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By LARRY DALEDaily Courier Staff Writer

RUTHERFORDTON — Cyberstalking is a charge that is beginning to show up more frequently on the Rutherford County Jail daily log.

The charge reflects rapidly changing methods of com-munication.

“It’s like harassing phone calls, only done electroni-cally,” pointed out Detective Sgt. Leon Godlock of the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office on Friday. “Phone is voice,” he said, “electronic is words.”

The harassment could be coming from someone sending repeated unwanted text messages, he said, and

Please see Problem, Page 8A

By LARRY DALEDaily Courier Staff Writer

RUTHERFORDTON — Michael Hunter, owner of the former Rowdy Rib restaurant, has filed a lawsuit against a Rutherfordton company and two of its managing members over the demise of the restau-rant.

Hunter is suing Acadia NorthStar, LLC, with offices in Rutherford and Wake coun-ties, and David M. Faunce and Thomas E. Williams Jr., two principals in Acadia NorthStar. Hunter is seeking unspecified damages in excess of $10,000 per count, on five counts, plus interest.

Hunter’s lawsuit, filed at the Rutherford County Courthouse on March 1 of this year, seeks to recover dam-ages on: breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, tor-tious interference with con-tract, tortious interference with business relationship and unfair and deceptive trade practices.

Faunce, speaking with a Daily Courier reporter Friday afternoon, said, “We have not answered the lawsuit yet. We have a number of coun-terclaims that we intend to assert—not something that we would have done had this not come about, just because we felt it ended with everyone in agreement over where it was going to end and apparently that’s not the case. We intend to defend ourselves, defend our reputation, maintain that reputation. We’ll prevail in the end, I’m confident.”

In July 2006 Hunter bought

Please see Suit, Page 8A

Cyberstalking a real problem

Jean Gordon/Daily CourierChecking the fresh basked biscuits, Annette Street said she’ll put her pan of biscuits beside anyone.

By JEAN GORDONDaily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — Annette Street had never made a biscuit in his life when she got a job as biscuit maker at McDonald’s six years ago.

But since then she’s been known as the South Broadway restaurant’s biscuit queen and competed in a biscuit mak-ing contest in Asheville Tuesday. Street didn’t win, but she said she had a great time.

“When I gave my pan of biscuit to the judges I told them, ‘now this is what a biscuit is supposed to look like’,” she said from her counter at McDonald’s where she was making biscuits Wednesday morning.

“I had a good time,” she said.

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FOREST CITY — Residents of Gypsy Street and prospective new homeowners are invited to a public meeting Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. to discuss a neighborhood revitalization process and owning a new home.

The meeting will be at New Bethel AME Zion Church, Forest City, and all interested persons.

The town of Forest City is working with the Grahamtown neighborhood associa-tion to revitalize Gypsy Street with funds from a Community Development Block Grant.

Four new homes will be built on the street and existing homes will be reno-vated. The street will be repaved and a sidewalk will also be constructed.

The homes will be energy efficient and will be available to homeowner at afford-able prices.

The meeting, hosted by the Rutherford County Housing Initiative, will a time to receive information on what is necessary to qualify for one of the homes, such as income levels, and what kind of credit rating is needed to qualify for a home loan.

Anyone interested can sign up at the meeting Tuesday to work with Rutherford County Initiative on the ability to qualify

Please see Meeting, Page 3A

Revitalization meeting set for Tuesday

Scary new world

Biscuit maker takes pride in doing her job

Lawsuit filed over eatery’s demise

Photo illustration/Garrett Byers/Daily Courier

The harassment could be coming from some-one sending repeated unwanted text mes-sages, he said, and maybe adding threats. Cyberstalking could take place on Facebook or MySpace or any World Wide Web site.

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CHIMNEY ROCK — Chimney Rock at Chimney Rock State Park will celebrate the grand opening of its Birdhouse exhibit space on Saturday, March 27 at 12:30 p.m.

The Birdhouse features interpretive signage and exhibits designed to educate guests on the variety of birds that occur in Chimney Rock.

Organized by season, the exhibit includes edu-cational information and images of some of the Park’s more common birds, like the dozens of war-blers and vireos, as well as birds less commonly seen such as Swainson’s Warblers and Peregrine Falcons.

“We’ve seen the interest in birding at Chimney Rock grow significantly in recent years and we wanted to give our guests a better opportunity to learn more about the birds that live in or migrate through the Park,” said Meghan Rogers, public relations and events manager.

Chimney Rock is an official site on the NC Birding Trail and offers birding walks and pro-grams throughout the year with Ornithologist Simon Thompson.

The Park will host its 2nd Annual Flock to the Rock on Sept. 25 and 26, featuring birding work-shops, guided walks and other programs at no additional cost with Park admission.

Chimney Rock is located 25 miles southeast of Asheville in Hickory Nut Gorge on Highway 64/74-A.

The Park is the focal point of the developing Chimney Rock State Park.

Admission for 2010 is $14 for adults and $6 for youth ages six through 15. Children under six are admitted free.

For a full list of events and activities, visit www.chimneyrockpark.com or call 800-277-9611.

Contributed photoThe new Birdhouse exhibit will open in Chimney Rock Park next Saturday.

Birdhouse will open at Chimney Rock Saturday

Contributed photoArtist Clive Haynes inside The Birdhouse in Chimney Rock State Park.

Waste Center HoursHours at all Solid Waste convenient centers

across the county are Monday-Friday, 6 a.m. until 7 p.m. Saturday hours are 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Sunday. The Daily Courier apologizes for the error in the Saturday hours reported this week.

Strip Club to become a new college campus

WILMINGTON (AP) — Officials in a North Carolina coastal town hope a former strip club can find new life as a branch campus of a community college.

Brunswick Community College president Steve Greiner told the StarNews of Wilmington for a story Saturday that Close Encounters in Calabash was bought for $1 million from its South Carolina owners.

Greiner said the 15,000-square-foot building will be renovated for continuing education classrooms and should open this year.

Greiner said he was con-tacted by club owners Phoenix Entertainment Group of South Carolina about the building being available.

Students collect food in world record try

DURHAM (AP) — Students at the North Carolina School of

Science and Math are trying to break the record for most food collected in a 24-hour period.

Students plan to collect non-perishable items until 10 p.m. Saturday.

The food collected will go to the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina. That organization distributed more than 36 million pounds of food to food pantries, shelters, soup kitchens and group homes in the 2008-09 fiscal year.

The News & Observer of Raleigh reports the students have to collect more than 509,147 pounds of food to break the record collected in a day at a single location.

Residents donating dollars to help library

CHARLOTTE (AP) — Residents in North Carolina’s largest city are donating what they can to try to shore up a $2 million shortfall in their local library’s budget.

The Charlotte Observer reported Saturday that half the Mecklenburg County library

branches will close and 148 staffers laid off next month if the money to keep them operating cannot be raised.

The library’s board approved the cuts Thursday at noon. By Friday afternoon, $35,000 had been donated through the library Web site and hundreds more dropped off in donation boxes at all 24 branches.

Library director of develop-ment Dick Pahle says the sup-port is great, but a big donor needs to step forward or the cuts will continue as planned.

Bentonville battle re-enactment set

FOUR OAKS (AP) — The Bentonville Battlefield is mark-ing its 145th anniversary with a re-enactment of the only full-scale offensive to stop Union Gen. William T. Sherman’s march north from Georgia.

The re-enactments will be held at 3 p.m. on Saturday and 1:30 p.m. on Sunday at the battle-field, located in Four Oaks. They are the only anniversary events that require tickets.

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Contributed photoA tranquil scene from the Girl Scout Campat Golden Valley. Camp officials say that if registrations do not increase, the camp may not be in operation this summer.


GOLDEN VALLEY — Imagine no Girl Scout Camp at Camp Golden Valley this summer. It could happen, Girl Scout officials said Friday morn-ing from scout offices in Gastonia and Hickory.

Unless there is a significant increase in pre-registration for sum-mer camp and $50 deposit for each scouter registering, there will be no summer camp in 2010.

Camp Golden Valley, a 600-acre resident camp in Bostic, has hosted Girl Scouts from the Pioneer Council and across the nation for more than 35 years. But the state of the econo-my has also taken its toll on the girl scouting program.

“Our council is struggling finan-cially and we will be unable to oper-ate Camp Golden Valley this sum-mer, unless we have enough campers registered to keep our finances to at least break even for the program,” said Susan G. Ratcliff Interim CEO.

“At this point, we need your help,” Ratcliff in a letter sent to Girl Scout parents and leaders, across the coun-cil region.

“Camp Golden Valley has histori-cally had the least amount of camp-ers register for summer camp of the four resident camps and has been running at a financial deficit for a few summers,” she said.

“The numbers have not been sig-nificant and the numbers (of camp-ers) we have not been able to even break even with the amount of money to pay camp staff,” added Lisa Crawford, director of marketing and communications at the Hickory Service Center for the scout council.

Crawford said when council hires its summer or seasonal staff, primar-ily college students, the camp staff has to be hired in April. “We are competitive with others who hire seasonal help and the decision about camp has to be made by early April,” Crawford said.

Council officials are asking any

scout or non-scout considering attending Golden Valley this summer to secure a spot with a $50 deposit. “We will need to make a decision about whether or not we are operat-ing Camp Golden Valley this sum-mer” said Ratcliff.

Crawford said by making the deci-

sion, does not mean it is going to sell or close Camp Golden Valley.

“The camp will not be lost but there will not be a program this summer,” Crawford said.

Scouts in Rutherford County can go to summer camp at the three other Girl Scout properties in Lenoir, Greensboro or Asheville.

Crawford also explained even if the camp is not operational for summer camp program, it will be available all summer for troop camping and activ-ities to the camp’s membership.

Also if a particular troop wants to go to Golden Valley for a camporee or to camp, they will have an oppor-tunity to do so, but there will be no camp staff. Volunteers who would accompany the scouts, will have to be trained and certified for the camp, including lifesaving skills and water safety skills.

Troops could do basic camping and hiking events without the paid certi-fied staff.

Crawford said the camp is always open to non-scouts and scouts to attend during the summer.

“Just because they didn’t participate in a troop, they can still participate,” Crawford said.

The “Troop Core Camp” and “She and Me” programs already scheduled are expected to be held, Ratcliff said.

“This difficult decision is being made because we are not in a place that we can run any program at a financial deficit to the council,” Ratcliff added.

There needs to be at least 450 to 500 girls registering for summer camp by the first of April in order to provide the summer camp program there.

The Council, formerly Pioneer Council, merged with other coun-cils last year to become Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont Council.

Faced with many obstacles and difficult decisions, the council is con-tinuing to find a place of financial stability and is evaluating the pro-grams that we have already sched-uled for this summer.

To register online and view the brochure, please visit www.girlscout-sp2p.org.

Contact Gordon via e-mail at [email protected].

within the next 12 months.Funds are also available for a por-

tion of the down payment. There are different house plans avail-able.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for low to moderate income folks to own a brand new home in an improving, revitalized neighbhor-hood,” said Scott Carpenter, executive director Rutherford County Housing Initiative.

“I hope people will come to our meeting with an open mind, and consider the possibilities.”

The Town of Forest City received a $1.4 million Community Development Block Grant last April to begin revitalization of the Grahamtown Community, start-ing with housing projects on Gypsy Street.

The 30-month project funding

comes from the Department of Housing and Urban Development through the N.C. Department of Commerce/Division of Community Assistance.

The town of Forest City has also allocated $100,000 over the 30-month period.

According to the grant, 30 percent of the funds will be spent on hous-ing rehabilitation, 25 percent on new construction and first-time home-owner assistance, and 38 percent will be on infrastructure improvements. Also 7 percent will be for planning, building oversight and administra-tion.

Gypsy Street has 32 parcels, 17 houses, 12 occupied houses and 15 vacant parcels.

All interested persons are invited to the meeting Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at New Bethel AME Zion Church, Forest City.


One co-worker said when Street learned the bake off was going to be televised, “she got really nervous.”

Street, 49, went to McDonald’s from Needmore where she was cooked and before that worked at PPG.

She’s found her niche for this time in her life, though, and shows up for work each day at 4 a.m. and starts making biscuits from scratch.

By scratch, she explains, she used McDonald’s special biscuit ingredi-ents but mixing them by hand. “I do not use a mixer,” she said. “They are made by hand,” she said.

On any given Saturday she’ll make as many as 500 biscuits.

“It can be stressful though,” she continued. “You don’t want to run out of biscuits.”

Street works five days a week and always on weekends.

On the days she’s not at McDonald’s, she and her family open a bag of frozen biscuits.

“I can’t make another biscuit,” she quipped.

Although Street didn’t win, she enjoyed the experience.

In 2007, she was named the area’s

biscuit winner for McDonald’s and received about $300 in gift cards.

“And I didn’t have to use them all at McDonald’s,” she said.

She said she learned to make bis-cuits with a trainer at the Gaffney, S.C. store.

“One of the ladies who trained me was a judge in 2007,” she said. “It’s exciting, but nerve racking. I really don’t like all the attention.”

Monday’s bakeoff was at McDonald’s restaurant in Asheville. Competing with Street were Diane Jervis, Tracy Meyrili and Annette Rogers of McDonald’s in Asheville; Maria Garduza of McDonald’s in Hendersonville; and Tina Hoyle of McDonald’s in Spruce Pine, and Street.

Celebrity judges included Grove Park Inn Executive Chef Denny Trantham, WLOS TV personality John Le and 880 AM on-air radio host Blake Butler.

Other regional contests are next week in Spartanburg, S.C. and in Anderson. The regional bakeoff will be April 8 also in Spartanburg. Winners from all three local contests will compete.


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601 Oak Street, P.O. Box 1149,Forest City, N.C. 28043Phone: 245-6431 Fax: 248-2790E-mail: [email protected]

All the signs are pointing to pas-sage this weekend of a health care reform bill that has created

tremendous controversy for months now.

But do not expect this to be the end of the matter.

You can bet that this health care bill — no matter what its fate in the vote expected today — will be a major issue in the upcoming political campaigns.

This has been a bitter process and even now, after all these months of debate and discussion, the impact of the current bill remains at best guess-work. You can listen to 10 different peo-ple and get 10 different interpretations.

There are certainly some portions of the bill that are good. There are prob-ably others that are not so good. There even may be a few that are simply bad.

If the bill passes, we have to hope that as the various elements emerge, those in the latter two categories will be quickly addressed.

If the bill fails, we have another task. We have to remind the people in Washington that the problems in health care remain and that they are still expected to deal with them. One can imagine why they might not want to do that.

After putting in months on a fight of the intensity we have seen on health care reform, it would be easy for every-one to put it on a shelf and forget about it.

The passage or failure of this health care bill should not be the end. There remains work to do to fix and improve what we get from the bill that is passed or to go back to work and develop a new bill or bills that will give the American people what they need.

Our ViewsVote will not be end of health debate

RALEIGH — In 1898, Congress adopted a one penny tax on long-distance telephone calls to help pay for the Spanish-American War.

As amazing as it seems, politi-cians and the America people once believed in pay-as-you-go wars, as opposed to borrow-as-you-go wars.

The tax was adopted as a tem-porary measure. Sure enough, it turned out to be temporary. After expiring and then being revived at higher rates during World War I and later the Great Depression, the tax finally came off the books for good in 2006.

Even then, Congress didn’t do the deed. After several lawsuits, the Treasury Department agreed to stop collecting the tax.

North Carolina has its own version of the Spanish-American War phone tax. It’s a little-pub-licized, 60-cent 911 charge that shows up your local telephone bill.

Two decades after the charge was put in place, state legisla-tors seem to have forgotten that it was intended to pay for a one-time expense — upgrading 911 emergency calling technol-ogy and mapping so that police and emergency responders could match calls to locations.

You may have noticed that your local 911 system can now do

those things. But a “temporary” tax, espe-

cially one buried in a phone bill, is a terrible thing to waste.

These days, a state House study committee is debating whether to allow local governments to spend the money on more things, including furnishing 911 centers and training dispatchers. Local governments also want legisla-tors to expand the types of com-munication equipment that can be bought.

County and municipal gov-ernment officials argue that fee should pay for all parts of 911 calling, down to the radios that police carry.

But since the charges was put in place, legislators have limited how the money can be spent. The law was adopted with the idea that any expenses that predated the advanced 911 system — be it police car radios or dispatcher salaries — shouldn’t be paid for with the tax.

Just one problem, as local government officials see it: The

spending restrictions mean that tax collections are accumulat-ing faster than the money can be spent.

Across the state, reserves total-ing $92 million have built up. Charlotte-Mecklenburg has $5.6 million in the kitty. Cumberland County, Buncombe County, Catawba County, Wayne County and Raleigh each have reserves greater than $2 million. For sev-eral counties and municipalities, the annual take from the tax is more than twice what they can spend.

Three years ago, legislators did protect consumers a bit. They gave a state board more oversight of the 911 fees and set a flat rate of 70 cents per month per phone line, a fee that the board dropped to 60 cents last summer.

Before 2007, local govern-ments set their own rates. Some were $2 or more a month, fees set with the idea that the legislature might eventually swing open the door to allow more uses.

Three years later, legislators seem intent on finally giving them that opening.

If so, North Carolinians can probably wait another century for it to close again.

Mooneyham is executive director of the Capitol Press Association.

The spiritually whole do not need a physicianMatthew 9 records words

from Christ that can be great consolation to the sinner and the saint.

In response to the question to Jesus, “why do you eat with sinners” he replies that the “whole need not a physi-cian, but they that are sick.” He further states, “Go and learn what that means; I will have mercy and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance.”

In many years of pastoral ministry, I have heard vari-ous reasons why souls are reluctant to come to God to find forgiveness and be a part of the family of Christ.

Some will not come to church because they com-plain that the church is filled with hypocrites. They may well have a point, but just because there are people who have proclaimed to be a doctor and are imposters that doesn’t mean that if they become sick, they will not seek out a legitimate one.

One of the criticisms against the Lord was His willingness to not only be around sinners but actually share a meal with them.

How could a righteous God “dirty” His holy hands with sinners? There is something to be said about a sanctified life and many Scriptures

tell us to maintain a certain separation with the world. We are not to be influenced by the world but the church is to influence the world.

