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Vol. 80, No. 147

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

Sanford: John Denson Jr., 76; Lula Gunter, 92; Mary Jenkins, 71; Mary McLean, 70; Ruby ScogginsBroadway: Ora Womack, 89Cameron: Flossie McKinney, 96Lillington: William BrownRaleigh: Alvis Clegg Jr.Seagrove: Rev. Gyles

Saunders, 78Siler City: Hoyle Culberson, 81

INDEXOBITUARIESON SATURDAYn The Annual St. Baldrick’s event — volunteers shav-ing their heads to raise money for childhood cancer research — will be held at 4 p.m. at Cafe 121, located at 121 Chatham St., Sanford.

CALENDAR, PAGE 2A

SCOTT MOONEYHAMHollywood could be the biggest benefi ciaries of state tax break legislation

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High: 95Low: 73

More Weather, Page 12A

GULF

SETBACK IN STOPPING LEAK DRAWS PESSIMISM

Goals for stopping oil leak seemed wildly optimistic Thurs-day after yet another setback a mile underwater

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STATEHOUSE, SENATE DEMS WORKING ON BUDGET

House and Senate Democrats worked Thursday toward fi nal-izing a roughly $19 billion North Carolina government budget for the coming year

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WORLDU.S., RUSSIAN LEADERS TO ‘RESET’ RELATIONS

The president of the United States and the president of Russia enjoyed quite a summer’s day on Thursday: Grab some burgers, joke about Twitter, take a walk in the park

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SPORTS: Roy Williams ‘stunned’ by Wear twins’ transfers • Page 1B

NATION

OBAMA: NO DISCORD WITH GEN. PETRAEUS

With Gen. David Petraeus in charge, the president said Thursday he’s assembled the team that will take the U.S. through the make-or-break stage of the confl ict

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ECONOMY

COMPANIES SPENDING, COULD FUEL GROWTH

Businesses have invested more money in machinery, computers, steel and other metals in three of the past four months. The uptick is fueling economic growth in the second quarter and may lead to more jobs later this year.

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By ALEXA MILANamilan@sanfordherald.com

SANFORD — When the construction team from American South General Contractors began its shift at 6 a.m. Thursday, the temper-ature outside was bearable. But as they worked on the renovations at Lee County High School throughout the afternoon, the heat index crept up to more than 100 degrees.

Project superintendent Ernest Renegar said while the heat this summer has been pretty severe, it’s nothing he and his team aren’t used to.

“We’ve got a pretty tight schedule out here, but I’m not pushing them as hard as I normally would,” Renegar said. “It’s getting hotter faster, and you don’t have time to acclimate to it.”

While people who work primarily outside can’t avoid the hot summer sun, the National Weather Service advises people to exercise caution once the heat index approaches 90 degrees. The hottest June on record for central North Carolina was in 2008, but Brandon Locklear, senior forecaster with the Raleigh offi ce of the National Weather Service, said this June could potentially sur-pass it.

“It depends on the tim-ing of this next front and how much rain we have with

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Roman Gomez with Advanced Contractors, uses a remote control trench roller in the 100-plus heat on Thursday afternoon.

Triple digits made Thursday the hottest day ofthe year; June shaping up to be hottest ever

G O L D S TO N

Town mayturn toSanford for sewageProject expected tocost $6.4 million

By BILLY BALLbball@sanfordherald.com

GOLDSTON — Days after voters in Goldston passed a $3.7 million bond referendum to build a sewer infrastructure, offi cials could be moving toward a deal where the small Chatham County town pays to have its sewer treated in Sanford.

Goldston, which had an estimated population of below 400 people in the 2000 census, is in need of sewer to replace aging area septic tank systems that some describe as an environ-mental hazard.

Town residents voted over-whelmingly in a referendum Tuesday to move forward with using $3.7 million in bonds to build a sewer transport system, although Goldston would still need another entity to treat the sewage.

Town Mayor Tim Cunnup said Goldston has been in talks with Sanford for more than a year to transport sewage to Sanford’s treatment system.

“It makes the most sense,” Cunnup said Thursday.

G OV E R N M E N T

Board namesappointeesto variouscommitteesBy BILLY BALLbball@sanfordherald.com

SANFORD — Lee County commissioners approved a slew of appointments this week to va-cant positions on various county advisory panels.

Commissioners appoint members of the public each year to advice com-missioners on various sub-jects, includ-ing economic development, parks and recreation and land-use.

Scores of positions were available for ap-pointment, and some remain.

As of Monday, county offi cials say they had received no appli-cations for one three-year spot as an alternate on the Sanford Board of Adjustments, a panel that hears appeals on zoning

See Sewage, Page 6A

See Board, Page 6A

DID YOU KNOW?o The hottest June on record

for central North Carolina was 2008, followed by June of 1943.

o The average temperature in June for central North Carolina is in the 80s. Right now, the temperature is about 10-12 degrees above that.

o The hottest part of the day is from 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

o During the past 10 years, excessive heat caused more deaths per year than torna-does, hurricanes and fl oods. According to the National Weather Service, heat is responsible for an average of 237 deaths per year.

o People should exercise caution when the heat index approaches 90 degrees, and a heat index of 105 degrees or higher is considered danger-ous. The heat index in Sanford on Thursday afternoon was 102.See Heat, Page 6A

T E C H N O LO G Y

Another iPhone, more lines

BY MONICA CHENThe Durham Herald-Sun

DURHAM — It was a long, hot journey to the front of the line.

By Thursday afternoon, Gemma Langeway and Nicole Conover had waited more than 12 hours to get their hands on the iPhone 4, the newest, sleekest version of Apple’s popular smartphone to launch in the market.

Like hundreds of others, they had gotten tickets from Apple employees for the phone the night before, camped out with chairs and pillows, and then waited, and waited. And waited some more.

“We didn’t think we were going to be waiting here this long,” Langeway said.

“Not going to do this again,” Conover said. “I’ve done it now. It’s in the books.”

See iPhone, Page 6A

Fourth-generation phone hits the marketINSIDESee thecomplete list of the coun-ty’s board appointees

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LOCAL: Best wishes are extended to everyone celebrating a birthday today, es-pecially Mamie French Nettles, Joan Moore, Moses Isaiah Matthews, Christian Noah Robertson, Johnny Matthew Miller, Cris El-liott, William Salmon, Olive Brown, Carol M. Goodwin, Charlene Barker, Darlene Douglas, Odell Berryman, Karl Scott and Mary Johns.

CELEBRITIES: Actor-comedian Jimmie Walker is 63. Actor-director Michael Lem-beck is 62. TV personality Phyllis George is 61. Rock singer Tim Finn is 58. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is 56. Rock musician David Paich (Toto) is 56. Actor Michael Sabatino is 55. Actor-writer-director Ricky Gervais is 49. Actor John Benjamin Hickey is 47. Rock singer George Michael is 47. Actress Erica Gimpel is 46. Former NBA player Dikembe Mutombo is 44. Rapper-producer Richie Rich is 43. Rapper Candyman is 42. Contemporary Christian musician Sean Kelly (Sixpence None the Richer) is 39. Actress Angela Kinsey (TV: “The Offi ce”) is 39. Actress Linda Cardellini is 35. Actress Busy Philipps is 31.

Birthdays

AlmanacToday is Friday, June 25, the 176th day of

2010. There are 189 days left in the year.

This day in history:On June 25, 2009, death claimed Michael

Jackson, the “King of Pop,” in Los Angeles at age 50 and actress Farrah Fawcett in Santa Monica, Calif. at age 62.

In 1876, Lt. Col. Colonel George A. Custer and his Seventh Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana.

In 1910, President William Howard Taft signed the White-Slave Traffi c Act, more popularly known as the Mann Act, which made it illegal to transport women across state lines for “immoral” purposes. The ballet “The Firebird” with music by Igor Stravinsky was premiered in Paris by the Ballets Russes.

In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was enacted.

In 1950, war broke out in Korea as forces from the communist North invaded the South.

In 1962, the Supreme Court, in Engel v. Vitale, ruled that recital of a state-spon-sored prayer in New York State public schools was unconstitutional.

In 1973, former White House Counsel John W. Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee.

In 1990, African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela met with President George H.W. Bush at the White House.

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Rundown of local meetings in the area:

JUNE 28n The Broadway Town Board will meet at 7

p.m. in Broadway.n The Sanford National Night Out Coordi-

nators’ Meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the Sanford Municipal Building West End Conference Room.

n The Pittsboro Board of Commissioners will meet at 7 p.m. at Town Hall, 635 East St., in Pittsboro.

n The Siler City Airport Authority will meet at 7 p.m. at the Siler City Municipal Airport.

JUNE 29n Chatham County invites residents

interested in the rebuilding of the Historic County Courthouse to share their ideas at a community forum slated fat 6:30 p.m. at Northwood High School’s cafeteria in Pittsboro.

JUNE 30n The Sanford City Council Law & Finance

meeting will be held at 1 p.m. at the San-ford Municipal Center in Sanford.

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ONGOINGn Preregistration is underway for the pro-

gram “Learn How to Can!” to be held at the McSwain Extension Education and Agricul-ture Center. Bring your own vegetables and learn how to preserve them with this “hands on” canning experience. The program for green beans will be held June 29 or July 13, at 6:30 p.m. The program for tomatoes will be held July 22 or Aug. 12, at 6:30 p.m. Registration is $8. Call (919) 775-5624 to learn more.

n Want to get into mountain biking, but don’t know where to start? There will be a free mountain biking clinic offered the last Saturday of each month at San-Lee Park. For more details call 776-6221.

n Central Fire Station at 512 Hawkins Av-enue will check car seats between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. each Saturday. Appointments are required. Contact Krista at 775-8310 by 5 p.m. Wednesday to schedule an appoint-ment for the following Saturday. Child must be present for seat to be checked, unless mother is expecting.

n Sanford Farmers Market will be held from 9 a.m. to noon every Saturday from May through October.

SATURDAYn The Annual St. Baldrick’s event — vol-

unteers shaving their heads to raise money for childhood cancer research — will be held at 4 p.m. at Cafe 121, located at 121 Chatham St., Sanford.

n Shag Your SASS Off with the Sanford

Area Society of Shaggers at the club’s annual fundraiser, to be held at 8 p.m. at American Legion Post 382, 305 Legion Drive Sanford DJ is Robbie Farrell. Cost is $8 per person. Special exhibition dance by 2010 Junior I National Division Champions Karlee Martin and Austin Pope. For information, contact Rosemary Parten at 774-8090.

n Chatham Habitat for Humanity an-nounces its fi rst annual Chatham 3Ring-Cycle event, featuring 30, 60 and 100 mile bike rides on scenic roads throughout rural Chatham County. The event starts at the Central Carolina Community College campus in Pittsboro at 8:30 a.m., with registra-tion beginning at 7 a.m. Proceeds benefi t Chatham Habitat for Humanity. For more information and a printable registration form, visit www.chathamhabitat.org/3RingCycle. To volunteer at the event or to become a sponsor, contact Gaby Fornari at (919) 542-0794, ext. 223 or at gabyfornari@chatham-habitat.org.

n Local farmers will be selling their fresh products from 9 a.m. to noon at Deport Park in downtown Sanford as part of the weekly Sanford Farmer’s Market. To get involved or to learn more, e-mail David Montgomery at

david.montgomery@sanfordnc.net.n The Lee County American Red Cross

will offer an American Red Cross Babysitting Class from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Call (919) 774-6857 to register.

n The Chatham County Center of N.C. Cooperative Extension and the Chatham County Beekeepers’ Association will host the 4th annual celebration of National Pollinator Week from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on The Lawn at Chatham Mills in Pittsboro. Co-sponsored by Starrlight Mead.

n The Lee County Genealogical and His-torical Society will hold its annual summer picnic at the Harris Youth House of St. Luke United Methodist Church, 2916 Wicker St., Sanford (behind the church, beside the pic-nic shelter). A covered dish lunch will begin at 12 noon, with fellowship starting at 11a.m. Members and guests are encouraged to bring an item of historical interest to display and share. For more information, call 499-7661 or 499-1909.

MONDAYn Chef Gregg Hamm, owner and opera-

tor of Café 121, in Sanford, teaches young chefs ages 11-14 the basics of food prepa-ration and safety in the kitchen during the CCCC Continuing Education Department’s Kids’ Cooking Camp. The camp meets 8 to 10:30 a.m. Monday through Thursday, June 28-July 1, at Café 121. Registration is $125. Register early to reserve a spot by calling (919) 775-2122, ext. 7793.

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Zachary Vasquez (left), 6, and Hailey Stanifer, 7, with ABC Afterschool laugh at local story teller Ron Jones at the Lee County Community Arts Center on Wednesday afternoon.

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Teen volunteer Anita Ghandi (right) works in the Intensive Care Unit at Central Carolina Hospital with Lydia Warren, a telemetry technician, recording data from the hospital’s telemetry units on Monday afternoon. Ghandi is part of a program that allows teens to volunteer at the hospital over the summer. Read more about the program at sanford-herald.com (the story originally appeared in Tuesday’s Herald).

BASE REALIGNMENT AND CLOSURE

Group draws the line on illiteracyLUMBERTON (MCT)

— If rural communities are going to benefi t from growth at Fort Bragg, more residents in the Cape Fear region must be able to at least read and write.

That was the message Wednesday during a lit-eracy and lifelong learn-ing summit hosted by the BRAC Regional Task Force, the group charged with preparing Fayette-ville and surrounding communities for eco-nomic growth from base realignment.

“We’re going to need an army to fi ght this illiteracy battle,” task force offi cial Tim Moore told the crowd of about 160 educators, community leaders and elected offi cials, who attended the four-hour seminar at the South-eastern North Carolina Agricultural Center in Lumberton.

A lack of academic at-tainment, Moore said, is the “weak link” in the 11-county region that experts

say could prosper from growth at Fort Bragg.

Cumberland and surrounding counties are expected to see new opportunities in con-struction, health care and knowledge-based indus-tries in coming years.

The summit offi cially launched the Lifelong Learning and Literacy Project, a regional initia-tive to support at-risk residents in need of basic education or job training.

Attendees of the semi-nar debated strategies to prepare disadvantaged populations for the loom-ing economic growth.

Ideas included invest-ing in nonprofi t programs, partnering with commu-nity colleges and supple-menting early childhood education by reaching out to both parents and children.

“We have to get parents reading more and speak-ing more to their kids,” Moore said. “More early words and words of praise

will help close the achieve-ment gap.”

The disparities are worse in rural communi-ties, Moore said.

Among the 11 counties included in the so-called All American Gateway Re-gion, all but Cumberland have illiteracy rates above 15 percent, according to the N.C. Department of Public Instruction.

In Sampson and Mont-gomery counties, nearly one in four residents are functionally illiterate. Robeson County has an illiteracy rate above 20 percent.

Even higher numbers of people across the region lack basic skills needed to compete for knowledge-based jobs likely to be cre-ated as a result of BRAC, Pamela Jackson said. The

assistant professor at Fay-etteville State University coordinated a comprehen-sive study that examined the potential effects of BRAC on disadvantaged populations.

The study found wide educational disparities across the region.

“If we don’t get people the training they need, then they are going to be left behind,” Jackson said, and out-of-town job-seek-ers will step in.

There would be social consequences if that hap-pens, Moore said.

“Either we invest now in programs like this, or we pay later in the form of social services, growing prison populations and welfare payments,” he said.

— The Fayetteville Observer

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CHATHAM COUNTY

County cancels hotel tax hike

PITTSBORO (MCT) — The Chatham County Board of Commissioners have decided not to raise the lodging occupancy tax from 3 percent to 6 percent, as thecounty manager’s budget proposed.

“The commissioners received valuable feedback from lodging owners and other concerned resi-dents,” Chairwoman Sally Kost said.

The room occupancy tax is paid on overnight lodging, such as hotels and inns, with all revenues required to be spent on activities to attract more visitors. The funds are managed by the Pittsboro-Siler City Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB), which promotes tourism countywide.

“We know that Chatham County needs to enhance its efforts to attract more overnight visitors,” said Commissioner Tom Vanderbeck, who is the board’s liaison to the CVB. “The county will work with the CVB to try to fi nd other sources of funding to help make this happen, because it benefi ts the lodging establishments, retailers and other aspects of our economy when more people come here and stay longer.”

Occupancy tax revenues currently support various tourism promotion ac-tivities, such as promoting coverage in travel maga-zines and news media, developing and distributing materials and e-newsletter that promote the county as a desirable destina-tion, hosting an updated website, assisting local tourism-related businesses in their marketing efforts and participating in local and regional partnerships.

Vice Chairman George Lu-cier added that “the county encourages owners of lodging facilities to forward their ideas on what might be done to further promote overnight visitors.”

Those with suggestions can contact the CVB at (919) 542-8296 or email neha@visitpittsboro.com.

— The Chapel Hill News

HARNETT COUNTY

Holly Springs turns to Harnett forwater deal

HOLLY SPRINGS (MCT) — Holly Springs is making a move for cheaper water.

The town, which has bought its water from Raleigh for a decade, has chosen to draw solely from a cheaper, more plentiful pipeline out of Harnett County.

Holly Springs chose not to renew a water purchase agreement with Raleigh. Instead, the town is pur-chasing water from Harnett County at 57 percent of the Raleigh price: $1.75 per 1,000 gallons, compared with $3.05 per 1,000 gallons from Raleigh, ac-cording to data provided by Holly Springs.

Discussions to wind down the Raleigh water contract early were prompted by the 2007 drought. Raleigh needed more water for its own customers, and Holly Springs was already fi nd-ing much cheaper water elsewhere.

With the purchase agree-ment ending, Raleigh will no longer enjoy $34,000 per month from a monthly water access fee paid by Holly Springs, in addition to the actual cost of the water.

“This was not a surprise, nor was it a huge hit to our balance sheet,” said John Robert Carman, Raleigh’s public utilities director.

But Carman said Raleigh remains interested in selling water beyond its im-mediate service area.

In 1999, Holly Springs purchased up to 1.2 million gallons per day from Ra-leigh. That amount began to drop steadily after Holly Springs, with more than $6 million in state grant money, completed a much wider pipeline to the Har-nett County Regional Water Plant in 2001. The plant, in Lillington, draws from the Cape Fear River.

Holly Springs has since purchased up to 2 mil-lion gallons of water per day from Harnett County. In recent months, Holly Springs has purchased only nominal amounts from Raleigh.

— The Cary News

AROUND OUR AREA

The principle of trust is under-valued. As Americans refl ect on the war in Afghanistan,

trust — and a successful end to the mess there, however that’s defi ned — seems extraordinarily elusive.

For that reason, President Obama had little choice but to accept the resignation this week of Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the top U. S. Commander there. Gen. McChrystal likely would have been fi red from the job he’s held — plan-ning and overseeing military action in Afghanistan and helping develop a strategy for economic sustain-ability — had he not resigned. His meeting this week with President Obama resulted from comments he made for a profi le in Rolling Stone

magazine criticizing some adminis-tration offi cials.

It’s no secret that when you have a rank, you take your beefs up the chain of command — not down, and certainly not to the press. Understandable frustration with the Obama administration certainly drove Gen. McChrystal’s remarks. Regardless, his choice to violate a tenant of military hierarchy and protocol could not have had no impact at all.

And the timing of Gen. McChrys-tal’s comments couldn’t have been worse, especially given the recent escalation in casualties in the area (combined, thankfully, with ever-increasing “high value” targets of our own being taken down). History

is replete with military commanders and commanders-in-chief spouting off at the mouth, expressing disdain for this matter or that. But the un-precedented nature of this confl ict and Gen. McChrystal’s willingness to vent to Rolling Stone — not exactly the bastion of insightful war commentary — was unprecedented as well.

A fi ring offense? In most circum-stances, no. But there’s been evident distrust between Gen. McChrystal and the President for some time. In some ways, it was an unpardonable offense. Fair debate is one thing. This was another, and because it involved poor judgment, judgment resulted.

If there’s anything good to come

out of this, it’s that the transi-tion from Gen. McChrystal to his replacement, Gen. David Petraeus, should be fairly seamless. Gen. Petraeus commanded U. S. forces in Iraq with some success and already has relationships in the region that will enhance his credibility — and trust. Following the appointment, Sen. John McCain said. “We think there is no one more qualifi ed or more outstanding leader than Gen. Petraeus to achieve a successful conclusion of the Afghan confl ict.”

Now that the “dirty laundry” has been aired, hopefully we can get back to the business of resolution and solutions. With trust hopefully restored, the possibilities of that are greater than ever.

Obama had no choice in McChrystal issue

Issue: Wednesday’s

resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, following derogatory comments he made to the press about the administration

Our stance: Pres. Obama had

no choice but to accept it. Now it’s time to get back to the mission

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

We have good animallaws; now we just needgood enforcement

To the Editor:There are two issues on which

every dog lover agrees. First, dogs deserve a life in a

safe, caring, and healthy environ-ment. Second, those who treat dogs in a negligent or cruel man-ner should be held accountable.

At the capitol this week, Sen. Don Davis held a press confer-ence to discuss Senate Bill 460 — the so-called puppy mill bill — that stalled in the House Fi-nance Committee last year. Davis introduced this bill last spring after a large, substandard kennel in his Wayne County district was raided and closed down.

Thanks to North Carolina’s effec-tive negligence and cruelty laws, the kennel owner has since been convicted on cruelty charges.

During the press conference, Davis cited a problem common among animal control depart-ments throughout the country: Departments regularly lack the tools needed to go after illegal substandard kennels. The biggest concern we hear from animal con-trol services is a lack of funding.

SB 460 attempts to solve this problem by creating a system that requires anyone in North Carolina with 15 intact female dogs and 30 puppies (the bill doesn’t say if the numbers are cumulative or at the same time), to register with the state. The bill then authorizes the state to require counties to investigate any animal care com-plaints received by the state—but it provides no funding. So beyond establishing another layer of bureaucracy, what does it actually accomplish?

The animals that need help will still need it — and our cash-strapped counties will be stretched even further. And unless every county in the state raises taxes signifi cantly, the problem is back full circle: County ani-mal services still don’t have the resources they need to carry out existing laws.

There’s no doubt most of us love our dogs and abhor animal cruelty. However, when it comes to legislating this issues, reasonable people must ensure that a new law actually does what it’s sup-posed to do: protect the health and welfare of dogs and without infringing on the rights of respon-sible, law abiding citizens. Senate Bill 460 failed that test.

We have good laws on the books. What we need now is good enforcement. Let’s devote our limited resources to enforcing ex-isting laws that punish neglect and cruelty, rather than wasting them on confusing and expensive new laws that can’t be enforced.

