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RainHigh: 63Low: 56Complete report: Page 8A

DeathsClifford Zane Adams

Daisy BarrinoRichard Eugene Boyles

Lawson Plyler CrispEvelyn ‘Gean’ DidowCristina Rae Drake

Ollie Ann Braswell HelmsRosemary Martin

Chandler Bryce PressleyCharles Edward Walsh Jr.

WHO’S NEWS

Holloway tolecture at WU

WINGATEKris Holloway, the author

of “Monique and the Mango Rains,” will give a free public lecture at Wingate Univer-sity today at 9:30 a.m. in Austin Auditorium. The book was chosen as the com-mon reading assignment at Wingate this academic year. Holloway served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, West Africa, from 1989 to 1991. Her two years spent with a midwife in Mali inspired her to write the book “Monique and the Mango Rains.” The story is about a friendship with an African woman who transformed her life. For more information, contact Marisa Wheeling at 704-233-8129.

BIRTHDAYSBest wishes are extended

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

Abby Kathryn Hinson, Myron Williams, Charlie Bartley, Willie Bob Hailey, Willete Hailey, Karen Honeycutt Markland, Robert Freeman, Sue Cox, Byron Hailey, Jamie Medlin, Robin Hargett

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

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Haven’t seen it allColumnist Tom Walden says one can always discover new plants — sometimes at a friend’s house.

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Long distanceStudents at Sardis Elementary have talked via Skype with a former classmate in Indonesia.

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Debbie Chin takes a box of donated items into the church’s community service build-ing to sort and hang on the display racks at left.

BY TIFFANY LANEStaff Writer

MONROESeventh-day Adventist

Church of Monroe will give free food and cloth-ing to families in need Friday.

Church member Deb-bie Chin said unemploy-ment has left locals in more need than usual — a trend she can speak to firsthand.

After 14 years of em-ployment with the same

company, Chin was laid off six months ago. Her husband is out of work on medical leave. “It’s not paycheck to paycheck now,” she said. “It’s day to day.”

Fellow member Nancy Bezant started the out-reach, which served 22 families just last month, and has served as project leader ever since. “I just wanted that opportunity to help people,” she said.

See CHURCH / Page 9A

BY JASON deBRUYNStaff Writer

MONROEA man who police said

admitted to killing his wife last year entered a not-guilty plea Monday.

Dan Warren Edwards, 59, formerly of 3204 Colla-roy Road in Waxhaw, was

charged with first-degree murder after police said he killed his wife, Logan Drake Edwards.

Logan Edwards was last seen Oct. 31, 2008, and had been missing for almost two weeks before investigators found her body in the Congaree

River near Santee, S.C.Dan Edwards initially

told detectives he and his wife had had an ar-gument and she decided to drive to her family’s home in Charleston, S.C. Instead, police said, the argument Halloween night escalated and end-

ed with Edwards killing his 54-year-old wife. Re-ports showed there had been a history of domes-tic violence in the mar-riage and police said at the time that Edwards eventually admitted kill-ing her.

Edwards appeared in

court Monday wearing a yellow shirt and khaki pants. His attorney, Rich-ard Culler, told Superior Court Judge David Lee that “there are addi-tional discovery issues” and tried to delay the ar-raignment.

See EDWARDS / Page 2A

Edwards pleads not guiltyWaxhaw man accused of killing his wife last Halloween

Head Start celebration

Union County Community Action celebrated Head Start Awareness Month with its annual balloon release Friday at the Winchester Center. UCCA’s Head Start serves 499

children in Union, Anson and Richmond counties and provides comprehensive education, health, nutrition and

parent involvement services for low-income families. Above, participants release their balloons. At right,

3-year-olds Yesina Sanchez, left, and Debra Cejas, both of Monroe, participate in a choreographed routine for

the parents attending Friday’s event.

Staff photos by Rick Crider

BY ELISABETH ARRIEROStaff Writer

MONROEFive candidates are vying for

three vacant seats for on the Wax-haw Board of Commissioners.

Commissioners Joyce Blythe and Max Walker are up for re-election. Commissioner Sylvester

McManus is not running again. Welcoming growth while pre-

serving the town’s heritage was the issue mentioned most often by candidates. The board re-cently struck down a proposed development in the historic dis-trict that would have included a three-story apartment complex,

a hotel, a mixed-use building, a day care and a civic center. Historic Ventures, LLC, had requested a zoning change and conditional-use permit for the land but the board voted 4-1 against that, with Walker the only one in favor.

See WAXHAW / Page 6A

BY TIFFANY LANEStaff Writer

STALLINGSStallings residents packed half

of Town Hall Monday in sup-port of a golf cart ordinance that would allow the carts on neigh-borhood roads.

Town Council members said the revised ordinance in question is more favorable than the origi-nal, although there are still some kinks to work out. Councilman Wyatt Dunn headed work on the revisions with the help of other residents who own golf carts.

The original proposal called for residents to register their carts and submit to inspections, making the ordinance what May-or Lynda Paxton called “overly complicated.” Other council members said enforcement would be a burden on the Police Department. The proposal was voted down Sept. 28.

Shannamara resident Adam Pearlman said golf cart registra-tion is “overkill”; the main con-cern is keeping children under 16 years of age from driving them.

Other residents echoed the concern, saying they are not in favor of drivers under 16.

Councilwoman Renee Hartis suggested that children under 16 wear helmets when riding in golf carts to prevent head injuries if they fall off.

Emerald Lake resident Mike Burke said his cart has seat belts and suggested requiring that in-stead of helmets.

See STALLINGS / Page 6A

Church giving food, clothing

Three seats up for grabsFive running for Waxhaw Board of Commissioners

GolfcartfansResidents show support for revised rulesin Stallings

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Daisy BarrinoMONROE

Daisy Barrino, 78, died Friday (Oct. 23, 2009) at the Brian Center.

Memorial service will be 3 p.m. Wednesday at Grier Funeral Service.

Born April 15, 1931, in Union County, she was a daughter of the late Wil-lie and Daisy Jackson.

Survivors include one son, Charles Vinson of Mon-roe; one daughter, Chris-tine Vinson of Monroe; 10 grandchildren; and a host of great-grandchildren.

Richard BoylesINDIAN TRAIL

Richard Eugene Boyles, 61, died Sunday (Oct. 25, 2009) at Presbyterian Hos-pital in Charlotte.

Arrangements will be announced by Good Shep-herd Funeral Home.

Lawson CrispJEFFERSON, S.C. —

Lawson Plyler Crisp, in-

fant, died Thursday (Oct. 22, 2009).

Graveside service was Sunday at High Point Baptist Church in Pageland, S.C.

Survivors include his parents, Richard and Casey Crisp of Jefferson; and grandparents, Steven and Becky Crisp of Jeffer-son and Curtis and Cyn-thia Laney of Monroe.

Memorials may be made to CMC-Levine Cen-ter, 200 S. Tryon St. Suite 1400, Charlotte, NC 28202.

Sutton-Baumgartner Funeral Home of Page-land is in charge.

Cristy DrakeTROUTMAN — Cris-

tina Rae “Cristy” Drake, 29, died Sunday (Oct. 25, 2009) at home.

Arrangements will be announced by Good Shep-herd Funeral Home of In-dian Trail.

Rosemary MartinMONROE

Rosemary Martin, 62,

died Saturday (Oct. 24, 2009) at home.

Funeral will be 11 a.m. today at Good Shepherd Funeral Home of Indian Trail, with buril in Sun-set Memory Gardens in Charlotte.

Born Dec. 6, 1946, in Atlanta, she was self-em-ployed with a home day care.

Survivors include her husband, Vann Martin; two sons, Michael Martin, Randy Martin; one broth-er, Ben Johnson; one sis-ter, Katherine Harris; and one granddaughter.

Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. today at the funeral home.

Memorials may be made to SCOA Cares Founda-tion, P.O. Box 2046, West Columbia, SC 29171.

Online condolences may be left at www.good-shepherdfuneralhome.net.

Chandler PressleyMARSHVILLE

Chandler Bryce Press-ley, infant, died Thursday (Oct. 22, 2009) at Presby-terian Hospital in Char-lotte.

Funeral will be noon Wednesday at Davis Fu-neral Home, with burial in Lakeland Memorial Park.

Survivors include his fa-ther, Timothy Pressley of Monroe; his mother, Sar-ah King of Marshville; pa-ternal grandparents, Rick and Debbie Pressley of Monroe; maternal grand-parents, Rick and Patricia King of Marshville; pater-nal great-grandparents, Ralph and Nancy Bivens of Marshville; and mater-nal great-grandparents, Viola Harrison of Wax-haw and Garnet King of Wadsworth, Ohio.

Evelyn ‘Gean’ Didow

CHAPEL HILL — Ev-elyn Eugenia Presson Didow of Chapel Hill passed away on Oct. 21, 2009, at Carolina Mead-ows. She was 89.

Affectionately known as “Mama Gee,” she was the unconditionally loving matriarch of her family, a role model, a source of great strength and a true delight.

Gean was born in Weaverville, N.C., Feb. 8, 1920, to Evelyn Weaver and Eugene Robert Pres-son. With her parents and younger brother Bill, she moved to Mon-roe, N.C., as a seventh-grader. She graduated from Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina (now UNC-Greensboro) and worked in the district of-fice of the Monroe City Schools.

She was an active member of Central Unit-ed Methodist Church in Monroe, where she sang in the choir. An excellent bridge player and loyal friend, she be-longed to an eight-mem-ber women’s bridge club that began during World War II and continued for 50 years.

In 1992, she retired and moved to Carolina Meadows in Chapel Hill, where she delighted her six grandchildren with Parcheesi and double Solitaire games, Easter egg hunts on the lawn, swims in the pool, choc-olate milkshakes at the Café and cheering on the Tar Heels. She became

a member of Univer-sity United Methodist Church in Chapel Hill.

She was married to Nicholas Michael Did-ow for 23 years until his death in 1969. Later in life, she was married to Tyndall Peacock Harris for five years until his death in 2001.

Gean is survived by her son Nick and daugh-ter-in-law Sherry Didow of Chapel Hill; daughter Linda and son-in-law Don Baucom of Chapel Hill; grandchildren Bri-an Baucom and wife Ka-tie of Los Angeles, Ca-lif., Katherine Didow of Cambridge, Mass., Jen-nifer Baucom of Char-lotte, N.C., Sarah Di-dow of Charleston, S.C., Anna Baucom of Chapel Hill, and Michael Didow of Greenville, N.C.; and stepchildren Pom Har-ris Skinner, Maureen Harris Moore, Tyndall Peacock Harris Jr. and Georgia Harris Krueger, and their families.

She was cherished by all and lived a life of faith, courage and grace.

A celebration of Gean’s life will be held at University United Methodist Church in Chapel Hill, Friday, Oct. 30, at 2 p.m. Her ashes were interred in Mon-roe on Oct. 24.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests dona-tions to the Salvation Army, University Unit-ed Methodist Church in Chapel Hill, Cen-tral United Methodist Church in Monroe or a charity of your choice.

PAID OBITUARY

Cliff AdamsWINGATE

Clifford Zane Adams, 79, died Saturday (Oct. 24, 2009) at Carolinas Medical Center-Union in Monroe.

Memorial service will be 2 p.m. Thurs-day at Wingate Baptist Church.

Born Dec. 3, 1929, in Elizabethtown, he was a son of the late John and Nina Virginia Johnson Adams and was mar-ried to the late Ramona Lee Outlaw Adams. He retired from Wingate University in 1995 after 35 years of service as a math professor. He was a longtime mem-ber of Wingate Baptist Church.

Survivors include one son, Tim Adams of Dallas, Texas; and one daughter, Karen Ad-ams of Kannapolis.

Visitation will be from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday at the church fellowship hall.

In lieu of flowers, me-morials may be made to the Children’s Home Society, P.O. Box 14608, Greensboro, NC 27415; The Children’s Fund, Carolinas HealthCare Foundation, 1221 E. Morehead St., Char-lotte, NC 28204.

PAID OBITUARY

Ollie HelmsMONROE

Mrs. Ollie Ann Bras-well Helms, age 89, of Monroe, passed away early Sunday morning (October 25, 2009) at Union County Hospice House # 2 in Monroe. Mrs. Helms was born July 16, 1920 in Anson County, N.C., a daugh-ter of the late Mr. Jo-seph Henry Braswell and the late Mrs. Eliza-beth Ann Kiker Bras-well. She was also pre-ceded in death by her husband, Mr. James Thomas Helms, on May 26, 1997, and (3) sons, Donald, Larry Wayne and infant boy Helms.

Survivors include, (two) sons, Thomas Helms of Waxhaw, N.C., and Joe Helms of Charlotte, N.C.; (3) daughters, Delores Dulin of Mint Hill, N.C., Mary Edwards of Monroe, N.C., and Geraldine Lefler of Charlotte, N.C.; (13) grandchildren and (15) great-grandchildren and (11) great-great-grandchildren; and one daughter-in-law, Nancy Polin Helms of Monroe.

The family will receive friends and relatives for visitation Tuesday afternoon (Oc-tober 27, 2009) at McE-wen Funeral Home in Monroe, from 12:30 p.m. until 2:00 p.m.

Funeral services will then be held at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday afternoon (Oc-tober 27, 2009) in the McEwen Colonial Cha-pel, conducted by the Rev. Robert Taylor with burial to follow in the Hopewell United Meth-odist Church Cemetery, 1715 Hopewell Church Road, Peachland, NC 28133.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you make memorials to Hospice of Union County, 700 West Roosevelt Blvd., Mon-roe, NC 28110.

McEwen Funeral Home of Monroe is serving the family of Mrs. Helms.

PAID OBITUARY

Charles Walsh Jr.MONROE

Charles Edward Walsh Jr., 57, of Mon-roe, North Carolina, died in Fort Worth, Texas, en route to Lawton, Oklahoma, on October 14, 2009.

Charles was born in Monroe on March 14, 1952, son of the late Charles E. Walsh Sr. and Rosemary Bliss. He was preceded in death by his wife, Peg-gy Stevens Walsh, his sisters Doreen and Bridget.

Survivors include his brother, Richard Lee Walsh of Princeton, N.C.; his beloved chil-dren, Lorraine Nicole Walsh of Lawton, Okla., Kristine Renee Nichols of Loganville, Ga., Ed-ward Dean Walsh and Payton Orion Peale of Oxford, Ga.; 13 grand-children; and nieces and nephews.

A graveside memo-rial service is planned for Tuesday, October 27, 2009, at 4:00 p.m. at Waxhaw City Cem-etery, Waxhaw, N.C.

McEwen Funeral and Cremation Ser-vice of Monroe is serving the family of Mr. Walsh.

PAID OBITUARY

DEATHS

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MARVINMarvin residents have

a chance to hear from mayor and Town Council candidates on Wednes-day.

The Marvin Ridge High School PTSO will host the town’s first candidate forum in the school auditorium.

Incumbent John Cia-ramella and Joseph Bar-bara are vying for mayor. Five others — Ron Sali-mao, Anthony Burman, Vicki Lawton, Robert Epps and Richard Keagy — hope to win one of two seats on the council.

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race.Marvin Ridge debate

students will also be on hand to help set up.

PTSO President Sar-ah Walker is gathering questions to ask the can-didates. She expects to hear discussion on the town’s land use plan, parks and recreation, commercial develop-ment and voluntary and involuntary annexation.

Attendees are also encouraged to ask ques-tions, to be presented by a moderator.

The forum will begin at 7 p.m.

— Staff Writer Tiffany Lane

Marvin candidateforum Wednesday

MINERAL SPRINGSMineral Springs resi-

dents who want to learn more about setting up a community watch pro-gram can do so at 7 p.m. today at Town Hall.

Councilwoman Peggy Neill and a represen-tative from the Union County Sheriff ’s Office will field questions from residents during the community crime watch program meeting. Neill said she expects Sheriff Eddie Cathey to be there as well.

“We’re trying to give them the information that’s available,” town clerk Vicky Brooks said. “This isn’t a program through the town. It’s in-formational.”

Neill recently said she was “completely shocked and concerned” when she learned from a Sheriff ’s Office report that the total number of residential and commer-cial burglaries during an eight-month period in 2009 is five times higher than a comparable pe-riod in 2008.

Brooks said the meet-ing tonight might last about two hours, depend-ing on how many people show up.

“This is the first time we have ever reached out to the community on something list large of scale,” Neill said. “I hope we have a good turnout.”

— Staff Writer Elisa-beth Arriero

Mineral Springscommunity watchmeeting tonight

EdwardsContinued from Page 1A

District Attorney John Snyder said he in-tended to move forward and said he wanted to start the trial as early as Jan. 5.

“Well, not guilty would be the answer to the question,” Culler said.

Culler told Lee that he has another murder trial likely to begin in late November in Anson County and would not have time to prepare to defend Edwards.