Sin is likened unto sick-ness. You will recall that part of the curse is “you will surely die.”

This phrase is, in the natu-ral, a consequence of a fatal disease. A terminal disease will cause one to die. Sin is also an incurable disease and will cause one to experience the death of their relation-ship with God.

Leprosy as seen on the Old Testament is a picture or symbol of sin. Leper colo-nies isolated stricken ones from the rest of the covenant community and made one afflicted with this disease unable to come to the taber-nacle to worship. They were outcasts and defiled.

Aside from complaints that the church has many hypo-crites, many will resist com-ing to God and to fellowship with His people because they feel unworthy. This is what

I want to primarily address here.

Returning to our initial thought, Christ tells us that the spiritually well are not sick with sin. The Pharisees stood in judgment of Christ and those who he sought to save. They judged Christ as defiled simply because he came to the defiled.

Too many believe that they have to ‘get it right” with God before they come to God.

Some will say they are too sinful, they don’t live right or they are not really fit to go to church. Actually, the truth is, a rank and awful sinner is the prime target of God’s love. The Word says that “while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

Hypocrisy can have this form too. One may declare to be a Christian and show all of the marks of one who is spiritually sick. In other words, we should not pro-claim to be a child of God yet have no fruit that would con-firm or bear that out. Good works will follow true faith.

Works cannot save us of course, but when one’s spirit has been born again by incorruptible seed, a new nature is given. Born again means new fruit will be brought forth. So it is decep-tively wrong to profess that

you are whole and for your life to show that you do not possess wholeness.

Your doctor will give medi-cine to cure the sickness not just the symptoms alone.

When God became man and walked among men, He had the harshest words for the self-righteous.

In one instance, Jesus compared the attitudes of two men who came to the temple to pray, “The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week; I give tithes of all that I possess. And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalts himself shall be abased; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.”

Can you imagine going to your doctor with a serious sickness and your doctor say-ing to you, “How dare you come to me like this? Do you not know that I am a doc-tor with a medical degree, spending many years in school and studying medi-

cine! I am an important per-son and how dare you defile my office and credentials by coming to me in that condi-tion seeing I am a person of importance!”

How silly this seems. But is this not what many think of God, that He is too high and lofty and we too lowly to come to Him? Our family doctor is always caring.. He never seems bothered that we come to him when we are ill.

So it is with our Lord. He will never turn us away. Are you sick with sin and bur-dened down? Are you tiring and struggling under the heavy, harsh and cruel yoke of sin? Are you sick in soul and spirit, filled with doubt, fear and hurt? Then you my friend are a perfect one for God.

Last Sunday, we sang one of my favorite hymns “Leave It There.” It says, “If you’ll trust and never doubt, He will surely bring you out, take your burden to the Lord and leave it there.” That sums it up my friend. Turn to the Lord with your sinful mess. He loves you and will never turn you away.

Rev. Lankford is pastor of St. Luke’s Church. He can be reached at 286-8078 or [email protected].

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Sheriff’s Reportsn The Rutherford County Sheriff’s

Department responded to 160 E-911 calls Friday.

Rutherfordtonn The Rutherfordton Police

Department responded to 43 E-911 calls Friday.

Spindalen The Spindale Police Department

responded to 28 E-911 calls Friday.

Lake Luren Lake Lure Police Department

responded to six E-911 calls Friday.

Forest Cityn The Forest City Police Department

responded to 84 E-911 calls Friday.

Arrests n Ryan Kristopher Jones of 107

Vairview Street was charged with trans-porting non tax paid alcohol. (RCSD)

n Anna Slaughter Barnett, 35, of 1003

Rock Corner Road, Rutherfordton, was charged with simple possession Schedule II controlled substance; released on a $1,000 unsecured bond. (RCSD)

n Angela Darlene Jefferson, 20, of 141 Maryland Drive, Spindale, was charged with resisting a public officer, injury to personal property and possession of a controlled substance in prison/jail premises; remains in jail under a $17,000 bond. (RCSD)

n Gregory Stephen Garner, 19, of 193 Hamilton Road, Rutherfordton, was charged with local ordinance consume beer/wine underage, no operator’s license, and four counts of injury to person property; released on unsecured bond. (RCSD)

n Carl Monroe Hutchins, 75, of 105 Maple Street, Rutherfordton, charged with driving while impaired; released under a $500 bond. (SPD)

n Kimberly Michelle Bradley, 24, of 952 Burt Blackwell Road, was charged with driving while impaired and pos-session open container, consuming alco-hol in the passenger area; released on a

$500 unsecured bond. (NCHP)n Billy Spurgeon Butler, 37, of 226

Church Street, charged with driving while impaired; released on a $500 bond. (NCHP)

n Daniel Antonio Reyes, 16, 106 Sunset Drive, charged with injury to personal property; released from cus-tody. (RCSD)

EMSn Rutherford County Emergency

Medical Services responded to 24 E-911 calls and rescue crews responded to nine calls.

Fire Callsn Rutherfordton Fire Department was

dispatched to a motor vehicle accident and a dumpster fire.

n Chimney Rock was dispatched to a brush fire.

n Sandy Mush firefighters were dis-patched to a brush fire and a woods fire.

n SDO responded to a industrial fire alarm.

PET OF THE WEEK

This sweet dog is a 5-month old male Norfolk Terrier / Mix look-ing to find a good home. This and many other lov-ing animals are available for adoption at the Rutherford County Animal Shelter on Laurel Hill Drive in Rutherfordton. The shelter’s hours are noon to 4 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. For more information call 287-6025. For the Community Pet Center volun-teers office call 287-7738.

Garrett Byers/ Daily Courier

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s Medicaid office has created a list of drugs it wants physicians to pre-scribe as a way to discourage more expensive or less effec-tive medications while sav-ing tens of millions of dollars annually.

The state Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday the start of a preferred drug list simi-lar to those used by private insurers and Medicaid in most other states. Officials say more than $90 million in federal and state money could be saved with the change.

Doctors for the state’s nearly two million Medicaid patients will be urged to prescribe drugs on the list — usually generic and lower-cost brand names that have been proven effective. A phy-sician must get prior approv-al from Medicaid for all other drugs, with exemptions for those to treat HIV and AIDS and certain medications for children.

The idea is doctors will be discouraged from choosing drugs that are more expen-sive but don’t provide any better treatment than drugs on the list. North Carolina also recently joined a multi-state Medicaid consortium designed to leverage drug rebates and discounts from pharmaceutical companies.

The Legislature last year directed the department to carry out a preferred drug list if it was determined more voluntary initiatives didn’t generate $25 million in sav-ings to the state. The savings didn’t materialize, depart-ment spokesman Brad Deen said.

The effort comes as the state Medicaid office is on track to be spend $250 mil-lion more than the more than $2 billion budgeted this fiscal year due in part to higher than expected enroll-ment and the inability to get the federal government to approve quickly other cost-saving initiatives.

“The department is com-mitted to providing effective treatment options for the citi-

zens of North Carolina who rely on Medicaid for their health care, yet we must also be careful stewards of our increasingly scant resources,” department Secretary Lanier Cansler said in a statement.

A preferred drug list has bounced around the Legislature for years. Then-Gov. Mike Easley’s adminis-tration proposed the idea in 2002 but it never happened. Lobbyists for the pharma-ceutical industry at the time argued that such a plan could prevent doctors from pre-scribing what they believed were the best drugs for their patients or could raise medi-cal costs elsewhere.

The idea gained traction again last year as state rev-enues fell nearly 11 percent during the 2008-09 fiscal year and they had to fill a budget gap for this year that Democrats calculated at more than $4 billion.

“It’s way to improve health care while at the same time saving the state and tax-payers money,” said Adam Searing, which advocates on health care issues for the lib-eral-leaning North Carolina Justice Center.

Medications covered by the state’s Medicaid program are on the current list, but some will be removed over time if a physician’s advisory panel recommends alternative drugs are safe and effective, the department said.

Medications for the men-tally ill also remain on the list, although some may be removed after a working group that includes out-side mental health workers attempts to work out con-cerns, Deen said.

These medications are among the most expensive and physicians often work with a series of drugs with patients to find the right combination or dose.

“We are concerned that rather than basing the pre-ferred drug list on the most effective medicine, it would be based on cost,” said Jennifer Mahan with the Mental Health Association in North Carolina.

Police: Man killed girlfriend JEFFERSON (AP) — Police say a North

Carolina woman was killed by her boyfriend who then killed himself.

Ashe County Sheriff James Williams told the Winston-Salem Journal that the bodies of 48-year-old Sherry Ashley and 51-year-old Richard Creal Hailey were found beneath a tree Thursday afternoon outside a house in the town of Jefferson.

Williams said the couple had been together a few years and were planning to get mar-ried. Williams said Hailey had been treated for mental health problems was taking medi-cation for bipolar disorder.

The couple had been living in the basement of the house owned by friends who were not there at the time of the shootings.

Autopsy results showed that Ashley was shot twice with the rifle Hailey used to shoot himself in the head.

2 found dead in duplex fireCHAPEL HILL (AP) — Two people have

been found dead after a fire at a North Carolina duplex.

Chapel Hill fire and police officers are

investigating the cause of Friday night’s blaze. Investigators did not immediately release the names of the victims and a cause of death has not been determined.

Property owner John McPhaul told WRAL-TV in Raleigh that he had rented both units of the duplex to a retired married couple in their 60s.

McPhaul said the wife told him they slept in separate units because of the husband’s snor-ing. McPhaul said the couple moved to the area about 18 months ago.

Fugitive captured in CharlotteSCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A man accused

of spraying lighter fluid near a teller during a bank robbery in the Poconos has been cap-tured in North Carolina.

Fifty-four-year-old Gregory Edward Wagner was arrested without incident Friday by U.S. marshals at a McDonald’s restaurant in Charlotte.

He had been wanted since Dec. 30, 2008, for allegedly robbing a bank in Tobyhanna Township, Monroe County. Police say Wagner sprayed lighter fluid near the bank teller and threatened to ignite it unless she filled a bag with money.

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MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Police say they have arrested a couple accused of robbing three banks in southwest Alabama.

The Press-Register reports Saturday that Jerry Hover Tinsley, of Rutherfordton, N.C., and Rhianna Marie Jones, of California, are sus-pected of robbing banks in

Flomaton, Florala and East Brewton.

Police in those cities say a couple would walk into a bank, present a handwrit-ten note to a teller demand-ing specific denominations of money, and then leave. No weapons were used.

Investigators spotted the couple, both 30, leaving a

Motel 6 in Destin, Fla., on Thursday. They were arrest-ed after a short high-speed chase that ended after the suspects drove down a dead-end street.

Tinsley and Jones were being held at the Okaloosa County Jail on Saturday and it was not immediately known if they had lawyers.

County man suspect in robberies

N.C. Medicaid starts preferred drug list program

SHAWBORO (AP) — Authorities say they found bomb-making materials, plants that could be made into poisons and flight train-ing papers at a home in east-ern North Carolina.

Multiple media outlets reported Currituck County deputies called the FBI to investigate after arresting two brothers in a home they rented near Shawboro.

The brothers’ landlord called police after noticing the men were growing plants in the attic of their home.

Deputies say 34-year-old Daniel Robinson II is charged with possession of weapons of mass destruction and poisonous plants that could be used for bomb mak-ing. No federal charges have been filed.

Robinson and his broth-er, 32-year-old Timothy Robinson, are both charged with possession and manu-facture of marijuana.

It wasn’t immediately clear if either brother had an attorney.

Brothers face bomb charges

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maybe adding threats. Cyberstalking could take place on Facebook or MySpace or any World Wide Web site, Godlock noted.

North Carolina law says it is unlaw-ful for a person to:n Use in electronic mail or elec-

tronic communication any words or language threatening to inflict bodily harm to any person or to that person’s child, sibling, spouse, or dependent, or physical injury to the property of any person, or for the purpose of extorting money or other things of value from any person.n Electronically mail or electroni-

cally communicate to another repeat-edly, whether or not conversation ensues, for the purpose of abusing, annoying, threatening, terrifying, harassing, or embarrassing any per-son.n Electronically mail or electroni-

cally communicate to another and to knowingly make any false state-ment concerning death, injury, illness, disfigurement, indecent conduct, or criminal conduct of the person elec-tronically mailed or of any member of the person’s family or household with the intent to abuse, annoy, threaten, terrify, harass, or embarrass.n Knowingly permit an electronic

communication device under the per-son’s control to be used for any pur-pose prohibited by this section.

Godlock said in most cases cyber-stalking occurs between people who know each other.

He said, for example, it may be a guy with two girlfriends, and the women text each other. Or it might be a couple that has broken up, and one former partner keeps messaging the other.

The officer said telling the person once to stop the harassing should be enough to get the message across that the behavior is unwanted.

Because cyberstalking is a mis-demeanor charge, it goes to a mag-istrate, Godlock said, although he added that he may refer people to a magistrate.

“Sometimes it goes into mediation, since it is usually people who know each other and maybe once liked each other,” he said.

Another “cyber” problem among young people is cyberbullying, Godlock said.

The North Carolina General Assembly passed a cyberbullying law in 2009. Cyberbullying is an Internet version of the age-old problem of physical and psychological bullying that takes place on school grounds.

The word cyberbullying came into national prominence when the 2006 suicide death of Missouri teenager Megan Taylor Meier was attributed to

cyberbullying through the social net-working Web site MySpace.

Godlock also noted that the state’s law on solicitation of a child by com-puter has been updated to reflect changing technology.

General Statue 14-202.3 now states, “A person is guilty of solicitation of a child by a computer if the person is16 years of age or older and the person knowingly, with the intent to commit an unlawful sex act, entices, advises, coerces, orders, or com-mands, by means of a computer or any other device capable of electronic data storage or transmission, a child who is less than 16 years of age and at least five years younger than the defendant, or a person the defendant believes to be a child who is less than 16 years of age and who the defen-dant believes to be at least five years younger than the defendant, to meet with the defendant or any other per-son for the purpose of committing an unlawful sex act.”

The revised wording reflects use text messaging on a Blackberry to solicit a child, for example, Godlock said.

Godlock offered a general warn-ing when it comes to “cyber” issues: “Watch out about giving out personal information.”

Contact Dale via e-mail at [email protected].

the property at 191 Main St., Rutherfordton, a retail site dating to the 1920s.

Hunter later sold the building to Jonathan Schweigert, and entered into an agreement about July 1, 2008, to lease the property from Schweigert in order to open a restaurant, The Rowdy Rib. The lease was for five years, with the option for two addi-tional five-year leases.

Papers in the lawsuit say Schweigert agreed to put $100,000 into an upfit of the building, and Hunter pledged $80,000 of his own money.

The papers also say that Hunter raised about $575,000 from initial investors in the business during the summer and fall of 2008. Many of those investors reportedly were Hunter’s fellow church members.

Hunter says that in October 2008 he approached Faunce about invest-ing in The Rowdy Rib, and on Oct. 14, 2008, the restaurant received a $50,000 loan from Acadia NorthStar.

Then Hunter says he employed Acadia NorthStar as the restaurant’s accountant and financial manager in December 2008.

Hunter says the restaurant was to open in December 2008, but con-struction delays and cost overruns delayed the opening. He alleges that in February 2009 Faunce asked him how much more money would be needed to open the business, and Hunter told him an additional esti-mated $150,000.

Papers in the lawsuit say that on Feb. 27, 2009, Acadia NorthStar loaned The Rowdy Rib the additional $150,000, and the restaurant opened on March 16, 2009.

Hunter says that although Faunce showed him a confidential memo con-cerning how Acadia NorthStar some-times provided business capital in exchange for equity, or an ownership share, the $150,00 loan promissory note “does not refer to any transfer of equity interest in The Rowdy Rib to Acadia NorthStar.”

The lawsuit alleges that on March 2, 2009, Faunce asked Hunter to sign articles of conversion.

The suit contends:“Hunter told Faunce that he did not

have time to read the document but

if the documents had to be signed, he would sign them because he ‘love[d] [Faunce] like a brother,’ and knew that Faunce, as his accountant, ‘had [his] back.’

“Returning to Acadia NorthStar’s offices directly across the street from The Rowdy Rib, Faunce bragged to Acadia NorthStar employees that it was simple to get Hunter to sign the Articles of Conversion.”

Hunter then alleges that Faunce presented him with an operat-ing agreement which gave Acadia NorthStar ownership of a 30 percent interest in the restaurant. Hunter says he refused to sign that agreement.

Hunter says after that, Faunce went to Schweigert to renegotiate the lease on the building.

Hunter alleges:“Upon information and belief,

Faunce told Schweigert that Acadia NorthStar was an investor in The Rowdy Rib and that The Rowdy Rib was having financial difficulties and that Acadia NorthStar would soon be putting The Rowdy Rib in default under the terms of its Promissory Note and Security Agreement.

“Upon information and belief, Faunce began the process of rene-gotiating the Lease in the name of ANS Management Ventures, LLC, an entity to be formed by Faunce and the members of Acadia NorthStar to open and operate a restaurant in The Rowdy Rib space.”

The lawsuit also alleges that at about the same time, a manager at Acadia NorthStar began the pro-cess of changing the North Carolina Beverage Control license out of the name of The Rowdy Rib and into the name of a Faunce business.

Hunter then alleges that in July 2009 Faunce and Acadia NorthStar began contacting Hunter’s initial investors.

He claims in the lawsuit:“The statements in the July 6, 2009

letters to the Initial Investors were false, or at the very least mislead-ing, and were made in an attempt to scare the Initial Investors that if they did not agree to go with the Acadia NorthStar take over that they would lose their investment in The Rowdy Rib.”

The 191 Prime restaurant, owned by ANS Management Ventures, opened at the former Rowdy Rib site in late August 2009. That restaurant has

since closed, and a letter on the door of the building says the current econ-omy is responsible for the closing of the business.

Faunce discussed the lawsuit allega-tions.

“I had a college professor,” he said, “who used to talk about how if a woman walks into a room with a pea-nut butter sandwich and 15 minutes later she’s dead, you could always allege it’s the peanut butter sandwich that killed her, especially if you leave out the fact that there was a guy who came in with a gun or a knife within that period. And from what I see in the suit, that guy with the gun or the knife seems to be missing. It kind of changes the end result, the cause. There are allegations in there that we assert are just patently false.”

