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WHO’S NEWS

Town cancelscouncil meeting

INDIAN TRAILA quorum was not avail-

able, so the Indian Trail Town Council canceled Tuesday’s meeting.

“It’s just one of those timing things that didn’t work out,” Councilman Gary D’Onofrio said.

D’Onofrio and Council-man Dan Schallenkamp were out of town on busi-ness and Mayor John Quinn needed to prepare to go out of town today. That left only John Hullinger, Shirley Howe and Jeff Goodall available, not enough for a full meet-ing.

“I don’t think there was anything critical on (the agenda),” Quinn said. “I don’t think it will have that much bearing” on future meetings.

This would have been the last meeting before elections next week.

D’Onofrio said he would prefer have the meeting, but that sometimes job responsi-bilities are unavoidable.

“I’m just glad to be em-ployed in this economy,” he said with a chuckle.

Quinn said it was prob-ably for the best that the meeting was canceled, adding that taking votes with less than the full board would not be responsible government.

BIRTHDAYSBest wishes are extended

to everyone who is celebrat-ing a birthday today, especial-ly: Kay Jo Baucom, Desha Jacobs, Amy Hogan, Kiera Massi, Peggy Streater Little, Grayson Watson and Ann Griffin Deese.

Call (704) 261-2278 or e-mail birthdays@theej.com to add your names to t he list.

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BY ELISABETH ARRIEROStaff Writer

MONROEEchoing the words of Presi-

dent Barack Obama, NAACP state President William Barber told Union County’s black com-munity that while great strides have been made, there’s still much work to be done.

Barber addressed the commu-nity at the 39th annual Union County NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet Saturday. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the NAACP.

Consequently, Barber’s speech focused on both the organiza-tion’s past accomplishments as well as future obstacles, par-ticularly the re-segregation of schools and national health care reform.

“In this health debate, we’re now seeing a new Southern strat-egy,” he said. “They don’t talk about race. They call it social-ism.”

But Barber also highlighted past accomplishments, such as changing laws to admit blacks to certain public universities and

fair housing practices.“Through organization, agita-

tion, legislation, litigation and inspiration — that’s how we won,” he said.

Barber said that the NAACP’s accomplishments have not only bettered the lives of blacks, but others as well.

“Every time the NAACP won, everyone got blessed,” he said. “When we fought against dis-crimination in hiring, white people were blessed, people with disabilities were blessed.”

Still, Barber criticized those

who call the United States a post-racial society simply because its president is black.

In this time, racism might manifest itself differently than just saying the “n” word or being a member of the KKK, Barber said.

“It’s when you smile at me and then vote against a policy that would better the lives of African Americans,” he said, claiming that 880,000 blacks have died over the last 10 years from a lack of

See NAACP / Page 3A

NAACP chief sees new Southern strategy

Monroe Man recalls PiedmontAir crash in Virginia 50 years ago

Photos courtesty Media General News Service

Phil Bradley,, left, now 83 and living in Monroe, is the sole survivor of the first Piedmont Airlines crash. The crew and 23 passengers died.

BY JOHN RAILEYMEDIA GENERAL NEWS SERVICE

Phil Bradley shivered in lonely silence on the mountain by the demolished plane. His injuries left him unable to move. He knew better than to look at the bodies of his fellow passengers. If help didn’t come soon, he realized he’d face a more agonizing death than any of them had.

That was 50 years ago. Bradley, now an 83-year-old grandfather, is the sole survivor of Piedmont

Airlines Flight 349. Friday will mark the anniversary of the day it crashed into the side of a mountain near Charlottesville, Va., killing the three-member crew and 23 passengers. It was the first fatal crash for the air-line, then just 11 years old. It was front-page news for days in Win-ston-Salem, then the headquar-ters for Piedmont. The co-pilot, 26-year-old Bascom Lee Haley, had grown up in the Twin City. The flight attendant, 21-year-old George Weldon Hicks, was from

Lexington, N.C.Bradley, a union representative

who was en route to his home near Roanoke, wasn’t acquainted with the passengers or crew. But in the years since, he’s come to know them through countless conversations with their survi-vors. And he’s answered their nu-merous questions about the final moments. “He’s helped me a lot in bringing closure,” said Mike Haley of Winston-Salem, who

See CRASH / Page 8A

Monroe man remembers passengers on fatal flight

“I have a growing spiritual attachment to (the families of the vic-tims of the crash) as I grow older. ”

Phil Bradley

E-J staff photo by Ed Cottingham

SENIOR APPRECIATION — Members of the Forest Hills High School Choir do the Monster Mash at the 13th Annual Senoir Aprreciation Day. Angel and Demons was the theme for their peformance. They openend with gospel songs and finished with songs appropriate for Halloween including Thriller, The Monster Mash and Phantom of the Opera. From left are Brenda Mendoza, Shameka Gillespie, Kaitlyn Lingerfelt, Demaria Covington and Breanna Marsh.

BY JASON deBRUYNStaff Writer

MONROEThe unemployment

rate in Union County de-creased in April, the first time the jobless rate has decreased since Septem-ber.

Compared to March, an extra 2,251 people found jobs in April, lowering the unemployment rate from 10.6 percent to 10.1 per-cent, reclaiming the low-est rate in the region.

“Considering it’s still double digits, it’s nice to see the trend come back a little bit,” Monroe Eco-nomic Development di-rector Chris Platé said, but added that “we’re still watching all of our indus-tries very closely.”

Platé said his office has been hearing of company recalls mixed in with lay-offs, a positive trend he hopes will continue and help kick-start the econo-my.

Randall Darnell at the JobLink Career Center said he saw things the same way.

“I have faith it will con-tinue,” he said. “Appli-cants continue to return to work.”

Union County had an unemployment rate of 4.4 percent in April last year.

“I hope at this point we have hit bottom,” Platé said. The rates could fluc-tuate up or down slightly, he said, but he did not ex-

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County jobless ratedips by half percent

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(Editor’s note: To list the event of your nonprofit civic, social or governmental organization, call 704-261-2252.)

Today•  MONROE-UNION 

BREAKFAST  ROTARY, 7:30 a.m., Golden Corral Restaurant. For details, call 704-507-3956.

•  TODDLER  TIME, 9:30 a.m., Marshville Li-brary, for children ages 12 months to 36 months.

•  EXERCISE  CLASS, 9:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m., El-len Fitzgerald Center.

• STORY TIME, 10 a.m., 11 a.m., Waxhaw Library, for ages 3 to 5. For details, call 704-843-3131.

•  STORY  TIME, 10 a.m., Marshville Library, for ages 3 to 5. For details, call 704-624-2828.

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

•  BASIC  COMPUTER SKILLS  CLASS, 10 a.m., Monroe Library. Free. Registration required; call 704-283-8184.

•  TODDLER  TIME, 10:30 a.m., 11 a.m., Union West Regional Library. For ages 18 to 36 months.

• BABY TIME, 11 a.m., Monroe Library. Details, 704-283-8184.

•  STORY  TIME, 11:30 a.m., Union West Regional Library, for children ages 3 to 5.

•  TURNING  POINT DOMESTIC  VIOLENCE GROUP, 4 p.m. at the shel-ter. Details, 704-283-7233.

•  UNION  WEST  AN-IME  CLUB, 4:45 p.m. to 6:45 p.m., Union West Library. Details, 704-821-7475.

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

•  ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, Sunset group, 6 p.m., 1010 Mc-Manus St., Monroe. De-tails, 704-219-6245.

•  MARINE  CORPS LEAGUE  DETACH-MENT 914, 7 p.m., Quin-cys restaurant. Details, call Bob Griffn, 704-764-3677.

• CLASSIC CRUISERS, 7 p.m., Poplin Place shop-ping center, West Roosevelt Boulevard, Monroe. For information, contact Jim Collura at 704-289-6208 or classiccruisers@hotmail.com.

• BINGO, 7:30 p.m., Viet-nam Veterans Association Post No. 14, 620 Roosevelt Blvd., $2,500 program. Doors open at 5 p.m. For

details, call 704-283-6165.• NARCOTICS ANON-

YMOUS, 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., Friendship Missionary Baptist Church adminis-trative building, 501 Burke St. Details, 704-821-4256, 704-763-0784.

Thursday•  UNION  WEST  RO-

TARY, 7:30 a.m., civic building behind Indian Trail Town Hall. For de-tails, call Sean Helms, 704-849-9332.

•    WAXHAW-WED-DINGTON  SUNRISE ROTARY CLUB, 7:30 a.m., Rippington’s Restaurant, 109 W. South Main Street, Waxhaw. For information, call Jerry Simpson, 704-363-2173.

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

•  KIWANIS  CLUB  OF MONROE, noon to 1 p.m., Rolling Hills Country Club. For details, call Fran Dandridge at 704-289-9429.

•  SENIOR  CITIZENS CANASTA, 12:30 p.m., El-len Fitzgerald Center. For information, call Ellen Fitzgerald Senior Center at 704-282-4657.

• HOMEWORK HELP NIGHT, 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Monroe Library. For grades one through eight. Details, Kim, 704-283-8184, ext. 238.

•  THURSDAY  TALES, 5 p.m., Monroe Library. For ages 5 and up and their caregivers. Details, 704-283-8184.

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

•  TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), 6 p.m. weigh-in, 6:20 meeting, Love Baptist Church, 707 Deese Road, Monroe. De-tails, 704-225-1720.

•  ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, Sunset group, 6 p.m., 1010 Mc-Manus St., Monroe. De-tails, 704-219-6245.

•  UNION  COUNTY CRUISERS, 6:30 p.m., Monroe Mall, next to Pizza Hut. Custom and classic cars. Details, 704-238-1600.

•  WAXHAW  TOPS #613 (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Waxhaw Bible Church, 6810 Pleasant Grove Road. For details, call 704-843-5518 or 704-254-3880.

•  SENIOR  DANCE, 7 p.m.-9 p.m., Ellen Fitzger-ald Center, Line dancing and ballroom dancing. De-tails, 704-282-4657.

•  BINGO, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., Indian Trail VFW, 100 VFW Lane, Indian Trail; $500 jackpot. For de-tails, call 704-821-9753.

•  COCAINE  ANONY-MOUS meeting, 7:30 p.m., at the Friendship Home, 2111 Stafford St. Ext., Monroe.

•  AL-ANON, 8 p.m., First Step Recovery Cen-ter, 1623 Sunset Drive, Monroe. Details, 704-283-0944, 704-764-7651.

Friday•  EXERCISE  CLASS,

9 a.m. to 10 a.m., Ellen Fitzgerald Senior Center. Open to ages 55 and up. For details, call 704-282-4657.

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

•  BABY  TIME, 10:30 a.m., Edwards Library, Marshville. Details, 704-624-2828.

•  TURNING  POINT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE GROUP, 4 p.m. at the shel-ter. Details, 704-283-7233.

• WINGATE UNIVER-SITY  CHOIR  BARBE-CUE, 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., front of Wingate University’s Batte Center. Proceeds go to choir trip to South Af-rica. Tickets, $8; call Ma-rie Bagley, 704-233-8310.

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

•  ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, Sunset group, 6 p.m., 1010 Mc-Manus St., Monroe. De-tails, 704-219-6245.

• NARCOTICS ANON-YMOUS, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., Nicey Grove Bap-tist Church, 318 Camden Road, Wingate. Details, 704-221-7352.

•  PAGELAND  SIN-GLES DANCE, 7 p.m. to midnight, Pageland, S.C., American Legion Post 92. Live music, married couples welcome. Bring covered dish. Admis-sion, $10. Must be 21. De-tails, Lloyd or Margaret Melton at (843) 634-3787 after 6 p.m.

• NARCOTICS ANON-YMOUS, 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., Friendship Missionary Baptist Church admin-istrative building, 501 Burke St. Details, 704-821-4256, 704-763-0784.

Sarah BelkMONROE

Sarah Kate Wallace Belk, 81, died Monday (Oct. 26, 2009) at Lake Park Nursing and Reha-bilitation Center.

Funeral will be 2 p.m. Friday at Shiloh Bap-tist Church, with burial in Lakeland Memorial Park.

Born Feb. 12, 1928, in Chesterfield County, S.C., she was a daugh-ter of the late John Er-vin and Myrtle Mangum Wallace and was mar-ried to the late Charles Warren Belk.

Survivors include two sons, Marvin Belk of Monroe, Randy Belk of Indian Land, S.C.; two sisters, Savannah

Wallace of Charlotte, Lucille Evans of Mon-roe; one brother, John Edward Wallace of Pageland, S.C.; three grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. Fri-day in the church fellow-ship hall.

McEwen Funeral Home of Monroe is in charge.

Charles Gary Haywood

UNIONVILLEGary Haywood, 58,

passed away on Sun-day, October 25, 2009. He was born March 2, 1951, son of the late Charles Jackson and Beulah Frances Bau-com Haywood. Mr. Haywood was a U.S. Army veteran.

A memorial service will be held Wednes-day, October 28, 2009, at 2 p.m. at West Mon-roe Baptist Church, 1212 Icemorlee Street, Monroe, N.C. The family will receive friends in the church family life center fol-lowing the service.

Gary worked with Lowe’s. He enjoyed the mountains, hik-ing, fishing and vaca-tioning with his wife.

Mr. Haywood is sur-vived by his wife of 21 years, Pamela Harris Haywood; son, Carl Richard Haywood and wife Crista of Monroe, N.C.; daughter, Les-lie Denise Whitehead and husband Anthony of Wilmington, N.C.; sister Lesa Haywood Almond and husband Ken of Indian Trail, N.C., and three grand-children, Joshua Hay-wood, Alexis Haywood and Hannah Collins.

