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BY Ed cottinghamStaff Writer

S oldier Daniel Modesitt brought a letter of thanks to

the Sun Valley Middle and Elementary School cheer-leaders for supporting him and the troops on Friday.

The cheerleaders made an American flag that included their signatures and hand prints, then sent it along with care packages by VFW Post 2423 in Indian Trail to Modesitt in Afghanistan.

Modesitt spent one year on duty in the providence of Wardak and a year and four months serving in Paktika, Afghanistan. He carried the flag with him to show people he met and said he was happy to get the care packages.

“When you get back from a mission and there is mail on your bed, it’s nice. Its a piece of home,” he said.

Modesitt graduated from Monroe High School in 2000 and his wife, Balie, is a graduate of Sun Val-ley High. They have a one-year-old son, Gavin.

Daniel was surprised how much Gavin had grown since he left.

“He was so tiny when I left and stand-ing and trying to walk when I got home.”

Photos by Ed Cottingham

At top, Daniel Modesitt talks to Sun Valley middle and elementary school cheerleaders on Friday. Above: Sun Valley Middle School cheerleaders Kassidy Jewell, Taylor Buchanan and Bailey Dehart look at a photograph taken in Afghanistan of Modesitt and the flag the team sent him.

a soldier thanks his fansSun Valley girls sent homemade flag, other items

BY tiFFanY LanEStaff Writer

Local leaders accuse a biomedical waste inciner-ator near Stallings of pos-ing serious health risks, yet it operates under the radar of many nearby residents.

BMWNC, located on Campus Ridge Road near Central Piedmont Com-munity College’s Levine campus, began operating the incinerator in 1985. The plant briefly shut down in 1994 and again in 2000 due to violations is-sued by the Mecklenburg County Division of Air Quality.

C i n c i n n a t i - b a s e d Healthcare Waste Solu-tions owns BMWNC. The waste plant is in compli-ance with current U.S. Environmental Protec-

tion Agency standards, the Mecklenburg County DAQ says.

Incinerators are “a dirty and hazardous way to dispose of medical waste,” Sue Dayton, state coordinator with the Blue Ridge Environmental De-fense League, said. “More and more facilities that generate medical waste are realizing that they’re

BY JaSon deBRUYnStaff Writer

MONROEArea transportation of-

ficials want input for their long-range plan.

The Mecklenburg-Union Metropolitan Plan-ning Organization, or MUMPO, will hold two open meetings to present its Long Range Transpor-tation Plan, or LRTP. The plan lays out proposed projects through 2035 and where the group will draw new roads and which roads they will upgrade. MUMPO calls itself a transportation body that oversees the development of the transportation sys-

tem in the two counties. Representatives from sev-en Union towns and one for the county serve on the board.

MUMPO must update the long range plan every

Biomedical waste plant under fire

Planning group seeks public input on plan

Incinerator subject of public meeting tonight in Matthews

Proposal outlines projected needs for roads through 2035

Incinerator meeting tonightA meeting about BMWNC will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the Matthews Public Library, 230 Matthews Station St.To follow the issue on Facebook, search for “Matthews BMWNC.”

MUMPO public hearings tonight: 4-6 p.m., Room 266 of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center, 600 E. Fourth St., Charlottethursday: 4-6 p.m. Indian Trail civic building, 100 Navajo Trail, Indian Trail

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BY ELiSaBEth aRRiERoStaff Writer

STALLINGSA 25-year-old man is ex-

pected to be OK after being stabbed in the throat. The person accused of stab-bing him is dead, howev-er, and sheriff ’s deputies can’t immediately give a cause of death, officials said.

Law enforcement re-ceived a call around 4:15 a.m. Friday about the at-tack at 3425 Fincher Road in Stallings. When they arrived, they found Ce-dric “CC” Haywood Wil-

liams, 29, of 712 Edgehill Drive in Monroe, dead at a neighboring house un-der construction.

David Rushing III, 25, had been stabbed in the throat. He was taken to Presbyterian Hospital in Matthews. He was expect-ed to be released Friday.

Witnesses told depu-ties that Williams fled the scene when Rushing’s rel-atives tried to intervene with their fight.