Faunce said his firm’s reputation speaks for itself.

“Acadia NorthStar has been doing business here since 2001,” he said. “We’ve been in the business for that long, and we’ve never had a lawsuit like this come along.

“The events that led up to the clo-sure of The Rowdy Rib, and the open-ing of 191 Prime, those events have a big impact on that suit and it may impact why it was filed. We allege that what is alleged in that suit is completely inconsistent with our busi-ness practices here. And I think our record stands to that. You’d never find anything up in the Rutherford County Courthouse, and we work all over the state, that would establish any type of a pattern. I think you would be hard-pressed to find anything.

“Sometimes you try to make a good thing out of a bad situation, and no good deed goes unpunished, I guess. That’s kind of where we stand on it.”

Hunter’s attorney is Douglas J. Tate of the law firm of McGuire, Wood & Bissette, of Asheville.

The defendants have filed a motion to compel mediation and arbitration in the case pursuant to alternative dispute resolution provisions in a let-ter of engagement Hunter entered into with Acadia NorthStar.

The defendants are represented by Andrew W.J. Tarr of the law firm of Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, out of Charlotte.

Contact Dale via e-mail at [email protected].

Health/educationCommunity Health Clinic of Rutherford County provides access to primary medical care, well-ness education, medications and preventative programs. The clinic, open Monday through Thursday, is located at 127 E. Trade St., B 100, Forest City. Patients seen by appointment only. The clinic does not accept patients with private insurance, Medicaid or Medicare. Call 245-0400. The Medication Assistance Program provides access to medications at reduced rates or free of charge to those who qualify, call 288-8872.

Meetings/otherDemocrat Club: Rutherford County Democrat Club will meet Monday, March 22, at Democrat Headquarters, Main Street, Forest City. The meeting begins at 7 p.m.

Initial meeting: The first meeting to begin documenting the history of “Little Detroit” and establishing a Heritage Museum, will be held Tuesday, March 23, 6:30 p.m., at Bennett Classics Auto Museum, 241 Vance St., Forest City; if you or your family have been part of this area’s automotive history, repair, trans-port, sales, racing, plan to attend this meeting; for more information contact Gary Barnett at 247-1767.

Correction: The Solid Waste Department announced this week that all convenience centers would extend hours to coincide with Daylight Saving Time. That state-ment was a misunderstanding and the centers will continue on the fol-lowing schedule Monday-Friday 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Saturday 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Athletic Boosters: Chase High Athletic Boosters will meet Monday, April 5, at 6:30 p.m. in the office conference room.

MiscellaneousSpring Fling: Friday, March 26, 3:30 to 7:30 p.m.; Rutherfordton Elementary School; games, inflat-ables, Bingo, cake walk, sand art, food and lots more.

Chase Corner Ministries opens this week completely restocked with spring and summer merchan-dise. Hours M-F, 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Located on Chase High Road, directly across from the high school.

Beginner shag lessons: Last Chance to sign up for beginner shag lessons before summer. Class starts in April. Call 287-9228 for informa-tion or to register.

RHP voting: Rutherford Housing Partnership has been selected by PEPSI to be in the running for one of its $25,000 PEPSI REFRESH grants for March. You can vote once a day at http://www.refreshevery-thing.com/rutherfordhousingpar.

Cosmetology specials: Open to the public March 23-26. The specials include hair cut, perm or relaxer, and style for $10 (regular rates $28). Appointments are requested but walk-ins will be accepted. TWTh, clients will be accepted between 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., and Friday, March 26, 8:15 a.m. and 11 a.m. only.

Easter egg hunt, picnic: For spe-cial needs children and adults; Saturday, March 27, 1 to 5 p.m., at Crestview Park, Rutherfordton; sponsored by Ken and Diane Dellinger. Low-cost rabies clinic: Saturday, April 10, noon to 1 p.m.; Thunder Road Animal Hospital; $10 cash, one-year rabies; $12 cash, three-year rabies; other discounted vac-cines available; call 286-0033.

FundraisersAnnual barbecue: Sponsored by Forest City Lions Club; Saturday, March 27, 4 to 7 p.m., at First Baptist Church, Forest City; adults $8; children $4; under 6 free; bag lunch ($5 each) 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Benefit supper, karaoke night: For Keith and Tammy Cogdell, who lost everything in a house fire; Saturday, March 27, at Cane Creek Clubhouse, beginning at 7 p.m.; hot dogs and hamburgers will be sold; $3 for karaoke, donations accepted; all proceeds for the Cogdells.

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An AP Member ExchangeDANIEL JACKSONThe Gaston Gazette

GASTONIA — Forty miles ... 100 miles ... 200 miles ...

A new generation of fully elec-tric vehicles claims the ability to cover that much ground on a single charge, which would easily get most Americans to work and back without having to plug in.

But so far, the batteries pow-ering EVs haven’t gone the dis-tance at a cost that most U.S. drivers can handle. That’s why research taking place at FMC Lithium’s Center for Lithium Energy and Advanced Research (CLEAR) has put Bessemer City on the road map to EV develop-ment.

Manufacturers of recharge-able lithium ion batteries from all over the world have visited the CLEAR facility. And growth in the market for lithium ion batteries will soon be driven by demand for large-format batteries that are safe, compact, light-weight, long-lasting and priced reasonably

enough to attract car buyers, FMC officials say.

“It’s exciting when you have people coming from all over the world to Bessemer City to visit this facility,” said Brian Fitch, a Cherryville native and Appalachian State-trained chemist working in the CLEAR facility. FMC Lithium opened that facility in September 2008.

FMC Lithium ‘s Bessemer City plant on N.C. 161 employs about 240 people making lithium products with numerous appli-cations, including grease and lubricants, polymers and phar-maceuticals. Kings Mountain has large deposits of lithium, but FMC hasn’t mined in this area since the 1990s. Today, the lithium is found in dry lake beds in the northern Andes Mountains in Argentina.

A quarter of sales at FMC Lithium end up in rechargeable lithium ion batteries. But nearly all of those batteries power portable consumer electronics. Less than one percent of sales at FMC Lithium are bound for

Please see EV, Page 10A

Associated PressChemists, Yangxling Li, right, and Brian Fitch run tests on batteries in the Center for Lithium Energy Advanced Research lab at FMC Lithium in Bessemer City, North Carolina Tuesday March 2,

By SCOTT BAUGHMANDaily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — Some eateries are seeing red at the price of tomatoes thanks to a national shortage brought on by cold weather in Florida.

Some chains like Wendy’s have stopped automatically including a slice of tomato of their sandwiches and even places that are determined to keep the vegetable in regular use are putting different varieties on their menus and salad bars.

“We have noticed the prices going up,” said Curt Hall, owner of Courtside Eatery in Rutherfordton. “They normally stay around $18 to $20 a box and I paid

$45 last week. I have a salad bar and we’re using the regular tomatoes like beefsteak for sandwiches and instead of running those on the salad bar we’re buying roma tomatoes for our salad bar.”

The shortage is being blamed on unsea-sonably late freezes killing off about 80 percent of Florida tomato crops.

“All the cold weather we had in February and January, they’ve had several freezes in Florida,” said Jan McGuinn, extension agricultural agent at the Cooperative Extension Service in Spindale. “When we started with the

Please see Prices, Page 10A

Caterpillar lays off another 120 workers

RALEIGH (AP) — Caterpillar is laying off more workers at a North Carolina plant.

Multiple media outlets report-ed that the company laid off 121 employees Wednesday at its plant in Clayton. It’s the third layoff at Clayton since December 2008.

Most of the company’s 1,800 North Carolina workers work in Clayton, Cary and Sanford.

The announcement came the same day Caterpillar announced it planned to hire 500 work-ers at its generator plant in Newberry, S.C., over the next four years.

Caterpillar spokesman Jim Dugan says the company is making a significant invest-ment in a new assembly line in Clayton that will require adding workers. Dugan could not say how many might be recalled or when.

Wednesday’s layoffs are part of a previously announced plan to shift production of backhoes to the United Kingdom.

FedEx sees economic recovery spreading

NEW YORK (AP) — FedEx says the global economic recov-ery is broadening, as Asia con-tinues to show strong growth and the U.S. economy gains steam.

Fred Smith, CEO of the world’s second-largest package delivery company, predicted a “relatively strong” first half as major economies emerge from the recession with steady eco-nomic growth in the last six months of the year.

FedEx expects U.S. gross domestic product to grow about 3 percent this year, led by the manufacturing sector, in line with economists’ expectations.

The largely positive com-ments came after FedEx said that fiscal third-quarter profit more than doubled from a year earlier. It was the first year-over-year profit increase for the Memphis, Tenn., shipping com-pany in five quarters.

Regulators shut 7 banks in 5 states

WASHINGTON (AP) — Regulators on Friday shut down seven banks in five states, bringing to 37 the number of bank failures in the U.S. so far this year.

The closings follow the 140 that succumbed in 2009 to mounting loan defaults and the recession.

The Federal Deposit Insur-ance Corp. took over First Lowndes Bank, in Fort Deposit, Ala.; Appalachian Community Bank in Ellijay, Ga.; Bank of Hiawassee, in Hiawassee, Ga.; and Century Security Bank in Duluth, Ga. The agency also closed down State Bank of Aurora, in Aurora, Minn.; Advanta Bank Corp., based in Draper, Utah; and American National Bank of Parma, Ohio.

The FDIC was unable to find a buyer for Advanta Bank.

For the other banks:n First Citizens Bank of

Luverne, Ala., agreed to assume the deposits and assets of First Lowndes Bank. n Community & Southern

Bank of Carrollton, Ga., agreed to assume the depos-its and assets of Appalachian Community Bank. n Citizens South Bank of

Gastonia, N.C., will assume the deposits and assets of Bank of Hiawassee. n Bank of Upson, based in

Thomaston, Ga., agreed to assume the assets and deposits of Century Security Bank.n Northern State Bank in

Ashland, Wisc., agreed to assume the deposits and assets of State Bank of Aurora.

The pace of bank seizures this year is likely to accelerate in coming months, regulators said.

Garrett Byers/Daily CourierChuck Hall, owner of Courtside Eatery in Rutherfordton, slices roma tomatoes to use on the salad bar. A shortage of tomatoes have caused a price spike nationwide and made many restaurants cut back or use different varieties.

Restaurants seeing red as tomato prices are soaring

RUTHERFORDTON — Rick Austin of Forest City has been appointed Executive Director of the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce, effec-tive May l.

The announcement was made today by Mike Campfield, Chamber president and chair-man of the executive board selection committee.

Austin replaces retiring Bill Hall who has served in that position for the past twelve years.

“Mr. Austin brings an impres-sive set of credentials to our Chamber that we believe will serve us well as we deal with the many challenges facing us,” Campfield said. “His selec-tion was a difficult task. “We received applications from out-standing candidates from the area as well as people from as far away as Iowa and Main.”

Austin has extensive experi-ence in business, communica-tions, marketing, advertising and television production.

He is a founding mem-ber of the Disney National Entrepreneurial Center in Orlando, Fla., an incubator, advisory and counseling center for small business and econom-ic development.

The Center has achieved international recognition for its accomplishments and has been copied in communities world-wide.

Austin has lectured through-out the U.S. and several foreign countries on marketing, adver-tising and entrepreneurship.

He holds a graduate degree in marketing/finance from Northeastern University and an undergraduate degree in social psychology/business from the University of New Hampshire.

He and his wife, Linda, are building a home in the Green Hill community. They have two children.

City charged up for electric car run

Chamber selects its director

Rick Austin

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cold in December, they’ve been paralleling us pret-ty close. Production there in Homestead area and Naples is pretty much impacted.”

In Forest City’s Mi Pueblito Mexican restaurant, tomatoes aren’t the fixture they once were.

“We still cook with tomatoes but we are trying to save and use less,” said manager Andre Alias. “Sometimes the customers ask for us to hold the tomato so we will. And we are trying to provide it only when customers specifically ask for them.”

Buying produce locally has also been impacted, with local merchants having to raise prices to keep up.

“Right now we’re paying from $35 to $45 a box,” said Jerimie Williams of Dean’s Produce in Rutherfordton. “The highest I’ve ever seen this time of year in the past was about $25 a box. This year they just seem to have jumped up a lot higher than normal. They say that Mexico has some and they’re out of tomatoes and Florida hasn’t started shipping their second rotation.”

Even as prices rise higher for the time being, McGuinn said by the time Rutherford County growers probably won’t see an effect on their pric-es.

“We’re not even ready for planting yet for toma-toes here,” McGuinn explained. “We won’t be set-ting any planting material until the mid to later part of April. Coastal South Carolina and Georgia have been effected as well. Their planting pro-gresses from mid to late February to mid March.”

Some local greenhouse projects are being set up to aim for tomato growing even in cold weather.

“Tomatoes are a heat loving plant and they like to grow and flower at temperatures 70 degrees and higher,” McGuinn added. “They are not happy in the 50s or 40s and into the 30s they are pretty much gone.”

Contact Baughman via e-mail at [email protected].

EV prototypes, said Eric Norris, FMC’s Global Commercial Director.

However, in another 10 years, lithium ion batteries could account for more than half of sales with much of that growth generated by consumer demand for electric cars, Norris said.

“That market hasn’t developed yet,” Norris said, “but the con-sumer interest is there.”

The near collapse of domes-tic automakers last year along with a renewed focus on curbing climate-changing greenhouse gases has fueled a growing inter-est in electric vehicles stateside. The federal government is offer-ing tax breaks to consumers that buy alternative fuel vehicles and pouring billions of dollars into research to develop new energy platforms.

This November, Chevrolet is planning to launch the Volt, which drives up to 40 miles on an electric battery before a back-up combustion engine takes over. And Nissan is touring the U.S. with prototypes of the Leaf, an EV advertising 100 miles on a single charge. Both of those vehicles run on lithium ion bat-teries, but neither manufacturer has suggested a price.

Right now, the only vehicle utilizing lithium ion batteries is the Tesla Roadster, which trav-els more than 200 miles on one charge, but starts at $101,500. The popular hybrid electric Toyota Prius has a nickel-metal hydride battery pack, but that technology isn’t practical for a

fully electric vehicle. Lithium, which is the lightest metal on the planet, has a higher energy density, making it ideal for com-pact batteries in handheld elec-tronics, Norris said.

But lithium is also potentially dangerous and some batteries have caught fire in older model cell phones and laptops. While the technology in today’s con-sumer electronics has proven to be safe, similar safeguards must be engineered into the larger format batteries as well. Finding the right balance of power and safety in the larger automotive batteries is the key to future innovation.

“You can make a battery with more power, but it must have the right balance of safety and cost to appeal to consumers,” Norris said.

In the U.S., a country that first made automobiles for the mass-es and designed its communi-ties around vehicle traffic, cheap gasoline is still the standard. But the U.S. isn’t the largest car market anymore — that’s China. And EV technology isn’t wait-ing for American consumers to embrace it first, Norris said.

Today 80 percent of all lithium ion batteries are made in Asia — Japan, China and Korea, Norris said. Like the U.S., China gener-ates a lot of its electricity from coal, which diminishes some of the environmental benefits of electric cars. But China is an emerging automotive market, where drivers are more likely to bypass gasoline-powered vehi-cles and develop infrastructure based on the latest technology, he said.

And in Europe, where higher

fuel taxes provide an incentive to EV drivers, the electric cars are also catching on faster than they have in the U.S., Norris said. And while the U.S. market may not move as fast, there is a grow-ing interest here, he said.

“It’s a very global business for us,” Norris said.

The lithium industry was hit hard last year with earn-ings down in some cases 25 to 30 percent, Norris said. FMC Inc. restructured its operations worldwide and was forced to cut jobs. But North Carolina facili-ties suffered the least because FMC closed a butyllithium plant in Texas and consolidated those operations in Bessemer City, Norris said.

Last year, the U.S. govern-ment also stepped up invest-ment in clean energy technology, including lithium ion batteries, Fitch said. The CLEAR facility has a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to advance battery technology with a proprietary product known as stabilized lithium metal powder (SLMP).

If SLMP becomes the chem-istry standard selected by the industry for large format batter-ies, FMC Lithium and Gaston County stand to benefit as the market for electric vehicles grows around the world. Norris said that could mean more man-ufacturing and research jobs in Bessemer City.

“There is a lot of funding for lithium ion batteries,” said Christopher Woltermann, direc-tor of the CLEAR facility. “The people that come up with the right technology are probably going to grow quickly.”

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WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A 16-year-old boy who police said made an announce-ment at Walmart ordering all black people in the southern New Jersey store to leave was charged with harass-ment and bias intimidation,

authorities said Saturday.The boy, whose name is not

being released because he is a juvenile, grabbed one of the courtesy phones at Walmart’s Washington Township store Sunday evening and calm-ly announced: “Attention, Walmart customers: All

black people, leave the store now,” police said.

The teen was arrested Friday and released to the custody of his parents; police did not know whether he had a lawyer.

“This was an extremely disturbing event on many

levels,” Gloucester County Prosecutor Sean Dalton said at a news conference. “Any statements like these that can cause harm or grave con-cern must be addressed as quickly we possibly can.”

Dalton said the case would be handled in juvenile court

in neighboring Atlantic County, where the boy lives. He would not say wheth-er the boy has a criminal record, citing the teen’s age, and would not disclose the teen’s race, saying that did not factor into the investiga-tion.

Walmart identifies teen as suspect of racist announcement

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FARGO, N.D. (AP) — They passed out cigars in Fargo on Saturday, but no matches just yet, as a flood-weary city that’s spent the last week get-ting ready to hold back the Red River cautiously prepared to celebrate what appeared to be a successful defense against the swollen waterway.

The river continued to inch upward toward an expected crest Sunday a few feet below last year’s record, to be followed by a quick and steady drop. As they waited, Fargo’s residents turned their attention to cleaning up debris in low-lying neighborhoods where more than a million sandbags held back the waters, with some tak-ing a break for basketball.

“Last year I was not sleeping well. This year I am sleeping like a baby,” said Fargo resident Kevin Pladson, who last year counted on mounds of sandbags to keep the river away from his back deck. This year, the water isn’t close. “I’m relaxing and watching as much of the NCAA tournament as I can.”

