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Vol. 79, No. 301

Serving Lee, Chatham, Harnett and Moore counties in the heart of North Carolina

Sanford: Pauline Bridges, 90; Mary Love, 82; Betty MorrisonCameron: Jeanette PoynterRaleigh: Michael Priebe, 59

INDEX

OBITUARIES

HAPPENING TODAYn The Lee County Library will host a Twilight Fantasy Ball. The Teen Advisory Board has organized and is sponsor-ing this dance, which will be held at Lee County Library from 7 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $2 for an individual and $3 for a couple.

CALENDAR, PAGE 2A

SCOTT MOONEYHAMThe powers-that-be in the state haven’t learned their lessons on eminent domain

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High: 55Low: 43

More Weather, 2A

STATEFORT HOOD COP LIKELY WON’T SEE ACTION AGAIN

Sgt. Kimberly Munley said doctors have told her she needs a total knee replace-ment, and her new knee is likely to wear out sooner if she returns to active duty

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HEALTH CAREMEDICARE CUTS TO STAY IN SENATE BILL

The Senate rejected a Repub-lican bid Thursday to stave off Medicare cuts and approved safeguards for mammograms

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REVIEW: The Herald’s Neil Morris takes a look at ‘Everybody’s Fine’ • Page 11A

SPORTS

RIVALRY WIN NOT PRETTY, BUT CAVS WILL TAKE IT

The Southern Lee Cava-liers beat county rival Lee County 48-38 on the hardwood Wednesday night to sweep their county rivals for the fourth straight year

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SANFORD CHRISTMAS TREE CEREMONY

Santa, lights and wonder

ASHLEY GARNER/The Sanford Herald

Ellyse Weiler, 18 months, checks out the lights and ornaments after the tree was lit at the Depot Park Christmas Tree Lighting ceremo-ny on Thursday in downtown Sanford.

Downtown offi cial reports record crowd as citycelebrates Christmas with tree lighting ceremonyBy CAITLIN [email protected]

SANFORD — Children and parents alike “ooh”ed and “ahh”ed as the tall Christmas tree in Depot Park was lit Thursday night.

The largest crowd ever turned out for Downtown San-ford Inc.’s ninth annual Christ-mas Tree Lighting ceremony.

Several fi rst-timers came out for the Christmas kick-off event, which included the tree lighting, viewing of “Polar Express” and photos with Santa. The Temple Teens also sang holiday songs and fami-lies snacked on hot dogs and

LEE COUNTY

Chairmanexpects taxvote to passon Monday

WANT TO GO?The Lee County Board of

Commissioners will meet 6 p.m. Monday in the commission-ers’ meeting room at the Lee County Government Center, 106 Hillcrest Drive.

By GORDON [email protected]

SANFORD — The Lee Coun-ty Board of Commissioners will consider a resolution Monday that, if passed, will bring the lo-cal sales tax to 8 percent.

Voters in November over-whelmingly approved of a referendum allowing the commissioners to consider such an increase. Although the public’s vote was not binding, the referendum’s passage was widely seen as an approval of the proposed increase.

If the board passes the increase Monday, revenue gen-erated by the increase — esti-mated by county offi cials to be more than $1 million annually — will fund renovations at Lee County High School and other education-related projects. The commissioners in October voted to move forward with funding the renovations regard-less of whether the sales tax increase passed.

Richard Hayes, the board of

Santa Claus is surrounded by children as he helps count down the lighting of the Christmas tree at Depot Park in downtown Sanford Thursday.See Lighting, Page 6A

TEMPLE REVIEW

A welcome tradition is born

By BILLY [email protected]

In introducing “A Christ-mas Carol” to Thursday’s matinee audience at Tem-

ple Theatre, Artistic Director Peggy Taphorn said the show was the beginning of a Christ-mas tradition in Sanford.

This should please the ghost of Christmases future.

The Charles Dickens classic comes to Sanford in musical form and features a cast of 38 ranging in age from Tiny Tim

Submitted photo

Ebenezer Scrooge (left, played by Randy Rime) stands next to his future grave as the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (Jillian Brocki) dances in Temple Theatre’s “A Christmas Carol.”

Temple’s ‘ChristmasCarol’ enough toget even a Scrooge in the holiday spirit

See Carol, Page 6A

Sales tax hike OK’dby voters on Nov. 3 still needs board’sfi nal approval

See Tax, Page 7A

SOUTHERN LEE

ROTC studentscollect 35 bagsof clothes forSalvation ArmyBy CAITLIN [email protected]

SANFORD — Junior ROTC students at Southern Lee High School searched their closets and collected about 35 bags of cloth-ing to donate to the Salva-tion Army recently.

First Sgt. David Jen-kins said he had the idea for the col-lection when noticing how many articles of clothing he owned that he didn’t wear.

“I thought, ‘Why in the world do I have so many clothes?’” Jenkins said. “There’s stuff in my

See ROTC, Page 7A

InsideSee how you

can donate to a local charity this holiday season

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LOCAL: Best wishes are extended to everyone celebrating a birthday today, espe-cially Sherry Edwards, Ely-Jah Smith, Cole Isaiah Brantley, Jody Marks, Allan Strickland, Nell Honeycutt, Johnny Breedlove, Phyllis Leake, Edward McLean and Reese Johnson.

CELEBRITIES: Game show host Wink Martindale is 76. Actor-producer Max Baer Jr. is 72. Actress Patricia Wettig is 58. Ac-tress Marisa Tomei is 45. Actress Chelsea Noble is 45. Actor-comedian Fred Armisen is 43. Rapper Jay-Z is 40. Actor Kevin Sussman is 39. Actress-model Tyra Banks is 36. Country singer Lila McCann is 28. Actress Lindsay Felton is 25. Actor Orlando Brown is 22.

Birthdays

AlmanacToday is Friday, Dec. 4, the 338th day of

2009. There are 27 days left in the year.

This day in history:On Dec. 4, 1619, settlers from Bristol,

England, arrived at Berkeley Hundred in present-day Charles City County, Va., where they held a service thanking God for their safe arrival.In 1942, U.S. bombers struck the Italian

mainland for the fi rst time in World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the dismantling of the Works Progress Adminis-tration, which had been created to provide jobs during the Depression.In 1965, the United States launched Gem-

ini 7 with Air Force Lt. Col. Frank Borman and Navy Cmdr. James A. Lovell aboard.In 1978, San Francisco got its fi rst

female mayor as City Supervisor Dianne Feinstein was named to replace the assas-sinated George Moscone.In 1984, a fi ve-day hijack drama began as

four armed men seized a Kuwaiti airliner en route to Pakistan and forced it to land in Tehran, where the hijackers killed Ameri-can passenger Charles Hegna.

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Rundown of local meetings in the area:

MONDAY■ The Lee County Board of Commission-

ers will meet at 6 p.m. at the Lee County Government Center in Sanford.

■ The Chatham County Board of Commis-sioners will hold a work session at 9 a.m. at the Henry H. Dunlap Classroom, 80C East St., Pittsboro.

■ The Moore County Board of Commis-sioners will meet at 4 p.m. in Carthage.

■ The Harnett County Board of Education will meet at 9 a.m. at the Lillington Educa-tion Building.

■ The Siler City Town Board will meet at 7 p.m. in the courtroom at City Hall, 311 N. Second Ave., Siler City.

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Herald: Ashley GarnerRead more about some of

the photos that appear in The Herald at Ashley’s blog.

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BlogsNoelle Marsh

Click “Noelle Watch” at our site and read about the local dancer’s journey on ‘SYTYCD’

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Editor’s Note: Throughout December, The Herald will publish information on how you can give to those in need during this holiday season. The list will be featured each day and will add new organizations as they are received.

To send your information on how people can donate to your nonprofi t organization, e-mail Editor Billy Liggett at [email protected]

BREAD OF LIFE The Bread of Life Ministry — a nonprofi t

that provides Christian counseling, a food pantry, clothing, drug/alcohol abuse refer-rals, Saturday hot meals and other services — is collecting fi nancial contributions for the mission, as well as blankets, coats, and toys between now and Dec. 18 so it can provide for these needy families. Anyone interested in contributing can contact Bill Hicks at (919) 427-8889, or Jim Womack at (919) 770-4783. Drop-offs can be made directly to the mission, located in the old McIver School Gym.

CARA“Santa Paws,” an event sponsored by

Carolina Animal Rescue and Adoption, will be held Dec. 5 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Depot Park in downtown Sanford. Bring your children and your pets to get their pictures taken with Santa Claus. Photos cost $5, and all money raised will benefi t CARA, which shelters animals and fi nds them new homes. Bring your donations to fi ll local food and supply closets as well.

CYFC CHRISTMASFOOD BASKET PROGRAM

Christian Youth Fellowship Council and local Piggly Wiggly stores are working to help serve a Christmas meal to 500 local fami-lies. Collection boxes for food items can be found at Piggly Wiggly stores in Sanford and Broadway. Those who want to help with food collection can stop in at Piggly Wiggly and purchase a pre-packed bag of food and drop it in the barrel and can send their donations to us at CYFC Inc. 219 Chatham Street, Sanford, NC 27330; donations are tax-de-ductible. CYFC is hosting a meal and event from 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. on Christmas Day. For more information, contact Tony Bradley at (919) 353-2779.

N.C. TOY CHEST MINISTRYGreg and Tamara Lamb and New Life

Praise Church are hosting a special event for local children and families in need on Dec. 12. In preparation, they’re seeking to raise $20,000 to provide toys and a meal for 700 local children. Donations are to be made out to and sent to New Life Praise Church, 2398 Wicker St., Sanford, NC 27330. In the memo line, write “N.C. Toy Chest Ministry.” For more information, contact Greg and Ta-mara Lamb at (919) 777-9222, or by e-mail at [email protected].

OUTREACH MISSIONThe Outreach Mission — a nonprofi t that

provides Lee County’s only facilities to house homeless men and women — is at peak capacity presently and both boarding houses

are in serious need of repairs. The men’s facility is located at 705 Chatham St. and the women’s facility is at 507 South Third St. Both facilities need fi nancial support as well as bed linens, towels, cleaning supplies, and toiletry items. Contact for this mission is Pastor Donald Kivett, (919) 775-1311.

SALVATION ARMY ‘JOY’ PROGRAMThe Salvation Army is looking for spon-

sors for some 700 “angels” who need to be adopted for Christmas. These angels are children ages 12 and under whose parents may not otherwise be able to provide cloth-ing and other gifts for Christmas. When you adopt one of these children in the JOY program, you’ll have the opportunity to shop for them for the holidays — clothing items and sizes and a few “wish list” gifts are provided to you. The Salvation Army recom-mends spending $75-$100 per child. For more information, contact Major Sue Jervis at (919) 718-1717.

MAURICESmaurices in Sanford, a fashion retailer

for young women, has become a new national partner with Toys for Tots and will collect toys for disadvantaged children at its Riverbirch Shopping Center location. All new, unwrapped toys collected through Dec. 10 at maurices, 1033 Spring Lane, will be distributed to local families by Toys for Tots. As a special thank you, maurices will give those who make a donation a coupon for 20 percent off a regular-priced item.

LOCAL HOLIDAY CHARITY LIST

FRIDAY■ The Lee County Library will host a Twilight

Fantasy Ball. The Teen Advisory Board has organized and is sponsoring this dance, which will be held at Lee County Library from 7 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $2 for an individual and $3 for a couple. They may be purchased at the library. A few tickets will be available at the door. For more information, call (919) 718-4665 Ext. 5483.

■ The annual Lighting of the Luminaries will be held at the Fearrington Village enter from 6 to 8 p.m. For more information, e-mail [email protected]. The event is free and open to the public.

■ Temple Theatre will present the holiday classic, “A Christmas Carol,” at 8 p.m. The show runs through Dec. 20. For details or to order tickets, call (919) 774-4155 or visit templeshows.com.

■ Chef Hamm at Café 121 will host “First Fridays” each month to benefi t the United Way of Lee County. Half of that evening’s sales will be donated to the United Way’s 2009-2010 campaign. For reservations, call 774-1888. To see a menu, visit chefhamm.com.

■ Deep River/Northview Optimist Turkey Shoot will be held at 6:30 p.m. at Deep River/Northview Optimist Park on Hawkins Avenue.

■ The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 1 to 5:30 p.m. at Jonesboro Presby-terian Church, 2200 Woodland Ave., Sanford. To schedule an appointment, call Julia Dossen-

bach at 499-8963.

SATURDAY■ Sharpe Store Music hosts its fi rst

pancake breakfast at the Goldston Volunteer Fire Department from 6:30 to 10:30. For $5, breakfast comes with all-you-can-eat pancakes and your choice of bacon or sausage, coffee, milk, water or orange juice with a large side order of Bluegrass music. The music will begin at 8 a.m. and continue throughout the morning.

■ The Lee County Community Orchestra’s Christmas concert, “Holiday In Russia”, under the direction of Tara Villa-Chamra, will be performed at 4 and 8 p.m. at Lee County High School’s McLeod Auditorium featuring the mu-sic of Russian composers Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov, Balakirev and Tchaikovsky. Members of the Sanford School of Classical Ballet will also join the orchestra in performing excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker Suite”. Admission is free.

■ The Goldston Annual Christmas Parade will be held at 11 a.m.

■ The Huntin’ Hole will hold a Concealed

Carry Course from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for $50 per student. To sign up, call (919) 776-0940.

■ Raymond Bradley and the Ramblin’ Fever Band will perform a Classic Country and Oldies Music Show at the Kendale Entertain-ment Center in Sanford. Doors open at 6 p.m. and show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $8 per person or two for $15. For more information, call (919) 708-7821.

■ Temple Theatre will present the holiday classic, “A Christmas Carol,” at 8 p.m. For details or to order tickets, call (919) 774-4155 or visit templeshows.com.

■ Deep River/Northview Optimist Turkey Shoot will be held at 6:30 p.m. at Deep River/Northview Optimist Park on Hawkins Avenue.

■ The Sanford Moose Lodge #386 annual Christmas Dance will be held at 7 p.m. in the downstairs lounge. Dance is for members and qualifi ed guests only. For more information, call 776-3710.

■ “Santa Paws,” an event sponsored by Carolina Animal Rescue and Adoption, will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Depot Park in downtown Sanford. Bring your children and your pets to get their pictures taken with Santa Claus. Photos cost $5, and all money raised will benefi t CARA, which shelters animals and fi nds them new homes. Bring your donations to fi ll local food and supply closets as well.

■ New Hope Valley Railway will host one of its four “Holiday Santa Trains” at the station, located on New Hill and Bonsal Road in New

Hill. Visit www.nhvry.org for departure times. Guests are asked to arrive 35 minutes before their listed departure. Tickets are $9 for aduts and $6 for children ages 2-12.

■ The Hearts and Hands ECA Quilt Guild will hold its regular sew day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the McSwain Agricultural Center, 2420 Tramway Road, Sanford.

■ A benefi t dinner for Judy Sowder will be held 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Sanford Ex-change Club. Barbecue and barbecue chicken plates will be sold for $7.

■ Central Fire Department, 512 Hawkins Ave., will check car seats between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Appointments are required. Contact Krista at (919) 775-8310 by 5 p.m. Wednesday to schedule an appointment for the following Saturday.

SUNDAY■ Broadway will host Christmas in the Park

at 5 p.m. in the North Carolina Veterans Memorial Park on Main Street. The program will include Christmas carols, a reading of the Christmas story and the Christmas tree lighting.

■ Santa Claus will visit the Stevens Center, located at 1576 Kelly Drive in Sanford, from 2 to 5 p.m. He’ll be there for children ages 2 to 10. A $3 ticket includes refreshments, games, a gift and photo with Santa. To pre-register, call (919) 776-4048.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

If you have a calendar item you would like to add or if you have a feature story idea, contact The Herald by e-mail at [email protected] or by phone at (919) 718-1225.

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CHATHAM COUNTY

Northwood headed to jazz festival

PITTSBORO — The Northwood High School Jazz Ensemble is competing in an internationally recog-nized jazz festival at Disney World in Orlando at the end of February.

The festival will be judged by jazz giants from across the globe, and Northwood student musicians will get to participate in jam sessions and clinics with these musi-cians as well as receiving ratings, comments and scores. To prepare for this contest, the Jazz Ensemble will put on a concert for the community at 7 p.m. Feb. 9.

“We have the opportu-nity to bring the Touring Glenn Miller Orchestra as a performer, guest artist and clinician,” said Eugene Cot-trell, band director.

“This opportunity may be a once-in-a-lifetime chance for the members of the Pittsboro community to enjoy this exceptional en-semble,” he said. “The cost to bring in the orchestra is $3,500. The $5 ticket price for concert will probably only cover about $500 of that cost. I am asking for help from the community to bring the GMO here for the enrichment of Pittsboro and our music students at Northwood High School.”

The down payment of $1,750 would need to be remitted to the orchestra by Dec. 10. Donations should be written to North-wood High School Band. Any amount collected as overage to the orchestra performance will be used to help offset costs for needy students attending the trip to Florida.

— Durham Herald-Sun

BROADWAY

‘Christmas in the Park’ set for Sunday

BROADWAY — The town of Broadway will host Christ-mas in the Park at 5 p.m. Sunday.

The event will be held in the North Carolina Veterans Memorial Park on Main Street. It includes Christ-mas carols, a reading of the Christmas story and a Christmas tree lighting.

The event is free.— from staff reports

LEE COUNTY

Students get lessonin fi nancial planning

SANFORD — Donna McDuffi e and Karyn Kidd, fi nancial services offi cers at the Sanford branch of the State Employees Credit Union, spoke to Lee County High School students Wednesday about fi nancial planning.

“Part of one of my new initiatives is monthly workshops,” said Alison Poole, career development coordinator, who organizes the workshops. “We bring in businesses and members of the community to speak to the kids.”

Students interested can sign up for the “real life” workshops. Those that at-tend are usually juniors and seniors, she said, and enjoy a change of pace from their day-to-day schedules.

Senior Skarleth Aguilar, 17, of Sanford said she wanted “to understand more about fi nances and have more knowledge” on the topic.

Kidd and McDuffi e talked about setting fi nancial goals, saving early and managing credit.

— by Caitlin Mullen

CHATHAM COUNTY

Solve a mysteryin Pittsboro

PITTSBORO — “Club Mys-tere” is billed as “a short campy fi lm noir murder mystery spoof” by Central Carolina Community College acting students, and the Murder Mystery Dinner The-atre for charity will be pre-sented at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 15 at the Pittsboro Kiwanis Building, 309 Credle St.

The “murder victim” in this production is Pittsboro Mayor Randy Voller. The audience guesses who-dun-nit. Special musical guests for the evening will be The Swang Brothers.

Tickets are $14, and proceeds will benefi t CORA (Chatham Outreach Alliance) to help feed the hungry.

Advanced tickets only can be purchased. They are available at CCCC’s Pitts-boro main offi ce. For more information contact Ellen Bland at [email protected].

CHATHAM COUNTY

Group will offer legal assistance

PITTSBORO — Legal Aid of North Carolina will be of-fering specifi c types of legal assistance for qualifi ed low-income residents at the two Chatham County Senior Centers. The types of cases accepted are: wills, powers of attorney, housing evic-tions, foreclosures, domes-tic violence, unemployment and benefi ts.

