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FOOTBALL FRIDAY The scores Union Academy 34 7 Cuthbertson Weddington 31 24 Porter Ridge Forest Hills 48 0 CATA Marvin Ridge 24 20 Anson Full coverage in today’s Sports Section SATURDAY T-storm likely High: 74 Low: 47 Complete report: Page 5A Deaths Daisy Barrino Venice Gillespie Wilson Long Kenneth Phifer Chandler Pressley Wade Simpson WHAT’S NEWS Wounded Warrior Poker Run today MONROE Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5464 in Monroe will hold a poker run today for the Wounded Warrior Project. According to the project’s Web site, more than 30,000 soldiers have suffered inju- ries in recent conflicts, from amputations to brain injuries and severe burns. Money raised from the poker run will go to the na- tional organization, but VFW member Patricia Willis said much of it will likely stay in the county. The program’s signature is the wounded warrior backpack. These backpacks contain clothing, toiletries, a calling card, playing cards and CD player to make time in a hospital more com- fortable. They are given to severely wounded soldiers at military trauma centers. Registration for the poker run will begin at 11:30 a.m., with the first bike out at noon. The last bike will be in by 5 p.m. It is $15 per motorcycle rider, and an additional $5 for passengers. All vehicles are welcome. Cash prizes will be given for the best and worst poker hands. The event will begin and end at the VFW, located at 712 VFW Road in Monroe. The rain date is Oct. 31. For more information about the poker run, call 704-283-4842. For informa- tion on the Wounded Warrior Project, visit www.wounded- warriorproject.org. BIRTHDAYS Best wishes are extended to everyone who is celebrat- ing a birthday today, especial- ly: Morgan Harper, Richard Morris, Josephine Mendez and Joe McCombs. Call (704) 261-2278 or e-mail [email protected] to add your names to t he list. INSIDE Church 6-8A Classified 6B Comics 4B Letters 5A Obituaries 2A Opinion 4A Sports 1B State 3A + E nquirer- J ournal October 24, 2009 • 50 cents Monroe, N.C. Your county• Your news•Your paper The Chief fires officer; Council overrules him BY JASON deBRUYN Staff Writer MARSHVILLE The Marshville Town Council reinstated a police officer two days after upholding his firing. Marshville officer Stuart Chaf- fin was dismissed by Chief Mike Gaddy Sept. 9 and Monday the Town Council, by a 3-2 vote, sup- ported the chief. Councilwomen Denise Whitley and Margaret Bivens opposed the firing. After a closed session meeting Wednes- day, the Town Council changed its mind and voted to rehire Chaffin. “Based on the information that we received ... it was the fair thing to do to him,” Whitley said Friday. Councilwoman Gail Kiker called for the closed session Wednesday in order to discuss the Chaffin decision. Although the meeting was initially only to review resumés for the town administrator position, Kiker was allowed to call for the closed session because the meeting was technically continued from Mon- day and not a specially called meeting. The town attorney and Gaddy were not present at the closed meeting. Friday, Kiker said she was con- See CHAFFIN / Page 10A ‘Shocking’ conduct gets two suspended BY JASON deBRUYN Staff Writer MARSHVILLE Two Marshville police officers have been suspended without pay because of a photo council mem- bers say shows poor character. Lt. Matt Tarlton and officer Darryl Gerald were suspended for 30 days Wednesday after Coun- cilwoman Gail Kiker showed the board a photo she was given from a “prominent Marshville busi- ness person.” In the photo, the two officers have whipping cream sprayed on their heads and have a banana with chocolate sauce between their thighs. An unidentified woman is spraying whipping cream on the bananas. Both of- ficers and the woman are fully clothed. The Marshville Police Department is not depicted in the picture, and there is nothing in the picture linking the officers to Marshville. “I was in total shock,” Kiker said Friday. “I do not uphold what was in that picture.” Kiker said she heard from people in Marshville who were not happy town police officers would act like that. “They were upset that our town was being portrayed like that,” she said. See CONDUCT / Page 10A Marshville Police in turmoil CATA student earns diploma after surviving a fiery wreck BY BILLY BALL Correspondent CHAPEL HILL Just months ago, Ryan Frias was in a drug-induced coma. Two-thirds of his body was bad- ly burned in a fiery car accident in Union County last December. The wreck killed a friend and nearly claimed Frias’ life, too. His fingers were either scalded or burned away, making it almost impossible for the 18-year-old to hold a book or write. What a difference 10 months makes. On Friday, Frias com- pleted his high school education, earning his diploma from Cen- tral Academy of Technology and Arts and setting off on a quest to become a mechanical engineer. Frias couldn’t come to his graduation ceremony in Monroe because he was being treated at the N.C. Jaycee Burn Center in Chapel Hill. No problem. School officials brought the graduation to him. “It’s awesome,” Frias said Fri- day, as CATA administrators and doctors crowded around to cel- ebrate during the closing strains of “Pomp and Circumstance.” He wore a blue CATA graduation gown and took one last tour of the Burn Center, receiving high- fives from scores of nurses. “I’ve never seen anyone come so far in such a short period of time,” said CATA assistant prin- cipal Mike Zezech as he watched the ceremony. Frias has been discharged from the center this week to start his rehabiliation. According to doc- tors, it’s a small miracle, consid- ering the extent of his injuries. “Most of us wouldn’t be here if we experienced what he’s expe- rienced,” said Dr. Bruce Cairns. Cairns is the head of the Burn Center and throughout Frias’ ordeal, Cairns has been his pri- mary physician. See FRIAS / Page 3A From coma to commencement Contirbuted photo Ryan Frias who was severely burned in a 2008 wreck is cheered by staff at the UNC Hospitals burn center as he gets his high school diploma in a special ceremony Friday. Staff from Central Academy of Arts and Technology traveled to Chapel Hill for the personal commencement. BY BILLY BALL Correspondent MONROE To Cody Dedischew, pumpkin carving is more than recreation- al, it’s academic. A sophomore at Johnson & Wales University’s culinary school in Charlotte, Dedischew is touted as one of the school’s finest pumpkin carvers. He said he’s been carving for about four years and plans to keep doing it in his professional life. Dedischew talked with The Enquirer-Journal Friday and shared some tips. Any tips for first-timers who want to do something more than the standard triangle eyes jack-o-lanterns? One of the best ways to do it is to go onto the Internet or they sell pumpkin templates in stores. That’s going to be one of the easiest and best ways to get the detailed pumpkins. They have books that actually have carving knives and a scoop that comes with it. Those are wonderful for beginners. What is your technique now? Typically I get a thought pro- See CARVER / Page 10A Jack-o-lantern tips from a premier carver QA & with Cody Dedischew “Most of us wouldn’t be here if we experi- enced what he’s experi- enced.” Dr. Bruce Cairns head of the Burn Center E-J staff photo by Ed Cottingham Cody Dedischew a student a Johnson & Wales University in Charlotte carves the school’s coat of Arms in a pumpkin.

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FOOTBALLFRIDAY

The scores Union Academy 34 7 Cuthbertson Weddington 31 24 Porter Ridge Forest Hills 48 0 CATA Marvin Ridge 24 20 Anson

Full coverage in today’s Sports Section

SATURDAY

T-stormlikelyHigh: 74Low: 47Complete report: Page 5A

DeathsDaisy Barrino

Venice GillespieWilson Long

Kenneth PhiferChandler Pressley

Wade Simpson

WHAT’S NEWS

Wounded WarriorPoker Run today

MONROEVeterans of Foreign Wars

Post 5464 in Monroe will hold a poker run today for the Wounded Warrior Project.

According to the project’s Web site, more than 30,000 soldiers have suffered inju-ries in recent conflicts, from amputations to brain injuries and severe burns.

Money raised from the poker run will go to the na-tional organization, but VFW member Patricia Willis said much of it will likely stay in the county.

The program’s signature is the wounded warrior backpack. These backpacks contain clothing, toiletries, a calling card, playing cards and CD player to make time in a hospital more com-fortable. They are given to severely wounded soldiers at military trauma centers.

Registration for the poker run will begin at 11:30 a.m., with the first bike out at noon. The last bike will be in by 5 p.m. It is $15 per motorcycle rider, and an additional $5 for passengers. All vehicles are welcome.

Cash prizes will be given for the best and worst poker hands.

The event will begin and end at the VFW, located at 712 VFW Road in Monroe.

The rain date is Oct. 31. For more information

about the poker run, call 704-283-4842. For informa-tion on the Wounded Warrior Project, visit www.wounded-warriorproject.org.

BIRTHDAYSBest wishes are extended

to everyone who is celebrat-ing a birthday today, especial-ly: Morgan Harper, Richard Morris, Josephine Mendez and Joe McCombs.

Call (704) 261-2278 or e-mail [email protected] to add your names to t he list.

INSIDEChurch 6-8AClassified 6BComics 4BLetters 5AObituaries 2AOpinion 4ASports 1BState 3A

+

Enquirer -Journal October 24, 2009 • 50 cents Monroe, N.C.Your county• Your news•Your paper

The

Chief fires officer;Council overrules himBY JASON deBRUYNStaff Writer

MARSHVILLEThe Marshville Town Council

reinstated a police officer two days after upholding his firing.

Marshville officer Stuart Chaf-fin was dismissed by Chief Mike Gaddy Sept. 9 and Monday the Town Council, by a 3-2 vote, sup-ported the chief. Councilwomen Denise Whitley and Margaret Bivens opposed the firing. After a closed session meeting Wednes-day, the Town Council changed its mind and voted to rehire Chaffin.

“Based on the information that we received ... it was the fair thing to do to him,” Whitley said Friday.

Councilwoman Gail Kiker called for the closed session Wednesday in order to discuss the Chaffin decision. Although the meeting was initially only to review resumés for the town administrator position, Kiker was allowed to call for the closed session because the meeting was technically continued from Mon-day and not a specially called meeting. The town attorney and Gaddy were not present at the closed meeting.

Friday, Kiker said she was con-

See CHAFFIN / Page 10A

‘Shocking’ conduct gets two suspendedBY JASON deBRUYNStaff Writer

MARSHVILLETwo Marshville police officers

have been suspended without pay because of a photo council mem-bers say shows poor character.

Lt. Matt Tarlton and officer Darryl Gerald were suspended for 30 days Wednesday after Coun-cilwoman Gail Kiker showed the board a photo she was given from a “prominent Marshville busi-ness person.”

In the photo, the two officers have whipping cream sprayed on their heads and have a banana

with chocolate sauce between their thighs. An unidentified woman is spraying whipping cream on the bananas. Both of-ficers and the woman are fully clothed. The Marshville Police Department is not depicted in the picture, and there is nothing in the picture linking the officers to Marshville.

“I was in total shock,” Kiker said Friday. “I do not uphold what was in that picture.”

Kiker said she heard from people in Marshville who were not happy town police officers would act like that. “They were upset that our town was being portrayed like that,” she said.

See CONDUCT / Page 10A

Marshville Police in turmoil

CATA student earnsdiploma after surviving

a fiery wreckBY BIllY BAllCorrespondent

CHAPEL HILLJust months ago, Ryan Frias

was in a drug-induced coma.Two-thirds of his body was bad-

ly burned in a fiery car accident in Union County last December. The wreck killed a friend and nearly claimed Frias’ life, too. His fingers were either scalded or burned away, making it almost impossible for the 18-year-old to

hold a book or write.What a difference 10 months

makes. On Friday, Frias com-pleted his high school education, earning his diploma from Cen-tral Academy of Technology and Arts and setting off on a quest to become a mechanical engineer.

Frias couldn’t come to his graduation ceremony in Monroe because he was being treated at the N.C. Jaycee Burn Center in Chapel Hill.

No problem. School officials brought the graduation to him.

“It’s awesome,” Frias said Fri-day, as CATA administrators and doctors crowded around to cel-ebrate during the closing strains

of “Pomp and Circumstance.” He wore a blue CATA graduation gown and took one last tour of the Burn Center, receiving high-fives from scores of nurses.

“I’ve never seen anyone come so far in such a short period of time,” said CATA assistant prin-cipal Mike Zezech as he watched the ceremony.

Frias has been discharged from the center this week to start his rehabiliation. According to doc-tors, it’s a small miracle, consid-ering the extent of his injuries.

“Most of us wouldn’t be here if we experienced what he’s expe-rienced,” said Dr. Bruce Cairns. Cairns is the head of the Burn Center and throughout Frias’ ordeal, Cairns has been his pri-mary physician.

See FRIAS / Page 3A

From coma to commencement

Contirbuted photo

Ryan Frias who was severely burned in a 2008 wreck is cheered by staff at the UNC Hospitals burn center as he gets his high school diploma in a special ceremony Friday. Staff from Central Academy of Arts and Technology traveled to Chapel Hill for the personal commencement.

BY BIllY BAll Correspondent

MONROE To Cody Dedischew, pumpkin

carving is more than recreation-al, it’s academic.

A sophomore at Johnson & Wales University’s culinary school in Charlotte, Dedischew is touted as one of the school’s finest pumpkin carvers.

He said he’s been carving for about four years and plans to keep doing it in his professional life.

Dedischew talked with The Enquirer-Journal Friday and shared some tips.

Any tips for first-timers who

want to do something more than the standard triangle eyes jack-o-lanterns?

One of the best ways to do it

is to go onto the Internet or they sell pumpkin templates in stores. That’s going to be one of the easiest and best ways to get the detailed pumpkins. They have books that actually have carving knives and a scoop that comes with it. Those are wonderful for beginners.

What is your technique

now? Typically I get a thought pro-

See CARVER / Page 10A

Jack-o-lantern tipsfrom a premier carver

QA &with

Cody Dedischew

“Most of us wouldn’t be here if we experi-enced what he’s experi-enced.”

Dr. Bruce Cairnshead of the Burn Center

E-J staff photo by Ed Cottingham

Cody Dedischew a student a Johnson & Wales University in Charlotte carves the school’s coat of Arms in a pumpkin.

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2A / Saturday, October 24, 2009 The Enquirer-Journal

Wade SimpsonMONROE

Wade James Simp-son, ‎77, ‎of ‎4122 ‎Sikes Mill Road, Monroe, died Thursday (Oct. 22, 2009) at his home.

Funeral services will be 4 p.m. Sunday (Oct. 25, 2009) at Emmanuel Bap-tist Church, Highway 200, Monroe. The Rev. Jack Hildreth and the Rev. Bill Funderburk will offici-ate. Burial will follow at Crooked Creek Primitive Baptist Church.

Born in Union Coun-ty on Feb. ‎14, ‎1932, he was preceded in death by his mother, ‎Carrie Rowell Simpson; his fa-ther, ‎McDonald Simp-son; a daughter, ‎Pamela ‎Thomas; a son, ‎Scott Simpson; ‎three sisters ‎and four brothers. ‎

He worked in the ma-chine shop with Duff Norton Coupling ‎for 28 ‎years and was a U.S. Army veteran.

He is survived by his wife, ‎Geraldine Stegall Simpson, of the home; a son, ‎Reggie Simpson; a grandchild; and a broth-er, ‎John Simpson, all of Monroe. The family will meet at his home.

Visitation will be 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at Em-manuel Baptist Church.

Hartsell Funeral Home, Midland, is serving the family. ‎Online condo-lences may be made at www‎.‎hartsellfh‎.‎com‎

Chandler PressleyMONROE

Chandler Bryce Press-ley, infant son of Sarah King and Tim Pressley died at Presbyterian Hos-pital in Charlotte.

Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Davis Funeral Home of Monroe.

Kenneth PhiferMARSHVILLE

Kenneth J. Phifer, 65, of

Marshville, died Thursday (Oct. 22, 2009) at Carolinas Medical Center-Union.

Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Sunday (Oct. 25, 2009) at the chapel at Morgan and Son Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Union Grove Baptist Church.

He was born Oct. 5, 1944 in Union County, a son of the Lizzie Mae Gaddy Phifer and the late Brady Lee Phifer. He worked as a roof technician.

In addition to his moth-er, survivors include his son, Gregory Phifer, of Marshville; his daughter, Susan Phifer, of Monroe; four brothers, Jerry Phi-fer, of Peachland, Terry Phifer, of Marshville, Douglas Phifer, of Marsh-ville, and Tommy Phifer, of Gresham, S.C.; and a sister, Belinda Guion, of Peachland.

Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday at Morgan and Son Funeral Home.

Daisy BarrinoMONROE

Daisy Barrino, 77, of Monroe, died Friday (Oct. 23, 2009) at the Brian Cen-ter.

Funeral arrangements will be announced by Grier Funeral Services of Monroe.

Wilson LongMONROE

Wilson Long, 89, died early Wednesday morn-ing (Oct. 21, 2009) at Union County Hospice House No. 1 in Monroe.

Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Saturday (Oct. 24, 2009) at Antioch Baptist Church, with burial and military honors at Shiloh Advent Christian Church Cemetery.

He was born June 15, 1920, in Union County, a son of the late Jesse Dan-iel Long and Beadie Ila Braswell Long. He was

also preceded in death by his wife, Glennie Baucom Long. He was a veteran of World War II and served in the U.S. Army.

Survivors include two sons, Eddie Long and Bob-by Long, both of Monroe; three grandchildren and seven great-grandchil-dren.

The family will receive friends and relatives from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Satur-day at Antioch Baptist Church.

Memorials may be made to Hospice of Union County, 700 W. Roosevelt Blvd., Monroe, NC 28110.

McEwen Funeral Home of Monroe is in charge.

Venice GillespieCHARLOttE

Venice Gillespie died Friday (Oct. 23, 2009) at White Oak Manor.

Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Monday (Oct. 26, 2009) at Heritage Funeral Home, Indian Trail Cha-pel. Burial will be private at Sunset Memory Gar-dens.

She was born Jan. 7, 1920 in Brevard to the late Humphrey and Josephine Wiggins Rogers, and worked for defense plants during World War II. She settled in West Asheville after the war and worked for various companies before retiring from Bell South.

She is survived by her son, Harold Gillespie, of Marshville; two grandsons; three great-grandsons; a great-great granddaughter; a brother, Robert Rogers, of Ros-man; and a sister, Mary Ferrell, of Rosman; and numerous nieces and nephews.

The family will receive friends at 10 a.m. Mon-day at Heritage Funeral Home.

Online guest registry is available at www.heri-tagefuneral.net.

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Pounds Sensibly), 9 a.m. weigh-in, 9:20 meeting, Love Baptist Church, 707 Deese Road, Monroe. De-tails, 704-226-1520.

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•  ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, Low Bot-tom group, 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., old Belk building, 200 Stew-art St., Monroe. Details, 704-332-4387; 704-377-0244.

•  OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS, 10 a.m., Central United Methodist Church, room 106.

• GRAVEYARD BOOK TALK  AND  WALK, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., start at Al-ice Jules Coffee House, end in Suncrest Cemetery. For ages 10 and up; per-mission slip required. Sponsored by Friends of the Library. Details, 704-283-8184.

•  BASIC  INTERNET CLASS, 1:30 p.m., Monroe Library. Free. Registra-tion required; call 704-283-8184.

•  TEENAGERS DANCE, 4 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., American Legion Post 212, 1010 Lasalle St. Chaperoned; $2 donation requested. Details, 704-289-6190 or 704-221-0531.

• NARCOTICS ANON-YMOUS, 5:30 p.m. to 6: 30 p.m., Friendship Mis-sionary Baptist Church administrative building, 501 Burke St. Details, 704-821-4256, 704-763-0784.

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ANONYMOUS, Sunset group, 8 p.m., 1010 Mc-Manus St., Monroe. De-tails, 704-219-6245.

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•  SENIOR  FITNESS CLASS, 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m., Bazemore Center, Winchester Avenue, Mon-roe. Free to all senior citi-zens. Details, 704-282-4654.

•  INTERNET  BASICS CLASS, 10 a.m., Monroe Library. Free. Registra-tion required; 704-283-8184.

•  BABY  TIME, 10:30 a.m., Union West Library. Details, 704-821-7475.

•  TODDLER  TIME, 11:15 a.m., Union West Regional Library, for chil-dren ages 12 months to 36 months.

•  BABY  TIME, 11:30 a.m., Waxhaw Library. Details, 704-843-3131.

• MICROSOFT EXCEL I CLASS, 2 p.m., Monroe Library. Free. Registra-tion required; 704-283-8184.

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•  HALLOWEEN  EVE-NING STORY TIME, 5:45 p.m., Waxhaw Library. For the whole family; wear your costume. Details, 704-843-3131.