Lee scheduled the trial for Jan. 19, but told Culler it was a tentative scheduling.

Two rows of people sat behind Edwards. When the court proceed-ings ended, Edwards turned and raised his arms toward them. One man raised his arms back at Edwards. The people in the group did not identify themselves and met with Culler in the hall after Edwards was taken away.

Culler and the group declined any further comment. Snyder also declined further com-ment.

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COMING EVENTS(Editor’s note: To list the event of

your nonprofit civic, social or govern-mental organization, call 704-261-2252.)

Today• COA UNION SE-

NIORS PROGRAM, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., Wingate Methodist Church. Flu clinic.

• COA UNION SE-NIORS PROGRAM, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., Emman-uel Baptist Church. Flu clinic.

• THE MOMS CLUB, Moms Offering Moms Support, Indian Trail and Monroe, 10 a.m., Hank’s Frozen Custard, 5250 Old Charlotte Highway. De-tails, Kim, 704-340-3281; or e-mail [email protected].

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

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

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

• BASIC SPANISH, 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., must be member of Ellen Fitzger-ald Senior Center and age 55 or over. Ellen Fitzger-ald Senior Center, 327 S. Hayne St. Details, 704-282-4657.

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

• SENIOR APPRECIA-TION DAY, 11 a.m. to 1

p.m., Union County Agri-cultural Services Center. Reservations required; call 704-283-3785 for infor-mation.

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

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

• LUNCH BUNCH, noon, Monroe Library. Topic, “Lunch at the Pic-cadilly” by Clyde Edger-ton. Details, 704-283-8184, ext. 241.

• AARP (AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RE-TIRED PERSONS), 2 p.m., Ellen Fitzgerald Se-nior Center, 327 S. Hayne St., Monroe.

• MICROSOFT EXCEL I CLASS, 3 p.m., Union West Library. Free. Regis-tration required; call 704-821-7475.

• 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 EXCEL II CLASS, 5 p.m., Union West Library. Free. Regis-tration required; call 704-821-7475.

• 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, 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.

• LAKE PARK CUB SCOUT PACK, 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Faith United Methodist Church. For details call, 704-882-7533.

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

• MONROE JAYCEES, 6:30 p.m. social, 6:55 p.m. meeting, Oasis Restau-rant, 116 S. Main St. New members welcome. De-tails, Mike McGinnis at 980-328-8702.

• OVERCOMERS OUT-REACH, 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 sev-enth month of pregnancy. For details, call 704-283-3254.

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

• THE ARC OF UNION COUNTY, board meeting, 7 p.m., first-floor confer-ence room, United Way building, 102 E. Franklin St. Details, call 704-226-5110.

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

• SWEET UNION RE-PUBLICAN WOMEN’S CLUB, 7 p.m. meeting, Waxhaw Women’s Club,

200 E. South Main St., Waxhaw. Speaker, Dan Starks. All Republicans welcome. Details, Debo-rah Barton, 704-839-3768.

• CANCER SUPPORT GROUP, 7:30 p.m., St. Er-nest Catholic Church, Ev-ans Mill Road, Pageland, S.C. For details, call Pat, 803-672-2037.

Wednesday• MONROE-UNION

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

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

• EXERCISE CLASS, 9:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m., El-len Fitzgerald Center.

• STORY TIME, 10 a.m., 11 a.m., Waxhaw Library, 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.

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

• BASIC COMPUTER SKILLS CLASS, 10 a.m., Monroe Library. Free. Registration required; call 704-283-8184.

• TODDLER TIME, 10:30 a.m., 11 a.m., Union West Regional Library. 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 Region-al Library, for children

ages 3 to 5.• TURNING POINT

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

• UNION WEST AN-IME CLUB, 4:45 p.m. to 6:45 p.m., Union West Library. Details, 704-821-7475.

• 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.

• MARINE CORPS LEAGUE DETACH-MENT 914, 7 p.m., Quin-cys restaurant. Details, call Bob Griffn, 704-764-3677.

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

• 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. Details, 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 Street, Waxhaw. For information, call Jerry Simpson, 704-363-2173.

• 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.

• SENIOR CITIZENS CANASTA, 12:30 p.m., El-len Fitzgerald Center. For information, call Ellen Fitzgerald Senior Center at 704-282-4657.

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CHAPEL HILL — The eyes of the world were on North Carolina’s Outer Banks as Wilbur and Orville Wright demonstrated that they had mastered the challenge of controlled powered flight.

The year was…1903?Wrong answer.Although the Wright Broth-

ers and a few Outer Bankers had seen the Wright Brothers’ “First Flight,” most of the rest of the world put the stories of the Wright’s 1903 success-ful flights in the category of scores of other unproven claims that man had flown.

So, what is the cor-rect answer?

According to East Carolina University history profes-sor Larry Tise, the year that most of the world came to believe the Wrights could really fly was 1908. Tise’s new book, “Conquering the Sky: The Secret Flights of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk,” explains why public recognition of the Wrights’ achievements came in 1908 and why it took so long.

According to Tise, fame came very suddenly to the Wrights in 1908. Ironically, they became celebrities at the very moment they were doing their best to work in secret. In the spring of 1908 the Wrights came back to Kill Devil Hills to test and adjust their airplane in preparation for demon-strating to the U.S. Army the machine’s capabilities. Their contract with the Army pro-vided that they would only be paid if the plane could carry

a passenger, reach a speed of 40 miles per hour, and travel 125 miles. Similar demonstra-tions were planned in Europe.

The Wrights had long shunned publicity. They did not want anyone taking pictures of their airplane or learning how they controlled their machine in the air. They were worried that someone would steal their ideas, plans, and invention and claim credit for the breakthroughs the Wrights had achieved. The Wrights wanted recognition and the wealth that would come to anyone who could gain patent or other legal protec-tion for “secret” knowledge that made flight possible.

In 1903, the remoteness of the Kill Devil Hills had made it possible for the Wrights to work without attention. But things had changed by 1908. The presence nearby of an active telegraph station had made possible instant commu-nication with the rest of the world. Also, the use of newly available gasoline engines to power small boats had made it much simpler for visitors, including newspaper report-ers, to reach the Wrights’ camp

and temporary workshops.Not long after the Wrights

arrived in April 1908, word slipped out that they were planning new flights. By the time they began flying in early May, reporters and locals were in position to telegraph reports to distant newspapers. Many of the reports were based on rumors and were wildly exaggerated. But they made they front pages of the New York and European papers. The Wrights were suddenly famous.

On May 14, from a secluded area, a group of reporters observed the Wrights success-fully complete two flights with a passenger aboard and then a longer (5-mile) flight. Al-though the longer flight ended in a crash, the eyewitness reports and a new photograph of the plane in flight proved to the world that the Wrights’ accomplishments were real.

Later, an article in Collier’s magazine described the experi-ence of the reporters who had hidden all day in the sandy woods “along with the flies and busy ‘chiggers’ until there was just time to tramp back and catch the chug-chug home. Then, bedraggled and very sunburned, they tramped up to the little weather bureau and informed the world, waiting on the other side of various sounds and continents and oceans, that it was all right, the rumors true, and there was no doubt that a man could fly.”

Tice’s smooth, clear writ-ing and his storytelling talents made “Conquering the Sky” a special pleasure.

I confess: While I was on my hands and knees, scrubbing stains out of my stupid beige carpet, I won-dered whether it’s time.

I was ready for that ques-tion last Christmas.

No. Not ready. But resigned. Beau, my giant golden re-

triever/lab mix, was in terrible shape, unable to rise from the floor, dragging his back legs around, in pain and unable to support his own weight when he had to relieve himself.

I didn’t want it, but I really thought it might be time to call the vet and carry Beau over there, one final time.

Does that seem coldblooded?As winter approaches

again, I have stared at the ceiling some nights, trying to figure out how I would manage his death at home.

There isn’t a coroner to call, no canine 911, and when one’s dog weighs almost 100 pounds, there are practical considerations. How would I move his body? Could I bury him? Is that even legal? I know I can find the answers. I’m not sure I care to look.

I know I am not sentimental enough to want his ashes when he dies, just his picture and my memories of a very good dog. Nor do I see any great virtue

in going deeply into debt for hip replacements, kidney repair, or tooth brushing.

And yet, I am sentimental in my way. The beige carpet — so impractical for a dog lover — covers hardwood floors. It would have been a thing of the past, but for Beau’s bad hips. The carpet helps him grip, gives him traction to stand up. He never walks through the kitchen; the linoleum is too slick.

To help him out, I’ve added bath mats in front of his food bowl and in a short path from my carpeted bed-room to the back door.

It looks like hell, but my dog can live in my house.

In some ways, the fast decline last winter, so rapid that it frightened me into tears on Christmas Day, was a gift. He was in actual pain, unmanageable pain, and my growing conviction had

nothing to do with my conve-nience and everything to do with what was best for Beau. It would have been hard but, in some ways, so very simple.

I am not generally known for being noble. Pragmatic, maybe.

I was not noble during a particularly awful week in May, when I woke up to find my carpet stained, despite the three times I let Beau out in the night, every night.

Not that day, when I scrubbed the carpet before I had my coffee, gagging from the smell and calling my vet. (“Ulcers,” they said. “Keep giving him the medication.”)

Not the day when he chewed open the sutures on a foot that had already cost me more than $700 in surgical bills.

Not when he bled all over the carpet ... again.

That day I smoldered while I scrubbed the carpet again, just eight hours after the first round. Then, after I dressed his foot and contemplated the coming vet bills, I looked at him and said, “Buddy, I have about had it with you,” and he lowered his tail and head.

In the middle of all of this, my ex-husband called. Shawn adopted Beau long before I met either of them, when the Big Yellow Dog

was just 6 months old. “Remind me again why

I love this stupid freak-ing dog,” I said.

I glared at that noisy, acci-dent-prone, smelly old thing. As usual, he was looking at me, and his eyes were the same sweet, melting brown that they’ve always been, serene and curious. I felt guilty ... and frustrated.

The practical consider-ations nagged at me — the limits of my budget and my patience and my ability to keep him safe and healthy.

And every dog loves his

person this much. They’re just built that way. It isn’t love, re-ally. It’s pack instinct. Right?

But. But this is not every dog. He’s mine, and he’s been stubbornly, hilariously, misanthropically present through some of the hard-est parts of my adult life.

Does it matter whether he knew it? Does it change what I think I owe him?

Or does it matter more that he follows me around the house like a giant golden shadow, collapsing next to my chair while I read or type, flat and panting and, yes, smelly. How the devil do people decide when it’s time to let go of a beloved pet?

“Well,” Shawn said cautious-ly, “he sits still and hangs out with you. He’s good company. And ... and he loves you.”

I looked at Beau, and at the empty can of carpet cleaner, and at the pile of filthy rags, and at the picture of him that I took four years ago when he was swimming in the Ocoee River, golden and happy and old even then.

“Damn it,” I said. “You’re right.”

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

How do you know when it’s time to let go of pet?

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“But this is not every dog. He’s mine and he’s been stubbornly, hilari-ously, misanthropically present through some of the hardest parts of my adult life. Does it matter whether he knew it? Does it change what I think I owe him?”

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The prospect of the federal government punish-ing Grandma and Grandpa is repugnant — so po-litically unpalatable, in fact, that President Barack

Obama is urging Congress to send every Social Security recipient $250 to make up for this year’s lack of a cost-of-living adjustment in their retirement checks.

But the perception that no COLA is punishing or de-priving seniors is inaccurate. When the measurable cost of living actually goes down, how do you justify a COLA boost?

The recession still imposes brutal costs on workers and their families. Taxpayers have taken on well over $1 tril-lion in debt to bail out financial institutions and stimu-late the economy. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan still cost the Treasury billions each month. If the federal govern-ment can’t justify a modest cost-of-living boost for Social Security recipients, neither can it afford the estimated $13 billion price tag for a one-time payment. ...

Social Security COLAs have come to seem automatic since 1975. Last year the boost was a hefty 5.8 percent, driven by increases in energy costs. Since 2005, there have been 15.9 percent worth of COLA hikes. And don’t forget: This year’s economic stimulus package included $250 checks for each Social Security recipient.

The Consumer Price Index that measures inflation actu-ally decreased this year, along with gas and energy prices. Without inflation, there is no rationale for a COLA. And if a COLA is not warranted, neither is a one-time pay-ment. ...

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COLA increaseor paymentnot justified

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Health care legislation heading for the Senate floor will give millions of Americans the option of purchasing government-run insurance coverage, Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Monday, although he stopped short of claiming the 60 votes needed to pass a plan steeped in controversy.

Reid, D-Nev., said indi-vidual states would have the choice of opting out of the program.

His announcement was cheered by liberal law-makers, greeted less effu-sively by the White House and noted with a noncom-mittal response by Demo-cratic moderates whose votes will be pivotal.

Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, the only Re-publican to vote with Democrats on health care so far this year, issued a statement saying she was “deeply disappointed” in the approach the Demo-cratic leader had chosen.

Reid said, “While the public option is not a sil-ver bullet, I believe it’s an important way to en-sure competition and to

level the playing field for patients with the insur-ance industry.” He said a long-delayed Senate de-bate on President Barack Obama’s call for an over-haul of the health care system would begin as soon as the Congressional Budget Office completes a mandatory assessment of the bill’s cost and impact on coverage.

Changes on the public option — and numerous other provisions in the measure — are possible during a debate expected to last for weeks.

And officials said Reid had prepared several variations of key provi-sions so he could make adjustments in his bill at the last minute and still make sure he was within Obama’s target of a $900 billion price tag over a decade.

Both the House and Senate are struggling to complete work by year’s end on legislation extend-ing coverage to millions who lack it, to ban insur-ance industry practices such as denying coverage because of pre-existing medical conditions and to

slow the rise in medical costs nationally.

As in the Senate, at-tempts to complete draft-ing a measure in the House have been delayed by internal Democratic divisions on the details of a government-run op-tion. Differences in bills passed by the House and Senate would have to be reconciled before any leg-islation reached Obama’s desk.

In an appearance at a Florida senior center during the day, Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested a new name for the same approach to ease the op-position. She suggested “the consumer option.” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., appear-ing at Pelosi’s side, used the term “competitive op-tion.”

Critics say that by any name, the approach amounts to a government takeover of the insurance industry.

In deference to moder-ates, Reid also said he was including a provision for nonprofit co-ops to sell insurance in competition with private companies.

Senate Democratic of-ficials say the bill Reid envisions would require most individuals to pur-chase insurance, with ex-emptions for those unable to find affordable cover-age. Large businesses would not be required to provide insurance to their workers, but would face penalties of as much as $750 per employee if any qualified for federal subsidies to afford cover-age on their own.

The bill will also include a tax on high-cost insur-ance policies, despite op-position from organized labor, officials said. In a gesture to critics of the plan, Reid decided to ap-ply the new tax to family plans with total premi-ums of at least $23,000 a year. The Senate Finance Committee approved a tax beginning at $21,000 in total premiums.

Nominally, the major-ity leader has spent the past two weeks melding bills passed earlier by the Senate’s Finance Com-mittee and Health, Educa-tion, Labor and Pensions Committee. But in real-ity, he has had a virtual

free hand to craft a new measure in consultations with senior members of the two panels and top White House aides.

“I feel good about the consensus that was reached within our cau-cus and with the White House,” he said at his news conference. And we’re all optimistic about reform because of the un-precedented momentum that now exists.”

Within minutes, the White House released a statement saying Obama was “pleased that the Sen-ate has decided to include a public option for health coverage, in this case with an allowance for states to opt out.”

Obama has long voiced support for such a plan but has also signaled it is not a requirement for a health care bill he would sign. He has also said he would like bipartisan sup-port for the legislation — and Snowe appears to be his last, best hope for that.

She favors a standby provision for government coverage if there is not enough competition in

the private marketplace. Reid said that was not in his bill. “We hope that Olympia will come back. ... She’s a very good leg-islator. I’m disappointed that the one issue, the public option, has been something that’s fright-ened her.”

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who has long backed a government-run insur-ance option, said the ap-proach “has a new life be-cause as Americans have learned more about it, they have come to see it is the best way to reduce costs and increase compe-tition in the health insur-ance industry.”

Ben Nelson of Nebras-ka, the most conservative Democrat in the Senate, “is not committing how we will vote regarding any proposal Senator Reid is advancing,” said spokesman Jake Thomp-son.

Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., a moderate seek-ing a new term in 2010, said through a spokesman she intends to study the details and decide how to vote based on the impact on her home state.

Senate health bill will embrace ‘public option’

WASHINGTON (AP) — Have you heard that the world is now cool-ing instead of warming? You may have seen some news reports on the In-ternet or heard about it from a provocative new book.

Only one problem: It’s not true, according to several independent stat-isticians who analyzed temperature data for The Associated Press.