Deputies would not speculate on what caused

Stabbing victim lives; accused attacker diesOne man was stabbed at 3425 Fincher Road in Stallings, house in the background shown at left, and the suspect in the attack fled to the house under construction next door before collapsing dead.

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ObituariesWilma Irene Kiser

IndIan TraIlMrs. Wilma Irene Kiser

“Meme”, 103, of Indian Trail passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010 at Hospice House in Mon-roe.

Mrs. Kiser was born on Oct. 7, 1906 in Union County to the late Samuel and Addie Porter Shan-non. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband in 1964, Robert Kiser; sisters, Kate Clark, Ruby Godfrey, Faye Kiser, and Nancy Shannon.

The family received friends Saturday, Feb. 20 at Heritage Funeral Home, Indian Trail Cha-pel. Funeral services to celebrate her life were held on Sunday, Feb. 21 at Indian Trail United Meth-odist Church with Rever-

end Jimmy Chrisawn of-ficiating. Burial followed at Indian Trail Cemetery.

She lived in Union County all of her life and was a member of Indian Trail United Methodist Church. Mrs. Kiser was recognized by the town of Indian Trail, during its Centennial, for being the oldest living Indian Trail native in 2007 at age 100.

Mrs. Kiser is survived by her daughter, Jackie Clark and her husband Gene of Indian Trail; grandchildren, John Clark and his wife Angie and Shannon Batchelor and her husband Chris; great-grandchildren, Gar-rison and Emilee Batche-lor and Madison and Syd-ney Clark.

The family wishes to extend their deepest thanks to Woodridge As-sisted Living and Hospice

of Union County for their support.

In lieu of flowers, me-morial contributions may be made to I.T.U.M.C, P.O. Box 130, Indian Trail, NC 28079.

Arrangements are in care of Heritage Funeral Home, Indian Trail Cha-pel. Online condolences may be left at heritage funeral.net.

Gerald Elliot LanierMIdland

Rev. Gerald Elliot La-nier, 79, passed away at his home on Monday, Feb. 22, 2010.

Funeral service is to-day, Feb. 24, 1 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Indian Trail.

Rev. Jonathan Barbee, Rev. Mike Whitson, Rev. Danny Myers, and Dr. Maurice Henson will offi-

ciate. Burial will be in the First Baptist Church cem-etery in Locust, NC.

Mr. Lanier was born May 13, 1930 in Randolph County, NC. The son of the late Herbert Wade Lanier and Sula Elliott Lanier. He was educated at Fruitland Bible College.

Rev. Lanier answered the call in ministry in 1946 and was ordained Au-gust 19, 1956. He Pastored Oakland Heights Bap-tist Church in Salisbury, Dunn’s Grove Baptist in Albemarle, First Baptist in Midland, Friendly Bap-tist in Monroe, Wadeville Baptist in Wadeville and served as interim pastor at Kinza Memorial Baptist in Stanfield and Cotton-ville Baptist in Norwood.

He was a loving father, grandfather, pastor, and friend. He loved his fam-ily and loved preaching God’s word. He said, “If you want to make a differ-ence for the Kingdom, you must love people.”

He was a member of First Baptist Church of Indian Trail.

He is survived by his lov-ing wife of 61 years, Betty

Magilene Daniel Lanier.The family received

friends Tuesday evening at Stanly Funeral Home in Albemarle and today from noon until 1 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Indian Trail prior to the funeral service.

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Obituary policyObituaries are published daily in The Trader’s sister publication, the Enquirer-Journal, and include name, age, address, place of death, occupation, military service, spouse, parents, children, immediate family survivors, number of grandchildren and great-grandchil-dren, funeral arrangements and memorials. Obituaries containing additional information may be purchased, and are reprinted in The Trader. Obituaries, whether free or paid, are accepted only from funeral homes.

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BY JASON deBRUYNStaff Writer

INDIAN TRAILIndian Trail volun-

teers and consulting firm HNTB formed a steering committee and developed a Parks and Greenway Master Plan that lays out ideal locations for trails and open areas within town limits. Committee members presented the plan to the Indian Trail town council Tuesday, which happened after press time. Area residents were invited to address the council and give their thoughts on the plan in specific or parks in gen-eral.

Mayor John Quinn fully supports the plan.