Memorials may be made to the Ameri-can Red Cross, 608 E. Franklin St., Monroe, NC 28112.

Gordon Funeral Service is serving the family. Online condo-lences may be made at www.gordonfuner-alservice.com.

PAID OBITUARY

Cameron Octo Banker Jr.

CHARLOTTE — Mr. Banker, 85, of Char-lotte, passed away Tues-day, October 27, 2009, at the Levine & Dickson Hospice House in Hunt-ersville.

Cameron “Cam” Octo Banker, Jr. was born in Charlotte on April 18, 1924, to the late Cameron O. Banker Sr. and Eunice Penninger Banker. At the age of 2, he moved to the family property on Tom Hunt-er Road, where he grew up and continued to re-side with his wife, Eve-lyn, throughout his life. Cam attended Derita High School. When the U.S. entered World War II, he was drafted into the Army, was sworn in on May 22, 1943, (his wedding day), served in France, Germany and England with the U.S. Army 240th QMC of General Patton’s 3rd Army and was honor-ably discharged with the rank of Master Sergeant on March 10, 1946.

Cam retired from Airco Welding Supply. During his retirement years, he enjoyed many hobbies, including woodworking, garden-ing and fishing with his friends at the beach. Most of all, he enjoyed his children, grandchil-dren and great-grand-children and walks with his little dog, Tip-py. Cam enjoyed partic-ipating in community activities though his memberships in the De-rita Lions Club and the American Legion, Post #345. He also served for 25 years in the Derita Volunteer Fire Depart-ment. He loved the Lord

and he loved his church. As a lifelong member of Sugaw Creek Pres-byterian Church, he served as a Deacon, Elder, Treasurer and Cemetery Committee member.

Mr. Banker is sur-vived by his wife of 66 years, Evelyn Helms Banker; son, Michael R. Banker and his wife, Anne; daughters, Di-anne B. Spicer and her husband, Barry, and Robin B. Miracle and her husband, Gene; grandchildren, Chris-tie B. Hoagland and her husband, Brian, Stephen Banker and his wife, Torrie, Julie Banker and her fian-cé, Randy Sossomon, Devon Banker, Jenni-fer Spicer, Melanie S. Shell and her husband, Charles, Erica Spicer and Chelsey Miracle; great-grandchildren, Camryn, Luke and Gage Banker; and many nieces and nephews.

Mr. Banker’s fam-ily will receive friends Thursday, October 29, from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m., at Sugaw Creek Presbyte-rian Church. A memo-rial service celebrating his life will take place at 2:30 p.m. following the visitation. Burial in the Sugaw Creek Presbyte-rian Church Cemetery will follow the service.

Memorials for Mr. Banker can be made to any of the following: Hospice & Palliative Care, Charlotte Region, Attn: Development De-partment, 1420 East Sev-enth Street, Charlotte, NC 28204; Paralyzed Veterans of America, 801 18th Street, Wash-ington, DC 20006, Attn: Dionne Kelso; The ALS Center at the Depart-ment of Neurology, Neuroscience and Spine Institute, 1010 Edgehill Road North, Charlotte, NC 28207; or Sugaw Creek Presbyterian Church, 101 West Sugar Creek Road, Charlotte, NC 28213.

Mr. Banker’s family is being served by McE-wen Funeral Service, Derita Chapel, www.Mem.com for on-line condolences.

PAID OBITUARY

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BY ELISABETH ARRIEROStaff Writer

MONROEIn less than two weeks, Pied-

mont Natural Gas dispute with over Monroe’s gas pipeline and partnership with PSNC Energy might be resolved.

In a document filed Oct. 9 with the North Carolina Utilities Commission, the commission indefinitely suspended proceed-ings to allow the parties involved to discuss settlement options.

Monroe and PSNC want to partner to deliver gas in Cabar-rus, Iredell and Union counties. Because Piedmont’s exclusive territory includes Union County, the company filed a complaint with the Utilities Commission in May.

The commission gives private utilities exclusive territories, which they govern. Cities can operate a public utility system within those territories and are governed by the General As-

sembly. The rules surrounding Monroe’s pipeline are unclear because the city would be work-ing with another private utility.

“They’re reluctant to actually make a ruling one way or the other, so they want the parties to see if they can work out as much as they can,” Monroe Council-man Bob Smith said about the commission.

Jim Jeffries of Piedmont Nat-ural Gas also said he hopes the parties can reach an agreement

before having to go to litigation.“With litigation, you get what

you get,” he said. “In a settle-ment, you’re able to control what happens more. We’re just trying to find out if there’s a way to do that in this case, frankly.”

Monroe spokesman Pete Hov-anec said he expects a settlement to happen in the next couple of weeks.

But the details of that settle-ment will remain confidential until it’s finalized, he said.

PNG, City of Monroe may negotiate settlement

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NAACPContinued from Page 1A

health care and that 52 percent of the uninsured are black or brown.

Thus, Barber suggested members “celebrate but not stagnate,” and keep fighting for equality.

“There’s no way in the world in 30 years we’ve eradi-cated 400 years of slavery and discrimination,” Barber said after his speech.

Barber’s speech was well received by banquet attend-ees.

“The things that we should focus on is our commu-nity and how we can make better of it,” said Barbara McKinney of Monroe.

JobsContinued from Page 1Apect to see major jumps in unemployment like in November, December and January.

“Right now we will be bobbing across the bottom of the economic trough,” he said.

Nationally, however, two signs indicate the econo-my might not pick up as quickly as local figures suggest.

The national unem-ployment rate for May in-creased to 9.4 percent from 8.9 percent in April. Local figures are typically re-leased about a month after national figures.

Also, according to an Economic Policy Institute study, there has been a “continued dramatic col-lapse of wage growth,” meaning that even those who have jobs are earning less money.

According to the report, the weekly wage growth from December 2007 to De-cember 2008 was 2.4 per-cent. The weekly wages actually declined at a 2.3 percent annualized rate in May. The report suggests that those numbers mean “not only that the reces-sion is adversely affecting even those who keep their jobs, but also that there is additional downward pressure on consumption, which will suppress the pace of any economic re-covery.”

BY TIFFANY LANEStaff Writer

MONROEA school bus carrying 22 stu-

dents hit a logging truck Tues-day morning, piercing the bus doors and causing a diesel spill.

Union County Public Schools spokeswoman Luan Ingram said three students were taken to Carolinas Medical Center-Union and released within an hour.

Bus 51 was on its way to Mon-roe High School around 8 a.m. at the time of the incident, Ingram said.

Traffic officer David Godfrey with the Monroe Police Depart-ment said the bus was in the southbound left lane on Char-lotte Avenue, one lane over from, and slightly behind, a logging truck in the right lane at the

intersection of Franklin Street. When the truck began a right turn onto Franklin Street, he said, the trailer veered into the left lane to avoid jumping a curb on the right.

Godfrey said logging truck drivers “have to go into that left lane to make that turn.” While the truck was turning, he said, bus driver Patricia Washington was distracted by passengers “making some noise,” looked in her rearview mirror and ran into the truck. Logs stuck out about 10 feet from the back of the trailer, he said, and into the left lane.

Godfrey said some logs went through the bus doors, hitting seats on the front row and break-ing the windshield. The fuel line was also damaged.

Washington was charged with

failure to reduce speed. Godfrey estimated her speed at 20 mph.

Two ninth-graders and one 10th-grader were taken to the hospital, Ingram said.

For any bus driver in an ac-cident, she added, “our normal operating procedure is we’ll have them drug tested immedi-ately,” no matter how minor or severe the incident. The inci-dent does not mean automatic suspension, Ingram said, and a driver would be suspended only if school officials determine his or her actions to be “extremely negligent.”

“It doesn’t appear to be that way at all,” she said.

Once a bus driver receives a citation, she continued, he or she must take post-certification training with school officials before getting behind the wheel

again.Ingram said Washington “will

definitely not be driving tomor-row,” as would be the case even without a citation. School of-ficials must wait for drug test results before allowing a bus driver to drive again. Ingram said results are usually in with-in three to four days.

Truck driver Charles Burnette was later stopped by a Waxhaw police officer, but Godfrey said no charges were made. Godfrey said Burnette thought he ran into the curb and was not aware he was hit.

The bus was towed and its pas-sengers taken to school in a dif-ferent bus.

Ingram said this is the first bus accident of the school year in which any students had even minor injuries.

Log truck and school bus collide

Legion plans turkey shootsMONROE —American Legion Post 27 will have its an-

nual turkey shoots Saturday, Nov. 7 and Nov. 14 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., just north of the Country Grill on U.S. 601 North. Competitors will shoot for frozen turkeys, Bos-ton butts, steaks, cooked butts and turkeys. Proceeds go to Post 27 for its support of local veteran needs.

Elect John Marshall and Danny Figueroa

In Indian Trail there are seven candidates asking you to vote them into one of the two open Town Council positions. I hope that you will join with me and elect Danny Figueroa and John Marshall to the Town Council of Indian Trail.

Danny Figueroa is a person with integrity, who will do what is right for the citizens of Indi-an Trail and will put the inter-ests of the citizens before his own. He is one who will study out the issues, make educated decisions, and move forward.

I truly believe that Danny Figueroa will impress the tax payers of Indian Trail with his strong financial responsibil-ity. A lot of candidates claim to be fiscally responsible, yet when they are elected they do not demonstrate this. Danny Figueroa is a true fiscal conser-vative.

John Marshall is another candidate who will be respon-sible with our tax dollars. John Marshall understands that end-ing our contract with the Union County Sheriffs Office and es-tablishing an independent Po-lice Department would double our tax rate in Indian Trail.

John Marshall has good lead-ership qualities and a good un-derstanding of management, which will enable him to be a tremendous voice for the peo-ple.

Please join with me and sup-port Danny Figueroa and John Marshall for Indian Trail Town Council.

John hullinger

Town CouncilmanIndian Trail

Voters can be confident in Harry Stokes

I am writing on behalf of Har-ry Stokes, candidate for Stallings Town Council. I have known Harry as a personal friend and as a business client of his for over ten years.

Harry is a hard-working, hon-est, successful businessman who runs his company with an impec-cable standard of ethical prac-tices.

Harry is a devoted, dedicated family man, who with his wife Sherri, has three daughters. Harry is intricately involved in his community, his daughters’ schools and his church, always seeking to serve and make him-self available with his generous help and support.

I am confident that Harry will approach a seat on the Stallings Town Council with the same diligence, hard work, standard of ethics and servant attitude that he approaches all areas of life.

Voters can be confident that Harry Stokes will work hard for the benefit of all the citizens of the town of Stalllings.

The rev. DaviD Bailes

Minister of Music

I am so impressedwith Lucy Drake

I wanted to express how much I admire the heart and the resolve in Lucy Drake’s decision to enter the Town of Stallings mayoral race this Fall.

I know it was a difficult deci-sion for Lucy, and I have tremen-dous respect for her pursuing her passion for politics and her love for the Town of Stallings!

I first met Lucy Drake shortly

after Mike joined the Stallings Po-lice Department in 2004. My first impression of her: Wow, what a fireball! Though I only knew her in passing over the next sev-eral years, I knew that she was a truly dedicated public servant with passionate convictions and a pure heart.

It wasn’t until Mike was in-jured in July of 2007 that I really came to know Lucy Drake. She was no longer the Stallings may-or and she was not considering any political ambitions. She was there because she cared. Lucy be-came like a member of my family. She rallied the troops to support Mike, our family, and to support me as his caretaker.

Lucy led the charge on a pub-lic front in organizing the Poker Run to help us financially, but she also did things privately - things people would never know about. Lucy called me every day to check on Mike, the girls, and to check on me. She wanted to know what we needed and what she personally could do.

And Lucy didn’t just say it, she did it! She made sure we had what we needed - whether it was physical, financial, or emotional. Lucy Drake was there for us and fought for us absolutely every step of the way. I will never be able to thank her enough for all the ways that she lifted us up dur-ing that terrible time in our lives. Lucy Drake is a public servant: the kind of public official that the Town of Stallings deserves – one who is there to serve the public and not to serve her own ambi-tions or pursue her own agenda.

The Town of Stallings would be fortunate to have a good-hearted, honest, straight-forward person to be proud to call their mayor again.

KaTie KaneMonroe

I have learned that sometimes you come full circle with your-self only to find out you ain’t there when you arrive. Last in fire training was a good exam-ple of this phenomenon.

Back when I was about 15 years old ( I’m 43 now) and took my first ladder class as a mem-ber of the East Gaston VFD. It was taught by a fellow named Mac McAllister. He was a fire-man from Bethel VFD in Clo-ver S.C. and he taught the class through Gaston College. There was no fire fighter certification classes in those days and most volunteer fireman either trained each other in their own station or learned real quick when they got to a fire. So it was a great treat to have a Gaston College course or a man of Mac’s cali-ber come and teach us.

Now in those days there wasn’t a tree too tall or a ladder too high that I wouldn’t climb. I was fearless. Climbing ladders had nothing on me. So when we went up to East Gaston High to train with our ladders I was all over that building like an ape. We learned to put ’em up, climb ’em, and take ’em down. Then we had to learn how to carry somebody down them. That was the tricky part.

The drill went like this. We put our biggest ladder, 35 foot job, upside the school house on the two story side. Then we’d climb up it and get our “victim” who was waiting on us at the top. He

would then play like he was un-conscious and we’d have to hold him to the ladder and ease him to the ground by sliding him down. Now that don’t sound so bad unless the fellow you draw to tote is the biggest guy in your VFD. And naturally I did.