Appointments are pre-ferred but walk-ins will be accepted. The service will be offered at the Western Chatham Senior Center in Siler City from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday and at the Eastern Chatham Senior Center in Pittsboro from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday.

To schedule an appointment or for more information call (800) 672-5834.

Legal Aid of North Carolina is “a statewide nonprofi t law fi rm that provides free legal services in civil mat-ters to low-income people to ensure equal access to justice and to remove legal barriers to economic op-portunity.”

“This is an important opportunity for qualifi ed Chatham County residents to receive legal advice. These two sessions are being presented at a critical time for many people in our community, and I encour-age people to spread the word throughout Chatham County,” Angel Dennison, executive director of the Council on Aging, said in a news release.

Call (800) 672-5834 for information on eligibility.

— from staff reports

CHATHAM COUNTY

Student Farm seeks straw

PITTSBORO — The Student Farm at Central Carolina Community Col-lege is seeking straw bale donations for the Pittsboro campus.

The Student Farm uses straw bales in the winter to create a mini-shelter for its chickens in their paddock and around plants being grown under covers.

Anyone who has straw bales to donate may drop off bales at the campus just outside the big gate to the Student Farm (fenced area on the left as you drive into the main parking area) or the college can pick up bales in a limited area around Pittsboro.

Call Karen at (352) 284-2583 (cell phone) and leave a message with your loca-tion and phone number.


AROUND OUR AREA JOBREADY COUNCIL

By CAITLIN [email protected]

SANFORD — The fi rst JobReady gala will be held from 6-10 p.m. on Dec. 11 at the Carolina Trace County Club.

“It’s a fundraiser to help support career and technical education in all of K-12,” he said.

Bella Bistro, Cafe 121 and Sandra’s Bakery will all donate food to the event, along with food provided by the country club.

“It’s a great way for the community to have fun, but we really want to start building a name for JobReady,” she said.

The country club and Pfi zer are the main spon-sors of the event, which Poole said goes well with the career and technical education theme.

“They go perfectly with the CTE classes that we offer,” she said. The country club represents hospitality

and food clusters of classes the school offers and Pfi zer covers the manufacturing side of things, she said.

Several CTE teachers will attend the event as well.

“Our teachers can get to know our business com-munity,” she said. “Teach-ers don’t usually get a chance to do that.”

JobReady aims to assist all levels of education that involve career develop-ment. The money raised will be available for any teacher that wants to write a proposal for a grant that will fund career develop-ment activities.

WANT TO GO?The fi rst JobReady

gala will be held from 6-10 p.m. next Friday at the Carolina Trace County Club. Tickets are $100 per person and can be purchased by calling Alison Poole at 776-7541, ext. 4221.

Nonprofi t’s fi rst gala set for Dec. 11

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Nearly every afternoon, come rain, snow, summer heat or win-ter cold, you can see them. Doz-ens of teen and pre-teen girls walking in and out of the several dance studios in and around downtown Sanford. Armed with a love of dance and, perhaps, a dream of a spot on a cheerlead-ing squad at a local high school, a position on a college dance team or even of bigger stardom, these young girls work tirelessly at their craft.

Sanford native Noelle Marsh has already lived part of her dream — proving her chops as a contemporary dancer on the highly rated TV show “So You Think You Can Dance,” by

making the show’s top 8 per-formers before failing to receive enough votes to move on during Wednesday night’s show.

We at The Herald are very proud of Marsh, as we know her family, friends and teachers are right now. Even though she was eliminated from the show de-spite turning in what one judge deemed a “perfect” performance Tuesday night, she handled the whole experience with a grace far beyond her 18 years.

Noelle, you’re a star to us, and we are sure Wednesday night isn’t the last time America will see your talents on display.

In fact her affiliation with the show is not over. Despite

her elimination from the show, Marsh will continue to dance with the Top 10 during a national tour after this season’s finale. Af-ter that, we’re sure there will be casting directors calling for her services. A beautiful young lady with skills like hers will not go unnoticed, especially after mak-ing such a splash on the show.

That being said, the City of Sanford owes it to Marsh to pay tribute to her acheivements as well. For more than a month, Sanford was mentioned (in a positive light, no less) to a na-tional audience and she repre-sented us with class and dignity.

It’s time to give back to her, perhaps with “Noelle Marsh Day”

in Sanford. Have the mayor pres-ent her with the key to the city at Depot Park in front of her home-town crowd one evening...Throw her a parade...Do something...

Heck, maybe we could even get her to show off a dance or two in the process.

Not only does Sanford owe Marsh, it also owes the other young girls dancing for a dream in this town every evening. They should know that their goals are just as important as the boys who dream of baseball stardom on our little league fields each summer.

With a little hard work, maybe they, too, can one day be the toast of the town.

Noelle Marsh deserves a key to the cityIssue:

Sanford native No-elle Marsh’s exit from “SYTYCD” Wednesday night

Our stance: Marsh is a star to

us. Performing on the show with grace and dignity, she made us all proud, and the city should reward in some way

Editorial Board: Bill Horner III, Publisher • Billy Liggett, Editor • R.V. Hight, Special Projects Editor

Health care is not yetbroken, it is being broken

To the Editor:Even after all of the ridicu-

lous expenditures in the newest Health Care Bill H.R. 3962 have been revealed, there are still some saying this bill would be beneficial to our country. It is quite funny, however, that those who suport this bill have prob-ably never taken a look at its content or have briefly glanced over the 2,100 page atrocity.

There are several examples we can observe that leads us to the conclusion that this bil is nothing more than political garbage. The Government-run system has been implemented in Masachussetts by Republican governor Mitt Romney and in Canada.

The result of both both plans was such a huge and miser-able failure that the media will not even mention it. This bill is also filled with sweet deals (or in my definition, “bribes”) for politicians who vote for it and regulations on things we are used to that this plan even being considered to be voted on is an embarrassment.

Let’s not forget that after “RomneyCare” was implement-ed in Massachusetts, it took only three years for the state to start rationing health care services due to budget shortfalls.

The bill states in Section 2572, page 1,515 “In the case of an article of food sold from a vending machine that- (I) does not permit a prospec-tive purchase to examine the Nutritional Facts Panel before purchasing the artcile or does not otherwise provide visible information at the point of purchase; and (II) is operated by a person who is engaged in the business of owning or operating 20 or more vending machines, “The vending ma-chine operator shall provide a sign in close proximity to each article of food or the selection button that includes a clear and conspicuous statement disclos-ing the number of calories contained in the article.”

Oh, and let’s not forget that this bill has been estimated by the National Automatic Mer-chandising Association to cost $56.4 Million to regulate, for the first year, all vending machines.

Wow, sounds great! Demo-crats have even also said that this bill is going to operate sim-larly to medicare and, according to the National HealthCare Ex-change Service, only 475, 566 of the 6,398,431 claims submitted have been denied meaning that 6.85 percent of the total submit-ted claims received have been denied making medicare the biggest denier of claims in our health care payment system.

Oh, and did I mention that that is only for a one year period (March 2007-March 2008)? I hope that until REAL biparti-sanship is reached in Congress on this bill (I made a joke) that every Congressman will vote against it.

Our system is being broken, but it is not broken. We will fix what we have and what we have is the greatest healthcare system in the world no matter what any liberal says.

COlby D. CarrMorganton

4A / Friday, December 4, 2009 / The Sanford Herald Opinion

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Climate-change skeptics are bark-ing up the wrong smokestack. The shell game being played isn’t with

the science, it’s with the solutions — spe-cifically, the carbon emissions targets that enlightened world leaders are pledging to meet. That’s where the numbers don’t add up.

When the Copenhagen climate summit convenes next week, the European nations that have led the crusade against global warming will be able to report that the conti-nent has met the targets for carbon emission reductions set in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. There may be shoulder dislocations from all the self-congratulatory back-patting.

But the Kyoto targets were well on the way toward being met before they were even established. The targets are based on 1990 emissions levels — after the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc had been fouling the air for years with their antiquated, carbon-spewing heavy industries. When the commu-nist regimes — and their creaky economies — collapsed in a heap, emissions from the former Soviet-dominated zone fell by nearly 40 percent. Now they are rising again, but they remain about 35 percent below Kyoto’s benchmark 1990 levels.

This post-Soviet industrial meltdown is responsible for most of the progress in re-ducing carbon emissions that Europe is able to claim. It’s not that Europeans have done nothing. Leaving aside the Soviet collapse, they managed to keep emissions relatively constant. By contrast, Japan — the proud host of the Kyoto talks — has seen its carbon emissions increase by nearly 9 percent since then.

The United States, of course, never ratified the Kyoto treaty. Since 1997, carbon emissions here have increased by an esti-mated 7 percent. In China — which has now taken over as the world’s leading source of atmospheric greenhouse gases — carbon emissions actually doubled over the past 12 years. Along with other fast-growing economic powers such as India and Brazil, China took a pass on any limits Kyoto might have wanted to impose.

The bottom line is that since the Kyoto agreement 12 years ago, worldwide carbon emissions have increased by nearly 30 per-cent.

President Obama, who has decided to attend the Copenhagen summit, plans to offer a 17 percent cut in U.S carbon emis-sions — using 2005 levels as a benchmark — by 2020. Leaving aside for the moment whether this is achievable, either politically or technologically, the problem remains that climate change is a global phenomenon. Lo-cal action can be rendered meaningless.

China is prepared to offer its first emis-sions target at Copenhagen, and at first glance it looks impressive: a reduction of be-tween 40 percent and 45 percent in its “car-bon intensity” by 2020. But this “intensity” business is a huge caveat, because it refers to

carbon emissions relative to the size of the Chinese economy. If the economy grew by 10 percent in a given year and carbon emissions grew “only” by 9 percent, that would count as a reduction. Assuming growth continues at current rates, China’s carbon emissions could easily increase by 40 percent by 2020 — and Chinese leaders could proclaim they had met their target.

That’s a lot of numbers, a lot of assump-tions, a lot of scenarios. But even if the Copenhagen summit is wildly successful, the concentration of heat-trapping carbon in the atmosphere will continue to rise. This doesn’t mean the whole exercise is futile, it just means that Copenhagen won’t provide any definitive solution to what so many sci-entists say is an urgent problem.

It’s also true that even if all greenhouse emissions could magically be halted tomor-row, the elevated levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — higher than at any time in the past 800,000 years, according to researchers who study Antarctic ice-core samples — would take many decades to decline to historical levels.

If the planet is warm now because of hu-man-generated greenhouse gases, it’s going to get warmer. If the low-lying Maldives dis-appear beneath the Indian Ocean because of sea-level rise, that will be a disaster. If “extreme” weather events such as major hur-ricanes really do become more frequent, that will increase the potential for catastrophe in coastal cities around the world.

But if there’s a longer growing season in the higher latitudes? If cross-polar shipping slashes transportation costs? If winters are milder — more pleasant, even — in Chicago, Moscow and Beijing? We may all be in this together, but there are going to be winners and losers. That’s something they should talk about in Copenhagen, too.

Copenhagen conundrum

Eminentdomain

In New London, Conn., finding a public benefit to one of the more controversial governmen-

tal acts of recent times might prove a little difficult these days.

A few years back, New London be-came embroiled in a renowned court case because of that action.

The city had used its condemna-tion powers to take the property of Susette Kelo and her neighbors. The property wasn’t condemned to build a school or public hospital. The city wanted the property to redevelop the land so that other private property owners could eventually take it.

The rest is history.Kelo and some neighbors sued.

The case eventually made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld the city’s right to use eminent domain for economic development purposes.

The ruling was widely condemned by most everyone not employed by a local government or not blinded by some definition of progress so narrow that any governmental act in its name can be justified.

The nation’s high court, though, ruled that the property taking and the job creation that would result added up to a public benefit or public use, and therefore didn’t violate the 7th Amendment of the Bill of Rights.

Those jobs and that benefit came from plans by drug-maker Pfizer to build a research facility adjacent to the redeveloped property.

But in early November, Pfizer an-nounced it was shutting down the research plant. All that land forcibly bought still remains fallow.

What do New London and Pfizer have to do with North Carolina?

Well, North Carolina legislators — unlike those in several other states — refused to put an amendment to the state constitution before voters to block this sort of thing from happen-ing here.

The powers-that-be in the state don’t seem willing to open their eyes to the lessons of New London and the Pfizer plant closing.

One University of North Carolina School of Government professor said while writing about the plant closing: “If North Carolina were to enact such an amendment, would it result in any changes to current eminent domain policies? Not really.”

The professor ignores the state’s own history. At least five times over the past 30 years, local laws allowed the exact same kind of taking for economic development purposes that occurred in New London. ...

In each case, local governments came to the legislature seeking per-mission. The local bills that granted that permission were essentially exceptions to existing law.

No comprehensive law governing eminent domain — whether passed in 1960 or in 2006 — could prevent the same thing from happening today.

That is the state’s policy. Only a constitutional amendment

will change it.

Scott MooneyhamToday in North Carolina

Scott Mooneyham is a columnist with Capitol Press Association

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side service for Pauline Margaret Cooke Bridges, 90, who died Monday (11/30/09), was conduct-ed Thursday at Turner’s Chapel Christian Church Cemetery with the Rev. Bruce MacInnes offi ciat-ing.

Bagpiper was Bill Caudill. Soloist was Pam Riddle.

Pallbearers were Tee Bridges, Barry Bridges, Kevin Thompson, Parker Cooker, Billy Schoolcraft, Floyd Fogleman, Leon Morrison, Wayne Spivey and Charlie Spivey.

Arrangements were by Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home, Inc. of Sanford.

Betty MorrisonSANFORD — Betty

Morrison, of the Deep River Community, died Thursday (12/3/09) at Central Carolina Hospi-tal. Arrangements will be announced by Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home, Inc. of Sanford.

Jeanette PoynterCAMERON — Jea-

nette Isabell McPherson Poynter died Thursday (12/3/09) at her resi-dence.

She was born April 12, 1924 in Lee County, daughter of the late Dan-iel Archie McPherson and Margaret Spivey McPher-son.

She is survived by daughters, Droxie Hen-nings and husband Herman and Janet Elizabeth Simpson and husband George, both of Vass; sisters, Lois Seals and Leola Wooten, both of Cameron, and Ruby Seagroves of Hampton, Va.; six grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchil-dren.

The family will receive friends from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home and other times at the family home.

A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Buffalo Cemetery with Pastor Steve Simpson of-fi ciating.

Condolences may be made at www.bridges-cameronfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements are by Bridges Cameron Funeral Home, Inc. of Sanford.

OBITUARIES Mary Browning LoveSANFORD — Mrs. Mary Browning Love, 82, of

Sanford, died Wednesday, December 2, 2009, at Central Carolina Hospital.

She was born on December 1, 1927 in Norfolk, Virginia to the late Walter Browning and Grace McVey Browning. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Sanford Cohen Love Jr. She was a 1949 graduate of Elon College, earning degrees in music and education. She taught school 28 years at Deep River Elemen-tary following several years at St. Claire School in Sanford. She was also organist for Vass United Methodist Church for 25 years.

She is survived by her daughter, Elizabeth “Beth” L. Dowdy and husband Barry of Broadway; one brother, John Walter Browning of Gainesville, Ga.; and one granddaughter, Kristen Bree Dowdy of Broadway.

A visitation will be held at Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home on Friday, December 4, 2009, from 7 to 9 p.m. and the funeral will be Saturday, December 5th, at 11 a.m. at Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Phillip S. Brown presiding. Burial will follow at 2 p.m. in the Alloway Cemetery in Red Springs.

Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, P.O. Box 96011, Washington, D.C. 20090-6011.

Condolences may be made at www.bridges-cameronfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements are by Bridges Cameron Funeral Home, Inc. of Sanford.

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Survivors include his father of Daytona Beach, Fla.; sister, Janis Vaughn and husband Bradley; nieces, Megann and Katherine; and nephew, Kent, all of Raleigh. He was preceded in death by his mother.

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Hardy’s court dates moved to January

CARTHAGE — Court dates for Jeff Hardy, the professional wrestler who Moore County sheriff’s deputies alleg-edly found in possession of prescription pills, anabolic steroids and cocaine during a Sep-tember raid, have been moved to January.

Hardy’s attorney said he will face charges of traffi cking in opium, two counts of posses-sion with intent to sell or deliver a Schedule III controlled substance, maintaining a dwelling for drugs, possession of cocaine, and possession of drug paraphernalia on Jan. 27 in the Moore County Courthouse in Carthage.

Hardy, 32, has worked off and on for the well-known professional wrestling promotion since he was a teenager and with the help of his brother Matt ran a local promotion known as OMEGA in the late 1990s.

As a tag-team wres-tler, Hardy and his brother held the WWE’s tag team championship six times. He was also a three-time holder of the promotion’s heavyweight championship. Sheriff’s deputies executed a search warrant at Hardy’s home in Sep-tember after receiving information developed by the Fayetteville Police Department.

— from staff reports

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Burch, 27, of 618 Mat-thews St. was charged Wednesday with DWI.

■ Felecia Shonte Lam-bert, 27, of 601 Timber-wood Place was charged Wednesday with driving while license revoked.

■ Emelie Dawn Rogers, 29, no address given, was charged Wednesday with violating a condition of her pre-trial release.

■ Kevin Andrew Cordevant, 31, no ad-dress given, was charged Wednesday with second-degree trespassing.

■ Brandy Lachell Brown, 31, no address giv-en, was charged Wednes-day with four counts of worthless check.

■ Tiffany Brynne Terry, 24, of 110 N. 4th St. was charged Wednesday with contributing to the delin-quency of a minor.

■ Athena Demeter Carr, 37, of 108 James River Court was charged Wednesday with simple assault.

■ Allison Marie Willett, 34, of 2341 Vander Odum Road, Bear Creek was charged with DWI.

LEE COUNTY■ Armando Cortez

Martinez, 56, of 604 John Garner Road was charged Sunday with simple as-sault and communicating threats. He was released on $1,000 unsecured bond.

■ Tracy Lachenze McDonald, 40, of 172 Shawn Lane was charged Wednesday with failure to appear. She was placed in

Lee County Jail under $500 secured bond.

■ Antonio Jerrod McLeod, 26, of 653 Gunter Lake Road was charged Wednesday with failure to appear. He was jailed under $500 secured bond.

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■ Eva Maria McCoy of 4107 Red Drive reported Wednesday that someone took tools and CDs from her residence.

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■ Alton Campbell, 57, of 371 Fuller Drive, Lillington was charged Wednesday with possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine and maintaining a dwelling for drugs. He was placed in Harnett County Jail under $10,000 secured bond.

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6A / Friday, December 4, 2009 / The Sanford Herald Local

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executive director for Downtown Sanford, Inc., said he was pleased with the turnout; he estimated 600-700 people attended the tree lighting.

“It’s our biggest crowd ever,” he said. “This is our ninth event, and it’s downtown’s signature Christmas event.”

While waiting for the tree to be lit, anxious chil-dren chased each other across the grass, slipping in the mud and jumping excitedly in anticipation of Santa’s arrival.

J.J. Cuff of Sanford pushed his granddaughter Olive, 4 months, in her stroller as they waited. It was the fi rst time he had attended the event, “mainly because of her,” he said.

“This is her fi rst Christ-mas,” the grandfather said proudly. “She won’t be able to appreciate it, but she’ll see the lights.”