“We strongly believed that, in addition to pro-viding rec-r e a t i o n a l and event opportuni-ties for resi-dents, the plan would also be used to promote wildlife ap-preciation and envi-ronmental education,” Quinn said.

According to the execu-tive summary of the plan, the burgeoning growth of Charlotte and the surrounding areas “has put tremendous pres-sure on the town’s ability to provide park and recreational services for its current and future residents.”

This plan should lay the foundation for those de-velopments going forward and presents possibilities for the town to work with area schools.

“I am particularly pleased with the commit-tee’s work to ensure that wording, which places an emphasis on educational possibilities for our local students, was embedded in the plan,” Quinn said.

Katie Reeves from the planning department took point on the project.

She recognized that, while the plan looks 10

years into the future, the town will not accomplish all the goals listed in the plan.

“The plan is a 10 year plan. This doesn’t neces-sarily mean that the entire plan will be implemented within 10 years,” she said. “Instead, the town should set a work program based on the recommendations of the plan and then re-evaluate the implementa-tion on a yearly basis.”

The steering committee already held four commu-nity meetings and Reeves said those meetings fac-tored heavily into shap-ing the plan.

Councilwoman Dar-lene Luther did not speak about the plan specifically, but said she wanted to see more green space within town limits.

“It will be great when we can finally acquire some land and do some-thing with it,” she said.

The council will meet 6 p.m. today with the public hearing as one of the first items on the agenda.

For more information contact Reeves at: ker@planning.indiantrail.org. The draft plan will be available at the meeting or on the town’s Web site: indiantrail.org.

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Vision statement from the planIndian Trail will promote a well planned park and recreation system that encourages an appreciation of nature, conservation, and a healthy and safe quality of life for all ages. The Town’s park and recreation system

will be designed through partnerships to connect our heritage with our future.

Katie Reeves’ take on the plan1. The purpose of the Plan is to establish a parks and greenway network in the town. Currently there are no town owned parks within the city limits. The exist-ing parks are all privately owned by different private organizations.2. The Parks Plan contains a map which indicates the ideal areas for future parks and greenway locations. The parks sizes and locations shown on the map are all based on existing and forecasted population centers. The planning process took into account future greenway connections to adjacent municipalities. The connections to the Monroe and Stallings greenway

plans are shown on the map as well as connections to the future Carolina Thread Trail.3. The Parks, Tree and Green-way committee will serve as the implementation committee and will produce annual reports to the council on the status of the plan. Once the plan is adopted they will be tasked with producing periodic recommendations to the council on the implementation. They will also make recommenda-tions to update the plan if necessary every few years. It is important that the plan reflect the existing status of the community. The council will use the plan to decide on future park and greenway locations.

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Pay attention to what’s going on around you, be safe and try not to be surprised by anything, Charles Ingram told his daughter, Charly, that when she followed his path into law enforce-ment. That advice guides her as a crime scene in-vestigator.

Charly Ingram is the only woman working as a crime scene investigator in Union County — a ca-reer field that is growing in popularity, especially among women.

“I think shows like ‘CSI’ have a lot to do with it,” Ingram said. “They see the glamor on television and think it’s going to be the same thing. You can’t really portray a smell on TV.” Multitudes of crime shows have popularized crime scene investiga-tion, making it a highly sought-after job, Ingram said. Televisions shows all too often try to portray the glitzy side of crime scene work.

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“Other than that, we don’t solve crimes in an hour, I don’t wear suits and I don’t drive a Hum-mer onto the scene,” In-gram said.

Ingram grew up in law enforcement — her father worked for 18 years as a traffic enforcement offi-cer.

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Ingram realized she wanted to go into crime scene investigation and forensics while attending Davidson County Commu-nity College. She earned her degree in criminal justice technology.

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Ingram is called out as well.

Crime scene investiga-tors look for fingerprints and process trace evi-dence. Crime scene inves-tigators use what they find to corroborate details the detectives have collected through interviews. The two usually then come together to support or dis-prove a case.

Crime scene investiga-tors develop a thick skin is a part of the job, In-gram said. It can take a while to get used to the things crime scene inves-tigators have to see on a daily basis. It’s not a clean and neat job. Crime scene investigators work long hours and usually

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She relishes the oppor-tunity use all the train-ing she has learned to put together the puzzle of a crime scene.