The easygoing mood stood in stark contrast to last year, when floods

along the north-flowing Red River sparked a last-minute frenzy of sand-bagging that brought life to a halt and forced thousands to evacuate.

This year, residents in Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minn., were calm as the river completed a rise driven by the spring thaw of a thick snowpack: they walked their dogs, went shopping and worked out at the gym. At one mobile command center on the Minnesota side of the river, the focus early Saturday was on breakfast instead of levee breaks as sheriff’s deputies spent the morning cooking deer sausage.

“It’s been actually quite relaxing, compared to last year,” said Fargo resident Jim Papacek.

Papacek had been so worried ear-lier this year about the prospect of flooding that he rented an apartment on higher ground away from the river and moved much of his furniture into it, just in case he had to evacuate. But on Saturday, the retired teacher sat in his mostly empty living room looking out at the river, which had flooded part of his yard.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of protesters — many directing their anger squarely at President Barack Obama — marched through the nation’s capital Saturday to urge immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

At least eight people, including activist Cindy Sheehan, were arrest-ed by U.S. Park Police at the end of the march, after laying coffins at a fence outside the White House. Friday marked the seventh anniver-sary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

“Arrest that war criminal!” Sheehan shouted outside the White House before her arrest, referring to Obama.

At a rally before the march, Sheehan asked whether “the honey-moon was over with that war crimi-nal in the White House” — an appar-ent reference to Obama — prompting moderate applause.

The protesters defied orders to clear the sidewalk on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House and park police say they face charges of failure to obey a lawful order.

Activist Ralph Nader told thou-sands who gathered in Lafayette Park

across from the White House that Obama has essentially continued the policies of the Bush administration, and it was foolish to have thought otherwise.

“He’s kept Guantanamo open, he’s continued to use indefinite deten-tion,” Nader said. The only real dif-ference, he said is that “Obama’s speeches are better.”

Others were more conciliatory toward Obama. Shirley Allan of Silver Spring, Md., carried a sign that read, “President Obama We love you but we need to tell you! Your hands are getting bloody!! Stop it now.”

Allan thought it was going too far to call Obama a war criminal but said she is deeply disappointed that the conflicts are continuing.

The protest drew a smaller crowd than the tens of thousands who marched in 2006 and 2007.

Protesters stopped at the offices of military contractor Halliburton — where they tore apart an effigy of for-mer Vice President and Halliburton Chief Executive Dick Cheney — the Mortgage Bankers Association and The Washington Post offices.

Associated PressDavid Amodio, 20, of Syracuse, N.Y., holds up the head from a dis-embodied effigy of former Vice President Dick Cheney after anti-war protesters stomped on it in Washington, on Saturday. Thousands of protesters marched through Washington to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on the seventh anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Victory within reach, President Barack Obama exhorted House Democrats on Saturday to stay true to their party’s legacy and make history by bringing health insurance to millions of struggling families now left out. Leaders exuded confi-dence as they defused thorny problems in the countdown to a landmark vote.

Obama evoked Abraham Lincoln’s moral compass and extolled Democratic achieve-ments such as Social Security and Medicare — once con-troversial, now an essential part of the social fabric — on a day marked by a frenetic hunt for votes inside the Capitol and angry tea party demonstrations at the door. Some protesters hurled racial insults at black members of Congress.

“Is this the single most important step that we have taken on health care since Medicare?” Obama asked rank-and-file Democrats far from the chanting crowds. “Absolutely. Is this the most important piece of domestic legislation, in terms of giv-ing a break to hard work-ing, middle-class families out there since Medicare? Absolutely.

“It is in your hands,” Obama said, bringing law-makers to their feet. “It is time to pass health care reform for America and I am confident that you are going to do it tomorrow.”

In a carefully orchestrat-ed appeal to unity ahead of a career-defining vote, Obama and House lead-ers were joined by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who brought a pledge from more than 50 of his Democratic colleagues to promptly finish the bill after the House votes Sunday. House Democrats have been wary of being left in the lurch by the famously unpre-dictable Senate.

A series of last-minute

flare-ups threatened to slow the Democrats’ march to passage, after more than a year of grueling effort.

The most intense focus was on a small group of Democrats concerned that abortion funding restric-tions in the legislation don’t go far enough. Determined to avoid votes on such a charged issue, Democratic leaders raised the possibility of addressing the concerns of abortion foes through an executive order from Obama. It would reaffirm existing federal law barring taxpayer funded abortions except in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother.

House Democratic leaders abandoned a much-chal-lenged procedure for pass-ing the legislation after an outcry from Republicans and protest from some of their members. According to the

new plan, the House will vote up or down the health care bill passed by the Senate on Christmas Eve as well as a package of changes.

The Senate bill would then go to Obama for his signa-ture, the companion measure to the Senate, which hopes to pass it within the week.

Minutes after the leader-ship’s change of heart, Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Calif., announced his support for the health care legislation. Cardoza had criticized the planned maneuver.

The 10-year, $940 billion measure represents the big-gest expansion of the social safety net since Medicare was enacted more than 50 years ago. It provides health coverage to 32 million people now uninsured, bars insur-ance companies from deny-ing coverage to those in poor health, and sets up new

marketplaces where self-employed people and small businesses can pool together to buy coverage. Less certain is whether it will also deliver on Obama’s promise to slow the punishing pace of health care costs.

Republicans, unanimous in their opposition, com-plained anew about the bill’s cost and reach. Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said a fuller analysis of the bill’s long-term costs is needed, but Democrats have left no time to carry it out.

Displaying a gritty confi-dence, House Democratic leaders said they were get-ting closer by the hour. “We are on the verge of mak-ing great history for the American people,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

In a flashback to the

day in 2007 when Obama announced his presidential bid in Springfield, Ill., the president repeatedly evoked Lincoln’s perseverance in the face of divisions — “We are not bound to win, but we are bound to be true.”

Obama praised two first-term Democrats who switched from no to yes — Colorado’s Betsy Markey and John Boccieri of Ohio — for staying true to Democratic principles.

“I know this is a tough vote,” the president said, adding he also believes “it will end up being the smart thing to do politically.”

He told lawmakers: “This is one of those times where you can honestly say to yourself, doggone it, this is exactly why I came here. This is why I got into politics. This is why I got into public service.”

Obama’s appearance came on a frantic day bordering on the surreal and sometimes turning ugly.

Inside the Capitol, Demo-cratic leaders pursued the last few votes to reach the 216 needed to pass the sweeping legislation, some-times in full view on the House floor. Several thou-sand demonstrators opposed to the bill swirled on nearby streets, with some surround-ing lawmakers between the Capitol and their offices.

Obama’s motorcade was delayed, and as he rode up to Capitol Hill, many of the protesters booed and gave him a thumbs down.

Scores crowded into one House office building entranceway booed loudly when liberal Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., walked by.

Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., said that as he left the Cannon House Office Building with Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a leader of the 1960s civil rights move-ment, some among the crowd chanted “the N-word, the N-word, 15 times.” Both Carson and Lewis are black.

Obama urges Dems to get health care bill done

Jean Gordon/Daily CourierAbout 25 adults and 10 children gathered on the courthouse lawn here Saturday night to pray for Congress as it votes on the Health Care Reform Bill today. “They are gonna ram it down our throats,” Mike Dalton said as he began his brief address to the 912 group. “Tomorrow they are going to vote on something that will change American forever,” Dalton said. He encouraged the group to con-tinue praying for each other, the country and the leaders of the country regardless of how the vote turns out. He also told the group no matter what the outcome, “God is still God.” The gathering was promoted in an e-mail sent out by Jennifer Naskov of the county’s Tea Party Patriots group. In that e-mail she wrote “Many of us have done everything we can to make our voices heard in the halls of Congress. We have called, e-mailed, faxed, sent letters, and signed petitions. We have gone to Washington. We have done everything that we can do. At this point, only God can change the direc-tion of the Healthcare vote. It will take a miracle. And our God is in the miracle-working business!”

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First, allow me to congratu-late you on your recent pur-chase of the Charlotte Bobcats.

As NBA teams go, this isn’t a run-down, tired franchise you purchased, but as a minority owner for the past few years you probably know that. Of course, since you’ve only been seen in Charlotte a handful of times, maybe you don’t.

Anyway, I say, let bygones be bygones.

You are now the man. The head Bobcat.

May I please make a sugges-tion. Or a couple of sugges-tions.

Number one, change that stupid team moniker. There are no Bobcats in Charlotte, heck, there isn’t even a zoo in Charlotte. Name the team after yourself — the Charlotte Air. You can even have a graphic person steal that image of you that Nike has used for years. They won’t mind.

Number two, two words: LeBron James.

Now, I heard you the other day speak about how little money you had after buying the team. I understand that.

But, you are in business to make money and that requires spending some more.

Mr. James simply adores you. He wants the NBA to retire your No. 23, the jersey he has worn, just so no one else can have your number.

Mike, if I can call you Mike, this is a deal you must make.

Call up King James, after the season of course, when free agency starts, and make him an offer he can’t refuse to come to Charlotte.

Tell him you’ll kick that Charlie Sheen fellow out of your Hanes commercials and give him the job.

Then tell him that you and he will re-make your classic McDonalds’ commercials, with a walk-on by Larry Bird, where you make impossible shots off of impossible structures — “Off the White House, over the Eiffel Tower, nothing but net.”

It would be priceless. Well, okay, not priceless — you’d make a ton of money.

David Stern won’t object at all. He wants Charlotte to succeed, he needs Charlotte to succeed. North Carolina remains the hottest spot in the nation for the love of all things hoops.

The people want a winner, Mike. They want an NBA team they can believe in.

Mike, I lived in Charlotte during the final days of the Hornets (may Kareem Abdul Jabbar curse them forever) and the folks were hurting. They didn’t want to trust again.

They trust you, Mike. They believe in you.

You can bring a champion-ship to Charlotte, to North Carolina (again).

Imagine — James, forward Gerald Wallace, guard Stephen Jackson, point guard Raymond Felton, and Theo or Boris at center. That’s a really good starting five, Mike.

So, if you need some money I got like $25 hidden in a buried shoe box (call me and I’ll tell you where to dig). It isn’t much, I know, but I’ll send it to you if you will use it to take James out to dinner. There’s a pizza joint off of Central that’s pretty good.

Thanks for listening and Go Heels, er, Air.

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Mississippi State guard Barry Stewart (22) tries to pull in a basket as North Carolina forward John Henson (31) pushes the ball away in the first half of their NIT college basketball game in Starkville, Miss., Saturday.

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Drew lifts UNC over Miss. St. at NITSTARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Larry

Drew II kept North Carolina alive in the postseason.

He hit a shot over center Jarvis Varnado with 2 seconds to play to give the Tar Heels a 76-74 victory over Mississippi State on Saturday in the sec-ond round of the NIT.

The 6-foot-2 point guard drove to the basket and was able to get the shot over the 6-9 Varnado, who was second in the nation this season with 4.8 blocks per game.

“I saw Jarvis on my right, and I just wanted to give it a chance to go in,” Drew said. “It was all instinct. I just wanted to get a shot off.”

Will Graves made a contested 3-point-er — his fourth of the game — with 31 seconds left to give the Tar Heels a 74-72, Barry Stewart tied it for the Bulldogs (24-12) with two free throws, setting the stage for Drew’s game-win-ner.

“After they hit their free throws, I told Larry just to push it,” UNC coach Roy Williams said.

He did just that, sending a high-arcing, left-hander over Varnado, the NCAA’s career blocks leader.

“He was coming at me, and I knew he was going to take the shot,” MSU center Jarvis Varnado said.” He made one hell of a layup, give him credit.”

North Carolina (18-16) will face either UAB or North Carolina State on Tuesday, with a trip to New York and the semifinals on the line.

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By BRYAN STRICKLANDSpecial to the Courier

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The 3-point shot often has served as the great equalizer for NCAA Tournament underdogs, and it just happens to be the weapon of choice for Duke’s sec-ond-round opponent.

The Blue Devils’ defense, however, is as good as any when it comes to draw-ing a line in the sand.

Ninth-seeded California enters today’s game against the top-seeded Blue Devils as one of the most diverse and dangerous long-range shooting teams Duke has faced in recent mem-ory, but the Blue Devils pride them-selves on being among the best at pre-venting teams from finding the mark.

“They shoot the ball so well — very well — so we’re going to have to go back to our bread and butter, which is

defense,” Duke senior Lance Thomas said. “If we play defense, I think we can beat anybody.”

Cal (24-10) showed off its 3-point potency Friday night at Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena, hitting 4 of 6 from behind the arc over the first six minutes to open up a 22-4 lead on Louisville in a 77-62 victory.

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Wildcats maul Demon Deacons

NEW ORLEANS — On a day that fea-tured several big-time stunners, including overall No. 1 seed Kansas being ousted by Northern Iowa, Wake Forest was hoping for a little upset magic.

As of press time, Cinderella’s slippers were nowhere close to fitting the Demon Deacons as Kentucky marched out to a 44-28 lead at halftime.

The Wildcats returned from the break to run out to a 30-point lead, 68-38, midway through the second half.

Kentucky’s (33-2) big three of DeMarcus Cousins, Eric Bledsoe and John Wall were being out-shined by sophomore Darius Miller. Miller had 20 points to lead the Wildcats at press time.

The Wildcats, who were leading 81-56 at press time, had held Wake to 33-percent shooting from the floor.

Associated PressKentucky guard John Wall (11) reaches for a rebund as Wake Forest forward Ari Stewart (20) and center Chas McFarland (13) close in during the first half of an NCAA second-round college basketball game in New Orleans, Saturday.

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Wake Forest coach Dino Gaudio.

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BASEBALLMajor League BaseballSpring Training Glance

AMERICAN LEAGUE W L PctTampa Bay 12 5 .706Cleveland 10 5 .667Toronto 9 6 .600Detroit 10 8 .556Boston 9 8 .529Minnesota 8 8 .500Oakland 8 9 .471Kansas City 7 8 .467New York 8 10 .444Chicago 6 9 .400Baltimore 7 11 .389Seattle 6 10 .375Texas 6 10 .375Los Angeles 4 9 .308

NATIONAL LEAGUE W L PctSan Francisco 13 6 .684Atlanta 11 6 .647Chicago 11 7 .611Colorado 11 8 .579Milwaukee 11 8 .579Philadelphia 8 6 .571Houston 9 7 .563Florida 10 8 .556New York 10 8 .556Arizona 9 9 .500Cincinnati 7 8 .467Los Angeles 6 7 .462San Diego 7 9 .438St. Louis 6 10 .375Pittsburgh 5 11 .313Washington 3 13 .188

Saturday’s GamesBoston 6, Baltimore (ss) 0Minnesota 6, Tampa Bay 2Toronto 7, Atlanta 6, 10 inningsHouston 8, N.Y. Yankees 6Baltimore (ss) 5, Pittsburgh 2Florida 5, Washington 3Detroit 3, Philadelphia 0St. Louis 6, N.Y. Mets 5Milwaukee 1, Kansas City (ss) 0San Diego (ss) 4, Chicago White Sox 1Seattle 4, Arizona 0Chicago Cubs (ss) 4, Kansas City (ss) 0L.A. Dodgers (ss) 5, Texas 4Cleveland 12, Oakland (ss) 4San Francisco 6, Cincinnati 0Oakland (ss) 7, Chicago Cubs (ss) 4L.A. Angels vs Colorado, lateSan Diego (ss) vs L.A. Dodgers (ss), lateSunday’s GamesWashington vs Florida at Jupiter, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Houston (ss) vs Boston (ss) at Fort Myers, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Tampa Bay (ss) vs Minnesota at Fort Myers, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Detroit vs N.Y. Yankees at Tampa, Fla., 1:05 p.m.N.Y. Mets vs Houston (ss) at Kissimmee, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Boston (ss) vs Toronto at Dunedin, Fla., 1:05 p.m.St. Louis vs Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Tampa Bay (ss) vs Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Baltimore vs Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Seattle vs L.A. Angels at Tempe, Ariz., 4:05 p.m.Texas vs San Diego at Peoria, Ariz., 4:05 p.m.Cincinnati (ss) vs Oakland at Phoenix, 4:05 p.m.Chicago Cubs vs Cincinnati (ss) at Goodyear, Ariz., 4:05 p.m.Chicago White Sox vs Milwaukee at Phoenix, 4:05 p.m.Colorado vs Kansas City at Surprise, Ariz., 4:05 p.m.San Francisco vs Arizona at Tucson, Ariz., 4:05 p.m.Cleveland vs L.A. Dodgers at Glendale, Ariz., 4:05 p.m.

BASKETBALLNCAA Tournament Glance

EAST REGIONALFirst Round

Thursday, March 18At New Orleans Arena

New OrleansKentucky 100, ETSU 71Wake Forest 81, Texas 80, OT

At HP PavilionSan Jose, Calif.

Washington 80, Marquette 78New Mexico 62, Montana 57

Friday, March 19At HSBC Arena

Buffalo, N.Y.West Virginia 77, Morgan State 50Missouri 86, Clemson 78

At Jacksonville Veterans Memorial ArenaJacksonville, Fla.

Cornell 78, Temple 65Wisconsin 53, Wofford 49

Second RoundSaturday, March 20

At New Orleans ArenaNew Orleans

Kentucky (33-2) vs. Wake Forest (20-10)At HP Pavilion

San Jose, Calif.Washington 82, New Mexico 64

Sunday, March 21At HSBC Arena

Buffalo, N.Y.West Virginia (28-6) vs. Missouri (23-10), 2:50 p.m.

At Jacksonville Veterans Memorial ArenaJacksonville, Fla.

Wisconsin (24-8) vs. Cornell (28-4), 2:50 p.m.At The Carrier Dome

Syracuse, N.Y.Regional SemifinalsThursday, March 25

Kentucky-Wake Forest winner vs. Wisconsin-Cornell winnerWest Virginia-Missouri winner vs. Washington (26-9)

Regional ChampionshipSaturday, March 27

Semifinal winners

SOUTH REGIONALFirst Round

Thursday, March 18At Dunkin’ Donuts Center

Providence, R.I.Villanova 73, Robert Morris 70, OTSaint Mary’s, Calif. 80, Richmond 71

At New Orleans ArenaNew Orleans

Old Dominion 51, Notre Dame 50Baylor 68, Sam Houston State 59

Friday, March 19At Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena

Jacksonville, Fla.Duke 73, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 44California 77, Louisville 62

At Spokane ArenaSpokane, Wash.

