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Times THOMASVILLE 119th Year - No. 51 50 Cents Thursday, January 28, 2010 INSIDE TODAY Business Columnist Marilyn Taylor offers Taylor Made tips for business and personal success. See Page 3. www.tvilletimes.com Creasey family Extreme Home Makeover to air Sunday at 8 p.m. Find Update, Page 3 What’s Inside Thomasville, North Carolina • Your Town. Your Times. Weather 2 Focus 3 Opinion 5 Obituaries 6 Sports 7 Classifieds 10 TV Listings 12 Mostly Sunny 57/35 Today’s Weather Full Forecast Page 2 Community Sponsor Heavy rains wreak havoc on sewer lines Public library to offer tax assistance A long month for Thom- asville Public Works got stretched a little further as the National Weather Service issued a winter storm watch for David- son County, adding more hours to a staff that hasn’t had much time off of late. Two weeks after sub- freezing temperatures caused more than a doz- en water main breaks within the city, Public Works is preparing for a winter weather event that could bring several inches of snow and sleet to the area. “We’re going ahead and putting plows and chains on the trucks,” Morgan Huffman, Thomasville public services director, said. “Starting [today] we’re going to start put- ting brine solution out. We’ll be ready for Friday and Saturday if we have to put any sand out or we have to do any plowing. ” According to the NWC, cold air is expected to surge into North Caro- lina on Friday where it will meet a storm system from the Gulf of Mexico. It appears the cold air will support precipita- tion in designated storm watch areas. The heaviest precipitation is expected between midnight Friday and Saturday afternoon. There is the potential for significant snow and ice accumulation, but chances are precipitation will be mainly be in the form of freezing rain and sleet. Huffman said he has heard Thomasville could get several inches of snow, but being the city is on the border be- tween frozen and wet pre- cipitation, only time will tell. Huffman said brine solution is fairly effective The City of Thomasville re- ported six wastewater spills as a result of Mondays’ heavy rains. An estimated 168,620 gallons of untreated wastewater spilled into the Yadkin/Pee Dee River Basin from six separate locations in the city with the most occurring at the East Davidson Pump Station on Lake Road. Some 82,000 gallons of wastewater spilled into South Hamby Creek from that location. City Manager Kelly Craver said Thomasville was one of several municipalities that suffered simi- lar spills from the heavy rains on Monday. “There was a lot of localized flooding in the region,” Craver said. “The rain was very concen- trated over a short period of time. I’ve seen estimates that Thomas- ville got as much as 3.5 inches of rain. That much water causes hy- draulic failure.” Other spills included 31,000 gallons from a manhole on King Row into a tributary of Jimmy’s Creek, 27,000 gallons from a Con- cord Street manhole into a tribu- tary of North Hamby Creek, 18,000 gallons from a manhole on High Meadow Road into Jimmy’s Creek, 6,720 gallons from a man- hole on Burke Trail Avenue into Flanks Branch and 3,900 gallons from a manhole at the intersection of Tremont and Franklin streets into a Hanks Branch tributary. “This was highly unusual for us,” said Craver. “We had spills in every quadrant of the city. Sewer lines are often located close to creeks and water sometimes rises higher than manhole covers. This was pervasive.” Davidson County Com- missioners continue weighing their options when it comes to assum- ing ownership of the Wil- Cox bridge that crosses the Yadkin River. At Tuesday’s monthly board meeting, commis- sioners and a represen- tative with the Depart- ment of Transportation dove deeper into discus- sions regarding Davidson County accepting owner- ship of the bridge as part of a way to bring stimulus dollars to the area. Com- missioners asked DOT engineer Pat Ivey several questions regarding the county’s financial respon- sibilities when it comes to maintaining the bridge over the next few years and beyond. “We don’t want to buy a pig in a poke,” Chair- man Dr. Max Walser said. “We’re trying to make the best decision possible.” Ivey reiterated that Da- TIMES PHOTO/LISA WALL Salt brine sprayer trucks will hit the streets today in prep- aration for predicted winter weather. City prepares for winter weather Board tables Wilcox bridge ownership assumption TIMES PHOTO/FRANK RAUCCIO BRAVING THE STORM A Tar Heel defender reaches around to try and tie up Davidson County Commu- nity College’s Justin Glover in the first half of Wednesday’s tilt at Brinkley Gym. See Story, Page 7. See BRIDGE, Page 4 See WEATHER, Page 4 As the 2010 tax season begins, two county pro- grams are gearing up to help older adults and those low on cash to navi- gate their tax forms. The Davidson County Public Library System will offer free tax advice and tax form preparation for low to moderate in- come citizens beginning Feb. 8. “This is something we do at all five libraries in our system,” said Sarah Hudson, as- sistant direc- tor of librar- ies. “It’s just something to help out low and moder- ate income families and individuals.” The Thom- asville Pub- lic Library will offer as- sistance on Mondays and Wednesdays from 2 to 5 p.m., and four Saturdays – Feb. 13, Feb. 20, March 20 and April 10 – from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. To make appointments at other times, call 474-2690. Local citizens are wel- come to use the library’s computers to fill out tax forms electronically on their own, Hudson said. The library provides free federal forms, but state forms are five cents per page. “You can contact the state and get free tax forms, but since we were not able to get those this year, we did have those printed up to help people out so they could get them here,” Hudson said. “If there are any other forms they can’t get, we will as- sist them here to print them off the internet.” Free tax advice and tax form preparation is also available for senior citi- zens through the David- son County Department of Senior Services’ Se- nior Dynamics program, in partnership with Da- vidson County Tax Coali- tion. The Thomasville Se- nior Center, 211 W. Colo- nial Drive, will provide assistance from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mondays and Fridays beginnin g Feb. 1 and at the Lexing- ton Senior Center, 106 Alma Owens Drive, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays beginning Feb. 3. Appointments are required. To schedule an appointment, call 474- 2754 for Thomasville or 242-2290 for Lexington. Thessia Everhart-Rob- erts, senior services di- rector, said that 690 tax returns were filed last year through the county’s BY ELIOT DUKE Staff Writer See TAX, Page 4 BY ELIOT DUKE Staff Writer Help available to seniors and low income residents BY KARISSA MINN Staff Writer ‘It’s something we do to help out low and moderate in- come families and individuals.Sarah Hudson Thomasville Public Library BY ELIOT DUKE Staff Writer

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Times THOMASVILLE

119th Year - No. 51 50 CentsThursday, January 28, 2010

INSIDE TODAYBusiness Columnist Marilyn

Taylor offers Taylor Made tips for business and personal success.

See Page 3.

www.tvilletimes.com

Creasey family Extreme Home Makeover to air Sunday at 8 p.m.

Find Update, Page 3

What’s Inside

Thomasville, North Carolina • Your Town. Your Times.

Weather 2Focus 3Opinion 5Obituaries 6Sports 7Classifi eds 10TV Listings 12

Mostly Sunny57/35

Today’s Weather

Full Forecast Page 2

Community Sponsor

Heavy rains wreak havoc on sewer lines Public library to offer tax assistance

A long month for Thom-asville Public Works got stretched a little further as the National Weather Service issued a winter storm watch for David-son County, adding more hours to a staff that hasn’t had much time off of late.

Two weeks after sub-freezing temperatures caused more than a doz-

en water main breaks within the city, Public Works is preparing for a winter weather event that could bring several inches of snow and sleet to the area.

“We’re going ahead and putting plows and chains on the trucks,” Morgan Huffman, Thomasville public services director, said. “Starting [today] we’re going to start put-ting brine solution out. We’ll be ready for Friday

and Saturday if we have to put any sand out or we have to do any plowing. ”

According to the NWC, cold air is expected to surge into North Caro-lina on Friday where it will meet a storm system from the Gulf of Mexico. It appears the cold air will support precipita-tion in designated storm watch areas. The heaviest precipitation is expected between midnight Friday and Saturday afternoon.

