the morning and work in the afternoon or vice versa. Times and the means by which to complete the work, whether on a computer, one- on-one and so on, will vary. “Education’s not one size fits all,” Ellis said. Classes are taken on a student’s own high school campus, but those who finish school through the academy will receive a high school diploma through South Provi- dence. Ellis said teachers and staff will work with students “until they’re caught up.” “We don’t give a diploma,” Ellis said. “They will earn a diploma.” — Tiffany Lane Career Academy 101 See ACADEMY / 3A CHICAGO (AP) — A year after “shop ’til you drop” stopped, the nation fixates on this question: Will consumer spending ever return to pre-reces- sion levels? Increasingly, the answer appears to be no. Belt-tight- ening in bad times is nor- mal. And after every other recession since World War II, penny-pinching quick- ly fell out of fashion and Americans resumed their demand for houses, cars and everything else. This time it’s different. Like the Great Depression in the 1930s, the Great Re- cession seems destined to turn many Americans into lasting coupon-cut- ters, scrimpers and sav- ers. Consumers dug a debt hole over the past decade from which there’s no easy climb out. The popu- lation segment that drives spending the most — baby boomers — faces special pressure: Boomers are Local branches prepare for Hispanic Heritage Month Staff photo by Ed Cottingham Oscar Ortiz shows Veronica Tinoco some cooking books available in the Spanish section of the Union County Public Library. The library system has more than 4,500 Spanish-language books. BY ELISABETH ARRIERO Staff Writer MONROE Union County residents don’t need to venture any farther than their local libraries if they want to celebrate Hispanic Heri- tage Month, which be- gins Sept. 15. The main branch of the Union County Pub- lic Library is sponsoring a Latin concert on Oct. 3 and hosting a Latino roots art exhibition dur- ing September. Oscar Ortiz, the li- brary’s Hispanic Ser- vices assistant, said the library also honors His- panic culture throughout the year with its Spanish language section. UCPL has more than 3,000 adult and 1,500 children’s Span- ish books. Ortiz, who has about $6,000 per year to spend on Spanish literature, said he often relies on patron suggestions and trends journals to choose the latest additions to the library’s Spanish sec- tion. “They cherish their own language and want to read stuff in their own language,” he said, add- ing that there are more original Spanish books than translated English books. Between Aug. 1, 2008, and Aug. 1, 2009, there were Spanish materials were checked out 10,835 times checked out, as well as 417 renewals. Ortiz said that the books often help Hispan- ics in the community integrate into American See LIBRARIES / 3A Economists say frugality may be the new ‘normal’ See SPENDING / 7A • B l o g • C o m m e n t • E v e n t s • N e w s • P h o t o s • V i d e o s N e w e - E d i t i o n F o r m a t C o m i n g S o o n ! P O S T Y O U R C O M M U N I T Y N E W S O N L I N E :

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PartlycloudyHigh: 84Low: 62Complete report: Page 8A

DeathsGalen H. Carter

Roy Lee GoodmanBeatrice Presson Griffin

Mary Agnes Threatt

WHO’S NEWSRepublicans plan Saturday protest

MONROEThe Union County Young

Republicans will host a TEA Party on Saturday to protest government spending and the federal deficit.

The Young Republicans will meet from noon to 2:30 p.m. at the Old County Courthouse, 300 N. Main St., in Monroe.

The event will include music, snow cones, informational booths, and speakers including Michael Munger, an economist at Duke University who was a Libertarian candidate for gov-ernor in 2008; Indian Trail Mayor John Quinn; Dr. B.J. Lawson, a former congressio-nal candidate in the 4th District; and Becki Gray, the vice president for outreach with the John Locke Foundation.

BIRTHDAYSBest wishes are extended

to everyone who is celebrat-ing a birthday today, especial-ly:

Elizabeth Bagley Zimmer, Lesa Williams, Diane Halls, John Burns, Alana Massi, Lisa Love, Pete Helms, Daknylin Bivens, Ray K. Duncan, Lona Burns, Ronnie Burns, and Polly Love.

Call (704) 261-2278 or e-mail [email protected] to add your names to the list.

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Prep footballTwo games in, Monroe’s Shamiir Hailey has racked up 42 points. See our full list of scoring leaders.

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A fatal accidentDriver killed after car overturnedFrom staFF reports

WINGATELatoya Bennett, 25, was

killed Monday when she lost control of her car on Summerlin Dairy Road.

“I really don’t think speed was a factor, but where she ran off the road is,” said State Highway Patrol Trooper Dexter E. Altman. “There’s a bridge and an embankment.

“She lost control, went off the road, and down the

embankment.”Rescue workers from

Wingate and Marshville fire departments, as well as Union EMS, worked to free Bennett from the car, but she was pronounced dead at the scene

The accident scene was discovered by a passing motorist, who stopped to move a large rock from the road.

He saw Bennett’s car, which was overturned on the far side of the

creek that runs under the bridge just east of the intersection of Walk-ers Grov Road. He called 911 at 2:29 p.m. Investiga-tors said they believe the rock was forced into the roadway when Bennett’s car ran down the embank-ment.

Bennett, the mother of a 7-year-old girl, lived on East Sunset Drive in Monroe. Survivors also include her mother, Lela Covington.

Multilingual libraries

Staff photo by Rick Crider

First responders and emergency personnel from Wingate and Marshville work at the scene of a fatal accident on Summerlin Dairy Road near Wingate.

When will purses reopen?

BY tIFFaNY LaNeStaff Writer

MONROEShe remembers him

well — 20 years old, stand-ing on the stage to get his high school diploma with extended family in the audience. “Tears are running down his face be-cause he did it. He worked his tail off, ... and he didn’t give up because there are people in the school sys-tem who won’t let him give up.”

Former South Provi-dence School principal Dana Crosson has dozens of stories like this.

South Providence is an alternative school for sixth- through 12th-grad-ers who have academic or behavioral difficulty in a

Schools f lex to keep at-risk students

The Career Academy of South Providence is open to students ages 16 to 21 who have been unsuccessful in school for three or more semesters with a history of failing core classes.

Dropout prevention coun-selors, principals and other administration will determine eligibility once an application is submitted.

“It’s not a watered-down level,” said assistant super-intendent for administration Mary Ellis.

Each participating student must still meet the same state and district requirements as every other student and pass

the necessary End-of-Course exams. The goal is simply to offer an alternative path to success.

The five classes needed to graduate are English 1, algebra 1, biology, U.S. history and civ-ics and economics.

Ellis said some students might have passed a certain class, but not the End-of-Course exam or vice versa, whether because of personality conflicts between the teacher and student, too many ab-sences or a personal obstacle.

Coursework catch-up is tailored to each student. Some might go to school all day with their classmates, others might go to school in the morning and work in the afternoon or vice versa.

Times and the means by

which to complete the work, whether on a computer, one-on-one and so on, will vary.

“Education’s not one size fits all,” Ellis said.

Classes are taken on a student’s own high school campus, but those who finish school through the academy will receive a high school diploma through South Provi-dence.

Ellis said teachers and staff will work with students “until they’re caught up.”

“We don’t give a diploma,” Ellis said. “They will earn a diploma.”

— tiffany Lane

Career Academy 101

See aCaDemY / 3A

CHICAGO (AP) — A year after “shop ’til you drop” stopped, the nation fixates on this question: Will consumer spending ever return to pre-reces-sion levels?

Increasingly, the answer appears to be no. Belt-tight-ening in bad times is nor-mal. And after every other recession since World War II, penny-pinching quick-ly fell out of fashion and Americans resumed their demand for houses, cars and everything else.

This time it’s different. Like the Great Depression in the 1930s, the Great Re-cession seems destined to turn many Americans into lasting coupon-cut-ters, scrimpers and sav-ers. Consumers dug a debt hole over the past decade from which there’s no easy climb out. The popu-lation segment that drives spending the most — baby boomers — faces special pressure: Boomers are

Local branches prepare for Hispanic Heritage Month

Staff photo by Ed Cottingham

Oscar Ortiz shows Veronica Tinoco some cooking books available in the Spanish section of the Union County Public Library. The library system has more than 4,500 Spanish-language books.

BY eLIsaBetH arrIeroStaff Writer

MONROEUnion County residents

don’t need to venture any farther than their local libraries if they want to celebrate Hispanic Heri-tage Month, which be-gins Sept. 15.

The main branch of the Union County Pub-lic Library is sponsoring a Latin concert on Oct.

3 and hosting a Latino roots art exhibition dur-ing September.

Oscar Ortiz, the li-brary’s Hispanic Ser-vices assistant, said the library also honors His-panic culture throughout the year with its Spanish language section. UCPL has more than 3,000 adult and 1,500 children’s Span-ish books.

Ortiz, who has about

$6,000 per year to spend on Spanish literature, said he often relies on patron suggestions and trends journals to choose the latest additions to the library’s Spanish sec-tion.

“They cherish their own language and want to read stuff in their own language,” he said, add-ing that there are more original Spanish books

than translated English books.

Between Aug. 1, 2008, and Aug. 1, 2009, there were Spanish materials were checked out 10,835 times checked out, as well as 417 renewals.

Ortiz said that the books often help Hispan-ics in the community integrate into American

See LIBrarIes / 3A

Economists say frugality may be the new ‘normal’

See speNDING / 7A

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Tuesday• GARDEN CLUB OF 

WEDDINGTON, 9:15 a.m., Siler Presbyterian Church, 6301 Wedding-ton-Monroe Road. New members welcome. De-tails, 704-843-5623.

•  TODDLER  TIME, 10 a.m., Union West Re-gional Library, for chil-dren 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 Library, for children ages 12 months to 36 months.

• BASIC  INTERNET/COMPUTER  SKILLS CLASS, 10 a.m., Edwards Library, Marshville. Free. Registration required; call 704-624-2828.

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

•  COA  UNION  SE-NIORS  PROGRAM, 10:30 a.m., Langford Chapel. Refreshments served.

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

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

•  SAFE  AND  DRUG-FREE  COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP, noon, Monroe High School. For details, call 704-290-1522.

• COUNCIL FOR CIT-IZENS WITH DISABIL-ITIES, 1:30 p.m., Union Room, Monroe Library. For information, call Becky Williams or Steve McCallum, (800) 755-5749.

•  TERRIFIC  TUES-DAY, 4 p.m., Edwards Library, Marshville. “Where the Wild Things Are” story, activities, craft. For ages 5 to 12. De-tails, 704-624-2828.

• 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.

•  MICROSOFT  EX-CEL I CLASS, 5:30 p.m., Union West Library. Free. Registration required; call 704-821-7475.

•  EVENING  BOOK CLUB, 5:30 p.m., Mon-roe Library. Topic, “The Chamber” by John Gr-isham. Details, 704-283-8184.

•  GRIEF  SUPPORT GROUP, 6 p.m., Hospice

of Union County, 700 W. Roosevelt Blvd., Monroe.

•  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.

• OLD HICKORY OP-TIMIST  CLUB, 6:30 p.m., Operation Reach-Out building, corner of Miller and Phifer streets. For details, call Daphney at 704-821-6747.

•  SOUTHERN  PIED-MONT  ARTISTS GUILD, 7 p.m., Benton Heights Presbyterian Church. Open to any artists, ages 18 or older. Details, Sara Gregory, 704-289-4808; Louise Wil-liams, 704-220-6340.

•  GREATER  MON-ROE  KENNEL  CLUB, 7 p.m., Spiro’s Hilltop Bistro. Open to all dog enthusiasts. Details, Em-ily Foster. 704-843-5796, s t o r m c re s t ke n n e l s @juno.com.

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

• PRENATAL CLASS, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., CMC-Union. Come during seventh month of preg-nancy. For details, call 704-283-3254.

• BOY SCOUT TROOP 1, 7 p.m., First Presby-terian, 302 E. Windsor St. For details, call Gale Brown at 704-764-7589.

•  FAITH  PARTNERS SUPPORT  GROUP, 7 p.m., Prospect United Methodist Church. De-tails, 704-764-3370 or 704-764-3795.

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

Wednesday•  MONROE-UNION 

BREAKFAST  ROTARY, 7:30 a.m., Golden Corral Restaurant. For details, call 704-507-3956.

•  WAXHAW  COUN-CIL  UNION  COUNTY CHAMBER, 8 a.m., Wax-haw Town Hall.

•  JUVENILE  CRIME PREVENTION  COUN-CIL, 8 a.m., Union Coun-ty Health Department. Details, 704-289-4169.

•  EXERCISE  CLASS, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., Ellen Fitzgerald Senior Center. Open to ages 55 and up. Call 704-282-4657.

•  TODDLER  TIME, 9:30 a.m., Marshville Li-brary, for children ages 12 months to 36 months.

•  STORY  TIME, 10 a.m., 11 a.m., Waxhaw Li-brary, for ages 3 to 5. For details, call 704-843-3131.

•  STORY  TIME, 10 a.m., Marshville Library, for ages 3 to 5. For details, call 704-624-2828.

•  DOMESTIC  VIO-LENCE GROUP, 10 a.m. at the shelter. Details, 704-283-7233.

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

•  BASIC  INTERNET CLASS, 10:30 a.m., Mon-roe Library. Free. Regis-tration required; call 704-283-8184.

•  TODDLER  TIME, 10:30 a.m., 11 a.m., Union West Regional Li-brary. For ages 18 to 36 months.

•  BABY  TIME, 11 a.m., Monroe Library. Details, 704-283-8184.

• STORY TIME, 11:30 a.m., Union West Re-gional Library, for chil-dren ages 3 to 5.

•  RED  CROSS BLOOD  DRIVE, 2:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., Unionville Community Center, 1004 Unionville-Indian Trail Road. Details, 704-283-7402.

•  MICROSOFT  EX-CEL  II  CLASS, 3 p.m., Monroe Library. Free. Registration required; call 704-283-8184.

•  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.

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

•  CLASSIC  CRUIS-ERS, 7 p.m., Poplin Place shopping center, West Roosevelt Boule-vard, Monroe. For in-formation, contact Jim Collura at 704-289-6208 or [email protected].

•  WAXHAW  ABC BOARD, 7:30 p.m. meet-ing at the ABC store. For information, 704-843-4330.

•  BINGO, 7:30 p.m., Vietnam Veterans Asso-ciation Post No. 14, 620 Roosevelt Blvd., $2,500 program. Doors open at 5 p.m. For details, call 704-283-6165.

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

Thursday•  UNION  WEST  RO-

TARY, 7:30 a.m., civic building behind Indian Trail Town Hall. For de-tails, call Sean Helms, 704-849-9332.

•    WAXHAW-WED-DINGTON  SUNRISE ROTARY  CLUB, 7:30 a.m., Rippington’s Res-taurant, 109 W. South Main St., Waxhaw. De-tails, Jerry Simpson, 704-363-2173.

•  BASIC  INTERNET CLASS, 10 a.m., Union West Library. Free. Reg-istration required; call 704-821-7475.

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

•  KIWANIS  CLUB OF MONROE, noon to 1 p.m., Rolling Hills Coun-try Club. For details, call Fran Dandridge at 704-289-9429.

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Roy Lee GoodmanCONCORD — Roy Lee

Goodman, 80, died Sunday (Sept. 6, 2009) at Ruther-ford Hospital.

A memorial service will be held at a later date at the Hartsell Funeral Home Chapel in Concord.

In lieu of flowers, me-morials may be made to CVAN Women’s Program, P.O. Box 1749, Concord, NC 28026.

Mary Agnes ThreattPAGELAND, S.C. —

Mary Agnes Threatt, 89, died Saturday (Sept. 5, 2009).

Funeral will be 3 p.m. Wednesday at Providence Baptist Church, with buri-al to follow at Providence Baptist Church Cemetery.

Threatt was a daugh-ter of the late Claude and Roena (Richardson) Green and married to Hayde Ed-gar Threatt. Three daugh-ters, Mary JoAnn Threatt, Sheila Miranda and Patsy Adaline, precede her in death.

Survivors include two daughters, Marlene Mc-Cauley of Wingate and Delaine Ivey of Lake Nor-man; one brother, Eddie Green of Concord; one sister, Kathleen Watts of Kannapolis; seven grand-children; and seven great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Wednes-day at Providence Baptist Church

Sutton-Baumgartner Fu-neral Home is in charge.

Galen H. CarterMONROE

Galen H. Carter, 56, died Friday (Sept. 4, 2009) at Carolinas Medical Center-Union.

Memorial services will be 7 p.m. Tuesday at Mount Carmel United Methodist Church.

Born June 14, 1953, in Charlotte, he was a son of the late Benjamin Frank-lin and Dorothy Hall Carter. He was an Army veteran and employed by the Mecklenburg Park and Recreation Department.

Survivors, in addition to his wife, Caroline P. Carter, include two sons, Joe Carter and Ben Cart-er, both of Monroe; one daughter, Becky Carter of Monroe; and two sisters, Sandy Horne of Albemar-le and Libby Aldridge of Charlotte.

Visitation will be from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday at Mount Carmel United Methodist Church.

Gordon Funeral and Cremation Service is in charge.

Beatrice Presson Griffin

MARSHVILLEOn Sunday, Septem-

ber 6, 2009, surround-ed by loving family, Beatrice Presson Grif-fin, age 79, of Marsh-ville, passed over into the arms of her Lord and is together again with Theodore, her husband of 50 years. A celebration of her life will be held at Austin Grove Baptist Church, Marshville NC, on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 4 p.m. with burial to follow in the church cemetery. Visitation will be Wednesday from 2 p.m. until 3:45 p.m. in the Austin Grove Fellowship Building.

Mrs. Griffin was born February 26, 1930 in Stanly Coun-ty to the late Tom J. and Dortha Hinson Presson. She is pre-ceded in death by her husband, Theodore, with whom she was co-owner and office manager of Theodore Griffin, Inc. Also pre-ceding her were sis-ters Virginia Presson and Jenny McGuf-fin. “Mrs. Bea” was an active member of Austin Grove Bap-tist Church, where she served her Lord in various ways for more than 50 years. She is often remem-bered for her 20 plus years of service as nursery director and church historian. She lived a strong Christian life and in-fluenced the lives of countless children and their parents through her work in the nursery. She and Theodore also spon-sored the Theodore and Beatrice Griffin Scholarship at Wing-ate University, which was very dear to her.

She is survived by sisters Lona Yow of Stanfield and Doris Howard of Char-lotte, children Dottie (Jerry) Craiglow of Monroe, Teddy (Vick-ie) Griffin of Marsh-ville and Becky (Mi-chael) Brazell, also of Marshville; grand-children Jodi Crai-glow of Monroe, Aar-on (Kimberly) Griffin of Burnsville, Amber (Ryan) Mullis of Oak-boro, Griffin Brazell of Marshville; and great-grandchildren; Madalyn, Morgan, Wyatt, Reagan, and Lily.

In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to the Theodore and Beatrice Griffin Scholarship Fund at Wingate University, Wingate NC 28174 or to Charlie’s Angels Fund, c/o Sun Trust Bank, 103 East Main Street, Marshville NC 28103.

Morgan & Son Fu-neral Home is serv-ing the family of Mrs. Griffin.

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Football player killed in wreck

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former Tennessee Titans defensive tackle Jesse Mahelona has died after being involved in a car accident. He was 26.

Agent Chad Speck said Mahelona died Friday night after being involved in an accident about a mile from his home in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

“He always had a smile on his face,” Speck said. “He was just a fun-loving guy that seemed to love live. ... It is a huge loss.”

Mahelona was drafted in the fifth round of the 2006 NFL draft by the Ti-tans, where he played in 10 games. He also spent time with the Miami Dol-phins before playing his last NFL game with the Atlanta Falcons in 2007.

COMING EVENTS

A deal for school building?

BY TIFFANY LANEStaff Writer

MONROERepresentatives from

the Union County Public Schools Facilities Com-mittee and Union Coun-ty Planning Board will meet today in hopes of reaching a resolution on the school construction permitting process.

The two boards have been at odds over school construction since the Planning Board said school officials delib-erately ignored state permitting guidelines

to have Marvin Ridge schools built on their own timeline. Correct-ing the Marvin Ridge stormwater project cost the county thousands of dollars, they say.

Planning Board mem-bers have called for over-sight of school projects to keep UCPS from wasting money on similar errors. School officials deny that they purposely avoided state guidelines and say going through the Plan-ning Board and county Board of Adjustment would slow construction

and renovation, leaving students with inadequate and potentially danger-ous facilities.

Facilities Committee members have offered a compromise, asking for a memorandum of understanding between parties.

The memorandum says the committee would notify a county con-tact person of informa-tion regarding permits. Further, the committee would enter into a joint resolution with county commissioners to pro-

vide in-county stormwa-ter quality permitting.

The Planning Board will present its sugges-tions tonight. A final de-cision in the matter is up to commissioners.

Each board has nine members, but only four from each will partici-pate in discussion.

The meeting is open to the public and will be held at 6 p.m. at the Pro-fessional Development Center, located at 721 Brewer Drive in Monroe.

— Tiffany Lane can be reached at 704-261-2229.

School officials, planning board will meet tonight

N.C. releases EOG test questionsCHARLOTTE (AP) —

North Carolina educa-tion officials are releas-ing the questions posed to students in their year-end exams.

The questions were re-cently posted online after a state Board of Educa-tion panel agreed with skeptics who said the value of the tests that are given starting in third grade can’t be measured without knowing what questions were asked.

The tests are used to

determine whether stu-dents have mastered math, science, computer literacy and other sub-jects. The results mea-sure the effectiveness of schools and can be used to decide which teachers get bonuses when there

is money in the budget.The questions will be

removed from any future tests.

Most states already post tests online, said Cheryl Pulliam, director of Queens University of Charlotte’s Public Edu-cation Research Insti-tute.

Parents who review the tests might be surprised at just how much their third-graders are expect-ed to know, Pulliam said.

A question for third-

graders requires them to know how many cups are in a gallon, while fourth-graders need to know which force causes a bi-cycle’s brakes to work.

“Being able to see the tests firsthand takes the mystery out of our testing program,” State Superintendent June Atkinson said in a news release. “We hope that North Carolinians will look at these tests and see the increased level of learning expected today.”

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AcademyContinued from 1A

traditional school setting. As the school’s principal for 13 years, Crosson saw many students at risk of dropping out make it to their senior year with graduation finally in sight.

Crosson will now co-ordinate a countywide effort, called the Ca-reer Academy of South Providence, to repeat the success. The academy, started last month, helps students with a history of failing mandatory classes receive the credit they need and move on. This is done through various means as determined on an individual basis.