“I love knowing that I can make a difference,” Ingram said. “I love knowing that my work contributes to keeping violent criminals off the streets.”

CSI Union County Crime Scene Investigator says job not as glamorous as TV portrays

Photo by Ed Cottingham

Crime scene investigator Charly Ingram uses florescent powder and different wavelengths of light to look for fingerprints, blood, DNA and various fibers.

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UNIONVILLEOne man is accused of

stabbing another man at least ten times, crash-ing his car into a church during choir practice and fleeing the scene Tuesday, Feb. 16.

Police arrested Barry Mack Williams, 30, of 4009 Love Mill Road in Monroe two hours after the in-cident and charged him with attempted murder and robbery with a dan-gerous weapon, among others.

Sheriff ’s Capt. Mike Ea-sley said Williams would not cooperate with the in-vestigation.

At about 7 p.m. Tues-day, Williams approached Eugene O’Brian Little, 34, of 2110 Wright Road in In-

dian Trail, at Pat’s Place, a country diner at the corner of Concord High-way and Lawyers Road in Unionville, according to a police report. Williams told Little he was going to rob him and kill him, Ea-sley said.

Little fled on foot to nearby Benton’s Cross-roads Baptist church, screaming for help. Mem-bers of the church were holding choir practice at the time and called 911.

Williams, driving a Hon-da Accord, chased Little through the parking lot; he hit at least three cars in the lot and crashed into the church, causing about $3,500 in damage.

Church members told police that Little collapsed on the front steps and Wil-liams went through Lit-

tle’s pockets, Easley said. Williams then fled the

scene in the Accord which was smoking and had at least two flat tires by that point, the witnesses said.

Police pursued Wil-liams down Lawyers Raod toward Mecklenburg County; officers found the car in Charlotte National

Golf Course, about three miles from the church. Police found and arrested Williams about two hours later at his home, Easley said. Police also recov-ered a pocket knife they believe to be the weapon.

Paramedics took Little to Carolinas Medical Center - Union in Monroe then to Carolinas Medical

Center in Charlotte. He was released Wednesday, but could not be reached for comment.

Police continued the investigation Wednesday and classified the inci-dent as a robbery.

Williams was also charged with robbery with a dangerous weap-on, assault with a deadly

weapon with intent to kill or inflict serious in-jury, one count of injury to real property and four counts of injury to per-sonal property. He was given a $250,000 bond.

Members of Ben-ton’s Crossroads Baptist Church, Williams, and Little could not be reached for comment.

Choir practicing when vehicle slammed into church building

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I would love to assail you with some serious topic today about

the political landscape, personal philosophy or other somesuch, but I’m writing this Saturday morning. It’s such a beautiful day that I can feel the sun radiating through the walls, and after such a long period of wintry gloom I simply can’t focus on anything of consequence.

A lack of focus on a sunny day — I wonder how bad it will get when the temperatures return to the 80s?

This morning, I can’t get music out of my head. Not just individual songs, but the overarching belief that music makes the world a better place, that my life (in fact, almost all lives) are marked by influential songs and artists.

Maybe, if we’re waxing philosophic for a moment, we’re all just notes on some very large, three-dimensional sheet of music or grooves in some cosmic phonograph.

I’m teaching myself to play guitar.

I would imagine I’m not doing a terribly good job of it, but there’s been something quite therapeutic to throwing my hands into the task and hacking it out bit by bit.

Throw into the mix that I’ve got the music situation at work figured out, thanks to iTunes and a case of CDs, and today has become quite musical.

I hope you’ll induldge me as I answer a few questions, then call on you to do the same:

Favorite song: “Under Pressure” by Queen and David Bowie. You can never go wrong with either Bowie or Freddie Mercury singing, and the lyrics are more than just empty lines, they’re a call to action:

‘Cos love’s such an old fashioned word

And love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night

And love dares you to change our way of caring

about ourselves. …”Favorite musician:

My all-time favorite has to be Eric Clapton.

It’s not just the obvious: He plays guitar so well that he’s widely considered the best ever, but if you watch him in concert, he’s humble. He lets the other musicians play. He knows that music means more than just playing a song, it’s communicating a feeling and fostering greatness.