When I got to the top of the ladder I did my best to hold Mark Hoover to it. Mark is about seven years older than me and he had me by 100 pounds. Every-thing was going good enough as I got him down to one story the he was supposed to “come conscious” and I had to hold on tighter to him to get him down. Trouble was I was giving him all the tight I had in me when he came to so down we came. Fell an entire story, with me lading first and Mark landing on top of me. It didn’t’ hurt any and everybody had a good laugh, to include me and Mark.

Now the scene shifts to two weeks back. To the new and im-proved ladder class included in the fire fighter I certification pro-

gram. It is also taught by Gaston College to state specifications. And it was here that I caught myself coming and gone.

The lead instructor for this block was once again Brother Jerry Swift, that good firefight-er/psychopath training instruc-tor. A tough, rugged instruc-tor, whose ladder class is well known and respected by every firefighter that has ever taken it. Brother Swift goes above and beyond the call to introduce stu-dents to every ladder known to God and man. It is well known that this an intense, physically challenging course that requires the student to master any inhi-bitions he might have of heights and have a great deal of physi-cal stamina at the same time.

Now the first night wasn’t so bad. We again went up to East Gaston High School and used roof ladders and even climbed the 35 foot job. Two runs, no hits, no errors.

The next came along and Jerry had a 105-foot aerial lad-der truck from the Lucia River-bend VFD up at the high school. It was optional to climb this sucker. But with as much grief as I’ve given Swifty these last 25 years and owing to the fact Lucia Fire Chief David Toomey brought the truck ,and I’ve giv-en him more grief than I’ve ever given Swift, I wouldn’t been able to show my face on that side of the county ever again. So I did it. In full fire gear and air pack

all the way to the top. And I hat-ed every step up every rung go-ing and coming. But by cracky, I did it as did all 41 students in that class.

The next night we had to tote people down the ladder just like in the old days, only they don’t let you do it from as high up as we did anymore. Then we got to climb up and down a 45 foot extension ladder contraption called a Bangor ladder up the three- and-half story side of the burn building at Gaston Col-lege-full gear air pack and all. If it tells you anything, this ladder was so high it has support poles that come out of both sides to help steady it. It is the tallest ex-tension ladder in the fire service in Gaston County. And they can keep that thing.

I didn’t care for it at all. That fear of heights I didn’t have when I was a kid I dang sure have it now. But with Swift standing at the top of this mon-ster, again I couldn’t of chick-ened out if I’d of wanted to. That and the fact that his 19 year old daughter Kristin who is also a fire fighter was on post steady-ing the ladder at the base. I had just met her for the first time that very night. My first words to her after figuring out who she was was to remark to the whole class how it was hard for me to imagine how a girl that pretty could come from a daddy that ugly. And what with her being a chip off the old block head it

was on.So when I stepped up the lad-

der there she stood underneath and holding it steady. She was grinning from ear to ear as my apprehension was apparent. So much so that she said, “I believe I’ll just shake this ladder when you get about half way up.” I said, “That’ll be fine, darlin, but when something comes rain-ing down on you from the sky it won’t be from no cloud.”

But I climbed it. And again, every fire fighter, male and fe-male in that class went up it, scared or not. All 41, and all vol-unteers doing it on their own time for free. From VFD’s from all over the Piedmont of North Carolina. And on the final we even went through the patent-ed Jerry Swift ladder obstacle course too. They should have that course in the Olympics By the time we were through my legs hurt so bad I thought I was going to be crippled.

But thanks to Brother Swift and his youthful assistants Earl and Eric Withers and Byron Hooker, all professional real life by God fire fighters, there isn’t any ladder anybody in that class ain’t climbed.

As a graduation present I af-forded myself the luxury of soaking in a tub of Epsom salts and as I did I reflected on how I was now afraid of heights, out of shape, and old.

And I remembered why I be-came cop, too.

At fire training, my life came full circle again

A CAROLINA VIEW

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Good Ol’ Boy

The N.C. Supreme Court may soon have to decide whether the state’s third-party ballot-access law is constitutional. This matter should not have had to come before the courts.

If legislators and the two major parties would look be-yond their own interests, they’d see that the law needs changing, as the Libertarian Party has been saying for years.

North Carolina ballot-access law is one of the strictest in the country and one of the few things that Democrats and Republicans agree upon. The law limits the playing field for these two parties, allowing them to stay comfort-ably within their own party bases and ignore the discon-tent of voters looking for different solutions.

To gain access to the ballot under state law, a party must file a petition bearing the equivalent of 2 percent of the state’s registered voters. That is a daunting threshold for new parties to meet, one that usually consumes its meager resources of money and volunteers. In 2008, Libertarians needed 70,000 signatures to get on the ballot. In 2012, third parties will need about 85,000.

Under the law, if a party’s candidate for president or governor fails to garner two percent of the statewide vote in the next election, the party is stripped of its position and must start over again. Fortunately for Libertarians, gubernatorial candidate Mike Munger won almost 3 per-cent of the 2008 vote so they will be on the ballot until at least 2012.

This is not a fair system, and legislators know it. But re-peatedly, bills to make the system more fair have been de-feated in the General Assembly. Legislative leaders have lofty rationales - mostly, they discuss the sanctity of the two-party system - but this is really an issue of self-inter-est for politicians.

Voters lose not just because the system is unfair. They lose because third parties play an important role in re-shaping the two main parties. In American history, the election of third-party candidates has been a rarity. But third parties have had significant influence at times in forcing the two main parties to address issues they would just as soon ignore.

A three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals recent-ly ruled that the law is constitutional. But, because the panel split 2-1, the plaintiff, the Libertarian Party, has an automatic right of appeal to the state’s highest court.

This is an appeal that should not be necessary. The Lib-ertarians should not have to spend their time and money on legal fees. Instead, state lawmakers should reform the law to make it fairer and more receptive to new political input.

Winston-Salem Journal

Make rules fair to all

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The Enquirer-Journal Wednesday, October 28, 2009 / 5A

HONOR ROLLSProspect Elementary

Following are the honor rolls for the first grading period at Prospect Elemen-tary School.

Third gradeA — Emily Crook, James

Davis, Emily Eubanks, Sarah Harkins, Lauren Hawkins, Hana Jones, Ad-dison Laney, Austin Laney, Rebecca Lathan, Weston Outen, Andrew Parker, Gage Rogers, Josie Studer, Emily VanHorn, Sophia Williams.

A/B — Scarlet Agner, Jacob Barley, Shyann Bau-com, Mac Bigham, Teshaila Brown, Kirsten Carpenter, Chelsie Carter, Kacey Cart-er, Bethany Cupp, Makenzi Ellenburg, Joshua Horne, Carson Outen, Amber Parker, Adyson Plyler, Seth Price, Natalea Rorie.

Fourth gradeA — Dakota Allsopp,

James Brown, Ryan Car-nevale, Krista Devenney, Logan Ellis, Samuel Knit-tel, Kaitlyn Laney, Trace Martin, Blake Mills, Grace Plyler, Lindsey Plyler, Mak-enzi Purser, Jamie Sistar, Jordan Strickland.

A/B — Aaron Aycoth, Miranda Barfield, Joseph Bartlett, Haley Brock, Kaylee Broome, Gabriela Castaneda-Rios, Kather-ine Cook, Bo Cox, Dawson Cruz, Clifton Daugherty, Morgan Fazio, Allen Ham-by, Joy Helms, Dillon Hill, Taylor Hunter, Andrea Jauch, Evie Laney, Juliana Long, Owen Love, Dalton Mangum, Jaya McJunk-ins, Ashley McNeil, Jeffrey Morris, McKinley Nelson, Courtney Patrick, Gregory Ryan, Damien Stout, Jake Sutton, Jacob Whitley.

Fifth gradeA — Carter Blackmon,

Brandon Crump, Court-ney Huneycutt, Bre-anna Morency, Matthew Payne, James Thomas, Alexis Starnes, Catherine Starnes.

A/B — Kayla Allen, Jesse Arledge, Taylor Belk, Tif-fany Betar, Casey Bigham, Caroline Blackmon, Zinni Botha, Andrew Brantley, Gabriela Carvajal, Ka-trina Dapice, Avery Deese, Charles Deese, Timothy Edgar, Turner Finnerty,

Hannah Forbis, Brittany Gill, Madeline Harkins, Joshua Helms, Christina Hines, Jordan Hoskins, John Jacumin, Priscilla Jauregui, Brandon Laney, Justin Lee, Taysia Massey, Koury McJunkins, Brian-na McNeil, William Nance, James Nesselrotte, Diego Perez, Meredith Pomfrey, Zachary Pridgen, Erin Smith, Bianca Vance, Ol-ivia Williams, Sidney Wil-liams.

Hemby Bride Elementary

Following are the honor rolls for the first grading period at Hemby Bridge El-ementary School.

Third gradeA — Max Adelman,

Hunter Bell, Brandon Bird, Stephen Cooper, Mal-come Hines, Andrew How-ell, Emily Lederer, Jessica Libman, Mayra Martinez, Abby Prevost, Olivia Ransbottom, Madison Resch, Madison Varieur, Armand Veenhuis.

A/B — Sierra Baron, Adriana Baron, Sam Bee-man, Diana Berezovskaya, Anna Cassidy, Kyrstan Con-rad, Jordan Deans, Breean-na Eldridge, Joshua Flores, Sean Giustiniani, Robert (Chase) Hagler, Wyatt Huff, Sarah Huval, Ashley Kollegger, Sarah Lanier, Maddie Martin, Viviana Montoya, Daniel Petro, Wyatt Poole, Jared Roach, Thania Saavedra, Cory Solar, Nick Stump, Madison Summers, Dani-yela Tutelya, Stefan Veen-huis, Nicholas Wernli.

Fourth gradeA — Yasmin Anderson,

Aara Chrabaszewski, Pe-ter Cooper, Evan Estrada, Paul Gough, Price Hargett, Jodie Londono, Jazmin Manzo, Gina McAllister,

Kimberly Patino, Camer-on Samek, Abilene Tufano, Courtney Yandle, Mason Young.

A/B — Katlyn Barr, Ka-tie Berryhill, Kaylan Bond, Melissa Borbolla, David (Zeke) Cunningham, Aar-on Daines, Javier Dieguez, Sloan Ducey, Hailey Fusco, Grant Hamilton, Jonathan Hendrick, Glo-rious McIntosh, Amelia

McTeague, Robbie Porter, Megan Randall, Zach-ary Rogers, Jessica Rogers, Christian Sadler, Caitlyn Schaefer, Luke Seaman, Sean Stanley, Trinity Tip-pens, Richard Tran, Nate Travis, Serenity Wiles, Jisu Yun.

Fifth gradeA — Allison Andes, Vic-

toria Croft, Mackenzie Deans, Taylor Elslager, Madison Gotro, Hannah Hagler, Christina Hinsley, Madison Hinsley, Brad-ley Hodson, Branden Nguyen, Jonathan Pham, William Reed, Tristan Reeves, Tristan Shea, Anna Thompson, Ash-lynne Varieur, Zoe Vause, Diana Vodopyanova, Han-nah Webb.

A/B — Mohammad Ab-doh, Hannah Adelman, Zach Allen, Francesca Bing, Eric Brewer, Billy Buck, Matthew Campbell, Zack Colaianni, Shayna Farris, Tiffany Goldman, Lauren Henry, Spencer Hood, Jordan Hurt, Alexis Jordan, Katherine Kolleg-ger, Jake Nance, Tommy One, Kaylee Price, Ricardo Pupo, Madison Rains, Mad-dy Sedberry, Sara Shep-herd, Ananda Sherwood-Saul, Bryan Short, Sarah Sirisky, Matthew Soriano, Noah Stanley, Savannah Summers, Carlos Villago-mez, Shelby Wallace

Union ElementaryFollowing are the honor

rolls for the first grading period at Union Elemen-tary School:

Third gradeA — Emily Pipes, Elaine

Bear, Chad Cave, Vitta Chin, Abby Clonts, Ash-lyn Gardner, Chase Hen-ton, Mason Kennedy, Hai-ley Phifer, Kersten Prince, Seth Thomas, Haley Gris-som.

A/B — Harley Bostic, Sydney Eatmon, Taylor Hagler, Matthew Smith, Vanna Nash, Jakob Star-ling, Shawn Armstrong, Tyler McClain, Alex Mo-ser, Ryan Phillips, Averi Rorie, Luci Rosas, Rebecca Carriker, Russell Huntley, Savannah Owens, Saman-tha Price, Joshua Rankin, Haley Starling.

Fourth grade

A — Tyler Bunn, Tyson Davis, Riley Hyatt, Brenna Ivester, Anna McIntyre, Sydnie Sells, Tess Keesler, Madeline Wilson, Alexan-dria Richard.

A/B — Emily Aldridge, T.J. Rorie, Kahlil Cabble, Kalynn Glidewell, Tyler Harriott, Joshua Huggins, Diego Mendoza-Corde-nas, Taylor Hilton, Josh Stafford, Orianna Wil-liams, Ashley Gillespie, Destiny Starling, Jason Starnes, Kelsey Cox.

Fifth gradeA — Logan Nance, Crys-

tal Senko, Reagan Rush-ing, Andrew Rape.

A/B — Valerie Allison, Michael Bear, Dylan Gil-berti, Zachary Goodman, Laura Jordan, Alissia Smith, Makaylah Ford-ham, Lauren Duke, Kollyn Gardner, Michael Henry, Michael Hagler, Bry-son Lowery, Lydia Price, Christina Guin.

