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By JEAN GORDONDaily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — Armyworms. They march across the field and defoliate the grass. They consume pasture land.

If grass suddenly becomes thin with brown patches, there’s a good chance armyworms have invaded.

Cooperative Extension Agent Jeff Bradley on Thursday visited a farm off Dogwood Valley Road, where the worms are active. In some places, 20 armyworms were found per 20 square feet of space.

“And that is a major issue,” Bradley said of the pasture land owned by Eddie Holland, which now shows areas of brown.

“They are common,” Bradley said, and depending on summer rainfall, they can cause serious issues for farmers raising feed for cattle.

“In drought years we are more susceptible to them because some of their natural predators aren’t out there, so they eat grass.”

“The main thing is we want people to know there is a potential and a probability of the armyworms, and you don’t have to look for them very long,” Bradley said.

“You look down and it almost seems like the ground starts moving,” Bradley said. “They are armyworms.

The worms, characterized by white stripes

Please see Worms, Page 6A

FOREST CITY — The Symphony of Rutherford County will kick off its 23rd season on Saturday, Sept. 11, with its first fall rehearsal from 10 a.m. until noon.

Rehearsals are held at the First Baptist Church of Spindale. Anyone who plays a symphonic instrument and who is will-ing to devote Saturday mornings for regular rehearsals is welcomed to attend. No auditions are required.

Wilbert K. Kimple, conductor of the

Symphony of Rutherford County, has served in this capacity since 2004. Educated in his home state at the University of West Virginia, Kimple has served on the staff of the Brevard Music Center and on the faculty at Converse College where he taught both undergrad-uate and graduate courses in instrumen-tal conducting. He has also performed as a French horn player in a variety of ensembles. Now in his retirement he devotes his full musical attention to the

Symphony of Rutherford County. Under his challenging leadership the orchestra has grown both musically and in num-ber. The multi-generational group now consists of over sixty all-volunteer musi-cians.

Kimple has heard from Orchestra members who are very excited about the musical selections for this coming sea-son, said Nancy Womack, symphony

Please see Symphony, Page 6A

By LARRY DALEDaily Courier Staff Writer

GREEN HILL — Three women runners who have undertaken a labor of love passed through Rutherford County on Labor Day.

Lisa Tew, Shay Mendes and Kristy Tomicki are run-ning from Murphy, in the far western corner of North Carolina, to Manteo, on the Carolina coast, to raise money and awareness for the fight against Parkinson’s disease.

Tew is a North Carolinian who still resides in the state. Mendes is a San Francisco Bay area native who lives in Philadelphia, and Tomicki is a Buffalo, N.Y., native who also resides in Philadelphia.

Tew explained the motiva-tion behind the event as the three runners took a brief break at William & Mary Antiques & Collectibles on U.S. 64-74A in the Green Hill community at about noon on Monday.

“We’re going to cover 545 miles in 16 days,” she said, “which is about 35 miles a day, every day. And we’re doing it in affiliation with the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s disease research. My father was diagnosed about 15 years ago with the disease.”

The foundation is named after actor Michael J. Fox,

Please see Runners, Page 2A

Garrett Byers/Daily CourierDaryl Conley (right) shows North Carolina Cooperative Extension Agent Jeff Bradley an area of defoli-ated grass caused by the large infestation of armyworms at a farm off Dogwood Valley Road.

Army worms cause trouble

Symphony rehearsals begin Saturday

The first pump-kins were gathered Labor Day and dis-played at Pumpkin Center of the South off U.S. 64/74 near Lake Lure. Lamont Edgerton (in truck) passes a pumpkin to Max Banks, who was also working Monday. Mrs. Zack Whitesides (far left) watched from the porch as son Z.T. Whitesides and others helped unload the first pumkins. The family plants about 11 acres of pumpkins.

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UNLOADING PUMPKINS

Charity run hits county

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Larry Dale/Daily CourierRunners participating the Murphy to Manteo Run to draw awareness and raise money for the fight against Parkinson’s Disease jog through Green Hill Monday afternoon.

who was diagnosed with the disease in 1991.

Mendes added, “I see Lisa and her family, how this disease has affected them, and what her dad is going through, and people that I’ve met along the way and see what they are going through. I want to be part of finding a cure.”

“I’ve been running with Kristy and Shay for a number of years,” Tew said. “And we just thought, running is a very selfish act; it just benefits you, and that is about it. So we thought that we would do it to benefit somebody else, and a cause.

The three have already gath-ered tens of thousands of dol-lars, but they have an ambitious goal.

“We’ve got about $40,000 raised so far for the Michael J. Fox Foundation,” Tew said. “That puts us at No. 4 in the

country. So we are real excited about that.

“But the most ambitious part of our goal is that we want to raise a whole lot of money. So the running part is a cake walk compared to the amount of money that we want to raise and to what Parkinson’s disease does to its victims. So this is a cake walk compared to what a patient, or a victim, has to go through.”

On Monday the runners all said that, considering what they have undertaken, they are doing well.

“So far, so good,” Tew said. “This is the fourth day, and besides a few blisters on the toes, I’m fine. A little soreness.”

Mendes, when asked how she was feeling, replied, “Good, actually, good.”

Tomicki, finishing up a small snack and some water, explained, “We have to get calo-ries in wherever we can.”

“I’m good, considering,” she continued. “I am a runner, but nothing like this. I’ve never done anything like this before. I’m surprised at how good I feel.”

The runners were thankful for the help they have received.

“I’ll be honest with you, if we didn’t have the support of people like that man right there,” Tew said, pointing to Deputy Sheriff Max Gee, who is following the runners on the busy high-

way to keep them safe. “The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department has gotten us through Rutherford County. We could not do this if it were not for Rutherford County and a lot of other counties along the way.

“And in addition to that, we’ve got a support group of our fami-lies, which pretty much consists of brothers and brothers-in-law and sisters and sisters-in-law that are just taking their time to help us out.”

The break over, the women returned to the highway in the sunny, mid-80s heat.

Tomicki summed up the trip so far.

“We just hit a hundred miles, a couple of miles ago, in four days,” she said. “Four hundred and forty-five to go.”

The women planned to stay in Forest City overnight before resuming their trek to the coast today.

(For more information on the

Murphy to Manteo run, go to www.murphytomanteo.org. To donate, make checks payable to the Michael J. Fox Foundation, in the memo line reference Murphy to Manteo, and send to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, PO Box 5014, Hagerstown, MD 21741-5014.)

Contact Dale via e-mail at ldale@thedigitalcourier.com

FOREST CITY — The American Red Cross Carolinas Blood Services Region has issued an urgent call for blood donors.

The Red Cross closely monitors national and local blood supplies to ensure donations are keep-ing pace with hospital need for blood products in order to meet ongoing and emergency patient care.

Donors with all blood types are needed, but especially those with type O negative. Red Cross officials say type O negative donors can make the difference between an adequate blood supply and a shortage. That’s because type O negative blood can be transfused to patients with any blood type, and is most readily given to patients in emergency and trauma situations.

All presenting donors will be entered in a draw-ing for a chance to win a $1000 gift card.

Wednesday: Isothermal Community College; 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Call 286-3636 ext. 353.

Sept. 20: American Red Cross Chapter; Oakland Road, Forest City; 2 to 6:30 p.m. Call 287-5916.

Sept. 21: Spindale United Methodist Church; 3 to 7 p.m. Call 245-8554.

Sept. 30: Crestview Baptist Church; Church Street, Forest City; 3 to 7:30 p.m. Call 286-9758.

Sept. 30: Lowe’s of Forest City; 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Call 351-1023.

Sept. 30: Trinity School Blood Drive; 299 Deter Street, Rutherfordton; 2 to 7 p.m. Call 287-2000..

To schedule an appointment call 11-800-733-2767) or visit redcrossblood.org for more informa-tion.

BOILING SPRINGS – The Gardner-Webb Department of Fine Arts presents their Distinguished Artist Concert Series with Andrew McAfee on Tuesday, Sept. 7 at 8:00 p.m. in Blanton Auditorium, located in Hamrick Hall.

McAfee serves as a horn instruc-tor and lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as music director/conductor for the Triangle Youth Ballet (located in Chapel Hill). McAfee also spent

15-years as principal horn player for the North Carolina Symphony, which is headquartered in Raleigh.

Musical selections that McAfee will perform at the event include “Fantasie” by Franz Straus, “Andante” from Symphony No. 5 by Felix Mendelssohn, and “Laudatio” for solo horn by Bernard Krol.

More information about this event and the Department of Fine Arts is available at 704-406-4448.

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ASHEVILLE — Dignitaries will officially mark the 75th anniversary of the Blue Ridge Parkway this week.

Gathering at the location where construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway began Sept. 11, 1935, the governors of North Carolina and Virginia, as well as congressional leaders from both states and rep-resentatives from the National Park Service will officially mark the event with a ceremony at 11 a.m. at Cumberland Knob on Sept. 10.

About 500 attendees are expected, including Bob McDonnell, governor of Virginia, and N.C. Gov. Beverly Perdue.

Speakers will address the history, design and construction of the parkway as well as the impor-tance of the recreational and scenic assets of the road, the significance of the byway’s biodiver-sity, and the role of the parkway in preserving Appalachian culture and history, as well as in providing an economic engine to the surrounding communities.

An emphasis will be placed upon the critical need for stewardship of future generations of parkway advocates and enthusiasts.

Parkway anniversary celebration scheduled

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SUMMER WINDS DOWN

A few boats motor around Lake Lure on Labor Day as the summer vacation season came to a close. While some were boat-ing, others such as Kathy Morgan of Hendersonville, spent some time kayaking around Snug Habor. Tourists converged in Lake Lure and Chimney Rock State Park for the holiday weekend with the Park reporting its high-est attendance in more than a year.

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Man killed crossing InterstateCHARLOTTE (AP) — Police say a man try-

ing to cross a busy Interstate highway in North Carolina was struck by a car and killed.

The Charlotte Observer reports that the man, whose name has not yet been released, was hit by a car early Monday morning as he tried to cross Interstate 85 just north of Sugar Creek Road.

Highway Patrol Sgt. E.B. Miller says it’s not clear why the man was trying to get across the highway on foot, but it’s something police have commonly seen on that stretch of I-85.

1 dead, 11 hurt in gun violenceDURHAM (AP) — Authorities say one man

was killed and another wounded in a shoot-ing that was part of a night of gun violence in a North Carolina city.

Durham police told multiple media outlets that the fatal shooting was part of an attempted robbery around 10:20 p.m. Saturday.

Investigators say witnesses gave officers a description of an SUV involved in the shoot-ing, and a traffic stop a few minutes later led to the arrest of 18-year-old Deandre Rucker and a 15-year-old boy.

Rucker was charged with murder and attempted robbery.

About five hours later, Durham police say 10 people were injured, two seriously, as a car fired shots into a home. No arrests have been made in that case.

Police: Three dead in shootingWILMINGTON (AP) — North Carolina inves-

tigators say three people have died in a shooting in a coastal community.

The StarNews of Wilmington reported that Brunswich County deputies responding to an emergency call about a shooting found three people in a car with gunshot wounds.

One was dead at the scene and two others died while being treated at a local hospital.

Investigators have not identified the victims or any potential suspects in the case.

Ferry, yacht collide off coastOCRACOKE (AP) — The Coast Guard says

no one was hurt in a boat collision in the ferry channel to North Carolina’s Outer Banks.

The Coast Guard said in a news release that a 35-foot motor yacht hit a ferry boat Saturday night.

The ferry Carteret was not damaged and none of its eight passengers or crew were injured.

Two crew members and two dogs were removed from the damaged yacht and cleared by medical workers with no serious injuries.

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■ A daily forum for opinion, commentary and editorials on the news that affects us all.

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When word spread that ani-mals left at the Rutherford County Animal Shelter

would be euthanized on Friday if they had not been adopted, people respond-ed. All the animals will live a bit longer now as they were either adopted, fos-tered or rescued.

The more than 80 animals at the shel-ter faced a grim fate because the facil-ity is being closed for a week for needed repairs. The county could not afford to pay the $15 per day per animal that it would have cost to have moved the ani-mals to another shelter while the work was completed.

The fact that people responded to save the animals just shows how strong the feelings about animals are.

Unfortunately, what we saw happen last week is not the norm. The numbers of animals euthanized at the animal shelter on a regular basis clearly show that. Animals are put down weekly because homes cannot be found for them, or in many cases because they are not adoptable.

The fact is that Rutherford County has a problem dealing with its animal population. The problem is far deeper than the fact that our existing animal shelter facility is a sorry facility. That issue certainly needs to be addressed, but we also need to continue to push responsible pet ownership and encour-age all those people out there who care about animals to get involved.

Solving this county’s problem with animal control is going to take a con-certed effort on many fronts.

Our Views

Shelter just part of the problem

Our readers’ viewsSays new shelter would solve problems

To the editor:It is my sincere belief if a new

Animal Shelter would be built the state violations would cease.

I stress Animal Shelter not Adoption Center. The Community Pet Center can do so much. And they do a wonderful job. But it is the county’s respon-sibilty to see the animals are treated humanely.

As my grandparents use to say when I was growing up. “You can judge a man’s character by the way he treats his dog.”

Need I say more? Sherrie Bostic

Ellenboro

Says shelter problems are not going away

To the editor: As I write this on Thursday

evening, the dogs and cats left at Animal Control, unless adopted were scheduled to die on Friday.

Lots of good people are doing everything they can to get those animals adopted or into foster care. People are stepping for-ward to notify local veterinar-ians that they’ll sponsor (pay costs) a dog or a cat, or just offer a set amount of money to help offset medical costs.

There are good people in Rutherford County. But many of those good people need to understand that this particular issue, getting a lot of attention right now, is not unique.

When the “shelter” opens back up for business, dogs and cats

and puppies and kittens will be surrendered or abandoned or flat-out dumped there every sin-gle day. And because the facility is far too small for the number of animals abandoned in this county, even healthy, adoptable, sweet-tempered and beautiful animals will be killed simply for lack of space.

The County can stick this or that band-aid on the exist-ing Animal Control facility for years to come, pouring your tax dollars into a 50-year-old, ram-shackle building just so they can barely pass state codes to stay in operation. So more animals can be crowded into too few runs for a few short days before being killed.

Those are your tax dollars going into that facility. Your tax dollars paying to inhumanely house and then — often — inhu-manely kill pets whose only mistake was being born into a society that treats them as unim-portant and disposable.

Maybe you can sleep easily at night, knowing that. I can’t.

Kay HooperBostic

Says people forget what they get for taxes

To the editor: I would just like to say to the

people that next time you get in your car and go somewhere, think of the nice road you are on. You could travel a mile a minute or faster if it was not for laws we have.

Also look and see how many law officer’s cars you see. How

about a fire truck or fire station? Have you seen an ambulance lately? Have you gone by a school at anytime in your life, and if so have you ever thought about the teachers, assistant teachers, people in the office or the lunch-room people and the custodians there.

We always say that this is a great nation, with many things for us just like those I have just mentioned.

But have you ever once thought of how all of this has come about? It has come about by people paying taxes.

Let’s do away with all taxes and see what we will have.

I have been working since I was 15, and have paid taxes for 44 years except for the last three years because my wife and I have not made enough to pay taxes. I just wish I could be as fortunate as Joe The Plumber. I would not mind paying 50,000 in taxes.

People need to check out your sources of information before you believe them. I think I get the same papers you also get, and most of that stuff is not exactly to the point.

On “Meet The Press,” Tim Russert in the last of 2004 said, the Bush deficit was $450 billion and that is after $150 billion was taken out of Social Security, and I believe it was close to 800 bil-lion dollars his last year.

In Obama’s first year, $1.3 tril-lion was already spent before he took office of which $720 billion was Wall Street bailout money.

Ronnie WilsonRutherfordton

I’m back for at least one more Bookwatch seasonWe knew you wouldn’t give

it up.That is what some of my

friends said when I told them that, after announc-ing my retirement last year, I recently signed up to do one more season of UNC-TV’s “North Carolina Bookwatch.”

I guess they were right. Happily, we have a wonder-ful new season.

Beginning this week I will be introducing you to anoth-er group of North Carolina books and authors, who will share their wisdom and insights with us.

In addition to the Sunday at 5 p.m. showings, the new series will air Fridays at 9:30 p.m.

First up is Lee Smith, a favorite writer for many North Carolinians.

She will tell us about some of 14 of stories in her newest book, Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger.

Smith’s enthusiasm for her stories and characters and

her generous willingness to share her writing experienc-es always make for a great conversation. (Friday, Sept. 10 at 9:30 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 12 at 5 p.m.)

John Claude Bemis, a for-mer middle school teacher who grew up in eastern North Carolina reading and listening to mystery and trickster stories, writes imaginative stories inspired by the John Brown legend.

He will tell us about how that interest and some hard work turned into a contract with a major publisher.

We will also talk about his first of a three-book series, The Nine Pound Hammer. (Friday, Sept. 17 at 9:30 p.m. with the Sunday broadcast

preempted in connection with UNC-TV’s fundraising schedule)

North Carolina’s Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River (more than 50,000 people).

Because of their long-standing, and so far unsuc-cessful, effort to gain full recognition from the U.S. Government, they are often in the news.

Thus, UNC-Chapel Hill Assistant Professor of History Malinda Maynor Lowery’s new book, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation, will be timely for many years.

Lowery, a Lumbee her-self, will share her special perspectives on Bookwatch. (Sept. 24, 26)

With hurricane season coming down on our coast again, Greensboro native Nic Brown’s first book Flood Markers is a fictional reminder of how, on Sept.

21, 1989, Hugo Hurricane Hugo changed so many of our lives. (Oct. 1,3)

If hurricanes don’t scare you, what about lightning?

In Michele Young-Stone’s new novel, The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors, lightning some-times strikes twice.

It first hits eight-year-old Becca Burke one day in Chapel Hill, and things are never the same for her. (Oct. 8,10)

Charlotte native Andrew Park’s new book, Between a Church and a Hard Place: One Faith-Free Father’s Struggle to Understand What it Means to be Religious (or Not) describes a non-believer’s quest to understand the power of religion in his region and in his family. (Oct. 15,17)

Kathy Reichs’s Spider Bones is the 13th in Reichs’s best-selling Temperance Brennan series.

Like Reichs, her fictional character, Brennan, is a

forensic anthropologist who is the model for the “Bones” TV series.

Reich will talk about her overlapping careers as pro-fessor at UNC-Charlotte, researcher, crime investiga-tor, and author. (Oct. 22, 24)

Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina by Leonard Rogoff follows the history of Jews in our state beginning with Sir Walter Raleigh’s efforts to establish a colony on Roanoke Island, when Joachim Gantz, a Jewish metallurgist, explored the area’s potential for mining in 1585.

We will ask Rogoff to share with us the sweep of North Carolina’s history as it over-lapped with and was influ-enced by the experiences of Jewish people. (Oct. 29, 31)

In summary, I am glad to be back and I hope you will tune in and share the fun.

Martin is host of North Carolina Bookwatch which airs Friday at 9:30 p.m. and Sunday at 5 p.m.

D.G. Martin

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Jonas SimsJonas L. Sims, 84, of

Rutherfordton, died Monday, Sept. 6, 2010, at his home in Rutherfordton.

A native of Rutherford County, he was a son of the late Sidney Sims and the late Eva Mae Guffey Sims.

He also was preceded in death by his wife, Dorothy Thompson Sims.

He is survived by a daugh-ter, Bobbie Sims Atchley of Union Mills; two sons,

Wayne Sims and Ernest Sims, both of Rutherfordton; two sisters, Rena Mae Auten of Kannapolis and Dorothy Earley of Marion; a brother, Paul Sims of Rutherfordton; and by five grandchildren and five great-grandchil-dren.

Arrangements are being handled by McMahan’s Funeral Home & Cremation Services, where the fam-ily will receive friends from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. today. Graveside service will be at Sunset Memorial Park at 4 p.m. with William Swink officiating. Interment will be at Sunset Memorial Park, Forest City.

In lieu of flowers, memori-als may be made to Hospice of Rutherford County; PO Box 336; Forest City, NC 28043.

Online guest register: www.mcmahansfuneralhome.com

William Wells

William “Bill” Wells, 79, of 194 Harris St., Rutherfordton, died Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010, at Rutherford Hospital.

A native of Rutherford County, he was the son of the late Samuel Crayton Wells and Mamie Sue Williams Wells, and was first married to the late Margie Jackson Wells.

Mr. Wells was a former mayor of Rutherfordton. He was also the for-mer Rutherford County fire marshal, retired Rutherfordton fire chief, served on Rutherfordton Town Council, and was for-mer president of the North Carolina State Fireman’s Association. He served in the Navy during the Korean War. He was a member of First Baptist Church of Rutherfordton.

He is survived by his wife, Shirley Webster Wells; two daughters, Debbie Wells Gourley of Greensboro and Susan Wells Alderman of Salem, Va.; and two grand-children.

The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 p.m. today at Southern Baptist Church prior to the service. A memorial service will be held at Southern Baptist Church at 2 p.m. today with the Revs. John Perry Jr., Dean Baughn and Jane Summey-Mullenax officiat-ing. Interment will be in the church cemetery with honors provided by the Rutherford County Veterans Honor Guard and the Rutherford County Fireman’s Honor Guard.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memori-als be made to First Baptist Church of Rutherfordton,

P.O. Box 839, Rutherfordton, NC 28139, or to Southern Baptist Church, 140 Church St., Rutherfordton, NC 28139, or to the Rutherford County Senior Center, 193 Callahan Koon Rd. #132, Spindale, NC 28160.

McMahan’s Funeral Home and Cremation Services is assisting the family.

Online guest register: www.mcmahansfuneralhome.com

Lucy Hampton

Lucy Hampton, 87, of Green Hill, died Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010, at her daugh-ter’s residence.

A native of Rutherford County, she was a daughter of the late Columbus Mills Doty and Lillie Norville Doty.

She was a longtime mem-ber of Green Hill Baptist Church and worked as a weaver for Stonecutter Mills for more than 25 years.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 54 years, Willie Hampton; two broth-ers and a sister.

Survivors include two sons, Robert E. Hampton of Forest City and David Hampton of Union, S.C.; a daughter, Barbara Conner of Caroleen; a sister, Lois Waters of Forest City; three grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

The funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Harrelson Funeral Chapel with the Rev. John Baker and Dr. Robert Morgan officiating. Interment will follow in Green Hill Baptist Church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 1 p.m. until service time at the funeral home. At other times they will be gathered at 123 Womack Lake Road, Forest City.

Memorial donations are suggested to Hospice of Rutherford County, P.O. Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043.

