BY TIFFANY LANEStaff Writer

MONROECuts to the school budget will

slice $153.5 million out of the five-year plan for new construction.

Two schools, slated to open in 2014, were removed from the school’s five-year plan Tuesday, along with plans for a classroom wing at Sun Valley High School.

“When we were in a period of high growth, we articulated the needs for new schools, renova-tions and additions very strongly

and clearly,” Superintendent Ed Davis said. “Now that we are not in this high growth mode, ... we need to continue to be good stew-ards of our county’s tax dollars, and we must articulate just as strongly our needs as they are re-flective of where we are now.”

Of 53 public schools, most are under capacity. Fourteen are be-tween 95 and 110 percent at capac-ity. Three — New Town and New Salem elementary schools and Porter Ridge Middle — are more than 110 percent at capacity.

There are 986 new students this year for a total population of 39,366 as of the 20th day of school.

The middle and high schools re-moved from the capital improve-ment plan would have provided relief to Porter Ridge middle and high.

“Just because we’re eliminating it now doesn’t mean it needs to be eliminated forever,” school board member David Scholl said.

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BY TIFFANY LANEStaff Writer

HEMBY BRIDGESelling Carolinas Medical Center-

Union would be a big mistake, Hem-by Bridge aldermen say.

The town signed a resolution Thursday opposing the sale of the hospital following months of discus-sion among county commissioners.

Some commissioners say selling it would pay off a chunk of the coun-ty’s nearly $700 million debt. No

official offers have been made, but the county estimates the hospital’s worth at around $200 million, with some projections as high as $300 mil-lion.

Selling CMC-Union is taking resi-dents’ health care to “auction it off,” Hemby Bridge mayor and former county commissioner Kevin Press-ley said.

Pressley said he is not opposed to minimizing the county’s debt, but jeopardizing locals’ health care isn’t the way to do it. Calling CMC-Union

“a political football,” Pressley said money should not come before peo-ple’s safety and well-being.

“I’m tired of political motivation causing disruption in Union Coun-ty,” he said.

Hemby Bridge alderman Chris Baker lives closer to Presbyterian Hospital in Matthews, but said many of his friends and some family mem-bers use CMC-Union.

Baker worries that commission-ers will sell the hospital before di-vulging how it will be used. “They

don’t have any right to do that,” he said.

If sold, the buyer might make the hospital “twice as nice,” Baker said, or turn it into a facility open only to certain people instead of the gen-eral public.

Baker also wonders whether the county tax rate and hospital visits will cost more if selling CMC-Union doesn’t generate as much money

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QueenLocal high school alumnus competes in Miss America pageant this week

BY ALAN JENKINSStaff Writer

S he conquered North Carolina. Now, she’s aiming for all of

America. Sun Valley High School

graduate Katherine Eliza-beth Southard flew to Las Ve-gas Thursday, where she will compete for the Miss Ameri-ca crown.

“She just loves the competi-tion,” her father, Van South-ard, said. “It is the chance to do things she would never have done.”

Katherine earned the title Miss North Carolina in June, but her passion for pageants began long before then. Her mother, Linda, remembers when Katherine first ap-peared in a pageant, she didn’t want to be in anymore for a while. Then, she compet-ed and became the Pride of North Carolina, Linda said. She earned honors as Little Miss Mecklenburg County as well.

She competed in the Miss Sun Valley pageants in high school, earning the title of Miss Junior in 2002 and Miss Carousel in 2003.

Teacher Jonathan Harbin remembers the 2002 pageant, and the work Katherine put in as an editor of the Spartan yearbook. Harbin served as

Katherine SouthardWho: Reigning Miss North CarolinaEducation: Sun Valley High; Elon University, magna cum laude graduate majoring in business administration and marketing;UNC-Charlotte, where she is currently working toward an MBA focused in real estate and real estate developmentTalent: Ballet en PointIssue she champions: Bat-tling scoliosispath to Miss America: She won Miss Raleigh and then Miss North CarolinaWhen not competing, Kath-erine is employed by The Moser Group

Source: Van Southard, missamerica.org

Miss America scheduleThe competition airs Saturday, Jan. 30 at 8 p.m. on TLC. The contestants, however, battle it out all week long. Here’s a glimpse of their schedule.Tuesday: Private interview, swimsuit and evening gown competitionsWednesday: Talent competitionThursday: On-stage question and answerFriday: Evening of Dreams galaSaturday: Final night and broadcast

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Above: Photo by Lenn Long Photography

Katherine Southard competes in Miss America this week. Above, she poses for one of her promotional photos. Above left, Southard poses for her senior yearbook picture in the 2003 Spartan.

Sewer struggle rages onWestern mayors protest, county changes voteBY JASoN deBruYNStaff Writer

MONROESewer lines to eastern

Union County will not be repaired. At least not yet.

The Union County Board of Commissioners decided to halt a project that Union County Public Works director Ed Gos-cicki said would have im-proved the eastern system and increased capacity.

Commissioner Lanny Openshaw proposed the change, wondering if there was a better way to spend the money.

The total project would cost about $8 million, of which $1.961 million would come from a federal Environmental Protection Agency grant. The board unanimously approved the project two weeks ago, but changed direction with a 3-2 vote Tuesday; the standard board majority of commissioners Open-shaw, Kim Rogers and Tracy Kue-hler voted together.

M a y -ors from Stallings, F a i r v i e w and Indian Trail ad-d r e s s e d the commissioners during informal comments at the beginning of the Tuesday meeting, each saying it was unfair to undertake a major project in the east-ern part of the county when the real needs were in the west.

“How did this eastside project get to be top pri-ority?” Stallings Mayor Linda Paxton asked the board.

“I wish the county could develop some kind of sys-tem that would allocate sewer equitably,” Fairview Mayor Libby Long said.

Goscicki and county manager Al Greene said they understood western Union had both sewer and water needs, but that those needs were not be-ing ignored. Staff decided the eastern project was the best to pursue now be-cause of regulations tied to the grant.

“To allow this project to move forward will not

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Mr. Pearson, 58, passed away Monday, Jan. 25, 2010 after a courageous battle with cancer.

Born August 20, 1951 in Monroe, David was the son of Emma Lee Pearson and the late Wil-liam Pearson of Wesley Chapel.

David grew up in the Wesley Chapel area play-ing baseball and attend-ing dirt track races with his dad. He became a master mechanic, a skill learned from his dad. He was always a “good Sa-maritan”, willing to help with any emergency. David served in the U.S. Army which included a tour of duty in Germany.

David’s love for his family and friends was evident in the many ways he chose to spend his time. He enjoyed golfing with the guys, the annual family beach trip, week-end trips to Twin Harbor Campground, planting and tending a garden with his wife and son-in-law, and meeting all of his friends at the dirt track races at Lancaster Motor Speedway.

He always looked for-ward to Sunday lunches with his Mother, eating out on Friday nights with his sisters and their families, and spend-ing precious time with his beloved daughters and grandchildren. He

will be truly missed by all who knew and loved him.

In addition to his moth-er, survivors include his wife, Jan Stinson Pear-son; daughters Heather Wilson and husband Neil of Monroe and Ara Lock-lear and husband Sam of Indian Trail; five grand-children, Kayla, Eric and Bailey Wilson, and Jack-son and Avery Locklear; five sisters, Diane Bur-rier and husband Jim of Monroe, Joyce Wolfe and husband Sanford of Mon-roe; Brenda Smith and husband Tommy of Wes-ley Chapel, Ellen Gordon and husband Jimmy of Matthews, and Vickie Wright of Waxhaw; four nephews and five nieces.

A service to celebrate his life will be held at 1 p.m. today at Heritage Funeral Home in In-dian Trail with Rev. Jim Johns officiating. Burial will follow at Lakeland Memorial Park. His fam-ily received friends Tues-day evening, also at the funeral home.

The family asks that memorials may be made to Hospice and Pallative Care, 1420 E. Seventh Street, Charlotte NC 28204.

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BY ELISABETH ARRIEROStaff Writer

WESLEY CHAPELSaturday’s barbecue

fundraiser for the Wesley Chapel Volunteer Fire De-partment had two guests of honor: the recently re-tired chief and the new chief.