SHEILA GOFFEAmerican Kennel Club

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Do we care what the world thinks of us? Should we? A new survey of global opinion is getting the usual respectful

attention. The Pew Global Attitudes Project surveyed people in 57 countries and found that President Obama’s approval ratings have slipped a bit among Europeans, Latin Ameri-cans, and Asians — though he remains quite a bit more popular than George W. Bush was in his fi nal year in offi ce. (Obama is far better liked abroad than he is at home.)

Liberals tend to care a great deal about the way America is perceived globally and will doubtless be gratifi ed that their pin-up continues to score well in Brussels and Timbuktu. They remind us that Thomas Jef-ferson himself bowed to a “decent respect for the opinions of mankind” when drafting the Declaration of Independence.

Jefferson had never attended a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. On June 18, the council voted by acclama-tion to select Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann to serve on its Advisory Committee. D’Escoto, a defrocked priest who served as foreign min-ister for Nicaragua’s communist Sandinista government in the 1980s, was fully impli-cated in that regime’s multiple and grievous human rights abuses.

This is not D’Escoto’s fi rst high-level post-ing at the U.N. He served as president of the General Assembly from 2008 to 2009, during which time he warmly embraced Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and described the U.S. inva-sions of Afghanistan and Iraq as “atrocities that must be condemned and repudiated by all who believe in the rule of law in interna-tional relations.” He branded Ronald Reagan as an “international outlaw” and suggested that Israel is “crucifying our Palestinian brothers and sisters.”

Well, perhaps the U.N. Human Rights Council isn’t the best measure of world opin-ion. Even stipulating that the U.N. repre-sents only the twisted posturing of a largely unelected, corrupt, and cynical collection of thugs, are global opinion polls useful guides to anything? Did you know that 63 percent of Turks, according to one recent survey, ap-prove of polygamy?

Americans, one suspects, pay far more attention to these global popularity con-tests than other nations. Can you imagine Vladimir Putin or Hu Jintao poring over these results? Ah, 50 percent of Germans have a favorable view of Russia compared with only 38 percent of Brazilians! Fifty-eight percent of Indonesians like the Chinese, but only 39 percent of Mexicans feel the same! Summon our image-makers!

President Obama’s most concerted ef-fort since taking offi ce has been to improve America’s image in the Muslim world. The president’s fi rst interview was granted to Al Arabiya. He traveled to Cairo to sprinkle the fairy dust, and fi lmed a fawning New Year’s message to the gangsters who rule in Tehran. He has sent multiple envoys, most notably Sen. John Kerry, to woo Syria’s brutal Bashar

al-Assad. With what result?As this survey indicates, Obama has

achieved very little in terms of popularity in Muslim lands. After a short spike following the inauguration, approval of America has fallen fast. The number of Egyptians express-ing confi dence in Obama fell from 41 to 31 percent, and in Turkey from 33 percent to 23 percent. The Pew report notes that “Last year only 13 percent of Pakistani Muslims ex-pressed confi dence in Obama, but this year even fewer (8 percent) hold this view.”

Who knows why so many respondents in Muslim countries are disappointed in Obama? It’s possible, based on the way rumors and conspiracy theories metasta-size in that part of the world, that many believed our president was actually a Mus-lim Manchurian candidate and have been disappointed in the reality. It’s possible they expected a complete repudiation of Israel, rather than the icy disdain this administra-tion has shown. It’s hard enough to interpret the views of our own voters — South Carolina Democratic primary anyone? — the motives of foreigners are even more mysterious.

OK, popularity is slipping, but perhaps the apology tour/charm offensive has yielded dividends in policy support? Not so much. Syria has clutched Iran even closer to her bosom than before and has recently trans-ferred Scud missiles to Hezbollah in Lebanon — all while the U.S. continues to grovel to al-Assad. Iran is racing toward nuclear status while essentially dropping the fi g leaf of “peaceful” energy. Turkey, the Muslim na-tion with the warmest ties to the West, has accelerated its turn toward jihadism. Brazil has spurned the U.S. by embracing Iran and Turkey.

Machiavelli provides ballast for Jefferson: “And that prince who bases his power en-tirely on ... words, fi nding himself completely without other preparations, comes to ruin.”

Trouble with opinion

Making moviesPoor Brad Pitt. And what about that

sad fellow Steven Spielberg?Times are tough everywhere.

They need more money. And thanks to the North Carolina General Assembly, it looks as if the North Carolina taxpayer is going to come through.

The state House was expected to pass legislation this week that would extend some tax breaks to a range of industries in an attempt to lure new business to the state. The biggest benefi ciary could be Hollywood and the movie-making industry.

In total, the tax break legislation could be worth $300 million over fi ve years. But really, it’s a guess.

State legislators have felt compelled to increase incentives designed to bring fi lm productions here because other states have been doing likewise. North Carolina recently lost out on some high-profi le fi lms shot in other states that offered more lucrative incentives.

Just last year, legislators increased incentives for moviemakers by allowing them to take a tax credit worth up to 25 percent of their expenses. The earlier tax credit stood at 15 percent.

But the law still caps the amount of tax credit at $7.5 million and limits per-person wages considered in the calcula-tion at $1 million. ...

Hollywood wants the caps and wage calculations gone. The legislation being considered would cap total tax credits at $20 million and eliminate the per-person wage limit. No wonder Buzz Lightyear is fl ying high again.

Supporters of the legislation point out that the state only pays if the busi-ness comes. There is no real loss to tax coffers, they say, because the money going out only a portion of what is being generated by businesses that wouldn’t otherwise come here.

That’s not exactly true regarding the movie-making incentives. The fi lm pro-duction companies qualify for tax cred-its, not deductions, meaning they could theoretically get a rebate regardless of whether they have any tax liability here.

A study conducted by the Arrowhead Center at New Mexico State University suggested that incentives offered in that state produced just 14 cents in tax revenue for every dollar offered by the state.

Bob Orr, the head of the N.C. In-stitute for Constitutional Law and an incentive critic, also points out another objectionable aspect to the movie in-centives: these aren’t permanent jobs.

How much are these fi lm produc-tions really worth to the broader North Carolina economy, to the permanent residents of the state? Or is this just about being able to say that Daniel Day-Lewis romped around the North Carolina mountains wearing buckskins and feathers in his hair?

At what level do incentives to movie-makers no longer become cost effective?

If we haven’t reached that level, then legislators at least owe it to taxpayers to know when the tipping point will be reached.

And if other states want to wholly subsidize Hollywood, so be it.

Jesus said, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? Follow me!” (John 21:22 RSV)

PRAYER: Help me, Lord, to let go of those things inside of me which cause me to want to control others. Amen.

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John Denson Jr.SANFORD — Funeral

service for John Henry Denson Jr., 76, who died Tuesday (6/22/10), was conducted Thursday at Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Ruth Holder offi ciating. En-tombment will follow at Lee Memory Gardens Garden Mausoleum.

Soloist and pianist was Teresa Baker.

Pallbearers were J.R. Stack, Isaac Jordan, Randy Buchanan, Randy Hutchins, Danny Hutchins and Mi-chael Sheffi eld.

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

Mary JenkinsSANFORD — Funeral

service for Mary Elizabeth McLean Jenkins, 71, of 122 Melvin Lane, who died Wednesday (6/16/10), was conducted Wednesday at Tempting Congregational Church with Elder Pearline McMillian offi ciating. Burial followed at Lee Memory Gardens.

Musician was Tyrone McMillian. Soloist was Linda McLean.

Pallbearers were John Price, Norman Palmer, David Dorsett, Tim Worthy, John Roberts and Arthur Simmons. Arrangements were by Watson Mortuary, Inc. of Sanford.

Mary McLeanSANFORD — Funeral

service for Mary J. McLean, 70, of 16276 Hwy. 27 West, who died Monday (6/21/10), was conducted Thursday at Johnsonville AME Zion Church in Cam-eron with The Rev. Yyonette Rhodes offi ciating. Eulo-gist was Bishop Charles E. Cameron Sr. Burial followed at Lee Memory Gardens in Sanford.

Pallbearers were the Johnsonville School Class of 1959. Arrangements were by Knotts Funeral Home of Sanford.

Ora WomackBROADWAY — Funeral

service for Ora Womack, 89, who died Tuesday (6/22/10), was conducted Thursday at Holly Springs Baptist Church with the Rev. Jerry Parsons offi ciat-ing. Burial followed in the church cemetery.

Pianist was Louise Oyster.

Pallbearers were Chris Burns, Lee Burns, Shaun Kelley, Lamar McNeil and Buck Womack Jr. Arrange-ments were by O’Quinn-Peebles Funeral Home of Lillington.

Flossie McKinneyCAMERON — Funeral

service for Flossie Pace McKinney, 96, who died Tuesday (6/22/10), was conducted Thursday at Cameron Presbyterian Church with Dr. Teri Ott, Pastor Lee McKinney and Dr. Wayne Greene offi ciat-ing. Burial followed in the Cameron Town Cemetery.

During the service the congregation sang, soloist was Daniel J. Ott, readings were by Amber McKinney. Pianist was Mary Rush and

organist was Isabel Thomas.Pallbearers were Adam

Ferguson, Chase Ferguson, Cori Ferguson, Brent Gaster, Megan Kachelmeyer, Christina Blackburn, Josh Blackburn, Cameron Bar-ber, Cassie Barber, Amber McKinney and Jessi McKin-ney.

Arrangements were by Rogers-Pickard Funeral Home of Sanford.

William BrownLILLINGTON — William

Neil Brown died Thursday (6/24/10).

He was born April 24, 1918 in Lillington, son of the late James Ernest and Sarah Elizabeth Davis Brown. A veteran of World War II, he served in the U.S. Army from 1941-1945 and 1946-1947. Upon his honor-able dis-charge, he and his family lived in Sanford until moving to Chicago, Ill. where he worked for S.K. Culver Company. Upon his retirement in 1983, he and his wife Irene moved to Tucson, Ariz. later returning to North Carolina. In addi-tion to his parents, he was preceded in death by eight brothers and four sisters.

He is survived by his wife, Irene Agnes Brown; daughters Kaye Sholl and husband Jerry and Faye Zahr and husband Andrew; a son, James Brown and wife Evolyn; a brother, Leon Brown; six grandsons; nine great-grandchildren and several nieces and neph-ews.

A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery.

Condolences may be made at www.oquinnpee-bles.com.

In lieu of fl owers, memorials can be made to Antioch Baptist Church, P.O. Box 525, Mamers, N.C. 27552. Arrangements are by O’Quinn-Peebles Funeral Home of Lillington.

Hoyle Culberson SILER CITY — Hoyle

Hoke Culberson, 81, of 5376 Siler City-Snow Camp Road, died Wednesday (6/23/10) at his residence.

He was born May 31, 1929, the son of the late Wade C. and Eula Mae Beavers Culberson. He was a native of Chatham County and a self-employed carpenter. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a daughter, Eula Mae Culberson; a sister, Alene Stout; and brothers, Clifton, Kilby and Walter Culberson.

He is survived by his wife, Josephine Coltrane Culberson; a daughter, Jane C. Gray and husband Ike of Siler City; a son, Thomas “Fuzz” Culberson and wife Marci of Siler City; one grandson; four stepgrand-children; six nephews and two nieces.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

The funeral service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday at Piney Grove

United Methodist Church in Siler City with Terry Kersey and the Rev. Robert B. Way Jr. offi ciating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

Memorials may be made to Piney Grove United Methodist Church, 2343 Piney Grove Church Road, Siler City, N.C. 27344 or to Hospice of UNC, P.O. Box 1077, Pittsboro, N.C. 27312.

Arrangements are by Smith & Buckner Funeral Home of Siler City.

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Graveside services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday at First Church of Christ Church Cemetery in Broadway. Locally an-nounced by LHorton Com-munity Funeral Home.

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OBITUARIES Ruby Rogers ScogginsSANFORD — Ruby Lee Rogers Scoggins, a very spe-

cial lady, passed with family members by her side on, Wed., June 23, 2010, at Rex Hospital in Raleigh.

Mrs. Scoggins was born in Lee County on Nov. 24, 1921 to the late Haywood Paschal Rogers and Mat-tie Rachels Rogers. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Walter Leonard Scoggins and a grandchild, Mary Alice Scoggins. Mrs. Scoggins was a member of Jonesboro Presbyterian Church, a member of High Hope Chorus and a member of Witness Sunday School Class.

Surviving relatives are her son William A. (Al) Scog-gins and wife Carolyn of Elizabethtown; daughters, Carolyn Scoggins Boyd and husband Cecil of Apex and Dianne Scoggins Lawrence and husband Richard of Chapel Hill; sisters, Elva Wicker Ferguson of Carthage and Esther Phelps of Lake Waccamaw; three grandchil-dren, Emily Ann Boyd, Gracelee Lawrence and Martha Scoggins Walters; several nieces, nephews and dear friends. Ruby was a wonderful homemaker and farm wife all her life, devoting herself to the care and wellbe-ing of her family and their home. Ruby was never idle. When not working in the home, she was busy singing with the High Hopes Chorus, playing piano or reading. She always had a kind word and smile for everyone and was always ready to offer her love and support to those in need. Ruby was a very loving person who treasured family above all else. She was a steadfast woman who will be truly missed by many.

Services will be held at Jonesboro Presbyterian Church on Sat., June 26, 2010, at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Keith Miller offi ciating. Burial will follow at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at Jonesboro Presbyterian Church from 10 to 11 a.m.

Memorial contributions may be sent to Founda-tion Fighting Blindness, P.O. Box 17279, Baltimore, Md. 21203-7279.

Condolences may be made at www.bridgescam-eronfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements are by Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home, Inc.

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Alvis Bynum Clegg Jr.RALEIGH — Alvis B. Clegg Jr. died on June 23, 2010.

He was born October 22, 1930 in Lee County.Alvis’s early employment was with Sanford Radio

Co. and Buchanan’s TV. He served six years with Battery “C”, 130th AAA of the North Carolina National Guard and schooled in electronics at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

Following graduation from Tri-State University, Angola, Indiana, he was employed by the Central Intel-ligence Agency and spent an exciting and rewarding career across fi ve continents.

During his career with the CIA, Alvis was the recipi-ent of the Intelligence Star, the Career Intelligence medal, and numerous citations for outstanding service.

Following his retirement from the Agency, Alvis was employed for nine years with North Carolina State Uni-versity, Raleigh, in campus data communications.

Alvis was a member of Woodhaven Baptist Church in Apex.

He is survived by his wife, Imogene; son, Alan and wife Jennifer, grandsons, Andrew and Brian of Apex; and a sister, Sara Cox of Sanford.

His body is being donated to Duke University for anatomical research after which his remains will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery.

In lieu of fl owers, contributions may be made to the Clegg Scholarship Endowment at either Campbell Uni-versity, P.O. Box 116, Buies Creek, N.C. 27506, or North Carolina State University, Campus Box 7501, Raleigh, N.C. 27695-7501.

Condolences may be made at www.bridgescam-eronfuneralhome.com.

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

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Rev. Gyles L. SaundersSEAGROVE — Rev. Gyles L. Saunders, 78, of 6038

Bennett Road, died Wed., June 23, 2010, at his resi-dence.

Graveside funeral service will be 11 a.m. Saturday, June 26, 2010, at Wallace Family Cemetery in Robbins with the Rev. Charles Lassiter and Brother Timmy Mitchell offi ciating.

Rev. Saunders was a Moore County native, was a graduate of Liberty Bible Institute and was a retired pastor having served many years at Bear Creek Bap-tist and later at Red Hill Missionary Baptist Church.

Survivors are a son, Danny M. Saunders of the home; a daughter, Sharon L. Saunders of Seagrove; and grandchildren, Jeremy L. Gordon and wife Mor-gan of Seagrove and Tabitha Gordon of Seagrove.

Visitation will be from 6 to 9 p.m. today, June 25,2010, at Joyce-Brady Chapel in Bennett.

In lieu of fl owers, memorials should be made to Community Home Care and Hospice, P.O. Box 8109, Rocky Mount, N.C. 27804-1109.

The Saunders family would like to sincerely thank Denise Austin, RN for the compassionate ,profes-sional, and extraordinary care she provided our father and family during his illness. We would also like to thank Denise Batten, RN and Paula Holder CNA for their care and genuine compassion.

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Lula Mae GunterSANFORD — Lula Mae Gunter, age 92, of Sanford,

passed away on Wednesday, June 23, 2010, at the E. Carlton Powell Hospice Center in Lillington.

She was born on March 17, 1918 in Montgomery County, to the late James E. and Lula Gunter.

Ms. Gunter is survived by two sons, John Ivan Gunter of Sanford and James F. Gunter and wife Linda of Broadway; one daughter, Billie Jean Gunter of Wilson. She is also survived by four sisters, Annie Lee Benoit, Ruby Coker and Ruth Fisher, all of Sanford, and Mary Williams of Wilmington; four grandchil-dren, Cindy Gunter of Sanford, Penny Gale Gunter of Pittsboro, James F. Gunter Jr. of Lillington and Lynn Gunter of Sanford; three great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her stepmother, Lizzie Thomas Gunter, and four brothers.

A graveside funeral service will be held on Sat-urday, June 26, 2010, at 11 a.m. at Moncure United Methodist Church Cemetery with Chaplain Jim Lang-ford offi ciating.

The family requests that memorial contributions be made to E. Carlton Powell Hospice Center, 185 Pine State St., Lillington, N.C. 27546.

Online condolences may be made at www.miller-boles.com. Miller-Boles Funeral Home is serving the family.

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it, but we’ve got a good chance at making a run of one of the warmest Junes,” Locklear said.

The hot weather might bring relaxing afternoons by the pool and an in-crease in outdoor activi-ties, but it can also cause heat-related illnesses if people aren’t careful. People who are young, elderly, sick or overweight have an even greater risk of acquiring problems from the heat.

Since the Lee County YMCA has several day camps for kids, Executive Director Zac West said the staff takes extra precau-tions to make sure its 110 young campers don’t get overheated.

“We go swimming three days a week, so that defi nitely helps,” West said. “We take extra water jugs out onto the fi eld and take extra water breaks in the shade. But we try to limit time outside to 15-20 minutes once the temperatures reach the 90s.”

Like the construction team at Lee County High School, the workers at Absolute Roofi ng have to bear the scorching temperatures to get their job done. But Supervi-sor John Hall tries to negotiate with clients to move the roofers’ hours to 5 a.m.-2 p.m. so they won’t be outside when the afternoon sun is at its hottest.

“The heat is terrible,” Hall said. “I’ve been doing this 33 years, and this is tremendously bad. Especially with the humidity and everything, it’s much hotter. You’re already sweating when you walk outside.”

Hall and Renegar both encourage their teams to drink plenty of water

and take lots of breaks in the shade, rules that apply to anyone spending extended periods of time outside. But Locklear said unless it’s absolutely necessary, people should avoid being outside from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. as long as the current temperatures hold.

“You should really just limit your exposure,” Locklear said. “There’s really no sense in being out there in the heat dur-ing the hottest part of the day.”

Ayaz Pathan, an emer-gency medical physician and medical director of the Central Carolina

Hospital emergency department, said one of the most important things people can do in the heat is know when to stop when they start feel-ing overheated. If people push through strenuous outdoor activities and don’t move to a cool or shaded area, they could develop heat-related ill-nesses such as life-threat-ening heat stroke.

“It’s really important to stay hydrated and make sure you are well hy-drated before going out,” Pathan said. “Trust your body, and if you’re feeling overheated make sure you get in the shade.”

HeatContinued from Page 1A

STAY SAFETips for surviving the summer heato Stay hydrated, especially if you have to go outside.

Carry water with you or have some nearby.o Wear lightweight, light-colored, loose-fi tting clothing.

Dark colors absorb the sun’s rays and make you feel hotter.

o If you have to work outside, take frequent breaks in the shade or a cool, indoor area.

o Postpone outdoor activities if necessary. Plan activi-ties that can be enjoyed in a cool, indoor place.

o Take a trip to the pool.o Carry a hand-held fan. Battery-operated fans that

will fi t in a purse or tote bag are available at Walmart for $1.50-$10 depending on the size.

o Avoid strenuous exercise or outdoor activities during the hottest part of the day (11 a.m.-6 p.m.).

o Never leave children or pets alone in a hot car.o Listen to local weather forecasts to be aware of

heat advisories.o Those with a weakened immune system should

be extra cautious. People who are young, elderly, sick or overweight are more susceptible to heat-related problems.

HEAT-RELATED ILLNESSES

o Heat cramps: Symptoms include dizziness, muscle cramps in the stomach, arms and legs or swelling in the feet, legs or ankles. Stop any physical activity, move to a cool place and drink water. If this doesn’t help, contact a doctor.

o Heat exhaustion: Symptoms include thirst, dizzi-ness, weakness, nausea, profuse sweating and cold, clammy skin despite a normal body temperature. If mov-ing to a cool place and drinking water doesn’t help, seek medical attention.

o Heat stroke: Symptoms include a body tempera-ture of 103 degrees or more, lack of sweating, dizzi-ness, nausea, throbbing headache, mental confusion, unconsciousness and skin that is red, hot and dry. Heat stroke is life-threatening. Seek immediate medical at-tention.

Despite problems with advance reserva-tions, an online leak that unveiled most of the new features, and being the fourth ver-sion of a product that has gone from being fairly exclusive when it first launched in 2007 to widespread use, the iPhone 4 still made a splash on Thursday for fans of the product.

The line at Apple’s store in The Streets at Southpoint stretched around the building and wrapped around the back. People camped out in chairs in what little shade there was, and Apple employ-ees handed out water bottles and umbrellas.

Store manager Brian Goslin said Thursday’s launch went smoothly despite a rainstorm that knocked out power at the mall the day before.

The store had put all other operations on hold for the launch, turning away other customers seeking tech support or wanting to take a look at other products.

“It’s very mysterious. There’s a lot of hype behind it. But you don’t know until you get it in your hands,” Goslin said. He had already gotten his iPhone 4, wrapped in a sleek black case.

The new iPhones are priced at $199 for the 16 gigabyte model and $299 for the 32 GB model.

Ahmad Hariri, a Dur-ham resident, took the day off from work for the launch.

Hariri had made a reservation on June 15, but still waited for hours in the sun for activation.

When an Apple em-ployee came by to check ticket numbers, Hariri and others joked around with them. “Not going to kick us out, are you?” Hariri said.

Hariri said he had the iPhone 3G, which came out in 2008 and was the second incarnation of the line. The up-grades, such as the new front-facing video chat camera, were enough to prompt him to get a new one.

The video chat up-grade and others were leaked on tech blog Gizmodo.com in April after a programmer with Apple — an N.C. State University grad — left a prototype in a beer garden.

Although Apple shut down the prototype remotely and CEO Steve

Jobs personally ap-pealed to the site for its return, Gizmodo took apart the phone and analyzed its compo-nents, revealing a new camera feature in front, a new camera flash in the back, a flat back, a stainless steel band, new side buttons, and a higher resolution screen.