•  ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, Low Bottom group, 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., old Belk building, 200 Stewart St., Monroe. Details, 704-332-4387; 704-377-0244.

•  UNION  COUNTY NAACP, 6 p.m., Bazemore Center, 1001 Winchester Ave., Monroe. Details, call 704-843-6971.

•  INDIAN  TRAIL TOPS (Take Off Pounds

Sensibly), private weigh-in, 6 p.m. to 6:45 p.m; meet-ing 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., Indian Trail United Methodist Church, 113 Indian Trail Road. First visit free. De-tails, 704-843-9365.

COMING EVENTS

National Night Out winners

Staff photo by Rick Crider

The Monroe City Council honored the winning neighborhoods from the 2009 National Night Out celebration this month. National Night Out is a community event that brings residents and police officers together. The winning neighbor-hoods include (front row, from left) Margaret Derenge and Carol Findley from the Old Rolling Hills community, which won first place; Annette Barber, repre-senting the Brekonridge community, which took second; Deanna O’Neil, her daughter, Megan O’Neil, and Nancy Bishop, from the GlendaLough community, which picked up third place; (back row, from left) Monroe Police Sgt. Gail Hicks, Mayor Bobby Kilgore, and MPD Officer Monique Holt.

Comedian Soupy Sales dies at 83DETROIT (AP) —

Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 TV appearances across a half-century, has died. He was 83 at Calvary Hos-pice in the Bronx, N.Y. A friend said he had many

health problems.Sales was born Milton

Supman on Jan. 8, 1926, in Franklinton, N.C., where his was the only Jewish family in town. His parents, owners of a dry-goods store, sold sheets to the Ku Klux Klan.

Sales was once sus-

pended for a week after telling a children’s show audience to empty their mothers’ purse and mail him all the pieces of green paper bearing pic-tures of the presidents.

The cast of “Saturday Night Live” paid homage by asking their audience to send in their joints.

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The recession’s grip on Yad-kin Valley Financial Corp. tightened again in the third quarter.

Like most banks serving the Triad, Yadkin yesterday report-ed a sharp increase in three pivotal loan categories — non-performing assets, net charge-offs and its provision for loan losses.

Combining those losses with the bank’s decision to eliminate most of the goodwill from its fi-nancial books led to a $68.7 mil-lion loss in the quarter.

Goodwill is defined as the dif-ference between the purchase cost of a financial transaction and the fair-market value of

the assets and liabilities of the company that is bought. A business also may build good-will over time as loyalty builds among its customer base for its brands.

Eliminating most or all of goodwill is considered as a non-cash charge and typically does not affect a business’ ability to conduct its operation or affect its cash flow and liquidity.

Excluding the goodwill charge of $61.6 million, Yadkin reported a $7.1 million loss and an earnings loss of 44 cents. The bank posted net income of $1.8 million in the third quarter of 2008.

The bank raised its provision for loan losses to $18.3 million, up from $16.5 million in the sec-ond quarter and $1.3 million in

the third quarter of 2008.Nonperforming assets were

at $55.1 million on Sept. 30, up from nearly $40 million on June 30 and up from $12.7 million on Sept. 30, 2008. Net charge-offs rose to $10.3 million in the quarter.

Bill Long, the president and chief executive of Yadkin, said that the net charge-offs were related to residential construc-tion loans, and included a loan related to the lumber industry.

“We expect fourth-quarter net charge-off activity to be similar to third-quarter levels as we continue to aggressively work through our problem as-sets so that we can return to our focus on growth by early 2010,” Long said.

The problem loans offset sig-

nificant revenue gains from loans and fees, both based most-ly on the bank’s recent merger with American Community Bancshares Inc.

Other community banks that have eliminated most or all of its goodwill this year include NewBridge Bancorp, Southern Community Financial Corp. and FNB United Corp.

Long said that the decision was taken because of concerns that the bank’s share price “would not recover from this unprecedented economic envi-ronment as quickly as we had originally anticipated.” Yad-kin’s share price rose 3 cents to close at $3.80 yesterday. It is down 76 percent from the 52-week high of $15.90 on Nov. 5.

Buddy Howard, an analyst

with Equity Research Services in Raleigh, said he supports the banks’ decisions to write off the goodwill, “as it more accurately reflects the current book value of the companies based on fair market values.”

Two other factors affected Yadkin Valley’s performance:

A preferred stock dividend payment of $440,000 was made to the U.S. Treasury as part of its participation in the capital-purchase program.

A $973,000 insurance pre-mium payment was made to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. That cost, which has been imposed on member institu-tions, aims to recapitalize the agency’ insurance fund.

Reach Richard Craver at [email protected].

Yadkin Valley Financial reports third-quarter loss

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Ryan Frias celebrates his graduation from Central Academy of Arts and Technology despite severe burns suffered last year in a wreck that killed another person.

FriasContinued from Page 1A

When Frias arrived af-ter his nearly fatal Dec. 5 accident, he suffered from a combination of injuries including severe burns on his limbs, chest, neck and head. The damage was deeper than third-degree burns, the most severe level in medical terminol-ogy, Cairns said, and he was in severe shock.

As he healed, the pain was excruciating and re-quired that he remain

bedridden in the center.Before the accident,

Frias was a senior at CATA and a member of the soccer team. He loved engineering and expected to get his diploma in the spring.

Cairns said the in-juries could have been deadly, but that didn’t stop Frias from pursuing the remainder of his high school education from his hospital room.

“We don’t always ap-preciate in our society people that are achiev-ing remarkable things in

their own quiet and deter-mined way,” Cairns said.

Frias beamed as CATA principal Rodney Miller handed him his diploma Friday.

“I think more people came for this than would have come for my actual graduation,” he said.

Frias’ family, his two sisters and his father, were on hand, as well as the nurses, doctors and tutors who worked with him during his 10-month stay at the Burn Center.

“It is overwhelming,” said his father, Greg Frias.

“It is a a great feeling to know that community re-ally exists and can work together for something bigger than them.”

It’s not the only celebra-tion. Ryan Frias’ birthday is today, starting a new year out of the Burn Cen-ter.

For Cairns and compa-ny, it’s a triumph.

“It really renews our belief in what the human spirit can do,” he said.

- Billy Ball can be reached at [email protected].

MONROEThe Monroe Fire Department will

conduct a home fire sprinkler dem-onstration on October 30 beginning at 9 a.m. to educate residents on the dangers of home fires and the effec-tiveness of home fire sprinklers.

The demonstration will be held on Lomax Street just off of Secrest Short Cut at a residential duplex apartment that Help Crisis Preg-nancy Center donated to the fire department to burn for training purposes.

The department has equipped one side of the duplex with a home fire sprinkler system for this dem-onstration.

Both sides will be furnished with similar furnishings and like fires

will be started in each side to dem-onstrate the difference a home fire sprinkler system can make.

This will be a very impactful demonstration on the effectiveness of home fire sprinklers.

The Fire Department’s goal is to share this potentially lifesaving in-formation with residents.

Following the demonstration, firefighters will continue to use the duplex for live fire firefighter train-ing evolutions until the structure is completed burned.

Fire Department plans live fire demo“This will be a demon-

stration of the effective-ness of home sprinklers.”

LOCAL BRIEFSDan Starks to address GOP women

WAXHAWDan Starks will present a safety and awareness pro-

gram to the Sweet Union Republican Women on Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. at 200 E. South Main St. Admission is free. For information, contact Deborah Barton at 704-839-3768.

Author to speak at Wingate UniversityWINGATE

Kris Holloway, the author of “Monique and the Man-go Rains,” will have a free public lecture at Wingate University on Oct. 27 at 9:30 a.m. in Austin Auditorium. The book was chosen as the common reading assign-ment at Wingate this academic year. In addition to the public lecture, Holloway will meet with various classes and participate in a Friends of the Library book-sign-ing during her two-day visit on campus.

Holloway served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, West Africa from 1989 to 1991. Her two years spent with a midwife in Mali inspired her to write “Monique and the Mango Rains.” The story is about a friendship with an African woman who transformed her life. For more information, contact Marisa Wheeling at 704-233-8129.

Legion turkey shoots open todayMONROE

American Legion Post 27 will have its annual turkey shoots Oct. 24, Oct. 31, Nov. 7 and Nov. 14 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., just north of the Country Grill on U.S. 601 North. Competitors will shoot for frozen turkeys, Boston butts, steaks, cooked butts and turkeys. Proceeds go to Post 27 for its support of local veteran needs.

Strategic planning meetinv scheduledMONROE

The Union County Board of Education’s Strategic Planning and Technology Committee will meet Oct. 30 at noon in the board room of the Union County Pub-lic Schools Central Services building at 400 N. Church St. The tentative agenda will include discussion on the Continuous Improvement Model, TQE training, and technology initiatives in UCPS.

Author to speak at Library eventMONROE

The Friends of the Union County Public Libraries will have best-selling and Edgar Award-winning au-thor John Hart as the guest speaker at the Annual Fall Author’s Dinner. The event will be Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. at the South Piedmont Community College Conference Center.

Hart’s most recent novel, “The Last Child,” was re-leased May 12 and in less than three weeks it reached the 10th spot on the New York Times best-seller list.

Tickets are $35 and may be purchased by calling Krista Cahoon at 704-283-6233 or Jane Newton at 704-843-5133.

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RALEIGHWhen it comes to the political

relationship between Washing-ton and Raleigh, the old saying applies: he who gives can also take away.

President Barack Obama’s Big Give to Gov. Beverly Perdue and other North Carolina poli-ticians was a massive federal bailout. Faced with a big state budget deficit, Perdue and law-makers were forbidden by the state constitution to issue pub-lic debt to paper it over. Their only legal options were to re-duce spending or raise taxes. The Obama administration gave them a third option – let Wash-ington issue the debt. Over the next two years, some $3 billion of North Carolina’s budget will be financed through this extra-constitutional borrowing.

Now it’s time for the Big Take: ObamaCare. No matter what the final version of feder-al health care legislation looks like, it will rely heavily on a huge expansion of the Medic-aid program. If passed, it could bring hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians onto the Medicaid rolls for the first time – costing North Carolina tax-payers billions of dollars, some of it at first via state taxes and the rest of it later via federal taxes to pay off federal debt.

The only question right now is just how huge the Medicaid expansion will be. House com-mittees have endorsed legisla-tion raising eligibility to 133 percent of the federal poverty line for a large swath of the population. Some House and Senate leaders want to raise that figure to 150 percent.

According to the Heritage Foundation’s analysis of the lower figure, North Carolina’s Medicaid caseload would shoot up 44 percent under ObamaC-

are – faster than the national average of 37 percent. That would wreak havoc on the state budget.

Before you assume the flip side of the argument is true, that North Carolina’s uninsured population would drop by 44 percent, you have to remember that most of the people in that targeted income range are cur-rently insured. There are more people between 100 percent and 150 percent of poverty-line in-come who have private health plans than there are people in that range who lack insurance for all or part of a given year. Given a choice between buying a health plan at market prices or securing it for little to noth-ing from the government, ra-tional individuals and employ-ers will opt for the latter. It is hardly in the interests of North Carolina taxpayers as a whole to shoulder the health care bills of the currently insured, what-ever you think of the merits of offering subsidies to the cur-rently uninsured.

Medicaid has been a major driver of North Carolina’s bud-get growth for decades. Those who would have liked to see more education spending, in-frastructure investment, or tax relief since the late 1980s can assign primary blame to the Medicaid explosion. If any ver-sion of ObamaCare passes the

Congress, it will further con-strain North Carolina’s fiscal choices.

That’s why so many gover-nors, Democratic and Repub-lican, are up in arms about the current legislation. They’d dearly love another bailout – in the form of the federal govern-ment picking up a higher share of current expenses for Medic-aid and other state health pro-grams. But what they’re likely to get is another big hole in their fiscal ships of state.

The problem for North Caro-lina isn’t just another unfunded Medicaid liability. Because of the way the various health bills structure the subsidies for “pri-vate” insurance, states such as North Carolina with relatively low medical costs will end up subsidizing states with higher costs. North Carolina taxpay-ers will also end up bailing out failed “public options” in other states, such as Maine’s Dirigo Health.

There are better solutions to the health care challenge, solutions based on consumer choice, competition, and per-sonal responsibility. They wouldn’t turn the medical in-dustry or state budgets upside down. They wouldn’t raise tax-es or force people to buy insur-ance products they don’t like. They wouldn’t give federal bu-reaucrats more power over the private lives and medical deci-sions of families.

They are, in other words, a bit too sensible to be passed at the moment. Best wait for a bet-ter moment.

***

• JohnHood is president of the John Locke Foundation and publisher of CarolinaJournal.com.

The news hit me like a rolled-up newspaper to the side of the head.

According to The Washington Times, Robert Davi, a tough-guy Hollywood actor, and Rep. Thaddeus Mc-Cotter, R-Mich., an alleged con-servative, did something tough guys and conservatives don’t often do.

They collaborated to get a bill onto the floor of the U.S. House seeking a $3,500 annual tax de-duction for pet expenses.

I love animals. I still mist up when I think of the time my dog Jingles ran off in the ‘70s. But Americans have lost their bearings where their pets are concerned.

According to the American Pet Products Association, we spend $45 billion a year on our pets -- that’s up 5 percent over last year, despite a nasty reces-sion.

Nearly $20 billion alone is spent on dog grub -- including the expensive “gourmet” stuff. That’s up 5 percent too.

And since the pet food recalls of 2007, says ABC News, here’s

another trend: More pets are enjoying home cooking.

If Rover overeats, no prob-lem. There are doggie personal trainers now. There are doggie gyms, doggie aerobics classes and doggie weight-loss pro-grams. (Biscuit Watchers?)

If Rover is having behavioral problems -- or perhaps he is de-pressed -- the dog psychiatrist will tend to his woes. (“What’s that, boy? You see a cat in the inkblot?”)

Here’s something Americans are doing for their pets that some won’t do for themselves: buying health insurance.

Of course, despite all the pampering and care, our pets

will eventually succumb to old age. When they pass, a whole industry is ready to assist.

There are doggie funeral ceremonies and eulogies now. (“Rover was a good shepherd, he shall not want, as he lies down in green pastures ...”)

Pet deaths are announced in pet obituaries. (“Buster is sur-vived by his emotionally dis-traught owner and his favorite toy, Squeaky.”)

And let us not forget another growth industry: pet cemeter-ies, complete with pet head-stones. (“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if only Rover had seen that bus.”)

And now tax deductions for pet owners?

Davi argues that pets are good for us. They bring down our blood pressure and lift our spirits. A tax deduction would encourage pet ownership.

He says the deduction would be good for the economy. People would spend more on their pets -- a needed boost to retail spend-ing.

It is true, too, that the reces-sion is causing animal shelters

to see decreases in budgets at the same time they see a surge in surrendered pets -- a deduc-tion might cause more people to adopt.

These are all fair consider-ations, but they miss the larger point: We have to stop letting our emotions rule our heads where public policy is con-cerned.

Look, our tax code is an in-credible mess precisely because

well-intentioned people got their special breaks added in.

Now it takes a case of bour-bon and a busload of CPAs to file our taxes every year.

Our emotions, skillfully ex-ploited, have brought us all kinds of government programs that have bloated the budget and exploded the deficit.

If we have any hope of stav-ing off a fiscal nightmare, we’ve got to keep our wits about us -- we’ve got to put logic and rea-son back in charge.

Speaking of nightmares, when your dog’s paws twitch as he sleeps, he isn’t having one.

What is a dog nightmare any-way, asks comedian Gary Shan-dling.

Your dog dreams he’s drink-ing out of a toilet bowl and the lid falls on his head?

• Tom Purcell, a humor colum-nist for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, is nationally syndicated exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate. Visit Tom on the web at www.TomPurcell.com or e-mail him at [email protected].

What’s next? A deduction for your pets, well, maybe

A CAROLINA VIEW

“Davi argues that pets are good for us. They bring down our blood pressure and lift our spirits. A tax deduc-tion would encourage pet ownership.”

Viewpoint 4A Saturday, October 24, 2009 www.enquirerjournal.com Editor: Stan Hojnacki / [email protected]

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will sur-prise you with their ingenuity.”

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TomPurcell

Columnist

Since the failed 2001 mental health reform ef-fort, North Carolina has done precious little to improve the accountability, cost or efficien-cy of that system. In fact, the budget approved

this year threatens to make the situation worse, by stripping away needed funding at so critical a time.

Mental health advocates have asked Gov. Beverly Perdue to convene a special legislative session fo-cused on the problem in the hopes that lawmakers can engineer a successful and funded reform. While Perdue has resisted that request, fixing that broken system stands at the forefront of the state’s most pressing public concerns.

The mental health reform effort undertaken early in the first term of Gov. Mike Easley represented an ambitious attempt to remake a group of disparate entities into a more cohesive system of care. Law-makers attempted to streamline the number of agen-cies responsible, shut down mental health hospitals and use contractors to provide some services. They expected lower costs and better care as a result.

Citizens now know that effort had the opposite ef-fect. A haphazard system of accounting caused the state to lose more than $400 million, thanks to over-charging service providers and poor practices. Doz-ens of patients died in mental health care facilities, according to a series of investigative reports by the News & Observer. And instead of thoughtful reform, the state was left with officials trading blame and poorer care for the more than 340,000 who rely on services.

Lawmakers faced this full accounting in 2008. Men-tal health reform was a key issue leading to the 2008 elections. Promises were made, and assurances giv-en.

Yet, with an economy on the slide, lawmakers slashed $1.7 billion from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services this year, including between $65 million and $75 million from the com-munity services budget which serves those affected by mental illness, developmental disability or addic-tion. Though Perdue announced the restoration of $15 million on Tuesday, that hardly represents the type of reform needed to improve service.

North Carolina cannot afford to leave those in need without the professional and affordable care they deserve. That has prompted advocates to call for a special session of the Legislature, which seems un-likely given the governor’s deflection of the subject recently.

However, lawmakers cannot ignore this problem or wish it away. Avoiding the hard work needed to reform this system risks lives, and North Carolina should act with haste to help.

The Daily Reflector of Greenville

Mental health reform lacking

JohnHood

Columnist

He who gives, can also take away

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YOUR VIEWHow can NAACP miss the mark by so much?

How is it possible that the NAACP is so obviously on the wrong side of so many is-sues? Hanging one’s hat with organized labor is one of those wrong-headed positions.

So Reverend Nelson Johnson believes that unionizing Smith-field Foods was a benefit? For whom?

Isn’t Smithfield closing the Elon plant? The reality is that Smithfield is realigning proxi-mal to 1800 jobs in the South. How many ancillary North Carolina jobs are leaving with Smithfield’s right-sizing?! Truckers, vendors, local eater-ies--the list is endless.

Clearly, unionizing Smithfield wasn’t a ‘win’ for the NAACP or for the UFCW. No doubt some Smithfield employees may keep their jobs by moving out of state. But as I understand, their UFCW membership won’t be recognized by the Teamsters...?

Another really bad idea from Johnson: Collective bargaining for public workers. Collective bargaining bleeds a state and municipalities of resources. North Carolina has a high ratio of public workers when com-pared to most other states. Are we going to give them all little golden parachutes?

California is the poster child for indulging public unions. California’s impending bank-ruptcy has direct linkage to pub-lic workers’ bargaining powers for excessive payouts on all pos-sible levels--retirement benefits, age of retirement, wages and perks. Debt from lavish public worker union benefits are going to drive a good many California cities into bankruptcy too.

Modern unions are parasitic entities that cannot honor the promises they’ve made to their

members unless the federal gov-ernment bails them out. Wit-ness GM and Chrysler. Witness the job busting Employees Free Choice Act (EFCA). Witness UMWA’s support for Obama. Are coal miners stupid or what? UMWA’s actions are proof that unions will send their members off the proverbial cliff ! Bum-mer.

I ponder how many more jobs the NAACP wishes to see leave North Carolina? Reverend Johnson and the NAACP has set out a perfect road-map for an exodus of North Carolina jobs with his unfettered sup-port for big labor unions and EFCA. I sincerely believe that following Reverend Johnson’s vision will result in great suf-fering and long-term harm to his people. Perhaps the Rever-end could rethink his position on the benefits of big labor?

Reverend Johnson’s sup-port for nationalization of the healthcare industry is a loser too. Obama’s healthcare bill is a sop to unions. Union pen-sion and healthcare liabilities are underwater . Unions and a few large corporations such as General Motors will largely

benefit from government man-dated healthcare--as unions and a very few large corpora-tions benefitted from Pelosi’s stimulus bailout. Manna from Heaven! Nationalized health-care will not benefit most of us and we will find access to treatment more difficult and of lessor quality. Much like shopping for healthcare with a Medicaid card. Even Medicare isn’t accepted by an increas-ing numbers of docs anymore. Who can blame them?