Families with young children turned out in

full force, as the children prepared to tell Santa what they wished for under the tree. Holly Story sat with her dad Mickey Cameron and her daughter Peyton, 1, all of Sanford. They came to the tree lighting for Peyton, Story said.

“It’s all about her,” she said with a smile.

New mayor pro-tem Mike Stone did the tree-lighting honors and the crowd cheered and clapped as the tree glowed.

Sylvia Nabonne, 4, of Sanford looked on in awe as the tree was lit, said mom Michele. When they turned on the tree, Sylvia’s mouth dropped open. Mi-

chele took photos of Sylvia as she stood smiling next to the tree.

“She’s four, so she’s very excited to see Santa,” Michele said.

Dad Joseph said the family plans to attend the event again, after their fi rst experience this year.

“It’s really nice seeing the community get togeth-er like this for Christmas,” he said.

Seeing Santa was the highlight of the night for many children. Daniel Coley, 7, of Sanford said he attended the tree lighting last year.

“I saw Santa and I saw the tree light up,” he said.

This year, he couldn’t wait to tell Santa what he wanted for Christmas.

“A PSP!” he shouted excitedly.

Ruby McElveen, 6, of Sanford even had a letter for Santa.

“She’s so excited to have her picture made with Santa,” said mom Pam.

Children waved to Santa as he pulled up in a fi retruck and they crowded around him as he stepped onto the sidewalk. One little boy ran straight to Santa and hugged him.

“It was wonderful be-ing at the front row when Santa got off the truck,” said Samantha Jeffries of Sanford.

Her son Andrew, 7, said the best part of the night was “watching the Christ-mas tree light up.”

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The Temple Teens sing holiday tunes before the Depot Park Christmas Tree Lighting on Thursday in downtown Sanford.

to Ebenezer Scrooge. It just so happens that in this production, these two characters come away with the most memorable perfor-mances.

You can’t have a good “Christmas Carol” without a solid Scrooge, and Randy Rime brings a curmudgeoness to the role that makes him unlikeable. His speech is crackly, and in the few musical numbers he is involved in, his voice is less than remarkable. But he’s believable, especially his gradual transforma-tion from miser to “born again” with each ghostly visit.

And Makani McKen-zie is adorable as Tiny Tim (yes, a little girl as a little boy), and her solo is touching ... bringing a tender moment to an otherwise joyous and upbeat production.

With a cast this big, it’s tough to point out all of the solid performances, but a few do rise above the rest. Temple veteran Chris Wright is near per-fect as Scrooge’s nephew, Fred, and Michael Brocki is solid yet again as Bob Cratchit.

The ghosts are both frightening (Stephen Moore’s Jacob Marley and the giant prop that serves as the Ghost of Christ-

mas Yet to Come) and funny (Jamey Helsman’s Ghost of Christmas Pres-ent and Thomas Dalton’s Ghost of Christmas Past) when they need to be. I suppose I have a positive bias toward Dalton, see-ing that he’s a graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University, my college back in Texas.

And something should be said of the several children — both teens and pre-teens — in-volved in this production who keep up well with their adult counterparts.

Another star is the set (and costume design) as scene changes from Scrooge’s bedroom to a snow-covered street are performed fl awlessly. Kudos to scenic artist Tom Barker and scenic designer Eileen Green-baum-Mintz.

As you can tell, I’ve failed to give a descrip-tion of the plot, as I feel there are very few who aren’t familiar with this timeless tale. What is interesting (and refresh-ing) is that this produc-tion chooses to keep the religious overtones that were prominent in Dick-ens’ story. In the hands of Disney and other movie studios, “A Christmas Carol” often leaves out any mention of “the rea-son for the season.”

But here, “Jesus” and “Christ” appear often in the songs and carols. I’m sure this won’t “offend” many who take in the show.

Sure, there are a few missteps ... but they’re minor and not worth mentioning in this lim-ited space. What’s impor-tant is that throughout December, you’ll walk out of Temple Theatre humming carols and feeling “Christmassy” after seeing this pro-duction. Hot chocolate stirred with a candy cane will sound like the per-fect follow-up.

In other words, there will be very few “bah humbugs.” And isn’t that the point?

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commissioners’ chairman, has said he expects the increase to win passage.

“It would be very, very good if at this point we had a unanimous vote on the steps to move forward, but I think that might be unrealistic. I think it will continue to be supported at about the level it has been in the past. It could be 5-2 or 6-1,” Hayes told The Herald in November. “But there’s no question in my mind that we will move forward smoothly.”

Lee County Commis-sioner Linda Shook, a Republican who spoke against the passage of the tax increase during the fall election campaign, said she remains unsure how she’ll vote. While she said during that campaign that she would respect the eventual will of the voters, she also signed a “no tax increase” pledge during the 2008 election cycle.

“I do respect the will of the voters, but I’m also waiting to fi nd out how much it cost the taxpayers to put this on the ballot throughout the whole county when it was just a municipal election,” she said.

The new tax would take effect April 1, 2010. The state Department of

Revenue would collect the revenue and disburse it back to the county.

OTHER BUSINESSIn other business on

Monday, the commission-ers will:

n Hold a public hear-ing on a controversial request to rezone a plot of land at Center Church and Henley roads from residential to highway commercial. The heavily residential area is already plagued by traffi c prob-lems — two-lane Center Church Road is home to Tramway Elementary — and area residents have said designating the land for commercial use could exacerbate those prob-lems.

n Hear requests from Martin Marietta and Windstream to be relieved of tax penalties stem-ming from failure to list certain personal property. The board has the power to waive or reduce tax penalties, though it can’t waive or reduce back taxes themselves.

n Hold their annual reorganization ses-sion, at which they will choose which members of the board will serve as chairman and vice chair-man over the next year. Chairman Hayes and Vice Chairman Larry “Doc” Oldham are expected to be reappointed to their respective positions.

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He brought up the plan with the students, reminding them that the holidays are a time to help others.

“I told them, ‘Guys, this is about citizenship. If it’s in good repair, let’s take it in and bring it to the Salvation Army,’” Jenkins said.

Many of the students were amazed at the amount of clothing they weren’t wearing, he said.

JROTC is all about citizenship, so the donation was a perfect example of what JROTC can do, Jenkins said.

“The kids said, ‘That really felt good,’” he said.

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Chatham history to be on display

PITTSBORO — The Chatham Historical Mu-seum will be open today with the current exhibit, “Chatham County’s Birth in the Regulator Move-ment, 1765-1771.”

The display features Chatham-area men who participated in the Regu-lator movement and the locations of their proper-ties, where known, and follows a timeline of events leading up to the founding of Chatham County and the Battle of Alamance.

Visitors may see an original State of North Carolina land grant dated 1782 and William Hooper’s signature as Chatham County Clerk of Court in 1771, which

matches his somewhat later autograph on the Declaration of Indepen-dence.

The museum is located in the his-toric Chatham County Courthouse, fi rst fl oor, west end, and is open on Wednesdays from noon until 3 p.m., except holidays.

Special arrangements may be made for tour groups on other days by request to [email protected]. There is no charge for admission. The museum is a project of the Chatham County Historical Association, Inc.

Bynum General Store in need of a facelift

BYNUM — The By-num General Store has been heavily used for a variety of events and is in need of a facelift. The next Bynum Front Porch workday has been scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 16.

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Sgt. Kimberly Munley said doctors have told her she needs a total knee replacement, a

surgery set for January, but that her new knee is likely to wear out sooner if she runs or carries the 15- to 25-pound gear pack required by her job.

“I do want to stay in law enforcement. I’m not going to be able to do what I did be-fore, which is basically work the street,” she told Wilmington, N.C., television station WECT on Wednesday. “It’s go-

ing to give me another avenue to look in as far as possibly teaching and instructing.”

Fort Hood offi cials said Thursday that Mun-ley, 34, who was shot in the leg and hand, has not started the process to determine if she’s physically able to do her former job.

Munley and Sgt. Mark Todd, another civilian offi cer in Fort Hood’s

police force, are credited with shooting Maj. Nidal Hasan to end the Nov. 5 shooting spree on the Texas Army post, about 150 miles southwest of Fort Worth. Todd, 42, was not injured and is already back at work.

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RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina transportation of-fi cials say a security fence will be added at a highway bridge crossing in Raleigh where a man fell to his death while trying to help people involved in a three-car wreck.

Multiple media outlets reported Thursday the fence will be put along the west-bound bridge of Interstate 440 where 33-year-old Carroll Lee Eames Jr. died Nov. 27 after he leaped over a barrier to avoid oncoming traffi c.

Department of Trans-portation Secretary Gene Conti said in a speech at the Crabtree Rotary Club his agency continues to investigate the accident. The fence is expected to cost up to $50,000 and be installed by Feb. 1.

Eames fell through a gap between the bridges on I-440 over Crabtree Creek.

Oh, deer! Woman OK after encounter on N.C. sidewalk

TARBORO (AP) — A North Carolina business owner is recovering from injuries she suffered when she encoun-tered a herd of deer on a downtown Tarboro sidewalk.

The Daily Southerner of Tar-boro reported that Michelle

Brewer was opening the jewelry store she co-owns with her husband when one deer passed by. Then she says so many deer appeared that she couldn’t move.

Brewer doesn’t remember the deer stepping on her Saturday. But she does re-call being eye-level with thembefore she hit the sidewalk, saying she thinks the deer were as afraid of her as she was of them. Others told her that one deer kicked her several feet in the air before the rest trampled her.

Attorneys going to court over ‘life’ sentences

SHELBY (AP) — Attorneys are set to argue in a North Carolina court why they think a man given a life sentence more than three decades ago should not qualify for good behavior credits that could set him free early.

The case of Wilbur William Folston is scheduled for a hearing Thursday in Shelby. Folston is one of more than two dozen inmates that North Carolina offi cials prepared for release this fall after state courts agreed that their “life” sentences were only 80 years because of a quirky law that was in place in the 1970s.

Gov. Beverly Perdue later blocked the release of the inmates and argued that they should never have re-ceived good behavior credits that cut sentences in half.

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Medicare cuts stay in Senate billWASHINGTON (AP)

— Casting its fi rst votes on revamping the nation’s health care system, the Senate rejected a Repub-lican bid Thursday to stave off Medicare cuts and approved safeguards for coverage of mammo-grams and other preven-tive tests for women.

The fi rst round of votes ended with a fragile Democratic coalition hanging together.

Senators voted 58-42 to reject an amendment by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that would have stripped more than $400 billion in Medicare cuts from the nearly $1 trillion measure. It would have sent the entire 2,074-page bill back to the Senate Finance Committee for a redo.

Republicans said the proposed cuts to health insurance plans and medical providers mean seniors in the popular Medicare Advantage

program will lose ben-efi ts. And they predicted lawmakers will ultimately back away from the cuts, once seniors start feeling the brunt.

“Medicare is already in trouble. The program needs to be fi xed, not raided to create another new government pro-gram,” said Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

Democrats said seniors will not lose any guaran-teed benefi ts. The cuts — amounting to a 2 percent slowdown in spending — will help keep Medicare solvent by making it more effi cient, they contended. And they pointed out that the health care overhaul bill improves preventive care and prescription coverage.

“My colleagues on the Republican side have resorted to the politics of fear to preserve a broken health care system,” said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa.

“What we’re hearing are scare tactics designed to mislead seniors.”

AARP, the seniors’ lobby, threw its weight behind the Democrats.

The votes Thursday came after three days of angry debate in which Democrats accused Republicans of stalling to try to kill the bill, and Re-publicans protested that they were only exercis-ing their right to give the complex legislation full scrutiny.

The fi rst votes were held under a special agreement requiring 60 votes to prevail. That tested the coalition Dem-ocrats are counting on to move President Barack Obama’s signature issue. The margin was close on the women’s health amendment, which aims to safeguard coverage of mammograms and preventive screening test under a revamped system.

The 61-39 vote on a provision by Democrat Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Repub-lican Olympia Snowe of Maine was the fi rst substantive ballot in an acrimonious debate that promises to go on for weeks.

After that will come an amendment to restrict abortion funding, except in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother. Drafted by an abortion opponent — Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska — it looms as a major chal-lenge for the Democrats.

Though Democrats have 60 votes in the Senate, two Democratic senators voted against the Mikulski amendment — Russ Feingold of Wis-consin and Nelson. The measure was saved by three Republicans voting in favor — Snowe, David Vitter of Louisiana and Susan Collins of Maine.

Obama pushes to turn around failing schools

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will spend at least $3.5 billion to push local offi cials around the country to close failing schools and reopen them with new teachers and principals.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan hopes to see the 5,000 worst-performing schools, about 1 percent of all U.S. schools, turned around in fi ve years. The administra-tion is beefi ng up the federal school turnaround program, which was created under the No Child Left Behind law championed by former Presi-dent George W. Bush.

“As a country, we need to get into the turnaround business,” Duncan said in a statement. “Adults need to have the courage to make these tough decisions and do right by our kids.”

The president doesn’t have the power to close and reopen schools himself. That author-ity rests with local school districts and states.

Pelosi: Bailout money to fund jobs initiative

WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Democrat on Capitol Hill said Thursday that Congress will tap unused funds from the Wall Street bailout to pay for new spending on roads and bridges and save the jobs of fi refi ghters, teachers and other public employees.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said money from the bailout should be used to pay for jobs legisla-tion that would funnel billions of dollars to road, bridge and other infrastructure projects and also help struggling state and local governments retain public employees. She also promised help for small busi-nesses reeling from a credit crunch.

After talks with the admin-istration offi cials such as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, congressional Democrats are eying up to $70 billion in funds from last year’s $700 billion Wall Street bailout to fi nance job-related legislation, a House Demo-cratic aide said. The aide re-quired anonymity to describe the private talks.

House votes to extend tax on wealthy estates

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Thursday to in-defi nitely extend a 45 percent inheritance tax on estates larger than $3.5 million, can-celing a one-year repeal of the tax set to begin next month.

A similar effort is afoot in the Senate, but the health care debate there could preclude action on the estate tax before Congress breaks later this month for holidays. There are also disagreements among senators over the tax rate and the size of estates that should be exempt, further clouding the bill’s prospects.

Lawmakers, however, don’t want to delay action until next year because they are wary of enacting retroactive tax changes.

Under the House bill, estates smaller than $3.5 million would continue to be exempt from the tax. Married couples, with a little estate planning, could exempt a total of $7 million. That leaves less than 1 percent of all estates subject to the tax.

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Secret Service puts three on leaveWASHINGTON (AP) — The

head of the Secret Service asserted Thursday that the security breach at last week’s White House state dinner was an aberration but has put three uniformed offi cers on leave. President Barack Obama says his confi dence in the agency remains unshaken.

The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson, said the country is fortunate the affair didn’t end in a “night of horror.”

Meantime in an interview at the White House, Obama said that even though “the system didn’t work the way it was supposed to” last week, he still

feels safe in the mansion and trust the agency fully to protect not only him but his wife and children.

“I could not have more con-fi dence in the Secret Service,” Obama told USA TODAY’s Rich-ard Wolf and Justin Hyde of the Detroit Free Press.

Appearing before Thompson’s panel for questioning, Sullivan acknowledged his offi cers made mistakes and that the Secret Ser-vice must have a “100 percent” performance record.

Thompson, D-Miss., also said that Congress needs to talk not only to Tareq and Michaele Sala-hi, the couple who got in without invitations, but also to White

House social secretary Desiree Rogers. All three have declined to appear. Thompson said he is likely to authorize a subpoena for the Salahis to testify.

Rep. Pete King, the panel’s ranking Republican, accused the White House of “stonewalling” in not permitting Rogers to ap-pear. The New York congressman said he thinks the White House is either afraid of something or doesn’t want to take any heat for last week’s incident.

Thompson said at midday that the Salahis could be cited for contempt of Congress if they continue to shun the commit-tee’s request that they proceed. He said he has asked staff to pre-

pare subpoenas for the pair, and said “my door remains open.” King indicated he would contin-ue to press for Rogers to appear as well. The two appeared to differ on whether Rogers should be subpoenaed.

Thompson said at the outset: “This hearing is not about crash-ing a party at the White House. Nor is it about wannabe celebri-ties.” He said the purpose is to better protect the president.

The Salahis have been trying to land a part on a Bravo reality show, “The Real Housewives of D.C.,” and were fi lmed by the TV show around town as they prepared for the White House dinner.

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RISING SUN, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana prosecutor says a 17-year-old charged with murder in the strangulation death of his 10-year-old brother had fantasized about killing someone.

Dearborn-Ohio County Prosecutor Aaron Negangard (NEEG-an-gard) says Andrew Conley of Rising Sun has been charged as an adult and will have an initial hearing Friday.

Negangard says Conley admitted killing his 10-year-old brother, Conner Conley, on Sunday and dumping his body near a park in Rising Sun, about 20 miles southwest of Cincinnati, Ohio. A sheriff’s deputy found the body Sunday night.

Negangard describes Conley as a cold-blooded killer and says he might seek life with-out parole.

An attorney for Conley couldn’t be immediately found.

Cops: 4 kids hurt in crash at Indiana day care center

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two robbery suspects fl eeing po-lice lost control of their sport utility vehicle and crashed into a day care center Thursday, injuring four children and an employee in a shower of bricks and other debris, police said.

About 18 children were inside the Stepping Stones Child Care when the SUV slammed into the brick build-ing on the city’s north side about 12:15 p.m., Lt. Jeff Duhamell said.

Kara Hardister, who runs the church-owned day care, said the crash sent bricks and debris fl ying into a room for 3-year-olds just before their afternoon nap time.

The car burst into fl ames shortly after the crash, but offi cers quickly extinguished the fi re.

One of the four children was in critical condition but stable at Methodist Hospital, while the other three had non-life-threatening injuries, Duhamell said.

Oregon tree cutters safe after 2 nights in snow

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon couple hunting for a Christmas tree in mountains near the California border spent two days stuck in more than a foot of snow before freeing their all-wheel drive vehicle and returning home Thursday morning.

Jennifer and Keith Lee told Jackson County sheriff’s deputies their Subaru got high-centered on a remote road leading into California on the south side of Mount Ashland.

The couple had taken blan-kets and water bottles, but they didn’t have much food, she said.

Georgia speaker resigns after lobbyist affair claim

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s powerful House speaker resigned Thursday after a sui-cide attempt and allegations by his ex-wife of an affair with a lobbyist.

Glenn Richardson, the state’s fi rst GOP speaker since Reconstruction, had won sympathy from even his political enemies when he revealed last month that he attempted suicide by swallowing sleeping pills. But then his ex-wife went on TV and accused him of hav-ing “a full-out affair” with a lobbyist while they were still married.

Richardson did not address that allegation in a brief statement issued through the House communications offi ce in which he said he will leave both his position as speaker and his House seat on Jan. 1. He did mention his recent ad-mission that he has grappled with depression.

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Oprah visits White House for Christmas special

WASHINGTON (AP) — Oprah and Obama, teamed up again.

The billionaire talk show host de-scended on the White House on Thursday, accom-panied by a giant array of personnel and equip-ment, to interview President Barack Obama for her up-coming primetime Christmas television special.

In addition to a solo interview with the president, Winfrey conducted a joint con-versation with the president and his wife, Michelle, and fi lmed a tour of the White House holiday decorations for their fi rst year in offi ce.