Purdue 72, Siena 64Texas A&M 69, Utah State 53


At Dunkin’ Donuts CenterProvidence, R.I.

Saint Mary’s, Calif. 75, Villanova 68At New Orleans Arena

New OrleansBaylor 76, Old Dominion 68

Sunday, March 21At Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena

Jacksonville, Fla.Duke (30-5) vs. California (24-10), 5:20 p.m.


Purdue (28-5) vs. Texas A&M (24-9), 5 p.m.At Reliant Stadium

HoustonRegional Semifinals

Friday, March 26Duke-California winner vs. Purdue-Texas A&M winnerSaint Mary’s, Calif. (28-5) vs. Baylor (27-7)

Regional ChampionshipSunday, March 28

Semifinal winners

MIDWEST REGIONALFirst Round

Thursday, March 18At Dunkin’ Donuts Center

Providence, R.I.Ohio 97, Georgetown 83Tennessee 62, San Diego State 59

At The Ford CenterOklahoma City

Northern Iowa 69, UNLV 66Kansas 90 Lehigh 74

Friday, March 19At The Bradley Center

MilwaukeeGeorgia Tech 64, Oklahoma State 59Ohio State 68, UC Santa Barbara 51


Michigan State 70, New Mexico State 67Maryland 89, Houston 77


At Dunkin’ Donuts CenterProvidence, R.I.

Tennessee 83, Ohio 68At The Ford Center

Oklahoma CityNorthern Iowa 69, Kansas 67

Sunday, March 21At The Bradley Center

MilwaukeeOhio State (28-7) vs. Georgia Tech (23-12), 2:20 p.m.


Maryland (24-8) vs. Michigan State (25-8), 2:30 p.m.

At Edward Jones DomeSt. Louis

Regional SemifinalsFriday, March 26

Northern Iowa (30-4) vs. Maryland—Michigan State winnerOhio State-Georgia Tech winner vs. Tennessee (27-8)

Regional ChampionshipSunday, March 28

Semifinal winners

WEST REGIONALFirst Round

Thursday, March 18At The Ford Center

Oklahoma CityBYU 99, Florida 92, 2OTKansas State 82, North Texas 62


Murray State 66, Vanderbilt 65Butler 77, UTEP 59

Friday, March 19At HSBC Arena

Buffalo, N.Y.Gonzaga 67, Florida State 60Syracuse 79, Vermont 56

At The Bradley CenterMilwaukee

Xavier 65, Minnesota 54Pittsburgh 89, Oakland, Mich. 66

Second RoundSaturday, March 20At The Ford Center

Oklahoma CityKansas State (27-7) vs. BYU (30-5), late


Butler 54, Murray State 52Sunday, March 21

At HSBC ArenaBuffalo, N.Y.

Syracuse (29-4) vs. Gonzaga (27-6), 12:10 p.m.At The Bradley Center

MilwaukeePittsburgh (25-8) vs. Xavier (25-8), 4:50 p.m.

At Energy Solution ArenaSalt Lake City

Regional SemifinalsThursday, March 25

Syracuse-Gonzaga winner vs. Butler (30-4)Kansas State-BYU winner vs. Pittsburgh-Xavier winner

Regional ChampionshipSaturday, March 27

Semifinal winners

FINAL FOURAt Lucas Oil Stadium

IndianapolisNational Semifinals

Saturday, April 3East champion vs. South championMidwest champion vs. West champion

National ChampionshipMonday, April 5

Semifinal winners

National Basketball Association

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

W L Pct GBBoston 44 24 .647 — Toronto 33 34 .493 10 1/2New York 25 44 .362 19 1/2Philadelphia 24 46 .343 21 New Jersey 7 61 .103 37

Southeast Division W L Pct GBx-Orlando 49 21 .700 — Atlanta 44 24 .647 4 Charlotte 35 33 .515 13 Miami 35 34 .507 13 1/2Washington 21 46 .313 26 1/2

Central Division W L Pct GBy-Cleveland 55 15 .786 — Milwaukee 37 30 .552 16 1/2Chicago 32 37 .464 22 1/2Detroit 23 46 .333 31 1/2Indiana 23 46 .333 31 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GB

Dallas 46 22 .676 — San Antonio 41 26 .612 4 1/2Houston 35 32 .522 10 1/2Memphis 36 33 .522 10 1/2New Orleans 33 37 .471 14

Northwest Division W L Pct GBDenver 47 22 .681 — Utah 44 25 .638 3 Oklahoma City 42 25 .627 4 Portland 42 28 .600 5 1/2Minnesota 14 56 .200 33 1/2

Pacific Division W L Pct GBx-L.A. Lakers 51 18 .739 — Phoenix 43 26 .623 8 L.A. Clippers 26 43 .377 25 Sacramento 23 46 .333 28 Golden State 19 49 .279 31 1/2

x-clinched playoff spoty-clinched divisionSaturday’s GamesChicago 98, Philadelphia 84Toronto 100, New Jersey 90Miami 77, Charlotte 71Golden State at Memphis, lateMilwaukee at Denver, lateNew Orleans at Utah, lateBoston at Dallas, lateSunday’s GamesHouston at New York, 1 p.m.Oklahoma City at Indiana, 2:30 p.m.Sacramento at L.A. Clippers, 3:30 p.m.Detroit at Cleveland, 6 p.m.San Antonio at Atlanta, 8 p.m.Washington at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.Portland at Phoenix, 10:30 p.m.

HOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAPittsburgh 72 42 24 6 90 224 205New Jersey 71 42 25 4 88 189 169Philadelphia 71 37 29 5 79 211 196N.Y. Rangers 71 31 31 9 71 185 195N.Y. Islanders 71 29 32 10 68 189 221

Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GABuffalo 70 38 22 10 86 195 177Ottawa 72 37 30 5 79 194 212Montreal 71 36 29 6 78 194 195Boston 70 31 27 12 74 174 180Toronto 71 25 34 12 62 189 236

Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAy-Washington 71 47 14 10 104 280 202Atlanta 71 31 29 11 73 215 229Tampa Bay 70 28 30 12 68 185 217Carolina 71 30 33 8 68 198 221Florida 70 28 31 11 67 181 207

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAChicago 70 45 19 6 96 230 174Nashville 71 40 26 5 85 202 201Detroit 70 34 23 13 81 189 189St. Louis 71 34 28 9 77 194 196Columbus 71 29 31 11 69 187 228

Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAVancouver 71 44 24 3 91 233 183Colorado 70 40 24 6 86 211 185Calgary 71 36 26 9 81 181 177Minnesota 71 34 31 6 74 194 208Edmonton 71 22 42 7 51 179 247

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GASan Jose 71 43 18 10 96 231 187Phoenix 71 44 22 5 93 193 173Los Angeles 69 40 24 5 85 206 185Dallas 71 31 27 13 75 206 227Anaheim 70 33 29 8 74 198 215

y-clinched divisionSaturday’s GamesCarolina 3, Pittsburgh 2, OTDallas 5, Ottawa 4St. Louis 1, New Jersey 0Atlanta 5, Philadelphia 2Buffalo 3, Florida 1Toronto 3, Montreal 2, SOWashington at Tampa Bay, lateColumbus at Nashville, lateChicago at Phoenix, lateDetroit at Vancouver, lateN.Y. Islanders at Los Angeles, lateSunday’s GamesN.Y. Rangers at Boston, 12:30 p.m.Calgary at Minnesota, 3 p.m.Buffalo at Carolina, 5 p.m.Tampa Bay at Florida, 5 p.m.Nashville at St. Louis, 6 p.m.Atlanta at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.Phoenix at Dallas, 7 p.m.San Jose at Edmonton, 8 p.m.Colorado at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

RACINGNASCAR Nationwide

Scotts Turf Builder 300 Results(Start position in parentheses)

1. (30) Justin Allgaier, Dodge2. (1) Brad Keselowski, Dodge3. (6) Kyle Busch, Toyota4. (4) Carl Edwards, Ford5. (13) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet6. (5) Greg Biffle, Ford7. (8) Reed Sorenson, Toyota8. (41) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet9. (10) Jason Leffler, Toyota10. (19) Scott Wimmer, Chevrolet11. (28) Paul Menard, Ford12. (3) Kelly Bires, Chevrolet13. (27) Scott Lagasse Jr., Ford14. (2) Joey Logano, Toyota15. (17) Willie Allen, Chevrolet16. (11) Joe Nemechek, Chevrolet17. (35) Mike Wallace, Chevrolet18. (40) Michael McDowell, Dodge19. (31) Kenny Wallace, Chevrolet20. (38) Michael Annett, Toyota21. (26) Andy Ponstein, Chevrolet22. (25) Tony Raines, Chevrolet23. (32) Josh Wise, Ford24. (42) Eric McClure, Ford25. (24) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford26. (14) John Wes Townley, Chevrolet27. (36) Jason Keller, Chevrolet28. (43) Derrike Cope, Dodge29. (23) Brian Scott, Toyota30. (18) Trevor Bayne, Toyota31. (37) Coleman Pressley, Chevrolet32. (7) Kasey Kahne, Toyota33. (22) Brendan Gaughan, Toyota34. (15) Shelby Howard, Chevrolet35. (34) Morgan Shepherd, Chevrolet36. (12) James Buescher, Chevrolet37. (20) Colin Braun, Ford38. (9) Steve Wallace, Toyota39. (39) Brian Keselowski, Dodge40. (21) Kevin Lepage, Chevrolet41. (16) Danny O’Quinn Jr., Chevrolet42. (29) David Gilliland, Chevrolet43. (33) Johnny Chapman, Dodge

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DUNEDIN, Fla. (AP) — Atlanta’s Derek Lowe pitched three shutout innings before Toronto scored four runs off him in the fourth, and Mike McDade hit a two-run double in the bottom of the 10th to give the Blue Jays a 7-6 win over the Braves on Saturday.

Lowe pitched to the minimum nine batters through three innings, then Jose Bautista singled, Aaron Hill homered, and Adam Lind doubled before Vernon Wells and Randy Ruiz followed with RBI doubles.

Brandon Hicks singled off Toronto’s Marc Rzepczynski for two of Atlanta’s three runs in the second inning.

Jon Huber gave up singles to Ryan Schmipf and Joey Gathright in the 10th before McDade drove them home with a double to left. Joe Thurston’s RBI single in the top of the inning gave the Braves a 6-5 lead.

Braves’ Lowe tagged for 4 runs in loss to Jays

FOREST CITY — A photo of Pratt Maynard, a member of the 2009 Petitt Cup champion Forest City Owls, is featured in this week’s Leading Off section of Sports Illustrated.

The picture was taken last Saturday when N.C. State played at Clemson. Maynard was catching for the Wolfpack, and is shown blocking the plate as a Clemson base runner is diving home.

Maynard hit .318 for the Owls last season and was the team’s starting third baseman. He was selected to the Coastal Plain League All-Star Game and was second on the team in batting aver-age, RBI, and doubles.

The Forest City Owls are the reigning Coastal Plain League Petitt Cup Champions.

Owls searching for anthem singersFOREST CITY — The Forest City Owls are

searching for National Anthem singers for the 2010 season.

Whether you are a soloist, church choir, band, or play an instrument, the Owls want you to perform at McNair Field this summer.

For more information, or to schedule an audition, contact the Owls at (828) 245-0000.

The Owls feature a live National Anthem per-formance before every game at McNair Field. All Owls home games begin at 7:05 p.m., and perform-ers are required to arrive by 6:30 p.m.

Former Owls 3B Pratt Maynard featured in SI

Garrett Byers/Daily CourierForest City Owls 3B Pratt Maynard, seen above in this Courier file photo, will be featured in this week’s Sports Illustrated.

SPARTANBURG, SC — Chase travelled south to USC-Upstate to take part in a one-day softball tournament.

In game 1, the Lady Trojans pounded out 18 hits in a 16-10 win over Chesnee in nine innings. Rebecca Bailey hit a home run, while Sam Carpenter and Blair White went 3-for-5 in the win.

“I was proud of the girls for bouncing back after the loss on Friday night,” said Chase coach Daniel Bailey.

In game 2, Chase was defeated by Union, 7-1.

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NCAA Tournament: March Madness, Day 3UNI, St. Mary’s pull off upsets

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Ali Farokhmanesh hit another big 3-pointer with 34 seconds left and Northern Iowa pulled off the biggest upset in the NCAA tournament, beating top overall seed Kansas 69-67 in the second round on Saturday.

Northern Iowa (30-4) won the tempo tug-of-war, ground-ing the high-flying Jayhawks with in-their-jersey defense, then withstood a furious rally to become the first team to beat a No. 1 seed in the second round since UAB and Alabama did it to Kentucky and Stanford in 2004.

The ninth-seeded Panthers led early and made just enough plays late to pull off the biggest win in their history.

Kansas (33-3) trailed nearly the entire game, finally pull-ing close in the closing minutes behind its fullcourt pressure. The Jayhawks never made it all the way back, though, bowing out early in what was supposed to be another title run.

St. Mary’s 75, Villanova 68PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) —

Omar Samhan was an unstop-pable Gael force.

His career isn’t over yet — and neither is Saint Mary’s NCAA tournament run as the Gaels are improbably headed to the round of 16.

Samhan played the game of his career on basketball’s biggest stage, finishing with 32 points and seven rebounds to lead 10th-seeded Saint Mary’s past Villanova 75-68 on Saturday and on to Houston for the South Regional’s Sweet 16.

The only time the Gaels advanced past the first round in the NCAA tournament was 1959 when there were only 23 teams in the field.

McConnell finished with 15 points and Dellavedova had 14.

The Gaels held each of Villanova’s top three scores to under double figures. Fisher and Antonio Pena both scored nine points to join Reynolds as a trio of underachievers. Corey Stokes led the Wildcats with 15 points.

Tennessee 83, Ohio 68PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) —

J.P. Prince scored 18 points, and Brian Williams and Wayne Chism had 12 rebounds apiece on Saturday to lead sixth-seed-ed Tennessee to an 83-68 vic-tory over No. 14 seed Ohio on Saturday in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

It’s the third time in four years Bruce Pearl’s Volunteers have reached the NCAA’s second weekend. Tennessee (27-8) will play the winner of Sunday’s Ohio State-Georgia Tech game in the Midwest Regional semifinals in St. Louis.

Tommy Freeman scored 23 points for Ohio, which was the lowest seed to get out of the first round. But he got little help from Armon Bassett and freshman D.J. Cooper, the guards who starred in the first-round victory over third-seeded Georgetown but combined for 23 points on 7-of-23 shooting against Tennessee.

Butler 54, Murray State 52SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) —

Murray State got awfully close to a second straight bracket-bust-ing upset before Butler reminded the Racers which small school almost always plays big in March.

Ronald Nored’s three-point play snapped a tie with 25.4 sec-onds left, and Butler narrowly evaded a second stunner by the 13th-seeded Racers in three days, advancing to the regional semifinals of the NCAA tour-nament with a 54-52 victory Saturday.

Butler advanced to the round of 16 for the second time in four years — but only after surviv-ing a thriller against the under-sized but big-hearted Racers (31-5), who beat fourth-seeded Vanderbilt in the first round on a buzzer-beater.

In next week’s West Regional semifinals in Salt Lake City, Butler will face the winner of top-seeded Syracuse’s meeting with Gonzaga on Sunday.

Baylor 76, Old Dominion 68NEW ORLEANS (AP) —

LaceDarius Dunn scored 26 points and No. 3 seed Baylor beat 11th-seeded Old Dominion 76-68 on Saturday in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

The Bears squandered a 14-point first-half lead but went on a late 8-0 run to pull away. Baylor (27-7) now heads back to its home state to play No. 10 seed Saint Mary’s in Houston in

the South Regional semifinals.Baylor struggled to beat Sam

Houston State in the first round for its first NCAA tournament win since 1950, but the Bears arrived loose and confident against Old Dominion, using a barrage of early 3-pointers and alley-oops to take a double-digit lead.

Old Dominion (27-9) rallied and pulled ahead in the second half, but the Bears received a big lift from 7-footer Josh Lomers, who tied a career high with 14 points, 12 in the second half.

Washington 82, New Mexico 64

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Quincy Pondexter scored 18 points, Isaiah Thomas added 15 and 11th-seeded Washington extended its incredible late-sea-son roll all the way to the NCAA tournament’s regional semifinals with an 82-64 second-round victory over New Mexico on Saturday.

Matthew Bryan-Amaning had 15 points and nine rebounds for the Huskies (26-9), who have won nine straight, including the Pac-10 tournament and wins over two higher-seeded oppo-nents in the East Regional at the Shark Tank.

After a rocky season that seemed headed nowhere in late January, the Huskies are the epitome of a talented team peaking at tournament time. Washington began the season in the national rankings, but slumped before this stellar surge.

Mississippi State was only able to get off a half-court heave at the final buzzer.

Graves was 6 of 10 from the field, including 4 of 6 from beyond the arc. John Henson had 12 points and eight rebounds for the Tar Heels.

Stewart led the Bulldogs with 18 points while Dee Bost and Varnado added 14 points each and Ravern Johnson had 13.

The Bulldogs opened the game on a 16-4 run, but UNC adjusted quickly on defense and roared back to take a 20-19 lead on a layup by Leslie McDonald. The Tar Heels led 36-33 at the half.

Associated PressNorth Carolina forward Tyler Zeller (44) looks at the blood soaked gauze from his cut around the eye in the second half of the NIT college basketball game against Mississippi State in Starkville, Miss., Saturday. Zeller’s cut required five stitches to close.

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Associated PressSaint Mary’s Matthew Dellavedova (4) celebrates in front of Villanova’s Corey Fisher (10) after winning of an NCAA second-round college basket-ball game 75-68 in Providence, R.I., Saturday.

Point guard Jerome Randle and running mates Theo Robertson and Patrick Christopher finished a combined 8 of 14 on 3-point attempts. Randle is the school’s all-time leader in 3-pointers made, while Robertson is the career leader in percentage.