Waxhaw Elementary

Following are the honor rolls for the first grading period at Waxhaw Elemen-tary School:

Third gradeA — Rose Barlowe,

Kursten Benson, Megan Briggs, Holly Byars, Court-ney Cain, Martin Castro-Martinez, Nick Goetchius, Alex Hagerman, Alex Huag, Ame’Ana Jennings, Donovan Kearney, Delaney Patterson, Shea Peterson, Aubrie Prueckel, Joaquin Rodriguez, Noah Spriggle, Jenna Sweezy, Peyton Thomas, Hunter Thomp-son, Brayden VanMilligan.

A/B — Keaton Ander-son, Bevin Andrews, Zack

Barksdale, Andrew Bar-tgis, John Blumenthal, Hunter Brewster, Krista Carr, Joshuah Clark, Car-olyn Daly, Roman Dion, Maria Gallegos, Caroline Gerlits, Shamar Greene, Kyle Hearn, Taylor Het-tinger, Shondrea Houston, Madyson Humphreys, Austin Jones, Tori McCoy, Jacob Mahler, Quinton Manion-Mercer, Austin Myers, Kathryn Osygus, Codie Sansom, Joel Simp-son, Colston Smith, Stefon Smith, Austin Stover, Abi-gail Thomas, Josh Watson, Macon Weeks, Taylor Win-ters, Emily Zenoski, Eric Zidanic.

Fourth gradeA — Mary Pierce Barnes,

Amya Bijou, Jacob Brand, Bryanna Carlson, Shelby Couzzi, Amy Estrada, Mad-ison Finch, Emma Italia-no, Risam Johnson, Avery Morgan, Caitlyn Rose Ply-ler, Bayleigh Poulsen, Mary Randall, Trey Rikard, Ted Shishkovskiy, Julia Sta-ples, Jamiee Stegall

A/B — Jake Barnes, Grace Barry, Reming-ton Blansett, Brandon Boatwright, Kate Borra, Charlea Brockman, Ash-ley Corn, Daniel Craig, Sydney Crawford-Esch, Emeralda Cruz, Bethany

Davis, Aaron Elliot, Brady Farmer, Hannah Flana-gan, Keauna Gorman, Ay-din Greer, Parker Haworth, Alexis Helfrich, Bridget Jones, Sidney Jones, Zack-ery Kilgo, Connor King, Peter Newton, Armando Paquaga, Kinsey Peppler, Lisa Reed, Caroline Ruth, Jessica Sheets, Kate Steele, Judy Thao, Holly Walsh, Madeline Wulff.

Fifth gradeA — Eriana Gonzalez,

Timothy Leckrone, Zack Levan, Joshua Moore, Alex Parker, Christina Schwen-dig, Amelya Staiano, Chase Sweezy, Josie Thompson, John Turpin.

A/B — Rayanna Black, Quinlan Brockman, Hunt-er Byars, Alexis Elko, Claire Falleson, Julia Hal-ligan, Emily Hays, Devon Helms, Elizabeth Karp, Libby Krauss, Russell Leggett, Hannah Mahler, Thomas Martin, Gerald McKinney, Abby Petty, Evan Pikaart, Michal Pitts, Carlie Pooler, Thomas Osy-gus, Mary Warren Rogers, Jace Sarif, Joey Schneider, Dakota Shelton, Jackson Sinclair, Yasmin Solares, Raygen Stover-Smith, Josh Swink, Miranda Thornton, Corey Wagenvoord, Court-ney Willemin, Alex Woeck.

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regional comPetition in Atlanta!!

The band will be performing their 2009 show entitled “each time You tell their story”

Depicting a day in the life of a soldier on the battlefield. It begins with the rising of the sun and ends with the ultimate sacrifice.The poem that is read during the show is pre-recorded by Mrs. Vitulli’s grandfather, James Eudy. Mr Eudy is a World War II Veteran and served in the 66th Infantry, Black Panther Division.

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drum major - Matt Corumcolor guard captain - Gina Frankenburg

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DEAR ABBY: I attended a business-related function with my boss and some co-workers. I had way too much to drink and ended up having sex with my boss. (He offered me a ride to my car and took advantage of me.) If I had been sober, it would never have happened.

Since then, my boss contin-ues to pursue me even though I have made it clear that it was a mistake and something I truly regret. I have no inter-est in this man. He is mar-ried, and it sickens me every time I think about it. I am too ashamed to discuss this with anyone, but my boss won’t leave me alone. Please tell me what I should do. -- EMBAR-RASSED IN CHICAGO

DEAR EMBARRASSED: Your boss is acting like a sexual predator, and has from the beginning. If you haven’t been documenting his ha-rassment, begin to do so im-

mediately. And if anyone has seen him put the moves on you, so much the better. You should also discuss this with an attorney, and because you are “embarrassed,” make it a woman.

***DEAR ABBY: My brother

“Eric’s” car was destroyed in a natural disaster four years ago. His insurance company paid for the loss, but he never replaced the car. For the next two years he borrowed one from another family member until she finally put a stop to

it. For the last two years Eric has been using one of mine.

It started out as a tempo-rary loan, but now he acts like I gave it to him. I still pay for its upkeep and insur-ance, because if I didn’t, Eric wouldn’t. I have offered to sell it to him for a reasonable price, but every time I men-tion it he comes up with an excuse.

I feel used. How do I tell my brother I want my car back without stepping on anyone’s toes? We are a close fam-ily, and I’m afraid he’ll hold a grudge if I tell him how I feel. He and his wife have full-time, well-paying jobs. My husband and I have two other vehicles, so I don’t need the other one desperately. I just hate see-ing it used and abused like this. Should I feel guilty about wanting my wheels back? -- USED UP IN THE SOUTH

DEAR USED UP: No, you

shouldn’t -- and your signa-ture speaks volumes. Now pick up the phone and call your insurance agent. It is pos-sible that because you are the legal owner of that vehicle, you could be responsible for any damage that your brother might cause while driving it.

You have been a wonderful and generous sister for hav-ing allowed him to use it for as long as he has. Because you’re having trouble find-ing the words to tell Eric that you want him to stand on his own two feet and provide his own transportation, ask the relative who loaned him the last one to let you borrow her script.

***DEAR ABBY: I am regularly

invited out to eat by either of two friends, both of whom are very wealthy. I have no-ticed that neither one leaves a 15 percent tip. They usually

leave 10 or 12 percent. I feel uncomfortable

when they don’t leave a serv-er what I consider to be the minimum appropriate tip. Would it be OK for me to add to the tip they are leaving? I don’t want to offend them. Please advise. -- RED-FACED IN RICHMOND, CALIF.

DEAR RED-FACED: If you can find a way to do it dis-creetly, without embarrassing your host, I am sure your gen-erosity would be appreciated by the server.

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Dear AbbyColumnist

Woman’s predatory boss is eager to score again

Oct. 28, 2009

ASTRO-GRAPHBy Bernice Bede Osol

In the year ahead, your chart indicates that you are likely to become involved in many more interests than in the past. Most will involve commercial situa-tions, but a few are likely to be personal.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Do not deliberately place your-self in a difficult situation, but if you find yourself in one, you’ll handle everything with grace and ease.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- This is one of those days when everything is an oppor-tunity for you. More fortunate than usual, you’ll turn the worst type of situation into a winner.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- An excellent alliance or partnership can be formed for a material purpose if you get linked up with someone who believes he or she is lucky. A positive attitude makes things happen.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- A good outlook will do won-ders for you right now concern-ing most anything you want. If that’s your mindset, now is the time to deal with a critical mat-ter.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Know that you won’t be battling alone in a competitive situation that everyone is fighting over. A behind-the-scenes booster will cover your back and is likely to turn the tide your way.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Now is the day to attempt to clear up a disturbing social mat-ter. You’ll have great luck turn-ing out the situation exactly as you wish.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- The possibilities for fulfilling an ambitious career matter are better than usual. Take it upon yourself to do everything you believe you can accomplish, and good things should happen.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- You’re the type of person who likes to include other people in whatever it is you’re trying to accomplish -- and if they successfully help you out, you

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Don’t be afraid to think big because size serves to awaken your po-tential. If you believe something is worth taking a risk and you’re capable of doing it, get moving without any hesitation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Be hopeful and expectant con-cerning the outcome of events that could enhance your mate-rial security or add to your re-sources. Dame Fortune is likely to make a nice contribution to your holdings.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Your easygoing disposition can handle sticky situations that would overpower others, so don’t hesitate to walk into one that others might consider too hot to handle. You’ll do fine.

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By Michael hastingsMedia General News Service

Before fire, there was only raw food.

In recent years, a number of Americans have embraced this diet.

A diet of raw foods, sometimes called living foods, involves eating whole, unprocessed raw foods. Most raw foodists are vegans, but some may eat meat, fish or dairy products.

Some may even eat a little cooked food, but most strive to get three-quarters of their food raw.

The diet is envi-ronmentally friendly because the produce is typically organic. It’s also energy efficient, because it doesn’t require stoves or ovens. But the main benefits are health and well-being.

“Energy is the No. 1 thing,” said Sandee Hamrick of Belews Creek, who started the diet seven years ago. “It also helps your mental awareness. And your skin is so much clearer.”

Raw foodists often lose weight and believe that the diet reduces the risk of heart and cardiovascular disease.

Breast cancer runs in Hamrick’s family, and she used to make frequent trips to an on-cologist. “I had all these cysts, and every three months they had to drain some cysts just so they could check the cysts behind them,” she said.

Within a year, she said, all of her cysts disappeared. “My doc-tor said, ‘I can’t say that what you’re doing is helping with this, but keep doing it.’”

At the heart of the raw-food beliefs are the en-zymes in foods. Enzymes are organic substances that act as catalysts, often with vitamins, in bio-chemical and metabolic reactions in the body. Cooking destroys those enzymes. Foods that are not heated beyond 116 de-grees retain enzymes,and

raw foodists believe that the enzymes assist in the digestion of food and absorption of nutrients.

The diet is con-troversial.

Barb Andresen, a lo-cal registered dietitian, refuted the idea that people need the enzymes in raw food for proper digestion and nutrition. That is not scientifically sound, she said. The body creates its own enzymes.

“This kind of extreme diet is not necessary to be healthy, and I wouldn’t recommend it,” Andresen said.

“It’s good that this encourages fruits and vegetables, but they don’t need to be raw. It’s not that people are eating unhealthy stuff; it’s just that they are missing some stuff.”

Of particular con-cern, she said, are possible deficiencies in protein, vitamin D and B12. The diet can also be low in calories.

Meghan Prior, the owner of New Planet Yoga, eats mainly raw food. “When you eat live foods, you feel the effects almost instantaneously,” said Prior, who has eaten this way for five years. “You feel lighter. You feel the energy coming from the food. It is the anti-aging diet,” she said.

But Prior gets extra protein and nutrients from cooked grains and other food, and she takes supplements.

“It’s a challenge to do

all raw. It takes some time to prepare it,” she said, noting that raw seeds and nuts are typi-cally soaked for hours to revive dormant enzymes.

For breakfast, Prior may have soaked raw buckwheat groats with fruit or chopped nuts, topped with almond milk. Lunch might be an avocado sandwich on (cooked) sprouted-grain bread with other vegetables. Dinner is often a pate of ground seeds, nuts and a salad to which she adds cooked legumes or brown rice.

Juicing is popular with raw-foodists. Hamrick said she often has car-rot or other vegetable juice for dinner. “Be-lieve it or not, it really fills you up,” she said.

Her breakfast is often a green smoothie of spinach combined with fruit and coconut oil, and she usually has a salad for lunch.

Tricia Willard became interested in the diet while working at area spas. This summer, she spent a month in Chicago

learning how to prepare raw foods with Chef Mehmet Ak, who owns a raw-food restaurant.

The raw-food diet is an extension of her interest in alternative medicine. She also thought that the diet might help her 8-year-old son, Travis, who has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

“My son’s teachers wanted to put him on Ritalin, and I didn’t want that,” she said.

Since starting the diet, Travis’ behavior has improved, and she, too, feels better. “I have more energy. I need less sleep,” she said. “My eyes are brighter and clearer. And I’ve lost 20 pounds.”

Now Willard is look-ing into the possibility of opening a raw-food restaurant. And she will give a raw-food class at Whole Foods Market on Oct. 29.

Though raw-foodists may eat a lot of salads and juices, Willard has learned how make raw facsimiles of spaghetti and meatballs, chili, cheesecake and more. She uses a heavy-duty blender for grinding nuts and seeds into dips. And she uses a dehydrator to simulate the baking process for cookies and pizza crusts.

Though Hamrick is mainly sold on the health benefits, Wil-lard and Prior said that a raw-food diet is about more than that.

“You are what you eat, and I want to eat con-sciously,” Prior said.

Willard said, “I person-ally have never felt so much more grounded - artistically, emotion-

ally. It’s about eating healthier. But it’s also about staying con-nected to the earth.”

Cacao LoveThis recipe can be var-

ied by taste. To sweeten it, add a bit of raw honey. Garnish with raw vanilla powder, if desired. Fresh young Thai coconuts are available at Whole Foods Market and at local Asian markets.

1 young Thai coconut.2 handfuls or-

ganic raspberries (about 6 ounces).

3 plump organic strawberries.

1/4 cup raw or-ganic cacao powder.

1. Break open the coco-nut. Pour all the coconut water into a blender. Scoop out some of the co-conut meat if desired and add that to the blender.

2. Add raspber-ries, strawberries, cacao powder and blend until smooth.

Makes 1 serving.

Desert DipUnrefined and unfil-

tered oils are available online at such sites as rawguru.com.

1 cup raw organic sesame seeds (soaked in spring water about 3 hours and drained).

1/4 cup raw organic

pine nuts (soaked in spring water about 3 hours and drained).

3 tablespoons unre-fined organic sesame oil.

3 tablespoons unfil-tered organic olive oil.

juice of 1 or-ganic lemon.

3 cloves of organic garlic pressed.