A live webcast of the service and an online guest registry are available at www.harrelsonfu-neralhome.com

Sheriff’s Reportsn The Rutherford County

Sheriff’s Department responded to 254 E-911 calls Saturday and Sunday.

Rutherfordtonn The Rutherfordton

Police Department respond-ed to 60 E-911 calls Saturday and Sunday.

Spindalen The Spindale Police

Department responded to 60 E-911 calls Saturday and Sunday.

Lake Luren Lake Lure Police

Department responded to 29 E-911 calls Saturday and Sunday.

Forest Cityn The Forest City Police

Department responded to 137 E-911 calls Saturday and Sunday.n An employee of Dollar

General Store reported a lar-ceny and simple assault.n John Bridges reported a

lost or stolen tag.n An employee of Food

Lion reported shoplifting/ concealment. (See arrest of McCraw.)n An employee of EZ

Wireless reported a larceny.n An employee of Wal-

Mart reported a larceny by employee.n Connie Fisher reported

a larceny. The incident occurred at Wal-Mart.n Theodore Edgerton

reported a larceny.n An employee of O’Reilly’s

reported a larceny.n Shirley Herron reported

damage to property.n Gregory Sisk reported a

breaking and entering and larceny.

Arrestsn Travis Eugene Miller, 27,

of Melody Lane, Forest City; arrested on a warrant for assault on a female, injury to personal property and com-municating threats; placed under a $3,000 secured bond. (FCPD)n Michael Lewis Moore,

37, of Crowe Dairy Road, Forest City; charged with

possession of stolen vehicle, driving while license revoked and improper equipment; placed under a $25,000 secured bond. (FCPD)n Pamela Lynn Lovelace,

24, of West Main Street, Forest City; charged with second-degree trespass; released on a $3,000 unse-cured bond. (FCPD)n Jeffrey Ray Reep, 48, of

231 Tanners Grove Road; charged with driving while impaired; released on a $2,000 unsecured bond. (LLPD)n Courtney Leigh

Bramlette, 29, of 103 Pinecrest Drive; charged with driving while impaired; placed under a $1,000 secured bond. (LLPD)n John Scott Cote, 43,

of 116 Dark Ridge Road; charged with driving while impaired; placed under a $1,000 unsecured bond and a custody release. (LLPD)n Ubimagaliel Escobar

Lopez, 26, of 108 Pearidge Road; charged with driv-ing while impaired; placed under a $3,000 secured bond. (NCHP)n Ricky Dwayne Long, 32,

of 772 Piney Ridge Road; charged with driving while license revoked, failure to appear and motorcycle fail burn tail light; placed under a $3,000 secured bond. (NCHP)n Richard Kim Leach, 48,

of 185 Whites Lane; charged with driving while impaired; released on a $1,000 unse-cured bond and a custody release. (NCHP)n Cherell Le Car

Humphries, 22, of 268 Womack Lake Road; charged with misdemeanor larceny; placed under a $1,000 cash bond. (RCSD)n Latiff Roberick Brown,

26, of 693 Doggett Grove Road; charged with resisting a public officer, assault on a female and communicat-ing threats; placed under a $5,000 secured bond. (RCSD)n Roy Steven Buff, 20, of

750 Gilmore Edwards Road; charged with communicat-ing threats and assault on a female; placed under a 48-hour hold. (RCSD)n William Shane Taylor,

20, of 108 Biddy Lane; charged with injury to real

property; placed under a $3,000 secured bond. (RCSD)n Rodger Allen Clark, 68,

of 570 Old U.S. 221; charged with assault on a female; placed under a 48-hour hold. (RCSD)n William Troy Ramsey,

45, of 757 Shiloh Church Road; charged with three counts of assault on a gov-ernment official/employee; placed under a $7,500 secured bond. (RCSD)n Steven Lee Helms, 22,

of 842 Pinehurst Road; charged with driving while impaired; released on a $1,000 unsecured bond and a custody release. (RCSD)n Michael Christopher

Poteat, 24, of 191 Farm Side Drive; charged with disor-derly conduct; released on a $1,000 unsecured bond. (RCSD)n Wayne Johnie Owensby,

51, of 262 U.S. 221A; charged with impede traf-fic by sit/ stand/ lie; placed under a $1,000 secured bond. (SPD)

Citationsn Tina Diane McCraw, 41,

of Wood Road, Forest City; cited for larceny; released on a written promise to appear. (FCPD)

EMSn Rutherford County

Emergency Medical Services responded to 46 E-911 calls Saturday and Sunday.n The Volunteer Life

Saving and Rescue, Hickory Nut Gorge EMS and Rutherford County Rescue responded to two calls Saturday and Sunday.

Fire Callsn Bills Creek firefighters

responded to a house fire, to a smoke report and to a tree down.n Cliffside firefighters

responded to an electrical fire.n Forest City firefighters

responded to an industrial fire alarm.n Hudlow firefighters

responded to a motor vehicle accident.n SDO firefighters con-

ducted a control burn inves-tigation.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Jefferson Thomas, who as a teenager was among nine black students to integrate a Little Rock high school in the nation’s first major battle over school segregation, has died. He was 67.

Thomas died Sunday in Ohio of pancreatic cancer, according to a Monday state-ment from Carlotta Walls LaNier, who also enrolled at Central High School in 1957 and is president of the Little Rock Nine Foundation.

The integration fight was a first real test of the fed-eral government’s resolve to enforce a 1954 Supreme Court order outlawing racial segregation in the nation’s public schools. After Gov. Orval Faubus sent National Guard troops to block

Thomas and eight other stu-dents from entering Central High, President Eisenhower ordered in the Army’s 101st Airborne Division.

Soldiers stood in the school hallways and escorted each of the nine students as they went from classroom to classroom.

Each of the Little Rock Nine received Congressional Gold Medals shortly after the 40th anniversary of their enrollment. President Clinton presented the med-als in 1999 to Thomas, LaNier, Melba Patillo Beals, Minnijean Trickey Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Terrence Roberts and Thelma Mothershed Wair.

In 2008, then President-elect Obama sent Thomas and other members of the

Little Rock Nine special invitations to his inaugu-ration as the nation’s first black president. During his campaign, he had said the Little Rock Nine’s courage in desegregating Central High helped make the opportuni-ties in his life possible.

Thomas played a number of sports and was on the track team at Dunbar Junior High, but others had little to do with him once he entered Central, the state’s largest high school.

After graduation, he served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam. Thomas earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Los Angeles State College and worked as an accounting clerk with the Department of Defense, retiring in 2004.

Obituaries

Police Notes

Associated PressIn a 1999 file photo, President Clinton sings with Jefferson Thomas, far left, and Ernest Green, cen-ter, at the conclusion of a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in the White House, to honor them and the other members of The Little Rock Nine. Jefferson Thomas died Sunday in Columbus, Ohio, said fellow Little Rock Nine member Minnijean Trickey Brown.

One of Little Rock 9 has died

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William “Bill” Wells

William “Bill” Wells, age 79, of 194 Harris St., Rutherfordton, NC, died Sunday, September 5, 2010, at Rutherford Hospital.

A member of First Baptist Church of Rutherfordton, Mr. Wells was also the former Rutherford County Fire Marshall, retired Rutherfordton Fire Chief, served on Rutherfordton Town Council, former Mayor of the Town of Rutherfordton and former President of the North Carolina State Fireman’s Association. Mr. Wells served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War.

A native of Rutherford County, he was the son of the late Samuel Crayton Wells and Mamie Sue Williams Wells, and was first married to the late Margie Jackson Wells.

He is survived by his wife, Shirley Webster Wells; two daughters, Debbie Wells Gourley and husband John, of Greensboro, NC, and Susan Wells Alderman and husband, Sam, of Salem, VA; and two grandchildren, Carter Wells Gourley and Sarah Kathryn Gourley.

The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 p.m., Tuesday, Septem-ber 7, 2010, at Southern Baptist Church prior to the ser-vice. A memorial service will be held at Southern Baptist Church at 2 p.m., Tuesday, September 7, 2010, with the Rev. John Perry, Jr., the Rev. Dean Baughn and the Rev. Jane Summey-Mullenax officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery with hon-ors provided by the Rutherford County Veterans Honor Guard and the Rutherford County Fireman’s Honor Guard.

In lieu of flowers, the fam-ily requests memorials be made to First Baptist Church of Rutherfordton, P.O. Box 839, Rutherfordton, NC 28139, or to Southern Baptist Church, 140 Church St., Rutherfordton, NC 28139, or to the Rutherford County Senior Center, 193 Callahan Koon Rd. #132, Spindale, NC 28160.

McMahan’s Funeral Home and Cremation Services is assisting the Wells family.

An online guest register is available at www.mcmahansfu-neralhome.com

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and an upside down V on their faces, are typically most active early in the morning, late in the afternoon or in early evening, but in taller grass, they can be observed feeding on foliage throughout the day. The damage can appear to be “overnight,” the N.C. Department of Agriculture says.

Bradley suggests people investigate their pastures and fields. “It is a mat-ter of not waiting to see if your pas-tures turn brown, go out and see if you have the armyworms. Scout out the pastures, lawns and fields.”

Bradley said the armyworms arrived in the lower end of the county and are continuing to move in other areas, “marching across the fields.”

The good news is they can be stop-ped, and Bradley suggests calling the extension office at 287-6010 for directions on how to get eliminate the pests.

“Call us and we’ll help you get rid of them,” he said.

Contact Gordon via e-mail at jgordon@the-digitalcourier.com

president. “Planned works include the “Toccata

and Fugue in D minor” by Bach, “Fanfare for the Common Man” by Copland,” “Light Cavalry Overture” by von Suppe, and the “Canon” by Pachelbel.

The Symphony is planning it busiest year yet for 2010-11.

In addition to its regular concert schedule, which includes a program in November for fourth and fifth graders in Rutherford and Polk County schools, a winter concert and a spring concert, the orchestra is adding a Christmas concert that will feature not only the Symphony of Rutherford County, but also a local choral group.

All concerts are held at the Foundation Performing Arts and Conference Center on the campus of Isothermal Community College.

They are open to the public and are free of charge — the Symphony’s way of fulfilling its mission of serving the community through music and music education.

The concert schedule is listed below:Sunday, Dec. 5 — A Symphonic

Christmas — 3 p.m., ICC FoundationSunday, Jan. 30, 2011 — Annual

Winter Concert — 3 p.m., ICC Foundation

Sunday, May 1, 2011 — Annual Spring Concert — 3 p.m., ICC Foundation

ongoingFoothills Harvest Ministry: $5 plastic grocery bag sale, $7 tall kitchen bag sale, $9 30-gallon trash bag sale; bags can be filled with clothes and shoes.

Yokefellow Service Center: Storewide half price sale Sept. 3-13; closed on Sundays and for Labor Day; store hours 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Silent auctions for Relay for Life: Held weekly through Sept. 10. Photos and details will be posed on the Rutherford County government website at www.rutherfordcountync.gov. Items will be posted each Monday and bids end each Friday at noon. For information or to place a bid, e-mail Debra Conner, debra.con-ner@rutherfordcountync.gov.

Luminaria sale and can food drive: Relay for Life Rutherford County is selling luminarias, which will be lighted Sept. 10 at Relay for Life, for $10; luminarias may be purchased online at www.relayforlife.org/rutherfordnc or by calling Gail Strickland, 245-2156 or 233-1735. In addition, canned foods will be used to weigh down the luminarias. After Relay, the canned foods will be donated to Communities in Schools and Grace of God Rescue Mission; cans should be 11 to 15 ounces to best fit in the luminarias.

Washburn Community Out-reach Center: Entire store appar-el half-price; hours Thursday and Friday, noon to 6 p.m., Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.; contact the center regarding the GED pro-gram offered by ICC at 245-5603.

Celebration of the Arts applica-tions: Will be accepted through Sept. 8 at the Rutherford County Visual Arts Center, 160 N. Main St., Rutherfordton; guidelines and information available at www.rcvag.com.

tuesday, sept. 7HOPE Support Group: Tuesdays beginning today for four weeks at 10 a.m. at the Hospice Center of Living; for any adult in the com-munity who has lost a loved one; offered at no cost.

GRACE: For anyone caring for a loved one, held the first Tuesday of each month from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at Rutherford Life Services; today’s topic is “Legal issues for caregiv-ers” with attorney John B. Crotts; hosted by Hospice of Rutherford County.

Relay for Life Team Captain’s Meeting: 5:30 p.m., Isothermal Community College Library Auditorium; a representative from each team must be there to pick their campsite for Relay.

Relay for Life fundraiser: 10 percent of all proceeds today at Courtside Steaks will be donated to Relay for Life of Rutherford County.

Chase Athletic Boosters meet-ing: 6 p.m., high school conference room.

Rutherford County Republican Party meeting: 6:30 p.m., Repub-lican headquarters, across from the courthouse in Rutherfordton; executive committee meeting; topics will include finalizing plans for the barbecue on Sept. 18 as well as discussion of changing the plan of the organization to require attendance for voting rights on the committee.

Rutherford County Schools Board of Education meeting: 7 p.m., Cool Springs Administrative Office.

Alanon meetings: Lake Lure Alanon Family Group meets every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., at Lake Lure Mountains Branch Library, 150 Bills Creek Road, Lake Lure; call 625-0456 for information.

Wednesday, sept. 8Free Prostate Screening: 3 to 6 p.m., Cancer Resource Center; includes prostate exam by a physi-cian and PSA blood test; registra-tion required, 245-4596.

thursday, sept. 9Prime of Life Festival: 9 a.m. to noon, Carolina Event and Conference Center; lifestyles fair for adults 50-plus and their fami-lies.

Back Street barbecue: 4 to 7 p.m., Court Street parking lot across from Rutherfordton Post Office; sponsored by Rutherford County Visual Artists Guild; music provided by South Mountain Connection, food pre-pared by Sid Jennings; tickets are $8 and must be purchased in advance; proceeds will help fund the guild’s annual Celebration of the Arts.

RALEIGH (AP) — A report detail-ing serious flaws in the State Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab has threatened the credibility of North Carolina’s criminal justice system, lawmakers say, and major changes are needed.

The News and Observer of Raleigh reports that both Democrats and Republicans in the legislature are dis-mayed by the findings of the report last month, which detailed how SBI agents helped prosecutors obtain convictions over a 16-year period by misrepresenting blood evidence and keeping critical notes from defense lawyers.

“When folks in law enforcement see something like this occur, it can really call into question everything they are doing,” said Senate Minority Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham. “You’ve got to clear the air.”

Berger is one of several lawmakers who want to see a full audit of the entire lab. The report that produced the current outcry focused only the lab’s serology section, which analyzes blood and other fluids.

A full audit would likely cost mil-lions, but top legislators say money isn’t a concern when the integrity of the system is at stake.

“The absolute credibility of the judi-cial system concerns me more than any expense,” said House Speaker Joe Hackney, D-Orange.

In addition to an audit, lawmakers are also talking about the possibility of removing the lab from SBI control to make it independent of prosecutors and police.

“You have to separate that connec-tion,” said Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight, D-Dare. “There were people who did anything to secure a conviction. How many innocent peo-ple have been convicted?”

The next legislative session doesn’t start until January. But lawmakers will be reviewing the SBI lab before then, starting as soon as Sept. 16.

the adult fall armyworm is an ash-gray moth with a wing-span of about 11.2 inches. The front wings are mottled and

have white or light gray spots near the tips. The back wings are white with a

narrow, smoky brown edge. Moths become active at twilight

and feed on nectar. They have an average life span of 2

to 3 weeks.

Eggs. The female moths lay eggs at night in masses of up to several hundred on light-colored surfaces, such as fence rails, tree trunks, and the underside of tree limbs. The eggs are light gray and covered

with grayish fuzz from the female’s body. These masses darken with age, and

the eggs hatch within 2 to 4 days. All the eggs within a mass hatch at

about the same time.

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Georgia .braces .for .test .vs . .S . .Carolina

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia never has the luxury of rel-ishing an opening win over an nonconference opponent, because South Carolina always awaits early in the Bulldogs’ schedule.

Georgia, which beat Louisiana-Lafayette 55-7 on Saturday, opens its Southeastern Conference schedule at South Carolina next week.

Coach Mark Richt says the South Carolina game “is the most honest test” for the No. 23 Bulldogs, especially an offense led by freshman quarterback Aaron Murray.

The game is an important early season test to establish a top contender to Florida in the SEC’s Eastern Division.

South Carolina beat Southern Miss 41-13 on Thursday night.

Panthers .sign . . . . . . .Dale .Murphy’s .son

CHARLOTTE (AP) — The Carolina Panthers have signed eight players to the practice squad, including for-mer Atlanta Braves star Dale Murphy’s son.

Guard Shawn Murphy has bounced around after being Miami’s fourth-round pick in 2008. The 27-year-old played at Utah State, during which he took off three years for a church mission and to decide if he wanted to play football again.

He and Dan Santucci will provide depth for Carolina’s thin offensive line in practice. Santucci was cut by Kansas City on Saturday.

The Panthers also signed six players to the practice squad Monday they cut two days ear-lier, including rookie corner-back R.J. Stanford, defensive tackle Corvey Irvin., running back Josh Vaughan, fullback Rashawn Jackson, receiver Trent Guy and linebacker Sean Ware.

Busch, .Bodine .are .not .getting .along

ATLANTA — Don’t expect Kyle Busch and Todd Bodine to be hanging out at dinner any-time soon.

The two have developed a compelling rivalry in the NASCAR Trucks Series, which boiled over again during the most recent race at Kentucky Motor Speedway.

Bodine accused Busch of “driving dirty” when he got into Bodine’s rear quarterpan-el, causing a spin. Busch took issue with those comments.

VOLLEYBALL5 p.m. Shelby at R-S Central5 p.m. Avery at TJCA5 p.m. East Rutherford at Freedom

SOCCER6 p.m. R-S Central at Fred T. Foard

WOMEN’S TENNIS4 p.m. Shelby at R-S Central4 p.m. East Rutherford at Freedom

11 a.m. (ESPN2) Tennis U.S. Open, Men’s Round of 16 and Women’s Quarterfinals.7 p.m. (ESPN2) Tennis U.S. Open, Men’s Round of 16 and Women’s Quarterfinals.7 p.m. (TS) MLB Baseball Atlanta Braves at Pittsburgh Pirates. 8:30 p.m. (FSCR) MLB Base-ball Cincinnati Reds at Colo-rado Rockies.

HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — Ten driv-ers have locked up spots in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.

No one is feeling better about his chances than Tony Stewart.

The car owner raced the No. 14 Chevy to his first win of the year, pulling away from Carl Edwards off the final restart Sunday night at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

“Ring the bell, baby!” Stewart screamed over the radio as he took the checkered flag for his 38th career victory, and third at Atlanta.

On a night when much of the racing was fender to fender, Stewart beat Edwards by a comfortable 1.316 sec-onds for his first victory since Oct. 4, 2009, at Kansas, leaving Edwards winless since the 2008 season finale.

Jimmie Johnson was third, followed by Jeff Burton and Kyle Busch.

“I don’t know if we have peaked yet,” said Stewart, who snapped a

31-race winless streak that was the second-longest of his 12-year career. “I think we’ve got room to be better.”

Ten drivers have now clinched spots in the 12-man Chase for the Sprint Cup championship going into the final race before the playoff begins, led by points leader Kevin Harvick. Jeff Gordon, Busch, Stewart, Edwards, Burton, Johnson, Kurt Busch, Matt Kenseth and Denny Hamlin are also heading to the 10-race playoff.

Still looking to lock up spots head-ing into next weekend’s race at Richmond — essentially the regular-season finale — are No. 11 Greg Biffle and No. 12 Clint Bowyer.

Bowyer has a 117-point lead on No. 13 Ryan Newman and merely needs to finish 28th at Richmond to clinch his spot. Sentimental favorite Mark Martin, trying to win his first Cup championship at age 51, slipped a

spot in the standings and is now 15th — a daunting 147 points out of the playoff.

The final caution of the night came out after Newman made contact with Kasey Kahne, nearly causing a crash on the backstretch.

Stewart was out front when the green came back out with 19 laps to go, and he zoomed off the line to beat Edwards into the first corner. From there, the red Stewart-Haas Racing machine steadily pulled away, clearly the strongest car on a night in which he led eight times for a total of 176 laps — more than the rest of the field put together.

“I didn’t hit a restart all night until right there at the end,” Stewart said. “I’ve never been so happy with a win in my life.”

Edwards has not driven into

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Stewart takes his 1st Cup win of year

Tony Stewart does a burnout after winning the NASCAR Emory Healthcare 500 auto race at the Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga., Sunday.

Associated Press

Associated PressNorth Carolina State’s Russell Wilson (16) looks to pass during the first half against Western Carolina in an NCAA college football game against Western Carolina, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010, at Carter-Finley Stadium.

By JOEDY McCREARYAP Sports Writer

RALEIGH — With Russell Wilson slinging long passes and a talented crew of receivers catching them, North Carolina State certainly has plenty of big-play potential.

The competition is about to get a little tougher, but there’s no doubt the Wolfpack want to keep it going.

“You don’t have to go in and be ‘the guy,’ per se, all the time,” receiver Owen

Spencer said Monday. “When we shuffle in and out with receivers, we have the same caliber receivers and the same ath-letic ability as the guys who are start-ers.”

Ahead for N.C. State (1-0) this week is Central Florida (1-0), the first of nine straight opponents that went to bowl games last season. And with an offense that is littered with inexperience up front and in the backfield — but plenty

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Wilson makes ’Pack tick

DE Nedlett overcomes long odds

CHARLOTTE (AP) — There are so many reasons Andre Neblett shouldn’t be on an NFL roster.

Poor grades in high school left him lightly recruited. Struggling Temple took a chance, but the coaches switched him from linebacker to defensive tackle, a position he not only never played, but hated.

While he eventually thrived there and helped turn around the Owls’ moribund program, he went undrafted because of concerns he wasn’t big enough. He signed with Carolina, but appeared to have little chance to stick around as the Panthers prepared to trim 22 players on Saturday.

Then the cut list came out and on it was veteran Tank Tyler, who some thought would start at defensive tackle. Corvey Irvin, a third-round pick just a year earlier, was waived, too.

Neblett? He became only the fourth undrafted rookie to make the team in coach John Fox’s nine seasons in Carolina.

Oh, and he might be the only defensive lineman the Panthers have had who can do a back flip.

“Everything has been going my way,” Neblett said.

Neblett spoke Monday at Bank of America Stadium, which serves as a reminder of how far he’s come. He was a true freshman here learning a new position in 2006 when Temple lost to Clemson 63-9 on the way to a 1-11 season.