Another interesting thing about medicaid--the feds will probably end up raising the in-come thresholds on Medicaid so that additional thousands of state inhabitants will qualify for Medicaid--about half of which is paid by North Caro-lina taxpayers. One giant un-funded mandate coming to our state thanks to the Obama ad-ministration eh?

Anyone that believes better healthcare via government is just over the horizon is nuts. It’s sad to see folk that are truly in a bind with healthcare and insurance. But Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are not altruistic.

Another wonderment about

the NAACP’s visions: Why would the NAACP wish to be beneficent toward Hispanic im-migrants? Is Reverend John-son referring to illegal Hispan-ics? If so, he’s mighty generous with his flock’s treasure. His followers have already donated millions of jobs to illegal work-ers.

No matter. The Hispanics have La Raza Unida and they neither need nor want the NAACP. They are not going to join the NAACP. Hispanics are a rather self-sufficient and in-dustrious lot. They are not sit-ting around waiting for ‘social justice’ or ‘economic justice.’

Don’t get me wrong. Hav-ing compassion for Hispanics is cool enough. But could we have compassion for all taxpay-ing workers? Why compassion only for Hispanics?

I solidly agree with one of Reverend Johnson’s talking points. His complaint about Wall Street CEOs is about right. He’s right about blood-sucking Wall Street CEOs receiving gold for failure, gratis taxpayers. Don’t forget that the feds paved that golden highway (Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac/mad energy

policy for starters) for Wall Street’s excesses and failures. Then the feds generously guar-anteed Wall Street against loss. Nice.

Let those ‘too big to fail’ com-panies fail. Only total failure will change the habits of mod-ern ‘fill my pockets here and now’ Wall Street CEOs. Make no mistake about it--govern-ment meddling is the primary cause of Wall Street’s recent disasters.

Another benefit from failure comes to mind. If losers were allowed to fail, there wouldn’t be a union left in the United States. Unions are a failing concept. They served a purpose 140 years ago. No more.

Yet, Obama is doing his ab-solute best to bail out unions with taxpayers bucks. O’s party might pay a huge penalty in 2010 for their union sparing spendthrift ways. Cool. Then we can watch the Republicans spend us into a slightly smaller hole! At the least, Republicans will stop EFCA madness. Kill-ing EFCA will save a good many North Carolina jobs.

I believe that if Reverend Johnson is a true man of the cloth he’ll see that he and his followers have a good bit more in common with the conserva-tive right than with hard secu-larist, left-leaning liberals.

If Reverend Johnson is a man of politics first, well...judge-ment awaits.

‘Fulfillment’ will prove elu-sive while waiting on such Utopian concepts as “economic justice.” “Economic justice” de-scribes North Korea--everyone’s equally destitute. Economic competition is what works.

So. Who gets your vote in 2010...the conservatives...or the Antichrists?

JR Lynch

Monroe

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All Nations Christian Fellowship5207 N.C. Highway 84, WeddingtonPastor: Terry Whittenburg

Altan Presbyterian108 W. Sandy Ridge Road, Monroe; www.altanpc.orgPastor: William WileyRegular Sunday: 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship

Amazing Grace Evangelical Lutheran416 W. North Main St., WaxhawPastor: Richard CarterRegular Sunday: 9 a.m., Sunday school; 10 a.m., worship; 7 p.m. Antioch Baptist6223 Love Mill Road, Monroe; 704-753-4977; www.antiochbaptistchurch.usPastor: Mike RileyRegular schedule: Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. Wednesday: 7 p.m., Bible study, Kingdom Kids.

Antioch Missionary Baptist5909 Wolf Pond Road, Monroe; 704-841-7046Pastor: Robert M. ParkerRegular Sundays: 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship

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

Austin Grove Baptist5919 Austin Grove Church Road, MarshvillePastor: Leon WhitleyRegular Sunday: 9:45 a.m., Sunday school; 10:45 a.m., 6 p.m., worship.Wednesdays: 6 p.m., Awanas; 6:45 p.m., worship.

Benton’s Cross Roads Baptist109 Lawyers Road East, Monroe; 704-753-1291Pastor: Lee A. Davis IIISunday through Wednesday: 7 p.m., fall re-vival; guest speaker, the Rev. Phil McLeanNov. 7, Nov. 14: 6:30 p.m., USO showRegular Sundays: Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship 10:45 a.m.First and third Wednesdays: 6 p.m., family meal night.Wednesdays: 6:45 p.m., AWANA, Brothers & Sisters in Christ; 7 p.m., Kids Music & Creative Movement for ages 3 through eighth grade; adult prayer meeting.

Benton Heights Baptist1411 Helms St., Monroe; 704-283-2606Pastor: M.A. “Sandy” RogersRegular Sunday schedule: 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship; 6 p.m., worshipWednesday: 6:30 p.m., Bible study.

Benton Heights Presbyterian2701 Concord Highway, Monroe; 704-283-4912; www.bhpres.org; www.bhpcyouth.blogspot.comPastor: Paul SaleebyNov. 7: 7 a.m. to noon; fall bazaar; casse-roles, crafts, quilt raffleSundays: 8:45 a.m., contemporary service; 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., tradi-tional worship.Wednesdays: Youth activities, men and women’s fellowship and Needler’s Group.Tuesdays and Thursdays: 9 a.m. to noon, mother’s morning out; ages 6 months to 4 years.Thursdays: 7 p.m., RESET service; live mu-sic, coffee bar; nursery provided

Bethany Presbyterian6713 Plyler Mill Road, Monroe; 704-764-3357Pastor: Janet R. TysonRegular Sundays: 10 a.m. Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship.

Bethel Baptist2317 Landsford Road, MarshvillePastor: Randy DavisRegular Sunday: 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship

Bethel United Methodist3207 Wesley-Stouts Road, MonroePastor: Betty Jeanne DaySundays: Sunday school, 10 a.m.; tradi-tional worship, 11 a.m.

Bethlehem United Methodist5300 Nesbit Road, WaxhawPastor: Howard FlemingToday: 6:30 a.m., UMW Fall Bazaar, includ-ing breakfast at 6:30 a.m., and a sale be-tween 8 a.m. and noon.Regular Sundays: 8:30 a.m., contemporary service; 11 a.m., traditional service.

Bethlehem Presbyterian7608 Concord Hwy., Monroe; 704-753-4223; www.bethlehemchurch.netInterim pastor: Mike WardRegular Sundays: 8:45 a.m., Contempo-rary worship; Sunday school, 10 a.m.; Tra-ditional worship, 11 a.m.Preschool: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, ages 3 to 5.

Bonds Grove Methodist8215 Bonds Grove Church Road, Wax-haw; 704-843-5231; www.gbgm-umc.org/bondsgrove/Pastor: Randy BlantonSundays: 9:15 a.m., Sunday school; 10:30 a.m., worship.Mondays: 6:30 p.m., TOPSTuesdays: 6:30 p.m., disciple class.

Calvary Baptist2518 Lancaster Highway, MonroePastor: Eddie PriceRegular Sunday: 9:30 a.m., Sunday school; 10:30 a.m., worship and children’s wor-ship for 3-5-year-olds.Wednesdays: 7 p.m., adult Bible study, infant/toddler nursery, children’s ministry and HisSpace for youth grades 6-8, and for grades 9-12.

Centerview Baptist2711 Old Pageland-Marshville Road, Marshville; 704-624-6296Pastor: Joe Stroud

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

Central United Methodist801 S. Hayne St., Monroe; www.Cen-tralUMCMonroe.orgPastor: J. Matthew Burton Jr.Sunday schedule: 8:45 a.m., chapel service; 8:50 a.m., contemporary; 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., traditional worship

Christ Bible Discipleship Center1019 Unarco Road, MarshvillePastor: David Allen; 704-624-3453Regular Sundays: Sunday school, 9 a.m., leadership class; 10 a.m., discipleship training; 11 a.m., prophetic deliverance service.

Christian Mission 2131 Walkup Avenue, MonroePastor: G.W. Gwen

Clarksville A.M.E. Zion1401 Clarksville Campground Road, Mon-roe; 704-764-7248Pastor: Michael Stitt

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

Corinth Baptist3805 Corinth Church Road, MonroeChurch phone: 704-289-2102Pastor: Roy HelmsRegular schedule: Sunday school 10 a.m., worship at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Cornerstone Community Church of the Nazarene2707 Secrest Short Cut Road, Monroe; 704-289-6790Pastor: Bob Humphrey Oct. 31: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Light the Night Halloween alternative; games and activi-ties, basketball shoot, hayride, inflatables, Cotton Candy Clown. Regular Sunday: 9:30 a.m., Sunday school; worship, 10:45 a.m.

Cornerstone Worship Center206 W. Main St., MarshvillePastor: Michael J. OneyRegular Sunday: Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Covenant Baptist 2706 Secrest Short Cut Road, MonroePastor: Rile BaucomRegular Sunday schedule: Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.; worship, 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m.Wednesday: 7 p.m., worship.

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

Cross Road AME Zion Church7110 Goldmine Road, MarshvillePastor: Gerald Tillman

Crossroads Baptist3300 Rocky River Road N., Monroe; 704-282-4980, 704-221-2785Pastor: Earl “Chuck” Griffin III

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

Ebenezer Baptist1417 Unionville-Indian Trail Road, Indian TrailPastor: Timothy RogersOct. 31: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., fall festival; carni-val games, food, inflatables, hayride, cake walk, music by The Envoys. Free admission; open to the public.Regular Sundays: 9:30 a.m., Sunday school; 10:30 a.m., worship; 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., AWANA, discipleship classes.Wednesdays: 7 p.m., midweek prayer ser-vice; youth, children’s study.

Emmanuel Baptist3816 Morgan Mill Road, Monroe; 704-289-5654Web site: http://www.emmanuel-bap-tistchurch.orgPastor: Jack HildrethSecond and fourth Tuesdays: 7 p.m., Grief-Share Ministry.Wednesdays: 6:45 p.m., Awana Club, ages 3 to eighth grade.Youth: Sunday at 6 p.m. and Wednesday at 7 p.m. www.n2jesusebc.org.

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

Emmanuel Pentecostal Holiness Church2502 Old Charlotte Highway, Monroe

Essence of the Cross Ministries2310 Appian Lane, Monroe; 704-291-9898, 704-698-0110Pastor: W. Kaye McDonald

Euto Baptist6019 N.C. 205, New Salem; 704-385-8117Pastor: Dale BrooksSundays: 8:30 a.m., coffee fellowship; 8:45 a.m., small groups; 10 a.m., worship.Wednesdays: 7 p.m. Children’s and youth ministries; 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., Adult Bible study.

Fairfield BaptistN.C. 205, Olive Branch Road, Marshville; 704-624-5503Pastor: Tommy ThreattRegular Sunday: Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.Wednesdays: 7 p.m. Bible time.Second and fourth Wednesday: 7 p.m. Children and youth.

Faith Community Independence701 Howie Mine Road, Waxhaw; 704-843-2085Pastor: Rickey Truesdale

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

Faulks Baptist2234 Faulks Church Road, MarshvillePastor: David RichardsonRegular Sunday: Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.; Bible study, 6 p.m.Wednesday: 9:30 a.m., morning Bible study; children’s mission groups, 5:45 p.m.

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

First Baptist Church of Marshville404 N. Elm St., Marshville; 704-624-2710Pastor: Alex MartinRegular Sundays: 10 a.m., Bible study; 11 a.m., worship.Wednesdays: 6:30 p.m., youth ministry activities.

First Baptist Church of Monroe109 Morrow Ave., Monroe; 704-283-8534Pastor: John HewettSundays: 9:30 a.m., Bible fellowship; 10:45 a.m., worship; college group Bible fellowship follows worship; 5 p.m., youth group; 6:30 p.m., supper.Wednesdays: 5:30 p.m. to 6:15 p.m., fel-

lowship meal followed by prayer meeting, age-group activities.

First Church of God113 Booker St., MarshvillePastor: J.R. Atkinson

First Church of God301 Morgan Mill Road, MonroePastor: Floyd BowenRegular Sundays: 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship.

First Presbyterian Church of Waxhaw7700 Waxhaw Highway, Waxhaw; 704-843-4774Pastor: James C. SheltonOct. 25: 12:30 p.m., homecoming picnic; everyone welcome.Sunday: 10 a.m. worship, 11:15 a.m. Sun-day School

First Presbyterian Church of Monroe302 E. Windsor St., Monroe; 704-289-2574; www.fpcmonroenc.orgPastor: John WilkersonSundays: 9 a.m., Sunday school, 10 a.m., worship; 4:30 p.m., youth club (grades 6 through 12).Mondays: 6 p.m., Cub Scouts.Tuesdays: 7 p.m., Boy Scouts.Wednesdays: 4:30 p.m., youth club (grades one through five).

Flint Ridge East Baptist Church5720 Flint Ridge Church Road, Marshville; 704-624-5008Pastor: Richard A. Graham

Forest Hills BaptistWillis Long Road, MonroePastor: Ray FranklinSunday: Sunday school, 9 a.m.; worship, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.Wednesdays: 7 p.m. Youth meeting.

Freedom Biker Church of MonroeUnion Baptist Association building1744 Williams Road, Monroe; 704-999-4244Pastor: Steve Starling

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

Friendship Missionary Baptist501 Bazemore St., Monroe; 704-283-1917Pastor: L.W. Leake

Gilboa Methodist5515 Gilboa Road, MarshvillePastor: Tracy CarrollRegular schedule: 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship

Giver of Life609 Funderburk Road, Wingate

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

Gospel Freewill Baptist2901 Belk Mill Road, Wingate; 704-218-8051Pastor: Henry BraswellRegular Sundays: 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship; 6 p.m., worship.

Gospel Way Church7310 Tirzah Church Road, WaxhawPastor: Ben Karecsky

Grace Baptist3411 Weddington Road, Monroe; 704-289-4917Pastor: Joe HaskettRegular schedule: 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship, children’s church. Wednesday: 7:15 p.m., worship, youth groups.

Grace United Methodist3522 Secrest Short Cut Road, MonroePastor: Bill EnglebrethOct. 17: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., fall barbecue, $7 per plate, eat in or take out; crafts, baked goods, gift baskets.Sundays: 9:45 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worshipWednesday: 7 p.m., Bible study.

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

Greater Grace Community Baptist880 Hasty Road, Marshville; 704-233-9484.Pastor: Rodney J. Evans Sr. Sunday: Sunday school, 9 a.m.; worship, 10 a.m. Wednesdays: 6 p.m., prayer service and Bible study.

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

Hamilton Cross Roads Baptist6133 Old Goldmine Road, MarshvillePastor: Jeff SmithRegular Sunday schedule: Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday: 7 p.m. Prayer, Children’s and youth groups, Divorce Care.

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

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

Heath MemorialUnited Methodist9908 Richardson-King Road, WaxhawPastor: Marilyn Wooten

Hebron United Methodist2820 New Town Road, MonroePastor: Sherry Frerichs; 704-906-1443Oct. 24: 7 a.m., bazaar; 5 p.m., men’s hot dog supperRegular Sundays: 9:30 a.m., worship; 10 a.m., Sunday school. Hemby Bridge Presbyterian6010 Mill Grove Road, Indian TrailPastor: Walt DeHartSunday: 9:30 a.m., Sunday school, 10:30 a.m., fellowship brunch; 11 a.m., worship.Wednesday: 7 p.m., prayer service.

Hermon Baptist9713 Lancaster Highway, Waxhaw; 704-843-4924; [email protected]; www.hermonbaptist.orgPastor: Donnie GambleRegular Sunday: 8:30 a.m., worship; 9:45 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship; 6:30 p.m., worship, youth and children’s activities.Mondays: 6 p.m. Celebrate Weight Loss; 7 p.m., Celebrate Recovery.Wednesdays: 5:30 p.m., Family Night supper (advance reservations required); 7 p.m., Bible study and prayer; 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Awana.

Higher Praise Deliverance Ministries1047-A Van Buren Ave., Indian Trail; 704-904-4073Pastor: Reginald O. CoffeySundays: 4 p.m., worship.

Hillcrest Baptist4316 Hillcrest Church Road, Monroewww.thehillcrestbaptistchurch.orgPastor: Gene MullisRegular Sundays: 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., 6 p.m., worship.Wednesdays: 7 p.m., adult prayer service, All Stars for Jesus

Hope230 E. Union St., Marshville; 704-624-2447Pastor: Michael StoneSundays: 10:30 a.m., contemporary wor-ship

Hopewell Baptist420 Hopewell Church Road, Monroe 704-753-1084; www.whatasavior.comPastors: Lee PiggSundays: 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m., worship; Sun-day school for 50 and older during second worshipWednesdays: 7 p.m., Discipleship groups for those younger than 50; Bible study

Howie BaptistHowie Mine Church Road, WaxhawPastor: Donnie B. CrumpRegular schedule: 10 a.m. Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship.Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. Bible study.

Iglesia Ministerio Internacional Je-sucristo para las naciones103-H Wilkes Drive, Monroe; 704-777-1207Pastor: Ever Hernandez

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

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

King Memorial Baptist701 E. Main St., WaxhawPastor: Mike Mullis

Lakeview Baptist4602 Concord Highway, Monroe; www.lakeviewfamily.org; 704-283-0019Pastor: Steve JirgalRegular Sunday: Sunday school, 9 a.m.; worship, 10 a.m.Wednesdays: 6:30 p.m., Bible study

Langford Chapel CME113 S. Johnson St., MonroePastor: Sandra H. Gripper

Liberty Hill Missionary Baptist520 Billy Howey Road, WaxhawPastor: Michael Flowers Living Word Worship Center2691 W. Roosevelt Blvd., MonroePastor: R.D. VaughtSunday: 10:30 a.m.Wednesday: 7 p.m.

Love Baptist707 Deese Road, MonroePastor: Don ThompsonRegular Sunday: 9 a.m., worshipRegular Wednesday: 7 p.m., Bible study

Macedonia Baptist610 Macedonia Baptist Church Road, Monroe Pastor: Billy BelkRegular Sunday: 9:45 a.m., Sunday school assembly; 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m. worship.Wednesdays: 7 p.m. Adult prayer and Bible study, children’s programs

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

Marshville Presbyterian501 N. Elm St., MarshvillePastor: Ed HenegarRegular schedule: Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.

Marshville MethodistEast Union Street, MarshvillePastor: Sherri BarnesRegular Sunday: Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.

Mary Elizabeth Baptist3703 Mary Elizabeth Church Road, Wax-hawPastor: Curtis LaneySundays: 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship; 6 p.m., discipleship trainingWednesdays: 7 p.m., prayer meeting, youth meeting, GAs & RAs

Marvin AME Zion1525 Crane Road, WaxhawPastor: Haven O. Anderson

Master’s Family Church International402 N. Sutherland Ave., MonroePastors: Charles and Emma Moore.Phone: 704-622-8881, 704-254-2868.Sundays: Noon, worship.Wednesdays: 7:30 p.m., prayer, worship

Memorial United Methodist1200 Miller St., Monroe; 704-283-6026Pastor: Bill EnglebrethRegular Sundays: 10 a.m., service; 11 a.m., Sunday school.

Midway Baptist4615 Olive Branch Road, Wingate; 704-233-5632; www.midbc.org.Sunday: Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; wor-ship, 11 a.m.

Midway United Methodist3625 Stack Road, MonroePastor: Don MeadowsSundays: 11 a.m. Worship; Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.

Mill Creek Baptist5417 Morgan Mill Road, Monroe; 704-283-8889; www.millcreekbaptistchurch.orgPastor: George GougeToday: 6 p.m., supper with a presentation by the Charlotte chapter of the Gospel Music Workshop of America Choir. Free and open to the public.Wednesday: 6:30 p.m., Wednesday night groups meet.Regular Sunday: 9:45 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship.