She has interviewed Obama on other occasions, but not as president. She also shared the cover of her magazine for the fi rst time with Michelle Obama, in this year’s April issue, which also featured a long interview with the fi rst lady about decorat-ing, helping women, parenting philosophy, life in the White House and other topics.

Winfrey has been in the Obama White House on other occasions. In addition to coming for the Feb. 17 interview with the fi rst lady for her magazine, Winfrey was on the guest list for an inaugural reception.

Winfrey’s relationship with the Obamas dates to their days in Chicago.

Most notably, she lent her celebrity status to Obama’s

presidential campaign, her fi rst-ever political endorse-ment. A University of Mary-land study found that her seal of approval may have netted Obama about 1 mil-lion votes in the Democratic primaries. She appeared with him at high-energy campaign rallies that drew tens of thou-sands of supporters, raised money and cheered him on at the Democratic National Convention.

Winfrey also was seen weeping in the crowd during Obama’s Nov. 4 election nightvictory speech in downtown Chicago.

Her “Christmas at the White House” show airs Dec. 13 at 10 p.m. on ABC.

Barkley, Eckersley, Petty to appear on HLN show

ATLANTA (AP) — Sports stars-turned-TV analysts Charles Barkley, Dennis Eckersley and Kyle Petty will branch out to offer opinions on other topics in a one-hour special on news network HLN.

“With All Due Respect” will air Dec. 20 and be hosted by HLN anchor Robin Meade. The network said Thursday that the trio will discuss subjects ranging from sports to world news, entertainment and current events.

Barkley, the NBA Hall of Famer; Eckersley, the base-ball Hall of Famer; and Petty, the longtime NASCAR driver, are all commentators for Turner Sports, which like HLN is owned by Turner Broadcast-ing System.

Steamy singer Adam Lambert still frozen out by ABC

NEW YORK (AP) — A week after getting dumped from “Good Morning America,” glam-rocker Adam Lambert is still in hot water with ABC for his racy performance a couple of days earlier on its “American Music Awards” telecast.

Now Lambert says he’s been dropped from ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and its “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.”

The network “decided not to move forward” with book-ing Lambert on Kimmel’s Dec. 17 show, ABC said in a statement.

ABC spokeswoman Patrick Preblick said the talent lineup for the New Year’s Eve spe-cial has not been announced.

Lambert addressed the two bookings on his Twitter account on Wednesday.

“Yes, sadly, friends, ABC has cancelled my appear-ances on Kimmel and NYE,” wrote Lambert. He added, “Let’s focus on being posi-tive!”

In the meantime, all is not lost. NBC says he’ll be a guest on “The Jay Leno Show” on Dec 21. And he’s interviewed by Barbara Wal-ters on her “Most Fascinating People of 2009” special — airing next Wednesday on ABC.

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“Everybody’s Fine” suc-ceeds in evoking a spirit of family reconciliation and yuletide sentimentality. Outweighing all of that, however, is an overriding sense of déjà vu.

Robert De Niro plays Frank, a retiree trying to adjust to a life of me-nial solitude, unmoored from the outside world by his wife’s death eight months earlier. Discon-nected from his grown children geographically and emotionally, Frank embarks on a road trip to visit and, hopefully, reconnect with them. Casual observers may note similarities to Alexander Payne’s About Schmidt, including De Niro and Jack Nicholson’s splendidly restrained performances. Offi-cially, Everybody’s Fine is a remake of Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1990 Italian drama, ”Stanno Tutti Bene,” starring Marcello Mastroianni.

This update from di-rector Kirk Jones (“Wak-ing Ned Devine”) amps the mawkishness to nearly oppressive levels, piling angst over growing old atop family dysfunc-tion and the deaths of loved ones. Indeed, only the performances by the A-list cast keep this from dissolving into Hallmark Hall of Fame holiday-themed treacle.

Frank is the sort of

everyman who shops for expensive wine at a supermarket and haggles over the price of every-thing from gas grills to Christmas trees. Clad and accessorized in non-descript browns, he also epitomizes certain men — especially older and working class — who are laden with tender feel-ings toward loved ones but unwilling or unsure how to express them. The way he greets his chil-dren is illuminating: His daughters with awkward hugs and his son with a handshake.

As the film opens, Frank is eagerly prepar-ing for his four children’s first visit since his wife’s funeral: David the painter; Robert the musi-cian (Sam Rockwell); Amy (Kate Beckinsale), a hard-charging Chicago

ad executive; and Rosie (Drew Barrymore), a Las Vegas dancer. They all cancel at the last min-ute, however, prompting Frank’s cross-country odyssey.

Until the end, the script is furtive about the actual reason the chil-dren choose to stay away. But, it strongly implies throughout that they were far more connected to their late mother than their supportive but demanding father. In one affecting scene, Frank visits Robert dur-ing orchestra practice and, even in the midst of their reunion, is unable to stifle his disappoint-ment that Robert has chosen to play percus-sion instead of pursuing a career as a conductor.

Each child carries skeletons and imper-fections he or she is reluctant to share. But,

one problem is that the children are not allowed to be honest with their father; instead, Jones uti-lizes a bizarre, clumsily dream sequence to help Frank — and the audi-ence — finally puts the pieces together.

The actors carry out their roles well, and De Niro’s interaction with each costar is pitch-per-fect. However, there is a disconnect between the children’s dismis-sive, sometimes callous treatment of their father and the onscreen Frank. We are merely informed about Frank’s domineer-ing parenting without being provided any glimpse into that part of his persona (unlike, for example, Royal Tenen-baum). The result is an incomplete narrative that engenders a fester-ing dislike for Frank’s children, who probably don’t really deserve our malice.

Of course, this lack of context is probably intentional since it tidily clears away emotional debris for an obvious, tear-jerking plot turn and a Norman Rock-well-esque denouement. “Everybody’s Fine” is supposed to be an ironic affirmation. Trouble is, by the time Christmas (and the closing credits) arrives, it’s hard to detect the irony.

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ECONOMY

Obama calls for new ideas for creating jobsWASHINGTON (AP)

— President Barack Obama on Thursday said he’d heard many “excit-ing ideas and proposals” from participants at a White House sponsored jobs forum and said he hoped some could be put into action quickly.

“This has been a tough year, with a lot of uncer-tainty,” Obama said as he wrapped up a half-day brainstorming session with some of the nation’s top CEOs, small business and union leaders and economists.

He said he welcomed the suggestions as well as some “good, hardheaded feedback” from some people who don’t always share his views, including the former top economic

adviser to 2008 Republi-can presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, econo-mist Douglas Holtz-Ea-kin, who also addressed a rival GOP jobs forum earlier in the day.

The president said there were some ideas that could be put to work almost immediately and other ideas that will be-come part of legislation for Congress to con-sider. He listed “moving forward on an aggressive agenda for energy ef-fi ciency and weatheriza-tion” as a prime candi-date for quick action.

“There’s no question that it’s diffi cult out there right now,” Obama said. “Digging ourselves out of the hole we have dug into is not going to be easy.”

But he said he puts a lot of faith in American ingenuity and industry. “We can’t go back to busi-ness as usual,” he said.

Obama had challenged his audience to help him come up with innovative ideas for putting mil-lions of Americans back to work, saying he wants the “biggest bang for the buck.”

He spoke the day before the Labor De-partment was to report unemployment fi gures for November. In Oc-tober, the rate climbed to 10.2 percent — the highest since the early 1980s — and forecasters expected the November fi gure to be around the same level as October’s, or worse.

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Coastal Plains: Today we will see mostly sunny skies. Saturday, skies willbe cloudy with an 80% chance of rain.

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BRAVES ADD TO BULLPEN WITH SAITO

ATLANTA (AP) — The Braves made another move to strengthen their pitching staff Thursday, agreeing to a one-year contract with right-handed reliever Takashi Saito.

Saito, who turns 40 in Febru-ary, has 83 saves in four major league seasons after a long career in Japan. He made the NL All-Star team in 2007, when he had 39 saves for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Last season, the right-hander went 3-3 with two saves and a 2.43 ERA in a setup role for the Boston Red Sox.

MLB

POLANCO, PHILLIES AGREE TO 3-YEAR DEAL

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Placido Polanco returned to the Phila-delphia Phillies on Thursday, agreeing to an $18 million, three-year contract.

The 34-year-old free agent won Gold Gloves at second base for the Detroit Tigers in 2007 and this year but will shift to third base, which hasn’t been his primary position since 2002. He replaces Pedro Feliz, who became a free agent after the Phillies declined his $5.5 million.

PETERSON GETS 109 MPH SPEEDING TICKET

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Min-nesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson could lose his driver’s license after police clocked him driving at 109 mph — nearly twice the posted speed limit — on a suburban Minneapo-lis highway last weekend.

Peterson told The Associated Press on Thursday that he “got a little speeding ticket. I need to be more aware of the speed I was going and not let it happen again.”

Peterson was pulled over just before 8:30 p.m. Saturday while driving his BMW in a 55-mph zone on state Highway 62 — a normally busy stretch of road known as the Crosstown.

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MANGINO RESIGNS AS KANSAS COACH

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kan-sas coach Mark Mangino has resigned two years after leading the Jayhawks to the greatest season in their checkered foot-ball history.

The university made the announcement Thursday as athletic director Lew Perkins met with players to give them the news.

Kansas finished 5-7 in a season marked by an internal investigation into Mangino’s treatment of his players.

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Southern Lee’s Quentin Ingram (left) tries to make his way past Lee County’s Isaiah Williams during Wednesday night’s game at Lee County High School.

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Southern Lee’s Shakeer Alston (left) fights for the ball with Israel Wil-liams on Wednesday.

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SANFORD — Gaston Collins enjoyed the win for about an hour.

Then, he started focusing on Pinecrest.

The Southern Lee Cavaliers beat county rival Lee County 48-38 on the hardwood Wednesday night at Lee County. The Cava-liers have swept their county rivals for the fourth straight year.

With Pinecrest in town on Thursday night for another nonconference battle with the Cavaliers, Collins was moving on from the team’s second victory of the season and is preparing for the undefeated Patriots.

The results of Thursday’s game were not available by presstime.

“It was a crucial win for us,” said Collins, the second-year coach of the Cavaliers’ second victory this season over the Yel-low Jackets. “It might not have

No longer ranked, Cougars not worried By RYAN [email protected]

SANFORD — They were ranked.

Then they weren’t.Back-to-back losses to

Division-2 Guilford Tech and the North Carolina Tar Heels’ junior varsity team knocked the Central Caroli-na Cougars out of the No. 10 spot in the NJCAA Division III Top 10 basketball poll.

But Doug Connor isn’t worried. He knows his team better than anyone, and he still believes in his Cougars.

“I’m still feeling good about this team,” Connor said before his team took the court against the Method-ist University junior varsity team on Thursday night. “We’ve played some tough opponents and that’s only going to help us in the long run. The teams we’ve lost to are in higher divisions than us. We’ll be OK.”

The Cougars (8-4) de-feated the Monarchs 113-73. Adrian Jones led all scorers with 28 points and 14 re-bounds. Travis Jackson had 26, Dejan Brown and R.J. McLaughlin also added 11.

The game was pretty close early on until Connor made the call for the Cou-gars to switch to a 3-2 zone midway through the first half. The defensive switch held the Monarchs scoreless for the last nine minutes of the half, allowing the Cougars to take a 20-point cushion into the locker room at halftime.

Before Thursday’s win, the Cougars started off the season at 5-1 and became nationally ranked for the first time in the program’s history. They then won just two of their next five games and fell out of the top ten. Following a tough 105-83 loss to the Tar Heels in the Dean Smith Center, the Cougars cruised to a 113-90 victory over Carolina Prep.

“We rebounded from that loss against Carolina and just went back to the basics during practice,” said Connor. “We were playing in the Dean Smith Center in front of a loud group of fans. I think we were kind of star struck. But we responded well against Carolina Prep and got back on the right track with a win.”

Led by Jackson’s 17.2 points per game, the Cou-gars have a strong nucleus of talent with four players averaging in double figures. Jones (14.5), McLaughlin (11.0) and Perkins (10.6) are the other key players for the Cougars.

“Everyone’s playing their role real well and everyone’s adjusting,” said Connor.

CaRoLIna pantHeRs

Wait is over for laid-back MooreBy MIKE CRANSTONAP Sports Writer

CHARLOTTE — Wearing his baseball cap backward, Matt Moore walked into the Carolina locker room Thursday and immediately began joking around with his golfing buddy, kicker Rhys Lloyd

If Moore was nervous that

he’s about to make only his fourth career start and his first since 2007, he sure wasn’t show-ing it.

“I think the fact that he is

laid back will help him,” Lloyd

said. “Not a whole lot of things bother him.”

With Jake Delhomme sidelined with a broken finger on his throwing hand, Moore is preparing to take over the Panthers’ struggling offense Sunday against Tampa Bay. It’ll come after a long wait in a career that’s required patience.

He didn’t start in high

school until his senior year, changed colleges, briefly contemplated playing profes-sional baseball, went un-drafted, was cut by the Dallas Cowboys, didn’t throw a single pass last season and has gone more than 23 months between starts.Moore

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Friday, Dec. 4Boys BasketballAlamance at Grace

Christian 7:30 p.m.Girls BasketballAlamance at Grace

Christian 6 p.m.GymnasticsLee County, Southern

Lee at Superior Gymnas-tics 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 5Men’s BasketballCentral Carolina at Pitt

Community College 3 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 7

No Area Sports

Tuesday, Dec. 8

Men’s BasketballMethodist JV at Central

Carolina 7 p.m.Boys BasketballLee County at Athens

Drive 7:30 p.m.Grace Christian at

O’Neal 7:30 p.m.West Bladen at South-

ern Lee 8 p.m.Lee Christian at Faith

Christian 7:30 p.m.Girls BasketballAthens Drive at Lee

County 7:30 p.m.Grace Christian at

O’Neal 6 p.m.West Bladen at South-

ern Lee 6:30 p.m.Lee Christian at Faith

Christian 6 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 9

WrestlingSouthern Lee at Westo-

ver 6 p.m.Lee County at Athens

Drive 6 p.m.Boys BasketballSeventy-First at South-

ern Lee 8 p.m.Girls BasketballSeventy-First at South-

ern Lee 6:30 p.m.

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The Lee County Sizzle 16-U fast-pitch softball team recently finished third in the IFA Grand Finale at Pleasant Gar-den. Team members are (front row, l-r): Kalyn Mangum, Kaitlyn Rackley, Ashley Poulin and Hailee Lilly. Second row (l-r): Tyler Lett, Tiffany Cox, Anna Wade, Kaylyn Foushee, Rachel Snuggs, Krissy Williams and Paige Hammonds. Back row (l-r): coaches Kelly Shope, Aubrey Cox, Billy Lett and Tommy Collins. Not pictured: Johnna Spivey.

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BaskEtBaLLLee County, Peace hosting clinic

SANFORD — Lee County will be hosting a basketball clinic on Dec. 28, the same day as the start of the annual Chatlee Shootout.

The clinic will be for children ages 6-14 and will be from 9 a.m.-noon at Lee County High School.

The cost is $5 for each child. Lee County basketball coach

Reggie Peace, as well as some players, will be going over skill development and team play during the three-hour clinic.

For more information contact Peace at (919) 353-4894.

NHLMaple Leafs send Tlusty to Hurricanes

RALEIGH (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes have acquired for-ward Jiri Tlusty (tuh-LOO-stee) from the Toronto Maple Leafs for Philippe Paradis in a swap of former first-rounders.

Hurricanes general manager Jim Rutherford says Thursday’s deal brings his team someone “who is further along in the development phase.”

The 21-year-old Tlusty is in his third full professional season in North America and went to Toronto with the 13th pick in 2006.

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Clemson, Tech look to end title droughts

UPCOMING

ATLANTA (AP) — Der-rick Morgan can’t remem-ber the last time Georgia Tech won an Atlantic Coast Conference championship.

Not that he should.He was a 1-year-old

when the Yellow Jackets captured their lone ACC title in 1990, on the way to an unbeaten season and a share of the national cham-pionship.

“That’s a long time ago,” Morgan said, shaking his head.

Ditto for Clemson, a one-time ACC powerhouse that hasn’t finished on top of the league since 1991. The No. 25 Tigers are just as eager to break their long

drought when they face the 12th-ranked Yellow Jackets in the conference champi-onship game Saturday night at Tampa, Fla.

“This is absolutely vital to us as a program,” said Tigers offensive lineman Thomas Austin. “We have a winning tradition here at Clemson. That is some-thing we take pride in. To have not won a conference championship in 18 years, we see this as a unique op-portunity for us. We need to capitalize on it.”

In a sense, this is a bit of a throwback game. The Tigers once dominated the ACC, winning seven titles from 1978-91 (as well as

the national championship in ’81). Georgia Tech was a five-time Southeastern Conference champion and rising through the ranks in the ACC by the late ’80s.

Then came Florida State.The Seminoles joined

the conference in 1992, and the balance of power shifted dramatically. Coach Bobby Bowden’s team won or shared the top spot in 12 of its first 14 seasons. Then, just as Florida State began to fade, Virginia Tech joined the ACC in 2004 and imme-diately took over a leading role, winning the title in three of its first five years.

Clemson (8-4) went

through hard times under Tommy West, including a last-place finish in 1998, and tried to chase down Florida State by hiring Bowden’s son, Tommy. There were some promis-ing seasons that never quite lived up to expectations, and Tommy Bowden was dumped midway through last season.

Led by neophyte head coach Dabo Swinney, the Tigers got off to a 2-3 start this year that had the faithful grumbling. But six straight wins silenced Swin-ney’s critics and carried his team to a division title.

One more win will bring the title Clemson really wants.

“People remember champions,” said C.J. Spiller, the team’s star running back. “One of the reasons I came back for my

senior year was to try to win a championship. That’s something we haven’t done around here in 18 years. I wanted to try to help this team accomplish that. If we can win the league, people will know they have some-thing to fear when they’re playing Clemson.”

Georgia Tech also has long-term aspirations. The Yellow Jackets made it to the title game in 2006, losing a yawner to Wake Forest, but that was a mere blip in the largely mediocre Chan Gailey era.

Second-year coach Paul Johnson sees no reason his team can’t compete for championships on a regular basis, and he’s spreading that message to his players. They’re not looking for an-other one-off shot at a ring; they want to build some-thing that lasts a while.

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been the prettiest game to watch, but we’ll take it. Now, we’ve got to carry this inten-sity over and use it against Pinecrest.”

Southern Lee was led by Darius Gill’s game-high 11 points. A.J. Jackson added nine. Sherrod Toomer had seven points off the bench. Ace Chalmers also added seven points, all of which came in the second half. Josh Mellette scored just two points but had six rebounds in the victory.

The defense of Southern Lee is what won the game. The Cavaliers played a 2-3 zone the majority of the game and kept Lee County off the boards. The defense forced the Yellow Jackets to turn the ball over 20 times, including nine times in the fourth quarter.

The Patriots (3-0) ae fresh off a 95-78 victory over Red Springs on Tuesday night.

“They’re very athletic and they play hard,” said Collins. “They’re really good at slashing to the basket. We’re going to have to play well.”