There is the potential for signifi cant snow and ice accumulation, but chances are precipitation will be mainly be in the form of freezing rain and sleet. Huffman said he has heard Thomasville could get several inches of snow, but being the city is on the border be-tween frozen and wet pre-cipitation, only time will tell. Huffman said brine solution is fairly effective

The City of Thomasville re-ported six wastewater spills as a result of Mondays’ heavy rains.

An estimated 168,620 gallons of untreated wastewater spilled into the Yadkin/Pee Dee River Basin from six separate locations in the city with the most occurring at the East Davidson Pump Station on Lake Road. Some 82,000 gallons of wastewater spilled into South Hamby Creek from that location. City Manager Kelly Craver said

Thomasville was one of several municipalities that suffered simi-lar spills from the heavy rains on Monday.

“There was a lot of localized fl ooding in the region,” Craver said. “The rain was very concen-trated over a short period of time. I’ve seen estimates that Thomas-ville got as much as 3.5 inches of rain. That much water causes hy-draulic failure.”

Other spills included 31,000 gallons from a manhole on King Row into a tributary of Jimmy’s Creek, 27,000 gallons from a Con-cord Street manhole into a tribu-

tary of North Hamby Creek, 18,000 gallons from a manhole on High Meadow Road into Jimmy’s Creek, 6,720 gallons from a man-hole on Burke Trail Avenue into Flanks Branch and 3,900 gallons from a manhole at the intersection of Tremont and Franklin streets into a Hanks Branch tributary.

“This was highly unusual for us,” said Craver. “We had spills in every quadrant of the city. Sewer lines are often located close to creeks and water sometimes rises higher than manhole covers. This was pervasive.”

Davidson County Com-missioners continue weighing their options when it comes to assum-ing ownership of the Wil-Cox bridge that crosses the Yadkin River.

At Tuesday’s monthly board meeting, commis-sioners and a represen-tative with the Depart-ment of Transportation dove deeper into discus-sions regarding Davidson County accepting owner-ship of the bridge as part of a way to bring stimulus dollars to the area. Com-missioners asked DOT engineer Pat Ivey several questions regarding the county’s fi nancial respon-sibilities when it comes to maintaining the bridge over the next few years and beyond.

“We don’t want to buy a pig in a poke,” Chair-man Dr. Max Walser said. “We’re trying to make the best decision possible.”

Ivey reiterated that Da-

TIMES PHOTO/LISA WALL

Salt brine sprayer trucks will hit the streets today in prep-aration for predicted winter weather.

City prepares for winter weather

Board tables Wilcox bridge

ownership assumption

TIMES PHOTO/FRANK RAUCCIO

BRAVING THE STORMA Tar Heel defender reaches around to try and tie up Davidson County Commu-nity College’s Justin Glover in the fi rst half of Wednesday’s tilt at Brinkley Gym. See Story, Page 7.See BRIDGE, Page 4

See WEATHER, Page 4

As the 2010 tax season begins, two county pro-grams are gearing up to help older adults and those low on cash to navi-gate their tax forms.

The Davidson County Public Library System will offer free tax advice and tax form preparation for low to moderate in-come citizens beginning Feb. 8.

“This is something we do at all fi ve libraries in our system,” said Sarah Hudson, as-sistant direc-tor of librar-ies. “It’s just something to help out low and moder-ate income families and individuals.”

The Thom-asville Pub-lic Library will offer as-sistance on Mondays and Wednesdays from 2 to 5 p.m., and four Saturdays – Feb. 13, Feb. 20, March 20 and April 10 – from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. To make appointments at other times, call 474-2690.

Local citizens are wel-come to use the library’s computers to fi ll out tax forms electronically on their own, Hudson said. The library provides free

federal forms, but stateforms are fi ve cents perpage.

“You can contact thestate and get free taxforms, but since we werenot able to get those thisyear, we did have thoseprinted up to help peopleout so they could get themhere,” Hudson said. “Ifthere are any other formsthey can’t get, we will as-sist them here to printthem off the internet.”

Free tax advice and taxform preparation is alsoavailable for senior citi-zens through the David-son County Departmentof Senior Services’ Se-nior Dynamics program,in partnership with Da-vidson County Tax Coali-tion.

The Thomasville Se-nior Center,211 W. Colo-nial Drive,will providea s s i s t a n c efrom 9 a.m.to 1 p.m.M o n d a y sand Fridaysb e g i n n i n gFeb. 1 and atthe Lexing-ton SeniorCenter, 106Alma OwensDrive, from 9a.m. to 1 p.m.Wednesdays

and Fridays beginningFeb. 3. Appointments arerequired. To schedule anappointment, call 474-2754 for Thomasville or242-2290 for Lexington.

Thessia Everhart-Rob-erts, senior services di-rector, said that 690 taxreturns were fi led lastyear through the county’s

BY ELIOT DUKEStaff Writer

See TAX, Page 4

BY ELIOT DUKEStaff Writer

Help available to seniors and low income residents

BY KARISSA MINNStaff Writer

‘It’s something we do to help out low and moderate in-come families and individuals.’

— Sarah HudsonThomasville

Public Library

BY ELIOT DUKEStaff Writer

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Today we will see mostly sunny skies with a hightemperature of 57º, humidity of 46% and an overnightlow of 35º. The record high temperature for today is 74ºset in 1999. The record low is 3º set in 2000. Friday,skies will be cloudy with a 50% chance of rain and snow,high temperature of 36º, humidity of 87% and anovernight low of 28º. Expect cloudy skies to continueSaturday with a 30% chance of rain and snow.

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45/24

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Monday Mostly Sunny

44/28

Sunday Mostly Sunny

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Saturday Rain/Snow

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Friday Rain/Snow

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Data as reported from Greensboro

DayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturdaySundayMonday

High63664042496364

Low36383334353841

Precip0.00"0.04"0.47"0.01"0.00"1.09"0.81"

Normals47/2847/2847/2847/2847/2847/2847/28

Precipitation . . . . . . . . . . . . .2.42"Normal precipitation . . . . . . .0.84"Departure from normal . . . .+1.58"

Average temperature . . . . . . .45.9ºAverage normal temperature .37.5ºDeparture from normal . . . . .+8.4º

Lake Date Lake LevelThom-A-Lex Jan. 25 12” above

full pond

Lake level is in feet.

3 50 - 2 4 6 8 107 9 11+

UV Index0-2: Low, 3-5: Moderate,

6-7: High, 8-10: Very High11+: Extreme Exposure

City Hi/Lo Wx Hi/Lo Wx Hi/Lo Wx

Asheville 51/28 pc 35/26 sn 31/18 snCape Hatteras 56/45 s 47/47 ra 47/33 raChapel Hill 58/36 s 37/29 rs 34/20 raCharlotte 60/36 s 37/31 rs 31/23 rsGreenville 61/35 s 39/36 ra 40/24 raRaleigh 59/37 s 38/31 ra 36/21 raWilmington 61/39 s 53/39 ra 46/24 raWinston-Salem 55/34 pc 36/28 rs 33/19 ra

Thursday Friday Saturday

Weather (Wx): cl/cloudy; fl/flurries; pc/partly cloudy; ra/rain; rs/rain & snow;s/sunny; sh/showers; sn/snow; t/thunderstorms; w/windy

What was the first yearthat a tornado wasaccurately predicted?

Answer: In 1948, MajorFawbush correctly predicted thatatmospheric conditions were ripefor a tornado in Norman, Okla.

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Habitat volunteersHabitat For Humanity is seeking

volunteers to help build decent and af-fordable homes in Thomasville. The work site is located at 814 Barnwell St. Work begins at 8 a.m. each Saturday and ends at noon. This Saturday’s work will include landscaping, weather per-mitting. No construction experience is necessary. Volunteers must be at least 16 years of age.

For further information, contact Lin-da Berrier at 476-8570 or Butch Langfi tt at 475-6843. For more information on Habitat for Humanity, visit www.habi-tat.org.

Loose leaf collection to ceaseThe City of Thomasville will end

Loose Leaf Collection on Friday, Feb. 12.