1 pitted organic Medjool date.

Pinch of Celtic sea salt.Freshly ground

black pepper.1 tablespoon cumin.1 handful

chopped parsley.1 tablespoon organic

Hungarian paprika.Celery, red bell pepper

and carrots for dipping.1. In a high-powered

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3. Add garlic, dates, salt, cumin and black pepper. Blend until smooth.

4. Place in serving dish, sprinkle with paprika and chopped parsley.

5. Serve with celery, red bell pepper and carrots.

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CrashContinued from pae 1A

was a toddler when his father, the co-pilot, was killed.

Bradley has co-authored a book, The Crash of Pied-mont Flight 349 into Buck’s Elbow Mountain, and set up a memorial to the victims about a mile and half from where the crash occurred. He’ll mark the 50th anniversary with a ceremony there Saturday remembering the victims. “I have a growing spiritu-al attachment to them as I grow older,” Bradley said last week from his Monroe home.

He tells a fascinating story. “It’s crazy, the things you can go through,” he said. “But I’m tough.”

Seeing JesusThe crash happened

about 8:40 p.m. on Oct. 30, 1959, a Friday night. The plane had taken off from Washington, D.C., and was scheduled to stop in Char-lottesville, Lynchburg and Roanoke. Bradley, then 33, had been on a business trip in Oklahoma City and boarded the plane in D.C. He’d missed his connec-tion on an earlier flight, and was the last to board Flight 349. He took the last open seat, all the way in the rear of the cabin on

the right.The flight, aside from

minor turbulence, seemed routine. Passengers in seats ahead of Bradley were laughing and joking, many of them no doubt happy to be headed home after a week of work.

Then Bradley heard what sounded like the wings hitting trees. “I ducked my head down,” he said.

The plane, going about 160 mph, hit the side of the mountain. Bradley said he heard “a tremen-dous sound, a crunching of metal” then a noise like an ocean’s roar as he was thrown from the plane.

And then he saw some-

thing he said he didn’t feel comfortable disclosing until years after the crash. He saw a vision of Jesus Christ. “He looked at me and said, ‘Be concerned not. I will be with you al-ways,’ “ Bradley said. “I could see his eyes blink-ing and his lips moving.”

The next thing he knew, he was lying on the ground about 65 feet from the plane, still strapped in his seat, his mouth full of dirt and leaves. He yelled out to his fellow passen-gers. There was nothing but silence on the rugged and remote mountain.

Bradley unstrapped himself from his seat and tried to stand, but realized his feet were facing in op-posite directions. He had a dislocated hip, sprains and bruises and two teeth had been knocked out. But he had a strong constitu-tion, emotionally as well as physically. While serv-ing in the Naval Armed Guard he’d been 500 feet off Omaha Beach on D-Day in World War II.

On the mountain, lug-gage was scattered about.

A small panel ripped from the plane bore the airline’s emblem, a red-winged aircraft against a field of blue.

Bodies would later be found inside and outside the plane. Bradley kept his eyes off them.

“I didn’t have any need to look at them,” he said. “I saw enough of that at Normandy.”

Bradley noticed a coat up in a tree, which had apparently belonged to one of the crew members. He took a stick, pulled it down, and put it on. He used his seat cushion as a pillow.

The hours dragged by. A bear and her cub walked nearby. Bobcats screamed out. Bradley, a Catholic, lost count of the number of “Hail Marys” and “Our fathers” he said.

He could hear human voices from afar. He saw search planes. He hol-lered for help until he was hoarse. He tried to sleep, but the pain and cold kept waking him up.

“I was thinking about starting a fire, but I smelled the fumes from the plane and thought bet-ter of that,” he said.

A massive search by air and land had begun with-in hours of the crash. The Journal was filled with stories about the crash, including an interview with the co-pilot’s father, Archie Haley of Winston-Salem. “He always wanted to fly,” Haley said of his son.

A passenger list was published that included “E. Phillip Bradley, 33, of Clifton Forge, Va., a repre-sentative of the Interna-tional Association of Ma-chinists (AFL-CIO).”

Staring down buzzardsSaturday - Halloween -

dragged by. Bradley said he was always confident he’d be rescued. But after dawn broke Sunday, numerous buzzards began perching on tree limbs above him. “You cannot out-stare a buzzard,” he said. “You just look at them and they just look right back at you ... I’d thrash a stick around every once in a while, just to let them know I was still there.”

Later that morning, Bradley heard the shouts of a rescue team that had hiked in. The rescuers wanted to airlift him out. He asked that they carry him up to the top of the mountain, where a heli-copter could more safely land. The last thing he needed was another plane crash, he said. A doctor gave him some morphine to kill his pain.

Hours later, he was in a Charlottesville hospital, watching the Redskins game. Life would soon re-turn to normal for him. But he knew all too well that that wouldn’t be the case for the families of his fellow passengers. As he recovered, they were burying their dead.

Haley was an Air Force veteran and the father of two young children. Mike Haley and his sister, Deb-bie Haley Angel of Clem-mons, said that their mother, Ivey Haley, had to go work after the crash to support her family. She never remarried. She died six years ago, still very much in love with her late husband, her children said.

The flight attendant, George Hicks, had been planning on going to the Air Force Academy. His sister, Diane Hicks Skid-more of Norwood, con-stantly thinks about him.

“You never really forget,” she said. “They’re in your heart.”

Officials said a naviga-tional error caused the crash, and noted that a contributing factor may have been mental stress on the part of the pilot, 32-year-old George Lavr-inc of Norfolk, Va.

Bradley filed a lawsuit against the airline and settled out of court. By the terms of the agreement, he said, he can’t disclose the settlement amount. But he wasn’t angry at the airline, he said.

Flying doesn’t scare him. He even got his own private pilot’s license sev-eral years after the crash. “I figured if I went down again, it would be my fault,” he joked.

Back to the mountainLike many members

of The Greatest Genera-tion, Bradley doesn’t en-gage in a lot of public introspection. The crash didn’t leave him with any emotional baggage such as nightmares, he said. He doesn’t wonder why he was the sole survivor. “I didn’t make that deci-sion,” he said. “God made that decision.”

He said that God proba-bly took the other passen-gers “to heaven with him before he took care of me . I say prayers for them, that they’re in a good place and everything’s going well for them.”

God was there for the other passengers, Bradley said.

And so is he. When he re-turns to the mountain Sat-urday, he won’t be alone. He’ll be with the families of his fellow passengers. And in spirit, he’ll be with the victims. “I’m with them pretty much all the time, anyway.”

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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Engineers have established a $2 million to $10 million plan to clean up a rock slide on In-terstate 40 near the North Car-olina-Tennessee line.

Gov. Beverly Perdue is ex-pected to declare an emergen-cy, which will allow the state

to ask for federal funding for the clean up, the North Caro-lina Department of Transpor-tation said Tuesday.

The rock slide occurred about 2 a.m. Sunday near the Tennessee line, dumping rocks as large as mobile homes and closing I-40 in both directions.

The state Department of Transportation said unstable rocks will be removed first and then large boulders will be blasted into smaller pieces.

Rocks removed from the side of the mountain and pieces of blasted boulders will be used to construct a ramp up to the

top of the slide, which is 150 feet high and 200 to 300 feet wide. A pulley system will be installed on the ramp to climb to the top of the slide and re-move rock.

Crews will work from the ramp removing rocks top to bottom. Workers will chisel

off rock and continue blasting to stabilize the area.

The general idea for the cleanup is to blast the debris from the top so that it falls down the sides of the slide area and not straight ahead across the eastbound lanes into the Pigeon River,.

Engineers say cleaning up I-40 rock slide could cost as much as $10 million

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10A / Wednesday, October 28, 2009 The Enquirer-Journal

By Eric rapE E-J Correspondent

UnionvilleEast Lincoln ended Pied-

mont High’s impressive vol-leyball season by eliminating the Panthers from the 2A state playoffs with a 3-0 win in the second round on Tuesday.

The Mustangs were led by senior Lindsay Wright — who

is committed to a basketball scholarship with Wake For-est — with 10 kills and eight blocks.

The Panthers’ season ends at 23-2, highlighted by the

Rocky River Conference title.The first two sets were close.

Down 22-14 in the first, Pied-mont got to within two points before the Mustangs took the set 25-20.

Piedmont jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the second but saw it disappear. East Lincoln led 16-14 before pulling away for the 25-17 win.

In the third set Piedmont jumped ahead again, this time 3-0, but it was over from there. East built an insurmountable 19-8 lead and won 25-15.

Courtney Barrineau fin-ished with two kills, two aces, and 13 digs for Piedmont and Katie Simpson had three kills, two aces and six digs.

See piEDMONT / Page 2B

By JErry SNOWE-J Sports Editor

MARvinIf Marvin Ridge High wins its

first-ever conference champion-ship in football this season, the defense should probably take the deepest bow.

The Mavericks’ defense con-sistently set up scoring opportu-nities for the home team in last Friday’s 24-20 win over Anson County, forcing the Bearcats

into six turnovers.Marvin Ridge is now 8-1 over-

all and 2-1 in the Southern Caro-lina Conference. If the Mavs win at Parkwood (0-3, 3-5 overall) on Friday, they will host Wedding-ton in the regular season finale with the chance to win at least a share of the league title.

With just two weeks left in the regular season, three other SCC teams also control their own destiny with 2-1 records — WHS,

Anson and Por-ter Ridge.

The Mavs continue to get high produc-tion from their linebackers, led by junior Vin-nie Sunseri, who had two in-terceptions and a fumble recov-ery in last week’s win.

Sunseri is leading Union County in tackles for loss with 16 and also tops the Mavs in tackles with 70.

Sunseri’s five interceptions rank second in the county be-hind Porter Ridge senior cor-nerback P.J. Freeman (six).

The Mavericks have 26 take-aways this season — 13 inter-ceptions and 13 fumble recover-ies.

See DEFENSE / Page 6B

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SportsEditor: Jerry Snow (261-2225) jsnow@theej.com Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Section B

Former teammatesLee, Sabathia will faceoff in tonight’s opener 2B

WHO’S NEWSBobcats open today; good news on Bell

CHARLOTTE (AP) — Raja Bell wants to tough it out without being a liability. The Charlotte Bobcats

likely need their starting shooting guard if they want a realistic shot at the playoffs.

Tuesday was a day of optimism for both sides, with Bell hopeful he’ll be able to play this season

with a torn ligament in his left wrist and put off surgery that would side-line him up to four months.

The Bobcats open their season today at the Boston Celtics starting at 7:30 p.m.

“I’m going to (sit out) for another week to see if it continues to progress as it has, then I’ll probably wind up playing,” Bell said after participating practice with his non-shooting hand heavily taped. “If it doesn’t, then we’ll go back to the drawing board.”

Bell was injured when his wrist bent awkwardly as he tried grab a loose ball in an exhibition game on Oct. 18. He sat out the final two preseason games after tests revealed the torn ligament. Bell got a second opinion from a Chicago hand special-ist who told him if he can withstand the pain, he can play.

“I’m pretty encouraged,” Bell said. “It’s feeling a lot better than it did. I still have some hurdles to clear with it, but I feel good.”

Agassi admits he used crystal meth

NEW YORK (AP) — Andre Agassi’s upcoming autobiography contains an admission that he used crystal meth in

1997, the year he dropped to No. 141 in the rankings.

In a story posted on People magazine’s Web site Tuesday, Agassi says: “I can’t speak to addiction, but a lot of people would say that if

you’re using anything as an escape, you have a problem.”

Excerpts from the book are being printed this week by People and Sports Illustrated. A writer from SI first revealed the crystal meth reference on a Twitter posting Tuesday.

“The tweet from SI that posted earlier today which tipped to one of the revelations in the book — Agassi’s use of crystal meth in 1997 — was accurate,” Knopf spokesman Paul Bogaards told The AP in a telephone interview Tuesday.

In the posting on People’s Web site, Agassi says he “was worried for a mo-ment, but not for long,” about how fans would react if they found out he used drugs.

“I wore my heart on my sleeve and my emotions were always written on my face. I was actually excited about telling the world the whole story,” Agassi says.

Among the most successful — and, one of the most popular — tennis play-ers in history, Agassi won eight Grand Slam singles titles before retiring in 2006. He drew attention not just for his play, but also for his outfits, his hairstyles and his relationships with women.

Agassi’s first major championship came at Wimbledon in 1992, and he won a gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. But by late 1997, Agassi dropped out of the top 100 in the rankings, and he was playing in tennis’ equivalent of the minor leagues.

Mavs-WHS ppd.; SV’s at MR today

MARVIN — Sun Valley’s boys soccer team (11-10) plays at unbeaten Marvin Ridge today. The Mavs, who are 14-2-1 and 8-0 in SCC play, had their game against Weddington (10-5-3) rained out on Tuesday. It has been resched-uled for Friday at MR.Read details about today’s match in Thursday’s issue of The E-J.

WORTH A LOOKMajor League Baseball World Series, Game 1Philadelphia at N.Y. Yankees

7:30 p.m., FOX

BELL

SUNSERIAGASSI

UC’s last team standing

Mavs hoping to ride defense to league title

Volleyball

E-J staff photo by Ed Cottingham

Weddington senior Amy Schwartz celebrates a winning point during Tuesday’s playoff win. The War-riors, now 21-4, are the last volleyball team still playing in UC out of 10 that made the postseason.

Piedmont’s best season ever ends at 23-2

Warriors reach third round of 3A playoffsBy DaviD SENTENDrEyE-J Correspondent

WeDDinGTonThe Weddington High volleyball

team advanced to the third round of the 3A state playoffs by sweeping Concord High 3-0 on Tuesday.