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

Mineral SpringsChurch of Christ6403 Waxhaw Highway, Mineral Springs; 704-243-3388; www.mineralspringschur-chofchirst.org

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

Morningstar A.M.E. Zion4604 Secrest Shortcut Road, MonroePastor: Jacqueline Roper.Regular Sundays: 9:45 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship

Mount Calvary A.M.E. Zion800 LaSalle St., Monroe; 704-289-6186Pastor: David L. McLendon

Mount Carmel United Methodist1712 Carmel Road, Monroe; phone, 704-289-6908Pastor: Nicholas RochesterSundays: 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship; 6 p.m., contemporary service

Mount Olive A.M.E. Zion119 East Ave., MonroePastor: Michael McCray Sr.Regular Sunday: 9:45 a.m. Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship.Tuesdays: 6:30 p.m., Bible study

Mount Olive Baptist15958 Pageland-White Store Road, MarshvillePastor: Brad Phifer

Mount Pleasant Baptist2524 Stack Road, MonroePastor: Shad HicksRegular Sundays: 9:45 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship Wednesdays: 7 p.m., worship, Mission Friends, GAs, RAs, youth.

Mount Zion Baptist6907 Gus Eubanks Road, MonroePastor: John LindsayRegular Sunday: 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. worship.Wednesdays: 7:30 p.m. Prayer service and youth groups.

New Beginnings Baptist1122 Marshville-Olive Branch Road, MarshvillePastor: Johnathan AshSundays: Sunday school, 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.; evening worship, 5 p.m.Wednesdays: 7:30 p.m. New Beginnings Christian MinistryRock Rest Community Center, White Store RoadPastor: Eddie S. Parsons Sr.Sundays: 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worshipWednesdays: 7:30 p.m., Bible study, A 52-lesson introduction to the 66 books of the Bible.

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

New Hope Baptist5928 New Salem Road, MarshvillePastor: Tommy ButlerSundays: Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.; wor-ship, 11 a.m. Wednesdays: 6:30 p.m., night services, Kid’s Club and youth

New Hope United Methodist3221 Plyler Mill Road, Monroe; 704-320-7607Pastor: Ron SetzerRegular Sunday: Sunday school, 10 a.m.; 11 a.m., worship; 5 p.m., children’s choir.

New Life Baptist826 Willoughby Road, MonroePastor: Ricky GodwinSundays: Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m., 6 p.m.Wednesday: Bible study and prayer meet-ing, 7 p.m.

New Life Community Temple of Faith3216 Griffith Road, Monroe; 704-219-6166Pastor: Sharon O’Leary

New Living Word Discipleship and Worship Center7720 South Rocky River Road, Monroe; 704-764-9348Pastor: Merv T. MasseySundays: 9 a.m., Sunday school; 10 a.m., worship

New Salem Baptist2915 Goldmine Road, MonroePastor: Douglas RumleyRegular Sunday: 9:30 a.m., Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship; 6 p.m. Team Kid Club for age 3-grade 5; youth fellowship.Wednesday: 7 p.m. Children’s, youth mis-sions classes.

New Town Road Community Church7513 Broome’s Old Mill Road, Waxhaw; 704-843-3610Pastor: William ChandlerRegular Sundays: 9:30 a.m., Sunday school; 10:30 a.m., worship

Nicey GroveMissionary Baptist318 Camden Road, MarshvillePastor: M.L. KaufmanRegular Sunday: 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. wor-ship; 9 a.m., Christian education.Wednesdays: 10:45 a.m. and 7 p.m. Bible study.

Nu Life End Time Word Ministries1307 Highway 74 West, Wingate; 704-320-1581Pastors: Guillermo and Bridgette YardOct. 24: Founders Day celebration; 5 p.m. Oct. 24 Regular Sunday: 10:15 a.m., Sunday school; worship, 11:15 a.m.

Oak Grove Baptist4013 Newtown Road, WaxhawPastor: Richard MyersSunday: Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.; wor-ship, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.Wednesday: 7 p.m., prayer service.

Oakland Baptist Church600 E. Sunset Drive, Monroe

Oasis Christian Teaching CenterHampton Inn, MonroePastor: Chris and Ilene StoverRegular Sundays: 11 a.m., worship.

Olive Branch Missionary Baptist9510 Monroe-Olive Branch Road, Marsh-ville; www.obmbc.comPastor: Tobias M. Wall

Open Hands Christian Fellowship3515 Hwy. 74 West Unit F, MonroePastor: James M. KinyanjuiSundays: 10:30 a.m., non-denominational fellowship.

Open Book Baptist Church2850 Old Charlotte Highway, Monroe; 704-221-4938Pastor: Mitchell Griffin

Philadelphia Missionary Baptist4109 Canal Road, Marshville

Piney Grove East1708 Ansonville Road, MarshvillePastor: C.C. Craig Jr.

Piney Grove Missionary Baptist - West6712 Sims Road, Waxhaw; 704-843-3572Pastor: Robert L. Sanders

Pleasant Hill Baptist7002 Pleasant Hill Church Road, Marsh-villeInterim pastor: Ollis RevelsRegular Sundays: Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

Pleasant Plains Baptist Church3316 Pleasant Plains Road, MatthewsPastor: Ron RiddleySundays: Sunday School 9:15 a.m.; wor-ship 10:30 a.m.; Awana Clubs 5:30 p.m.; evening worship 6 p.m.

Prospect United Methodist6020 Prospect Road, MonroePastor: Steve PhillippiSundays: 8:45 a.m., contemporary service; 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., tradition-al service; 5 p.m., UMYF/UM Kids

Red Level Baptist1920 Rocky River Road, MonroePastor: Daniel M. GatewoodSundays: 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11:15 a.m., worship.

Resurrection Christian103-C Wilkes DrivePastor: Zack F. Little Sr.Sunday: Church school, 9 a.m.; worship, 10 a.m.

Roanoke Baptist618 Roanoke Church RoadPastor: Kenny PittmanRegular Sunday: 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship.Wednesday: 7 p.m., Bible study; Club J.A.M. Children K-5th grade; PLUGGED for teens.

Sandy Ridge Baptist1106 Sandy Ridge Road, West, MonroePastor: Eddie PowersRegular Sunday: 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship; children’s church except last Sunday in month; 6:30 p.m., evening worship, youth discipleship.Mondays: 7:30 p.m., Outreach, open to all ages.Wednesday: 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., Awanas, 4 years to youth; 7 p.m., adult prayer and Bible study.

Secrest Grove Baptist4505 Weddington Road, Monroe; 704-289-5725, 704-486-7032Pastor: Jeff WhitecottonOct. 31: 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., fall festival with barbecue, games, cake auction, hayrides, bingo, candy for the kids. For all ages.Nov. 8-12: Revival services; 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Nov. 8; 7 p.m., Nov. 9-12.Regular Sunday: 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m, worship; 6 p.m., youth.Wednesdays: 7 p.m., worship.

Shiloh Advent Christian Church3601 Sikes Mill Road, Unionville

Shining Light Baptist2541 Old Charlotte HighwayPastor: Tim CruseRegular Sundays: 9:30 a.m., Bible study; worship, 10:45 a.m., 6 p.m.; prayer, 7:15 p.m. Wednesdays.

Siler Presbyterian6301 Weddington-Monroe Road, Wesley Chapel; 704-821-7445Pastor: Bruce PowellOct. 24: 6:30 p.m., comedian/magician Glenn Strange, music by The Siler Boys; tickets $10 in advance (call the church), $12 at the door; 6 and younger free.

Smyrna Methodist5019 Medlin Road, Monroe; 704-764-7341Pastor: Mike CappsRegular Sundays: 9:30 a.m., worship; 10:45 a.m., Sunday school.

Southbrook Church Monroe campus1410 Skyway Drive, MonroePastor: Geoffrey Janes

Stallings United Methodist1115 Stallings Road; 704-821-8820; www.sumc.comPastor: Bart MillesonOct. 24: 4:30 to 7 p.m., chicken and dump-ling dinner, bake sale; 5:30 p.m., contem-porary service, guest speaker, the Rev. Leonard Fairley, book signing to follow.Oct. 30: 6 to 9 p.m., fall family festival, wiener roast, hayrides, dunking booth, trunk or treat and carnival games.First and third Saturdays: 5:30 p.m., con-temporary worship.Regular Sundays: 8:30 a.m., intimate ser-vice; 9:45 a.m., Sunday school for all ages; 10:55 a.m., formal worship; 4:30 p.m., Bible Zone, youth programs.

Stephenson Presbyterian4224 Rocky River Road North; www.ste-phensonpres.org; 704-882-2018Pastor: Keith MorrisonRegular Sundays: Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.

St. Luke’s Lutheran Church909 Circle Drive, Monroe; 704-283-5244Pastor: Kenneth W. Fink Sunday: 10:30 a.m., homecoming, guest speaker, Christopher Porter; covered dish to follow.Regular Sundays: 8:15 a.m. and 10 a.m. worship

Sutton Park BaptistMcIntyre Street, MonroePastor: Kenneth CrumpSundays: Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.; wor-ship, 11 a.m.Wednesday: 6:30 p.m. Bible Study and prayer time.

Tabernacle House of Prayer Apostolic MinistriesOld Highway 74, Wingate; 704-207-6681Pastor: Addie Robinson

TheRiverMeets at New Salem Volunteer Fire De-partmentPastor: Jimmy Brown 704-753-1929E-mail: [email protected]: Interdenominational church meets at 10 a.m. Very casual dress, casual atmosphere.

Tirzah Presbyterian7507 Tirzah Church Road, Waxhaw; 704-843-2893; www.tirzahchurch.org.Pastor: Jill DuffieldSunday school, 10 a.m.; worship at 11 a.m.

Trinity Baptist2613 Concord Hwy., Monroe; 704-292-2613Pastor: Ted WrightSunday: 6 p.m., The Bledsoes in concert

Turner Presbyterian4802 Lancaster Hwy., MonroePastor: Roy ScarbroughSundays: 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., prayer time; 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship.

Union Baptist4312 Old Pageland-Monroe Road, Mon-roe; 704-764-7289Pastor: Joseph HicksonRegular Sunday: 9:45 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worshipRegular Wednesday: 7 p.m., adult Bible study.

Union Chapel Missionary Baptist621 E. Lawyers Road, Monroe; 704-753-1481Oct. 29-30: 7:30 p.m., 23rd annual fall gospel workshop; everyone welcome.Oct. 31: 7:30 p.m., mass choir concert.

Union Grove Primitive Baptist3619 Morgan Mill Road, MonroePastor: Newell Helms

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

Union United Methodist6315 New Town Road, Waxhaw; 704-843-1603Pastor: Kim HigginsSunday: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., flu clinicOct. 31: 6 p.m., supper; 7 p.m., trunk or treat, haunted trail, movie.Sundays: 8:45 a.m., contemporary worship; 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., blended service; 5 p.m., youth Tuesdays: 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., senior chair yoga.

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Sometimes Christians use words and phrases which they only kinda-sorta under-stand. Fortunately, a Chinese Christian named Watchman Nee has given a very good description of two of these phrases/words: the Blood of Christ and the Cross. So, first an introduction to the fascinating Watchman Nee; then his definition of these ideas which might help you understand them better; and finally, a concise way to remember mercy and grace.

Watchman Nee (1903-1972), whose Chinese name was Nee Shu-tsu, was born in China to Christian parents. Nee became a Christian at the age of 17 (in 1920), and changed his first name to To-sheng, which in Chinese means “watchman’s rattle”; he explained that he consid-ered himself God’s watch-man in the night. He began

writing Christian literature that same year. He founded a number of churches plus began a Christian publish-ing house and a Christian magazine. Eventually he wrote 154 books, according to the websitewww.watch-mannee.org. In addition, his personal library ran to a total of 3000 Christian books.

In 1952 Nee was arrested as a Christian and for being a leader in churches and the community during the rise of the Communist Cultural

Revolution under Mao Tse-Dung. He was sentenced in 1956 to 15 years imprison-ment, although he remained in prison until his death 16 years later. His best known word is called The Normal Christian Life. It is not really a book but a collection of ser-mons he gave. The following is an excerpt, which includes a good brief definition of the Blood of Jesus and the Cross:

“In the first part of Romans 1 to 8, we twice have reference to the Blood of the Lord Jesus, in 3:25 and in 5:9. In the second [part of Romans 1 to 8], a new idea is introduced in 6:6, where we are said to have been “cruci-fied” with Christ. The argu-ment of the first part gathers around that aspect of the work of the Lord Jesus which is represented by “the Blood” shed for our justification through “the remission of

sins.” This terminology is, however, not carried on into the second section, where the argument centers now in the aspect of his work represent-ed by “the Cross,” that is to say, by our union with Christ in his death, burial, and res-urrection. This distinction is a valuable one. We shall see [in later chapters] that the Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.”

To expand on this idea, Nee states that by Jesus’ death he performed two ac-tions. The blood he shed was in response to one’s actual sins and satisfied the demand for blood sacrifice when one sinned, found in the Old Testament. The death on the cross, burial, and resur-rection was in response to

the separation humans have from God; this is healed in Christ. Therefore, Nee be-lieves that humanity had two deficits before God: individ-ual sins committed in disobe-dience and separation from God; Christ satisfied both.

Now about mercy and grace. I did not come up with these definitions but heard them at seminary while working on my master of divinity degree. Mercy is not receiving what you deserve; Grace is receiving what you don’t deserve. So, we receive mercy from God in that we are forgiven our sins, and we receive grace in that God cares for us in spite of our disobedience to Him.

Questions/comments contact Mark at www.drnickens.com; other sum-maries available there.

Defining the words that Christians useMark

Nickens

Columnist

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Rev. Thomas J. Kessler, M.Div.Pastor

Franklin & D eese S ts. M onroe704-289-2773

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Siler PresbyterianChurch

6301 Weddington-Monroe Rd.(Hwy. 84)

Wesley Chapel, NC

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Monroe, NC

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Benton’s Cross RoadsBaptist Church

109 Law yers R d. E ast M onroe704-753-1291

Sunday School 9:30 amSunday Morning Worship 10:45 am

Sunday Evening Youth Services 5 pm & 6:30 pmWednesday Evening Services:

Awana 6:45 pm - 8:15pm Prayer Meeting 7:15 pm Family Night Meal

1st & 3rd Wed. of each month 6:00 pmAfter School, Pre-School & Summer Camp

(704) 753-9291

Rev. Lee A Davis III, PasterDarren Adams, Youth Ministerwww.bentonscrossroads.org

N E W S A LE MB A P TIS T C H U R C H2915 G o ldm ine R d., M onroe

P hone 704-289-1676S undayS unday S choo l........9 :30 A MW orsh ip S erv ice ....10 :30 A ME ven ing S erv ice ...........6 P MW ednesday W orsh ip S erv ice ...........7 P M

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S unday S erv ices10:30 A M

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S O U TH E R N B A P TIS T

1301 Icemorlee St.www.westmonroe.org

“A Church With A Heart For Our City...”Rev. David HayesS unday

8:30 A M W orsh ip9 :45 A M S unday S choo l

11 :00 A M W orsh ip6 :00 P M W orsh ip

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P R E S B Y TE R IA N C H U R C H

2701 C oncord H ighw ayM onroe , N C

704-283-4912

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B A P TIS T

www.whatasavior.com

W O R S H IPS undays: 9 :00 am & 10 :30 am

D IS C IP LE S H IP G R O U P SS undays & W ednesdays

420 Hopewell Church Road • Monroe(across from Fairview Elementary)

Phone 704-753-1084

801 S . H ayne S t., M onroe , N .C .(C orner o f H ayne & S unset)

C hurch P hone - 704-289-3186

S U N D AY S8:50 a .m .........C ontem porary W orsh ip8:50 a .m ......................C hapel W orsh ip10:00 a .m .....................S unday S choo l11:00 a .m ...............S anctuary W orsh ip U pw ard B asketball/C heerlead ing M in istry

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P astor: D en ise E arls704-814-4739

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C hurch

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in sp irit and serv ice to G od.C om e and be a part o f our church fam ily.

P otte rs & W edd ing ton R d. In te rsection(N ext to W esley C hape l S choo l p layground)

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2234 Faulks Church Rd. • MarshvillePastor: DR. DAVID RICHARDSON

704-233-4488

FA U LK S B A P TIS TC H U R C H

S unday M orn ing:C ontem porary S erv ice .......9 :00 A M S unday S choo l..................9 :45 A MW orsh ip S erv ice ..............11 :00 A M B ib le S tudy........................6 :00 P M

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2706 S ecrest S hortcu t R d.R ev. R ile B aucom - P astor

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2028 W esley C hape l S tou ts R d.Ind ian Tra il

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www.bhpres.org

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C H U R C H O FC H R IS T

W ingate C hurchof C hris t

Preacher: Wellington H. Smith [email protected]

SERVICE TIMESSunday Bible Class - 10 AM

Sunday Morning Worship - 11 AMSunday Evening Worship - 6 PM

Wednesday Night Bible Class - 7 PM

704-233-23633812 Hwy 74 East, P.O. Box 1104

Wingate, NC 28174www.wingatechurchofchrist.com

“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit, for without Me you can do nothing.” (John 15:5)

704-821-7445

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Live for Jesus, Grow Disciples, Change Lives

www.mymsumc.com

C H U R C H O F G O DMercy House

Church of GodWorship Center

3210 Secrest Shortcut Rd.704-289-3220

www.mercyhousecog.org<http://www.mercyhousecog.org.

Pastor: Rev. C. Alan GreeneSunday Worship Opportunities

Sunday School 9:30 amMorning Worship & Word 10:30 am

Sunday Evening Worship Service 6:00 pm

Wednesday: Discipleship Training7:00 pm Classes for Youth and Children

U N ITE DM E TH O D IS T

Stallings UnitedMethodist Church1115 Stallings Rd.

Stallings, NC 28104704-821-8820

www.stallingsumc.org

Pastor: Rev. Dr. Bart Milleson

Sunday Worship Times8:30-9:15 Intimate Service9:15-9:45 Fellowship Time

9:45-10:40 Sunday School for all ages10:55 Formal Worship

4:30-7:00 Children & Youth Sunday evenings.Contemporary Worship COC

every Saturday evening at 5:30 PM

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Rock Hill African Methodist Episcopal

Zion Church2723 Lawyers Rd, WestIndian Trail, NC 28104

[email protected]

Rev. Dr. Christopher Zacharias, Senior Pastor

SERVICES OF WORSHIP9 am S unday S choo l

10 am S unday M orn ing W orsh ip12 pm W ednesday B ib le C lass7 pm W ednesday B ib le S tudy

P R IM IT IV EB A P TIS T

UNION GROVE PRIMITIVE

BAPTIST CHURCH3619 Morgan Mill Road

Monroe, NCSERVICES

E ach S unday 10 :30 A .M .C om e w orsh ip w ith usPastor: Elder Newell Helms

704-283-6570Asst. Pastor: Elder Jared Smith

704-888-4889

N O N -D E N O M IN ATIO N A L

RESURRECTION CHRISTIAN CHURCH

103-C Wilkes Dr. Monroe, NC

(located corner 601N & Wilkes Dr.)Pastor: Zack F. Little, Sr.

(704) 618-0919 CellSUNDAY

8:30 A .M . In te rcessory P rayer9 :00 A .M . S unday S choo l

10 :00 A .M . M orn ing W orsh ipTUESDAY

6:30 P.M . B ib le S tudy“To Know Him And The

Power Of His Resurrection”(Phillippians 3:10a)

N O N -D E N O M IN ATIO N A L

New Life CommunityTemple of Faith

Pastor: Sharon C. O’Leary3216 Griffith Rd, Monroe

Sunday: Power Prayer - 9:30 amSunday School - 10 am

Corporate Worship & Praise: 11 amThursday Bible Study: 7:30 pm

704-291-9681Radio Broadcast - WDEX 1430 AM

Prayer Line 704-635-7822www.newlifectof.org

S O U TH E R NB A P TIS T

Ebenezer Baptist Church1417 U n ionville -Ind ian Tra il R d. W est

Ind ian Tra il, N C704-289-2632

R ev. T im othy R ogersSunday Morning

9:30 A M S unday S choo l10 :30 A M W orsh ip

Sunday Night 6:00 P MAw ana, Youth M eetings, B ib le S tud ies

Wednesday Night 7:00 P MM idw eek P rayer S erv ice -

C lasses fo r a ll ch ild ren & youth

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prov ided a t bo th serv icesS unday S choo l 10 :00 a .m .

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CHURCH BRIEFSContinued from page 6A

Union Springs A.M.E. Zion4003 Morgan Mill Road, UnionvillePastor: Michael BakerOct. 31: noon to 6 p.m., Octoberfest, with games and contests including a cookoff, with grillmaster and side dish categories. To enter call 704-283-2165. Also costume parade, hayrides, more.Sundays: 8 a.m., Sunday school; 9:15 a.m., praise and worship; 9:30 a.m., morning worship.