The case that the Earth might be cooling partly stems from recent weath-er. Last year was cooler than previous years. It’s been a while since the super-hot years of 1998 and 2005. So is this a lon-ger climate trend or just weather’s normal ups and downs?

In a blind test, the AP gave temperature data to four independent statis-ticians and asked them to look for trends, with-out telling them what the numbers represent-ed. The experts found no true temperature de-clines over time.

“If you look at the data and sort of cherry-pick

a micro-trend within a bigger trend, that tech-nique is particularly sus-pect,” said John Grego, a professor of statistics at the University of South Carolina.

Yet the idea that things are cooling has been repeated in opinion col-umns, a BBC news story posted on the Drudge Re-port and in a new book by the authors of the best-seller “Freakonom-ics.” Last week, a poll by the Pew Research Center found that only 57 per-cent of Americans now believe there is strong scientific evidence for global warming, down from 77 percent in 2006.

Global warming skep-tics base their claims on an unusually hot year in 1998. Since then, they say, temperatures have dropped — thus, a cool-ing trend. But it’s not that simple.

Since 1998, tempera-tures have dipped, soared, fallen again and are now rising once more. Records kept by the British meteorologi-cal office and satellite

data used by climate skeptics still show 1998 as the hottest year. How-ever, data from the Na-tional Oceanic and Atmo-spheric Administration and NASA show 2005 has topped 1998. Published peer-reviewed scientific research generally cites temperatures measured by ground sensors, which are from NOAA, NASA and the British, more than the satellite data.

The recent Internet chatter about cooling led NOAA’s climate data center to re-examine its temperature data. It found no cooling trend.

“The last 10 years are the warmest 10-year period of the modern record,” said NOAA cli-mate monitoring chief Deke Arndt. “Even if you analyze the trend during that 10 years, the trend is actually positive, which means warming.”

The AP sent expert statisticians NOAA’s year-to-year ground tem-perature changes over 130 years and the 30 years of satellite-measured

temperatures preferred by skeptics and gathered by scientists at the Uni-versity of Alabama in Huntsville.

Statisticians who ana-lyzed the data found a distinct decades-long up-ward trend in the num-bers, but could not find a significant drop in the past 10 years in either data set. The ups and downs during the last decade repeat random variability in data as far back as 1880.

Saying there’s a down-ward trend since 1998 is not scientifically le-gitimate, said David Pe-terson, a retired Duke University statistics pro-fessor and one of those analyzing the numbers.

Identifying a down-ward trend is a case of “people coming at the data with preconceived notions,” said Peterson, author of the book “Why Did They Do That? An Introduction to Forensic Decision Analysis.”

One prominent skeptic said that to find the cool-ing trend, the 30 years of satellite temperatures

must be used. The satel-lite data tends to be cool-er than the ground data. And key is making sure 1998 is part of the trend, he added.

It’s what happens within the past 10 years or so, not the overall av-erage, that counts, con-tends Don Easterbrook, a Western Washington University geology pro-fessor and global warm-ing skeptic.

“I don’t argue with you that the 10-year average for the past 10 years is higher than the previ-ous 10 years,” said East-erbrook, who has self-published some of his research. “We started the cooling trend after 1998. You’re going to get a different line depend-

ing on which year you choose.

“Should not the actual temperature be higher now than it was in 1998?” Easterbrook asked. “We can play the numbers games.”

That’s the problem, some of the statisticians said.

Grego produced three charts to show how choosing a starting date can alter perceptions. Using the skeptics’ sat-ellite data beginning in 1998, there is a “mild downward trend,” he said. But doing that is “deceptive.”

The trend disappears if the analysis starts in 1997. And it trends upward if you begin in 1999, he said.

Independent statisticians reject idea of global cooling

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WaxhawContinued from Page 1A

“I don’t feel like it is rea-sonable or consistent with the area,” Commissioner Martin Lane said during the public hearing.

The town has a history of conflict between de-velopment and heritage: In 2006, the town entered into an exhaustive series of hearings before re-jecting efforts to build a Walmart Supercenter in town.

Early voting began Oct. 15, and Election Day is Nov. 3.

Below are candidate responses to a few ques-tions. Candidate Ken Col-lins did not respond to three phone messages left since Friday.

Joyce BlytheIncumbentAge: 68

Waxhaw resident: 61 years

Occupations/other positions: Retired rural mail carrier from Wax-haw

Why running: “I’ve en-joyed my first four years, and I’d like to continue to run to continue on with things we’re doing like small town Mainstreet U.S.A. program that is a two-year program that promises to be pretty ex-citing. I’m interested in the downtown historic district. I would like to see it promoted more.”

Top issue facing Wax-haw: “Balancing the old with the new. Economic growth and development is a challenge to Waxhaw. And working to keep our tax base as low as possible.

Campaign funding: Personal contributions

Brett Diller Newcomer

Age: 41Waxhaw resident: 17

yearsOccupations/other

positions: Insurance agent in Waxhaw

Why running: “I’m running for the reason of being involved in the com-munity. My wife and I are both involved citizens. We live in the historic district and we’ve seen a lot of changes over the years — some good, some bad. We have two children we’re raising, and we want to see the town quality of life is sustained.”

Top issue facing Wax-

haw: “Sustainable and quality growth.”

Campaign funding: Personal and friend con-tributions

Erin Kirkpatrick NewcomerAge: 34Waxhaw resident: Six


positions: Health care of-fice manager

Why running: “I love Waxhaw. That’s the easi-est reason to tell you. A lot of it has to do with growth and making sure we have the right plan in place.

I’m also from the school of thought that people should be giving back to their community.”

Top issue facing Waxhaw: “Growth and economic vitality. ... I don’t think they’re dif-ferent. I think it’s one in the same. The growth is still there, obviously in a moratorium. We have to grow in the right way. Not stop growth but grow in the right way. And that needs to stimulate our economy. We have to make sure the aspects we want in Waxhaw don’t go away. People who

have moved to Waxhaw recently, who were born and raised there, we all agree there’s a charm and intimacy to Waxhaw that we need to maintain. That’s a major challenge: to grow in a way that doesn’t choke that out.”

Campaign funding: Personal contributions, some friend contribu-tions.

Max Walker IncumbentAge: 71Waxhaw resident: 33


positions: Retired from Sears Roebuck Co.

Why running: “To serve the town.”

Top issue facing Wax-haw: “Growth. Water and sewage is an issue. Those are probably the two main things.”

Campaign funding: Personal contributions

Brett Diller wants ‘sustainable and quality growth.’

Joyce Blythe wants to see the down-town historic district pro-moted more.

Max Walker sees growth and water and sewage as major issues.

StallingsContinued from Page 1A

Councilwoman Barba-ra Anne Price was not in favor of helmets, either, saying the town should not put so many regula-tions on residents. Price did agree with requiring drivers to have valid driv-er’s licenses and comply with license restrictions.

Residents use their carts for various reasons, from driving to the pool to visiting neighbors, al-though they have recently put a hold on driving them

until the Town Council decides whether to pass an ordinance. Town staff said an ordinance is nec-essary to make it legal.

Burke plays golf once a week and uses a golf cart to take his golf clubs back home or drive his children to the playground. Burke, along with a couple of other residents, said his golf cart was legal at his prior residence and still wants to use it.

Monique Werner, an-other Emerald Lake resi-dent, uses a golf cart to drive her children to and from the bus stop. Tracy

Hord said hers came in handy during last year’s gas crisis, and one man uses his to take his chil-dren trick-or-treating.

Neighbor Teresa McCa-rthy added that the cars in her neighborhood respect the cart drivers and drive safely around them.

At the same time, Town Manager Brian Mat-thews said, “We have a responsibility to protect everyone,” and golf cart owners make up a small percentage of the total population. Matthews suggested that residents still register their carts

and carry proof of insur-ance on them.

Based on a show of hands, most residents present already have in-surance on their carts.

Because carts do not have identification num-bers on them, Burke said, they can be difficult to register. Dunn opposed registration, either, but Police Chief Larke Plyler said registration would make it easier to keep track of legal carts and their drivers. It wouldn’t be that much work for the Police Department, he added, suggesting that of-

ficers can work with resi-dents to issue registration stickers at their homes.

Dunn also suggested that carts with no lights not be driven at night. Carts owned by the golf courses do not have lights because the courses are open only during the day.

“To say no to this or-dinance, to me, seems backwards,” Werner said, adding that golf carts are intended for recreational use and should not be regulated as stringently as motor vehicles. “It doesn’t make sense not to pass this.”

Werner and her fel-low residents engaged in friendly discussion with council members throughout the meeting.

If approved, the ordi-nance would allow golf carts on roads that have a 25 mph or less speed limit.

The town will have a public hearing next month — tentatively Nov. 9 — for further discus-sion. A public hearing must be held and a writ-ten ordinance drafted be-fore council members can vote to approve or deny an ordinance.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hoping to schedule your baby’s birth while your mother’s in town, or before the doctor goes on vacation? Labor is becoming less of a late-night surprise, but some hospitals are starting to tighten the rules for elec-tive deliveries — because some babies are being de-livered too early.

More hospitals are ex-pected to crack down as regulators begin new quality measurements next spring that aim to reduce too-early elective inductions and first-time cesareans.

Induced labor is on the rise for lots of reasons, some medical and some not. But recent research shows a troubling link be-tween elective inductions and these so-called “late preemies.” These aren’t the dire too-small babies

that the word premature conjures, but near-term babies who nonethe-less are at higher risk of breathing disorders and other problems than ba-bies who finish their very last weeks in the womb.

“It was an ‘aha’ mo-ment for me,” recalls Dr. Bryan Oshiro of his visit to a Utah intensive care nursery several years ago, where neonatologists pointed to babies there simply because they’d been induced too soon.

National guidelines from the American Col-lege of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have long discouraged elec-tive deliveries before the 39th week of pregnancy. But some hospitals that took a close look were surprised. At Utah’s In-termountain Healthcare, for example, 28 percent of elective deliveries were

breaking ACOG’s rule in 2001, Oshiro told a March of Dimes meeting on pre-ventable prematurity this month.

Most were being in-duced in week 37, such a small difference that lo-cal obstetricians argued it wasn’t a problem. So Oshiro pulled the medical charts and found those near-term babies had more than double the risk of ending up in neonatal ICU, suffering respiratory distress, even needing a ventilator.

It took several years of policing: Inductions now are allowed only af-ter meeting a checklist of requirements. But today, only about 3 percent of Intermountain’s elective deliveries occur before 39 weeks — and infant hospi-talizations have dropped, saving money, too, says Oshiro, now a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Loma Linda University in California. He’s about to pilot a similar program at hospitals in that area.

“If there’s no need to intervene, please don’t in-tervene,” is Oshiro’s mes-sage.

Labor is induced in more than one in five births, double the rate in 1990, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Many cases are for clear health reasons, such as a problem with the fetus or a sick mom or a preg-nancy that has dragged well beyond the woman’s due date.

There’s little data on how many are elective. But a Hospital Corpora-tion of America study of nearly 18,000 births at 27 of its hospitals around the country suggests 10 percent of all births are performed electively be-fore the 39-week mark. (That date is considered the point at which doctors can be sure a pregnancy has reached full-term, typically defined as 40 weeks give or take about a week.)

There are many rea-

sons to perform an elec-tive induction, such as if mom lives two hours from a hospital, notes Dr. John Fisch of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Magee-Women’s Hospital.

Patient and doctor pref-erence helped drive the rise in inductions, such as women timing grand-ma’s arrival to take care of the siblings, or mini-mizing 3 a.m. deliveries. Then there’s defensive medicine, where doctors worried about litigation induce for minor reasons like a slight uptick of the mother’s blood pressure.

So Pittsburgh also had “a little bit of a hard sell” after discovering nearly 12 percent of elective de-liveries broke the 39-week rule in 2004, Fisch says. “It was perceived to be a safe and effective way in delivering a baby — and it is, as long as it meets certain criteria.”

After Magee began strict enforcement — re-quiring that a mother’s

cervix be nearly ready for natural labor, and limit-ing the beds available for elective inductions — too-early inductions dropped to 4 percent by 2007 and are “effectively zero” today, Fisch says. Over-all, elective inductions dropped 30 percent.

More hospitals are ex-pected to start enforcing those criteria this spring, when the Joint Commis-sion that regulates health quality will require hos-pitals to report all elective deliveries and the gesta-tional age to its public database, providing peer pressure for improve-ment. Hospitals also will have to report cesareans for first-time mothers, too often a result of a failed induction.

“That’s not a good out-come for the baby or the mom,” says Joint Com-mission President Dr. Mark Chassin. “We be-lieve this will be a very important driver of im-provement in perinatal care.”

Hospitals cracking down on early induced labor

WASHINGTON (AP) — Not sleeping, the pilots say. They were engrossed in a complicated new crew-scheduling program on their laptop computers as their plane flew past its Minneapolis landing by 150 miles — a cockpit violation of airline policy that could cost them their licenses.

They were so focused on the scheduling — quite a complicated matter for the pilots after Delta Air Lines acquired Northwest Airlines a year ago — that

they were out of com-munication with air traf-fic controllers and their airline for more than an hour. They didn’t realize their mistake until con-tacted by a flight atten-dant about five minutes before the flight’s sched-uled landing last Wednes-day night, the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday.

By then, Northwest Flight 188 with its 144 passengers and five crew members was over Wis-consin, at 37,000 feet.

The pilots — Richard Cole of Salem, Ore., the first officer, and Timo-thy Cheney of Gig Har-bor, Wash., the captain — denied they had fallen asleep as aviation experts have suggested, the safety board said in recounting investigators’ interviews with the men over the weekend.

Instead, Cole and Cheney said they both had their laptops out while the first officer, who had more experience with scheduling, instructed the

captain on monthly flight crew scheduling.

Authorities became so alarmed that National Guard jets were read-ied for takeoff at two locations and the White House Situation Room alerted senior officials, who monitored the air-liner as the Airbus A320 flew across a broad swath of the mid-continent out of contact with anyone on the ground.

“It’s inexcusable,” said former NTSB Chairman Jim Hall.

Wayward pilots say they were working on their laptops

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MARSHVILLESometimes, you think you’ve

seen them all. Of course, I’m talking about plants. Since my wife has always been a consis-tent gardener, as well as family and friends, I’ve been exposed to a lot of different flowers, veg-etables and fruits. I’ve seen what most of my Master Gardener friends grow in their gardens. With my bad back curtailing what I’d really like to do, I also read extensively on subjects to help fill the gaps. It takes it all to be up to date on the old as well as the new. That’s why sometimes I may think I’ve seen, heard, experienced or read about all types of plants. Then, out of the “blue,” we try something new to us (Nadine and I), and because of the way it performs, I’m speechless. Well, almost!

Back in the late spring, we stopped by Roots To Go Nursery in the Indian Trail area. We usually make a couple of visits each year just to see what’s new and interesting. What I like is that they propagate and grow all their own plants. They have some of the most interesting hanging baskets I’ve ever seen, year after year. They grow hun-dreds of poinsettias every fall for sale. Sometimes, I’ll see a plant I’m very familiar with but it’ll be a new variety or cultivar of that plant. For instance, several years ago, we purchased a couple of co-leus named ‘Glennis’ from Roots To Go. Now, we have to have several of this particular coleus

growing around our home. The texture and color of this sun-lov-ing coleus is one of my favorites.

During our spring visit, I asked about anything new that really stood out. The answer was Caryopteris ‘Longwood Blue’, whose common name is bluebeard. Every recom-mendation from Roots To Go has been on the money and this was no exception. I was informed that this was a special plant that produced many small blue flowers until frost.

If you’re a gardener who’s been digging in the dirt for years, you’ve noticed a steep decline in the honeybee popula-tion. I’ve written a couple of times about Colony Collapse Disorder, which is the latest and greatest threat to honey-bees. Beekeepers have noticed almost overnight that their hives contained not a single honeybee. For several years I’ve watched and admired a wild hive in my son’s front yard. Several years ago, lightning struck a large oak in his yard. The strike didn’t kill the tree but it did cause a portion

in the middle, which was several feet long, to die and rot. Appar-ently, this was a perfect spot for a new hive to live and grow. Any day except in the winter, you could watch the entrance to this hive and marvel at the constant activity. It reminded me of the busiest airport I’ve ever seen. Every few seconds several honeybees would land at the entrance with fresh pollen they had gathered. At the same time, the same number of honeybees were taking off on a new flight to gather more pollen. I was always amazed because this extremely busy activity went on every single time I stopped to look. Then suddenly this spring, not a single honeybee could be seen. Nor has one been seen since. This tree hasn’t been disturbed, but apparently the entire hive has vanished.

Just recently I read a small article that stated researchers believe they have found the cul-prits in this honeybee mystery. They are pointing the finger at two new insecticides on the mar-ket. I’ll give an update when I have more definite information.