The Warriors (21-4) had not faced Concord, a team that has several players with Division 1 offers, in five seasons. Set scores were 25-15, 25-19 and 25-11,

“I kind of figured [Concord] didn’t have as good of a game as they had an-ticipated,” WHS coach Carrie Powell said. “… I thought that our girls played extra defense and picked up most any-thing they were trying to do.”

Concord (19-5) had good height up front and was successful with blocking a number of Weddington shots – some-thing the Warriors expected coming into the second-round playoff match.

“We had known that they were going to have a lot of blocks on us and a lot of tips,” WHS senior Amy Schwartz said. “So that’s something that we re-ally focused on this week, was being able to get that coverage – and I think in one play we had three covers off their blocks because they were definitely strong blockers, but we were able to get the ball up.”

Schwartz led the Warriors with 11 kills and helped control set one up front during a 25-15 win while placing her shots in between diving defenders.

See WarriOrS / Page 2B

Total TDsresponsible

Top 10 players in Union County withmost career TDs, including passing:

By JUSTiN MUrDOcKE-J Sports Writer

MonRoeUntil this year, Wed-

dington High senior quar-terback Anthony Boone hadn’t been on the winning side of many games in his high school career.

As Union County’s only four-year starter at any position, Boone (6-foot-2, 225 pounds) won just eight games combined in his first three seasons under center.

But the atmosphere at Weddington has changed in 2009 under first-year coach Justin Hardin.

And Boone has helped lead the Warriors to a 5-4 record. More importantly, the Warriors share first place in the Southern Car-olina Conference with a 2-1 mark in the league heading into Friday’s home against Sun Valley.

Boone is having one of the best statistical seasons of his career.

He’s not only passed for 1,132 yards and 12 touch-downs, but he’s also rushed for a career-high 10 touch-downs.

Over his career, Boone has been responsible for 67 touchdowns, including 42 through the air and 25 more on the ground.

See LEaDErS / Page 6B

Player Ru/rec Pass Def Ret TotJuanne Blount (FH) 77 10 2 3 92Anthony Boone (W) 25 42 67 Maurice Leak (Pw) 16 25 41 Don. Covington (M) 40 40 Jam. Crowder (M) 17 1 9 27Jalen Sowell (M) 5 21 26Ryan Smith (SV) 2 21 23Shamiir Hailey (M) 21 21 Dylan Williams (MR) 19 19 Dustin Cook (SV) 15 15 Steven Miller (Pm) 15 15

Boone, Warriors having their best year together

E-J staff photo by Ed Cottingham

WHS QB Anthony Boone has been in on 67 career TDs, which is second among active players in UC.

Union Co.’s 2009Yardage Leaders

Through Week 10 (out of 12)

PassingName, yr. (School) G com. att. TD int yds ypGRyan Smith, So. (SV) 9 130 216 21 4 1,637 181.9Jalen Sowell, Jr. (Mon.) 9 51 98 21 7 1,164 129.3Anthony Boone, Sr. (W) 9 65 146 12 7 1,132 125.8Maurice Leak, Sr. (Pw) 9 57 129 10 5 950 105.6Lee McNeill, So. (PR) 9 79 170 6 7 908 100.9Tyler Chadwick, So. (Pm) 7 37 76 8 3 609 87.0

ReceivingName, yr. (School) G rec yds. rpG ypGKJ Brent, Jr. (MR) 9 37 637 4.1 70.8Cameron Leviner, Jr. (Pm) 9 23 544 2.6 60.4Jamison Crowder, Jr. (M) 9 20 485 2.4 53.9Andre McManus, Sr. (SV) 9 32 472 3.6 52.4Dustin Cook, Sr. (SV) 9 33 438 3.7 48.7 Marcus Leak, Jr. (Pw) 8 15 358 1.9 44.8Rad Crowell, Sr. (PR) 9 28 370 3.1 41.1 Deonte Hiatt, Jr. (Pw) 9 26 348 2.9 38.7Jamal Little, So. (FH) 9 25 299 2.8 33.2 Jody Fuller, So. (SV) 9 21 287 2.3 31.9

Rushingplayer, yr. (School) G a yds ypc ypGJuanne Blount, Sr. (FH) 9 153 1,471 9.6 163.4Shamiir Hailey, Sr. (M) 9 107 1,257 11.7 139.7Kemp Lotharp, Sr. (Pw) 7 110 842 7.7 120.3Jad. Williams, So. (SV) 9 167 923 5.5 102.6Charvis Barrino, Sr. (CA) 9 196 918 4.7 102.0Tyree Drakeford, So. (UA) 9 153 845 5.5 93.9Brandon Little, So. (W) 5 63 467 7.4 93.4Kolly Ogar, Jr. (MR) 9 121 837 6.9 93.0Steven Miller, Sr. (Pm) 6 105 557 5.3 92.8Rasheed Rushing, Fr. (UA) 9 108 719 6.7 79.9

2B / Wednesday, October 28, 2009 The Enquirer-Journal

Sunday’s GamesNew England 35, Tampa Bay 7Pittsburgh 27, Minnesota 17Houston 24, San Francisco 21Indianapolis 42, St. Louis 6San Diego 37, Kansas City 7Green Bay 31, Cleveland 3Buffalo 20, Carolina 9N.Y. Jets 38, Oakland 0Dallas 37, Atlanta 21Cincinnati 45, Chicago 10New Orleans 46, Miami 34Arizona 24, N.Y. Giants 17Open: Denver, Seattle, Detroit,

Jacksonville, Baltimore, TennesseeMonday’s GamePhiladelphia 27, Washington 17Sunday, Nov. 1St. Louis at Detroit, 1 p.m.Miami at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.Seattle at Dallas, 1 p.m.Cleveland at Chicago, 1 p.m.Denver at Baltimore, 1 p.m.Houston at Buffalo, 1 p.m.San Francisco at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.Oakland at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.Jacksonville at Tennessee, 4:05 p.m.Minnesota at Green Bay, 4:15 p.m.Carolina at Arizona, 4:15 p.m.Open: New England, Cincinnati,

Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Washington, Tampa Bay

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

College football

Top 25 ScheduleAll Times EDT

Thursday’s GameNo. 14 Virginia Tech vs. North

Carolina, 7:30 p.m. Friday’s Game

No. 20 West Virginia at South Florida, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesNo. 1 Florida vs. Georgia at

Jacksonville, Fla., 3:30 p.m.No. 3 Texas at No. 13 Oklahoma State,

8 p.m.No. 4 Southern Cal at No. 10 Oregon, 8

p.m.No. 5 Cincinnati at Syracuse, NoonNo. 6 Boise State vs. San Jose State, 3

p.m.No. 7 Iowa vs. Indiana, NoonNo. 8 TCU vs. UNLV, 4 p.m.No. 9 LSU vs. Tulane, 8 p.m.No. 11 Georgia Tech at Vanderbilt, 7:30

p.m.No. 12 Penn State at Northwestern,

4:30 p.m.No. 15 Houston vs. Southern Miss, 1

p.m.No. 17 Ohio State vs. New Mexico

State, Noon

No. 18 Miami at Wake Forest, 3:30 p.m.No. 19 Utah vs. Wyoming, 8 p.m.No. 21 South Carolina at Tennessee,

7:45 p.m.No. 22 Oklahoma vs. Kansas State,No. 24 Mississippi at Auburn, 12:21

p.m.No. 25 Notre Dame vs. Washington

State at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

College Football ScheduleAll Times EDT(Subject to change)

Thursday, Oct. 29SOUTH

North Carolina (4-3) at Virginia Tech (5-2), 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 30SOUTH

West Virginia (6-1) at South Florida (5-2), 8 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 31EAST

Albany, N.Y. (6-2) at Cent. Connecticut St. (6-1), NoonRutgers (5-2) at Connecticut (4-3), NoonWagner (4-3) at Duquesne (2-6), NoonDartmouth (1-5) at Harvard (4-2), NoonValparaiso (1-6) at Marist (4-3), NoonNortheastern (1-6) at New Hampshire (6-1), NoonSacred Heart (1-6) at Robert Morris (1-6), NoonCincinnati (7-0) at Syracuse (3-4), NoonJames Madison (2-5) at Delaware (5-2), 12:05 p.m.Penn (4-2) at Brown (4-2), 12:30 p.m.Lehigh (2-5) at Colgate (7-1), 1 p.m.Yale (3-3) at Columbia (2-4), 1 p.m.Holy Cross (6-1) at Fordham (3-4), 1 p.m.Bucknell (3-4) at Lafayette (6-1), 1 p.m.Bryant (3-4) at Monmouth, N.J. (3-4), 1 p.m.Cornell (2-4) at Princeton (1-5), 1 p.m.William & Mary (6-1) at Rhode Island (1-6), 1 p.m.Richmond (7-0) at Towson (2-5), 1 p.m.Cent. Michigan (7-1) at Boston College (5-3), 3:30 p.m.Massachusetts (4-3) at Maine (3-4), 3:30 p.m.Temple (5-2) at Navy (6-2), 3:30 p.m.

SOUTHLouisiana-Lafayette (4-3) at Fla. International (1-6), NoonN.C. State (3-4) at Florida St. (3-4), NoonAppalachian St. (5-2) at Furman (4-3), NoonMississippi (5-2) at Auburn (5-3), 12:21 p.m.Morehead St. (2-6) at Campbell (1-6), 1 p.m.SE Missouri (1-6) at E. Kentucky (4-3), 1 p.m.Howard (2-5) at Norfolk St. (3-4), 1 p.m.Samford (3-4) at The Citadel (3-4), 1 p.m.Coastal Carolina (3-4) at Clemson (4-3), 1:30 p.m.Stony Brook (4-4) at Gardner-Webb (5-2), 1:30 p.m.Bethune-Cookman (2-5) at N. Carolina A&T (4-3), 1:30 p.m.Central St., Ohio (1-6) at N.C. Central (1-6), 1:30 p.m.Delaware St. (2-4) at S. Carolina St. (6-1), 1:30 p.m.Charleston Southern (2-5) at VMI (2-5), 1:30 p.m.Elon (6-1) at Wofford (2-5), 1:30 p.m.W. Carolina (1-6) at Chattanooga (4-3), 2 p.m.E. Illinois (6-2) at Murray St. (2-5), 2 p.m.McNeese St. (5-2) at Nicholls St. (1-6), 2 p.m.Edward Waters (0-8) at Savannah St. (1-5), 2 p.m.Hampton (3-4) at Winston-Salem (1-6), 2 p.m.Tennessee St. (3-4) at Tennessee Tech (4-3), 2:30 p.m.MVSU (2-5) at Grambling St. (4-3), 3 p.m.

Cent. Arkansas (5-2) at SE Louisiana (4-3), 3 p.m.Alabama St. (3-3) vs. Alabama A&M (4-3) at Birmingham, Ala., 3:30 p.m.Georgia (4-3) vs. Florida (7-0) at Jacksonville, Fla., 3:30 p.m.Presbyterian (0-7) at Liberty (5-2), 3:30 p.m.Arkansas St. (2-4) at Louisville (2-5), 3:30 p.m.Duke (4-3) at Virginia (3-4), 3:30 p.m.Miami (5-2) at Wake Forest (4-4), 3:30 p.m.Middle Tennessee (4-3) at Florida Atlantic (2-4), 4 p.m.Florida A&M (5-2) at Morgan St. (5-2), 4 p.m.Jacksonville St. (4-3) at Austin Peay (3-4), 5 p.m.Georgetown, D.C. (0-7) at Old Dominion (6-2), 6 p.m.Mississippi St. (3-5) at Kentucky (4-3), 7 p.m.Louisiana-Monroe (4-3) at Troy (5-2), 7 p.m.Georgia Tech (7-1) at Vanderbilt (2-6), 7:30 p.m.South Carolina (6-2) at Tennessee (3-4), 7:45 p.m.Tulane (2-5) at LSU (6-1), 8 p.m.

MIDWESTOhio (5-3) at Ball St. (1-7), NoonDavidson (2-5) at Butler (7-0), NoonIndiana (4-4) at Iowa (8-0), NoonAkron (1-6) at N. Illinois (4-3), NoonNew Mexico St. (3-5) at Ohio St. (6-2), NoonPurdue (3-5) at Wisconsin (5-2), NoonS. Illinois (6-1) at Indiana St. (1-7), 12:05 p.m.San Diego (3-4) at Dayton (6-1), 1 p.m.Jacksonville (4-3) at Drake (6-1), 2 p.m.W. Michigan (4-4) at Kent St. (4-4), 2 p.m.Illinois St. (3-4) at Missouri St. (5-3), 2 p.m.N. Dakota St. (1-7) at W. Illinois (1-6), 2:05 p.m.Michigan (5-3) at Illinois (1-6), 3:30 p.m.Toledo (4-4) at Miami (Ohio) (0-8), 3:30 p.m.S. Dakota St. (6-1) at Youngstown St. (4-3), 4 p.m.Penn St. (7-1) at Northwestern (5-3), 4:30 p.m.Cal Poly (4-3) at North Dakota (3-4), 5 p.m.Michigan St. (4-4) at Minnesota (4-4), 8 p.m.

