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Few options available to avoid overcrowding at Porter Ridge

225-acre Old Hickory location to be marketed by local company

BY TIFFANY LANEStaff Writer

INDIAN TRAILAn auditorium full of

parents and students – many in Porter Ridge purple — attended Thurs-day’s public hearing to express concern and offer alternatives to the Porter Ridge reassignment pro-posal.

Two moth-ers, Mary Ked Driver and Tammy Gill, said they would have four children at four differ-ent schools if the reas-s i g n m e n t passes.

With two working par-ents, one spare car and multiple extracurricu-lars going on, “I just don’t know how this will work in our lives,” Driver said. Whose game would she at-tend? Will four buses stop at her house?

Superintendent Ed Da-vis proposes lifting the cap on Porter Ridge Mid-dle and High, put in place last March, and redistrict-ing about 500 students to either Piedmont or Sun Valley to relieve Porter Ridge overcrowding.

The plan, effective this fall, would cost the school system more money than just removing the cap, but would lead to less crowded schools and save on current transportation expenses.

“I know this is a passion-ate issue, and it should be,” Board of Education Chairman Dean Arp said before the hearing. “We value your input.”

Some parents called the proposal “the next best thing” to leaving the cur-rent school assignments alone and said they will back the proposal if they know it is permanent.

If this is an issue the school board will debate again next year, Shauna

Parents don’t want kids moved

Moser Group to represent business park developer

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BY TIFFANY LANEStaff Writer

INDIAN TRAIL

More than 1,500 people gath-ered at First Baptist Church of Indian

Trail Wednesday for the Real Evangelism conference kickoff. Gospel trio “Greater Vision” performed before former pas-tor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee took the stage.

Bailey Smith Ministries, an evangelistic organization, coor-dinated the regional conference.

Smith is a longtime friend of Huckabee’s and took a few moments to introduce him.

“This is a man of character” who refuses to abandon his faith to win a vote, Smith said.

Huckabee called it “a privilege, a blessing and an honor” to speak.

Many attendees said they came to hear him talk about family and moral values. They didn’t leave disappointed.

Former presidential candidate comes to Indian Trail

BY TIFFANY LANEStaff Writer

MONROEMedicare recipients have until

March 31 to enroll in a Medicare Advantage plan.

Some might choose to keep their regular Medicare plans; others might find that a new plan is cheaper or offers

more coverage.Insurance agencies want new

clients before the deadline, which could mean attractive offers or underhanded scams to reel them in, Pam Irish with Union Coun-ty’s Council on Aging said. Irish helps coordinate the Seniors’ Health Insurance Information Program.

Enrollment for Medicare Ad-vantage plans began Jan. 1.

“We had no idea where to start,” Union County senior Ste-ven Godfrey said.

Godfrey is not yet eligible for Medicare, but helped his wife find the right plan for her. Insur-ance companies seem to make

the process difficult on purpose, he said; he asked for a summary of one company’s coverage and received a 120-page PDF file.

Medicare Advantage plans usually require additional copay-ments or co-insurance, but have an out-of-pocket maximum. Ben-eficiaries who choose an advan-tage plan do not need a Medicare supplement policy, either.

Advantage plans replace Medi-care Parts A and B, but users must still pay the Part B premi-um, unless they qualify for finan-cial assistance.

Still, an advantage plan could be to a beneficiary’s advantage.

“Sometimes, there’s a very low

monthly premium,” Irish said. Some advantage plans offer

other benefits such as limited dental or vision coverage that regular Medicare or a supple-mental policy doesn’t pay for, she said.

After spending four months weighing the options, Godfrey said an advantage plan wasn’t right for he and his wife.

“Do you need dental if you’re retired and have false teeth?” he said.

In the end, Medicare Advan-tage plans that package various programs didn’t weigh out in

Deadline nears for enrollment in Medicare programSign up for Advantage by March 31

Photos by Rick Crider

Former presidential candidate and conservative commentator Mike Huckabee speaks at First Baptist Church of Indian Trail on Wednesday, March 10.

In hIs worDs

His worldview“I don’t have to wake up every morning and figure out what I’m going to believe today. I have convictions that are based on eternal truths, that I believe are uni-versally true, not because I believe them, because they are. … We have a purpose, and we never will be fulfilled unless we discover what that purpose is.”

Wall Street“When Wall Street melted, it was not a money problem, it was a moral problem. … It was not about money management; it was about moral management … (and) unmitigated and unadulterated greed.”

Parenting“When we say, ‘There’s something wrong with these kids in America,’ you know what it really reveals? There’s some-thing wrong with these parents in America.”

Education“Schools don’t get better when we lower the standards and make it easier for kids to get an A. Schools get better when we raise the standards and say, ‘We’re going to make it even tougher.’”

Same-sex marriage“We should change the lifestyle to meet the definition (of marriage), not the definition to meet the lifestyle.”

Abortion“It is an inconve-nience economi-cally and socially to those people who were not prepared for the baby. I would suggest that rather than lowering the standards of when life begins and what it means that we would raise the standards of our living that we would deem worthy every single human being from the time it’s conceived, to believe it has intrinsic value.”

Huckabee speaks

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Above: More than 1,500 people attended the conference’s opening night. Above right: Mike Huckabee talks as a screen behind him gives the audience a better view of the speaker.

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BY JASON DEBRuYNStaff Writer

INDIAN TRAILA local company will

try to attract business to Indian Trail.

Old Hickory Business Park developer Merrifield Patrick selected Indian Trail-based The Moser Group, Inc. as its exclu-sive marketing represen-tative for the park.

As its marketer, The Mo-ser Group hopes to bring new business and jobs to Indian Trail and can sell the properties from an in-timate and personal level,

Van Southard with The Moser Group said.

Old Hickory covers about 225 acres off In-dian Trail-Fairview Road north of U.S. Highway 74; lots range from 2 to about 13 acres. The price will range from $80,000 to $125,000 per acre.

Indian Trail council members frequently say they want to see more business and industry come to Indian Trail to balance the tax base. Robert Allen and Darlene

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Margaret HembyStallingS

Margaret Hemby died at home Tuesday, March 9, 2010.

She was born July 22, 1925 in Stallings, N.C. to Sim and Louella Garmon Flowe. She was the sixth of 10 children.

Margaret was preceded in death by her husband, Allen Hemby. She was a member of Indian Trail United Methodist Church where she served in a va-riety of positions.

Survivors include three children, Marsha Hem-by of Indian Trail, Tim Hemby and wife Sarah and Tami Hemby Eklund and husband Karl, all of Wesley Chapel. Two sis-

ters, Frances Glymph of Durham, Helen Tracey of Charlotte and one brother S.A. Flowe of Stallings; and four grandchildren.

Margaret was preceded in death by four sisters and two brothers.

Her family received friends Thursday, March 11, at Heritage Funeral Home in Indian Trail. Fu-neral services were held Friday, March 12, at Indi-an Trail United Method-ist Church with her pas-tor, Rev. Jimmy Chrisawn and Rev. Bruce Powell and Pastor Ed Thomas offici-ating. Burial will be next to her beloved husband at Indian Trail Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to Hospice and Palliative Care Charlotte Region

or to Indian Trail United Methodist Church, Spirit of Joy Lutheran Church or Siler Presbyterian Church.

Arrangements are in the care of Heritage Fu-neral Home. An online guest registry is available at heritagefuneral.net.

Ramelle H. Ritchindian trail

Mrs. Ritch, of Indian Trail passed away Thurs-day, March 11, 2010 at Carrington Place in Mat-thews. At her request, her family held private services from the grave-side at Ritch Cemetery on Friday, March 12.

Mrs. Ritch was born May 19, 1922 in Union

County to the late Parm and Letha Price Helms. She was a loving and dedicated mother and grandmother who was loved by all and leaves behind many cherished memories. In addition to her parents, she was pre-deceased by her husband Carl L. Ritch in 1985, and by her beloved daughter, Brenda Vaughn.