Please rake all leaves to the curb free of any debris (i.e. rocks, trash, limbs). If leaves are mixed with any debris, they will not be collected. Pursuant to solid waste code; section 66-4; leaves should be kept out of the street so as not to im-pede traffi c fl ow.

Blood pressure checks The Davidson County Department of

Senior Services Senior Dynamics pro-gram offers free bi-monthly blood pres-sure checks. Visit the Lexington Senior Center at 106 Alma Owens Drive the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 1 to 3 p.m. and the last Friday of each month from 1 to 3 p.m. to have your blood pressure checked. The blood pressure checks are being provided by CareSouth Home Care Professionals and Piedmont Home

Care. For more information, call the Se-nior Center 242-2290.

Board meetingThe Animal Center of Davidson

County will hold a board meeting today at 6:30 p.m. at Mayberry’s in Thomas-ville. For more information, call Bonnie Reid at 475-8382.

DavidsonWorks annual meetingThe DavidsonWorks Workforce De-

velopment Board of Directors will have their board meeting Thursday, Jan. 28 at 8 a.m., Davidson County Community College, Mendenhall Building, room 226.

Fire department meetingThe Fair Grove Fire Department Inc.

will hold its annual meeting and elec-tion of offi cers today at 7:30 p.m. at the fi re station on Cedar Lodge Road.

Items on the agenda will be the elec-tion of new members to the Board of Directors to replace members whose terms will expire; discussion on chang-es to the personnel handbook and vot-ing on possible changes in the by-laws; the election of Fire Department Line Offi cers; the Fire Chiefs report and oth-er annual reports.

The meeting will be open to all mem-bers of the community.”

Prescription drug assistanceNorth Carolina Baptist Aging Minis-

try (NCBAM) is hosting, in partnership with SHIIP (Senior Health Insurance Information Program), an event for Medicare benefi ciaries to access help through social security in paying pre-scription drug costs. The one-day event will be held Feb. 2, 2010, from 10 a.m. un-til 8 p.m. and is held at the NCBAM Ad-ministration Offi ce at 201-A Idol Drive in Thomasville.

To schedule an appointment, call 1-877-506-2226. Appointments last about 10 minutes and are confi dential. How-ever, appointments are not required – walk-ins welcome. Individuals will need to provide name, address and date of birth. Please know, or bring, social security number and income before any deductions.

Refreshments and door prizes provid-

ed throughout the day.

Going Red Fashion Show and Luncheon

Carolina Regional Heart Center at High Point Regional Health

System is sponsoring a community education event on Friday, Feb. 5 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at High Point Coun-try Club. Cardiologist, Dr.

Kathryn McFarland, will discuss heart healthy tips for women. A fashion show and lunch are planned.

The cost of the event is $20 and regis-tration is required.

The Country Club is located at 800 Country Club Road in High Point.

Call (336) 878-6888 for registration. Seating is limited.

Democratic Women meetingDemocratic Women of Davidson

County will meet on February 9 at 6:30 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church, South Main Street, Lexington. Membership is open to all Democratic women residing in Davidson County.

For more information, contact Josie Laumann at 476-1075.

Red Cross coursesThe American Red Cross has sched-

uled community CPR/AED/First Aid courses to be held at Thomasville Fire Department Headquarters, 712 E. Main St.

Courses are as listed:• Standard fi rst aid with adult CPR

course, Feb. 16, 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. • Standard fi rst aid with adult CPR,

Feb. 16, 2 to 7:30 p.m.• First Aid courses, Feb. 17, 1:30 to 5

p.m.• Adult CPR/AED course, Feb. 22, 6 to

10 p.m. • Standard fi rst aid with Adult and

Child CPR/AED, plus infant CPR, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Feb. 23.

• Child/Infant CPR course, Feb. 23, 6 to 10 p.m.

• First aid course, Feb. 25, 6 to 10 p.m. Course fees are $25.For more information, or to reg-

ister, call 475-5545 or email [email protected] by Feb. 10.

Medical Matters seminarAs part of a monthly educational se-

ries, “Medical Matters,” the FitnessCenter at High Point Regional HealthSystem will discuss “My Heart – TheEngine of Life” on Friday, Feb. 12 atnoon.

Participants will learn how theheart works and why it is important tokeep it healthy. This free clinic will alsodiscuss the mechanics of the little en-gine that keeps you running.

The discussion will be held at the Fit-ness Center education room at HighPoint Regional Hospital, 601 N. Elm St.,High Point

Call (336) 878-6221 for a reservation.Seating is limited.

Gumtree spaghetti dinnerGumtree Fire and Rescue Auxiliary

will sponsor a spaghetti dinner fund-raiser on Saturday, Feb. 13 from 4 to 7p.m.

The meal includes all you eat of salad,spaghetti, bread, dessert, tea or coffee.Adult dinners are $$7, senior citizens(65 and older) are $6, children 12 andunder is $4, and all take out orders are$7. Hot dogs will be offered for $1. Extrasalad, desert or bread are $1 each.

Proceeds will be used to purchaseitems needed by the fi refi ghters and res-cue squad as they serve the community.

Civitan steak supperThe Silver Valley Civitan annual

steak supper on Feb. 20 will again pro-vide funds for the Civitan-Troy JarrellMemorial Scholarships at South David-son High School.

The club has presented 43 scholar-ships since 1989 totaling $39,000. Twogrants for higher education of $1,000each will be presented in June.

Dine-in or take-out from 4:30 until7:30 p.m. at this enjoyable dining expe-rience. The evening meal will includea salad bar, baked potato, dessert table,bread and beverage. The meal will beserved at Pleasant Grove United Meth-odist Church Fellowship Hall locatedon Old Highway 64 at the Davidson-Ran-dolph County line.

Tickets are sold in advance only at $12from any Civitan member or by contact-ing Harold Parrish at 472-2379.

What’s happening?

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FOCUS

Why invest? You choose

In the last three col-umns, we have explored the fi rst three Choice Points panels in the PaperRoom System. GOALS, ORIGINS and TOP TEN experiences are the headliners, each designed to offer a unique perspective on where you’ve been and where you’re headed.

Before we move on to yet another PRS panel, let’s pause in the middle to consider our own WHY? Why invest time, money and energy — precious resources to be sure — to con-sider and complete this structured inquiry? The answer could be approached from many angles, but let’s go with three for three:

Leadership Development

Pick up a book on leadership, take a class, or attend a webinar. You’d be hard pressed to move through it without some mention of learning more about yourself and human behavior. Consider this quote from leadership expert Roger Pearman:

“Leadership is about how we envision the next step, motivate others to move in that direction, and build processes that promote future leadership activities and development. This defi nition applies to the mailroom clerk who sees a better way and to the CEO who envisions new products: leadership is

about who we are in a given time and place, not about position or title.”

Clearly visioning, goal-setting, and moti-vating emerge in this inclusive defi nition. And understanding ‘who and where we are’ undergirds it all. Effective leaders continually rediscover and redefi ne themselves to respond to the rapid change taking place all around them. The PRS offers an exact process to work with inexact, but authentic human data.

Career DevelopmentHere’s a seminal quote

from Judith Grutter in Making it in Today’s Organizations, pub-lished by Consulting Psychologist’s Press:

“Career professionals have long ago agreed that the clients who benefi t the most from career development assistance are those who know what they are all about and what their purpose is in life, and who are willing to search for clarity by answering the WHO, WHAT, WHERE, and WHY questions ...”

The WHO in this con-text refers to the peren-nial “Who am I?” ques-tion. WHAT references the kind of work that one actually wants to do, just as WHERE explores the kind of place (location, environment) one wants to do it. The WHY refers to the deep, internal values that ultimately drive our decision mak-ing. The PRS touches each and every one of these critical areas of self identifi cation.

Spiritual Development

In the New York Times bestseller, Care of the Soul Thomas Moore talks about the cultivation of depth and sacredness in everyday life. He expresses it this way:

“Fulfi lling work, rewarding relationships, personal power, and re-lief from symptoms are all gifts of the soul. ..We

live in a time of deep division, in which mind is separated from body and spirituality is at odds with materialism. But how do we get out of this split? We can’t just ‘think’ ourselves through it, because thinking itself is part of the problem. What we need is a way out of dualistic attitudes. We need a third possibility and that third is soul.”