Langeway, who had waited more than 12 hours in line, said the leak didn’t dampen her excitement over the product.

“It increased my in-terest because you got to see all the new features,” she said.

Jeffrey Sinor, a Duke University graduate student on summer break, said he came out because it was an Apple product.

“I love technology,” he said. “I wouldn’t do this for any other com-pany.”

Sanford’s Big Buffalo sewer treatment plant currently has the capac-ity to treat 6.8 million gallons per day, 70 percent of which is already used by the city in an average day, according to Sanford Public Works Director Vic-tor Czar.

Czar said talks with Goldston are still in the

preliminary stages, al-though such a deal would likely involve the Chatham town paying a per-gallon rate to Sanford to treat the sewer.

“Passage of the bond was a big step, so it’s prob-ably going to pick up some momentum here,” Czar said.

The project, which is reported to cost an estimated $6.4 million, is planned to break ground next spring providing the fi nancing is in place, Cun-

nup said.“We realize this is the

time for us to get this proj-ect implemented,” he said.

Czar said Goldston would be responsible for collecting the sewage and transporting it to Sanford for treatment.

Goldston’s limited fl ow due to its relatively small population would not make a large impact on Sanford’s treatment capac-ity, Czar said, adding that it would be the fi rst time the city has agreed to treat another municipality’s sewage.

Czar said the city cur-rently sells water whole-sale to a handful of larger customers, including Chatham County and the town of Broadway.

Plans are currently in the works for Sanford to expand Big Buffalo to treat 12 million gallons of sewage per day.

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matters. Alternates typi-

cally serve when a regular board member cannot be present and the member in this case would need to be a resident of Sanford’s one-mile extra-territorial jurisdiction area.

Commissioners also are still seeking two members for the county’s Cemetery Board, a group that preserves public cemeteries.

Board policy bars an individual from serving on more than two boards at one time.

Anyone interested in submitting an applica-tion should contact Board of Commissioners Clerk Gaynell Lee at 919-718-4605 or complete the online application at leecountync.gov.

Here is a list of those

locals chosen this week to serve on boards:

Agriculture Advisory Board: Donald Nicholson, Ed Angel, George Wat-son, Jane Barringer, Tony Ragan, A.K. Griffi n Jr.

Economic Develop-ment Board: Donnie Oldham, David Nestor.

Central Carolina Com-munity College Board of Trustees: Julian Philpott.

Fire Advisory Board: Worth Pickard, Larry Kelly.

Cemetery Board: Pat-rick Kelly, Keosha Bland, Molly Whitaker.

Board of Health: Dr. David Fisher, Dr. William Hall, Tamara Brogan, Charles Clifford, Steve Brewer.

Library Board of Trust-ees: Charles Sutherland, Edgar Underwood, Blaine Sutton.

Triangle South Local Workforce Development Board: Tony Lett, Cherise Williams.

Parks and Recreation Commission: Butch Saun-

ders, Justin Coggins, Mark Cline (alternate), Keith Clark (second alternate).

Lee County Planning Board: Kathy Woodell, Church Heiser, Roy Cox, Herman Morris, Tamara Brogan.

Sanford Planning Board: Bill Norris (alter-nate)

Juvenile Crime Preven-tion Council: Patrick Kelly, Donese Pulley.

Senior Services Advisory Board: Brenda Ingram, Janet Fasick, Donese Pulley.

Rest Home, Nursing Home Advisory Board: Deloris Jenkins, Theresa Howard, Ismael Rivera, Carole Philbin, Eileen Cook, Betty Lou Godfrey, Vera Cothran, Fran Ed-monds, Bobby Hurley.

Industrial Facilities and Pollution Control Financ-ing Authority: Richard Huff.

Transportation Advi-sory Board: Fenton Wells.

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Final negotiations still ‘moving along’By GARY D. ROBERTSONAssociated Press Writer

RALEIGH (AP) — House and Senate Demo-crats worked Thursday toward fi nalizing a roughly $19 billion North Carolina government budget for the coming year but still had to fi x another $525 million gap as Congress appears increasingly unwilling to extend a more generous Medicaid formula to the states.

The budget negotiators traded offers on how to adjust public education spending in the second year of the two-year bud-get approved last summer. Once a compromise is worked out, they’ll try to fi gure out which extra cuts to make if a six-month ex-tension of federal support fails to materialize.

Lawmakers want to present the budget, with the contingency plan for additional cuts, to Demo-

cratic Gov. Beverly Perdue for her signature before the new fi scal year begins July 1. A budget bill hasn’t been passed on time since 2003.

“There are some issues that remain but move-ment has been very delib-erate but regular, and so I think they’re moving along pretty well,” Hackney, D-Orange, told report-ers. “I don’t see that as an insurmountable problem” to completing a budget by June 30, he said.

Sen. Linda Garrou, D-Forsyth, one of the leading negotiators, said earlier Thursday the goal remained to fi nalize the plan by Monday night.

North Carolina and nearly 30 other states had counted on a combined $24 billion in Medicaid money to balance their budgets, but more federal lawmakers have become nervous about approving more U.S. government

spending. Republicans in the Senate late Thursday killed an unemployment benefi ts bill that also contained $16 billion for the states, $343 million of which would have gone to North Carolina, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Hackney said many ideas are being discussed about how to close that hole. He said he expected furloughs of state employ-ees would be on the table because so much of state government spending goes to worker salaries. Other cuts could be set to take effect in January, so the state could wait to see if Congress decides to pro-vide the Medicaid money later this year, he said.

Lawmakers probably wouldn’t touch the ex-pected $150 million in the state’s rainy day reserve fund but could tap into cash in state accounts set aside for special purposes,

said Rep. Mickey Mich-aux, D-Durham, senior co-chairman of the House Appropriations Com-mittee. Perdue tapped into lottery money and at least 18 additional pots of money in spring 2009 to close a shortfall that reached $3 billion.

Democrats estimate an expected $800 million shortfall for the coming year would balloon to $1.3 billion without the extra federal dollars. The com-peting House and Senate plans approved weeks ago reduced the state spend-ing plan already on the books for the coming year by at least $500 million.

Republicans argue Democrats could cut more without damaging the most important state ser-vices and better prepare North Carolina for a po-tential $3 billion shortfall in the 2011-12 fi scal year when all federal stimulus money dries up.

By GARY D. ROBERTSONAssociated Press Writer

RALEIGH (AP) — Sen-ate Democratic leaders had planned to push a broad ethics, campaign fi nance and government reform bill through their chamber this week as time dwindles in this year’s legislative session.

But they took it on the chin about the bill — fi rst from Republicans, then good-government ad-vocates, voters and even rank-and-fi le Democrats. The dissatisfaction forced the leadership on Thurs-day to remove a provision expanding the state’s voluntary public fi nanc-ing program — a favorite in the campaign reform community — and to delay a judiciary commit-tee vote until at least early next week.

“It’s a setback, it’s a

big setback,” said Damon Circosta with the North Carolina Center for Voter Education after the public fi nancing was removed.

Senate Majority Leader Martin Nesbitt, D-Bun-combe, who is also the committee’s chairman, said the delay isn’t the death knell for a pack-age that lawmakers and Gov. Beverly Perdue contend the public wants to restore confi dence in a system met by a series of corruption and campaign fi nance investigations in recent years.

“The members are searching for an answer. That’s what we do in a legislative body,” said Nesbitt, D-Buncombe. “We deliberate and we search for an answer. And we fi nd the correct one we’ll run the bill.”

There’s lots in the package that most law-

makers support. It beefs up penalties for giving large amounts of unlawful campaign contributions, puts more government employees under eth-ics and gift ban rules, doubles the “cooling-off” period ex-lawmakers and former elected offi cials must wait to lobby state government and increases access to state personnel records.

But Nesbitt and other Democratic authors of the package got hit with complaints as soon as it came out Tuesday in com-mittee.

Republicans argued they had no input in the bill and accused Demo-crats of politicizing ethics changes with a provision expanding the public fi nancing option to candidates in fi ve more Council of State seats. The landmark ethics and

lobbying laws passed in 2006 with bipartisan support.

“Senate Democrats hijacked this bill for their own partisan political gain,” Senate Minor-ity Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, said in a prepared statement be-fore what was supposed to be Wednesday’s fl oor vote.

The state already gives public funds to candi-dates for appellate courts and state auditor, insur-ance commissioner and schools superintendent who choose to agree to fundraising limits, but those laws have been passed largely along party lines. The programs are designed to reduce the perception that donors are giving to candidates to curry favor with them if they become elected offi cials.

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FORT BRAGG (AP) — A con-tractor shot and killed during a training accident at a North Carolina Army post is identi-fi ed as a retired sergeant.

Tennessee-based Echota (ee-CHOH’-tah) Technologies Corp. said Thursday that 57-year-old Edward Jenkins died at Womack Army Medical Center on Tuesday.

A company spokeswoman said Jenkins had worked for Echota since January providing range maintenance and support at Fort Bragg. She did not know Jenkins’ hometown.

The company said 27-year-old Daniel R. Aliff was shot and wounded. He has been released from the hospital.

The Army said 25-year-old Pfc. Zachary Tams of Gold Beach, Ore., was grazed in the arm by a bullet. Tams is a Special Forces student at the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School. He was treated and released from the hospital.

UNC-CH considers changing Greek recruiting rules

CHAPEL HILL (AP) — The University of North Carolina is considering changes in how fraternities and sororities recruit members after the shooting death of a Greek leader last year.

The News & Observer of Raleigh reported a cam-pus trustee committee on Wednesday began analyzing the Greek system to deter-mine if changes are needed. The review follows the death last summer of Delta Kappa Epsilon president Courtland Smith, who died in a police shooting that authorities said was justifi able.

Options include moving recruitment from fall to spring and allowing organizations to add new members all year, rather than limited recruit-ment and pledge periods. The committee also is con-sidering giving more leeway to fraternities and sororities that follow university rules.

The trustee committee will discuss the issue at a September meeting.

Mate: Didn’t know I needed license

MOREHEAD CITY (AP) — The crew member whose lack of a fi shing license cost a boat more than $900,000 in winnings in a North Caro-lina tournament says he was never told that he needed one.

The Daily News of Jack-sonville reported that Peter Wann of Alexandria, Va., says he was never told he had to have a fi sh-ing license, although he thought he had one. Wann also says the state law and the rules of the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament are ambiguous.

He was a mate on the Cita-tion, which seemed to win the tournament June 14 with its record-setting catch of an 883-pound marlin. Tourna-ment offi cials later learned that Wann didn’t have the required license and gave the prize to the runner-up.

One of the three owners of the Citation says Wann thought the boat had a blan-ket license that covers the entire crew.

Atheists put billboard on Billy Graham Parkway

CHARLOTTE (AP) — A statewide coalition of athe-ists and agnostics has placed billboards in six North Carolina cities to show that nonreligious also are patri-otic, including one along a parkway named for a famous evangelist.

The Charlotte Observer reported that one sign, with the American fl ag in the back-ground and the words “One Nation Indivisible,” is on the Billy Graham Parkway in Char-lotte. The group intentionally left out the words “Under God,” which were added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954.

Placing the billboard along the parkway is not a criti-cism of the evangelist, who now lives in Montreat, said William Warren with Char-lotte Atheists & Agnostics. The Billy Graham Parkway was simply the most visible location the North Carolina Secular Association could af-ford in Charlotte, he said.

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Latest blunder feeds frustrationNEW ORLEANS (AP)

— Earlier this month, BP boldly predicted the oil gushing from the bot-tom of the sea would be reduced to a “relative trickle” within days, and President Barack Obama told the nation last week that as much as 90 percent would soon be captured. But those goals seemed wildly optimis-tic Thursday after yet another setback a mile underwater.

A deep-sea robot bumped into the cap collecting oil from the well, forcing a temporary halt Wednesday to the company’s best effort yet to contain the leak. The cap was back in place Thursday, but frustration and skepticism were run-ning high along the Gulf Coast.

BP’s pronouncements have “absolutely no cred-ibility,” Jefferson Parish Councilman John Young said. The latest problem shows “they really are not up to the task and we have more bad news than we have good news.”

Even before the latest setback, the government’s worst-case estimates suggested the cap and other equipment were capturing less than half of the oil leaking from the sea fl oor. And in recent days, the “spillcam” video continued to show gas and oil billowing from the blown-out well.

BP offi cials said they sympathized, and laid out in new detail the company’s plans to have additional ships in place that can capture even more oil.

“For BP, our intent is to restore the Gulf the way it was before it happened,” BP PLC managing direc-tor Bob Dudley, who has taken over the company’s spill operations, said in Washington.

In other develop-ments:

— The spill began arriving in sheets of oil on the Florida coast, forcing the fi rst closing of a beach in the state

since the accident more than nine weeks ago, and fouled some of Mississip-pi’s most fertile coastal waters.

— The federal judge who struck down the Obama administration’s six-month ban on deep-water drilling in the Gulf refused to stay his ruling while the government appeals.

— Environmental groups asked the court to release additional information about U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman’s holdings in oil-related stocks.

At nearly every impor-tant juncture since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers, the govern-ment’s and BP’s estimates on the size of the spill, its effect on wildlife and the time frame for contain-ing it have spectacularly missed the mark.

On June 8, BP chief operating offi ce Doug Suttles said the spill should be reduced to a “relative trickle” in less than a week. BP later said it would take more time for the spill to reach a trickle.

Obama used the 90 percent fi gure last week in his fi rst address from the Oval Offi ce and after meeting with BP offi -cials at the White House, saying the company had informed him that

was how much of the oil could be kept out of the water within weeks.

“It just doesn’t look like that’s in the cards,” said Ed Overton, a retired professor of environmen-tal science at Louisiana State University. “We’re not even close to that, and the word today is that they were capturing less than the day before. I was hoping the president knew something that the rest of us didn’t know. I mean, he was talking to the big shots.”

BP said Thursday it was gradually ramping back up to capture about 700,000 gallons a day with the cap, and burning off an additional 438,000 a day using an incin-erator ship. Worst-case government estimates are that about 2.5 million gallons are leaking from the well, though no one really knows for sure.

By mid- to late July, the company hopes to have the capacity to cap-ture up to 3.3 million gal-lons a day, if that much is fl owing, BP spokesman John Curry said.

It cannot all be done immediately, Curry said, because the logistics of positioning four giant ships capable of collect-ing oil and connecting them to the seafl oor are complicated. “There’s a limit to the number of ships in the world that do these type of things,” he said.

None of those efforts is expected to stop the leak entirely. The soon-est that would happen is late August, which is when BP says relief wells

being drilled through thousands of feet of rock beneath the seabed will reach the gusher.

Dudley said the relief well is progressing very well, and said relief wells are things BP knows how to do.

“I’m confi dent by the end of August we’ll have that well killed,” he said.

Then he knocked on a conference table for good luck.

August seems a long way off to many.

In Florida, offi cials closed a quarter-mile stretch of Pensacola Beach not far from the Alabama line when thick pools of oil washed up, the fi rst time a beach in the state has been closed because of the spill.

Lifeguard Collin Cobia wore a red handkerchief over his nose and mouth to block the oil smell. “It’s enough to knock you down,” he said.

In Mississippi, which has so far been largely spared from the spill, a large patch of oil oozed into Mississippi Sound, the fertile waters between the state’s barrier islands and its mainland.

BP has its support-ers, or at least those still giving it the benefi t of the doubt.

“I think BP has done more than any oil company has ever done for this kind of spill,” said Stephen “Scooter” Resweber, a 62-year-old councilman in Grand Isle, La. “If they are saying 90 percent, they must be pretty confi dent. That’s putting your money where your mouth is.”

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Vessels of opportunity travel through the Perdido Bay near the Perdido Pass in Orange Beach, Ala., Thursday. Some 130 vessels are operating in and around the Perdido Pass to defend the water from oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Sticking points keep work going on Wall St. bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — House and Senate ne-gotiators struggled to meet a self-imposed Thursday deadline to wrap up a mas-sive fi nancial regulation bill, with two major sticking points standing in the way of com-pleting legislation that has been one year in the making.

Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., chairman of the Senate Bank-ing Committee, huddled with fellow senators to resolve disputes over how far to go in restricting banks from engag-ing in securities deals.

Aiming to break a deadlock, Dodd proposed limits on the ability of banks to carry out high-risk trades or invest in hedge funds and private equity funds.

Dodd and House Demo-crats were still holding talks on whether to force the larg-est bank holding companies to spin off their business in complex derivatives into separate subsidiaries.

Key votes, including those of Sens. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., and Scott Brown, R-Mass., hung on the outcome of the talks.

The House-Senate panel has been working into the evening over the past two weeks to resolve differences between the two bills. The legislation aims to avoid a recurrences of the 2008 fi -nancial meltdown by requiring a regulatory council to look for threats to the system, by creating a consumer protection bureau, forcing large failing fi rms to liquidate and policing fi nancial instru-ments that have been largely unregulated.

Ship that sank 112 years ago found in Lake Michigan

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A great wooden steamship that sank more than a century ago in a violent Lake Michigan storm has been found off the Milwaukee-area shoreline, and divers say the intact vessel appears to have been perfectly preserved by the cold fresh waters.

Finding the 300-foot-long L.R. Doty was important because it was the largest wooden ship that remained unaccounted for, said Bren-don Baillod, the president of the Wisconsin Underwater Archaeology Association.

“It’s the biggest one I’ve been involved with,” said Bail-lod, who has taken part in about a dozen such fi nds. “It was really exhilarating.”

The Doty was carrying a cargo of corn from South Chi-cago to Ontario, Canada in October 1898 when it sailed into a terrible storm, Baillod said. Along with snow and

sleet, there were heavy winds that whipped up waves of up to 30 feet.

The Doty should have been able to handle the weather. The ship was only fi ve years old, and the 300-foot wooden behemoth’s hull was rein-forced with steel arches.

Suspected tornado tears through Bridgeport, Conn.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — A suspected tornado tore through Connecticut’s largest city Thursday, toppling trees and power lines, shattering windows, and collapsing a building as a powerful line of storms swept across parts of the Northeast.

The offi ce of Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch reported multiple injuries in the city, and rescuers were searching the collapsed building for anyone trapped inside. Finch declared a state of emer-gency after the fast-moving system of wind and rain.

Hundreds of bricks shook loose from buildings, trees split in half and crushed cars, and a billboard hung precari-ously several stories up over Main Street.

Jacqueline Arroyo, 44, said she saw a black cloud and ran inside to her third-fl oor apartment, where the window exploded. Trees were blown so ferociously they appeared to be coming out of the ground, and people were screaming, she said.

“All the wind started coming inside the house. I heard ’boom, boom!”’ she said. “It was so fast but terrifying.”

Indiana woman tries to snatch baby, stabs parents

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Stephanie Foster wanted ababy so badly that when she suffered another miscarriage last fall, she didn’t tell her husband.

Instead, police say Foster, 34, spent months stuffi ng a pillow inside her clothes to feign pregnancy, forging birth certifi cates and attending baby showers as she plotted to kidnap a newborn to pass off as her own.

“She didn’t want to tell her husband because he was so elated that they fi nally were going to have a child,” Vigo County Sheriff Jon Marvel said. When her husband asked to feel the baby move, Foster would jostle a paint-brush she’d slipped inside the pillow, Marvel said.

Police say Foster’s elabo-rate hoax ended violently Wednesday when she stabbed a couple at their home as their month-old baby slept in the living room. Now, the baby is staying with relatives while his parents recover, and Foster sits in a county jail cell awaiting formal charges.

Foster, who does not yet have an attorney, appeared by video Thursday in Vigo Superior Court, where Judge Michael J. Lewis ordered her held without bond. She said little during the hearing as investigators described a woman who spent months planning how to make her fake pregnancy look real.

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Obama stresses no discordBy ANNE GEARANAP National Security Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — No more discord in the Afghanistan war com-mand, President Barack Obama vows. With Gen. David Petraeus in charge, the president said Thurs-day he’s assembled the team that will take the U.S. through the months ahead — by all expecta-tions the make-or-break stage of the confl ict.

“I am going to be insisting on a unity of purpose on the part of all branches of the U.S. gov-ernment,” the president said. “Our team is going to be moving forward in synch.”

Obama said he does not anticipate further fi r-ings beyond Gen. Stan-ley McChrystal, the top war commander hired a year ago to turn around a war then sliding into quagmire. He was fi red Wednesday for sniping at civilian war bosses in a magazine article.

“I’m paying very close attention,” Obama said of his war council. “And I will be insisting on extraordi-nary performance moving forward.”

The Taliban-led insurgency has dug in for a long fi ght in crucial southern Afghan prov-inces where McChrystal focused the confl ict. Petraeus is expected to continue that campaign, but he will have fl ex-ibility to make changes as he sees fi t, his civilian and military bosses said Thursday.

“When he gets on the ground, he will assess the situation for himself, and at some point he will make recommendations to the president,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates said. “At the end of the day, the president will

decide whether changes are to be made in the strategy.”

Both in Washington and Kabul, U.S. offi cials tried to stay on-message, insisting that the sudden sacking of McChrystal does not reveal a crisis of confi dence in a war that Gates asserted is no longer a stalemate.

“I do not believe we are bogged down,” Gates said. “I believe we are making some progress. It is slower and harder than we an-ticipated.”

Obama and his top security advisers also underscored that U.S. forces will begin to come home from Afghanistan next summer, and that the commander taking over for the disgraced McChrystal is pledged to that timetable.

Petraeus told Congress last week that he would recommend delaying the start of a withdrawal planned to begin in July 2011 if conditions in Afghanistan warranted it. He also said then that he supports the pullout plan.

“Gen. Petraeus un-derstands that strategy because he helped shape it,” Obama said Thursday. “We will not miss a beat

because of the change in command in the Afghan theater.”

Obama added that the July 2011 date is the start of the withdrawal, not a moment that the U.S. quits the country entirely.

“We didn’t say we’d be switching off the lights and closing the door be-hind us,” Obama said.

The date has always left some wiggle room. The administration says the scope of the draw-down will be determined by how safe Afghanistan is, and how capable the government.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton seconded the vote of con-fi dence for Petraeus, who will go before the Senate Armed Services Commit-tee for a hasty confi rma-tion hearing Tuesday.

“He is completely fa-miliar with all of the plans that have been put forth,” she said of Petraeus. “And he is going to provide the kind of continuity of lead-ership that this mission needs and deserves.”

Americans are increas-ingly impatient with the course of the nearly nine-year war. June is the deadliest month of the war so far, with 80 foreign

troops killed, of whom 46 were Americans.

Gates said it was Obama who suggested asking Petraeus to take the job, which is techni-cally a demotion from his current post as head of U.S. Central Command.

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he takes responsibility for hand-picking McChrystal, but he and Gates said the general’s intemperate remarks in Rolling Stone magazine were an aber-ration.

