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Legionnaires’ hits nursing homeFacility water shut off, Raeford’s water okay, offi cials say

Festival exodus begins, 30 years recalled

BY CATHARIN SHEPARD

Staff writer

A resident at Autumn Care nursing home tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease last week and nursing home staff are working with city, county and state offi cials to make

sure the disease is contained and not a threat to the public at large.

Legionnaires’ disease causes a severe form of pneumonia. The bacterium that causes it is carried through water. People become ill when they breathe in steam from the water that contains a concentrated

amount of the bacteria. Legionnaires’ disease cannot be spread from person to person contact.

Nursing home director Danielle Yates said that the nursing home learned of the woman’s infection on Friday and immedi-ately turned off the water in the sinks and

showers. “We’re trying to be proactive,” she said.

The nursing home had a conference call with state public health offi cials Saturday. The state ordered the nursing home to test all residents who have had pneumonia in

(See LEGIONNAIRES’, page 6A)

Hoke High ramps up weight room, opens to all

BY KEN MACDONALD

We’ve again started a band of sorts in our youth group. We’re going to commit music.

The fi rst night of practice I summoned up a basic lesson from high school Music Theory and tried to channel Mary Archie McNeill. “In the C-chord, C is one, E is three, and F is fi ve,

right?” The kids looked at me like I was growing corn out of my ears. “In the key of C, the C-chord is Roman numeral one,” I said, beginning to get confused myself. “And the F-chord is Ro-man numeral fi ve.”

“Four,” Miriam, our music director, interjected.

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Hoke High School has a brand new weight room. All students, athletes and non-ath-letes too will now have access to weight lifting, strength and conditioning.

“I think it’s an investment in our children’s future to be able to do this,” school board

member Barbara Buie said last week. Della Maynor, a school board member, said, “All kids can use the weight room in-cluding my granddaughter who is on the tennis team. What a great addition to Hoke High.”

Hoke High Athletics Direc-tor Gary Brigman said the weight room had been in the smaller Gibson area in a room with four stations since 1995.

“Now we have 16 stations with plenty of room and a new state-of-the-art padded fl ooring,” Brigman said. The idea of up-grading the weight room came about when Brigman made a presentation to the Board of Education about the athletics department. The Board of Edu-cation and Superintendent Dr. Freddie Williamson made (See WEIGHT ROOM, page 4A)

BY CATHARIN SHEPARD

Staff writer

Ashley Shortridge was born and raised in the time of the turkey.

Shortridge, 29, has been around almost as long as the North Carolina Turkey Festival itself. Com-ing to the festival was a special occasion all during her childhood. She was there “always, every year,” she said.

“My mom has worked some of the vendor booths for her company and we’ve always come

to the Turkey Festival, all the different events,” Shortridge said.

She’s part of a generation who grew up with the festival, introduced it to their own children and even stepped up to help run it. Little did she know when volunteered for the committee that she would be part of planning the very last North Carolina Turkey Festival – and the very fi rst North Carolina Poultry Festival.

The veteran planners and the newcomers to the committee joined forces this year to put on the

(See FESTIVAL, page 6A)

A man riding a bicycle along a Hoke County road was struck and killed by an unknown driver Monday night, according to the North Carolina Highway Patrol.

George Terrance Lashawn, 28, of the 200 block of Tonya Loop Road in Raeford was killed when he attempted to cross Highway 401 and was struck by a car.

The accident happened around 10:11 p.m. near the intersection of Highway 401 and Highway 401 Business close to the Raeford Walmart.

The vehicle was apparently driving south (See BICYCLIST, page 6A)

Authorities arrested a FedEx employee last week for allegedly stealing over $12,000 worth of cell phones from the company, according to the Hoke County Sheriff’s (See THEFT, page 6A)

Bicyclistkilled, driver leaves scene

FedEx workerarrested in theft

Saying goodbye to the car

Swan songHoke High 9th grade students Justin Heath and Nicholas Cascasan admire the Dale Earnhardt show car used to promote the National Guard, but they can kiss it goodbye. The Guard cancelled its $32 million sponsorship contract with Earnhardt after a report said it netted zero new recruits in 2012. Recruiter Art Slike said it would be the car’s last appearance at Hoke High. (Ken MacDonald photo)

RememberingA small crowd gathered at the Hoke courthouse Thursday to remember the ter-rorist attacks of September 11, 2001. (Ken MacDonald photo)

School board members visit. (Hal Nunn photo)

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Shortridge (left), and Jackson Webb (left) and Pittman

• Turkey Festival Parade Thursday, 5:30 • Big Day, Saturday

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There was a good crowd last Thursday at Our Daily Bread restaurant in downtown Rockfish for a community meeting, sponsored by the Hoke County GOP. The meeting was an opportunity to catch up with neighbors, and hear from local leaders, such as Ed Brock and Brownie Brown. Republican county commission candidate John Harry updated the crowd on the DOT project to alleviate traffic congestion in Rockfish. If you have taken Lindsay Road into Rockfish during the eve-ning commute, you know how far the traffic can back up. A solution to the problem is still years away, but at least it is in the works.

Several candidates for Hoke County Board of Education spoke at the meeting, and based on their comments, the students

and staffs of our schools are in great hands for years to come. Though they have very different backgrounds and experiences, they are united in a desire to serve their community. These candidates, plus the accom-plishments of the current board, superintendent, and schools, bode well for education in Hoke County.

The 2014 general election is about six weeks away, and if you haven’t done so yet, you should familiarize yourself with the commissioner candidates and incumbents. The election winners will decide how much

property taxes you pay and how those dollars are spent. In many ways, they will determine the future of the place you call home. Find out which ones have the intelligence, character and values to effectively lead our great county.

While the outcome of the election is weeks away, we know there will be a change on the board of commission-ers. Vice-chair Ellen McNeill did not seek re-election, and Commissioner Jean Powell lost in the May primary. These ladies served the citizens of Hoke County well, and always based their decisions on what they believed was best for the county. Best wishes to both.

Michael Lindsay is a life-long Hoke resident, and can be reached at [email protected].

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“My daughter and I were brought in to talk about her ‘learning disabili-ties’ and how she was not applying herself . They talked about punish-ments and incentives . After listening to everyone I asked . ‘If I asked you to build a nuclear power plant could you do it ?’ They all answered ‘no’ So I ask well what if i took a way all your free time at work , and did not allow you to go to the office party because you could not build it ? Could you build it then ?’ Again the answer came back No. So I ask ‘Okay then how about if I promise you a huge reward, could you build it then ?’ Again they all answered no . So I say ‘what if I read you a man-ual on how to build a nuclear power plant, gave you people who were educated and worked building nuclear power plants to show you how to build one, gave you every tool, all the materials to build one, could you build one now’ One said no still, but the rest said maybe. Well I said to them my kid cant do this work if you punish her for not doing it, or promise her a pizza party. She will only do this work if you put her with people who can help her understand. The world is a power plant to her.” — Adriene Kmiko Pauley, in Facebook comment on the posting of an autistic child’s class assignment

Today’s homework (Notes on education)

I was visited over Labor Day weekend by two of my old musi-cal buddies. Bobby Matthews and I met in 1974 as members of a band in Chapel Hill. Bobby sang and played organ in the band. His singing was powerful and made a lasting impression on me. The band was short lived, but in an artistic crucible, vigorously stirred by the interpersonal relationships of a group of diverse personalities, a bond was forged. We went our separate ways for 40 years.