Favorite band ever: Fleetwood Mac. Talk about musicians playing through pain and talking to each other in their music.

Without the music, the battles they had with each other would have been uncomfortable interludes which made you glad you weren’t a part of their ‘family.’ But with the music, we can sing along to their pain, anger and eventual happiness.

Recently, I’ve been listening to: Nellie McKay, a pianist who does a lot of soundtrack work but her individual stuff has the power to floor the listener; Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, a band with a sound that puts you in the audience with them no matter where you are.

If I hit random on my music playlist right now, what’s the first song that comes up: Wyclef Jean and Paul Simon’s duet, called “Fast Car.”

How would you answer the notes in bold (favorite song, favorite musician, etc.)? Share your answers with me, and they might end up in the paper.

E-mail them to me at ajenkins@theej.com.

Health insurance will kill itself eventually

It is time for the Demo-crats in Congress to stop the bleeding on health care and let the marketplace work. Destroying one party for the sake of a bill that will fall far short of any realistic goals is not very smart.

Paul Krugman of the New York Times says that the health insurance indus-try is in a death spiral.

The truth is that the death spiral started fifteen to twenty years ago and like all spirals as you head toward the center is sim-ply increases its speed.

We are getting near the vortex of that spiral, and why should one party take beat-ings for doing little more than slowing it down while the oth-

er stands back and criticizes? Wellpath Insurance an-

nounced a 30 percent in-crease in the premiums of individual policy owners in California and came under attack, including by Fox News, for giving the Demo-crats red meat in the middle of this war over health care and health insurance.

I hope all of you Fox News watchers listened to what that executive told you. He told you that people who are healthy and unwilling to pay the high bills are dropping out of the system, leaving a situation where the us-ers of insurance must pay a higher and higher percent-age of their own bills.

This actually started years ago and is now speeding up.

Aubrey MooreMatthews

Alan Jenkins

The Long Road Home

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!

Calling all opinionated souls

Editor’s note: Hugh Layburn joins the Indian Trail Trader’s list of columnists. Layburn plans to write columns once a week. Here is his first.

P resident Obama is not operating with Presi-dent Bush’ cabinet.

One of the first things he did was put people in place who believed in his agenda and who he could trust to bring these things to life.

I remember in 2008 the previous council major-ity appointing personnel to the boards and bypassing applicants who I thought were well qualified and then thinking, “Oh I get it. They want their people in place.”

It is no different now. I believe it is a bit inappro-priate for previous council

members criticizing them in public for their decisions.

The present council ma-jority may have been a bit hasty in trying to do it all at once, but I applaud them for being decisive.

That was one thing the previous council was not — everything was debated and deliberated to death before a decision was finally made.

During the 2007 town council campaign, a woman

came up to me and asked why we can’t elect five coun-cil members from different backgrounds and they can all get together and come up with decisions that mutu-ally benefit everybody.

I tried to explain to her that on the federal, state, county and town level, the opinions and beliefs on what is best vary too greatly and it always comes down to who has more votes.

The founding fathers of our country truly believed they were putting together a government like that woman was describing to me.

Right now, the four elected town council mem-bers have the votes.

Hugh Layburn is a weekly columnist for the Indian Trail Trader.

Town council needs new board members

Hugh Layburn

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The group recently vis-ited Haiti to deliver sup-plies and help as much as possible. Below is their account, in their own words via an blog at angelsofsoccer.com, of their visit to Haiti.

Excerpts of days 1 and 2 ran last week.

Day 3, Feb. 3Today was another long

day but a very rewarding one. It started with Mat-ias being interviewed by the Associated Press. It turns out that some of their reporters took an interest in what we were doing and were staying in our hotel.

Mr. Duval was also in-tereviewed. It should be available to be viewed in

the U.S., Canada, China and maybe other places.

Mr. Duval then took us to on a scenic route of Port-au-Prince so that we could get a real sense of the true devastation that has effected this city. Schools, businnesses, homes and Orphanages were all effected.

An entire school of 180 was crushed with the children and teachers inside, it was incredibly moving. Hotel Mar, the largest Hotel also was completely demolished with hundreds inside.