Fire Chief John Rogers took over Jan. 1 after Ter-ry Byrum served in the department for 33 years. Rogers is the fourth chief at the station, which cov-ers all of Marvin and parts of Weddington, Indian Trail and Wesley Chapel. It was created in 1975.

Rogers grew up at the fire department since his father was a captain there, he said. A former assistant fire chief, his colleagues nominated him and the Wesley Chapel Fire Department Board of Directors approved the choice.

The department Rogers leads is different from the department Byrum took over nearly three decades ago.

Byrum saw many farm fields turned into shop-ping plazas or neighbor-hoods during his tenure. Service calls grew expo-nentially, along with the population, he said.

“We had to grow with it,” he said, noting that his fire department was the first in the county

to buy a 100-foot ladder truck. “People thought I was crazy but I saw the need coming.”

Byrum’s leadership skills moved the station forward, assistant fire chief Jimmy Kubach said.

“He’s a natural leader, which is a nice way of saying he has a big mouth and is opinionative,” Kubach joked. “But he generally steered the fire department in the

right direction.”Byrum has been con-

tinuously proud of his department, even during times of tragedy, he said.

In 2007, volunteer Todd Hage died in a crash while responding to a false alarm at New Town Elementary School.

“Anytime a tragedy hap-pens, a good family pulls together and helps each other out,” Kubach said. “It brought us closer to-gether.”

But more than a self-contained family, resident Andy Combs said the de-partment is a core for a larger community.

“Wesley Chapel wouldn’t be Wesley Cha-pel without the fire depart-ment,” he said. “They’re a group of individuals we can rely on when we’re in need of help.”

While Combs doesn’t know the new chief real well yet, he remembers

Byrum as a dependable and honest man.

“I know people come and go but I hate to see him leave,” he said.

Political involvement might be in his future, Byrum said, but he didn’t elaborate.

Maintaining the bar set by Byrum and figuring out next year’s budget are priorities, Rogers said.

Sixty firefighters work at the station but Rogers said there’s always a need for more personnel.

Rogers will continue working toward a new fire station, a push Byrum started with the Wesley Chapel Village Council for more than a year ago.

Rogers will need to be-come “politically-mind-ed” while serving as chief, Byrum said.

”Years ago, this job wasn’t really political: we didn’t talk to county com-missioners,” Robert Nich-ols, former fire chief, said.

New fire chief starts at Wesley Chapel

E-J staff photo by Rick Crider

Incoming fire chief John Rogers is on the left and long-time but now retiring chief Terry Byrum is on the right, pose in front of a fire engine in Wesley Chapel.

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BY ELISABETH ARRIEROStaff Writer

Two industries ruled Union County at one point: one was above ground, the other below.

Before the California Gold Rush created a fren-zy to move West in 1949, North Carolina had an influx of 30,000 migrants following the discovery of Reed’s Gold Mine in Cabarrus County. Many settled in Union County, which had several active mines along the western border.

“In the 1850 census, there were almost as many people working in mines in the county as in agriculture, if that tells you anything,” Vir-ginia Bjorlin of the Union County Historical Society said.

But natural cave-ins and people filling old shafts for safety reasons has buried the county’s mining his-tory over time.

The Historical Society hopes to excavate that im-portant piece of history once more during its 2:30 p.m. meeting Sunday in the Griffin Room of the Union County Public Li-brary in Monroe. Local Historian Bill Howie will lead the presentation, which is open to the pub-lic.

Sam Howie, Bill How-ie’s great uncle, acquired the land that would be-come Howie Gold Mine in 1829.

The mine was North Carolina’s largest pro-ducer of gold in the early 1940s. In 1940, the mine brought in $10,000 to $20,000 every 14 days, ac-cording to Bill Howie’s book, “The History of Howie Gold Mine and Bonnie Bell Mine.”

With 28 recognized shafts, the mine is consid-ered one of the most high-ly developed in Union County.

Bill Howie remembers

exploring the land when he was a teenager.

“We’d take our bicycles to the old mine and ex-plore the diggings and the surface,” he said. “Some-times we’d find relics and sometimes we could go so far underground that we found water.”

Charlotte-based busi-nessman John Rissanen, who now owns most of the land on which Howie Gold Mine sits, planned on opening the mine por-tion of the land to the public as a historic park.

But economic times halted that plan, leaving that bit of history largely inaccessible to the public.

Still, Bill Howie hopes he can provide residents with a glimpse of the county’s past at Sunday’s meeting.

“The older folks know quite a bit about the gold mining here but some of the newcomers might not know just how important it used to be,” he said.

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Staff photo by Rick Crider

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B en and Lexi Depp were about to eat dinner

when the house began to shake. They ran outside, then back in when the rumble subsided. In just a few minutes, they armed themselves with a pick ax, water and bandages. Houses all around them collapsed as they tried to pull people out.

The Depps, from Wax-haw, work for the Menno-nite Central Committee, a ministry of Anabaptist churches that responds to basic human needs world-wide. They live in Pétion-ville, a city on the out-skirts of Port-au-Prince.

Ben Depp is a photog-rapher and field reporter for a microfinance orga-

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In a podcast recorded Jan. 15, three days after Haiti was shaken by a 7.0 earthquake, Ben Depp broke down in tears. Driv-ing through the city ear-lier that day, he said de-scribed dump trucks full of dead bodies headed to-ward mass graves. Many people were running out of water, and some had not eaten since the earth-quake.

“That’s probably the worst part, just knowing there’s thousands of peo-ple still alive,” but buried under the rubble, he said in the podcast.

Another earthquake, measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale, hit Haiti on Jan. 20.

Yet there is hope in the blog Ben Depp keeps with his wife. The couple tells of neighbors helping neighbors and doing ev-erything possible to save strangers’ lives. Much work must still be done.

To read the Depps’ blog and see pictures from Haiti, visit tinyurl.com/ydal4lo. To listen to the podcast, visit tinyurl.com/yczocyq.

Q: Did you lose any-one you know in the earthquake?

A: “No, I didn’t lose any close friends. Several friends were trapped in fallen buildings and sus-tained mild injuries. Our neighborhood was very affected and a lot of peo-ple died in our neighbor-hood.”

Q: You mention in your blog that some of the media’s coverage has been blown out of proportion when re-porting on violence there. Can you give me a snapshot of how people are faring right now? What’s the over-all mood?

A: “There is violence and people stealing, but overall, people are work-ing together to stay or-ganized and help their neighbors survive. People are very fearful, fearing not finding food, water and fearful of another earthquake.

“There has been a trem-or at least once every day for the last week. A lot of the news coverage of violence has happened at food distributions that have not been well orga-nized.

“If you were in a group of 50,000 people who had not eaten a solid meal in days and a truck showed up with not enough food for everyone, it would be really hard to not fight to secure food for your fam-ily. “

Q: Have most people been helped by locals and emergency teams, or are there still many people who need help?

A: “There are hundreds of thousands of people still hungry and thirsty.

“There is food to buy in the city, but everyone’s jobs have been inter-rupted and the banks are closed and people also lost whatever money they had in their collapsed houses and businesses.”

Q: What’s your great-est need that people here can help with?

A: “There is an over-whelming need for food, medicine and shelter. One of the most important things, though, will be providing jobs for people so that individuals can do meaningful work and earn money to feed their families and rebuild their lives.

“This week, hundreds of thousands of people need food and water, but next week and the week

after, the relief work needs to be done in a way that helps people improve their lives and their coun-try. Often a crisis like this wreaks havoc on the local economy and local agriculture because free food undercuts the local economy and destroys farmers’ lives. So when donating money, give it to an organization that takes these things into consideration.”

Jan. 13, Okay“We’re definitely in shock and can’t begin to describe what the last day and a half have been like here. We’re also shocked right now to be seeing the headlines about the extensive international aid response in Port-au-Prince because as of yet, we have not seen a single organized re-sponse on the ground (unless you count Ben with a pick).”

Jan. 16, The Latest from Ben“There is a lot of solidarity among everyone here that is not been captured by the news. Most of the rescues that have happened have been by Haitians pulling their neigh-bors out of the rubble. The outside emergency is helping in factories and big places that had a lot of people. ... A lot of the people who have been working don’t have simple things like hammers, saws and picks but they’ve pulled a lot of people out alive. Right now we only have a little food to give away that we were able to score from the countryside

and we’ve been distributing food to only a hundred people. ... We just set up Internet and a solar panel at our house, about 12 or 15 MCC and other volunteers are sleeping in our yard. “We’ve also had several chances to evacuate but feel safe here and so far are okay.”