Unionville Baptist510 Baucom Road, MonroePastor: Hank Parker Jr.Sundays: 9:30 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship.

Walker Grove Missionary Biptist1006 Walkers Grove Road, Wingate; 704-

233-4676Pastor: The Rev. Jasper Powe Jr.Walkersville Presbyterian Church6204 Brady Road, Waxhaw; 704-843-3612Pastor: Warren NanceSundays: 9:45 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship.

Watts Grove Missionary Baptist3105 Rocky River Road North, MonroeSunday: Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; wor-ship, 11 a.m.

Waxhaw Baptist8213 Old Waxhaw-Monroe Road, Wax-hawPastor: Donny RoysterSundays: 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship; 6 p.m., Bible study, Kids for Christ,

Y Factor Class.Wednesday: 7 p.m., prayer and youth class, Kids for Christ

Waxhaw Bible Church6810 Pleasant Grove Church Road, Wax-haw

Waxhaw Presbyterian8100 Old Waxhaw-Monroe Road, Wax-hawSundays: Sunday school, 9 a.m.; worship, 10:15 a.m. Tuesdays: 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Bible study, call 704-843-4685 for details.

Waxhaw United Methodist 200 McDonald St., Waxhaw; 704-843-3931Pastor: Harrison HinsonSundays: 9 a.m., worship; Sunday school, 10 a.m.; traditional worship, 11 a.m.

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

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

West Monroe Baptist Church1212 Icemorlee St., 704-283-2532Pastor: David Hayes

Westend Baptist1611 Sanlee Church Drive, Monroe; 704-

764-7366Pastor: Rodney FairclothSundays: 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., 6 p.m., worship.Wednesdays: 6 p.m., worship.

Wingate Baptist108 E. Elm St., Wingatewww.wingatebaptistchurch.com; 704-233-4256Pastor: J. Derrill SmithSunday: 10:30 a.m., bicentennial home-coming; worship on front lawn; covered dish to followOct. 31: 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., fall festival, fel-lowship hallRegular Sunday schedule: Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.; 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Kids Club for age 4 through sixth grade.Wednesday: 6 p.m, Mid-week Gathering, fellowship hall

Wingate United Methodist111 Hinson St., Wingate; 704-233-4995; www.wingateumc.comPastor: Rhonda HartwegSundays: Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.; evening prayer and praise, 5 p.m.Wednesday: 6 p.m., meal; 7 p.m., Bible study, youth meeting

Word of Christ Baptist3629 Highway 74, WingatePastor: Gary W. McLainRegular Sunday: Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.Regular Wednesday: 7 p.m., Bible study

Zion United Methodist1521 Old Fish Road, MonroePastor: Mark CurtisRegular Sundays: 9 a.m., Sunday school; 10 a.m., worship.

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Blondie by Dean Young & Mike Gersher B.C. by Johnny Hart

Dilbert by Scott Adams Peanuts by Charles M. Schultz

Garfield by Jim Davis The Born Loser by Art Sansom

Frank and Ernest by Bob Thaves Andy Capp by Reggie Smythe

Hagar the Horrible by Chris Browne The Wizard of Id by Bryant Parker & Johnny Hart

Dennis the Menace Family Circus

Encourage your children to read the newspaper.

DEAR ABBY: I was raised from an early age that if you play a game, you have to play fair and obey the rules. Those rules were never bent regard-less of what the game was or who we played with.

Over the years I have played games with many people, and while I realize it’s possible for people to play the same game slightly differently, the rules still applied. What I don’t un-derstand is cheating.

A couple I know allow their children to play games with adults and let them cheat. What they’re doing is obvi-ous, and their parents even joke about it. I no longer enjoy playing with this family, but I don’t know what to do or say. I have tried to subtly discour-age and stop the deceptions, but I don’t want to seem like a sore loser. Any suggestions? -- PLAYS BY THE RULES, UR-BANA, OHIO

DEAR PLAYS BY THE RULES: Yes. Do not play games with the family if the children are involved. It’s not about being a sore loser; it’s about not being a chump. By allowing their children to ig-nore the “rules,” these parents are sending the message that rules don’t apply to them. Be-cause the children cheat when they play with you, it’s safe to assume that they think it’s acceptable to do it with other kids. And when their contem-poraries realize what’s going on, who do you think won’t

be allowed to join their games -- or anything else? Look at it this way: From little cheaters, big cheaters grow.

***DEAR ABBY: My sister-

in-law has just informed me that she doesn’t think it is as important for her daughters to attend college as it is her sons.

My mother-in-law recently made a crack about my financ-es because she knows I’m pay-ing off my student loans for two degrees.

My father-in-law can’t un-derstand what “all the fuss is about” now that my oldest daughter is preparing for col-lege.

Abby, I have friends in their 30s and 40s who, for one reason or another, are single women supporting themselves. Even some who have degrees are struggling, but they are able to own their own homes be-

cause they are able to earn decent salaries.

What should I say when my mother-in-law and sister-in-law put me down for higher learning? Neither of them went to college or has ever worked. They would be on welfare if they didn’t have their husbands’ income. By the way, I’m not having any problem paying back my stu-dent loans, and my husband is proud of my accomplish-ments. -- EDUCATED IN TEN-NESSEE

DEAR EDUCATED: Your mother-in-law and sister-in-law are misguided. They do not understand the financial realities that exist for women today because they have never been exposed to them. Noth-ing that you can say to them will change their mind-set.

So rather than respond to their naive comments, take every opportunity to encour-

age your nieces to pursue their educations so they can live independent lives. And pray that your father-in-law and brother-in-law leave their wives well-provided-for should tragedy strike, because otherwise they could wind up on your doorstep. ***

Dear Abby is written by Abi-gail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was found-ed by her mother, Pauline Phil-lips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Good advice for everyone

-- teens to seniors -- is in “The Anger in All of Us and How to Deal With It.” To order, send a business-size, self-addressed envelope, plus check or money order for $6 (U.S. funds only) to: Dear Abby, Anger Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447.

Dear AbbyColumnist

Parents harm their children when they let them cheat

Oct. 24, 2009

ASTRO-GRAPHBy Bernice Bede Osol

Endeavors or enterprises that contain strong elements of charity and compassion will capture your attention in the year ahead. All activities that encompass these qualities will bring you much success.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Events could do an about-face with regard to something you’ve long hoped would hap-pen but thought impossible. What transcends might test the limits of your rational intellect.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Your charm is likely to capture the attention of others, but it will be your sincerity that scores the biggest wins and makes such a lasting impres-sion on those who mean a lot to you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Conditions that have a direct influence on your security could make two distinct shifts in your favor. Be prepared to take ad-vantage of these opportunities.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Your leadership qualities will be vying for expression so don’t be bashful about assuming con-trol over a situation where you feel that you can do a better job than anyone else.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- In the past, you may have won-dered many times whether or not your kindnesses were truly appreciated, but not so at this time. What you do will be duly noted and applauded by all.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Because you are far more sensi-tive to what is going on around you, this is a good day to leave the humdrum world behind and do something different. If pos-sible, include several enjoyable friends.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Look for unique opportunities, and do something worthwhile. You have the ability to expand upon the least little thing and turn it into a big deal.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- This is a good day to study an idealistic subject. You’ll absorb its concepts easily, but more important, you will know where

and how to best use it.CANCER (June 21-July 22)

-- You’re much more sensitive to the subtleties of other peo-ple’s needs and goals and will genuinely want to help achieve them. There’s a possibility that something extraordinary will result.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Your companionship will be greatly desired and appreciated by loved ones because they know that you will make them feel special.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- The possibilities for achieving your most ambitious objectives are far stronger than they’ve been in a long time. Target your most meaningful goals, and make your dreams come true.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- This could be an exciting, romantic day for all Libras -- especially for the unattached. You could receive signals from someone that he or she likes you, too.

Copyright 2009Newspaper Enterprise Assn

Horoscopes

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ChaffinContinued from Page 1A

tacted by a “prominent Marshville business per-son” who gave her some information about Chaf-fin that changed her mind. She would not get into specific detail about the information, saying only that it was enough to sway her mind.

Kiker also made clear that this is not a “Gail Kiker against the police department thing,” she

said. “I completely respect

our police department 100 percent and I respect Chief Gaddy,” Kiker add-ed. “I made it very clear that Stuart Chaffin still works for our department head, which is Mike Gad-dy. He is still the chief of police and he is still the boss.”

Gaddy said the paper-work needs to be filed through Raleigh and did not have an exact date when Chaffin would be back in uniform. He

made no comment about the council’s decision. “They’re my boss, and I serve at the pleasure of the board,” he said.

Other council members did not comment. Bivens said only that it was “the right thing to do,” but did not comment further saying it was a personnel matter during a closed session.

Tickled Pink is an exclusive charity and comedy event designed to raise awareness and funds for uninsured and underserved women fighting breast cancer in Union County. Proceeds from the event will be donated to the Edwards Cancer Center at CMC-Union.

In addition to a great comedy show, the evening will also include a silent auction, “Bras for the Cause” contest and breast cancer education.

For tickets or event information, please call 704-225-2577 or visit www.tickledpink4breastcancer.com

THURSDAY,OCTOBER 29, 2009 | 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.Rolling Hills Country Club, Monroe | $30 General Admission

Featuring comedy performances by “The Southern Fried Chicks”

ConductContinued from Page 1A

Although the picture was taken during the of-ficers’ private time, Kiker said a standard should carry over to officers’ per-sonal time.

Police Chief Mike Gad-dy did not comment on the issue saying he was not at the meeting and could not speak for the council.

The council will make a decision on the future em-ployment of the officers after 30 days.

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cess of what I want. What the pumpkin is that I’m trying to achieve, and then from there it’s fig-uring out the best way to go about it. Most times, I use templates still or I can draw it. I use a computer and design a template like that, or pull pictures off the Internet and compile them into whatever I want to make.

What’s the first thing you

carved into a pumpkin? Oh, the standard triangle eyes

and the triangle nose. What is your favorite that

you’ve done? Probably our school emblem is

one of the best carvings that I’ve done.

How can kids stay safe when

they’re trying it out? Definitely if it’s a child, they need

parental supervision. I recommend the kits that they sell. The knifes don’t actually have an edge, they’re serrated. So it actually uses the bumps and the grooves to cut into the pumpkin instead of a sharp edge. You literally cannot cut your-self with them. I would highly rec-ommend those.

Any strategies for cutting the

most detailed pumpkins? Think of objects in nature. There’s

a lot of round things. Even with the knife, you can angle the knife on the surface to create round and 3-D tex-tured things pretty easily. I would say for beginners, I wouldn’t worry about it. Try some of the easy tem-plates and work your way up to do-ing some of the more intricate ones. It just takes practice, like anything in life.

- Billy Ball can be reached at [email protected].

By Billy Ball Correspondent

MONROE David LaRochelle is as close

as you can come to a profes-sional pumpkin carver.

He says he fell into carving his “fancy pumpkins” acci-dentally 25 years ago. Since then, he’s carved dozens of pumpkins, won contests and been featured on “Good Morn-ing America.”

A former schoolteacher liv-ing in Minnesota, LaRochelle is primarily a children’s book author and illustrator. He says he’s always loved pumpkins and can remember selling them on a street corner as a child.

LaRochelle talked with the Enquirer-Journal this week and shared some tips for cre-ating a master jack-o-lantern this Halloween.

Any tips for beginners? What I would recommend is

pickup some of these smaller carving blades. There was once just one company doing that and they were called Pump-kin Masters. But now there are a number of companies that sell these small blades. So get some tools which will allow you to carve more intri-cate designs. I do my designs on a piece of tracing paper. I transfer my design onto the pumpkin by taping the trac-ing paper onto the pumpkin and then I use a long pin to to puncture all the holes along the outside of the pumpkin and that transfers my design right onto the pumpkin. It’s kind of a connect the dot ap-proach that I use. You can also

draw on the pumpkin with a washable marker but the de-sign with the pin pricks works pretty well. I would encourage people to experiment with the types of designs. Don’t limit themselves to just having to do faces, which is what we typi-cally think of with pumpkins. You can do bats or spiders or even go beyond that. You don’t have to do just Hallow-een things. You can do names, I’ve done a shark and a scary merry-go-round that went all around the pumpkin. You can do sunbursts, you can do

favorite animals that your kids might have.

What are some

of your favor-ite designs that you’ve done?

I did a takeoff on Grant Woods’ “American Goth-ic” painting, ex-cept instead of the farmer and his wife I had a skeleton and a pumpkin headed creature. I en-joyed that one a lot. I did a snake design once that curled all the way

around the pumpkin. I enjoyed that. And I liked the idea that I came up with of a merry-go-round. It was a ‘scary-go-round.’ The horses are spooky creatures and again that’s something I carved all the way around the pumpkin.

How do you get the ap-

pearance of depth in your creations?

I carve off layers of flesh on the pumpkin. That allows me to get three layers on the pumpkin, one all the way through, one carving just one layer and one on the top lay-ers. There are some pumpkin carvers who actually do more of a sculpture, they sculpt fac-es. ... It’s very similar to what woodworkers do.

How long does it take you

to carve? That can vary. It could take

a couple of hours. Probably the most intricate design I’ve done took me six hours.

What was that design? That was the snake. What are your most popu-

lar designs? I did an owl design once in

which I cut out the wings on the side of the pumpkin and

then cut out the wing shapes, lifted them from the pump-kin and reinserted them so they were sticking out from the side of the pumpkin. That went over very well. It was more of a three-dimensional design. Last year, a design that went over pretty well was I just did a large eyeball. It was a pumpkin laying on its side to just get the shape of the actual eye and that worked out very well.

Any safety tips for kids

getting into carving? There are carving knifes

that have not as fine of a tooth to it that are a little safer for kids. I would of course do it with your parents, and have parents decide at what age they think the kids are ready to carve on their own. When you’re carving, make sure you always know where your oth-er hand is so you don’t slip and the blade will go toward you. The great thing about carv-ing a pumpkin is that if you make a mistake, if the face comes off lopsided, the pump-kin just has more character. You don’t have to get too con-cerned about getting a design that’s perfect. Sometimes the best designs are the result of a mistake that you made.

Some carving tips from a sculptor

David LaRochelle shows off one of his unusual jack-o-lanterns.

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By DaviD SentenDreyE-J Correspondent

INDIAN TRAILSenior receiver Dustin Cook

caught five passes for 126 yards and three touchdowns to help the Sun Valley High football team to a 37-20 win over Parkwood on Fri-day.

After losing their first two games in the Southern Carolina 3/4A Conference by a combined five points, the Spartans are now 1-2 in the SCC and 6-3 overall, while the Rebels are 0-3 in conference and 3-6 overall.

“Like I said, we needed this win more than you’ll ever know,” SV

See SPartanS / Page 4B

By JUStin MUrDOCKE-J Sports Writer

INDIAN TRAILThe Weddington High

football team got back in the race for the South-ern Carolina Conference c h a m p i o n -ship by hold-ing on for a 31-24 road win over Porter Ridge on Fri-day.

The Warriors improved to 5-4 overall and 2-1 in the

league to move into a four-way tie with the Pirates, Marvin Ridge and Anson County.

Friday’s win was bit-tersweet for WHS coach Justin Har-din, who got the victory over his twin

brother, Blair Hardin, in their first-ever meeting as head coaches.

“Our kids battled,” said Justin Hardin. “Coming

over here on the road, it’s a good conference win for us. My brother and I coached against each other, but it’s all about the kids. It was just a really good win for us.”

Weddington sophomore tailback Connor Gorham scored what turned out to be the game-clinching touchdown on an 18-yard run with 2:10 left in the fourth, but the game was far from over.

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SportsEditor: Jerry Snow (261-2225) [email protected] Saturday, October 24, 2009 Section B

Preseason actionGrizzlies edge Bobcats;Brown criticizes Diaw 4B

WHO’S NEWSEight UC volleyball teams make playoffs

MONROE — Eight high school volleyball teams from Union County qualified for the state playoffs and

are sched-uled to play first-round matches today.

Wedding-ton (19-4), which is the top seed

out of the 3A Southern Carolina Conference, plays at home against Statesville (7-16). The Warriors went undefeated during league play and recently captured the SCC tourna-ment title.

Marvin Ridge (13-7), which finished second in the SCC, plays at home against Carson (21-5) in the opening round of the 3A bracket.

In the 2A West bracket, Piedmont (22-1) plays at home against Cen-tral Davidson (7-15). The Panthers were champions of the Rocky River Conference.

In the other 2A matchup, Forest Hills (9-11) travels to Chase (11-5).

In the 4A West bracket, Porter Ridge (9-13) takes on Mallard Creek (8-10) at home while Sun Valley (3-18) travels to Hopewell (18-5).

Union Academy (8-8) and Central Academy (6-15) qualified for the postseason in the 1A West bracket. The Cardinals play South Stanly at Piedmont High today while the Cou-gars play host to Chatham Central (13-9).

Bulldogs hoping to bounce back today

SALISBURY — Wingate University’s football team is at Catawba today for a 1:30 p.m. kickoff.

The Bulldogs (5-2 overall) suffered their first loss in the South Atlantic Conference last

week, falling to 3-1 in league play after

Newberry spoiled WU’s Homecoming, 35-27. Catawba is 1-3 in the SAC (4-3 overall). Catawba holds a 15-6 series record ove WU, but the Bulldogs have won three of their last five meetings with the Indians. Last year, Wingate beat Catawba 34-24.

Wingate QB Cody Haffly has thrown for 1,478 yards and 13 TDs against four interceptions and is com-pleting 57 percent of his passes.

Running back Vince Jordan has 682 rushing yards ( 6.2 yards per carry) and has scored eight TDs for the Bulldogs.

Newman, Gordon will start up front

MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) — Jim-mie Johnson finally wasn’t flawless at Martinsville.

The points leader and winner in five of the past six NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races on the smallest, tightest oval in the series qualified 15th Friday.

Ryan Newman won the pole for Sunday’s race with a lap at 96.795 mph, followed by Jeff Gordon at 96.519. Mark Martin, who trails Johnson and Gordon at the midpoint of the 10-race playoff, will start fourth, giving Hendrick Motorsports two cars in the front two rows.

The pole is Newman’s second of the season and 45th of his career.

“It’s the place to be, no doubt, and it’s the place to finish,” Newman said.

Newman downplayed Johnson’s poor showing, saying he noticed the three-time defending series champion spent very little time in practice work-ing on his setup for the two-lap run.

In all, only four of the 12 partici-pants in the Chase for the champi-onship qualified ahead of Johnson. Heavy rain fell early at the speedway, and more is forecast for today.

WORTH A LOOKCollege footballClemson at Miami

3:30, ABC

Boston College at Notre Dame 3:30 p.m., NBC

College footballALCS, Game 6L.A. Angels at N.Y. Yankees

7:30 p.m., FOX

By Jerry SnOWE-J Sports Editor

MARVINMarvin Ridge High never trailed

but had to hold on late to beat Anson County for the first time ever on Fri-day, 24-20.

The Mavericks’ win, combined with Weddington’s victory at Porter Ridge, created a four-way tie for first place in the Southern Carolina Confer-ence among the aforementioned four teams.

Marvin Ridge star linebacker Vin-nie Sunseri was among the standouts. Sunseri had three of his team’s five

takeways, h e l p i n g the Mavs win the turnover battle 5-2.

Sunseri had two interceptions, a fumble recovery, two tackles for loss, a pass breakup and 10 tackles on the night.

And that was just on defense. Sun-seri also had a 14-yard touchdown run in the second quarter, after cutting back off a sweep right, and also turned a screen pass into a 22-yard gain.

“Vinnie had a great game,” Mavs coach Scott Chadwick said. “Our kids fought hard all night. I can’t tell you how proud I am. This is a huge victory for our program.”

The Mavs were clinging to a 17-12 lead when Sunseri made his second leaping interception of the third quar-ter, returning it to the Anson 41 before taking a vicious helmet-to-helmet hit from Anson standout tackle Tra Thomas.

See MaveriCKS / Page 4B

Mavs ‘back in it’MR moves into share of first place by beating Anson for first time in four tries

E-J staff photo by Rick Crider

Marvin Ridge junior Kolly Ogar carried 32 times for 135 yards, including touchdown runs of 16 and 28 yards.

Warriors grab share of SCC lead

Photo by Ed Cottingham

Union Academy quarterback Jackson Hargett, left, is taken down by Cuthbertson’s Emmitt Afam (34).