“I can’t remember playing against a team like that,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “You know, most of the time there’s two (who shoot out-side) and a guy is inside or there’s a driver. But all three of these guys stretch you, and they shoot NBA (3-pointers).

“The more I’m talking about it, now I’m getting even more concerned. They’re really good.”

Duke (30-5), however, is really good on defense against 3-point shooters, ranking fourth in the nation entering the NCAA Tournament by holding opponents to 28.2-percent accuracy.

The Blue Devils don’t just force difficult 3-point attempts, they often don’t even allow opponents to take shots outside the arc. Zack Rosen of Penn got off just four attempts in one recent game.

And Duke’s big three of Singler, Jon Scheyer and Nolan Smith actually have made more 3-pointers (220) than Cal’s trio (205).

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Rutherford County Sports ProfilesScruggs likes competition

CHASE — As a senior at Chase High School, Andrew Scruggs is involved in two athletic programs, soccer and basketball.

For Andrew it’s a passion to play and a chance to challenge himself that make playing sports all worth while.

“I have enjoy playing both sports all of my life and still do so today, but I am a competitive person and I like that aspect as well,” Scruggs said.

Scruggs parents are Stephen and Ronda, and he has a sister, Christina that round out this family of four.

Stephen, who played tennis while in high school, now works at Robbins Brick and Block. Ronda is a teacher at Chase Middle School.

Andrew is a member of several clubs which include the FFA, Key, Monogram and Beta Club. Scruggs professes that math is his favorite subject.

Off campus, he enjoys spend-ing time at church or working in the garden. He likes to listen to Contemporary Christian music and watch SportsCenter on the tube.

If not watching ESPN’s highlight news reel, Andrew is likely to be tak-ing in a game on the TV of his favor-ite teams in either the Atlanta Braves of the MLB or the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA.

After high school, Andrew is in interested in going to N.C. State University and majoring in Horticulture Sciences.

Baxter stays involvedFOREST CITY — Mikhail Baxter

is a member of the football and bas-ketball teams at East Rutherford High School.

“My family played most of those sports and I just love to play them,” Baxter said.

Mikhail’s family is comprised of parents, Mark Baxter and Charlotte Camp with a brother, Trent Camp and sister, Natasha Smith. Mark works for BMW and Charlotte works at the Oak Grove Health Care Center.

Mark played basketball and football when he was in high school, while Charlotte and Natasha played bas-ketball at R-S Central.

While in school, Mikhail’s favorite subject is math. He is also involved in the Anchor Club and a Cavalier Kick-Off Mentor.

Away from the classroom, Mikhail likes to play video games, hang out with friends and play basketball.

His most enjoyable moment as a Cavalier came when East upset Shelby in basketball during the 2008-2009 campaign.

Usually when he has time, he likes to watch the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and listen to Lil’ Wayne.

He is a huge Philadelphia Eagles and Detroit Pistons fan.

The senior would like to go to col-lege at East Carolina when he gradu-ates and go into the field of sports medicine/athletic trainer.

Lave enjoying the gameR-S Central’s Marjorie Lave is a

member of the Lady Hilltoppers soc-cer team and a junior midfielder for the squad.

The reason behind Lave’s choice to use her athletic ability on the soccer field instead of other sports came down to three things for her.

“I just want to be in shape and playing soccer is just a lot of fun to participate in,” Lave said. “Scoring goals are the best though and that’s a great feeling to have, when you make a shot into goal.”

Her parents are Steve and Meg, plus she has two brothers, Carter and Harrison.

Growing up, Steve was a gymnast and Meg was involved in field hock-ey. Lave’s brothers on the other hand have dabbled in sports such as hock-ey and soccer.

Lave is a member of the Art Club and declares math is her favorite subject.

Away from school, she likes to stay busy with work. She also likes watch-ing That 70’s Show and her favorite bad to listen to is Train.

Lave’s favorite sports team is the Florida State Seminoles and that is where she would like to go to college and get her teaching degree.

Bennett loves two sportsVictoria Bennett is a freshman

and a two-sport athlete by playing basketball and soccer at Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy.

“I have always enjoyed playing both sports because I am very competi-tive and it a good way to relax and yet release anger at the same time,” Bennett said with a laugh.

Victoria’s parents are Todd and Wendy and she also has two sisters, Hannah and Olivia Bennett.

Todd works for United Southern Industries and Wendy is a home maker. Both parents played sports at East Rutherford and Todd went on to play football at Lenoir-Rhyne College.

At Thomas Jefferson, Victoria is a member of the Future Business leaders of America (FBLA) and Student Council, but also volunteers as a tutor and a teacher’s assistant. She also points out that history and physical education are her favorite subjects.

In the music category, she likes to listen to Three Days Grace, Red, Black Eye Peas, Journey, Jason Aldean and Breaking Benjamin.

When the TV is on, she likes to watch Deadliest Catch and Grey’s Anatomy, plus anything on the Discovery or Lifetime Channel.

Her favorite sports team is the North Carolina Tar Heels, especially the women’s soccer team, plus men’s basketball and baseball teams.

Following high school, Victoria aspires to go to college at the Naval Academy, the Army or UNC-Chapel Hill and major in possibly journalism or law.

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Guillen says he asked his son to resignGLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) —

White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said on Saturday that he asked his son to resign from his position with the team because the younger Guillen had made a mistake.

Guillen spoke to the media a day after his son Oney resigned from a position with the Chicago’s scouting department in part over comments he made on Twitter that the White Sox sought to tone down.

“That came from me. From his father,” Guillen said. “To say, “Listen, I think it’s time to move on and walk away. I want to just think about my ballclub.’ “

Friday ended with Guillen storming out of the team com-plex at Camelback Ranch with-out speaking to reporters after a game against the Cubs.

He later wrote an entry on his Twitter account in Spanish, saying that the team, presum-ably, “touched me where it hurts me the most and I have to be ready for what comes, like I have always done.”

Guillen accepted responsibility for the situation on Saturday and said he briefly talked with gen-eral manager Kenny Williams and chairman Jerry Reinsdorf on Friday, and that he has no issue with Williams.

Guillen said he felt he was sticking up for his family, right or wrong, and reiterated how proud he is of his team and to be part of the White Sox organiza-tion.

“That’s part of the game. This is life. Kenny has a job to do, I have a job to do. Kenny’s job is to protect this ballclub the best he can, and so do I,” Guillen said. “My 25 players is more impor-tant than Kenny.”

The Chicago Sun-Times reported that 24-year-old Oney Guillen was unhappy that his Twitter statements, which were critical of the team were being monitored by the club.

Associated PressCarolina Hurricanes center Zach Boychuk,left, Chad LaRose (59) and Rod Brind’Amour (17) celebrate after Boychuk’s goal during the first period of an NHL hock-ey game against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Pittsburgh Saturday.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jamie McBain scored his first NHL goal on a slap shot from above the circles with less than a second remaining in over-time, and the Carolina Hurricanes rallied from a late deficit to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 on Saturday.

Seconds after Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury made what looked to be a potential game-saving stop on Chad LaRose’s wrist shot, McBain — getting two points in his third career game — beat Fleury cleanly with nine-tenths of a sec-ond remaining. After the game, Penguins captain Sidney Crosby said the shot deflected off his hand.

The Penguins, 2-2-2 in their last six games, led 2-1 on Evgeni Malkin’s goal off a hard wrist shot from the left circle with 6:55 remaining.

Joni Pitkanen tied it at the 16-minute mark with a drive from the left circle off Eric Staal’s long pass from behind the goal line.

The Hurricanes, 11-3-1 since Feb. 5, won despite losing starting goalie Manny Legace with an unspecified lower body injury during the second period.

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short of how much to charge for sta-dium hot dogs falls in the domain of the league’s competition committee.

The seven-member group is par-ticularly in the headlines this time of year, when it makes suggestions to the 32 team owners, ranging from rules modifications to maintaining competitive balance. Co-chairmen Rich McKay, president of the Atlanta Falcons, and Tennessee Titans coach Jeff Fisher will present those recom-mendations at the NFL meetings in Orlando that begin Sunday.

This year, the hot topic is a modifi-cation of overtime — making sudden death less sudden.

The committee will recommend that teams losing the overtime coin

toss in the playoffs who then yield a field goal on the first series will still get a possession. If that team kicks a field goal, action will continue under the current sudden death rules.

However, should the first team to get the ball score a touchdown, it would win.

“We are charged with the steward-ship of the quality of the game and we certainly take that very seriously,” McKay says. “We try to make sure it’s not just our ideas or the league’s ideas, but that we use a wide spec-trum of ideas, whether they come from the owners, league executives, the fans, the players, officials.

“We can then vet those ideas and come out with recommendations, and it’s an exhaustive process.”

And a process that is year-round, but takes full form after the season. The committee, which also includes NFL vice president Ray Anderson, owners John Mara of the Giants and Stephen Jones of the Cowboys, Colts president Bill Polian, Bengals coach

Marvin Lewis, and general manag-ers Ozzie Newsome of the Ravens and Rick Smith of the Texans, meets during the scouting combine in Indianapolis in February. It follows with an eight-day session, during which the committee members dis-cuss data compiled from leaguewide surveys and from its own meeting with the players union at the com-bine.

“We compile a big book — a BIG book — of all the research done,” McKay says.

And then they present recommen-dations on rules modifications or changes. A change requires 24 own-ers to vote yes.

“We don’t pass rules and I’m not sure that is clear in everyone’s mind (outside of the NFL),” says McKay, who has been on the committee since 1994. “I’ve lost enough votes over the years to be very aware of that. But if there’s a problem or an inno-vation that we believe needs to be addressed, it’s then recommended

to the full membership at the March meetings.”

Anderson estimates between up to two dozen topics might be addressed at a typical owners meeting — and that doesn’t include many issues that have been eliminated by the com-mittee because they “don’t have any real traction.” There will be a core of 12-15 key matters on this year’s agenda.

Reaching consensus on what to present to the owners, who also are considering business issues and, at least this year, the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement next March, is not easy. It can be down-right argumentative among commit-tee members, Anderson says.

“We hope we’re more entertaining than C-Span,” Anderson jokes. “We have a lot of debate, not all of it cor-dial. We want people to really push and cajole, and there can be some really spirited debates on these com-mittees.

“These issues are core to the game.”

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BRISTOL, Tenn. — Justin Allgaier grabbed the first win of his NASCAR career Saturday by passing teammate Brad Keselowski on a late restart, then holding him off over the closing laps at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Allgaier, last year’s Nationwide Series rookie of the year, had to hold his line over the final 27 laps to keep Keselowski from passing him.

“That battle with Brad at the end was awesome, and I couldn’t have been happier at the end to see two Penske cars up there running for the win,” Allgaier said in his first visit to Victory Lane.

The win was the first for Dodge at Bristol since Aug., 2007.

Keselowski, the pole-sitter who led 73 laps, finished sec-ond to give team owner Roger Penske his first 1-2 finish in the Nationwide Series.

Keselowski said he didn’t mind Allgaier passing him on the restart with 27 laps to go because of an incident at Bristol last year, before they were teammates, when Keselowski wrecked Allgaier in a similar situation.

“I had one coming,” Keselowski smiled.

Keselowski tried to pass on the inside several times, and turned up the pressure over the final 10 laps. But he backed away from his usual aggressive driving — particularly with a potential win on the line — and raced clean to the checkered flag.

“I had the opportunity and just erred on the side of caution,” he said. “The last thing I need is to wreck either one of us. That’s the last thing our program needs.”

Kyle Busch was third and was followed by Carl Edwards and Kevin Harvick.

Harvick spun Joey Logano on the final lap to grab his top-five finish. Logano wound up 14th.

“I just raced with him and raced with him, and he kept chopping me and chopping me,” Harvick said. “I got in there and just got into the back of him a little bit and I hate that hap-pened. You’ve just got to have a lane to race, you just got to do what you got to do.”

Logano declined to comment.

WALTRIP RETURNS: Retirement was short-lived for

Michael Waltrip, who returned to the track this weekend as a driver a mere three races after giving up full-time racing.

Waltrip hired Martin Truex Jr. this season to drive for Michael Waltrip Racing, a personnel move based on his desire to plan for the future of his organiza-tion. Although the season-open-ing Daytona 500 was initially scheduled to be his only race of the year, he quickly put together a deal to race next month at Talladega Superspeedway.

Then came the opportunity to run this weekend at Bristol.

Waltrip agreed to help Prism Motorsports by qualifying the

car for Sunday’s race. He got in with the 39th spot, but the team doesn’t have enough money to run the entire race.

PETTY’S TAKE: Richard Petty has a solution for feuding drivers that doesn’t include on-track retaliation.

Petty, the seven-time NASCAR champion and a member of the inaugural Hall of Fame class, raised his fist to show how driv-ers used to resolve arguments

“If that would have been in our day, the two parties would have penalized each other before it was all over with,” Petty said, holding up his fist.

Edwards, Keselowski smiling after meetingBy JENNA FRYERAP Auto Racing Writer

BRISTOL, Tenn. — It took roughly 40 min-utes with NASCAR for Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski to put their long-simmering feud to rest.

At least that’s how it appeared as the two smil-ing drivers exited their highly anticipated Saturday meeting at Bristol Motor Speedway.

“We laughed. We cried. In the end, I think it’s going to be good,” said Edwards, who playfully slapped at Keselowski’s shoulder as the drivers hustled to their cars after the meeting.

NASCAR president Mike Helton summoned Edwards, Keselowski and their car owners into his at-track office to discuss a long-running feud between the drivers that exploded when Edwards intentionally wrecked Keselowski two weeks ago in Atlanta. The accident caused Keselowski’s car to sail into the air before bouncing on its hood.

Although Edwards wrecked earlier in the race after contact with Keselowski, he’s maintained his deliberate retaliation stemmed from animosity cre-ated from several past incidents with the young driver. Aggressive and ultra-confident, Keselowski has gone bumper-to-bumper with several veterans the past two years and refused to back down.

“This meeting wasn’t about Atlanta,” Helton said. “(It) wasn’t about trying to fix Brad. It was about Brad and Carl’s relationship. A conversation that we’ve had with other drivers in the past.”

More than a dozen photographers and television cameras crowded the back of NASCAR’s trailer to capture the drivers’ exit, and the crowd fol-lowed them to pit road to meet them after their Nationwide Series qualifying laps.

They parked side-by-side after their laps — Keselowski won the pole for Saturday’s race, while Edwards qualified fourth — and Edwards leaned over Keselowski’s hood to speak to his rival. Then both drivers vowed to move on in their relation-ship.

Associated PressCarl Edwards, left, walks into the garage area before the NASCAR Nationwide series Scotts Turf Builder 300 auto race at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn., Saturday.

Associated PressJustin Allgaier raises the trophy in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Nationwide series Scotts Turf Builder 300 auto race at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn., Saturday.

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I suppose if it can snow before winter it can snow after win-ter. I’ve heard people talk about snowing here in April before.

I do remember visiting the Biltmore House one April sev-eral years ago and the ride to the house was gorgeous because of an early morning snowfall covering the ground.

I was reminded last Saturday when I looked through my kitchen windows of two things — my windows need wash-ing and my muscadine and scuppernong vines need to be trimmed. Desperation could describe both projects.

I waited a little too late to trim my muscadine vines. My good friend and garden-ing expert at the Cooperative Extension office told me after I had trimmed them they should have been pruned in January or February, however, they prob-ably aren’t ruined.

Standing under the vines last Saturday, as I commenced to trim them, I could hear my daddy giving me instructions on how to trim them. I could hear him reminding me to trim the vines every year.

I hadn’t trimmed them in three years and they were pret-ty bad.

Even the two rubber snakes were barely visible clinging to the branches.

Daddy told me not to prune if they were bleeding. They did bleed and I did trim, asking myself along the way, Should I? Shouldn’t I?

I stopped before I pruned the second half. I’ll do the scupper-nongs next January.

I kept waiting for a good sun-ny Saturday when I was not on call and there was no snow on the ground.

I’d often look out the win-dow and see the red cardinals and blue birds eating from bird feeders with a backdrop of snow. It seems now I should have donned my gloves and coat and regardless of the con-ditions. The vines needed trim-ming.

The trimming session, though, was picturesque. Underneath a very gray sky, with intermittent rain and sun trying to burst through the clouds, between the vines was beautiful.

Another sign of spring is how the earth is being moved around by tractors, tillers and even shovels. One good friend shoveled up a portion of his back yard a few weeks ago, get-ting a jump on spring veggies.

It won’t be long now until those spring vegetables come popping through the good earth. Onions, lettuce, radishes and ear-ly peas.

Another friend decided to start his juicy red toma-to crop from seed and was busy last week with flashlight in hand working past dark to get the seeds ready. Now that’s a dedicated farmer or a mighty busy retiree.

For years my mama turned my old bedroom into a green house, planting tomato seeds in flats that were all over the place. From there she moved them to another makeshift green house in the yard and finally to the big garden.

Now those are the spring days I miss and wouldn’t mind doing all over again.

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SPINDALE – Christine Klahn likes to be cheesy.

The Isothermal Community College Chemistry professor will share her cheesiness – her ability to make her own cheese, that is – with anyone

who’d like to learn the skill March 27.In about a half hour, Klahn says, you can have fresh-made mozzarella cheese.

“I make mostly soft cheeses like mozza-rella and chevre and buy hard cheeses,” Klahn said. “When I make homemade from-scratch lasagna, I’ll make my own cheese and sauce to go in it.”

Klahn discovered cheesemaking several years back by taking a work-shop offered by the Organic Growers School in Asheville. From there, she took another workshop offered by Spinning Spider Creamery.

She offered to share her expertise through the college’s continuing edu-cation department because she loves to teach.

“And there are a lot of lost arts in our society,” Klahn, who also likes to quilt and knit, said.

By making your own cheese, you can save money and avoid having to

run to the store to purchase cheese, Klahn said.

In the fall when the class was offered, Klahn said there was a full group. She purposely offered different cheeses this time so that people who took the course in the fall could come again.

“We’ll make three cheeses – queso blanco, chevron and mozzarella – in four hours,” Klahn said.