Her survivors include her children, Ann Lem-mond and husband John-ny, Sherrill Connell and wife Marlene, Carolyn Pressley and husband Larry, Randy Connell and wife Rhonda, all of Indian Trail, Jimmy Connell and wife Patty of Monroe; sis-ters, Lorraine Byrum and Betty Funderburk both of Indian Trail; and by 11 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren.

The family of Mrs. Ritch would like to thank the staff of Carrington Place for their heartfelt love and care given to their Mother and to each

of them. In her memory the family asks that me-morials be sent to Car-rington C.A.R.E.S., 600 Fullwood Lane, Matthews NC 28105, a fund which aids other residents in their daily needs.

Arrangements for the Ritch family were in the care of Heritage Funeral Home, Indian Trail Cha-pel

Doris Pearson Lemmond

indian trailMrs. Lemmond, 83, of

Indian Trail, died Wednes-day, March 10, 2010. She was born August 5, 1926 in Marlboro County, SC to the late Henry and Eth-el Pearson.

Visitation for Mrs. Lem-mond were held Sunday, March 14, 2010. Funeral services followed at Sardis Baptist Church of Indian Trail with Rev. Chris Bau-com officiating. Burial followed the service in the church cemetery.

Mrs. Lemmond was an active member of her church where she taught Sunday School for over 30 years and also sung in the choir.

Survivors include her son, Robert M. Lemmond and wife, Martha of Richmond, TX; daughter, Brenda L. Tomberlin and husband Mike of Monroe; sister, Faye P. Dunn and husband Jack of Sum-merville, SC; brother, Henry “Bud” Pearson, Jr. of Bennettsville, SC; four grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband Marshall M. Lemmond in 2008.

Memorials may be sent to Hospice and Palliative Care, Charlotte Region, 1420 E. 7th Street, Char-lotte NC 28204.

On-line condolences may be left to www.heri-tagefuneral.net. The Lemmond family is in the care of Heritage Funeral Home, Indian Trail Cha-pel.

Obituaries

Obituary policyObituaries are published daily in 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-grandchildren, funeral arrangements and memorials. Obituaries containing additional information may be purchased. Obituaries are accepted only from funeral homes.

Ollie Shepherd convicted

MONROEA former girls basket-

ball coach must register as a sex offender.

Ollie Van Shepherd Jr., 32, of 215 Glencroft Drive pleaded guilty to one count of sexual act with a student and one count of indecent liberties with a student, according to District At-torney John Snyder.

He was giv-en a 36-month split sen-tence mean-ing he will serve up to five months and have the rest suspended. The court will decide today how long he must wear a global po-sitioning device.

A former Monroe High School girls basketball coach, Shepherd turned himself in on April 15, 2009. The school suspended him with pay after an ac-cusation of inappropriate conduct with a student.

The school system and the Monroe Police Depart-ment investigated Shep-herd and Snyder brought the charges against him.

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BY JASON deBRUYNStaff Writer

MONROEPolice arrested a man

they say sold more than $25,000 in stolen goods on the Internet.

Union County Sheriff ’s Office arrested Anatoliy Oleg Shashkov, 18, of 3606 Arthur Drive in Lake Park and charged him with criminal enterprise, among other charges.

Sheriff Detectives Ben Baker and Wayne Mullis investigated several cases involving thefts out of cars in Indian Trail over the past few months. Dur-ing the investigation, they found an Indian Trial man who was receiving several stolen goods and selling them on internet auction sites, according to a Sher-iff ’s press release.

Detectives followed in-ternet records to more than 400 stolen items over the past two years worth $25,623.38. Most of the items were small electron-ics like GPS units or iPods, according to the release.

The investigation led to Shashkov with whom police found more stolen items.

“The online frontier is challenging because thieves are using the in-ternet to sell their stolen wares,” said Sheriff Ed-die Cathey in the news re-lease. “Consumers should be careful, only buying from sellers with good

histories, and always use an online payment system such as Pay-Pal in order to protect themselves if there’s a problem with the purchase.”

Police charged Shash-kov with one felony count of continuing criminal en-terprise, one felony count of accessing computers, one felony count of finan-cial identity fraud, and two counts of misdemean-or possession of stolen goods. He was taken to the Union County jail where he received a $1,000 se-cured bond. His first court date is April 7.

Lake Park man accused of selling stolen goods online

The online frontier is challenging because thieves are using the Internet to sell stolen wares.”

— Eddie Cathey, sheriff

“BY TIFFANY LANEStaff Writer

MONROEDo you trust your local

nonprofit? Do your dona-tions go where you think they do?

Many organizations wrestle with these ques-tions daily and might not know how to assure po-tential donors or custom-ers that they are cred-ible.

The Tiffany Circle, a Red Cross society of women leaders, will host a trust seminar for area nonprofits, their volun-teers and business lead-ers on March 24.

Attendees will learn to boost public confidence from Noah Rickun, a Jeffrey Gitomer speaker who mentors companies on sales, customer loyal-ty and attitude, his Web site reports.

Gitomer, a nationally recognized writer and speaker, wrote “Little Teal Book of Trust: How to Earn it, Grow it, and Keep it to Be-come a Trusted Advisor

in Sales, Business and Life.”

“It’s always a good idea to try to work on skills that enhance community trust, particularly when you’re asking people to give their time and mon-ey, and they have so many other challenges in their life,” Union County Red Cross executive director Kathy Bragg said.

According to a Red Cross press release, local nonprofits “are feeling the impact of mistrust and skepticism, the re-sult of negative publicity surrounding decisions and ethics in unrelated corporate and nonprofit groups.”

Trust is essential to these organizations, it reads, because without it, “nonprofit organiza-tions lose support and,

ultimately, the commu-nity loses much-needed services.”

Martha Allen, a Tiffany Circle regional co-chair, is one of eight Tiffany Circle members who live in Union County and one of about 25 regionally.

“Before someone sends a check to your nonprof-it, they send their trust,” she said, citing a Foun-dation for the Carolinas report.

Foundation for the Carolinas is a nonprofit that helps other nonprof-its and corporations posi-tively impact their com-munities.

“Donor stewardship is so important,” Bragg said, both to attract vol-unteers and show that or-ganizations are trustwor-thy by following through with their goals.

The economic down-turn also presents an obstacle to getting nec-essary donations, Allen said, but the seminar promises to encourage.

“Just because the econ-omy is very difficult, it doesn’t mean we stop do-ing what we’re doing,” she said. “The needs don’t go away.”

Tiffany’s Circle is fund-ing the seminar through personal donations.

The seminar will be held at Hilton Center City in Charlotte from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. It is $20 and includes a wine and cheese reception.

The deadline to register is Wednesday. For more information or to regis-ter, call Liz Stephens at 704-347-8228 or visit www.carolinapiedmontregion.org.

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BY ELISABETH ARRIEROStaff Writer

MONROEThe majority of home-

schooling parents want to give their children “reli-gious and moral instruc-tion,” according to 2007 federal statistics cited in a recent Associated Press article.

Perhaps that’s why the home-school market’s top textbook companies dis-pute Darwinism and tout creationism.

Mineral Springs resi-dent Davis Carman is co-owner of the top home-school textbook company, Apologia. He talked with The Enquirer-Journal about why he supports creationism, and its teach-ings in his textbooks.

Q: What subjects do your textbooks cover?

A: We publish multiple subjects, both science and non-scicence subjects, for K-12. The specific science subjects are astronomy, botany, flying creatures, swimming creatures for

elementary school. For middle school the sub-jects are general science, physical science, biology, chemistry and physics. For high school, it is ma-rine biology, and three advanced courses: chem-istry, physics and biology.

Q: What unique advan-tages do your products provide over traditional public school materials?