“There’s nothing you can do to him in training camp that would bother him after what he’s been through here,” Owls coach Al Golden said.

Golden talks proudly of how Neblett not only became an elite, if undersized, college defensive tackle, he morphed into a good student and was part of a class that helped

Please see Nedlett, Page 9A

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sports

BASEBALLNational League

East Division W L Pct GBAtlanta 79 59 .572 —Philadelphia 78 60 .565 1Florida 70 66 .515 8New York 67 71 .486 12Washington 60 78 .435 19

Central Division W L Pct GBCincinnati 79 57 .581 —St. Louis 71 63 .530 7Houston 64 72 .471 15Milwaukee 63 73 .463 16Chicago 59 78 .431 20 1/2Pittsburgh 46 91 .336 33 1/2

West Division W L Pct GBSan Diego 76 59 .563 —San Francisco 76 61 .555 1Colorado 72 64 .529 4 1/2Los Angeles 69 68 .504 8Arizona 56 81 .409 21

Sunday’s GamesFlorida 7, Atlanta 6, 10 inningsMilwaukee 6, Philadelphia 2Washington 8, Pittsburgh 1St. Louis 4, Cincinnati 2N.Y. Mets 18, Chicago Cubs 5Colorado 4, San Diego 2Houston 3, Arizona 2San Francisco 3, L.A. Dodgers 0Monday’s GamesFlorida 7, Philadelphia 1, 1st gameWashington 13, N.Y. Mets 3Pittsburgh 3, Atlanta 1St. Louis 8, Milwaukee 6Chicago Cubs 5, Houston 4Colorado 10, Cincinnati 5San Francisco 2, Arizona 0, 11 inningsFlorida at Philadelphia, late, 2nd gameL.A. Dodgers at San Diego, lateTuesday’s GamesAtlanta (T.Hudson 15-6) at Pittsburgh (Ja.McDonald 2-5), 7:05 p.m.Florida (Volstad 9-9) at Philadelphia (Blanton 6-6), 7:05 p.m.N.Y. Mets (Gee 0-0) at Washington (Maya 0-0), 7:05 p.m.Houston (Figueroa 4-2) at Chicago Cubs (Silva 10-5), 8:05 p.m.St. Louis (Lohse 2-6) at Milwaukee (Narveson 10-7), 8:10 p.m.Cincinnati (Cueto 12-4) at Colorado (J.Chacin 7-9), 8:40 p.m.San Francisco (Lincecum 12-9) at Arizona (Enright 6-2), 9:40 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 11-9) at San Diego (Correia 10-10), 10:05 p.m.

American League

East Division W L Pct GBNew York 86 51 .628 —Tampa Bay 83 53 .610 2 1/2Boston 76 61 .555 10Toronto 71 66 .518 15Baltimore 51 86 .372 35

Central Division W L Pct GBMinnesota 80 57 .584 —Chicago 77 60 .562 3Detroit 68 70 .493 12 1/2Kansas City 57 79 .419 22 1/2Cleveland 55 82 .401 25

West Division W L Pct GBTexas 75 62 .547 —Oakland 67 69 .493 7 1/2Los Angeles 66 71 .482 9Seattle 54 83 .394 21

Sunday’s GamesToronto 7, N.Y. Yankees 3Chicago White Sox 7, Boston 5Baltimore 8, Tampa Bay 7Kansas City 2, Detroit 1Minnesota 6, Texas 5L.A. Angels 7, Oakland 4Seattle 3, Cleveland 0Monday’s GamesChicago White Sox 5, Detroit 4, 10 inningsBaltimore 4, N.Y. Yankees 3Toronto 7, Texas 2Minnesota 5, Kansas City 4Oakland 6, Seattle 2Tampa Bay at Boston, lateCleveland at L.A. Angels, lateTuesday’s GamesBaltimore (Arrieta 4-6) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 19-5), 7:05 p.m.Chicago White Sox (F.Garcia 11-5) at Detroit (Verlander 14-8), 7:05 p.m.Texas (Feldman 6-9) at Toronto (Marcum 11-7), 7:07 p.m.Tampa Bay (Price 16-6) at Boston (Matsuzaka 9-4), 7:10 p.m.Kansas City (Bannister 7-11) at Minnesota (Liriano 12-7), 8:10 p.m.Cleveland (Masterson 5-12) at L.A. Angels (T.Bell 2-4), 10:05 p.m.Seattle (Fister 4-11) at Oakland (Braden 9-10), 10:05 p.m.

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Thursday’s GamesMinnesota at New Orleans, 8:30 p.m.Sunday’s GamesDetroit at Chicago, 1 p.m.Oakland at Tennessee, 1 p.m.Miami at Buffalo, 1 p.m.Atlanta at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.Denver at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.Indianapolis at Houston, 1 p.m.Carolina at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.Cincinnati at New England, 1 p.m.Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.Arizona at St. Louis, 4:15 p.m.San Francisco at Seattle, 4:15 p.m.Green Bay at Philadelphia, 4:15 p.m.Dallas at Washington, 8:20 p.m.Monday’s GameBaltimore at N.Y. Jets, 7 p.m.San Diego at Kansas City, 10:15 p.m.

GOLFDeutsche Bank Championship

Par Scores — FinalCharley Hoffman 64-67-69-62—262 -22Geoff Ogilvy 64-72-65-66—267 -17Luke Donald 65-67-66-69—267 -17Jason Day 63-67-66-71—267 -17Tom Gillis 67-71-65-65—268 -16Adam Scott 67-69-65-67—268 -16Brandt Snedeker 66-64-67-71—268 -16John Senden 66-68-69-67—270 -14Steve Stricker 65-68-67-71—271 -13D.J. Trahan 64-69-69-70—272 -12Michael Sim 68-66-72-68—274 -10Tiger Woods 72-65-69-68—274 -10J.B. Holmes 66-71-69-68—274 -10Ryan Palmer 64-72-69-69—274 -10Matt Kuchar 66-65-72-71—274 -10Vijay Singh 66-68-69-71—274 -10Andres Romero 68-66-68-72—274 -10Jason Dufner 66-73-68-68—275 -9Stewart Cink 68-66-72-69—275 -9Angel Cabrera 69-68-69-69—275 -9Charlie Wi 68-66-67-74—275 -9Bill Haas 66-73-69-68—276 -8Kris Blanks 66-68-72-70—276 -8Brian Davis 64-73-69-70—276 -8Paul Casey 66-72-71-68—277 -7Martin Laird 66-69-74-68—277 -7Retief Goosen 67-69-71-70—277 -7Bo Van Pelt 70-70-68-69—277 -7Phil Mickelson 69-65-67-76—277 -7Ernie Els 70-67-70-71—278 -6Zach Johnson 63-71-71-73—278 -6Justin Leonard 69-66-67-76—278 -6Nick Watney 69-72-70-68—279 -5Matt Jones 65-70-73-71—279 -5Kevin Na 69-67-70-73—279 -5Hunter Mahan 64-70-71-74—279 -5Bubba Watson 67-71-73-69—280 -4Jim Furyk 66-73-71-70—280 -4Fredrik Jacobson 65-76-69-70—280 -4Rory McIlroy 64-76-69-71—280 -4Jason Bohn 67-74-72-68—281 -3Greg Chalmers 68-72-72-69—281 -3Rickie Fowler 67-70-74-70—281 -3Steve Marino 65-69-71-76—281 -3Robert Allenby 69-70-75-68—282 -2Josh Teater 68-70-75-69—282 -2David Toms 67-71-75-69—282 -2Ian Poulter 67-73-73-69—282 -2Brendon de Jonge 67-72-73-70—282 -2Kevin Streelman 69-70-73-70—282 -2K.J. Choi 69-71-72-70—282 -2Tim Clark 69-72-71-70—282 -2Stephen Ames 67-68-75-72—282 -2Tim Petrovic 68-71-71-72—282 -2Y.E. Yang 67-70-68-77—282 -2John Rollins 66-70-67-79—282 -2Ricky Barnes 68-71-74-70—283 -1Stuart Appleby 70-71-72-70—283 -1Ryuji Imada 67-71-73-72—283 -1Dustin Johnson 73-68-69-73—283 -1Marc Leishman 71-68-77-68—284 EDavis Love III 71-69-71-73—284 ECamilo Villegas 67-72-71-74—284 EBlake Adams 70-68-70-76—284 EHeath Slocum 68-72-74-71—285 +1Lucas Glover 70-68-72-75—285 +1Charles Howell III 68-70-77-71—286 +2Ryan Moore 64-76-70-76—286 +2Aaron Baddeley 71-70-75-71—287 +3Paul Goydos 68-73-75-74—290 +6Shaun Micheel 68-71-75-77—291 +7

RACINGNASCAR Sprint Cup

Emory Healthcare 500 Results(Start position in parentheses)

1. (5) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet2. (4) Carl Edwards, Ford3. (7) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet4. (26) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet5. (3) Kyle Busch, Toyota6. (11) Kurt Busch, Dodge7. (14) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet8. (2) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet9. (8) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet10. (32) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota11. (30) Matt Kenseth, Ford12. (6) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota13. (18) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet14. (33) Reed Sorenson, Toyota15. (12) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet16. (13) David Reutimann, Toyota17. (27) Regan Smith, Chevrolet18. (16) A J Allmendinger, Ford19. (9) David Ragan, Ford20. (36) David Gilliland, Ford21. (17) Mark Martin, Chevrolet22. (25) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet23. (40) Bill Elliott, Ford24. (37) Dave Blaney, Ford25. (28) Brad Keselowski, Dodge26. (43) Casey Mears, Toyota27. (31) Joey Logano, Toyota28. (35) Patrick Carpentier, Ford29. (41) Travis Kvapil, Ford30. (21) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge31. (24) Bobby Labonte, Chevrolet32. (10) Kasey Kahne, Ford33. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet34. (20) Scott Speed, Toyota35. (19) Paul Menard, Ford36. (15) Greg Biffle, Ford37. (42) Kevin Conway, Toyota38. (34) Joe Nemechek, Toyota39. (23) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet40. (38) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet41. (22) Elliott Sadler, Ford42. (39) Mike Bliss, Toyota43. (1) Denny Hamlin, Toyota

NASCAR Sprint Cup Points Leaders Through Sep. 5

1. Kevin Harvick, 3,585.2. Jeff Gordon, 3,366.3. Kyle Busch, 3,325.4. Tony Stewart, 3,302.5. Carl Edwards, 3,288.6. Jeff Burton, 3,261.7. Jimmie Johnson, 3,247.8. Kurt Busch, 3,228.9. Matt Kenseth, 3,225.10. Denny Hamlin, 3,147.11. Greg Biffle, 3,110.12. Clint Bowyer, 3,066.13. Ryan Newman, 2,949.14. Jamie McMurray, 2,938.15. Mark Martin, 2,919.16. David Reutimann, 2,880.17. Juan Pablo Montoya, 2,866.18. Kasey Kahne, 2,856.19. Dale Earnhardt Jr., 2,847.20. Martin Truex Jr., 2,787.

TRANSACTIONSMonday’s Sports Transactions

BASEBALLAmerican League

BOSTON RED SOX_Recalled 1B Lars Anderson, RHP Michael Bowden and OF Josh Reddick from Pawtucket (IL). Activated C Jason Varitek from the 15-day DL.KANSAS CITY ROYALS_Recalled OF Jarrod Dyson from Omaha (PCL).MINNESOTA TWINS_Recalled RHP Pat Neshek and LHP Glen Perkins from Rochester (IL).NEW YORK YANKEES_Recalled OF Colin Curtis from Scranton-Wilkes-Barre (IL).OAKLAND ATHLETICS_Sent RHP Vin Mazzaro to Sacramento (PCL).TEXAS RANGERS_Purchased the contract of INF Esteban German from Oklahoma City. Designated INF Alex Cora for assignment.TORONTO BLUE JAYS_Purchased the con-tract of RHP Shawn Hill from Las Vegas (PCL). Recalled RHP Robert Ray from Las Vegas.

National LeagueCOLORADO ROCKIES_Recalled C Mike McKenry from Colorado Springs (PCL). Reinstated RHP Matt Daley from the 60-day DL.PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES_Selected the con-tract of LHP Nate Robertson from Lehigh Valley (IL). Recalled RHP Vance Worley and LHP Mike Zagurski from Lehigh Valley.

Eastern LeagueTRENTON THUNDER_Announced OF Justin Christian was assigned to Scranton-Wilkes Barre (IL) and OF Taylor Grote was assigned to the team from Charleston (SAL).

FOOTBALLNational Football League

ARIZONA CARDINALS_Released CB Marshay Green, FB Reagan Maui’a and LB Pago Togafau. Claimed off waivers, CB Brandon McDonald from Cleveland, LB Cyril Obiozor from Green Bay and FB Jerome Johnson from the New York Giants. Signed OL Herman Johnson, G Tom Pestock and WR Isaiah Williams to the practice squad.BALTIMORE RAVENS_Agreed to terms with WR T.J. Houshmandzadeh. Traded WR Mark Clayton to St. Louis for an undisclosed draft pick.BUFFALO BILLS_Signed FB Corey McIntyre to a two-year contract extension through 2012. Signed WR Paul Hubbard and LB John Russell to the practice squad. Announced TE Derek Schouman was not claimed after being waived/injured and is now on the injured reserve list.CAROLINA PANTHERS_Signed G Shawn Murphy, G Dan Santucci, CB R.J. Stanford, DT Corvey Irvin, RB Josh Vaughan, FB Rashawn Jackson, WR Trent Guy and LB Sean Ware to the practice squad.CLEVELAND BROWNS_Signed WR Jordan Norwood and RB Andre Anderson to the prac-tice squad.DALLAS COWBOYS_Signed OT Cliff Louis, TE Scott Chandler, G Travis Bright, WR Jesse Holley, WR Manny Johnson, RB Lonyae Miller, TE Martin Rucker and CB Teddy Williams to the practice squad.DETROIT LIONS_Signed WR Tim Toone, DT Rob Callaway, LB Caleb Campbell, C Dan Gerberry, CB Jonathan Hefney, CB Paul Pratt and WR Michael Moore to the practice squad. Claimed off waivers, LB Spencer Havner from Green Bay and KR Stefan Logan from Pittsburgh.INDIANAPOLIS COLTS_Signed WR Alric Arnett, DB Cornelius Brown and OL Xavier Fulton to the practice squad.MIAMI DOLPHINS_Signed LB Bobby Carpenter. Released LB Charlie Anderson. Signed DB Jonathon Amaya, DE Ryan Baker, G Ray Feinga, LB Chris McCoy, TE Nathan Overbay, WR Julius Pruitt and LB Austin Spitler to the practice squad.MINNESOTA VIKINGS_Signed G Seth Olsen and OT Thomas Welch to the practice squad. Waived G Thomas Austin from the practice squad.NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS_Signed LB Shawn Crable, S Sergio Brown, WR Darnell Jenkins, OL Rich Ohrnberger, RB Javarris James and TE Jeron Mastrud to the practice squad.NEW ORLEANS SAINTS_Signed LB Danny Clark. Released TE Tory Humphry.NEW YORK JETS_Re-signed FB Tony Richardson. Released CB Brian Jackson.PITTSBURGH STEELERS_Signed RB Frank Summers, TE Eugene Bright, G Dorian Brooks, S Da’Mon Cromartie-Smith, WR Tyler Grisham, OT Kyle Jolly, DT Steve McLendon and DE Doug Worthington to the practice squad.SAN DIEGO CHARGERS_Signed QB J.T. O’Sullivan to a one-year contract.SEATTLE SEAHAWKS_Named Pat Ruel offen-sive line coach. Released S Jordan Babineaux, FB Owen Schmitt and DT Kevin Vickerson. Signed DE Raheem Brock, RB Michael Robinson and DT Junior Siavii. Signed CB Marcus Brown, RB Chris Henry, G Lemuel Jeanpierre, LB Joe Pawelek, QB Zac Robinson, CB Ross Weaver, WR Pat Williams and DE James Wyche to the practice squad.TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS_Claimed RB LeGarrette Blount off waivers from Tennessee. Signed P Chris Bryan. Waived P Brent Bowden and WR Reggie Brown. Signed WR Dezmon Briscoe, OT Will Barker and OT Derek Hardman to the practice squad.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

ATLANTA THRASHERS_Signed F Fredrik Modin.

TENNISUnited States Tennis Association

USTA_Patrick McEnroe resigned as U.S. Davis Cup captain, effective after the Sept. 17-19 play-off against Colombia.

COLLEGEHIGH POINT_Named Joe Mercurio volunteer assistant baseball coach.SYRACUSE_Named Lindsey Campbell and Whitney Dixon communications assistants.

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Associated PressPittsburgh Pirates’ Neil Walker, right, rounds third to greetings from coach Tony Beasley, not pictured, after hitting a two-run homer off Atlanta Braves pitcher Tommy Hanson during the sixth inning in Pittsburgh Monday.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Atlanta Braves lost a game they badly needed to win. Even worse, they lost to a Pirates team whose only apparent goal appears to be avoiding the franchise’s worst sea-son in nearly 50 years.

Neil Walker hit a two-run homer, Brian Burres limited Atlanta to one run over six innings in his first start in more than three months and the Pirates beat the can’t-get-hot Braves 3-1 on Monday.

Despite losing its fourth in five games, Atlanta was assured of remaining in first place in the NL East for at least another day when Florida beat Philadelphia 7-1 in the first game of a day-night doubleheader. The Braves own a one-game lead over the Phillies.

The Braves have led the division every day since May 31, but have lost six games off that edge since July 22.

Lost their confidence, too? They say not so.“I think a characteristic of our team is confi-

dence,” said Matt Diaz, who had two of Atlanta’s eight hits. “We don’t really have a strut on the field and but we definitely have a swagger in the locker room, and we’re not losing confidence at all. We know we go in the division and control our fate. That’s the beauty of being the team that the other team’s chasing — whether it’s one game or 10 games.”

Walker homers, Pirates beat first-place Braves 3-1

Hoffman wins Deutsche Bank; Tiger stays at No. 1

NORTON, Mass. (AP) — Charley Hoffman was rolling in so many putts he lost track of how many birdies he made Monday. His final stroke on a Labor Day masterpiece was his 11th birdie, more than enough to win the Deutsche Bank Championship.

The question is whether it was enough to make him a last-minute pick for the Ryder Cup.

“Hopefully, I’m on the real short list,” he said.Hoffman ran off four straight birdies early to

erase a four-shot deficit, seized control by holing a bunker shot on the 13th and closed with a 9-under 62 on the TPC Boston for a five-shot victory over Geoff Ogilvy, Jason Day and Luke Donald.

Tiger Woods had three rounds in the 60s for the first time this year. He closed with a 69 to tie for 11th, and kept his No. 1 ranking in the world when Phil Mickelson imploded again.

Mickelson needed only to finish fourth to become No. 1 for the first time in his career. Instead, he opened the back nine with a triple bogey, made a double bogey on the 17th and shot 76 to finish 15 shots behind in a tie for 25th. A month ago, Mickelson had an equally good chance at Firestone and shot 78.

Even if he doesn’t make the Ryder Cup, the FedEx Cup is looking pretty good for Hoffman.

He was No. 59 in the standings and arrived at the TPC Boston wanting to make sure he advanced to the third round of the playoffs next week outside Chicago.

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of speed and skill at wideout — the Wolfpack fig-ure to rely on their productive pass game until their young rushers find their legs.

Wilson had his sixth career four-touchdown game, and surpassed 300 yards passing for the fifth time.

Spencer, who led the nation last year by averag-ing 25½ yards per reception, caught a 60-yard pass against Western Carolina.

T.J. Graham had two touchdown catches, each covering at least 25 yards. In all, four players caught passes of 20 yards or longer from Wilson in the season-opening 48-7 rout.

“It puts you in a comfort zone. When you feel as though you have to make that big play, you have the confidence in the other players that they can make the same caliber of plays, so you don’t have to,” Spencer said.

That’s important because two other key areas of N.C. State’s offense, coach Tom O’Brien said, are “a work in progress.”

Of the five linemen who started the opener, only one — guard Andrew Wallace — had ever started a game before. The Wolfpack’s starting left tack-le, and protector of Wilson’s blind side, was true freshman Robert Crisp — a five-star recruit and the jewel of the incoming class in February, but nevertheless, still a freshman.

And, neither starting tailback Dean Haynes nor backup Mustafa Greene had ever played in a col-lege game prior to Saturday night. Haynes rushed for 69 yards and Greene added 35 in their debuts.

“I guess our offense, as a whole, put them at ease, so they didn’t have to come in to make a huge play right away,” Spencer said.

Temple to its first bowl game in 30 years last season.

“He was a kid who was playing fullback in high school, so he’s only really played nose guard these four years,” Golden said. “He’s gotten stronger every year. He’s gotten smarter in terms of foot-ball intelligence. He’s gotten tougher every year and he’s gotten in better condition every year.

“I’m not surprised that he made (the Panthers). I’m surprised he didn’t get drafted. What a deal to get him undrafted.”

Panthers general manager Marty Hurney echoed that sentiment in explaining how the 6-foot, 295-pound Neblett made the final roster after col-lecting six tackles in the preseason. While under-sized, he had attributes the Panthers are keen on these days. He’s young, speedy and athletic enough to be able to do back flips.

“Every time he was in games he made plays,” Hurney said. “Every time he was in there he made something happen.”

Victory Lane since his nine-win season of 2008. But he led more laps in Atlanta (32) than he had in the last 46 races combined, giving him plenty of confidence that he can contend for his first series title.

“Tony just has such a fast car at the end, but we’re back,” Edwards said. “I know we don’t look good as we did in 2008, but we’re better prepared to race for the championship.”

Johnson also is headed back to the Chase, giving him a shot to add to an already unprecedent-

ed four straight Cup titles.“This is a huge relief for myself

and this team,” he said. “that was so much fun. That was the way racing should be. Even at the end, we were trying to run (Edwards) down. We were rac-ing hard with these guys. That says lot about (Johnson’s) team going forward.”

It wasn’t such a good night for pole winner Hamlin, who had vowed to shake out of his mid-season slump with a couple of strong performances going into the Chase.

He had plenty of speed, lead-ing 74 laps, but the engine didn’t hold out on his No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. Coming to the

start-finish line on the 143rd lap, Hamlin’s car suddenly started billowing smoke, send-ing him spinning into the infield grass.

He wound up last in the 43-car field and slipped five places in the standings to 10th.