Photo by Darcy Duncan

Sun Valley’s Robert Viehmeyer (32) scored on a 1-yard run and finished with 46 yards on five carries..

Cook has 3TD catches

Blount’s six TDs lift FH

Cards get first-ever winBy JaSOn DeBrUynStaff Writer

MONROELate in the fourth quarter, the Union

Academy players gave their coach an ice-water shower in honor of their first win as a varsity football program.

“It feels great, especially for the kids,” coach Lynn Keziah said after UA’s 34-7 home win. “We’re extremely young ... but we knew tonight was a game that we matched up well.”

In its first varsity season, Union Academy had played to a tie, but never earned a win until Friday. Ironically, the victory came against Cuthbertson, which got its first win the previous week.

Union Academy won the game

largely by dominating time of pos-session and controlling the ground attack. The Cardinals ran the ball 67 times for 449 yards and ran a total of 74 plays from scrimmage, compared to 58 plays for Cuthbertson.

Tyree Drakeford was called on to carry the majority of that ground attack, going for 205 yards on 31 at-

tempts. “I can’t take credit

by myself,” said Drak-eford, pointing out the offensive line for opening up holes for

him. “If we all work together we can win.”

Several times in the game, it looked like Drakeford was about to break off a long run, but his longest

See CarDinaLS / Page 4B

Union A. 34

Cuthbertson 7

Sun Valley 37

Parkwood 20

Forest Hills 48

CATA 0

Marvin Ridge 24

Anson Co. 20

Weddington 31

Porter Ridge 24

Monroe 48

W. Stanly 0

By BiLL MarxE-J Correspondent

OAKBORORocky River Confer-

ence powerhouse Mon-roe High scored two touchdowns in its first five plays from scrim-mage and went on to defeat West Stanly 48-0 Friday.

Quarterback Jalen Sowell found Jamison Crowder in single cover-age and hit Crowder in stride on a quick look-in and Crowder did the rest for a 66-yard touchdown less than two minutes into the game.

On its next possession, Monroe (9-0, 6-0) went up 14-0 on a 57-yard run by Shamiir Hailey. Before the quarter was over, Hailey scored again on a 13-yard run for a 21-0 lead.

Hailey, who entered the game with 1,139 yards rushing and 17 touch-downs, finished with 10 carries for 134 yards and two touchdowns.

The Redhawks, who earned their fourth shutout of the year rushed for 290 yards, 208 in the first half when they built a 41-0 lead.

“It’s been clicking for a while,” Redhawks coach Johnny Sowell said.See reDHaWKS / Page 4B

Redhawksearn their4th shutout

E-J staff photo Ed Cottingham

Sophomore Connor Gorham rushed for a game-high 114 yards and scored the winning TD.

By eriC raPeE-J Correspondent

MONROEForest Hills turned four Cen-

tral Academy turnovers into 27 points as the Yellow Jackets crusied to a 48-0 win Friday.

After forcing a turnover to end Forest Hills’ first drive of the game at the Cougars 22, CATA gave the ball right back two plays later with Darius El-lison recovering a fumble at the 23 yardline. Forest Hills (7-2, 6-0 RRC) QB Juanne Blount took control from there, running four straight times and scoring from nine yards out with 5:52 left in the first quarter.

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Sunday’s GamesNew England vs. Tampa Bay at

London, 1 p.m.Minnesota at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.San Francisco at Houston, 1 p.m.Indianapolis at St. Louis, 1 p.m.San Diego at Kansas City, 1 p.m.Green Bay at Cleveland, 1 p.m.Buffalo at Carolina, 4:05 p.m.N.Y. Jets at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.Atlanta at Dallas, 4:15 p.m.Chicago at Cincinnati, 4:15 p.m.New Orleans at Miami, 4:15 p.m.Arizona at N.Y. Giants, 8:20 p.m.Open: Denver, Seattle, Detroit,

Jacksonville, Baltimore, TennesseeMonday’s GamePhiladelphia at Washington, 8:30 p.m.Sunday, Nov. 1St. Louis at Detroit, 1 p.m.Miami at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.Seattle at Dallas, 1 p.m.Cleveland at Chicago, 1 p.m.Denver at Baltimore, 1 p.m.Houston at Buffalo, 1 p.m.San Francisco at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.Oakland at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.Jacksonville at Tennessee, 4:05 p.m.Minnesota at Green Bay, 4:15 p.m.Carolina at Arizona, 4:15 p.m.Open: New England, Cincinnati,

Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Washington, Tampa Bay

Monday, Nov. 2Atlanta at New Orleans, 8:30 p.m.

College football

College Football ScheduleAll Times EDT(Subject to change)

TodayEAST

Princeton (1-4) at Harvard (3-2), NoonSouth Florida (5-1) at Pittsburgh (6-1),

NoonConnecticut (4-2) at West Virginia

(5-1), NoonBrown (3-2) at Cornell (2-3), 12:30 p.m.Cent. Connecticut St. (5-1) at Bryant

(3-3), 1 p.m.Lehigh (1-5) at Bucknell (3-3), 1 p.m.Colgate (7-0) at Holy Cross (5-1), 1 p.m.Fordham (3-3) at Lafayette (5-1), 1 p.m.Albany, N.Y. (5-2) at Monmouth, N.J.

(3-3), 1 p.m.Towson (2-4) at Northeastern (0-6), 1

p.m.Sacred Heart (1-5) at Wagner (3-3), 1

p.m.Columbia (2-3) at Dartmouth (0-5), 1:30

p.m.New Hampshire (5-1) at Hofstra (4-3), 3

p.m.Wake Forest (4-3) at Navy (5-2), 3:30

p.m.Yale (3-2) at Penn (3-2), 3:30 p.m.

Coastal Carolina (3-3) at Stony Brook (3-4), 3:30 p.m.

Akron (1-5) at Syracuse (2-4), 3:30 p.m.Rhode Island (1-5) at Villanova (6-1),

3:30 p.m.Duquesne (2-5) at St. Francis, Pa. (1-6),

7 p.m. SOUTH

Clemson (3-3) at Miami (5-1), 3:30 p.m.UAB (2-4) at Marshall (4-3), NoonGeorgia Tech (6-1) at Virginia (3-3),

NoonJames Madison (2-4) at William &

Mary (5-1), 12:05 p.m.Arkansas (3-3) at Mississippi (4-2),

12:30 p.m.Butler (6-0) at Campbell (1-5), 1 p.m.Drake (5-1) at Davidson (2-4), 1 p.m.Morgan St. (5-1) at Delaware St. (1-4), 1

p.m.N. Carolina A&T (3-3) at Howard (2-4),

1 p.m.Marist (3-3) at Morehead St. (2-5), 1

p.m.Liberty (4-2) at Charleston Southern

(2-4), 1:30 p.m.Maryland (2-5) at Duke (3-3), 1:30 p.m.Chattanooga (4-2) at Elon (5-1), 1:30

p.m.Alcorn St. (2-3) at Alabama St. (2-3), 2

p.m.S. Carolina St. (5-1) at Hampton (3-3), 2

p.m.E. Illinois (5-2) at Jacksonville St. (4-2),

2 p.m.Jackson St. (1-5) at MVSU (2-4), 2 p.m.VMI (1-5) at Presbyterian (0-6), 2 p.m.Furman (4-2) at The Citadel (2-4), 2

p.m.SE Missouri (1-5) at Tennessee Tech

(3-3), 2:30 p.m.Georgia Southern (4-3) at Appalachian

St. (4-2), 3 p.m.Norfolk St. (3-3) at Florida A&M (4-2),

3 p.m.Tennessee (3-3) at Alabama (7-0), 3:30

p.m.W. Kentucky (0-6) at Middle Tennessee

(3-3), 3:30 p.m.Massachusetts (4-2) at Richmond (6-0),

3:30 p.m.North Texas (1-5) at Troy (4-2), 3:30

p.m.Winston-Salem (0-6) at Bethune-

Cookman (2-4), 4 p.m.Wofford (1-5) at W. Carolina (1-5), 4

p.m.Florida Atlantic (1-4) at Louisiana-

Lafayette (4-2), 5 p.m.Old Dominion (5-2) at Savannah St.

(1-4), 5 p.m.S. Virginia (1-6) at Gardner-Webb (4-2),

6 p.m.E. Kentucky (4-2) at Austin Peay (2-4),

7 p.m.Louisiana-Monroe (4-2) at Kentucky

(3-3), 7 p.m.SE Louisiana (4-2) at McNeese St. (4-2),

7 p.m.Vanderbilt (2-5) at South Carolina

(5-2), 7 p.m.Tulane (2-4) at Southern Miss. (4-3), 7

p.m.Murray St. (2-4) at Tenn.-Martin (2-5),

7 p.m.Auburn (5-2) at LSU (5-1), 7:30 p.m.Florida (6-0) at Mississippi St. (3-4),

7:30 p.m.Texas St. (3-3) at Northwestern St.

(0-6), 8 p.m. MIDWEST

Cent. Michigan (6-1) at Bowling Green (3-4), Noon

Indiana (4-3) at Northwestern (4-3), Noon

Minnesota (4-3) at Ohio St. (5-2), NoonIllinois (1-5) at Purdue (2-5), NoonColorado (2-4) at Kansas St. (4-3), 12:30

p.m.Ball St. (0-7) at E. Michigan (0-6), 1

p.m.N. Illinois (3-3) at Miami (Ohio) (0-7), 1

p.m.Iowa St. (4-3) at Nebraska (4-2), 1:30

p.m.Kent St. (3-4) at Ohio (5-2), 2 p.m.Dayton (5-1) at Valparaiso (1-5), 2 p.m.Buffalo (3-4) at W. Michigan (3-4), 2

p.m.N. Iowa (5-2) at S. Dakota St. (5-1), 3

p.m.W. Illinois (1-5) at Indiana St. (0-7), 3:05

p.m.Louisville (2-4) at Cincinnati (6-0), 3:30

p.m.Oklahoma (3-3) at Kansas (5-1), 3:30

p.m.Penn St. (6-1) at Michigan (5-2), 3:30

p.m.Boston College (5-2) at Notre Dame

(4-2), 3:30 p.m.Youngstown St. (4-2) at S. Illinois (5-1),

4 p.m.Missouri St. (4-3) at N. Dakota St. (1-6),

7 p.m.Temple (4-2) at Toledo (4-3), 7 p.m.Iowa (7-0) at Michigan St. (4-3), 7:05

p.m.Texas (6-0) at Missouri (4-2), 8 p.m.

SOUTHWESTOklahoma St. (5-1) at Baylor (3-3), 12:30

p.m.Sam Houston St. (3-3) at Stephen F.

Austin (5-1), 3 p.m.Edward Waters (0-7) at Ark.-Pine Bluff

(3-2), 3:30 p.m.

UCF (3-3) at Rice (0-7), 3:30 p.m.Fla. International (1-5) at Arkansas St.

(1-4), 7 p.m.Nicholls St. (1-5) at Cent. Arkansas

(4-2), 7 p.m.Texas A&M (3-3) at Texas Tech (5-2), 7

p.m.SMU (3-3) at Houston (5-1), 7:30 p.m.

FAR WESTLouisiana Tech (3-3) at Utah St. (1-5), 3

p.m.Oregon (5-1) at Washington (3-4), 3:30

p.m.Weber St. (4-3) at N. Colorado (2-5), 3:35

p.m.San Diego St. (2-4) at Colorado St. (3-4),

4 p.m.North Dakota (3-3) at S. Utah (2-4), 4

p.m.Air Force (4-3) at Utah (5-1), 4 p.m.Montana St. (4-2) at E. Washington

(4-3), 4:05 p.m.Idaho (6-1) at Nevada (3-3), 4:05 p.m.UC Davis (3-3) at Portland St. (2-5), 4:05

p.m.Washington St. (1-5) at California (4-2),

4:30 p.m.Jacksonville (3-3) at San Diego (3-3),

4:30 p.m.Montana (6-0) at Sacramento St. (2-4),

5:05 p.m.Idaho St. (0-7) at N. Arizona (4-2), 6:05

p.m.UCLA (3-3) at Arizona (4-2), 6:30 p.m.TCU (6-0) at BYU (6-1), 7:30 p.m.UNLV (2-5) at New Mexico (0-6), 8 p.m.Oregon St. (4-2) at Southern Cal (5-1), 8

p.m.Dixie St. (4-4) at Cal Poly (3-3), 9:05

p.m.Arizona St. (4-2) at Stanford (4-3), 10:15

p.m.Fresno St. (3-3) at New Mexico St.

(3-4), 10:20 p.m.Boise St. (6-0) at Hawaii (2-4), 11:05

p.m.

Prep football

Friday’s area boxscores

WHS 31, P. Ridge 24

Weddington 7 7 7 10 - 31Porter Ridge 0 10 7 7 - 24

Scoring SummaryW - Anthony Boone 14 run (Casey

Lang kick)W - Cal Bonar 17 pass from Boone

(Lang kick)PR - Marcelis Lewis 1 run (Matt

Wogan kick)PR - Wogan 27 FGW - Hunter Moore 68 interception

return (Lang kick)PR - Damarrell Alexander 9 run

(Wogan kick)W - Lang 36 FGW - Connor Gorham 18 run (Lang

kick)PR - Rad Crowell 8 pass from Lee

McNeill (Wogan kick)

WHS P. Ridge13 First downs 1642-245 Rushes-yards 32-1455-15-1 Passing 12-28-168 Passing yards 1602-1 Fumbles-lost 1-15-30 Penalties 2-15

Individual statisticsRushing: WHS - Gorham 24-114, Boone

14-103, Domonique Ardrey 4-28; PR - Alexander 11-96, Lewis 10-50, Devin Martin 5-22, McNeill 6-(-23).

Passing: WHS - Boone 5-15-1 68; PR - McNeill 12-28-1 160.

Receiving: WHS - C.J. Warrington 2-32, Christian Glackin 1-21, Bonar 1-17, Gorham 1-(-2); PR - Crowell 8-106, Jordan Oakley 2-42, Ryan Patty 2-12.

Marvin Ridge 24, Anson 20

Anson Co. 6 0 6 8 — 20M. Ridge 10 0 14 0 — 24

Scoring summaryM — Kolly Ogar 16 run (Matt Frein

kick)M — Frein 24 field goalA — Jackie Polk 80 pass from Jordan

Hildreth (kick failed)M — Vinnie Sunseri 14 run (Frein

kick)A — Hildreth 48 run (run failed)M — Ogan 28 run (Frein kick)A — Maurice Copeland 1 run (J.F.

Harward from Hildreth)

Anson M. Ridge13 First downs 1532-150 Rushes-yards 42-1845-15-3 Passing 7-15-1132 Passing yards 734-2 Fumbles-lost 1-15-36 Penalties 3-28

Individual statisticsRushing: Anson — Hildreth 8-72,

Brandon Ellerbe 17-44, Copeland 6-32, Dondre Crawford 1-2 MR — Ogar 32-135, JC Howze 2-18, Sunseri 2-17, Dylan Williams 5-12, Chandler LeDoyen 1-2.

Passing: Anson — Hildreth 4-14-3 117, Ellerbe 1-1-0 15 ; MR — LeDoyen 7-15-1 73.

Receiving: Anson — Polk 1-80, Drew Cole 1-16, Hildreth 1-15, Juan Jackson 1-4, Stephone Anthony 1-7, ; MR — Sunseri 1-22, Howze 3-18, Ryan Skibba 1-14, Adam Remme 1-13, KJ Brent 1-6.

Sun Valley 37, Parkwood 20

Parkwood 0 14 0 6 - 20Sun Valley 14 0 7 16 - 37

Scoring SummarySV – Dustin Cook 16 pass from Ryan

Smith (Cameron Havey kick)SV – Jadarrius Williams 57 run

(Havey kick)PH – Kemp Lotharp 5 run (Dylan

Hunter kick)PH – Maurice Leak 8 run (Hunter

kick)SV – Cook 70 pass from Smith (Havey

kick)SV – Robert Viehmeyer 1 run (Havey

kick)SV – Cook 25 pass from Smith (Havey

kick)SV – Safety fumbled punt out of end-

zonePH – Keith Harbison 55 run

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Parkwood S. Valley9 First Downs 1324-225 Rushes-yards 33-20250 Passing yards 1656-15-1 Passes 11-20-15-44 Penalties-yards 9-733-1 Fumbles-lost 2-1

Individual statisticsRushing: Parkwood – Lotharp 14-161,

Harbison 1-55, Leak 6-12, Seth Springs 2-(-1), Jonathan Barber 1-(-2); Sun Valley – Williams 22-147, Viehmeyer 5-46, Avante Jackson 3-18, Kevin Saxton 2-(-4), Smith 1-(-5).

Passing: Parkwood – Leak 6-15-1 50; Sun Valley - Smith 11-20-1 165.

Receiving: Parkwood – Marcus Smith 1-28, Deonte Hiatt 2-13, Anthony Evans 1-5, Barber 1-2, Marcus Leak 1-2; Sun Valley – Cook 5-126, Steven Cole 2-18, Chris Duffy 1-9, Jody Fuller 1-7, Viehmeyer 2-5.

UA 34, Cuthbertson 7

Cuthbertson 0 0 0 7 — 7U. Academy 8 6 6 14 — 34

Scoring summaryUA—Ra’sheed Rushing 2 run (Jackson

Hargett run)UA—Tyree Drakeford 11 run (run

failed)UA—Jarred Hill 33 pass from Hargett

(run failed)CH—Emmitt Afam 2 run (Adam Lutz

kick)UA—Hargett 1 run (Brenden Faassen

pass from Hargett)UA—Marlon Young 35 run (run failed)

CH UA14 First downs 2422-105 Rushes-yards 67-44911-36-0 Passing 4-7-1123 Passing yards 942-1 Fumbles-lost 4-03-20 Penalties-yards 15-127

Individual statisticsRushing: CH —Ryan Haddock 13-75,

Emmitt Afam 4-14, Lamar Wade 1-2, 9 3-17, Ray Royal 1-(-3); UA—Tyree Drakeford 31-205, Ra’sheed Rushing 23-147, Marlon Young 12-96, Jackson Hargett 1-1.

Passing: CH—Ray Royal 11-36-0 123; UA— Jackson Hargett 4-7-1 94.

Receiving: CH—Ryan Haddock 2-22, Austin Hill 3-31, 9 1-11, Emmitt Afam 4-48, Nick Mlakar 1-11; UA— Jarred Hill 3-75, Brenden Faassen 1-19.

Forest Hills 48, CATA 0

Forest Hills 21 14 7 6 - 48C. Academy 0 0 0 0 - 0

Scoring SummaryFH—Juanne Blount 9 run (Baker

kick)FH—Blount 4 run (Baker kick)FH—Deonta Vinson 12 run (Baker

kick)FH—Blount 4 run (Baker kick)FH—Blount 11 run (Baker kick)FH—Blount 19 run (Baker kick)FH—Blount 12 run (kick failed)

FH CATA22 First downs 1141-274 Rushes-yards 51-127

5-7-0 Passing 2-4-0115 Passing yards 222-1 Fumbles-lost 6-42-25 Penalties 6-60

Individual statisticsRushing: FH—Blount 20-125, Deonta

Vinson 15-127, Orlando Ratliff 4-21, CJ Kiser 1-3, Courtland Crowder 2-1; CA-Mitchell Blackburn 16-63, Charvis Barrino 25-58, Billy Wilson 3-4, Nick Gagatch 2-3, Kacey Robinson 3-3, Henry Morrison 1-0, 1-(-4).

Passing: FH—Juanne Blount 5-7-0 115; CA-Barrino 2-3-0 22, Robinson 0-1-0 0.

Receiving: FH—Orlando Ratliff 3-74, Jamal Little 2-41; CA-Wilson 2-22.

Monroe 48, West Stanly 0 Monroe 21 20 0 7 - 48W. Stanly 0 0 0 0 - 0

Scoring summaryM—Jamison Crowder 66 pass from

Jalen Sowell (Christian Cruz kick)M—Shamiir Hailey 57 run (Cruz kick)M—Hailey 13 run (Cruz kick)M—Sowell 20 run (Cruz kick)M—Donald Covington 6 run (kick

failed)M—Quon Threatt 19 pass from Sowell

(Cruz kick)M—Bobby Blakeney 10 run (Cruz

kick) Monroe W. Stanly15 First downs 7290 Rushes/yards 35169 Passing yards 485-11-0 Passes 5-14-21-1 Fumbles-lost 1-19-55 Penalties 2-20

Individual statisticsRushing: M—Hailey 10-134, Bobby

Blakeney 6-85, Covington 6-33, Qwadarius Dubose 4-20, Sowell 1-20. WS—Patrick Willoughby 14-57, Carson Hinson 11-25, Bobby Wilson 3-7, Zack Honeycutt 8-(-40).