So, why did I add the info on honeybees when I introduced the topic of Caryopteris ‘Long-wood Blue’? It’s because when I purchased this perennial, I was told it was a beacon for these fly-ing pollinators. Actually, that’s an understatement. For pure honeybee attracting power, Ze-bra mallow has stood out as our number one plant. That’s why

we have at least a dozen of these purple-flowered plants around our garden. This caryopteris is an even better magnet. It is totally different from the Zebra mallow in many ways. It is cov-ered with small blue flowers. It is also a compact plant, measuring about 2 feet tall and wide. The only caution is that the soil must be well drained. To be on the safe side, I planted it high with amended soil. Also, deer are not attracted to it. The only nega-tive is I should have purchased at least 3 plants. It’s that good!

I often say, the greatest plants in a garden are those that were given by friends and family. Also, as I stated earlier, an ex-perienced gardener sometimes can think they’ve seen it all. Then, you receive the gift of a plant that dispels that notion.

From time to time we talk to our friend Dora Funderburk and her sister Juanita Beaver. They are regular readers and frequently comment on my column. On a visit to Dora’s home and garden, we saw a multitude of heirloom and pass-along plants. I readily admit that there are many individuals in her generation who are master gardeners in their own right. They have a wealth of informa-tion concerning all types of plants, but especially heirloom plants. These are plants that have a history. I’m just afraid that there will be some plants whose history and perhaps even personal stories will be lost

to future gardeners one day.Growing in Dora Funder-

burk’s backyard among some very different roses was a plant I had never encountered. It was low growing, reaching maybe 16 inches tall but at least twice as wide. Its bright green leaves are about 3 inches long, being oval and pointed. That in itself isn’t unusual, but in summer it sends up thin stalks that contain large clusters of tiny pink flowers. Those flowers are followed by yellow pearl-like seedpods. Those floating yellow “jewels” change to a pink and then a burgundy red color. It looks as if small colored pearls are floating about the plant. It took me a year to determine this plant’s name. The botanical name is Talinum panicnlatum. The common name is Jewels-of-Opar. That is both a descriptive as well as an interesting name. After some research I found Jewels-of-Opar is a native of the Southern United States. It is another pass-along plant. That’s just another example of a truly interesting plant that would have never reached our garden and a special place in our life without the gift from a friend.

On my last trip to Golden Leaf Nursery, I found one specimen of this plant with variegated leaves. I hope to soon have some seedlings of both to share with others. You may have the greatest plant in the world, but if you keep it to yourself, it’ll only benefit you.

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EVANSTON, Ill. — Four Union County stu-dents are among 16,000 semifinalists nation-awide in the 2010 Na-tional Merit Scholarship Program.

These high school se-niors have an opportuni-ty to continue in the com-petition for some 8,200 National Merit Scholar-ships, worth more than

$36 million, that will

be offered in the spring.The four are Clare

Shaffer and Victoria D. Vest of Weddington High School, David Loberger of Union Academy and Marshall K. Winchester, a home-schooled student from Waxhaw.

Semifinalists must ful-fill several requirements to advance to the finalist level of the competition. About 90 percent of the

semifinalists are ex-pected to attain finalist standing, and approxi-mately half of the final-ists will win a National Merit Scholarship.

More than 1.5 million juniors in about 22,000 high schools entered the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2008 Pre-liminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Quali-

fying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool of semi-finalists, which repre-sents less than 1 per-cent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest scoring entrants in each state. The num-ber of semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of

graduating seniors.To become a finalist, a

semifinalist must have an outstanding academ-ic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by the high school principal, and earn SAT scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test. The semifinalist and a high school official must sub-

mit a detailed scholar-ship application, which includes the student’s essay and information about the semifinalist’s participation and leader-ship in school and com-munity activities.

National Merit Schol-arship winners of 2010 will be announced in four nationwide news re-leases beginning in April and concluding in July.

Four are National Merit semifinalists

Contributed photo

Sardis Elementary School’s media coordinator Lydia Lorenzo Adrian, at right, adjusts the laptop sound and camera angle so students in Indonesia can better hear and see the students at Sardis Elementary. James, the student pictured on the computer screen, is a former Sardis Elementary student now living in Indonesia.

INDIAN TRAILGlobalization is alive

and well at Sardis Ele-mentary School. On Oct. 14, the school’s second-graders had a conversa-tion with students in In-donesia.

Second-graders gath-ered in the school’s me-dia center Wednesday to Skype other students that are living in Indone-sia. Skype is a free Inter-net telephone and video service that allows one to contact anyone who is also on Skype anywhere in the world.

The Sardis second-graders sat in front of a Promethean Board (a modern day interactive computerized black-board) and talked to for-mer classmate James and his brother, Luke, who now live in Indone-sia with their family.

James and Luke, who attended Sardis last year, are the grandchildren of Sardis’ assistant princi-pal, Jane Pressley. James

was in Dee Cochran’s first-grade class and Luke was in Diana Selz-er’s preschool class.

Sardis principal Mar-garet Proctor and Press-ley were motivated to bring globalization to Sardis Elementary, us-ing the school’s available technology, after attend-ing the UCPS Summer Leadership Conference last August. They worked with computer teacher Sandra Mullis to coordi-nate and plan this special event. School media co-ordinator Lydia Lorenzo Adrian also helped in the effort, as did the second-grade teachers at the school.

Students learned about Indonesia before they “Skyped” with James and Luke so they could ask them appropriate questions and discuss their lives in Indonesia. “They asked thoughtful questions about where they live, what they eat, what their weather is

like, games they play and what their new friends are like,” said Sue Ca-pone, the school’s media assistant and school com-municator.

Some of James’ and Luke’s friends also gath-ered around their com-puter in Indonesia and were able to ask Sardis students questions. James’ mother, Jennifer, interpreted for the chil-dren of Indonesia.

“The Indonesian chil-dren asked the Sardis children lots of ques-tions, too,” Capone said. “They wanted to know all about American chil-dren. They asked about our school, what we play, what we eat, and what our families are like. They also wanted to know if we were happy, healthy, and did we have a lot of money.”

Jennifer taught the In-donesia children how to say “good morning” in English and she taught Sardis students how to say “good morning” and “goodbye” in Indone-sian.

“Jennifer e-mailed lat-er and said that James, Luke, and their friends in Indonesia really enjoyed sharing and are looking forward to doing it again real soon,” Capone said.

— This article was provided courtesy of the Communications Office of the Union County Pub-lic Schools.

Sardis students Skype withex-classmate in Indonesia

ACADEMICSPep rally slatedfor Piedmont band

UNIONVILLETo prepare its band for

the Bands of America competition in Atlanta, Piedmont High School will host a pep rally at 6 p.m. Thursday at the school stadium.

It’s the first time the band has attended this event. The band’s performance show is titled “Each Time You Tell Their Story,” which follows the life of a soldier from sunrise to Arlington Cemetery.

The pep rally is sched-uled to last 30 minutes, and is open to the public. The band will leave for Atlanta on Friday.

Stallings plansHalloween Fun Run

STALLINGSThere will be a one-mile

Halloween Fun Run for all ages at Stallings Elemen-tary on Saturday starting at 9 a.m. There will also be Halloween treats and a costume contest. Par-ticipants will win ribbons and treats. A registration form must be filled out. Cost is $2 for those who reply by Oct. 30; registra-tion on Oct. 31 will be $3.

For more information, contact Bo Mielczak at [email protected]. or Matt Colby at [email protected]. To download a reg-

istration form ,go to Stall-ings Elementary School’s Web site at http://stall-ings.ucps.k12.nc.us.

MRHS band winstitle at Western

CULLOWHEE — The Marvin Ridge High School Marching Maver-icks won Grand Champi-onship in the 1A division on Oct. 10 at Western Carolina University’s Tournamanent of Bands. Only in their third year, the Marching Maver-icks have 55 members.

SPCC has classesfor unemployed

MONROESouth Piedmont Com-

munity College is offer-ing a special three-week section of the FastTrac New Venture program for unemployed and dislocat-ed workers. Classes begin Nov. 30, and meet Mon-days through Thursdays from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Monroe campus, 4209 Old Charlotte Highway.

The program provides the tools to develop a busi-ness idea and outlines the critical steps to a success-ful business launch. This intensive 18-hour course leads students through identifying and reach-ing their target market, setting financial goals and building an effective team.

Students will have

a plan to help deter-mine if their business idea is feasible.

The college also has seminars scheduled for bookkeeping and taxes, eBay, and social network-ing. These seminars will help entrepreneurs save money, make money and expand their businesses into other markets.

Upcoming semi-nars are:

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• “eBay, All Day,” Nov. 6, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (buying), 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. (selling)

• “How to Use So-cial Media to Promote Your Business,” Nov. 9, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

The cost for each seminar is $5. Dislo-cated workers may apply for full scholarships. For more information or to register, contact SPCC’s Small Business Center at 704-290-5222.

‘Viva La Vida’set for Thursday

MONROE“Viva La Vida” will be

performed Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Monroe High School auditorium. The cultural-themed event will feature student performances of; sing-ing, dancing and skits. Tickets are $3 in advance and $5 at the door.

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Bezant encourages not only church members to donate, but local busi-nesses as well. Personal hygiene items are also available.

With a coat of paint and a few shelves made from donated wood, the church’s storage build-ing has transformed into a community center to store and distribute the items.

Although clients must present identification to

pick them up, Chin said there are no requirements for qualifying. “Well, are you in need? ... You quali-fy.” Chin added that those in need of assistance span across socioeconomic sta-tuses.

“You just don’t know,” Chin said. “It can be any-

body.” Clothes for all ages

and sizes are available, but Bezant stresses the importance of food dona-tions, calling them “the most important.”

The outreach is a monthly program that be-gan in August. Other or-

ganizations have similar clothing and food drives, Chin said, but this pro-vides one more option for people to turn to. It might be more convenient for nearby residents, too, she added.

Pickup is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The program

will run the last Friday of each month.

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Tickled Pink is an exclusive charity and comedy event designed to raise awareness and funds for uninsured and underserved women fighting breast cancer in Union County. Proceeds from the event will be donated to the Edwards Cancer Center at CMC-Union.

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CHARLOTTECarolina Panthers coach

John Fox is finally admitting Jake Delhomme isn’t good enough to be the quarterback.

After three more intercep-tions — and no touchdown passes — in a 20-9 home loss to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, Delhomme has now thrown an NFL-worst 13 interceptions and just four TD passes this season.

The Panthers would probably need to win eight of their last 10 to make the playoffs now, and next up is a trip to Arizona.

Fox said Monday he wasn’t

sure if the “status quo is the answer or not,” referring to the quarterback position.

Delhomme entered Sun-day’s game ranked 33rd in passer rating in a 32-team league, but actually moved up a spot this week to 32nd (his season rating is 56.5).

It’s hardly consolation for fans who watched the Panthers drop to 2-4 with Delhomme setting up the Bills’ first score with a badly-overthrown pass that resulted in a pick that was returned to Carolina’s 7.

Buffalo cashed in with little resistance, taking a 7-0 lead and never trailing. The Bills scored 14 points on

the day on short drives set up by Delhomme’s picks.

Others were at fault. Kicker John Kasay missed two field goals that are easy by his standard, and the Panthers were generally uninspired.

It’s obvious the program is going backward, and the biggest issue is the lack of a quarterback.

This problem started back in 2004 when the Panthers made their run to the Super Bowl but failed to realize they needed to keep adding to the talent pool.

See PANTHERS / Page 2B

By DAviD SENTENDREyE-J Correspondent

MONROEOf the eight Union County vol-

leyball teams that reached the state playoffs, only two advanced out of the first round on Saturday.

Weddington High and Piedmont, which both won their respective con-ferences, will compete in the second round today.

Weddington will play host to Con-cord High in the 3A tournament start-ing at 6 p.m..

The Warriors (20-4) defeated States-ville (7-16) 3-0 on Saturday in the first round.

“[Statesville] was a team we haven’t played before,” WHS coach Carrie Powell said. “They were very athlet-ic, they just didn’t have some of this skills, like most of them probably don’t play year-round – but they kept that volley going, we had to hit hard enough to get it passed them.”

Piedmont High (23-1) will travel to East Lincoln (23-2), which is the top seed out of the Southern Piedmont Conference.

Piedmont, which is the No. 1 seed out of the Rocky River 1A/2A Confer-ence, knocked off Central Davidson in four games in the first round last Saturday.

See vOLLEyBALL / Page 3B

By ERic RAPE E-J Correspondent

UNiONviLLEWith their winning streak

on the line, Piedmont High’s boys soccer team rallied from two goals down to defeat Cen-tral Academy, 4-2, in overtime on Monday.

After starting the season with a 3-6-1 record, the Pan-thers won their ninth straight to improve to 12-6-1 overall.

Piedmont’s win streak started with a 3-2 win at CATA.

The Cougars jumped out to a 1-0 lead on Monday, just over five minutes into the game, when Chino Nava pounded in a rebound off Johnny An-don’s shot.

CATA outshot the home team 4-1 in the first half, and the score remained 1-0 at the break.

The second half started out

with the Panthers taking the ball down into the Cougars side of the field but a clear out turned into a Cougars goal as Nava took the ball by himself from the 50-yard line a put a shot just out of reach of the goalie.

Piedmont still trailed 2-0 when the clock ran under 10 minutes, but the Panthers persevered and got on the board when Julian Sanchez pushed a ball thru the middle of the field to Tony Tarango, who found the back of the net for Piedmont with 6:50 left in the game.

It took only 15 seconds for the Panthers to tie the game as TJ Doster poked in a pass by Caleb Arp.

See PiEDMONT / Page 2B

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SportsEditor: Jerry Snow (261-2225) [email protected] Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Section B

Tipping offCavaliers open up season against Celtics tonight 3B

WHO’S NEWSYellow Jackets top Union Academy, 3-1

MARSHVILLE — The Forest Hills High boys soccer team improved to 5-10 on the season with a 3-1 victory

over Union Acad-emy on Monday.

Lucio Aleman, Walter Islas and Jose Capote all scored for the Yellow Jackets while Islas Trent Cox and Ben Polk all had assists.

Edward Salinas had six

saves in goal for Forest Hills, which plays at home against North Stanly on Wednesday.

According to FH coach Marq Ryan, the Jackets can clinch a playoff spot with a win against the Comets.

Johnson leads Cavs to 5-1 home victory

WAXHAW — Trent Johnson scored two goals to lead the Cuthbertson High boys soccer team to a 5-1 home win

over North Stanly on Monday.

Michael Proctor, John Lewthwaite and Dannon Fields all had one goal apiece for the Cavaliers, who improved to 14-4 overall and 13-2 in the Rocky River Conference.

Fields, Proctor, Michael Yarussi, Alex Herring and Andrew Gebhart each added an assist for Cuthbertson, while Johnson and Adam Lutz shared the duties in goal.

The Cavs conclude their regular sea-son schedule at West Stanly on Thursday.

West Stanly takes down Redhawks

OAKBORO — The West Stanly High boys soccer team pulled out a 3-2 home win over Monroe on Monday.

David Garcia and Gilgardo Garcia both had goals for the Redhawks while Jesus Cornejo and Christian Perez provided assists.

Rafael Martinez had seven saves in goal for Monroe, which fell to 13-4

overall and 11-3 in the Rocky River Con-ference. MHS plays at Union Academy today starting at 6 p.m.

McGwire back with Cardinals as coach

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Mark McGwire is back in baseball, reunited with Tony La Russa as the St. Louis Cardinals’ hitting coach.

La Russa agreed to return for a 15th year as manager Monday with a one-year contract, the first time he hasn’t had a multiyear deal with the team. All of his coaches will return except for Hal McRae, who will be replaced by the former star.

“Mark is passionate about the game, passionate about the Cardinals,” chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. said. “Tony thinks he’ll be a great coach, and I think he’s got a lot to offer.”

McGwire was not at the news con-ference at Busch Stadium, but La Russa and general manager John Mozeliak said there will be no effort to shield McGwire from questions about ste-roids. The team anticipated a telephone news conference with McGwire.

“By no means is he trying to hide, and by no means are we trying to hide him,” Mozeliak said.

McGwire hit a then-record 70 home runs in 1998 and retired with 583 homers and a .263 career average in 2001. He famously refused to answer questions about steroids use during a March 2005 congressional hearing, saying he wasn’t there to talk about the past.

WORTH A LOOKNBA basketballBoston at Cleveland

7:30 p.m., TNT

ISLAS

JOHNSON

D. GARCIA

Panthers win in OT

E-J staff photo by Rick Crider

Piedmont High’s Zeke Grey (1) had an important goal in Monday’s overtime win over Central Academy. Grey and the Panthers rallied for a 4-2 victory.