But McChrystal’s team did have run-ins with civilian overlords seen as meddlesome or out of touch. Civilian leaders, for their part, have some-times struggled to fi nd footing in a war plan that stresses development and civilian input but is al-most entirely staffed and fi nanced by the military.

“We clearly are at an enormously diffi cult time in the execution of the strategy,” Mullen said.

He travels Thursday to Afghanistan and Pakistan, with a message that the United States is holding steady.

“In any operation, you make adjustments,” Mullen said, adding that he thinks it will be the end of this year before it’s clear whether the effort to pacify Kandahar is working.

Mullen, sounding dejected, said McChrystal rightly took the blame for the challenge to civilian authority posed by the remarks he and his aides made in Rolling Stone.

“Honestly, when I fi rst read it, I was nearly sick,” Mullen said. “Literally, physically, I couldn’t be-lieve it. So I was stunned.”

A full Senate vote on Petraeus could follow later next week.

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Mortgage rates at lowest point since mid-1950s

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mort-gages are cheaper today than they’ve been in a half-century. If only most people had the job security, the credit score and the cash to qualify.

The average rate for a 30-year fi xed loan sank to 4.69 percent this week, beating the low set in December and down from 4.75 percent last week, Freddie Mac said Thursday. Rates for 15-year and fi ve-year mortgages also hit lows.

Rates are at their lowest since the mortgage company began keeping records in 1971. The last time they were any cheaper was the 1950s, when most long-term home loans lasted just 20 or 25 years.

Almost no one expects falling rates to energize the economy, though. Sales of new homes collapsed in May after an enticing tax credit expired.

Rates have fallen over the past two months as inves-tors have become nervous about Europe’s debt crisis and the global economy and have shifted money into safe Treasury bonds. The demand has caused Treasury yields to fall. Mortgage rates track those yields.

Blago irked by ’thankful’ message from Obama aide

CHICAGO (AP) — Rod Blagojevich became bitter when told that he would receive thanks — but noth-ing else — from Barack Obama in return for naming a friend of the newly elected president to the Senate, ac-cording to an FBI tape played Thursday at the former governor’s corruption trial.

Blagojevich’s trial pro-ceeded after Judge James B. Zagel turned down a defense request for a delay following a new Supreme Court deci-sion in a different case limit-

ing the use of the “honest services” law — the basis for some charges against Blagojevich.

With former Blagojevich chief of staff John Harris on the stand, prosecutors played an FBI tape on which Harris is heard telling the governor that the Obama camp sent word that it would be “thankful and apprecia-tive” if Valerie Jarrett were appointed to the Senate seat.

Jarrett, a Chicago busi-nesswoman and former aide to Mayor Richard M. Daley, was a longtime Obama fam-ily friend and the president-elect wanted her to have the Senate seat he was leaving.

Blagojevich had allegedly sent word through a labor union offi cial that he would appoint Jarrett if Obama agreed to appoint him as secretary of health and hu-man services.

Alaska geologist survives 2 attacks by grizzly

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The bearded, sandy-haired geologist was on a job in the remote Alaska wilderness when a grizzly bear suddenly emerged from the brush just yards away.

So Robert Miller did what he was trained to do — he fell to the ground, clasped his hands around his neck to protect it and played dead.

The bear wandered away and Miller thought he was in the clear. Pulling himself to his knees, he found out how wrong he was.

The bear charged again and “this time he didn’t want me to move. He was really thrashing me around,” the 54-year-old said Wednesday from his hospital bed, his right arm and leg swathed in bandages, his left ear criss-crossed by stitches.

Miller had been out scop-ing possible mining projects Sunday for his employer, Millrock Resources Inc., in a remote valley of the Alaska Range mountains near the Iditarod Trail.

NATION BRIEFS

10A / Friday, June 25, 2010 / The Sanford Herald NationECONOMY

Companies ramp up spending, fuel growth

WASHINGTON (AP) — Companies are spend-ing again, and that could mean better economic times ahead.

Businesses have invested more money in machinery, computers, steel and other metals in three of the past four months. The uptick is fueling economic growth in the second quarter and may lead to more jobs later this year.

The rise in corporate spending comes at a criti-cal time for the recovery. The unemployment rate has been stuck near double digits all year. And while the pace of layoffs slowed last week, the number of people seeking fi rst-time jobless benefi ts remains about the same as in January.

Consumers are more cautious about spend-ing, the housing market is slumping without home-buying tax credits and the European debt crisis has rattled investors.

But none of that seems to have dampened com-panies’ outlook.

Corporate investment “is not only growing but accelerating, which is an encouraging sign that business remains in an ex-pansive mindset,” Michael Feroli, an economist at JPMorgan Chase, wrote in a note to clients.

Overall, orders for durable goods — those expected to last three or more years — fell 1.1 percent last month, the Commerce Department said Thursday. But that was largely the result of a drop in demand for com-mercial aircraft.

Excluding the volatile transportation sector, or-ders rose 0.9 percent after falling in April.

Contributing to the strength was a 2.1 per-cent increase in business spending. In the fi rst fi ve months of the year, busi-ness orders for equipment and other capital goods

are up 15.5 percent. Companies are parting

with more cash to replace outdated equipment and software and to make their workers more productive, said Brian Bethune, chief U.S. fi nancial economist at IHS Global Insight.

They are exporting heavily to developing economies in China, Brazil and India, Bethune said. In particular, they are shipping construction and mining machines and oil and gas equipment. De-mand for those products benefi ts heavy equipment manufacturers like Cater-pillar Inc., General Electric Co. and Cummins Inc.

Businesses are also buying more computers and networking equip-ment. New orders in that category rose 2.5 percent in May, the department said.

That’s boosting Cisco Systems Inc., the leading manufacturer of computer networking equipment. The company said last month that its revenue jumped 27 percent in its most recent quarter. It expects the rapid sales growth to continue into the summer. To meet that demand, Cisco added 1,000 jobs in the spring after laying off 2,000 last year.

Some economists

revised their forecasts for growth upward in second quarter Thursday after reading the Commerce Department’s report on durable goods.

Ben Herzon, a senior economist at Macroeco-nomic Advisers, said the fi rm now expects the nation’s gross domestic product to increase by 3.8 percent, up from a previous estimate of 3.4 percent.

Companies are likely to spend at a healthy clip for the rest of this year, Herzon said, which could contribute to more job growth in the second half of the year.

Employers have been reluctant to hire even as the economy has recov-ered. But “the longer the recovery goes, the more likely it is that they’ll add jobs,” he said.

Still, growth in the 3 percent to 4 percent range is relatively slow for a recovery, particularly after a steep recession. It isn’t quickly reducing the un-employment rate, current-ly 9.7 percent. After the last severe downturn in the early 1980s, GDP grew at rates of 7 to 9 percent for fi ve straight quarters. As a result, the unemployment rate dropped from 10.8 to 7.2 percent in 18 months.

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Frank Wallace, who has been unemployed since May of2009, is seen during a rally organized by the Philadel-phia Unemployment Project, in Philadelphia.

FINANCIAL REGULATIONS

Sticking points keep work goingBy JIM KUHNHENNAssociated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — House and Senate nego-tiators struggled to meet a self-imposed Thursday deadline to wrap up a massive fi nancial regula-tion bill, with two major sticking points standing in the way of completing legislation that has been one year in the making.

Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., chairman of the Senate Banking Com-mittee, huddled with fellow senators to resolve disputes over how far to go in restricting banks from engaging in securi-ties deals.

Aiming to break a deadlock, Dodd proposed limits on the ability of banks to carry out high-risk trades or invest in hedge funds and private equity funds.

Dodd and House Dem-ocrats were still holding talks on whether to force the largest bank holding companies to spin off their business in complex derivatives into separate subsidiaries.

Key votes, including those of Sens. Blanche

Lincoln, D-Ark., and Scott Brown, R-Mass., hung on the outcome of the talks.

The House-Senate panel has been working into the evening over the past two weeks to resolve differences between the two bills. The legislation aims to avoid a recurrenc-es of the 2008 fi nancial meltdown by requiring a regulatory council to look for threats to the system, by creating a consumer protection bureau, forcing large failing fi rms to liqui-date and policing fi nan-cial instruments that have been largely unregulated.

By Thursday, Dodd was beginning to voice frustra-tion with the diffi culty of fi nding agreement to secure the 60 votes he needs to pass the bill in the Senate.

“At some point people have to let me know whether or not they’re ac-tually going to be there,” Dodd said. “I can’t sort of wait and hope they’re go-ing to be there. I’ve got to produce results and I have to produce the votes.”

After hours of private negotiations, Dodd ap-peared to have found some common ground on

banking trade limits. The Obama administration has pushed for the restric-tions on bank trades, a proposal especially cham-pioned by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.

Dodd’s proposal would permit banks to carry out trades designed to hedge against market fl uctua-tions. The proposal also would bar banks from betting against their clients on certain invest-ments deals.

Bank holding compa-nies also could invest in hedge funds and private equity funds but would be limited to investing no more than 3 percent of the capital in the hedge fund or private equity fund. There are no such condi-tions on banks now.

Banks were ada-mantly opposed to the restrictions and sought the exception for hedge funds and private equity funds. Volcker has urged lawmaker not to insert exemptions in the rule.

House and Senate negotiators were checking off agreements on smaller differences between the bills.

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Judge ordersLindsay Lohan to answer questions

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Lindsay Lohan will have to answer more questions about a 2007 car chase that landed her in jail, including inquiries about drug use at the time, a judge ruled Thursday.

Lohan’s answers will be used in a civil lawsuit fi led against the actress by a woman who claims she suffered emotional distress after the incident, which prompted a criminal case that still haunts the “Mean Girls” star.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard A. Stone ordered Lohan to sit for a two-hour deposition next month. The judge approved a request by Lohan’s attorney to allow the questioning to happen after July 6, when a criminal judge will decide whether Lohan violated her probation by missing a court hearing in May.

Tracie Rice, who was a pas-senger in a car being chased by Lohan in July 2007, sued the actress for assault, negligence and intentional infl iction of emotional dis-tress a month later. The case is scheduled to go to trial in late July.

Lohan was charged with seven misdemeanors stem-ming from her arrest after the chase and another inci-dent a few months earlier.

Timbaland, Dr. Dre surprise graduation party

CULVER CITY, Calif. (AP) — Dr. Dre and Timbaland went back to school Wednes-day night.

The rapper-producers shocked students when they appeared at a Culver City High School graduation party. Dr. Dre introduced Timbaland, who performed the tunes “The Way I Are,” “Promiscuous Girl,” “Carry Out” and “Say Something” on a stage in the school’s gymnasium. Students invited had no idea the hip-hop mas-terminds were the guests of honor.

“When we walked in, we were like, ’Whoa. Is this a second prom?”’ said 17-year-old junior Saul Salmeron.

The surprise performance was sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, Interscope Records and Beats by Dr. Dre, who have partnered with the aim of improving digital sound quality on PCs. The pro-motional event, which was recorded for an online docu-mentary, also featured free food, photos and a raffl e of HP gear. The company said it was donating $10,000 worth of computer equipment to the school.

E-BRIEFS

Lohan

Stars getting too old for juvenile humorIt is hard to tell whether

the title to “Grown Ups” is ironic or just simply

wrong-headed. While age fi gures into

what passes for a plot in this cinematic equiva-lent of an induced coma, maturity — both onscreen and in the production room — certainly does not. “Grown Ups” is “The Big Chill” for imbeciles, starring a coterie of clowns that might fancy them-selves as some comedic Rat Pack but are really just an ex-“SNL”ers version of the Blue Collar Comedy troupe.

Then again, what else would you expect from Adam Sander’s increas-ingly irksome Happy Gilmore Productions and its hack director of choice, Dennis Dugan? There’s a hierarchy to the quintet of cronies starring here: Sandler and Chris Rock are top-rung moneymakers (Rock particularly ought to know better), Kevin James (blatantly subbing for the late Chris Farley) is the up-and-comer, while David Spade and Rob Schneider are hanging onto the ca-boose of this gravy train.

Together, they play childhood friends brought back together in their New England hometown (identifi ed onscreen as “New England”) over Independence Day week-end upon the passing of

their junior high school basketball coach. Spade is Marcus, the hopeless bachelor; Schneider plays the creatively named Rob, a New Ager on his third marriage to a granola granny wife; James is Eric, whose daughter has severe social dysfunctions and a wife (Maria Bello) still breastfeeding their four-year-old son; Rock plays house-husband Kurt to his thrice-pregnant and career-driven wife (Myra Rudolph); and Sandler is Lenny, a jet-setting Holly-wood agent with a Chinese au pair, spoiled kids who order Voss water at greasy burger joints, and a fash-ion designer wife played by Salma Hayek. Uh, guess

again which actor is also the fi lm’s producer…

After their coach’s fu-neral, the fi ve amigos plus families decide to spend a few days lounging around the lakeside lodge of their youth. Actually, they spend the time forcibly laugh-ing at each other’s zing-ers, most of them thinly veiled jabs at their real-life personas — Spade is called “the third Olson twin”; the portly James is congratu-lated for fi nally reaching a B-cup. And, when they aren’t playfully jabbing each other, Sandler and Co. lean against the comic crutches they packed for the trip: children, old people, scantily-clad women, animals, white

trash, and lots and lots of scatology. Of course there’s a trip to the water park, and of course there’s a gag revolving around the guys peeing in the kiddie pool. Tack on some half-written sideshow about a rematch against their basketball rivals from 30 years ago, and that’s it…that’s the “storyline.”

Even the usually reli-able Rock is relegated to calling his annoying, bunion-affl icted mother-in-law names like “Toe-be Bryant” and “Toe-J Simp-son.” Hardy, har, har. I did like the brief argument between Rock and oppos-ing ex-baller Tim Meadows about who is the town’s black guy and which one

is the town’s “other black guy,” a not-to-subtle reference to their erstwhile token status while cast members on “SNL.”

Otherwise, the jokes land with the nimbleness of lead weights. The whole sorry spectacle smacks of a money grab, with the actors getting both a paycheck and a subsidized Massachusetts vacation. Mostly, however, “Grown Ups” is a string of barely realized setups, with only a late, lazy stab at moralizing more infuriating than the truckload of stupid humor that precedes it. The fi lm’s stars may be getting older, but their comedy remains as juvenile as ever.

“GROWN UPS”Grade: D +Director: Dennis DuganStarring: Adam Sandler,

Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Salma Hayek, and Maria Bello

MPAA Rating: PG-13Running Time: 1 hour, 42

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U.S.-RUSSIAN DIPLOMACY

Obama seeks to ‘reset’ relationsBy BEN FELLERAssociated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — The president of the United States and the president of Russia enjoyed quite a summer’s day on Thurs-day: Grab some burgers, joke about Twitter, take a walk in the park.

No summit, no sanc-tions, no weapons treaty. Yet they did strike a deal on chicken exports.

This is the new day, on intentional display, between President Barack Obama and Russian Presi-dent Dmitry Medvedev. It’s not all about nukes. Obama’s fi rst time hosting Medvedev at the White House will probably be remembered most for the extent to which they got along like a couple of buddies.

You want fries with that? Yes, they did. In fact, they shared some.

It was all a metaphor for two countries that were once at risk of Cold War annihilation, and just two years ago were back to cold shoulder animos-ity.

And for Obama, on an oppressively hot day, in the midst of a most dif-fi cult week, it amounted to a surprising chance to relax.

The buzz around the White House centered much more on the presi-dents’ unexpected jaunt for cheeseburgers to Ray’s Hell Burger in Virginia — Medvedev took jalap-enos— and less about the many substantive matters they discussed.

Even Obama acknowl-edged the topics seemed a bit foreign.

“You know, sometimes it’s odd when you’re sitting in historic meet-ings with your Russian counterpart to spend time talking about chicken,” Obama conceded in describing an agreement to export U.S poultry products to Russia.

Yet he said it was, in fact, a multibillion-dol-lar matter and a sign of something even greater:

the ability of the United States and Russia to get beyond nuclear security, one of the areas in which both sides have made concrete progress in recent months.

Now they can talk more about trade, tech-nology, space and sports.

The smiling Obama was a man in contrast to the one of day earlier, when he was forced to sack the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, for a maga-zine story in which the military leader and his aides had mocked and ripped administration leaders.

“We may be able to fi nally throw away those red phones that have been sitting around for so long,” Obama said, evok-ing the symbol of scary U.S.-Russia relations. Obama said that was do-able because both men have Twitter accounts, although he fl ubbed the line, calling the social networking site “Twit-ters.”

Upon questions from reporters, Obama said there will be no more fi rings in the chain of

command over Afghani-stan, although he will be sternly monitoring his team. Medvedev seemed reluctant to wade into the topic, recalling the ulti-mately disastrous Soviet invasion of Afghanistan decades ago.

“I have quite friendly relations with President Obama,” he deferred, “but I try not to give pieces of advice that cannot be fulfi lled.”

The presidents showed solidarity on a range of matters:

n Coordinated hu-manitarian aid for Kyrgyz-stan, wracked by deadly unrest in the wake of the president’s ouster there.

n Russia’s push to join the World Trade Organiza-tion, which has stalled. Obama endorsed whole-heartedly the idea as a matter of world interest.

n Concerted efforts to get lawmakers in both countries to ratify a new deal that would reduce the nuclear weapons of both nations.

Where there was con-fl ict, even that was framed in an upbeat way.

The United States is still at signifi cant odds with Russia over the

fallout of its war with Georgia just two summers ago, back when tensions were soaring. Obama used code, saying “we ad-dressed those differences candidly,” and Medvedev agreed.

Both said they could thrive even despite dis-agreements.

And nothing says harmony like busting out of the White House for burgers.

The photo of the day showed Obama and Med-vedev squeezed into a table with their interpret-ers, chowing down at the restaurant.

“An interesting place, which is typically Ameri-can,” is how Medvedev described it later in an East Room news confer-ence. “Probably it’s not quite healthy. But it’s very tasty. You can feel the spirit of America.”

Obama and Medvedev had met six times before in spots across the globe, including last summer in Moscow. Yet this was the fi rst time in 17 months that Obama had played host to the Russian presi-dent at the White House, and Medvedev got a rare bit of special treatment.

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President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev walk through Lafayette Park in Washington, Thursday from the White House to a attend a meet-ing at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

G20 leaders facing worries about rising defi cits

TORONTO (AP) — World leaders trickled into Cana-da’s largest city on Thursday for global economic talks, but their resolve seemed less focused than at earlier meetings held in the fearful atmosphere of the worst downturn since the 1930s. New leaders in Australia, Japan and Britain could alter the dynamics.

With recoveries in their countries proceeding at starkly different paces, lead-ers of the 20 largest indus-trial and developing nations found themselves at odds over how to strike the right balance between continued government stimulus spend-ing and confronting balloon-ing budget defi cits. Divisions also persisted on proposals for a global bank tax and over how much multinational banks should be required to keep on reserve as a cush-ion against loan losses.

“The most pressing issue is sustainable economic growth,” said Canada’s fi -nance minister, Jim Flaherty. But he told a news confer-ence before a speech to the Toronto Board of Trade that this means different things in different parts of the world.

He noted that Canada’s economy is fundamentally strong and that its banks weathered the fi nancial crisis without failures or government bailouts. “We are the envy of the world,” he said in voicing opposition to a global bank tax.

Plane with Jamaican gang leader leaves for New York

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — The scion of a Jamaican gang family was fl own to New York on Thursday after agreeing to his extradition, saying it was in his nation’s best interests after clashes that killed 76 people.

Christopher “Dudus” Coke, whose supporters waged street battles with security forces last month in an attempt to prevent him from facing drug and weapons charges in the United States, waived his right to an extradition trial at

his fi rst appearance before a Jamaican judge.

Coke said he was deeply saddened by the lives lost in the fi ghting, which centered around his power base in the Tivoli Gardens slum. He said he hopes his decision will help Jamaica heal.

“I take this decision for I now believe it to be in the best interest of my family, the community of western Kingston and in particular the people of Tivoli Gardens and above all Jamaica,” Coke said in a statement released to the news media, his fi rst public comments since the U.S. requested his extradition in August.

Defense attorney Tom Taveres-Finson said Coke was taken to Kingston’s airport by a military helicop-ter and being fl own to New York aboard a U.S. plane. The Jamaican and U.S. governments confi rmed his departure.

Report: Pollutants taint whales even in remote regions

AGADIR, Morocco (AP) — Sperm whales feeding even in the most remote reaches of Earth’s oceans have built up stunningly high levels of toxic and heavy metals, according to American scientists who say the fi ndings spell danger not only for marine life but for the millions of humans who depend on seafood.

A report released Thursday noted high levels of cad-mium, aluminum, chromium, lead, silver, mercury and titanium in tissue samples taken by dart gun from nearly 1,000 whales over fi ve years. From polar areas to equatorial waters, the whales ingested pollutants that may have been pro-duced by humans thousands of miles away, the research-ers said.

“These contaminants, I think, are threatening the human food supply. They certainly are threatening the whales and the other ani-mals that live in the ocean,” said biologist Roger Payne, founder and president of Ocean Alliance, the research and conservation group that produced the report.

The researchers found mercury as high as 16 parts per million in the whales.

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The StarUnburdened fi nally, Landon Donovan is starring at the World Cup

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FAVRE SAYS HE’D ‘LOVE’ TO BEAT SAINTS

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Brett Favre says he can still play at a “high level” if he returns to the Vikings for a 20th NFL season.

Favre has not yet said if he plans to play, but he’s not sound-ing like a retired quarterback. Favre told the Sun Herald on Thursday on the Mississippi newspaper’s website he would “love to go beat the Saints” in the season opener Sept. 9. New Orleans beat Minnesota in the NFC championship game in January.

The Sun Herald also reports Favre is healing on schedule from surgery on his left ankle, and cycling is part of his rehab.

Favre’s agent Bus Cook was asked by The Associated Press if the 40-year-old quarterback has made a decision on playing. His reply? “Nope.” The Vikings declined comment.

AS EXPECTED, WALL GOES NO. 1 TO WIZARDS

NEW YORK (AP) — John Wall is ready to go to Washington and clean up the Wizards.

And he’ll have more back-court help when he gets there — whether or not Gilbert Arenas is still around.

The Wizards selected Wall with the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft and agreed to a trade for another guard Thursday, hoping they’ve found players who can help them quickly bounce back from a season that was embar-rassing on the court and in the locker room.

“I feel like I had pressure since I became No. 1 in high school and was one of the top players,” Wall said. “I always got there hungry wanting to fi ght hard and compete in every game, so when I step on the court I’m going to take on any challenge there.”

The SEC player of the year is the fi rst Kentucky player ever chosen fi rst overall. He goes to a team still reeling from Arenas’ season-ending suspension for bringing guns into the team locker room.