Jan. 19, Seven Days Later“Many people are hungry and thirsty. There is still a small amount of food for sale but most people don’t have any money to buy food or water. Some of the large camps have water tanks that have been set up by the Red Cross and others.”

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MONROERepublican John Bark-

er threw his hat in the ring for the eastern Union County state house seat for District 69.

“I don’t think Raleigh is really representing what the people in Union or Anson want,” Barker said. “Folks ought to have a choice.”

Barker ran against in-cumbent Pryor Gibson, a Democrat, last year, but was defeated by a 2-1 mar-gin.

A former head of the Union County Republican Party, Barker has been involved with several lo-cal campaigns, including former state senator Fern Shubert’s and current N.C. Sen. Eddie Good-all, R-Union. He has also worked on campaigns for Congressional candidates and Union mayors and judges.

In 2007 he helped de-feat a push in Monroe for a half-cent food tax that would have funded a civic center. Barker said he was not opposed to the idea, but that he just “didn’t want to have to pay more for a hot dog to get it.”

Gibson, who is serving his seventh term, said he expects the campaign and outcome to be similar to two years ago.

“I’m sure Mr. Barker will run a partisan, mean-spirited campaign in which he will say noth-ing constructive and will show his reliance on Fern Shubert for words, just like last time,” he said. “That makes us complete-ly opposite and the root cause why Union County

politics is an embarrass-ment. ... The thought of having someone like that representing Union Coun-ty makes me sick.”

Gibson has not official-ly announced that he will run again, but did so un-officially in a phone con-versation Wednesday.

Barker would not men-tion his opponent by name, but said the “cur-rent representation has been unresponsive,” and that after about three terms, an elected official “starts to think like a poli-tician,” something he said was the opposite of him.

Last week, Fern Shubert announced she will run for the N.C. Senate seat repre-senting Union County.

Barker’s platform in-cludes a push for an amendment that defines marriage in North Caro-lina as one man and one woman.

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Carolinas’ campaign goal is within sight, but Union County still struggles.

“We’re at the urgent stage of this campaign,” United Way regional vice president Richard Heins said. “We’ve got to close this thing out so we can make funding decisions.”

Fewer donations mean fewer dollars for 18 local agencies, putting health care, emergency and child care services at risk, among others. More people than ever use the services, Heins said.

More than two months after the initial campaign deadline, Union County has raised about $950,000, down $450,000 from last year. Some companies aren’t done with their campaigns yet.

“The folks who have re-sponded so far have been very generous,” Heins said, but, “we’re a long way away from our goal. Our agencies are in jeop-ardy of losing a lot of funding.”

Heins recommends that companies not done with campaigns make a pledge now and make monthly or quarterly payments throughout the year.

The money goes to the Community Care Fund, distributed among Unit-ed Way agencies based on need. Union County gen-erally receives about the same amount it raises. Last year, the local cam-paign raised $1.4 million and got just a little more back, Heins said.

This year’s top local contributor was Union County Public Schools, which raised more than $136,300.

United Way as a whole is faring much better.

United Way of Central Carolinas, which cov-ers five counties, is just $500,000 shy of its $22.7 million goal. Once Unit-

ed Way hits the goal, an-other $1 million will be added, bringing the total to $23.7 million, $2 mil-lion more than last year.

Leon Levine and his family pledged the ad-ditional $1 million last year if United Way rais-es $1 million more than last year. Levine founded Family Dollar and retired as CEO in 2003.

With about 2,200 cam-paigns, United Way raised nearly $18.9 million from company accounts and another $1.4 million in anonymous donations. The organization also slashed another $863,000 in internal expenses for a total cut of $4.1 million in the past year.

It’s been a long road in collecting donations, but Community Care Fund totals are looking hope-ful.

“A number of cam-paigns have finished bet-ter than last year and many of those had less employees,” Jane McIn-tyre, United Way of Cen-tral Carolinas executive director, said. Others raised the same amount, and some didn’t do as well, but all dollars are appreciated, she said.

More donors fulfilled their pledges this year, too, McIntyre said.

What’s different this year?

Some people “agreed to trust us again,” McIntyre said.

Many donors stopped giving last year when they heard that former executive director Gloria Pace King received a $1.2 million compensation package.

Bill Norton, vice presi-dent of marketing, said it is still a good time to give.

“Every dollar that they give now is essentially already matched by the Levines,” he said. A $5 donation is really a $10 donation, he said.

“We need folks in Union County ... to re-spond just like they have in Charlotte,” Heins said. Some locals have already e-mailed or called the of-fice to increase their giv-ing. “Every dollar that’s raised in our county is invested in our county.”

The organization wants to wrap up the campaign in the next few weeks.

“We would like to fin-ish by Valentine’s,” McIntyre said.

United Way stretches to goal

6A / Wednesday, January 27, 2010 OPINION Indian Trail Trader

Indian Trail TraderAlso serving LAKE PARK and STALLINGS

Publisher: Marvin Enderle Editor: Alan Jenkins menderle@theej.com ajenkins@theej.com

Control your taxes

Your Talk

Our Talk

I live near Chestnut Lane, close to the Union/Mecklenburg

border. Because of that, it’s hard to avoid the tempta-tion of crossing the line to go shopping in Charlotte. Especially since I currently live closer to the stores at the corner of Rea Road than I do to any in Union County.

That’s about to change, and I couldn’t be happier.

Coming in February, a Harris Teeter and a CVS pharmacy are opening on the corner of Potter Road and Chestnut Lane.

I don’t have a particular preference for either com-pany. I do prefer, however, to spend my money in Union County, where I know my tax dollars will be spent on mat-ters that affect me directly.

Most businesses cannot rely on their own unique natures to draw clients from a large region. They are restau-rants, grocery stores, clothing shops and other retailers that, while each have their own eccentricities, they provide services that can be obtained in other places close by.

The choice can some-times be hard — do I eat at this restaurant or that one, do I buy my grocer-ies here or there, etc.

That choice is made more difficult for those of you who ride the long, winding path to Charlotte every day, where you spend at least eight hours hunkered down behind a desk before climbing into your vehicles and trekking back to the Indian Trail region.

Sometimes, when you’re commuting, it’s easier to stop at a restaurant in Mecklenburg County, or to pick up a few needed items before heading back.

There are benefits, however, to waiting until you cross the line back into Union County. There’s the obvious — we should support the busi-nesses around us as long as they meet their end of the bargain by providing quality services in a timely fashion.

Less obvious, how-ever, involves the money you pay in taxes.

Your county and lo-cal governments earn the most money from property taxes. Coming in second, however, are sales taxes.

When you spend your money in Mecklenburg County, you are paying their taxes. Your money is going to support their programs, their incentives, etc. And, with the minor exception that some of the money you spend might end up paving the road you drive on, that’s money you’ll never see again.

As hard as it might be to believe sometimes, the sales taxes we pay locally go to pay for services that benefit you.

It should always be vigor-ously debated by the public what services are needed, but it can’t be debated that if you want to enjoy these services, you need to make sure they are funded.

This certainly isn’t a sug-gestion that you should spend more money than normal just to make sure govern-ment programs are funded.

But you are in control of your money. If you don’t want to pay for somebody else’s ser-vices, spend your money here.

At least here, you’ve got a say in how it’s spent. You can attend council meet-ings and planning sessions for boards. Even better, you can get involved on some of these boards your-self. Just inquire at town hall or with the county.

Here, your voice is heard. Down the road and one county over, you don’t get anything but the chance to pay their taxes.

Resident supports contract with sheriff

Indian Trail is struggling along with the rest of the nation with unemployment, a sluggish economy, and residents trying to keep their homes. During these times, we must be especially vigilant to keep our representatives in local government accountable, ensuring fiscally responsibil-ity so we can achieve lower taxes while securing a pros-perous future for our town.

Residents of Indian Trail who attend council meetings are hearing rumblings from council members on whether or not to create our own police department. When surveyed, residents said they were happy with the great work our sheriff ’s deputies are doing.