SOUTHWESTNebraska (4-3) at Baylor (3-4), 12:30 p.m.Southern Miss. (5-3) at Houston (6-1), 1 p.m.SMU (3-4) at Tulsa (4-3), 2 p.m.W. Kentucky (0-7) at North Texas (1-6), 3 p.m.Alcorn St. (2-4) at Texas Southern (2-4), 3 p.m.Stephen F.Austin (6-1) at Texas St. (4-3), 3 p.m.UAB (2-5) at UTEP (3-4), 3 p.m.Southern U. (4-3) at Ark.-Pine Bluff (4-2), 3:30 p.m.Iowa St. (5-3) at Texas A&M (4-3), 3:30 p.m.Kansas (5-2) at Texas Tech (5-3), 3:30 p.m.UNLV (3-5) at TCU (7-0), 4 p.m.E. Michigan (0-7) at Arkansas (3-4), 7 p.m.Kansas St. (5-3) at Oklahoma (4-3), 7 p.m.Northwestern St. (0-7) at Sam Houston St. (3-4), 7 p.m.Washington St. (1-6) vs. Notre Dame (5-2) at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.Texas (7-0) at Oklahoma St. (6-1), 8 p.m.

FAR WESTMissouri (4-3) at Colorado (2-5), 1:30 p.m.San Jose St. (1-5) at Boise St. (7-0), 3 p.m.Weber St. (5-3) at Montana (7-0), 3 p.m.UC Davis (4-3) at S. Utah (3-4), 3 p.m.California (5-2) at Arizona St. (4-3), 3:30 p.m.Idaho St. (0-8) at Montana St. (4-3), 3:35 p.m.South Dakota (3-4) at N. Colorado

(2-6), 3:35 p.m.Air Force (4-4) at Colorado St. (3-5), 4 p.m.UCLA (3-4) at Oregon St. (4-3), 4 p.m.Portland St. (2-6) vs. E. Washington (5-3) at Seattle, 4:05 p.m.Hawaii (2-5) at Nevada (4-3), 4:05 p.m.Utah St. (2-5) at Fresno St. (4-3), 5 p.m.Louisiana Tech (3-4) at Idaho (6-2), 5 p.m.N. Arizona (5-2) at Sacramento St. (2-5), 5:05 p.m.New Mexico (0-7) at San Diego St. (3-4), 7:30 p.m.Southern Cal (6-1) at Oregon (6-1), 8 p.m.Wyoming (4-3) at Utah (6-1), 8 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 1SOUTH

Marshall (5-3) at UCF (4-3), 8:15 p.m.

Pro baseball

MLB Postseason GlanceAll Times EDT(Subject to change)(x-if necessary)

DIVISION SERIESAmerican League

NEW YORK 3, MINNESOTA 0Wednesday, Oct. 7New York 7, Minnesota 2Friday, Oct. 9New York 4, Minnesota 3, 11 inningsSunday, Oct. 11New York 4, Minnesota 1

LOS ANGELES 3, BOSTON 0Thursday, Oct. 8Los Angeles 5, Boston 0Friday, Oct. 9Los Angeles 4, Boston 1Sunday, Oct. 11Los Angeles 7, Boston 6

National LeagueLOS ANGELES 3, ST. LOUIS 0

Wednesday, Oct. 7Los Angeles 5, St. Louis 3Thursday, Oct. 8Los Angeles 3, St. Louis 2Saturday, Oct. 10Los Angeles 5, St. Louis 1

PHILADELPHIA 3, COLORADO 1Wednesday, Oct. 7Philadelphia 5, Colorado 1Thursday, Oct. 8Colorado 5, Philadelphia 4Saturday, Oct. 10Philadelphia at Colorado, ppd., weath-

erSunday, Oct. 11Philadelphia 6, Colorado 5Monday, Oct. 12Philadelphia 5, Colorado 4

LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIESAmerican League

NEW YORK 4, LOS ANGELES 2Friday, Oct. 16New York 4, Los Angeles 1Saturday, Oct. 17New York 4, Los Angeles 3, 13 inningsMonday, Oct. 19Los Angeles 5, New York 4, 11 inningsTuesday, Oct. 20New York 10, Los Angeles 1Thursday, Oct. 22Los Angeles 7, New York 6Saturday, Oct. 24Los Angeles at New York, ppd., rainSunday, Oct. 25New York 5, Los Angeles 2

National LeaguePHILADELPHIA 4, LOS ANGELES 1Thursday, Oct. 15Philadelphia 8, Los Angeles 6Friday, Oct. 16Los Angeles 2, Philadelphia 1Sunday, Oct. 18Philadelphia 11, Los Angeles 0Monday, Oct. 19Philadelphia 5, Los Angeles 4Wednesday, Oct. 21Philadelphia 10, Los Angeles 4

WORLD SERIESPHILADELPHIA vs. NEW YORK

TodayPhiladelphia (Lee 7-4) at New York

(Sabathia 19-8), 7:57 p.m.Thursday, Oct. 29Philadelphia at New York, 7:57 p.m.Saturday, Oct. 31New York at Philadelphia, 7:57 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 1New York at Philadelphia, 8:20 p.m.Monday, Nov. 2x-New York at Philadelphia, 7:57 p.m.Wednesday, Nov. 4x-Philadelphia at New York, 7:57 p.m.Thursday, Nov. 5x-Philadelphia at New York, 7:57 p.m.

Transactions

Tuesday’s Sports TransactionsBASEBALL

American LeagueKANSAS CITY ROYALS—Named

Steve Foster bullpen coach and Kyle Turner assistant trainer.

TAMPA BAY RAYS—Agreed to terms with OF Gabe Kapler on a one-year contract.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Announced the appointment Paul Beeston as president and CEO of the team for a three year term.

National LeagueHOUSTON ASTROS—Named Brad

Mills manager. Sent C Chris Coste outright to Round Rock (PCL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Named Casey McKeon director of player procurement and Jay Robertson spe-cial assistant to the general manager.

American AssociationST. PAUL SAINTS—Exercised the 2010

contract options on INF/OF Todd Self and OF Jacob Butler.

Can-Am LeagueWORCESTER TORNADOES—

Exercised the 2010 contract option on OF Vinny Pennell.

United LeagueEDINBURG ROADRUNNERS—

Exercised the 2010 contract option on RHP Aaron Guerra, LHP Austin Bridges, LHP Brian Martin, RHP Danny Rondon, RHP Bryan Heaston, RHP Eric Montoya, LHP Pedro Flores and RHP Ricardo Serrano.

FOOTBALLNational Football LeagueATLANTA FALCONS—Signed RB

Aaron Stecker. Placed S William Moore on injured reserve. Placed CB Glenn Sharpe on the practice squad-injured list. Signed S Eric Brock to the practice squad.

MIAMI DOLPHINS—Signed LB William Kershaw. Placed CB Will Allen on injured reserve.

NEW YORK JETS—Re-signed CB-KR Justin Miller. Placed RB Leon Washington on injured reserve.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS—Placed OT Tony Pashos on injured reserve.

HOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueNHL—Suspended Dallas F Steve Ott

for two games as the result of a low-hit on St. Louis D Carlo Colaiacovo in an Oct. 24 game.

ATLANTA THRASHERS—Recalled F Jason Krog from Chicago (AHL).

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS—Reassigned C Jake Dowell to Rockford (AHL).

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS—Placed C Andrew Murray on injured reserve, retroactive to Oct. 20.

NEW YORK RANGERS—Recalled F P.A. Parenteau from Hartford (AHL).

OTTAWA SENATORS—Assigned D Erik Karlsson to Binghamton (AHL).

ST. LOUIS BLUES—Recalled F Yan Stastny from Peoria (AHL).

American Hockey LeagueAHL—Suspended Manitoba D Nathan

McIver for one game for his actions in an Oct. 23 game at Chicago.

LAKE ERIE MONSTERS—Recalled F David Marshall from Charlotte (ECHL).

MANITOBA MOOSE—Signed F John Lammers.

TORONTO MARLIES—Released G Beau Erickson.

ECHLECHL—Announced the Florida

Everblades have been fined an undis-closed amount for the actions of members of their organization dur-ing an Oct. 24 game against Charlotte. Suspended Charlotte RW Aaron Slattengren for one game for his actions the same game.

VICTORIA SALMON KINGS—Traded F Yannick Tifu to Elmira for future considerations.

COLLEGEECAC—Named Joseph Clinton, Mark

Griffin and Andrea Savage to the board of directors.

BOSTON COLLEGE—Announced freshman QB Justin Tuggle and soph-omore RB Josh Haden will transfer.

DELAWARE—Named Ryan Glennon men’s assistant lacrosse coach.

Scoreboard

AMERICAN CONFERENCE

East

W L T Pct PF PA AFC NFC DivNew England 5 2 0 .714 198 98 3-2-0 2-0-0 1-1-0N.Y. Jets 4 3 0 .571 152 104 4-2-0 0-1-0 1-2-0Buffalo 3 4 0 .429 113 138 1-3-0 2-1-0 1-2-0Miami 2 4 0 .333 146 152 2-2-0 0-2-0 2-0-0

South

W L T Pct PF PA AFC NFC DivIndianapolis 6 0 0 1.000 179 77 3-0-0 3-0-0 2-0-0Houston 4 3 0 .571 167 158 3-2-0 1-1-0 1-1-0Jacksonville 3 3 0 .500 120 147 2-1-0 1-2-0 2-1-0Tennessee 0 6 0 .000 84 198 0-6-0 0-0-0 0-3-0

North

W L T Pct PF PA AFC NFC DivCincinnati 5 2 0 .714 163 128 3-2-0 2-0-0 3-0-0Pittsburgh 5 2 0 .714 167 129 3-1-0 2-1-0 1-1-0Baltimore 3 3 0 .500 169 130 3-2-0 0-1-0 1-1-0Cleveland 1 6 0 .143 72 179 1-4-0 0-2-0 0-3-0

West

W L T Pct PF PA AFC NFC DivDenver 6 0 0 1.000 133 66 5-0-0 1-0-0 2-0-0San Diego 3 3 0 .500 161 143 3-3-0 0-0-0 2-1-0Oakland 2 5 0 .286 62 177 1-4-0 1-1-0 1-2-0Kansas City 1 6 0 .143 105 181 0-3-0 1-3-0 0-2-0

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East

W L T Pct PF PA NFC AFC DivN.Y. Giants 5 2 0 .714 195 143 3-2-0 2-0-0 2-0-0Philadelphia 4 2 0 .667 163 116 3-1-0 1-1-0 1-0-0Dallas 4 2 0 .667 159 119 3-1-0 1-1-0 0-1-0Washington 2 5 0 .286 96 123 2-4-0 0-1-0 0-2-0

South

W L T Pct PF PA NFC AFC DivNew Orleans 6 0 0 1.000 238 127 3-0-0 3-0-0 0-0-0Atlanta 4 2 0 .667 144 114 3-1-0 1-1-0 1-0-0Carolina 2 4 0 .333 94 145 2-3-0 0-1-0 1-1-0Tampa Bay 0 7 0 .000 96 203 0-5-0 0-2-0 0-1-0

North

W L T Pct PF PA NFC AFC DivMinnesota 6 1 0 .857 206 148 4-0-0 2-1-0 2-0-0Green Bay 4 2 0 .667 161 96 3-1-0 1-1-0 2-1-0Chicago 3 3 0 .500 129 144 2-2-0 1-1-0 1-1-0Detroit 1 5 0 .167 103 188 1-4-0 0-1-0 0-3-0

West

W L T Pct PF PA NFC AFC DivArizona 4 2 0 .667 136 109 2-1-0 2-1-0 1-1-0San Francisco 3 3 0 .500 133 122 3-2-0 0-1-0 3-0-0Seattle 2 4 0 .333 118 109 1-3-0 1-1-0 1-2-0St. Louis 0 7 0 .000 60 211 0-5-0 0-2-0 0-2-0

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NEW YORK (AP) — The first time they met was seven years ago. Cliff Lee was a September call-up with a cocksure attitude, and his new team-mate was immediately impressed.

“He was the Cliff that he is now. He went out and pounded both sides of the plate, attacking, real aggressive in the strike zone,” CC Sabathia said Tuesday. “He goes right after you.”

Lee lost his major league debut that day for Cleveland, despite pitch-ing well against Minnesota. The two pitchers soon struck up a friendship, however, and it’s still going strong.

Now, the left-handed aces are set to square off in the World Series opener Wednesday night. Both traded by the Indians within the past two years, Lee will start for the Philadelphia Phillies against Sabathia and the New York Yankees.

“It’s going to be a lot of fun,” Sa-bathia said.

Teammates only 16 months ago, Lee and Sabathia have more in com-mon than their Cleveland history and potent left arms. Their families are friendly, and they still text each other often.

“I think we made each other better,” Lee said. “We helped each other out as far as how we thought we should ap-proach certain teams and just what’s the best frame of mind to have on the mound and stuff.”

Sabathia won the 2007 AL Cy Young Award with the Indians, then Lee took home the trophy last year. They’ve both been dominant through-out this postseason, leading their new

teams onto baseball’s biggest stage. And they’ve already faced each other in a similar setting.

Lee pitched the Indians to a 10-2 victory on April 16 in the first game at the new Yankee Stadium. Sabathia

started for New York but did not get a decision.

“I guess it was a chaotic atmosphere,” Lee said.

Even though the Yan-kees lost, Sabathia has fond memories.

“That was pretty cool. It’s just weird because a

couple years ago we were talking about maybe pitch-

ing in a World Series together. Now we’re in different clubhouses,” Sa-bathia said. “We’re close. You know, we always have been. We came up to-gether.”

And after that game, Lee had dinner at Sabathia’s house.

“My wife cooked, and he came over and hung out. That’s just how we are,” Sabathia said. “We never talk about baseball. It’s weird. That’s just some-thing that doesn’t come up. We’ll say ‘good job’ and things like that, but it’s just not sitting down talking about pitches and things like that. It’s noth-ing like that. ... Just two regular guys talking about whatever.”

New York’s home opener certainly drew plenty of attention. But it won’t compare to Wednesday night.