Wall could replace Arenas as the Wizards’ point guard, or perhaps play alongside him in a potential high-scoring backcourt. He’ll try to become the third straight freshman point guard to win Rookie of the Year honors after Chicago’s Derrick Rose and Sacramento’s Tyreke Evans — who like Wall also played for John Calipari.

The pick came shortly after a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press that the Chicago Bulls had agreed to trade veteran guard Kirk Hinrich and the 17th pick in the draft to the Wizards. Hinrich is a solid veteran defensive guard who could help with Wall’s transition to the NBA.

Wake Forest forward Al-Farouq Aminu was drafted by the Los Angeles Clippers with the No. 8 selection while North Carolina forward Ed Davis went 13th to Toronto.

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ABOVE: Jonah Murr (left) gets ready to pull up for a jumper at the Grace Chris-tian School Basket-ball Camp recently.

RIGHT: Grace Christian basketball coach Joel Murr (right) coaches Ken-nedy Clayton (left) on proper shooting techniques at Grace Christian School Basketball Camp. .

Williams stung by Wear transfersBy BRIANA GORMANbgorman@heraldsun.com

CHAPEL HILL — Before this May, North Carolina’s Roy Williams had had just three players transfer from his programs at Kansas and UNC in 21 seasons as a head coach.

It was a track record Wil-liams said he was proud of, so it’s no wonder he admit-ted during his summer press conference Thursday he’s still trying to come to grips with the transfers of fresh-men big men David and Travis Wear.

“I have not spoken to them and I haven’t dealt with it very well,” Wil-liams said. “It was a hard thing. It was a surprise. But you have to move on. They have to move on and we do too.”

The brothers stunned Williams on May 5 when their father called asking for a release from their scholar-ships. David and Travis had both averaged roughly 10 minutes a game in 2009-10 and were expected to see a larger role this season with the loss of forwards Ed Davis and Deon Thompson. The two have since announced they will be attending UCLA in the fall where they will sit out a year per NCAA rules.

“It hurts because I lost two kids that I really enjoyed [and] it hurts because we lost two kids who were re-ally going to be important to our program,” Williams said. “I had also decided not to recruit a big man in the class behind them because I didn’t want to over-recruit, so we lost two guys out of that class and we didn’t have anybody behind them. So I haven’t dealt with it very well personally or for our program.”

So just how wounded is Williams about the Wears decision?

When a reporter started to ask a third straight ques-tion about the twins at the start of the press conference, Williams apologized for interrupting but had said he

WIMBLEDON

Isner victorious in marathon match

John Isner of the US reacts as he de-feats France’s Nicolas Mahut, in their epic men’s singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon on Thursday.

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By HOWARD FENDRICHAP Tennis Writer

WIMBLEDON, England — When The Match That Would Not End fi nally did, at 70-68 in the fi fth set, after a record 11 hours, 5 minutes spread over three days, the custom-ary handshake between opponents simply would not suffi ce.

So when John Isner of the United States won the lon-gest match in tennis history and went to the net to greet Nicolas Mahut of France, who — for lack of a better word — lost Thursday at Wimble-don, Isner pulled Mahut in for a hug.

“You know,” Isner told the crowd moments later, “it stinks

someone had to lose.”Quite true.There were 980 points

overall, and Mahut won more, 502-478. There were 711 points in the fi fth set, and Mahut won more, 365-346.

But Isner won the most important point of all: the last one, which happened to be a rather nondescript backhand winner down the line. It al-lowed Isner to break Mahut’s serve for only the second time all match. That also was the only service break of the seem-ingly interminable fi fth set, ending a run of 168 consecu-tive holds that began in the second set, all the way back on Tuesday.

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SOCCERLee Christian holding British Soccer Camp

SANFORD— Challenger Sports, the No. 1 soccer company in the United States, Canada and Aus-trailia, has been invited to hold one of its nationwide program of British Soccer training camps in Sanford.

Lee Christian has teamed up to host the week long British Soccer Camp during the week of Aug. 2-6 at the soccer fi eld of Lee Christian.

The school is offering British Soccer camp sessions for the following ages and prices. Children ages 3-4 will cost $75. Children 4-6 will be $95. Ages 6-14 will be $120 and ages 9-18 will also be $120.

To sign up, visit www.challengersports.com or contact Lee Christian Athletic Director Eric Da-vidson at (919)708-5115 or email eric@lcssoccer.com.

VOLLEYBALLBrick City Camp changing times

SANFORD — The Brick City Volleyball Camp will be changing its venue and time.

The camp, which is facilitated by Central Caro-lina Community College head coach Bill Carter, will be held from 8 a.m.-noon on June 28-July 1 at the Bob E. Hales Recreation Center.

To pre-register, e-mail Carter at billcarter@cccc.edu.

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PGA TOURRose birdies 5 of last 6 at Travelers

CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) — Justin Rose birdied fi ve of his fi nal six holes for a 6-under 64 and a share of the fi rst-round lead Thursday in the Travelers Championship.

Rose, the Memorial winner three weeks ago who failed to qualify for the U.S. Open last week at Pebble Beach, missed a 12-foot birdie putt on 18, leaving him tied with morning starters Padraig Harrington, Charlie Wi and Mathew Goggin.

Harrington birdied his fi rst three holes and was 4 under at the turn. Goggin made his run on the back nine, birdie-ing Nos. 13, 15 and 17. Wi had four back-nine birdies.

All three completed play before a 90-minute rain delay and a windy afternoon fi nish.

LPGA TOURKerr in 3-way tie for lead at LPGA Championship

PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Cristie Kerr shot a 4-under 68 on Thursday for a share of the fi rst-round lead with Stacy Lewis and Seon Hwa Lee in the LPGA Champion-ship, the LPGA Tour’s second major of the season.

Relying on her clutch put-ting, Kerr had fi ve birdies and a bogey on the Locust Hill Country Club course in suburban Rochester. She won the LPGA State Farm Classic two weeks ago for her 13th LPGA Tour title.

Inbee Park, Mika Miyazato and Lindsey Wright opened with 69s in the round that was hampered by gusting wind and a heavy downpour that briefl y delayed play.

Juli Inkster, a 31-time ca-reer winner, celebrated her 50th birthday by shooting a 71. She was tied for 11th.

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Smith regrets fl ag football injury

UPCOMING

CHARLOTTE (AP) — An apolo-getic but defi ant Steve Smith ex-pressed regret Thursday for breaking his left forearm playing fl ag football, while also taking shots at critics who questioned the Carolina Panthers receiver’s judgment.

Smith called into Charlotte radio station WFNZ-AM, acknowledging he had been a regular participant in an adult fl ag football league at a Char-lotte YMCA. He was injured Sunday when he slipped and used his left arm to brace his fall. Smith broke the same arm, but in a different spot, at the end of last season.

“Obviously, I put my team and myself in a bad situation by playing,” Smith said. “But that wasn’t my inten-tion and wasn’t what I thought the outcome was going to be.”

Playing football out of the team setting and participating in risky activities are usually banned in most NFL contracts. The Panthers aren’t expected to take serious action against Smith, who will miss much of training camp but is expected to be ready for the regular-season opener Sept. 12 at the New York Giants.

“I wish I could take it back,” Smith said. “But I am a regular guy outside of football. I mow my grass, too. I can get my fi nger chopped off fi xing my lawnmower. I could roll my ankle playing tag or slip-n-slide with my kids. In hindsight, yeah, I won’t do it again. But I was just having fun, play-ing with some guys.”

Smith, who said he played quar-terback and defensive back in the league, was quick to bring up the

subject many wanted answered: Why would a four-time Pro Bowl selection due $5.75 million this season play in a fl ag football league full of weekend warriors?

“If you get out of your little shallow box, you would understand it’s more than just money for me in this game,” Smith said. “This is what I grew up playing, and it was my offseason. Until freaking Father’s Day, nothing had happened.”

The fi ery Smith, who has been suspended twice in his NFL career for punching teammates, led the league in catches, yards receiving and touchdown catches in 2005. Despite Carolina’s quarterback problems last season, Smith had 65 catches for 982 yards and seven touchdowns before he was injured in Week 16.

Brewers complete sweep of Twins

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Yovani Gallardo did not allow a bas-erunner until Drew Butera sin-gled with one out in the sixth inning, and the Milwaukee Brewers went on to complete a sweep of the Minnesota Twins with a 5-0 victory Thursday.

Prince Fielder and Rickie Weeks homered as the suddenly resurgent Brewers chased struggling Twins starter Nick Blackburn (6-5) from the game in the fourth inning. Gal-lardo (7-3) tied a career high with 12 strikeouts and gave up only fi ve hits as he recorded his second career shutout.

Rays 5, Padres 3ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP)

— Matt Garza pitched eight effective innings and Kelly Shoppach came within a triple

of hitting for the cycle for Tampa Bay.

Garza (8-5) gave up three runs and six hits to rebound from a loss last Friday to Florida in which the right-hand-er allowed seven runs in 1 1-3 innings.

White Sox 2, Braves 0CHICAGO (AP) — Paul

Konerko homered with two outs in the eighth inning, lifting the White Sox to their ninth straight victory.

Gavin Floyd, J.J. Putz (3-2) and Bobby Jenks combined on a two-hitter for the White Sox, who have their longest winning streak since 2006 and have won 13 of their last 14 games.

Phillies 12, Indians 3PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joe

Blanton pitched effectively into the eighth inning and the Phillies roughed up Fausto Carmona to complete a three-game sweep.

Placido Polanco had four hits, Chase Utley and Jayson Werth each had three hits and catcher Dane Sardinha connected for his fi rst career home run for the Phillies.

Cubs 3, Mariners 2, 13 innings

SEATTLE (AP) — Marlon Byrd hit an opposite fi eld RBI single with one out in the 13th inning, and Chicago avoided a sweep in Seattle.

Pinch-hitter Alfonso Soriano led off the 13th with a walk against reliever Garrett Olson (0-2). Kosuke Fukudome sac-rifi ced Soriano to second and, after Ryan Theriot walked, Byrd lined a 1-2 pitch from Sean White into right fi eld. Soriano was waved around third and beat Ichiro Suzuki’s throw to the plate.

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IRENE, South Africa (AP) — The words came haltingly, then not at all, as Landon Donovan tried to explain how much the goal meant to him.

He’s the greatest player the United States has ever produced and, at times, its greatest disappointment. He’s spent the last four years trying to claw his way back from heartbreaks both personal and professional. And for all the introspec-tion and work he’s done, he and the Americans were on the verge of yet another World Cup fl ameout.

So yeah, he celebrated like a 6-year-old on a sugar rush when he scored the goal that will be remem-bered as one of the biggest in U.S. soccer history. And when it fi nally all sank in, no way he could — or would — stop the tears.

“In the past, a moment like that wouldn’t have felt the same, it wouldn’t have felt as good,” Donovan said Thursday. “When you put yourself on the line, and you risk things that you weren’t willing to risk before and then you’re rewarded for it, it feels incredible.”

Donovan’s evolution is fascinating, on the fi eld and off.

He is the rare star athlete who will give not only a glimpse into his deepest emotions, but a front-row seat. He talks candidly about his struggles on the fi eld and his uncomfortable transition to U.S. soccer’s poster boy, and freely admits therapy has helped him work through personal failings laid bare by his crumbling marriage.

He is, fi nally, a man at peace. But he also knows he can’t be whole without suc-cess on the soccer fi eld.

On Saturday, the Ameri-cans play Ghana — the team that knocked them out four years ago — with a chance to make at least the quarterfi nals for only the third time in history.

“It’s not a failure if we don’t win Saturday, but there’s such a massive op-portunity to do something so much more special,” Donovan said. “And I really want to emphasize that to everybody, and make sure we understand that.”

For as much as the Americans like to talk about team and doing something special together, everyone knows they will only go as far as Donovan leads them.

Playing with the un-bridled joy and confi dence only a 20-year-old can have, he scored twice at the 2002 World Cup as the Ameri-cans made a stunning run to the quarterfi nals, and was selected as best young player of the tournament. Burdened by the expecta-tions and the hype four years later, he all but disap-peared as the Americans stumbled out of Germany without a victory. Just about

everyone deserved a piece of the blame, but Donovan took the majority of criti-cism.

“That was not a good day. For me or for the team,” Donovan said when asked about the Ghana game in 2006. “What I remember most person-ally was my tentativeness and the immediate feeling afterward of the fi nality of it, and how disappointing that was.”

His two unsuccessful stints in Germany only fu-eled the negativity. Signed by Bayer Leverkusen at 16, he never got in a game in two years and was shipped to the San Jose Earthquakes of Major League Soccer in 2001. He went back to Leverkusen in January 2005 and made nine appear-ances, but lasted only two months before running back to MLS.

Put it all together, how-ever, and Donovan seemed like just another spoiled athlete who’d failed to live up to his promise.

“He got criticized quite heavily after the last World Cup, and he’s worked hard and pushed himself to get to this level,” Carlos Bocanegra said. “It’s nice for him to get the winner for us. It kind of shows his work has paid off, his mentality has changed.”

Donovan gives much of the credit for his growth to his estranged wife, Bianca Kajlich. Kajlich is an actress, and seeing her have to battle for even the smallest roles made him realize he was squandering his talent.

What he had was a gift, not a burden.

Though Kajlich and Donovan broke up last July, the split was a turning point. The two are still on friendly terms — Dono-van blew a kiss into the TV camera for her during his postgame interview Wednesday night — but he realized it was time to take a long, hard look at himself.

The change is noticeable to anyone who’s watched Donovan in South Africa.

AP photo

United States’ Landon Donovan, left, scores a goal past Algeria goalkeeper Rais M’Bolhi, front right, and Algeria’s Madjid Bougherra, back right, during the World Cup group C soccer match between the United States and Algeria at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria, South Africa on Wednesday.

Unburdened at last, Donovan seizes opportunity

At A GlanceDefending champ Italy

eliminated from CupJOHANNESBURG (AP)

— Defending cham-pion Italy was eliminated Thursday from the World Cup with a humbling 3-2 loss to Slovakia, which advanced.

Paraguay 0, New Zea-land 0

POLOKWANE, South Africa (AP) — Paraguay was held to an uneventful 0-0 draw by New Zealand, but still won its World Cup group and moved into the round of 16.

Netherlands 2, Camer-oon 1

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The Neth-erlands produced its fi rst goals of fl air and fi nesse to beat Cameroon and set up a second-round match with Slovakia.

Japan 3, Denmark 1RUSTENBERG, South

Africa (AP) — Spectacular fi rst-half goals by Keisuke Honda and Yusuhito Endo helped lift Japan, sending the Japanese into the round of 16 at the World Cup.

Obama congratulates U.S. soccer team

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama called the U.S. World Cup soccer team Thursday to congratulate it on an “extraordinary victory” this week and to wish the team luck in the next round.

The game was poorly timed for the president, comingas he accepted the resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who had served as his top commander in Afghanistan. Obama was meeting with McChrystal’s replacement, Gen. David Petraeus, in the Oval Offi ce when he heard staffers in the West Wing erupt in cheers when U.S. midfi elder Landon Donovan scored the win-ning goal.

During his call with the team, Obama congratulat-ed Donovan on the goal.

Strasburg throws strikesas Nats’ bats go coldBy JOSEPH WHITEAP Sports Writer

WASHINGTON — Maybe Stephen Strasburg throws too many strikes.

Huh?It takes once-in-a-generation talent

to draw once-in-a-blue-moon criticism, but about the only thing to parse from the 21-year-old rookie’s fi rst loss is that he had the audacity to throw strikes on 0-2 counts to back-to-back batters in the fi fth inning.

Both hitters managed to get bat on ball for opposite fi eld singles — one of them barely making contact with the very end of the barrel — to produce the only run in the Washington Nationals’ 1-0 loss to the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night.

If that’s what it takes for Strasburg (2-1) to lose, it’s not going to happen very often. Maybe only when the planets are aligned a certain way. Or when miracle goals are scored by Americans in stoppage time at the World Cup. Or when tennis matches last 10 hours at Wimbledon.

Or when the Nationals are the team he relies on for support. They’ve scored only one run in his last two starts.

“He did a terrifi c job again,” Nationals right fi elder Roger Bernadina said. “We just didn’t score any runs.”

These are the numbers from the Strasburg’s defeat, coming in his fourth major league start: six innings, nine hits (all singles), one run, nine strikeouts, no walks, 75 strikes in 95 pitches.

“Now I realize everything people have been talking about,” Royals right fi elder Jose Guillen said. “I’m like: ’Who’s this guy?’ ’They’re talking about him like he’s a Hall of Famer.’ That’s the way people have been talking about him, and today I real-ized that kid is pretty good.”

And Guillen actually had a good game. He got two hits against Strasburg, includ-ing the one that drove in the game’s only run.

After the game, Strasburg and manager Jim Riggleman were quizzed about the youngster’s propensity for throwing strike after strike after strike. Strasburg hasn’t walked a batter in three of his four starts. Instead of wasting an 0-2 pitch, he tries to throw another one in there — and per-haps doesn’t always put it exactly where

he wants.Too many strikes? Sounds like a good

problem to have.“He really throws such quality strikes,”

Riggleman said, “that it’s not an issue at this point.”

Strasburg was his best own defender. Without sounding too boastful, he said neither of the critical 0-2 offerings in the fi fth inning were bad pitches.

“They didn’t really hit the ball hard,” Strasburg said, “except for a couple of times they just found the holes.”

The one purpose Strasburg’s loss could serve might be to temper the talk of his chances of appearing in the All-Star game. It’s a topic that’s already generating considerable debate, even though his 1.78 ERA comes from only four games against favorable opposition: The teams he has faced were a combined 50 games under .500 as of Thursday morning.

“His stuff is defi nitely All-Star stuff,” Kansas City manager Ned Yost said. “His numbers aren’t yet.”

AP photo

Washington Nationals starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg throws during the second inning of a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday in Washington.

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Sports ReviewAMERICAN LEAGUE

East Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwayNew York 45 27 .625 — — 6-4 W-2 25-10 20-17Tampa Bay 43 29 .597 2 — 3-7 W-1 19-17 24-12Boston 43 30 .589 21⁄2 1⁄2 7-3 L-2 26-15 17-15Toronto 38 34 .528 7 5 4-6 L-3 19-17 19-17Baltimore 19 52 .268 251⁄2 231⁄2 2-8 L-3 11-23 8-29

Central Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwayMinnesota 40 32 .556 — — 4-6 L-3 23-13 17-19Detroit 38 32 .543 1 4 7-3 L-2 25-11 13-21Chicago 37 34 .521 21⁄2 51⁄2 9-1 W-9 18-18 19-16Kansas City 30 43 .411 101⁄2 131⁄2 4-6 W-1 14-19 16-24Cleveland 26 45 .366 131⁄2 161⁄2 1-9 L-5 12-20 14-25

West Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwayTexas 43 28 .606 — — 10-0 W-10 25-11 18-17Los Angeles 41 33 .554 31⁄2 3 7-3 W-2 19-15 22-18Oakland 34 40 .459 101⁄2 10 2-8 L-3 21-16 13-24Seattle 30 42 .417 131⁄2 13 7-3 L-1 20-18 10-24

NATIONAL LEAGUEEast Division

W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwayNew York 41 30 .577 — — 8-2 W-2 26-10 15-20Atlanta 42 31 .575 — — 6-4 L-3 24-7 18-24Philadelphia 38 32 .543 21⁄2 21⁄2 7-3 W-3 20-15 18-17Florida 35 36 .493 6 6 5-5 W-3 19-19 16-17Washington 33 40 .452 9 9 3-7 L-1 20-16 13-24

Central Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwaySt. Louis 40 31 .563 — — 6-4 W-2 23-12 17-19Cincinnati 40 33 .548 1 2 4-6 W-3 23-17 17-16Chicago 32 40 .444 81⁄2 91⁄2 5-5 W-1 18-18 14-22Milwaukee 32 40 .444 81⁄2 91⁄2 6-4 W-4 14-19 18-21Houston 28 45 .384 13 14 3-7 W-2 16-24 12-21Pittsburgh 25 46 .352 15 16 2-8 L-2 16-19 9-27

West Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwaySan Diego 42 30 .583 — — 5-5 L-1 23-16 19-14San Francisco 39 32 .549 21⁄2 2 5-5 L-2 24-12 15-20Colorado 38 33 .535 31⁄2 3 7-3 W-2 23-13 15-20Los Angeles 38 33 .535 31⁄2 3 2-8 L-6 23-13 15-20Arizona 28 45 .384 141⁄2 14 3-7 L-2 18-18 10-27

MLB Standings

AMERICAN LEAGUEWednesday’s GamesCincinnati 3, Oakland 0Kansas City 1, Washington 0Philadelphia 7, Cleveland 6Florida 7, Baltimore 5St. Louis 1, Toronto 0N.Y. Mets 5, Detroit 0San Diego 5, Tampa Bay 4Texas 13, Pittsburgh 3Chicago White Sox 4, Atlanta 2Milwaukee 5, Minnesota 3Colorado 8, Boston 6N.Y. Yankees 6, Arizona 5, 10 inningsL.A. Angels 2, L.A. Dodgers 1Seattle 8, Chicago Cubs 1Thursday’s GamesTampa Bay 5, San Diego 3Philadelphia 12, Cleveland 3Chicago White Sox 2, Atlanta 0Milwaukee 5, Minnesota 0Chicago Cubs 3, Seattle 2, 13 inningsFlorida at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.St. Louis at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.Detroit at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.Pittsburgh at Texas, 8:05 p.m.Boston at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.Friday’s GamesChicago Cubs (Zambrano 3-5) at Chicago White Sox (Peavy

6-5), 4:05 p.m.Philadelphia (Halladay 8-6) at Toronto (Litsch 0-1), 7:05 p.m.Washington (J.Martin 0-3) at Baltimore (Arrieta 2-1), 7:05 p.m.Arizona (E.Jackson 4-6) at Tampa Bay (Niemann 6-1), 7:10

p.m.Cleveland (Laffey 0-1) at Cincinnati (Harang 5-7), 7:10 p.m.Minnesota (Slowey 7-4) at N.Y. Mets (Pelfrey 9-2), 7:10 p.m.Detroit (Oliver 0-0) at Atlanta (Medlen 4-1), 7:35 p.m.