By DAviD SENTENDREyE-J Correspondent

WEDDiNGTONThree members of the Wed-

dington High girls tennis team will compete in the North Car-olina 3A State Championship Tournament at Burlington Tennis Center this weekend – Meredith Branham, Casey Rowe and Kindell Schmitt.

The doubles team of

Schmitt, a sophomore, and Rowe, a freshman, earned their way into the state tour-nament by placing fourth at the regional championships last weekend.

The irony behind the two-some is that they had not

been paired together until the Southern Carolina 3A/4A Conference Tournament at Marvin Ridge High on Oct. 16.

“It’s pretty exciting since we didn’t really practice through-out the year and we never real-ly played together, so we didn’t know what each other did and how we played,” Schmitt said. “So I was happily surprised

that we did good.”Schmitt and Rowe are both

aggressive at the net – some-thing that helped them move past their opponents in re-gionals.

“We’re both tall, we’re one of the tallest ones on our team,” Rowe said. “We both like to come to the net and take over the point.”

See TRiO / Page 2B

Weddington trio set to play in state tournament

My View

Jerry SnowE-J Sports Editor

Warriors, Panthers in second round

By JUSTiN MURDOcKE-J Sports Writer

MONROEForest Hills High senior quarterback

Juanne Blount has a chance to reach 100 touchdowns for his career.

Blount need 18 touchdowns to reach 100 for his four-year varsity career, and has at least three games remaining, but probably more, when including the playoffs.

Blount rushed for a career-high six TDs in last Friday’s 48-0 win over Central Academy to bring his total to a Union County-high 27 rushing scores on the season. He also ran for five TDs in a game earlier this year.

Blount, who was voted The Enquirer-Journal’s Union County Player of the Year in 2008 after rolling 2,246 rushing yards and 36 touchdowns in 15 games, currently has 82 touchdowns in his career. He has 76 rush-ing scores, three more on kickoffs, two on interception returns and one receiving TD.

While Blount is known for his running ability, his passing stats have picked up sig-nificantly in the last two games.

See ScORiNG / Page 3B

At 2-4, Carolina can start thinking about future

Boys soccer

Girls Tennis

VolleyBall

scorinG leaders, 3B

Rally past Central Academy at home for ninth straight victory

E-J staff photo by Ed Cottingham

Forest Hills senior quarterback Juanne Blount needs 18 touchdowns to reach 100 for his career. Blount and the Yellow Jackets play at home against Cuthbertson this Friday.

Blount close to reaching milestone

2B / Tuesday, October 27, 2009 The Enquirer-Journal

Sunday’s GamesNew England 35, Tampa Bay 7Pittsburgh 27, Minnesota 17Houston 24, San Francisco 21Indianapolis 42, St. Louis 6San Diego 37, Kansas City 7Green Bay 31, Cleveland 3Buffalo 20, Carolina 9N.Y. Jets 38, Oakland 0Dallas 37, Atlanta 21New Orleans 46, Miami 34Cincinnati 45, Chicago 10Arizona 24, N.Y. Giants 17Open: Denver, Seattle, Detroit,

Jacksonville, Baltimore, TennesseeMonday’s GamePhiladelphia at Washington, lateSunday, Nov. 1St. Louis at Detroit, 1 p.m.Miami at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.Seattle at Dallas, 1 p.m.Cleveland at Chicago, 1 p.m.Denver at Baltimore, 1 p.m.Houston at Buffalo, 1 p.m.San Francisco at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.Oakland at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.Jacksonville at Tennessee, 4:05 p.m.Minnesota at Green Bay, 4:15 p.m.Carolina at Arizona, 4:15 p.m.Open: New England, Cincinnati,

Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Washington, Tampa Bay

Monday, Nov. 2Atlanta at New Orleans, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s boxscore

Bills 20, Panthers 9

Buffalo 7 0 0 13— 20Carolina 0 2 0 7— 9

First QuarterBuf—Lynch 7 run (Lindell kick), 4:36.Second QuarterCar—Thomas safety, 9:06.Fourth QuarterBuf—Evans 2 pass from Fitzpatrick

(Lindell kick), 13:52.Buf—FG Lindell 29, 9:50.Car—D.Williams 15 run (Kasay kick),

6:34.Buf—FG Lindell 22, 1:56.A—73,497.

Buf CarFirst downs 9 20Total Net Yards 167 425Rushes-yards 30-53 25-116Passing 114 309Punt Returns 3-17 6-12Kickoff Returns 2-63 4-45Interceptions Ret. 3-63 0-0Comp-Att-Int 11-22-0 27-44-3Sacked-Yards Lost 2-9 2-16Punts 8-45.0 6-41.8Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-1Penalties-Yards 3-22 9-67Time of Possession 25:20 34:40

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—Buffalo, Lynch 17-40,

Fitzpatrick 7-10, Jackson 5-2, Owens 1-1. Carolina, D.Williams 16-89, Stewart 7-25, Goodson 2-2.

PASSING—Buffalo, Fitzpatrick 11-22-0-123. Carolina, Delhomme 27-44-3-325.

RECEIVING—Buffalo, Evans 5-75, Owens 3-27, Reed 2-14, Lynch 1-7. Carolina, Smith 6-99, D.Williams 5-50, Stewart 4-20, Barnidge 3-77, Rosario

3-35, King 3-23, Muhammad 2-14, Jarrett 1-7.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—Carolina, Kasay 43 (WR), 39 (WL).

Auto racing

NASCAR Sprint Cup TUMS Fast Relief 500 ResultsSundayAt Martinsville SpeedwayMartinsville, Va.Lap length: .526 miles(Start position in parentheses)1. (17) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 501 laps,

131.7 rating, 195 points, $189,500.2. (15) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet,

501, 135.5, 175, $169,526.3. (21) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet,

501, 122.7, 170, $143,298.4. (41) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 501, 95.4,

165, $138,698.5. (2) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 501,

110.7, 160, $126,351.6. (23) Jamie McMurray, Ford, 501,

85.2, 150, $97,950.7. (1) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 501,

109.6, 151, $122,004.8. (4) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 501,

113.5, 147, $89,350.9. (13) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 501,

98.2, 138, $99,923.10. (10) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 501,

101.5, 134, $118,703.11. (24) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 501, 92,

130, $106,573.12. (7) Joey Logano, Toyota, 501, 80.6,

127, $122,576.13. (8) Bobby Labonte, Ford, 501, 81.7,

124, $107,004.14. (32) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 501, 62.4,

121, $120,290.15. (22) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 501,

83.1, 123, $121,156.16. (5) David Reutimann, Toyota, 501,

89.8, 120, $101,473.17. (37) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 501, 72.4,

112, $91,250.18. (6) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 501,

82.2, 109, $90,175.19. (19) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 501,

91.9, 106, $83,150.20. (29) Carl Edwards, Ford, 501, 81.4,

103, $122,256.21. (40) Elliott Sadler, Dodge, 500, 63.7,

100, $82,575.22. (14) David Ragan, Ford, 500, 68, 97,

$82,675.23. (30) Paul Menard, Ford, 500, 56.6,

94, $105,431.24. (9) Reed Sorenson, Dodge, 500, 55.8,

91, $111,176.25. (20) Greg Biffle, Ford, 500, 48.7, 93,

$90,550.26. (27) John Andretti, Chevrolet, acci-

dent, 499, 47.5, 90, $81,375.27. (34) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 499,

42.6, 82, $87,673.28. (3) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet,

499, 67.6, 79, $108,940.29. (12) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet,

499, 66.2, 76, $87,825.30. (36) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 497,

39.4, 73, $80,750.31. (18) Scott Speed, Toyota, accident,

495, 48.7, 70, $81,698.32. (26) Kasey Kahne, Dodge, 494, 51.8,

67, $111,973.33. (11) David Stremme, Dodge, rear

end, 439, 51.9, 64, $102,890.34. (16) AJ Allmendinger, Dodge, 414,

56, 61, $70,300.35. (38) Sterling Marlin, Dodge, brakes,

355, 40.3, 58, $69,300.36. (31) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, acci-

dent, 248, 55, 55, $88,010.37. (33) Robby Gordon, Toyota, drive

shaft, 130, 40, 52, $87,960.38. (28) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, over-

heating, 52, 28.8, 49, $69,150.39. (35) David Gilliland, Chevrolet,

brakes, 48, 31.4, 51, $69,100.40. (39) Dave Blaney, Toyota, overheat-

ing, 38, 29.8, 43, $69,050.41. (42) Michael McDowell, Toyota,

brakes, 36, 27.8, 40, $69,000.42. (43) Derrike Cope, Toyota, brakes,

31, 26.4, 37, $68,940.43. (25) Travis Kvapil, Dodge, brakes,

30, 35, 34, $68,523.

Race StatisticsAverage Speed of Race Winner: 73.633

mph.Time of Race: 3 hours, 34 minutes, 44

seconds.Margin of Victory: Under Caution.Caution Flags: 15 for 77 laps.Lead Changes: 21 among 12 drivers.Lap Leaders: R.Newman 1-21; J.

Gordon 22-46; J.Andretti 47; D.Gilliland 48; J.Gordon 49-58; J.Johnson 59-89; R.Newman 90; J.Johnson 91-130; R.Newman 131; J.Johnson 132-140; J.Montoya 141-177; J.Gordon 178; J.Burton 179-182; D.Hamlin 183-201; Ky.Busch 202-205; D.Hamlin 206-253; G.Biffle 254-259; J.Johnson 260-301; M.Martin 302; D.Reutimann 303-320; J.Johnson 321-362; D.Hamlin 363-501.

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): D.Hamlin, 3 times for 206 laps; J.Johnson, 5 times for 164 laps; J.Montoya, 1 time for 37 laps; J.Gordon, 3 times for 36 laps; R.

Newman, 3 times for 23 laps; D.Reutimann, 1 time for 18 laps; G.Biffle, 1 time for 6 laps; Ky.Busch, 1 time for 4 laps; J.Burton, 1 time for 4 laps; M.Martin, 1 time for 1 lap; J.Andretti, 1 time for 1 lap; D.Gilliland, 1 time for 1 lap.

Top 12 in Points: 1. J.Johnson, 6,098; 2. M.Martin, 5,980; 3. J.Gordon, 5,948; 4. T.Stewart, 5,906; 5. J.Montoya, 5,898; 6. Ku.Busch, 5,858; 7. R.Newman, 5,786; 8. G.Biffle, 5,748; 9. D.Hamlin, 5,746; 10. C.Edwards, 5,685; 11. K.Kahne, 5,659; 12. B.Vickers, 5,568.

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 baseball

MLB Postseason GlanceAll Times EDT(Subject to change)(x-if necessary)

DIVISION SERIESAmerican League

NEW YORK 3, MINNESOTA 0Wednesday, Oct. 7New York 7, Minnesota 2Friday, Oct. 9New York 4, Minnesota 3, 11 inningsSunday, Oct. 11New York 4, Minnesota 1

LOS ANGELES 3, BOSTON 0Thursday, Oct. 8Los Angeles 5, Boston 0Friday, Oct. 9Los Angeles 4, Boston 1Sunday, Oct. 11Los Angeles 7, Boston 6

National LeagueLOS ANGELES 3, ST. LOUIS 0

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

PHILADELPHIA 3, COLORADO 1Wednesday, Oct. 7Philadelphia 5, Colorado 1Thursday, Oct. 8Colorado 5, Philadelphia 4Saturday, Oct. 10Philadelphia at Colorado, ppd., weath-

erSunday, Oct. 11Philadelphia 6, Colorado 5Monday, Oct. 12Philadelphia 5, Colorado 4

LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIESAmerican League

NEW YORK 4, LOS ANGELES 2Friday, Oct. 16New York 4, Los Angeles 1Saturday, Oct. 17New York 4, Los Angeles 3, 13 inningsMonday, Oct. 19Los Angeles 5, New York 4, 11 inningsTuesday, Oct. 20New York 10, Los Angeles 1Thursday, Oct. 22Los Angeles 7, New York 6Saturday, Oct. 24Los Angeles at New York, ppd., rainSunday, Oct. 25New York 5, Los Angeles 2

National LeaguePHILADELPHIA 4, LOS ANGELES 1Thursday, Oct. 15Philadelphia 8, Los Angeles 6Friday, Oct. 16Los Angeles 2, Philadelphia 1Sunday, Oct. 18Philadelphia 11, Los Angeles 0Monday, Oct. 19Philadelphia 5, Los Angeles 4Wednesday, Oct. 21Philadelphia 10, Los Angeles 4

WORLD SERIESPHILADELPHIA vs. NEW YORK

Wednesday, Oct. 28Philadelphia (Lee 7-4) at New York

(Sabathia 19-8), 7:57 p.m.Thursday, Oct. 29Philadelphia at New York, 7:57 p.m.Saturday, Oct. 31New York at Philadelphia, 7:57 p.m.Sunday, Nov. 1New York at Philadelphia, 8:20 p.m.Monday, Nov. 2x-New York at Philadelphia, 7:57 p.m.Wednesday, Nov. 4x-Philadelphia at New York, 7:57 p.m.Thursday, Nov. 5x-Philadelphia at New York, 7:57 p.m.

World Series Champions2008—Philadelphia (NL) 4, Tampa Bay

(AL) 12007—Boston (AL) 4, Colorado (NL) 02006—St. Louis (NL) 4, Detroit (AL) 1

2005—Chicago (AL) 4, Houston (NL) 02004—Boston (AL) 4, St. Louis (NL) 02003—Florida (NL) 4, New York (AL) 22002—Anaheim (AL) 4, San Francisco

(NL) 32001—Arizona (NL) 4, New York (AL) 32000—New York (AL) 4, New York (NL) 11999—New York (AL) 4, Atlanta (NL) 01998—New York (AL) 4, San Diego (NL) 01997—Florida (NL) 4, Cleveland (AL) 31996—New York (AL) 4, Atlanta (NL) 21995—Atlanta (NL) 4, Cleveland (AL) 21994—No series.1993—Toronto (AL) 4, Philadelphia (NL)

21992—Toronto (AL) 4, Atlanta (NL) 21991—Minnesota (AL) 4, Atlanta (NL) 31990—Cincinnati (NL) 4, Oakland (AL) 01989—Oakland (AL) 4, San Francisco

(NL) 01988—Los Angeles (NL) 4, Oakland (AL)

11987—Minnesota (AL) 4, St. Louis (NL) 31986—New York (NL) 4, Boston (AL) 31985—Kansas City (AL) 4, St. Louis (NL)

31984—Detroit (AL) 4, San Diego (NL) 11983—Baltimore (AL) 4, Philadelphia

(NL) 11982—St. Louis (NL) 4, Milwaukee (AL) 31981—Los Angeles (NL) 4, New York (AL)

21980—Philadelphia (NL) 4, Kansas City

(AL) 21979—Pittsburgh (NL) 4, Baltimore (AL)

31978—New York (AL) 4, Los Angeles (NL)

21977—New York (AL) 4, Los Angeles (NL)

21976—Cincinnati (NL) 4, New York (AL) 01975—Cincinnati (NL) 4, Boston (AL) 31974—Oakland (AL) 4, Los Angeles (NL)

11973—Oakland (AL) 4, New York (NL) 31972—Oakland (AL) 4, Cincinnati (NL) 31971—Pittsburgh (NL) 4, Baltimore (AL)

31970—Baltimore (AL) 4, Cincinnati (NL)

11969—New York (NL) 4, Baltimore (AL) 11968—Detroit (AL) 4, St. Louis (NL) 31967—St. Louis (NL) 4, Boston (AL) 31966—Baltimore (AL) 4, Los Angeles (NL)

01965—Los Angeles (NL) 4, Minnesota

(AL) 31964—St. Louis (NL) 4, New York (AL) 31963—Los Angeles (NL) 4, New York (AL)

01962—New York (AL) 4, San Francisco

(NL) 31961—New York (AL) 4, Cincinnati (NL) 11960—Pittsburgh (NL) 4, New York (AL) 31959—Los Angeles (NL) 4, Chicago (AL) 21958—New York (AL) 4, Milwaukee (NL)

31957—Milwaukee (NL) 4, New York (AL)

31956—New York (AL) 4, Brooklyn (NL) 31955—Brooklyn (NL) 4, New York (AL) 31954—New York (NL) 4, Cleveland (AL) 01953—New York (AL) 4, Brooklyn (NL) 21952—New York (AL) 4, Brooklyn (NL) 31951—New York (AL) 4, New York (NL) 21950—New York (AL) 4, Philadelphia