Mary Ellis, a former teacher and assistant su-perintendent for admin-istration, said at least 50 students are already identified as at risk of dropping out. Others are brought to principals’ at-tention every day. Ellis said the dropout risk oc-curs in all schools, across all demographics.

“We realize that Forest Hills and Monroe have the greatest need, but then we have some other schools that are just about right up there with them,” she said. Forest Hills and Monroe high schools are high priority, meaning many of their students are economically disad-vantaged.

“This is not for a child to game the system, that they just don’t like school, they’re going to flop over into this. ... It is to give hope to these chil-dren who have not had the success, not because they can’t do it,” but be-cause of any number of obstacles. Those hurdles could include support-ing parents who have lost their jobs, taking care

of a grandparent whose spouse has died, coping with a parent in prison, caring for a child, moving from foster home to fos-ter home, or overcoming some emotional trauma.

Ellis, the first of her family to graduate from college, said without a high school diploma, “how are you going to get a job? If you can’t get a job, then how are you going to get credit? How are you going to buy a car?” The list of effects goes on.

Students’ parents of-ten want them to finish school, she said, but other things take priority.

Using the example of a teenage mother, Cros-son said a girl might drop out because “even though she’s on track, she’s smart, she’s ready to go, there’s no other options.”

“It’s not necessarily the teenage mother,” added Mike Webb, a former principal who supervises career development coor-dinators. “We have many teenage fathers out there that are having to go to work.” One of the goals of the Career Academy is to give these students the flexibility to both work and go to school.

Webb said preparation for the workforce through experience — learning how to interview and what is expected of em-ployees — is just as im-portant as the academic side of of student prepa-ration. Webb has worked with local businesses to

provide internships and apprenticeships to stu-dents and hopes to start a work-study program.

Still, some students don’t have a driver’s li-cense or have no one to care for their own chil-dren. Ellis said admin-istration is looking into subsidized child care and waivers that would allow students to drive to work and school.

Whether work is an obstacle to finish school or not, many of those in danger of dropping out are second- and third-year freshmen, director of student testing Caro-lyn White said.

“Some of them are just waiting for their 16th birthday” to drop out, El-lis said. “Those are the kinds of kids we’re try-ing to catch.” Several oth-ers are fifth-year seniors. Finding a way for these students to graduate doesn’t count toward the school system’s gradua-tion rate, “but does it mat-ter?” Ellis said. “It’s the right thing to do.”

Students must complete high school within four years to be counted in the graduation cohort.

UCPS’ graduation rate was 77.3 percent in 2007, 77.2 percent in 2008 and 80.7 percent this year. Su-

perintendent Ed Davis has set a goal of 90 percent in the next three years with hopes of opening up one of four post-graduation paths: a two- or four-year college, technical school, the military or a job.

Webb said the academy wouldn’t work without principals willing to give it a try. All have expressed a desire to help students finish high school.

“It’s the light at the end of the tunnel,” Crosson said of the academy. If an 18-year-old student is told it will take another three semesters to finish school, she said, he or she is unlikely to stay in

school and take classes with a 14 year old.

“These are the students who are seeing little to no hope,” Ellis said, “and each of us has to be-lieve there is hope some-where.”

The academy is no cost to UCPS.

“If we can help any child earn a diploma, which will help him in life, then that’s what we’re here to do,” Crosson said with a nod.

“The worst thing you can do is not try,” said White.

—Tiffany Lane can be reached at 704-261-2229 or [email protected].

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culture by first luring them to the library with books in their own lan-guage. Once there, he said, they begin to notice Eng-lish books as well.

“It’s not that they want to disconnect from the surrounding culture,” he said. “This just opens up a bridge. You can’t just come in cold turkey.”

The Spanish section is also popular among Eng-lish speakers wishing to improve their Spanish, Ortiz said.

Monroe resident Paz Avi-la said her family uses the books for both enjoyment and education. Originally from Mexico, Avila enjoys reading in her native lan-guage but will pick up an English book occasionally to work on her English.

Although her son, An-dres Viveros, speaks Span-ish well, he has trouble reading and writing it.

“We read Spanish books so it will be easier for him to read and write it later,” Avila said in Spanish.

Ortiz said the response to the growing section has been overwhelmingly pos-itive over the years.

“We can’t hide the fact that we have a growing Hispanic population,” he said. “The library is here to serve the whole commu-nity, and the whole com-munity does not speak English.”

For information on Hispanic Heritage Month events, call 704-283-8184, ext. 243.

Key senator tweaks health care planFee from health care industry would pay for uninsured coverage

WASHINGTON (AP) — A key senator has circu-lated a new proposal that could breathe new life into President Barack Obama’s effort to bring affordable health care to all Americans.

Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, who is Sen-ate Finance Committee chairman, is part of a six-member bipartisan group trying to craft a bill satisfactory to both parties. The group is set to meet Tuesday as Congress returns from its August recess and the president prepares for a prime-time speech Wednesday to push his top domestic priority.

The Finance Commit-tee is the last best hope for a bipartisan bill. Four of five congres-sional committees have produced partisan pro-posals. Baucus has said he would move forward on his own if there’s no agreement by Sept. 15.

It’s unclear whether Baucus’ proposal to add a

fee on the health care in-dustry to help cover the uninsured — designed to create competition in the insurance market — would win support of two key Republicans in the group: Chuck Grassley and Mike Enzi. The Bau-cus proposal reflected many of their priorities, chief among them the decision not to include a government-run plan to compete with private in-surers. A spokesman for Enzi said the senator re-mains actively involved in the negotiation.

The fee is only a piece of a Baucus plan that would establish a new way to purchase cover-

age for Americans who have trouble getting and keeping health insur-ance. Americans could keep their own doctors.

“They should be free to make a profit. But they also have to be fair. They also have to be account-able,” the president said. “That’s what we’re talk-ing about — security and stability for folks who have health insurance, help for those who don’t, coverage they need at a price they can afford, fi-nally bringing costs un-der control — that’s the reform that’s needed.”

Under the Baucus plan, health insurance exchanges, with informa-

tion on different plans and prices, would allow small groups and indi-viduals to buy policies at lower rates. Medicaid, which is government-sponsored health insur-ance for the poor, would be expanded to cover more low-income people. Nonprofit cooperatives would be established as an alternative to for-prof-it insurance companies, giving consumers more choices.

Tax credits would al-low low-and-middle in-come Americans to buy private coverage.

The package would cost under $900 billion over 10 years.

Sen. Max Baucush D-Mont., has proposed health care cooperatives in lieu of public health insurance.

X-ray reveals long-hidden Wyeth paintingPHILADELPHIA (AP)

— Just beneath the sur-face of a painting of one of America’s best known artistic families lies a dark tale that had been hidden for decades.

Thanks to a colossal X-ray machine, a magazine illustration by N.C. Wy-eth has been reproduced in living color more than 80 years after the artist covered it with another work.

“It’s really an exciting

development in the study of objects of art,” said Jennifer Mass, a scien-tist and art conservator at the Winterthur mu-seum in Delaware. She and several colleagues presented their results at a conference last month of the American Chemi-cal Society.

The soft-toned paint-ing of Wyeth’s family doesn’t include much de-tail; it was meant only as a study for a living room

mural the artist had once planned to paint in their suburban Chadds Ford, Pa., home. Under the se-rene “Study for Wyeth Family mural,” however, lies an earlier composi-tion that’s menacing and dramatic.

The 1919 illustration was done for a periodi-cal called “Everybody’s Magazine.” In a short story, a love triangle ends in the death of the villain, whom Wyeth de-

picts with clenched fists and an evil scowl as he charges his rival.

Wyeth turned the can-vas upside down and painted his mural study around 1927.

Included is his young son Andrew, who went on to become one of the most prominent Ameri-can artists of the 20th century before his death this year.

“Publishers sometimes returned the canvases

after the magazine was published, so you can imagine they started to stack up after a while,” said Christine Podman-iczky, curator for the N.C. Wyeth collections at the Brandywine Museum. “It wasn’t uncommon for him to reuse canvases.”

A partial label stuck to the back of the canvas provided enough infor-mation to offer a clue of the under-image, Pod-maniczky said.

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Indian Trail needscandidates of integrity

Considering what happened at last month’s Indian Trail Town Council meeting, I’m en-couraged that the town coun-cil’s recent actions may be getting our citizens’ attention. Some 40 people attended and many sat in the heat for well over two hours due to air con-ditioner malfunction. The main topic was an ethics discussion, an agenda item requested by Councilwoman Shirley Howe. Because of the heat and large crowd, I asked that the ethics item be moved up to an earlier point in the meeting so folks wouldn’t have to endure the heat while other routine issues were discussed. However, in a 3-2 vote, the council opted to make the people wait.

That night, the folks heard Mr. Schallenkamp admit he ini-tiated a behind-the-scenes dis-cussion among council mem-bers in which they considered invoking a rarely, if ever, used state statute to declare me men-tally unfit to be mayor and vote me out of office (so much for ethics). The problem was that the statute requires a unani-mous Council vote. The effort apparently went no further af-ter Councilman Hullinger re-fused to go along with it. The attendees saw for the first time what’s been going on. Reactions from residents have been most-ly disbelief and outrage over the lack of Council profession-alism and ethics.

The recent council action to ban me from town hall and from speaking to the staff is outrageous and un-American.

I fear our staff is now being intimidated and coerced. The Council believes I should back whatever they decide to do. My job is not to put positive spin on decisions council makes when I don’t believe they’re in the tax-payers’ best interests. My loy-alty and commitment is to the people of Indian Trail, not the Town Council.

I want to thank those who stood up during the public com-ments and voiced their sup-port, including former Council-woman Mercedes Cass. It was great to hear people call for a citizen ethics panel to review and monitor town government. There’s a critical need for great-er citizen awareness of council and staff activities related to prioritizing public projects and spending. I encourage Indian Trail residents to attend coun-cil meetings and see firsthand what is happening. Voters ulti-mately have the power to make needed changes in town hall. It’s important that the two va-cating council seats be filled by candidates with integrity, who care and who will truly listen to taxpayers.

John QuinnMayor

Indian Trail

City, county must findways to cooperate

News reports of actions list-ed below by our local govern-ments sound ridiculous. These raise concerns on whether oth-er decisions make sense for the benefit of the citizens of Union County.

First our Board of Commis-

sioners have decided to con-tinue an old feud that had been resolved through investiga-tions by law enforcement and other officials – with no action-able findings. Now it is being opened again as an ethics issue on what sounds like a technical-ity. This would waste even more money with only a slim chance of any productive output. The commissioners could better use their efforts learning to work together on subjects to improve our community in these tough times rather than wasting time and money attacking each oth-er.

Second is the Tonawanda park issue. As a county citizen it would make sense to send a letter of thanks to the city for maintaining this park for use by the community along with a gift of the land to the city. This might help pave the way for co-operation on other issues. As a city citizen I would not object to using our tax money to contin-ue the maintenance of this park for public use as in the past. If the county objects to this we may need to move playground equipment, but building a sepa-rating fence seems to be a waste of money.

And last, parking accommo-dations for the county in city owned lots is a separate issue and should be handled on its own. It appears that what we have is working or if there are problems they should be ad-dressed separately from the park issue. One has to wonder what parking plan was includ-ed in the construction of the county facilities.

Frank Elliott Monroe

Save us, Dr. Phil.I think we could use

some national marriage counseling.

One of my fundamental con-cerns for this country is the same one that plagues most of the troubled marriages I’ve known: how rarely we listen to each other.

We talk. Lord, how we talk. We bloviate, blather, spew and, in Glenn Beck’s case, cry. But do we listen? Rarely.

One of the funnier exercises that I’ve ever been asked to per-form by a counselor involved a squishy stress ball that was dyed to look like a globe.

“Sit on it,” the counselor said.

Huh?“It’s a metaphor. When the

other person is talking, you have to sit on your world, all of the stuff that you walked in here thinking and knowing, and listen to what that person actually says.”

Hmm.“And then, before you can re-

spond, you have to repeat back to that person what you heard, and confirm that what you heard and what they said was the same thing.”

And then?

“And then, once you know that you have actually heard his or her point, he or she will sit on his or her world, and then you can respond. And he or she will repeat back what you said.”

Do we have to end up agree-ing? Is that the point? Because I don’t want to be a pessimist but we could be here a while. Are there canned goods?

“You don’t have to agree. This isn’t a negotiation; it’s a conver-sation.”

As starting points go, there are worse ideas.

I think we could apply this kind of advice to our national discourse and maybe — just maybe — we could get some-thing done.

The example that comes to mind isn’t the health care de-

bate or the county commis-sioners. Nope, it’s President Obama’s broadcast speech on Tuesday.

I think the Union County Pub-lic Schools are taking the right approach: Teachers who don’t want to use their class time for the broadcast can opt out. Parents who don’t want their children to watch the speech can withdraw them from the classroom.

This is reasonable. But let me play Dr. Phil for a moment:

What is not reasonable is some of the wild-eyed nonsense that I have heard from people on both sides of the issue. Please note that I am not making any of this up. None of it is exag-gerated or hyperbole.

From the left: If people don’t want their kids to hear the pres-ident speak, their kids should be in private school or home schooled.

From the right: I don’t want my children exposed to a com-munist agenda. The president is trying to indoctrinate my kids to be socialists.

First, I can’t believe that anyone would suggest that, for hypothetical example, an AP bi-ology student should be forced to watch a presidential address

in lieu of an experiment that might be critical to a good score on the AP test. And a parent who feels that his or her child is on the right track with school performance and critical think-ing skills isn’t necessarily some kind of ignorant refusenik who ought to turn to home school-ing.

UCPS defines this sort of event as a “supplementary in-structional activity,” a poten-tially valuable exercise that’s not a critical part of the goals of the core curriculum.

Second, I would like every-one who says the president is a communist to please take out their small, squishable stress balls and sit on the world for a second.

Imagine if — and this is such an outlandish “if ” that I’m snickering as I type it — Imag-ine if the president came on television and say, “Children, I would like you to go into your parents’ wallets, take out mon-ey and give it to your poor class-mates and, if you don’t, you’re an enemy of America. If your parents say I’m wrong, they are enemies of America, too.” What do you think would happen? Do you think that, just perhaps, you would have a conversation

with your child about it? Do you think that, just perhaps, an involved parent like you might have more influence on your kids than a 15-minute video in-terface with the president?

You will, in the end, get to speak your piece.

And that’s something that I learned from debate club, not marriage counseling: The best reason to listen isn’t always be-cause you’re a nice person who wants to understand the other side in the interest of world harmony.

Nope. Sometimes you listen to the other side because under-standing is a powerful weapon. You can’t genuinely reject what another person says if you haven’t heard what he says.

And if you listen and still de-spise everything that a person stands for, then a clear under-standing is a tool that will let you craft your devastating ar-gument, the one that will blow all opposition out of the water.

(Dr. Phil wouldn’t have told you that.)

• Betsy O’Donovan can be reached at 704-261-2223 or [email protected].

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The tragic case of Jaycee Lee Dugard, abducted at the age of 11 and allegedly held captive for 18 years in a backyard complex of tents and outbuildings at an Antioch home, has raised a newly relevant ques-tion: How could the alleged kidnappers and their victims have hidden in plain sight for so long? And does the apparent failure of parole agents to detect the ongoing crimes show that reforms to the state’s parole system are a bad idea?

Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, who have been charged with 29 counts of kidnapping and rape, were well known to law enforcement officials. ... A parole officer visited the Garridos’ home a few times a month but never saw anything suspicious and never went into the backyard. ...

Faced with the necessity of cutting $1.2 billion from the ballooning corrections budget, the Assem-bly ... approved a bill that would, among other things, change the way California supervises parolees. As has been repeatedly documented in studies by pan-els and blue ribbon commissions since 1980, this state’s parole system is a train wreck of inefficiency that crowds prisons, overwhelms parole officers and produces the nation’s worst recidivism rate. The bill would help remedy that situation by reassessing pa-role status based on the risk an ex-convict poses to the public...

Does that mean dangerous sex offenders like Gar-rido would be left to their own devices? Hardly. Not only would they still be subject to monitoring, but their parole officers would have more time to focus on them because they wouldn’t be overseeing non-violent drug addicts.

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By DaviD BareMedia General News Service

W I N S T O N - S A L E M - One morning, a volun-teer and I were standing transfixed at Reynolda Gardens. We were watch-ing a butterfly perform an aerial ballet. Feasting on apricot-colored zinnias, this zebra swallowtail swooped from blossom to blossom, its long tail trail-ing through the wavelike motion of its flight.

If the emotions of joy and delight can be as-signed to a butterfly, this one seemed to embody them. It was fully engaged in the bliss of flight.

When it came to rest it revealed the black-and-white barring of its wings, accented with a single sweep of scarlet and dots of deep sapphire. Its long, trailing tail was reminis-cent of a rare rain-forest bird, perhaps a quetzal or scissor-tailed hum-mingbird. It continued to amuse us with swoops and spirals until the volunteer brought out her cell-phone camera, the universal sig-nal for all rare things to disappear.

When I got home, I looked in my butterfly guide and was reminded that the larval food of the zebra swallowtail is the pawpaw tree, Asimina triloba, a genus of mostly tropical trees that thrives in the floodplain forests of

eastern North America.Besides its relation with

one of our most beauti-ful butterflies, everything else about the pawpaw seems exotic. The flow-ers are liver-red triangles with a slight carrion scent. They are pollinated by flies and beetles. The fruit of the pawpaw has been described as tasting like banana, mango, mel-on and custard. There are multiple variations and combinations of these fla-vors, as well as honey and berry. These flavors hint only at the diversity found in a sampling of pawpaws -- some of which are truly awful.

Jim Nottke, the trea-surer of the Carolina But-terfly Society, was also led to the pawpaw tree by the zebra butterfly.

“My interest was in learning about the life cycles of various local butterflies. The more I learned, the more amaz-ing and interesting the subject became,” Nottke said.

Along the way, he be-came interested in the fruit of the pawpaw and its long and colorful his-tory.

“Pawpaws were the larg-est and most important tree fruit to the Native Americans and the early European settlers. The In-dians cultivated pawpaw trees. Hernando De Soto made the first European

report in 1541. Lewis & Clark subsisted on the fruit on their trip. Jeffer-son planted pawpaws at Monticello,” Nottke said.

Nottke said that for him, the flavor is like many tropical fruits that he has tasted in Asia, Australia and Central America.

“It is closest to the cus-tard apple, but the pawpaw is a little less sweet and acidic. It has a smooth, custardlike consistency when properly ripe, with a mild flavor with hints of mango and banana.”

Derek Morris, an agent for the N.C. Agricultural Extension, has 33 pawpaw trees growing on less than an acre.

“I have 30 of about 40 known varieties,” he said.

Morris’ interest started when he came across a pawpaw tree in Old Sa-lem.

“It shocked me that something so good was just lying there wasting on the ground,” he said.

The flavor, Morris said, varies with the different varieties and with the stage of ripeness. Of his 30 varieties, only about 12 have reached bearing age.

His favorite variety, so far, is the Overleese. He described it as “caramel and butterscotch -- rich, sweet and with the tex-ture of a baked sweet po-tato. It improves with age, even when the fruit turns black.”

Turning black is one of the obstacles the pawpaw faces on the road to wider acceptance. Breeders are working to develop variet-ies with a longer shelf life, smaller seeds, and less bit-terness and astringency than is found in many of the wild trees.

In the last 20 years, there has been a great deal of interest in the develop-ing the pawpaw as a com-mercial crop. The center for research into pawpaw production is Kentucky State University, which

has had a comprehensive program since 1990. Ohio has crowned the pawpaw as its official state fruit. Ohio has its own pawpaw growers’ association, and has held an annual paw-paw festival since 2000.

Michael Williams, a lo-cal grower, is in the pro-cess of planting what will eventually be 200 trees on 1 1/4 acres near Mocksville. By fall, he will have plant-ed 46 trees of six varieties, and he hopes to add three more varieties next year. Williams intends to mar-ket the fruit through local farmers markets as well as to restaurants and lo-cal food producers who have expressed an interest in pawpaws but have not been able to find a source for the fruit.

I spoke to three grow-ers. They all believe that there is a strong market for pawpaws in food pro-duction, particularly in ice-cream manufacturing. “Even people who don’t like pawpaws like pawpaw ice cream,” Morris said.

Pawpaws thrive in deep, humus-rich soil in a spot that receives some protec-tion from direct afternoon sun. The pawpaw makes a beautiful, pyramidal-shaped ornamental tree with large, paddle-shaped leaves that turn a clear yellow in fall. It takes two trees to develop fruit. Planted from seed, paw-paw fruit will exhibit the wide variation that the wild fruit does. The pre-ferred method is to plant named varieties that are

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Have you ever noticed that certain plants look good as long as their environment is just perfect? What I want you to think about today are cer-tain plants in your garden or landscape. Are they worth all the finicky care they require? I admit that some plants with different, unusual or unique flowers probably are worth the trouble. Sometimes though, enough is enough and you’re ready to let them die, which is what they’ve been threatening to do for a long time.

Maybe you need something easy and something perhaps different. Most of all, though,

you need something that will grow and flower in less than ideal conditions. If there’s an abnormal amount of rainfall, they won’t rot in clay soil. If rainfall is scarce, they’ll still hang in there. Sure, they’ll be less than ideal on an off year, but every one will return next year fresh and new. Today, I’ll deal with those that need full sun. Since as a rule I write only about those I know about from experience, I can safely say “These are great plants”.

The first plant that is su-per easy to take care of and is drought tolerant is the Four O’Clock (Mirabilis jalapa and Mirabilis multiflora). With all the modern cultivars available in so many plants, a tried and true plant like this can easily be overlooked. It is a herbaceous perennial that comes back ev-ery year, even though it may spend a wet winter in our heavy clay. That’s usually the start of root rot for a lot of plants.

If you were to ask why I like this plant, the answer would be, “What’s not to like?” Some gardeners tell me they don’t like Four O’Clocks because

they bloom later in the day. But, now there are varieties that don’t wait to show off. Also, why is it so drought proof ? Af-ter 2-3 years, if you were to dig into the soil where it’s planted, you’d find something different. Instead of typical roots, you find a type of tuber that con-tinues to grow. This part of the Four O’Clock holds a great deal of water. Our plants bloomed during the drought of 2007 in 100 degree heat. Sure the dark green leaves may lose some tex-ture and color, but the blooms can appear by the hundreds. And, after a good soaking by a water hose or a summer rain shower, it’ll quickly return to normal.