“It seems like we find all the bad luck in Joe Gibbs Racing,” Hamlin said. “It’s frustrating, but I’m going to look at it as a 50-50 day. You can look at the negative, and reliability is still somewhat of an issue. But the positive is we brought our best race car to the track, pretended it was a Chase race and got to see where we stack up when we really had to go.”

Williams, Querrey play the US Open numbers gameBy EDDIE PELLSAP National Writer

NEW YORK — Venus Williams says 30 is the new 20. Sam Querrey likes to think 20 could be No. 1.

Thirty-year-old Williams is talking about age, and No. 20 Querrey is talking about seed-ing, but both are talking about the same thing when it comes to the U.S. Open.

They’d like to be the ones to put America back on top at its own national championship.

“The average sports fan basi-cally watches the Grand Slams,” Querrey said after his third-round win over No. 14 Nicolas Almagro on Sunday. “If you don’t have a guy in the finals or winning one of those, in tennis, you really don’t get a lot of rec-ognition.”

Querrey and 19th-seeded Mardy Fish, who plays No. 3 Novak Djokovic on Monday, are still long shots — but the only two remaining hopes for the United States to break a seven-year drought without a men’s champion.

Another candidate, No. 18 John Isner, lost 6-4, 6-7 (7), 7-6 (5), 6-4 Sunday night despite hitting 33 aces against No. 12 Mikhail Youzhny of Russia.

“I’m really sorry, but you still have a lot of USA play-ers,” Youzhny told the crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium, which was squarely in Isner’s corner.

In Monday’s first match in Ashe Stadium, Dominika Cibulkova upset No. 11 Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-5, 7-6 (4) to advance to the quarterfinals. The match started less than 10 hours after the end of No. 5 Sam Stosur’s 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (2) win over No. 12 Elena Dementieva — a contest that ended at 1:35 a.m. Monday, the latest fin-ish for a women’s match in U.S.

Open history.Next up for Stosur is a match

against No. 2 Kim Clijsters, who wrapped up her 6-2, 6-1 win over Ana Ivanovic shortly after the lunch hour Sunday.

“She’s got a 14-hour head start on me,” Stosur said. “She played first and I played last, so there’s not much bigger difference than that.”

Williams, meanwhile, is a two-time U.S. Open champion and the only American left in the women’s draw.

She defeated No. 16 Shahar Peer 7-6 (3), 6-3.

With a quarterfinal match-up looming against another 30-year-old player, Francesca Schiavone, Venus found herself fielding questions about how “old” is too old in women’s ten-nis.

“Seems like everybody is hit-ting their stride at 30. It’s the new 20,” Williams joked. “But I’m hoping that my experience will help me, just like it did today.”

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CHAPEL HILL (AP) — John Blake has resigned his position on North Carolina’s football staff, effective immediately, school officials said Sunday night.

Blake, who was in his fourth season working with Butch Davis, said in a statement issued by the school that he stepped down because “my presence has become a distraction” to the univer-sity.

“Consequently, I have determined that it is in the best interests of my family, the university com-munity at large, and the football program for me to step down from my position as associate head football coach,” Blake said.

The NCAA has spent much of the summer inves-tigating whether defensive lineman Marvin Austin and receiver Greg Little received improper ben-efits from agents.

That probe has since expanded to include pos-sible academic misconduct, and 13 players did not travel to Atlanta for Saturday night’s game against LSU. Also drawing the NCAA’s interest is Blake’s longtime friendship with California-based agent Gary Wichard.

“Coach Blake had indicated to me in previous conversations that he would step down if he felt his presence with the football program would become a distraction,” athletic director Dick Baddour said. “I know the young men he coached are tremendously disappointed, but Coach Davis and his staff will help and support them as the season moves forward.”

Blake will be paid $74,500, an approximation of the salary he would have received had he finished the season, and it will be paid by football rev-enues, the school said in the statement.

Associated PressLSU linebacker Stefoin Francois, left, breaks up a touchdown pass attempt to North Carolina tight end Zack Pianalto on the final play of the game at the Georgia Dome on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010, in Atlanta. LSU defeated North Carolina 30-24.

Amid NCAA probe, John Blake steps down

Associated PressCaroline Wozniacki returns the ball to Maria Sharapova in the fourth round of play at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Monday.

Rams offensive line looks to protect BradfordST. LOUIS (AP) — Now that the St. Louis Rams

have settled on rookie Sam Bradford at quarter-back, it’s up to an offensive line that’s been a focus of the rebuilding effort to protect the No. 1 pick.

It starts with Sunday’s home opener against Arizona.

Center Jason Brown acknowledged all eyes will be on the offensive line to see how well they do the job protecting Bradford.

“There’s more pressure than you will ever know,” Brown said. “We take pride in it and we want to make sure he stays on his feet and make sure he has plenty of time in the pocket to make his reads downfield.”

The middle of the line is composed of veter-ans — Brown and guards Jacob Bell and Adam Goldberg. Second-round draft pick Roger Saffold is at left tackle and second-year player Jason Smith, last year’s No. 2 overall pick, has moved over to right tackle after an injury-plagued rookie season.

“We’re coming together as a unit and our health has been good lately,” Brown said. “We need to stay healthy.”

The Rams made Bradford the No. 1 overall pick in the draft and made a huge investment in the 2008 Heisman winner — six-year, $78 million contract with $50 million in guaranteed money.

When we experience the loss of someone we love we go through a series of emotions that is referred to as grief. Grief causes us to feel sadness, depression, anger, hurt, loneliness, and despondency, to name just a few of the emotional responses. No one that has been through grief will challenge the statement that “Grief is Hard Work”. However, in order to live life fully on the other side of loss, we must all do the hard work of grief.

Unfortunately, in today’s fast pace world, I often see people who feel that they do not have time to go through the work required of grief. They in essence try to shortcut the process. I see this most in those who choose limited services such as a direct cremation or direct burial without services or visitation. They feel that by disposing of the body as quickly as possible and minimizing interaction with others they will be able to carry on with daily living uninterrupted.

The problem with this approach is that we cannot shortcut grief. Unresolved grief often displays itself in the inability of a person to show intimacy and to connect with others. It also displays itself with unexplained bouts of depression and failure to cope with life’s challenges.

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Philly cyclists bare all to promote cleaner air

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Hundreds of naked and partially nude cyclists have pedaled their way through Philadelphia to pro-mote bicycling awareness and cleaner air.

Some of the buff bikers wore body paint, some were in bathing suits and some were completely naked.

This was the second year for the Philly Naked Bike Ride. Similar rides have taken place in more than 70 cities worldwide since 2004.

The bicyclists pedaled several miles through the city on Sunday evening.

Mom, dad killed in S.C. wreck, 3 children survive

PINEVILLE, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina troopers say a mother and father were killed, but their three children survived a wreck near Pineville.

Authorities told multiple media outlets that 28-year-old Iesha White and her 29-year-old hus-band, Michael, died when she drove their SUV off state Highway 45 and it overturned, hitting a utility pole around 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

Troopers say downed power lines kept them from getting to the cou-ple for several hours.

Authorities say the couple’s three children, ages 10, 7 and 6, were

injured in the crash and have been released from the hospital.

Two men drown after car plunges into creek

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Police say two South Carolina men have drowned after the car they were riding in plunged into a creek.

Charleston County Deputy Coroner Brittney Martin told The Post and Courier that 28-year-old Roman Holmes of Hollywood and 19-year-old Deangelo Holmes of Adams Run died Saturday.

A third man was able to escape the car and was treated at a local hospital.

Experts say BMW hiring could lower jobless rate

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — The number of South Carolinians look-ing for work has been unchar-acteristically high the past few years with a record 12.5 percent in January.

But some economists say one com-pany could single-handedly reduce the jobless rate with its addition of 1,000 workers.

The Greenville News reported that economists say when BMW Manufacturing Co. hires a worker it leads to the hiring of about 3 other workers in other businesses. And that could lower the rate by more than 1 percentage point.

Nation Today

Associated PressPresident Barack Obama gestures as he speaks on the economy at the Milwaukee Laborfest in Milwaukee Monday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is asking Congress to approve at least $50 billion in long-term spending in the nation’s roads, railways and runways in a pre-election effort to show he’s trying to stimulate the sputtering economy.

The infrastructure spending is part of a package of targeted propos-als the White House announced on Monday.

The proposals would require con-gressional approval, which is highly uncertain with many legislators and voters worried about adding to federal deficits that are already sky-high. With Republicans saying spending is out of control and polls showing many people want to end Democrats’ control of Congress, even many Democratic lawmakers are reluctant to approve new spending so close to Election Day.

Even if legislators could pass a bill in the short window between their return to Capitol Hill in mid-September and the elections, the early projects would not create jobs immediately. Senior administration officials, who would not be quoted by name before Obama’s announce-ment, said the initial projects would lead to new jobs over the course of 2011.

The officials said the initial $50 billion would be the beginning of a six-year program of transportation improvements, but they did not give an overall figure. The proposal has a longer-range focus than last year’s economic stimulus bill.

The goals of the infrastructure plan include: rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads; constructing and maintain-ing 4,000 miles of railways, enough to go coast-to-coast; shorter, high

speed rail projects; and rehabilitat-ing or reconstructing 150 miles of airport runways, while also install-ing a next generation air navigation system designed to reduce travel times and delays.

Obama will also call for the cre-ation of a permanent infrastructure bank that would focus on funding national and regional projects.

Administration officials wouldn’t say what the total cost of the infra-structure projects would be, but did say the initial $50 billion represents a significant percentage. Officials said the White House would con-sider closing a number of special tax breaks for oil and gas companies to pay for the proposal.

Obama made infrastructure improvements a central part of the $814 billion stimulus Congress passed last year, but with that spending winding down, the econo-my’s growth has slowed.

In a Labor Day interview on CBS’ “Early Show,” Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said the plan Obama was to unveil Monday would “put construc-tion workers, welders, electricians back to work ... folks that have been unemployed for a long time.”

With the unemployment rate tick-ing up to 9.6 percent, and polls showing the midterm elections could be dismal for Democrats, the presi-dent has promised to unveil a series of new measures on the economy.

In addition to Monday’s announce-ment in Milwaukee, Obama will travel to Cleveland Wednesday to pitch a $100 billion proposal to increase and make permanent research and development tax cred-its for businesses, a White House official said.

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Curious Cook

Be.confident.in.the.kitchen.with.simplicity

By SCOTT BAUGHMANDaily Courier Staff Writer

SPINDALE — Salads, sandwiches and souffles at M2 might have a little more local flavor these days.

That’s because the ingredients are being grown right here in Rutherford County.

“We’ve gotten nothing but good compliments from cus-tomers since we made the switch,” said M2 Manager Lori Fisher. “We’re using hydroponic lettuce grown by the pro-gram at Chase High School, heirloom tomatoes and egg-plant from local farmers through the Farm Fresh program at Foothills Connect.”

Customers to the restaurant on Main Street in Spindale started noticing the fresh ingredients about a year ago when Fisher and her staff made the switch. “It’s easy to work with and as a chef I love to have the freshest ingredients I can get my hands on,” said head chef Patrick Daniels. “Also, I’m glad we can help out local farmers by buying their stuff.”

The effort to use locally grown — and sustainable – ingredients is part of a broader effort by the eatery to be more green in their business. “Even our take-out containers are made from recycled products now,” Fisher said. “Buying local produce helps us be more sustainable and the quality is much better, too.”

Daniels said he would often receive produce from a truckload delivered to the kitchen and find it was below the standards he wanted.

Scott Baughman/Daily CourierSome of the creations at M2 Restaurant that uses locally grown vegetables include eggplant sliders with a side of radish coleslaw and a fresh spinach and berry salad with grilled chicken.

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This grilled chicken salad is prepared with local produce and the honey used in the dressing is also made in the county.

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Radish ColeslawCabbageCarrotsRadishes1/2 cup of sugar1 teaspon of salt1 tablespoon of malt vinegar1 cup of mayo

1. Shred cabbage and radishes, sprinkle with sug-ar and salt

2. Let sit for two hours3. Turn the mixture over a few times to leach its

juices4. Drain the liquid5. Add the rest of the ingredients, toss and serve.

The coleslaw can be chilled over night and served the next day.

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Being confident about cook-ing comes from learning your way around the kitchen, so you can produce good food quickly, without being enslaved to daunting recipes and end-less trips to the grocery store for ingredients you may not have on hand. This new column will show you simple ways of combining flavors and com-mon ingredients to create tasty meals with very little fuss or stress.

There are no big secrets to simple, flavorful home cook-ing. But there are a lot of small secrets to making your time in the kitchen easy, tasty and enjoyable. And one of those little secrets is learning to make quick, tasty sauces. One of my favorites is a very simple Italian tomato sauce that can be on the table in under 30 minutes. It is fantastic with pasta, raviolis or even a nicely grilled chicken breast. It tastes of naturally sweet tomatoes and mellow garlic, and it can be the founda-tion of a variety of great dishes.

Quick Italian tomato sauce4–5 peeled cloves of garlic3 TBS olive oil1 TBS tomato paste2- 14 ½ oz cans of diced

tomatoessalt and ground pepper or red

pepper flakes to tasteSet the olive oil in a pan over

medium heat, and open the cans of tomatoes, setting them near at hand to the pan. Slice the garlic into thin slices. I’m not sure why the slices work so well in this sauce. It may be the way they mellow and melt so nicely into the sauce. A little handheld mandolin – also known as a V-blade – is the perfect tool for this, but you can do a pretty good job with a nice sharp paring knife. If you are in a hurry, just use a couple of tablespoons of the jarred chopped garlic, but lower the heat on the oil a little. The chopped garlic is more easily burned.

Now comes the only fussy part. Once the oil has come to a shimmer (you can see the oil moving in little waves across the surface) but is not smok-ing, add the garlic and cook until just barely golden, about 3 minutes. As soon as you see the garlic begin to color, add the tomato paste, and cook for another minute. Add the toma-toes, and reduce the heat to low. The fussing is now over.

Add salt and pepper to your taste, and simmer for about 20 minutes. At the end of 20 min-utes, if the sauce is too thick, add a little water (yes, water); if the sauce is too thin, add another tablespoon or so of tomato paste. The pastes that come in a tube are perfect for adding just the amount you need. Taste, and add a little more salt and pepper if the sauce needs it.

While the sauce simmers, you can boil some pasta or ravi-olis, grill some chicken breasts, broil some meat balls or sauté some pork chops. Top the fin-ished product with some sauce, grate on a little parmesan cheese, and sprinkle on some minced basil or parsley, or both. Delicious, and easy! This sauce freezes very well, so go ahead and make a little extra for the freezer, and you’ll have a lovely tomato sauce for a quick meal down the road.

Gail Prather is a kitchen addict, cooking teacher, caterer and author of the food blog “Curious Cook in the Kitchen.” Visit the blog at curi-ouscookinthekitchen.blogspot.com.

By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER and MICHAEL LIEDTKEAP Business Writers

Whenever compa-nies start hiring freely again, job-seekers with specialized skills and education will have plenty of good opportu-nities. Others will face a choice: Take a job with low pay — or none at all.

Job creation will likely remain weak for months or even years. But once employers do step up hiring, some economists expect job openings to fall mainly into two categories of roughly equal numbers:n Professional fields

with higher pay. Think lawyers, research scien-tists and software engi-neers.n Lower-skill and

lower-paying jobs, like home health care aides and store clerks.

And those in between? Their outlook is bleaker. Economists foresee fewer mod-erately paid factory supervisors, postal workers and office administrators.

That’s the sobering message American workers face as they celebrate Labor Day at a time of high unem-ployment, scant hir-ing and a widespread loss of job security. Not until 2014 or later is the nation expected to have regained all, or nearly all, the 8.4 mil-lion jobs lost to the recession. Millions of lost jobs in real estate, for example, aren’t like-ly to be restored this decade, if ever.

On Friday, the gov-ernment said the August unemployment rate ticked up to 9.6 percent. Not enough

jobs were created to absorb the growing number of people seek-ing work. The unem-ployment rate has exceeded 9 percent for 16 months, the longest such stretch in nearly 30 years.

Even when the job market picks up, many people will be left behind. The threat stems, in part, from the economy’s continuing shift from one driven by manufacturing to one fueled by service industries.

Pay for future service-sector jobs will tend to vary from very high to very low. At the same time, the number of middle-income service-sector jobs will shrink, according to govern-ment projections. Any job that can be auto-mated or outsourced overseas is likely to

continue to decline.The service sector’s

growth could also mag-nify the nation’s income inequality, with more people either affluent or financially squeezed. The nation isn’t edu-cating enough people for the higher-skilled service-sector jobs of the future, economists warn.

“There will be jobs,” says Lawrence Katz, a Harvard economist. “The big question is what they are going to pay, and what kind of lives they will allow people to lead? This will be a big issue for how broad a middle class we are going to have.”

On one point there’s broad agreement: Of 8 million-plus jobs lost to the recession — in fields like manufac-turing, real estate and

financial services — many, perhaps most, aren’t coming back.

In their place will be jobs in health care, information technology and statistical analy-sis. Some of the new positions will require complex skills or higher education. Others won’t — but they won’t pay very much, either.

By 2018, the govern-

ment forecasts a net total of 15.3 million new jobs. If that proves true, unemployment would drop far closer to a historical norm of 5 percent.

Nearly all the new jobs will be in the ser-vice sector, the Labor Department says. The nation’s 78 million baby boomers will need more health care ser-vices as they age, for example. Demand for medical jobs will rise. And innovations in high technology and alternative energy are likely to spur growth in occupations that don’t yet exist.

Hiring can’t come fast enough for the 14.9 million unemployed Americans. Counting part-time employees who would prefer full-time jobs, plus out-of-work people who have stopped looking for jobs, the number of “underemployed” is 26.2 million.

Manufacturing has shed 2 million jobs since the recession began. Construction has lost 1.9 million, financial services 651,000.

But the biggest fac-tor has been the bust in real estate. The van-ished jobs range from construction workers and furniture mak-ers to loan officers, appraisers and mate-rial suppliers. Moody’s Analytics estimates the

total number of hous-ing-related jobs lost at 2.4 million. When you include commercial real estate, the number is far higher.

One of them is Martha Escobar, who last month lost her $13.50-an-hour job cleaning an office tow-er owned by JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Century City, Calif. She was one of 16 janitors, mostly single mothers, who lost jobs as part of the real estate crunch that’s squeezed landlords.

Some of them trav-eled to New York on Thursday to try to pres-sure JPMorgan to get its cleaning contrac-tor to take them back, given that the bank earned $8.1 billion dur-ing the first half of this year.

JPMorgan Chase spokesman Gary Kish-ner said the bank has no say over the layoffs, which he said are han-dled by the building’s cleaning contractor.

On top of real estate-related job losses, manufacturing is likely to keep shedding jobs, sending lower-skilled work overseas. Millions who worked in those fields will need to find jobs in higher-skilled or lower-paying occupa-tions.

“The big fear is the country is simply not preparing workers for the kind of skills that the country is going to need,” says Gautam Godhwani, CEO of SimplyHired.com.

Sectors likely to grow fastest, according to economists and govern-ment projections, are:n Health Care: The

sector is expected to be the leading job gen-erator, adding 4 mil-lion by 2018, according to Labor Department data. An aging popula-tion requires more doc-tors and nurses, physi-cal therapists, home health aides and phar-macists.

Many of these jobs will pay well. Physical therapists averaged about $76,000 last year, according to the department’s data. Others pay far less. Home health care aides earned an average of just $21,600.

Home health care and personal care aides are expected to add about 900,000 jobs by 2018 — 50 percent more than in 2008.

Jennifer Gamboa of Body Dynamics Inc., an Arlington, Va.-based physical therapy firm, says the drive to reduce health care costs should benefit her profession, which can treat pain less expen-sively than surgery. Gamboa plans to add

two employees in the next year.n Information Tech-

nology: Technology could be an economic elixir as computers and online networks expand ways to auto-mate services, distrib-ute media and commu-nicate.

Companies will need people to build and secure those networks. That should boost the number of program-mers, network admin-istrators and security specialists by 45 per-cent to 2.1 million by 2018, the government forecasts. Most of these jobs will provide above-average pay.

Technology pay averaged $84,400 in 2008 — nearly double the average private-sector pay of $45,400, according to an analysis of the most recent full-year data by the TechAmerica Foundation, a research group.n New Industries:

Deepak Advani, an IBM executive, has a title he says didn’t exist five years ago: “Vice president of predictive analytics.”

Companies and gov-ernment agencies have amassed data on behavior ranging from shopping habits to criminal activity. Predictive analytics is the art of determin-ing what to do with that data. How should workers’ time be deployed? How best to target customers? Such jobs could grow 20 per-cent by 2018, the gov-ernment predicts.

Still, economists say more will be needed to boost job growth. The answer may be some technological break-through akin to the personal computer or the Internet.

“Most big booms come from a particular sector that moves the rest of the economy,” said Richard Freeman, a Harvard labor econo-mist.

Technology spurred job growth after the 1982 and 1991 reces-sions. The PC became revolutionary in the early 1980’s. Housing eventually lifted employment after the 2001 dot-com bust.

“There’s a lack of clarity on what the next big thing is going to be this time,” said David Card, a profes-sor at the University of California.

Until there is, many people will have to lower expectations and living standards as they enter fields with less pay and less job stabil-ity, said Dan Finnigan, CEO of online employ-ment service Jobvite.

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Associated PressIn this file photo, job seekers supply copies of their resumes at a career fair in Rolling Meadows, Ill.

Associated PressClifford Iglodan, top, receives advice on his resume while attending a job fair in Southfield, Mich.

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NEW YORK (AP) — It is a place of sacrifice. A place of mourning. A place people pass by on their way to grab lunch. It’s a place where tourists crane their necks to snatch a glimpse around barriers walling off an enor-mous construction site — which is also what it is.

Ground zero.Depending on whom you talk to, it’s

a scar on this city where horror still lingers, a bustling hive symbolizing the resilience of a nation, or simply, for those who live and work nearby, a place where life goes on.

In recent weeks, as debate has raged over the placement of a planned Islamic cultural center and mosque a couple of blocks from the construc-tion, Americans have been reminded of just how many people lay claim to this place, the focal point for all those who have a stake in the legacy of Sept. 11.

Almost everyone has a stake.Gesturing at the land he helped

clear in the weeks after 9/11, Louis Pabon believes he knows who owns it: “This is mine.”

Today he is wearing his hard hat again, standing at the gates of St. Paul’s Chapel, hawking the photos that he took of the wreckage. Tourists stop in the sun to look at the images of smoky desolation.