To soulfully examine life includes understand-ing one’s own story. As faith is strengthened through ancient and con-temporary story, one’s spiritual journey is also supported by allowing your personal story to be told. Beyond just ‘think-ing,’ utilizing the Paper-Room system allows one to see and experience fresh, new interpreta-tions of past, present and future. As Thomas Moore puts it, “storytelling is an excellent way to take care of the soul” and the PRS is an excellent way to tell your story.

WHY pursue per-sonal, professional growth using the Pa-perRoom System?

YOU choose.

Contact [email protected] to complete your GOALS, ORIGINS, and TOP TEN panels and make your way to sound choices.

Marilyn Taylor is the owner of Taylor Training and a certifi ed coach/corporate trainer with the Boston Coach-ing Company, home of PaperRoom System for Coaching. For more infor-mation, contact Marilyn locally at (336) 249-3194 or visit on the web at www.taylortrain.com

Taylor Training & De-velopment, Inc. provides consulting services and has also provided coach-ing and team develop-ment in this region for 18+ years. Team tools include Strengths Finder 2.0, EDGE 360, TKI, CPI 260,and the Enneagram.

TaylorMade

MARILYN TAYLORBusiness Columnist

Creasey family Extreme Makeover to air Sunday

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Only three days remain until the air-ing of Extreme Makeover: Home Edi-tion for the Creasey Family in Lexing-ton. The show will air on Sunday at 8 p.m.

Beginning at 7 p.m., ABC-45 will host a show featuring Jason Hedrick, contrac-tor and coordinator of this project, and the things about this project that view-ers will not see from the Extreme Show.

Lexington area restaurants will be of-

fering support by giving a percentage ofsales on Sunday. Participants are Noah’s(Sunday lunch) on Main Street, Chris-to’s, (Dinner) S Main Street, Applebees(Dinner) Plaza Parkway and Big RockTavern on National Boulevard.

In addition to the programming, aBuilders Behind the Scenes DVD is be-ing produced. For a minimum donationof $20, those interested can receive acopy of this DVD with proceeds going tothe Creasey Family. Go to www.hedrick-extreme.com for more information.

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vidson County would receive $2.5 mil-lion from the DOT for improvements to the bridge until the Interstate 85 project is completed. Ivey said annual mainte-nance costs for the Wil-Cox bridge usu-ally cost around $137,000 a year. Uncer-tainty about just how long the project will take and whether or not stimulus money will be involved seem to be the biggest questions.

“Let’s say we get the bridge two years from now, and the amount of work it needs costs $2.8 million,” said commis-sioner Larry Potts. “What if we don’t get the bridge in two years? What if it’s fi ve years? Say all this work that the state’s going to do costs $2 million. That leaves us with $500,000 to keep it up. If costs $137,000 a year, after three years, we’re broke.”

Ivey said the DOT would maintain the bridge until any ownership trans-fer is completed. Plans are to eliminate vehicle traffi c on the bridge, turning it into a mostly walking, biking and horse trail. The absence of vehicle traffi c will decrease annual wear and tear. The Wil-Cox bridge is part of a district vying for historic recognition and would have been demolished during construction of the new I-85 structure. Demolishing the bridge would delay construction and may jeopardize the state getting a share of stimulus money needed for the $300 million project.

“It might not be that much everyyear,” Ivey said of the $137,000 mainte-nance cost. “You may go several yearswithout spending a dime on it, but thensomething will need a repair. I willguarantee you it will be in good condi-tion when ownership is transferred.”

No action was taken by commission-ers. Ivey said he would like to know of adecision by March 1. Political watchdogBarney Hill spoke out against the idea,saying that if Rowan County Commis-sioners wanted no part of the deal thenwhy should Davidson County.

“I oppose your ownership of the Wil-Cox bridge,” said Hill. “The commis-sioners who sit in your seats in 2037 willspeak of the bridge deal of 2010 the wayyou speak of the post offi ce deal of 1983.I know you are salivating over the $2.5million, but look at all the baggage thatcomes with it.”

In other news:• Commissioners approved a request to

participate in a statewide library shar-ing program. Ruth Ann Copley, directorof the Davidson County Public Library,said the program will allow librariesacross the state to share owned bookswith other libraries in the system. TheNorth Carolina Shared library CatalogProject will give patrons access to booksanywhere in North Carolina via a state-wide card. Books can be either sent tothe local library for $2 or a person cancheck out a book while out of town.

Staff Writer Eliot Duke can be reachedat 888-3578, or [email protected].

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assistance programs.“We’ve done this for

years through the AARP, and it’s just an opportu-nity to help those that are older to be able to get their taxes done at no charge,” Everhart-Rob-erts said. “They can use a trained professional, and there’s no cost to them.”

olunteer tax aides

have been trained by the American Association of Retired Persons and the Internal Revenue Service to provide counseling and tax form prepara-tion. Forms will be fi lled out electronically, and citizens will be given the choice of e-fi ling or print-ing the forms out to be mailed.

Those requesting tax

assistance should bringcopies of last year’s taxreturn forms both federaland state, picture ID, So-cial Security card, check-ing or savings accountinformation for directdeposit of refunds and2009 income information,including W-2s and 1099sfor wages, interest anddividends.

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if the temperature stays above 17 degrees.

“If things start to get slick, we’ll put sand down in problem areas,” said Huffman. “I understand Friday evening and Sat-urday morning will be

the worst of it. It just de-pends on if it’s frozen or wet.”

Huffman said Public Works will concentrate on main thorough fares due to traffi c volume and not as much on second-ary roads. Huffman said hopes are that different crews will be used to han-dle the storm other than ones who worked on the

water main breaks. A to-tal of 19 workers will be on hand for the storm.

“I can’t say enough good things about those guys,” said Huffman. “They have really, really put in the time.”

Staff Writer Eliot Duke can be reached at 888-3578, or [email protected].

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I won’t try to kid you into thinking I’m some kind of organizational expert. I am the most disorganized person ever. My professional of-fi ce is a mess. My home, remarkably, appears to be orderly, as long as you don’t open a cupboard, drawer or closet. Being disorganized steals my time, energy and money. I buy things I have already because I can’t fi nd them, or I spend too much time looking for things I need. That is going to stop. I am declaring before each and every one of you, my dear readers, that this is my year to get organized.

I have consulted several professional resources and done a lot of thinking, and I’ve come up with the following steps I will take to achieve my goal.

Step 1. Commitment. I’ve tried to get orga-nized before, but I never have been fully commit-ted. I trust that making my commitment open and public will make all the difference. Do you hear me? I am go-ing to get organized.

Step 2. Identify the space. Lumping my offi ce and home into a single organizational project is overwhelming. To over-come this, I have divided

the task into 12 projects, or spaces, one per month in 2010. My home studio — where I write, sew, knit, craft and basically create things — is a sight to behold. It is huge and fi lled to capacity. Mark it “Project No. 1.”

Step 3. Identify recipi-ents. I am committed to getting rid of every-thing that I do not use on a regular basis or that I do not fi nd to be incredibly beautiful.

But I know myself. I will not be able to throw away good things that fi t those criteria. Before I get started, I need to identify charitable orga-nizations, selling sites, friends or family mem-bers who will appreciate receiving everything that doesn’t make the cut.

Step 4. Three contain-ers. I have labeled these boxes “Keep,” “Trash” and “Give.” That seems simple enough, but to make sure, I did a practice run on the desk in my home studio. Out of six drawers, I ended up with seven things in the “Keep” box and zero

to give away, and every-thing else fi lled the trash container to overfl owing. My desk is clean and nearly empty. The three-container plan worked.

Step 5. A place for ev-erything. I don’t practice it, but that doesn’t mean I don’t know this secret for being organized: There should be a place for everything and every-thing in its place. Once I have identifi ed what I will keep in each project space, I am determined to identify a specifi c place for each thing I own. Then I’ll get into the habit of returning things to their places.