From what I understand, you can get quite a range of bloom colors. For years, we’ve had large stands of magenta blooms. We finally gave in and planted some white blooming and some yellow blooming Four O’Clocks. I liked those solid col-ors so much I planted and grew a series called ‘Broken Colors’. The blooms on this variety are divided into 2 colors. The divi-sion looks just like someone drew a line on each bloom. By the way, the magenta flowering plants are a good 48 inches in height. All the others are 18-24 inches tall.

This year, by accident we have what I think is the best colored Four O’Clocks thus far. The magenta crossed with the solid white and the ‘Broken Colors’. On these new plants are a few magentas, and a few ‘Broken Color’ blooms of magenta and

white. However, the vast major-ity of the blooms are the palest shade of pink/magenta with tiny specks of dark pink/ma-genta scattered over the lighter shade. This is a color that de-veloped totally by the mixing of genes by bees, butterflies and other nectar loving crea-tures. Did I mention that Four O’Clocks have a wonderfully sweet aroma?

As I mentioned earlier, I like everything about this plant. The only work involved is removing the old plants after a hard frost. One tip I would give is to mark where your Four O’Clocks are planted. They won’t emerge un-til the soil is warm, so don’t dig and damage the tubers by mis-take. This plant produces seeds that will produce new plants, so you may have to pull new seedlings. If you’d like some of these Four O’Clock seeds from Walden Gardens, contact me and I’ll see what I can do. I also have plenty of seedlings avail-able in the spring.

The other sun-loving, drought resistant stalwart of the garden is the coneflower. There was a time when you said “purple coneflower” instead of just coneflower, and, in fact, I still use the term. When you want a plant that can take summer heat as well as a drought (sum-mer of 2007) you need not look any further. You’re more likely to lose this plant from a very wet spell than a drought.

It has tough, leathery leaves, strong stems and large flowers. Butterflies seek the blooms all summer. After the petals drop,

if you’ll leave the centers (seed pods) standing, goldfinches will flock to your garden. As an op-tion, if you’ll snip the first flush of blooms, a second group of blooms will usually follow. We always leave these for the birds and so the plant will also re-seed. I know the regular purple coneflower as well as the ‘White Swan’ variety will reseed. It will however take approximately 2 years from seeds to flowers.

Our first introduction to coneflower was when we pur-chased a seed packet of ‘Mag-nus’. It is a compact purple coneflower as far as the overall plant is concerned. The blooms, though, can be as much as 5 inches across. We purchased ‘Magnus’ and ‘White Swan’ from Park Seed. They even have a yellow variety available as seed, known botanically as Echinacea paradoxa. If you can afford plants, you’ll have two advantages. First, the time you wait for blooms will be less and you’ll have pink, red, cream and orange as added colors.

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During the early part of the 20th century, when Democrats dominated state politics, state Sen. Andrew Brock’s grandfa-ther, Burr Brock Sr., was the only Republican in the entire state legislature.

Today, the Democrats’ major-ity is not nearly as extreme. But the younger Brock, a four-term Republican from Davie County, still finds himself voting “no” quite a bit.

In fact, out of more than 1,000 total votes, Brock’s vot-ing record this year shows that he voted against the majority more than any other senator. That means he was on the los-ing side of votes more than any of his colleagues in the N.C. Senate.

In the N.C. House, the person with the same distinction is Rep. George Cleveland, a highly conservative member from On-slow County.

Cleveland’s percentage of opposition votes is closely fol-lowed by three representatives from Northwest North Caro-lina: Rep. Dale Folwell, R-For-syth, Rep. Darryl McCormick, R-Yadkin, and Rep. Sarah Ste-vens, R-Surry.

Legislators disagree on what sorts of conclusions voters should draw from the frequen-cy with which a particular leg-islator votes with or against the majority. But taken as a whole, the statistics paint a picture of a General Assembly in which true moderates are rare and

party unity is highly prized.Every single Democrat voted

with the majority more than 95 percent of the time in the 2009 legislative session, which end-ed last month.

And even the most conserva-tive Democrats voted with the majority significantly more often than the most liberal Re-publicans.

The statistics are compiled each year by the Senate and House clerks’ offices. Voting “with the majority” means that a legislator voted on the pre-vailing side of a bill or an issue. Voting “against the majority” means the legislator voted on the losing side.

Despite legislative partisan-ship, most votes taken in the General Assembly are not con-troversial. They include honor-ary resolutions and technical bills that virtually everyone agrees on.

The large number of such votes explains why even legis-lators like Brock and Folwell voted with the majority about 80 percent of the time.

It’s in the other 20 percent that legislators may have tough decisions to make.

On big, contentious bills - such as the state budget or some bills involving social issues - leaders in both parties exert great pres-sure on rank-and-file members to vote along party lines.

The extent to which a cen-trist-leaning legislator feels free to break with his or her party often depends on whether that legislator expects to face a seri-ous challenger in the next elec-tion, said Ran Coble, an expert on the General Assembly.

“How competitive is the dis-trict that they’re in? That can lead somebody to vote with their party less if they think that they could get attacked on a particular vote,” said Coble, the executive director of the N.C. Center for Public Policy Research, a nonpartisan group in Raleigh.

For instance, some Demo-crats from conservative, tobac-co-producing districts voted against the smoking ban in bars and restaurants, even though it was a top priority of the Demo-cratic leadership. Annexation is another issue that sometimes defies party lines.

In addition to contentious bills, some legislators vote con-sistently against certain types of “local bills,” which generally affect only one county but re-quire approval from the entire legislature.

For instance, a county may want the option for a local tax or fee increase. All of the coun-ty’s elected representatives may agree on the proposal, but some legislators from other districts will still vote “no” because they are philosophically opposed to such increases.

Folwell is one legislator whose high percentage of being in the opposition is partially ex-plained by many “no” votes on local bills.

“A lot of those votes had to do with the raising of certain tax-es and fees across N.C., many of which had nothing to do with my district,” Folwell said. “Phil-osophically, I’m against having a patch-quilt tax system.”

Having many different local tax options sets the counties of North Carolina into competi-tion against each other, Folwell added.

Joe Hackney, the speaker of the N.C. House, said that when legislators frequently oppose local bills, it can hurt their overall effectiveness.

“No one, of course, faults someone who votes against a bill on a matter of conscience, but when you believe you know what’s good for someone else’s district, it engenders ill will,” said Hackney, D-Orange.

In fact, Hackney said he be-lieves that the statistics about how frequently each legislator votes with the majority are a better indication of a legisla-tor’s effectiveness than of his or her ideology.

Brock strongly disagrees with that.

“Just because you vote no

doesn’t mean you didn’t shape the debate,” he said. “A lot of times, you make a bad bill bet-ter. You still may not like it. But if you just let it go unchecked, the ramifications of it may be terrible.”

Brock said he thinks of him-self as one of the Senate’s most conservative members, both fiscally and socially, and at the General Assembly, most people do see him that way.

Folwell is a more complicated case. In addition to holding con-servative views, he has built up a reputation in recent years as a pragmatist who works with Democrats and sponsors common-sense legislation with broad bipartisan support.

Folwell says he does not be-lieve that his pragmatic ap-proach is contradicted by his frequent opposition to the ma-jority.

One reason he votes no on some bills, he said, is that he simply does not understand them fully.

“A representative is an em-ployee, and the people of their district are the employers,” Folwell said. “I’m down there in their absence, so what would they want me to do? And some-times the biggest hurdle is, ‘Do I really understand exactly what this bill says?’ And the answer to that sometimes is no.

“Your voting record is some-thing you have to own,” Folwell said. “It’s not anyone else’s. It’s yours.”

• James Romoser can be reached at 919-210-6794 or at [email protected].

Voting no reveals nature of the Legislature

“...(T)he statistics paint a picture of a General Assembly in which true moderates are rare and party unity is highly prized.”

SpendingContinued from 1A

running out of time.A study by research

firm AlixPartners con-cluded that once a new normal sets in after this recession ends, Ameri-cans will spend at about 86 percent of their pre-downturn level.

In an economy driven by consumption, the im-plications are far-reach-ing if that forecast proves correct:

• For every kitchen not remodeled, there will be lost sales of appliances and supplies, and fewer jobs for designers and con-tractors. As homeowners do work around the house themselves, there will be less work for gardeners, plumbers and handymen.

• For every shopper who trades down from luxury stores to discount stores, it will mean less profit for retailers and manufacturers. Retailers will continue to offer few product choices and lean-er inventories, and they’ll reassess store locations and advertising.

A Gallup survey last month found seven in 10 Americans are cutting weekly expenses — a number that has been consistent through the summer.

A year after last fall’s financial meltdown turned a garden-variety recession into the worst downturn since the De-

pression, thriftiness is still driven by the twin engines of necessity and fear. Unemployment, now at 9.7 percent, is still ris-ing and expected to reach double digits before year’s end for the first time since 1982. Many who still have jobs are getting paid less, and investments have a long way to go before they return to pre-meltdown levels.

Kathy Haney, 46, of Or-land Park, Ill., has a job but is scaling back shop-ping and packing lunch.

“You put your priori-ties in different places be-cause you never know if you’re going to have a job tomorrow,” the legal sec-retary says. “You think twice now. I have six TVs in the house. Do I really need a new flat screen?”

For her and many other Americans, the answer is no. The underlying causes of the meltdown and where it left millions financially suggests a fun-damental change is under way. Personal spending has fallen in four of the last six quarters — the only time that’s happened since records were first compiled in 1947.

In a normal recession, a vicious downward cycle of reduced spending by consumers and layoffs by employers finally eases and a virtuous cycle be-gins. Consumers start spending again. Factories ramp back up to meet the demand and hire work-ers. Incomes rise, fueling

greater spending, more production and more jobs.

Until the Great Reces-sion, the worst recession since World War II was in 1981-82. Unemployment peaked at 10.8 percent in December 1982, a month after the recession ended.

The recovery that fol-lowed was powered by baby boomers, they were mostly in their 20s and early 30s then. Their ca-reers were taking off, they were starting fami-lies, and they were spend-ing freely. On homes, furniture, cars — and ev-erything else. Saving for retirement was the last thing on their minds.

When the recession end-ed, growth was explosive. Consumer spending rose 5.7 percent in 1983. GDP rose 4.5 percent in ’83 and 7.2 percent in 1984.

“If someone gets more comfortable, they spend a little more,” says Erik Hurst, an economist at the University of Chica-go’s Booth School of Busi-ness. “As they spend a

little more, someone else spends more.”

Jump to today. For most of this decade, Ameri-cans enjoyed a credit-fueled binge that allowed them to spend more than they made. Per capita per-sonal spending ballooned 25 percent from 2003 to 2005, according to data from Euromonitor Inter-national.

Personal debt doubled in a decade. As of July, it stood at $13.8 trillion, or about $124,000 per house-hold. Despite months of frugality, that was slight-ly below its 2008 peak.

It will take years to work down the debt, which will prolong people’s thrifti-ness. Paying it down will be harder because of the layoffs, pay cuts, freezes and furloughs. Personal income has fallen or been flat eight of the past 10 months.

On the asset side of their balance sheets, plunging stock prices and home values have made Americans feel poorer. Their net worth — the

difference between the value of what they own and what they owe — has taken a staggering $12.2 trillion hit in the Great Recession. Net worth fell from $62.6 trillion at the end of 2007 to $50.4 trillion at the end of this year’s first quarter, figures from the Federal Reserve show.

The result: Consumer spending adjusted for in-flation fell 0.2 percent in 2008 — the first annual drop since 1980. Hardest hit from the first half of last year to the first half of this year: Motor vehi-cles and parts (down 17.2 percent); furnishings and durable household equip-ment (down 8.8 percent); clothing and footwear (down 5.8 percent).

“There will be a funda-mental shift in the kind of cars we buy, a funda-mental shift in the homes we buy, and a fundamen-tal shift in consumption generally,” says Matt Murray, an economist at the University of Tennes-see. “And that is not some-thing that took place in

the 1980s.”As in the 1980s, much of

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The housing bubble mistakenly led boomers and millions of others to believe their home was their retirement nest egg. If they left their home equity alone during the boom, they’ve taken a hit the last couple years but are still ahead. But many treated their home like a personal bank and spent the gains by tap-ping a home equity line of credit.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Charter schools, already seeing a surge in students, are getting attention from another group — private inves-tors.

Entertainment Proper-ties Inc., known mostly for sinking its money into movie theaters and wineries, recently bought 22 locations from charter school operator Imagine Schools for about $170 million. The real estate investment trust acts as landlord, while Imagine operates the schools and is using the investment

to expand its chain of 74 locations.

“They really are an effective source of long-term financing that we can rely on and enables us to do what we’re best at, which is running schools, and do what they’re best at, which is long-term real estate ownership,” said Barry Sharp, chief financial officer for Arlington, Va.-based Imagine. “It’s a good fit.”

Charter school sup-porters hope the move by Kansas City-based En-tertainment Properties

is the first of many such partnerships as they deal with increased inter-est from parents but not more money to build or expand their facilities.

In the past decade, the number of U.S. charter schools has tripled to 4,618, while the number of students enrolled has almost quadrupled to more than 1.4 million, ac-cording to the National Alliance for Public Char-ter Schools.

While charter schools are publicly funded, they often don’t have the same access to bonds and

other financing avail-able to mainstream pub-lic schools. That forces many to operate in places like storefronts or church basements, said Todd Zie-barth, vice president of policy for the alliance.

“I think it’s probably the biggest challenge facing charters, not only finding space but once you find it how do you pay for it, particularly if you’re going to buy it,” Ziebarth said. “I think it’s limiting their growth and it’s limiting the expansion of existing schools.”

Charter schools draw investors

Catholics oppose health care overhaulBishops support comprehensive coverage, but criticize rules covering abortionBy ERIC GORSKIAP Religion Writer

DENVER (AP) — U.S. Roman Catholic bishops have taken a consistent line on a health care over-haul: It’s vital, but they cannot support propos-als that go too far in cov-ering abortion and not far enough in protecting health workers who don’t want to provide that pro-

cedure. Now, at least a half-dozen bishops have gone beyond that posi-tion, some of them us-ing hard-hitting terms such as “socialization” and “monopolization” to launch a broader critique of big government.

Their argument isn’t that the federal govern-ment should necessar-ily stay out of health care coverage altogether, but

that an oversized govern-ment health system could wield too much power over people’s lives.

“Among the Catholic bishops, on all issues, there will be disagree-ment,” said Mark Rozell, a professor of public policy at George Mason Univer-sity. “This is almost like the minority report being issued here.”

Although the limited-

government bishops are a small minority, if their arguments gain momen-tum it could pose another challenge to President Barack Obama’s efforts to make sweeping changes to the nation’s health care system.

U.S. bishops for decades have advocated compre-hensive health care cov-erage as a right for all Americans, with a special

focus on meeting the basic medical needs of the poor, elderly and disabled.

But bishops taking the lead on health care — the ones who have writ-ten letters to Congress on behalf of the bishops’ conference — have made it clear that the current legislation has too many problems.

Bishops have criticized proposals that would allow

the proposed government-sponsored insurance plan to cover abortions. As it stands, federal funds for abortions are restricted to cases involving rape, incest or danger to the life of the mother. Bishops also are insisting on pro-tections for health care workers who in good con-science feel they cannot have a hand in abortion services.

NATION BRIEFSFROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Man donates 40 gallons of blood

WOODBURY, N.Y. — A New York man is donating his 320th pint of blood this week, making him one of two people in the U.S. who has given 40 gallons.

Seventy-five-year-old Al Fischer of Massapequa plans to reach the mile-stone Tuesday, 58 years after he started giving blood.

According to a New York Blood Center official, only 83-year-old Maurice Wood has donated more blood than Fischer. Wood is a retired railroad inspector from St. Louis.

Fischer, a print shop operator, donates blood about six times a year. He says he and Wood are en-gaged in a friendly rivalry and last spoke to each oth-er a few months ago.

Great Whites tagged in Atlantic

BOSTON — Massachu-setts officials are using high-tech tags to track the movements of two great white sharks near Cape Cod — the first time the species has ever been tagged in the Atlantic Ocean.

The sharks were spot-

ted Saturday by scientists investigating sightings off Monomoy Island in Chatham. Officials say a harpooner tagged them with help from a state shark expert.

Kennedy nephew will not take seat

BOSTON — Former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II, the eldest son of Robert F. Kennedy, announced Monday he would not run for the U.S. Senate seat held for nearly 50 years by his late uncle, Edward M. Kennedy. The decision was certain to widen the race for the Democratic nomination.

In a statement, the for-mer six-term congress-man said he cares about those seeking decent housing, fair wages and health care.

But he added, “The best way for me to contribute to those causes is by con-tinuing my work at Citi-zens Energy Corp.”

The nonprofit organiza-tion provides free heating oil to the poor, but Kenne-dy likely would have faced campaign questions about fuel it received from Ven-ezuelan President Hugo Chavez — a persistent U.S. critic.

Obama offers text of speechWASHINGTON (AP)

— In a speech that drew fire even before he deliv-ered it, President Barack Obama is telling the na-tion’s schoolchildren he “expects great things from each of you.”

“At the end of the day, we can have the most ded-icated teachers, the most supportive parents, and the best schools in the world,” Obama said. “And none of it will matter un-

less all of you fulfill your responsibilities.”

The White House post-ed Obama’s remarks on its Web site at midday Monday. He’s scheduled to deliver the talk from Wakefield High School in suburban Arlington, Va., Tuesday. It will be broad-cast on C-SPAN and on the White House Web site.

Obama’s planned talk has proven controversial, with several conservative

organizations and indi-viduals accusing him of trying to pitch his argu-ments too aggressively in a local-education setting.

“It’s a sad state of af-fairs that many in this country politically would rather start an “Animal House” food fight rather than inspire kids to stay in school, to work hard, to engage parents to stay involved, and to ensure that the millions of teach-

ers that are making great sacrifices continue to be the best in the world,” White House press sec-retary Robert Gibbs said Monday. “It’s a sad state of affairs.”

In the prepared re-marks, Obama tells young people that all the work of parents, educators and others won’t matter “un-less you show up to those schools, pay attention to those teachers.”

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BY JUSTIN MURDOCKE-J Sports Writer

MONROEAfter failing to reach the end zone in his

team’s season-opening loss to Anson County, Forest Hills senior quarterback Juanne Blount is back on track.

Blount, who rushed for a Union County-best 36 touchdowns in 15 games as a junior last year, has crossed the goal line a combined five times in the Yellow Jackets’ last two games.

He ran for three scores in a 42-21 win over Weddington in Week 2 and followed by rushing for two touchdowns in last Friday’s home loss to Pageland Central.

Blount, who also has a pair of two-point con-versions, ranks third in Union County with 34 points through the first three weeks of the regular season.

Monroe senior tailback Shamiir Hailey leads the county with 42 points on seven rushing touchdowns while his teammate, junior Jami-son Crowder, is second with 36 points.

Hailey has run for at least two TDs in all three of Monroe’s contests, helping the Redhawks get off to a 3-0 start.

Crowder has found the end zone six times, in-cluding three on receptions and one each on a kickoff, punt and fumble return.

Crowder is one of only two players in the county who have scored in at least two different ways. The other is Marvin Ridge junior Matt Chilton, who has a rushing TD and an interception for a score.

Between the uprightsFour kickers in UC have already connected on

at least two field goals so far this season, includ-ing Piedmont senior Mason Montgomery and

See SCORING / Page 3B

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Ailing shoulder and all, Jacory Harris put on a show that Mi-ami won’t soon forget Monday night.

And the Hurricanes defense came up huge when it mattered most.

The sophomore quarterback threw for 386 yards — including a 40-yard pass over double cov-erage to Travis Benjamin, set-ting up Graig Cooper’s 3-yard

touchdown run with 1:53 left — and led the Hurricanes past No. 18 Florida State 38-34 in a wild, back-and-forth game on Monday night.

Florida State got to the Miami 2 with 14 seconds left. But Chris-tian Ponder threw three straight incom-pletions, the last coming on a ball that Jarmon Fortson nearly caught in the end zone

on the game’s final play, and Mi-ami escaped.

Harris completed 21 of 34 passes for two touch-

downs and two inter-ceptions. He got hurt on the second of those turnovers; Harris was drilled by blitzing cor-nerback Greg Reid and

his throw on that play re-sulted in nothing more than a pop fly that Markus White ran

back 31 yards for a 31-24 Florida State lead with 11:45 remaining.

Harris walked to the sideline, holding his right arm tightly to his chest, indicating a shoulder injury.

He was fine. Better than fine, actually.

“It was just a bad funny bone incident,” Harris said. “My whole arm went numb. I had to fight through. I had to help this team win.”

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On a hot streakStricker wins in Boston, moves to No. 2 ranking 3B

WHO’S NEWSBradford out 2-4 weeks for Sooners

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Heis-man Trophy winner Sam Bradford is not expected to need surgery on his

sprained right shoulder and the quarterback could play again for No. 3 Oklahoma in two to four weeks.

“Everyone’s different in how they heal, the soreness, how they handle it

and how quickly it dissipates where he can move and be comfortable again throwing the ball,” Stoops said after the Sooners’ practice Monday. “Anywhere from two to four weeks is what we’re anticipating.”

Stoops said the initial evaluations by doctors showed that Bradford did not suffer any damage to his col-larbone, rotator cuff or other parts of his shoulder when he sprained his AC joint just before halftime in Okla-homa’s 14-13 loss to No. 20 BYU on Saturday. Those evaluations also did not suggest surgery, although another doctor’s opinion is due in on Tuesday.

Jones makes roster;LB on practice squad

WINGATE — Former Wingate all-American cornerback David Jones has made the roster of the Cincinnati Ben-

gals for the third straight season, but is expected to miss the season opener while recovering from a stress fracture in his foot.

Jones is the Bengals’ nickel back and started four games last

season, when he finished with 43 tack-les. He had just two stops as a rookie in 2007. Jones is scheduled to make a base salary of $375,640 this season.

Linebacker Kenwin Cummings, who finished at Wingate a year after Jones, was placed on the New York Jets’ practice squad for the second straight season after being released on Saturday.

Practice squad players in the NFL make a minimum of $5,200 per week or $88,400 if they remain the entire season. The NFL rookie miminum salary if $285,000.

Teenager rallies again at U.S. Open

NEW YORK (AP) — Forget about forehands and backhands. Melanie Oudin’s biggest weapon is her heart.