Houston (Moehler 0-4) at Texas (C.Lewis 7-4), 8:05 p.m.Seattle (Rowland-Smith 1-6) at Milwaukee (Bush 2-5), 8:10

p.m.St. Louis (Suppan 0-2) at Kansas City (Greinke 2-8), 8:10 p.m.Colorado (Francis 2-2) at L.A. Angels (Jer.Weaver 7-3), 10:05

p.m.Pittsburgh (B.Lincoln 0-1) at Oakland (Sheets 2-7), 10:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 8-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Padilla 1-1),

10:10 p.m.Boston (Wakefield 2-5) at San Francisco (J.Sanchez 5-5),

10:15 p.m.Saturday’s GamesMinnesota at N.Y. Mets, 1:10 p.m.St. Louis at Kansas City, 2:10 p.m.Houston at Texas, 3:05 p.m.Arizona at Tampa Bay, 4:05 p.m.Philadelphia at Toronto, 4:05 p.m.Washington at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m.Detroit at Atlanta, 4:10 p.m.Seattle at Milwaukee, 4:10 p.m.Boston at San Francisco, 7:10 p.m.Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox, 7:10 p.m.Cleveland at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.N.Y. Yankees at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m.Colorado at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.Pittsburgh at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.Sunday’s GamesCleveland at Cincinnati, 1:10 p.m.Minnesota at N.Y. Mets, 1:10 p.m.Detroit at Atlanta, 1:35 p.m.Philadelphia at Toronto, 1:35 p.m.Washington at Baltimore, 1:35 p.m.Arizona at Tampa Bay, 1:40 p.m.Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m.Seattle at Milwaukee, 2:10 p.m.St. Louis at Kansas City, 2:10 p.m.Colorado at L.A. Angels, 3:35 p.m.Boston at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.

BASEBALLInterleague Boxscores

BREWERS 5, TWINS 0MINNESOTA MILWAUkEE ab r h bi ab r h biSpan cf 4 0 0 0 Weeks 2b 3 1 2 2OHudsn 2b 4 0 0 0 Hart rf 3 1 1 1Mornea 1b 4 0 2 0 Fielder 1b 4 1 1 2Kubel rf 4 0 1 0 Braun lf 4 0 1 0Cuddyr 3b 4 0 0 0 McGeh 3b 3 0 1 0DlmYn lf 3 0 0 0 Edmnd cf 4 0 1 0Punto ss 3 0 1 0 Lucroy c 4 0 0 0Butera c 3 0 1 0 Counsll ss 4 0 0 0Blckrn p 1 0 0 0 Gallard p 4 2 2 0Dunsng p 1 0 0 0 Thome ph 1 0 0 0 Rauch p 0 0 0 0 Totals 32 0 5 0 Totals 33 5 9 5

Minnesota 000 000 000 — 0Milwaukee 004 100 00x — 5

E—Span (2). LOB—Minnesota 5, Milwaukee 7. 2B—Morneau (22), Braun (22), Edmonds (16), Gallardo (2). HR—Weeks (12), Fielder (14). IP H R ER BB SO MinnesotaBlackburn L,6-5 3 2-3 6 5 5 3 2Duensing 3 1-3 3 0 0 0 3Rauch 1 0 0 0 0 0 MilwaukeeGallardo W,7-3 9 5 0 0 0 12

Umpires—Home, Bruce Dreckman; First, Paul Emmel; Second, Bill Hohn; Third, Gary Darling.

T—2:22. A—35,898 (41,900).

PHILLIES 12, INDIANS 3CLEvELAND PHILADELPHIA ab r h bi ab r h biCrowe cf 4 0 1 1 Victorn cf 5 1 1 1Choo rf 3 0 0 0 Polanc 3b 5 2 4 2AHrndz lf 1 0 0 0 Utley 2b 3 2 3 1CSantn c 4 0 0 0 JuCastr ph-2b 1 0 0 0Branyn 1b 4 0 1 0 Howard 1b 3 1 0 1AMarte 3b 4 0 0 0 Gload 1b 1 0 0 0Duncan lf-rf 4 0 1 0 Werth rf 4 1 3 2Valuen 2b 3 1 0 0 Ibanez lf 4 1 1 0Donald ss 3 2 3 2 WValdz ss 4 1 2 2Carmn p 1 0 0 0 Sardinh c 4 2 1 1Ambriz p 0 0 0 0 Blanton p 3 1 0 0J.Lewis p 0 0 0 0 Figuero p 0 0 0 0Hafner ph 1 0 0 0 J.Smith p 0 0 0 0 Totals 32 3 6 3 Totals 37 12 15 10

Cleveland 000 020 010 — 3Philadelphia 050 025 00x — 12

E—C.Santana (1). DP—Cleveland 2. LOB—Cleveland 3, Philadelphia 6. 2B—Crowe (8), Donald (9), Polanco (15). HR—Donald (2), Sardinha (1). SB—Utley (5). S—Carmona. SF—Utley, Werth. IP H R ER BB SO ClevelandCarmona L,6-6 4 9 7 5 0 0Ambriz 1 2-3 4 5 5 2 0J.Lewis 1 1-3 2 0 0 0 1J.Smith 1 0 0 0 0 1 PhiladelphiaBlanton W,3-5 7 2-3 6 3 3 0 8Figueroa 1 1-3 0 0 0 0 1

Carmona pitched to 4 batters in the 5th.HBP—by Carmona (Blanton). WP—Figueroa.Umpires—Home, Sam Holbrook; First, Greg

Gibson; Second, Brian Knight; Third, Gerry Davis.

T—2:36 (Rain delay: 1:37). A—45,085 (43,651).

ASTROS 7, GIANTS 5SAN FRANCISCO HOUSTON ab r h bi ab r h biRenteri ss 5 0 2 1 Bourn cf 4 1 2 1FSnchz 2b 3 1 0 0 Kppngr 2b 3 1 1 0Affeldt p 0 0 0 0 Brkmn 1b 4 0 2 2Torres ph 1 0 1 1 Ca.Lee lf 4 1 1 0Runzler p 0 0 0 0 Lndstr p 0 0 0 0Romo p 0 0 0 0 Pence rf 5 1 1 3Mota p 0 0 0 0 Blum ss 3 0 1 0Ishikaw ph 1 0 1 0 ONavrr pr-ss 1 0 0 0A.Huff rf 3 0 1 1 P.Feliz 3b 4 0 0 0Uribe 3b-2b 4 0 0 0 JaCastr c 3 2 2 1Burrell lf 4 1 1 2 WRdrg p 3 1 1 0Posey 1b 4 0 1 0 Sampsn p 0 0 0 0BMolin c 4 1 0 0 Byrdak p 0 0 0 0Rownd cf 3 2 3 0 WLopez p 0 0 0 0Cain p 1 0 0 0 Michals ph 0 0 0 0DBatst p 0 0 0 0 Lyon p 0 0 0 0Sandovl ph-3b 3 0 00 Bourgs lf 0 0 0 0Totals 36 5 10 5 Totals 34 7 11 7

San Francisco 000 200 201 — 5Houston 331 000 00x — 7

E—Blum 2 (5), P.Feliz (10). DP—San Francisco 1, Houston 4. LOB—San Francisco 8, Houston 11. 2B—Rowand (10), Bourn 2 (17), Berkman (13), Ca.Lee (10). HR—Burrell (4), Pence (11), Ja.Castro (1). SB—Berkman (3). IP H R ER BB SO San FranciscoCain L,6-6 2 2-3 9 7 7 2 2D.Bautista 1 1-3 0 0 0 1 1Affeldt 2 1 0 0 2 2

Runzler 0 0 0 0 1 0Romo 1 1 0 0 0 1Mota 1 0 0 0 1 0 HoustonW.Rodriguez W,4-10 6 4 2 0 1 3Sampson 0 1 2 0 0 0Byrdak 2-3 2 0 0 0 1W.Lopez H,5 1-3 0 0 0 0 0Lyon H,14 1 0 0 0 0 0Lindstrom S,17-21 1 3 1 1 0 1

Sampson pitched to 2 batters in the 7th.Runzler pitched to 1 batter in the 7th.HBP—by Romo (Michaels), by W.Rodriguez

(A.Huff, Rowand, A.Huff).Umpires—Home, Dan Iassogna; First, Dale

Scott; Second, Jerry Meals; Third, Mark Wegner.T—3:16. A—26,662 (40,976).

CUBS 3, MARINERS 2, 13 INNINGS, CHICAGO SEATTLE ab r h bi ab r h biFukdm rf 4 0 0 0 ISuzuki rf 5 0 2 0Theriot 2b 5 0 0 0 Figgins 2b 5 1 1 0Byrd dh-cf 5 0 1 1 MSwny dh 5 0 1 1D.Lee 1b 6 1 2 0 JoLopz 3b 6 0 2 0Colvin cf-lf 5 0 1 0 FGtrrz cf 5 0 1 0Nady lf 4 1 1 0 JoWilsn 1b 6 1 1 0Soto c 0 0 0 0 RJhnsn c 2 0 0 0Fontent ss-3b 4 0 0 1 Bradly ph 0 0 0 0Tracy 3b 3 0 1 1 Alfonzo c 2 0 0 0SCastro pr-ss 1 0 0 0 JaWlsn ss 6 0 3 1K.Hill c 3 0 0 0 MSndrs lf 6 0 0 0ASorin ph 0 1 0 0 Howry p 0 0 0 0 Grzlny p 0 0 0 0 Totals 40 3 6 3 Totals 48 2 11 2

Chicago 010 000 100 000 1 — 3Seattle 000 100 100 000 0 — 2

E—Jo.Wilson (8). DP—Chicago 1, Seattle 3. LOB—Chicago 7, Seattle 13. 2B—I.Suzuki (17), M.Sweeney (3), Ja.Wilson (8). SB—Figgins (16), M.Sweeney (2), F.Gutierrez (8). S—Fuku-dome, K.Hill, Ro.Johnson. SF—Fontenot. IP H R ER BB SO ChicagoLilly 6 5 1 1 0 6Cashner BS,1-1 2 3 1 1 1 2Marshall 2-3 1 0 0 1 1Marmol 1 1-3 0 0 0 3 3Grabow W,1-3 2 1 0 0 0 1Howry H,3 2-3 1 0 0 0 0Gorzelanny S,1-1 1-3 0 0 0 0 1 SeattleF.Hernandez 9 5 2 2 1 8Aardsma 1 0 0 0 1 0League 2 0 0 0 1 3Olson L,0-2 1-3 0 1 1 1 0White 2-3 1 0 0 1 0

HBP—by F.Hernandez (Nady). WP—F.Hernandez. Balk—Lilly.

Umpires—Home, Chad Fairchild; First, Eric Cooper; Second, Bill Miller; Third, Mike Reilly.

T—4:02. A—41,329 (47,878).

TENNISWimbledon Results

By The Associated PressThursdayAt The All England Lawn Tennis &

Croquet ClubWimbledon, EnglandPurse: $20.3 million (Grand Slam)Surface: Grass-OutdoorSinglesMenFirst RoundJohn Isner (23), United States, def. Nicolas

Mahut, France, 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7), 7-6 (3), 70-68.Second RoundGilles Simon (26), France, def. Illya March-

enko, Ukraine, walkover.Tobias Kamke, Germany, def. Andreas Seppi,

Italy, 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4.Andy Murray (4), Britain, def. Jarkko

Nieminen, Finland, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2.Thomaz Bellucci (25), Brazil, def. Martin

Fischer, Austria, 6-7 (11), 7-6 (4), 7-6 (1), 6-2.Julien Benneteau (32), France, def. Andreas

Beck, Germany, 3-6, 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3.Jeremy Chardy, France, def. Lukas Lacko,

Slovakia, 6-3, 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-7 (5), 8-6.Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (10), France, def. Alexandr

Dolgopolov, Ukraine, 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 5-7, 10-8.Robin Soderling (6), Sweden, def. Marcel

Granollers, Spain, 7-5, 6-1, 6-4.Xavier Malisse, Belgium, def. Julian Reister,

Germany, 6-7 (7), 6-4, 6-1, 6-4.Fabio Fognini, Italy, def. Michael Russell,

United States, 3-6, 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (6), 6-3.Rafael Nadal (2), Spain, def. Robin Haase,

Netherlands, 5-7, 6-2, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3.Sam Querrey (18), United States, def. Ivan

Dodig, Croatia, 6-2, 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (10).David Ferrer (9), Spain, def. Florent Serra,

France, 6-4, 7-5, 6-7 (6), 6-3.Philipp Petzschner (33), Germany, def. Lukasz

Kubot, Poland, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.WomenSecond RoundAgnieszka Radwanska (7), Poland, def.

Alberta Brianti, Italy, 6-2, 6-0.Kaia Kanepi, Estonia, def. Edina Gallovits,

Romania, 6-4, 7-5.Petra Kvitova, Czech Republic, def. Zheng Jie

(23), China, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2.

Maria Sharapova (16), Russia, def. Ioana Raluca Olaru, Romania, 6-1, 6-4.

Victoria Azarenka (14), Belarus, def. Bojana Jovanovski, Serbia, 6-1, 6-4.

Flavia Pennetta (10), Italy, def. Monica Niculescu, Romania, 6-1, 6-1.

Alexandra Dulgheru (31), Romania, def. Romina Sarina Oprandi, Italy, 6-2, 6-0.

Caroline Wozniacki (3), Denmark, def. Chang Kai-chen, Taiwan, 6-4, 6-3.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (29), Russia, def. Roberta Vinci, Italy, 6-2, 7-6 (1).

Klara Zakopalova, Czech Republic, def. Aravane Rezai (18), France, 5-7, 6-3, 6-3.

Sara Errani (32), Italy, def. Arantxa Parra Santonja, Spain, 6-2, 6-2.

Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, Czech Republic, def. Daniela Hantuchova (24), Slovakia, 1-6, 6-2, 6-4.

Li Na (9), China, def. Kurumi Nara, Japan, 6-2, 6-4.

Anastasia Rodionova, Australia, def. Svetlana Kuznetsova (19), Russia, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4.

Dominika Cibulkova, Slovakia, def. Ayumi Morita, Japan, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (2), 7-5.

Serena Williams (1), United States, def. Anna Chakvetadze, Russia, 6-0, 6-1.

BASKETBALLNBA Draft No. 1 Selections

By The Associated Press2010—John Wall, G, Washington, Kentucky2009—Blake Griffin, F, Los Angeles Clippers,

Oklahoma2008—Derrick Rose, G, Chicago, Memphis2007—Greg Oden, C, Portland, Ohio State2006—Andrea Bargnani, F, Toronto, Benetton

Treviso (Italy)2005—Andrew Bogut, Milwaukee, C, Utah2004—Dwight Howard, Orlando, F, Southwest

Atlantic Christian Academy (Atlanta)2003—LeBron James, Cleveland, G, St.

Vincent-St. Mary HS2002—Yao Ming, Houston, C, China2001—Kwame Brown, Washington, F-C,

Glynn Academy HS2000—Kenyon Martin, New Jersey, F,

Cincinnati1999—Elton Brand, Chicago, F, Duke1998—Michael Olowokandi, Los Angeles

Clippers, C, Pacific1997—Tim Duncan, San Antonio, C, Wake

Forest1996—Allen Iverson, Philadelphia, G,

Georgetown1995—Joe Smith, Golden State, C, Maryland1994—Glenn Robinson, Milwaukee, F,

Purdue1993—Chris Webber, Orlando, F, Michigan1992—Shaquille O’Neal, Orlando, C,

Louisiana State1991—Larry Johnson, Charlotte, F, UNLV1990—Derrick Coleman, New Jersey, F,

Syracuse1989—Pervis Ellison, Sacramento, C,

Louisville1988—Danny Manning, Los Angeles Clip-

pers, F, Kansas1987—David Robinson, San Antonio, C, Navy1986—Brad Daugherty, Cleveland, C, North

Carolina1985—Patrick Ewing, New York, C,

Georgetown1984—Akeem Olajuwon, Houston, C,

Houston1983—Ralph Sampson, Houston, C, Virginia1982—James Worthy, Los Angeles Lakers, F,

North Carolina1981—Mark Aguirre, Dallas, F, DePaul1980—Joe Barry Carroll, Golden State, C,

Purdue1979—Earvin Johnson, Los Angeles Lakers,

G, Michigan St.1978—Mychal Thompson, Portland, C,

Minnesota1977—Kent Benson, Milwaukee, C, Indiana1976—John Lucas, Houston, G, Maryland1975—David Thompson, Atlanta, G, North

Carolina St.1974—Bill Walton, Portland, C, UCLA1973—Doug Collins, Philadelphia, G, Illinois

St.1972—LaRue Martin, Portland, C, Loyola-

Chicago1971—Austin Carr, Cleveland, G, Notre Dame1970—Bob Lanier, Detroit, C, St. Bonaven-

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TRANSACTIONSBy The Associated PressBASEBALLAmerican LeagueBOSTON RED SOX—Activated RHP Daisuke

Matsuzaka from the 15-day DL. Placed 3B Mike Lowell on the 15-day DL, retroactive to June 23.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Signed SS Michael Antonio and RHP Matt Ridings.

National LeagueHOUSTON ASTROS—Placed RHP Felipe Pauli-

no on the 15-day DL. Purchased the contract of RHP Josh Banks from Round Rock (PCL).

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES—Placed RHP Chad Durbin on the 15-day DL. Purchased the contract of RHP Nelson Figueroa from Lehigh Valley (IL).

PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Purchased the contract of LHP Justin Thomas and recalled RHP Steven Jackson from Indianapolis (IL).

World Cup 2010 StandingsFIRST ROUND

GROUP A GP W D L GF GA Ptsx-Uruguay 3 2 1 0 4 0 7x-Mexico 3 1 1 1 3 2 4South Africa 3 1 1 1 3 5 4France 3 0 1 2 1 4 1

x-advanced to round of 16Friday, June 11At JohannesburgSouth Africa 1, Mexico 1At Cape Town, South AfricaUruguay 0, France 0Wednesday, June 16At Pretoria, South AfricaUruguay 3, South Africa 0Thursday, June 17At Polokwane, South AfricaMexico 2, France 0Tuesday, June 22At Rustenburg, South AfricaUruguay 1, Mexico 0At Bloemfontein, South AfricaSouth Africa 2, France 1———

GROUP B GP W D L GF GA Ptsx-Argentina 3 3 0 0 7 1 9x-South Korea 3 1 1 1 5 6 4Greece 3 1 0 2 2 5 3Nigeria 3 0 1 2 3 5 1

x-advanced to round of 16Saturday, June 12At Port Elizabeth, South AfricaSouth Korea 2, Greece 0At JohannesburgArgentina 1, Nigeria 0Thursday, June 17At JohannesburgArgentina 4, South Korea 1At Bloemfontein, South AfricaGreece 2, Nigeria 1Tuesday, June 22At Durban, South AfricaNigeria 2, South Korea 2At Polokwane, South AfricaArgentina 2, Greece 0———

GROUP C GP W D L GF GA Ptsx-United States 3 1 2 0 4 3 5x-England 3 1 2 0 2 1 5Slovenia 3 1 1 1 3 3 4Algeria 3 0 1 2 0 2 1

x-advanced to round of 16Saturday, June 12At Rustenburg, South AfricaEngland 1, United States 1Sunday, June 13At Polokwane, South AfricaSlovenia 1, Algeria 0Friday, June 18At JohannesburgUnited States 2, Slovenia 2At Cape Town, South AfricaEngland 0, Algeria 0Wednesday, June 23At Port Elizabeth, South AfricaEngland 1, Slovenia 0At Pretoria, South AfricaUnited States 1, Algeria 0———

GROUP D GP W D L GF GA Ptsx-Germany 3 2 0 1 5 1 6x-Ghana 3 1 1 1 2 2 4Australia 3 1 1 1 3 6 4Serbia 3 1 0 2 2 3 3

x-advanced to round of 16Sunday, June 13At Pretoria, South AfricaGhana 1, Serbia 0At Durban, South AfricaGermany 4, Australia 0Friday, June 18At Port Elizabeth, South AfricaSerbia 1, Germany 0Saturday, June 19At Rustenburg, South AfricaAustralia 1, Ghana 1Wednesday, June 23At JohannesburgGermany 1, Ghana 0At Nelspruit, South AfricaAustralia 2, Serbia 1———

GROUP E GP W D L GF GA Ptsx-Netherlands 3 3 0 0 5 1 9x-Japan 3 2 0 1 4 2 6Denmark 3 1 0 2 3 6 3

Cameroon 3 0 0 3 2 5 0x-advanced to round of 16Monday, June 14At JohannesburgNetherlands 2, Denmark 0At Bloemfontein, South AfricaJapan 1, Cameroon 0Saturday, June 19At Durban, South AfricaNetherlands 1, Japan 0At Pretoria, South AfricaDenmark 2, Cameroon 1Thursday, June 24Rustenburg, South AfricaJapan 3, Denmark 1 Cape Town, South AfricaNetherlands 2, Cameroon 1———

GROUP F GP W D L GF GA Ptsx-Paraguay 3 1 2 0 3 1 5x-Slovakia 3 1 1 1 4 5 4New Zealand 3 0 3 0 2 2 3Italy 3 0 2 1 4 5 2

x-advanced to round of 16Monday, June 14At Cape Town, South AfricaItaly 1, Paraguay 1Tuesday, June 15At Rustenburg, South AfricaNew Zealand 1, Slovakia 1Sunday, June 20At Bloemfontein, South AfricaParaguay 2, Slovakia 0At Nelspruit, South AfricaItaly 1, New Zealand 1Thursday, June 24At JohannesburgSlovakia 3, Italy 2At Polokwane, South AfricaParaguay 0, New Zealand 0———

GROUP G GP W D L GF GA Ptsx-Brazil 2 2 0 0 5 2 6Portugal 2 1 1 0 7 0 4Ivory Coast 2 0 1 1 1 3 1North Korea 2 0 0 2 1 9 0

Tuesday, June 15x-advanced to round of 16At Port Elizabeth, South AfricaIvory Coast 0, Portugal 0At JohannesburgBrazil 2, North Korea 1Sunday, June 20At JohannesburgBrazil 3, Ivory Coast 1Monday, June 21At Cape Town, South AfricaPortugal 7, North Korea 0Friday, June 25At Durban, South AfricaPortugal vs. Brazil, 10 a.m.At Nelspruit, South AfricaNorth Korea vs. Ivory Coast, 10 a.m.———

GROUP H GP W D L GF GA PtsChile 2 2 0 0 2 0 6Spain 2 1 0 1 2 1 3Switzerland 2 1 0 1 1 1 3Honduras 2 0 0 2 0 3 0

Wednesday, June 16At Nelspruit, South AfricaChile 1, Honduras 0At Durban, South AfricaSwitzerland 1, Spain 0Monday, June 21At Port Elizabeth, South AfricaChile 1, Switzerland 0At JohannesburgSpain 2, Honduras 0Friday, June 25At Pretoria, South AfricaChile vs. Spain, 2:30 p.m.At Bloemfontein, South AfricaSwitzerland vs. Honduras, 2:30 p.m.———SECOND ROUNDSaturday, June 26Game 49At Port Elizabeth, South AfricaUruguay vs. South Korea, 10 a.m.Game 50At Rustenburg, South AfricaUnited States vs. Ghana, 2:30 p.m.Sunday, June 27Game 51At Bloemfontein, South AfricaGermany vs. England, 10 a.m.

had enough.“Let’s talk about the

players in our program,” Wil-liams said. “It’s kind of like in a game when you’re mad at people that don’t show up, you better be happy about the ones that do show up. I apologize for cutting you off but that’s all I’m talking about that.”