Residents also understand

that the cost of having our own department could po-tentially more than double property taxes to deliver the same or lower level of service we presently receive from the Union County Sheriff ’s Office.

This is why residents are signing a petition sup-porting the town’s current contract with the sheriff ’s office. Help keep our taxes low and continue the good law enforcement our town enjoys. What can you do?

You can send a message to our town council to be fiscally responsible by supporting the sheriff ’s office contract. Go to www.lowertaxesforit.org to download a petition. Bring it to your local busi-nesses, neighbors and friends, and have them sign it to support the quality service the sheriff ’s office provides,

while keeping taxes low for Indian Trail. You must be at least 18 years old to sign.

You can visit, call or e-mail council members and let them know you support our contract with the sheriff ’s office, and that you would like to see it ex-tended and enhanced as part of a long-range plan to ensure the best quality law enforcement for the future. When talking to our elected officials please be respectful, but firm. Tell them Indian Trail does not need its own police department, and that starting and maintain-ing a town force would create a heavy tax burden on resi-dents. To contact your council, please visit the town Web site at www.indiantrail.org or call town hall at 704-821-8814.

You can attend council meetings and speak out dur-ing public comments. Please

visit the town web site above or call town hall for sched-uled meeting information.

Danny FigueroaIndian Trail

(Editor’s note: Figueroa is a member of the town’s public safety committee, but he stressed that his view does not represent an official opinion of that committee.)

Supreme Court ruling depends on morality

Last week’s Supreme Court

ruling regarding free speech (more bribe money from cor-porations, etc.) isn’t really the end of the world or even the end of the country like some of your readers seem to believe.

After all, if our elected of-ficials are honest, moral and caring, the bribe money won’t have any effect on them.

On second thought, maybe we do have a problem. I almost forgot how easily bought and paid for our congressmen are.

Jim SilvusIndian Trail

Alan Jenkins

The Long Road Home

Letters policyLetters to the editor should be no more than 200 words; longer letters may be edited to fit available space. Photos and editorial cartoons will also be consid-

ered for publication. Please include the letter writer’s name and town of residence. Send letters to ajenkins@theej.com or fax 704-289-2929.

Call 704-261-2223 with questions.

What’s your story? Do you know the ins and outs of Indian Trail’s government and politics? Are you a resident who spends all of your time commuting during the day, but making Indian Trail, Stallings, Hemby Bridge or Lake Park your home at night? Are you the one everyone on your block turns to for interesting views and opinions about what’s happening in these growing communities?

Then we’re looking for you. The Indian Trail Trader is looking for local personalities to write 200- to 250-word columns as many times as once a week or as few times as once a month.

These columnists earn the opportunity to share their unique views and stories about life in western Union County in print with their neighbors, friends and com-munity leaders.

Think you’ve got what it takes? Call Alan Jenkins at 704-261-2223 or e-mail him at johnalanjenkins@gmail.com.

Be ready to send two samples of columns you would like to publish, and plan to have your picture taken by one of our staff to include with your writings every week.

Good luck, storytellers, and we look forward to sharing your views and stories with Indian Trail!

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as estimated.“A lot of time and a lot

of money has been in-vested in this (hospital),” Pressley said, and “to sell it at any time would be the wrong thing to do.”

Marshville, Monroe and Wingate also signed a resolution opposing the hospital’s sale.

There is power in group effort, Baker said, and is happy that other towns are opposed. “It may not stop (commissioners), but at least it’ll help them work with us.”

In other newsHemby Bridge lowered

its community center rates Thursday to make it more affordable to resi-dents.

Prior to the change, a three-hour reservation at the community center cost town residents $100 and non-residents $200, plus charges to use the sound system.

Rates dropped to $60 for residents and $120 for non-residents to rent out the space for half a day.

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HOSPITALContinued from Page 1A

delay improvements in Stallings, Indian Trail or any other community in this county. To not pur-sue the improvements will not speed up a solu-tion for Indian Trail or Stallings or any other community in this coun-ty,” Greene told the board before it voted.

Grants funneled through the EPA come with procurement guide-lines so any project al-ready under way would not qualify, Goscicki

said. Also, the grant can cover only 45 percent of any project, so the scope of work would have cost at least $4 million if the county wants to use the grant all at once. Further-more, Goscicki said the project was necessary.

Union has a contract with Monroe to deliver up to 2.65 million gallons of sewage per day to be treated at the Monroe fa-cility.

Due to small pipes, Union can deliver only 1.9 million gallons per day.

The proposed project would eliminate those

physical restrictions and open up capacity. Also, there are inflow and infil-tration problems in Win-gate and Marshville.

Openshaw argued that many of the problems were in pipes controlled by the municipalities, so updating the county in-frastructure would do lit-tle to make things better.

It would be better to fix problems at the three pump stations in Wing-ate and Marshville before laying new pipe in the ground, Openshaw said.

“I just think we are putting the cart before the horse,” he said. “Is

that the best use of our $8 million?”

Greene and Goscicki implored the commis-sioners to not pull the project.

“I have difficulty un-derstanding the dilemma or the questions, to be honest with you,” Greene said.

Openshaw, who took the lead in halting the project, agreed to meet with county staff to hash out his questions and concerns instead of plan-ning a special meeting.

SEWERContinued from Page 1A

BY JASON deBRUYNStaff Writer

MONROEThe county could be

fined up to $25,000 a day if sewer spills persist.

The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources sent the Union Public Works department a notice of violation for wastewater spills in the eastern part of the county.

“It needs to be fixed and as quick as possible,” Commissioner Parker Mills said. “You can’t have sewer running down the streets. You have to get it fixed.”

The violation came as no surprise because it was based on self-report-ed spills, said Commis-sioner Lanny Openshaw. The Union County Board of Commissioners has 15 days from receipt of the violation to propose a solution in order to side-step the fine.

Public Works director Ed Goscicki recommend-ed an $8 million project that he said would take care of the problem. The project was accepted by the board of commission-ers Jan. 4, but reversed Jan. 19 on a 3-2 vote, de-spite Goscicki and coun-ty manager Al Greene urging the board to keep it. Goscicki received the

NCDENR violation no-tice Jan. 20.

Openshaw initiated the reversal and said the violation notice does not change his mind.

“It was always a ques-tion of what we do, not if we do,” he said. “What I want to know: ‘Is that the best use of our money?’ You’ve got to do some-thing, but that doesn’t mean you spend eight million dollars.”

The sewer spills hap-pen because there is too much wastewater coming through pump stations in Marshville, Wingate and at Pilgrim’s Pride.

Distribution pipes in the towns are operated by those towns and Open-shaw said much of the problem happens from rain- and groundwater getting into their pipes before it is delivered to the county system.

If that excess, known as inflow and infiltration, or I&I, can be stopped, it would put less strain on the pump stations and

relieve some of the prob-lem.

Wingate started a $2.3 project Monday that would fix about 30 per-cent of the system; the focus of the work is on the Windgate Estates and Grove Park subdivisions, where the infiltration is worst, said town manag-er Dryw Blanchard.

Openshaw noted that would help and that it might be appropriate for the county to work on its pipes in and around Win-gate to help.

The board of commis-sioners is scheduled to meet today at 9 a.m., but would still be within the 15-day violation window if it waited until the Feb. 1, meeting.

Goscicki recommend-ed the original project, but Openshaw said there might be a cheaper op-tion that will solve the same problem.

Rains cause spillsTwo sanitary sewer

overflows happened in the Union County sani-

tary sewer system on Monday. The overflows were not big enough to cause immediate danger to human health or the environment.

All pumps and equip-ment were operating properly and at full ca-pacity on Monday. The sewer overflows were the direct result of heavy rain which fell in less than 12 hours causing stormwater to enter the sanitary sewer system through defects in pipes and manholes.

The first sanitary sew-er overflow occurred off McIntyre Road near Win-gate from about 2:30 a.m. to 8 a.m. A portion of the overflow entered Mead-ows Branch.

A second sanitary sew-er overflow happened off Sardis Church Road near Indian Trail from about 4:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

A portion of the over-flow entered Crooked Creek.

Union County has an ongoing program to iden-tify and reduce stormwa-ter entry into the sani-tary sewer system.