The 17-year-old sparkplug from Georgia proved it again Monday at the U.S. Open, extending her remarkable run to the quarterfinals with another come-from-be-hind victory, 1-6, 7-6 (2), 6-3 over

13th-seeded Nadia Petrova.Oudin staved off four points that

would have put her behind 5-3 in the second set, then rolled through the third, hitting corners with those underrated groundstrokes and taking advantage of 22 unforced errors by her more-seasoned, higher-ranked opponent.

Rankings, like her age, however, are only numbers. The 70th-ranked player already had wins over No. 4 Elena De-mentieva and No. 29 Maria Sharapova at Flushing Meadows, along with one over former No. 1 Jelena Jankovic this summer at Wimbledon. Now, she’s knocked off No. 13.

After hitting a forehand to the corner for her 19th and final winner on match point, Oudin threw her racket in the air. This time, however, she didn’t cry any tears of disbelief. Instead, it was twin sister Katherine sobbing in the stands.

“I’m so happy to be in my first quarterfinal Grand Slam everrrr,” Ou-din told the crowd in her postmatch, on-court interview.

WORTH A LOOKMajor League BaseballAtlanta at Houston

8:05 p.m., SportSouth

JONES

OUDIN

BRADFORD

Back to usual formFH quarterback has scored five times in last two games

E-J staff photo by Ed Cottingham

Forest Hills senior quarterback Juanne Blount has five rushing touchdowns through three games this season. Blount ran for 24 scores during the 2008 regular season.

Hurricanes survive Florida State in wild finish

Photo illustration by Ed Cottingham

Getting to know ...Mason Montgomery

Grade: Senior

Height: 5-foot-5

Weight: 130 pounds

Born: November 25, 1991

Favorite restaurant: O’Charley’s

Favorite soccer player: Landon Donovan

Favorite Web site: ESPN.com

My greatest influence has been: Nelson Garner (former soccer coach now at Cuthbertson)

Favorite place to visit: The beach; I love the ocean

Ten years from now I hope to be: A teacher

When my playing days are over, I plan to focus on: School, becoming a teacher and having a family.

— Compiled by Eric Rape

The Piedmont High senior is not only playing soccer and kicking for the football team, but has even played

some receiver this season. Montgomery, who also plays varsity basketball, made two field goals from beyond 40

yards in the Panthers’ 20-14 road win over Robinson last week. Piedmont has a big week in soccer, playing at Marvin Ridge today and at home against Cuthbertson on Wednesday. Piedmont’s football team is at Union Acad-

emy on Friday starting at 7 p.m.

Panthers turn corner with their road win

UNIONVILLEFootball programs in

Union County get vary-ing degrees of support, and anybody who knows will rank Piedmont High’s followers among the most loyal of any school around.

Come rain or shine, and it’s been mostly cloudy skies in Unionville the last four years, Piedmont’s fans are devout.

While it may not mean much to some, Piedmont’s 20-14 road win over Con-cord Robinson last Friday energized a community.

Friday represented Pied-mont’s biggest win since Sept. 16, 2005, when the Panthers went on the road and beat Monroe 27-22.

Piedmont went 0-10 last year before ending with a win, and did the same the season before. The Panthers have averaged just two wins the past four seasons after coming off a stretch of 43 wins the previous four years.

A renewed commitment to offseason conditioning was threatened by a cluster of pre-season injuries. Starting quar-terback Ross Rushing broke a bone in his leg, running back/linebacker Steven Miller was out with an illness and of-fensive lineman Jacob Brewer went down with a knee injury.

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My View

Jerry SnowE-J Sports Editor

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AMERICAN LEAGUESunday’s GamesCleveland 3, Minnesota 1Toronto 14, N.Y. Yankees 8Baltimore 7, Texas 0Detroit 5, Tampa Bay 3Boston 6, Chicago White Sox 1L.A. Angels 7, Kansas City 2Oakland 5, Seattle 2Monday’s GamesN.Y. Yankees 4, Tampa Bay 1, 1st gameMinnesota 6, Toronto 3Chicago White Sox 5, Boston 1Kansas City 6, L.A. Angels 3Texas at Cleveland, lateTampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, late, 2nd

gameToday’s GamesTampa Bay (Price 7-7) at N.Y. Yankees

(Gaudin 1-0), 7:05 p.m.Texas (McCarthy 6-2) at Cleveland

(Laffey 7-4), 7:05 p.m.Minnesota (Duensing 2-1) at Toronto

(R.Romero 11-7), 7:07 p.m.Baltimore (Da.Hernandez 4-6) at

Boston (Buchholz 4-3), 7:10 p.m.Detroit (Porcello 12-8) at Kansas City

(Chen 1-6), 8:10 p.m.Oakland (Tomko 3-3) at Chicago White

Sox (C.Torres 1-0), 8:11 p.m.Seattle (F.Hernandez 14-5) at L.A.

Angels (Kazmir 8-8), 10:05 p.m.Wednesday’s GamesTexas at Cleveland, 12:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.Minnesota at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.Baltimore at Boston, 7:10 p.m.Detroit at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.Oakland at Chicago White Sox, 8:11

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

NATIONAL LEAGUESunday’s GamesN.Y. Mets 4, Chicago Cubs 2Cincinnati 4, Atlanta 2, 12 inningsWashington 5, Florida 4Pittsburgh 6, St. Louis 5Houston 4, Philadelphia 3Milwaukee 2, San Francisco 1, 12

inningsColorado 13, Arizona 5San Diego 4, L.A. Dodgers 3Monday’s GamesChicago Cubs 4, Pittsburgh 2Houston 4, Philadelphia 3St. Louis 3, Milwaukee 0Colorado 4, Cincinnati 3L.A. Dodgers 7, Arizona 2San Francisco 9, San Diego 4Today’s GamesChicago Cubs (Dempster 8-8) at

Pittsburgh (Duke 10-13), 7:05 p.m.Philadelphia (P.Martinez 3-0) at

Washington (Lannan 8-10), 7:05 p.m.Florida (VandenHurk 2-2) at N.Y. Mets

(Redding 2-4), 7:10 p.m.Atlanta (J.Vazquez 11-9) at Houston

(F.Paulino 2-7), 8:05 p.m.St. Louis (Smoltz 1-1) at Milwaukee

(M.Parra 10-10), 8:05 p.m.Cincinnati (Maloney 0-3) at Colorado

(Marquis 14-10), 8:40 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Billingsley 12-9) at

Arizona (Buckner 2-6), 9:40 p.m.San Diego (Correia 10-10) at San

Francisco (Lincecum 13-5), 10:15 p.m.Wednesday’s GamesChicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 12:35 p.m.St. Louis at Milwaukee, 2:05 p.m.San Diego at San Francisco, 3:45 p.m.Philadelphia at Washington, 7:05 p.m.Florida at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.Atlanta at Houston, 8:05 p.m.Cincinnati at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 10:10 p.m.

Auto racing

NASCAR Sprint Cup-Pep Boys Auto 500 Results

1. (2) Kasey Kahne, Dodge, 325 laps, 131.1 rating, 190 points, $363,073.

2. (18) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 325, 116.5, 175, $248,328.

3. (22) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 325, 114.7, 170, $207,348.

4. (28) David Reutimann, Toyota, 325, 95.5, 160, $168,098.

5. (7) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 325, 109.5, 155, $131,175.

6. (10) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 325, 121.1, 155, $138,875.

7. (8) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 325, 100.1, 151, $139,348.

8. (4) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 325, 110.4, 147, $148,926.

9. (23) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 325, 80.7, 143, $135,479.

10. (26) Greg Biffle, Ford, 325, 70.5, 139, $123,675.

11. (12) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 325, 89.5, 130, $118,823.

12. (15) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 325, 81, 132, $144,665.

13. (5) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 325, 98.4, 129, $147,598.

14. (9) David Stremme, Dodge, 325, 83.2, 121, $132,565.

15. (41) Paul Menard, Ford, 325, 65.6, 118, $129,881.

16. (29) Robby Gordon, Toyota, 325, 72.1, 115, $116,935.

17. (31) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 325, 85, 112, $111,025.

18. (25) Bobby Labonte, Chevrolet, 325, 69.4, 109, $95,725.

19. (17) David Gilliland, Ford, 325, 66.5, 106, $91,850.

20. (35) AJ Allmendinger, Dodge, 325, 58, 103, $100,850.

21. (21) Elliott Sadler, Dodge, 325, 49.8, 100, $101,300.

22. (34) Joey Logano, Toyota, 324, 68.9, 97, $138,026.

23. (11) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 324, 56.8, 94, $107,223.

24. (32) Scott Speed, Toyota, 324, 49.5, 91, $102,973.

25. (33) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 324, 44.8, 88, $105,600.

26. (1) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 324, 96.6, 95, $153,490.

27. (13) Reed Sorenson, Dodge, 324, 66.8, 82, $126,251.

28. (27) Jamie McMurray, Ford, 323, 48.6, 79, $96,150.

29. (20) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 323, 47.3, 76, $93,125.

30. (42) Erik Darnell, Ford, 323, 39.9, 73, $113,104.

31. (40) John Andretti, Chevrolet, 323, 36.4, 70, $93,825.

32. (19) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 323, 44.5, 72, $92,750.

33. (16) David Ragan, Ford, 322, 61, 64, $93,425.

34. (24) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 322, 54.2, 61, $131,131.

35. (30) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 320, 42.7, 58, $102,910.

36. (3) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 303, 91.2, 60, $140,351.

37. (14) Carl Edwards, Ford, 302, 70.6, 52, $132,706.

38. (6) Kurt Busch, Dodge, accident, 244, 73.9, 49, $101,725.

39. (43) Terry Labonte, Toyota, electri-cal, 148, 32.6, 46, $83,600.

40. (39) Max Papis, Toyota, accident, 100, 28.1, 43, $83,475.

41. (38) Mike Bliss, Dodge, electrical, 38, 25.9, 40, $83,325.

42. (36) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, brakes, 25, 25.8, 37, $83,235.

43. (37) Dave Blaney, Toyota, electrical, 19, 25.9, 34, $83,588.

Race StatisticsAverage Speed of Race Winner:

134.033 mph.Time of Race: 3 hours, 44 minutes, 3

seconds.Margin of Victory: 1.766 seconds.Caution Flags: 9 for 42 laps.Lead Changes: 31 among 13 drivers.Lap Leaders: M.Truex Jr. 1-38; K.

Kahne 39-41; M.Truex Jr. 42-61; Ky.Busch 62-71; J.Johnson 72-83; M.Kenseth 84; Ky.Busch 85-95; M.Truex Jr. 96-105; M.Waltrip 106; Ky.Busch 107-109; D.Hamlin 110-127; J.Johnson 128-132; J.Gordon 133-135; D.Hamlin 136-138; J.Gordon 139-165; D.Hamlin 166-167; K.Harvick 168-188; B.Vickers

189-190; K.Harvick 191-202; R.Newman 203; K.Harvick 204-207; K.Kahne 208-227; K.Harvick 228-229; K.Kahne 230; K.Harvick 231-247; G.Biffle 248; K.Kahne 249-269; J.Montoya 270; K.Kahne 271-274; J.Montoya 275-304; K.Harvick 305-314; K.Kahne 315-325.

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): M.Truex Jr., 3 times for 68 laps; K.Harvick, 6 times for 66 laps; K.Kahne, 6 times for 60 laps; J.Montoya, 2 times for 31 laps; J.Gordon, 2 times for 30 laps; Ky.Busch, 3 times for 24 laps; D.Hamlin, 3 times for 23 laps; J.Johnson, 2 times for 17 laps; B.Vickers, 1 time for 2 laps; R.Newman, 1 time for 1 lap; G.Biffle, 1 time for 1 lap; M.Kenseth, 1 time for 1 lap; M.Waltrip, 1 time for 1 lap.

Top 12 in Points: 1. T.Stewart, 3,694; 2. J.Gordon, 3,457; 3. J.Johnson, 3,404; 4. D.Hamlin, 3,296; 5. C.Edwards, 3,162; 6. K.Kahne, 3,153; 7. Ku.Busch, 3,152; 8. J.Montoya, 3,145; 9. R.Newman, 3,138; 10. M.Martin, 3,126; 11. G.Biffle, 3,125; 12. M.Kenseth, 3,077.

NASCAR Driver Rating FormulaA maximum of 150 points can be

attained in a race.The formula combines the following

categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish.

Pro tennis

U.S. Open ResultsMondayAt The USTA Billie Jean King

National Tennis CenterNew YorkPurse: $21.6 million (Grand Slam)Surface: Hard-Outdoor

SinglesMen

Fourth RoundRobin Soderling (12), Sweden, def.

Nikolay Davydenko (8), Russia, 7-5, 3-6, 6-2, retired.

Roger Federer (1), Switzerland, def. Tommy Robredo (14), Spain, 7-5, 6-2, 6-2.

Fernando Verdasco (10), Spain, def. John Isner, United States, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4.

WomenFourth Round

Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukraine, def. Gisela Dulko, Argentina, 6-0, 6-0.

Melanie Oudin, United States, def. Nadia Petrova (13), Russia, 1-6, 7-6 (2), 6-3.

Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium, def. Petra Kvitova, Czech Republic, 4-6, 6-4, 7-5.

DoublesMen

Third RoundCarsten Ball and Chris Guccione,

Australia, def. Leos Friedl and Jaroslav Levinsky, Czech Republic, 6-2, 6-1.

Lukas Dlouhy, Czech Republic, and Leander Paes (4), India, def. Julian Knowle and Jurgen Melzer, Austria, 7-5, 6-4.

Mahesh Bhupathi, India, and Mark Knowles (3), Bahamas, def. Yen-hsun Lu, Taiwan, and Dudi Sela, Israel, 6-4, 6-4.

Daniel Nestor, Canada, and Nenad Zimonjic (2), Serbia, def. Robert Kendrick, United States, and Janko Tipsarevic, Serbia, 6-2, 5-7, 6-4.

WomenThird Round

Nuria Llagostera Vives and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (6), Spain, def. Vania King, United States, and Monica Niculescu (12), Romania, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.

Yan Zi and Zheng Jie (11), China, def. Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakia, and Ai Sugiyama (5), Japan, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.

MixedQuarterfinals

Carly Gullickson and Travis Parrott, United States, def. Lisa Raymond, United States, and Marcin Matkowski (3), Poland, 6-2, 7-5.

Liezel Huber, United States, and Mahesh Bhupathi (1), India, def. Bethanie Mattek-Sands, United States, and Nenad Zimonjic (8), Serbia, 6-4, 6-3.

Cara Black, Zimbabwe, and Leander Paes (2), India, def. Rennae Stubbs, Australia, and Robert Lindstedt (7), Sweden, 7-5, 3-6, 10-6 tiebreak.

Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, and Kevin Ullyett (5), Zimbabwe, def. Yan Zi, China, and Mariusz Fyrstenberg, Poland, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (4).

Junior SinglesBoys

First RoundJozef Kovalik, Slovakia, def. Harry

Fowler, United States, 6-4, 7-6 (5).Mikhail Biryukov, Russia, def.

Richard Becker, Germany, 1-6, 6-3, 6-3.

Alexandros Georgoudas, Germany, def. Sekou Bangoura, United States, 6-4, 3-6, 6-0.

Christian Lindell, Sweden, def. Facundo Arguello (10), Argentina, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2.

Raymond Sarmiento, United States, def. Hsieh Cheng Peng, Taiwan, 7-5, 6-3.

Lim Yong-kyu (6), South Korea, def. Maximilian Neuchrist, Austria, 6-2, 6-4.

Gianni Mina (8), France, def. Yasutaka Uchiyama, Japan, 6-4, 6-4.

Alexander Domijan, United States, def. Sudanwa Sitaram, India, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5.

Pierre-Hugues Herbert, France, def. Shuichi Sekiguchi (9), Japan, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3.

Sebastian Lavie, New Zealand, def. Renzo Olivo, Argentina, 7-5, 6-1.

Jeong Suk-young, South Korea, def. Shane Vinsant, United States, 6-1, 6-1.

Tobias Blomgren, Sweden, def. Bjorn Fratangelo, United States, 6-4, 6-4.

Matthew Kandath, United States, def. Huang Liang-chi (4), Taiwan, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4).

GirlsFirst Round

Beatrice Capra (16), United States, def. Anna Arina Marenko, Russia, 6-3, 6-2.

Gail Brodsky, United States, def. Veronica Cepede Royg, Paraguay, 7-5, 7-5.

Timea Babos (3), Hungary, def. Elina Svitolina, Ukraine, 6-3, 6-4.

Courtney Dolehide, United States, def. Cristina Dinu, Romania, 6-0, 4-6, 6-4.

Maryna Zanevska, Ukraine, def. Akiko Omae, Japan, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.

Grace Min, United States, def. Juan Ting-fei, Taiwan, 6-4, 6-2.

Anna Orlik, Belarus, def. Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, 6-2, 6-4.

Lauren Embree (7), United States, def. Paula Kania, Poland, 7-5, 6-2.

Richel Hogenkamp (10), Netherlands, def. Paula Ormaechea, Argentina, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-2.

Yana Buchina, Russia, def. Stephanie Cornish, Britain, 6-4, 7-6 (9).

Zsofia Susanyi, Hungary, def. Noel Scott, United States, 6-4, 6-0.

Ulrikke Eikeri (15), Norway, def. Nataliya Pintusova, Belarus, 6-2, 6-1.

Nicole Gibbs, United States, def. Magda Linette, Poland, 6-4, 6-1.

Mai Grage, Denmark, def. Risa Ozaki, Japan, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2.

Junior DoublesBoys

First RoundStanislav Poplavskyy, Ukraine, and

Radim Urbanek, Czech Republic, def. Andrea Collarini, Argentina, and Nikala Scholtz (5), South Africa, 6-4, 6-7 (4), 10-7 tiebreak.

Ahmed El Menshawy, Britain, and Harry Fowler, United States, def. Filip Horansky and Jozef Kovalik, Slovakia, 7-5, 6-3.

Mitchell Frank and Junior Ore, United States, def. Mikhail Biryukov, Russia, and Pavel Krainik, Canada, 1-6, 6-2, 10-3 tiebreak.

Marton Fucsovics, Hungary, and Hsieh Cheng Peng, Taiwan, def. Francis Alcantara, Philippines, and Daniel Berta (3), Sweden, 6-4, 6-3.

Guilherme Clezar and Tiago Fernandes, Brazil, def. Raymond Sarmiento and Johannes Robert Van Overbeek, United States, 6-3, 6-4.

Julien Obry and Adrien Puget, France, def. Sekou Bangoura and Nathan Pasha, United States, 1-6, 6-4, 10-1 tiebreak.

Sebastian Lavie, New Zealand, and Renzo Olivo, Argentina, def. Federico Gaio, Italy, and Yasutaka Uchiyama, Japan, 6-0, 4-6, 11-9 tiebreak.

Pierre-Hugues Herbert, France, and Kevin Krawietz (6), Germany, def. Micke Kontinen and Henri Laaksonen, Finland, 7-6 (5), 7-5.

Patrik Brydolf, Sweden, and Dominik Schulz, Germany, def. Jose Pereira, Brazil, and Julen Uriguen, Guatemala, 6-4, 7-6 (4).

GirlsFirst Round

Mallory Burdette and Sloane Stephens (4), United States, def. Annika Beck, Germany, and Despina Papamichail, Greece, 6-4, 6-2.

Cristina Dinu, Romania, and Grace Sari Ysidora, Indonesia, def. Polina Pekhova, Belarus, and Elina Svitolina, Ukraine, 6-3, 6-0.

Jana Cepelova and Chantal Skamlova, Slovakia, def. Kristina Mladenovic, France, and Silvia Njiric (1), Croatia, 5-7, 6-3, 10-5 tiebreak.

Elena Bogdan, Romania, and Noppawan Lertcheewakarn (3), Thailand, def. Anna-Lena Friedsam and Sina Haas, Germany, 6-3, 6-4.

Brooke Bolender and Lauren Herring, United States, def. Tamara Curovic, Serbia, and Yulia Putintseva, Russia,

6-7 (3), 4-3, retired.Kristie Ahn and Grace Min, United

States, def. Juan Ting-fei, Taiwan, and Emi Mutaguchi, Japan, 5-7, 7-5, 10-4 tiebreak.

Ons Jabeur, Tunisia, and Zheng Sai-Sai, China, def. Yana Buchina, Russia, and Heather Watson (6), Britain, 0-6, 6-3, 10-8 tiebreak.

Stephanie Cornish, Britain, and Katarena Paliivets, Canada, def. Polina Leykina and Anna Arina Marenko, Russia, 6-1, 7-5.

Daria Gavrilova and Irina Khromacheva (7), Russia, def. Gail Brodsky and Asia Muhammad, United States, 1-6, 6-4, 10-5 tiebreak.

Transactions

Monday’s Sports TransactionsBASEBALL

American LeagueCLEVELAND INDIANS—Recalled C

Lou Marson from Columbus (IL).NEW YORK YANKEES—Activated

OF Brett Gardner from the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Shelley Duncan from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

TAMPA BAY RAYS—Placed 1B Carlos Pena on the 60-day DL. Purchased contract of 1B Chris Richard from Durham (IL).

National LeagueARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS—

Activated LHP Scott Schoeneweis from the 15-day DL.

CHICAGO CUBS—Recalled RHP Jeff Stevens from Iowa (PCL).

CINCINNATI REDS—Recalled RHP Carlos Fisher from Sarasota (FSL).

HOUSTON ASTROS—Purchased the contracts of INF Chris Johnson and RHP Billy Sadler from Round Rock (PCL). Recalled INF Tommy Manzella from Round Rock.

SAN DIEGO PADRES—Recalled RHP Sean Gallagher from Portland (PCL).

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS—Activated 2B Freddy Sanchez from the 15-day DL.

FOOTBALLNational Football LeagueARIZONA CARDINALS—Signed G

Trevor Canfield, DT Keilen Dykes, DE Alex Field and WR Edward Gant to the practice squad.

CAROLINA PANTHERS—Signed QB Hunter Cantwell, WR Jason Chery, DT George Hypolite, LB Mortty Ivy and LB Kelvin Smith to the practice squad.

CHICAGO BEARS—Signed OT James Marten to the practice squad.

CLEVELAND BROWNS—Signed DB Brandon Anderson, LB Titus Brown, RB Chris Jennings, WR Lance Leggett, OL Pat Murray and DL Brian Schaefering to practice squad.