I met Richard Hurt in Atlanta around 1979. I lived in Atlanta for seven years and Richard’s house was a safe haven from all the musical and life madness that was happening at the time. Richard plays guitar and we often jammed in his basement in the eighties. We have kept in touch through the years but have seen less of each other as the years passed.

Bobby resurfaced a couple of years ago. Always a literary junkie, he had earned a PhD in literature and was working for LSU in Baton Rouge. Bobby had retained his inter-est in music and singing, although he had done no performing for years. When invited to come up to Frog Holler for one of the big jams, he jumped at the chance to rekindle the musical fire.

When Bobby arrived at Frog Holler for the first time, having been estranged for 40 years, we didn’t know exactly what to expect. There had been many forks in both of our roads over the years, and this reunion might never have hap-

pened. Any doubts were dispelled almost immediately and we found that we had an even better basis for friendship than we did in our early twenties. Bobby has now visited several times and we have begun recording together. He has been bitten by the bug.

Richard is a hard guy to pry out of Atlanta and we have seen little of him over the past decade. He rejoined the fold in the past year and, upon hearing that Bobby and I were doing a record, wanted to get in on the action. Low and behold, out of nowhere, Bobby and Richard hatched a plan to come up for a jam session that we would attempt to record. I enthusiastically agreed and we settled on a date.

Bobby and Richard rendez-voused in Atlanta on Saturday morning and drove up. I had played in Pinehurst Friday night and spent Saturday preparing to record the proceedings. It was almost 6 p.m. when they pulled into the Holler and we proceeded with the real reason behind the trip. Party! We had hoped to get some work done that night, but that was secondary. Richard had a little too much fun and retired at a respectable hour while Bobby and I reinforced our commitment to record by working on a few songs

until around 2 a.m. I think we ac-complished something but I’m not really sure. After doing the dishes, I hit the bed around 3 a.m.

Sunday was set to be the major recording day and it was shaping up to be a hot session, and I mean HOT! The studio is not air-conditioned and the temperature was easing up on 93 degrees. By the time Bobby Johnson, the drummer, and Gary Parker, the bass player, had arrived and set up, it was sweltering in the Holler, but we wouldn’t let that stop us.

This might sound like fun and games, and it is, but the technical challenges of trying to get a good recording of a live jam session are daunting, and playing while being recorded is a little stressful. Once we had done all we could do to solve those problems, we kicked it off with some Chuck Berry. You can’t plan these jams too much without taking the fun out of it, and we began picking one tune after the next from a list. We soon abandoned the list and just followed our musi-cal whims. After three hours or so, Bobby Johnson had to leave and Geoff Brone took over on drums. We paused for Charlotte’s great dinner, and then recorded until around 10 p.m. I am energized by jamming, but I was pretty burned out after the preparation, the stress of recording, the heat and a long day.

Mixing the recording will take work but I am sure we got some good stuff. More importantly, we had a great time with great friends.

More later.

Started off with a little Chuck Berry

At the end of a two-day confer-ence about World War I at UNC-Chapel Hill, I asked a leading military historian what approach he would recommend to the United States to deal with the challenge of ISIS.

I will tell you about his response in a minute.

The World War I conference was one of a series of planned events to commemorate the 100th anniversary of that Great War and to learn what lessons might help us deal with present day challenges.

There are plenty of such lessons according to the series coordinator, UNC-CH’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities. “World War I exerted enormous influence on domestic and foreign policy, literally reshaping international trade, military science, gender and work roles and creating enduring nation states.”

But with our country at the be-ginning of another war, what about guidance that could help us avoid the mistakes World War I partici-pants made?

For instance, all the combating countries, especially the Germans, counted on a short war. The Germans thought they could quickly defeat France as they had done less than 50 years earlier. Then they would apply their full strength against Rus-sia, defeat that country, and take the leading role in Europe.

But there was no quick victory.The French, with their British al-

lies and the help of a late push from the Americans, stopped the German

war machine. The four years of trench warfare that followed wore Germany down to a humiliating loss.

The lesson: Plans and hopes for quick endings of any sort are often dashed. America’s recent military experiences reinforce this lesson.

Notwithstanding initial patriotic enthusiasm and support, by the end of World War I, popular uprisings toppled the governments of Ger-many, Austria, and Russia. Even in the United States, the same voters who had solidly re-elected Woodrow Wilson in 1916 handed his party a crushing defeat in the congressional elections in November 1918, the same month the war ended.

The lesson: Leaders taking their countries to war must be prepared to accept humiliating defeats adminis-tered by the people at home.

What advice, then, could a British military historian give to help the U.S. respond to the ISIS challenge?

“Do like we did with the Mahdi,” he told me.

I asked him what he meant.“Go in and wipe them out, and

then go home.”This advice made sense in a

way. With its trained forces, mod-ern weapons, and air power, the U.S. has capability to destroy the massed forces of ISIS on the desert

battlefield. But the U.S. has not shown that it can find and destroy scattered, motivated enemy fight-ers in complicated terrain or urban settings.

So the historian’s advice made sense. It made sense until I read a little more about the Mahdi.

Here is a summary of what I learned. In the 1870s, Egypt, which ruled the Sudan, was coming under British control. Meanwhile, a Muslim cleric, the Mahdi, pro-claimed himself redeemer of the Islamic world and began a rebellion against the Egyptians. His armies slaughtered the Egyptian forces. When Britain sent its own troops to confront the Mahdi, the result was a disaster for the British, a complete defeat and massacre at Khartoum in 1885.

Surely the historian was not suggesting this pathway to deal with ISIS.

Later, however, in 1898, the Brit-ish sent a stronger force with modern weapons. It confronted the Mahdist army and destroyed it.

“But,” I had asked the historian, “did the British actually go home after the victory?”

“They did,” he said. “But then they came back, and that was a mistake.”

A final lesson comes from New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who recently wrote, “There are three things in life that you should never do ambivalently: get married, buy a house or go to war. Alas, we’re about to do No. 3.”