For the Yellow Jackets (1-4), Wednesday’s loss was their fourth straight. In the losing streak, the Yellow Jackets have

struggled in one quarter in each game. In the first meet-ing against the Cavs, it was a three-point third quarter that doomed the Jackets.

This time against the Cava-liers, it was the first quarter where the Yellow Jackets strug-gled. The Jackets were held to just six points at the end of the quarter and trailed 13-6.

“We’ve lost our last four games the exact same way,” said Lee County coach Reggie Peace. “We haven’t figured out a way to play 32 complete minutes. We can’t afford the quarters where we score four points, three points, or six points.”

The Yellow Jackets, who now trail the annual series with the county rival 8-1, were led by Russell Tatum’s nine points. Donte Rigsby and Dequan Swann each had seven points. Swann also snagged down five rebounds.

The game, although it was low scoring, still had its fair share of drama attached to it.

With the Cavaliers ahead by three with 1:35 to go, Jackson buried a jump shot and was fouled. He missed the bonus foul shot, but grabbed his own rebound with the 43-38 edge.

Later, Chalmers hit two free throws to make it 46-38, then

stole an inbounds pass and scored a layup as time expired.

“We have got to do a better job on our rebounding,” said Peace. “It comes down to the fourth quarter and we stop hitting shots and we can’t grab rebounds. Until we can get over that hump, we’re going to continue to struggle.”

The Cavalier defense held the Yellow Jackets to just 4-of-19 shooting from 3-point range.

“We didn’t shoot it well at all,” said Peace. “We couldn’t get the ball to go down both on the inside and the outside. I give Southern Lee a lot of credit for their defense.”

Now that he’s got his fourth win as a coach against the county rival, Collins hopes that his team comes out with the same enthusiasm against the Patriots.

“For some reason our guys always play extremely hard against Lee County High School,” quipped Collins. “This win was good for our confi-dence but we need to build off that momentum. We need the intensity to carry over into our other games as well. I’m eager to see how we come out against Pinecrest after getting a win against a well-coached Lee County team.”

CavsContinued from Page 1B

“Anyone can step up on any given night. Anyone can be our leader and that’s how I know that we have a good team.”

The one problem for the Cougars comes in the middle. The tallest play-ers on the roster are former Southern Lee standout Anthony Newby and Kyle Overstreet. Both are listed at 6-foot-6, but they are both freshman and don’t have much experience.

“Our center is going to have to come by committee,” said Con-nor, who expects to have 2008-09 All-American Lemarte McGhee back on the roster in January. “We have to

beat teams with our speed and our quickness. We’ve got a lot of guards and forwards on this team and we’ve got some speed.”

The Cougars don’t begin Region 10 Conference play until January. Connor says playing the likes of Guilford Tech and the North Carolina jayvees will only increase his team’s chances of doing well in conference.

“At this level, you have to play up to get better,” said Connor. “Playing teams like the Carolina and Guilford Tech are only going to help us down the stretch. I’m really confident about our chances in conference this year, I really am. We want to play in the national tournament at the end of the season; that’s what it’s all about. Our schedule is going to help us get there.”

CougarsContinued from Page 1B

Players tee it up without TigerTHOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP)

— A potentially explosive news con-ference with an alleged mistress was canceled Thursday and more details trickled out about the car accident that started all the trouble for Tiger Woods.

The news conference in Los An-geles for Rachel Uchitel, the woman who denied a tabloid report about an affair with Woods, was canceled about an hour before it was to begin.

High-profile attorney Gloria Allred, who was to make a statement about Uchitel’s relationship with golf’s No. 1 player, said it was called

off because of “unforeseen circum-stances.” Allred said she would have no further comment.

For the first time since last Friday, when Woods ran his SUV into a fire hydrant and a tree outside his Florida home, there were no news confer-ences involving police nor any state-ments from Woods on his Web site.

His last one was Wednesday, when he issued a statement conceding that he had “let my family down.” That followed a report in Us Weekly maga-zine of a cocktail waitress claiming to have had a 31-month affair with Woods.

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Sports ReviewFOOTBALLThe AP Top 25

By The Associated PressThe Top 25 teams in The Associated Press

college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 21, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Florida (46) 12-0 1,483 1 2. Alabama (7) 12-0 1,416 2 3. Texas (7) 12-0 1,414 3 4. TCU 12-0 1,316 4 5. Cincinnati 11-0 1,249 5 6. Boise St. 12-0 1,216 6 7. Oregon 9-2 1,104 10 8. Ohio St. 10-2 1,103 9 9. Iowa 10-2 920 1310. Penn St. 10-2 897 1211. Virginia Tech 9-3 860 1412. Georgia Tech 10-2 820 713. Oregon St. 8-3 719 1614. Pittsburgh 9-2 642 815. LSU 9-3 614 1716. BYU 10-2 610 1817. Miami 9-3 572 1918. Houston 10-2 400 2519. California 8-3 398 2120. Southern Cal 8-3 365 2421. Nebraska 9-3 289 —22. Oklahoma St. 9-3 269 1123. Stanford 8-4 266 —24. West Virginia 8-3 225 —25. Clemson 8-4 87 15

Others receiving votes: California 149, Wisconsin 123, Stanford 58, Navy 50, West Virginia 30, Central Michigan 27, Arkansas 17, Temple 17, Arizona 15, Northwestern 13, Nevada 12, Texas Tech 12, Auburn 9, Troy 2, Kentucky 1, Missouri 1, South Florida 1.

BASKETBALLThe AP Top 25

By The Associated PressThe top 25 teams in The Associated Press’

college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 29, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking:

RecordPts Pvs 1. Kansas (63) 5-0 1,623 1 2. Texas (1) 5-0 1,508 3 3. Villanova 6-0 1,442 4 4. Purdue 5-0 1,389 6 5. Kentucky 6-0 1,333 5 6. Duke 6-0 1,316 7 7. West Virginia 5-0 1,238 8 8. Syracuse (1) 6-0 1,183 10 9. Michigan St. 5-1 1,109 210. North Carolina 6-1 961 1111. Tennessee 5-1 936 912. Washington 5-0 893 1413. Florida 6-0 777 —14. Connecticut 4-1 742 1315. Ohio St. 5-1 702 1716. Georgetown 4-0 588 1817. Gonzaga 5-1 491 —18. Clemson 6-1 426 1919. Texas A&M 5-1 284 —20. Louisville 4-1 252 1621. Florida St. 6-1 219 —22. Cincinnati 4-1 205 —23. Butler 4-2 200 1224. UNLV 5-0 191 —25. Portland 5-1 120 —

Others receiving votes: Oklahoma St. 112, Georgia Tech 97, Marquette 82, Mississippi 79, Miami 77, BYU 76, Memphis 66, Vanderbilt 64, Notre Dame 52, Kansas St. 41, Michigan 40, California 39, Minnesota 35, Wisconsin 28, St. John’s 26, Northwestern 15, Dayton 8, Missouri St. 7, New Mexico 6, Pittsburgh 6, Richmond 6, Arizona St. 5, Illinois 5, N.C. State 5, Illinois St. 4, Washington St. 4, Maryland 3, South Carolina 3, Missouri 2, Texas Tech 2, Cal St.-Fullerton 1, Va. Commonwealth 1.

AP Top 25 ScheduleFriday’sGamesNo. 9 Michigan State vs. Wofford, 7 p.m.No. 13 Florida at Jacksonville, 7 p.m.No. 19 Texas A&M vs. Akron, 8 p.m.Saturday’s GamesNo. 4 Purdue vs. Buffalo, 5 p.m.No. 5 Kentucky vs. No. 10 North Carolina,

12:30 p.m.No. 6 Duke vs. St. John’s, 3:30 p.m.No. 8 Syracuse vs. Maine, 7 p.m.No. 15 Ohio State vs. Eastern Michigan,

NoonNo. 16 Georgetown vs. American, 4 p.m.No. 17 Gonzaga vs. Wake Forest, 5:30 p.m.No. 20 Louisville vs. Charlotte, 7 p.m.

No. 23 Butler vs. Valparaiso, 7 p.m.No. 24 UNLV at Santa Clara, 10 p.m.

NCAA BoxscoresLateWednesday

WISCONSIN73,NO.6DUKE69DUKE(6-1)Singler 10-17 7-7 28, Mi.Plumlee 3-3 0-1 6,

Thomas 0-2 0-0 0, Smith 5-17 2-2 13, Scheyer 2-7 6-6 10, Ma.Plumlee 0-1 0-0 0, Dawkins 4-4 0-0 12, Zoubek 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 24-53 15-16 69.

WISCONSIN(5-1)Leuer 6-14 4-8 17, Nankivil 3-5 0-1 8,

Hughes 9-16 4-4 26, Bohannon 3-9 4-4 10, Jarmusz 1-2 0-0 3, Evans 1-6 0-0 2, Taylor 2-6 1-2 5, Bruesewitz 0-0 0-0 0, Berggren 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 26-59 13-19 73.

Halftime—Wisconsin 38-32. 3-Point Goals—Duke 6-14 (Dawkins 4-4, Smith 1-2, Singler 1-4, Ma.Plumlee 0-1, Scheyer 0-3), Wisconsin 8-20 (Hughes 4-7, Nankivil 2-2, Jarmusz 1-2, Leuer 1-3, Bohannon 0-6). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Duke 32 (Mi.Plumlee, Singler 6), Wisconsin 34 (Evans 8). Assists—Duke 11 (Scheyer 4), Wisconsin 17 (Nankivil 5). Total Fouls—Duke 18, Wisconsin 14. A—17,230. 17,230.

TRANSACTIONSBASEBALLAmericanLeagueTAMPA BAY RAYS—Released RHP Ramon

Ramirez.TEXAS RANGERS—Named Mike Micucci

minor league field coordinator; Steve Buechele manager and Jeff Andrews pitching coach of Frisco (Texas); Bill Richardson manager and Jason Hart hitting coach of Hickory (SAL); Brian Dayette and Josue Perez hitting coaches of Spokane (NWL); and Jayce Tingler manager, Ryan O’Malley and Jose Jaimes pitching coach-es, Oscar Bernard hitting coach and Hector Ortiz coach of the Rangers (Arizona).

NationalLeagueATLANTA BRAVES—Agreed to terms with RHP

Takashi Saito on a one-year contract.NEW YORK METS—Agreed to terms with

C-1B Chris Coste on a one-year contract.PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES—Agreed to terms

with INF Placido Polanco on a three-year contract and INF Juan Castro on a one-year contract.

Sports on TVFriday, Dec. 4

COLLEGEFOOTBALL8p.m.ESPN2 — Mid-American Conference, championship game, Central

Michigan vs. Ohio, at Detroit GOLF3p.m.TGC — Chevron World Challenge, second round, at Thousand

Oaks, Calif. MEN’SCOLLEGEBASKETBALL11p.m.

FSN — Colorado at Oregon St. NBABASKETBALL8p.m.ESPN — Chicago at Cleveland 10:30 p.m.ESPN — Miami at L.A. Lakers SOCCERNoonESPN2 — FIFA, World Cup Draw, at Cape Town, South Africa 5:30

p.m.ESPN2 — NCAA Division I, Women’s College Cup, semifinal, UCLA

vs. Stanford, at College Station, Texas

Pro StandingsNFL Glance

By The Associated PressAll Times EST

AMERICANCONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PANew England 7 4 0 .636 307 202Miami 5 6 0 .455 256 275N.Y. Jets 5 6 0 .455 230 195Buffalo 4 7 0 .364 186 242

South W L T Pct PF PAx-Indianapolis 11 0 0 1.000304184Jacksonville 6 5 0 .545 202 255Tennessee 5 6 0 .455 229 289Houston 5 6 0 .455 259 243

North W L T Pct PF PACincinnati 8 3 0 .727 231 174Baltimore 6 5 0 .545 257 188Pittsburgh 6 5 0 .545 248 204Cleveland 1 10 0 .091 122 279

West W L T Pct PF PASan Diego 8 3 0 .727 312 219Denver 7 4 0 .636 196 189Kansas City 3 8 0 .273 183 282Oakland 3 8 0 .273 115 258

NATIONALCONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PADallas 8 3 0 .727 255 182Philadelphia 7 4 0 .636 293 228N.Y. Giants 6 5 0 .545 272 261Washington 3 8 0 .273 170 205

South W L T Pct PF PANew Orleans 11 0 0 1.000 407 221Atlanta 6 5 0 .545 272 245Carolina 4 7 0 .364 199 256Tampa Bay 1 10 0 .091 181 314

North W L T Pct PF PAMinnesota 10 1 0 .909 342 203Green Bay 7 4 0 .636 296 215Chicago 4 7 0 .364 216 261Detroit 2 9 0 .182 193 335

West W L T Pct PF PAArizona 7 4 0 .636 267 217San Francisco 5 6 0 .455 228 213Seattle 4 7 0 .364 223 250St. Louis 1 10 0 .091 130 297

x-clinched division———Thursday’sGameN.Y. Jets vs. Buffalo at Toronto, 8:20

p.m.Sunday’sGamesSt. Louis at Chicago, 1 p.m.Oakland at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.Denver at Kansas City, 1 p.m.Philadelphia at Atlanta, 1 p.m.Detroit at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.New England at Miami, 1 p.m.New Orleans at Washington, 1 p.m.Tennessee at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.Tampa Bay at Carolina, 1 p.m.Houston at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.San Diego at Cleveland, 4:05 p.m.Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 4:15 p.m.San Francisco at Seattle, 4:15 p.m.Minnesota at Arizona, 8:20 p.m.Monday’sGameBaltimore at Green Bay, 8:30 p.m.Thursday, Dec. 10Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 8:20 p.m.Sunday,Dec.13Seattle at Houston, 1 p.m.Green Bay at Chicago, 1 p.m.Detroit at Baltimore, 1 p.m.New Orleans at Atlanta, 1 p.m.Buffalo at Kansas City, 1 p.m.Denver at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.Carolina at New England, 1 p.m.N.Y. Jets at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.Miami at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.Cincinnati at Minnesota, 1 p.m.St. Louis at Tennessee, 4:05 p.m.Washington at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

San Diego at Dallas, 4:15 p.m.Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 8:20 p.m.Monday,Dec.14Arizona at San Francisco, 8:30 p.m.

NBA GlanceEASTERNCONFERENCE

Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Boston 14 4 .778 —Toronto 7 13 .350 8Philadelphia 5 14 .263 91⁄2New York 4 15 .211 101⁄2New Jersey 0 18 .000 14

SoutheastDivision W L Pct GBOrlando 15 4 .789 —Atlanta 13 5 .722 11⁄2Miami 10 7 .588 4Charlotte 7 10 .412 7Washington 7 10 .412 7

CentralDivision W L Pct GBCleveland 13 5 .722 —Milwaukee 9 8 .529 31⁄2Chicago 7 9 .438 5Indiana 6 10 .375 6Detroit 6 12 .333 7

WESTERNCONFERENCESouthwestDivision

W L Pct GBDallas 14 5 .737 —San Antonio 9 6 .600 3Houston 10 8 .556 31⁄2New Orleans 7 11 .389 61⁄2Memphis 7 12 .368 7

NorthwestDivision W L Pct GBDenver 13 5 .722 —Portland 12 8 .600 2Utah 10 7 .588 21⁄2Oklahoma City 10 8 .556 3Minnesota 2 16 .111 11

PacificDivision W L Pct GBL.A. Lakers 14 3 .824 —Phoenix 14 5 .737 1Sacramento 9 8 .529 5L.A. Clippers 8 11 .421 7Golden State 6 11 .353 8

———Wednesday’sGamesOrlando 118, New York 104Washington 104, Milwaukee 102Cleveland 107, Phoenix 90Atlanta 146, Toronto 115Dallas 117, New Jersey 101Oklahoma City 117, Philadelphia 106Chicago 92, Detroit 85Memphis 97, Minnesota 95Sacramento 110, Indiana 105Houston 102, L.A. Clippers 85Thursday’sGamesBoston at San Antonio, 8 p.m.Houston at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.Miami at Denver, 10:30 p.m.Friday’sGamesToronto at Washington, 7 p.m.New York at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.Dallas at Memphis, 8 p.m.Charlotte at New Jersey, 8 p.m.Boston at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.Chicago at Cleveland, 8 p.m.Minnesota at New Orleans, 8 p.m.Milwaukee at Detroit, 8 p.m.Indiana at Utah, 9 p.m.Miami at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.Saturday’sGamesPhiladelphia at Charlotte, 7 p.m.Utah at Minnesota, 8 p.m.Toronto at Chicago, 8 p.m.Denver at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.Sacramento at Phoenix, 9 p.m.Atlanta at Dallas, 9 p.m.Houston at Portland, 10 p.m.Orlando at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

Indiana at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

NHL GlanceBy The Associated PressAll Times EST

EASTERNCONFERENCEAtlanticDivision

GPW L OTPtsGFGAPittsburgh 28 19 9 0 38 92 77New Jersey 25 17 7 1 35 71 56Philadelphia 24 13 10 1 27 77 65N.Y. Rangers 27 13 13 1 27 80 84N.Y. Islanders 27 10 10 7 27 72 84

NortheastDivision GP W L OT Pts GF GABoston 27 14 8 5 33 68 65Buffalo 24 15 7 2 32 66 55Ottawa 25 13 8 4 30 74 75Montreal 27 12 13 2 26 66 79Toronto 26 7 12 7 21 70 92

SoutheastDivision GPW L OTPtsGFGAWashington 27 16 5 6 38 94 78Atlanta 24 14 7 3 31 84 68Tampa Bay 26 10 8 8 28 68 79Florida 27 11 12 4 26 77 92Carolina 27 5 17 5 15 62 100

WESTERNCONFERENCECentralDivision

GPW L OTPtsGFGAChicago 26 17 6 3 37 82 59Nashville 27 15 10 2 32 66 74Columbus 27 13 9 5 31 84 96Detroit 26 13 9 4 30 76 73St. Louis 25 10 10 5 25 62 67

NorthwestDivision GPW L OTPtsGFGACalgary 26 17 6 3 37 83 66Colorado 29 15 8 6 36 90 89Vancouver 27 15 12 0 30 85 70Minnesota 26 11 12 3 25 68 79Edmonton 27 10 13 4 24 80 90

PacificDivision GPW L OTPtsGFGASan Jose 29 19 6 4 42 101 77Los Angeles 28 16 10 2 34 83 84Phoenix 27 15 11 1 31 68 65Dallas 27 12 8 7 31 80 81Anaheim 26 10 12 4 24 74 84

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Wednesday’sGamesBoston 4, Tampa Bay 1Vancouver 5, New Jersey 2Florida 6, Colorado 5, SOMinnesota 5, Nashville 4, OTThursday’sGamesEdmonton at Detroit, 7 p.m.Florida at Washington, 7 p.m.Toronto at Columbus, 7 p.m.N.Y. Islanders at Atlanta, 7 p.m.Montreal at Buffalo, 7 p.m.Vancouver at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.Colorado at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.Anaheim at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.Calgary at Phoenix, 9:30 p.m.St. Louis at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.Ottawa at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.Friday’sGamesTampa Bay at New Jersey, 7 p.m.Boston at Montreal, 8 p.m.Anaheim at Minnesota, 8 p.m.Nashville at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.Saturday’sGamesVancouver at Carolina, 1:30 p.m.Edmonton at Dallas, 2 p.m.St. Louis at Los Angeles, 4 p.m.Detroit at New Jersey, 7 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Buffalo, 7 p.m.Toronto at Boston, 7 p.m.Atlanta at Florida, 7 p.m.Colorado at Columbus, 7 p.m.Washington at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.N.Y. Islanders at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.Chicago at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.Minnesota at Nashville, 8 p.m.Calgary at San Jose, 10 p.m.Ottawa at Phoenix, 10 p.m.