DALLAS COWBOYS—Claimed S Marvin White off waivers from Cincinnati.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS—Claimed S Aaron Francisco off waivers from Arizona. Released LB Jordan Senn.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS—Signed QB Richard Bartel, FB Brock Bolen, S Michael Desormeaux, DE Jeremy Navarre, C Cecil Newton, G Cameron Stephenson, WR Tiquan Underwood and RB Josh Vaughan to the practice squad.

MIAMI DOLPHINS—Waived TE David Martin. Claimed TE Davon Drew off waivers from Baltimore. Signed DE Ryan Baker, CB Will Billingsley, LB J.D. Folsom, LB Danny Lansanah, OL Nate Garner, OL Mark Lewis, WR James Robinson and WR Julius Pruitt to the practice squad.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS—Signed LB Stanley Arnoux to a four-year con-tract and placed him on injured reserve.

NEW YORK GIANTS—Signed QB Rhett Bomar, CB DeAndre Wright, RB Allen Patrick, S Vince Anderson, S Sha’reff Rashad, DT Anthony Bryant, FB Nehemiah Broughton and TE Kareem Brown to the prac-tice squad.

NEW YORK JETS—Signed RB Jehuu Caulcrick, DB Emanuel Cook, ILB Kenwin Cummings, S Keith Fitzhugh, WR Marcus Henry, DT Matt Kroul, OT Ryan McKee and TE Jack Simmons to the practice squad.

OAKLAND RAIDERS—Signed G Roy Schuening to practice squad.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS—Signed OT Tony Pashos to a one-year contract. Waived LB Diyral Briggs.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS—Signed WRk Logan Payne, DB Roy Lewis, WR Mike Hass, S Jamar Adams, RB Devin Moore, OL Blake Schlueter and OT Kyle Williams to the prac-tice squad.

HOCKEYECHLREADING ROYALS—signed F Ben

Gordon. COLLEGE

NORTH DAKOTA STATE—Named Brittany Weil graduate assistant softball coach.

Scoreboard

AMERICAN LEAGUE

East Division

W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away

New York 88 50 .638 — — 8-2 W-1 46-20 42-30

Boston 79 58 .577 8 1/2 — 6-4 L-1 45-21 34-37

Tampa Bay 72 65 .526 15 1/2 7 3-7 L-5 43-26 29-39

Toronto 61 76 .445 26 1/2 18 3-7 L-1 36-35 25-41

Baltimore 56 81 .409 31 1/2 23 4-6 W-2 34-37 22-44

Central Division

W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away

Detroit 75 61 .551 — — 8-2 W-6 45-22 30-39

Minnesota 69 68 .504 6 1/2 10 6-4 W-1 39-30 30-38

Chicago 69 70 .496 7 1/2 11 5-5 W-1 39-31 30-39

Cleveland 60 76 .441 15 18 1/2 4-6 W-1 30-36 30-40

Kansas City 52 85 .380 23 1/2 27 3-7 W-1 27-44 25-41

West Division

W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away

Los Angeles 81 55 .596 — — 6-4 L-1 39-26 42-29

Texas 76 60 .559 5 2 1/2 5-5 L-2 44-25 32-35

Seattle 72 66 .522 10 7 1/2 6-4 L-2 39-30 33-36

Oakland 61 76 .445 20 1/2 18 5-5 W-2 34-36 27-40

NATIONAL LEAGUE

East Division

W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away

Philadelphia 77 58 .570 — — 4-6 L-4 36-31 41-27

Florida 72 65 .526 6 5 1/2 5-5 L-1 39-33 33-32

Atlanta 70 67 .511 8 7 1/2 3-7 L-5 35-33 35-34

New York 62 75 .453 16 15 1/2 5-5 W-1 36-33 26-42

Washington 47 90 .343 31 30 1/2 2-8 W-1 28-41 19-49

Central Division

W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away

St. Louis 82 57 .590 — — 8-2 W-1 43-26 39-31

Chicago 69 67 .507 11 1/2 8 5-5 W-1 40-27 29-40

Houston 67 70 .489 14 10 1/2 5-5 W-4 39-30 28-40

Milwaukee 66 71 .482 15 11 1/2 5-5 L-1 34-35 32-36

Cincinnati 63 74 .460 18 14 1/2 7-3 L-1 31-37 32-37

Pittsburgh 54 82 .397 26 1/2 23 1-9 L-1 36-32 18-50

West Division

W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away

Los Angeles 82 57 .590 — — 6-4 W-1 43-29 39-28

Colorado 78 60 .565 3 1/2 — 6-4 W-4 42-27 36-33

San Francisco 76 62 .551 5 1/2 2 7-3 W-1 45-21 31-41

Arizona 61 78 .439 21 17 1/2 4-6 L-5 31-36 30-42

San Diego 61 78 .439 21 17 1/2 7-3 L-1 36-34 25-44

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PanthersContinued from Page 1B

Brewer is out for the year, but Rushing might be cleared to play this week, and Miller returned to form in the win at Robinson.

Miller had rushing touchdowns of 2 and 6 yards, and finished with 84 yards on 23 carries. Miller had all but seven of Pied-mont’s rushing yards.

Piedmont’s defense has allowed an average of just 10 points the last two weeks. The Panthers had four sacks in the win, including two by junior defensive tackle Lucas Fisher and one each by junior defensive end Wesley Marsh and junior linebacker Justin Crump. Marsh also had a fumble recovery.

With the defense operating at a pretty high level, Piedmont coach Frank Ambrose went looking for a spark on offense.

After an 0-2 start, includ-ing a 6-3 home loss to Porter Ridge in Week 2, Ambrose polled his coaching staff this week and they concurred that freshman Sawyer Baucom was ready to play varsity quarterback this week.

With Piedmont’s passing game averaging just 13.5 yards per game, Ambrose wanted to see what Baucom could do, and put him in the game Friday roughly midway through the first quarter.

Baucom, who recently turned 14 years old, fin-ished 6-of-10 for 113 yards and no interceptions.

Sophomore receiver Davey Baucom, seeing his first varsity action, also had a breakout day, catching two passes for 49 yards in the decisive fourth quarter.

Senior Justin Redfern had two receptions for 38 yards

and Cameron Leviner, who had been filling in at QB, had two receptions for 26 yards.

Ambrose said Sawyer Bau-com “might be 5-9” and weighs 165 pounds, but showed no fear in his first varsity game.

“He wasn’t wide-eyed,”

Ambrose said. “He was composed. It was like he was meant to be out there.”

If Rushing is cleared this week, Ambrose plans to play both quarterbacks at Union Academy on Friday.

“I want Ross to get out there and get a feel for the game again if he’s ready to go,” Ambrose said. “We’re hoping to get him some snaps and see where he’s at.”

The Panthers are much healthier heading into their Rocky River Confer-ence opener on Friday, both mentally and physically.

“I talked to a bunch of the kids over the weekend and you can just hear the differ-ence in their voices,” Ambrose said. “This win is so big for our program. The kids really needed this and they deserved it. This is a quality win on the road. And now we have a chance to be .500 for the first time in a long time.”

Piedmont was last .500 after a home win over Porter Ridge on Oct. 14, 2005, that made the Panthers 4-4.

These Panthers have a chance to change the culture of the football pro-gram, and re-shape it into something closer to what it was earlier this decade.

On paper, it’s just one win, but for a commu-nity so thirsty for success, it signifies a lot more.

“This is a big step for us,” Ambrose said. “The kids are excited, and the win was great, but now we have to get back to work. We want to take a workman-like approach and see what we can do.”

E-J staff photo by Ed Cottingham

Piedmont’s Ross Rushing, a sophomore who started 10 games at quarterback last season, could return to game action this week. According to his coach, Rushing could be medically cleared this week after suffering a broken bone in his leg dur-ing a preseason scrimmage.

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UC’s 2009 sCoring Leaders(Through Week 3; minimum 6 points)

Offensive TDs Return TDs Special TeamsName, Yr. (School) Rush Rec K/P Int. Fum FG XP 2pt TotalShamiir Hailey, Sr. (M) 7 42Jamison Crowder, Jr. (M) 3 2 1 36Juanne Blount, Sr. (FH) 5 2 34Charvis Barrino, Sr. (CA) 4 2 28KJ Brent, Jr. (MR) 4 24Maurice Leak, Sr. (Pw) 4 24Kolly Ogar, Jr. (MR) 4 24Matt Frein, Sr. (MR) 2 15 21Anthony Boone, Sr. (W) 3 18Cody Haverland, Jr. (W) 3 18Marcus Leak, Jr. (Pw) 3 18Brandon Little, So. (W) 3 18Dylan Williams, Sr. (MR) 3 18Dylan Hunter, Sr. (Pw) 1 14 17Christian Cruz, Sr. (M) 16 16Casey Lang, Sr. (W) 2 8 14Mitchell Blackburn, So. (CA) 2 12Bobby Blakeney, Sr. (M) 2 12Tyler Chadwick, So. (MR) 2 12Matt Chilton, Jr. (MR) 1 1 12Kemp Lotharp, Sr. (Pw) 2 12Steven Miller, Sr. (Pm) 2 12M. Montgomery, Sr. (Pm) 3 3 12Justin Pleasants, Jr. (W) 2 12Orlando Ratliff, Sr. (FH) 2 12Canious Sturdivant, Sr. (FH) 2 12Matt Wogan, Fr. (PR) 3 3 12Cole Finch, So. (W) 9 9 Jadarrius Williams, So. (SV) 1 1 8Jamie Baker, Sr. (FH) 7 6Dominque Ardrey, Sr. (W) 1 6Isaac Blakeney, Sr. (M) 1 6Cal Bonar, Sr. (W) 1 6Chris Butler, Sr. (Pied) 1 6Steven Cole, Jr. (SV) 1 6Dustin Cook, Sr. (SV) 1 6David Covington, Sr. (CA) 1 6Tyree Drakeford, So. (UA) 1 6Qwadarius Duboise, Jr. (M) 1 6Chris Duffy, Fr. (SV) 1 6Donyue Faison, Sr. (SV) 1 6Jody Fuller, So. (SV) 2 6Christian Glackin, Sr. (W) 1 6Connor Gorham, So. (W) 1 6Keith Harbison, Jr. (Pw) 1 6Jackson Hargett, Jr. (UA) 1 6Deonte Hiatt, Jr. (Pw) 1 6Brian Jackson, Sr. (PR) 1 6Andrew Jauch, Sr. (Pw) 1 6Hunter Killman, Jr. (W) 1 6Chandler LeDoyen, Sr. (MR) 1 6Jamal Little, So. (FH) 1 6Lee McNeill, So. (PR) 1 6Jordan Oakley, So. (PR) 1 6Jacob Reardon, Jr. (W) 1 6Adam Remme, Sr. (MR) 1 6Tim Richardson, So. (Pw) 1 6Steven Robinson, Sr. (Mon) 1 6Rasheed Rushing, Fr. (UA) 1 6Ryan Skibba, Sr. (MR) 1 6Marcus Smith, Sr. (Pw) 1 6Jalen Sowell, Jr. (M) 1 6Seth Springs, Jr. (Pw) 1 6Jaylon Stitt, Jr. (Cuth) 1 6Mike Thornton, Sr. (W) 1 6

Stricker birdies last 2 holes to win in BostonNORTON, Mass. (AP) — Steve

Stricker can build a strong case for the Deutsche Bank Championship as the biggest victory of his career.

It was his first win with Tiger Woods in the tournament. His third victory of the season moved him up to a career-high No. 2 in the world ranking. And he replaced Woods atop the Fe-dEx Cup standings.

What satisfied Stricker the most, however, was how he won.

In a wild Labor Day finish on the TPC Boston, where a half-dozen players came to the par-5 18th hole with hopes of winning, Stricker finished with back-to-back birdies for a 4-under 67 and a one-shot vic-tory Monday.

“Knowing I had to make a couple of birdies and actually doing it means a lot,” he said.

The names kept changing atop the leaderboard throughout the back nine, and Stricker only found comfort from seeing his name in the mix. Jason Dufner was the first player to break out of the tie with a two-putt birdie on the 18th.

Standing in the 17th fair-way, Stricker heard another cheer through the trees and figured it was Scott Ver-plank making birdie — his fourth in a row — to tie for the lead.

That’s when Stricker took over.

He knocked in a 15-foot birdie on the 17th, helped by getting a good read on

the tricky putt from Retief Goosen. Then, he split the middle of the 18th fairway and hit a hybrid just over the green. He hit a delicate chip to tap-in range for the win.

“It was a tough day. There was

a lot of guys in the mix,” Stricker said. “And I just found a way to get it done.”

Stricker finished at 17-under 267 and earned $1.35 million. He also built a 909-point lead over Woods in the FedEx Cup with two tour-naments remaining. Because the points are reset after next week in Chicago, Stricker is assured of be-ing no worse than the No. 2 seed in the Tour Championship with a chance to win the $10 million prize.

“It’s been a blast, and I want to keep riding it out,” Stricker said, his voice cracking. His only failure Monday was winning a PGA Tour event and trying to get through an interview without crying. This makes him 0 for 7.

Dufner, who had to go through two stages of Q-school last year, two-putted from 40 feet for birdie at a 65 to become the first player to post at 16-under 268.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Pirates were as-sured of a record-breaking 17th straight losing season, falling to the Chicago Cubs 4-2 Monday on Derrek Lee’s two homers.

By losing their 10th in 11 games, the Pirates dropped to 54-82 and will finish below .500, just as they have every season since 1993. The string of losing seasons is the longest for any team in the four major North

American pro team sports. Only the Phillies (1933-48) have had as many as 16 losing seasons in a row.

Ted Lilly (11-8) won and Carlos Marmol got his 10th save.

Daniel McCutchen (0-1) ab-sorbed his first major league loss, the Pirates’ 1,501st defeat overall during a string of unsuc-cessful seasons that began in 1993, the year Pittsburgh started rebuilding after the free agen-

cy departures of former stars Barry Bonds, Bobby Bonilla and Doug Drabek. No Pirates team since has finished closer than four games to .500.

Cardinals 3, Brewers 0MILWAUKEE — Chris Carpen-

ter pitched a one-hitter, allowing only a clean double to Jody Gerut in the fifth inning, and struck out 10 as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Milwaukee Brewers.

Carpenter (16-3) won his 11th straight decision and leads the majors with a 2.16 ERA. He needed 99 pitches to throw his first shutout in three years, and allowed just two balls out of the infield.

Albert Pujols hit a two-run double in the fifth, then doubled again and scored in the seventh. Dave Bush (3-7) has lost seven consecutive decisions over his last nine starts dating to May 13.

Dodgers 7, Diamondbacks 2PHOENIX — Manny Ramir-

ez hit his 17th home run of the season before being ejected and late-season acquisitions Vicente Padilla and Ronnie Belliard helped the Los Ange-les Dodgers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Chris Young homered for Ari-zona, a day after hitting three at Colorado. The Diamondbacks lost their fifth in a row.

Pirates assured of another losing season

ScoringContinued from Page 1B

Porter Ridge freshman Matt Wogan, who both have three.

Wogan kicked two to help his team to a 6-3 win over Piedmont in Week 2 while Montgomery had a pair of 42-yarders in the Panthers’ 20-14 road win over Robinson last Friday.

Weddington senior Casey Lang kicked his only two of the season in last Friday’s road win over North Gas-ton. Marvin Ridge senior Matt Frein also has two in three games.

Just five kickers connected on at least two field goals all of last season. Former Marvin Ridge kicker Jordan Day had seven to lead the county.

Odds and ends ...... Three quarterbacks in the coun-

ty have already ran for at least three touchdowns, including Blount (5), Parkwood senior Maurice Leak (4) and Weddington senior Anthony Boone (3). In the 2008 regular season, Blount rushed for 24, followed by Leak with seven and Boone with five.

... Weddington junior receiver Cody Haverland caught a TD pass for the second straight game in last Friday’s win. Haverland is tied for second in the county with three receiving scores with Crowder and Parkwood’s Marcus Leak. Marvin Ridge junior KJ Brent leads UC with four TD re-ceptions.

... Parkwood sophomore linebacker Tim Richardson had a fumble recov-ery for a touchdown last Friday, giv-ing the Rebels two defensive touch-downs on the season. Senior safety Andrew Jauch returned a fumble for a TD in Parkwood’s season-opening win over Piedmont.

STRICKER

Photo by Jamie Belk

Monroe’s Jamison Crowder (6) celebrates with Ricardo White (9) after scoring a touchdown in last week’s win over Mount Pleasant. Crowder, a junior, has six touchdowns in three games this season.

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Dennis the Menace Family Circus

Encourage your children to read the newspaper.

DEAR ABBY: During the 10 years I have been with my husband, I have called my mother-in-law “Martha.” I have just learned that she has been harboring resentment about it because she hadn’t given me “permission” to call her by her first name. Appar-ently she would like me to call her “Ms. Smith.” I didn’t hear it from her, but from my new sister-in-law who does call her Ms. Smith and has been in-structed to continue doing so.

I don’t remember our first meeting or when I started calling her Martha. I had no idea she has been offended this entire time. Now I’m not sure what to do. Should I ask her about it? We’re not partic-ularly close, and it would be an awkward conversation. My husband is no help. He thinks we’re both being silly. -- THE OTHER MS. SMITH

DEAR O.M.S.: Martha ap-

pears to be not only off-put-ting, but also intimidating. Rather than speak her mind and make her preferences known, she nurses grievanc-es in silence and talks behind people’s backs. Your cowardly husband should admit there’s a problem and try to build bridges instead of dismissing your concerns as “silly.” (Does he call her “Ms. Smith,” too?)

Pick up the phone and call Martha. Tell her what your sister-in-law said and calmly ask if it’s true. If she says yes, ask why she didn’t tell you

herself years ago -- because if she had, you would have respected her wishes. Then, with a smile in your voice, as-sure her that “Ms. Smith” is what she’ll be hearing in the future. (At least that’s what you’ll call her to her face.) It shouldn’t cause a problem be-cause you’re not particularly close, and I assume your chats and contacts with her are in-frequent.

***DEAR ABBY: My husband

and I have been happily mar-ried for 16 years. We have one son, age 12. While writing our wills, my husband told me that his wish is to be cremat-ed and his ashes scattered in the ocean off the beach near where he grew up.

I’d like us to be together af-ter we have both passed on, but his beach holds no fond memories for me. I would much prefer to be buried

in our local cemetery with a headstone so our son can come to “visit” both of us. I don’t want to spend eternity in a cemetery plot without my husband. Any suggestions? -- PLANNING AHEAD IN MAS-SACHUSETTS

DEAR PLANNING AHEAD: Yes, one would be that you and your spouse continue talk-ing about this until you can reach a meeting of the minds regarding the disposition of your remains. If you can’t agree, then what happens to them will be the decision of the surviving spouse.

Another thought: You are basing your preference on what your son may -- or may not -- want to do after he reach-es adulthood. While many people find comfort in visiting their parents’ graves, others find the idea depressive. Also, your son may wind up with a career that takes him to Tex-

as, California, Hawaii or even farther away from the town in which he is being raised.

***DEAR ABBY: What is the

proper letter salutation for a married couple where the husband has recently under-gone gender reassignment surgery? (They were “John and Millie Jones.”) -- WON-DERING IN KEY WEST

DEAR WONDERING: Be-cause the husband is no lon-ger John Jones and is now “Linda,” for example, I would address the envelope to Ms. Linda Jones and Ms. Millie Jones -- placing their names in alphabetical order. And in the salutation I would write, “Dear Linda and Millie.”

***Dear Abby is written by Abi-

gail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pau-line Phillips.

Dear AbbyColumnist

Mother-in-law keeps mum about name-calling

Sept. 8, 2009

ASTRO-GRAPHBy Bernice Bed Osol

Owing to your expansive out-look, the year ahead could hold many exciting and active events for you. As you continue to en-large your interests in new ac-tivities, more opportunities will steadily present themselves.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Be a good listener because you’ll pick up on more than a few ways to handle your affairs with greater success. Even if you don’t need it now, you will have good uses for what you learn down the road.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Because you are a quick learner, handling the shifting currents of uncharted waters will seem like a snap. Have faith in your competency.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- You have a gift for dissecting the ideas of others and reorga-nizing them in ways that suc-ceed in other areas. Use this tal-ent for your good and the good

of others.SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec.

21) -- You’re clever enough to assert yourself without being abrasive, hostile or demanding. You are likely to use this gift to change something that needs alteration at work.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- If you have no special plans, don’t allow yourself to grow sluggish. Participate in a fun activity that requires brain-power as well as muscle power. It’ll reboot your attitude.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Work on concluding a matter that has been hanging fire for far too long. You are always a good starter, but now you’ll be even a stronger finisher, so use it for completing unfinished projects.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Your enthusiasm is contagious, so if you need others to join your efforts, now is the time to ask for help. Your way of think-ing will easily sweep them into your currents.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Again, things look quite prom-ising for you, especially with

regard to financial affairs. Focus your energies and intellect in areas that hold some potential for substantial growth.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Don’t hesitate to respond to demands being made on your leadership qualities; you function best when things are placed on your shoulders. You’re a doer who knows how to get things done.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Act on your hunches, especially those that involve financial or business concerns. You are in-nately tuned to a wavelength that enables you to spot better ways to add resources.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Co-workers might talk about all they hope to do, but you’re the one who knows how to get things done. Share your ideas and use your abilities to do the greatest good for everyone in-volved.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- There will be no need to duck challenging developments; you have more than enough smarts to do what needs doing in ways that look easy.