Go in and wipe out ISIS?One on One

D. G. Martin

September 17, 2014 THE NEWS-JOURNAL Raeford, N.C 3A

Obituaries

District Court

Sheriff BlotterThe Hoke Sheriff’s Office reported

the following recent incidents:September 1

Larceny, 6100 block of Calloway Road

Larceny, 400 block of North Horace Walters Road

Breaking/entering and larceny, 300 block of Beagle Drive

Assault on a female, 600 block of Rockfish Road

Assault on a female, 400 block of Willis Circle

Breaking and entering, larceny, 100 block of Reservation Road

Breaking and entering, larceny, 4500 block of Fayetteville Road

Simple assault, 100 block of Bostic Road

Breaking and entering, larceny, 100 block of Robin Place

Assault on a female, 3000 block of Boahn Court

Breaking and entering a motor vehicle, larceny, 7100 block of Rock-fish Road

Arrests: Johnnie Berry, 200 block of Tyler Lane, communicating threats, failure to appear; Diamond Clark, 100 block of Bostic Drive, simple assault

September 2Larceny, 300 block of Beagle DriveLarceny of a firearm, 100 block of

Dalmation DriveBreaking and entering, larceny, 200

block of Lawrence McCollum RoadBreaking and entering of an automo-

bile, 100 block of Furlong LaneLarceny, 500 block of Inverary DriveBreaking and entering, larceny, 100

block of Cross Creek DriveAssault with a dangerous weapon,

simple assault, child abuse, 100 block of Manteo Drive

Injury to personal property, 300 block of Beagle Drive

Injury to real property, 100 block of Calvert Drive

Harassing phone calls, 100 block of Natchez Drive

Communicating threats, 100 block of McDougald Drive

Possession of stolen foods, obtain-ing property by false pretense, 100 block of Paraclete Drive

Arrests: Diala Boyard Jeune, 100 block of Manteo Drive, assault with a deadly weapon, simple assault, child

abuse; Aaron Jermell Smith, 100 block of Paraclete Drive, possession of stolen goods, obtaining property by false pretense; Jaelan Rashaud Johnson, 100 block of Paraclete Drive, possession of stolen goods, obtaining property by false pretenses

September 3Assault on a female, 700 block of

Cope RoadBreaking and entering a motor

vehicle, larceny, 400 block of Eques-trian Way

Breaking and entering a motor vehicle, larceny of a firearm, 500 block of Equestrian Way

Larceny of a firearm, 900 block of Gold Hill Road

Breaking and entering a motor ve-hicle, larceny, 300 block of Porlock Way

Larceny, 100 block of Paraclete Drive

Injury to personal property, 100 block of Antioch Mobile Home Park

Breaking and entering of a motor vehicle, larceny, 600 block of Eques-trian Way

Simple assault, injury to personal property, 200 block of Blue Road

Assault on a female, 200 block of Springer Drive

Arrest: Waleid Hamoudi, 700 block of Cope Road in Red Springs, assault on a female

September 4Stalking, 100 block of Spangler

DriveCommunicating threats, assault

with a deadly weapon, assault by point-ing a gun, 100 block of Antioch Mobile Home Park

Larceny, 5200 block of Pittman Grove Church Road

Simple assault, 100 block of Lucy Lane

Larceny of canine, 1200 block of South Parker Church Road

Larceny, 8300 block of Red Springs Road

Breaking and entering, larceny, 3600 block of Fayetteville Road

Simple assault, communicating threats, 1100 block of Fairfield Circle

Larceny, 1400 block of Scott Cur-rie Road

Arrest: Carole Walker, 100 block of Lucy Lane, simple assault, com-

municating threats, injury to personal property

September 5Larceny, 4500 block of Fayetteville

RoadBreaking and entering, larceny of a

firearm, 400 block of Queenmore RoadBreaking and entering, larceny, 600

block of Chason RoadInjury to real property, 1000 block

of Chason RoadLarceny, 500 block of Inverary DriveFirst-degree trespassing, 100 block

of Jefferson DriveSimple assault, assault on a female,

100 block of Club Forge LaneArrests: Teena Ferguson Gales,

100 block of Club Forge Lane, simple assault; Christopher Lee Gales, 100 block of Club Forge Lane, assault on a female

September 6Simple assault, intersection of

Windlock Drive and South Old Wire Road

Assault on a female, 400 block of Noble Drive

Assault on a female, injury, 100 block of Watersplash Drive

Simple assault, 500 block of Ranch Road

Assault on a female, 400 block of Oakdale Gin Road

Assault on a female, 100 block of Joseph Drive

Assault on a female, 4000 block of Fayetteville Road

Breaking and entering, 2600 block of Oglesby Drive

Simple assault, 4500 block of Fay-etteville Road

Second-degree trespassing, 4600 block of Fayetteville Road

Possession of stolen property, 100 block of Paraclete Drive

September 7Possession of stolen goods, 100

block of Paraclete DriveAssault on a female, simple assault,

100 block of Shady LaneInjury to personal property, injury

to real property, 6200 block of Turn-pike Road

Breaking and entering, larceny, 6000 block of Philippi Church Road

Larceny, 100 block of Sunflower Street

Recent cases heard in Hoke County District Criminal Court:Sept. 9

Judge Regina M. Joe presiding•Chiquita Nichole Allen, 24, 202

Woodrow Lane, Raeford, exceeding posted speed, court costs

•Joseph Albert Colemanbodden, 24, 3561 Dorado Circle, Fayetteville, improper equipment—speedom-eter, $25 fine and court costs

•Avalandria N. Epps-Melvin, 38, 316 Whippletree Lane, Fayetteville, driving while license revoked, prayer for judgment, court costs; expired or no inspection, voluntary dismissal

•Taheyia Dianna Foster, 28, 4640 McNeil Road, Fayetteville, speeding 69 miles per hour in a 55-mph zone, $75 fine and court costs

•Jessenia Jasmine Garcia, 20, 1805 O’Bannon Drive, Raeford, no operator’s license, prayer for judgment, court costs

•Jake Barry Maynor, 37, 802 N. Fulton St., Raeford, assault on a female, not guilty

•Audrey Johnson McLean, 53, 4003 Daniel McLeod Road, Red Springs, speeding 29 miles per hour in a 20-mph zone, $75 fine and court costs

•Brandy McLeod, 45, 24601 Gorham Circle, Wagram, improper equipment—speedometer, $35 fine and court costs

•Tavon Triamaine McPhatter, 20, 1501 Clan Campbell Drive, Raeford, no operator’s license, 45 days sus-pended, six months unsupervised probation, $50 fine and court costs

•Marie Powers, 28, 107 Mill St., McColl, S.C., improper equip-ment—speedometer, $25 fine and

court costs•Devon Michelle Stewart, 32,

1521 Roberts Ave. West, Im-mokalee, Fla., improper equip-ment—speedometer, $69 fine and court costs

•Tina T. Wesley, 29, 707 Filter Plant Drive, Fayetteville, speeding 54 miles per hour in a 45-mph zone, $50 fine and court costs