“The only thing I can do is be ready,” Moore said, shrugging. “And that’s how I’ve approached the whole thing.”

Moore came from a

sports family, but it was baseball, not football. His father, Don, bounced around the St. Louis Cardi-nals minor league system until his career was derailed by injuries

His son’s top sport was baseball growing up in Valencia, Calif. The younger

Moore had a strong arm, and that drifted him toward quarterback, but it was a crowded position at Hart High School.

“We had a kid, Kyle Mat-ter, who had a scholarship at Stanford,” Moore said. “He was a senior and I was a junior.”

MooreContinued from Page 1B

DEAR ABBY: I have been mar-ried to “Mick” for 22 years — most of them happy. My problem is his communication skills. I have always had a hard time contacting him. He has a cell phone, but won’t take it out of his vehicle.

Recently, our daughter came home from college. We had planned to go to dinner with her and her boyfriend. When Mick didn’t show up, I tried without suc-cess to contact him. My daughter tried and then my son did, too. This went on for an hour and a half. We were worried sick, so we started calling his friends and co-work-ers — anyone who might know his whereabouts.

Abby, I have a serious heart condition that could send me to the hospital at any time.

Mick fi nally called back and said he had gotten distracted talking with an old friend. He acted like we were crazy for being concerned, and insists he did nothing wrong.

All I have ever asked is that my husband and kids give me a quick call to let me know if they’re going to be late so I won’t worry. My son and daughter do it, but Mick re-fuses. He says he’s the breadwinner, and he should not have to answer to anyone. I have put up with this for years, but now I have had enough. What do you think?

— SICK AND TIRED OF IT, IN SOUTH CAROLINA

DEAR SICK AND TIRED OF IT: Candidly, I think Mick is acting

more like a rebellious teenager rath-er than a caring husband. Because he has been this way for 22 years, I seriously doubt he is capable of change. That’s why I also think you should talk to your attorney about adding another family member to your Advance Directive for Health Care, in case you have a medical emergency and your husband is — as usual — unreachable. Please give this the serious consideration it deserves because your life could depend on it.

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DEAR ABBY: I married “Marge” 18 months ago. It was a second marriage for both of us. We agreed to sell our homes and buy some-thing together. Mine sold and now I’m in her house.

Things were going fi ne until Marge’s daughter and son-in-law moved back in. It was supposed to

be a three- or four-day stay, but it’s now into the fi fth week. They always claim to be right on the edge of leaving.

Marge enjoys having her daughter near her, but this is stressful for me. They sleep until noon every day and stay up late. They enjoy all that we have earned throughout our lives, and offer nothing in the way of rent.

I am not allowed to complain. I have been given the option to say “Go,” but I know it will cause hard feelings from them and Marge. I am to the point where I’m ready to move out.

— TRAPPED IN THEIR HOUSE

DEAR TRAPPED: More troubling than the fact you appear to have been invaded by freeloaders is that you say you are “not allowed” to voice your feelings about it. Mar-riage is supposed to be a partner-ship of equals, and if one partner is not happy, healthy couples work out an agreeable solution together. Because you have been unable to do this, I recommend marriage coun-seling before you pack your bags.

With counseling I’m hoping you and Marge can form a united front in telling “the kids” they have a deadline to be out instead of you being forced into the role of “bad guy.” Moving out should be your last option, because once you do, the move may be permanent.

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Happy Birthday: You may have to do a few extra things in order to win favors this year. Pick and choose your battles wisely. Consider your early years and, if you have gotten off track, do your best to start over. It’s never too late to begin again or to give your all to something you believe in. Your numbers are 3, 12, 16, 21, 32, 34, 42

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Put forth your best effort and you will reach your professional and financial goals. This is a great day to make some personal alterations to boost your confidence and enable you to do things that you may have been reluctant to try in the past. Domestic issues may sur-face. 2 stars

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taking time out to make some much-needed changes at home will pay off. You can add value to something you have to offer. A change in a friend-ship will allow you the free-dom to try something new. 4 stars

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You will be faced with far more than you antici-pated, making it difficult to carry out your promises. A work-related opportu-nity will open up, however, compromising your code of ethics may be requested. 3 stars

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Whether you travel physically, mentally or down the information highway, the end result will be the same. What you learn and the people you meet will enable you to flex your muscles in a sticky situa-tion that needs immediate attention. 3 stars

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Socializing will be your thing but refrain from divulging any information that may compromise you late in the day. Keep things light and playful. Romance or improving your current relationship will lead to a brighter future. 3 stars

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Personal problems will complicate your life.

Your indifference will be what saves you if some-one tries to trick you into doing something you don’t want to do. Make positive changes to your personal life, regardless of what oth-ers do. 4 stars

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Don’t give in to peer pres-sure. If something doesn’t fit your lifestyle, back away. It’s more important that you finish what you start and strive to reach your goals than it is to satisfy someone else’s whims. 2 stars

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Turn on your Scorpio charm. Your fascination with the people you meet will bring about a very special connection, chang-ing your way of thinking and your course of action. Someone you love will broaden your awareness. 5 stars

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Experience may count but so will fresh ideas and the desire to do your best. Take what information you can from the wise and rework what you learn so that it takes on your personality. Confidence and consis-tency will win in the end. 3 stars

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Take what you want and keep moving. It’s slowing down that will give someone the chance to derail your plans or ideas. Love is in the stars so don’t waste time if someone special wants your undivided attention. 3 stars

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Ask someone you feel comfortable with about a problem you are having at work or with your finances. An honest answer may not be what you want to hear but it will help you get back on the road to recovery. 3 stars

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Tread carefully. Not everything will be as it appears. An older or younger person in your life who has a tough situation to deal with will trigger an emotional change. Your support will make a differ-ence. 5 stars

The Sanford Herald / Friday, December 4, 2009 / 5BFeaturesDEAR ABBY

Man’s stubborn silence causes family to panic

Abigail Van Buren

Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or

P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Billy GrahamSend your queries to “My

Answer,” Billy Graham Evangelistic Assoc.,

1 Billy Graham Parkway, Charlotte, N.C., 28201

Turn to Christ to be assured of heaven

Q: Will God give us a second chance after we die to believe in Jesus and go to heaven? I sure hope so, because I’m having too good a time now to bother with God, but I admit I don’t want to go to hell. -- D.H.

A: Not one word in the Bible -- not even one -- sug-gests that there will be a second chance after death for those who have willfully rejected Christ in this life and chosen to shut Him out of their lives.

In fact, the most serious mistake you could ever make would be to assume other-wise. Once this life is over, you will go into eternity — ei-ther to that place of eternal joy the Bible calls heaven, or that place of eternal sorrow and separation from God that the Bible calls hell. The Bible’s warning is clear: “Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son” (John 3:18).

These are solemn words, and I hope you will take them seriously. But listen: Jesus Christ didn’t come to make you miserable; He came to give you life! Right now you think your life is full — but are you sure? I doubt it.

If you don’t want anything to do with God in this life, why would you want anything to do with Him in the next? But God loves you, and He put you here for a purpose: To live for Him. Anything less is empty and meaningless. Don’t gamble with your soul, but repent of your sins and open your heart to Christ today. I have never met even one person who regretted coming to Christ — and neither will you.

MY ANSWERODDS AND ENDS‘Elf’ jailed over dynamite hoax on Ga. mall Santa

MORROW, Ga. (AP) — A man dressed as an elf is jailed after police in Georgia say he told a mall Santa that he was car-rying dynamite.

Police say Southlake Mall in suburban Atlanta was evacuated but no explosives were found.

Morrow police arrested 45-year-old William C. Caldwell III, who was being held without bond Thursday in the Clay-ton County jail. He was not part of the mall’s Christmas staff.

Police say Caldwell got in line Wednesday evening to have his picture taken with Santa Claus.

Police say when Caldwell reached the front of the line, he told Santa he had dynamite in his bag. Santa called mall security and Caldwell was arrested.

Caldwell faces several charges, includ-ing having hoax devices and making terroristic threats.

Texas couple say hen laid egg with cross on it

BURLESON, Texas (AP) — A Fort Worth-area couple said one of their hens laid an egg with a cross on the end of it. Pam and Tracy Norrell of Burleson, who displayed the odd-shaped egg, said they believe it’s a sign of encouragement dur-ing the holiday season.

Tracy Norrell said he was gathering eggs Monday night when one he picked up seemed to be unusual, not smooth like other eggs. The misshapen egg has an indentation on one end with what ap-pears to be a cross on it.

The Norrells said eating the egg is not an option.

Burleson is about 10 miles south of Fort Worth.

Fla. teen allegedly attacks dad for loud snoring

OLDSMAR, Fla.(AP) — A Florida teen-ager has been charged with assaulting his father, reportedly because the man was snoring too loudly.

The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Offi ce reported that the teen, 18, fi rst threw a magazine at his father, who was sleeping on a living room couch Tuesday evening. When that didn’t work, deputies said the teen pushed his father onto the fl oor and punched him in the face.

The father was checked out at a nearby hospital as a precaution.

The teen was arrested and charged with domestic battery. He was released from jail Wednesday.

Would-be thief sends merciful NY store owner $50

SHIRLEY, N.Y. (AP) — A Long Island convenience store owner who showed mercy to a would-be robber said he’s received an apology note and $50 in the mail. The unsigned note said it was from the man who tried to rob Mohammad Sohail. It said the would-be robber has a new job, a new child, and is staying out of trouble.

Sohail is saving the $50 for charity.The bat-wielding man tearfully told

Sohail in May that he was trying to feed his family. The rifl e-toting businessman gave him $40 and bread, and made him promise never to rob again.

The man disappeared when Sohail went to get milk for the family.

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“The Love of God at Christmas”Sunday, December 6 7:00 PM

Sunday, December 20 11:00 AM

Church is Located in the Deep River Community774-4932

Abundant Life Ministries

The Rev. William E. Gor-ham will deliver the mes-sage at 10 a.m. Sunday.

Ladies only night will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday at 218 Simmons St., Sanford.

The church is located at 1315 Horner Blvd. in Sanford.

Beaver Creek Baptist Church

The Single Adult Ministry will meet at 7 p.m. today in the Family Life Center .

The church is located at 2280 Nicholson Road in Cameron.

Buffalo Presbyterian Church

The Rev. Paul J. Shields will present the sermon, "Fire, Fear, and Produce," at the 11 a.m. Sunday wor-ship service.

The church is located at 1333 Carthage St. in Sanford.

Carbonton United Meth-odist Church

The annual candlelight drive will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. today and Saturday with luminar-ies, lights and live nativity scene.

The church is located at 5442 Carbonton-Goldston Road.

Center United Methodist Church

Second Sunday of Advent worship service will be held at 11 a.m. Sunday with the Rev. Chris Humphreys. The adult choir and children will present the cantata, “The Joyous News of Christmas,” at 5 p.m. Sunday. Follow-ing the music, a soup and sandwich supper benefit-ing the international relief organization Stop Hunger Now.

The church is located at 4141 South Plank Road in Sanford.

East Sanford Baptist Church

The Rev. Robert Yandle will speak at the 11 a.m. Sunday worship service. The Rev. James Wright will speak at the 6 p.m. worship ser-vice. AWANA Clubs will meet at 5:20 p.m. Sunday.

The Men’s Prayer Breakfast will be held at 6:15 a.m. Tuesday at Mrs. Wenger’s Restaurant.

All Wednesday evening activities will begin at 7 p.m.

The church is located at 300 North Ave. in Sanford.

Exousia Christian Fellowship, Inc.

Pastor Steve L. Chesney will deliver the message at the 11 a.m. Sunday worship service.

The church is located at 700 Bragg St. in Sanford.

Fountain of Life Ministries

N-The Spirit will celebrate their 5th choir anniversary at 6 p.m. Saturday. All Praise Groups are welcome.

On Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 4 p.m. The church will celebrate its 5th church anniversary at 4 p.m. Sunday with Bishop Ezekiel Young of Angier as guest speaker.

The church is located at 3491 Cameron Drive, off the Lee Avenue ext.

Grace Chapel ChurchDr. Rudy Holland will speak

on “Prove Your Love – The World’s Greatest Example” at the 10:30 a.m. Sunday worship service. AWANA meets at 6 p.m. and youth Bible studies and regular evening service begin at 6:30 p.m.

The church is located at 2605 Jefferson Davis High-way in Sanford.

Green Grove AME Zion Church

A fellowship program/building fund program will be held at 7:30 p.m. today with Elder Terence McAim-mon, choir and congrega-

tion of Mingo Hill Freewill Baptist Church rendering the service. The Vision Outreach Choir will perform. The pub-lic is invited.

The church is located at 2810 County Line Road in Cameron.

Gulf Presbyterian ChurchThe second Sunday of

Advent service at 11 a.m. Sunday with Larry Seagroves as guest soloist. For direc-tions, visit www.gulfpresbyte-rian.org.

Kendale Acres Freewill Baptist Church

A pancake supper will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the church. Eat-in or take-out for $5.

The church is located at 3407 Cemetery Road in Sanford.

Lambert Chapel Missionary Baptist Church

The Voices of Praise will celebrate their 12th choir anniversary at 4 p.m. Sun-day with numerous groups from the tri-county area to perform. Everyone is invited.

The church is located at 510 Lambert Chapel Church Road in Siler City.

Love Faith & Fellowship Deliverance Center

A Pastoral Banquet honor-ing Pastor Charlie Hawes’s 7th pastoral anniversary will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Stevens Foundation on Kelly Drive. The speaker will be the Rev. Matt Henry from Union Grove Church in McLeansville. For ticket information, contact Cherie Robinson at (919) 478-3492 or (919) 718-0307.

Moncure United Methodist Church

The annual “Hanging of the Greens” will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday with a covered dish dinner, decorat-ing the tree in the sanctuary and singing of Christmas carols. Bring a covered dish or dessert.

The church is located

at 16 Post Offi ce Road in Moncure.

Moore Union Freewill Baptist Church

Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, will be presented at 3 p.m. Sunday with the Rev. Samantha Robinson as guest speaker. Music will be provided. Everyone invited.

The church is located at 9415 Old Hwy. 421 in Broadway.

Mt. Calvary Baptist Church

An appreciation program will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday honoring the Rev. Marilee Dunlap, the Rev. Sharon McIver and the Rev. Archie Wooten. Minister Cathy Smith of Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Moncure will be the speaker.

Mt. Calvary Holiness Church

A special birthday celebra-tion honoring Elder Cora L. McIver will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday with Elder Carollene Gardin, choir and congrega-tion of Margaret’s Chapel United Holiness Church in Stanley rendering the ser-vice. Everyone is invited.

The church is located at 578 Stockyard Road in Siler City.

New Church of Deliverance

The singles workshop will be held at 7 p.m. today at the church. All singles are invited.

The church is located at 218 Main St. in Sanford.

New Life Praise Church (SBC)

A children’s Christmas special program will be held during the 10:30 a.m. Sun-day worship service. Pastor Josh will also continue with his series on practical living today through the unchang-ing Truth in the Word of God. The movie “End of the Spear” at 7 p.m. will kickoff the yearly giving toward the Lottie Moon missions offering.

Special prayer for the mis-sionaries will be at 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday.

Adult Bible studies, Kids Klub, and Uth meet from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday.

The church is located at 2398 Wicker St. in Sanford.

Recovery Room Minis-tries

Pastors Nathane and Elect Lady Donna Hooker will render the 11 a.m. Sunday worship service at the Mc-Donald building in Carthage. All are welcome.

St. Andrews Congregational Church

A Gospel Explosion will be held at 7:30 p.m. today featuring The Loving Sisters of Roxboro, The Anointed Caravans of Roxboro, The Anointed Ones of Sanford, The Chosen Disciples of Asheboro and special guest featuring Spencer Taylor and the Highway QC’s of Chicago, Ill. This program is free to the public and everyone is invited to attend.

St. Luke United Methodist Church

An Advent celebration will be held at 7 p.m. Monday in the Christian Life Center. A Christmas concert will be presented by ‘Dust and Ashes’ and dessert will be served to those in atten-dance. Admission is free. Everyone is invited.

The church is located at 2916 Wicker St. in Sanford.

St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church

The Second Sunday of Advent will be presented at 9 a.m. Sunday by Fr. Craig J. Lister. This is also the annual meeting, so there will not be an early service. Coffee hour will follow the service.

The church is located at 312 N. Steele St. in Sanford.

Sanford First Pentecostal Holiness Church

Dinner and a movie will begin at 6 p.m. Sunday. This month’s featured fi lm is "One Night with the King." Everyone is invited.

The church is located at 3606 Wicker St. Ext. in Sanford.

Solid Rock Community Church

Pastor Craig Dodson will speak on "The Christmas Story as God Revealed it to the Apostle Paul” at the 10:30 a.m. Sunday worship

service. Adult Bible study and youth classes begin at 9:30 a.m. Nursery and children church provided. Transportation available, call (919) 776-1066.

The church is located at 3220 Keller Andrews Church Road (Lee Christian School).

Tempting Congregational Church

A Missionary March will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday. The colors are red and white. A skit will be performed and visiting churches are asked to perform a talent. The public is invited.

Trinity Lutheran ChurchChristmas cantata rehears-

als will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday.

The second Sunday in Ad-vent worship service will be ministered by the Rev. Tim Martin. The fi rst service will be at 8:15 a.m. with Holy Communion. The second service will be held at 10:30 a.m. with Holy Communion followed by coffee hour. Con-fi rmation Class will follow the second service.

Advent "Soupers" begin this Wednesday at 5:30 p.m., followed by the Holden Evening Prayer at 6:30 p.m.

Gamblers Anonymous (GA) will meet on Friday at 8 p.m.

The church is located at 525 Carthage St. in San-ford.

Victory Tabernacle Church

The church and Young People Succeeding pres-ent Kingdom Business, a dynamic concert featuring hip-hop gospel artist Canton Jones and the Cajo Family, Sunday at Jr’s Place Fam-ily Life Center in Lillington. Doors open at 5 p.m. and concert starts at 6 p.m. For ticket information, visit www.victorytabernaclechurch.org. or call (910) 893-2448.

Works for Christ Christian Center

Apostle Allan Hinnant will be the guest speaker at 5 p.m. Saturday at the church.

Apostle Reginald White will be the guest speaker at 5 p.m. Sunday at the church.

Zion Independent Christian Church

The choir will present the cantata, “The Love of God at Christmas,” at 7 p.m. Sunday at the church.

The church is located at 23 Zion Church Road in Deep River.

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ONLY $64 MONTH6 Month Premium as low as $348

PEGRAM PREVATTE INS.CALL STEPHANIE @

919-777-9835or email us at [email protected]

Fresh Wreaths,Live Trees, Fresh Poinsettia,

Christmas arrangements,Ornaments and More!