Take a walk around ground zero, and you can get lost in the throngs. Among the tourist crowds at St. Paul’s, a block away, a woman sipping a strawberry smoothie walks past an altar covered with photos of the dead. Outside, beneath cranes that glint red in the sun, construction workers cluster. A woman in a business suit and white sneakers speeds down the sidewalk. Burger King is full, and at Century 21 department store, across from the construction, polo shirts are 85 percent off.

This place was once a giant plaza filled with businesspeople and tour-ists and shoppers and commuters rushing to the subway. Then, on one sunny September Tuesday in 2001, it became suddenly a place of history and loss. Within 24 hours, someone had dubbed it ground zero, and it was never the same.

After 9/11, there were weeks, and months, of coming to grips. Everyone had lost something. A child. An acquaintance. A skyline. A sense of safety. A center of business. A solid stock portfolio. A feeling that we knew where everything was heading.

The city’s Muslims, many of them, lost a willingness to speak out. They had enjoyed a kind of anonymity — a knowledge that they were just another ingredient in the hearty stew of New York. But since Sept. 11, they have felt an unwanted spotlight, and some have been afraid.

“Now no one can talk about Islam ... because Islam became like equal to violence,” says Noureddine Elberhoumi, a cab driver who says that after Sept. 11 he stopped vol-unteering information about his religious affiliation. “In their mind, Islam is always going back to Iraq, Afghanistan, 9/11 — that’s it.”

In the days after the attacks, the nation was in a wrenching, gripping catharsis. We were mourning our dead. We were mourning the accus-tomed path, whatever it was, that had been ripped out from under us. We were on a new, uncertain course.

Before the week was out, the pastor at St. Paul’s began calling the site of the devastation “sacred ground.” On Sept. 20, Katie Couric told TV view-

ers it “should be hallowed.” For the family members of more than 1,100 of the victims whose remains were never recovered, it is the only gravesite they have.

“This pit of evil and doom,” Sally Regenhard calls it now, her voice shaking nine years after the death here of her firefighter son, Christian.

“My son’s beautiful remains are for-ever scattered,” she says. “Ground zero is a burial ground.”

Since that awful day, the story of the site has been through what seem like endless chapters.

There were battles over the land — over the prolonged search for vic-tims’ remains that kept turning up more tiny body parts in the soil five years later. The developer and insur-ance companies fought over payouts. The state and the developer haggled over financing and how many towers would be rebuilt.

Some families successfully chal-lenged the creation of a freedom museum at the site, and some ques-tioned whether a planned performing arts center there is appropriate. How best to pay respect to the dead?

Now, most everyone is staking out a position on the planned Islamic cultural center, to include a mosque, auditorium and other facilities about two blocks from the construction bar-riers. Some say the location should be moved out of sensitivity, because the Sept. 11 hijackers claimed to act in the name of Islam. Others say that mov-ing the mosque would be bowing to intolerance and curtailing religious freedom.

Through all of this conflict, ground zero has been shuttered. Few have walked on its soil, except for the work-ers who cleared the site and those who are rebuilding it. Family mem-bers and others invited to the yearly memorial ceremonies have been allowed in, as was the pope on his 2008 pilgrimage.

But most have been unable to enter. At first, some people walked up to the barricades to post pictures of the missing, others to keep watch on the dead. More came. Out-of-towners started filling the sidewalks at the edge of the construction, holding up maps and asking passersby: What’s the best spot to see ground zero?

With so few allowed in, everyone who journeyed to this untouchable space could make of it what they would. So what happens after the planned memorial opening on Sept. 11, 2011 — when the public is allowed inside the walled-off space.

Although the rules haven’t been finalized, one could imagine a jogger passing through and pausing to take a drag off her water bottle, a group of kids breakdancing for tips, a business-man unwrapping his sandwich for lunch on a sunny bench.

Sacred or no, in many ways this space will belong to the American people — those who come to mourn the most personal of losses, those who come for all the other reasons, and even those who don’t come at all, but know this place is now no longer just a hole in the ground.

The memorial was always intended to become a vibrant space again — to “be stitched back into the grid of low-er Manhattan,” says professor James E. Young, a member of the panel that selected the memorial design.

“Short of turning the whole thing into a cemetery with fences and say-ing this is somehow inviolable ... we knew that even sacred spaces live in public use,” he says. Some proposals

had called for the footprints of the twin towers to be cordoned off, with only family members of the victims allowed there.

But that “suggests that only the fam-ilies of victims own it,” Young says. “What about those who were injured? What about those who escaped? What about the rest of the city, which also felt surely violated and even victim-ized by the attacks?”

Many around the nation — even around the world — felt that they had been hit, too. A newspaper headline in Paris said after the attack: “We’re all Americans.”

How much reverence will be given to this open space in the city’s maze, which still carries for many the mem-ories of screams and dust and panic? Can it stay sacred?

That question was answered long ago, says a family member.

“The memorial museum is selling souvenirs, for God’s sake,” says Diane Horning, who lost her son, Matthew. “You can’t stand in ground zero with-out seeing Century 21’s big banners advertising whatever their special is. ... This hasn’t been sacred space since the day they put the first rivets in something. It’s office buildings, it’s places to eat, it’s everything but sacred space.”

There’s even a strip club three blocks from the construction site. At New York Dolls Gentlemen’s Club, a wom-an in a red sequined G-string takes a break from platform dancing and leans over to rub her calves. In the background, Alicia Keys sings on a recording about New York’s concrete jungle.

Outside, where William Dean is handing out flyers promoting the dancers, he says he’s used to people yelling at him about the unseemly proximity to ground zero. His answer: “We’re making a buck like anyone else.”

Just one block closer to ground zero, it’s still uncertain whether the cul-tural center and mosque known as Park51 will be built. But this would-be neighbor has aroused a reaction unlike any of the other disputes over this land.

The mosque furor has brought 9/11 back to the fore of America’s con-sciousness. It had been quiet for a long time, bogged down in the bureaucracy of what would be built, for how much and when.

Amid all the disputes and all the compromise, the World Trade Center site had lost some of its hold on the public’s imagination.

Freedom Tower, the site’s signa-ture skyscraper, rising a symbolic 1,776 feet, was renamed One World Trade Center, thought a better draw for corporate tenants. Even the ethe-real design imagined by architect Daniel Libeskind came back to earth, restrained by the boundaries of phys-ics and financing.

The plan for the memorial pools set in the footprints of the towers, though, remains.

At the 9/11 Memorial Preview Site at ground zero, a mob of visitors is snap-ping pictures, clustering in around a small-scale model of what this place is supposed to become.

There are the footprints, with lines standing in for what are to be the largest man-made waterfalls in the nation. There are tall, elegant build-ings. There are tiny trees, each minia-ture trunk no thicker than a pushpin.

It looks peaceful. And it looks ready to come to life.

Ground Zero has multiple identities

Afghans protest Quran burning

Construction continues at the World Trade Center site in New York. Ground zero — depending on whom you talk to, it’s a scar on this city where horror still lingers, a bus-tling hive symbolizing the resilience of a nation, or simply, for those who live and work nearby, a place where life goes on.

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hundreds of Afghans railed against the United States and called for President Barack Obama’s death at a rally in the capital Monday to denounce an American church’s plans to burn the Islamic holy book on Sept. 11.

The crowd in Kabul, number-ing as many as 500, chanted “Long live Islam” and “Death to America” as they listened to fiery speeches from members of parliament, provincial coun-cil deputies, and Islamic cler-ics who criticized the U.S. and demanded the withdrawal of foreign troops from the coun-try. Some threw rocks when a U.S. military convoy passed, but speakers shouted at them to stop and told police to arrest anyone who disobeyed.

The Gainesville, Florida-based Dove World Outreach Center announced plans to burn copies of the Quran on church grounds to mark the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but has been denied a permit to set a bonfire. The church, which made headlines last year after distributing T-shirts that said “Islam is of the Devil,” has vowed to proceed with the burning.

“We know this is not just the decision of a church. It is the decision of the president and the entire United States,” said Abdul Shakoor, an 18-year-old high school student who said he joined the protest after hearing neighborhood gossip about the Quran burning.

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul issued a statement condemning Dove World Outreach Center’s plans, saying Washington was “deeply concerned about deliberate attempts to offend members of religious or ethnic groups.”

Protesters who had gathered in front of Kabul’s Milad ul-Nabi mosque raised placards and flags emblazoned with slogans calling for the death of Obama, while police looked on. They burned American flags and a cardboard effigy of Dove World Outreach Center’s pastor, Terry Jones, before dispersing peacefully.

Muslims consider the Quran to be the word of God and demand it, along with any printed material containing its verses or the name of Allah or the Prophet Muhammad, be treated with the utmost respect. Any intentional damage or show of disrespect to the Quran is considered deeply offensive.

In 2005, 15 people died and scores were wounded in riots in Afghanistan sparked by a story in Newsweek magazine alleging that interrogators at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay placed cop-ies of the Quran in washrooms and had flushed one down the toilet to get inmates to talk. Newsweek later retracted the story.

Police, meanwhile, said Monday they were investigat-ing the stabbing death of well-known Afghan journalist Sayed Hamid Noori outside his Kabul home Sunday night.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai issued a statement ordering authorities to spare no effort in bringing his kill-ers to justice. Noori had been a former state television news anchor, as well as a member of Afghanistan’s Association of Independent Journalists.

Also Monday, NATO said an American service member was killed in fighting in the coun-try’s turbulent east on Sunday.

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SEATTLE (AP) — Dell Inc. doesn’t have to start over in its quest to become a signifi-cant purveyor of technology for businesses after losing a multibillion dollar bidding contest for an obscure data-storage maker.

But it won’t be easy, either, for Dell to shake its “Dude, you’re getting a Dell” image and move into the more profitable business of selling powerful behind-the-scenes technology to other compa-nies.

Dell, which launched the bidding contest for 3Par Inc. on Aug. 16, conceded defeat Thursday and said it won’t match the latest offer from its archrival, Hewlett-Packard Co.

HP raised the stakes to $33 per share, or about $2.07 billion — 83 percent above Dell’s first offer and more than three times what 3Par stock was trading at then. Dell’s latest offer had been a dollar per share less, or about $2 billion.

Dell was hoping to buy 3Par so it could diversify its business more quickly.

Dell’s made-to-order com-puter business helped make PCs inexpensive and ubiq-uitous, but other companies including HP found ways to build even cheaper machines using contract manufactur-ers.

Although HP was able to expand beyond the business of selling computers, Dell has remained very much a computer company, with more than half its revenue

coming from PCs last fiscal year. Rising component costs and the PC industry’s race to rock-bottom prices, accel-erated by the rise of cheap netbooks from competitors such as Acer Inc., combined to sap much of the profit out of Dell’s core business.

Through a string of acqui-sitions, Dell has raced to follow IBM Corp., HP and other high-tech companies into the more lucrative busi-ness of selling data-center hardware and consulting services.

And while its servers do not generate as much rev-enue as its PC business, Dell is a leading maker of x86 servers, a low-end product for companies and data centers. Those servers are seeing a surge of demand as improvements in technol-ogy make them increas-ingly competitive with more expensive servers. In the second quarter, Dell was the second-largest maker of server computers by num-ber shipped, according to Gartner Inc.

But Dell’s ambitions have often been met with skepti-cism because of its lower-end focus, and because it started branching out later than its competitors. In

the meantime, the market has grown more crowded; database software maker Oracle Corp. began selling servers after acquiring Sun Microsystems in January, and networking equipment king Cisco Systems Inc. started to build its own serv-ers last year.

Even Dell’s biggest acquisi-tion to date, Perot Systems, didn’t carry the weight Dell might have hoped, Forrester Research analyst Andrew Reichman said. The large technology-consulting busi-ness, which Dell bought last fall for $3.9 billion, isn’t influential enough “to really move the needle as much as Dell would need to be on an equal footing with HP and IBM,” Reichman said.

“People see them (Dell) as box-pushers,” he said in a recent interview.

Dell defends its strategy of staying away from huge stor-age or server systems and says it sees more value in selling building block servers and storage appliances that customers can link together when they need to grow.

“For those customers who have bought from us, who are our customers, even the largest ones are very satis-fied with our ability to solve

their data-center needs and really stick with us,” said Praveen Asthana, Dell’s vice president of strategy for its enterprise technology seg-ment.

But Dell, like its competi-tors, is eyeing cloud comput-ing, a massive shift just under way in data-center technology, as the next area of rapid growth and sweeter profits.

To take advantage of it, Dell needs to beef up its product line and set itself apart from the competition. Dell could have used 3Par, which makes the sort of massive, high-end systems that Dell had stayed away from.

But that isn’t the only option, especially at such a high price, said Morningstar analyst Michael Holt. Dell can still consider other stor-age providers, companies that make data-center man-agement software or makers of networking equipment, he said.

Increasingly, companies aren’t buying their own computer servers for certain tasks anymore. Instead, they’re paying to have soft-ware they would have stored on those machines delivered to them over the Internet.

Cloud computing is attrac-tive to Dell and the others because the systems are designed to be shared by multiple customers, which spreads out the cost of oper-ating pricey equipment. Servers and storage com-puters need to ramp up or

scale down quickly based on demand to give all the cus-tomers the same high level of service. Storage machines from 3Par are made for that kind of system.

Dell, HP and others are trying to decide how many pieces of the cloud puzzle they need to own, and how many they can offer through partnerships. All are trying to make their data-center solutions more flexible and less expensive, and make it easier for customers to get new programs running.

Owning the entire range of products might make it faster to get a customer up and running, but it might mean some parts are not the best of breed, said Adrian O’Connell, an analyst for Gartner Inc. Every company will see the trade-offs differ-ently.

For Dell, O’Connell doesn’t believe 3Par would have been a critical piece. Dell’s bigger challenge, he said, is to come up with a unique vision for the entire data-center structure.

Dell also needs to train its sales staff to sell that vision to high-level technology executives. Gaining their trust takes time, he said.

“If you’re an IBM or an HP or a Sun/Oracle, you’ve got a heritage of many, many years of selling mission-critical systems into those very large customer environ-ments,” O’Connell said. “Dell has to prove it’s got a right to be there.”

Dell’s challenge remains after losing 3Par

The Dell corporate logo is displayed in a Salt Lake City. Hewlett-Packard is raising its offer for data-storage maker 3Par to about $1.69 bil-lion. Hewlett-Packard Co. emerged victorious in a pricey bidding contest with Dell Inc. over data-storage provider 3Par Inc. after Dell said it would not match HP’s latest bid of $33 per share, or $2.07 billion.

Increasingly, companies aren’t buying their own computer servers for certain tasks any-more. Instead, they’re paying to have software they would have stored on those machines delivered to them over the Internet.

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NEW YORK (AP) — How do you get penny pinchers to spend these days? Pitch products that promise to save them money.

Demand is rising for kitchen and bath gadgets that squeeze out that last blob of toothpaste and help get the suds out of tiny slivers of soap.

Marketers of these gizmos tout how the pennies they save by reducing waste can add up. Retailers are stocking up.

During the Great Recession, penny pinchers got even cheap-er, while showing the newly fru-gal how it’s done. Cheapskate gadgets may be a sign of the times, but they’re also a sign of how product makers and retail-ers are trying to get people back in the spending habit.

Big companies like Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and The Container Store and a longtime “As Seen on TV” pitchman are stocking up on items claiming to help people save a buck, such as:n Caps that keep the fizz in

opened soda cans.n Digital day counters:

Gizmos that count the days and hours food has been in the refrigerator, to help keep track

of when that milk might be in danger of going bad.n New, stylish versions of

pants extenders that let people wear their clothes even when they gain or lose weight.

A.J. Khubani, the man behind many “As Seen on TV” gadgets such as the PedEgg foot scraper, is making cheapskate gim-micks a priority at his company Telebrands, one of the nation’s top direct-response TV market-ing companies.

More than half of Telebrands’ gadgets, sold online and at 90,000 stores, are now focused on helping shoppers be cheap. Khubani, who has been travel-ing around the country to meet inventors, is speeding up the number of new products he’s launching to every 30 days from every 60 days.

“The mood of the country has changed,” said Khubani. “We’ve had tremendous opportunity with this recession.”

Since 2007, Telebrands’ reve-nue has doubled to several hun-dred million dollars, he said.

Retailers, encouraged by ris-ing sales and scrambling to find new ways to pump up ane-

mic sales, expect these prod-ucts will have staying power as Americans try to save more and waste less.

An open question is whether the truly frugal are too cheap to buy the gadgets that can cost up to $20. Who needs a soap saver when an old washcloth or a pair of pantyhose will do?

“Surely, people who lived through the Great Depression found ways to use up all their soap without needing a soap saver,” said Lynnae McCoy, who runs the blog beingfrugal.net. “Are these products convenient? Some of them, yes. But are they necessary? No. And in some cases, they’re probably a com-plete waste of money.”

Still, stores see a burgeoning market.

Mona Williams, a buyer at The Container Store, said rev-enue is up more than 10 percent for cheapskate accessories. The chain doubled the number of these gadgets it stocks. These products, which include Jokari’s “Pump & Pour,” a hinged cap that keeps canned drinks from going flat, will continue to be best sellers, she says.

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Dear Dr. Gott: Since childhood, I have been suffering with tonsillitis, chronic colds and allergies — both seasonal and medication-induced. At the age of 24, I was diagnosed with discoid lupus; at the age of 30, with fibromyalgia, pleurisy, kidney stones/infection, vertigo, depres-sion and anxiety. I’m now 33, my bones are brittle, and I have osteoarthritis in my hands and fingers. Help!

Dear Reader: Whew, where to start? Some children have impaired immune systems, making them subject to numer-ous disorders. My guess is that you were unfortunate enough to fall into that cat-egory.

There are a number of forms of lupus, which is an autoimmune disease. Lupus can affect joints, skin, kidneys, brain, heart, lungs and other parts of the body. Common symptoms include skin rash, kidney problems, arthritis and unex-plained fever.

Discoid lupus is a chronic skin disor-der that shows as a raised red rash that ordinarily appears on the face and scalp

but can appear in other areas of the body, including the nose and ears. The lesions may last for days or years and can recur. Some people diagnosed with discoid lupus may develop systemic lupus erythemato-sus (SLE) at a later date.

Because so many of your symptoms involve pain, I’m inclined to suggest that you be referred to a pain clinic for control or request a referral to a larger diagnos-tic center, such as the Mayo Clinic. You will learn methods for reducing the level of pain you presently experience that may include water aerobics and yoga. Appropriate medication might be ordered. Once you get that aspect under control, the anxiety and stress levels you are under may be reduced.

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Dear Abby: My best friend of 30 years, “Andrea,” and her husband decided not to have children.

They are happy with their dogs and cats.

She recently adopted a 10-year-old rescue dog and changed the dog’s name to “Monique.” Abby, Monique is my daughter’s name!

When I asked Andrea why she changed the dog’s name, she said it is because no one in her family has that name.

I am hurt that she would name her dog after my daughter, her godchild — so much so that I no longer wish to speak to this woman. How do I get past this? — Monique’s Mom

Dear Monique’s Mom: I under-stand your feelings, but I hate to see a friendship of 30 years go down in flames because of one (albeit huge) lapse of judgment on Andrea’s part.

It appears she just loved the name. Avoid having your daughter and her dog in the same room at the same time, and you’ll spare both of them from confusion.

And remember, your Monique will have the name much longer than the dog will. This, too, shall pass.

Dear Abby: I have an old friend, “Erika,” who, when we were working together, was my superior.

My problem is Erika will, from time to time, ask me questions

seeming not to know anything about the subject.

However, as I begin explaining whatever it is, she’ll then say some-thing that indicates she really is well-versed in the matter and knows more about it than I do.

I end up feeling blind-sided, stu-pid, and like I have been set up. Why does she do this?

And how can I avoid falling into this trap? Erika seems so sincere when she asks a question. — Falling for it

Dear Falling for it: She may do it as a form of one-upmanship — or “asking questions” may be her way of making conversation.

Because it makes you uncomfort-able, ask her why she does it and, while you’re at it, tell her how it makes you feel.

If Erika cares about your feelings, she’ll stop trying to one-up you.

And if she doesn’t, accept that you will either have to keep your guard up when you’re with her, or limit the time you spend with her.

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“It has travelled a long way sometime and you just don’t get what you want to see, some-times,” Daniels said.

“When I’m dealing with Farm Fresh, if I see something that isn’t good they send a better one,” Fisher explained. “And if they don’t have a particular item, you can tell them and they’ll usually get it for you.”

Customers have noticed the difference, Fisher said.

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ing so this makes it eas-ier to get the ingredi-ents we want. It frees us up to be more creative that way.”

Daniels said he had been exposed to some new items and combi-nations as a result of the fresh produce.

“We had a ginger goat cheese come in one day they had for us to sample,” Daniels said. “I had never thought of combining those two things before. It was very strong, but it was good. And we had some red, white and blue potatoes I used to make a potato salad.”

Contact Baughman via e-mail at sbaughman@the-digitalcourier.com.

FreshContinued from Page 1B

Scott Baughman/Daily CourierA basket of local pro-duce is sorted and ready for display in the kitchen of M2 restaurant in Spindale.

Scott Baughman/Daily CourierAbove, this caprese salad is made with heirloom tomatoes, basil, fresh mozza-rella and a balsmic reduction sauce that uses locally produced honey. Above left, dishes prepared in the M2 kitchen to highlight local ingredients include (from top) a turkey and smoked gouda Monte Christo sandwich, fried green tomatoes on top of cheddar cheese grits, eggplant sliders with a side of radish coleslaw and a fresh spinach and berry salad with grilled chicken.

An AP Member ExchangeBy ANDREA WEIGL and SUE STOCKThe News & Observer of Raleigh

RALEIGH — From farm to fork has long been the rallying cry of the eat local movement.

But getting the food from the farm has been a barrier for some consumers who don’t have time to shop at farmers markets or find community-supported agriculture programs, better known as CSAs, inconvenient.

Enter a new breed of business — a middleman between consumers and farmers — that tweaks the old model.

Traditionally, a consumer who joins a farmer’s CSA pays up to $600 in the winter for a weekly share of produce from spring to fall. Though the programs are popular — there are more than 100 in the state, up from 35 in 2002 — many people cannot pay for a whole season of produce in advance, volunteer on a farm or pick up the food at designated times as many programs require. Other people simply don’t know what to do with an abundance of beets or kale.

That has created an opportunity for local busi-nesses such as Papa Spuds and The Produce Box, which allow customers to pay for their produce as they go — generally $20 to $30 per box. They offer customers more choice and generally stock products from several farms rather than just one. In addition, the boxes are delivered to customers’ homes.

These new businesses are bringing hundreds of new customers to the table, helping to make farm-ing financially viable for more small farmers.