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004 LegalsSTATE OF

NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF UNIONIN THE GENERAL

COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR

COURT DIVISION BEFORE THE CLERK

FILE #9E0441ADMINISTRATOR

EXECUTOR NOTICEHaving duly qualified be-fore the Honorable J. R. Rowell, Clerk of Superior Court of Union County, as personal representative of the Estate of Gertrude A. York, deceased. This is to notify all persons having claims against said Estate of present them to the undersigned on or be-fore the 5th day of Decem-ber, 2009 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons in-debted to said estate please make immediate payment.This 2nd day of Septem-ber, 2009.Sue Simpson 9024 Covedale Dr. Charlotte, NC 28270Treena Watson 6009 Greystone Dr. Weddington, NC 28104Sheila Pressley 2614 Sikes Mill Rd. Monroe, NC 28110September 8, 15, 22, 29, 2009

09 SP 780NOTICE OF

FORECLOSURE SALENORTH CAROLINA,

UNION COUNTYUnder and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by ETHAN KOS-TER AND ROSALIE KOS-TER, HUSBAND AND WIFE to DAVID BROWN, Trustee(s), which was dat-ed December 18, 2006 and recorded on December 27, 2006 in Book 04411 at Page 0855, Union County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Brock & Scott, PLLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidenc-ing said indebtedness hav-ing directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthousewhere the property is locat-ed, or the usual and cus-tomary location at the county courthouse for con-ducting the sale on Sep-tember 17, 2009 at 12:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Union County, North Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lot 8, Wood-bridge Subdivision, Map 1, as same is shown on map thereof recorded in Plat Cabinet H, File No 774, Union County, North Caro-lina Public Registry. Deed Reference: Book 3934 Page 605, re-record-ed in Book 3946 at Page 750 The improvements thereon being known as 4014 LAW-RENCE DANIEL DRIVE, Matthews, NC 28104 Save and except any re-leases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of re-cord. Said property is commonly known as 4014 Lawrence Daniel Drive, Matthews, NC 28104. Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of For-ty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). Acash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichev-er is greater, will be re-quired at the time of the sale. Following the expira-tion of the statutory upset bid period, all the remain-ing amounts are immedi-ately due and owing. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and convey-ance “AS IS WHERE IS.”There are no representa-tions of warranty relating to the title or any physical, en-vironmental, health or safe-ty conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, un-paid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special as-sessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of re-lease, and any other en-cumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the cur-rent owner(s) of the proper-ty is/are Ethan Koster and wife, Rosalie Koster. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any per-son who occupies the prop-erty pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after Octo-ber 1, 2007, may, after re-ceiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agree-ment upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is li-able for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit.Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the

004 Legalsloan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validi-ty of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further reme-dy. THIS IS A COMMUNICA-TION FROM A DEBT COL-LECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICA-TION IS TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY INFOR-MATION OBTAINED WILLBE USED FOR THATPURPOSE, EXCEPT IN THE INSTANCE OF BANKRUPTCY PROTEC-TION. IF YOU ARE UN-DER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCYCOURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RE-SULT OF A BANKRUPT-CY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIRE-MENT AND FOR INFOR-MATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY. Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Jeremy B. Wilkins, NCSB No. 32346 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 09-09380-FC01 September 8, 15, 2009

09 SP 818NOTICE OF

FORECLOSURE SALENORTH CAROLINA,

UNION COUNTYUnder and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Richard E. Rogers, Jr, Unmarried to Woodard E. Farmer, Jr., Trustee(s), which was dat-ed May 21, 1999 and re-corded on May 24, 1999 in Book 1250 at Page 0598, Union County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Brock & Scott, PLLC or Tammy Bai-ley, having been substitut-ed as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Caro-lina, and the holder of the note evidencing said in-debtedness having direct-ed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the under-signed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 17, 2009 at 12:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following de-scribed property situated in Union County, North Caro-lina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 1, of the subdivision known as LAKE PARK GARDEN DISTRICT, PHASE ONE, MAP ONE, as shown on map thereof recorded in Plat Cabinet F, File No. 267, in the Union County, Public Registry. Save and except any re-leases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of re-cord. Said property is commonly known as 7013 Creft Cir-cle, Indian Trail, NC 28079. Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of For-ty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). Acash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichev-er is greater, will be re-quired at the time of the sale. Following the expira-tion of the statutory upset bid period, all the remain-ing amounts are immedi-ately due and owing. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and convey-ance “AS IS WHERE IS.”There are no representa-tions of warranty relating to the title or any physical, en-vironmental, health or safe-ty conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, un-paid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special as-sessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of re-lease, and any other en-cumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the cur-rent owner(s) of the proper-ty is/are Lake Park Town-home Association, Inc.. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any per-son who occupies the prop-erty pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after Octo-ber 1, 2007, may, after re-ceiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agree-ment upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is li-able for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit.Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to

004 Legalsthe confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validi-ty of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further reme-dy. THIS IS A COMMUNICA-TION FROM A DEBT COL-LECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICA-TION IS TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY INFOR-MATION OBTAINED WILLBE USED FOR THATPURPOSE, EXCEPT IN THE INSTANCE OF BANKRUPTCY PROTEC-TION. IF YOU ARE UN-DER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCYCOURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RE-SULT OF A BANKRUPT-CY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIRE-MENT AND FOR INFOR-MATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY. Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Jeremy B. Wilkins, NCSB No. 32346 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 09-09414-FC01 September 8, 15, 2009

09 SP 968NOTICE OF

FORECLOSURE SALENORTH CAROLINA,

UNION COUNTYUnder and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Dylan J Himes aka Dylan Himes, A Single Person to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), which was dated April 30, 2008 and recorded on May 2, 2008 in Book 04883 at Page 0873, Union County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Brock & Scott, PLLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidenc-ing said indebtedness hav-ing directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthousewhere the property is locat-ed, or the usual and cus-tomary location at the county courthouse for con-ducting the sale on Sep-tember 17, 2009 at 12:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Union County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 203 of HAMILTON PLACE, Phase 5, as same is shown on map thereof recorded in Plat Cabinet I at Files 889-893 in the Union County Public Registry. Save and except any re-leases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of re-cord. Said property is commonly known as 4024 Waxwood Drive, Monroe, NC 28110. Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of For-ty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). Acash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichev-er is greater, will be re-quired at the time of the sale. Following the expira-tion of the statutory upset bid period, all the remain-ing amounts are immedi-ately due and owing. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and convey-ance “AS IS WHERE IS.”There are no representa-tions of warranty relating to the title or any physical, en-vironmental, health or safe-ty conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, un-paid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special as-sessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of re-lease, and any other en-cumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the cur-rent owner(s) of the proper-ty is/are Dylan H. Himes. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any per-son who occupies the prop-erty pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after Octo-ber 1, 2007, may, after re-ceiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agree-ment upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is li-able for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit.Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale

004 Legalsand reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validi-ty of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further reme-dy. THIS IS A COMMUNICA-TION FROM A DEBT COL-LECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICA-TION IS TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY INFOR-MATION OBTAINED WILLBE USED FOR THATPURPOSE, EXCEPT IN THE INSTANCE OF BANKRUPTCY PROTEC-TION. IF YOU ARE UN-DER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCYCOURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RE-SULT OF A BANKRUPT-CY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIRE-MENT AND FOR INFOR-MATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY. Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Jeremy B. Wilkins, NCSB No. 32346 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 09-11486-FC01 September 8, 15, 2009

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF UNIONIN THE GENERAL

COURT OF JUSTICESUPERIOR

COURT DIVISION09-SP-1342

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE of a Deed of Trust and Security Agreement from D. Ballard Construction, Inc. dated May 16, 2006 and record-ed on May 18, 2006 in Book 4165 at Page 38 of the Union County Public Registry by David T. Simp-son, Jr. (Substitute Trust-ee)

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S

FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

Under and by virtue of the power and authority con-tained in a certain Deed of Trust and Security Agree-ment executed and deliv-ered by D. Ballard Con-struction, Inc. dated May 16, 2006 and recorded on May 18, 2006 in Book 4165 at Page 38 of the Union County Public Registry (the “Deed of Trust”) and be-cause of default in the pay-ment of the indebtedness thereby secured and failure to carry out or perform the stipulations and agree-ments therein contained and pursuant to the de-mand of the owner and holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, and pursuant to the Order of the Clerk of Supe-rior Court for Union Coun-ty, North Carolina, entered in this foreclosure proceed-ing, the undersigned, David T. Simpson, Jr. Substitute Trustee, will expose for sale at public auction on the 24th day of September, 2009, at 2:00 p.m., at the appropriate place for fore-closure sales at the Union County Judicial Center, 400 North Main Street, Monroe, North Carolina, the real property (including any improvements thereon) which is more particularly described on Exhibit A at-tached hereto and incorpo-rated herein. This sale shall not include any por-tion of the real property that has been released by recorded releases or any real property described in the Deed of Trust which is not listed and included on Exhibit A attached hereto.

EXHIBIT ALegal Description

BEING ALL OF LOT 40 OF SMITH FIELD SUBDIVI-SION AS SAME IS SHOWN ON MAP THERE-OF RECORDED IN PLATCABINET I AT FILES 958 AND 959 IN THE UNION COUNTY PUBLIC REGIS-TRY.The sale will be subject to any and all superior mort-gages, deeds of trust and liens, including without limi-tation, the lien of unpaid taxes and assessments, easements, conditions, re-strictions and matters of re-cord. This sale will be fur-ther subject to the right, if any, of the United States of America to redeem the above-described property for a period of 120 days fol-lowing confirmation of the sale. The above-described real property will be sold “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Substitute Trustee nor the holder of the note se-cured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed nor the of-ficers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or au-thorized representatives of either the Substitute Trust-ee or the holder of the note secured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environ-mental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the real property being sold, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such conditions expressly are disclaimed.The record owner of the above-described real prop-erty as reflected on the re-cords of the Union County Register of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to the posting of this notice is D. Ballard Con-struction, Inc.Pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.10(b), any success-ful bidder may be required to deposit with the Substi-

004 Legalstute Trustee immediately upon conclusion of the sale a cash deposit of the great-er of five percent (5%) of the last bid or $750.00. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Sub-stitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said suc-cessful bidder fail to pay the full balance purchase price so bid at that time, he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.30(d) and (e). The owner and holder of the in-debtedness secured by the Deed of Trust may make a credit bid.This sale will be held open ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law.If the real property to be sold pursuant to this notice of sale is residential prop-erty with less than fifteen rental units then: (i) an or-der for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in posses-sion by the clerk of superi-or court of the county in which the real property is sold; and (ii) any person who occupies the real property pursuant to a rent-al agreement entered into or renewed on or after Oc-tober 1, 2007, may, after receiving this notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon ten (10) days’ written notice to the landlord, and upon termina-tion of the rental agree-ment, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rent-al agreement prorated to the effective date of the ter-mination. This the 21st day of Au-gust, 2009. David T. Simpson, Jr., Substitute TrusteeGerdes, Mason and Simpson, L.L.P.216 N. McDowell Street, Suite 110Charlotte, NC 28204Telephone: 704.372.3180Facsimile: 704.343.2942September 8, 15, 2009

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF UNIONIN THE GENERAL

COURT OF JUSTICESUPERIOR

COURT DIVISION09-SP-1343

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE of a Deed of Trust and Security Agreement from D. Ballard Construction, Inc. dated November 30, 2005 and re-corded on December 6, 2005 in Book 4004 at Page 79 of the Union County Public Registry by David T. Simpson, Jr. (Substitute Trustee)

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S

FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

Under and by virtue of the power and authority con-tained in a certain Deed of Trust and Security Agree-ment executed and deliv-ered by D. Ballard Con-struction, Inc. dated No-vember 30, 2005 and re-corded on December 6, 2005 in Book 4004 at Page 79 of the Union County Public Registry (the “Deed of Trust”) and because of default in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and failure to carry out or perform the stipula-tions and agreements therein contained and pur-suant to the demand of the owner and holder of the in-debtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, and pursuant to the Order of the Clerk of Superior Court for Union County, North Carolina, entered in this foreclosure proceeding, the undersigned, David T. Simpson, Jr. Substitute Trustee, will expose for sale at public auction on the 24th day of Septem-ber, 2009, at 2:00 p.m., at the appropriate place for foreclosure sales at the Un-ion County Judicial Center, 400 North Main Street, Monroe, North Carolina, the real property (including any improvements thereon) which is more particularly described on Exhibit A at-tached hereto and incorpo-rated herein. This sale shall not include any por-tion of the real property that has been released by recorded releases or any real property described in the Deed of Trust which is not listed and included on Exhibit A attached hereto.

EXHIBIT ALegal Description

BEING ALL OF LOT 35 OF SMITH FIELD SUBDIVI-SION AS SAME IS SHOWN ON MAP THERE-OF RECORDED IN PLATCABINET I AT FILES 958 AND 959 IN THE UNION COUNTY PUBLIC REGIS-TRY.The sale will be subject to any and all superior mort-gages, deeds of trust and liens, including without limi-tation, the lien of unpaid taxes and assessments, easements, conditions, re-strictions and matters of re-cord. This sale will be fur-ther subject to the right, if any, of the United States of America to redeem the above-described property for a period of 120 days fol-lowing confirmation of the sale. The above-described real property will be sold “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Substitute Trustee nor the holder of the note se-cured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed nor the of-ficers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or au-thorized representatives of either the Substitute Trust-ee or the holder of the note secured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environ-mental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the real property being sold, and any and all responsibilities

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004 Legalsor liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such conditions expressly are disclaimed.The record owner of the above-described real prop-erty as reflected on the re-cords of the Union County Register of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to the posting of this notice is D. Ballard Con-struction, Inc.Pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.10(b), any success-ful bidder may be required to deposit with the Substi-tute Trustee immediately upon conclusion of the sale a cash deposit of the great-er of five percent (5%) of the last bid or $750.00. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Sub-stitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said suc-cessful bidder fail to pay the full balance purchase price so bid at that time, he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.30(d) and (e). The owner and holder of the in-debtedness secured by the Deed of Trust may make a credit bid.This sale will be held open ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law.If the real property to be sold pursuant to this notice of sale is residential prop-erty with less than fifteen rental units then: (i) an or-der for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in posses-sion by the clerk of superi-or court of the county in which the real property is sold; and (ii) any person who occupies the real property pursuant to a rent-al agreement entered into or renewed on or after Oc-tober 1, 2007, may, after receiving this notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon ten (10) days’ written notice to the landlord, and upon termina-tion of the rental agree-ment, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rent-al agreement prorated to the effective date of the ter-mination. This the 21st day of Au-gust, 2009. David T. Simpson, Jr., Substitute TrusteeGerdes, Mason and Simpson, L.L.P.216 N. McDowell Street, Suite 110Charlotte, NC 28204Telephone: 704.372.3180Facsimile: 704.343.2942September 8, 15, 2009

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF UNIONIN THE GENERAL

COURT OF JUSTICESUPERIOR

COURT DIVISION09-SP-1344

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE of a Deed of Trust and Security Agreement from D. Ballard Construction, Inc. dated November 30, 2005 and re-corded on December 6, 2005 in Book 4004 at Page 74 of the Union County Public Registry by David T. Simpson, Jr. (Substitute Trustee)

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S

FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

Under and by virtue of the power and authority con-tained in a certain Deed of Trust and Security Agree-ment executed and deliv-ered by D. Ballard Con-struction, Inc. dated No-vember 30, 2005 and re-corded on December 6, 2005 in Book 4004 at Page 74 of the Union County Public Registry (the “Deed of Trust”) and because of default in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and failure to carry out or perform the stipula-tions and agreements therein contained and pur-suant to the demand of the owner and holder of the in-debtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, and pursuant to the Order of the Clerk of Superior Court for Union County, North Carolina, entered in this foreclosure proceeding, the undersigned, David T. Simpson, Jr. Substitute Trustee, will expose for sale at public auction on the 24th day of September, 2009, at 2:00 p.m., at the appropriate place for fore-closure sales at the Union County Judicial Center, 400 North Main Street, Monroe, North Carolina, the real property (including any improvements thereon) which is more particularly described on Exhibit A at-tached hereto and incorpo-rated herein. This sale shall not include any por-tion of the real property that has been released by recorded releases or any real property described in the Deed of Trust which is not listed and included on Exhibit A attached hereto.

EXHIBIT ALegal Description

BEING ALL OF LOT 7 OF SMITH FIELD SUBDIVI-SION AS SAME IS SHOWN ON MAP THERE-OF RECORDED IN PLATCABINET I AT FILES 958 AND 959 IN THE UNION COUNTY PUBLIC REGIS-TRY.The sale will be subject to any and all superior mort-gages, deeds of trust and liens, including without limi-tation, the lien of unpaid taxes and assessments, easements, conditions, re-strictions and matters of re-cord. This sale will be fur-ther subject to the right, if any, of the United States of America to redeem the above-described property for a period of 120 days fol-lowing confirmation of the sale. The above-described real property will be sold “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Substitute Trustee nor

004 Legalsthe holder of the note se-cured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed nor the of-ficers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or au-thorized representatives of either the Substitute Trust-ee or the holder of the note secured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environ-mental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the real property being sold, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such conditions expressly are disclaimed.The record owner of the above-described real prop-erty as reflected on the re-cords of the Union County Register of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to the posting of this notice is D. Ballard Con-struction, Inc.Pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.10(b), any success-ful bidder may be required to deposit with the Substi-tute Trustee immediately upon conclusion of the sale a cash deposit of the great-er of five percent (5%) of the last bid or $750.00. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Sub-stitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said suc-cessful bidder fail to pay the full balance purchase price so bid at that time, he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.30(d) and (e). The owner and holder of the in-debtedness secured by the Deed of Trust may make a credit bid.This sale will be held open ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law.If the real property to be sold pursuant to this notice of sale is residential prop-erty with less than fifteen rental units then: (i) an or-der for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in posses-sion by the clerk of superi-or court of the county in which the real property is sold; and (ii) any person who occupies the real property pursuant to a rent-al agreement entered into or renewed on or after Oc-tober 1, 2007, may, after receiving this notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon ten (10) days’ written notice to the landlord, and upon termina-tion of the rental agree-ment, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rent-al agreement prorated to the effective date of the ter-mination. This the 21st day of Au-gust, 2009. David T. Simpson, Jr., Substitute TrusteeGerdes, Mason and Simpson, L.L.P.216 N. McDowell Street, Suite 110Charlotte, NC 28204Telephone: 704.372.3180Facsimile: 704.343.2942September 8, 15, 2009

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF UNIONIN THE GENERAL

COURT OF JUSTICESUPERIOR

COURT DIVISION 09-SP-1345

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE of a Deed of Trust and Security Agreement from D. Ballard Construction, Inc. dated November 14, 2006 and re-corded on November 17, 2006 in Book 4369 at Page 724 of the Union County Public Registry by David T. Simpson, Jr. (Substitute Trustee)

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S

FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

Under and by virtue of the power and authority con-tained in a certain Deed of Trust and Security Agree-ment executed and deliv-ered by D. Ballard Con-struction, Inc. dated No-vember 14, 2006 and re-corded on November 17, 2006 in Book 4369 at Page 724 of the Union County Public Registry (the “Deed of Trust”) and because of default in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and failure to carry out or perform the stipula-tions and agreements therein contained and pur-suant to the demand of the owner and holder of the in-debtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, and pursuant to the Order of the Clerk of Superior Court for Union County, North Carolina, entered in this foreclosure proceeding, the undersigned, David T. Simpson, Jr. Substitute Trustee, will expose for sale at public auction on the 24th day of Septem-ber, 2009, at 2:00 p.m. at the appropriate place for foreclosure sales at the Un-ion County Judicial Center, 400 North Main Street, Monroe, North Carolina, the real property (including any improvements thereon) which is more particularly described on Exhibit A at-tached hereto and incorpo-rated herein. This sale shall not include any por-tion of the real property that has been released by recorded releases or any real property described in the Deed of Trust which is not listed and included on Exhibit A attached hereto.

EXHIBIT ALegal Description

BEING all of Lot 77 of STONEBRIDGE subdivi-sion, Parcel 8, as same is shown on map thereof re-corded in Plat Cabinet J at File 523 in the Union Coun-ty Public Registry.The sale will be subject to any and all superior mort-gages, deeds of trust and liens, including without limi-

004 Legalstation, the lien of unpaid taxes and assessments, easements, conditions, re-strictions and matters of re-cord. This sale will be fur-ther subject to the right, if any, of the United States of America to redeem the above-described property for a period of 120 days fol-lowing confirmation of the sale. The above-described real property will be sold “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Substitute Trustee nor the holder of the note se-cured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed nor the of-ficers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or au-thorized representatives of either the Substitute Trust-ee or the holder of the note secured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environ-mental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the real property being sold, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such conditions expressly are disclaimed.The record owner of the above-described real prop-erty as reflected on the re-cords of the Union County Register of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to the posting of this notice is D. Ballard Con-struction, Inc.Pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.10(b), any success-ful bidder may be required to deposit with the Substi-tute Trustee immediately upon conclusion of the sale a cash deposit of the great-er of five percent (5%) of the last bid or $750.00. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Sub-stitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said suc-cessful bidder fail to pay the full balance purchase price so bid at that time, he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.30(d) and (e). The owner and holder of the in-debtedness secured by the Deed of Trust may make a credit bid.This sale will be held open ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law.If the real property to be sold pursuant to this notice of sale is residential prop-erty with less than fifteen rental units then: (i) an or-der for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in posses-sion by the clerk of superi-or court of the county in which the real property is sold; and (ii) any person who occupies the real property pursuant to a rent-al agreement entered into or renewed on or after Oc-tober 1, 2007, may, after receiving this notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon ten (10) days’ written notice to the landlord, and upon termina-tion of the rental agree-ment, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rent-al agreement prorated to the effective date of the ter-mination. This the 21st day of Au-gust, 2009. David T. Simpson, Jr., Substitute TrusteeGerdes, Mason and Simpson, L.L.P.216 N. McDowell Street, Suite 110Charlotte, NC 28204Telephone: 704.372.3180Facsimile: 704.343.2942September 8, 15, 2009

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF UNIONIN THE GENERAL

COURT OF JUSTICESUPERIOR

COURT DIVISION09-SP-1346

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE of a Deed of Trust and Security Agreement from D. Ballard Construction, Inc. dated November 14, 2006 and re-corded on November 15, 2006 in Book 4367 at Page 872 of the Union County Public Registry by David T. Simpson, Jr. (Substitute Trustee)

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S

FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

Under and by virtue of the power and authority con-tained in a certain Deed of Trust and Security Agree-ment executed and deliv-ered by D. Ballard Con-struction, Inc. dated No-vember 14, 2006 and re-corded on November 15, 2006 in Book 4367 at Page 872 of the Union County Public Registry (the “Deed of Trust”) and because of default in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and failure to carry out or perform the stipula-tions and agreements therein contained and pur-suant to the demand of the owner and holder of the in-debtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, and pursuant to the Order of the Clerk of Superior Court for Union County, North Carolina, entered in this foreclosure proceeding, the undersigned, David T. Simpson, Jr. Substitute Trustee, will expose for sale at public auction on the 24th day of September, 2009, at 2:00 p.m., at the appropriate place for fore-closure sales at the Union County Judicial Center, 400 North Main Street, Monroe, North Carolina, the real property (including any improvements thereon) which is more particularly described on Exhibit A at-tached hereto and incorpo-rated herein. This sale shall not include any por-tion of the real property that has been released by recorded releases or any real property described in