The overflows have been reported to the North Carolina Division of Water Quality. For additional information, contact the Union Coun-ty Public Works Depart-ment at 704-296-4210.

County faces $25K-a-day finePlan could prevent state from penalizing for sewer spills

It needs to be fixed and as quick as possible. You can’t have sewer running down the streets. You have to get it fixed.”

— Parker Mills, commissioner

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County hires firm for finance director searchBY JASON deBRUYNStaff Writer

MONROEThe county will use out-

side help to hire a new fi-nance director.

Current director Kai Nelson announced his intention to retire after the 2010/2011 budget is finalized. To fill the role, the Union County Board of Commissioners hired consulting firm The Wa-ters Consulting Group for up to $23,000.

“We are anticipating a difficult recruitment process” that will ex-tend beyond North Caro-lina, county manager Al Greene told commission-ers Tuesday. “We found that there does not appear to be a very strong pool of applicants that would have the qualifications and experience that Union County would require.”

Greene added that he appreciated the advance notice Nelson gave.

With county debt ap-proaching $700 million, school bonds coming due and commissioners look-ing at ways to expand water and sewer service, the new director will be tasked with keeping taxes low, while finding ways to keep the county

well funded.Commissioner Kim

Rogers said she thought the pool of qualified appli-cants was more flush with candidates than Greene indicated, but that the help of Waters Consulting was necessary because of its expertise in hiring ex-ecutive-level positions.

“They do it day in and day out,” she said, add-ing that the county would get better results with the outside firm than using only county staff.

Waters Consulting will earn $15,500 for its servic-es and has $7,500 for “proj-ect-related expenses,” ac-cording to the contract.

Waters helped the coun-ty hire Public Works di-rector Ed Goscicki, and Greene said the staff had a good relationship with the hiring firm. In ad-dition, Waters gave the county a discount, said Green. “It was a very at-tractive price,” he said.

Commissioner Lanny Openshaw said he would like the search to be broad-ened from candidates with only public-sector work to those from the private-sector banking industry as well.

Nelson said he could stay and help in an advi-sory role, if needed.

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Antioch United Methodist3205 Antioch Church Road, Matthews Pastor: Betty Jeanne DayRegular Sunday: 9:30 a.m., worship, 9:30 a.m.; 10:30 a.m., Sunday school.

Central Baptist4821 Waxhaw-Indian Trail Road, Matthews; 704-821-6509Pastor: Tim HelmsRegular Sundays: 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worhship; 6 p.m., evening worship.Wednesdays: 7:30 p.m., Bible study, youth group.

Community Baptist212 Garmon Road, Indian TrailPastor: Henry FunderburkSundays: 9:30 a.m., Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., worship.Wednesday worship and chil-dren’s programs, 7 p.m.

Covenant Community13003 E. Independence Blvd., Stallings; 704-257-4519; www.changeatc3.orgPastor: John LoftonSundays: 10 a.m., worship; Wednesdays, 7 p.m., Bible study

East Campus,First Baptist of Indian Trail6140 W. Marshville Blvd., Marsh-ville; 704-624-1998

Ebenezer Baptist1417 Unionville-Indian Trail Road, Indian TrailPastor: Timothy RogersRegular Sundays: 9:30 a.m., Sun-day school; 10:30 a.m., worship; 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., AWANA, discipleship classes.Wednesdays: 7 p.m., midweek prayer service; youth, children’s study.

Emmanuel Baptist15601 Idlewild Road, Indian TrailPastor: Leland StephensSundays: 9:45 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., worship.

Wednesdays: 6:30 p.m., worship.

Faith United Methodist3708 Faith Church Road, Indian TrailPastor: David LawrencePhone: 704-882-6623Regular Sundays: 8:30 a.m., praise and worship; 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., praise and worship.Mondays: 6:30 p.m., Cub ScoutsTuesdays: 6 p.m., Girl Scouts; 6:30 p.m., Boy Scouts.

First Baptist Church of Indian Trail732 Indian Trail-Fairview Road, Indian Trail; website, www.fbcit.org; 704-882-1005Pastor: Mike WhitsonSunday: 8 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., worship and Life groups. 6 p.m., evening worship.Tuesdays: 7 p.m. Singles meeting.Wednesdays: 7 p.m., Power Hour.Thursdays: 10 a.m., adult prayer meeting.

Friendly Baptist5418 Friendly Baptist Church Road, Indian Trail; 704-753-1652Interim pastor: Dustin KnightRegular schedule: 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship; 6:30 p.m., youthWednesday: 7 p.m., Bible study.

Hartis Grove Baptist4224 Blanchard Circle, Indian TrailPastor: Joe KirkpatrickSunday: 9:30 a.m., Sunday school; worship, 10:45 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.

Harvest Chapel5809 Highway 74, Indian Trail704-882-4662, www.harvest-chapelclt.orgPastor: Paul Durham

Hemby Bridge Presbyterian6010 Mill Grove Road, Indian TrailPastor: Walt DeHartSunday: 9:30 a.m., Sunday school, 10:30 a.m., fellowship brunch; 11 a.m., worship.Wednesday: 7 p.m., prayer

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Higher Praise Deliverance1047-A Van Buren Ave., Indian Trail; 704-904-4073Pastor: Reginald O. CoffeySundays: 4 p.m., worship.

Indian Trail United Methodist113 Indian Trail Road, Indian TrailPastor: Jim ChrisawnSundays: 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., worship; 10:10 a.m., Sunday school

Indian Trail Presbyterian200 Indian Trail Road South, Indian Trail; 704-821-8751Pastor: James E. JohnsRegular Sunday schedule: Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.

Maple Grove BaptistMaple Grove Church Road, Wed-dingtonPastors: Terry SimpsonSundays: 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., worship.Wednesdays: 7:30 p.m., worship

Mill Grove United Methodist7311 Mill Grove Road, Indian TrailPastor: Earl BradshawRegular Sunday: 8:30 a.m., wor-ship; 9:45 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship.Wednesday: 7:30 p.m., youth group.Currently registering for pre-school.

Mineral Springs United Methodist5915 Old Waxhaw-Monroe Road, Mineral Springs; 704-843-5905Pastor: Bruce Gwyn

Mount Harmony Baptist2817 Mt. Harmony Church Road,MatthewsPastor: Buddy PiggSundays: 8:15 a.m., classical worship service; 9:30 a.m., Sun-day School; 10:45 a.m., blended worship service; 6 p.m., evening worship serviceWednesdays: 6 p.m., AWANA;

Youth Bible Study 6:45 p.m.; discipleship classes; adult Bible study and prayer time

New Grace Baptist6201 Indian Trail-Fairview Road, Hemby Bridge; 704-400-3258.Pastor: Roger Johnson

Pleasant Plains Baptist3316 Pleasant Plains Road, Mat-thewsPastor: Ron RiddleySundays: Sunday School 9:15 a.m.; worship 10:30 a.m.; Awana Clubs 5:30 p.m.; evening worship 6 p.m.

Siler Presbyterian6301 Weddington-Monroe Road, Wesley Chapel; 704-821-7445Pastor: Bruce Powell

Stallings United Methodist1115 Stallings Road; 704-821-8820; www.sumc.comPastor: Bart MillesonFirst and third Saturdays: 5:30 p.m., contemporary worship.Regular Sundays: 8:30 a.m., inti-mate service; 9:45 a.m., Sunday school for all ages; 10:55 a.m., formal worship; 4:30 p.m., Bible Zone, youth programs.

Union Grove United Methodist8708 Indian Trail-Fairview Road, Indian Trail; 704-753-4966Pastor: Robert Sturge

Weddington United Methodist13901 Providence Road, Wed-dington; 704-846-1032; www.weddingtonchurch.org

Wesley Chapel MethodistPotter and Weddington roads, Wesley ChapelPastor: Denise Earls; phone, 704-814-4739; www.wesleychape-lumc.netSundays: Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m., with children’s church provided. For transportation, call 704-283-6106.

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emcee of the 2002 Miss Sun Valley competition.

“She was incredibly hard-working and incred-ibly determined,” Harbin said.

Now, she’s all grown up and a lot of hard work paid off.

“As a mother, it’s one of those moments when you’re very proud of all the hard work that your child has done,” Linda said.