But Williams is still wait-ing for one of those players

in his program to arrive. Jus-tin Knox, a 6-9, 240-pound transfer from Alabama, will not join the Tar Heels until he finishes his undergradu-ate requirements in Tus-caloosa, Ala., this summer. The experienced big man _ 6.3 points, 3.7 rebounds in 19.8 minutes last season _ is expected to help fill the void left by the Wears’ departure.

“He has an opportunity to be extremely important and not just be a guy stand-ing over there clapping, so I don’t see any negatives myself,” Williams said.

Williams said imme-diately after he found out the Wears would be trans-ferring, the entire UNC coaching staff began trying to find some players to fill out the frontcourt. He said they identified six or seven possible players but were fortunate to land Knox in the end.

“He’s a wonderful kid,” Williams said. “He has experience, he has size and he’s played in big arenas and in big games. We have a tremendous need. “

Essentially, the match lasted as long as it did for two reasons: Neither man could break the other’s serve, and Wimbledon does not employ a tiebreaker in the fifth set.

“Especially once the match got past, you know, 25-all, I wasn’t really think-ing,” said Isner, who led the University of Georgia to the 2007 NCAA team tennis championship. “Hitting a serve and trying to hit a forehand winner is the only thing I was doing.”

When it did conclude, Isner dropped down to the court, rolled on his back, and kicked his legs in the air. After the players briefly spoke, Mahut sat in his changeover chair,

stared blankly ahead, then draped a purple-and-yellow Wimbledon towel over his head.

“It’s really painful,” Ma-hut said.

The 23rd seeded Isner’s 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7), 7-6 (3), 70-68 victory — yes, that’s 70-68, not 7-6; sure reads like a typo, huh? — was merely a first-round match between two relatively un-heralded players. Yet it will be remembered far more distinctly, and discussed far more frequently, than many a Grand Slam final, not because of the stakes, cer-tainly, or the quality of play, necessarily, but because of all the math involved.

“The numbers,” Mahut said, “speak for them-selves.”

To wit: The 183 games and total time, both far beyond the existing records of 112 and 6:33. The 138

games and 8:11 in the fifth set alone, also records. Is-ner’s 112 aces in the match, and Mahut’s 103, both much higher than the old mark of 78. The combined 490 winners (Isner had more, 246-244) and only 91 unforced errors (Isner had more, 52-39).

“We played the greatest match ever, in the greatest place to play tennis,” said Mahut, who is ranked 148th and went through qualify-ing. “I thought he would make a mistake. I waited for that moment, and it never came.”

Instead, Mahut faltered — 46 hours, 39 minutes after the first point was played — and later ac-knowledged his abdominal muscles were aching Thurs-day. Both men showed remarkable resilience, even if they moved increasingly slowly.

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DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend, “Claude,” and I are deeply in love. He’s devoted to me and my son. He brings me candy and fl owers and takes me out. He includes my son in everything we do.

My problem is, he recently mentioned that he is on the na-tional sex offenders list. He says he didn’t do it and that he was framed. It happened years ago — if it happened at all — and he doesn’t like to talk about it.

Abby, I need your advice. Should I believe him or run the other way? It scares me to think that I am putting my son in dan-ger, but then again, I don’t believe Claude did what they say he did. Please help me.

— MOM IN THE SOUTH

DEAR MOM: The fi rst thing you should do is check the national sex offenders database. Find out if Claude should, by virtue of the fact that he is a convicted sex offender, even be around children. Learn the facts of what happened from the authorities in that community. And then, think with your head instead of your heart and put your son’s welfare above everything.

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DEAR ABBY: You frequently say children are not responsible for their parents’ divorce.

My grandmother said my par-ents married because my mother was pregnant with my sister. They

divorced because I was born. What do we say to our parents, know-ing they divorced because Mom didn’t want us? (I have met her only twice, and she’s not around to defend herself.) I am 25 and have had self-esteem problems my entire life.

— STILL FEELING SAD, MESA, ARIZ.

DEAR STILL FEELING SAD: I’m sorry you have had so little con-tact with your mother. Had it been otherwise, you might have discov-ered that your parents’ divorce had nothing to do with you as a person and everything to do with her and your father’s level of maturity at the time and the quality of their marriage.

I strongly suspect that other factors in your mother’s life made her unable, rather than unwilling, to nurture. If it’s possible for you to contact her, you should do so. And if not, discuss this with a therapist

who will help you put any ques-tions about your self-worth to rest once and for all.

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DEAR ABBY: My son is mar-ried to a beautiful Japanese woman who is well-educated and speaks both Japanese and English fl uently. They have a daughter, “Mari,” who is 2 1/2 and just starting to talk. My con-cern is whether my granddaugh-ter should be taught English or Japanese fi rst.

Mari already speaks and under-stands a little of each language, but I’m worried that she may grow up confused while trying to com-municate with others. I feel she should learn English fi rst. Then, as Mari grows older, her mother can teach her the Japanese language.

Am I being concerned about something I shouldn’t be? By the way, there is no family confl ict here. I’m just concerned that my granddaughter will grow up con-fused.

— HAPPY PAPA IN CALIFORNIA

DEAR HAPPY PAPA: Worry no more. Children absorb languages like sponges absorb water. Mari is a lucky little girl to be learning Japanese and English so young. If she’s able to practice both, they will become interchangeable for her. So stop worrying, and if you’re receptive, your granddaughter may teach you a few phrases.

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Happy Birthday: Emotional issues will be brought to the surface this year. Deal with pressing matters head-on. Allow others to know what you are thinking and you will be surprised by the sup-port and help you receive. Change is upon you, so embrace what lies ahead with open arms. Your num-bers are 3, 7, 12, 23, 29, 33, 47

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Travel for business or educational purposes will help you administer your goals but, before you set sail, make sure you have personal paperwork in order. Someone older and wiser will offer sugges-tions. A move may entice you but weigh the pros and cons.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don’t let a complaint from someone you are close to slow you down. Recognition and applause will be given when you complete what you are doing. Doing things in secret may not be your first choice but, for now, it’s your only choice.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Keeping the peace at home may be difficult if you don’t agree with what other family members are doing. Don’t get worked up over nothing. Do what works for you and let every-one else do the same. Take an extended weekend if possible.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You may be faced with unexpected responsibili-ties. Approach what needs to be done with enthusi-asm. Once you’ve done what’s required of you, set your sights on ways to improve your personal, professional and physical well-being.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Travel, networking or get-ting together with friends will all lead to something that interests you. Attend a reunion or get together with someone from your past. Abide by the rules of the road if you are driving.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t get involved in

an emotional melodrama going on at home. Avoid any overindulgence and overspending. It will be difficult to keep a secret. Take care of any financial matters before they esca-late.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Actions, rather than words, will be your best course of action, especially if some-one is being argumenta-tive. You may feel insecure about your current position. Volunteer and a full time opportunity will present itself.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You should take care of business and finalize any deals, settlements or contracts. Communication will be your best asset and can lead to worthwhile changes for the future. Promote what you have to offer.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Love, adventure and intrigue are in the stars. Take advantage of what’s offered and do what you can to enhance your looks, your surround-ings and your love life. Combining the old with the new will lead to good times and success.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You can make money if you align yourself with the right person and you stick to facts. You have plenty to bring to the table. Your enthusiasm and energy will help you turn any mediocre idea into a five-star enterprise.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’ll have to make a few adjustments to the way you do things if you don’t want to fall behind. Any opportunity to get involved in a moneymak-ing enterprise should be considered. Volunteering is fine as long as you aren’t taken for granted.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Take it easy and evaluate your relationships with friends, lovers or col-leagues. It is apparent that someone may be limiting what you can and cannot do. Once you have a sense of how you can handle some of the people in your life, you will feel much bet-ter about your future.

The Sanford Herald / Friday, June 25, 2010 / 5BFeaturesDEAR ABBY

Woman wants to believe sex offender’s claim of innocence

Abigail Van Buren

Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or

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

Billy GrahamSend your queries to “My

Answer,” Billy Graham Evangelistic Assoc.,

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Christ is our hope of true peace

Q: I know you’ve said that we’ll never have world peace until Jesus comes again, but does that mean governments and diplomats shouldn’t at least try to work toward a more peaceful world? Surely God wants us to work for peace, doesn’t He? -- Mrs. K.W.

A: Yes, of course He does -- and we ought to be praying more for those who are trying to bring peace to our world. The Bible says, “Peacemak-ers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness” (James 3:18). Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemak-ers” (Matthew 5:9).

The problem, however, is that even our best efforts fail to bring lasting peace. Tragi-cally, as soon as one confl ict ends another seems to take its place. Our world is still fi lled with confl icts and wars, and no matter how much we yearn for peace, it still eludes us. Yes, we should strive for peace in every way we pos-sibly can -- but we also must face that fact that we will always have “wars and rumors of wars” until the end of this present age (Matthew 24:6).

But this isn’t the whole story! Some day, the Bible says, Jesus Christ -- the Prince of Peace -- will come again, and when He does, He will establish His kingdom of perfect righteousness and peace. We can barely imagine what that will be like -- but it’s true, and He alone is our hope of lasting peace.

In the meantime, does Christ’s peace rule in your heart? And are you seeking to bring His peace to those around you? Put your life into His hands, and then ask Him to help you bring His peace to others.

MY ANSWERODDS AND ENDS

Man drifts a mile into Gulf off Fla. on pool fl oat

BELLEAIR BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A man who apparently passed out on a pool fl oat at a Tampa area beach ended up drifting about a mile from Florida’s shore in the Gulf of Mexico.

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued the man, identifi ed as Jerry Whipple, on Wednesday afternoon.

Coast Guard Petty Offi cer First Class Mariana O’Leary says they suspect the man was very drunk.

The Coast Guard says a boater reported seeing an unconscious man fl oating well offshore. The Coast Guard and a Clearwater Fire Rescue unit responded and found the man, still unconscious and wearing a life jacket.

He eventually woke up and was checked by paramedics at a Coast Guard station.

Parent brawl erupts at kindergarten graduation

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Brawling parents interrupted a Southern California kindergarten graduation ceremony.

School offi cials placed Puesta del Sol El-ementary in desert Victorville on lockdown Wednesday morning after a fi ght broke out among a group of parents.

San Bernardino County sheriff’s spokes-woman Karen Hunt says witnesses told deputies several mothers were involved in a verbal argument and it got physical in a fi eld near the ceremony. Several men then jumped into the fray and the incident turned into a brawl.

Hunt says arriving deputies didn’t see

any physical contact. There were no arrests and no one reported injuries.

No children were hurt.

Limping man surprised to discover gunshot wound

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Tracy Durham re-members hearing the pop. But the gunshot wound the Illinois man discovered after a neighbor asked about his limp? That was a surprise.

The 48-year-old Durham told police he thinks he was shot by a friend during a party late Sunday at his home.

Police say Durham recalled calling the friend’s girlfriend ugly. The Peoria man then heard a pop as he took a drink from a bottle of whiskey. But police say he felt no pain.

Durham told offi cers he went to sleep around 3 a.m. Monday and discovered the wound about four hours later.

Police questioned Durham while he was being treated at a local hospital. He declined to identify the man he suspects shot him.

Wash. police fi nd stolen mower in slow getaway

KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) — Police in Washington state say they caught a man making a slow getaway on a stolen riding mower.

The Tri-City Herald reports offi cers responding to a burglary call Tuesday morning found a 31-year-old man riding the mower in the street, pulling a trailer of other lawn care equipment.

He was jailed for investigation of bur-glary, theft and drug charges.

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The author Tolstoy once wrote in a letter, “The goal of our life should not beto find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marryto assist each other in this task. The highest calling is that of the man who hasdedicated his life to serving God and doing good, and who unites with a woman inorder to further that purpose.”

Of course, Mr. Tolstoy did not mean we should not be happy with our mate.Happiness finds a couple when they unite as one spirit in God’s service. In themarriage vows themselves, we hear “…and the two shall be as one.”

Had God felt that Adam could have accomplished his mission on earth alone,He would not have given him Eve as a helpmate. The Creator chose to unite thetwo. “It is not good that man should be alone. I will make him a helper fit forhim.” (Genesis 2:18)

In this month of happy unions, may you remember that God makes a goodmarriage great! Worship together and stay together.

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Blandonia Presbyterian Church

A free community Carnival will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the church parking lot with games, infl atables, prizes, hot dogs and drinks.

Reunion Sunday will be observed at 11 a.m. for members and ev-eryone who was once a part of Blandonia. Those who wish to sing with the Youth/Young Adult Reunion Choir are asked to rehearse at 2:30 p.m. Saturday.

The church is located at 605 Wall St. in Sanford.

Body of Christ Church

The ladies will hold a breakfast at 9 a.m. Satur-day at the church.

Buffalo Presbyterian Church

The Rev. Paul J. Shields will present the sermon, “A Picture of Freedom,” at the 11 a.m. Sunday worship service.

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

Christian Life Family Worship Center

The church will honor First Lady Onelia McNeil at 6 p.m. Saturday.

The church is lo-cated at 188 St. Andrews Church Road.

Church of Many Colors

Elder Sylvester Quick will speak at the 11 a.m. Sunday worship service. Communion will be served.

The church is located at 2320 Pilson Road in Lemon Springs.

East Sanford Baptist Church

The Rev. Robbie Gib-son will speak at the 11 a.m. Sunday worship ser-vice and the Rev. Robbie Gibson will speak at the 6 p.m. worship service. .

The men’s fellowship breakfast will be held at 6:15 a.m. Tuesday at Mrs. Wenger’s Restaurant.

The church is located at 300 North Ave. in San-ford.

Emmanual Baptist Church

The Browns will per-form at 7 p.m. Sunday at the church.

The church is located at 632 McCrimmon Road in Carthage.

Fair Promise AME Zion Church

The annual gradu-ation and awards day celebration will be held at 11 a.m. Sunday at the church. A reception will follow.

Vacation Bible School, “Step Up and Go Green for Christ,” will be held

from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday. The clos-ing ceremony will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

First Presbyterian Church

Dr. Stuart Wilson will speak on “Tree or Chaff” at the 9 and 11 a.m. Sun-day worship service.

The church is located at 203 Hawkins Ave. in Sanford.

Fountain of Life Ministries

A building fund pro-gram will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday with Pastor Leon Fogle of Faith Hope and Deliverance Church rendering the service.

Full Gospel Assembly

The Rev. May Garner will speak at 7 p.m. today and Saturday and 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday at the church.

The church is located at 5905 McDaniel Drive in Sanford.

Gethsemane-Mt. Sinai United Holy Church

Youth day services will be observed at 11:30 a.m. Sunday. The Youth Choir and the Young Voices will render the music.

Vacation Bible School will be held from 9 a.m. to 12 noon Monday through Wednesday with a graduation program at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The church is located at 243 Vernie Phillips Road in Goldston.

God’s Fellowship Christian Center

A fellowship program will be held at 2 p.m. Sun-day with Bishop Lane of Mission of Hope as guest speaker. Beginning July 4, Sunday school will begin at 10 a.m. and worship service at 11 a.m.

The church is located at 124A S. Main St. in Broadway.

Grace Chapel Church

Pastor Tim Murr will speak at the 10:30 a.m. Sunday worship service. The Matt Trammell Quar-tet will be in concert at 6:30 p.m. Sunday.

The church is located at 2605 Jefferson Davis Hwy in Sanford.

Greater Zion Holy Temple

Worship service will be held at 11 a.m. Sun-day with recognition of achievements, gradua-tions and promotions.

The church is located at 608 Oddfellow St. in Sanford.

Gulf Presbyterian Church

The Rev. Bill Browder of Mt. Vernon Springs Presbyterian Church

in Siler City will be the pulpit guest Sunday. Paula Browder will be the guest instrumental musician.

Hillmon Grove Baptist Church

Sunday JAM (Jesus and Me) will be held for children at 6:30 p.m. Sun-day with Rachel Arnold and Shannon. There will be a time of fellowship at 7:30 p.m. with ice cream, sundaes, cookies, brown-ies and lemonade. Bring a lawn chair.

Deacon’s meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Monday at the church.

CARE Team ”E” will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the church offi ce building with Karl and Van Wade.

Hunt Springs Baptist Church

The adult choir will perform a July 4th canta-ta entitled, “Land of the Free,” at the 11 a.m. Sun-day worship service. Bill Wilson will be the narra-tor. Wear something red, white and blue or your military uniforms if you like. Everyone is invited to attend.

The church is lo-cated at 1557 St. Andrews Church Road.

Jonesboro Heights Baptist Church

A celebration service will be held at 9 a.m. Sun-day featuring Calvary’s Hill Quartet with Eric Nance.

The church is located at 316 W. Main St. in Sanford.

Jonesboro Presbyterian Church

The sermon “For Free-dom Christ Has Set Us Free” will be heard at the 11 a.m. Sunday worship service.

The church is located at 2200 Woodland Ave. in Sanford.

Jonesboro United Methodist Church

The Rev. Hunter Preston, newly appointed pastor, will conduct a combined worship service at 11 a.m. Sunday in the sanctuary. An ice cream social reception will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. in the Wesley Center to welcome the Preston family.

The church is located at 407 W. Main St. in Sanford.

Love Faith and Fellowship Deliverance Center

The church will host its 2nd annual Judah-Fest at 6 p.m. Saturday with several praise dancing, mime teams and choirs attending.

Family and friends day will be observed at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the church.

The church is located at on Hawkins Ave. in Sanford.

Mt. Carmel Pentecostal Assembly Church

The Pentecostal Deliv-erance Fellowship Net-work of Churches 2010 Holy Convocation will be held at 7 p.m. today with Minister Elijah Blue speaking for youth night.

The convocation will continue at 6 p.m. Satur-

day with Minister Millie Harris speaking.

The conclusion will be held Sunday with Bishop Willie Hayes Jr. speaking. Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. and at 11:30 a.m. worship service and ordi-nation of Pastor Dedrick Howard.

The church is located at 744 Minter School Road in Sanford.

Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist Church

The church will celebrate the 22nd an-niversary of the Rev. Jerry L. Johnson at 11:15 a.m. Sunday at the church. Dinner will be served.

The church is located at 18318 Hwy. 24/27 West in Cameron.

New Bethel Freewill Baptist Church

Friends and family day will be observed at the 11 a.m. Sunday worship service. A building fund program will be held at 4 p.m. at the church.

Revival services will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday with Bishop William Powell of New Church of Deliver-ance as the speaker.

The church is located at 1137 Boykin Ave. in Sanford.

New Life Praise Church (SBC)

Pastor Josh Dickinson will continue with his messages from the book of John at the 10:30 a.m. Sunday worship service. A verse by verse study and discussion from the book of Revelation is the focus of the 6 p.m. wor-ship service.

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

Oak Grove Holiness Church

A musical program will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday featuring God Sons of South Carolina, Tempting Inspirational Choir of Sanford, Praise Tabernacle Choir of Siler City and Brittany Horton of Raleigh.

The church is located at 202 Tempting Church Road in Sanford.

Pilgrims Rest Church, Inc.

The youth explosion will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday with various choirs performing.

The annual Sunday school day will be ob-served at 3 p.m. Sunday with Minister Estella Feaster of North East Baptist Church in Dur-ham as guest speaker.

The church is located at 181 Murchison Road in Olivia.

Pocket Presbyterian Church

Vacation Bible School, “Feed My People,” will be held from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Sunday through Thurs-day with games, stories, crafts, adult Bible study and food. The theme this year is food in the Bible and has a mission focus of feeding God’s people. Food donations will be collected during the week to be given to the Chris-tians United Outreach Center. For more infor-mation or to register, call 919-774-1610 or email pocketpreschurch@wind-

stream.net.

Prevailing Life Ministries

Vacation Bible School will be held from 9 a.m. to 12 noon Saturday for all ages.

An anniversary service honoring Dr. Herman and Denise Morris will be held at 4 p.m. with Pastor Deloris Williams Washington of Ebenezer Gospel Assembly Training Center as guest speaker.

The church is located at 207 McIver St. in San-ford.

The Recovery Room Ministries

The banquet celebra-tion of Pastor Nathane and Elect Lady Donna’s 10th pastoral anniver-sary will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday at the old Town Hall building, 203 Barret St., Carthage.

Pastor Annie Allen of FOTSM will speak at the 11:15 a.m. Sunday wor-ship service and Pastor Geogory Shepard of St. Stevens UCOG will be speak at 3 p.m. accom-panied by Elder Lester Marshall and New Life UCOG at the old Town Hall building.

Robinson Chapel AME Zion Church

The church will celebrate its fi rst anni-versary at 2 p.m. Sunday featuring Voices of Truth, J.J. Bester, Ties That Bind, Sons of Destiny, Lee Brothers, Veronica Hicks, Gospel Messengers, Lil-lington Stars, Heavenly Tones, Annointed Ones and more.

The church is located at 236 Castleberry Road in Sanford.

St. Andrews ChurchThe Golden Stars of

Goldston will celebrate their annual anniversary at 4 p.m. Sunday with various choirs and groups performing.

St. John Pentecos-tal Holy Ministries

The Senior Ushers will celebrate their annual anniversary at 3 p.m. Sunday with Minis-ter Myra McIntyre of Johnsonville AME Zion Church in Cameron as guest speaker.

The church is located on Dove Road in Cam-eron.

St. Mark United Church of God

Intercession prayer will be held at 7 p.m. today with Apostle Linda Guy of Greensboro, Pas-tor Carolyn Johnson of Cincinnati, Ohio and Pastor Carolyn Jones of Raleigh speaking.

The church is located at 511 Church St. in San-ford.

St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church

The fi fth Sunday after Pentecost will be held in two services, one at 8 a.m. and the second at 10 a.m. Both services will be conducted by Fr. Craig J. Lister. Nursery is pro-vided during the second service. Coffee hour will follow the second service in the Lower Parish Hall.

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

Sandy Branch Baptist Church

A covered dish lunch honoring Jim and Sarah Jo Wall will be held Sun-day. The Rev. Wall will deliver his last sermon at the 11 a.m. Sunday worship service. Mem-bers and visitors are asked to bring a picnic basket lunch.

The church is located at 715 Sandy Branch Church Road in Bear Creek.

Sanford ChapelVacation Bible

School, “Our Great God and Jonah,” will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Thurs-day for children five to 13 years of age. There will be Bible stories, snacks, games and prizes.

The church is located at 650 N. Franklin Drive in Sanford.

Solid Rock Community Church

Pastor Craig Dodson will speak at 10:30 a.m. Sunday worship service. Contemporary services will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. with special music and message. Nursery and children’s church provided. Transporta-tion available, call 919-777-6579.