A: They’re rigorous college prep science courses — that’s the way we design the book. The person will get a deeper scientific learning expe-rience. They’re not cov-ering a little bit about a lot of things, they’re cov-ering in depth material. The home school model allows kids with an inter-est in science to go deeper than they could other-wise. Books are written to the student and not to a teacher. You don’t have to have a parent who’s an ex-pert in chemistry to learn chemistry.

Q: Who purchases

your text-books?

A: There aren’t any p u b l i c schools that I’m aware of. We sell some to pri-vate schools — roughly 400 private s c h o o l s

have purchased our cur-riculum at one point or another. The majority of our customers are from home-schools. We’re the leading science provider based on market share.

It would be wonderful if a public school bought our books but to try to ac-tively go after that would be like beating my head against a wall because as a general rule, public schools are anti–creation-ism and pro-evolution. I don’t see very much hope to succeed in trying that.

Q: What’s the stance you take on creation-ism and evolution?

A: We have discussions of Darwin and the theory that he presented and then there’s discussion of creationism.

We include Christian and biblical accounts of the origins of the world. We’re writing with a Christian belief system already, which is based on the biblical account.

We got through that conclusion through sci-entific evidence and philosophical reasoning. Once you’ve come to the conclusion that there is a God, the next step is how have things come to be.

You’ve already started to establish the reliabil-ity of the Bible. Reliabil-ity of the Bible is the key component to continuing the Christian philosophy of creation. If the Bible were not reliable, there would be reason to doubt creationism.

We go through Darwin’s theory and why he came to his conclusions and explain how Darwin de-scribed things that could

hurt his theory. He presented one argu-

ment which was the fos-sil. He said that if there are many fossils found, it could help his case. If not, it would hurt his case. Af-ter 150 years, there actu-ally have been very few fossil records that have helped support his case. His theory becomes weak-er and weaker.

One of the real confus-ing things about whole evolutionary discussion is that we see changes called macro evolutions in species.

Some people call that variety within kinds – that’s the Christian cre-ation perspective. Cre-ationists say when God created animals, he cre-ated the kinds.

The cat kind, the Dog kind, the human kind. You create variations as cats breed: Leopards, ti-gers, etc. That’s not evolu-tion, that’s just the mix-ing of genetics.

Evolution goes from a single cell to a more com-

plex 10-celled creation to a frog to a lizard to a mon-key and then to a human.

That’s the process from single celled simple or-ganisms to multi celled complex organisms. That’s the kind of evolu-tion that we’re disputing. We don’t see evidence of that in fossil records. One of Darwin’s observations was the different sizes of beaks that the sparrow had.

He observed in rela-tively short periods of time how they’d enlarge and shrink based on food supply. It’s still a spar-row. It didn’t change into a turtle.

When we look at the history of the Earth, most Christian creationists will say Earth is some-where between 6,000 and 10,000 years old. People who believe in evolution will say it’s 150 to 300 mil-lion years old. Part of why they have to come up with

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that number is because it takes an unbelievable amount of time to con-sider a single cell organ-ism evolving to a complex organism.

Mathematicians have said 200 million years wouldn’t be nearly enough time for that to happen The odds are completely against that happening. You don’t see that happening naturally. The only thing you see is mutations. If enough mu-tations over 200 million years happened, you’d ac-tually end up with a lower life form not a more com-plex life form.

Q: How do you draw the line between adap-tation vs. evolution?

A: On both side of the debate, the word evolu-tion almost gets misused. You clearly see a variety among types. With the beaks Darwin observer, that’s clearly a form of change. Evolution means change. It’s not the other evolution word, which is single cell to complex cell.

You see variation in sci-ence and it’s consistent with the biblical account. Clearly there are small changes that happened. It’s already pre-designed in their DNA. As you breed you get the differ-ent combinations but they still remain the same kind. You’re not going to get a sparrow to change into a dog.

Q: How much of your personal beliefs are in line with the products Apologia sells?

A: I purchased the company two years ago and certainly one of the things that drew me to the company was that I was a creationist.

Not only can I support them, I’m passionate about them and I want to expand the reach and penetration in the mar-kets we’re trying to touch, which is primarily home schooling.

Q: Why do you think the majority of home-school parents want morals and religion em-phasized while the ma-jority of public schools discuss evolution?

A: It goes back many years. In the early ‘60s, prayer was taken out of public schools and es-sentially God was taken out of the public schools. There was less and less influence and ability for Christian philosophy to succeed very well.

That’s part of why a lot of families have made the decision – because they’re probably Christians and know if they send their kids to public schools they’ll not support what they’re trying to teach their kids. Those parents want to get them out of a negative social context and a negative religious context.

They’re trying to edu-cate their kids at home where they can pick the curriculum, build stron-ger families and have better support for moral character and religious instruction that they want their kids to have.

Q: Why do you feel creationism has more validity than evolu-tion?

A: There’s two things I point to.

One is, the odds of a single cell going to a com-plex form over millions or billions of years is quite frankly unbelievable.

Related to that is the

design element. You look at the world, and see that there’s order and design and beauty to things. For instance, if you took the parts of a watch and threw them in a box, you wouldn’t expect them to turn into a watch.

If you threw them in a billion times, no one would expect them to sud-denly and randomly be-come a watch.

That watch had to be designed and all of those pieces were carefully made to be fit. It’s some-thing that has order and design and purpose.

How could it randomly come about no matter how many times you throw all the ingredients in the box?

Second, even if you as-sumed you’d take all these pieces and Kaboom, they all turned into a watch or dog or cat or a human being — if that happened, the next question they

should ask is where did all the parts come from?

There had to be a begin-ning. You can’t keep back-ing up in time. Scientists are in agreement that there was a beginning sometime. All the stuff that we see wasn’t here at one time, and then it was here.

Where did it come from? It had to be created by an infinite and eternal and always existing God. Those are the two main things that a person has to contemplate.

Q: Anything else you’d like to add?

A: When that article came out about creation-ism in home-school text-books, we observed an overwhelming amount of support from the people who use Apologia. It’s cer-tainly been encouraging.

There’s been plenty of negative discussions too but I’m personally thrilled and encouraged by how our customer base has rallied around us and given us a lot of positive support.

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Sutton Park, a pre-dominately black and Hispanic area, will hold its March to the Mailbox event on April 10. A lo-cal high school band is expected to provide the entertainment.

“A lot of people say, ‘It’s like voting – well my vote don’t count,’” neigh-borhood president Ron Cureton said. “We want to make them aware that it is worth doing and we can make a difference if we all turn the forms in.”

The march is the lat-

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A few weeks ago, Mon-roe held a Census Week event at city hall, where residents could play trivia games for Census memorabilia.

“Census week went great. We had a lot of people who already knew about it but others still had some questions about it,” Fairy Boyce, of the Complete Count Committee, said.

“I think we achieved what we were trying to achieve.”

April 1 is Census Day but some Census forms have already been deliv-ered, said Census part-nership specialist for Union County, Susan Su-arez Webster.

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Love beats logic always

Your Talk

Our Talk

T his weekend, my sis-ter married her high-school sweetheart.

As her brother, I’ve spent several months hoping there would be a chance of an emotional implosion the likes of which are only seen at the cinema, and my sister ran from the altar and hopped a plane to Botswana, where she plans to teach aboriginal villagers to farm and produce clean water.

Much more likely, however, she is beginning the life of a married woman, and my tongue is sore from the con-tinued biting I’ve had to do.

I wouldn’t say exactly that I was opposed to the mar-riage. My sister picked a fine man to marry – a tall, strong, handsome fellow, one look at him makes you realize why you were never the popular kid in school. OK, maybe that’s just me.

He’s good to my sister. He’s a sweet young man, capable of great gentleness. And the two of them look great togeth-er … my beautiful sister with perfect, gleaming teeth and radiant blue eyes standing next to this tall, blonde guy.