In two years, The Produce Box has grown from 25 customers to nearly 3,000. At the end of last season, the Raleigh company was filling 900 boxes a week, and owner Courtney Tellefsen said demand is growing steadily this year. Depending on where you live, there may be a waiting list to become a Produce Box customer.

This type of system has been feasible only for a few years, said Rob Meyer, co-founder of Papa Spuds, a similar operation, in Cary. He credits his partnership with Eastern Carolina Organics, a Pittsboro group that acts as a distributor for local organic products.

Meyer’s company, which offers meat and pro-duce, also contracts directly with dozens of farms throughout the state to get the volume and variety customers demand.

Sandi Kronick, CEO of Eastern Carolina Organics, said the new businesses complement farmers’ other efforts to reach consumers.

N.C. venture gets local food to family table

The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, TuesDay, september 7, 2010 — 1C

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY10-SP-343

UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of the power and authority contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed and delivered by Lisa Joy Vander Laan and Dwayne Jack Vander Laan, dated August 10, 2006 and recorded on August 15, 2006, in Book No. 913, at Page 324 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina; and because of default in the payment of the indebtedness secured thereby and failure to carry out and perform the stipulations and agreements contained therein and, pursuant to demand of the holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will place for sale, at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at Rutherford County Courthouse, Rutherfordton, North Carolina on September 8, 2010 at 10:00 AM that parcel of land, including improvements thereon, situated, lying and being in the City of Bostic, County of Rutherford, State of North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

TRACT ONE:Situate, lying and being in Logan Store Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina on the west side of State Road #1561 on the east side of Clinchfield Railroad and being the southern one-third of a certain tract of land described in Deed Book 452, Page 546, and BEGINNING on an iron pin, said iron pin being the southeast corner of the original tract referred to above and the centerline of State Road #1561; runs thence with the old line North 56 degrees 15 minutes 59 seconds West 90.34 feet to an iron pin; runs thence due West 412.5 feet to an iron pin; runs thence due North 528 feet to an iron pin; runs thence due West 1188 feet to an iron pin in the right of way of Clinchfield Railroad; runs thence with the right of way of said railroad North 29 degrees 45 seconds East 432.01 feet to an iron pin; runs thence a new line South 77 degrees 55 minutes 07 seconds East 1515.82 feet to an iron pin in the centerline or State Road #1561; thence with the centerline of said road as follows: South 11 West 110 feet; due South 528 feet to the point and place of BEGINNING, containing 14.24 acres. This conveyance contains a one-acre tract previously conveyed by F. Marion Freeman to the Grantor herein. Reference to Deed Book 477, Page 309, Rutherford County Registry. (Tax Map 711-1 -27A).

SAVING AND EXCEPTING from the above described real property that .716 acre tract conveyed by deed dated January 12, 1990, and of record in Deed Book 553, Page 151, Rutherford County Registry (Tax Map 711-1 -27C).

SAVING AND EXCEPTING that certain 1.27 acre tract conveyed to Glenda Kay Hooper in deed recorded in Deed Book 856, Page 54, Rutherford County Registry (Tax Map 711-1 -27D).

TRACT TWO:Lying and being in Logan Store Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, being bound on the North and East by the lands of the grantees as described in deed recorded in Deed Book 784, Page 451, Rutherford County, Registry, NC., on the South by the remaining lands of grantors as described in deed recorded in Deed Book 768, Page 813, Rutherford County Registry, NC., and on the West by the two-acre tract conveyed to David A. Jones and wife in deed recorded in Deed Book 821, Page 692, Rutherford County Registry, N.C., and being more particularly described as follows:

BEGINNING at an iron pin, said iron pin being a common northwest corner of the tract herein described and common northeast corner of the two-acre tract conveyed to David A. Jones and wife in deed recorded in Deed Book 821, Page 692, Rutherford County Registry, N.C., and running thence from said beginning point due East, 206.89 feet to an iron pin; thence South 00 degrees 24 minutes 25 seconds East 265.54 feet to an iron pin; thence due West 208.78 feet to an iron pin, thence due North 265.54 feet to the BEGINNING, containing 1.27 acres, according to map and survey by Professional Surveying Services, Nathan Odom, Registered Land Surveyor, dated January 10, 2001, as revised. Tax Map 711-1-25 N

Being part of the lands described in deed recorded in Deed Book 784, Page 451, Rutherford County Registry, N.C.

Address of property: 1101 Pearidge Road, Bostic, NC 28018

Present Record Owners: Lisa Joy Vander Laan and Dwayne Jack Vander Laan

The terms of the sale are that the real property hereinbefore described will be sold for cash to the highest bidder. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. In the event that the Owner and Holder or its intended assignee is exempt from paying the same, the successful bidder shall be required to pay revenue stamps on the Trustee’s Deed, and any Land Transfer Tax.

The real property hereinabove described is being offered for sale “AS IS, WHERE IS” and will be sold subject to all superior liens, unpaid taxes, and special assessments. Other conditions will be announced at the sale. The sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as by law required.

If the Trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the Trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice Where the Real Property is Residential With Less Than 15 Rental Units:

An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a bona fide lease or tenancy may have additional rights pursuant to Title VII of 5.896 - Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act which became effective on May 20, 2009.

Dated: August 17, 2010

David A. Simpson, P.C.,Substitute TrusteeRogers Townsend & Thomas, PCAttorneys for David A. Simpson, P.C., Substitute Trustee2701 Coltsgate Road, Suite 300Charlotte, NC 28211-3594704-442-95002194; 8062.431; 30028155

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA RUTHERFORD COUNTY

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICESUPERIOR COURT DIVISION

10 SP 180

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF THE DEED OF TRUST OF JENNIE SUE SURRATT,

Grantor(s),

To:

TRSTE, INC., TRUSTEE, AND FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, BENEFICIARY,

As recorded in Deed of Trust Book 645, Page 345, Rutherford County Registry.

See Substitution of Trustee as recorded in Deed Book 1000, Page 408, Rutherford County Registry, appointing Richard J. Kania as Substitute Trustee.

AMENDED NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE BY SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE

TO:

Pauline Petty, Fiduciary Veronica P. KingP.O. Box 514 2595 Pea Ridge RoadHenrietta, NC 28114 Mill Spring, NC 28756

John T. Surratt Unknown Spouse of Veronica P. King155 Radford Road 2595 Pea Ridge RoadEllensboro, NC 28040 Mill Spring, NC 28756

Unknown Spouse of John T. Surratt Occupant155 Radford Road 108 Newline RoadEllensboro, NC 28040 Henrietta, NC 28114

Pauline Petty Unknown Spouse of Pauline PettyP.O. Box 514 P.O. Box 514Henrietta, NC 28114 Henrietta, NC 28114

Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in that certain deed of trust executed and delivered by the above-named Grantors to First Union National Bank, dated October 5, 2001, filed for record on October 23, 2001, securing indebtedness in the original principal amount of $20,416.50 as recorded in Deed of Trust Book 645 at Page 345, Rutherford County Registry (hereinafter, the “Deed of Trust”), and because of the default of in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and the failure of to carry out or perform the stipulations and agreements therein contained and pursuant to the demand of the owner and holder of the indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust, and pursuant to the Order of the Clerk of Superior Court for Rutherford County, North Carolina, entered in this foreclosure proceeding, the undersigned, Richard J. Kania, Substitute Trustee, will expose for sale at public auction on September 20, 2010 at 10:00 A.M. at the usual place of sale as designated by the Clerk of Court for foreclosure sales at the Rutherford County Courthouse, Rutherfordton, North Carolina, the real property in High Shoals Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina (including any improvements thereon), with the address of 108 Newline Road, Henrietta, NC 28114, and as described in the attached Exhibit A hereto.

EXHIBIT A

BEING all of that parcel, formerly known as lot 7 of the J.P. Burgess lands, and being the identical property as described in a deed to Cornell Surratt and wife, Dovie McDowell Surratt, said deed dated 4-23-1955 and recorded in Book 245, Page 424, Rutherford County Registry. Reference to said deed is hereby made for a more perfect description.

The sale will be made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, restrictions and easements of record and assessments, if any.

The record owner of the above-described real property as reflected on the records of the County Register of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to the posting of this Notice is:

Pauline Petty

An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the County Clerk of Superior Court.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007 may, after receiving this amended notice of the sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

Pursuant to N.C.Gen.Stat. § 45 -21.10(b), and the terms of the Deed of Trust, any successful bidder may be required to deposit with the Trustee immediately upon conclusion of the sale a cash deposit of the greater of five per cent (5%) percent of the amount bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00). Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said successful bidder fail to pay the full balance purchase price so bid at the time, he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in N.C.Gen. Stat. § 45-21.30 (d) and (e).

This sale will be held open ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law.

This the 18th day of August, 2010September 1, 2010.

Richard J. KaniaSubstitute Trustee600-A Centrepark DriveAsheville, North Carolina 28805(828) 252-8010Publish: September 7, 2010, September 14, 2010

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NORTH CAROLINA Special Proceedings No. 10 SP 212RUTHERFORD COUNTY Substitute Trustee: Philip A. Glass

RE-NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

Date of Sale: September 21, 2010 Deed of Trust:Time of Sale: 10:00 a.m. Book: 919 Page: 662Place of Sale: Rutherford County Courthouse Dated: September 20, 2006Description of Property: See Attached Description Grantors: Ronnie D. Miller and wife,Record Owners: Ronnie D. Miller and Angie Miller a/k/a Angela B. Miller Angie Miller a/k/a Angela B. Miller Address of Property: 154 Bedrock Trail Original Beneficiary: MortgageRutherfordton, NC 28139 Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee

SCHEDULE “A”

Situate, lying and being in Sulphur Springs Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, on the West side of North Carolina State Secondary Road No. 1111, and being that same property conveyed to Ronnie Lewis Miller and wife, Barbara G. Miller by Deed dated October 1, 1976, of record in Deed Book 378, Page 191, Rutherford County Registry, and being described by courses and distances according to a plat of survey made by Williams S. Callahan, Registered Land Surveyor, on September 22, 1976, as follows:

BEGINNING at a point in the center of North Carolina State Secondary Road No. 1111 where the old line of the McKinney 91 acre tract as described in Deed of record in Deed Book 108, Page 185, crosses said road, said point being also the Northernmost corner of the Charles P. Grimes 3-1/5 acre tract as described in Deed of record in Deed Book 300, Page 433, and runs thence from said beginning point and with the old line of the aforesaid 91 acre tract North 24 deg 46 min West (passing an offset iron pin at 27.63 feet) 687.12 feet to an iron pin, old corner, thence with another old line of said 91 acre tract North 76 deg 30 min East 684.50 feet to a point in the center of said Road No. 1111 (said point being evidenced by an iron pin offset in said line at 41.41 feet). Said point being measured along the acre of a curve 594.34 feet from the point of curviture of said curve, the radius of said curve being 856.64 feet, and runs thence from said point and continuing along the curve to the left and with the center line of the road 150.48 feet to the point of tangency of said curve; thence continuing with the center line of the road South 10 deg 41 min West 248.13 feet to the point of curviture of a curve to the right, said curve having a radius of 566.16 feet, thence proceeding along the center line of said road and with the arc of the curve a total distance of 506.98 feet to the point of tangency of said curve; thence continuing with the center line of the road South 61 deg 59 min West 0.64 feet to the point and place of the BEGINNING, and containing 6.58 acres.RDMiller.dew

CONDITIONS OF SALE: Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of Forty-five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1). This sale is made subject to all unpaid taxes and superior liens or encumbrances of record and assessments, if any, against the said property, and any recorded leases. This sale is also subject to any applicable county land transfer tax, and the successful third party bidder shall be required to make payment for any such county land transfer tax. A cash deposit of 5% of the purchase price will be required at the time of the sale. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance of the purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Substitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said successful bidder fail to pay the full balance purchase price so bid at that time, he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in North Carolina General Statutes Section 45-21.30 (d) and (e). This sale will be held open ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law.

Residential real property with less than 15 rental units: an order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. Dated: June 23, 2010

/s/______________________________Philip A. Glass, Substitute TrusteeNodell, Glass & Haskell, L.L.P.Posted on August 31, 2010

NORTH CAROLINARUTHERFORD COUNTY

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

The undersigned, having qualified as Executrix of the Estateof Carolyn G. Barbee, late of 177 Carlton Drive, Forest City,Rutherford County, North Carolina hereby notifies all persons,firms and corporations having claims against said Estate topresent them to the undersigned on or before the 17th day ofNovember, 2010, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of theirrecovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebted to thesaid Estate will please make immediate payment to theundersigned.

This the 17th day of August, 2010.

D'Etta Barbee LaskyExecutrix of the Estate of Carolyn G. BarbeeP.O. Box 488Gastonia, North Carolina 28053-0488

Elizabeth N. SumnerMullen Holland & Cooper, P.A.Attorneys for EstateP.O. Box 488Gastonia, North Carolina 28053-0488

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Having qualified as Co-Administrator of the estate ofWILLIAM JENNINGS BURGIN of Rutherford County, NorthCarolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against theestate of the said WILLIAM JENNINGS BURGIN to presentthem to the undersigned on or before the 17th day ofNovember, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of theirrecovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please makeimmediate payment. This is the 17th day of August, 2010.

Robert Edward Burgin, Co-Administrator1405 West Haven BoulevardRocky Mount, NC 27803

William Russell Burgin, Co-Administrator317 Mahaley AvenueSalisbury, NC 28144

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Having qualified as Executor of the estate of FRANCES(FRANCIS) SUE ROBBINS LEE of Rutherford County, NorthCarolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against theestate of the said FRANCES (FRANCIS) SUE ROBBINS LEEto present them to the undersigned on or before the 17th dayof November, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of theirrecovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please makeimmediate payment. This is the 17th day of August, 2010.

Ernest Chad Davis, Executor4443 Big Island RoadRutherfordton, NC 28139

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE09 SP 477

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Jennifer E. Akins and Daniel Allan Akins to PRLAP, Inc., Trustee(s), dated the 30th day of May, 2007, and recorded in Book 960, Page 82, in Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door at 229 North Main St in the City of Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on September 14, 2010 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Rutherford, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

BEING all of Lot 446 as shown on survey by R.L. Greene, PLS entitled “GreyRock Subdivision” Phase 3A as recorded in Plat Book 26 at Page 234, said plat being one of a series of plats recorded in Plat Book 25 Page 231 through 234 revised Plat Book 27 Pages 147 through 150, of the Rutherford County, NC Registry, reference to said recorded plats being made for a more particular description of said Lot. Together with improvements located thereon;

Said property being located at: Lot 446 Phase 3 High Windy Drive, Lake Lure, North Carolina

SUBJECT TO a grading easement which runs the full length of High Windy Drive

TOGETHER WITH AND SUBJECT TO all easements, restrictions and rights of ways of record and a non-exclusive appurtenant easement for ingress, egress and regress over and upon all private subdivision roads for GreyRock at Lake Lure as shown on the above-described plats and the plats for Phase 1A and 1B, Phase 2A and 2B, of Greyrock and the Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions for GreyRock at Lake Lure as recorded in Book 858, at Page 122 of the Rutherford County, NC Registry and also recorded in Book 3827, Page 764 of the Buncombe County NC Registry (herein “Declarations”). BEING a portion of that property to LR Buffalo Creek, LLC a Georgia limited liability company by deeds recorded in Book 855, Page 816 of the Rutherford County, NC Registry and in Book 3793, at Page 665 of the Buncombe County, NC Registry.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.

An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection.

IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY. This 24th day of August, 2010.

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AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALEFILE NO. 10-SP-193

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Ranches At Mountain Creek, LLC to MTNBK, LTD, Trustee, dated July 16, 2007 and recorded in Book 968, at Page 120 in the Rutherford County Registry, Rutherfordton, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the Note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust, and the undersigned having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by instrument duly recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of the aforesaid county, and the Holder of the Note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina, on September 20, 2010, at 11:00 a.m. and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate:

Generally described as certain real property, with any and all improvements thereon, located in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as attached in Exhibit A.

Exhibit “A”Description of Property

TRACT ONE: Situate, lying and being in Green Hill Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, being the same and identical property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 476, Page 741, Rutherford County Registry, and being described according to said Deed as follows:

Lying and being located in Green Hill Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina and being part of the same lands conveyed to the grantors herein by Deed dated April 28, 1950 and recorded in Deed Book 209 at Page 535 of the Rutherford County Registry of deeds and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at a point said point being marked by an iron pin and being located at the Westernmost corner of the 1.25 acre tract retained by the grantor herein and also being located North 51 degrees 5 minutes 35 seconds West 333.39 feet from a nail in State Road 1356, which marks the Southernmost corner of the grantors aforementioned 1.25 acre tract, and proceeding thence along the common boundary with Roy Johnson North 19 degrees 14 minutes 7 seconds East 68.09 feet to an iron pin; North 83 degrees 59 minutes 46 seconds East 111.67 feet to an iron pin, thence proceeding along the common boundary with Donald L. and Peggy J. Warren North 5 degrees 50 minutes 7 seconds East 279.81 feet to an iron pin; South 82 degrees 24 minutes 5 seconds West 320.80 feet to an iron pin, thence along the common boundary with Bowaters Lumber Company South 16 degrees 2 minutes 48 seconds East 251.99 feet to an existing iron pin at a walnut tree, thence along the common boundary with D.F. Halford South 51 degrees 5 minutes 35 seconds East 111 feet to the point and place of BEGINNING, containing 1.72 acres, more or less.

The above described metes and bounds description taken from a survey and plat by William S. Callahan, R.L.S., for Roy Johnson dated August 23, 1947.

TRACT TWO: Situate, lying and being in Green Hill Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, being the same and identical property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 898, Page 837, Rutherford County Registry, and being described according to said Deed as follows:

BEGINNING at a stake on the South side of the Gilkey to Green Hill Road, said stake being a corner of the Amon Weaver home tract; and runs thence approximately with the road, South 77 1/2 East 8 poles to a stake on the North side of said road; thence with Amon Weaver’s line and with the line ditch, South 25 East 41 poles to a stake on the West bank of Mountain Creek; thence with the creek South 28 West 16 poles to a stake at the intersection of Hamilton Mills Creek with Mountain Creek; said stake being located on the West side of Mountain Creek and on the East side of Hamilton Mills Creek and at the intersection of said creeks; and runs thence with Hamilton Mills Creek North 28 West 12 poles to a stake on the Northeast bank of Hamilton Mills Creek, thence said creek North 60 West 34 poles to a point in the center of the bridge in the Gilkey to Green Hill Road where said road crossess Hamilton Mills Creek; thence along and with the center of said road North 13 1/2 East 31 poles to a stake on the northern margin of said road; thence leaving the road North 15 West 2 poles to an iron pin, Henry Alonzo Weaver’s corner; thence with Henry Alonzo Weaver’s line, North 58 West 23 1/2 poles to an iron pin near a large walnut, Weaver’s corner, thence with another of Weaver’s lines, North 15 West 45 poles to an iron pin, Weaver’s corner; thence with Frazier’s line, North 47 1/2 East 35 poles to an iron pin, an old corner near the old dead walnut stump corner, now marked by a stake; thence South 35 (v.2 1/2) East 30 1/2 poles to an iron pin, this being the old red oak corner (now gone); thence with Amon Weaver’s line South 56 East 28 poles to an iron pin and pointers, Weaver’s corner; thence with Tom Roberson’s line South 14 East 34 1/2 poles to a dogwood, Roberson’s and Amon Weaver’s corner; thence with Amon Weaver’s line, North 88 West 26 poles to a Hickory, Weaver’s corner, thence with Weaver’s line South 25 1/4 West 15 poles to the BEGINNING, and containing approximately 30 acres of land, more or less.

This being a part of an 83 1/2 acre tract deeded by A.P. White and others to Amon Weaver about the year 1943, and being a part of the same 83 1/2 acre tract conveyed by Judson Lewis to William White by deed dated September 2, 1926, and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for Rutherford County in Deed Book 131, Page 68, and being the same land conveyed by Amon Weaver and wife to Ralph Hagin and wife, Ruby Hagin.

SAVE AND EXCEPT HOWEVER FROM THE ABOVE DESCRIBED property all of the properties described in the following deeds:

1. Deed Book 284, Page 230, Rutherford County Registry.2. Deed Book 361, Page 475, Rutherford County Registry.3. Deed Book 361, Page 477, Rutherford County Registry.

Together with all additional rights, title, and interests of Grantor conveyed and described in the Deed of Trust recorded in Book 968, at Page 120 in the office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County.

This is the same property described in the Deed of Trust recorded in Book 968, at Page 120 in the office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County.

The current property Owner is Ranches at Mountain Creek, LLC.

The sale is made subject to all taxes (including but not limited to any applicable transfer taxes), special and homeowners’ association assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record against the said property, unrecorded mechanics’ and materialmen’s liens, and any recorded releases.

The property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Foreclosure Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS, AND WITH ALL FAULTS.” Neither the Substitute Trustee nor the Holder of the Note secured by the Deed of Trust/Security Agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representatives of either the Substitute Trustee or the Holder of the Note make any representation of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed.

A cash deposit not to exceed the greater of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty and No/100 Dollars ($750.00) may be required at the time of the sale. If no upset bid is filed within ten (10) days from the date the Report of Foreclosure Sale is filed, a Trustee’s Deed will be tendered to the highest bidder. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance of the purchase price so bid in cash or certified funds at the time the Substitute Trustee tenders to him a Trustee’s Deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said successful bidder fail to pay the full balance purchase price so bid at that time, he may remain liable on his bid as provided for in N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 45-21.30(d) and (e). In addition to the purchase price so bid any successful bidder will also be responsible for payment of revenue stamps and other costs of closing the sale.

An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the Clerk of Superior Court of the county in which the property is sold.

In accordance with N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.16A(b), in the event that this Notice of Foreclosure Sale relates to residential real property with less than 15 rental units, any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

This the 18th day of August, 2010.

___________________________Lance P. MartinFor WASLAW, LLCSubstitute TrusteeBB&T Building, Suite 14031 West Pack SquareAsheville, NC 28801Telephone: (828) 333-9470

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALEFILE NO. 10-SP-194

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Ranches At Mountain Creek, LLC to MTNBK, LTD, Trustee, dated September 25, 2007 and recorded in Book 977, at Page 691 in the Rutherford County Registry, Rutherfordton, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the Note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust, and the undersigned having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by instrument duly recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of the aforesaid county, and the Holder of the Note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina, on September 20, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate:

Generally described as certain real property, with any and all improvements thereon, located in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as attached in Exhibit A.