•Rodgerick Duane Weston, 31, 6176 Foxberry Road, Fayetteville, driving while license revoked, prayer for judgment, court costsSept. 11

Judge William C. McIlwain presiding

•Kevin E. Brice, 38, 6671 Whis-pering Drive, Rural Hall, improper equipment—speedometer, $25 fine and court costs

•Sytara Neshay Buie, 26, 326 Stubbs Road, Raeford, failure to stop at stop sign or flashing red light, $50 fine and court costs

•Jason B. Burns, 34, 305 Mc-Fayden Road, Fayetteville, improper equipment—speedometer, $50 fine and court costs; no operator’s license, voluntary dismissal

•Nickolas Rocco Fazzio, 23, 133 Haywood Drive, Raeford, speeding 64 miles per hour in a 55-mph zone, $50 fine and court costs

•Willie Lamont Freeman, 41, 360 Purvis Court, Raeford, improper equipment—speedometer, $25 fine and court costs

•James Earl Harris, 24, 1675 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines, driving while license revoked, $100 fine and court costs

•Alysha Erin Howland, 25, 2114 W. 27th St., Erie, Pa., improper

Missie S. BlackMissie Sanders Black, 87,

of 1201 Fulton Street, formerly of Red Springs, died Thursday, September 11, 2014.

She is survived by nieces and nephews.

The funeral will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, September 17 in St. Joseph Learning Center in Red Springs. Burial will be in St. Joseph Memorial Gardens in Red Springs.

Amelia A. Moody

Infant Amelia Ann Moody of Raeford passed away Saturday, September 6, 2014 in Cape Fear Valley Medical Center.

She was preceded in death by her paternal grandfather, Randy Webb.

Survivors include her parents, Zachary and Olivia Moody of the home; her maternal grandmother, Connie Walling of Fayetteville; her maternal grandfather, James D. Howard of Fayetteville; her pa-ternal grandmother, Lisa Moody of Fuquay-Varina; her maternal great-grandparents, Alton and

Mary Helen Howard; her paternal great-grandparents, Ralph and Sarah Webb of Fayetteville; her paternal great-grandmother, Lu-cille Moody of Fuquay-Varina; and her paternal great-great-grandmother, Agnes Spaulding of Fuquay-Varina.

The funeral was held at 1 p.m. Saturday, September 13 in LaFayette Funeral Home with the Rev. Dr. Alton Howard officiat-ing. Burial was in Cumberland Memorial Gardens.

Vester E. SasserVester Edward (Junior) Sasser

Jr. of Raeford, died Sunday, Sep-tember 7, 2014 at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center at the age of 51.

He was born November 1, 1962 in Columbus County, North Carolina. He was the owner and operator of L&S Auto Salvage in Raeford.

He was preceded in death by his brother, Jimmy “Cricket” Lee Sasser.

He is survived by his wife, Bar-bara W. Sasser; a daughter, Crystal

Sasser; and a son, Vester Edward (Eddie) Sasser III, all of Raeford; and his father and mother, Ed and Evelyn Sasser of Clinton.

The funeral was held at 5 p.m. Friday, September 12 at Crumpler-Honeycutt Funeral Home in Clinton. Burial was in the Clinton City Cemetery.

Online condolences may be made at www.crumplerfuneral-home.com.

Vester E. Sasser

equipment—speedometer, $25 fine and court costs

•Felicia Antoinette Legrand, 33, 120 Jones St., Hamlet, speeding 64 miles per hour in a 55-mph zone, $25 fine and court costs

•James Vonnie Locklear, 44, 2279 Blue Springs Road, Red Springs, driving while license re-voked, $100 fine and court costs; canceled, revoked or suspended registration card or tag, voluntary dismissal

•Thaddeus McFayden Jr., 21, 150 Chapel Hill Drive, Raeford, speeding 64 miles per hour in a 55-mph zone, no operator’s license, $76 fine and court costs, judgments consolidated

•Leroy Jermaine McGeachy, 26, 544 Haire Road, Raeford, driving while impaired, Level 3, 60 days in prison, credit for time served

•Shemetica Lynette McIntosh, 33, 300 Cockman Mill Road, Ra-eford, improper equipment—speed-ometer, $25 fine and court costs

•Melvin Lee Minnick, 35, 188 Golf Course Road, Raeford, speed-ing 44 miles per hour in a 35-mph zone, $25 fine and court costs

•Shakray Malika Paul, 18, 1983 Westcliff Road, Fayetteville, im-proper equipment—speedometer, $25 fine and court costs

•Jennifer Suzanne Perkins, 34, 2508 Bethpine Lane, Fayetteville, improper equipment—speedom-eter, $25 fine and court costs

•Evelyn Rodriguez, 32, 795 Algood Ave., Hope Mills, speeding 44 miles per hour in a 35-mph zone, $50 fine and court costs

•Amy Edwards Scott, 30, 922 McKimmon Road, Fayetteville, im-proper equipment—speedometer, $25 fine and court costs; expired registration card or tag, voluntary dismissal

•Tarsha Linette Vance, 43, 621 Dashland Drive, Fayetteville, driv-ing while impaired, Level 5, 60 days suspended, 12 months unsupervised probation, $100 fine and court costs, surrender operator’s license

•Theresa Williams, 28, 405 Seabiscuit Drive, Raeford, driving while impaired, Level 5, 60 days suspended, 12 months unsupervised probation, $100 fine and court costs, surrender operator’s license

•Jackie Wilson, 49, 2504 Alpine Road, Bennettsville, S.C., driving while license revoked, 30 days suspended, one year unsupervised probation, $100 fine and court costs; expired registration card or tag, voluntary dismissal.

The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation arrested a Red Springs police officer last week for allegedly obtaining drugs by falsely complaining of pain to multiple doctors.

Officers with the SBI arrested George “Tommy” Thomas Wright Jr., 48, of Laurinburg, on Septem-ber 10 on charges of level 1 traf-ficking by possession of opiates, four counts of level III trafficking

and five counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud.

Wright is employed by the Red Springs Police Department as a lieutenant. The department placed Wright on unpaid administrative leave in July, when the SBI ar-rested him on similar charges in Cumberland County. At that time, Wright was charged with four counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud, three counts

of level 1 trafficking by posses-sion of an opiate and one count of level II trafficking by possession of an opiate.

Wright is accused of alleg-edly visiting multiple doctors and dentists in Hoke, Cumberland, Robeson and Scotland counties complaining of back, neck or tooth pain to obtain hydrocodone.

Wright was held under a $25,000 bond.