But (and of course there was going to be a ‘but’) my sister is 19, and her beau is 20.

My brotherly instincts flare up and insist that she’s way too young. Neither she nor her man has finished school yet. They have jobs, but neither will have insur-ance for a couple of years.

If they love each other enough to want to be together forever, then logically, they’ll still be together when they finish college. They can get jobs with benefits that pay much more than where they work now. Then they can get married, right?

Logic can’t be heard by ears filled with love.

I should be happy my sister isn’t perched upon the edge of spinsterhood.

There was a time, just a couple of hundred years back, when 19 would have been uncomfortably on the

other side of the marry-ing age, and a woman left without a husband at this point would be nervously looking to become a nun.

And, as a brother, my senses are tuned a little more to the logistics of being married. Can this man take care of my sister without having a college degree and a full-time job?

My mother is the ultimate pragmatist. She should be. She’s divorced one husband and buried another, worked in cotton mills until they shut down and moved to Mexico, then she went on to caring for people at retirement homes. There’s very little my mother hasn’t been through.

That’s why she sits qui-etly through my diatribes about my sister’s marriage. She waits calmly for me to get through it and, when I’ve finally lost my head of steam, she interjects the one fact that really matters.

“They’re in love,” Mama says. “What can you do?”

In the end, that’s the only truth that matters. There are 50,000 logical reasons why they shouldn’t get married, but in the end, that can prob-ably be said about all of us.

What matters is the goofy smile my sister gets when he’s around. She looks into his eyes and sees the future. Who am I to question that?

So, I’ll bite my tongue. With any luck I’ll remem-ber that love knows better than any logic ever did, and that the headfirst leaps into the abyss are the ones we remember most fondly in ourselves and both ad-mire and envy in others.

Get involved; your town needs input

Indian Trail welcomed their new town manager, Joe Fivas, on March 1. He has a very competent staff to assist him.

In fact, the staff has been trying to reach you, to listen to your ideas by arranging meetings in various subdi-visions, at Hemby Bridge Voluntary Fire Station, Stallings Voluntary Fire Station, Union West Library and the Civic Center.

However, attendance at these meetings and work-shops could be much higher.

There are so many ways we can serve our town, and it is your town. We can serve the town by being a scout, joining the Rotarians or Lions, being a member of an athletic organization, by

attending meetings of the town council, or writing to the Indian Trail Trader.

Last Saturday the town had its annual planning meeting. Many new good ideas came forward, which I believe the town council members will work to realize.

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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

We don’t have a yard debris burn ordinance.

Why? Because our solid waste contract is a piece of garbage (pun intended).

The last council majority agreed to a waste contract that does not include regu-lar pick up of yard debris. That stinks (pun intended).

The price was good, but it lacks some basic services. We are now negotiating with the new waste company and trust me that will cost us. The areas of Union county just outside Indian Trail are paying twice what we are for waste disposal.

Once again the four elected council members are clean-ing up (pun intended) after

the last council majority.We don’t have a yard de-

bris burn ordinance. Any idiot living next door to you can start fire and burn any-thing they want, and when the smoke and ash come into your yard and prevent you from enjoying your property, it’s as appointed Councilman Hullinger put’s it — “We

don’t want to infringe on the rights of a property owner.”

That stinks (pun intended). What about the rights of neighbors who have to en-dure the smoke and ash? What about the child with asthma who has to go inside and use an inhaler because there is no fresh air they can go out and play in?

We don’t have a yard de-bris burn ordinance. After, the present proposal was voted down, I did not hear the council ask for further research from the staff to come up with an alternative. That stinks (pun intended).

Hugh Layburn is a columnist for The Indian Trail Trader.

Layburn talks trash (pun intended)

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Indian Trail Trader Wednesday, March 17, 2010 / 7A

BY ELISABETH ARRIEROStaff Writer

MONROETrash has slowly built

back up on Highway 74 where one man once vol-untarily cleaned it.

Natividad Deras was de-ported nearly two weeks ago after being arrested for trespassing, officials said.

“A lot of people are sad that he’s gone,” Wingate Officer Ryan Moore said. “A lot of people were glad he provided such a good service to the town.” Deras spent hours a day picking up trash using a claw tool.

At the end of the day, he would haul several bags of trash to a dumpster in his apartment complex.

Wingate honored him by presenting a commu-nity service plaque sev-eral months ago.

But when he was laid off from his job at a Union County woodwork facto-ry, Deras began living in a tent outside of his apartment complex be-cause he couldn’t pay the bills.

“We had a large amount of people concerned and who tried to offer him help,” Moore said. “It was multiple families: they of-fered him places to stay and jobs.”

But Deras chose to stay at his apartment complex in a tent and in late Febru-

ary, the complex’s owner, Tim Madaris, took out a warrant on Deras for tres-passing.

When the sheriff ’s office served the war-rant on Feb. 26, they ran his fingerprints through a safer communities program.

Sheriff Eddie Cathy said runs everyone charged with crimes through the system. Soon after, ICE put a hold on Deras’s release.

“I’m not sure he’s such a bad fella but he is ille-gal and when he was ar-rested, that made him an illegal criminal,” Cathy said.

Wingate Officer Donnie Gay misses seeing Deras around town, he said.

“As bad as it is in custo-dy, he’s not homeless any-more,” Gay said. “He’s going to be able to eat and sleep indoors now for at least a little while.”

Gay said deportees are first sent to Charlotte, then Atlanta and then back to their home coun-try.

From Oct. 1, 2009 to March 1, ICE has picked up 62 Union County resi-dents, and 44 others are awaiting departure.

Photo by Ed Cottingham

Natividad Deras was deported nearly two weeks ago.

Street-cleaning volunteer deported two weeks ago

BY SHERRI PHEngcHARdCorrespondent

Four municipalities in Union County have received an Excellence Award for Local Gov-ernment Efficiency and Effectiveness from the Centralina Council of Government, which pro-vides local and regional planning and technical services to local govern-ment members.

The award is shared with Waxhaw, Wedding-ton, Wesley Chapel and Marvin for the Local Area Regional Trans-portation Plan.

The LARTP brought the municipalities to-gether along with an $80,000 grant from M e c k l e n b u r g - U n i o n Metropolitan Planning Organization to conduct a study, and craft a plan to deal with the increas-ing traffic pressures on the streets.

“We wanted to recog-nize the four communi-ties working together on their transportation plan which is some-thing that just doesn’t happen as much as it should, especially in a place like Union County which has so many mu-nicipalities,” said Mary Newsom, one of the judges who gave out the award and an associate editor of The Charlotte Observer.

Anna Whalen, senior planner of Marvin, said the idea for the LARTP began with the town of Weddington. “They de-cided that they wanted to have some control of their destiny with how the roads are placed.”

Then it was suggested that the towns work to-gether. “Mary Jo Goll-nitz (Weddington plan-ner) had mentioned it to me, and I thought it was a great idea to col-laborate between mu-nicipalities, especially from a transportation standpoint,” said Greg Mahar, director of plan-ning and community de-velopment for Waxhaw.

The award recognized the municipalities for partnering to maximize the impact of public funds.

“The costs are expen-sive when you are doing it by yourself, and we aren’t all islands, we are all interconnected with each other,” Whalen said.

The elected officials worked together to chose the high, medium and low transportation priorities, and also did public outreach.

Whalen said there were consultants at a booth at the Waxhaw Farmers’ Market, and one at the Marvin Chili Cook-Off to gather opin-ions from citizens on problem traffic areas.

Maher said the infor-mation gathered for the LATRP was necessary.

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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; 704-882-1005

Pastor: 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 service.

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.

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 Baptist

3316 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.