Exhibit “A”Description of Property

Situate, lying and being in Gilkey Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being the same and identical property described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 512, Page 541, Rutherford County Registry, and being described according to said Deed as follows:

Situate, lying and being in Gilkey Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, on the west side of State Road #1373, also known as the Mogene Road, on the south side of State Road #1356, also known as the Roy Huskey Road, and being those two certain tracts of land described in Deed Book 295, Page 537 and Deed Book 297, Page 69 of the Rutherford County Registry, and being described by metes and bounds as follows:

BEGINNING at a point in the center line of State Road #1356, same being located at the point where the center line of said road is intersected by the center line of State Road #1373; runs thence with the center line of State Road #1373 South 19 deg. 43 min. 04 sec. West 145.39 feet to a point; thence continuing with the center line of said road South 15 deg. 49 min. 09 sec. West 375.05 feet to an iron pin set at the center line of the road and Mountain Creek; thence with the center line of Mountain Creek North 63 deg. 00 min. 11 sec. West 503.25 feet to a point; South 87 deg. 56 min. 19 sec. West 86.52 feet; North 03 deg. 48 min. 44 sec. West 42.75 feet; North 63 deg. 36 min. 06 sec. West 39.95 feet; and North 74 deg. 26 min. 29 sec. West 196.92 feet to a point, same being evidenced by an iron pin offset in the north edge of the bank of said creek, also being the line of Catawba Timber Company; runs thence with the line of Catawba Timber Company North 26 deg. 00 min. 00 sec. East 441.29 feet to an existing axle (sic) in a marked line runs thence North 29 deg. 25 min. 00 sec. East 212.32 feet to a point in the center line of State Road #1356, also known as the Roy Huskey Road; thence with the center line of said road South 55 deg. 08 min. 52 sec. East 114.89 feet; South 62 deg. 38 min. 23 sec. East 91.93 feet; South 68 deg. 22 min. 35 sec. East 91.73 feet; South 57 deg. 07 min. 07 sec. East 66.23 feet; South 41 deg. 23 min. 55 sec. East 118.43 feet; South 53 deg. 59 min. 37 sec. East 55.84 feet; South 62 deg. 30 min. 15 sec. East 91.64 feet; South 52 deg. 06 min. 03 sec. East 69.16 feet; and South 46 deg. 38 min. 13 sec. East 55.83 feet to the point and place of BEGINNING, containing 10.46 acres, according to survey by Roy E. Ander & Associates.

Together with all additional rights, title, and interests of Grantor conveyed and described in the Deed of Trust recorded in Book 977, at Page 691 in the office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County.

This is the same property described in the Deed of Trust recorded in Book 977, at Page 691 in the office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County.

The current property Owner is Ranches at Mountain Creek, LLC.

The sale is made subject to all taxes (including but not limited to any applicable transfer taxes), special and homeowners’ association assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record against the said property, unrecorded mechanics’ and materialmen’s liens, and any recorded releases.

The property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Foreclosure Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS, AND WITH ALL FAULTS.” Neither the Substitute Trustee nor the Holder of the Note secured by the Deed of Trust/Security Agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representatives of either the Substitute Trustee or the Holder of the Note make any representation of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed.

A cash deposit not to exceed the greater of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty and No/100 Dollars ($750.00) may be required at the time of the sale. If no upset bid is filed within ten (10) days from the date the Report of Foreclosure Sale is filed, a Trustee’s Deed will be tendered to the highest bidder. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance of the purchase price so bid in cash or certified funds at the time the Substitute Trustee tenders to him a Trustee’s Deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said successful bidder fail to pay the full balance purchase price so bid at that time, he may remain liable on his bid as provided for in N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 45-21.30(d) and (e). In addition to the purchase price so bid any successful bidder will also be responsible for payment of revenue stamps and other costs of closing the sale.

An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the Clerk of Superior Court of the county in which the property is sold.

In accordance with N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.16A(b), in the event that this Notice of Foreclosure Sale relates to residential real property with less than 15 rental units, any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

This the 18th day of August, 2010.

___________________________Lance P. MartinFor WASLAW, LLCSubstitute TrusteeBB&T Building, Suite 14031 West Pack SquareAsheville, NC 28801Telephone: (828) 333-9470

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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF RUTHERFORD

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION

FILE NO.: 10-SP-270

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY THOMAS E. HUMPHREY AND WIFE, MAUREEN L. HUMPHREY DATED DECEMBER 28, 2005 AND RECORDED JANUARY 3, 2006, BOOK 879 PAGE 210 IN THE RUTHERFORD COUNTRY REGISTER OF DEEDS

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE: Dawson & Albritton, P.A.

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

Pursuant to a Court Order and under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of a violation of the provisions of said deed of trust and a failure to carry out and perform the stipulations and agreements therein contained, and pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the indebtedness secured by said deed of trust, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 3:00 P.M. on September 14, 2010 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, situated in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED as Lot 179 as shown on Map of Yellowtop Mountain Estates, Phase Eleven, as recorded in Plat Book 26, Page 213, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases.

A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.

An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, EXCEPT AS STATED BELOW IN THE INSTANCE OF BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION.

IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY.

This 30th day of July, 2010.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE Dawson & Albritton, P.A. P.O. Box 6003 (27835) 3219 Landmark Street, Ste. 4 Greenville, NC 27834 252.752.2485

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE10-SP-360

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by JOHN V. CLOUD, III AND DIANA W. CLOUD to CB SERVICES CORP., Trustee(s), dated the 14th day of AUGUST, 2000 and recorded in BOOK 600, PAGE 281, RUTHERFORD County Registry, North Carolina, Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, ANDERSON & STRICKLAND, P.A., having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of RUTHERFORD County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Courthouse Door, in the City of RUTHERFORDTON, RUTHERFORD County, North Carolina at 11:00 O’CLOCK A.M. ON SEPTEMBER 15TH, 2010, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of RUTHERFORD, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

SITUATE, lying and being in the Town of Lake Lure, Chimney Rock Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina and being Lot Number 1, 0.87 acres, of the Cloud Management Services, Inc. property as shown on plat done by Professional Surveying Services of record in Plat Book 17, Page 44, Rutherford County Registry to which reference is hereby made for a more full and complete description.

Tax Map 539-1-4F.

Said property being located at:1883 Buffalo Shoals Road, Lake Lure, NC 28746

PRESENT RECORD OWNER BEING: JOHN V. CLOUD, III

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. 45-21.23.

Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the statutory final assessment fee of forty-five cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. 7A 308 (a) (1), and any applicable county and/or state land transfer tax and/or revenue tax.

Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance of the purchase price so bid, in cash or certified check, at the time the Substitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said successful bidder fail to pay the full balance of the purchase price so bid, at that time he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in N.C.G.S. 45-21.30(d) and (e).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed.

A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.

That an Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

This the 18TH day of August, 2010.

Michael W. Strickland, as Attorney for and President ofANDERSON & STRICKLAND, P.A., Substitute Trustee210 East Russell Street, Suite 104 Fayetteville, North Carolina 28301 (910) 483-3300PUBLISH: August 31, 2010 September 7, 2010

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 10 SP 367

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Joseph P. Spado, Jr., Christina A. Spado, Matthew Piedmonte, and Kim M. Piedmonte (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Matthew J. Piedmonte, Kim M. Piedmonte, Joseph P. Spado and Christine A. Spado) to T. Thomas Kangur, Jr., Trustee(s), dated the 31st day of October, 2006, and recorded in Book 927, Page 221, and Modification in Book 972, Page 209, in Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door at 229 North Main St in the City of Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on September 21, 2010 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Rutherford, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED as Lot 70 as shown on the Map of South Mountain Peaks, Phase Four, as recorded in Plat Book 27, Page 92 and 93, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 109 Azule Ridge Drive, Bostic, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.

An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection.

IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY. This 31st day of August, 2010.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEBY: Attorney at LawThe Law Firm of Hutchens, Senter & Britton, P.A.Attorneys for Substitute Trustee Services, Inc.P.O. Box 10284317 Ramsey StreetFayetteville, North Carolina 28311http://sales.hsbfirm.comCase No: 1036951

SECTION 00010 - ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Sealed proposals will be received by the Rutherford County Board of Commissioners in the County Commissioners Meeting Room, 289 North Main Street, Rutherfordton, NC until 3:15pm, September 30, 2010 and thereafter opened and read at 3:15PM, for the furnishing of labor, materials, and equipment for the Youth Livestock Arena.

Bids will be received for all work under the General Contract. Bids must be on the Standard Form provided by the Architect.

Bid documents will be available for inspection in the Plan Rooms of Associated General Contractors, Reed Construction Data and McGraw-Hill Dodge Company in Charlotte, NC; Associated General Contractors in Asheville, NC; in the office of the Architect, Holland & Hamrick, Architects, P.A., 222 N. Lafayette Street, Suite 21, Shelby, NC and CADCopy & Supply, LLC, 513 S. Dekalb Street, Shelby, NC 28150.

Bid documents may be obtained from the office of the Architect on the following basis:

Bidders may obtain one complete set of bid documents upon deposit of $150.00. Full deposit for one set of bid documents will be refunded to those submitting a bona fide bid proposal for the contract and who return the documents in usable condition within ten (10) days after date of bid opening.

Additional prints of drawings will be issued on a non-refundable cost basis of $1.50 per sheet. Additional copies of the specification pages for a non-refundable charge of ten cents per page.

All Contractors are notified that General Statutes of N.C., Chapter 87, and as amended, will be observed in receiving bids and awarding contracts. All federal, state and municipal laws governing each respective trade will be complied with.

In compliance with NCGS 143-128, the Rutherford County Board of Commissioners has adopted a policy to encourage participation by minority businesses in their building projects. A pre-bid conference will be held at 2:30pm, September 16, 2010 at the Rutherford County Board of Commissioners in the County Commissioners Meeting Room, 289 North Main Street, Rutherfordton, NC to answer any questions about this project and the Board’s policy on participation by minority businesses.

Each proposal shall be accompanied by a bid guarantee of five percent (5%) of the bid. Bid guarantee may be in cash, certified check drawn on some bank or trust company insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or by a Bid Bond executed by a corporate surety licensed under the Laws of N.C. to execute such bond. Check or Bond shall be made payable to the Rutherford County Board of Commissioners. Bid Bonds and/or Checks will be promptly returned to the unsuccessful bidders, and to the successful bidders upon the execution of the Contract. Should the successful bidder fail to execute the Contract and furnish Bond within ten (10) days after notice of acceptance of his Proposal, the Bid Bond or Certified Check will be forfeited to the Rutherford County Board of Commissioners as liquidated damages.

Note: Bid Guarantee must be exactly five percent (5%) of the bid, not the difference between the low bid and the next lowest bid not to exceed five percent.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids and/or to waive any and all technical defects in the execution of and informalities in the submission of any proposal. No bid may be withdrawn for forty five (45) days after the bid opening.

Payments will be made by the Owner once a month in an amount equal to ninety (90) percent of the work completed and final payment within thirty (30) days after the completion and acceptance of the work.

Mr. John Condrey,County Manager, Rutherford County

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The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, TuesDay, september 7, 2010 — 5C

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 10 SP 08

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Steve Logan to First Priority Services, Inc., Trustee(s), dated the 5th day of August, 2005, and recorded in Book 853, Page 701, in Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door at 229 North Main St in the City of Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on September 21, 2010 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Rutherford, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

Being all of Lot 28 of Weatherstone #3 (revised) as the same is shown on a map thereof recorded in Map Book 9 at Page 6 in the Rutherford County Public Registry. Being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at an iron pin, said iron pin lying on the Southeast side of Greenbriar Lane (SR 1612) said iron pin being the common Northernmost corner of Robert R. Kuehl as described in deed recorded in Deed Book 481, Page 511, Rutherford County Registry, and Common Northwesternmost corner of the tract herein described, said iron pin lying in the Southeastern boundary of Greenbriar Lane right of way and running thence from said beginning point with Southern margin of the Greenbriar Lane right of way, North 55 degrees 16 minutes 30 seconds East 125.01 feet to an iron pin; thence South 34 degrees 40 minutes 13 seconds East 174.97 feet to an iron pin; thence South 55 degrees 16 minutes 31 seconds West 125 feet to an iron pin; thence North 34 degrees 40 minutes 19 seconds West 174.97 feet to the beginning, containing 0.50 acres, according to map and survey by Professional Surveying Services, Nathan Odom, Registered Land Surveyor, dated November 11, 1988. Together with improvements located thereon;

Said property being located at: 244 Greenbriar Drive, Forest City, North Carolina

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.

An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection.

IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY. This 17th day of August, 2010.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEBY: Attorney at LawThe Law Firm of Hutchens, Senter & Britton, P.A.Attorneys for Substitute Trustee Services, Inc.P.O. Box 10284317 Ramsey StreetFayetteville, North Carolina 28311http://sales.hsbfirm.comCase No: 1025840

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICEOF NORTH CAROLINA

SUPERIOR COURT DIVISIONRUTHERFORD COUNTY

10 sp 310

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY SANDRA A. LANDRUM DATED JULY 10, 2001 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 635 AT PAGE 618 IN THE RUTHERFORD COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA

NOTICE OF SALE

Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 2:30 PM on August 11, 2010 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

TRACT ONE: Situated, lying and being in Cool Springs Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows: BEING Lot Numbers 10 and 11 in Block “B” of the J.F, Weathers Subdivision in the Town of Forest City, North Carolina, a plat of said subdivision being duly recorded in Plat Book 117, Page 390, Rutherford County Registry, and reference to which is hereby made for full and complete description. AND being the same property conveyed to Elin Francen Blanton, single, by Ella Frances Blanton, as sole heir of Addle Hull by deed dated July 21, 1956, and of record in Deed Book 235, Page 538, Rutherford County Registry.

See Deed Book 303, Page 342, Rutherford County Registry.

TRACT TWO: situate, lying and being in the Town of Forest City, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being Lot Number 9, Block “B’’ of the J.F. Weathers Subdivision on the Northwest side of Forest Street in the Town of Forest City. This being the same property conveyed in deed from W.L. McDowell and wife, Sallie McDowell, to R.H. Foster and wife, Henrietta C. Foster, which deed was dated June 6, 1929, and recorded March 18, 1932, in Deed Book 149, Page 552, Rutherford County Registry, Description being taken from a plat of which is recorded in Plat Book 4, Page 122, reference to which is made for a more full an complete description of said property. See Deed Book 304, Page 341, Rutherford County Registry.

And Being more commonly known as: 362 Forest St, Forest City, NC 28043

The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Estate of Sandra A. Landrum.

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the landlord. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is July 21, 2010.

_______________________________Elizabeth EllsTrustee10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400Charlotte, NC 28216(704) 333-8107http://shapiroattorneys.com/nc/10-005159

SECTION 00010 - ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Sealed proposals will be received by the Rutherford County Board of Commissioners in the County Commissioners Meeting Room, 289 North Main Street, Rutherfordton, NC until 4:00pm, September 30, 2010 and thereafter opened and read at 4:00PM, for the furnishing of labor, materials, and equipment for the Farmer’s Market.

Bids will be received for all work under the General Contract. Bids must be on the Standard Form provided by the Architect.

Bid documents will be available for inspection in the Plan Rooms of Associated General Contractors, Reed Construction Data and McGraw-Hill Dodge Company in Charlotte, NC; Associated General Contractors in Asheville, NC; in the office of the Architect, Holland & Hamrick, Architects, P.A., 222 N. Lafayette Street, Suite 21, Shelby, NC and CADCopy & Supply, LLC, 513 S. Dekalb Street, Shelby, NC 28150.

Bid documents may be obtained from the office of the Architect on the following basis:

Bidders may obtain one complete set of bid documents upon deposit of $150.00. Full deposit for one set of bid documents will be refunded to those submitting a bona fide bid proposal for the contract and who return the documents in usable condition within ten (10) days after date of bid opening.

Additional prints of drawings will be issued on a non-refundable cost basis of $1.50 per sheet. Additional copies of the specification pages for a non-refundable charge of ten cents per page.

All Contractors are notified that General Statutes of N.C., Chapter 87, and as amended, will be observed in receiving bids and awarding contracts. All federal, state and municipal laws governing each respective trade will be complied with.

In compliance with NCGS 143-128, the Rutherford County Board of Commissioners has adopted a policy to encourage participation by minority businesses in their building projects. A pre-bid conference will be held at 2:30pm, September 16, 2010 at the Rutherford County Board of Commissioners in the County Commissioners Meeting Room, 289 North Main Street, Rutherfordton, NC to answer any questions about this project and the Board’s policy on participation by minority businesses.

Each proposal shall be accompanied by a bid guarantee of five percent (5%) of the bid. Bid guarantee may be in cash, certified check drawn on some bank or trust company insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or by a Bid Bond executed by a corporate surety licensed under the Laws of N.C. to execute such bond. Check or Bond shall be made payable to the Rutherford County Board of Commissioners. Bid Bonds and/or Checks will be promptly returned to the unsuccessful bidders, and to the successful bidders upon the execution of the Contract. Should the successful bidder fail to execute the Contract and furnish Bond within ten (10) days after notice of acceptance of his Proposal, the Bid Bond or Certified Check will be forfeited to the Rutherford County Board of Commissioners as liquidated damages.

Note: Bid Guarantee must be exactly five percent (5%) of the bid, not the difference between the low bid and the next lowest bid not to exceed five percent.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids and/or to waive any and all technical defects in the execution of and informalities in the submission of any proposal. No bid may be withdrawn for forty five (45) days after the bid opening.

Payments will be made by the Owner once a month in an amount equal to ninety (90) percent of the work completed and final payment within thirty (30) days after the completion and acceptance of the work.

Mr. John Condrey,County Manager, Rutherford County

SECTION 00010 - ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Sealed proposals will be received by the Rutherford County Board of Commissioners in the County Commissioners Meeting Room, 289 North Main Street, Rutherfordton, NC until 2:30pm, September 30, 2010 and thereafter opened and read, for the furnishing of labor, materials, and equipment for the EMS Station 4.

Bids will be received for all work under the General Contract. Bids must be on the Standard Form provided by the Architect.

Bid documents will be available for inspection in the Plan Rooms of Associated General Contractors, Reed Construction Data and McGraw-Hill Dodge Company in Charlotte, NC; Associated General Contractors in Asheville, NC; in the office of the Architect, Holland & Hamrick, Architects, P.A., 222 N. Lafayette Street, Suite 21, Shelby, NC and CADCopy & Supply, LLC, 513 S. Dekalb Street, Shelby, NC 28150.

Bid documents may be obtained from the office of the Architect on the following basis:

Bidders may obtain one complete set of bid documents upon deposit of $150.00. Full deposit for one set of bid documents will be refunded to those submitting a bona fide bid proposal for the contract and who return the documents in usable condition within ten (10) days after date of bid opening.

Additional prints of drawings will be issued on a non-refundable cost basis of $1.50 per sheet. Additional copies of the specification pages for a non-refundable charge of ten cents per page.

All Contractors are notified that General Statutes of N.C., Chapter 87, and as amended, will be observed in receiving bids and awarding contracts. All federal, state and municipal laws governing each respective trade will be complied with.

In compliance with NCGS 143-128, the Rutherford County Board of Commissioners has adopted a policy to encourage participation by minority businesses in their building projects. A pre-bid conference will be held at 2:30pm, September 16, 2010 at the Rutherford County Board of Commissioners in the County Commissioners Meeting Room, 289 North Main Street, Rutherfordton, NC to answer any questions about this project and the Board’s policy on participation by minority businesses.

Each proposal shall be accompanied by a bid guarantee of five percent (5%) of the bid. Bid guarantee may be in cash, certified check drawn on some bank or trust company insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or by a Bid Bond executed by a corporate surety licensed under the Laws of N.C. to execute such bond. Check or Bond shall be made payable to the Rutherford County Board of Commissioners. Bid Bonds and/or Checks will be promptly returned to the unsuccessful bidders, and to the successful bidders upon the execution of the Contract. Should the successful bidder fail to execute the Contract and furnish Bond within ten (10) days after notice of acceptance of his Proposal, the Bid Bond or Certified Check will be forfeited to the Rutherford County Board of Commissioners as liquidated damages.

Note: Bid Guarantee must be exactly five percent (5%) of the bid, not the difference between the low bid and the next lowest bid not to exceed five percent.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids and/or to waive any and all technical defects in the execution of and informalities in the submission of any proposal. No bid may be withdrawn for forty five (45) days after the bid opening.

Payments will be made by the Owner once a month in an amount equal to ninety (95) percent of the work completed and final payment within thirty (30) days after the completion and acceptance of the work.

Mr. John Condrey,County Manager, Rutherford County

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6C — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, TuesDay, september 7, 2010

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE09 SP 212

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Bryan R. Davis and Amy Davis to M. Patricia Oliver, Trustee(s), dated the 16th day of November, 2007, and recorded in Book 984, Page 561, in Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door at 229 North Main St in the City of Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on September 14, 2010 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the Township of Greenhill, in the County of Rutherford, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

Tract One: Situate, lying and being in Green Hill Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being a portion of the lands of Steve T. Mode and wife, Margaret Mode by a deed recorded on Deed Book 729, at Page 21, Rutherford County Registry, and being all of Lots 1 and 2 of Maple Creek Estates as recorded in Plat Book 20, at Page 32, Rutherford County Registry, reference to which plat is hereby made for a full and complete description of the property. Tract Two: Situate, lying and being in Green Hill Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina and being a portion of the lands of Kenneth Franklin Head and wife, Betty Jean Head by a deed recorded in Deed Book 454, at Page 587, Rutherford County Registry, and being more particularly described by metes and bounds according to a map of survey by Lattimore & Peeler Surveying D Dobbins Lattimore, Registered Land Surveyor, bearing drawing number 99-234A, and dated June 4, 1999, as follows: Beginning at a mag nail and cap, control corner, in the centerline of Maple Creek Road (SR1178), said mag nail and cap serving as the Southeast corner of the lands known as Lot 1 of Maple Creek Estates as recorded in Plat Book 20, at Page 32, Rutherford County Registry, and said mag. nail and cap lying South 64 degrees 53 minutes 33 seconds East (passing a mag nail and cap at 153.34 feet) a total distance of 306.69 feet from a mag nail and cap in the center of the intersection of Maple Creek Road with Coopers Gap Road (SR 1172) and running thence from said point of beginning along the Lot 1 Eastern boundary, North 19 degrees 38 minutes 34 seconds East (passing a rebar at 29.58 feet) a total distance of 356.20 feet to a rebar, said rebar serving the Northeast Lot 1 corner and also as the Southeast corner of the lands known as Lot 3 of the said Maple Creek Estates subdivision referenced hereinabove, thence South 52 degrees 43 minutes 06 seconds East 150.00 feet to a new iron pin, thence South 18 degrees 31 minutes 09 seconds West 294.86 feet (passing a new iron pin at 294.86 feet) a total distance of 325.05 feet to a mag nail and cap set in the centerline of Maple Creek Road, said mag nail and cap lying North 64 degrees 54 minutes 35 seconds East 150.12 feet from an unmarked point serving as the Southeast corner of the Head lands hereinabove referenced, thence along the centerline of Maple Creek Road, North 64 degrees 54 minutes 35 seconds West 150.00 feet to the point and place of beginning, containing 1.136 acres, more or less. Being the same and identical property which was conveyed by Randy Monteith and wife, Renee Monteith to Bryan Davis and wife, Amy Davis by deed dated November 16, 2007 and of record in Deed Book ____ at Page ____, Rutherford County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon;

Said property being located at: 2690 Maple Creek Road, Rutherfordton, North Carolina

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.