And if you can boil water, you can make cheese. “That’s pretty much what we’re doing – heating

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Looking for a new skin for her cell phone, Jennifer Condrey of Rutherfordton came across an oval shaped logo with blue slashed across it. Curious, she decided to look it up online, and in addition to getting a new cover for her mobile, she found a new way for younger women to socialize.

In February Condrey began the second chapter of the Blue Thong Society in North Carolina.

And before you stop reading, it’s not as risque as it sounds.

“You don’t have to wear the panty or the shoe,” Condrey said, laughing. “It’s completely optional.”

Blue Thong Society, or BTS for short, is a national social networking organization for women. Created as a community of free-spirited women, the Blue Thong Society combines fun with philanthropy.

The organization is open to wom-en in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s and beyond, said BTS Founder Mary Jo Wallo of San Diego.

“The common thread for Blue Thongers is they feel like they’re years

younger than their actual age,” Wallo said.

The seed was planted to begin BTS when Wallo turned 50.

“I threw this party with all my good friends, and during it I men-tioned I’d received some Red Hat Society things,” Wallo said. “One of my friends mentioned ‘I can’t see you in a red hat, but I could see you in a red thong.’ I had the ‘aha!’ moment Oprah talks about.”

Wallo and her group of friends, all

business women who “are pretty sav-vy to start out with,” began to meet and continued to meet every Monday. As a group, the women decided it wasn’t enough to just get together and socialize – they wanted to do something good for the community they live in too.

“Every chapter has to support a local charity organization,” Wallo said. “I really, really stress finding a

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Contributed photoThe Rutherford County Chapter of the Blue Thong Society held its first meeting in February. The social organization will be fundraising for Relay for Life and other charities in the county.

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Jean Gordon/Daily CourierRobert Hill (front) and several others were using computers at the Rutherford County Library, Callahan-Koon Road, Spindale last Friday morning, checking the news, looking for jobs and doing school work. Three weeks ago the library began using OpenDNS as their Internet provider. More patrons are visiting the county and municipal libraries than ever before because of people needing information for jobs, studying or using the computers and libraries for economical reasons.

Jean Gordon/Daily CourerSusan Allred (left) and Marie Graper greeted guests from The Satisfied Life radio show’s booth at “Be Inspired” last Friday at The Foundation, Isothermal Community College. The event was sponsored by Rutherford Hospital Foundation and proceeds from the event helps to fund mammogams for uninsured women in Rutherford County. Sharon Decker, one of the three hosts for The Satisfied Life, was guest speaker at the event. The show airs each Sunday from 8 to 11 a.m. with Decker, Pam Stone and Ramona Holloway from 107.9 The Link.

Clint Atchley of Scott Ford Painting adds the finishing touches on the ceil-ing of Norris Public Library during a renovation proj-ect last week. The library has under-gone a significant renovation, funded by the Norris Library Foundation, with painting, construction and providing more space. The library re-opened Monday after being closed for a week and is open Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

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Nannie Scoggins Greene celebrated her 93rd birthday on March 8, with friends and family at Restwell Home, where she is a resident. Her son Ray Greene and wife, Bobbie, of Mooresboro attended the celebration. Mrs. Greene is a lifelong resident of Rutherford County. She had four chil-dren (three are deceased), 12 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchil-dren.

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Robert Taylor of Forest City described himself this week as, “old man river keeps rolling on.” Beginning at age 12, he worked in cotton fields, chicken farms, gro-cery store, Spinners Processing (age 17), then Stonecutter, Highway Dept, Cone Mills, Army, Burlington, National Textiles, AGI and “is still going for 50 years of work.” He is on medical leave from Wal-Mart but hopes to return there soon. And in the mean time, he is planning to open a produce stand April 1 across from Chase Mini Mart.

From the New York Times, came a story on the business page about Forest City’s Haley S. Bullock. She is a real estate associate at Halstead Property and executive assistant to

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FOREST CITY – Hospice of Rutherford County in cooperation with the Rutherford County End-of-Life Coalition is sponsoring an event as part of National Health Care Decisions Day April 16 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Carolina Event and Conference Center. National Health Care Decisions Day is a collaborative effort of national, state and com-munity organizations committed to ensuring that all adults with decision making capacity have the information and opportunity to communicate and document their health care decisions. A 2006 Pew Research Center Study determined that although 71 percent of Americans had thought about their end-of-life treatment preferences, only 29 percent had a living will or other advance care planning document.

Locally, Hospice wants to ensure everyone in Rutherford County has the tools needed before a crisis occurs. The seminar will therefore provide both medical information, hands on advance care document preparation, and legal information. The Hospice National Health Care Decisions Day will feature the following:n 1 to 1:30 p.m. – Dr. Brian Bell, Palliative Care

physician, will discuss the pros and cons of artifi-cial hydration and nutrition at the end of life.n 1:30 to 2 p.m. – Dr. Larry Hedgepath, Hospice

medical director, will discuss the importance of the living will and health care power of attorney in guiding physicians’ treatment at the end of life.n 2 to 3 p.m. – Social workers trained in advance

care planning will have documents available and will be available to answer questions. Participate can complete living wills and health care powers of attorney if desired. Notaries will also be available to notarize advance care planning documents.n 3 to 4 p.m. – Attorney John B. Crotts from

King Law Offices will discuss estate planning including wills, trusts, charitable giving, and pow-er of attorney.

This event is offered at no cost, but Hospice requests that anyone interested in participating please register by calling (828) 245-0095 or 1-800-218-CARE (2273).

RUTHERFORDTON — Brent Washburn, Rutherford Hospital Foundation Chairman, announced the beginning of the Foundation’s “Touching Lives” campaign to a group of donors, board members and hospital leadership. “Our Foundation has been in existence for many years. We have raised over $3 million in the past five years for vital health services for the people in our county,” Washburn said. “You will recognize many of them: Lifeline service for seniors who are unable to pay, allow-ing them to stay in their homes instead of in nursing facilities.

“Camp WheezKnot – a camp for children with asthma held by the hospital each summer.

Mammograms for uninsured women and a cancer patient navigator for women diagnosed and treated for breast cancer.”

Washburn continued, “With some of the economic forces that are facing our community now, our Foundation Board looked for an opportunity to continue the work that we have done in the

past, but also to help the hospi-tal with a specific purchase. The hospital identified the need for a new fetal–maternal monitoring system for the Birth Place and we have taken the challenge to pay for that system in 2010. The price tag for keeping the exist-ing programs we have supported and adding the new piece of equipment is $500,000.”

The Rutherford Hospital Foundation is divided into four different segments to raise mon-ey in this campaign:

Corporate Honor Roll chaired by Paul McIntosh; Special Gifts Committee chaired by Dr. Tom Jaski; Planned Giving commit-tee chaired by Connie Bunch.

Each of these segments has responsibility for a specific seg-ment of donors. Forty-four com-munity leaders are involved in the effort.

Joan King is the committee chair for annual gifts effort. King organized a special recep-tion to honor members of the 1906 Club, named for the year

that the hospital was founded. “Tonight, we thank our early supporters, our 1906 Club mem-bers.” said King.

The 49 new members of the 1906 Club members and their guests, attended the special kick-off event Joan thanked the group for their commitment to keeping valuable health care programs alive and well in our community.

The Performing Arts Conference Center at ICC shared profits from Church Basement Ladies. This gift provided the facility and the underwriting for our campaign kickoff and 1906 Club reception.

The 1906 Club has already raised over $9,000 and is expected to grow tremendously with the new campaign. Club membership is available for as little as $100 annually. Special recognition will be given to this group throughout the year.

For information on the cam-paign or the 1906 Club, please call the Foundation office at 286-5070.

Contributed photoMembers of Rutherford Hospital Foundation’s 1906 Club attending a recent “Touching Lives” event.

RHI Foundation kicks off ‘Touching Lives’ campaign

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County native graduates from Concord School of Law

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Jean Gordon/Daily CourierRutherfordton businessman woman Ellen Cantrell received a Certificate of Appreciation from the Rutherford County Visual Artist Guild, thanking her for supporting the guild’s opening of an artists center on Main Street, Rutherfordton a year ago. Just recently the guild moved across the street to a larger building where it can conduct more classes and also have addi-tional space for art work from its members.

LOS ANGELES — Alice Vess Licht (aka Alice O’Neill and Alice Di Biase), formerly of Caroleen, was awarded a Juris Doctor degree during a commencement ceremony for Concord Law School of Kaplan University, the nation’s leading fully-online law school, on Feb. 27, in Los Angeles. The graduat-ing class included 72 graduates of the Juris Doctor program and 30 who earned an Executive Juris Doctor degree.

Licht, known professionally as Alice O’Neill, was a film actress and the writer, for 20 years, of the nationally syndicated col-umn Hollywood Behind-the-Scenes. “I have a special affinity for actors, writers, directors, and producers,” says Licht. “Since I’ve been associated with the enter-tainment industry for so long it seems a natural for me to segue into representing the inter-

ests of the industry via copyright, contract, or family law.” She holds a BA and MA from Rhode Island College. Licht attended Caroleen Elementary School and Tri-High School in Avondale. Licht has several rela-tives in this area including her sisters, Carolyn Vess Hooper of Ellenboro, and Anita Vess Davis of Gaffney, S.C., and niece, Sherry Hooper Washburn of Rutherfordton.

Arthur R. Miller, LL.B., one of the nation’s preeminent legal

experts, delivered the gradua-tion address. Miller, who served on the Harvard Law School faculty for more than 35 years, sparked controversy in 1998 when he filmed video lectures for Concord Law School. His early support of — and contribu-tion to — Concord Law School generated media headlines as universities confronted intel-lectual property issues raised by Internet-based education. His lectures continue to be part of Concord’s curriculum.

“Concord Law School has helped define the future of legal education by making it acces-sible and affordable for working professionals seeking to attain a professional law degree,” said Barry Currier, Concord’s presi-dent and dean. “Alice, like many Concord students, led a highly professional career while study-ing law.

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Misty Louise Roper and David Andrew Pratt are engaged and plan to be mar-ried Saturday, May 8, 2010 at Henrietta First Baptist Church.

The bride-elect is the daughter of Danny and Lisa Roper of Ellenboro. Misty is employed by Staple’s and attends Isothermal Community College.

The groom-elect is the son of Allen and Tonya Pratt of Forest City. David is employed by Lowe’s and

attends Spartanburg Community College.

Brandy Dean Hunt and Ralph Brandon Fox are engaged and plan to be married Saturday, April 24, 2010 at Goodes Creek Baptist Church.

The bride-elect is the daughter of John and Linda Goins of Bostic, and Bobby and Teresa Hunt of Morganton. The groom-elect is the son of Frankie and Regina Fox of Forest City.

Brandy is a 2004 graduate of East Rutherford High School and employed by White Oak Manor.

Brandon is a 2003 graduate of Chase High School and employed by Omnisource Southeast.

Patricia Ann Cooke and Christopher Allen Sciortino are engaged and plan to be married Saturday, April 24, 2010 at St. Mary Church in Wilmington.

Their engagement is announced by the bride-elect’s parents, Hal Kenneth Cooke II and Julie Collins of Forest City. The groom-elect is the son of Robert and Deborah Sciortino of Greensboro.

Annie is a 2006 graduate of UNC-Wilmington with degree in history and minor in English. She is employed by Verizon Wireless in Wilmington.

Chris is a 2006 gradu-ate of UNC-Wilmington with degree in com-munications. He is also employed by Verizon Wireless in Wilmington.


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Annie Cooke and Chris Sciortino

Cooke, Sciortino

Brandy Hunt and Brandon Fox

Fox, Hunt

Misty Roper and David Pratt

Roper, Pratt

Foothills Pilot Club Presents ScholarshipThe Foothills Pilot Club of North Carolina presented its Joyce Hutchins Pitman Memorial Scholarship to Isothermal Community College dur-ing a monthly meeting at Hickory Log Barbecue on March 10. Pictured are (l-r): Gerry Roberts, Foothills Pilot Club mem-ber and sister of Joyce Hutchins Pitman; Marnie Beaver, Operations Specialist of Continuing Education at ICC; and Martha Doggett, Foothills Pilot Club treasurer. The $2,000 scholarship sup-ports the CNA II program at ICC.

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Shroyer Visits Third Tuesday Book Club

Third Tuesday Book Club met recently with Jim Shroyer, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Forest City, as the guest author. Pictured are (l-r): Anita Wilkie, Elsie Blice Hoffman, Shroyer, and Louise Byers. Shroyer gave a review of his first book Crossroads: The Winds of Grace, a novel about a pastor whose life becomes very complicated while pastoring a church in Utah. He describes it as a story of love, the love of many people.

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Class Studies Famous African Americans

Contributed photo Cassuandra Hill and Heather Humphries first grade class at Forest City-Dunbar Elementary School made a scrapbook of Famous African Americans in recognition of Black History Month.

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FOREST CITY — The Chase High School FFA Chapter hosted its annual Parent-Member Banquet on Feb. 25, to honor stu-dents and community members who have shown outstanding ser-vice to the FFA. State FFA President Carrie Hoffner presented the motivational address.

The chapter hon-ored Lukas Hines, Adam Keever, Michael McGee, Austin Price, Tyler Reid, Paige Sappenfield, and Paxton Sappenfield with the FFA Greenhand Degree. This degree is given to first year agricultural and FFA students who

have demonstrated those abilities outlined by the National FFA Organization. One student is selected for going above and beyond the requirements for the degree. Paxton Sappenfield was this year’s recipient of the Star Greenhand award.

Chase FFA also pre-sented the Chapter FFA Degree to Adam Brigman, Timmy Brown, Amber Neal, Christian Sheldon, Trent Robbins, and Dylan Tate. The Chapter Degree is awarded to second year students who have earned their Greenhand Degrees and also completed the neces-

sary requirements set by the National FFA Organization. The Star Chapter award recipient was Adam Brigman.

Proficiency Awards were presented to stu-dents who have set goals and learned prac-tical skills outside of the classroom in an agricultural related field. Autumn Jessie and Timmy Brown were given awards in Beef Production. Jerrica Dedmon received the award for Diversified Livestock. Autumn Jessie received the award for Environmental Science and Natural Resources. In the area of Equine Management, Timmy

Brown received the award. Andrew Scruggs and Ethan Gardner received the awards for Nursery Operations. Jerrica Dedmon received the awards for Small Animal and Specialty Animal Production. Ceciley Morrow received the award for Vegetable Production. In the area of Veterinary Medicine, Tiffany Malcolm received the award. Ethan Gardner received the award for Wildlife Management.

The Kenneth Dedmon Memorial FFA Camp Scholarship is pre-sented annually by Mr. Dedmon’s daugh-ter, Virginia Clarke.

Dedmon was an very active member of the Chase FFA while in high school. This schol-arship was awarded to Kindra Gay.

Finally, the Chase FFA Chapter con-ferred the Honorary Chapter Degree upon Carolyn Keever, a mem-ber of the Rutherford County Board of Education; Jennifer Armstrong, book-keeper of Chase High School; Kevin Bradley, Director of Career and Technical Education of Rutherford County Schools, and Representative Bobby England.

Parents of the Chapter FFA Officers also

received this honor, Mitchell and Libby Gardner, Stephen and Rhonda Scruggs, Vincent and Kathy Dills, David and Lisa Coggeshall, Cal and Melissa Thompson, and Ray and Cookie Dedmon. This degree is awarded to members of the local community who have shown out-standing support of the program and its stu-dents.

The FFA is dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives of students by develop-ing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.

Contributed photoHonorary FFA Chapter Degrees are awarded to members of the community who show outstanding support of the program and its students. Chase FFA officers are pictured with newly conferred honorary members.

Contributed photoThe Chase High School FFA Chapter held its annual Parent-Member Banquet on Feb. 25, where a number of FFA members were recognized with awards and chap-ter degrees.

Chase High FFA holds annual Parent-Member Banquet

BRENTWOOD, Tenn., — Tractor Supply Company, the larg-est retail farm and ranch store chain in the United States, has announced it will offer shoppers the opportuni-ty to support 4-H youth programs through $1 donations at the cash register. In exchange, customers will receive paper clovers to sign and post in store win-dows. The program is scheduled to run from March 26 - April 18 at area Tractor Supply stores.

“Many of our stores have been involved with

4-H clubs for years. Now, Tractor Supply Company is proud to have an official chain-wide relationship with 4-H,” said Tractor Supply Company Chairman and CEO Jim Wright. “For us, this is an outstanding way to support our cur-rent and future custom-ers and future team members.”

Donations will help fund local, state and national 4-H programs that support the orga-nization’s three mission mandates – citizenship, healthy living, and edu-cational advancements

in the areas of science, engineering and tech-nology. 4-H is a com-munity of six million young Americans and has been in existence since the start of the 20th century.

“Partnering with 4-H is an excellent way for Tractor Supply to give back to the members and families who sup-port our business,” said John Wendler, Senior Vice President, Marketing at Tractor Supply.

Tractor Supply Company operates more than 900 stores in 44 states.

Tractor Supply Company supports local 4-H McTeacher’s NightSally Blanton (left), principal of Forest City-Dunbar Elementary School, and Assistant Principal Linda Bridges, are shown flipping burg-ers at McDonald’s on “McTeacher Night,” a fundraiser offered to local schools by McDonald’s. Teachers and administra-tors take on the role of greeting guests, taking orders and serving food, while students, parents and other supporters show up to see them in action. A percentage of the sales from McTeacher Night events go directly to the participating school.

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FOREST CITY — Dancers from Little Broadway Studio recently attended the Kids Artistic Revue in Spartanburg S.C., and the Masquerade Dance Competition in Spindale.