Spirit of Joy Lutheran Church8600 Potter Road, Weddington; 704-821-8494; spiritofjoy.usPastor: Ed ThomasVisitation Pastor: Fran MathesonWednesday: AWANA 6 p.m., worship 7:30 p.m.Sunday: 8:30 a.m. worship ser-vice, 11 a.m. worship service,Sunday School for all ages 9:50 a.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

OTHER CHURCHES IN WESTERN UNION COUNTY:Faith Community Independence701 Howie Mine Road, Waxhaw; 704-843-2085Pastor: Rickey TruesdaleRegular Sunday: Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.

First Presbyterian Church of Waxhaw7700 Waxhaw Highway, Waxhaw; 704-843-4774Pastor: James C. SheltonSunday: 10 a.m. worship, 11:15 a.m. Sunday School

God’s Temple of Zion Internation Fellowship5017 Waxhaw-Marvin Road, WaxhawPastor: Victor D. Thompson

Gospel Way Church7310 Tirzah Church Road, WaxhawPastor: Ben Karecsky

Greater Blessed Hope Baptist3607 Andrew Jackson Drive, Waxhaw, 704-843-2553Pastor: Waymon Jordan Sr.

Greater Grace World Outreach 5017 Waxhaw-Marvin Road, Waxhaw; 704-843-5418Pastors: Charles Carter, Jacqueline Carter

Heath Memorial United Methodist9908 Richardson-King Road, WaxhawPastor: Marilyn Wooten Hermon Baptist9713 Lancaster Highway, Wax-haw; 704-843-4924; contact@hermonbaptist.org; www.hermon-baptist.orgPastor: Donnie GambleSundays: 8:30 a.m., worship; 9:45 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship; 6:30 p.m., worship, youth and children’s activities.Mondays: 6 p.m. Celebrate Weight Loss; 7 p.m., Celebrate Recovery.Wednesdays: 5:30 p.m., Family Night supper (advance reserva-tions required); 7 p.m., Bible study and prayer; 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Awana.Howie BaptistHowie Mine Church Road, WaxhawPastor: Donnie B. CrumpRegular schedule: 10 a.m. Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship.Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. Bible study.

Liberty Hill Missionary Baptist520 Billy Howey Road, WaxhawPastor: Michael Flowers

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

ommunities of aithA LIST OF CHURCHES IN

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Add yours to the list: Call Alan Jenkins at 704-261-2223 or e-mail him at ajenkins@theej.comC F

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

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BY TIFFANY LANEStaff Writer

WEDDINGTONFor the first time in

Union County history, a wheelchair athlete has joined a school sports team. It is the second time for North Carolina.

Lindsey Good, a 10th-grader at Weddington High School, attended her first track meet Wednes-day. It poured down rain.

“I actually finished last, but it was OK because it was raining, ... and the rain made my gloves re-ally slick, so it was hard to gain momentum,” she said.

Good came in under eight minutes for the mile run; her best time is 6:53.

“It was tough goin’ in the rain,” track coach Rick Spencer said. “You could hear her slipping and sliding, the wheels going everywhere.”

It was Good’s determi-nation to do her best any-way that inspires her two dozen teammates.

“People have been re-ally supportive of her,” Spencer said. The fastest girls on the team run a mile in under five and a half minutes, he said, so Good’s average time isn’t bad at all.

If Spencer asks her to run three miles, she runs four, he said.

“I want to be the best that I can be ... and repre-sent my school and people with disabilities,” Good said.

Good has spina bifida and is paralyzed from the knees down; she has used a wheelchair her whole life.

“It’s a bit frustrating when I see that the other people can start faster than me,” she said. At school, weaving through the crowd or carrying textbooks can also be dif-ficult, and she sometimes tires of leaving class early to take the elevator to her next one.

“But that’s about it,”

she said. “It’s all I know.”Good started running

track in sixth grade. She also plays basketball, goes horseback riding and participates in ar-chery through adaptive sports for people with dis-abilities.

For track, she has wheels specially designed with push rims and wears gloves that tighten her grip. She runs between two and six miles a day, lifts free weights and bench-presses to stay in shape.

“She’s been able to ex-cel alongside other dis-abled kids, but I think a lot of times the rest of the world excludes the group of disabled people,” her mother, Mary Good, said.

Her mother was wet and cold after the track meet, but couldn’t be more proud of her daugh-ter and the school for let-ting her compete.

Good doesn’t compete against her teammates, but must meet a sepa-rate standard to qualify for larger high school competitions. To make regionals, she must run a mile in under 11 min-

utes. Wednesday, she had at least three minutes to spare.

Good raced with one of her best friends, Jill Moore, a junior at North-west Cabarrus High and the first wheelchair ath-lete on a regular school sports team in North Car-olina.

Moore came in first place ahead of all the girls, running a mile in just over five minutes. She is training with the U.S. winter paralympic team after winning an es-say contest.

“A lot of people judge people in chairs as be-ing less than normal, and I want to prove them wrong,” Good said. “Peo-ple with disabilities can compete at the same level as people without disabil-ities, just with modifica-tions.”

Graham Tuttle is an 11th-grader on the boys’ track team.

Before Wednesday, “I would’ve thought (a wheelchair) would slow me down, but then Jill was very impressive,” he said.

Tuttle has known Good

for a few years.“I think it’s great that

we can integrate people with disabilities into regular sports and treat them as what they are — regular people,” he said. “It shows that our school is ... willing to give people chances and show what they can do.”

Not all states allow wheelchairs on the school track, Spencer said, but “they should.”

Good hopes to attend the University of Ala-bama at Tuscaloosa and play wheelchair basket-ball for the school.

She might major in psy-chology or recreational therapy.

For years now, her mo-tivation comes first from another coach, U.S. Para-lympic gold medalist and assistant coach Dave Ki-ley.

Kiley oversees the Adaptive Sports and Ad-ventures Program in Charlotte.

Good might have had a slippery start Wednesday, but thinks nothing of it.

“I’m motivated to win and be the fastest person out there.”

‘I want to be the best that I can be’

Photos by Rick Crider

Weddington track team member Lindsey Good, left, and her competitor, Jill Moore, a junior from Northwest Cabarrus, embrace before the starting shot at a recent track meet at Weddington High School.

Wheelchair athlete Lindsey Good joins Weddington High track team; becomes 1st in county history

Lindsey Good lines up against Jill Moore to compete in a track meet recently at Weddington High School. Good, a 10th-grader, became Union County’s first wheelchair athlete to join a school sports team.

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Serdinsky said, don’t move her children now.

Others are willing to back the recommenda-tion if both juniors and seniors are grandfathered in.

Under the current pro-posal, only seniors would be grandfathered in, but grandfathering both ju-niors and seniors would provide at least a little more stability to families, parents said. Since the middle school faces heavi-er overcrowding than the high school, they said, the school board has room to do that.

A few parents said di-viding the Porter Ridge cluster into K-6, 7-8 and 9-12 schools or a similar configuration is a better long-term alternative and would keep their students in neighborhood schools.

Prior to the hearing, William Parker Sr. said he is “at wit’s end” with the school board; it is “ig-noring the wishes of the people who put them in office,” he said.

Parker has a third-, fourth- and seventh-grad-er. The oldest could move to Piedmont.

“They don’t have any solid plan,” said Parker, whose student faced re-districting last year.

Pam Hogue and her hus-band have a rising junior at Porter Ridge who is in-volved in sports and the performing arts. Their older son was grandfa-thered into Sun Valley last year, and they aren’t thrilled about facing another reassignment, Hogue said.

Piedmont is a great school cluster, many said, and some parents gradu-ated from there them-selves, but they are still

opposed to shuffling stu-dents from one school to another year after year.

Porter Ridge High is 110 students overcapacity and will increase to 220 overcapacity by 2015 if nothing is done.

Porter Ridge Middle is 176 students overcapacity and could reach an excess of 281 students if no ac-tion is taken.

If the reassignment is approved, Porter Ridge High would be under ca-pacity over the next three years. It would be over-crowded again by 2013, but by only 48 students by 2015.