Dale’s Greenhouse & Dale’s Too!2814 Jefferson Davis Hwy., Sanford, NC 27332

919-776-9013Mon-Sat 8-8, Sun 1-6

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The Sanford Herald / Friday, December 4, 2009 / 9BB11CLASSIFIEDS

Comfort and style in this unique brick home. Re-modeled kitchen, a DR, FP in FM. 3 BRs, 2 BAs, rec. room provides a second floor gathering space. Spa-cious master bedroom, a home to enjoy. $135,000 MLS #80453

reduCed

See this New Transformation inside this door.New oak floors, vinyl flooring, bath fixtures, plumbing, complete painting in this 3 bedroom, 1 bath, brick home. Garage and a fenced back yard. Many upgrades. Call to enjoy and purchase a better home. #81096 Priced $89,900

Outside city limits on Bruce Coggins rd is this like-new 2-story home on 2.36 acres, excellent for horses or beef cattle. 4BAs/3BAs, lots of stg bldgs. Large workshop, small pond fenced — excellent for privacy. Call us for de-tails and your private viewing. MLS#79617

Investment or 1st Time Buyer. 2 BRs, 1 BA, new carpet, freshly painted. $55,000 MLS #31090

Virginia Cashion.....774-4277Cell: 919-708-2266

Betty Weldon ..........774-6410Cell: 919-708-2221

Jane Baker ..............774-4802

503 Carthage St.Sanford, N.C. 27330

Fax No. 919-774-5011

Call…774-6511simpson, inc. EQUAL HOUSINGOPPORTUNITY

Wooded 1.59 acre lot on Lark Lane in Quail Ridge, city water meter and perk completed. MLS#81097 #27,900

reduCed

Move right in to this three bedroom brick ranch. Many extras, including sun room and very spacious family room. Call today for more information. MLS# 78684

reduCed

Investment or ready to Build on Beautiful wooded lot in Quail Ridge. 340 feet of road front-

age, perk tested, and city water meter in place. A perfect home site. Only $27,900 for 1.59 acre.

#81097

Water Front LotWest Lake Downs

Only $59,90013.82 Acres

Nice Homesite on

Pickard Rd.

Country Home on 1.72 acres, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, needs some upgrades and repairs. Home is being SOLD AS IS. Could become a very nice home on S. Plank Rd. Priced at $59,000, MLS# 81618.

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10B / Friday, December 4, 2009 / The Sanford Herald

Would like to clean your home. Gen. clean and/or sit w/ elderly. Regina 258-9187 or 919-935-4259

410Employment

Wanted

400Employment

Simply CleanHousekeeping Service- com-prehensive cleaning service

for all your residential & commercial needs.

Licensed & Insuredwww.simplyclean4u.com

919-353-2798

365Home/Office

Cleaning

WAHM Will keep Greenwood afterschoolers in my home $30 per week

plus $10 per school holidays 919-721-0948

Seeking to care for children in home.

Broadway Area. Qualified with Credentials.(919)258-6441

Licensed family child care home has an opening to care for your child. Home

school environment.Call Heike at 776-0636

320Child Care

300Businesses/Services

Forklift for sale. Clark GCS 20 LP Gas. Capacity 3530 Lbs. Call for info: 919-770-

9644

290ConstructionEquipment

CLASSIFIED DEAD-LINE: 2:00 PMDAY BEFORE

PUBLICATION. (2:00 pm Friday for

Sat/Sun ads). San-ford Herald, Classi-

fied Dept.,718-1201 or

718-1204

255Sport Utilities

’93 Chev. truck, long bed,good motor, transmission trouble. $550 price nego-

tiable. Call 770-0867.

250Trucks

Have 3 Saturns selling 1 2001 Saturn SL2. Every op-

tion plus leather, 103K miles, 5-speed manual,

very reliable, excellent cond,

$3900 Call 919-498-6959

Car Ports starting @ $695. Delivery and Installation

Included. Any metal struc-tured need. 919-842-1606www.carportsandmore.net

Automobile Policy: Threedifferent automobile ads perhousehold per year at the

“Family Rate”. In excess of 3, billing will be at the

“Business Rate”.

2005 Grand Caravan SXT. AC, pwr wnds, locks, doors, liftgate, 6-disc

cd/dvd video sys, plus more! $8,995 neg. Call:

919-775-3734

240Cars - General

2000 Chev. Cavalier 4 cyl. motor 2200 SFI 919-770-

9644

230Car & TruckAccessories

200Transportation

Yard Sale: Dec. 3-4, 10am-5pm Store building. Post

Office Rd. Moncure; sofa, 2 recliners, 2 rocking

chairs, lamps, odd furni-ture, clothes, Christmas

items, 542-3812

Yard Sale Friday 8am-Until207 St. Andrews Ch. Rd

Christmas Bows & Decorations, Cast iron fry pan, Antique ice bucket,

mag. rack, Angels, Cards, Lots of Kitchen Items, Dishes, Country CDs,

Videos, Jewelry & More Good Prices,

Cancel If Raining

Moving Garage SaleSaturday Dec. 5, 2009

8 am until 1 pm143 Blackstone Road

Sanford NC

HUGE YARD SALEMonday - Saturday

Yow’s GrocerySeminole Road

Broadway

Ask about our YARD SALE SPECIAL

8 lines/2 days*$13.50

Get a FREE “kit”:6 signs, 60 price stickers,

6 arrows, marker, inventory sheet, tip sheet!

*Days must be consecutive

7am - 12pm, Sat., 2102 N Shoreline Dr., Carbonton

Heights. Enter from Carbon-ton Rd or Spring Ln. Wom-

en’s clothes, large sizes 12W - 28W; crystal, china, HH items, decorative items,

many items! $1 -$5

190Yard Sales

M I S S I N GYellowish Color Lab

9 Weeks OldMissing Since Nov 17th

Lemon Springs Area Nicholson & Edwards Road

No Tags or Collar Call 353-1473 If Found

130Lost

Female CompanionDon’t be alone for Christ-mas! Wholesome gentle-

man needs live-in compan-ion. Room & board includ-ed. Plus small salary. No smoking/drugs. Call Ray:

(919)995-8945

120Personals

WILL MOVE OLD JUNK CARS! BEST PRICES

PAID. Call for complete car delivery price.

McLeod’s Auto Crushing. Day 499-4911.

Night 776-9274.

Wanted Old Barns &Buildings to TearDown for Lumber

Call Billy 777-9000

Frazier Furs Lifeline Ministries

Old Sanford Motel Buy a Tree - Rescue a Life

Braston-Gail Antiques336 Wicker Street

Now Has Reclaimed Lumber and Recycled

Building Materials. Visit our store or call

919-353-5691

110Special Notices

Attention Broadway Resident 6 -7 FT

Frazier Furs Yows Grocery

Seminole Road Broadway

110Special Notices

100Announcements

EXECUTOR NO-TICE

HAVING qualified as Executor of the estate

of Rosemary Ken-nedy, deceased, late

of Lee County, North Carolina, this is to

notify all persons having claims against

the estate of said de-ceased to present

them to the under-signed within three

months from Decem-ber 3, 2009 or this no-tice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery.All persons indebted to said estate please

make immediate pay-ment. This 3, day of

December, 2009.Franklin Dale

Burgess13862 NC HWY 24-27

Eagle Springs,NC,27242

Executor/trixof the estate of

Rosemary Kennedy(December 4, 11, 18,

25)

EXECUTOR NOTICE

Having qualified as Executor of the estate

of Elsie T. Wester ,deceased, late of Lee

County, North Caroli-na, this is to notify all

persons having claims against the es-tate of said deceased

to present them to the undersigned within

three months from November 13, 2009 or

this notice will be pleaded in bar of

their recovery. All persons indebted to

said estate please make immediate pay-ment. This 13, day of

November, 2009.Gertrude Gaylor

WesterPO BOX 67

Damascus, Virginie,24236

Maria H. Campbell201 Leland Drive

Greensboro, NC 27455Executor/trix

of the estate ofElsie T. Wester.

(11/13, 11/20, 11/27,12/4)

hour notice, the City will provide an inter-

preter for the hearing impaired or any oth-er type of auxiliary

aid.

Cualquier cuidadano que tenga preguntas o comentarios de las co-sas al referido, puede comunicarse a el de-

partamento de desar-ollo para

Sanford/Condado de Lee, llame al (919) 718-

4656.

By Bonnie White,

City Clerk

001Legals

ber 15, 2009, in the Council Chambers of

the Sanford Munici-pal Building, 225 East Weatherspoon Street,

Sanford, N.C. The Boards will consider two (2) amendments

to the Sanford Zoning Map. The hearings

will begin at 7:00 p.m.or as soon thereafter as deemed practical by the City Council.

The rezoning applica-tions are described

below:

1. Petition by Don-ald R. Simpson to re-

zone 8.45 acres +/- from the current Res-idential Mixed (R-12)

Zoning District to General Commercial (C-2) Zoning District.

This is one legal lot that is bisected by S

Third Street with 8.43 acres +/- located northeast of the

inter-section of S. Third Street & S. Horner

Blvd and to the rear of a shopping center

addressed as 1801-1825 S. Horner Blvd,

with 120 feet +/- ofroad frontage on S

Third Street and 0.02 of an acre +/- located on the opposite (west) side of S Third Street,south of 1620 S Third

Street, with 36 feet +/- of road frontage

on S Third Street.The property is the

same as depicted on Lee County Tax Map

9652.14, Tax Parcel 9652-34-2862 Lee

County Land Re-cords. The property is

also the same as the lot illustrated on

“Survey for Donald R.Simpson” recorded in

Plat Cabinet 9, Slide 95E, Lee County Reg-

istry of Deeds.

2. Petition by Roger W. Murchison & Car-olyn J. Murchison to rezone 1.39 acres +/-

addressed as 1700 Westover Drive and

1603 Dogwood Acres Drive from the cur-

rent Residential Sin-gle-family (R-20) Zon-ing District to Gener-

al Commercial (C-2) Zoning District. The property is the same

as depicted on Tax Map 9631.02, as Tax

Parcels 9631-57-6248-00 and 9631-57-5168-00 Lee County Land Re-

cords. The property is also the same as Lots

10, 37, 38, 39 & 40 ofBlock A as illustrated

on “Portion of Elva Bryan McIver Estate / Condor Farm” sub-division plat record-ed in Plat Cabinet 2,

Slide 733, Lee County Registry of Deeds.

The public is cordial-ly invited to attend.

Further information may be obtained from

the Sanford/Lee County Community

Development Depart-ment, 900 Woodland

Avenue, Sanford, NC 27330 or by calling

(919) 718-4656. Upon request and with 24-

001Legals

CITY OF SANFORD

PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby giv-en that the City Coun-

cil and Planning Board for the City of

Sanford will hold joint public hearings

on Tuesday, Decem-

001Legals

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check it and help you keep

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risk of heart attack and

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call 1-800-AHA-USA1.

IT’S ONLY A

SILENT KILLER TO THOSE

WHO REFUSE TO LISTEN.

This space provided as a public service. © 1999, American Heart Association

110 cc Kid’s ATVs

Now Available For Christmas!

Southeast Auto Outlet, Inc819 WICKER STREET (2 Blocks From Hospital, Beside Scoops)

919-718-9324

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The Sanford Herald / Friday, December 4, 2009 / 11B

Cancer Foundation. Free Mammograms, Breast Can-

cer info: www.ubcf.info. Free Towing, Tax Deducti-

ble, Non-Runners Accepted, 1-888-468-5964.

ALL CASH VENDING! Do You Earn Up to $800/day (potential)? Your own local route. 25 Machines and

Candy. All for $9,995. 1-888-753-3458, MultiVend,

LLC.

ATTEND COLLEGE ON-LINE from home. Medical, Business, Paralegal, Ac-

counting, Criminal Justice. Job placement assistance. Computer available. Finan-cial aid if qualified. Call

888-899-6918, www.Cen-turaOnline.com

DISH NETWORK $19.99/Mo. Free Activa-

tion, Free HBO & Free Showtime. Ask about our

no-credit promo. 48hr Free Install - Call Now 888-929-2580. BuyDishToday.com

DRIVERS CDL/A FLATBED Up to 40 CPM. Home

Time. Benefits. OTR Experi-ence Required. No felonies.

Top earner potential $69,000. Carrier since 1928! 800-441-4271, x

NC-100

DRIVER- CDL-A. Attention Flatbed Drivers! Steady Freight & Miles. Limited

Tarping. Paycheck deposit-ed to ComData Card, $25 Bonus for every clean DOT

inspection. Must have TWIC Card or apply within 30 days of hire. Western Express. Class A CDL, 22 years old, 1 year experi-ence. 866-863-4117.

KNIGHT TRANSPORTA-TION- Debt Free National

Company. Seeks 10 Excep-tional Drivers. Clean MVR & Criminal History. Dry:

866-519-4835, x1. Reefer; 866-683-9855. Class-A

CDL/1 year OTR. www.knighttrans.com

PTL OTR Drivers. NEW PAY PACKAGE! Great Miles! Up to 46cpm. 12 months experience required. No

felony or DUI past 5 years. 877-740-6262. www.ptl-

inc.com

AIRLINES ARE HIRING- Train for high paying Avia-tion Maintenance Career.

FAA approved program. Fi-nancial aid if qualified. Housing available. Call

Aviation Institute of Mainte-nance (888) 349-5387.

DRIVERS/TRAINEES NEED-ED. National Carriers Hir-ing Now! No experience

needed! No CDL? No prob-lem! Training available with

Roadmaster. Call Now. 866-494-8459.

960StatewideClassifieds

Auctions Direct Pickup Your ad can be delivered to over 1.7 million North Carolina homes from the doorstep to the desktop with one order! Call this newspaper to place your 25-word ad in 114 NC

newspapers and on www.ncadsonline.com for

only $330. Or visit www.ncpress.com

RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT AUCTION- Wednesday, December 9 at 10 a.m. 264 Wilson Park Road, Statesville, NC. Selling

Seized Restaurant Equip-ment for the NC Depart-

ment of Revenue for Unpaid Taxes. Coolers, Freezer,

Gas, Fryers, Ovens, Stoves, Hobart Mixers, Pizza

Ovens. www.ClassicAuc-tions.com 704-791-8825.

NCAF5479.

REAL ESTATE AUCTION- 167+/- ACRES. 12-05-09- 12:00 Noon, 6014 Fox Hunter Road, Lancaster,

SC. Approximately 1 Hour from Charlotte City Limits. Online bidding by Proxy-bid.com - GARY BOYD

AUCTION, SCAL#2067R, 704-982-5633, www.gary-

boydauction.com

REAL ESTATE AUCTION- 31 lots with long range

mountain views and a new-ly constructed home in

Mountain Heritage Estates- Burnsville, NC, located

near Asheville and The Blue Ridge Parkway. 7 lots sell absolute! The 1,600± Sq. Ft. Mountain Home has 3 bedrooms and 2∏ baths. Auction on December 12. Go to www.woltz.com to see photos, property de-tails, preview dates and

auction terms, or call 800-551-3588 for a brochure. Woltz & Associates, Inc. (NC#7560) Real Estate

Brokers & Auctioneers, Roa-noke, VA.

COMMERCIAL AUCTION- Saturday, December 12 at 10 a.m. 201 S. Central

Avenue, Locust, NC. Selling Seized Equipment & Inven-tory for the NC Department of Revenue for Unpaid Tax-es. 3 Tire Stores, 3000+ New Tires, Tire Changing Equipment, Cabinet Shop, New Delta Woodworking

Equipment & Vehicles. www.ClassicAuctions.com.

704-791-8825. NCAF5479

AUCTION- SATURDAY, DE-CEMBER 5, 9:00am, Red

Oak, VA. 4.3 Acres, Home with 40'x60' Shop, Com-

mercial Woodworking Equipment & Tools, Person-al Property, Vehicles, Back-hoe, etc. Carwile Auctions, www.carwileauctions.com.

(434) 547-9100. (VAAR392)

AUCTION- Construction Equipment & Trucks, De-cember 11, 8 a.m., Rich-mond, VA. 600+ Lots, Ex-

cavators, Dozers, Dumps & More. Accepting Items Dai-ly. Motley's Auction & Real-ty Group, 804-232-3300,

www.motleys.com, VAAL#16.

DONATE YOUR VEHICLE- Receive $1000 Grocery Coupon. United Breast

960StatewideClassifieds

In accordance with the provisions of State law,

there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy and owner’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at:

Courtyard Storage116 Brady Road

Sanford, NC 27330(919)777-0911

And, due notice having been given, to the owner of said property and all par-ties known to claim noninterest therein, and the

time specified in such no-tice for payment of such

having expired, the goods will be sold at public auc-

tion at the above stated ad-dress to the highest bidder or otherwise disposed of 12/5/2009 9:00 AM

Courtyard StorageLien Sale 12/05/2009

Contents to be sold: tools, furniture, appliances, children’s items, and

household itemsB. Thompson Unit 335

S. Branch Unit 372T. Thompson Unit 311T. Muldowny Unit 579

Kelly Lea Unit 474J. Lynn Unit 560

Jason Joins Unit 317K. Durocher Unit 516M. Palmer Unit 261

Terms of Sale: CASH ONLY

919-777-0911

Down Memory Lane Antiques& Collectibles

RELOCATION AUCTION!!!EVERYTHING MUST GO,

OVER 8,000 SQ. FT.of some of the best antiques

& collectibles around, including show cases.

Furniture dating from the 1750’s to 1940’s. All kind of glass, too much to list, toys, books, jewelry, old

Army bike, wooden wagon 1920’s oil paintings, water colors, engravings, prints, china, pottery, Gone With The Wind Lamps, All kinds of collectibles, and much,

much more too much to list.Dates:

Saturday 12/05/09Time: 9am - ?

Sunday - 12/06/09Time: 11am - ?

Preview: Thursday and Fri-day 10am - 4pm

Sat. 8 am to 9 amDirections: US #1 South or North to Aberdeen, NC, Take HWY #5 Toward

Pinehurst, NC Turn Left onto Dawkins Street, 161

Dawkins, Down on the left, Behind the Bowling Alley.

5% Buyer Premium NCAL # 6810910-295-0015910-393-1118

Council’s Auction 7pm Big Christmas Shopping Fri

Eddy Sat Johnny Nice Gifts For Everybody Lakeview 910-245-7347 Lonnie

Council #5665

920Auctions

900Miscellaneous

Cheap Timeshare For SaleDowntown Myrtle BeachNear Yachtsman Hotel

Sleeps 6 - 7 King, Queen, Sofas, Bunk Beds,

Indoor-Outdoor Pool, Kitchen, 2 TVS -

Really Nice!Need to sell now - $999Photos - John 776-3615

840Resort/Timeshare

CLASSIFIED LINE ADDEADLINE:2:00 PM

DAY BEFOREPUBLICATION. (2:00 pm Friday for Sat/Sun ads). Sanford Herald,

Classified Dept., 718-1201 or 718-

1204

830Mobile Homes

3BR/2BA, garden tub, brick underpinning, 3.5 ac., country, Goldston,

refrig., stove, dishwasher, microwave 258-9887.