Red Springs officer arrested for drug trafficking

O f f i c e r s with the Hoke County Sher-i ff ’s Office charged a man already in cus-tody with fraud offenses unre-lated to previ-

ous alleged crimes.Investigators charged Sher-

man Lee Purcell, 22, of the 100 block of Summerwood Drive with breaking or entering a mo-tor vehicle, financial card theft, unauthorized presentment of card and misdemeanor larceny. He was held under a $5,000 secured bond.

Authorities with the sheriff’s office reported that Purcell al-legedly stole a financial card from a vehicle and used it in multiple locations in Hoke and Cumberland counties. Purcell was served the warrants while in custody at the Hoke County Detention Center.

Jailed man arrested for break-ins

Purcell

D e p u t i e s with the Hoke County Sher-iff’s Office ar-rested a man last week for reportedly steal-ing scaffolding

equipment from a

construction site.Authorities charged Jeffery Bur-

ton Alling, 46, of the 2800 block of Rockfish Road on a charge of larceny from a construction site. He was held under a $3,000 secured bond.

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D e p u t i e s with the Hoke County Sher-iff’s Office ar-rested a man this week for allegedly steal-ing a gun from

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As the last Turkey Festival rolls into town before its transition to the more generally named Poultry Festi-val, Raeford and Hoke County mark the first year without the Hoke of Raeford turkey slaughterhouse that once employed nearly 1,000 people.

The slaughterhouse closed down last summer and its final operations concluded in December 2013, but the House of Raeford still employs over 400 people at its Raeford “further processing” plant. In the last year, the company that made its fame with turkey has worked toward switching over to chicken processing.

The House of Raeford bought a facility in Mocksville, North Carolina early this year to focus on cooked chicken products. The facility was previously owned by Townsend Poultry and later the Omtron company.

“We began operations in early April,” House of Raeford spokesman Dave Witter said.

A month after setting up shop in Mocksville, the company bought Filet of Chicken, a cook plant spe-cializing in partially-fried chicken products. Filet of Chicken is located in Forest Park, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta.

Those acquisitions are part of the company’s long-range goal of transitioning away from turkeys altogether, Witter said.

“We are continuing our plan of expanding chicken operations as outlined in March 2013 when we announced our decision to discon-tinue growing and processing live turkeys,” he said.

There haven’t been any major changes to the workforce employed in Raeford since the slaughterhouse closure, Witter said.

“The further processing plant in Raeford is continuing to operate with relatively the same workforce numbers as a year ago,” he said.

Company officials said last year that, as the House of Raeford converts its operations to chicken products, it’s possible that growth could mean additional jobs at the Raeford plant. And some of the former turkey farmers decided to change with the times and switch to producing chickens instead, Witter said.

“As far as turkey growers convert-ing to chicken, we have had a few make that decision,” he said.

Additionally, the House of Ra-eford outlet store on Central Avenue remains open.

Effect on unemployment rate

Despite the slaughterhouse’s closing, numbers show the county’s unemployment rate dropped more than two points since last summer. The unemployment rate in Hoke stood at 9.5 percent in July 2013, the last month of full operations for the slaughter plant, and in May of

One year after slaughterhouse closure

The House of Raeford turkey plant at closedown time.

this year, the unemployment rate was down to 7.1 percent.

In June 2013, the month before the slaughterhouse shut its doors, the North Carolina Employment Security Commission reported a 9.2 percent unemployment rate in Hoke County. At that time, there were 2,108 people out of work among Hoke’s labor force of 22,852 workers, and the county ranked 39th out of the state’s 100 counties for the highest unemployment.

The June 2013 unemployment rate was down by half of a percent from the 9.7 unemployment rate reported in June 2012, according to figures from the North Carolina Employment Security Commis-sion.

In July 2013, the last month of operations for the slaughterhouse, the unemployment rate remained the same at 9.2 percent. In Au-gust, the first month that many of the plant’s 900-plus laid-off workers were without jobs, the

county unemployment rate raise rose slightly to 9.5 percent. From July to August, the number of un-employed workers in Hoke went from 2,063 to 2,131.

However, the August 2012 un-employment rate was higher com-pared to a year later when the plant closed. The county unemployment rate from August 2012 was 10.3 percent, compared to the August 2013 rate of 9.5 percent.

The county unemployment rate was down to 8.8 percent in October 2013, with 1,983 people unem-ployed; 8.3 percent in November; 8 percent in December; 7.3 percent in January; 6.7 percent in Febru-ary; and hit a low of 6.6 percent in March of 2014.

The March 2014 unemployment rate was down from the 2013 yearly average of 8.3 percent, and was the lowest reported in the last year and a half. The rate was back up to 7.1 percent, or 1,657 people of Hoke County’s workforce unemployed as

of May, the latest month for which data was available.

All figures were taken from the unemployment report data provided by the state Department of Commerce.

What happens next?The company is still paying

taxes on the old House of Raeford property that’s currently unused, and Hoke County Economic De-velopment Director Don Porter said that he has shown the property to several potential buyers.

“Nothing firm yet but there are still clients looking, and House of Raeford has been very helpful, open and responsive in that regard and we’re just hopeful that we can get one of those clients to commit to coming here,” Porter said.

The director said he could not provide details due to the need for client privacy during the business discussions. He did say that it’s possible the old slaughterhouse

could be used for a different pur-pose if a buyer decided to invest the money and time in renovating it.

“There’s always opportunities to do things like that if the client is willing to make that kind of invest-ment to restructure the building,” Porter said.

Porter also confirmed that he is seeing lower unemployment in Hoke County than in previous years. The county has typically had lower unemployment than other counties in the southeastern part of the state, he said.

“That’s what I’m seeing and a lot of people don’t look at that, but for the last several years, we’ve been among the lowest in job un-employment rate in the region,” he said.

Additionally, the county is start-ing to see employment open up at the new medical facilities as well, and that demand will only increase once Cape Fear Valley’s hospital is completed and opens, Porter said.

By catharin Shepard

Staff writer

Nearly a quarter of Hoke County teachers did not return for the new school year, and nearly 80 percent of the teachers who left their positions did so either because of a family move or to take a teaching job in another school district.

Hoke County’s teacher turnover rate for the 2013-14 school year was 24.5 percent, a few points lower than the high mark of 27.4 percent from the 2012-13 school year. The turnover rate hit the 20 percent mark in 2010 and has remained at or above

that level ever since. The five-year average teacher turnover rate in Hoke County is 22.3 percent, nearly 10 percentage points higher than the state average of about 13 percent.

Hoke County Schools Assistant Superintendent for Human Re-sources Donna Thomas presented the information to the school board at its regularly scheduled meeting last week.

A breakdown of the numbers shows that Scurlock Elementary had the highest turnover rate with 17 out of 41 teachers leaving in the last year. Don Steed Elementary had the next highest turnover rate

with 14 out of 41 teachers leaving. A total of 136 out of 554 teachers in the Hoke County school system left in the last school year.