We took pictures as we drove around so that peo-ple can see these images. Since we do not have cell phone service currently and no way to download the photos, we are not able to share these photos online yet.

We were taken to the airport at 11:30 a.m. to meet with the Scientolo-gist group. They were in-credibly hospitable and

after a short wait, they drove us to an orphanage right down the street.

As we were driving into the orphanage we saw for the first time the UN in action as they were han-dling various crowds and issues. We simply drove by.

The orphanage that we were heading to was completely destroyed and they are currently in a temporary facility. They had 200 kids in the orpa-hange before the earth-quake and the casualty rate is unknown.

They have found or rescued around 90 of the original children.

We arrived at about 12-noon. As we walked into the bus graveyard looking facillty, now an Orphange camp, we were greeted by dozens of very excited Hatian children.

They were hugging us, jumping up to give us high fives and truly grate-ful of our arrival. We

felt like Movie Stars. For some reason, they were also fascinated with my curly hair.

We simply gave them the love and attention they so desperately need-ed. For the next two hours we took pictures, played thumb wars and off course soccer.

The kids were fed a plate of beans and rice and bottled water. Pame-la danced with the kids and sang camping type songs. It was clear that all of these children were wearing donated clothes of all color combinations, but they played and were happy.

They borrowed my sun-glasses for an occassional photo opportunity and enjoyed getting their pho-tos taken.

We were also there with some of the Scientologist volunteers as well. The kids loved playing thumb wars and I loved their re-action when I beat them all, or at least most them.

It was sad to see so many children in need but espe-

cially all of the real little ones. One in particular little boy was naked and had a large bloated belly which indicates that he had worms.

Your heart just goes out to these children. Some were dropped off, some found on the streets and others were orphans be-fore the earthquake.

Due to my lack of Creole speaking ability I was un-able to communicate with most of the children.

But one child in par-ticular came up to me and said, “Where is your mother?” My mother? I responded. He nodded. I said, “She’s deceased. She’s not living any more. His next comment back to me broke my heart, he said, “Mine too.”

There were translators there and we were able to have minor conversations but primarily we laughed and played.

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It was great. There must have been 70-80 kids aged 8-12 years old playing 3 v 3 and loving every minute of it.

We set-up five fields and it was moving to watch an-other country that speaks another language execute what we have been ex-ecuting in Charlotte all summer and winter. The coaches were very open to learning small-sided game benefits and want to adopt more of the rules and format. I will e-mail them all the info. when we return.

We left L’Athletique at 5:30 p.m. as all the kids were fed and walked home with a volunteer.

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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 Kirkpatrick

Sunday: 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 service.

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

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.

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

Mill Grove United Methodist7311 Mill Grove Road, Indian TrailPastor: Earl BradshawRegular Sunday: 8:20 a.m. blended worship, 9:40 a.m. contemporary worship, 9:40 a.m. Sunday school, 11 a.m. traditional worship, 11 a.m. Sunday school.Sunday night: Youth Bible study 7:01 p.m. - 8:03 p.m. in the youth buildingWednesday: 5:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. — Family Night Dinner and Bible study/programs for children, youth and adults through March 24. Nursery provided for children under 3. NO reservation required. No dinner or studies on Feb. 17 due to Ash Wednesday service at 7 p.m.

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.

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

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

ommunities of aithA LIST OF CHURCHES IN

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The only stipulation: Your stories of faith must focus on life in the community you serve.

Call Alan Jenkins at 704-261-2223 to find out more, or e-mail him at ajenkins@theej.com.

Williams’ death.“Until we receive additional infor-

mation from the Medical Examiner’s Office, we must classify this as a ‘death investigation,’” Sheriff Eddie Cathey said in a release.

A woman identifying herself as Rush-ing’s mother did not want to comment.

Most of the neighbors on the street keep to themselves, neighboring resi-dent George Bell said.

He said he doesn’t know Rushing’s relatives well, but said there has been speculation in the neighborhood re-garding Williams’ death.

“So much is going on around here,

you don’t know what to believe,” he said.

The attack doesn’t make him fearful of the area he lives in, Bell said.

“It’s a nice neighborhood,” he said. “I’m not worried as long as they keep it on that side of the street.”