Passing: M—Sowell 5-11-0 169. WS—Honeycutt 5-13-2 48, Spencer Pegg 0-1-0.

Receiving: M—Crowder 1-66, Covington 1-14, Isaac Blakeney 1-30, Threatt 2-59. WS—Andrew Wilson 3-32, Zack Caldwell 1-15, Carson Hinson 1-1.

Auto racing

NASCAR-Sprint Cup TUMS Fast Relief 500 LineupAfter Friday qualifying; race SundayAt Martinsville SpeedwayMartinsville, Va.Lap length: .526 miles(Car number in parentheses)1. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet,

96.795.2. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 96.519.3. (1) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet,

96.509.4. (5) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 96.504.5. (00) David Reutimann, Toyota, 96.117.6. (07) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 96.054.7. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota, 96.034.8. (96) Bobby Labonte, Ford, 96.01.9. (43) Reed Sorenson, Dodge, 95.995.10. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet,

95.908.11. (12) David Stremme, Dodge, 95.903.12. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet,

95.83.13. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 95.825.14. (6) David Ragan, Ford, 95.815.15. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet,

95.777.16. (44) AJ Allmendinger, Dodge, 95.772.17. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 95.762.18. (82) Scott Speed, Toyota, 95.607.19. (33) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 95.578.20. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 95.574.21. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet,

95.545.22. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 95.501.23. (26) Jamie McMurray, Ford, 95.477.24. (83) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 95.429.25. (37) Travis Kvapil, Dodge, 95.381.26. (9) Kasey Kahne, Dodge, 95.371.27. (34) John Andretti, Chevrolet,

95.333.28. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 95.304.29. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 95.275.30. (98) Paul Menard, Ford, 95.271.31. (77) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 95.242.32. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 95.232.33. (7) Robby Gordon, Toyota, 95.223.34. (47) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota,

95.194.35. (71) David Gilliland, Chevrolet,

95.07.36. (55) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 94.984.37. (2) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 94.889.38. (09) Sterling Marlin, Dodge, 94.789.39. (66) Dave Blaney, Toyota, 94.689.40. (19) Elliott Sadler, Dodge, 94.661.41. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 94.652.42. (36) Michael McDowell, Toyota,

94.637.43. (64) Derrike Cope, Toyota, 93.539.

Scoreboard

AMERICAN CONFERENCE

East

W L T Pct PF PA AFC NFC Div

New England 4 2 0 .667 163 91 3-2-0 1-0-0 1-1-0

N.Y. Jets 3 3 0 .500 114 104 3-2-0 0-1-0 1-2-0

Miami 2 3 0 .400 112 106 2-2-0 0-1-0 2-0-0

Buffalo 2 4 0 .333 93 129 1-3-0 1-1-0 1-2-0

South

W L T Pct PF PA AFC NFC Div

Indianapolis 5 0 0 1.000 137 71 3-0-0 2-0-0 2-0-0

Jacksonville 3 3 0 .500 120 147 2-1-0 1-2-0 2-1-0

Houston 3 3 0 .500 143 137 3-2-0 0-1-0 1-1-0

Tennessee 0 6 0 .000 84 198 0-6-0 0-0-0 0-3-0

North

W L T Pct PF PA AFC NFC Div

Cincinnati 4 2 0 .667 118 118 3-2-0 1-0-0 3-0-0

Pittsburgh 4 2 0 .667 140 112 3-1-0 1-1-0 1-1-0

Baltimore 3 3 0 .500 169 130 3-2-0 0-1-0 1-1-0

Cleveland 1 5 0 .167 69 148 1-4-0 0-1-0 0-3-0

West

W L T Pct PF PA AFC NFC Div

Denver 6 0 0 1.000 133 66 5-0-0 1-0-0 2-0-0

San Diego 2 3 0 .400 124 136 2-3-0 0-0-0 1-1-0

Oakland 2 4 0 .333 62 139 1-3-0 1-1-0 1-2-0

Kansas City 1 5 0 .167 98 144 0-2-0 1-3-0 0-1-0

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

East

W L T Pct PF PA NFC AFC Div

N.Y. Giants 5 1 0 .833 178 119 3-1-0 2-0-0 2-0-0

Dallas 3 2 0 .600 122 98 2-1-0 1-1-0 0-1-0

Philadelphia 3 2 0 .600 136 99 2-1-0 1-1-0 0-0-0

Washington 2 4 0 .333 79 96 2-3-0 0-1-0 0-1-0

South

W L T Pct PF PA NFC AFC Div

New Orleans 5 0 0 1.000 192 93 3-0-0 2-0-0 0-0-0

Atlanta 4 1 0 .800 123 77 3-0-0 1-1-0 1-0-0

Carolina 2 3 0 .400 85 125 2-3-0 0-0-0 1-1-0

Tampa Bay 0 6 0 .000 89 168 0-5-0 0-1-0 0-1-0

North

W L T Pct PF PA NFC AFC Div

Minnesota 6 0 0 1.000 189 121 4-0-0 2-0-0 2-0-0

Green Bay 3 2 0 .600 130 93 3-1-0 0-1-0 2-1-0

Chicago 3 2 0 .600 119 99 2-2-0 1-0-0 1-1-0

Detroit 1 5 0 .167 103 188 1-4-0 0-1-0 0-3-0

West

W L T Pct PF PA NFC AFC Div

San Francisco 3 2 0 .600 112 98 3-2-0 0-0-0 3-0-0

Arizona 3 2 0 .600 112 92 1-1-0 2-1-0 1-1-0

Seattle 2 4 0 .333 118 109 1-3-0 1-1-0 1-2-0

St. Louis 0 6 0 .000 54 169 0-5-0 0-1-0 0-2-0

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TOdAyANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) —

Chone Figgins and the Los Angeles Angels know they’re heading straight into more than one kind of storm, and they can’t wait to get wet.

Heavy showers in Sat-urday’s New York forecast are threatening to wash out Game 6 of the AL champion-ship series, yet that’s a minor drizzle compared to the high-pressure system the Angels created for both themselves and the Yankees by extending the ALCS through the week-end.

Rejuvenated by a ram-shackle win in Game 5 that cut the Yankees’ series lead to 3-2, the Angels still face long odds to make the seldom-seen comeback from a 3-1 series deficit against their star-studded opponents. Yet Fig-gins still senses a team-wide confidence that the Angels can rain on the Yankees’ 27th championship parade.

“It doesn’t get any better than this, especially going into that ballpark,” said Fig-gins, the Angels’ leadoff hit-ter. “It’s going to be another crazy game, I can tell you that. You go back and just en-joy it. The pressure is on both teams.”

The Angels were grateful to show up to work Friday in suits instead of sweats, hold-ing a brief workout before fly-ing out to Game 6 on Saturday night.

Figgins and his teammates all packed the cold-weather gear that did little good in their last trip to Yankee Stadi-um, when they lost the series’

first two games with poor hit-ting and sloppy defense. The Angels’ defense and pitching mostly got back to normal in Anaheim, but their hitting didn’t improve until Game 5, when they scored seven runs after mustering just 10 in the entire series beforehand.

“They are the favorites, but after this one, we’ve got obvi-ously a lot of confidence, a lot of momentum,” said Joe Saunders, the Angels’ Game 6 starter. “It’s going to be the usual Yankee hostile environ-ment. It’s going to be a lot of fun. They’re going to be all over us.”

So will the rain, if the fore-cast is accurate. If Saunders has to wait a day to pitch, it could create another possi-bility in the se-ries — one that might make the Yankees push even harder for a closeout victory.

If Game 6 is postponed, manager Mike Scioscia says the Angels would consider bringing back ace John Lack-ey on three days’ rest to pitch a potential Game 7 as a coun-ter to Yankees stalwart CC Sa-bathia, who already has shut down the Angels twice in the series.

“Yes, we’ve talked about a lot of different scenarios,” Scioscia said Friday before the Angels’ flight. “We’re go-ing to let this thing unfold a little bit and see how the weekend goes. If there is an opportunity to look at bring-

ing a guy like John back, it’s something we certainly would consider. We’ve talked about a bunch of things.”

Jered Weaver, who pitched an outstanding eighth inning of relief in Game 5, is the scheduled starter for Game 7 — but Lackey is the An-gels’ best, most experienced pitcher. Lackey, a soon-to-be free agent with every moti-vation to star in the playoffs, confounded the Yankees for six innings of Game 5 before Scioscia removed him with the bases loaded and two outs in the seventh, precipitating New York’s six-run come-back.

But the Angels made a three-run come-back of their own in that sub-lime seventh. Closer Brian Fuentes slept soundly after finding trouble and escaping

it in the ninth inning of Los Angeles’ 7-6 comeback vic-tory, retiring Nick Swisher on a bases-loaded popup with a full count and two outs.

Fuentes is no stranger to high stakes, and the major leagues’ saves leader knows his teammates also thrive in such straits. Ever since the tragic start to their season with the death of pitcher Nick Adenhart, the Angels have tapped untold wells of strength on the way to an AL West title, 97 victories, a first-round series win over Boston — and now an ALCS that gets more tense by the inning.

“Pressure is something you put in your car tires,” Fu-entes said. “I don’t feel like it’s any different now. We’ve still got to keep playing, still got to keep doing our work for another game. We don’t get anything extra for that one. ... If it’s raining, we’ve all got to play in it. If we get postponed, we’ll be ready when we get the chance.”

The Angels were relaxed and happy during a brief workout at their stadium Fri-day. Before soft-toss and bat-ting practice, several players lounged in front of a televi-sion and shared a laugh over Dodgers owner Frank Mc-Court’s decision to fire his wife as the team’s CEO.

Los Angeles is quietly confi-dent about its chances against Andy Pettitte, who has a long history of series-clinching wins — and whose 15 career playoff victories are tied for the most in baseball history. Pettitte had far more oppor-tunities than most pitchers to build that resume during the Yankees’ six World Series runs during his first tenure with the team he rejoined in 2007.

“All that experience is not going to help me when I go out in the first inning and (get) my pitches where they need to be,” Pettitte said. “Hopeful-ly, it’s just there. ... You know there’s going to be a lot of en-ergy in the ballpark. You just hope you can control yourself, make quality pitches through-out the game. Hopefully we’ll be able to wrap this thing up on Saturday.”

Angels have ALCS comeback in mind

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SnapWeek 10

ShotS

E-J staff photo by Ed Cottingham

Weddington senior quarterback Anthony Boone (7) rushed for 103 yards and a touch-down on 14 carries and also threw a touchdown pass during the Warriors’ 31-24 road win over Porter Ridge on Friday. WhS is now 5-4 overall and 2-1 in the SCC.

E-J staff photo by Ed Cottingham

Union Academy sophomore tyree Drakeford rushed for 205 yards in his school’s first-ever football win on Friday. Drakeford now has 845 rushing yards on the season.

E-J staff photo by Rick Crider

In arguably the best game of his stellar career, Marvin Ridge junior Vinnie Sunseri greets congratulatory teammates after his second interception of the night on Friday. Sunseri had a 14-yard touchdown run and a 22-yard reception on offense in addition to his two picks, fumble recovery, pass breakup, two tackles for loss and 10 total tackles during a critical 24-20 home win over the Bearcats. Marvin Ridge was 0-3 lifetime against Anson heading into Friday.

Photo by Darcy Duncan

Sun Valley’s Dustin Cook caught five passes for 126 yards and three tDs against Parkwood. Cook now has 33 receptions for 438 yards and eight scores in 2009.

Marvin Ridge and Weddington moved into a share of first place with their conference wins on Friday, while Sun Valley broke a two-game losing streak, but perhaps the biggest celebration was at Union Acad-emy — where the Cardinals got their first-ever win. Here’s a look at some of those moments in time.

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Bobcats coach critical of Diaw’s reboundingCHARLOTTE (AP) — Al-

len Iverson isn’t ready and the Memphis Grizzlies have run out of practice games with many questions still unanswered.

The Charlotte Bobcats have just as many concerns.

Long after Iverson left the court following a brief early morning workout Friday, the Grizzlies reserves held off the Bobcats 95-92 to close the exhi-bition schedule for both teams. Zach Randolph looked good early with 16 points and eight rebounds, Sam Young added 13 points and DeMarre Carroll hit the tiebreaking layup with 13 seconds left.

The Grizzlies (3-5) lost point guard Mike Conley when he re-injured his troublesome right

ankle in the first quarter in the game, which began at 10:30 a.m. and was played in front of more than 16,000, high-spirited middle school students.

“I’m just glad nobody else got hurt and we got through training camp unscathed,” coach Lionel Hollins said.

Iverson did work out before tipoff but said it’s a “long shot” he’ll be cleared for the Griz-zlies’ season opener Wednes-day against Detroit.

The Bobcats (2-6), who have their own injury concerns, got 15 points from Raymond Fel-ton and 14 from Boris Diaw. But Diaw, Charlotte’s power forward, had just one rebound and Charlotte was beaten on the boards 48-37.

“Our 4 man doesn’t rebound the ball at all [this morning],” coach Larry Brown said. “That’s been an issue.”

Charlotte’s Tyson Chandler looked better in his second game back from offseason an-kle surgery, but still appeared far from being in game shape. He had eight points and six re-bounds on 4-of-6 shooting, but struggled defensively and was often trailing the play.

“Health-wise I’m OK, but still the timing, getting my legs under me and getting back in rhythm, that’s the difficult part,” Chandler said. “But I’m going to be fine.”

The Bobcats played their second straight game without shooting guard Raja Bell, who

said before tipoff he would get the results later Friday of a second opinion on the par-tially torn ligament in his left wrist. Bell expects to decide soon whether to play through the injury or have surgery, which would sideline him up to four months.

Bell’s absence would mean more playing time for rook-ie Gerald Henderson, who showed off his athleticism in scoring 10 points off the bench. He also had a spectacular leap-ing block of Young.

“I hate to even say it, but his movements remind me a lot of Kobe (Bryant),” Chandler said.

“I’ve got a long way to go to be Kobe,” Henderson replied.

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The Redhawks averaged 10 yards a carry, which included two kneel-downs for losses to end the game.

“They’ve been doing it all year,” Sowell said of the offen-sive line. “A lot of time they don’t get the credit, but those guys are the ones that get it started. We have to commend them tonight. They did a great job.”

The line also gave Jalen Sow-ell time to throw. He was 5 for 11 with no interceptions and 169

yards and two touchdowns. The second touchdown was 19 yards to Quon Threatt to make it 41-0 with 1:33 to go in the half.

Sowell also ran for a touch-down, scoring untouched around left end from 20 yards in the second quarter.

“We know the teams that have speed give us a tremen-dous amount of trouble,” West Stanly coach Mark Little said. “This team, Monroe, has more speed than anybody we’ll play. They are well coached. They’re fundamentally sound, and they love to hit. They’re a very physi-cal team. When you’re a physi-cal team with speed like that,

you’re in pretty good shape.”Patrick Willoughby was the

offensive bright spot for West Stanly (3-6, 2-4), rushing for 57 yards on 14 carries.

“I didn’t see anybody quit,” Little said. “Everybody played hard all the way.”

Monroe also had three touch-downs nullified by penalties, including a 90-yard interception return in the third quarter by Bobby Blakeney. In the fourth quarter, Blakeney found the end zone when it counted, clos-ing out the scoring on a 10-yard run.

Monroe’s defense was as dom-inant as its offense. Besides reg-

istering its second shutout in a row and fourth of the season, the defense limited West Stanly to 35 yards rushing and 48 yards passing. It shut down Willough-by, who rushed for 136 yards last week against Piedmont, and tight end Andrew Wilson, who caught six passes for 132 yards and two touchdowns last week.

The assignment to shut down Wilson, a 6-3, 235-pound senior, fell to Isaac Blakeney, a 6-5, 205-pound senior. Wilson didn’t make his first catch until the 9:46 mark of the second quar-ter with Monroe ahead 28-0. He finished with three catches for 32 yards, and Blakeney finished

with an interception.Blakeney and Wilson are fa-

miliar combatants, Coach Sow-ell said.

“They go against each other in basketball,” he said. “And we felt like if we had a bigger body on him, we’d be OK. He got a couple on us last year, so that was one adjustment we were go-ing to make.”

The Redhawks made it dif-ficult for West Stanly quarter-back Zack Honeycutt to find Wilson. They harassed him all night. He was sacked five times, and when the Redhawks just missed a sack, they were laying on big hits.

SpartansContinued from Page 1B

coach Scott Stein said. “Just to get off the snide so to speak and to get things going in a pos-itive direction because with a young group, you get beat like that two weeks in a row where you’re in the ball game ... they take it more personally.”

Sophomore quarterback Ryan Smith connected on a quick-slant to Cook for a 16-yard touchdown with 8:34 remaining in the first quarter.

Following a Parkwood three-

and-out, sophomore Jadarrius Williams displayed his break-away speed for a 57-yard touch-down to add to the Sun Valley lead.

The Rebels did not record a first down until 7:21 remaining in the first half – but following the first down, Parkwood put up 14 points before the half on a Kemp Lotharp 5-yard touch-down run and a Maurice Leak 8-yard touchdown run.

“In the first half, we jumped out early and I felt like our kids kind of relaxed a little bit,” Stein said. “They kind of looked around for something bad to happen because we’re

constantly coming from be-hind.

“And then in the second half when it was 14-14, I feel like they kind of got in their com-fort zone, you know – now you have to.”

Smith connected with Cook for a 70-yard touchdown pass with 3:17 remaining in the third quarter after a Parkwood defensive back bit on Smith rolling out of the pocket and left Cook wide open.

The game turned ugly quick after that score.

After a Lotharp 50-yard run, the Rebels were threatening on the Sun Valley 20-yard line

when linebacker Devin Gillette blitzed, untouched, and rocked Leak from his right side lead-ing to a David Marino fumble recovery for the Spartans.

The turnover led to Sun Val-ley scoring on a Robert Vieh-meyer 1-yard run.

Then, on Parkwood’s very next offensive play, Gillette in-tercepted Leak to give the ball back to the Spartans’ offense.

Sun Valley tacked on one more touchdown on a 25-yard Cook reception and added a safety when Parkwood fumbled a punt later on.

The Spartans prevented Parkwood from making plays

in the air after allowing Marvin Ridge to pass for 280 yards and four touchdowns last week.

Parkwood threw for a total of 50 yards, with their longest gain of 28 yards coming off a screen pass.

“We spent literally, probably 18 hours this week on finding the ball, keep the receiver and go for the ball,” Stein said.

“If they’re going to beat us at least make them beat some-body going after the ball, too.”

With a conference win under their belt, the Spartans will travel to face Weddington next Friday, while Parkwood will host Marvin Ridge.

CardinalsContinued from Page 1B

rush was only 20 yards on Union Academy’s third play and it his only rush that went longer than 13 yards. It was his consistency, how-ever, that helped propel Union Academy to victory. The 5-foot-8-inch sophomore had 21 rushes of at least five yards and did not lose yard-age on any plays.

“We’ve moved the ball pretty well all year on the ground,” Keziah said.

Cuthbertson coach Mike Roark saw it as a situa-tion where the bigger guy won the battle at the line of scrimmage. “They just bullied us,” he said. “We’re having a hard time dealing with teams that are older and bigger than us.”

Defensively, Jake Caridi laid the biggest hit of the game, ending Cuthbertson’s efforts at a comeback.

With 1:44 left in the fourth quarter, Cuthbertson faced a fourth and 10 from the Union Academy 40 when quarterback Ray Royal threw a strike to Emmitt Afam which he likely would have held for a first down had Caridi not jarred the ball loose with a thundering hit. The collision erupted the Union Academy sideline and all but sealed the victo-ry for the Cardinals.

“We practice how we play, you know, hit as hard as you can,” Caridi said. “We’ve got a young team, but we’ve got a strong team.”

Putting the game in his-torical perspective, Keziah smiled as he stood in front of the locker room shaking hands with boosters and supporters.

“Union Academy football is on the rise,” he said. “I think the future is outstand-ing.”

Union Academy can re-turn 30 of its 32 players next year.

MavericksContinued from Page 1B

“Anson has a great football team with great overall speed,” Sunseri said. “We watched a lot of film on them and (defensive coordinator) coach (Al) Wallace) had us well prepared to take away the option.