(NL) 01949—New York (AL) 4, Brooklyn (NL) 11948—Cleveland (AL) 4, Boston (NL) 21947—New York (AL) 4, Brooklyn (NL) 31946—St. Louis (NL) 4, Boston (AL) 31945—Detroit (AL) 4, Chicago (NL) 31944—St. Louis (NL) 4, St. Louis (AL) 21943—New York (AL) 4, St. Louis (NL) 11942—St. Louis (NL) 4, New York (AL) 11941—New York (AL) 4, Brooklyn (NL) 11940—Cincinnati (NL) 4, Detroit (AL) 31939—New York (AL) 4, Cincinnati (NL) 01938—New York (AL) 4, Chicago (NL) 01937—New York (AL) 4, New York (NL) 11936—New York (AL) 4, New York (NL) 21935—Detroit (AL) 4, Chicago (NL) 21934—St. Louis (NL) 4, Detroit (AL) 31933—New York (NL) 4, Washington (AL)

11932—New York (AL) 4, Chicago (NL) 01931—St. Louis (NL) 4, Philadelphia (AL)

31930—Philadelphia (AL) 4, St. Louis (NL)

21929—Philadelphia (AL) 4, Chicago (NL)

11928—New York (AL) 4, St. Louis (NL) 01927—New York (AL) 4, Pittsburgh (NL) 01926—St. Louis (NL) 4, New York (AL) 31925—Pittsburgh (NL) 4, Washington

(AL) 31924—Washington (AL) 4, New York (NL)

31923—New York (AL) 4, New York (NL) 21922—New York (NL) 4, New York (AL) 0,

1 tie1921—New York (NL) 5, New York (AL) 31920—Cleveland (AL) 5, Brooklyn (NL) 21919—Cincinnati (NL) 5, Chicago (AL) 31918—Boston (AL) 4, Chicago (NL) 21917—Chicago (AL) 4, New York (NL) 21916—Boston (AL) 4, Brooklyn (NL) 11915—Boston (AL) 4, Philadelphia (NL) 11914—Boston (NL) 4, Philadelphia (AL) 01913—Philadelphia (AL) 4, New York

(NL) 11912—Boston (AL) 4, New York (NL) 3, 1

tie1911—Philadelphia (AL) 4, New York

(NL) 21910—Philadelphia (AL) 4, Chicago (NL)

11909—Pittsburgh (NL) 4, Detroit (AL) 3

1908—Chicago (NL) 4, Detroit (AL) 11907—Chicago (NL) 4, Detroit (AL) 0, 1 tie1906—Chicago (AL) 4, Chicago (NL) 21905—New York (NL) 4, Philadelphia

(AL) 11904—No series.1903—Boston (AL) 5, Pittsburgh (NL) 3

World Series MVPs2008—Cole Hamels, Philadelphia (NL)2007—Mike Lowell, Boston (AL)2006—David Eckstein, St. Louis (NL)2005—Jermaine Dye, Chicago (AL)2004—Manny Ramirez, Boston (AL)2003—Josh Beckett, Florida (NL)2002—Troy Glaus, Anaheim (AL)2001—Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson,

Arizona (NL)2000—Derek Jeter, New York (AL)1999—Mariano Rivera, New York (AL)1998—Scott Brosius, New York (AL)1997—Livan Hernandez, Florida (NL)1996—John Wetteland, New York (AL)1995—Tom Glavine, Atlanta (NL)1994—No Series.1993—Paul Molitor, Toronto (AL)1992—Pat Borders, Toronto (AL)1991—Jack Morris, Minnesota (AL)1990—Jose Rijo, Cincinnati (NL)1989—Dave Stewart, Oakland (AL)1988—Orel Hershiser, Los Angeles (NL)1987—Frank Viola, Minnesota (AL)1986—Ray Knight, New York (NL)1985—Bret Saberhagen, Kansas City (AL)1984—Alan Trammell, Detroit (AL)1983—Rick Dempsey, Baltimore (AL)1982—Darrell Porter, St. Louis (NL)1981—Ron Cey, Pedro Guerrero and Steve

Yeager, Los Angeles (NL)1980—Mike Schmidt, Philadelphia (NL)1979—Willie Stargell, Pittsburgh (NL)1978—Bucky Dent, New York (AL)1977—Reggie Jackson, New York (AL)1976—Johnny Bench, Cincinnati (NL)1975—Pete Rose, Cincinnati (NL)1974—Rollie Fingers, Oakland (AL)1973—Reggie Jackson, Oakland (AL)1972—Gene Tenace, Oakland (AL)1971—Roberto Clemente, Pittsburgh (NL)1970—Brooks Robinson, Baltimore (AL)1969—Donn Clendenon, New York (NL)1968—Mickey Lolich, Detroit (AL)1967—Bob Gibson, St. Louis (NL)1966—Frank Robinson, Baltimore (AL)1965—Sandy Koufax, Los Angeles (NL)1964—Bob Gibson, St. Louis (NL)1963—Sandy Koufax, Los Angeles (NL)1962—Ralph Terry, New York (AL)1961—Whitey Ford, New York (AL)1960—Bobby Richardson, New York (AL)1959—Larry Sherry, Los Angeles (NL)1958—Bob Turley, New York (AL)1957—Lew Burdette, Milwaukee (NL)1956—Don Larsen, New York (AL)1955—Johnny Podres, Brooklyn (NL)

Transactions

Monday’s Sports TransactionsBASEBALL

American LeagueTORONTO BLUE JAYS—Named Mel

Didier and Mel Queen to the posi-tions of senior advisor, player devel-opment.

National LeagueHOUSTON ASTROS—Named Jose

Cruz special assistant to the general manager. Claimed INF/OF Jason Bourgeois off waivers from Milwaukee and placed him on their 40-man roster.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Announced RHP Tyler Yates had rejected an out-right assignment and elected free agency.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS—Agreed to terms with manager Tony LaRussa on a one-year contract. Named Mark McGwire hitting coach.

SAN DIEGO PADRES—Named Jed Hoyer executive vice president/gen-eral manager.

BASKETBALLNational Basketball AssociationCHICAGO BULLS—Exercised the

2010-11 contract options for G Derrick Rose and F-C Joakim Noah.

CLEVELAND CAVALIERS—Exercised the 2010-11 contract option on F J.J. Hickson.

NEW ORLEANS HORNETS—Exercised the 2010-11 contract option on G-F Julian Wright.

PHOENIX SUNS—Announced the team was awarded the rights to C Jarron Collins.

FOOTBALLNational Football LeagueDALLAS COWBOYS—Agreed to terms

with LB DeMarcus Ware on a six-year contract extension through the 2015 season.

DENVER BRONCOS—Signed P Mitch Berger. Waived P Brett Kern.

HOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueANAHEIM DUCKS—Recalled G

Justin Pogge from Bakersfield (ECHL). Assigned D Luca Sbisa to Lethbridge (WHL).

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS—Recalled C Jake Dowell from Rockford (AHL).

COLORADO AVALANCHE—Placed RW Darcy Tucker on the injured list. Recalled F Chris Durno from Lake Erie (AHL).

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W L T Pct PF PA AFC NFC DivNew England 5 2 0 .714 198 98 3-2-0 2-0-0 1-1-0N.Y. Jets 4 3 0 .571 152 104 4-2-0 0-1-0 1-2-0Buffalo 3 4 0 .429 113 138 1-3-0 2-1-0 1-2-0Miami 2 4 0 .333 146 152 2-2-0 0-2-0 2-0-0

South

W L T Pct PF PA AFC NFC DivIndianapolis 6 0 0 1.000 179 77 3-0-0 3-0-0 2-0-0Houston 4 3 0 .571 167 158 3-2-0 1-1-0 1-1-0Jacksonville 3 3 0 .500 120 147 2-1-0 1-2-0 2-1-0Tennessee 0 6 0 .000 84 198 0-6-0 0-0-0 0-3-0

North

W L T Pct PF PA AFC NFC DivCincinnati 5 2 0 .714 163 128 3-2-0 2-0-0 3-0-0Pittsburgh 5 2 0 .714 167 129 3-1-0 2-1-0 1-1-0Baltimore 3 3 0 .500 169 130 3-2-0 0-1-0 1-1-0Cleveland 1 6 0 .143 72 179 1-4-0 0-2-0 0-3-0

West

W L T Pct PF PA AFC NFC DivDenver 6 0 0 1.000 133 66 5-0-0 1-0-0 2-0-0San Diego 3 3 0 .500 161 143 3-3-0 0-0-0 2-1-0Oakland 2 5 0 .286 62 177 1-4-0 1-1-0 1-2-0Kansas City 1 6 0 .143 105 181 0-3-0 1-3-0 0-2-0

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East

W L T Pct PF PA NFC AFC DivN.Y. Giants 5 2 0 .714 195 143 3-2-0 2-0-0 2-0-0Dallas 4 2 0 .667 159 119 3-1-0 1-1-0 0-1-0Philadelphia 3 2 0 .600 136 99 2-1-0 1-1-0 0-0-0Washington 2 4 0 .333 79 96 2-3-0 0-1-0 0-1-0

South

W L T Pct PF PA NFC AFC DivNew Orleans 6 0 0 1.000 238 127 3-0-0 3-0-0 0-0-0Atlanta 4 2 0 .667 144 114 3-1-0 1-1-0 1-0-0Carolina 2 4 0 .333 94 145 2-3-0 0-1-0 1-1-0Tampa Bay 0 7 0 .000 96 203 0-5-0 0-2-0 0-1-0

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W L T Pct PF PA NFC AFC DivMinnesota 6 1 0 .857 206 148 4-0-0 2-1-0 2-0-0Green Bay 4 2 0 .667 161 96 3-1-0 1-1-0 2-1-0Chicago 3 3 0 .500 129 144 2-2-0 1-1-0 1-1-0Detroit 1 5 0 .167 103 188 1-4-0 0-1-0 0-3-0

West

W L T Pct PF PA NFC AFC DivArizona 4 2 0 .667 136 109 2-1-0 2-1-0 1-1-0San Francisco 3 3 0 .500 133 122 3-2-0 0-1-0 3-0-0Seattle 2 4 0 .333 118 109 1-3-0 1-1-0 1-2-0St. Louis 0 7 0 .000 60 211 0-5-0 0-2-0 0-2-0

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PanthersContinued from Page 1B

Failing to bring in another quality quarterback during that entire time has been a mistake. Sticking with Delhomme has cost the Panthers a prime shot at a playoff run last year, and now — after they signed him to a $42.5 million extension last off-season — he’s been the biggest reason a team with playoff tal-

ent will not make the playoffs.Fox has been starting Del-

homme at QB — whenever healthy — since 2003. I’ve been contending throughout that the Panthers need to upgrade the position, but they’ve poured money everywhere else.

So now the choices are Matt Moore or A.J. Feeley, who has a limited knowl-edge of he playbook.

The loyalty — or stubbor-ness — Fox has shown toward Delhomme will cost both

their jobs. But more impor-tantly, the bad decision might have kept the Panthers from at least two chances to con-tend for a Super Bowl title.

On the bright sideDefensive tackle Hollis Thom-

as has been a good addition as a run-stuffer and protector of linebacker Jon Beason, who had a team-high seven tackles for Carolina on Sunday. Thomas is stumpy, at 6-foot and 335 pounds, but he’s quick and powerful.

Playing in his second game as a Panther, Thomas also had four tackles. He had a fumble recovery the week before.

Thomas is well-liked in the locker room and brings a good energy to the defense. Hollis is not a long-term fix at the age of 34 (he spent nine years with the Eagles), but he’s helping the Panthers’ defense stay posiive.

Speaking of positive ...Julius Peppers seems to be

playing through all the drama.

The gifted defensive end, who asked out of Carolina when his contract expired but was held hostage by the franchise tag, is quiet and reserved by nature.

But Peppers was slapping all the defensive starters’ hands and showing more energy than usual on Sunday.

Peppers had a sack, giving him six on the season — in-cluding five in his last three games. He ranks sixth in the NFL and is on pace for 16.

TrioContinued from Page 1B

As a freshman last season, Schmitt, teamed with Branham to advance to the second round of the 4A doubles state tournament before losing to the even-tual winners.

This year, Rowe will be assuming Schmitt’s previous role as a freshman entering the state tournament.

“I feel really honored and really excit-ed that I can go through this experience when I’m so young,” Rowe said. “That way I can prepare for the years ahead.”

After what they’ve discovered over the past two weeks, the team of Schmitt and

Rowe could become a long-term plan.“I hope we play together next year,”

Schmitt said. “I really don’t have any say, I don’t know how coach (Mike Mur-phy) chooses … but I’d love to play with [Rowe].”

Branham, Weddington’s top seed, earned a spot in the singles state tour-nament after finishing second in the re-gional tournament last weekend.

“I thought I could have played better, but at the same time I was happy that I got that far in the tournament because there were a lot of good players in the tournament,” Branham said.

“…I knew if I wasn’t coughing and I wasn’t sick I would have ran down a couple more balls then I did – you know, when you’re sick out on the court you

never feel like you play really well.”Branham qualified for the doubles

tournament as a freshman, but a back injury during her sophomore year pre-vented her from playing that season.

“My junior year I actually would have wanted to play singles, but I wasn’t phys-ically able to,” Branham said. “My back was still bothering me so much that I thought I could only handle doubles matches – it’s not as much running and individual hitting yourself.

“… I’ve overcome those injuries and I’ve been feeling really good. Just the fact that I was able to play individuals, let alone qualify for states, was a really big deal for me considering that two years ago I wasn’t even able to hit a ten-nis ball at all.”

PiedmontContinued from Page 1B

The momentum had shifted completely in the second half with Piedmont getting six shots on goal.

The game went into overtime and neither team was able to score

in the first 10- minute session, but sophomore Zeke Grey gave Pied-mont its first lead when he wheeled from the left side of the goal and fired an extremely difficult shot into the right top of the goal off an assist from Sanchez.

Creed Johnson added insurance for Piedmont when he got a shot past the CATA goalie. Tracey King had the assist.

“We’re a second half team,” said Panthers coach Bryan Patrick. “We’ve told these kids that when you’re playing well good things just seem to go your way and they did tonight. The guys never gave up.”

Piedmont hosts West Stanly (11-8) on Wednesday while CATA travels to face Union Academy (6-7-1) the same day. Both games are scheduled to start at 6 p.m. JOHNSON

The Enquirer-Journal Tuesday, October 27, 2009 / 3B

UC’s 2009 sCoring Leaders

(Through Week 10; minimum 18 points)

Offensive TDs Return TDs Special TeamsName, Yr. (School) Rush Rec K/P Int. Fum FG XP 2pt TotalJuanne Blount, Sr. (FH) 27 2 166Shamiir Hailey, Sr. (M) 20 3 126Jamison Crowder, Jr. (M) 9 5 1 2 94Charvis Barrino, Sr. (CA) 13 6 90Jadarrius Williams, So. (SV) 9 2 1 68Anthony Boone, Sr. (W) 10 60Kolly Ogar, Jr. (MR) 10 60Matt Frein, Sr. (MR) 7 37 58Cameron Leviner, Jr. (Pm) 8 1 4 58Dylan Williams, Sr. (MR) 9 54Casey Lang, Sr. (W) 7 32 53Dustin Cook, Sr. (SV) 8 1 50Steven Miller, Sr. (Pm) 8 1 50Christian Cruz, Sr. (M) 46 46Jamie Baker, Sr. (FH) 2 37 43Maurice Leak, Sr. (Pw) 7 42Kemp Lotharp, Sr. (Pw) 7 42M. Montgomery, Sr. (Pm) 6 22 40Brandon Little, So. (W) 6 1 38Quon Threatt, Sr. (M) 6 1 38Bobby Blakeney, Sr. (M) 6 36KJ Brent, Jr. (MR) 6 36Qwadarius Duboise, Jr. (M) 5 1 36Cameron Havey, Sr. (SV) 2 30 36Orlando Ratliff, Sr. (FH) 5 1 36Donnard Covington, Sr. (M) 5 1 32Dylan Hunter, Sr. (Pw) 2 26 32Jalen Sowell, Jr. (M) 5 1 32Matt Wogan, Fr. (PR) 4 20 32D. Alexander, Jr. (PR) 4 1 30Deonte Hiatt, Jr. (Pw) 5 30Marcus Leak, Jr. (Pw) 4 1 30Isaac Blakeney, Sr. (M) 4 1 26Mitchell Blackburn, So. (CA) 4 24Tyler Chadwick, So. (MR) 4 24Jody Fuller, So. (SV) 4 24Cody Haverland, Jr. (W) 4 24Lee McNeill, So. (PR) 4 24Andre McManus, Sr. (SV) 4 24Rasheed Rushing, Fr. (UA) 4 24Canious Sturdivant, Sr. (FH) 4 24Matt Chilton, Jr. (MR) 1 1 1 18Sam Harris, Sr. (Pm) 3 18Jared Hill, So. (UA) 3 18Marcelis Lewis, Sr. (PR) 3 18Jamal Little, So. (FH) 3 18Jacob Oakley, Jr. (Pm) 3 18Ryan Patty, Sr. (PR) 3 18Mike Thornton, Sr. (W) 3 18

Fox uncertain on QB’s status as starterCHARLOTTE (AP) — For the

first time in seven years, Jake Delhomme is in jeopardy of los-ing his starting job.