A majority of teachers who left last year reported that they were either leaving due to a family relo-cation, or because they were taking a teaching job in another school system. About 40 percent of teachers who left did so because of a family relocation – likely tied to Hoke’s large military population – while another 39 percent said they planned to teach in another school system.

Assistant Superintendent Dr. Bob Barnes said that he is seeing

Teacher turnover rate remains high

it a priority. As part of the $126,000 upgrade,

the weight room will be getting new paint and doors, and weight lifting equipment including reassessed drop stations and Tsunami Bars. Tsunami Bars are made from a combination of special composite materials that provide a training stimulus based on amplitude and oscillatory actions.

“The type of weights and equipment we have here at Hoke High are equal to those at Virginia Tech, University of Massachusetts and South Florida,” weightlift-ing coach David Jorgensen said. When asked if kids at SandHoke Early College High School can use the Hoke High weight room, Brigman said, “They sure can. They can use them before school, after school and during the sum-

mer because it’s hard to do that during the school day.” Hoke High Principal Roger Edwards said, “This is an example of the school board supporting athletes and non-athletes.”

Along with other students, the football team uses the weight room on a regular basis. Coach Tom Paris said, “This is a huge investment and no one is happier

than me. This weight room rivals some of the best weight rooms in the state and, now that we have the tools, we need to get busy and start putting them to use.”

The Billy Colston Building (field house) was built in 2000 and, at that time, some very basic weightlifting equipment was purchased. The new equipment should last for decades to come.

By catharin Shepard

Staff writer

The Hoke County Board of Commissioners voted Monday to allow a developer to add on to an existing subdivision without complying with certain county ordinance requirements.

The developer of a 14-lot continuation to the existing Bent-ley Acres subdivision sought the board’s approval to build without having sidewalks or curb and gut-ters at the street. David Averette of Averette Engineering said that the original subdivision, built in 2005, had been waived from having sidewalks and curb and gutters. To add those structures to just the 14 new lots would not be useful and would not match with the existing homes, Averette said.

“You put in those sidewalks and it would go 500 feet on sidewalks and then go 700 feet where there’s no sidewalks,” he said.

Averette said he worked with the fire marshal to make some changes for safety purposes. The

streets will be 20 feet wide instead of 18 feet wide and the cul-de-sac will be larger than planned to allow fire trucks to turn around more easily if firefighters ever have to get into the subdivision.

The subdivision will use side ditches instead of curb and gutter to deal with water runoff, Averette said.

“That’s the standard as far as DOT is concerned,” he said.

Hoke County’s ordinance does require sidewalks and curb and gutter, Commission Chairman James Leach said.

Averette said the board previ-ously waived the requirement in another subdivision for the same reason: the original subdivision did not have those structures and adding them to the new section would not make sense, he said.

Commissioner Tony Hunt said that Averette was right; the board did allow that for another subdivi-sion and for the same reason.

“In essence, it was useless as far as being able to walk out to the end road and we have made

an exception to this before in the way the sidewalks were joining up,” he said.

The motion to allow the sub-division development passed 4-1. Commissioner Ellen McNeill voted not to allow the subdivi-sion to proceed, and mentioned concerns about child safety in a subdivision without sidewalks.

Other businessIn other business, the com-

missioners approved a seven-item consent agenda including a resolution to sell surplus property from the sheriff’s office, minutes from two previous commis-sion meetings, a change order for utilities projects, a library legislative goal and a resolution supporting the Sacred Pathways organization’s supporting na-tional service.

The board watched a brief video update from the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners before adjourn-ing. The board did not hold a closed session.

Commission allows subdivision exemption

young teachers come into Hoke for the first jobs, then leave to work in a surrounding county.

“We have become a very fertile recruiting ground for Cumberland, Moore, and several other counties around here, and I know because my wife works in Cumberland. What they say, you guys do such a good job of training, and then they make more money or they don’t have to travel,” he said.

Another 10 percent did not give a specific reason for leaving, while 8 percent said they were retiring. The remaining teachers either made a career change, did not have their contracts renewed or were dismissed from their jobs.

Despite the high turnover rate, teacher feedback shows that Hoke teachers aren’t necessarily dissatis-fied with their jobs. According to the 2014 teacher working conditions survey, educators employed with the

school system generally seem to enjoy working in Hoke. About 80 percent of teachers agreed with a survey option that said Hoke Schools is a good place to work and learn, while over 92 percent of teachers felt that they are held to high professional standards for delivering instruction.

About 86 percent reported on the survey that they believe the faculty and staff at their schools hold a shared vision, and nearly 90 percent reported feeling that they are encouraged to participate in school leadership roles.

The reports were compiled to meet a state requirement that all school systems monitor and report on the decisions of teachers who leave the profession. The data is based on teachers who are employed in March but are not employed in March of the following year.

The school system has many programs in place to try and cut down

on teacher turnover, including its beginning teacher program that of-fers social activities and mentoring, and professional development op-portunities. The Echo Ridge teacher housing complex that opened last year is meant to help new teachers find an affordable place to live. Ad-ditionally, the school system has worked to continue offering some reimbursement for higher education costs for teachers earning advanced certificates or degrees.

As part of a continued effort to retain effective teachers, school of-ficials reported they plan to revise the beginning teacher support plan, re-vise mentor training and collaborate with all central office departments to offer greater support for teachers and administrators.

“Hopefully, we’ll be able to keep some of those new teachers, we’ll be able to stop some of them from leaving,” Thomas said.

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By hal nunn

Sports writer

The Hoke County High School Bucks took to the road for the second week in a row and this time it was on a Thursday night. Last week, South View officials moved the game from Friday night to Thursday night due to threatening weather for the normal football Friday. The move panned out to be a smart one as the area got over an inch of rain in two days.

The Bucks opened the scoring game early off a Brandon Smith two-yard touchdown run. South View answered back in the second quarter by scoring two touchdowns and led at halftime 14-7. In the game, Hoke had been penalized twice for running into the kicker. On their next attempt in the third quarter, Brandon Smith had a straight shot at the kicker and blocked the punt that bounced all the way into the end zone. Ameer Shakir from Hoke beat everyone to the ball and the Bucks tied the game up at

14-14. In the fourth quarter, neither team could get much going so they headed to overtime.

In high school football, each team gets a shot from the 10-yard line and again if still tied. In the first overtime, South View scored and went for two and made it making it 22-14. Then Hoke scored on a Casey Grobarcik 10-yard pass from Antonio Peterkin. The Bucks went for two and made it tying it at 22-22. The next series would then belong to Hoke. The Bucks scored on a Brandon Smith three-yard run; however, they missed the extra point and led 28-22. With the crowd on the Hoke side deflated, the Bucks defense rose to the oc-casion. On first down, the Bucks’ Justin Baldwin made a game-saving tackle and stopped South View on the six-yard line. On second down, Hoke was flagged for pass interfer-ence in the end zone. The referees moved the ball half the distance to the goal on the three-yard line and gave the Tigers a first down. On the

next play, South View quarterback Xavier Robinson pitched the ball to running back Keyonis Hopkins who bobbled the ball and Hoke County’s Jonathan Pickler recovered the ball to secure the win 28-22 for the Bucks. “We grew up a lot,” Coach Tom Paris said this week. “I think we found out some things about ourselves and I mean good things.”