Linda put in some hard work of her own this week — shipping clothes and jewelry to the Miss America contestant. Now, that’s all done and Linda looks forward to seeing her daughter onstage.

“Just the excitement of seeing her participate in Miss America is such a re-ward,” Linda said. Over-all, she wants her daugh-ter to have fun and enjoy this rare opportunity.

Katherine’s family members hop on a plane for Las Vegas early next

week — Van, Linda, and sister Sarah, who is the reigning Miss Mecklen-burg County. As Sarah vies for Miss North Caro-lina later this year, she’ll be watching her sister Katherine for valuable tips.

“It gives it a whole new twist. It makes it so much more personal,” Sarah said. “It’s not just a repre-sentative. It’s my sister.”

If Sarah wins Miss North Carolina, she will receive the crown from her sister.

This week, however, all eyes are on Kather-ine, who faces a gruelling schedule of photo shoots, interviews and competi-tions.

More than a beauty con-test, the pageant pushes contestants to display individual talent, intelli-gence and skill.

“It’s much more about being a well-rounded per-son,” Van Southard said. “It’s a lot of hard work.”

The Miss America com-petition will air Saturday, Jan. 30, at 8 p.m. on the cable network TLC.

SouthardContinued from Page 1A

Photo from 2003 Sun Valley High Spartan yearbook

A teenage Katherine Southard answers a question from Amanda Jackson during the Mis Sun Valley pageant in 2003.

Photos by Lenn Long Photography

Above: Elizabeth Southard is surrounded by her family after winning Miss North Carolina in 2009; from left, her father Van, sister Sarah and mother Linda. At right: Southard performs ballet en pointe during the Miss North Carolina competition in 2009. Below: Miss North Carolina waves to the audience.

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Considering the coun-ty’s “financial crunch” and slowed growth — par-tially due to the economy, Scholl said, tabling school construction is a wise de-cision. The projects may return to the plan once growth picks up again, he said.

With a cap on Porter Ridge, any new students who would have gone there attend Piedmont Middle and High instead. Porter Ridge schools lost 183 students this year; Piedmont gained 194.

Through reassignment, Sun Valley High lost nearly 100 students of its own, putting the school at 90 percent capacity, down from 96 percent last year.

Three new schools opened last fall, which also relieved overcrowd-ing.

As the population boom winds down, Davis said, so does the need for mo-bile units, saving UCPS thousands of dollars. The only cost to UCPS will be

moving them from one lo-cation to another.

DVRs and GPSThe savings may also

free up money for the transportation depart-ment.

Denise Patterson, as-sistant superintendent for auxiliary services, requested more DVRs and GPS units for school vehicles. UCPS has 150 DVRs and 320 buses, she said, and buses that don’t have DVRs have VCRs to record bus activity.

DVRs provide clearer pictures, more angles and longer recording times and can be viewed on the computer, Patterson said. The department wants 50 more for a total of $87,500.

It also asked for three service trucks with a price tag of $63,955, and six yellow buses, one ac-tivity bus and a specialist vehicle.

After a free pilot pro-gram with 10 GPS units, Patterson requested more than 400 more at $560,000. They would go on all buses, service trucks and spare buses. GPS units tell

transportation officials where a bus is, how fast it is going and how long the route takes — all useful when calculating drivers’ pay and giving parents an estimated arrival time, Patterson said.

Still, the cuts exceed the requests.

“It actually feels good to be going to the county for the first time to say that our capital decreases far outweigh our capital bud-get request increases,” Davis said.

At the same time, board

member Carolyn Lowder said it’s the board’s re-sponsibility to relay school needs to county commissioners. If com-missioners don’t know about them, they won’t fund them, she said.

“On one hand, we are charged as a school board to present needs to contin-ue improving education,” board member John Col-lins said.

The board is also ac-countable to taxpayers who fund those needs, he said, and must look at what is “realistic and af-fordable.”

Committee cutsThe UCPS Facilities

Committee also cut costs.A yearlong study that

identified $280 million in needs was chopped to $110 million over six years. The comprehensive plan considers American Dis-abilities Act compliance, structural safety, operat-ing efficiency and equity among schools.

The plan must be “flu-id” and “flexible,” Mike Webb, assistant superin-tendent for building ser-vices, said.

“There are many proj-ects that did not make the plan and are still out on the shelf,” he said, “but we feel good about the plan, especially for years one, two and three. Years four, five and six are more fluid because of the dif-ficulty in future cost pro-jections and priority or emergency needs.”

Board member Kimber-ly Morrison-Hansley said she is concerned about the safety of some older school buildings, and renovations can go only so far.

“How long do we ex-pect some things to last structurally?” she asked Tuesday. “They’ve served us well, but sooner or later, we’re going to have to look at replacing these schools.”

“We do not have a build-ing I would classify as un-safe,” Webb said.

Schools “don’t have a shelf life,” board chair-man Dean Arp said, and can be used as long as they are safe.

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SCHOOLSContinued from Page 1A

It actually feels good to be going to the county for the first time to say that our capital decreases far outweight our capital budget request increases.’

— Ed Davis, superintendent

“

By Eric rapECorrepondent

WaxhaWKelley Godbout scored her

1,000th-career point in helping Por-ter Ridge’s girls to a 52-15 road win over Cuthbertson on Thursday.

Godbout, a junior forward, en-tered the game needing five points to reach the milestone. Godbout had just four points with under a minute to play when she knocked down a 3-pointer from the wing on a pass from Ashley Frey to reach the mark.

Porter Ridge (16-2) coach Ina Thompson called timeout after the shot, and Godbout was presented with the game ball to honor her ac-complishment.

“I feel relieved because I was go-ing to cry,” said Godbout on achiev-ing the milestone. “I wasn’t think-ing about it. I was going to just keep doing whatever and I knew it would

eventually come.”Godbout also

pulled down a game-high 16 rebounds and dished out 10 assists in the win.

“I just wanted to work on that,” said Godbout of her re-bounding and as-sists. “I know I can score. I just needed

to work on everything else. If people are going to be wide open, I’m not going to hog the ball.”

The Pirates kept the Cavaliers (0-16) scoreless in the first period and held CHS to just five points in the second half.

Freshman Jada Huntley and senior Raven Falls both added 10 points for Porter Ridge.

Porter Ridge outrebounded Cuth-bertson 48-24 on the night.

Both teams are back in action to-night. Porter Ridge takes on Anson County at home while Cuthbertson hosts Central Academy.

CHS boys win third straightCuthbertson’s boys ran away from

Porter Ridge, winning 58-45 behind the outside shooting of junior David Schaaf.

Schaaf missed his first 3-pointer of the night, but ended the game with six made triples on his way to a team-high 18 points.

The first long ball by Schaaf in the fourth came after the Pirates (4-12) cut the lead to three points.

He then drained his second on the Cavs’ (7-9) next trip down the court to increase the lead to nine.

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TRADER SportsWednesday, January 27, 2010 Covering SUN VALLEY and PORTER RIDGE

Spartans whip Union Academy, 75-57

By Eric rapECorrespondent

UnionvillePiedmont High’s run at an un-

defeated wrestling season came to a close on Saturday.

Mooresville High, a 3A school, pulled out a 33-25 win over Pied-mont in the finals of the Pan-ther Duals.

“We knew we were going to take losses,” said Piedmont coach Todd Stokes. “I told the kids if anybody in there thought we were going to go undefeated, they were mistaken. That is just how we schedule. We want to schedule the best teams.”

The Panthers got off to a strong start in the match, win-ning five of the first seven matches to build a 25-6 lead.

But Mooresville won the last seven matches to pull out the victory. Three matches during that span were decided by two points or less.

Heavyweight Mitchell Simp-son and Kyle Eiss (215 pounds) both went 5-0 on the day, while every other Panther lost at least one match.

Desipte the loss, Piedmont continues to lead the Rocky River Conference standings and is still ranked No. 1 in the 2A coaches poll.

Photo by Ed Cottingham

Porter Ridge junior Kelley Godbout has already eclipsed 1,000 points in her career.

Godbout reaches 1,000 points

Panthers suffer first loss

By MaTT aBriggCorrespondent

inDian TRailThe Sun Valley boys built a

48-17 halftime lead on their way to a 75-57 win over Union Acad-emy Thursday night.