After another abysmal per-formance Sunday left Carolina 2-4 and Delhomme with an NFL-high 13 interceptions, Panthers coach John Fox acknowledged he’s contemplating benching Delhomme in favor of either Matt Moore or A.J. Feeley.

“I still believe Jake is our best quarterback. I have no reason to believe otherwise, truth be told,” Fox said Monday. “But collectively we’ll do whatever

it takes for us to improve. What that is I can’t honestly tell you at this second.”

A day earlier, Delhomme threw three interceptions, two which were badly overthrown and directly led to 14 Buffalo points in the Bills’ 20-9 win. The 34-year-old Delhomme, who re-ceived a lucrative contract ex-tension in the offseason, can’t seem to snap out of the worst stretch of his career.

It began when Delhomme threw five interceptions and lost a fumble against Arizona in the playoffs. Counting two lost

fumbles this season, Delhomme has committed 15 turnovers and thrown only four touchdowns. His passer rating of 56.5 ranks 32nd in the league and Caroli-na’s minus-14 turnover margin is by far the worst in the NFL.

Sunday’s loss ended Caro-lina’s two-game winning streak and left Delhomme seemingly stunned. He said he was “numb” and added it was a “crushing” loss after Carolina outgained Buffalo 425-167.

“Last night I was numb and right now, you watch the film — I’ve watched it three times al-

ready today — I think it’s more frustration,” Delhomme said Monday.

Delhomme stood in front of his locker with Arizona game tape under his arm vowing to prepare to start as always. He said he met earlier in the day with the Fox, but declined to re-veal details.

“I think my confidence is high, but it’s easy to say it,” Del-homme said. “You’ve got to get it done. ... I’m not trying to play the victim. I’m the one pulling the trigger.”

While Fox said he sees no

difference in Delhomme’s arm strength or delivery, he hinted Delhomme’s psyche will play into his decision who starts in Sunday’s playoff rematch with the Cardinals.

“We’ll do whatever it takes for us to start developing some confidence in that phase of the game,” Fox said.

Trouble is, the Panthers have few good options behind Del-homme, who has been Caroli-na’s starter since Week 2 in 2003, when the relative unknown led the Panthers to a surprising trip to the Super Bowl.

VolleyballContinued from Page 1B

The Warriors have played strong up front all season with de-cisive blocking and heavy hitting – never losing so much as a set to a Southern Carolina Conference opponent on their way to becom-ing SCC champions as well as the SCC Tournament Champions.

Senior Allison Rickher, who has committed to Wingate Uni-versity, led the charge with 13 blocks and 11 kills.

Amy Schwartz played aggressive up front with 14 kills while Tay-lor Linton handed out 27 assists;

Julia Moreira placed six kills and Kaitlyn Duckworth added five kills.

Alex Kachulis led the defense with 35 digs, while Jordan Davis contributed 16 digs and Lauren Martin added 11 digs.

Powell distributed minutes to a number of bench players in the opening round.

“To give them the experience, even [Emily Harvey], my fresh-man setter that we moved up from

JV, we’re trying to get her up in there too,” Powell said. “Because she’s having to learn different sets, different defense, because JV doesn’t always do exactly the same thing that varsity does.

“…We’re trying to do that and also just to make sure that ev-eryone gets some playing time because sometimes you’re not going to get everybody in. It’s for the experience – when you can, you get them in.”

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — Shaquille O’Neal spent his final day of free time where any super hero would hang out.

He went to Disney World.Now Superman is preparing

for his Cleveland Cavaliers debut against the Boston Celtics on Tues-day night in one of the league’s most heated rivalries. The two teams that open the season in the East could also be the final two teams remaining in the conference finals — though defending Eastern Conference champion Orlando may differ with that prediction.

“You can’t win the championship winning the first game. You still have to play all 82 and go through the postseason,” O’Neal said. “But you always want to try and get off to a great start.”

With a day off on Sunday, O’Neal took his family to Disney for one final day of fun. From now until

the playoffs, his quest is to win the Cavaliers’ first championship in franchise history.

Cleveland traded for O’Neal for games like this against Kevin Gar-nett and the Celtics, who eliminated the Cavs in the playoffs two years ago on their way to their first NBA cham-pionship in 12 seasons.

That heated series launched a feud that boiled all last season. It bubbled up in last week’s pre-season game in Columbus, when the Cavs’ Mo Williams was spun to the ground near the end of the first half. He got up and threw an elbow into the chest of Boston’s Shelden Williams, who shoved back before order was quickly restored.

LeBron James said a rivalry needs a little trash talking and two good teams to beat up on each other. The Cavaliers and Celtics meet that stan-dard.

“I think we have that history with

Boston,” James said Monday. “We had a great postseason with them and we’ve had some great regular-season games with them. So I guess this is our new rival.”

Boston won last week’s preseason game by 14 despite resting Garnett and Ray Allen. Winning in Ohio, even during the preseason, is good news for the Celtics. Including the postseason, the home team has won the last 16 meetings in this series — Cleveland has won its last eight games against Boston at Quicken Loans Arena.

“We definitely don’t expect it to go the way it did (last week),” Boston’s Paul Pierce said. “We want to win everywhere, man. I don’t care where it is when you play the Cavs. They’re a team that we probably are going to have to go through in the East-ern Conference. They’re going to be right up there at the top if they stay healthy toward the end of the year. It’d be great to win in that building.”

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Sun Valley senior receiver Dustin Cook is tied for second in Union County with eight receiving touchdowns on the season. He had three in last Friday’s win over Parkwood.

ScoringContinued from Page 1B

For the first time in his career, Blount has passed for 100 yards or more in two straight games. He was 7-of-9 for 116 yards and two touchdowns in a win over North Stanly on Oct. 16 and followed by going 5-of-7 for 114 yards in last Friday’s win over the Cougars.

Blount will be among the seniors honored when the Yellow Jackets (7-2, 6-0 RRC) play their last regular-season home game against Cuthbertson on Fri-day starting at 7 p.m.

Cook moving upWith his career-high three touch-

down receptions in Friday’s win over Parkwood, Sun Valley senior Dustin Cook has moved up to second in the county with eight receiving scores on the season.

Cook has caught at least one touch-down in each of the Spartans’ last four games.

Sun Valley is currently 6-3 overall and

1-2 in the Southern Carolina Conference heading into Friday’s game at Wedding-ton (5-4, 2-1 SCC).

Monroe High junior Jamison Crowder leads UC with nine receiving touch-downs after catching one in the Red-hawks’ 48-0 victory over West Stanly.

Piedmont junior Cameron Leviner, whose team had a bye last week, also has eight receiving TDs while Marvin Ridge junior KJ Brent and Monroe senior Quon Threatt each have six.

Odds and ends ...... After rushing for two scores in Fri-

day’s win over the Colts, Monroe senior tailback Shamiir Hailey now has 20 TDs on the ground in 2009.

... Monroe senior Christian Cruz leads the county with 46 extra points for the 9-0 Redhawks. The next closest are Marvin Ridge senior Matt Frein and Forest Hills senior Jamie Baker, who both have 37.

... Porter Ridge senior receiver Rad Crowell, Weddington junior linebacker Hunter Moore and Union Academy sophomore fullback Marlon Young all scored their first touchdowns of the season last Friday.

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Dear Abby: I’m engaged to the man of my dreams. Our wedding is two months away, and I couldn’t be more excited about start-ing my life with “Jeff.”

Only one thing bothers me. When the two of us eat alone together, Jeff throws his manners out the window. He kind of eats like a pig. He opens his mouth as wide as it will go and takes as big a bite as he can. Then, as he’s chewing (even with his mouth closed) he makes noises. I can’t get past the noises!

I know Jeff knows better because he doesn’t eat like this when we’re out with his parents or having dinner with friends. The first time he did it I thought he was joking. The second time, I thought he was just really hungry. Now I realize this is the way he eats. We have known each other two years, so we have had plenty of time to get acquainted.

How do I tell him his eating behavior gets under my skin? I don’t want any children we have to learn these habits. Jeff has a tender heart, and I don’t want to hurt his feelings. — Looking Askance in Texas

Dear Looking: You are about two years late in telling your fiance how his eating habits affect you. If you can’t discuss something as basic as this, how are you going to dis-cuss the challenging problems that will inevitably arise after the two of you are married?

You said yourself that Jeff knows better. He eats this

way in front of you because he thinks you don’t mind. So please level with him now — before the wedding. It won’t hurt his feelings; it will set him straight.

Dear Abby: I am 13, 5 feet 3, and weigh 90 pounds. I just started high school. My parents think I’m starv-ing myself. They call me “disgusting,” “horrifying,” and my personal favorite — “ugly.” My brother calls me “Skinny Bones Jones.”

I do not starve myself, nor am I anorexic or bulimic. I just happen to get full from small portions rather quickly — or I may not be hungry at the moment. At night I do some quick exercises and yoga positions so I won’t feel bloated from meals. Some of my friends have said they think I have become anorexic.

Because of all this my self-esteem is at an all-time low. I used to weigh more than

100 pounds, but recently I got the stomach flu, which explains my sudden weight loss and fullness. Am I wrong in thinking I’m healthy? Are my family and friends right that I’m anorexic? Please help. — 90-Pound Girl in Fullerton, Calif.

Dear 90-Pound Girl: When “everyone” starts telling us something we don’t want to hear, it may be time to pay at-tention. One sentence in your letter tells me that you may have an eating disorder — it’s your comment about need-ing to exercise after eating because you feel bloated.

You should be evaluated by a nurse at school, if there is one, or by a physician to be sure you’re getting enough nutrients to remain healthy, that you’re not overdoing the exercise, and if there could be a physical problem causing the feeling you’re interpreting as “bloat.”

Please share what I have said with your parents be-cause it’s important. Name-calling and ridicule are not the answer to a problem like the one you may have.

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Man of her dreams needs wake-up call on manners

Oct. 27, 2009Because sensitivities to your

surroundings are likely to be greatly increased in the year ahead, so will your successes. You will make the most of those lucky breaks that could be com-ing your way.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Because you could be excep-tionally fortunate with regard to end results, clear up and finalize that important matter. Everything will go your way.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- You won’t be simply spin-ning your wheels in the idea department. Your talents will be in high gear, working on a project bigger than you’ve ever imagined.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Working on materially motivated projects is likely to be considered fun and games for you. There’s also a strong possibility that you’ll make a financial killing.

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004 LegalsSTATE OF

NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF UNIONIN THE GENERAL

COURT OF JUSTICESUPERIOR

COURT DIVISIONBEFORE THE CLERK

FILE #09E37ADMINISTRATOR

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 Ronald I. El-liott, Sr. deceased.This is to notify all persons having claims against said Estate to present them to the undersigned on or be-fore the 5th day of January 2010, or the same will be pleaded in bar of their re-covery. All persons indebt-ed to said estate please make immediate payment.This 2nd day of October, 2009.Marguerite S. Elliott1011 Lost CoveMatthews, NC 28104October 6, 13,20, 27, 2009

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

IN THE FAMILY COURTCOUNTY OF AIKEN

SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

South Carolina Department of

Social Services,Plaintiff,

vAdele Quintanilla also or previously known as Adele Marie Griego, Ricardo Omar Quintanilla,Gilberto Lopez, John Doe, John Roe, andRicardo Omar Quintanilla, Jr., DOB 6-08-00James Alexander Quinta-nilla, DOB 8-20-03,Minors under the under the age of eighteen

Defendants.SUMMONS and

NOTICES(Termination

of Parental Rights)Case No. 09-DR-02-1036

TO: RICARDO OMAR QUINTANILLA; GILBERTO LOPEZ, JOHN DOE and /or JOHN ROE:YOU ARE HEREBY SUM-MONED and required to answer the complaint for termination of your parental rights in and to the minor child in this action, the orig-inal of which has been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Aiken County, South Carolina on the 23rd day of June, 2009, a copy of which will be delivered to you upon request; and to serve a copy of your an-swer to the complaint upon the undersigned attorney for the plaintiff at the ad-dress below, within thirty (30) days following the date of service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service. If you fail to answer within said time, an affidavit of default will be entered against you, and the plaintiff will proceed to seek to terminate your pa-rental rights to the above-captioned child(ren). PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that you have the right to be represented by an attor-ney in all proceedings con-cerning this matter and you are advised to have your attorney present with you at any further hearing. If you are financially unable to afford legal counsel, then you should apply to the AIKEN County Clerk of Court for the appointment of counsel to represent you, upon proper showing of indigence. YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that a final hearing concern-ing the relief requested by DSS including termi-nation of parental rights will be held on December 10, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. at the Aiken County Family Court, 109 Park Avenue, SE, Aiken, South Caroli-na 29801. If you do not ap-pear, the relief requested by the Plaintiff may be granted in your absence. This is an action for termi-nation of parental rights. BE SO NOTIFIED.Amanda F. WhittleAttorney for the PlaintiffAiken County Department of Social ServicesPost Office Box 1268, Aiken, SC 29802803-643-1901 telephone803-642-2128 facsimileOctober 6, 13,20, 27, 2009

07 SP 0694AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

NORTH CAROLINA, UNION COUNTY

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust

004 Legalsexecuted by MICHAEL W. JONES and HAZEL H. JONES, Married to Edward W. Perry and Timothy J. Gough Montgomery Co., MD & An, Trustee(s), which was dated January 21, 1998 and recorded on January 26, 1998 in Book 1051 at Page 0568, 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, Lisa S. Campbell, 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 No-vember 3, 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 Number 25 of Woodfield Subdivi-sion, as shown on those plats recorded in Plat Cabi-net E, at File Numbers 396 and 397, Union County Register of Deeds, to which plat reference is hereby made for a more complete description. Save and except any re-leases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of re-cord. Said property is commonly known as 2109 Phala Court, Monroe, NC 28112. 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 Michael Jones and wife, Hazel Jones. 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 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

004 Legalswill 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. Lisa S. Campbell Substitute Trustee PO Box 4006 Wilmington, NC 28406 PHONE: 910-392-4971 FAX: 910-392-8051 File No.: 07-08010-FC01 October 20, 27, 2009

PUBLIC NOTICENOTICE IS HEREBY GIV-EN that the Union County Board of Commissioners will on Monday, November 2, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. in the Commissioners’ Board Room, first floor, Union County Government Cen-ter (formerly the Union County Courthouse), 500 North Main Street, Monroe, North Carolina, conduct a public hearing to receive comments from the public on the amendments and petitions set forth below.

TEXT AMENDMENT: UNION COUNTY LAND

USE ORDINANCE PROPOSED

AMENDMENTThis proposed amendment will apply to Sections 400(a)(1), 401(b)(1), and 402(a)(1) of the Article XXIV Flood Damage Pre-vention of the Union Coun-ty Land Use Ordinance. The current ordinance al-lows any development per-mitted by the Table of Uses to occur within floodplain areas as long as the appli-cant can demonstrate that the proposed development will have no impact on base flood elevations. The proposed amendment will prohibit new development as well as the addition of new fill material to flood-plain areas and will restrict uses within floodplain areas to agricultural activi-ties, lawns, gardens, parks, trails, golf courses, and open space. The uses list-ed above are restricted in that before the use can be established the applicant must demonstrate that the proposed use will not have any effect on base flood el-evations. Essential serv-ices as allowed in Sections 400(a)(2), 401(b)(2), and 402(a)(2) are unaffected by this amendment. The proposed amend-ments may later undergo, without further notice, sub-stantial changes resulting from objections, debate, and discussions at the hearing. The full text and/or support-ing documents relative to the proposed amendments are available for inspection and study at the Union County Planning Depart-ment located at 407 North Main Street, Room #149, Monroe, NC from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Anyone having any questions on the above petition or amendments may contact the Planning Department at 704-283-3565. Any person requesting a sign language interpreter, please call (704) 225-8554 and make a request at least 96 hours in advance. Any other special assis-tance needed by an individ-ual due to a disability under the Americans with Disabil-ities Act should call (704) 283-3810 and make a re-quest at least 96 hours in advance. Lynn G. West Clerk to the BoardOctober 21, 27, 2009

09 SP 1196NOTICE OF

FORECLOSURE SALENORTH CAROLINA,

UNION COUNTYUnder and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by PATRICE A.