The dancers, the music they danced to, and their awards are as follows:

Farrin Eddy — It’s About That Walk, top first, high gold; Wild Horses, elite top first, 7th overall teen solo, high gold;

Courtney Arms — Flaunt It, top first, 19th overall teen solo, high gold, parade of stars;

Megan Long — Put Your Hands, elite top first, 7th overall senior solo, gold;

Macie Ward — Gardenia, top first, 10th overall senior solo, high gold, parade of stars, the Steven Boyd Memorial Award;

Makenna Teague — All That Jazz, gold, first place;

Leah Blackburn — Party Girl, top first, 14th overall junior solo, gold;

Anna Sims — Big Noise, top first, gold;

Kyleigh Hall — Forget About The Boy, first, high gold;

Kylee Sprouse — Bad Romance, top first, gold;

Lydia Jones — Little Bird, top first, 12th overall junior solo, high gold, Kar Kids Award;

Amie Sessoms — Almost Lover, elite top first, 10th overall teen solo, gold;

Becca Toney — Life of the Party, top first, 11th overall junior solo, high gold;

Kylie Sisk — My Philosophy, first, high gold;

Madison Poteat — No Greater Love, top first, 3rd overall petite solo,

gold;Megan long and

Savanna Spence — Candyman, first, high gold;

Katie Sessoms and Grace Morgan — Shake Your Groove Thing, first, gold;

Ania Alexander and Sarah McMahan — Let’s Hear it For The Boys, high second and gold;

Macie Ward and Courtney Arms — Oh My Gosh, top first, 2nd overall senior duet/trio, high gold;

Macie Ward and Matthew Fenner — Look At Me, first, high gold;

Courtney Arms, Farrin Eddy and Megan Long — My Sherona, first, platinum;

Farrin Eddy, Megan Long, Amie Sessoms — Freakshow, first, plati-num, 3rd overall teen duet/trio, overall cos-tume award;

Brinkley Morrow, Raven and Mackenzie Adrianse — Rockstar, platinum, 1st overall petite duet/trio, high gold;

Taylor Moore, Kyleigh Hall, Lydia Jones — Can’t Turn You Loose, top first, 3rd overall junior duet/trio, high gold;

Madison Poteat, Kylie Sisk, Haley Chavez — Steam Heat, top first, gold.

Group awards include Itsy Bitsy Spider, top first, overall petite cos-tume award, high gold; Cleaning Up The Town, top first, high gold; Shake A Tailfeather, top first, 2nd overall petite group, high gold; Over The Rainbow, top first, 2nd overall petite small group, high gold; Can Can, first, gold; Rockin’ The School, top first, 5th overall junior large group, Most Entertaining of

The Day, KAR Kids, high gold; 1000 Oceans, top first, gold; This Is My Crew, elite top first, 3rd over-all junior small group, KAR kids, high gold; Dirty, first, gold; On The Floor, top first, 10th overall teen large group, plati-num; How Do I Look, elite top first, 2nd overall teen small group, KAR kids, high gold, overall teen costume award; Belief, first, 10th overall teen small group, platinum, 3rd overall teen small group; Lovestoned, elite top first, 4th over-all teen large group, platinum, 3rd overall teen large group, KAR kids; Divas, gold, Way To Work It Judges Choice Award, high gold; We Run This,

top first, platinum; Dads & Dolls, top first, 3rd overall produc-tion, platinum, Senior Most Entertaining of The Day; Show Me The Money, top first, platinum, 3rd overall junior line, Junior Most Entertaining of The Day.

Contributed photo The Dads & Dolls group took top honors in their category.

Contributed photoDancers from Little Broadway earned a number of awards in recent competitions.

Little Broadway dancers compete, bring home top honors

Macie Ward received the Steven Boyd Memorial Award.

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Dear Sara: I’m looking for the best heavy-cream sub-stitute for a tomato cream sauce. (It is for Chicken Tikka Masala.)

I am really just not a fan of the price and fat content of heavy cream.

Plus, I don’t think I would ever end up using a whole pint before it would go bad.

I’ve thought about just using plain milk, sour cream, plain yogurt or cream cheese.

These are things I have on hand regularly and would use on other items.

The recipe says to simmer a mixture of tomato sauce and heavy cream (along with some other things that are less important to my question) until the mixture thickens. Since the chicken that is used in this recipe is marinated in a yogurt sauce, I would love to be able to use yogurt. I’ve just never used yogurt this way and I’m not sure how it would turn out. Any advice is appre-ciated. — Dani, Florida

Dear Dani: I wouldn’t use the yogurt or sour cream.

I think it might taste too sour, and the texture would be off. You can make your own heavy cream (can’t be whipped) by combining 2/3-cup whole milk with 1/3-cup melted butter. But that doesn’t solve your fat-content prob-lem.

Since your recipe is for a cream sauce, you can use whole milk, half-and-half or evaporated milk with accept-able results. Also, if you buy heavy cream and don’t use it all, it can be frozen. It can’t be whipped, but it would work fine for other uses. You can make butter from the heavy cream, too. Place heavy cream

in a jar, tighten the lid and shake it. Once the butter has formed, drain off the liquid.

Dear Sara: I’m looking for a low-light houseplant that’s safe for my cats. Any ideas? Thanks. — Polly, Pennsylvania

Dear Polly: You can have plants such as Chinese Evergreen, Bamboo Palm, Lucky Bamboo, Spider plant and Peperomia. You can try hanging plants or a terrarium, too.

Dear Sara: Do you remem-ber the gallon shampoos that they used to have at the gro-cery store, like egg shampoo and so forth? I have been looking high and low for those and can’t seem to find them anywhere.

Were they just a product of the ‘70s? I remember them being very inexpensive, and I especially loved the egg sham-poo. — Melanie, California

Dear Melanie: You can still find gallon bottles of sham-poo at salon supply stores, Overstock.com or Amazon.com. As far as egg shampoo, it was a product launched in the late 1940s by Helene Curtis. I haven’t seen it, so I assume it’s discontinued.

There is an egg shampoo by Mario Badescu (www.mari-obadescu.com), but it’s not cheap. There’s Vanart classic shampoo, which has egg and honey in it, too. It’s avail-able at Walgreens online. You can check if they carry it in your local store. According to their Web site, it’s $2.99 for a 32-ounce bottle.

Sunday Break

Man travels incommunicado and frustrates wifeDear Abby: I have been

married for 12 years to a man who is an excellent provider, but not a loving husband.

He works out of town every week and comes home on weekends.

When he’s away he ignores my phone calls and won’t answer any texts.

If I do get him on the phone, he picks a fight with me for whatever reason — maybe I breathed too hard on the phone — and that’s enough for him not to answer anymore that week. We have three children and he doesn’t even communicate with them.

This has been going on for

a few years. I love him, but I feel his

attitude is belittling. It has reached the point that I’m afraid to say anything.

I’m a loving wife and mother, and I feel I should be respected and treated like a wife and not a weekend fling.

Please give me some advice as to what I should do. I’m at a loss for words. — Distraught

Dear Distraught: Your husband appears to suf-fer from selective amnesia.

When he’s out of town, he “forgets” that he’s married. It is in the best interests of you and your children to figure out what happened “a few years ago” that caused such a radical change in his behavior.

You are right that you are not being treated the way a wife should be.

That’s why you should con-sider hiring a private detec-tive to find out what’s been going on.

I am sure that once you understand, you will no lon-ger be at a loss for words.

Dear Abby: My uncle “Paul” died two weeks ago after a long illness. He and his daughter, “Nina,” had a

difficult relationship, and after an argument eight years ago she cut off all com-munication with him.

Uncle Paul developed the disease that led to his death after the estrangement. Nina’s brothers and other family members begged her to relent many times — to no avail. It was extremely pain-ful for everyone.

When Nina saw her father’s obituary in the newspaper, she decided to attend the funeral. Her brothers and Aunt “Joan” sent a message telling her that her atten-dance would be hurtful and asking her to stay away.

She came anyway — along with her husband, children,

their spouses and babies my uncle — and Aunt Joan — had never seen.

The rest of the family man-aged to shield Aunt Joan from them during the ser-vice, but Nina’s presence was very upsetting.

Am I wrong in thinking she should have stayed away? — Grieving

Dear Grieving: Funerals are intended to comfort the living as well as honor the dead. By coming and bring-ing her entire family after being asked to stay away, Nina did neither and instead poured salt in the wounds. No, you’re not wrong and the matter was handled properly — without creating a scene.

Abigail van Buren

Dear Abby

Dear Dr. Gott: I am a 59-year-old female. I have developed two hammertoes on my left foot and one on my right foot during the past three months. I went to a podiatrist, who advised me to use a cold pack for 20 minutes three times a day and to wear only ath-letic shoes. He also advised me not to go barefoot. I paid $23 for a pair of shoe inserts made of compressed foam, which he made dur-ing my visit. I am still experiencing the same level of discomfort. The stabbing pains are in the affected toes and the balls of my feet. The pain even awak-ens me during sleep. Can this condition be surgically corrected? Do you have any suggestions for a less inva-sive treatment?

Dear Reader: Hammertoe is a condition in which the affected toe or toes become bent at the middle joint. The middle joint bends upward, while the tip curls downward into a characteristic hammer or clawlike shape.

The most common cause stems from wearing shoes that are too small or heels that are too high. These types of footwear do not provide adequate space for the toes to lie flat, thus pushing one or more for-ward in an unnatural, bent position. Some cases may be inherited and will devel-

op no matter what kind of shoes you wear.

The early sign is a toe that curves abnormally but is still f lexible and lies flat when not wearing improper footwear. Over time, the repeated use of these shoes will cause the tendons to contract and tighten, caus-ing the toe to become bent and stiff permanently.

Treatment depends on the severity of the defor-mity. In the early stages, simply wearing more com-fortable, wider shoes and using special shoe inserts or pads may be all that is necessary; however, once the hammertoe has become inflexible, surgery is recommended. There are two types of procedures, depending on the remain-ing flexibility. If movement is possible, the surgeon may simply release the affected tendon though an incision in the toe. If the toe is completely rigid, a more complicated proce-dure might be performed.

In this case, the affected tendons will need to be cut or realigned, and por-tions of the bone may be removed to allow for straightening.

Hammertoe surgery samedayRose Bevington, a CPC

Volunteer, has started a new Program to help keep pets warm in cold weather or fashionable during any time of the year! Rose is refashioning clothing once worn by people for dogs to wear. The dog coats are being made from recycled clothing from local resale stores like Hospice Resale Store, Yokefellow Service Center, Chase Corner Ministries and Goodwill. Rose is customizing coats specifically to fit your dog.

To get your dog his or her own dog coat, you will need to provide the following measurements for Rose to make a custom-tailored coat made to fit your puppy or dog.

The diagram and the following list of mea-surements can be used to get the necessary measurements for your dog.

_____A to D (from the base of the tail to collar)

_____E circumference (around the neck)_____C to G cir. (around the chest)_____B to H cir. (around the waist)_____E to F (from the collar to top of the

front leg)_____F to G cir. (around the top of the front

leg)_____G to H (from G to the pee-pee (male)

or to back legs (female)_____Leg Length_____Male or _____Female _____Weight____________Dominant Breed____________Name of Your Pet____________Type of Coat, (choose:

Light or a little Heavier weight, Sweater, Windbreaker, Rain (have a few Large) or just for fun or dress up).

Variety and colors are limited but can be requested. Also, if you have a specific coat you would like to have redesigned for your

dog, it can be altered to fit. Because of sewing machine limitations, fleece jackets are the heaviest that can be used.

Cost: make a donation to the Community Pet Center. Suggested Donation: $10.00 for small coats $20.00 for large coats.

All Proceeds will fund the many programs run by the Community Pet Center to benefit pets and their owners.

If you are interested in having a coat made for your canine companion, please call the Community Pet Center Office for more infor-mation at 287-7738.

And, a note of thanks to Rose for working on this project for the Community Pet Center and for the lucky dogs who will be the recipients of these fine new coats!

dogs are going green thanks to CPC

PUZZLEYour Birthday, March 21;

Try to find some time to get involved in the types of interests you find pleasur-able.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — It’s vital to have good relationships with coworkers, if you hope to achieve an ambitious objective.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Do what you can to avoid getting into an arrangement at work that would put all the responsibility for defeat on you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — All talk but no action will put you in a bad light. Do something positive about your inten-tions.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Usually you’re smart enough to be tactful when working with others, but today these marvelous qualities are likely to be absent. You’ll discover quickly that you won’t attract any bees using vinegar.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Walk around with a chip on your shoulder, and there’s a strong chance that someone big-ger and moodier will knock it off. Don’t learn this lesson the hard way.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Keep in mind that brilliant motto: “Don’t invest without first investigating.” Many deals that come off looking good to the naked eye won’t look so hot when examined under a microscope.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Forming an alliance for convenience and/or to save time is likely to turn out to be any-thing but what you need or desire.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Be sure any objective you go after at this point is a worthy one.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Don’t include a particular troublemaker in your social group. Be more discerning to keep a good balance with your friend-ships.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Household frustrations can be kept at a minimum if you finish projects you already have under way before taking on starting anything new. Make a schedule and stick to it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — If progress in your particular field of work is being slowed down because of a lack of knowledge about what’s new on the mar-ket, you better start boning up real fast before things get worse.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — You could run across something that looks like it has profitable potential, but don’t act on it until you check everything out first, especially if you’re being urged not to wait. It could be a set up.

IN THE STARS Substitute sour cream

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Community Pet Center

Dr. Peter M. Gott

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local organization in their own backyard, because you never know if you’re going to need the services of the orga-nization you’re helping.”

Rutherford County’s BTS Chapter is sup-porting the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life in both Rutherford and Cleveland counties. The group has also been collecting food for Forest City-Dunbar Elementary’s Backpack Food Program.

“Our two basic goals are to go out and have fun and to give back to the community,” Condrey said.

The chapter had 16 people attend the first outing, and six women have joined.

“We recently moved back to Rutherford County and I was look-ing for a social outlet and wanted to net-work with other women my age,” said mem-ber Lesly Gibbon of Rutherfordton. “I have

an excuse to get out for a girl’s night out once a month and meet new people. Since moving here from Charlotte, I am continuously looking for ways to get involved in the community, show my support for the local businesses and create some excitement for women my age.”

Membership is open to anybody, Condrey said,

but ideally a chapter should have around 20 to 25 members.

“But if we had more, we could branch off and have sister chapters,” she said.

And while BTS is geared at younger-minded women, it is not meant to be in competi-tion with the Red Hat Society, Wallo said.

“I had the founder of

the Red Hat Society come visit me just after we got started, and she asked me why I would do something like this,” she said. “I told her it was like this – if you have a Coke and a Pepsi on a table, some will choose the Coke and others the Pepsi. It’s just a preference.”

Wallo said it’s all about changing the

mindset that once you hit 30, you’re over the hill.

“We’re really trying to change that image,” she said. “We’re blending the generations – our thing is really to bring together all genera-tions.”

To find out more about Blue Thong Society, visit www.bluethongsociety.com

or e-mail Condrey at [email protected].


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Participants will need to bring two gallons of whole milk (pastu-erized, but not ultra-pasteurized, Klahn said), zippered sandwich bags and a 10-quart stainless steel pot. Klahn will provide the rennet, the enzymes needed to make cheese. Rennet in its natu-ral state comes from the stom-achs of animals, but what Klahn

uses is a synthetic version that achieves the same effect – mak-ing the cheese form into soft balls.

And with a background in chemical engineering, Klahn said making cheese fits naturally.

“I like I can use the chemistry and engineering knowledge in cheese making and in starting my own farm,” she said.

Klahn is owner of Love Story Farm and will be growing wine grapes – she also makes wine – flowers, blueberries and in the

next year fiber providing ani-mals.

“But you don’t have to be a chemical engineer to make cheese or wine,” she added.

The class is just one of many unique offerings found in the college’s continuing educa-tion catalog, available online at http://www.isothermal.edu/conedu/. Introduction to Cheese-Making will be held Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Cost to attend the class is $35. To regis-ter, call 286-3636 ext. 346.

What about that logo?It took almost a month to come up with the logo, said Blue Thong Society Founder Mary Jo Wallo. “Anothermember was doodling and came up with it and said ‘If you look at it this way it looks like a thong on your butt and if you turn it it looks like a thong on your foot,’” Wallo said. The color blue, she said, was chosen because in color lore blue is linked to emotions such as sympathy, harmony, friendship and loy-alty. And you don’t have to wear a thong to take part, she said. It’s more about an attitude.

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Contributed photoThe Blue Thong Society’s first meeting was held at Legal Grounds in February. The philanthropic organization is open to women of all ages – from 21 and older.

1 gallon pasteurized milk (NOT ultra-pasteur-ized)

1-1/2 level teaspoons citric acid, dissolved in 1/4 cup cool water

1/4 teaspoon liquid rennet diluted in 1/4 cup cool water

Measure out additives before you start, in clean glass or ceramic cups. Use unchlori-nated water.

Stir the milk on the stove in a stainless steel kettle, heating very gently. At 55 degrees, add the citric acid solution and mix thoroughly. At 88 degrees, it should begin to curdle.

Gently stir in diluted rennet with up-and-down motion, and continue heating the milk to just over 100 degrees, then turn off heat. Curds should be pulling away from sides of pot, ready to scoop out. The whey should be clear. (If it’s still milky, wait a few minutes.) Use a slotted spoon to move curds from pot to a two-quart microwaveable bowl. Press curds

gently with hands to remove as much whey as possible.

Microwave the curds on high for one min-ute, the knead the cheese againw ith hands or a spoon to remove more whey. (Rubber gloves help _ this gets hot.) Microwave two more times (about 35 seconds each) kneading between each heating. At this point, salt the cheese to taste, then knead and pull until it’s smooth and elastic. When you can stretch it into ropes like taffy, you are done. If the curds break instead, they need to be reheated a bit. Once cheese is smootha dn shiny, roll it into small balls to eat warm or store for later int he refrigerator.

Lacking a microwave, you can use the pot of hot whey on the stove for the heating and kneading steps. Put the ball of curd back in with a big slotted spoon, and heat it until it’s almost too hot to touch. Good stretching tem-perature is 175 degrees.

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Tipton Deployed

Courtesy of Sun-News Photographer Shari VialpandoRutherford County native Pvt. Adam Tipton, holds his 11-week-old daughter Kagen, during a deployment fair Thursday at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Pvt. Tipton is the son of Wayne and Patricia Tipton of Forest City. Pvt. Tipton, along with his wife Brooke, son Chase and daughter Kagen, recently arrived in New Mexico when he received deployment orders almost immediately for Afghanistan. The deploy-ment fair for the 2nd Engineer Battalion was held to help prepare families of soldiers who will soon leave for overseas duty.

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