Porter Ridge Middle will continue to be over-crowded even with the proposal, but by much less than current enroll-ment rules suggest.

With all the redistrict-ing in Union County, Jan Barley said, families won’t want to move here.

No residency?Barley and other par-

ents are also upset that some Porter Ridge stu-dents might not live in that district in the first place. Some said they have seen buses drop stu-dents off at vacant houses to be picked up from there or notice a large number of South Carolina license plates.

Celeste Horne has never been asked to confirm her residency in all the time her daughter has been in school, she said.

Yet if the latest reas-signment passes, her daughter will have at-tended two elementary and two middle schools, she said.

Carol Whitley would pass Porter Ridge on her way to Piedmont ev-ery morning, she said, and Piedmont is several miles farther than Porter Ridge.

Numerous parents spoke against the reas-signment in the interest of their students’ social lives and leadership posi-tions.

Students already in-volved in clubs, sports and friendships would have to start over, parents said. Those searching for colleges or making other post-high school plans would have to break ties with teachers and coun-selors who could offer guidance and recommen-dations.

Other parents said the core problem doesn’t even lie with Porter Ridge Middle or High; it’s the el-ementary school that has too many schools feeding into it.

Lynn Bryant has a ris-ing sixth- and seventh-grader. They were moved from Shiloh to Porter Ridge Elementary several years ago and adjusted to the traditional calendar schedule from a year-round one.

Since then, her family has helped raise money for Porter Ridge and wants to stay there, she said.

She proposed remov-ing the cap only to save the school system money and avoid reassignment. She also questioned why some neighborhoods far-ther from Piedmont and Sun Valley are targeted for reassignment when others now assigned to Porter Ridge are closer to the schools.

A couple of speakers said they are concerned about their education op-tions.

Susan Driver, a ris-ing junior, wants to take some classes in the fall that Piedmont doesn’t offer, she said, and with Porter Ridge closer to her home, it is easier to fit extracurriculars into

her schedule.Mary-Kate Payne is

an eighth-grader at Por-ter Ridge. Her sister is a fifth-grader who recently toured the school. Mary-Kate Payne is considering enrolling in classes she might never take while her sister is touring a school she might never at-tend, she said.

Wearing a Porter Ridge T-shirt with her gradu-ation year, 2012, on the back, Kaitlin Montgomery said she will be “crushed” if she can’t attend junior prom with her friends. It would be “heart-break-ing” to pass her old school on the way to Piedmont every day, she said.

The Board of Education will discuss the proposal on March 18.

What they’re saying

Here’s what a few attendees had to say about the possible move:

“It’s hard to make new friends and adapt.”- Alisa DeLoreto, Porter Ridge sophomore, band member and softball player

“We never moved, but yet she would have gone to four differ-ent schools” if the reassignment passes.- Celeste Horne, parent

“Emotional stability does have a direct impact on academic performance.”- Carol Whitley, parent

“Let common sense prevail, and please vote ‘no.’”- Barbara Haughey, par-ent

The reassignment is “a misman-agement of taxpayer dollars … while our children pay the price.”- Kelly Payne, parent

PARENTSContinued from Page 10A

Luther ran their cam-paigns largely on eco-nomic development in the town.

“On the surface, it sounds like a great idea,” Allen said.

He did not know the de-tails of the partnership so could not speak at length about it, but said he was happy that a local compa-ny would be showing the properties.

“The value of local scouts is just incredible,” he said. “Who better to pitch us than a local?”

The Old Hickory park has come gotten attention in connection with the proposed Monroe Park-way. Basketball and volley-ball gym Carolina Courts would have to relocate if the parkway takes the currently proposed route. Operators said they would consider another location in Indian Trail, but have not committed to it.

Southard hoped to at-tract a mixture of pros-pects.

“I expect to see a blend of traditional industrial, mixed with office and re-tail,” he said.

He added what he called “destination users” like Carolina Courts as anoth-er option to bring jobs, en-hance the tax base as well as offer activities for area residents.

As for how soon resi-dents can see new tenants or buildings, Southard said as soon as possible.

“The market is showing strong signs of improve-ment,” he said.

Old Hickory is zoned for light industrial and the county has committed wa-ter and sewer capacity to the park.

Merrifield Partners re-cently merged with Bis-sell Patrick. A Merrifield Patrick representative did not return phone mes-sages left Monday and Tuesday.

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Charlotte is one of the first areas where remod-eling will be done, but Red Lobster plans to re-model all of its locations in the coming months.

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This workshop is for anyone with an interest in small scale poultry production for meat, eggs, exhibition, or just as a hobby. The work-shop will focus on poul-try diseases and cover disease recognition and diagnosis, biosecurity, sanitation, and proper posting procedures. The class will conclude with a posting demonstration.

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“We do not make Amer-ica a better country by lowering our standards,” Huckabee said. “We make America stronger as a country by keep-ing God’s standards and challenging this country to look to God’s stan-dards – not to ask him to move the standards to meet the lifestyles we’ve chosen to live.”

Local leaders, includ-ing Indian Trail Mayor John Quinn, Weddington Mayor Nancy Anderson and N.C. Senate candi-date Fern Shubert, gath-ered beforehand to greet Huckabee and welcome him to Union County.

Both Quinn and Anderson gave Hucka-bee tokens from their towns, including mugs, T-shirts and drumsticks.

“I feel like I just went shopping at Kmart,” Huckabee joked.

Weddington High School student Alex Thomas was one of the first to meet the former Arkansas governor.

After the 2008 elec-tion, Thomas wrote Huckabee a letter about Parkinson’s because his grandfather had it, and he wanted to see how Huckabee would support others with the disease. Huckabee wrote back. “He was really nice and sincere,” Thomas said.

Huckabee said he will campaign for Thomas if he decides to run for office someday.

Later, Huckabee poked fun at his own campaign, saying many people had no idea who he was when he ran for the Republican nomination in 2008.

One person, who saw a sticker saying he was running for president, asked “president of what?” He laughs off a recent encounter in which one young woman mistook him for former U.S. Senator Bob Dole.

Life’s purposeHe now leads a Fox

News weekend show and gives the “Huckabee Report” on the Cita-del Media Network.

Ultimately, though, his life’s purpose isn’t about winning office; it’s about glorifying God through sharing the Gospel and Christ-like behavior, he said.

“A corrupt leader can corrupt what he leads,” he said, but a nation’s success or downfall is not based on one person’s politics. The nation’s rise or fall is more a question of morality, he said.

“This country does not rise or fall because of which party is in power or which person is in power. It rises and falls if we will fall on our knees and ask God to heal this land.”

The downfall of a country or any organi-zation, he said, comes when power is given to too few people and people shed personal responsibilities, either to themselves, their chil-dren or their churches.

“It is ultimately up to those who call on God’s name and who believe that this nation was founded because of his providence and can survive with his help but cannot survive without it that will determine whether or not we can survive not another 100 years, but another 10,” he said.

While some people see the world getting only worse, Huckabee said, he puts his faith in a higher power.

“No matter how dark things get, (God’s) light penetrates and overcomes and shat-ters the darkness.”

Indian Trail resi-dents Mike and Judy Conder said they en-joyed his preaching.

The message that stuck out to them the most: “No matter how bad things get, God wins,” Judy Conder said.

The conference con-tinued through Friday. Bob Pitman and Phil Hoskins spoke, as well as Jeff Laborg and Johnny Hunt. Entertain-ment was provided by by Indian Trail gospel group “The Greenes.”

Friday, Junior Hill and Ron Lynch spoke. Hill and Tim Lee re-turned to the stage Friday. Former Muslim Ergun Caner, Jonathan Falwell and “Mike Speck Trio” rounded out Friday evening.

First Baptist Church of Indian Trail is lo-cated at 732 Indian Trail-Fairview Road.

HUCKABEEContinued from Page 1A

“He carries a message of traditional val-ues. … We’re recognized as a family-oriented town, and I think that speaks to what he represents nationally.”