“This matchup couldn’t have been better,” said Phillies manager Charlie Manuel, the skipper in Cleveland for Sabathia’s first 1 1/2 years in the ma-jors from 2001-02.

“This is a big, premier game. I’m looking forward to it.”

PiedmontContinued from Page 1B

Teammate Nicole Hyatt contributed

three kills and five digs, and Taylor Simpson added two kills, three aces, eight assists and five digs.

“We played really well the first two sets and in the third one we got down and we stayed down and it showed,” said Piedmont coach Kim Canty. “But

I couldn’t be any more proud of these girls.

“They made history in Piedmont volleyball not only with their record but making it to the second round and winning the school’s first conference championship (in volleyball).”

Old friends will square off on mound tonight

WarriorsContinued from Page 1B

Weddington came out sluggish during the second set, trailing 8-5 early, but as starters Allison Rickher, Taylor Linton and Julia Moreira went to the bench, several reserves helped spark an 8-1 run on way to a 25-19 victory to take the set.

“I think who sparked it was Emily Harvey,” Pow-ell said. “I put her in to set because [Linton] was get-ting frustrated a little bit, so I put [Harvey] in just to

settle things down. She was just going to set the basic sets and she did, she came in right away an we got the ball back.”

Harvey, a fresh-man recently called up from JV, served on six consecutive points during the run.

Concord ran out of gas by set three after dealing with a relentless Wed-dington front and dropped the final set 25-11.

Leading the Warriors defense was Alex Kachu-lis with 31 digs. Kachulis,

a senior who is a standout on the girls soccer team as well, admits to playing with more heart at this time of year, knowing every game

could be the last of her volleyball ca-reer.

“Every game is possibly our last game, so all of us seniors, we’re giv-ing everything we can,” Kachulis said. “High intensity, es-pecially at these last few game because we know if we lose,

that’s it for us.”While there is no ques-

tion that Weddington will

miss their defensive leader in Kachulis next season, they should be in good hands with sophomores Jordan Davis and Lauren Martin in the backcourt.

Davis provided 16 digs on Tuesday while Martin added eight.

“[Davis and Martin] are really playing great now and I think they have really stepped their game up, es-pecially from the beginning of the season,” Kachulis said. “… I think next year, honestly, they’re going to fill in those roles perfectly – I don’t think you’re going to see much difference than what there is now.”

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004 LegalsSTATE OF

NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF UNION

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE

BEFORE THE CLERK9E0589

ADMINISTRATOR-EXECUTOR NOTICE

Having duly qualified before the Honorable J.R. Rowell, Clerk of Superior Court of Union County, as personal representative of the Estate of Wayne Vernon Carter,deceased.This is to notify all persons having claims against said Estate to present them to the undersigned or before the 25th day of January 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All per-sons indebted to said estate please make immediate pay-ment.This 21st day of October, 2009.Nancy Carter Peele118 Arthur CircleRockingham, NC 28379October 21, 28, November 4, 11, 2009

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF UNIONIN THE GENERAL

COURT OF JUSTICEBEFORE THE CLERK

09-SP-1573IN RE: Foreclosure of Deed of Trust from MARK J. WITTIG and SHANNON H. WITTIG, Grantor, to Da-vid Lynn Keltner, Trustee, recorded in Book 4918, Page 65, in the Union County Public Registry, by LESLIE H. MILLER, Substi-tute Trustee.

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE

Pursuant to the power and authority contained in that Deed of Trust executed by Mark J. Wittig and Shan-non H. Wittig on June 13, 2008, and recorded in Book 4918 at Page 65 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Union County, North Carolina, and be-cause of default in the pay-ment of the indebtedness thereby secured, and fail-ure to carry out and per-form the stipulations and agreements therein con-tained and, pursuant to de-mand of the owner and holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at the usual place of sale in the Union County Courthouse, 400 North Main Street, Monroe, North Carolina, at 12:00 Noon on November 2, 2009, the following descri-bed real property, including all improvements thereon: ADDRESS OF PROPER-TY: 4145 Mourning Dove Drive, Weddington, North Carolina.LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Being all of Lot 19 of Wed-dington Heights, Phase III B, as shown on map there-of recorded in Plat Cabinet J at File 354 in the Union County Public Registry.PRESENT OWNER(S): Mark J. Wittig and Shan-non H. Wittig.The terms of sale are that the real property will be sold for cash to the highest bidder and the undersigned may require the successful bidder to immediately de-posit cash or a certified check in the amount of five percent (5%) of the high bid. The real property will be sold subject to restric-tions and easements of re-cord, any unpaid taxes, pri-or liens and special as-sessments. The sale will be held open for ten days for upset bids as required by law.An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the pur-chaser and against the par-ty or parties in possession by the Clerk of Superior Court of Union County, North Carolina.This the 7th day of Octo-ber, 2009.Leslie H. MillerSubstitute TrusteeMiller & Hall, P.A.216 N. McDowell Street, Suite 106Charlotte, NC 28204704-375-8007October 21, 28, 2009

004 LegalsSTATE OF

NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF UNIONIN THE GENERAL

COURT OF JUSTICESUPERIOR

COURT DIVISIONBEFORE THE CLERK

FILE# 9E0576ADMINISTRATOR

EXECUTOR NOTICEHaving duly qualified be-fore the Honorable J. R. Rowell, Clerk of Superior Court of Union County, as personal representative of the Estate of Kevin E. Curlee, deceased.This is to notify all persons having claims against said Estate to present them to the undersigned on or be-fore the 15th day of Janu-ary, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons in-debted to said estate please make immediate payment.This 11th day of October, 2009.Co-Executirx Donna C. Sidway8339 Kapplewood Ct.Charlotte, NC 28226Glenda C. Thomas6715 Forest Green Dr.Waxhaw, NC 28173October 14, 21, 28, 2009November 4, 2009

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF UNION

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE

SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION

BEFORE THE CLERK9EO588

ADMINISTRATOR-EXECUTOR NOTICE

Having duly qualified before the Honorable J.R. Rowell, Clerk of Superior Court of Union County, as personal representative of the Estate of Eurania J. Massey, de-ceased. This is to notify all persons having claims against said Estate to present them to the undersigned on or before the 25th day of January, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All per-sons indebted to said estate please make immediate pay-ment.This 20th day of October, 2009.David C. Massey5707 Potter Rd.Matthews, NC 28104October 21, 28, November 4, 11, 2009

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF UNION

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE

SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION

BEFORE THE CLERK9E0564

ADMINISTRATOR-EXECUTOR NOTICE

Having duly qualified before the Honorable J.R. Rowell, Clerk of Superior Court of Union County, as personal representative of the Estate of Evelyn Sanders Jones,deceased. This is to notify all persons having claims against said Estate to pres-ent them to the undersigned on or before the 10th day of January, 2010, or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebt-ed to said estate please make immediate payment.This 7th day of October, 2009.Executrix:Peggy A. Jones522 Old Hwy 74Marshville, NC 28103October 7, 14, 21, 28, 2009

004 LegalsNOTICE OF

FORECLOSURE SALENORTH CAROLINA,

UNION COUNTY09 SP 1441

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Forrest K. Patterson and Heather D. Patterson to Burke & As-sociates, Trustee(s), dated February 28, 2006, and re-corded in Book 04079, Page 0730, Union County Registry, North Carolina.Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidenc-ing said indebtedness hav-ing directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at the Courthouse Door in Union County, North Caro-lina, at 10:30AM on No-vember 05, 2009, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following de-scribed property, to wit:Being all of Lot 1 in Block C of Hemby Acres Subdivi-sion, Section IV, as same is shown on map thereof recorded in Map Book 6 at Page 150, Union County, North Carolina.Said property is commonly known as 6101 Clearwater Drive, Indian Trail, NC 28079.Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, pursuant to N.C.G.S. 105-228.30, in the amount of One Dollar ($1.00) per each Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or fractional part thereof, and the Clerk of Courts fee, pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7A-308, in the amount of Forty-five Cents (45) per each One Hun-dred Dollars ($100.00) or fractional part thereof or Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), whichever is greater. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dol-lars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale and must be tendered in the form of certified funds. Fol-lowing the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts will be immediately due and owing.Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and convey-ance AS IS WHERE IS. There are no representa-tions of warranty relating to the title or any physical, en-vironmental, health or safe-ty conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, un-paid taxes, special assess-ments, land transfer taxes, if any, and encumbrances of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the cur-rent owner(s) of the proper-ty is/are Forrest K. Patter-son and Heather D. Patter-son.PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29

004 Legalsin favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agree-ment upon 10 days' written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, that tenant is li-able for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc.Substitute Trustee 1587 Northeast ExpresswayAtlanta, GA 30329(770) 234-9181Our File No.: 348.0927675NC October 28, 2009November 4, 2009

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DefenseContinued from Page 1B

Sunseri has six of the take-aways, sharing the team lead with junior cornerback Matt Chilton (three interceptions, three recoveries).

In addition to rushing for nine touchdowns in nine games as the Mavs’ power tailback, se-nior linebacker Dylan Williams ranks second on the team in tackles with 60.

Junior linebacker Griffin Weidele tops the team in sacks (four), ranks second in tackles for loss (nine) and third in tack-les (52).

Marvin Ridge has three shut-outs this season and is allow-ing 10.6 points per game, which ranks second in the county be-hind Monroe (7.6 ppg). Forest Hills is third in points allowed (11.8).

Dominant on both sidesMonroe is averaging 52.6

points per game this season, leading UC in both scoring and points allowed.

The 9-0 Redhawks, who are ranked sixth in the AP 1A state poll, are com-ing off their c o u n t y - b e s t fourth shutout of the year (48-0 at West Stanly).

Senior defen-sive end Miles Cook had nine tackles and a sack last week,

and leads the team in tackles with 77. Senior linebacker Mar-cus Mosley had eight tackles and two sacks and ranks second

on the team in tackles (69).Mosley and Cook share the

county lead in sacks with 10 each. Monroe has 33 sacks as a team.

Senior linebacker Donnard Covington had eight tackles against the Colts and junior de-fensive tackle Eric Horne had seven tackles and a sack. Horne ranks third on the team in tack-les (63).

Bobby Blakeney and Issac Blakeney each had intercep-tions for the Redhawks, who play at third-place Berry Acad-emy (7-2, 3-1) on Friday.

Bevington has big dayPerhaps overshadowed by last

week’s 31-24 home loss to Wed-dington was the contribution of Porter Ridge junior Zach

Bevington, a linebacker who made a career-high 15 tackles.

B e v i n g t o n was credited with seven solo tackles and eight assists. He also had two tackles for loss and recovered a fumble.

Bevington is leading the Pi-rates (6-3, 2-1) in tackles with 62 and also has 7.5 tackles for loss.

Porter Ridge senior safety Korey Smith had eight tackles and a pass breakup against the Warriors. Smith’s nine pass breakups lead the team. He also has two picks.

Junior linebacker Jon Bry-ant had 10 tackles and a tackle for loss for Porter Ridge. Bryan now has 60 tackles and eight tackles for loss on the season.

Porter Ridge hosts Anson (6-3, 2-1) on Friday.

Second-straight shutoutJunior linebacker Aaron

Sigmon had 15 tackles in For-est Hills’ 48-0 win at CATA last week. Sigmon has averaged 15 tackles the last four games and now has 113 on the year.

The Jackets (7-2, 6-0), who have won six in a row, got a

sack, two tackles for loss and two fumble recoveries from Darius Ellison. A junior end, Ellison leads FH in sacks with six.

Forest Hills linebacker Sherman Faulkner had seven tackles against CATA.

Faulkner, a junior, ranks

second on the team in tackles with 54.

In addition to rushing for 65 yards on 16 carries, CATA sophomore linebacker Mitch-ell Blackburn had 13 tackles against Forest Hills. Black-burn’s 73 tackles lead CATA (1-8).

Bevington

COOK

E-J staff photo by Ed Cottingham

Porter Ridge junior LB Zach Bevington (39), shown bringing down Marvin Ridge senior Dylan Williams in Week 9, had a career-high 15 tackles last week. Bevington leads Porter Ridge in tackles with 62.

LeadersContinued from Page 1B

Boone’s TD total is sec-ond among active career players in Union County behind Forest Hills se-nior quarterback Juanne Blount, who has 92 (includ-ing 10 passing).

Blount, a three-year starter, has used his ex-plosiveness to accumulate 4,821 career rushing yards and 1,168 passing yards and a 32-yard catch for

6,021 career yards of total offense.

Blount already has 27 rushing touchdowns in nine games this season to go along with five passing TDs.

Including the playoffs, Blount accounted for 39 touchdowns in 2008 in lead-ing the Yellow Jackets to the 2AA state semifinals.

For his career, Blount has 76 rushing scores, 10 passing, three on kickoff returns, two on intercep-tions and one receiving TD.

Two other players in the county have been involved in at least 40 career TDs, including Parkwood senior quarterback Maurice Leak (41) and Monroe senior tailback Donnard Coving-ton (40).

Leak has 25 passing scores and 16 touchdowns on the ground while Cov-ington has 37 TDs on the ground, two receiving and one on a return in his ca-reer.

Monroe junior Jamison Crowder is just in his sec-ond year of varsity foot-

ball, but he ranks fifth among the county’s active career TD leaders with a total of 27.

Crowder has 17 receiv-ing touchdowns, including a county-high nine this season, and has nine TDs on either kickoff or punt returns. He also has a fum-ble recovery for a score.

Sun Valley sophomore Ryan Smith and Monroe junior Jalen Sowell cur-rently lead UC with 21 touchdown passes in their first year as varsity start-ers.

E-J staff photo by ed Cottingham

Parkwood senior QB Maurice Leak (12) has been involved in 41 TDs in his three-year career.

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