The Spartans (12-5), who have now won two in a row and three of their last four games, had five players score in double figures.

Junior forward Luke Maynor led the balanced attack with 12 points, while freshman forward Kevin Saxton added 11 points.

Sophomores Shaun Stewart, Jalen Witherspoon and Kyle

Buffkin each scored 10.Zack Anderson led Union

Academy (0-15) with 16 points and Brad Helms added 14.

The Spartans host Porter Ridge on Tuesday while Union Academy returns to Rocky River Conference play with a home game against Forest Hills tonight.

SV girls hang onThe Sun Valley girls (11-5)

outscored Union Academy 8-2 in the first quarter, and it proved to be the difference in a 35-29 win Union Academy.

Sun Valley stretched the lead to seven with 3:10 left in the fourth quarter, but Union Acad-emy (4-11) fought back to cut the lead to four with 51.5 sec-

onds left.But the Cardinals couldn’t

get any closer. SV, which ended a two-game losing streak, got 14 points and seven rebounds from junior forward Stephanie Taylor.

Junior center Jordynn Gay-mon added 10 points and six re-bounds for Sun Valley.

Union Acadmey’s Erin Wal-ters had game-highs of 19 points, 13 rebounds and six blocks.

SV boys 75, UA 57Union Academy (0-15)James Muaney 1 0-1 2, Chris Acosta 3 0-0 6,

Maurice Young 3 0-0 7, Brad Helms 6 1-2 14, Zack Anderson 7 2-3 16, Justin Gibson 5 0-0 12, Griffen Walters 0 0-0 0, Tommy Yandle 0 0-0 0, Jackson Hargett 0 0-0 0, Jarred Hill 0 0-0 0, Austin Gallowich 0 0-0

0, Austin Snipes 0 0-0 0. Totals 25 3-8 57.

Sun Valley (11-5)Luke Maynor 5 2-2 12, Jalen Witherspoon

3 4-6 10, Shaun Stewart 4 2-2 10, Blake Dixon 4 0-0 9, Kirby Faulkner 4.1-2 9, Kyle Buffkin 4 2-2 10, Dion Hickman 1 0-0 2, Kevin Saxton 5 1-2 11, Jody Fuller 1 0-0 2, Elija Richburg 0 0-0 0, Hunter Motte 0 0-0 0. Totals 31 12-18 75.

Union Academy 7 10 16 24 - 57Sun Valley 26 22 12 15 - 75 3-Pointers: UA 4 (Gibson 2, Helms, Mau.

Young); SV 1 (Dixon). Rebounds UA 22 (Mauney 5); SV 29 (Maynor 5). Assists UA 4 (Helms 2); SV 14 (Maynor 4, Stewart 4, Witherspoon 4). Steals UA 6 (Gibson 4); SV 10 (Stewart 3, Witherspoon 3). Blocks UA 1 (Mauney); SV 4 (Maynor, Buffkin, Dixon, Hickmon).

SV girls 35, UA 29Union Academy (4-11)Erin Walters 6 7-12 19, Kendall Cox 1 2-2

4, Hunter Manus 1 0-0 2, Shana Grigston 2 0-0 4, Meredith Black 0 0-0 0, Chloe McKnight 0 0-0 0, Lexi Beaver 0 0-0 0, Brenna Cripe 0 0-0 0, Meagan Young 0 0-0 0. Totals 10 9-14 29.

Sun Valley (11-5)Stephanie Taylor 5 4-6 14, Jordynn

Gaymon 4 2-5 10, Tashaun Stewart 1 2-4 4, Bianca Allyn 1 0-0 2, Raven Stevenson 1 0-0 2, Jasmine Wynne 1 1-2 3, Shanice Leaks 0 0-0 0, Santasia Johnson 0 0-0 0. Totals 13 9-17 35.

Union Academy 2 11 7 9 - 29Sun Valley 8 10 8 9 - 35 Rebounds UA 27 (E. Walters 13); SV

24 (S. Taylor 7, J. Gaymon 6). Assists UA 3 (Cox 2); SV 10 (B. Allyn 4, J. Gaymon 3). Steals UA 7 (Cox 3, Grigston 3); SV 12 (J. Gaymon 3, Stewart 3). Blocks UA 6 (E. Walters 4, Manus 2); SV 7 (S. Taylor 4, J. Gaymon 3).

MAYNOR

Jada Huntley

Photo by Ed Cottingham

SV junior Austin Smith won his 189-pound match by pin against CATA.

Central Academy wrestlersget past Sun Valley, 36-33FRoM STAFF REPoRTS

MonRoeDespite being under-

manned, Central Academy’s wrestlers took down 4A Sun Valley 36-33 on the strength of two upsets on Friday.

The 1A Cougars won the final match of the night to earn the team win.

Central (18-7) had to re-place Daniel Gregorich at 103 pounds, and also had to replace the injured Robert Geyer at 119 pounds.

The Spartans (14-14) moved standout Ryan Hen-

son up from 119 to 125, but CATA’s Jairo Velazquez beat him 5-4.

Henson ranked eighth in the state in 4A and now has a 34-5 record on the season.

It was up to CATA heavy-weight Will Robinson to de-cide the team outcome, and Robinson reminded everyone why he is ranked No. 1 in the state among 1A wrestlers.

Robinson was injured dur-ing the match but he fought through it and 53 seconds into the second period he pinned Ron Evans to give the Cougars the victory.

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Editor’s Note: All Union County high schools began taking part in this concussion testing pro-gram in the summer of 2009:

By RichaRd GouldMedia General News Service

HICKORYSouth Caldwell High football players

spent their summer memorizing and re-peating strings of unrelated words like candle, paper, sugar, sandwich and wagon.

The players laughed self-consciously as they did sets of five jumping jacks, sit-ups, push-ups and knee bends to test their balance. Then they recited jumbled numbers and the months of the year in reverse order.

When each finished the 5-minute test, athletic trainer Mark Davis sent him back to the weight room to summon another player to be put through the drill. Davis spent two months administering the tests and making detailed notes of the players’ performances.

Why was every one of the school’s football players given what some have de-scribed as an elaborate field sobriety test?

Peyton Manning, Troy Polamalu and the head of the NFL Players Association Kevin Mawae know the answer. So does Hall of Famer Troy Aikman, who suffered as many as 10 concussions in his 11-year pro football career.

Six South Caldwell players suffered con-cussions this season.

Multiple concussions in a short period can cause Second Impact Syndrome - a po-tentially lethal condition especially preva-lent among high school-aged and younger athletes, said South Caldwell team doctor Edward Bujold.

Bujold’s been the team doctor for nearly 20 years and knows the danger and preva-lence of concussions in football. That’s why he worked with Davis to administer the Standardized Assessment of Concus-sion to every football player on the team.

The testThe SAC is a diagnostic tool.“It’s seven tests to gauge mental func-

tion,” Davis said. “In the preseason you give all the kids a baseline. Then, during the football season we can re-test them if they suffer a concussion.”

“We don’t send them back to play un-til they score their baseline,” he said. “It quantifies something we were not able to quantify before.”

When a player takes a hard hit and the trainer or coaches think he may have a concussion, he’s taken to the sideline and given the test again. If he scores lower than his baseline, the trainer tells the player and his parents he’s done for the night.

“A concrete score eliminates a lot of ar-guments,” said South Caldwell head foot-ball coach Butch Carter.

Some doctors say if an athlete gets three concussions in his lifetime, he should never play contact sports again, said Hickory High School team doctor Pe-ter Hurley.

Carter said the team’s medical staff de-cides when a player can return, but as a general rule, two concussions will end an athlete’s season.

Referring to South Caldwell’s six play-ers with concussions this season, Bujold said, “I’d say we were pretty lucky this year - they were pretty mild.”

It generally takes a player three to 10 days to get a normal score on the test fol-lowing a concussion. They’re allowed to play again after achieving a normal score and having no symptoms for 10 days, Da-vis said.

The NFLToday’s NFL guidelines state, “A player

who suffers a concussion should not re-turn to play or practice on the same day if he shows any signs or symptoms of a concussion.”

To be allowed to return to play, the play-

er must be medically cleared by the team doctor and an independent neurologist.