I have cut out a big job for myself in the com-ing year. Think I can do it? I do. And I plan to take pictures to prove it. I’ll keep you posted!

Mary Hunt is the founder of www.Debt-ProofLiving.com and author of 18 books, including her latest, “Can I Pay My Credit Card Bill With a Credit Card?” You can e-mail her at [email protected].

Steps to get organizedBY MARY HUNTSyndicated Columnist

Gift brings United Way closer to reaching campaign goal

The United Way of Davidson County is pleased to announce that it has re-ceived a gift of $150,000 gift from Tal-madge and Ian Silversides that will bring the organization closer to its 2009-2010 Campaign Goal.

Dr. Lee Jessup, President of the Unit-ed Way stated, “A week ago, we were still standing right at $1.7 million dollars to-wards our $2 million dollar goal. This extraordinary donation by Talmadge and Ian Silversides of $150,000 means that we are standing at $1.85 million dol-lars with $150,000 to go before we reach goal.”

The United Way Board encourages do-

nors who have not yet made a pledge to consider a gift to the United Way’s Cam-paign so programs run by 31 human service agencies in Davidson County will not have to be cut quite as deeply.

Josef Walker, Campaign Chair, said, “The Silversides have demonstrated great compassion with this gift. They have done so much for our community already, and now, many of the boys, girls, men, and women who have spe-cial needs will have those needs met by these 31 United Way-funded agencies right here in our community.”

Those who would like to participate in this year’s Campaign may send a check to: The United Way of Davidson County, P.O. Box 492, Lexington, NC 27293.

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Focus on the family

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CBS will air an ad during the Super Bowl in which col-lege football star Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam Tebow, discuss her decision not to have an abortion despite doctors’ advice to do so. The news is creating precisely the stir that its sponsor, the Christian conservative group Focus on the Family, was almost certainly hoping for. Women’s groups have called on CBS not to air the ad, arguing that the Super Bowl is no place for one of the most divisive issues in politics. CBS report-edly has approved the script and plans to run the ad.

The irony is that the Tebow story has absolutely noth-ing to do with the question a woman with an unwanted pregnancy faces. Pam Tebow wanted to have her fi fth child, but had become ill during a trip to the Philip-pines. It was on that basis that doctors recommended an abortion. She ignored them, mother and baby came through just fi ne, and he went on to win the Heis-man trophy. God bless.

What does that have to do

with the situation facing a teenage girl pregnant with a child she cannot raise, or a mother who is told that her much-wanted child has a chromosomal condition that is inconsistent with life? What does it have to do with a rape or incest victim and her right not to carry the child of her abuser?

I know plenty of stories like the Tebows’. Some of them end happily. Some do not. Few things are as awful as being told that the child you are carrying may not, or will not, live. Sometimes doctors are wrong, and sometimes they aren’t. Are the Tebows really telling American women to ignore their doctors’ advice, even when that advice is based on the best medical infor-mation? Are they telling women that they should risk their lives rather than have an abortion? Even the dissenters to Roe v. Wade would not go so far.

The news that teenage pregnancies are up for the fi rst time in years is what we should all be concerned about, working on, thinking about. No one is for abor-tion, at least not anyone who should be taken seriously. I have never met a woman who had an abortion who viewed it as anything other than a painful, diffi cult and often heartbreaking decision, particularly when the abor-tion is the result of medical advice that the woman can-not sustain the pregnancy or the baby will not survive.

Thankfully, in the decades since Pam Tebow’s preg-nancy, diagnostic techniques

have improved, allowing doctors to give better advice. Hopefully today, her doc-tors would have been able to reassure her that both she and the baby would be fi ne, and abortion would not even have been an issue.

Given that, the only con-nection between the Tebow story and the real abor-tion debate is its ability to make women who have made the painful choice of abortion feel bad. This is emotional manipula-tion, pure and simple.

The not so subtle implica-tion is that the fetus you aborted would have grown upto be some kind of superstar. How ridiculous. And frankly, how insulting. Without an athletic gene in my body, I can certainly say that I never expected any child of mine to win a Heisman. Like most mothers, I prayed only that they would be healthy. The suggestion that abortion is in any way connected to the value or the potential talents of the baby-to-be is so offen-sive that it is hard to believe Focus on the Family doesn’t see the distorted underside of their own advertisement.

So be it. I might go to the bathroom during that ad or make popcorn. Focus on the Family is getting at-tention and will get more. But it is doing so by run-ning an ad that is decep-tive and ultimately cruel.

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Tax credits? Spending freezes? Defi cit commissions? The president is starting to sound a lot like one of those fi scal he-devils the Demo-crats have been warning the nation about for years.

Not to worry, true believers, Barack Obama only sounds as if he’s making sense. The proposed three-year freeze sham accounts for less than a measly one-sixth of the federal budget, and the defi cit panel already has been voted down in the Senate.

But sounding like you mean it is half the battle — as the Republican Party has learned over the past 15 years. And one of the ma-jor political missteps of the Obama administration has been confusing the agenda of the progressive left with that of the American electorate.

A new poll by the Pew Re-search Center for the People & the Press, for example, fi nds that more than 80 percent of adults believe that jobs and the economy should be the two top priorities of Washing-ton — issues that were used to further the administration’s no-serious-crisis-left-behind project and little else.

To my astonishment, no-where in the Pew poll could I fi nd the words “Copenhagen,” “worldwide presidential apol-ogy tour,” “Chicago Olympic bid,” “social justice,” “bank-ers make too much dough” or even “bail out GM; America needs the Acadia.” Still, these subjects were a matter of considerable urgency and expended political capital in Washington this year.

Perhaps it’s self-delusion. After all, the number of times Obama has affi xed the word “urgent” to his own agenda is unquantifi able. Cap and trade was “urgent.” On the campaign trail, in fact, Obama claimed that “few challenges facing America ... are more urgent than com-bating climate change.”

And this is true, if by “few” the president means 20 other issues, as the Pew

poll puts global warming 21st on the urgent policy list — or, in other words, last.

Just as “urgent action” was needed to pass the govern-ment stimulus plan to bump unemployment to a more numerically manageable 10 percent, the rising cost of health care — an important is-sue once the president decides to address it — was Wash-ington’s responsibility to fi x because it was a “longstand-ing and urgent problem.”

According to Pew, health care reform falls in behind “economy,” “jobs,” “terror-ism,” “education,” “defi cit reduction,” “Medicare,” “Social Security” and so on. All of them urgent.

You will, almost certainly, not be surprised to learn that a defi cit reduction commis-sion, according to the presi-dent, is “urgent,” as the coun-try faces a serious fi scal crisis, all of which, even a year later, is the Bush administration’s fault because it failed “to pay for new policies.”

One empathizes. Yet this grievance would hold more water if the Obama admin-istration hadn’t spent more than any presidential admin-istration in history has in its fi rst year. Let’s also remember that this dubious feat was accomplished without pass-ing two of the most expen-sive pieces of legislative items on the statist menu.

Now, with the shadow of Scott Brown descending on D.C., we’re in for a rhetori-cal recalibration. Obama will sound like an ardent fi scal conservative while simultane-ously ratcheting up populist anger regarding banks, risk, profi ts and make-believe unfettered capitalism.

Do Americans feel an urgent need to stick it to the investor class? Financial regulations rank as the 15th-most impor-tant concern, behind “helping the poor,” “moral decline” and “crime.” So I doubt it. But we’ll see what happens.

Yet it is diffi cult to deny that after only one year in power, the administration has been forced to admit its vision of economic intervention has been soundly rejected. All one needs to do is listen.

David Harsanyi is a col-umnist at The Denver Post and the author of “Nanny State.” Visit his Web site at www.DavidHarsanyi.com. To fi nd out more about David Harsanyi and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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Charles “Bud” Childress Jr.

LEXINGTON — Charles “Bud” Farrell Childress Jr., 49, of Foy Avenue, died Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010, at Wake Forest Uni-versity Baptist Medical Center, following a sud-den illness.

Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29, 2010, at Davidson Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. David Shaf-fer offi ciating. Burial will follow in Lexington City Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home and other times at the home of his sister, Pa-tricia Walters, 190 Reedy-fork Drive .

Online condolences may be made at www.da-vidsonfuneralhome.net.

Irene Norman FieldsMrs. Irene Norman

Fields, age 73, of Caroli-na Road, Burlington, for-merly Pineywood Road in Thomasville, died Tues-day, Jan. 26, 2010, in the Hinkle Hospice Home.

Born Sept. 21, 1936 in Surry Co., N.C., daughter of Elson Lee Norman and

Essie Layle Norman, she was a member of Bless-ings Baptist Church.

Funeral service will be conducted Friday at 10 a.m. in Blessings Baptist Church. Interment will follow in Floral Garden Park Cemetery. The fam-ily will be at J.C. Green & Sons Funeral Home in Thomasville today eve-ning from 6 to 8 p.m.

Online condolences may be sent to the Fields Family at www.jcgreen-andsons.com.

Benjamin HardwickMIDWAY — Benjamin

Calhoun Hardwick, age 86, died Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010, at his home.

Funeral service will be held at Davidson Funeral Home, Hickory Tree Cha-pel, at 11 a.m. on Friday with the Rev. Dr. Billy Martin offi ciating. Burial will follow at Parklawn Memorial Park.

Online condolences may be made at www.da-vidsonfuneralhome.net.

Austin PerryCLEARWATER, Fla.Mr. Thomas Austin Per-

ry, 84, formerly of Thom-asville, died Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010, at his home in Clearwater, Fla.

He was born on Jan. 30, 1925, in Davidson County, to Alfred Edwin Perry and Allie Westmoreland Perry. He was a disabled U.S. Air Force veteran having served and was combat wounded in WWII. He was a retired mail carrier with the postal service. He was a ham radio operator and enjoyed talking with friends in the U.S. and Canada. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife of 49 years, Clementine Perry, on July 30, 1999, and eight siblings.

He is survived by niec-es and nephews and their families and his loyal cat, Sammy.

Funeral service will be held on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010, at 2 p.m. at the J.C.

Green & Sons Funeral Home Chapel in Thomas-ville with the Rev. Mark Mullins offi ciating. In-terment will follow in Thomasville City Cem-etery. The family will be at the funeral home on Saturday from 6-8 p.m.

On-line condolences may be sent to www.jc-greenandsons.com.

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Ernest E. ProctorErnest Elzaphan Proc-

tor, affectionately known as “Ernie”, died Jan. 26, 2010.

Born Dec. 4, 1935, to Bascom and Bertha Jones Proctor, to his childhood sweetheart, Carrie Jean Kennedy, for 55 years. Ernest spent 13 years driving for the Davidson County Schools; his dedi-cation and safety record earned him the title of Bus Driver of the Year in 2005-26.

Funeral service will be held today at 3 p.m. at Zion United Church of Christ with the Rev. James Simonds, the Rev. Allen West, and the Rev. George Fidler offi ciating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Mr. Proctor will remain at the J.C. Green & Sons Fu-neral Home in Wallburg until taken to the church 30 minutes prior to the service. The family will be at the funeral home in Wallburg on Wednesday from 6 to 8:30 p.m.

On-line condolences may be sent to www.jc-greenandsons.com.

Robert “Bobby” D. Reece

THOMASVILLE — Robert “Bobby” D. Reece arrived in his heavenly home on Jan. 26, 2010, after many years of poor health. He is now rejoic-ing and singing “I’ve Just Seen Jesus.”

He was born on Jan. 1, 1957, in Thomasville, N.C. Robert graduated from East Davidson High School in 1977 and was

employed by Thomas-ville Furniture Indus-tries for 22 years. In 2005 he retired from work due to poor health. Bobby loved people and enjoyed socializing with them, es-pecially those at Sunrise Grill. He was truly loved by his family and will be missed greatly. He was a member of Carolina Me-morial Baptist Church and enjoyed the contem-porary worship services.

Surviving are his par-ents, Bill and Evelyn Re-ece of Thomasville; two brothers, Brian Reece, and his wife Roxanne, Randy Reece, both of Thomasville; a sister, Dreama Reece Ujevich, and her husband Michael from High Point; and four nieces, Nikki, Erin, Katie and Emily.

Services will be at J.C. Green and Sons Funeral Home in Thomasville at 4 p.m. today, and the family will receive friends from 3 p.m. until the hour of the service.

In lieu of fl owers, dona-tions may also be directed to Thomasville Dialysis Center, Thomasville, N.C. Online condolences may be sent to the Reece fam-ily at www.jcgreenand-sons.com.

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Arville SpainhourFORT MYERS, Fla.

— Arville Odell Spain-hour, of Fort Myers, Fla.,formerly of Thomasvilleand Noblesville, Ind.,passed away Monday,Jan. 4, 2010.

Odell was born May6, 1935, the son of A.O.Spainhour and DaliceCrews Spainhour.

Survivors include hiswife, Marlene Spainhourof the home; daughtersVicki Thompson andSerry Tittle, both of No-blesville; a son, MichaelSpainhur of Florida;grandchildren AngelaStoehr, Shellie Wellman,Teri Stokes, Matt Thomp-son and Kristin Spain-hour; and great-grand-children Ashleigh andKaitlyn, Grant and Graceand Evan, Dominic andKristin.

Private family serviceswere held Jan. 6, 2010, inFort Myers.

Online condolencesmay be made at www.horizoncremation.com.

***

Mae Frances Hunter-Swittenburg

Ms. Mae Frances Hunt-er-Swittenburg, died onJan. 26, 2010, at ForsythMemorial Hospital.

Arrangements are in-complete at this time.

OBITUARIES

IndexThomasville

Irene Norman Fields, 73Ernest E. Proctor

Robert “Bobby” D. Reece

Mae Frances Hunter-Swittenburg

LexingtonCharles “Bud” Childress Jr., 49

Other AreasBenjamin C. Harwick, 86

Austin Perry, 84Arville Spainhour

How do we pray when humans lose everything; with barely anything to hold on to; except their suffering body. With faith and hope gone to many, prayers to them is not even an option.

How we, as a land of plenty, respond to human beings of another coun-try and another faith in need. As we live with our own needs met and many live a life of luxury responds to tragedy to those who need help, even across the world.

I don’t know the an-swer to these many ques-tions. I’m not sure that I know how to pray for the country of Haiti and its people. These multitudes of poor, suffering people are helpless. They feel that there is nothing left to live for. About the only thing that I can suggest is to listen to our hearts of compassion.

Thank God we are a fortunate people. Pray as you feel led and pray for our faithful military troops and organiza-tions as they risk their health and lives to help their fellow man.

There will be some Haitians with solid faith and convictions. They try to survive and carry on. Perhaps neighbors from other towns will come to their aid; offer-ing their help. In time to come, survival will overcome these unfor-tunate nightmares of grief through the land.

We are Americans, the nation that the world looks up to. May God continue his mercy and grace on us.

Guest Columnist Van Brinkley is a retired hos-pital chaplain.

In spite of horror, misery, there’s hope

BY VAN BRINKLEYSpecial to the Times

Lexington man arrested for murder

Davidson County Sher-iff ’s Offi ce arrested a Lexington man for alleg-edly stabbing a woman to death in the Tyro Com-munity.

Hank Wade Lanier, 38, of 3799 Highway 150 South, Lot 22, is charged with one count of mur-der after deputies found a female dead in the West Park Mobile Home Park early Tuesday morning. Police identifi ed the vic-tim as 36-year-old Kathy Anne Seymour from King, North Carolina.

“They weren’t living together,” Sheriff David Grice said. “It was more of a boyfriend, girlfriend kind of relationship. We’re still continuing to investigate.”

According to a DCSO

press release, dep-uties responded to a report of an un-known female dead at 5:52 a.m. Tues-day morning at Lanier’s address. Deputies arrived and discovered Seymour dead from stab wounds to her body. Lanier made the call to 911 and was present at the scene when deputies arrived.