John Quinn, Indian Trail mayor

“I have so much respect for Gov. Huckabee because I believe that the whole foundation of our

society and culture is the family unit. … You can really minimize a lot of the social ills – drug abuse, gang violence, teen-age pregnancy, dropout rate – if you have a strong family unit.”

Nancy Anderson, Weddington mayor

“I hope he talks about how Jesus is important to our lives, but I also hope he inserts some

political stuff as well. He’s the one that got me interested (in politics).”

Alex Thomas, Weddington High School student,

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“The civility of the family structure is es-sential to stu-dent success in school.”

Dean Arp, chairman,

Union County Board of Education

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Photo by Rick Crider

Mike Huckabee focused on conservative issues during his speaking engagement at First Baptist Church of Indian Trail.

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Godfrey, a longtime computer salesman, lost his job last year. A Part D provider covered more of he and his wife’s expen-sive prescriptions more than the advantage plans, he said.Yet he doesn’t de-ter others from checking into it. Some have found an advantage plan to be more beneficial.

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IndIan TraIlSun Valley grabbed the lead

early then lost it, then had to make a comeback in the fifth inning to tie the game at 10, but couldn’t finish it off as they fell to Northside Christian 14-10 Monday.

Liz Keech went 3-4 with a two run shot, three RBIs, and three runs scored, while Brye Rob-erts also went 3-4 with a RBI

and a run.The Spartans (2-3) were

scheduled to play Wednesday at Mt Pleasant. For results, read The Enquirer-Journal.

On Friday, UNC Charlotte signee Rebekah Reaves went 3-for-4 and hit a walk-off two-run homer in the fifth inning to lead the Piedmont High to an 11-0 road win over Sun Valley.

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Piedmont’s Jordan Query hit a three-run shot in the first inning, scoring Courtney Bar-rineau and Eileen McHugh after the Panthers had back-to-back outs with runners in scor-ing position.

After the Spartans (2-2) brought in relief pitcher Kaile Hahn to start the third inning, two Panthers tacked on five

more runs. Query scored on an error by

the third baseman, with the RBI going to Hayley Whitley, who later crossed the plate on a passed ball.

Ashton Pope then drilled a solo shot to right field to put the Panthers up 7-0.

Then, after Taylor Barrineau was walked, Reaves hit her first homer of the game to left cen-ter to give Piedmont a 9-0 ad-vantage.

Panthers starting pitcher Lorna Duncan carried a no-hitter into the fifth inning until Haley Burch recorded the only hit of the game for the Spartans with a single.

Query finished 2-for-3 with 3 RBI and two runs scored, while Pope ended 3-for-3 with the home run.

T. Barrineau got on base twice with walks in two at-bats, with Helms scoring both times for her as the runner.

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Davis commits to Auburn

from staff reports

IndIan TraIlThe Sun Valley High base-

ball team whipped Hickory Ridge 13-1 in six innings this past Saturday.

Sophomore pitcher Ryan Smith picked up the win, giving up five hits and just one earned run in five in-nings of work. He also had three strikeouts and no walks.

Senior Mike Sluja went 3-for-3 with three runs scored and two RBI, while Smith finished 3-for-4 with a two-run homer, a double, three RBI and two runs scored.

Junior Austin Smith add-

ed a three-run home run for Sun Valley, which finished with 10 hits.

“We put the ball in play and (Hickory Ridge) com-mitted six errors on top of that, so we had some oppor-tunities to put some runs on the board,” said Sun Valley coach Rocky Richar. “We didn’t see their best pitching, but we did what we were supposed to do.”

The Spartans improved to 3-2 with the win. They played at Anson County on Tuesday. For results, see The Enquirer-Journal.

Sun Valley returns to ac-tion on Friday, hosting An-son County.

The Southern Carolina

Conference has scheduled back-to-back meetings be-tween the same schools in league play this season.

Mavs win openerThe Marvin Ridge boys

tennis team opened play in the Southern Carolina Con-ference with a 9-0 win over Sun Valley on Monday.

SinglesNo. 1 andrew treske d. Hunter motte 6-0, 6-1No. 2 Joey Hatala def. Brian Jones 6-0, 6-0No. 3 Chris smith d. Josh Newhouse 6-0, 6-0No. 4 Brett Ward def. Nick andronic 6-2, 6-0No. 5 Nick Barnas def. Ben Helms 6-2, 6-0No. 6 David florian def. Jeremy alvin 6-0, 6-0

DoublesNo. 1 treske/Hatala def. motte/Jones 8-1No. 2 Ward/michael ruocco def. Newhouse/

andronic 8-2No. 3 smith/Barnas def. Helms/alvin 8-0

Photo by Ed Cottingham

Piedmont’s Rebekah Reaves (17) had two home runs in a win over Sun Valley last Friday, but she was tagged out at home on this play.

Denied at the plate

Sophomore Smith shines at plate, on mound in 13-1 win

By JERRy SNOWSports Editor

IndIan TraIlLexi Davis continues to

build on her accomplish-ments in softball, and she’s only a high school sopho-more.

Davis has given her com-mitment to play softball on scholarship at Auburn Uni-versity, according to Porter Ridge High softball coach Lael Rorie.

High school athletes are rarely offered scholarships before their senior years,

and can’t sign until then.For Davis to already have

an offer from an SEC school speaks volumes about her talent.

“She’s on a different level,” said Rorie of Da-vis, who was named Union County’s player of the year as a freshman by The En-quirer-Journal. “In terms of hitting and pitching, it’s hard to find a player with Lexi’s talent.”

Davis led Union County in home runs as a freshman with nine, and her ERA of

0.49 was also tops in UC.The Pirates, who are

scheduled to play at Olym-pic today at 4 p.m., are off to a 4-0 start this season.

Davis has pitched every inning. She has thrown two no-hitters and allowed just one earned run.

Rorie said Davis projects as a college pitcher.

“She’s very excited about committing,” Rorie said. “She’s been over there for an unofficial visit and loves it.”

Rorie sees Davis as hav-

ing unusual gifts athleti-cally, combined with the ad-vantage of a 6-foot frame.

But her talent has been developed through an equally unusual commit-ment.

“Lexi’s one of my hardest workers, if not the hard-est,” Rorie said. “She’s in the weight room all year long and she’s gotten stron-ger. She plays travel ball year round.

“She’s always talking to me about softball at school. Lexi’s a coach’s dream.”

Photo by Darcy Duncan

Junior Austin Smith had a three-run home run during his team’s win over Hickory Ridge on Saturday.

Photo by Ed Cottingham

Pirates sophomore Lexi Davis has already taken a scholarship offer from Auburn.

Young Spartans off to 2-3 start in softball, Keech; Roberts coming off 3-for-4 outings

‘She’s on a different level’ coach says of Porter Ridge’s sophomore pitcher

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Monroe wins 1A state titleBY JUSTIN MURDOCKE-J Sports Writer

CHAPEL HILLSaturday’s state championship game

didn’t start out well for the Monroe High boys basketball team, but once the Redhawks got rolling, they never looked back.

Monroe used a stifling defense and a monster game from center Issac Blak-eney to defeat Goldsboro High 62-46 in the Dean E. Smith Center on the campus of UNC Chapel Hill.

The Redhawks end their season with a 32-1 record, including 22 straight wins.

“We lost a game to a good Sun Valley team back in December, and then we regrouped and said we wanted a state title to be our next focus,” said coach Johnny Sowell, who played on Monroe’s last state championship team in 1980. “Since that point, we’ve never looked back. We’ve had some close games, but these guys have played with heart every minute they’ve been out there and I’m so proud of them.”

Blakeney, a 6-foot-6 senior, scored a team-high 24 points and grabbed a game-high 15 rebounds on his way to being named Most Valuable Player.