004 LegalsMATTHEWS, unmarried to WALLACE, PITTMAN & WEBB, PLLC, Trustee(s), which was dated March 10, 2006 and recorded on March 13, 2006 in Book 4093 at Page 415, 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 No-vember 5, 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 71 OF THE RESERVE SUBDIVI-SION, PHASE 5, MAP 2 OF 2, AS SAME IS SHOWN ON MAP THERE-OF RECORDED IN PLATCABINET I, FILE #101 IN THE UNION COUNTYPUBLIC REGISTRY. Save and except any re-leases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of re-cord. Said property is commonly known as 2414 Lord Anson Drive, Waxhaw, NC 28173. 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 Patrice A. Mat-thews. 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 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-

004 LegalsLECTOR. 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.: 09-05467-FC01 October 27, 2009November 3, 2009

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Waxhaw Board of Commissioners will hold a Public Hearing on Tues-day, November 10, 2009 at 6:30 PM at the Town of Waxhaw Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad Building, located at 3500 Waxhaw Parkway, Waxhaw, NC on the follow-ing items:TA-2009-016 -Text Amend-ment to remove supple-mental regulations and amend the definition for Auto Parts & Supply Store (Section 8 & 11 of the UDO).TA-2009-01– Text Amend-ment to allow Conditional Zoning (Section 4, 5, & 16 of the UDO)TA-2009-02– Text Amend-ment to allow seasonal out-door sales (Section 11 & 13 of the UDO)The public is invited to at-tend the hearing and make comments on the proposed changes. Substantial changes may occur to the requests based on com-ments from the Public Hearing. The Mayor re-serves the right to recess the public hearings to an-other place and time. For further information regard-ing the cases listed above and/or directions to the meeting place, please con-tact the Town of Waxhaw Department of Planning and Community Develop-ment at (704) 843-2195.The Town of Waxhaw does not discriminate on the ba-sis of disability. If you need an auxiliary aid or service or other accommodations in order to attend or fully participate in this public hearing, please contact the Town Clerk at 704-843-2195 at least 48 hours prior to the meeting so that your request can be considered.October 27, 2009November 3, 2009

NORTH CAROLINAUNION COUNTY

IN THE GENERALCOURT OF JUSTICE

DISTRICT COURT DIVISION

09 CVD 03538Vanessa P. Chance Plaintiffv.Robert J. TalbertDefendant

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS

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COURT DIVISIONBEFORE THE CLERK

FILE #9E0562ADMINISTRATOR

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 Carolyn H. Rouse, deceased.This is to notify all persons having claims against said Estate to present them to the undersigned on or be-fore the 5th day of January 2010, or the same will be pleaded in bar of their re-covery. All person indebted to said estate please make immediate payment.This 2nd day of October 2009.Marshall Rouse, Co-Ex1507 Billess Ct.Rockhill SC 29732Donald Rouse, Co-Ex4715 New Salem Rd.Marshville NC 28103October 6, 13,20, 27, 2009

09 SP 1246NOTICE OF

FORECLOSURE SALENORTH CAROLINA,

UNION COUNTYUnder and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by David W. Baker and Spouse San-dra L. Baker to Angie Palmer, Trustee(s), which was dated August 20, 2008 and recorded on August 20, 2008 in Book 04961 at Page 0156, 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 No-vember 5, 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: ALL THAT CERTAIN PAR-CEL OF LAND IN BU-FORD TOWNSHIP, UN-ION COUNTY, STATE OF NC, AS MORE FULLY DE-SCRIBED IN BOOK 4013 PAGE 0429 ID# 04066019, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOTNO. 9, SECTION 1 BROOME WOOD SUBDI-VISION. RECORDED IN PLAT CABINET B, FILE 382 A ALSO INCLUDED 1995 FIRE MOBILE HOME VIN NO MY9535331ABF BEING THE SAME FEE SIMPLE PROPERTYCONVEYED BY GENER-AL WARRANTY WITH LIEN DEED FROM KEN-NETH D. BAKER and TRE-NA L. BAKER WIFE DAT-ED 12/12/2005 RECORD-ED ON 12/15/2005 IN BOOK 4013, PAGE 0429 IN UNION COUNTY RE-CORDS, STATE OF NC. Save and except any re-leases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of re-cord. Said property is commonly known as 4305 Medlin Road, Monroe, NC 28112. 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.

004 LegalsSaid 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 David W. Baker and wife, Sandra L. Baker. 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 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.: 09-11760-FC01October 27, 2009November 3, 2009



Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by BOBBIE A. FISHER by Ricardo S. Fisher, his Attorney-in-Fact AND, RICARDO S. FISHER to MORRIS AND SCHNEIDER, Trustee(s), which was dated July 23, 2007 and recorded on July 24, 2007 in Book 4633 at Page 8, Union County Reg-istry, North Carolina. Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the

004 Legalsundersigned, 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 No-vember 2, 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 11, AN-NISTON GROVE, as same is shown on final plat there-of recorded in Cabinet J at file(s) 177-180, Sheet 1-4, Union County, North Caro-lina Public Registry. And being in all respects the identical property con-veyed in Deed Book 4276, Page 432, Union County Registry. Save and except any re-leases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of re-cord. Said property is commonly known as 1301 Anniston Place, 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 Zoe Property LLC. 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 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-

004 LegalsLECTOR. 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.: 09-03595-FC01 October 20, 27, 2009



Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by EUGENE C SAMUELS AKA EUGENE SAMUELS AND WIFE VALERIE R SAMUELS to GRIFFIN, BRUNSON & PERLE L.L.P., Trustee(s), which was dated Decem-ber 5, 2006 and recorded on December 6, 2006 in Book 04391 at Page 0024, 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 No-vember 3, 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 127 BLACKSTONE PHASE 4 ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RE-CORDED IN PLAT CABI-NET I FILE 269 IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGIS-TER OF DEEDS OF UN-ION COUNTY NORTH CAROLINASave and except any re-leases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of re-cord. Said property is commonly known as 1001 Arroyo Vis-ta Lane, 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,

004 Legalson, 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 Eugene C. Sa-muels and wife, Valerie R. Samuels. 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 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.: 09-04488-FC01 October 20, 27, 2009

AMENDED Notice of

Foreclosure Sale NORTH CAROLINA

06-SP-0114 FR# 200600126 Union County

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Shea Yovan, a married woman to Trust-ee Services of Carolina, LLC, Trustee(s), dated July 16, 2004, and recorded Ju-ly 21, 2004, in Book 3506, on Page 236, and re-re-corded on 08/02/2004, in Book 3517, on Page 219, Union County Public Regis-try, the undersigned Substi-tute Trustee declares as follows: There is a default by the Owner or other per-son(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Deed of Trust, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; and the undersigned, on

004 Legalsbehalf of Peter J. Underhill or Frances S. White or Kirsten K. Gallant, either one of whom may act, hav-ing 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 Caro-lina, and the Owner and Holder of the Note evidenc-ing said indebtedness hav-ing directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at the Courthouse door or other usual and customary location as designated by the Clerk's Office on No-vember 10, 2009, at 1:30 pm, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the real property secured by the above-described Deed of Trust recorded July 21, 2004 in Book 3506, on Page 236, and re-recorded on 08/02/2004, in Book 3517, on Page 219, situat-ed in Union County, North Carolina, as more particu-larly described therein, which legal description is made a part hereof and in-corporated herein by refer-ence as if fully set forth herein. Said property as shown on the above-de-scribed Deed of Trust is commonly known as 1009 Cadbrerry Court, Indian Trail, North Carolina 28079. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property within 10 days of the post-ing of this notice is/are Shea Yovan and Spouse of Shea Yovan. In the event the property which is the subject of this Notice of Sale is residential real property with less than fif-teen (15) rental units, an order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the pur-chaser and against the par-ty or parties in possession by the Clerk of Superior Court. Any person who oc-cupies the property pur-suant to a rental agree-ment entered into or re-newed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiv-ing the notice of sale, ter-minate the rental agree-ment upon ten (10) days’notice to the landlord. The tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of termination. Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of forty-five cents (45¢) per one hun-dred dollars ($100.00), up to a maximum of $500.00. A cash deposit (cashier's check or certified funds, no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the pur-chase price, or seven hun-dred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the ex-piration of the statutory up-set bid period, all of the re-maining amounts are im-mediately due and owing. Should the foreclosure ac-tion be dismissed or any portion have to be redone for any reason, the bid de-posit will be returned to the third party bidder and no other remedies will be as-sertable. The third party bidder acts upon their own risk if they expend any funds in favor of the fore-closed property prior to the receipt of a deed from the Substitute Trustee. Said sale will be made, but with-out covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, re-garding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. There are no rep-resentations of warranty re-lating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relat-ing to the property being of-fered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, and encum-brances of record. Dated: October 6, 2009Peter J. Underhill or Fran-ces S. White or Kirsten K. Gallant, either one of

004 Legalswhom may act, Substitute TrusteeNC Bar No. 6418 P.O. Box 30368 Charlotte, NC 28230-0368 704.909.5656 TAC: 864761N October 27, 2009November 3, 2009

KMA 97395770 NORTH CAROLINA

UNION COUNTYIN THE GENERAL

COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR

COURT DIVISION FILE NO. 08 CVS 2735

BRANCH BANKING AND TRUST COMPANYPlaintiff vs.RICHARD W. LANEY, TERRI A. LANEY, PRICE’S DRYWALL CO., INC. (solely in its capacity as a lien holder), BB&TBANKCARD CORPORA-TION (solely in its capacity MAas a lienholder), THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENTOF THE TREASURY, IN-TERNAL REVENUE SERVICE (solely in its ca-pacity as a lienholder) and BB&T COLLATERALSERVICE CORPORATION (solely in its capacity as Substitute Trustee) Defendants

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in that certain deed of trust executed by the Defend-ants Richard W. Laney and Terri A. Laney dated De-cember 12, 2002 to the De-fendant BB&T Collateral Service Corporation, as Trustee for the Plaintiff, Branch Banking ad Trust Company, recorded in Book 2010, Page 354, Un-ion County Registry; de-fault having been made in payment of the indebted-ness thereby secured; and the necessary findings to permit foreclosure having been made by the Union County Superior Court pur-suant to the Judgment en-tered on August 17, 2009 in this action; the under-signed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public auction to the highest bid-der for cash, the property conveyed in said deed of trust, the same lying and being in the County of Un-ion and State of North Car-olina, and more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 1 of Minor Subdivision for Craig B. and Daisy E. Sheldon, con-taining 2.86 acres, more or less, as shown on survey by Richard L. Morrison, NCRLS, dated July 15, 1996 and recorded in Plat Cabinet E, File 345, Union County Registry. PROPERTYADDRESS/LOCATION:2804 Landsford Rd., Marshville, NC 28103 DATE OF SALE:November 5, 2009 TIME OF SALE 11:00 A.M. LOCATION OF SALE:Union County Courthouse RECORD OWNER(S):Richard W. Laney and Ter-ri A. Laney TERMS OF THE SALE: (1). This sale will be made subject to: (a) all prior liens, encumbrances, ease-ments, right-of-ways, re-strictive covenants or other restrictions of record affect-ing the property; (b) proper-ty taxes and assessments for the year in which the sale occurs, as well as any prior years; © federal tax liens with respect to which proper notice was not giv-en to the Internal Revenue Service; (d) federal tax liens to which proper notice was given to the Internal Revenue Service and to which the right of redemp-tion applies; (e) the provi-sions of the Judgment en-tered in this action on Au-gust 17, 2009; and (f) the confirmation of the sale by the Court pursuant to the provisions of N.C.G.S. §1-339.28. (2) The property is being sold "as is". Neither the beneficiary of the deed of trust, nor the undersigned Substitute Trustee, makes any warranties or represen-tations concerning the property, including but not limited to, the physical or environmental condition of the property. Further, the undersigned Substitute

004 LegalsTrustee makes no title war-ranties with respect to the title to the property. (3) The highest bidder will be responsible for the pay-ment of revenue stamps payable to the Register of Deeds and any final court and/or auditing fees paya-ble to the Clerk of Superior Court which are assessed on the high bid resulting from this foreclosure sale. (4) At the time of the sale, the highest bidder will be required to make a cash deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid, or $750.00, whichever is greater, with the remaining balance of the bid amount to be paid on the day following the ex-piration of the applicable ten (10) day upset bid peri-od. (5) Any person who occu-pies the property pursuant to a rental agreement en-tered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the land-lord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the ten-ant is liable for rent due un-der the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. (6) An order for posses-sion of the property being sold may be issued pur-suant to N.C.G.S. §45-21.29 in favor of the pur-chaser and against the par-ty or parties in possession, by the Clerk of Superior Court of the county in which the property is sold.This the 18th day of September, 2009. L. Trey Taylor, Substitute Trustee P. O. Box 1616 Goldsboro, NC 27533-1616 (919) 734-1841 October 27, 2009November 3, 2009

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060 Pets & SuppliesShih Tzu pups 6wks 1 fe-

males 1 male $300ea. 1st shots (843)622-5681

Toy Poodles male & fe-male call for more infor-mation (704)272-7778

062 Homes for PetsFree 7mo old full size male

Chihuahua tan & wht for adoption (704)218-6022

Free black Lab & German Shep mix female, all shots, nurtured good home (704)283-6415

Free to good home beautiful Himalayan cat. Call (704)242-1496.

MERCHANDISE

069 AppliancesRefrigerator & Stoves

$99.99 Washers & Dryers $79.99

704-649-3821

071 FurnitureA beautiful 6 pcs. Cherry

set brand new in boxes, Must sell $425 (704)918-8401

A Brand New Queen Pillow Top mattress set still in plastic $150, (704)998-8044

077 JewelrySquare diamond cluster

ring appraised value $800 will sell for $550, call (704)282-8209

078 Feed/Seed/Plants

50 lb bag Fescue Grass Seed, 98.5% germ. $25Ea. 704-254-7775

PINE NEEDLES$3.85 / Bale. Free Delivery

(704)291-7149

090 Miscellaneous

42 inch 2 speed portable fax, new condition, $150 (704)292-1518

Metal Roofing 3ft wide $1.40 LF 1-803-789-5500

Polk/Tallis speakers, high hand carved, black, brand new 300 watts ea. $199 (704)391-8261

WOODEN PALLETSFREE. Pick up at The En-

quirer-Journal, 500 W. Jefferson St., Monroe, Monday-Friday, 8am-4pm

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 LoanAdvance 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 Apartments

2br 1.5ba Condo very quiet lawn maintenance in-clude $600mo+dep (704)507-0722

Camelot Apt free power for 1yr no dep. $125wk,

$50mo. water no pets, $175 to move in weekly.

3605 Evans Mill Rd. Pageland SC 843-672-5616

(843)672-7445

★ Monroe Apt. ★Special 2br 2ba

Move in by Nov. 1st. Get Dec & Jan FREE

Beautiful & quiet paid water

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 ★★★★★★★★★★★

112 ApartmentsManor Ridge ApartmentsFREE Oct. Rent for 3BR Certain Restriction Apply

(704)233-0482

Newly RemodeledTownhouse 2bd/1.5 ba

$600mo.704-283-3097

113 Duplexes2br 1ba 900sf $595mo.

3br 1.5ba 1050 sf $695mo. both, great location in

Wingate cul de sac dep & ref’s req’d (704)283-6490

114 Houses For Rent$200/mo! 4 bed 2 ba! 5% dn, 15 yrs @ 8%!

For Listings 800-749-8106 x H611

2BR, 1BA, heat/air, garage/ workshop. Marshville. $530/Mo. + deposit. (704)624-5105

3br 2ba $750mo. + $750 dep. Monroe area. Refer-ences required. (980)722-3700

3br home Waxhaw Rd,west of Monroe no pets, AC ref’s & dep. $650mo. (512)771-9113

4BR 2BA, 1400sf, New Salem/Piedmont dist. Carl Polk Rd. $850mo + dep. (704)385-8218

Nearly new 4br 2ba on S Church St, Monroe, $950mo. (704)289-5410

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

114 Houses For RentNew Salem/Piedmont

2000sf 2br 1.5ba w/bonus room, split level w/13ac pasture, w/access to horses, barn, out bldgs water/elec gd deer hunt-ing, sm pond creek $1200 unfurnished, $1500 full furnish 704-201-1197

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

3 Bd 2 ba only $24,900! Priced to Sell! For Listings

800-749-8106 x B002

FSBO Lets Make A Deal!new home Unionville 3400sf dropped price 50K, 704-507-0492

128 Lots & AcreageFSBO 19ac. 20 yr old pond,

Mt Pisgah community, $59,000 owner financing (803)427-3888

MOBILE HOMES

138 Mobile Homes - Rent

2 & 3 BR mobile homeson 1ac lots 10 min from

Monroe cross NC/SC line. call (843)672-7445 Atkinson Rentals

138 Mobile Homes - RentWingate: 2 mo free rent 3BR 2BA $600 Cent H/A. No pets. 704-451-8408

140 Mobile Homes - Sale

$500.00 DN moves you in. Call and ask me how. 704-225-8850

140 Mobile Homes - SaleFor 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

call for details (704)225-8850

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