Detectives and a Crime Scene Unit began investi-gating and found enough evidence to obtain a war-rant for arrest for Lanier. At 6:10 p.m., Lanier was

taken into custody for one count of murder and placed in the Davidson County Jail un-der no bond. He is scheduled to ap-pear in Davidson County District Court. on Jan. 27.

“We conducted an extensive crime scene investigation Tuesday,” said Grice. “She suf-fered from multiple stab wounds.”

Seymour’s body was sent to the state Medical

Examiner’s Offi ce in Cha-pel Hill for an autopsy to determine the precise cause of death. Lanier was taken to Wake Forest University Baptist Medi-cal Center for minor in-juries prior to his arrest, but Grice didn’t specify how the suspect received those injuries. Grice also didn’t want to comment on the type of weapon used in the crime.

Staff Writer Eliot Duke can be reached at 888-3578, or [email protected].

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Storm pounds UNC, 101-69LEXINGTON — No, the

print is not blurry today. Davidson County Com-

munity College domi-nated in a l m o s t e v e r y facet of the game, b l o w i n g away the U n i v e r -sity of N o r t h Carolina j u n i o r

varsity 101-69 Wednes-day in a non-conference showdown.

DCCC got 29 points from Rico Geter and 24 more from Justin Glover to avenge an earlier loss to the Tar Heels.

“I told our guys I fi g-ured it would be a war to the end,” said Storm head coach Matt Ridge. “I knew we were as tal-ented as them, but to beat a well-coached team like that speaks volumes for our program.”

The game went back and forth for the fi rst nine minutes until DCCC started to make its move. Kimani Hunt scored on a back-door lob from Robbie Rives to set off a 9-0 Storm run. Patrick Crouch scored on a fl oat-er to break up the streak, so the Storm decided they would try it again.

This time it was just a 6-0 run, but when it ended, the Storm found them-selves with a surprising 41-23 lead with 3:39 still left in the half.

Ford Tanner broke it up this time for UNC with a basket in the paint and a pair of free throws at the line, but Davidson ended the 20 minutes with eight more unanswered points to stun the guests, lead-ing 49-27.

The halftime break could not have come at a better time for Carolina, giving them a chance to regroup and see if things could change. Unfortu-nately, things would get much worse for the Tar

Heels.The DCCC train only

stopped to refuel, as the Storm made sure there would be no comeback for the Tar Heels, who were on the road for the fi rst and only time this season.

Two baskets by UNC opened up the fi nal half, aggravating Ridge who called for time. The

timeout was effective, as DCCC went crazy over the next four minutes and change.

A 49-31 lead went to 64-32, as DCCC was almost perfect on the offensive end while UNC had trou-ble making anything fall on their end. Hunt start-ed the monster run with a 3-pointer and the rout was on.

DCCC kept creeping closer to the century mark, and Derrick Mayo fi nished off the memo-rable night laying the ball in with four seconds left to put the Storm over 100.

“It feels really good,” Ridge said. “We hope when we win the region-als it will feel even better.

Playing on the road

turned out to be too toughof a challenge for the TarHeels.

“I am not sure if theylet it affect them, but allof the credit needs to goto Davidson County,”UNC head coach JerodHaase said. “They wereabsolutely fantastic.”

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TIMES PHOTO/FRANK RAUCCIONorth Carolina’s Ford Tanner fouls Davidson County Community College forward Eric Potts in the fi rst half on Wednes-day. DCCC led by 22 at halftime.

BY ZACH KEPLEYSports Editor

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Ledford girls shred Vikings for MPC win

WALLBURG — A battle for fi rst place in the Mid-Piedmont 3-A Conference Tuesday evening turned into a dream night for one team, while the other left the gymnasium embarrassed.

Ledford’s Lady Panthers had a four-minute stretch in the second quarter that let North Forsyth close within seven, but it was all LHS after that. Ledford blitzed the Lady Vikings 47-7 to the end, showing complete domination to win 73-26.

Chelsea Freeman had a sound effort scoring 23 points to lead the 10-7, 4-1 Pan-thers. Taylor Ballard chipped in 12 points on four 3-pointers.

Ledford scored often in the fi rst quar-

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WALLBURG — Down three at half-time against a really good North Forsythsquad, Ledford could not have asked to bein a better position.

The Panthers had just come back froma 12-point defi cit, had momentum goinginto the half and had the support of itshome crowd. North Forsyth swept all ofthe excitement away in the second half,controlling the pace of play and torchingthe nets from the outside to roll 77-52 onTuesday.

With the win, the Vikings maintaincontrol of the Mid-Piedmont Conferenceat 5-0, having an overall record of 13-3.Ledford dropped to 12-6 on the year, 2-3 in

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RALEIGH — A couple of days ago, North Caro-lina coach Roy Williams said the Tar Heels could not feel sorry for them-selves after losing four of the past fi ve and that at some point, they needed to settle down and play better.

That sometime hap-pened to be Tuesday.

After losing three straight games for the fi rst time in the Williams era to drop near the bot-tom in the ACC, the Tar Heels got contributions from every player on the court for a 77-63 vic-tory over N.C. State at the RBC Center to get back in the win column.

The Tar Heels (13-7, 2-3 ACC) improve to 2-5 away from the Smith Center but earned their fi rst true road win, since their vic-tory over Ohio State was on a neutral court.

“It’s a bigtime relief,” Thompson said. “When we lose, it feels like the world is going to end and I think no one feels it worse than coach and ourselves. And to come here, and State is a tough environment and they’re a good team, so to come here and get a road win, that this team really needs right now is really big for this team.”

Thompson set the tone for the Tar Heels, as

his aggressive play re-sulted in a team-high 20 points, the fi rst time he has reached that level of scoring since a win over Nevada on Nov. 29.

But three other play-ers also reached double fi gures, as Larry Drew II tied his career-high 18 points, freshman Dexter Strickland added 14 and Ed Davis — who started despite being listed as “very questionable” with a left ankle sprain — chipped in 12 points and a team-high nine re-bounds.

“We looked like a team tonight, huh?” Thomp-son said. “So that feels good when you see ev-eryone came in and did something real good for this team. … It was just a complete team win, and that’s what we need.”

The Tar Heels led at halftime 37-33, but the Wolfpack (13-8, 2-5) opened the second half on a 10-1 run, with Javier Gonzalez scoring eight of his 19 points during the stretch to go ahead.

But then Drew hit a 3-pointer to kickstart a 13-0 UNC run, which saw almost every UNC player contribute. Freshman John Henson had three huge blocks, Strickland converted a fastbreak layup, freshman Travis Wear recorded two steals and Thompson stole the ball at midcourt and dribbled to the basket for

a dunk to put his team up 51-43.

“At times, when were kind of going back and forth and maybe not be-ing exactly where we wanted, ... for [Thomp-son] to make those big types of plays was just a big morale booster,” UNC senior Marcus Ginyard said. “It really gives us a lot of energy out there to get going.”

A layup by Tracy Smith, the fi rst Wolfpack fi eld goal in nine min-utes, cut the lead to six after Thompson’s dunk. But that was as close as N.C. State would get the rest of the way.

The Wolfpack could not seem to make a shot in the second half, shooting 29 percent in the period, while the Tar Heels were hitting a blistering 57.7 percent. Smith led the Wolfpack with 20 points.

“They controlled the game,” N.C. State coach Sidney Lowe said. “They just outplayed us and were better than us to-night.”

At the start of the game, it looked like it would go down to the

wire and both teams went back and forth. The score was tied at 14 half-way through the fi rst, but then the Tar Heels went on a 9-0 run, includ-ing two rebounds and buckets off missed free throws by Thompson, to create some breathing room.

Yet the Wolfpack kept chipping away, and Ja-vier Gonzalez hit back-to-back 3-pointers to cut the score to 34-31 with 1:18 remaining in the half. UNC’s Larry Drew II responded with a 3-pointer, but Gonzalez hit a jumper on the other end to put the score at 37-33 at the break.