This week, the Bucks (2-2) host the E.E. Smith Golden Bulls (3-1) for the N.C. Turkey Bowl. Each year the N.C. Turkey Festival committee selects the home game nearest the Turkey Festival and gives out a huge trophy to the winner. E.E. Smith will be coming off a win last week 35-0 over Douglas Byrd. “They are crazy athletic and will be a great test for our team this week,” Coach Paris said.

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NASCAR comes to HokeThe #88 NASCAR Show Car made a stop at Hoke High last week with an Army Humvee and UTI’s NASCAR Technical Institute of Raleigh. All Career Management and Automotive classes were able to attend and have pictures made with the #88 car, which is driven by Dale Earnhardt Jr. Students were given the opportunity to speak with a Technical Institute mechanic and recruit-ers from the Army National Guard. Free giveaways were available and teachers and students were able to learn more about NASCAR, the Technical Institute and the National Guard.

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The Hoke County High School Bucks players and coaches celebrate after the Bucks 28-22 overtime win at South View last Thursday night. Hoke County will host the E.E. Smith Golden Bulls this Friday night in the N.C. Turkey Bowl at Raz Autry Stadium.

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Festival(Continued from page 1A)30th annual festival, which will also mark “The Exodus” of its former name. Next year will be the genesis of its new name and focus, turning away from just turkey to including other types of poultry in the celebration.

Shortridge said that she started volunteering with the festival be-cause she enjoyed it so much over the years.

“Just to give back, because it’s been a big part of the community. Since I was born and raised here in Hoke County, it’s something nice to be a part of,” she said.

Shortridge’s “partner in crime” Nicole Jackson, 31, came to the area with her military family and along with another friend of theirs, Crystal Gibson, joined in on the extensive work that goes into putting on the festival every year. While this is Shortridge’s first year volunteering, Jackson has been involved for three years now.

Jackson said it’s all about giving back to the community, and she enjoys sharing the festival with her family.

“My kids love going,” Jackson said.

The change from turkey to poul-try is a big moment in the festival’s history, Shortridge said.

“It’s kind of epic in a way be-cause hitting 30 and it’s departing, and being a part of something in the last year. We’ll see where it goes next year,” she said.

Jackson said she’s excited to see what happens with the new expansion to include other types of poultry.

“I’d like to see what they play with as far as the other fowl,” she said.

For this year, the committee has focused on providing many types of offerings so that anyone can find something they’ll enjoy doing during the festival, Short-ridge said.

“Hopefully, we’ll carry that over into next year,” she said.

While Shortridge and Jackson represent the newcomers, the fes-tival gets the benefit of experience from people who have been there from the very beginning. Longtime festival directors Patty Webb and Judy Pittman continue working to pull it all together, after having seen the festival through everything from hurricanes to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Webb said she’s grateful to have had a chance to be a part of the fes-tival. One of her favorite memories of working with the festival in years past was something they called

“walking the tent.” When the event was still held on Main Street, the volunteers had to move the huge 30-foot by 40-foot tents to get them in place, and they had to do it by themselves.

“We’d all get together, pick up the tent – it would take six of us, at least – and pick it up together and walk down Main Street,” she said. That’s one aspect of the festival organization that’s changed since then, Webb said.

Through the years, things didn’t always go as planned. Sometimes it rained, other times events were just poorly attended. Even so, the planners pulled together and the festival went on.

“You could see the strength that we had,” Webb said.

Webb said that after decades of having the local festival, people got used to it being a local event. When rumors started going around town that this might be the last year for the festival – not just a name change, but the incorrect rumor that it would be going away for good – it got people thinking about the Turkey Festival in a way they hadn’t before.

“After 30 years, I think some-times people get a little complacent. They go, oh, good old Turkey Festi-val. Now it was about June or spring people started getting the news, no more Turkey Festival? What are they going to do?” Webb said.

That was when they knew it was time to announce the change in focus from turkey to all poultry, she said. The rumors had the un-expected effect of stirring up new interest for the event.

“It wasn’t planned, but I think it was inadvertently the best form of advertising and getting us in ev-erybody’s minds and hearts again. It’s like an infusion of new energy,” Webb said.

Looking forward to the North Carolina Poultry Festival, Webb said she hopes to see more music, cultural arts and chances for young people to be a part of the event.

“I would like to see more of our youth involved … and more things for youth to do,” she said. Adding more styles of music for entertain-ment and having a greater focus on the military are also ideas for the future, Webb said.

Pittman said she has “too many” good memories of working with the festival to remember them all, but she recalled two of the most chal-lenging years of putting it together. Hurricane Fran came through North Carolina in 1996, leaving residents with a big clean-up job, but the committee persevered.

“She tore everything up but we

still had our festival because the community pulled together,” Pit-tman said. “There’s nothing like being in Hoke County.”

Five years later, the committee had a very hard decision to make, Pittman recalled.

“I think the biggest year that I can remember that was most dear to my heart was 2001, because September 11 happened and people thought we should not do the festival that year,” she said. “We as a board decided that we were not going to let the terrorists stop us from doing what we’d been doing, so we had the festival that year. It was a success as always. It was really special.”

Moving forward, Pittman said, she just wants to see the festival continue and grow.

Festival Executive Director Melissa Pittman said Monday at the official grand opening ceremony that although the Turkey Festival is well known throughout the state and beyond, it’s the people of Raeford and Hoke County who have made it possible for the last 30 years.

“It may be the North Carolina Turkey Festival, and we do have people who come from all over the state, (but) if it were not for the businesses and citizens of Hoke County, the festival could not go on,” she said.

This year will be bittersweet for those involved with the festival, the executive director said. That’s why the committee decided to call the 30th and last Turkey Festival “The Exodus.”

“The name exodus came about because, when you look at the definition of exodus, it means a great departing, and that’s exactly what we’re going to do for our fine lady this year. We’re going to have a great departing for her,” she said.

Festival President Leslie Foster Hinson said she has been involved with the Turkey Festival every year, whether just a child helping her family, attending, or serving with the committee herself. This year is a special moment, but definitely not the last. There’s still more to come, Hinson said.

“I have all faith that it will con-tinue, not as the Turkey Festival, but it will move into a new name next year,” she said.

Webb stepped up to the micro-phone to read a poem she wrote to commemorate the special occasion: the ending of an era and, organizers hope, the start of a new one.