004 Legalsthe Deed of Trust which is not listed and included on Exhibit A attached hereto.

EXHIBIT ALegal Description

BEING all of Lot 73 of STONEBRIDGE subdivi-sion, Parcel 8, as same is shown on map thereof re-corded in Plat Cabinet J at File 523 in the Union Coun-ty Public Registry.The sale will be subject to any and all superior mort-gages, deeds of trust and liens, including without limi-tation, the lien of unpaid taxes and assessments, easements, conditions, re-strictions and matters of re-cord. This sale will be fur-ther subject to the right, if any, of the United States of America to redeem the above-described property for a period of 120 days fol-lowing confirmation of the sale. The above-described real property will be sold “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Substitute Trustee nor the holder of the note se-cured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed nor the of-ficers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or au-thorized representatives of either the Substitute Trust-ee or the holder of the note secured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environ-mental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the real property being sold, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such conditions expressly are disclaimed.The record owner of the above-described real prop-erty as reflected on the re-cords of the Union County Register of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to the posting of this notice is D. Ballard Con-struction.Pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.10(b), any success-ful bidder may be required to deposit with the Substi-tute Trustee immediately upon conclusion of the sale a cash deposit of the great-er of five percent (5%) of the last bid or $750.00. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Sub-stitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said suc-cessful bidder fail to pay the full balance purchase price so bid at that time, he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.30(d) and (e). The owner and holder of the in-debtedness secured by the Deed of Trust may make a credit bid.This sale will be held open ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law.If the real property to be sold pursuant to this notice of sale is residential prop-erty with less than fifteen rental units then: (i) an or-der for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in posses-sion by the clerk of superi-or court of the county in which the real property is sold; and (ii) any person who occupies the real property pursuant to a rent-al agreement entered into or renewed on or after Oc-tober 1, 2007, may, after receiving this notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon ten (10) days’ written notice to the landlord, and upon termina-tion of the rental agree-ment, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rent-al agreement prorated to the effective date of the ter-mination. This the 21st day of Au-gust, 2009. David T. Simpson, Jr., Substitute TrusteeGerdes, Mason and Simpson, L.L.P.216 N. McDowell Street, Suite 110Charlotte, NC 28204Telephone: 704.372.3180Facsimile: 704.343.2942September 8. 15, 2009

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF UNIONIN THE GENERAL

COURT OF JUSTICESUPERIOR

COURT DIVISION09-SP-1347

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE of a Deed of Trust and Security Agreement from David B. Ballard and wife, Kimber-ly J. Ballard dated Sep-tember 13, 2006 and re-corded on September 15, 2006 in Book 4301 at Page 369 of the Union County Public Registry by David T. Simpson, Jr. (Substitute Trustee)

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S

FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

Under and by virtue of the power and authority con-tained in a certain Deed of Trust and Security Agree-ment executed and deliv-ered by David B. Ballard and Kimberly J. Ballard dated September 13, 2006 and recorded on Septem-ber 15, 2006 in Book 4301 at Page 369 of the Union County Public Registry (the “Deed of Trust”) and be-cause of default in the pay-ment of the indebtedness thereby secured and failure to carry out or perform the stipulations and agree-ments therein contained and pursuant to the de-mand of the owner and holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, and pursuant to the Order of the Clerk of Supe-rior Court for Union Coun-ty, North Carolina, entered in this foreclosure proceed-ing, the undersigned, David T. Simpson, Jr., Substitute Trustee, will expose for sale at public auction on the 24th day of September,

004 Legals2009, at 2:00 p.m., at the appropriate place for fore-closure sales at the Union County Judicial Center, 400 North Main Street, Monroe, North Carolina, the real property (including any improvements thereon) which is more particularly described on Exhibit A at-tached hereto and incorpo-rated herein. This sale shall not include any por-tion of the real property that has been released by recorded releases or any real property described in the Deed of Trust which is not listed and included on Exhibit A attached hereto.

EXHIBIT ALegal Description

BEGINNING at a point in the centerline of the me-dian of US Highway 74, be-ing a corner of the Highway 74 Investments, Inc. prop-erty (Deed Book 442, Page 162) and running thence with the line of the Highway 74 Investments, Inc. prop-erty two calls as follows: (1) N 61-41-55 E, crossing the west bound lanes of said highway and passing an iron at the margin of the highway right of way at 105.19 feet for a total of 510.17 feet to an iron and (2) N 39-08-39 W 174.98 feet to an iron on the line of the Noel Williams property (Deed Book 467 Page 558); thence with said Wil-liams line three calls as fol-lows: (1) S 50-42-48 W 26960 feet to an iron (2) S 74-50-18 W 69.41 feet to an iron and (3) S 34-34-18 W 182.07 feet to a point in the centerline of the me-dian of said highway; thence with the centerline of the median of said high-way S 46-02-26 E 55.90 feet to the point and place of beginning and contain-ing 1.494 acres, more or less, all according to a sur-vey by Thomas M. Park, NCRLS, dated October 26, 1995.The sale will be subject to any and all superior mort-gages, deeds of trust and liens, including without limi-tation, the lien of unpaid taxes and assessments, easements, conditions, re-strictions and matters of re-cord. This sale will be fur-ther subject to the right, if any, of the United States of America to redeem the above-described property for a period of 120 days fol-lowing confirmation of the sale. The above-described real property will be sold “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Substitute Trustee nor the holder of the note se-cured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed nor the of-ficers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or au-thorized representatives of either the Substitute Trust-ee or the holder of the note secured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environ-mental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the real property being sold, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such conditions expressly are disclaimed.The record owners of the above-described real prop-erty as reflected on the re-cords of the Union County Register of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to the posting of this notice are David B. Ballard and Kimberly J. Ballard.Pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.10(b), any success-ful bidder may be required to deposit with the Substi-tute Trustee immediately upon conclusion of the sale a cash deposit of the great-er of five percent (5%) of the last bid or $750.00. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Sub-stitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said suc-cessful bidder fail to pay the full balance purchase price so bid at that time, he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.30(d) and (e). The owner and holder of the in-debtedness secured by the Deed of Trust may make a credit bid.This sale will be held open ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law.If the real property to be sold pursuant to this notice of sale is residential prop-erty with less than fifteen rental units then: (i) an or-der for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in posses-sion by the clerk of superi-or court of the county in which the real property is sold; and (ii) any person who occupies the real property pursuant to a rent-al agreement entered into or renewed on or after Oc-tober 1, 2007, may, after receiving this notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon ten (10) days’ written notice to the landlord, and upon termina-tion of the rental agree-ment, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rent-al agreement prorated to the effective date of the ter-mination. This the 21st day of Au-gust, 2009. David T. Simpson, Jr., Substitute TrusteeGerdes, Mason and Simpson, L.L.P.216 N. McDowell Street, Suite 110Charlotte, NC 28204Telephone: 704.372.3180Facsimile: 704.343.2942September 8, 15, 2009

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF UNIONIN THE GENERAL

COURT OF JUSTICESUPERIOR

COURT DIVISION09-SP-1349

004 LegalsIN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE of a Deed of Trust and Security Agreement from D. Ballard Construction, Inc. dated May 4, 2007 and recorded on May 9, 2007 in Book 4548 at Page 157 of the Union County Public Regis-try by David T. Simpson, Jr. (Substitute Trustee)

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S

FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

Under and by virtue of the power and authority con-tained in a certain Deed of Trust and Security Agree-ment executed and deliv-ered by D. Ballard Con-struction, Inc. dated May 4, 2007 and recorded on May 9, 2007 in Book 4548 at Page 157 of the Union County Public Registry (the “Deed of Trust”) and be-cause of default in the pay-ment of the indebtedness thereby secured and failure to carry out or perform the stipulations and agree-ments therein contained and pursuant to the de-mand of the owner and holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, and pursuant to the Order of the Clerk of Supe-rior Court for Union Coun-ty, North Carolina, entered in this foreclosure proceed-ing, the undersigned, David T. Simpson, Jr. Substitute Trustee, will expose for sale at public auction on the 24th day of September, 2009, at 2:00 p.m., at the appropriate place for fore-closure sales at the Union County Judicial Center, 400 North Main Street, Monroe, North Carolina, the real property (including any improvements thereon) which is more particularly described on Exhibit A at-tached hereto and incorpo-rated herein. This sale shall not include any por-tion of the real property that has been released by recorded releases or any real property described in the Deed of Trust which is not listed and included on Exhibit A attached hereto.

EXHIBIT ALegal Description

BEING all of Lot Number 21 of WEDDINGTON HEIGHTS, PHASE III B, as shown on plat thereof re-corded in Plat Cabinet J at File 354, Union County Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular metes and bounds description.The sale will be subject to any and all superior mort-gages, deeds of trust and liens, including without limi-tation, the lien of unpaid taxes and assessments, easements, conditions, re-strictions and matters of re-cord. This sale will be fur-ther subject to the right, if any, of the United States of America to redeem the above-described property for a period of 120 days fol-lowing confirmation of the sale. The above-described real property will be sold “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Substitute Trustee nor the holder of the note se-cured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed nor the of-ficers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or au-thorized representatives of either the Substitute Trust-ee or the holder of the note secured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environ-mental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the real property being sold, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such conditions expressly are disclaimed.The record owner of the above-described real prop-erty as reflected on the re-cords of the Union County Register of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to the posting of this notice is D. Ballard Con-struction, Inc.Pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.10(b), any success-ful bidder may be required to deposit with the Substi-tute Trustee immediately upon conclusion of the sale a cash deposit of the great-er of five percent (5%) of the last bid or $750.00. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Sub-stitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said suc-cessful bidder fail to pay the full balance purchase price so bid at that time, he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.30(d) and (e). The owner and holder of the in-debtedness secured by the Deed of Trust may make a credit bid.This sale will be held open ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law.If the real property to be sold pursuant to this notice of sale is residential prop-erty with less than fifteen rental units then: (i) an or-der for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in posses-sion by the clerk of superi-or court of the county in which the real property is sold; and (ii) any person who occupies the real property pursuant to a rent-al agreement entered into or renewed on or after Oc-tober 1, 2007, may, after receiving this notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon ten (10) days’ written notice to the landlord, and upon termina-tion of the rental agree-ment, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rent-al agreement prorated to the effective date of the ter-mination. This the 21st day of Au-gust, 2009. David T. Simpson, Jr.,

004 LegalsSubstitute TrusteeGerdes, Mason and Simpson, L.L.P.216 N. McDowell Street, Suite 110Charlotte, NC 28204Telephone: 704.372.3180Facsimile: 704.343.2942September 8, 15, 2009

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF UNIONIN THE GENERAL

COURT OF JUSTICESUPERIOR

COURT DIVISION09-SP-1348

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE of a Deed of Trust and Security Agreement from D. Ballard Construction, Inc. dated May 4, 2007 and recorded on May 9, 2007 in Book 4548 at Page 166 of the Union County Public Regis-try by David T. Simpson, Jr. (Substitute Trustee)

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S

FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

Under and by virtue of the power and authority con-tained in a certain Deed of Trust and Security Agree-ment executed and deliv-ered by D. Ballard Con-struction, Inc. dated May 4, 2007 and recorded on May 9, 2007 in Book 4548 at Page 166 of the Union County Public Registry (the “Deed of Trust”) and be-cause of default in the pay-ment of the indebtedness thereby secured and failure to carry out or perform the stipulations and agree-ments therein contained and pursuant to the de-mand of the owner and holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, and pursuant to the Order of the Clerk of Supe-rior Court for Union Coun-ty, North Carolina, entered in this foreclosure proceed-ing, the undersigned, David T. Simpson, Jr. Substitute Trustee, will expose for sale at public auction on the 24th day of September, 2009, at 2:00 p.m., at the appropriate place for fore-closure sales at the Union County Judicial Center, 400 North Main Street, Monroe, North Carolina, the real property (including any improvements thereon) which is more particularly described on Exhibit A at-tached hereto and incorpo-rated herein. This sale shall not include any por-tion of the real property that has been released by recorded releases or any real property described in the Deed of Trust which is not listed and included on Exhibit A attached hereto.

EXHIBIT ALegal Description

BEING all of Lot Number 22 of WEDDINGTON HEIGHTS, PHASE III B, as shown on plat thereof re-corded in Plat Cabinet J at File 354, Union County Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular metes and bounds description.The sale will be subject to any and all superior mort-gages, deeds of trust and liens, including without limi-tation, the lien of unpaid taxes and assessments, easements, conditions, re-strictions and matters of re-cord. This sale will be fur-ther subject to the right, if any, of the United States of America to redeem the above-described property for a period of 120 days fol-lowing confirmation of the sale. The above-described real property will be sold “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Substitute Trustee nor the holder of the note se-cured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed nor the of-ficers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or au-thorized representatives of either the Substitute Trust-ee or the holder of the note secured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environ-mental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the real property being sold, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such conditions expressly are disclaimed.The record owner of the above-described real prop-erty as reflected on the re-cords of the Union County Register of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to the posting of this notice is D. Ballard Con-struction, Inc.Pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.10(b), any success-ful bidder may be required to deposit with the Substi-tute Trustee immediately upon conclusion of the sale a cash deposit of the great-er of five percent (5%) of the last bid or $750.00. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Sub-stitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said suc-cessful bidder fail to pay the full balance purchase price so bid at that time, he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.30(d) and (e). The owner and holder of the in-debtedness secured by the Deed of Trust may make a credit bid.This sale will be held open ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law.If the real property to be sold pursuant to this notice of sale is residential prop-erty with less than fifteen rental units then: (i) an or-der for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in posses-sion by the clerk of superi-or court of the county in which the real property is sold; and (ii) any person who occupies the real property pursuant to a rent-

004 Legalsal agreement entered into or renewed on or after Oc-tober 1, 2007, may, after receiving this notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon ten (10) days’ written notice to the landlord, and upon termina-tion of the rental agree-ment, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rent-al agreement prorated to the effective date of the ter-mination. This the 21st day of Au-gust, 2009. David T. Simpson, Jr., Substitute TrusteeGerdes, Mason and Simpson, L.L.P.216 N. McDowell Street, Suite 110Charlotte, NC 28204Telephone: 704.372.3180Facsimile: 704.343.2942September 8, 15, 2009

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF UNIONIN THE GENERAL

COURT OF JUSTICESUPERIOR

COURT DIVISION09-SP-1350

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE of a Deed of Trust and Security Agreement from D. Ballard Construction, Inc. dated December 13, 2006 and re-corded on December 15, 2006 in Book 4399 at Page 668 of the Union County Public Registry by David T. Simpson, Jr. (Substitute Trustee)

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S

FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

Under and by virtue of the power and authority con-tained in a certain Deed of Trust and Security Agree-ment executed and deliv-ered by D. Ballard Con-struction, Inc. dated De-cember 13, 2006 and re-corded on December 15, 2006 in Book 4399 at Page 668 of the Union County Public Registry (the “Deed of Trust”) and because of default in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and failure to carry out or perform the stipula-tions and agreements therein contained and pur-suant to the demand of the owner and holder of the in-debtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, and pursuant to the Order of the Clerk of Superior Court for Union County, North Carolina, entered in this foreclosure proceeding, the undersigned, David T. Simpson, Jr. Substitute Trustee, will expose for sale at public auction on the 24th day of Septem-ber, 2009, at 2:00 p.m., at the appropriate place for foreclosure sales at the Un-ion County Judicial Center, 400 North Main Street, Monroe, North Carolina, the real property (including any improvements thereon) which is more particularly described on Exhibit A at-tached hereto and incorpo-rated herein. This sale shall not include any por-tion of the real property that has been released by recorded releases or any real property described in the Deed of Trust which is not listed and included on Exhibit A attached hereto.

EXHIBIT ALegal Description

BEING all of Lots 18 and 20 of WEDDINGTON HEIGHTS, PHASE III B, as same is shown on map thereof recorded in Plat Cabinet J at File 354 in the Union County Public Regis-try.The sale will be subject to any and all superior mort-gages, deeds of trust and liens, including without limi-tation, the lien of unpaid taxes and assessments, easements, conditions, re-strictions and matters of re-cord. This sale will be fur-ther subject to the right, if any, of the United States of America to redeem the above-described property for a period of 120 days fol-lowing confirmation of the sale. The above-described real property will be sold “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Substitute Trustee nor the holder of the note se-cured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed nor the of-ficers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or au-thorized representatives of either the Substitute Trust-ee or the holder of the note secured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environ-mental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the real property being sold, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such conditions expressly are disclaimed.The record owner of the above-described real prop-erty as reflected on the re-cords of the Union County Register of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to the posting of this notice is D. Ballard Con-struction, Inc.Pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.10(b), any success-ful bidder may be required to deposit with the Substi-tute Trustee immediately upon conclusion of the sale a cash deposit of the great-er of five percent (5%) of the last bid or $750.00. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Sub-stitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said suc-cessful bidder fail to pay the full balance purchase price so bid at that time, he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.30(d) and (e). The owner and holder of the in-debtedness secured by the Deed of Trust may make a credit bid.This sale will be held open ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law.If the real property to be

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004 Legalssold pursuant to this notice of sale is residential prop-erty with less than fifteen rental units then: (i) an or-der for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in posses-sion by the clerk of superi-or court of the county in which the real property is sold; and (ii) any person who occupies the real property pursuant to a rent-al agreement entered into or renewed on or after Oc-tober 1, 2007, may, after receiving this notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon ten (10) days’ written notice to the landlord, and upon termina-tion of the rental agree-ment, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rent-al agreement prorated to the effective date of the ter-mination. This the 21st day of Au-gust, 2009. David T. Simpson, Jr.,Substitute TrusteeGerdes, Mason and Simpson, L.L.P.216 N. McDowell Street, Suite 110Charlotte, NC 28204Telephone: 704.372.3180Facsimile: 704.343.2942September 8, 15, 2009

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF UNIONIN THE GENERAL

COURT OF JUSTICESUPERIOR

COURT DIVISION 09-SP-1351

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE of a Deed of Trust and Security Agreement from D. Ballard Construction, Inc. dated December 13, 2006 and re-corded on December 15, 2006 in Book 4399 at Page 674 of the Union County Public Registry by David T. Simpson, Jr. (Substitute Trustee)

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S

FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

Under and by virtue of the power and authority con-tained in a certain Deed of Trust and Security Agree-ment executed and deliv-ered by D. Ballard Con-struction, Inc. dated De-cember 13, 2006 and re-corded on December 15, 2006 in Book 4399 at Page 674 of the Union County Public Registry (the “Deed of Trust”) and because of default in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and failure to carry out or perform the stipula-tions and agreements therein contained and pur-suant to the demand of the owner and holder of the in-debtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, and pursuant to the Order of the Clerk of Superior Court for Union County, North Carolina, entered in this foreclosure proceeding, the undersigned, David T. Simpson, Jr. Substitute Trustee, will expose for sale at public auction on the 24th day of Septem-ber, 2009, at 2:00 p.m. at the appropriate place for foreclosure sales at the Un-ion County Judicial Center, 400 North Main Street, Monroe, North Carolina, the real property (including any improvements thereon) which is more particularly described on Exhibit A at-tached hereto and incorpo-rated herein. This sale shall not include any por-tion of the real property that has been released by recorded releases or any real property described in the Deed of Trust which is not listed and included on Exhibit A attached hereto.

EXHIBIT ALegal Description

BEING all of Lot 46 of WEDDINGTON HEIGHTS, PHASE III A, as same is shown on map thereof re-corded in Plat Cabinet J at File 353 in the Union Coun-ty Public Registry.The sale will be subject to any and all superior mort-gages, deeds of trust and liens, including without limi-tation, the lien of unpaid taxes and assessments, easements, conditions, re-strictions and matters of re-cord. This sale will be fur-ther subject to the right, if

004 Legalsany, of the United States of America to redeem the above-described property for a period of 120 days fol-lowing confirmation of the sale. The above-described real property will be sold “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Substitute Trustee nor the holder of the note se-cured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed nor the of-ficers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or au-thorized representatives of either the Substitute Trust-ee or the holder of the note secured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environ-mental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the real property being sold, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such conditions expressly are disclaimed.The record owner of the above-described real prop-erty as reflected on the re-cords of the Union County Register of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to the posting of this notice is D. Ballard Con-struction, Inc.Pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.10(b), any success-ful bidder may be required to deposit with the Substi-tute Trustee immediately upon conclusion of the sale a cash deposit of the great-er of five percent (5%) of the last bid or $750.00. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Sub-stitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said suc-cessful bidder fail to pay the full balance purchase price so bid at that time, he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.30(d) and (e). The owner and holder of the in-debtedness secured by the Deed of Trust may make a credit bid.This sale will be held open ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law.If the real property to be sold pursuant to this notice of sale is residential prop-erty with less than fifteen rental units then: (i) an or-der for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in posses-sion by the clerk of superi-or court of the county in which the real property is sold; and (ii) any person who occupies the real property pursuant to a rent-al agreement entered into or renewed on or after Oc-tober 1, 2007, may, after receiving this notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon ten (10) days’ written notice to the landlord, and upon termina-tion of the rental agree-ment, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rent-al agreement prorated to the effective date of the ter-mination. This the 21st day of Au-gust, 2009. David T. Simpson, Jr., Substitute TrusteeGerdes, Mason and Simpson, L.L.P.216 N. McDowell Street, Suite 110Charlotte, NC 28204Telephone: 704.372.3180Facsimile: 704.343.2942September 8, 15, 2009

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF UNIONIN THE GENERAL

COURT OF JUSTICESUPERIOR

COURT DIVISION09-SP-1352

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE of a Deed of Trust and Security Agreement from D. Ballard Construction, Inc. dated December 13, 2006 and re-corded on December 15, 2006 in Book 4399 at Page 656 of the Union County Public Registry by David T. Simpson, Jr. (Substitute Trustee)

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S

004 LegalsFORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

Under and by virtue of the power and authority con-tained in a certain Deed of Trust and Security Agree-ment executed and deliv-ered by D. Ballard Con-struction, Inc. dated De-cember 13, 2006 and re-corded on December 15, 2006 in Book 4399 at Page 656 of the Union County Public Registry (the “Deed of Trust”) and because of default in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and failure to carry out or perform the stipula-tions and agreements therein contained and pur-suant to the demand of the owner and holder of the in-debtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, and pursuant to the Order of the Clerk of Superior Court for Union County, North Carolina, entered in this foreclosure proceeding, the undersigned, David T. Simpson, Jr. Substitute Trustee, will expose for sale at public auction on the 24th day of Septem-ber, 2009, at 2:00 p.m. at the appropriate place for foreclosure sales at the Un-ion County Judicial Center, 400 North Main Street, Monroe, North Carolina, the real property (including any improvements thereon) which is more particularly described on Exhibit A at-tached hereto and incorpo-rated herein. This sale shall not include any por-tion of the real property that has been released by recorded releases or any real property described in the Deed of Trust which is not listed and included on Exhibit A attached hereto.