An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection.

IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY. This 24th day of August, 2010.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEBY: Attorney at LawThe Law Firm of Hutchens, Senter & Britton, P.A.Attorneys for Substitute Trustee Services, Inc.P.O. Box 10284317 Ramsey StreetFayetteville, North Carolina 28311http://sales.hsbfirm.comCase No: 1010133

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Successful candidate will possess a Bachelor’s Degree in related field and a minimum of 4 years applicable experience including quality system knowledge. Must demonstrate proficiency in AS400, Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, Powerpoint and Access as well as participate in daily customer interaction. Successful candidate must also possess excellent oral and written communication skills. This is a salaried position that would prefer ASQ certifications, but not required. Salary will depend on skills and experience.

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Having qualified as Co-Administrator of the estate of JAMESBOYCE ROBBINS of Rutherford County, North Carolina, thisis to notify all persons having claims against the estate of thesaid JAMES BOYCE ROBBINS to present them to theundersigned on or before the 24th day of November, 2010 orthe same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All personsindebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This is the 24th day of August, 2010.

Joseph David Robbins Sr., Co-Administrator331 Luckadoo RoadBostic, NC 28018

Roy Lee Robbins, Co-Administrator705 Sulphur Springs Church RoadForest City, NC 28043

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Having qualified as Executor of the estate of OPAL GALLIONMITCHEM of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is tonotify all persons having claims against the estate of the saidOPAL GALLION MITCHEM to present them to theundersigned on or before the 24th day of November, 2010 orthe same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All personsindebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This is the 24th day of August, 2010.

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154 Beams Mill Rd. Ellenboro, N.C.Wayne Powell will have the pleasure to Auction the Liv-ing Estate of Dwight Hughes in Ellenboro, NC at 154 Beams Mill Road. Come bring a chair and sit under the big shade trees and enjoy the day with us. There will be food available. This auction has everything from vintage furniture to dump trucks to golf carts to vintage glassware. A nice knife and Zippo lighter collec-tion. Tools, equipment, Kawasaki motorcycle with lots of extras.

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AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALEFILE NO. 10-SP-195

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Ranches At Mountain Creek, LLC to MTNBK, LTD, Trustee, dated March 19, 2007 and recorded in Book 947, at Page 158 in the Rutherford County Registry, Rutherfordton, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the Note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust, and the undersigned having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by instrument duly recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of the aforesaid county, and the Holder of the Note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina, on September 20, 2010, at 11:00 a.m. and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate:

Generally described as certain real property, with any and all improvements thereon, located in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as attached in Exhibit A.Exhibit “A”

Description of PropertySituate, lying and being in Green Hill Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, being all of the property as described in Deeds recorded in Deed Book 920, Page 130; Deed Book 910, Page 656; and Deed Book 916, Page 545, Rutherford County Registry, and being described according to said deeds herein as follows:

PARCEL ONE: Situate, lying and being in Green Hill Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, being the same and identical property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 920, Page 130, Rutherford County Registry, and being described according to said Deed as follows:

Situate, lying and being in Green Hill Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, being the same and identical property as described in Deed to Hayden Burns, Jr. and wife, Joyce Burns as recorded June 18, 1991 in Deed Book 578, Page 87, Rutherford County Registry, and being described according to said Deed as follows:

Situate, lying and being in Green Hill Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being part of the same lands conveyed to Roy Johnson and wife, Myrtle Johnson by Deed dated April 28, 1950, and recorded in Deed Book 209 at Page 535 of the Rutherford County Registry of Deeds and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at a point, said point being marked by an iron pin and being located at the easternmost corner of the 1.25 acre tract retained by Roy Johnson and wife, Myrtle Johnson and also being located North 25 degrees 30 minutes East 171.53 feet from a nail in State Road 1356 which marks the Southernmost corner of the Roy Johnson and wife, Myrtle Johnson aforementioned 1.25 acre tract, and proceeding thence along the common boundary with J.E. Lane South 86 degrees 20 minutes 9 seconds East 173.65 feet to an iron pin ; thence along the common boundary with Amon Weaver South 88 degrees 10 minutes 50 seconds East 428.19 feet to an iron pin at a fence corner; thence proceeding along the common boundary with Hicks Lewis North 16 degrees 11 minutes 55 seconds West 610.97 feet to an iron pin; thence proceeding along the common boundary with Bowaters Lumber Company North 56 degrees 51 minutes 36 seconds West 444.89 feet to an iron pin; North 34 degrees 30 minutes 55 seconds West 476.14 feet to an iron pin; South 44 degrees 13 minutes 12 seconds West 572.06 feet to an iron pin; South 16 degrees 2 minutes 48 seconds East 438.21 feet to an iron pin; thence proceeding along the common boundary with Cecil Burnette North 82 degrees 24 minutes 5 seconds East 320.80 feet to an iron pin; South 5 degrees 50 minutes 7 seconds West 279.81 feet to an iron pin; thence along the common boundary with Roy Johnson and wife, Myrtle Johnson, North 87 degrees 21 minutes 25 seconds East 101.77 feet to an iron pin; South 35 degrees 57 minutes 53 seconds East 167.06 feet to the point and place of BEGINNING, containing 17.67 acres, more or less.

The above metes and bounds description is taken from a survey and plat by William S. Callahan for Roy Johnson dated August 23, 1974.

Being the same and identical property which was conveyed by Donald L. Warren and wife, Peggy J. Warren to Donald Leroy Warren, single, and Maria Etta Hatcher, single, by Deed dated September 27, 1988 and recorded in Deed Book 527 at Page 574, Rutherford County Registry.

There is also conveyed herewith a Right of Way and easement to use that certain existing roadway running from North Carolina State Secondary Road #1356 across the lands of Roy Johnson and wife, Myrtle Johnson to the property hereinabove described which right of way and easement was acquired by Donald L. Warren and wife, Peggy J. Warren by Right of Way Agreement dated September 4, 1980, and of record in Deed Book 416 at Page 138, Rutherford County Registry.

PARCEL TWO: Situate, lying and being in Green Hill Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being the same and identical property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 910, Page 656, Rutherford County Registry, and being described according to said Deed as follows:

Situate, lying and being in Green Hill Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being all the property described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 878, Page 133, Rutherford County Registry, the property herein conveyed being described according to a survey dated August-October/2005, revised July 6, 2006, bearing Drawing No. 398 and prepared by John W. Terry, II, PLS, of Tripod Land Surveying, PA, as follows:

BEGINNING at a point located in the centerline of State Road 1356 (Roy Huskey Road), said beginning point located North 53 deg 22 min 55 sec West 443.97 feet from a 1 inch existing iron rod in the intersection of said road and Mogene Road, said beginning point also being located in the westerly southern corner of the Warren property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 476, Page 741, Rutherford County Registry, said beginning point also being located in the northeastern boundary of the Craig property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 512, Page 541, Rutherford County Registry, and running thence from said beginning point and with the centerline of Roy Huskey Road and with the northeastern boundary of the said Craig property North 58 deg 57 min 14 sec West 16.76 feet, North 70 deg 12 min 42 sec West 91.73 feet, North 64 deg 28 min 30 sec West 91.93 feet, and North 57 deg 18 min 21 sec West 117.26 feet to a point located in the northern corner of the said Craig property; thence leaving said road and running with the northwestern boundary of the said Craig property South 26 deg 55 min 09 sec West 15.68 feet to an existing iron rod, T-Post, South 26 deg 55 min 09 sec West 196.32 feet to a 3/4 inch existing iron pipe, South 24 deg 10 min 05 sec West 406.19 feet to a 1/2 inch existing iron rod, and South 24 deg 09 min 53 sec West 35.00 to a point located in West Branch, said branch being the northern boundary line of the Blecher property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 583, Page 780, Rutherford County Registry; thence running with the centerline of said branch and with the northern boundary of the Blecher property North 33 deg 41 min 22 sec West 40.28 feet to a point located in the northwestern corner of the said Blecher property; thence leaving said branch and running with the western boundary of the said Blecher property South 39 deg 43 min 24 sec West 228.00 feet (passing a 1/2 inch iron rod set at 42.26 feet) to an existing iron rod T-Post located in the southwestern corner of the said Blecher property; and also being located in a corner located in the northern boundary line of the Hoy property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 593, Page 258, Rutherford County Registry; thence running with the northern boundary of the said Hoy property South 11 deg 43 min 24 sec West 349.86 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post, and North 89 deg 51 min 34 sec West 1,414.32 feet to a T-Post at rock pile located in the eastern boundary of the Lewis property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 860, Page 90, Rutherford County Registry, said T-Post being located North 67 deg 20 min 24 sec East 2,495.39 feet from NCOS Station “Green Hill” NAD 83,N-188,024.300 M,E-333,380.328 M; thence running with the eastern boundary of the said Lewis property North 03 deg 19 min 13 sec East 256.72 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post and North 31 deg 42 min 54 sec East 289.34 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post located in the northeastern corner of the said Lewis property and also located in the southern boundary of the Moody and Mintz property described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 600, Page 53, Rutherford County Registry; thence running with the southern boundary of the Moody and Mintz property North 78 deg 09 min 01 sec East 351.28 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post located in the southeastern corner of the Moody and Mintz property; thence running with the eastern boundary of the Moody and Mintz property North 06 deg 30 min 31 sec East 601.40 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post, North 35 deg 22 min 31 sec East 217.86 feet to an existing iron rod, axle at T-Post, North 82 deg 19 min 58 sec East 359.90 feet to a T-Post at cherry tree, North 05 deg 10 min 08 sec East 361.16 feet to a T-Post at rock pile, North 79 deg 59 min 06 sec West 358.45 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post, North 25 deg 48 min 47 sec West 240.07 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post, North 12 deg 08 min 26 sec West 157.02 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post, and North 01 deg 51 min 33 sec East 681.43 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post located in the southern boundary of the Koon property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 773, Page 726, Rutherford County Registy; thence running with the southern boundary of the said Koon property North 67 deg 04 min 03 sec East 517.54 feet to a 3 inch existing iron pipe located to the east of West Branch, North 66 deg 53 min 00 sec East 752.01 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post, and North 67 deg 11 min 26 sec East 572.54 feet to a 1 inch existing iron pipe at T-Post located in the southeastern corner of the said Koon property; thence running with the eastern boundary of the said Koon property North 10 deg 33 min 46 sec West 1,654.33 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post located in the southern boundary of the Taylor property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 596, Page 786, Rutherford County Registry; thence running with the southern boundary of the said Taylor property North 68 deg 53 min 51 sec East 277.44 feet to a 2 inch existing iron pipe located in the western boundary of the Short property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 314, Page 631, Rutherford County Registry; thence running with the western boundary of the said Short property South 13 deg 55 min 48 sec East 717.23 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post located in the southwestern corner of the said Short property and also located in the western boundary of the Hipp property as described in Deed recorded in Will Book P, Page 112, Rutherford County Clerk of Superior Court; thence running with the western boundary of the said Hipp property South 13 deg 25 min 12 sec East 646.51 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post above branch, South 56 deg 32 min 00 sec East 251.33 feet, South 48 deg 32 min 06 sec East 129.59 feet, and South 34 deg 32 min06 sec East 245.44 feet to a point at intersection of small branch and Mountain Creek, said point being located in the southwestern corner of the Hipp property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 194, Page 4, Rutherford County Registry, said point also being located in the northwestern corner of the Hines property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 517, Page 230, Rutherford County Registry; thence running with the western boundary of the said Hines property and with the centerline of Mountain Creek generally as it meanders along the following calls twenty-nine (29) calls: (1) South 22 deg 15 min 56 secWest 37.81 feet, (2) South 36 deg 25 min 12 sec East 70.29 feet, (3) South 00 deg 50 min 59 sec East 44.47 feet, (4) South 52 deg 06 min 02 sec East 83.63 feet, (5) South 01 deg 26 min 21 sec West 81.89 feet, (6) North 86 deg 59 min 13 sec East 34.07 feet, (7) South 48 deg 09 min 51 sec East 45.57 feet, (8) South 13 deg 03 min 20 sec East 101.75 feet, (9) North 76 deg 02 min 11 sec East 62.10 feet, (10) South33 deg 12 min 45 sec East 126.29 feet, (11) South 07 deg 19 min 50 sec East 155.08 feet, (12) South 52 deg 15 min 48 sec East 127.31 feet, (13) South 11 deg 02 min 23 sec West 73.98 feet, (14) South 27 deg 05 min 38 sec East 102.87 feet, (15) South 65 deg 59 min 26 sec East 68.87 feet, (16) North 62 deg 21 min 14 sec East 63.49 feet, (17) South 62 deg 11 min 51 sec East 26.98 feet, (18) South 11 deg 20 min 52 sec East 18.89 feet, (19) South 63 deg 57 min 25 sec West 53.73 feet, (20) South 04 deg 08 min 26 sec East 40.37 feet, (21) South 51 deg 47 min 30 sec East 70.29 feet, (22) North 40 deg 49 min 07 sec East 55.85 feet, (23) South 50 deg 06 min 10 sec East 50.69 feet, (24) South 06 deg 29 min 18 sec East 89.37 feet, (25) South 40 deg 12 min 12 sec East 153.15 feet, (26) South 02 deg 17 min 28 sec West 87.71 feet, (27) South 73 deg 30 min 42 sec East 34.53 feet, (28) North 85 deg 52 min 52 sec East 165.58 feet, and (29) South 54 deg 55 min 31 sec East 32.71 feet to a point located in a corner of the said Hines property; thence leaving Mountain Creek and continuing with the eastern boundary of the said Hines property South 49 deg 04 min 11 sec West 1,324.81 feet (passing a 1/2 inch iron rod set at 40.25 feet) to a 1 inch existing iron pipe located in a corner in the eastern boundary of the Burns property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 578, Page 87, Rutherford County Registry; thence running with the northeastern boundary of the said Burns property North 54 deg 55 min 48 sec West 444.63 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post, North 32 deg 33 min 03 sec West 475.95 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post located in the northern corner of the said Burns property; thence running with the northwestern boundary of the said Burns property South 46 deg 04 min 14 sec West 572.60 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post; thence running with the western boundary of the said Burns property and thence with the western boundary of the above referenced Warren property South 13 deg 42 min 45 sec East 716.20 feet (passing a 1/2 inch existing iron rod at fence corner) to the point and place of BEGINNING, and containing 171.304 acres according to said survey without the below noted exception.

THERE IS EXCEPTED, HOWEVER, from the above described property all of the Huskey property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 318, Page 166, Rutherford County Registry, and also all of the Frazier property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 854, Page 469, Rutherford County Registry, both of said properties being described in one consolidated boundary pursuant to the above referenced survey as follows:

BEGINNING at an existing iron rod T-Post located in the northeastern corner of the said Frazier property, said beginning existing iron rod T-Post being located South 57 deg 04 min 28 sec West 125.30 feet from the existing iron rod T-Post marking the terminus of the next to last call of the above described property and running thence from said beginning existing iron rod T-Post (1) South 28 deg 09 min 36 sec East 226.10 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post, (2) South 81 deg 20 min 24 sec West 412.50 feet (passing an iron rod set at 394.35 feet) to a point within the margin of Roy Huskey Road (3) North 23 deg 59 min 00 sec West 201.77 feet to an iron rod set, (4) South 81 deg 43 min 00 sec West 25.00 feet to an iron rod set, (5) South 25 deg 14 min 31 sec East 46.00 feet to a point within the margin of Roy Huskey Road, (6) South 86 deg 45 min 29 sec West 17.02 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post, (7) South 86 deg 45 min 29 sec West 217.98 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post, (8) North 14 deg 14 min 24 sec West 217.20 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post, (9) North 18 deg 07 min 19 sec West 99.55 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post, (10) North 14 deg 48 min 36 sec West 99.31 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post, (11) North 08 deg 05 min 49 sec East 135.04 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post, (12) South 87 deg 58 min 12 sec East 99.34 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post, (13) South 62 deg 49 min 48 sec East 468.45 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post, (14) South 38 deg 49 min 46 sec East 266.46 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post, and (15) North 49 deg 49 min 01 sec East 39.92 feet to the point and place of beginning.

PARCEL THREE: Situate, lying and being in Green Hill Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, being the same and identical property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 916, Page 545, Rutherford County Registry, and being described according to said Deed as follows:

Situate, lying and being in Green Hill Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being all the property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 898, Page 880, Rutherford County Registry, and being described herein according to a survey dated August/05-September/06, bearing Drawing Number 398A, and prepared by John W. Terry, II, PLS, of Tripod Land Surveying, PA as follows:

BEGINNING at an existing iron pipe located North 34 deg 21 min 14 sec East 2,451.86 feet from NCGS Station “Green Hill” NAD 83/2001, N-188,023.942 M,E-333,380.400 M, said beginning existing iron pipe also being located in the northern boundary of the Lewis property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 860, Page 90, Rutherford County Registry, said beginning existing iron pipe also being located in the southeastern corner of the Lewis property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 729, Page 503, Rutherford County Registry; and running thence from said beginning existing iron pipe and with the eastern boundary of the last referenced Lewis property North 22 deg 47 min 47 sec East 258.54 feet to an existing iron pipe and North 21 deg 30 min 50 sec East 301.22 feet to an existing iron pipe located in the northeastern corner of the said Lewis property and also located in the southeastern corner of the List property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 842, Page 309, Rutherford County Registry; thence running with the eastern boundary of the List property North 26 deg 10 min 36 sec East 52.93 feet to an existing iron pipe, North 15 deg 11 min 03 sec East 424.81 feet to an existing iron pipe, North 76 deg 19 min 35 sec West 181.93 feet to an existing iron pipe, and North 37 deg 51 min 12 sec West 640.09 feet to a stone found at maples located in the southern boundary of the Crawford property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 302, Page 434, Rutherford County Registry; thence running with the southern boundary of the said Crawford property North 50 deg 02 min 33 sec East 552.71 feet to an existing iron pipe, South 79 deg 50 min 16 sec East 28.97 feet, South 53 deg 32 min 42 sec East 27.28 feet, South 39 deg 04 min 53 sec East 35.78 feet, South 26 deg 30 min 08 sec East 84.81 feet, South 45 deg 31 min 43 sec East 94.33 feet, South 37 deg 29 min 54 sec East 118.55 feet, South 65 deg 31 min 19 sec East 64.92 feet, and South 59 deg 44 min 54 sec East 91.99 feet to a point located in the southeastern corner of the said Crawford property and also located in the southwestern corner of the Koon property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 773, Page 726, Rutherford County Registry; thence running with the southern boundary of the Koon property South 67 deg 00 min 17 sec East 154.43 feet to a nail set in rock pile, and North 66 deg 55 min 53 sec East 885.42 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post located in the northwestern corner of the Ranches at Mountain Creek LLC property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 910, Page 656, Rutherford County Registry; thence running with the western boundary of the Ranches at Mountain Creek LLC property South 01 deg 51 min 33 sec West 681.43 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post, South 12 deg 08 min 26 sec East 157.02 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post, South 25 deg 48 min 47 sec East 240.07 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post, South 79 deg 59 min 06 sec East 358.45 feet to a T-Post at rock pile, South 05 deg 10 min 08 sec West 361.16 feet to a T-Post at cherry tree, South 82 deg 19 min 58 sec West 359.90 feet to an existing iron rod, axle at T-Post, South 35 deg 22 min 31 sec West 217.86 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post, South 06 deg 30 min 31 sec West 601.40 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post, and South 78 deg 09 min 01 sec West 351.28 feet to an existing iron rod T-Post located in the northeastern corner of the Lewis property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 860, Page 90, Rutherford County Registry; thence running with the northern boundary of this said Lewis property North 50 deg 00 min 17 sec West 412.41 feet to an existing iron pipe and North 69 deg 01 min 22 sec West 824.87 feet to the point and place of BEGINNING, and containing 69.632 acres according to said survey.

Together with all additional rights, title, and interests of Grantor conveyed and described in the Deed of Trust recorded in Book 947, at Page 158 in the office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County.

This is the same property described in the Deed of Trust recorded in Book 947, at Page 158 in the office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County.

The current property Owner is Ranches at Mountain Creek, LLC.

The sale is made subject to all taxes (including but not limited to any applicable transfer taxes), special and homeowners’ association assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record against the said property, unrecorded mechanics’ and materialmen’s liens, and any recorded releases.

The property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Foreclosure Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS, AND WITH ALL FAULTS.” Neither the Substitute Trustee nor the Holder of the Note secured by the Deed of Trust/Security Agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representatives of either the Substitute Trustee or the Holder of the Note make any representation of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed.

A cash deposit not to exceed the greater of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty and No/100 Dollars ($750.00) may be required at the time of the sale. If no upset bid is filed within ten (10) days from the date the Report of Foreclosure Sale is filed, a Trustee’s Deed will be tendered to the highest bidder. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance of the purchase price so bid in cash or certified funds at the time the Substitute Trustee tenders to him a Trustee’s Deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said successful bidder fail to pay the full balance purchase price so bid at that time, he may remain liable on his bid as provided for in N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 45-21.30(d) and (e). In addition to the purchase price so bid any successful bidder will also be responsible for payment of revenue stamps and other costs of closing the sale.

An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the Clerk of Superior Court of the county in which the property is sold.

In accordance with N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.16A(b), in the event that this Notice of Foreclosure Sale relates to residential real property with less than 15 rental units, any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

This the 18th day of August, 2010.

__________________________________________Lance P. Martin For WASLAW, LLCSubstitute TrusteeBB&T Building, Suite 14031 West Pack SquareAsheville, NC 28801Telephone: (828) 333-9470

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