“Make new friends and keep the old, the future unfolds

… Rae bird will be joining her sisters and brothers, feathers to feathers and beaks to beaks.”

on Highway 401 and Lashawn was crossing the road in an easterly direction, according to a report filed by Trooper D. Clark. The impact threw Lashawn into the

median of the road. The vehicle continued driving south on 401 after colliding with Lashawn, officials said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Authorities are still investigat-ing the accident and currently do not have any information on the vehicle that hit Lashawn, a High-way Patrol official said.

Forget this. “Will, on bass, you play the one-note of each chord to start with, k?”

“Got it,” he said.We decided to just start playing

and see what would happen. All of a sudden, we sounded

good for a second. I think it’s because of technol-

ogy. Things are so much more conducive to it these days.

Get this. In the acoustic/elec-tric bass, there’s a gizmo embed-ded in its side that tells you when it’s in tune.

You can get iPhone apps to tell you when your guitar is in tune.

You can also play along with MP3s, and with a twist of a knob, play more of the real band—and less of you—over the sound sys-tem until you (presumably) get good enough to play on your own.

The keyboard can even be persuaded to play each note a half-step—or whole step or two steps or whatever—lower or higher with a flip of a switch. That saves Mollie from having to play in the key of C# when C major is so close. (It doesn’t, however, stop her from constantly playing “Let It Go” from “Frozen.”)

Speaking of which, in my day, we all wanted to play “Heart and Soul” on the piano. And “Wipe Out” on the drums, and “Smoke on the Water” on guitar. The kids look at me like I’m crazy whenever I play any of that stuff.

Anyway, because of the afore-mentioned gadget, Will was sounding pretty good on the bass.

And Ramon has mastered the cajon. Cajones are South Ameri-can percussion boxes, and must be spelled and pronounced correctly

to keep from being confused with a saltier Spanish term that we won’t get into.

We gave Stephanie a taped-up pill bottle full of little jewelry doo-dads until we could order real shakers.

McKenzie is learning guitar and plays quietly over to the side. That’s because our only rule is you can play, but not loud, until you get good enough.

And we got Zaidee and Destiny to join us as singers. Destiny is the one whose family caught her singing the Carole King song “You’re So Vain” with mistaken words. “You’re So Lame,” she was singing. Eighth-graders.

Right now, none of us should really be playing loud.

But give us time. We’ll be on a stage.

And one leaves town at …v

Office.Officers charged Dominic An-

drew Basile, 22, of the 3500 block of Ravenswood Place in Hope Mills with felony larceny. He was arrested September 11 and held under a $10,000 unsecured bond.

The FedEx warehouse located on Midway Drive called the sheriff’s of-fice last week to report that someone had stolen 20 Verizon cell phones, valued at $12,098.81. Detectives investigating the case reported that Basile, a FedEx driver, allegedly transported the cell phones between

May 2 and September 10. Basile allegedly bought one of

the phones from a FedEx package handler. Law enforcement officials also believe the package handler was involved in the larceny, according to the sheriff’s office. Warrants are pending against the second suspect.

Police BlotterRaeford Police reported the

following recent incidents:September 9

Larceny, breaking and enter-ing of a motor vehicle, 500 block of East Elwood Avenue, victim Enoc Nunez Gomez

Damage to property, break-ing and entering, 200 block of Aberdeen Road, victims Byrd’s U-Lock-It Storage and 11 people with units thereSeptember 10

Possession of a schedule III controlled substance, Meadow Lane Apartments, victim State of North Carolina

Simple physical assault, 600 block of Health Drive, victims Bessie Parks and Carlie Wil-liamsSeptember 11

Operating a motor vehicle with no insurance, displaying a false registration plate, driving

while license revoked, 400 block of North Magnolia Street, victim State of North Carolina

Larceny of a dog, 500 block of Green Street, victim Ronnie Dee CashSeptember 12

Larceny, breaking and enter-ing, 100 block of Yadkin Trail, victim Jamaica Shenell Newland

Larceny, breaking and enter-ing a vehicle, 900 block of North Main Street, victim Sheila Carter

Communicating threats, as-sault and battery, 200 block of South Main Street, victim Dickie Charles CookSeptember 13

Simple physical assault, 600

block of Health Drive, victim Carrie WilliamsSeptember 14

Breaking and entering a motor vehicle, 1200 block of Bethune Avenue, victim Donna Roddy

Larceny (shoplifting), 100 block of Fayetteville Road, victim Dollar GeneralSeptember 15

Larceny, 100 block of Fay-etteville Road, victim Dollar General

Fraud, 700 block of Saunders Street, victim Lester Monroe

Fraud (impersonation), 300 block of West Central Avenue, victim William Michael Cook

the last six months. Two more people tested positive for the dis-ease, but their cases were dormant and not symptomatic, Yates said.

Raeford City Manager Dennis Baxley said Wednesday that it is safe to use city water. The city has been working with the state Department of Natural Resources to test the water for any sign of Legionnaires’ disease and all the tests have been negative. The city is at this point trying to make sure it is contained to the nursing home, Baxley said.

“On our end we’ve pulled ad-ditional samples, bacteriological samples to confirm that it’s con-tained, that it’s not in the city water supply. All the samples we have

pulled have been negative,” he said. The city water department is

also working to test and re-test the nursing home’s water system.

“We’re reviewing their cross connection and backflow assem-blies,” Baxley said.

“There’s no concern that it’s in the city,” he said. “…right now it’s a matter of containment for us.”

The nursing home is sending out memos to patients who are oriented and able to understand the situation and the families of those who are cognitively impaired.

Baxley said he has had a crash course in Legionnaires’ disease in the last few days.

“It’s a water-born bacteria and it’s typically found in saunas, hot tubs, hot water systems and it’s

found naturally in rivers, streams, ponds. The stuff is everywhere. From my research when it’s in concentrated quantities that there’s a problem,” he said. “It’s steam, it’s not necessarily the water. It has to be a mist of a steam and it has to be breathed in.”

The nursing home has installed microfilters to remove any bacteria and said they expect the water at Autumn Care to be turned back on Wednesday, but still will not use it for drinking water. That is being supplied through bottles.

The city continues to work with the state to monitor the situation, Baxley said.

“We have no indication that this thing has spread beyond Autumn Care,” he said.

Welcome Tabitha M. Bedini, M.D.to FirstHealth Primary Care & Cardiology.

A Fayetteville native, Dr. Bedini is a family medicine specialist nowaccepting new patients.

FirstHealth Primary Care & CardiologyPhysician Offices and Specialty Services 6322 Fayetteville Road • Raeford, NC 28376 (910) 878-6700 • (910) 878-6705 fax

783-110-14

www.firsthealth.org

Tabitha M. Bedini, M.D.Family Medicine

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