“They don’t like to throw and that’s what we forced them to do. The quarterback (Jordan Hil-dreth) is a great player who was trying to make plays and I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.”

Following Sunseri’s second pick of the night, Marvin Ridge needed just three plays to score what proved to be the winning points.

A 13-yard run by JC Howze set up Kolly Ogar’s 28-yard touch-down run, and Matt Frein’s extra point gave the Mavs a 24-12 lead with 4:03 to play in the third quar-ter.

After holding the Bearcats, MR had a chance to put the game away when Howze returned a punt 45 yards down to the Anson 26.

But Frein’s 34-yard field goal attempt was blocked. Frein made a 24-yard field goal earlier in the game for his seventh of the season — which tied the Union County single-season record for most field goals made (with 2009 Marvin Ridge graduate Jordan Day).

Sunseri recovered a fumble

at Anson’s 20 to give the Mavs another chance to put the game on ice, but three plays later the Bearcats’ Chris Christian inter-cepted a pass in his own end zone and returned it near midfield.

The Bearcats drove down to MR’s 7 before Marvin Ridge ju-nior Raheem McKinney pounced on a fumble — marking the Bearcats’ fourth turnover of the half.

“This might be the biggest win in school history,” said Sunseri, who has started all three years the school has been in existence. “Maybe the play-off win last year, but this puts us in a tie for first and gives us a chance to win the conference. Our line, our corners and the linebackers all had great games for us.”

Marvin Ridge is now 8-1 overall and 2-1 in the SCC, while Anson fell to 6-3 over-all and 2-1 in league play.

Ogar’s 32 carries were the most of any county player this season, and he finished with 135 yards. Ogar had runs of 30, 28 and 20 yards, along with a 16-yard TD run midway through the first quarter that put his team ahead 7-0.

“The O-line helped me out a lot,” said Ogar, a junior. “It felt good to be able to score a couple times against a team that good.”

Trailing 10-0, Anson got back in the game when Hildreth his Jack-ie Polk over the middle for an 80-yard touchdown pass. Sunseri’s TD run came with 55 seconds left in the half to put the Mavs up 17-6 at the break.

Hildreth got his team back in the game on a 48-yard touchdown run with 7:52 left in the third that made it 17-12.

Anson’s final score — a 1-yard plunge by Maurice Copeland and third-and-goal — followed by a two-point conversion pulled the Bearcats to within 24-20 with 1:38 to play.

The squib quick that ensued was fielded by Sunseri.

“This is a really good win for us,” Ogar said. “This will help us for the playoffs to get more home games.”

Anson held Marvin Ridge standout receiver KJ Brent to one catch for 6 yards.

“They completely took KJ away from us and it gave us some other stuff, so we took the other stuff,” Chadwick said. “We’re not a one-dimensional offense. People joke ‘Well all you do is throw it up to the big guy (Brent).’ We’ve got other guys that can make plays.”

Chadwick smiled upon hear-ing Weddington defeated Porter Ridge, giving both a 2-1 league record.

“We’re right back in it then,” he said.

Marvin Ridge is at Parkwood next week while Anson travels to Porter Ridge.

E-J staff photo by Rick Crider

Marvin Ridge senior lineman Steven Gamble, a first-team all-county selection last season, celebrates the win in the final stages.

E-J staff photo by Ed Cottingham

Union Academy tight end Brenden Faassen covered 19 yards on this pass reception during his team’s 34-7 win over Cuthbertson on Friday.

Friday’s preseason game

Grizzlies 95, Bobcats 92MEMPHIS (95)Gay 4-11 1-2 9, Randolph 7-12 2-2 16, Gasol 4-6 2-2 10,

Conley 0-1 0-0 0, Mayo 2-9 0-0 5, Thabeet 1-4 1-1 3, Williams 3-8 5-6 11, Young 4-9 4-5 13, Carroll 7-13 3-4 18, Hunter 1-7 0-0 2, Gilder 0-2 6-8 6, Haddadi 0-1 2-2 2. Totals 33-83 26-32 95.

CHARLOTTE (92)Wallace 4-8 2-2 10, Diaw 5-10 1-2 14, Chandler 4-6 0-0 8,

Felton 6-13 2-2 15, Augustin 1-11 4-7 6, Mohammed 2-4 0-0 4, Graham 1-6 0-0 3, Radmanovic 3-9 2-2 9, Diop 1-1 0-0 2, Henderson 4-6 2-2 10, Brown 5-9 1-1 11. Totals 36-83 14-18 92.

Memphis 23 29 18 25 — 95Charlotte 23 19 21 29 — 92

3-Point Goals—Memphis 3-15 (Carroll 1-2, Young 1-3, Mayo 1-4, Gilder 0-1, Randolph 0-1, Williams 0-2, Gay 0-2), Charlotte 6-24 (Diaw 3-7, Graham 1-3, Radmanovic 1-4, Felton 1-4, Wallace 0-1, Brown 0-2, Augustin 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Memphis 58 (Carroll, Randolph 8), Charlotte 49 (Wallace 9). Assists—Memphis 18 (Williams, Mayo 5), Charlotte 19 (Augustin 7). Total Fouls—Memphis 19, Charlotte 24. Technicals—Gay. A—19,077 (19,077).

McKINNEY

Refs end lockout with NBA

NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA and its referees union reached agreement on a two-year con-tract, ending a lockout of more than a month and saving the league from using replacements when the season starts.

The officials ratified the deal that was reached earlier this week in a vote Friday night. No details of the vote were provided, nor were terms of the agreement.

“We are pleased to reach this agreement,” NBA commissioner David Stern said in a statement. “The negotiations extended fur-ther than either side had hoped, but when our regular season tips off on Tuesday we’ll have the best referees in the world officiating our games.”

The referees union did not comment.

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004 Legals09 SP 1198NOTICE OF

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UNION COUNTYUnder and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by JOHN LTARLTON JR, A MAR-RIED PERSON and wife, Christi Marie Tarlton to WILLIAM R. ECHOLS, Trustee(s), which was dat-ed August 30, 2002 and re-corded on August 30, 2002 in Book 1904 at Page 874, Union 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, Brock & Scott, PLLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidenc-ing said indebtedness hav-ing directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthousewhere the property is locat-ed, or the usual and cus-tomary location at the county courthouse for con-ducting the sale on Octo-ber 27, 2009 at 12:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the follow-ing described property situ-ated in Union County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot Number 11 of Southern Estates Subdivision, as shown on that plat recorded in Plat Cabinet A, at File Number 120-B, Union County Reg-ister of Deeds, to which ref-erence is hereby made for a more complete descrip-tion. Save and except any re-leases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of re-cord. Said property is commonly known as 4715 Linda Kay Drive, Waxhaw, NC 28173. Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of For-ty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). Acash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichev-er is greater, will be re-quired at the time of the sale. Following the expira-tion of the statutory upset bid period, all the remain-ing amounts are immedi-ately due and owing. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and convey-ance “AS IS WHERE IS.”There are no representa-tions of warranty relating to the title or any physical, en-vironmental, health or safe-ty conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, un-paid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special as-sessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of re-lease, and any other en-cumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the cur-rent owner(s) of the proper-ty is/are John L. Tarlton, Jr. and wife, Christi Marie Tarl-ton. 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 per-son who occupies the prop-erty pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after Octo-ber 1, 2007, may, after re-ceiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agree-ment upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is li-able for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. 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 confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the

004 Legalsloan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validi-ty of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further reme-dy. THIS IS A COMMUNICA-TION FROM A DEBT COL-LECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICA-TION IS TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY INFOR-MATION OBTAINED WILLBE USED FOR THATPURPOSE, EXCEPT IN THE INSTANCE OF BANKRUPTCY PROTEC-TION. IF YOU ARE UN-DER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCYCOURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RE-SULT OF A BANKRUPT-CY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIRE-MENT AND FOR INFOR-MATIONAL 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. Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Jeremy B. Wilkins, NCSB No. 32346 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 09-04830-FC01October 17, 24, 2009

09 SP 1161NOTICE OF

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UNION COUNTYUnder and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by PHILLIP J GRIFFIN AND, KAREN W GRIFFIN to MORRIS AND SCHNEIDER, Trustee(s), which was dated August 23, 2007 and recorded on August 30, 2007 in Book 04672 at Page 0243, Union 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, Brock & Scott, PLLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidenc-ing said indebtedness hav-ing directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthousewhere the property is locat-ed, or the usual and cus-tomary location at the county courthouse for con-ducting the sale on Octo-ber 27, 2009 at 12:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the follow-ing described property situ-ated in Union County, North Carolina, to wit: BEGINNING at a point in the middle of State Road No. 2131, said point being the corner of the 1.01 acres this day deeded to William Edward Broome, said point being indicated by a stake on the North bank of said road in the line of this call, and runs thence with the line of the 19.01 acre tract South 27.34.45 West 1600.90 feet to an iron stake; thence a new line North 82.24 West 464 feet to an iron stake in Loyd F. Ay-cock estate land; thence with three lines of Aycock estate lands as follows: 1st., North 7.36 East 1140.50 feet to an iron stake; 2nd., South 82.32 East 274.54 feet to an iron stake; 3rd., North 43.26 East 429.76 feet to a point in the center of State Road No. 2131 as indicated by an iron stake in this line on South bank of said road; thence with center of said road, South 84.10.20 East 485.09 feet to the point of BEGINNING and contain-ing 22 acres and being Tract No. 2 as surveyed by James S. Brower, R.L.S. Address: 1428 Troy Medlin Road, Monroe, NC 28112 Tax Parcel No.: 04-090-022B Deed Reference: Book 4364, Page 519 Save and except any re-leases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of re-cord.

004 LegalsSaid property is commonly known as 1428 Troy Med-lin Road, Monroe, NC 28112. Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of For-ty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). Acash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichev-er is greater, will be re-quired at the time of the sale. Following the expira-tion of the statutory upset bid period, all the remain-ing amounts are immedi-ately due and owing. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and convey-ance “AS IS WHERE IS.”There are no representa-tions of warranty relating to the title or any physical, en-vironmental, health or safe-ty conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, un-paid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special as-sessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of re-lease, and any other en-cumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the cur-rent owner(s) of the proper-ty is/are Karen W. Griffin and husband, Phillip J. Griffin. 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 per-son who occupies the prop-erty pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after Octo-ber 1, 2007, may, after re-ceiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agree-ment upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is li-able for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. 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 confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validi-ty of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further reme-dy. THIS IS A COMMUNICA-TION FROM A DEBT COL-LECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICA-TION IS TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY INFOR-MATION OBTAINED WILLBE USED FOR THATPURPOSE, EXCEPT IN THE INSTANCE OF BANKRUPTCY PROTEC-TION. IF YOU ARE UN-DER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCYCOURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RE-SULT OF A BANKRUPT-CY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIRE-MENT AND FOR INFOR-MATIONAL 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. Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Jeremy B. Wilkins, NCSB No. 32346 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 09-14680-FC01 October 17, 24, 2009

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UNION COUNTYUnder and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Erich K. Bat-man, A Married Man and

004 Legalswife, Laci Batman to Mi-chelle Vereckey, PLLC, Trustee(s), which was dat-ed December 1, 2008 and recorded on December 1, 2008 in Book 05012 at Page 0032, Union 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, Brock & Scott, PLLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidenc-ing said indebtedness hav-ing directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthousewhere the property is locat-ed, or the usual and cus-tomary location at the county courthouse for con-ducting the sale on Octo-ber 27, 2009 at 12:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the follow-ing described property situ-ated in Union County, North Carolina, to wit: BEGINNING at an iron found on the north line of Shady Lane Street, com-mon corner with the south-east corner of the William G. Smith ( Deed Book 273, page 568, former K.S. Stegall lot), and running thence with the east line of Smith's property, North 2 degrees 14 minutes 05 seconds West 207.15 feet to an iron found, Smith's northeast corner, thence North 83 degrees 11 mi-nutes 05 seconds East 79.97 feet to an iron found, common corner with the northwest corner of the Gary G. Gilbert property (Deed Book 360, page 23, former property of Judge Polk), thence with Gilbert's west line, South 2 degrees 12 minutes 46 seconds East 206.2 feet to an iron found on the north line of Shady Lane Street, Gil-bert's southwest corner; thence South 82 degrees 30 minutes West 79.97 feet to the point of BEGIN-NING, and containing 0.38 acre, more or less, accord-ing to a boundary and physical survey and map dated June 14, 1989 by Walter L. Gordon, NCRLS. Being the same property described in a deed to Flossie H. Davis (widow), recorded in Deed Book 359, page 284, Union County Registry. Save and except any re-leases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of re-cord. Said property is commonly known as 117 Shady Lane, Marshville, NC 28103. Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of For-ty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). Acash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichev-er is greater, will be re-quired at the time of the sale. Following the expira-tion of the statutory upset bid period, all the remain-ing amounts are immedi-ately due and owing. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and convey-ance “AS IS WHERE IS.”There are no representa-tions of warranty relating to the title or any physical, en-vironmental, health or safe-ty conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, un-paid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special as-sessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of re-lease, and any other en-cumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the cur-rent owner(s) of the proper-ty is/are Erich K. Batman and wife, Laci Batman. 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 per-son who occupies the prop-erty pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after Octo-ber 1, 2007, may, after re-ceiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agree-

004 Legalsment upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is li-able for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. 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 confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validi-ty of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further reme-dy. THIS IS A COMMUNICA-TION FROM A DEBT COL-LECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICA-TION IS TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY INFOR-MATION OBTAINED WILLBE USED FOR THATPURPOSE, EXCEPT IN THE INSTANCE OF BANKRUPTCY PROTEC-TION. IF YOU ARE UN-DER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCYCOURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RE-SULT OF A BANKRUPT-CY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIRE-MENT AND FOR INFOR-MATIONAL 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. Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Jeremy B. Wilkins, NCSB No. 32346 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 09-09778-FC01 October 17, 24, 2009

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109 REAL ESTATE

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113 Duplexes2br 1ba 900sf $595mo.

3br 1.5ba 1050 sf $695mo. both, great location in

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114 Houses For Rent$200/mo! 4 bed 2 ba! 5% dn, 15 yrs @ 8%!

For Listings 800-749-8106 x H611

2 & 3br homes- Monroe $450 to $650

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2BR, 1BA, heat/air, garage/ workshop. Marshville. $530/Mo. + deposit. (704)624-5105

3br 2ba $750mo. + $750 dep. Monroe area. Refer-ences required. (980)722-3700

4BR 2BA, 1400sf, New Salem/Piedmont dist. Carl Polk Rd. $850mo + dep. (704)385-8218

Midland/Standfield area,3br 2ba extremely nice, $750mo w/out building (704)641-5898

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New Salem/Piedmont 2000sf 2br 1.5ba w/bonus room, split level w/13ac pasture, w/access to horses, barn, out bldgs water/elec gd deer hunt-ing, sm pond creek $1200 unfurnished, $1500 full furnish 704-201-1197

Owner financing 3br 2.5batown home. $149,900.00 owner financing available. 4005 F Christine LaneWaxhaw NC (Alma Vil-lage) Call 704-609-5463

Sun Valley Sch dist. 3br 2.5ba 2 car gar. master down, loft, fenced yard, neighborhood pool, pets OK, 1014 Missouri River Dr. Meriwether Sub. $995mo. (704)821-8141

Unionville area 3bd 1babrick, cent AC, gas heat, 3 acre fishing pond, $750 (704)641-5898

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NEW SALEM/POLK MTN. 2200 HSF, cedar ext. w/ALL NEW paint, roofing,

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WarriorsContinued from Page 1B

Porter Ridge sophomore quarterback Lee McNeill guided the Pirates (6-3, 2-1 SCC) down the field and an-swered less than a minute later when he found senior receiver Rad Crowell for an 8-yard touchdown pass. Mc-Neill was 3-for-4 on the drive with all three passes going to Crowell.

PR junior Brady Eason then recovered a perfectly-ex-ecuted onside kick, giving the Pirates the ball at their own 48-yard line with 1:24 on the clock.

But Porter Ridge failed to move the ball and a fourth-down pass fell incomplete, turning the ball over to Weddington, which ran out the clock.

“We went into our prevent defense and they drove it right down on us and scored,” said Justin Hardin. “(Mc-Neill) played a great game and made some big throws, and he’s going to be a good football player. Then they got the onside kick, but luckily our defense made some plays when we needed them.”

Weddington held a 14-10 ad-vantage at the half, but the lead grew midway through the third quarter when junior linebacker Hunter Moore intercepted a pass that was tipped at the line of scrim-mage and raced 68 yards down the sideline for a touchdown.

“I just saw the ball go up

and I made a play on it,” said Moore. “I ran as fast as I could and took it to the house.”

Porter Ridge then cut the lead to 21-17 on a 9-yard touch-down run by Damarrell Alex-ander, but the Pirates had no answer for Weddington’s run game, which churned out 245 yards on the night.

Gorham and senior quarter-back Anthony Boone did most of the damage on the ground for the Warriors.

Gorham finished with 24 carries for 114 yards and a TD while Boone rushed 14 times for 103 yards and a score. Boone, who also hooked up with senior Cal Bonar for a 17-yard TD pass in the second

quarter, had runs of 40 and 31 yards in the second half.

Weddington at-tempted just two pass-es after halftime.

“They were trying to take away certain parts of our running game, and so we tried to counter in different areas,” said Hardin. “Late in the game, we

really felt like we could run the football against them with our size up front. Their D-line is good, but we just thought with our size, we should be able to move the football. If you can run the football, that’s always a good feeling.”

Alexander finished with 96 yards and a TD on just 11 carries while Crowell ended with a game-high 103 yards on eight catches for the Pirates.

Weddington plays at home against Sun Valley next Fri-day while Porter Ridge hosts Anson County.

MOORE

E-J staff photo by Ed Cottingham

Porter Ridge senior cornerback PJ Freeman managed to hold on to this interception on Friday, giving him a Union County-best six picks for the season.

JacketsContinued from Page 1B

It was the first of Blount’s ca-reer-high six touchdowns.

It didn’t take the Cougars long to give the ball back fumbling on their first play of the drive with Ellison once again making the re-covery at the 25.

This time the Yellow Jack-ets took five plays to score with Blount punching it in from four yards out to go up 14-0.

Forest Hills added their third touchdown of the quarter when Deonta Vinson ran for a 12 yard touchdown with 55.5 seconds left

in the first.Blount scored his third touch-

down of the game just under 15 seconds into the second quarter on a four yard run that was set up by CATA’s third lost fumble with Orlando Ratliff recovering the ball at the CATA 4 yard line.

With the Yellow Jackets up 28-0 the Cougars didn’t quit, driving down the field on a 15 plays before being stopped on fourth down at the Forest Hills 27.

Forest Hills scored again before the half, taking the ball 73 yards in 10 plays — including 2 passes of 17 and 22 — during the drive and then a 15 yard run by Vinson that set up Blount’s fourth touchdown of the half from 11 yards out.

After halftime the Cougars again looked like they were build-ing some momentum to get on the scoreboard, driving from their 25 down to the Jackets 42, but a 15-yard chop block penalty on first down followed by a false start pushed the Cougars back to the 36. Then, after two straight negative runs then a sack, the Cougars punted away on 4th and 36 with the Yellow Jackets getting the ball at their 35 yard line after a personal foul on them.

Blount ran the ball on every play of the drive and CATA was able to stop him behind the line of scrimmage on two straight plays but a facemask helped the first one then a personal foul was

called on CATA after the second stop to add another 15 yards on to the drive.

Out of 65 yards, Blount ran six times for 35 yards and scored his fifth touchdown of the game on a 19 yard dash to the end zone to put Forest Hills up 42-0 with 1:07 left in the third quarter.

Blount finished off his night after his team got the ball back again with Ellison recovering his third fumble of the game at the Cougars 32.

Blount used a run of 20 then scored from 12 yards out — drag-ging much of the CATA defense with him the final five yards.

CATA gave one last gasp to get on the scoreboard, driving down

to the Forest Hills nine yard line where they were stopped on fourth and three.

“We knew they didn’t match up with our speed,” said Jackets coach John Lowery, “I’m happy with the win and I’m happy for the kids. We got to play a lot of kids tonight but we made some mistakes so we still have a lot of work to do.”

Forest Hills faces Cuthbertson next before its Nov. 6 showdown with Monroe that will decide the Rocky River Conference cham-pion, if Monroe gets past Berry Academy next week.

Along with his three fumble recoveries, Ellison, a junior end, had three tackles for loss.

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