Until this year, the league allowed play-ers to get back in the game after a concus-sion, provided they hadn’t lost conscious-ness.

The change came in December after an October congressional probe focused the nation’s attention on concussions and the long-term damage associated with the in-jury.

In the past, the focus was on the short-term symptoms. Now it has shifted to the long-term effects of concussions - depres-sion, dementia and memory loss.

Brain scans of people who have suf-fered multiple concussions over the span of their careers are reminiscent of those who have Alzheimer’s disease, said neu-rologist Robert Yapundich.

Researchers are working to determine whether multiple concussions create de-mentia or speed its onset in those who are already susceptible to the disease.

Parents and playersBefore SAC testing was implemented,

parents and athletes often wanted to get the player back in the game as quickly as possible.

“One of the frustrations we had was parents not appreciating the seriousness of the injury,” Bujold said.

The team doctor would tell the player he couldn’t play and the family would shop around with different doctors until they found one who would give a second opinion allowing the child to return to the game.

“It happens quite a bit,” Hurley said.Athletes can underestimate the severity

of their injury. While a broken leg makes playing sports impossible for weeks, ath-letes who go back in the game immediate-ly after “getting their bell rung” may be able to make contributions to the team.

“There are some gross motor skills the athlete can probably do after a concussion - it’s the fine motor skills that we worry about,” Yapundich said. “I look at this as-

sessment as the canary in the coal mine.”Bujold and Hurley approached

Yapundich to seek his help monitoring players with concussions and ensuring that they’re healthy before they return to the team.

The goal is to prevent the onset of seri-ous problems later in life.

“Brain loss is brain lost. Period,” Yapundich said. “You’re not going to re-cover that.”

The doctors and athletic trainers need-ed a low-cost way to evaluate and monitor recovery following concussions.

“At the high school level we’re dealing with no budgets and no money,” Bujold said.

The SAC fit the bill. The results are con-crete and tough to argue with. The test is fast, easy and inexpensive. The software and license cost $500.

“We paid out of our pocket for this sys-tem,” Bujold said.

Since the test has been implemented, it’s taken the heat off athletic trainers, doctors and coaches. Parents and athletes can look at the score and know whether the player can get back in the game.

The futureNow Bujold and Davis are working

with Hickory Orthopaedic Center to get the word out and get more schools to use the SAC test next season.

Hickory High is already onboard.“The No. 1 thing for all our athletes -

not just football players - is safety,” said Hickory High School athletic director and head football coach John Worley. “We educate our kids on what to look for and how severe concussions can be.”

Both South Caldwell and Hickory High plan to expand SAC testing beyond their football programs to include other sports where head injuries are com-mon.

The next sport to be included: Soccer.

New tests allowing for better detection of concussions

Tusculum takes two from Bulldogsfrom staff reports

WINGATETusculum College junior forward Rob

Troutman hit the game-winning shot with nine seconds left and the Pioneers survived two Wingate attempts to tie in the waning moments, picking up a 70-68 South Atlantic Conference men’s basketball victory over the Bulldogs on Saturday.

Tusculum improved to 10-8 overall and 4-3 in the SAC with the victory. Wingate slips to 10-8 overall and 3-4 in the SAC. The Bulldogs host Lenoir-Rhyne Univer-sity Wednesday night at 8 p.m.

For the Pioneers, senior guard Kyle Moore led the way with 16 points. Senior guard Jimmy Boone tallied 15 points, while senior forward Josh Bennett con-tributed 13 points and six rebounds off the Tusculum bench. Bennett and the Pioneer reserves outscored the Bulldog bench 22-10.

For Wingate, sophomore guard Jaime Vaughn scored a career-high 26 points to lead all scorers. Vaughn hit nine-of-14 field goals. He was a perfect six-for-six from three-point land. Freshman for-ward Quan Alexander added 15 points, six rebounds and three blocks for the Bulldogs.

The wild contest featured 14 ties and 17 lead changes. The second half was tied nine times and included seven lead changes. Wingate had two chances to force overtime in the final seconds. Vaughn missed a jumper with three sec-onds left. Troutman got the rebound, but he was called for traveling with exactly one second to play.

Wingate called time out and Bulldog head coach Brian Good designed a set play for freshman center Odell Turner. Freshman point guard Ethan Kincaid threw a lob towards the hoop, but Turn-er missed the lay-up at the buzzer.

Tusculum women 67, WU 60The Tusculum College Pioneers

defeated Wingate University 67-60 in

South Atlantic Conference women’s basketball action on Saturday. The Pio-neers improved to 10-7 overall and 3-4 in the SAC. Wingate fell to 10-8 on the year and 3-4 in the conference.

Freshman guard Kendal Baxter) led the Tusculum attack with 16 points, knocking down four three pointers on

the afternoon. Junior guard Jasmine Gunn added 12 points, seven rebounds and three assists. Junior center Cath-erine Hintz added eight points and a game-high 11 rebounds.

Wingate sophomore guard Kurie Washington led all scorers with 18 points, adding a team-high 10 rebounds.

Freshman guard Britney Mitchell add-ed 12 points and nine rebounds. Fresh-man guard Sarah Wollett handed out a game-high five assists for the Bull-dogs.

A layup from Gunn seven minutes into the game put Tusculum on top 14-11. The Bulldogs battled back, tak-ing a 17-16 lead at the 10:19 mark on a jumper from Mitchell. A jumper from junior forward CC Brooks put the Bull-dogs on top by two with eight minutes remaining in the half.

The Pioneers answered with a 6-0 run, capped by a three from Baxter at the five-minute mark to make it 25-21. Another Baxter three at the 2:52 mark gave Tusculum a 31-24 advantage. A jumper from Baxter made it 36-28 with 40 seconds left in the half. Brooks an-swered with a jumper with 10 seconds remaining. The Pioneers got a bucket from junior guard Jasmine Parker at the buzzer to take a 38-30 lead into in-termission.

A jumper from freshman forward Ellen Holton four minutes into the second half gave Tusculum its larg-est lead of the game at 46-34. Wingate answered with a 9-0 run to cut the lead to three. Washington scored the final seven points of the spurt, capped with a three at the 12:05 mark to make it 46-43.

The Pioneers pushed the lead back to eight, getting a three from Baxter along with a pair of free throws from sophomore forward Staci Hicks with 9:33 remaining in the game. Wingate responded with an 8-1 run to cut the lead to one. Brooks got it started with a three, while Wollett capped it with a free throw at the 5:57 mark.

Tusculum again had the answer, pushing the lead back to five at the 1:30 mark on a jumper from Hintz. A pair of free throws from Mitchell trimmed the lead to three with 55 seconds to go. Gunn answered with a layup, then iced the game with a pair of free throws with 16 seconds remaining.

Photo by Darcy Duncan

Wingate sophomore guard Kurie Washington (25) led all scorers with 18 points in last Saturday’s home loss to Tusculum. Washington also had a team-high 10 rebounds.

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Pirate forward Charles Tinsley cut the lead back to six with a three of his own, but the Cavs came right back and Emmitt Afam found Schaaf wide open again from the right wing.

Schaff then hit his fifth three on the Cavs’ next possession to push the lead to 12, and after the Pirates looked like they might go on a run with four straight points, Schaaf hit his sixth and fi-nal three to push the lead back to 11.

The last triple started a 7-0 run for the Cava-liers, and they never looked back.

“We’ve been on a good little stretch and I thought we continued it tonight,” said Cavs coach Mike Helms, “I thought we did a lot of things well. They went to a triangle and two and it gave us a little bit of trouble until we got Schaaf in there, and he came up big. We were a little bit frustrated and to have a kid come in there and knock down six consecutive 3’s off the bench, that’s a game-changer in a hurry.”

Cody Esser also had a big game from behind the arc in the first half, knocking down four 3-pointers before the break. Esser finished with 16 points.

Michael Cuthbertson continued his impressive play in the paint with 12 points and 15 rebounds.

Tinsley led the Pirates with 19 points and nine rebounds while Tanner Fort hit three triples of his own to finish with nine points.

Photo by Rick Crider

Cuthbertson freshman Emmitt Afam scored 10 points and dished out seven assists in last Thursday’s win over Porter Ridge.

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071 FurnitureA beautiful 6 pcs. Cherry

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