EXHIBIT ALegal Description

BEING all of Lot Number 44 of WEDDINGTON HEIGHTS, PHASE III A, as same is shown on map thereof recorded in Plat Cabinet J at File 353 in the Union County Public Regis-try.The sale will be subject to any and all superior mort-gages, deeds of trust and liens, including without limi-tation, the lien of unpaid taxes and assessments, easements, conditions, re-strictions and matters of re-cord. This sale will be fur-ther subject to the right, if any, of the United States of America to redeem the above-described property for a period of 120 days fol-lowing confirmation of the sale. The above-described real property will be sold “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Substitute Trustee nor the holder of the note se-cured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed nor the of-ficers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or au-thorized representatives of either the Substitute Trust-ee or the holder of the note secured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environ-mental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the real property being sold, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such conditions expressly are disclaimed.The record owner of the above-described real prop-erty as reflected on the re-cords of the Union County Register of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to the posting of this notice is D. Ballard Con-struction, Inc.Pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.10(b), any success-ful bidder may be required to deposit with the Substi-tute Trustee immediately upon conclusion of the sale a cash deposit of the great-er of five percent (5%) of the last bid or $750.00. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Sub-stitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said suc-cessful bidder fail to pay the full balance purchase price so bid at that time, he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in North Carolina General Statutes

004 Legals§45-21.30(d) and (e). The owner and holder of the in-debtedness secured by the Deed of Trust may make a credit bid.This sale will be held open ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law.If the real property to be sold pursuant to this notice of sale is residential prop-erty with less than fifteen rental units then: (i) an or-der for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in posses-sion by the clerk of superi-or court of the county in which the real property is sold; and (ii) any person who occupies the real property pursuant to a rent-al agreement entered into or renewed on or after Oc-tober 1, 2007, may, after receiving this notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon ten (10) days’ written notice to the landlord, and upon termina-tion of the rental agree-ment, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rent-al agreement prorated to the effective date of the ter-mination. This the 21st day of Au-gust, 2009. David T. Simpson, Jr., Substitute TrusteeGerdes, Mason and Simpson, L.L.P.216 N. McDowell Street, Suite 110Charlotte, NC 28204Telephone: 704.372.3180Facsimile: 704.343.2942September 8, 15, 2009

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF UNIONIN THE GENERAL

COURT OF JUSTICESUPERIOR

COURT DIVISION09-SP-1353

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE of a Deed of Trust and Security Agreement from D. Ballard Construction, Inc. dated June 28, 2007 and record-ed on July 2, 2007 in Book 4611 at Page 140 of the Union County Public Regis-try by David T. Simpson, Jr. (Substitute Trustee)

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S

FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

Under and by virtue of the power and authority con-tained in a certain Deed of Trust and Security Agree-ment executed and deliv-ered by D. Ballard Con-struction, Inc. dated June 28, 2007 and recorded on July 2, 2007 in Book 4611 at Page 140 of the Union County Public Registry (the “Deed of Trust”) and be-cause of default in the pay-ment of the indebtedness thereby secured and failure to carry out or perform the stipulations and agree-ments therein contained and pursuant to the de-mand of the owner and holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, and pursuant to the Order of the Clerk of Supe-rior Court for Union Coun-ty, North Carolina, entered in this foreclosure proceed-ing, the undersigned, David T. Simpson, Jr. Substitute Trustee, will expose for sale at public auction on the 24th day of Septem-ber, 2009, at 2:00 p.m., at the appropriate place for foreclosure sales at the Un-ion County Judicial Center, 400 North Main Street, Monroe, North Carolina, the real property (including any improvements thereon) which is more particularly described on Exhibit A at-tached hereto and incorpo-rated herein. This sale shall not include any por-tion of the real property that has been released by recorded releases or any real property described in the Deed of Trust which is not listed and included on Exhibit A attached hereto.

EXHIBIT ALegal Description

BEING ALL OF LOT 68 OF SMITH FIELD SUBDIVI-SION AS SAME IS SHOWN ON MAP THERE-OF RECORDED IN PLATCABINET I AT FILES 958 AND 959 IN THE UNION COUNTY PUBLIC REGIS-TRY.The sale will be subject to any and all superior mort-

004 Legalsgages, deeds of trust and liens, including without limi-tation, the lien of unpaid taxes and assessments, easements, conditions, re-strictions and matters of re-cord. This sale will be fur-ther subject to the right, if any, of the United States of America to redeem the above-described property for a period of 120 days fol-lowing confirmation of the sale. The above-described real property will be sold “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Substitute Trustee nor the holder of the note se-cured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed nor the of-ficers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or au-thorized representatives of either the Substitute Trust-ee or the holder of the note secured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environ-mental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the real property being sold, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such conditions expressly are disclaimed.The record owner of the above-described real prop-erty as reflected on the re-cords of the Union County Register of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to the posting of this notice is D. Ballard Con-struction, Inc.Pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.10(b), any success-ful bidder may be required to deposit with the Substi-tute Trustee immediately upon conclusion of the sale a cash deposit of the great-er of five percent (5%) of the last bid or $750.00. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Sub-stitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said suc-cessful bidder fail to pay the full balance purchase price so bid at that time, he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.30(d) and (e). The owner and holder of the in-debtedness secured by the Deed of Trust may make a credit bid.This sale will be held open ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law.If the real property to be sold pursuant to this notice of sale is residential prop-erty with less than fifteen rental units then: (i) an or-der for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in posses-sion by the clerk of superi-or court of the county in which the real property is sold; and (ii) any person who occupies the real property pursuant to a rent-al agreement entered into

004 Legalsor renewed on or after Oc-tober 1, 2007, may, after receiving this notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon ten (10) days’ written notice to the landlord, and upon termina-tion of the rental agree-ment, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rent-al agreement prorated to the effective date of the ter-mination. This the 21st day of Au-gust, 2009. David T. Simpson, Jr., Substitute TrusteeGerdes, Mason and Simpson, L.L.P.216 N. McDowell Street, Suite 110Charlotte, NC 28204Telephone: 704.372.3180Facsimile: 704.343.2942September 8, 15, 2009

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF UNIONIN THE GENERAL

COURT OF JUSTICESUPERIOR

COURT DIVISION 09-SP-1354

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE of a Deed of Trust and Security Agreement from D. Ballard Construction, Inc. dated August 28, 2006 and re-corded on August 30, 2006 in Book 4282 at Page 505 of the Union County Public Registry by David T. Simp-son, Jr. (Substitute Trust-ee)

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S

FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

Under and by virtue of the power and authority con-tained in a certain Deed of Trust and Security Agree-ment executed and deliv-ered by D. Ballard Con-struction, Inc. dated August 28, 2006 and recorded on August 30, 2006 in Book 4282 at Page 505 of the Union County Public Regis-try (the “Deed of Trust”) and because of default in the payment of the indebt-edness thereby secured and failure to carry out or perform the stipulations and agreements therein contained and pursuant to the demand of the owner and holder of the indebted-ness secured by said Deed of Trust, and pursuant to the Order of the Clerk of Superior Court for Union County, North Carolina, en-tered in this foreclosure proceeding, the under-signed, David T. Simpson, Jr. Substitute Trustee, will expose for sale at public auction on the 24th day of September, 2009, at 2:00 p.m., at the appropriate place for foreclosure sales at the Union County Judi-cial Center, 400 North Main Street, Monroe, North Car-olina, the real property (in-cluding any improvements thereon) which is more par-ticularly described on Ex-hibit A attached hereto and incorporated herein. This sale shall not include any portion of the real property that has been re-leased by recorded releas-es or any real property de-scribed in the Deed of

004 LegalsTrust which is not listed and included on Exhibit Aattached hereto.

EXHIBIT ALegal Description

BEING ALL OF LOT 56 OF SMITH FIELD SUBDIVI-SION AS SAME IS SHOWN ON MAP THERE-OF RECORDED IN PLATCABINET I AT FILES 958 AND 959 IN THE UNION COUNTY PUBLIC REGIS-TRY.The sale will be subject to any and all superior mort-gages, deeds of trust and liens, including without limi-tation, the lien of unpaid taxes and assessments, easements, conditions, re-strictions and matters of re-cord. This sale will be fur-ther subject to the right, if any, of the United States of America to redeem the above-described property for a period of 120 days fol-lowing confirmation of the sale. The above-described real property will be sold “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Substitute Trustee nor the holder of the note se-cured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed nor the of-ficers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or au-thorized representatives of either the Substitute Trust-ee or the holder of the note secured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environ-mental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the real property being sold, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such conditions expressly are disclaimed.The record owner of the above-described real prop-erty as reflected on the re-cords of the Union County Register of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to the posting of this notice is D. Ballard Con-struction, Inc.Pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.10(b), any success-ful bidder may be required to deposit with the Substi-tute Trustee immediately upon conclusion of the sale a cash deposit of the great-er of five percent (5%) of the last bid or $750.00. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Sub-stitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said suc-cessful bidder fail to pay the full balance purchase price so bid at that time, he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.30(d) and (e). The owner and holder of the indebtedness secured

004 Legalsby the Deed of Trust may make a credit bid.This sale will be held open ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law.If the real property to be sold pursuant to this notice of sale is residential prop-erty with less than fifteen rental units then: (i) an or-der for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to North Carolina General Statute Section 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in posses-sion by the clerk of superi-or court of the county in which the real property is sold; and (ii) any person who occupies the real property pursuant to a rent-al agreement entered into or renewed on or after Oc-tober 1, 2007, may, after receiving this notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon ten (10) days’ written notice to the landlord, and upon termina-tion of the rental agree-ment, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rent-al agreement prorated to the effective date of the ter-mination. This the 21st day of Au-gust, 2009. David T. Simpson, Jr., Substitute TrusteeGerdes, Mason and Simpson, L.L.P.216 N. McDowell Street, Suite 110Charlotte, NC 28204Telephone: 704.372.3180Facsimile: 704.343.2942September 8, 15, 2009

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windows, air. 2-1/2 BA, 3 BR + bonus room over dbl. gar. Custom oak cabinets.

Covered back porch overlooking nice 24’x40’ shop/office. 5 acs. in great location.

MLS 810187 $348,000 FSBO 704-694-8271 704-385-9294

FOR SALE BY OWNER, NORTH MYRTLE BEACH HOUSE

$725,000 5 BD, 4 BTH, ON CHANNEL,

TWO BLOCKS FROM BEACH WWW.NORTHMYRTLEBEACHTRAVEL.COM,

RENTAL HOUSE NAME, AQUAVIEW, 704-975-5996,[email protected]

REDUCED! REDUCED!

2224 heated sq. ft. Built in 2004. Like new inside and out 3-4 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath, stone

and vinyl exterior, new appliances.

2322 Lexington Ave. (Near New Walter Bickett Elem.)

$169,900 to buy or lease to purchase. Call 704-488-7722

LEASE TO OWN!!

Bob Parker 704-221-7363

UNDER THE PECAN TREE ... new 3BR ranch with luxury MBR, kitchen with island & smooth- top stove, ceiling fans, cable ready, cement drive, front porch, underground utilities. Qualifies for 100% financing.

Just $99,900! (154) MLS #827646

Huge 3854 sq. ft . 4bd 3.5ba New H/AC systems Inground pool

Hardwoods $189,900 Will rent to own $1100. 903 Walters St.

UnionCountyForeclosures.com Janet & Bob’s Foreclosures

704-282-9338

All Brick 3 Br, 3.5 Ba Home, approx 3200 htd sq ft, on approx 6 acres! HUGE eat-in Gourmet kitchen, Sunroom

overlooking pool, Office/Bonus room, HUGE laundry room w/ Island, 9’ ceilings and more! Piedmont Schools, 20 x 40 Inground

Pool, Great place for Horses. $329,900. Owner/NC Broker

7321 Morgan Mill Road

704-661-2551 Reasonable Real Estate Fees

mailto:[email protected] Bob Parker

704-221-7363

5 Bedrooms! 3-Car Garage with workbench! Stone gas FP! Bkfst bay, formal DR, warranty,

Porter Ridge schools! Hurry! $199,900 (145) MLS #818545

Forest Park - 1 mi. from I-485 off Hwy. 74 in Union County. Stallings Elem - Porter Ridge schools. 1/2 acre wooded lot, 3 BR/2 BA with

brick veneer, maint. free exterior, cathedral ceiling, front porch & concrete drive. $144,700 incl. some closing costs.

Call Mike at 704-361-4308.

NEW CONSTRUCTION Lifestyle Builders, Inc.

302 Meadowbrook Dr., Stallings

BELOW TAX VALUE $123,000 5808 Bridgeway in Alexis Point

Will lease to own at $900 per month 3bd 2.5 ba All appliances included

UnionCountyForeclosures.com Janet & Bob’s Foreclosures

704-282-9338

Michael Calabrese 704-231-7750

881 Clonmel Drive • Desired Shannamara Golf Community Breathtaking brick home w/open floor plan. Master on main. Gourmet kitchen w/extras. Oversize bedrooms & Loft. Beautiful landscape w/deck, & in-ground pool. Fenced yard w/ mature trees behind for privacy. For more information and virtual tour visit http: //www.MyRealtorMichael.com/ Offered at $399,900

$169,000

4 bedroom, 3 bath, 2 car garage. Over 2000 square feet. Near Waxhaw.

704-621-7799

For Sale REDUCED New 2007, 3BR, 2BA, 2 car garage, rec room, s/s appliances, ceramic tile,

1 ac lot, lots of extras. Must see! $167,400

CALL 704-243-4656

OFFERED AT $129,900 WITH SELLER TO PAY $1000 in closing costs.1.5 Story, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths,

1651 sq. feet, Hardwood Foyer and Berber Throughout, Freshly Painted Interior and Updated appliances

Vinyl replacement windows, Large .45 acre lot nicely landscaped with Accent Pond, Beautiful Trees, and large

variety of plantings 12x14 Building/Shop with Power CONTACT WILL SMITH (704)506-9385

403 BROOKGREEN DR.

Historic House in the Federal List of Historic Places. Located at 501 Franklin St. on the corner of W. Franklin & N. Crawford. For sale for $159,000. Massive rehab work from roof to cellar. It was built to house two separate Medical Doctors with a Pharmacy occuping the center section. Today there is three separate apartments with large impressive rooms & separate utilities.

Call 704-553-0271 or 704-287-2440.

3BR 2B home on 1.23 acres Pageland SC. home has sheetrock walls, new laminate floors, berber carpet, front

and rear decks, septic tank, Pela storm doors, counter tops, whirlpool tub with jets. heat pump is 2 yrs old.

Refri, stove and dishwasher and gas logs to remain. This home is top of the line. Home can be seen on my web site : terripurser.remax-carolina.com list price $79,500.

Call 704-488-5869 Terri Purser Re/Max Steeplechase Monroe

Enjoy entertaining in this wonderful Marshville home: over 3500 sq. ft. on

2 acres. Holiday dinners a breeze to prepare in the spacious kitchen. Grand living

and dining rooms. 5 bedrooms; 5 fireplaces; den; screeened porch.

Call Elsie: 704-363-8815 PRUDENTIAL CAROLINAS REALTY

Attention Golfers FOR SALE BY OWNER 2731 Rolling Hills Drive

704-283-6519 or 704-242-1303 Brick home w/approx. 3200 sq. ft. w/4 large BDs, 3 Full BAs, 2 half BAs, GR room w/rock fireplace w/gas logs. Formal dining room, Bkfst room & kitchen w/pantry. Rear deck overlooking large yard w/garden spot. Oversized garage. Porter Ridge School District.

.87 ac cul-de-sac lot. Gated Community with full amenities; Swim,Tennis,

Club House. $189,000. MLS#850338.

SKYECROFT

Call Remax Executive: 704.602.8295, Lara Taylor

Lot $30,000 5930 Timbertop Lane Charlotte, NC 28215

Jeff Hall - Realtor/Broker 980-722-6702-cell [email protected]

3 Bedroom, 2 Bath, Ranch home with all new tile flooring/all new neutral

carpet thru out/Master bath has dual sinks/garden tubshower.

Kitchen has new installed oven. Jeff Hall - Realtor/Broker

980-722-6702-cell [email protected]

3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath. Gourmet kitchen with granite countertops/

hardwoods and ceramic tile/jacuzzi jet master bath.

Jeff Hall - Realtor/Broker 980-722-6702-cell [email protected]

Hamilton Place • 2808 Arrowhead Ct. $172,500 3 Bed/2 1/2 Bath/+Bonus Room,

1760 sq. ft. / .39 acre premium lot, 2 Car Garage, Gas FP, New Paint, Carpet, ceramic tile, counter tops

& gutters. Master suite w/trey ceiling. Contact Perkins Properties, 704-579-1364 MLS 717444

For Sale by Owner, 50 acres Piedmont schools, well installed perk permitted.

Mostly wooded, some grass.

Call day 704-291-1061 or night 704-289-1734

$500,000

Call 704-261-2213 or email: [email protected]

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038 Cosmetology

Hair Stylist needed com-pensation or booth rent-al. Hair Worx 704-289-4181

040 Help WantedAvon- Do you need an extra $200-500? Act now!Ft/Pt. Free gift. Medical Ins. avail. 704/821-7398

Exp’d PT Lead Cook, 2 nights per week & every other weekend. Apply in person. 2515 Fowler Secrest Rd.

Quality Control Earn up to $100 a day, evaluate re-tail stores, training provid-ed, No exp req’d. call 877-372-3767

READERNOTICE!While many work-at-home opportunities listed provide real in-come, many seek only to sell booklets or cata-logs on how to get such work.

Please usecaution when responding to all such ads.

042 Office/ClericalInside Sales/Cust Service

opening. Great Benefits, fast growing co. Apply online

www. TheBigGreenK.com (704) 821-4991

043 Truck Drivers

Exp’d Dump Truck Driverneeded CDL Class B li-cense, clean driving re-cord (704)764-5296

PETS & LIVESTOCK

058 Horses

8yr Bay Gelding riding horse good sound, cur-rent coggins test, $800 btw 4-8 (843)672-7902

062 Homes for Pets

Free female Rotteweiler neutered 5 yrs old (704)221-4296

Free good home 1yr. Plopt Hound mix male & female all shots (704)283-1424

MERCHANDISE

069 AppliancesRefrigerator & Stoves

$99.99 Washers & Dryers $79.99

704-649-3821

White Kenmore Washer & Dryer,

$200 for both good cond (704)882-2710

FINANCIAL

104 Bus. Opportunities

INVESTIGATEBEFORE

YOU INVEST!Always a good policy, es-pecially for business op-portunities and franchis-es. Call NC Attorney Gen-eral at (919)-716-6000 or the Federal Trade Com-mission at (877)-FTC-HELP for free information; or visit our Web site at www.ftc.gov/bizop.N.C. law requires sellers of certain business oppor-tunities to register with NC Attorney General be-fore selling. Call to verify lawful registration before you buy.

108 Money To Loan

Advance Fee Loans or Credit OffersCompanies that do business by phone can’t ask you to pay for credit before you get it.For more information, call toll-free 1-877-FTC-HELP.A public service message from The Enquirer-Journal and The Federal Trade Commission.

109 REAL ESTATE

REAL ESTATE - RENT

112 ApartmentsCamelot Apt 3mo. free

power $125wk, $150dep. $50mo. water/garbage to-tal $325 to move in week-ly. no pets. Pageland also Duplexes, 2 & 3BR hous-es (843)672-5616

★ Monroe Apt. ★1mo. free w/12mo. lease

Beautiful, quiet, patio’s w/pool, paid water

Studio’s $410 1br $499 2br $585-615 & 3br $690

704-289-5949

★★★★★★★★★★★1/2 off 1st mo. rent !!

Ask about other specialsCompletely Remodeled 2br, 1.5ba Townhouse

Small pets allowed Shown by appt only

704-283-1912 ★★★★★★★★★★★

Manor Ridge Apartmentsin Wingate, Now Renting

3BR Apt. $655mo. Certain Restriction Apply

(704)233-0482

Newly RemodeledTownhouse 2bd/1.5 ba

$600mo.704-283-3097

Woodbrook ApartmentsFree Rent !!

Excellent School District (704)282-4940

113 Duplexes

Vintage Hill Duplexes2br 1ba $630mo.

Great, safe community(704)292-1329

114 Houses For Rent2 brick house 1750sf &

2012sf, both have cent. H/A, 3br 2ba, garages, stor. blds, $920 & $980mo (704)847-6561

2450sf house up to 5br, 2.5ba, Wingate area, in ground pool, $1350mo. +dep (704)291-7296

3br 2ba hdwood floors country living, Parkwood Sch dist. ref’s & dep req’d $800mo. (704)289-6613

3br 2ba homes Monroe Wingate & Waxhaw

$500 to $800(704)283-2286

3br 2ba Parkwood / Pros-pect Sch private large yard $850mo + $850 dep.(704)254-3610

Mineral Springs $1,495 mo. 3br 3ba 2 car gar. 3000 sf brick home, lg lot w/pas-ture, good for horses

Indian Trail- 3br 1ba 1000sf detached gar. $750mo.

Austin Rentals (704)289-6531

Need to rebuild your cred-it? Let us build your new home while you build your credit Call to see if you qualify? 704-233-0236

Owner financing 3br 2.5batown home. $149,900.00 owner financing available. 4005 F Christine LaneWaxhaw NC (Alma Vil-lage) Call 704-609-5463

REAL ESTATE - SALE

126 Houses For Sale$8,000 Tax Credit to buy

your first home Call to see if you may qualify New Homes Available from $129,900 Leon 704-607-2602

MOBILE HOMES

138 Mobile Homes - Rent2 & 3 BR mobile homeson 1ac lots 10 min from

Monroe cross NC/SC line. call (843)672-7445 Atkinson Rentals

3 bedroom / 2 bath on 2.50 acres. Recently remod-eled. $550 deposit/$550 a month. Call 704-254-2288 or 828-474-5070.

Wingate: 2 mo free rent 3BR 2BA $600 2BR 2BA $525 Cent H/A. No pets. 704-451-8408

140 Mobile Homes - Sale

For Sale 3br 2ba Monroe w/1 acre for limited time only. No money down 100% financing OAC Qualifiers for $8,000 Gov. Rebate (704)320-4878

Land Owners Wanted Zero Down

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