1st Time Home buyers SpecialReady for immediate occu-pancy. New 1450 Sq Foot

Home with Hardwood Floors in Living Room,Ceramic Tile Floors in

Kitchen and Baths. Home comes with a 24x24 Ga-

rage Large Front Porch and a Deck on the rear. Located

in Southern Lee County, Aprox. 20 Mins from

Sanford, Pinehurst, or Fort Bragg. A steal at only

$129,900 Call 919-718-2760For More Information

825Manufactured

Homes

PUBLISHER’SNOTICE

All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act 1968 which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or dis-crimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handi-cap, familial status, or national origin or an inten-tion to make any such pref-erence, limitation or dis-crimination.”This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertisement for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper available on an equal opportunity basis.To complain of discrimina-tion call 919-733-7996 (N.C. Human Relations Commission).

OPEN HOUSES: 6 New Plans @ NOTTINGHAM

US #1 @ Burns Dr. Sat.-Sun. 1 to 5

Model Now Open COPPER RIDGE

1+ acre homesites US #1 @ Farrell Rd

Sun. 1-5 or 770-4883

For Sale: 4BR 2.5 BA Totally Renovated

$148,700 Southern Lee School

District (919)775-9631

*Houses/Mobile Homes/Real Estate Policy: One (house) per

household per year at the “Family Rate”.Consecutive

different locations/addresseswill be billed

at the “Business Rate”.

820Homes

10 ACRE TRACTMoore County Near Lee

County Line Call B Salmon Realty 910-215-2958

810Land

800Real Estate

Office Suites Available $80-$200 a month &

Commercial space, perfect for Auto shop or studio

$650/mo 919-721-0610

765Commercial

Rentals

2 units avail. 240 Kathleen Terrace, W. Harnett, 4/BR House, 675/month. 2/BR Apt, 206 N. Avenue $400 + deposit. 919-895-2286

750For Rent -

Miscellaneous

Small 2BR $400/mo., $400 dep. NO PETS!

919-770-2246 or 919-499-7530.

For Rent: 2 bedrooms/2 baths mobile home. Lemon

Springs Area. No pets. $450 plus deposit. Call:919-499-3098

740For Rent - Mobile

Homes

3BR 2BA MH Tramway Area

$525/moRef & Dep Required

919-499-3236

3 BR 2 BA Mobile Home For Rent

Section 8 welcome. Call 919-499-9391 or

919-353-2399.

2BR MH in quiet park, no pets, $495/mo., water & trash pickup included.

Mint Condition,Washer and Dryer

499-9830 before 9pm

2BR 1.5BA singlewide, Olivia area, no pets,

$350/dep, $375/mo., application required.

919-499-7834

740For Rent - Mobile

Homes

Treat your family to a warm and cozy Holiday Season

in your new home atWestridge Apartments

1 & 2 Bedroom UnitsWasher/Dryer

hook up in wach unit.Section 8 welcomed

Disability accessible units.Equal Housing Opprtunity

Pathway DriveSanford, NC 27330

(919)775-5134

Sanford GardensAge 62 and disabled under

62 who may qualify Adock Rentals

774-6046EHO

MOVE IN SPECIALFREE RENT

High Ridge Village 1,2,3 bedroom apt. energy efficient, swimming pool, adjacent to Kiwanis parkcall today. 919-775-5512

Large Furnished 1 BR Apt in Country No Indoor Pets

Criminal and Credit Check Req Avail Now 775-4308

Apt for rent, 1 bedroom/1 bath, utilities included!

$400/month. Call: 919-946-7078

APPLY TODAYBrookside Park Apartments

1113 Richards StreetSouthern Pines, NC 28387

Tel. 910-692-7013TTY 1-800-735-2962

Apartments available for Immediate Occupancy

1, 2, 3, and 4 Bedrooms Available

Air ConditionWasher/Dryer Hookups

Stove & RefrigeratorWater included

On Site ManagementCommunity Center24 Hour on Call

Maintenance Section 8 is Available on

Most Units(For Those Who Qualify) To apply for residency,

stop by the office, pick an

application up today.

1 BR APT. Great Location Small Clean Launderette on

Sight Water Included $315/mon. $250/Dep.

No Hookups for Washer & Drye NO PETS Credit

Check Available Now !!!Jefferson Manor Apartments

919-774-4733 Office in Al’s Sale Store

building across the street.

730For Rent -

Apts/Condos

THE SANFORD HERALDmakes every effort to follow

HUD guidelines in rental advertisements placed by

our advertisers. We reserve the right to refuse or change ad copy as

necessary for HUD compliances.

Rent to Own: West Sanford location. 3-4BR,1BA, over 1500 sq. ft., $650/mo.

204 Hillcrest Dr. 919-946-7078

Avail. Immediately: Brick home w/sc porch on almost 1 ac. W. Sfd.,$650/mo.,$650 dep.

Gwyn Maples & Co. 776-5808 Owner/Broker

5009 Brairwood$775/mo 3BD/2BAAdcock Rentals

919-774-6046

3BR/1.5BA, remodeled, new appl., den, attach.

garage, lv. rm., eat in kit. good location, $775/mo. Avail 11/1 919-721-5680

1, 2, 3, BR Rentals Avail.Adcock Rentals

774-6046adcockrentalsnc.com

720For Rent - Houses

700Rentals

Looking to purchase small timber tracts.

Fully insured. Call919-499-8704

695Wanted to Buy

For Sale: 85 XT Case Skid Steer

plus 40 FTBucket Truck

258-3594 - 499-3053

690Tools/Machinery/Farm Equipment

Thank you for shopping B&B Market. Local collards, greens, swt potatoes, nuts, candy, fruits. Foodstmp.

&WIC. 775-3032

Need a fruit basket made? To your order- all sizes! Call: B&B Market 775-3032. A variety of nuts,

candy, & fruit by the box!

680Farm Produce

Cockatiels: pair-$75 also 1 male & 2 females- $40 each. Call: 708-8921

Boston Terrier PupsReady December 14th

Just in time for ChristmasCKC Registered $300

taking Deposit 499-6914

4 free black, gray, & white male kittens, bobtailed.

Please Call: 919-478-6931

*Pets/Animals Policy: Three different (Pet) ads per household per year at the

“Family Rate”. In excess of 3, billing will be at the

“Business Rate”.

675Pets/Animals

7 Month old Palomino

Philly Call for more info

498-5525

670Horses/Livestock

CLASSIFIED SELLS!“CALL TODAY,

SELL TOMORROW”Sanford HeraldClassified Dept.,

718-1201 or 718-1204

665Musical/Radio/TV

GOT STUFF?CALL CLASSIFIED!

SANFORD HERALDCLASSIFIED DEPT.,

718-1201 or 718-1204.

660Sporting Goods/Health & Fitness

Firewood: full size truck load. Delivered & stacked.

$70 919-258-3807

Firewood for saleRed oak & white oakdry wood. $60 for

standard size pickup. You haul. $70 delivered.

Call 499-6321.

Firewood For Sale deliv-ered & stacked. Seasoned

or green. Different Size Loads Available Call David

Jones: 919-356-3779

Fire WoodMixed HardwoodsFull Size Pick Up

Split & Delivered $85499-1617/353-9607

Fire Wood For SaleSeveral Different Size Loads

258-3594/499-3053

For Sale: Split Fire Wood Will Deliver No Load too

big or small 919-548-9618Lifeline Recovery Mission

(OldSanford Motel US#1S.)

640Firewood

Appliance Repair - all brands. Free estimate.All

work guaranteed. Call Mr. Paul anytime 258-9165.

615Appliances

Would like to trade this tractor for a Brand New Scooter 50cc 499-2012

ask for Terry - Hicks

New Blackjack TableNever Used - 7 Person

with stools, 8 deck shoe $525 Call John

776-3615

HAVING A YARD SALE?

The DEADLINE for

Ads is 2 P.M.the day PRIOR to publication. PREPAYMENT IS REQUIRED FOR

YARD SALE ADS. THE SANFORD HERALD,

CLASSIFIED DEPT. 718-1201 or

718-1204

(4) 185-70-14 new tires $100 Bunkbeds $75 Kitch-

en table & 4 chairs $75 Couch & loveseat $100 4983030/4784108

605Miscellaneous

Uniden Pro 510XL CB Wil-son 1000 Antenna $100,

Call 499-1568

601Bargain Bin/$250 or Less

Set of queen-size pillow top mattresses, new. $195

Used set of 4 mattresses, like new. $50

Call: 919-775-5119

Set of end tables & coffee table, oak w/ glass tops, $250. 919-542-3812

Rollup Oak Secretary Desk: 30” high, 30” long, 17” deep, good condition.

$100 or best offer. Call: 919-498-2210

Jenny Lind Crib - $40.00Toy chest with shelves and

drawers $15Book case (very nice) $40

Kodak Printer $75.00small child's bed $25

Please call 498-1934 after 10 or 499-7025

between 8-5.

Full Size Home Made Quilt $75 OBO,

Barbie Dolls in original Boxes To Many to List

775-5989

Full set of Hannah Montana Rockstar sheets, quilt, pil-lows, shag rug, clock & pink bedside lamp. $50

Please Call: 919-718-6580

For Sale: Kenmore Washer and Dryer. Exc Condition 2 Years Old $250 for both.

776-3949770-6069

For Sale: 4 Goodyear P205/60 R16 Tires.

Excellent cond. At least 20K tread left. $20 a piece. Call: 774-3535

Complete Dining Room Set

Seats 6 For Sale $250Call after 6pm

775-7504

Comfy American Signature Love seat and Matching

Ottoman – Excellent Condition $225 – durable but soft, sage green fabric – smoke free home – can email photo - Please call:

919-498-2601

Collards, Turnips, Mixed Greens

FOR SALE5450 Ponderosa Road

Olivia 499-4866

Brand New Stainless Steel Hood Fan $50.

Please Call 499-0341

Big Big Bag of Boys Toddler Clothes

18mon-24mon $40,3 Piece Pants Suit $10 for both, Table Christmas Tree w/ lights and angel $10,

Merry Go Round Christmas Player $10 708-6910

Beautiful boot-length faux fur coat, white w/shadow streaks, medium size, like new! $75, 919-721-4184

Artificial Christmas tree, 6 ft, $10. Small vacuum,

works good, $10. Please Call: 919-353-9644

American Idol karaoke ma-chine, nice, new in box.

$75X Box new condition, in

original box. $50

All Pro- mod SPC 40 Pro-pane forced-air heater $55. Nova Rollator-walker, seat, basket, brakes $40. Radio Flyer Town & Country wag-

on $35. 910-245-7909

6 Place W. Dalton Copy Write, Whitney Imperial

China $30, and 7 Drawer Wood Dresser w/ mirror

$50 Both in Excellent Condition774-4378

2 Vera Bradley Bucket Style Pocketbooks $30 each 1 Vera Bradley

Wallet $10776-2129 356-5490

*“Bargain Bin” ads are free for five consecutive days. Items must total $250 or less, and the price

must be included in the ad. Multiple items at a single price

(i.e., jars $1 each), and animals/pets do not qualify.

One free “Bargain Bin” ad per household per month.

601Bargain Bin/$250 or Less

600Merchandise

Free to good home: Minia-ture Dachshund, 3 yrs, fully-

trained. Loves to cuddle! Comes w/toys, bones,

cage, bed, etc. 919-718-6580

520Free Dogs

Free kittens to a good home, different colors.Call 919-258-9887

Beautiful Christmas Kittens! 8 weeks old, free to good home. Please Call: 910-

985-1092

510Free Cats

500Free Pets

Sleep Tech RPSGT orRPSGT Eligible. San-

ford, NC. Fax resume 919-776-0517

470Help Wanted -Medical/Dental

Fran’s Day Care is look-ing for someone to work FT with Credentials. No phone

calls. Accepting applica-tions at 906 South 3rd St

425Help Wanted -

Child Care

We offer• BOLD print

• ENLARGED PRINT

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for part/all of your ad!Ask your Classified Sales

Rep for rates.

W - A - N - T - E - DMotivated Individuals Who

Want Financial Independence Appointment

ONLY 919-356-2659

Own A Computer? Put it to work! Up to $1,500 to

$7,500/mo PT/FT Free In-fo! TMHhealth.com

J.T. Davenport & Son, Inc.Yard Jockey

J.T. Davenport & Sons, Inc has an opening in our

Transportation Department for a Yard Jockey. This po-

sition is responsible for placing trailers at dock for loading and unloading, en-suring seals are in place for outbound freight, and han-dling all yard activities with company equipment. Appli-cants must have experience and pass pre-employment screening. As part of the Davenport team, you will receive medical/dental

benefits, vacation, holiday, sick pay, participation a company matched 401(k) plan and much more! We are accepting applications at our corporate office and at the Employment Security Commission in your area.J.T. Davenport & Sons, Inc.

1144 Broadway RoadSanford, NC 27332-9793

E O E

Information Technologies Specialist

Microsoft Certified Soft-ware administrator/Engi-neer. Must be able to set-up and maintain all net-work functions including password access to new

users/addition of terminals, write crystal reports for cus-tom software data compila-tions, network security func-tions, maintain user data-base and email accounts.

Current network size 45 de-vices between three loca-tions linked by T-1 connec-tion. Familiar with SQL

server and ODBC connec-tivity a plus. Benefits. Send resume and salary require-

ments to [email protected] or mail to Gray Flex Systems

Inc., Attn: IT Specialist, P.O. Box 1326, Coats, NC

27521, or Fax 910-897-2222.

Electrical Controls DesignerResponsible for layout,

assembly, wiring, testing, programming and

installation of electrical control panels for custom automated machinery. Typical devices include AC/DC drives, PLC’s,

relays, pneumatic valves, and a variety of inductive

and optical sensors. Requires skill with power drills, taps, and general

hand tools. Must be affluent in PLC controls. Candidate must be able to work from & create blueprints, charts, sketches. Must be able to

create or modify PLC Programs & Electrical Cad type drawings. Must also be able to create written

and provide oral instructions for others. May be required to fill in where additional work is required due to absenteeism. Must

work with minimum supervision. Candidate is

required to have own tools. Benefits. Send resume and

salary requirements to [email protected], or mail to Gray Flex Systems,

Inc., Attn: ElectricalControls, P.O. Box 1326,

Coats, NC 27521, or Fax (910) 897-2222.

*** NOTICE***NEEDED

IMMEDIATELYMotor Route Carrier

*Deep River Area*

We’re looking for people with some special

qualifications. We needDependable

people who have a desire for earning money. All

you have to do is deliver newspapers Tuesday

through Sunday morningsbefore 6am for

THE SANFORD HERALD.

You will need economical transporta-tion and be over 21. If

you fit this profile and think you can

deliver, please come byTHE SANFORD

HERALDat 208 St. Clair Court,

and fill out an application.

420Help Wanted -

General

B13CLASSIFIEDS

B14CLASSIFIEDS

Phil StoneTree Removal

Tree Removal, StumpGrinding, Trim & Top Trees,

Bushhogging, Backhoe Work & Landscaping

FREE ESTIMATESFULLY INSURED

We accept MasterCard & Visa

Quality Service to Lee& Surrounding

Counties for 15 Years

TREE REMOVAL

24 HourEmergencyService

Call776-4678

SMITTY’SLANDSCAPING

SERVICEQuality Work For

Residential

Over 20 Years Experience

919-775-2580

FOUNDATION DRAINAGE

HARDWOOD FLOORS

HARDWOOD FLOORS

Wade Butner776-3008

Finishing & Refinishing

THEHANDY-MAN

REPAIR SERVICE• Carpentry• Dry Wall• Electrical• Painting• Plumbing

BATH REMODELING

Will Terhune919-770-7226

REPAIR SERVICE

I INSTALL

(Yours or Mine)919-499-4774

Decorator’s Floor Covering

LETT’S TREE REMOVAL SERVICE

Remove trees, Trim and top Trees, Lot clearing, stump

grinding, backhoe work, hauling, bush hogging, plus we buy tracts of

timber. We accept

Visa and Mastercard. Free estimates and

we are insured.

TREE SERVICE

Call258-3594

Since 1978

(919) 258-0572Cell: (919) 842-2974

UniversalPressure Washing

Residential/Commercial

PRESSURE WASHING

Fall DrivewaySpecial

1 Load ofCrush & Run

$100 Delivered

Spreading Available

Call:919-777-8012

(919) 258-0572Cell: (919) 842-2974

UniversalPressure Washing

Residential/Commercial

PRESSURE WASHING

Imports & DomesticsRoutine Maintenance & Major Repair

No Job Too Big or Small

CHRIS SELLERS13 years total experience

9 years at dealershipHonda Factory Trained & Certified

WILL STEWART10 years total experience

All Make and Models

2625 Dalrymple StreetSanford, NC 27332

Pecans Cracked We can now crack

most large and small pecans

215 Carthage StreetH&H Auto Parts

45¢ lb. Contact Dan at

775-2335

McNeill Enterprises

Has the Decorator you need,

She will come to your House and do all the work

Put up the Tree, hang the Wreaths, do all the arrangements.

Let her do all the work while you sit back and enjoy the Season while

entertaining your Family and friends.

McNeill Enterprises 770-0542

DECORATORCustom Residential

& Commercial

McNeill Enterprise

THEGOODYSHOP

HOME MADECAKES,

COOKIES, CANDIES,

GIFT BASKETS

919-770-3635

New HomeConstruction

Room Additions &Remodels

Porches & DecksDoors & WindowsGeneral Carpentry

Home Repairs

Licensed and Insured919-721-3795

“for all your construction needs”CONSTRUCTION, INC.

Don’t have the time to do your yard work?

Let me do it for you for far less than these big companies.

pine needles

DOZER SERVICEDOZER FOR HIRE

No Job Too Small

Structure Demolition, Landscaping, Ponds, Lot

Clearing, PropertyLine/Fence Clearing

Affordable Rates Call Bent Tree Grading

Fully Insured Free Estimates

356-2470

L.C. HarrellHome Improvement

Decks, Porches, BuildingsRepair and Remodel

ElectricalInterior and Exterior

Quality Work atAffordable Prices

No Job Too small or Too LARGE

919-770-3853

HOME IMPROVEMENT

Cameron’sHauling & Tractor

Work1 Ton - 8 Ton’s

919-770-9125

HAULINGSanford’s LOWEST PRICES

Shop at home by appointment

Free Estimates919-499-4774

Decorator’s Floor Covering

8923

37SH

W - A - N - T - E - D If you’re ready to start

succeeding in business.

I don’t care whether you’re brand spanking new, or a

seasoned veteran.

All that matters is you’re willing to apply yourself.

919-356-2659

US I Indoor - OutdoorFlea Market

OpenThursday - Saturday

8 am - 5 pm

1,000 of Items

Several Vendors

1218 Business Hwy 1Cameron

910-245-4896910-308-1971

$3 Off Pedicure$5 Off Manicure/Pedicure$5 Off Full Set White tips

$10 Off Full SetPink & White Gel

Satisfaction Guaranteed

Love Nails2250 S Jefferson Davis Hwy, TRAMWAY (919) 774-8909Must Bring In Coupon For Discount

2009

Holiday Specials

FOR ALL YOURBUILDING AND

REMODELING NEEDSwww.sbssanford.com

919-776-15001490 Comfort LaneSanford, NC 27330

(Behind Bay Breeze Seafood)

Store Hours:Mon-Fri: 7AM - 4PM

Sat: 8AM - 12PM

Christman’s City Wide Services

1-800-486-6087(919) 499-5404

GUTTER CLEANING

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