Junior guard Jamison Crowder added 20 points and seven rebounds for the Redhawks, who also got 10 points from senior guard Quontez Threatt.

“It feels good to be MVP of my last high school game,” said Blakeney. “We left everything we had on the court and played hard, and we got the win.”

Goldsboro jumped out to an early advantage behind the hot shooting of senior guard ReSean Brewington, who scored 16 of his game-high 27 points in the first quarter.

The Cougars had an 18-8 lead late in the first quarter, but after the Redhawks

switched from 2-3 zone defense to a matchup zone, Goldsboro had trouble putting the ball in the basket.

Monroe went on to outscore the Cou-gars 21-4 in the second quarter to grab a nine-point lead at the break.

Brewington, a 6-foot-2, 210-pounder, failed to score in the decisive second quarter.

“We didn’t know a lot about (Brew-ington) other than what we had read on the internet and things like that, so we wanted to come out and try to match up with him in our zone,” said Sowell. “He hurt us early, but once we switched some things up on him, we made it tougher for him to score. I think it actually confused him a little bit because he thought we might have been in man and we were ac-tually in zone.”

Blakeney and Crowder combined to score 16 of Monroe’s 21 second-quarter points, and also helped hold Goldsboro to just 2-of-13 shooting in the frame.

“The second quarter was kind of a mo-mentum-breaker, and that’s a credit to Monroe and how well-coached they are,” said Cougars coach Patrick Reynell. “Those guys were very, very well-con-ditioned and that’s something I should take from coach Sowell. (Blakeney) and (Crowder) are very special players.”

The Redhawks outscored the Cougars 14-10 in the third quarter, when Blak-eney scored 10 points and grabbed five rebounds. He also added a high-flying one-handed putback dunk that sent the crowd in a frenzy.

The Cougars never got closer than 10 the rest of the way. Monroe led by as many as 18 points in the fourth quarter.

Blakeney, who was also MVP of the Western Regional, was elated after his team’s victory on Saturday.

Blakeney is already the two-time de-

fending state champion in the triple jump, but said winning a team champi-onship before the end of his high school career was more important.

“It feels good that I’m able to go cel-ebrate with my teammates after a team win,” said Blakeney. “... I’m going to try and enjoy this as long as I can.”

Photo by Ed Cottingham

Monroe junior guard Jamison Crowder scored 20 points in last Saturday’s title game.

Photo by Rick Crider

Monroe High used six players in Saturday’s state championship game, including (left-to-right) Issac Blakeney, Quay-shawn Chambers, Qwadarius Duboise, Shamiir Hailey, Quontez Threatt and Jamison Crowder. The Redhawks won their last 22 games and became the first Union County team to win a boys basketball state title in 30 years.

Redhawks won all their playoff games by at least 12 pointsBY JERRY SNOWSports Editor

CHAPEL HILLReflecting on the playoff

run, Monroe High’s boys were never seriously challenged in their drive to the 1A bas-ketball state championship.

The Redhawks culminated their brilliant season with a 62-46 win over Goldsboro in the Dean Dome on Saturday.

They won all six of their playoff games by at least 12 points, and by an av-erage of 19.3 points.

Monroe finished 32-1, which is a school record for wins in a single season.

‘Similar teams’Monroe has now won two

state championships in boys basketball in the school’s

49-year history. Head coach Johnny Sowell has had a hand in both. He was a junior on the Redhawks’ 1979-80 that won the 2A state title.

“They’re similar teams,” Sowell said, when asked to compared his 2010 team to the 1980 team at Saturday’s postgame press conference. “These guys are faster than we were. As far as running the offense and knowing where to be defensively, there’s a lot of similarities. It was a family, and these guys right here are a family, too. When you’ve got a family, a family will battle for you until the end. I told them before the game, win or loss, I’m proud of you.”

A better endingSince all 13 players who

dressed out for the game are

also in the football program, Saturday’s win helps heal a wound from football season.

The Redhawks entered the state playoffs 11-0 in football and were convinced they had the fire power to win the title in that sport. But West Montgomery edged Monroe 17-14 in the second round, and what was later established as a missed call by an official took away a touchdown from MHS in the second half.

Sowell said the football team took the playoff loss extremely hard, but then turned the page to basketball.

“Football was in Novem-ber and we’re state champi-ons now,” Sowell said. “We told these kids it’s noboby’s fault but us that we didn’t finish the football season the way we wanted to. We

didn’t get the job done and tonight we got the job done.

“It’s finished.”

Going back 3 decadesSowell said what he remem-

bers most about the 1980 state championship that he won as a player was getting the medal placed around his neck.

Sowell was the starting small forward, and assistant coach David Presson was the starting point guard. Then head coach Luke Col-lins was in the stands this season for all the playoff games — including Saturday.

“It’s a great feeling to have my assistant coach who was my point guard, and my coach in 1980 in the stands,” Sowell said. “That’s an awesome feeling.”

State powerSowell has been with the

basketball program for all four state championship appear-ances. He was an assistant coach when the Redhawks lost the state title game in 1992, and took the team back there the next season in his first year as head coach.

He’s now 2-for-4 in state title games.

“We’ve always been on the map,” said Sowell, referring to the state level in basketball. “We just got swept under the table a little bit. This can get us back on the map. We’ve been here four times now (as a school) and we’ve won it twice.”

Monroe will return three of its top six players next season.

“Hopefully this will give the younger guys confidence to get back here next year,” he said.

Spartans wereonly team toblemish record

Monroe High’s vic-tory in the Dean Dome last Saturday capped a 32-1 season.

The Redhawks’ only loss of the season was on Dec. 30, when Sun Val-ley edged Monroe 60-58.

Monroe was 10-0 at the time, and put to-gether a 22-game winning streak after the loss to SV in the champion-ship game of the CMC-Union Holiday Classic.

Sophomore guard Shaun Stewart had 19 points in the title game, leading four Spartans in double-digits.

Stewart was voted MVP of the tournament.

BY BIll MARxE-J Correspondent

CHAPEL HILLAt 4:06 p.m. Saturday, Warren

Threatt got the North Carolina high school basketball champi-onship that had eluded him in 1993 when Monroe High lost to Farmville Central 67-53 in the 2-A final.

Threatt wasn’t on the court at Dean Smith Center on the Uni-versity of North Carolina cam-pus as he was 17 years ago. But Quontez, his son and a starter for the Redhawks, was.

And when the horn sounded and Monroe had a 62-46 victory over Goldsboro in the Class A championship game, Warren Threatt knew he had a little housecleaning to do once the celebration died down and his family returned home.

“This is the title I didn’t win,” Threatt said. “I just told every-body before I came out of the gym I can put all my stuff away now. We got new stuff to put out.”

Threatt provided a lot of sup-port to his son — before and dur-ing the game.

“He told me when we won the game to play in the state champi-onship, ‘Now, I went, and I know what it feels like to lose. I don’t want you to feel that feeling I lost walking off the court with your head down,’ ” Quontez said. “He encouraged me to make sure we come away with the win. And make sure the team is focused and does whatever it takes to get the win.”

The game didn’t start well for Monroe. When coach Johnny Sowell called the team’s first timeout, the Redhawks trailed

13-6 in the first quarter. Even with dad in the stands

and son on the court, their thoughts were never far from each other.

“I looked up there in the stands a couple of times,” Quon-tez said. “Every time I looked up there it was like, ‘C’mon, c’mon.’ I don’t want to experience what he did.”

Goldsboro stretched the lead to 18-8, but the Redhawks went on a tear and led 31-22 at half-time, their final points coming on a layup by Threatt with 3 sec-onds left.

Threatt finished with 10 points, and along with team-mates Issac Blakeney and Ja-mison Crowder, played all 32 minutes.

And when the game ended just past 4 p.m., the Threatt family fi-nally had their state champion.

Threatt family finally gets elusive ring

Photo by Ed Cottingham

Quontez Threatt

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