“We went a long time [at practice] on Saturday and Sunday,” Williams said. “I tried to make it as competitive as it can be, and I wasn’t very nice to them and they answered. They really did.

“But I think the tough-ness was there. I think that we were better de-fensively. Guys, every-body understand, it looks so much better when the ball goes in and we made some shots, too.”

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Heels snap skid with win over Pack AREAS SPORTS BRIEFSBASKETBALL

Storm party in Winston-Salem

Davidson County Com-munity College smoked Piedmont Baptist Col-lege 106-67 Monday in nonconference play.

Leading scorers for the Storm were Justin Glover with 32 points, Kimani Hunt 19, Eric Potts 17, Zack Williams 14 and Robbie Rives 11.

East slays DragonsThe East Davidson

Lady Golden Eagles coasted to a 57-37 win Monday night at West Davidson.

East went up 21-5 at the end of one period and never looked back.

Haley Grimsley had 15 points, Candace Fox 13 points with four steals and four assists and Sta-cy Hicks had eight points with fi ve rebounds.

East moves to 15-3, 4-1 in the CCC.

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ter, building a 22-4 lead. Ballard knocked down three of her trifectas in the quarter, with the rest of the team hitting just about anything it threw up at the basket.

“I don’t know if we have shot that well in 10 years,” said LHS coach John Ralls. “The fi rst quarter we shot the ball as well as we have in a long time.”

The only time Ledford did not have control was to start the second quar-ter. North Forsyth scored 15 of the fi rst 19 points in the frame, making it a game at 26-19. Kayla Ad-ams was the catalyst in the comeback, sinking a trio of 3s.

“We would be right there and she would just take it and knock it in,” Ralls said.

Ledford methodical-ly drove forward from there, accounting for the fi nal 10 points in the half to lead 36-19.

Freeman showed her skill and ballhandling in the second half, scoring 16 points by stealing the ball away and hustling on every play. Ledford built up a 65-22 advan-tage, playing tough de-fense as the Vikings went without a bucket for over two quarters.

Sydnei Rosenbalm end-ed the drought with 4:06 to play on a runner in the lane, accounting for the only North Forsyth fi eld goal in the second half.

“We played pretty well defensively,” said Ralls. “Everybody was fl ying around and staying in front with good ball pres-sure.”

Adams scored 11 points for the Vikings, who fal-tered to 8-9 this season.

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Ledford’s Dylan Gibhardt fi ghts for control of the ball above North Forsyth’s Adam Muse.

league play.Ledford trailed 18-8 af-

ter one quarter and were on the verge of being blown out as the Vikings went ahead by two more to start the second. The lead would stay around 10 until just under three minutes left, when the Panthers took a bite out of the defi cit. Jonathan Reid leaned in for the fi rst basket as Dylan Smith and Nathan Parks

followed with hoops of their own in the lane. Smith made a nifty spin move shortly after, and just like that the lead had shrunk to 26-24.

Allen Hauser hit one of his six 3s to silence the spurt, but Smith worked in the post again to keep Ledford down by just three at intermission.

“We made a nice run,” said LHS coach Scott Dal-ton. “Defensively, we re-ally got after it and that created some momentum for us. We got some easy buckets and gained some confi dence.”

Dalton stuck with the same fi ve that made the run to start the second half, but the elevated play had diminished. North began to quicken the pace and the shots started fall-ing frequently. A fl urry of action put the guests up eight, and it would get much worse for Ledford as time progressed. Haus-er hit two more of his 3s and Thomasville transfer C.J. Campbell slammed home a one-handed jam that increased the advan-tage to 38-27. The Vikings maintained a 15-point edge at the end of three quarters.

“We didn’t go in and make any adjustments [at the half],” said Viking coach Sean Vestal. “We just continued to do what we were doing and push-ing the basketball. They made a huge run and I was proud of the way

my guys came out in that third quarter.”

North continued to ex-pand its lead and Hauser continued to make 3s. He fi nished the night 6-of-7 from the fi eld, missing only the fi nal 3-pointer he shot.

“He made the comment before the game, ‘Coach, I do not think I can miss tonight.’” said Vestal. “That one he missed I thought it was going in.”

Dalton was not too fond of the show Hauser and company was displaying.

“We gave some really good shooters a lot of un-contested shots,” he said. “That disappoints me be-cause I didn’t think we fought real hard.”

Hauser had 20 points in the contest and Campbell added 15. Smith and Dan-iel Lawson added 15 and 11 for the Panthers.

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DAVIDSON COUNTY

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICEDISTRICT COURT DIVISION

FILE #09 J 209

IN RE: SAGE DAKOTA CLAYTON, a minor child

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESSOF PUBLICATION

TO: JOE CARROLL CLAYONT II, the father of amale child born on June 1, 2001, in DavidsonCounty, North Carolina, Respondent.

TAKE NOTICE that a Petition for Termination ofParental Rights has been filed in teh abovereferenced action. The nature of the relief beingsought is as follows:

Termination of your parental right in regard to theabove named child.

You are required to answer the Petition no laterthan the 24th day of February, 2010; said datebeing forty (40) days after the date of firstpublication of this Notice and upon your failure todo so, your parental rights to the above namedchild will be terminated by the Court.

This the 14th day of January, 2010.

Timothy D. SmithAttorney for PetitionerP.O. Box 1702Lexington, NC 27293Telephone: (#36) 236-4357

January 14, 21 & 28, 2010

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LEXINGTON – With the recent cold snap and another one in the long range forecast, many resi-dents are eager for spring to arrive in the Piedmont of North Carolina.

That question will be answered — at least in fun — on Feb. 2, when GroundHawg’s Day is cel-ebrated in Uptown Lex-ington.

Lexington’s annual event began in 2005 when Uptown Lexington, Inc. added a twist to Punx-sutawney, Pennsylvania’s traditional celebration of Candlemas, the celebra-tion of the mid-point be-tween winter and spring.

According to tradi-tion, if on this day it is fair, bright and sunny so that an animal can cast its shadow, it is an omen winter will last six more weeks. However, if the day is cloudy and shad-owless, it is a sign of spring’s arrival.

Of course, in Lexing-ton, instead of using a groundhog, the event pays tribute to the local barbecue heritage and the forecast is predicted instead by a pig.

On Tuesday, Feb. 2, Up-town Lexington, Inc. will continue this young com-munity event with the celebration of the 6th An-nual GroundHawg’s Day. Lil’ Bit,” a pot bellied pig will once again emerge to predict if March will bring spring or if winter will last a little longer.

The public is invited to join in the celebration on the square in Historic Uptown Lexington where volunteers will ask at-tendees when they think spring will arrive. Also on hand to lend an inter-pretation of long range forecasts will be Sid Proc-tor, an amateur weather forecaster and owner of Weathervane Winery.

The festivities begin just past sunrise around 7:35 a.m. About 7:45 a.m., “Lil’ Bit” will come out to see if she can see her shadow. Welcomed by cheers from the Lex-ington Senior High Cheerleaders, Offi cial GroundHawg’s Day rep-resentatives, donned in tails provided by Bruce’s Tuxedo, will lead the cele-bration. Mayor Pro-Tem, Larry Beck, the voice of “Lil’ Bit” since 2005, with assistance from Lexing-ton Mayor John Walser and Davidson County Commissioner Chair-man, Dr. Max Walser will ‘announce’ her weather forecast. Lil’ Bit’s own-ers Bob and Nancy Lent, and their son Tommy, will also be present at the morning celebration, as the offi cial, “groundhawg handlers”.

The image of Lil’ Bit featured on all publicity materials was developed especially for Ground-Hawg’s Day by Lexington resident and artist Chip Holton.

For more information about the 6th Annual GroundHawg’s Day, con-tact Uptown Lexington, Inc. at 249-0383.

Photo and Interview Opportunities:

7:00-7:30 - Interviews with Uptown Lexington staff, Sid Proctor, and GroundHawg’s Day rep-resentatives

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