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poisoning communities.” Fewer than 60 incin-

erators operate across the country, Dayton said, down significantly from previous years.

BMWNC may be in com-pliance with current stan-dards, but just because it is legal doesn’t make it safe, she said.

Chemicals released from the incinerator in-clude dioxins and furans, mercury, hydrogen chlo-ride, nitrogen oxide, lead, cadmium and sulfur diox-ide.

Combined, these chemi-cals can cause cancer, brain and kidney damage, heart disease, respiratory problems and birth de-fects, the defense league reports.

Don Willard serves as director of the Mecklen-burg County division of air quality.

“There’s no indication of any levels of exposure that would cause a health risk,” he said.

The N.C. Environmen-tal Management Commis-sion puts heavy scientific research into regulating toxins and protecting the public, he said.

BMWNC has a Clean Air Act operating permit,

and in 2008, processed 4,615 tons of medical waste, about 56 percent of allowed maximum ca-pacity, the Mecklenburg County DAQ reports. It processes general refuse, laboratory and outdated pharmaceutical contain-ers, pathological waste and potentially infectious waste.

Still, Dayton said there are better alternatives to incineration such as au-toclaves that use heat and steam to sterilize equip-ment and supplies.

Since Healthcare Waste Solutions took over the company, she said, it has made some improve-ments, but “the only way to improve the thing is to shut it down.”

New EPA standards that lower emission rates go into effect in 2014. BM-WNC hopes to renew its permit this year.

Matthews doesn’t have jurisdiction over the air quality permit, town man-ager Hazen Blodgett said, but wants Mecklenburg County to impose new EPA standards by Decem-ber 2012.

They want BMWNC to have a plan for how they will meet those standards by August.

According to the attor-ney for the Mecklenburg County DAQ, Willard said, it can’t impose the federal regulations ear-

lier by changing the date on the permit. The divi-sion could write a law to change it, but it would still need state approval and could take about three years. Companies must have a reasonable amount of time to comply, Willard said.

The state is also con-sidering a change to its incinerator law.

Stallings Mayor Lynda Paxton will attend to-night’s informational meeting and encouraged council members to do the same.

“This facility should not have been placed in a residential area,” Mat-thews resident Catherine Mitchell said.

Mitchell joined the local Prisoners of Our Homes group in the early 90s, ad-vocating for the plant to close. She worked for the defense league at the time and remembers neigh-bors with ash and dust covering their cars and lawns. Many complained of coughing and burn-ing eyes, she said; the in-cinerator also polluted a nearby stream.

The worst effects were within three miles of the plant, Mitchell said.

No one can say the plant won’t cause any harm, Willard said, but there is little risk.

“Clearly zero emissions is better,” he said. “We don’t live in that world.” Other pollutants, such as vehicles, give off much more air pollution, he said.

It is hard to say that the plant is the direct cause of health problems in the area, Dayton said, but it does look suspicious.

Healthcare Waste So-lutions president Lewis Renfro and BMWNC man-ager Tom Hulme could not be reached by dead-line Tuesday.

four years and seeks public input be-fore submitting its final plan.

The plan takes realistic financial pro-jections into account when planning and MUMPO secretary Bob Cook said there were “not as many (projects) as we would like.”

“It’s not a wish list,” he said.The only proposed projects in Union

County are the Monroe Parkway and the Chestnut connecter, but Cook said plans for the southern loop of Interstate 485 and U.S. Highway 74 ex-ist as well, areas many Union drivers travel.

In 2008, an average of 54,000 cars trav-eled U.S. 74 at Indian Trail Road every day and 49,000 traveled U.S. 74 at Stall-ings Road every day, according to the N.C. Department of Transportation.

There were fewer projects in Union

partly because the N.C. Highway 16 widening project and the Martin Lu-ther King extension projects were al-ready underway, Cook said.

MUMPO representatives will have the 2035 plan open to the public Wednesday in Charlotte and Thursday in Indian Trail for anyone who would like to give input on proposed projects or make rec-ommendations for different ones.

“We just encourage folks to ask ques-tions,” Cook said.

Those who cannot make the meetings can go to the Web site, www.mumpo.org, and submit comments to Cook at rwcook@charlottenc.gov.

MUMPOContinued from Page 1A

STABBINGContinued from Page 1A

We just encourage folks to ask questions.”

— Bob Cook, MUMPO secretary

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It’s a nice neighborhood. I’m not worried as long as they keep it on that side of the street.”

— George Bell,neighboring resident

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This facility should not have been placed in a residential area.”

— Catherine Mitchell,

Matthews resident

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Clearly, zero emissions is better. We don’t live in that world.”

— Don Willard, director,

Mecklenburg County Division

of Air Quality

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L eo Riot likes to skate, but the nearest

vertical ramp was a two-hour drive away. To remedy that, he simply built his own.

“Skating is my pas-sion,” the 25-year-old who lives in Griffith road near Parkwood High School said.

Not one to do some-thing halfheartedly, Riot wanted to build his ramp right the first time. He figured configuring it to X-Games dimensions would be about right.

Price quotes from local contractors came back at about $20,000 just for labor, more than Riot could afford. Instead of giving up on the idea, he simply decided to build it himself.

He started by pouring 30 platforms of concrete and finished with a ramp 13.5 feet high and 40 feet wide, the exact dimen-sions professional skat-ers use in competition.

Riot’s work drew atten-tion almost immediately.

“It is amazing,” his next-door neighbor Angel Tyson said, in awe of the magnitude of the project.

“I got help from a lot of neighbors,” Riot said.

The Tysons, for exam-ple, allowed Riot to use their tractor.

“Everyone was there for me.”

At first, Angel Tyson said she thought Riot was putting in a pool.

“We just wondered,

‘What are they do-ing?’” she said.

When they worked up the courage to ask Riot what he was build-ing, she admitted she was a little skeptical. They jumped on board, however, after see-ing Riot’s excitement about the project.

“We still didn’t get the magnitude of it, though,” she admitted. “It just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger. ... It almost looked like he was building an ark. In fact, I still will some-times, lovingly, refer to it as ‘Leo’s Ark.’”

Other neighborhoods might not have been as receptive as the Grif-fith Road crew, but Tyson said they were “just an eclectic group of people. ... We’re very proud of him.”

The construction project drew attention from local skaters who shared Riot’s frustration that no adequate skating facility existed close by.

Casey Wilson, 23, was one of the first.

Never one for team sports, Wilson rode skates since he was a kid. He said he likes that “it’s all on you,” and the challenge of trying to master new tricks.

“Every time you skate, you learn some-thing new,” Riot said.

“Plus, it’s fun to go fast and high,” laughed Wilson.

Riot and Wilson have both competed against professionals, but say turning pro is

not their goal; at least not in the near future.

“I just enjoy the sport so much that I don’t care if I’m No. 1 or No. 2,” Riot said.

The young men hit off a relationship almost immediately, in part because they are both in-line skaters. When Wilson found out Riot was building a ramp he was excited; when he discovered Riot was a roller-blader, “it was even better,” he said.

Not that there is any animosity between in-line skaters and skate-boarders, but the sports are just different, Wilson said. He compared the relationship to a soc-cer and football player. Each can appreciate the other’s talent, but there is a real connec-tion when two athletes can play off each other.

Plus, they can help each other learn new tricks and soar to new heights.

The quality of the ramp is something else Riot can be proud of.

“This is honestly one of the smoothest ramps I have ever been on,” Wilson said.

The reason lies in the ramp’s construction. Riot used two layers of plywood on the framing then topped it with a special Skatelite mate-rial made specifically for skate ramps. Wil-son went as far as to say that the ramp was one of the smoothest on the east coast.

Riot wants to keep the operation small for now. He is not trying to open it up for business, but does make people sign a waiver if they are going to use it.

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Leo Riot takes to the air at the top of the ramp he built in his back yard.

Photo by Rick Crider

Western Union County man builds his own skating ramp

Leo’s arkHeight:

13.5 feet

Transition, or the curved part

for landing: 11.5 feet

Total width: 40 feet

Flat surface between

transitions: 14 feet

Vertical — above transition to launch skater

into the air: 2 feet

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The vert rampRiot started building the ramp in June and worked on it for about two to three hours per day through January. Since he works from home, Riot could take time out of the day to work a little every day.

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