The church is located at 989 White Hill Road in Sanford.

Swann Station Baptist Church

Vacation Bible School, “Saddle Ridge Ranch,” will be held from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Sunday with registration and a hot dog supper and from 6:45 to 9 p.m. Monday through Thurs-day for all ages. The cel-ebration service will be held at 11 a.m. Ssunday.

The church is located at 7592 Hwy. 87 South in Sanford.

Taylor’s Chapel Missionary Baptist Church

The Rev. Eugene Staton’s 4th pastoral anniversary will be cel-ebrated at 3 p.m. Sunday with the Rev. Randy Scotton of Fellowship in the Word Church in Lex-ington as guest speaker.

The church is located at 3233 Mays Chapel Road in Sanford.

Trinity Lutheran Church

The fifth Sunday after the Pentecost wor-ship service will be min-istered by the Rev. Tim Martin. The first service will be held at 8:15 a.m. with Holy Communion The second service will be held at 10:30 a.m. fol-lowed by coffee hour.

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

The church is located at 525 Carthage St. in Sanford.

True Gospel United Church of God

The 18th pastoral anniversary of Bishop Samuel Wright will be held at 11:30 a.m. Sun-day with Elder Malcolm Curry of St. Mark Unied Churchof God as the speaker.

The church is located at 405 Third St. in San-ford.

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New Cookie Cutters, Christmas, Clothes,

and More

Yard Sale Sat 8am-12pm 1313 Long Leaf Lane

off Valley RoadStroller, Pictures,

Glassware, Lamps, Chairs, All Size

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Lot’s of other things also.

Yard Sale at 7:30 am - Deep River Pool

Womble Road off Deep River Road. Baby Items, Children’s Clothes, Toys, Etc., Chicken Wing Plates

starting at 11am

Yard Sale - Saturday 6am-Until

Christ Church of Deliverance

2233 Lower Moncure RoadSanford - Something For All

Yard Sale - Sat June 26th3811 Hawkins Ave

7am-12 NoonStorm Windows, US Flag,

Small Table, Gift Items, New Wagon, Toddler Bed,

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West Lake Valley Yard Sale

Sat June 26th 8am-11am No Sales Before 8am. 1916 Wingsong Dr

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Sat. 7-10 West Lake Downs2657 Buckingham DriveFurniture, Clothes, HH Items. No Early Sales.

Rain, Burn, & Feed barrels for sale Plastic Sleeping

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Pre July 4th Basement SaleFr., June 25, 10am - 5pmSat., June 26, 10am-3pmGCS Thrift Store Corner of

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Multi Family Yard SaleSaturday 7am-Until

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Moving Sale Sat 8am-1pm: Golf Cart Tires, Ladies

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110Special Notices

100Announcements

This 25th day ofJune, 2010.

Barbara A. FoxxAdministrator for

the Estate of Ralph Houston WatsonPost Office Box

1653Sanford, NC 27331

Wilson & Reives,Attorneys

Post Office Box 1653

Sanford, NC 27331

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NOTICE TOCREDITORS

Having been quali-fied as Administra-tor of the estate of

Ralph Houston Watson, deceased,

late of Lee County,North Carolina,

this is to notify all persons having

claims against the estate of said de-

ceased to present to the undersigned on

or before Septem-ber 25, 2010, which

date is not less than three months from

the first date of the publication of this notice, or this no-

tice will be pleaded in bar of their re-

covery. All persons indebted to said es-

tate please make immediate pay-

ment.

NORTH CARO-LINAIN THE GEN-

ERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR

COURT DIVISIONCUMBERLAND

COUNTYFILE NUMBER: 10

CVS 5576

JOSEPH B. RUNION-Plaintiff,

v.MAYRA ELIZABETH

MUNOZDefendant,

NOTICE OF SERV-ICE BY PUBLICA-

TION

TO: MAYRA ELIZA-BETH MUNOZ,

Sanford, Lee County,NC.

TAKE NOTICE, that a pleading seeking re-

lief against you has been filed in the

above titled action, and the na-

ture of the reliefsought is as follows:

Recovery of damages arising out of negli-gent operation of a

motor vehicle on June 24, 2007. You are required to make de-

fense to such plead-ing not later that the

following date:August 4, 2010. Upon your failure to do so,the party seeking re-lief against you will

apply to the Court for the relief sought.

Dated: June 23, 2010

TIMOTHY M. DUNNAttorney at Law

2018 Ft. Bragg Rd.,Suite 114

Fayetteville, NC 28303

Telephone: (910) 484-5151

Publication dates:June 25, 2010

July 2, 2010July 9, 2010

001Legals

ments, easements,rights of way, deeds of release, and any

other encumbrances or exceptions of re-cord. To the best of

the knowledge and belief of the under-signed, the current

owner(s) of the prop-erty is/are Charles

Lee Thomas and All Lawful Heirs Mildred

Thomas.

An Order for posses-sion of the property

may be issued pur-suant to G.S. 45-21.29

in favor of the pur-chaser 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 re-

newed on or after Oc-tober 1, 2007, may, af-ter receiving the no-

tice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written

notice to the landlord. The notice

shall also state that upon termination of

a rental agreement, the

tenant is liable for rent due under the

rental agreement pro-rated to the effective date of the termina-

tion.

If the trustee is un-able to convey title to this property for any

reason, the sole reme-dy of the purchaser is

the return of the de-posit. Reasons of

such inability to con-vey include, but are

not limited to, the fil-ing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the

sale and reinstate-ment of the loan

with-out the knowledge of

the trustee. If theval-

idity of the sale is challenged by any

party, the trustee, in their sole discretion,

if they believe the challenge to have

merit, may request the court to declare

the sale to be void and return the depos-

it. The purchaser will have no further

remedy.

Substitute TrusteeBrock & Scott, PLLC

By:___________________________ (SEAL)

Jeremy B. Wilkins,NCSB No. 32346

5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200

Wilmington, NC 28403

PHONE: (910) 392-4988FAX: (910) 392-8587

File No.: 10-04434-FC01

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holder of the note evi-dencing said indebt-

edness having direct-ed that the Deed of

Trust be foreclosed,the undersigned Sub-

stitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of

the county court-house where the

property is located, or the usual and custom-

ary location at the county courthouse for conducting the

sale on July 6, 2010 at 11:30AM, and will sell to the highest bidder

for cash the following described property

situated in Lee Coun-ty, North Carolina, to

wit:

BEGINNING AT WILKIE'S SOUTH-

WEST CORNER AND RUNNING THENCE

S 4 1/2 W. 4.6 CHAINS TO A NEW CORNER

THENCE N 70 E. 4.6 CHAINS TO ANOTH-

ER NEW CORNER THENCE N. 4 1/2 E.

4.60 CHAINS TO A CORNER IN THE

OLD LINE; THENCE AS THAT OLD LINE S. 70 W. TO THE BE-

GINNING, CON-TAINING TWO

ACRES, MORE OR LESS

Save and except any releases, deeds of re-

lease or prior convey-ances of record.

Said property is com-monly known as 792

Lower Moncure Road, Sanford, NC

27330.

Third party purchas-ers must pay the ex-

cise tax, and the court costs of Forty-Five Cents (45¢) per One

Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to

NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no per-sonal checks) of five

percent (5%) of the purchase price, or

Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00),

whichever is greater,will be required at

the time of the sale.Following the expira-tion of the statutory upset bid period, all

the remaining amounts are immedi-ately due and owing.

Said property to be of-fered pursuant to this

Notice of Sale is be-ing offered for sale,

transfer and convey-ance “AS IS WHERE

IS.” There are norep-

resentations of war-ranty relating to the title or any physical,

environmental,health or safety con-

ditions existing in,on, at, or relating to

the property being of-fered for sale. This sale is made subject

to all prior liens, un-paid taxes, any un-paid land transfer

taxes, special assess-

001Legals

10 SP 162NOTICE OF FORE-

CLOSURE SALE

NORTH CAROLINA,LEE COUNTY

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale

contained in that cer-tain Deed of Trust

executed by Mildred Thomas, Widow and

son, Charles Lee Tho-mas, TENANTS IN

COMMON to JOAN H. ANDERSON,

Trustee(s), which was dated February 5,

2007 and recorded on February 16, 2007 in

Book 01071 at Page 0752, Lee County Reg-istry, North Carolina.

Default having been made in the payment

of the note therebyse-

cured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Brock &

Scott, PLLC, having been substituted as

Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the

tober 1, 2007, may, af-ter receiving the no-

tice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written

notice to the landlord. The notice

shall also state that upon termination of

a rental agreement, the

tenant is liable for rent due under the

rental agreement pro-rated to the effective date of the termina-

tion.

If the trustee is un-able to convey title to this property for any

reason, the sole reme-dy of the purchaser is

the return of the de-posit. Reasons of

such inability to con-vey include, but are

not limited to, the fil-ing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the

sale and reinstate-ment of the loan

with-out the knowledge of

the trustee. If theval-

idity of the sale is challenged by any

party, the trustee, in their sole discretion,

if they believe the challenge to have

merit, may request the court to declare

the sale to be void and return the depos-

it. The purchaser will have no further

remedy.

Substitute TrusteeBrock & Scott, PLLC

Jeremy B. Wilkins,NCSB No. 32346

5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200

Wilmington, NC 28403

PHONE: (910) 392-4988FAX: (910) 392-8587

File No.: 09-01958-FC02

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This lot is subject to restrictive covenants as they appear of re-

cord in the Lee Coun-ty Registry.

This lot is also sub-ject to easement to

Central Electric Membership Corpo-ration for truck line

crossing the south-east corner thereof.

Save and except any releases, deeds of re-

lease or prior convey-ances of record.

Said property is com-monly known as 2720

Mount Pisgah Church Road, San-

ford, NC 27330.

Third party purchas-ers must pay the ex-

cise tax, and the court costs of Forty-Five Cents (45¢) per One

Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to

NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no per-sonal checks) of five

percent (5%) of the purchase price, or

Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00),

whichever is greater,will be required at

the time of the sale.Following the expira-tion of the statutory upset bid period, all

the remaining amounts are immedi-ately due and owing.

Said property to be of-fered pursuant to this

Notice of Sale is be-ing offered for sale,

transfer and convey-ance “AS IS WHERE

IS.” There are norep-

resentations of war-ranty relating to the title or any physical,

environmental,health or safety con-

ditions existing in,on, at, or relating to

the property being of-fered for sale. This sale is made subject

to all prior liens, un-paid taxes, any un-paid land transfer

taxes, special assess-ments, easements,

rights of way, deeds of release, and any

other encumbrances or exceptions of re-cord. To the best of

the knowledge and belief of the under-signed, the current

owner(s) of the prop-erty is/are James R.

Douglass.

An Order for posses-sion of the property

may be issued pur-suant to G.S. 45-21.29

in favor of the pur-chaser 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 re-

newed on or after Oc-

001Legals

10 SP 158NOTICE OF FORE-

CLOSURE SALE

NORTH CAROLINA,LEE COUNTY

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale

contained in that cer-tain Deed of Trust

executed by JAMES R. DOUGLASS AND

CLARICE DOU-GLASS, HUSBAND AND WIFE to WIL-

LIAM R ECHOLS,Trustee(s), which was

dated January 13,2003 and recorded on February 25, 2003 in

Book 834 at Page 529,Lee County Registry,

North Carolina.

Default having been made in the payment

of the note therebyse-

cured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Brock &

Scott, PLLC, having been substituted as

Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the

holder of the note evi-dencing said indebt-

edness having direct-ed that the Deed of

Trust be foreclosed,the undersigned Sub-

stitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of

the county court-house where the

property is located, or the usual and custom-

ary location at the county courthouse for conducting the

sale on June 30, 2010 at 11:30AM, and will

sell to the highest bid-der for cash the fol-

lowing described property situated in

Lee County, North Carolina, to wit:

Being all of lot #13 ofCarr Creek Estate

Subdivision as shown and depicted on a

map by Lacy M. John-son, RLS, which map

is recorded in the Lee County Register of

Deeds Office on map book 9 at Page 19

which is now found ofrecord in Plat Cabi-

net 3 at Page 44. Ref-erence is made to said

recorded map for a more perfect metes

and bounds descrip-tion of said lot.

001Legals

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27520. Johnson Properties, NCAL7340, 919-693-

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Old Fashioned AuctionSaturday 7pm

1218 Old Business Hwy 1 Cameron 910-245-4896919-478-9283NCAL# 1862

Council’s Auction 7pm Sat 26th JC & Eddy

Good Variety and DealsLakeview 910-245-7347 Lonnie Council #5665

920Auctions

900Miscellaneous

For Sale 3BR/2BA Double Wide on 2 Lots. Fenced

Backyard w/ Shed. Spring Lake Area. $55,000Call: 919-499-8877

CLASSIFIED LINE ADDEADLINE:2:00 PM

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

Classified Dept., 718-1201 or 718-

1204

830Mobile Homes

PUBLISHER’SNOTICE

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

3BR 2BA House on 3 Acres of Land $126,000

Small Down Payment Owner Finance Pickard

Real Estate 919-775-7628

3685 sq. feet. New home stick built on your lot. $169,900 turnkey.

919-777-0393

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

household per year at the “Family Rate”.Consecutive

different locations/addresseswill be billed

at the “Business Rate”.

820Homes

For Sale 30 Acres in Moore County 20 Acres in Pasture

Call Billy Salmon Realty910-215-2958

810Land

800Real Estate

2 Commercial Building •1227 N. Horner

650 SqFt •1229 N. Horner

2,800 Sq Ft Call Reid at 775-2282

or 770-2445

765Commercial

Rentals

Very Nice 3BR/2BASingle Wide

$600/mo $450/depNo Pets.

Call: 919-708-7354

For Rent: Double Wide in Country - 3BR 2BA No

Indoor Pets $200/Cleaning Deposit - $475/Month

775-4308

Cameron- 4BR/2BA, 2 Liv-ing Rooms, 8 Acres,

$675/mo + dep. No Pets. Call: 910-245-1208

3BR/2BA$575/month $575/deposit

Call: 910-528-7505

2BR/2BA in Seminole MHP$425/mo $375/Dep

770-5948

2BR 1BA SW Mobile Home Broadway Area$350/mo $100/Dep

Ref & Background Check 919-258-5580 5pm-8pm

740For Rent - Mobile

Homes

Small Apt. (BR, Kitchen & Bath) for non smoking per-son - No Pets - Furnished or

unfurnished - $475/mo (utilities included) plus

deposit downtown area 776-6028 - 499-7487

SANFORD GARDENSAge 62 and disabled under

62 who may qualifyAdcock Rentals 774-6046

EHO

Furnished Studio and 1BR Apartment. All Utilities Paid

$115-$130 a week.Call: 919-771-5747

Beat the Heat!Move your family into a cool and comfortable

apartment home!Now taking applications!

Westridge APARTMENTSPathway Drive

Sanford, NC 27330(919)775-5134

2 BR Unit AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

Washer/Dryer hookup in each unit

Section 8 welcomedDisability accessible units

EHO

Appletree Apartments2619 Brick Capital Court2 & 3 BR Apts Available

$200 Security Deposit1 Month Free Rent!

No Application Fee919-774-0693

Equal Housing Opportunity

2BR/1BA, 2nd floor apt. family room, kitchen w/eating area, large deck, 1400 sq. ft., $575/mo.

919-777-3340

1BR/1BA Apt. 105 Gor-don. $375/mo $200/dep Water Included. Criminal

Background & Income Req’d. 919-774-4922

730For Rent -

Apts/Condos

We can help you buy new stick built construction

1100 sq feet. $69,900 turn key. 919-777-0393

THE SANFORD HERALDmakes every effort to follow

HUD guidelines in rental advertisements placed by

our advertisers. We reserve the right to refuse or change ad copy as

necessary for HUD compliances.

720For Rent - Houses

Newly renovated, paint, carpet, Large 3BR, eat in kit, DR, sitting rm, family

rm, 2.5 BA, exc. loc. $825/mo.919-721-5680

Like new cond. w/ applian-ces. 3BR/2BA. Quiet Sub-division. West Lee/Ingram. $775/mo References. No

Pets. 919-776-9316

House For Rent 2BD/2BA w/Sunroom Central H/A

Nice Yard Quail Ridge On Golf Course $825/mo +

Dep 776-5638 770-1158.

50 Arden Lane, Goldston. Large kitchen & pantry,

den, 1BR, 1 BA, new vinyl, freshly painted. Good condition. $400 mo.

No Pets & Police Check919-898-4754

3,000 sq ft, 1.5 story 3BR, 3BA, family rm, DR, sunrm,

porch. Lg kitchen. Heat pump. $1100. 777-3340

3 Bdr/2.5 BA 1600 sq ft. home, large back deck,

nice back yard, Avail July 2nd. Just off US1 and 421. $850 month Security Dep and references required.

(919)770-4736

1014 Goldsboro Ave.$460/mo 2BD/1BAAdcock Rentals

774-6046

1,2,3 BR Rentals Avail.Adcock Rentals

774-6046adcockrentalsnc.com

720For Rent - Houses

700Rentals

Relocating- Must Sell! Woodtek Table Saw w/ Sliding Arm. Extension & Side Table $700 OBO. 776-3580 or 708-8084

690Tools/Machinery/Farm Equipment

Spivey Farms Sweet Corn is ready now! Green beans, tomatoes,

butter beans, cantaloupes , watermelons. 499-0807

Call for availability.

Silver Queen Corn $3Dozen. Tomatoes & Cucum-bers Also 1067 Edwards

Road 499-5165 for large orders or more info

Local Blackberries, Local Corn, Okra, Squash & Cu-

cumbers. New Canta-loupes, Watermelons, & Peaches. All At The B&B Market Across From The Lee County Courthouse!

775-3032

BLACKBERRIES & BLUE-BERRIES

You Pick or We PickTues-Sat 8am-6pm

Just-A-Growing Produce421 Lillington

(910)893-2989

680Farm Produce

Bluetick CoonhoundPuppies. 8 Weeks Old

$200. Call: 919-258-3566 after 5pm

*Pets/Animals Policy: Three different (Pet) ads per household per year at the

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

“Business Rate”.

675Pets/Animals

CLASSIFIED SELLS!“CALL TODAY,

SELL TOMORROW”Sanford HeraldClassified Dept.,

718-1201 or 718-1204

665Musical/Radio/TV

GOT STUFF?CALL CLASSIFIED!

SANFORD HERALDCLASSIFIED DEPT.,

718-1201 or 718-1204.

660Sporting Goods/Health & Fitness

A New Queen Pillowtop Set $150. New In Plastic,

Must Sell!910-691-8388

A Brand New PillowtopQueen Sets $125King Sets $225

Twin $115 Full $125All models brand new!

910-639-9555

A All New FurnitureFactory Direct

Bed Sets $195 5PC $495Sofa & Loveseats $495Sectional$495 Dining$145

910-639-9555

650Household/Furniture

Washer and Dryer For Sale

Excellent Condition$300

919-7770-4357

615Appliances

HAVING A YARD SALE?

The DEADLINE for

Ads is 2 P.M.the day PRIOR to publication. PREPAYMENT IS REQUIRED FOR

YARD SALE ADS. THE SANFORD HERALD,

CLASSIFIED DEPT. 718-1201 or

718-1204

2 GRAVE SPACES Veteran Section in Lee Memory

Gardens. ($2400) Please call 910-424-7611 or

910-978-7870.

(4) Dodge Stock Cast Alu-minum Rims w/ Michelin

235/70R16 Tires. All Mounted & Balanced.

$250 OBO Call 499-8719

605Miscellaneous

Dell Computer Tower For Sale. $125

Monitor & Accessories Also Availabe. WSO7 Also

Available. Call: 774-1066

Cannon G3 Powershot Dig-ital Camera. Excellent Con-

dition. All Accessories & Charger. Takes Pics/Movie

Clips, Fold Out LCD Screen. $75 Call: 774-

1066

88-95 Chevy Silverado Hood White OriginalVery Good Condition

$125919-542-9614

44” Round Pedestal Kitch-en/Dinette table w/ inlaid tile & oak trim. Includes 4 oak chairs. Exc. Cond. $250 Call: 499-5510

3pc. Table Set $50. Wed-ding Dress, Size 10,

Sleeveless w/ Lots Of Detail (Sequins), $200.

Call: 919-777-0302

*“Bargain Bin” ads are free for five consecutive days. Items must total $250 or less, and the price

must be included in the ad. Multiple items at a single price

(i.e., jars $1 each), and animals/pets do not qualify.

One free “Bargain Bin” ad per household per month.

601Bargain Bin/$250 or Less

600Merchandise

Please help save a life! Is anyone compassionate &

caring enough to take in an abandoned cat who is very smart and loving? Please

Call: 919-776-8623

510Free Cats

500Free Pets

Cafe Vesuvio is seeking hostess & waitstaff for lunch & dinner. Experienced only. No phone calls. Apply in person between 2PM-5PM

@ 1945 S. Horner Blvd

475Help Wanted -Restaurants

Business Administrator for Growing Medical Clinic in

Sanford NC, duties in-cludes Data Entry, Insur-ance Verification, Invoic-

ing, Insurance Claim Filing, Insurance Resolution, and payment posting. Experi-ence a plus. Please Fax re-sume to 919-776-4043 or

email to: Amber.Williams@bagi.net

470Help Wanted -Medical/Dental

We offer• BOLD print

• ENLARGED PRINT

• EnlargedBold Print

for part/all of your ad!Ask your Classified Sales

Rep for rates.

FT Vet Assistant. Experience Required. No Phone

Calls.Apply In Person:All Animals Veterinary Hos-pital. 101 Animal Avenue

Automotive TechnicianImmediate Opening

Full-Time position Ford experience preferred

and/or 2 year college degree Health Insurance,

Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays. Apply in person

to: Bernard MarchPhillips Ford

5292 Hwy. 15/501 Carthage, NC

420Help Wanted -

General

400Employment

K I N G since 1895Heating, Air Conditioning

Serving: Lee, Harnett, Chatham, & Moore

Counties 919-776-5118

370Home Repair

L.C Harrell Home ImprovementDecks, Porches, Buildings Remodel/Repair, Electrical

Pressure WashingInterior-Exterior Quality Work

Affordable Prices No job Too Small No Job Too Large (919)770-3853

Build It Professional Brick & Block Work Demolition & Repairs. 32 Yrs Exp. No

jobs to big or small. Call to price your job. 499-0556

370Home Repair

Susan’s Little Angles Child Care. Licensed, CPR/First Aid/SIDS

Certified, Enrolling Birth-12 Years Call Susan356-6253

320Child Care

300Businesses/Services

2000 5th Wheel Sandpip-er 27ft Camper. Perfect Cond-Gently Used. Slide Out. Lots Of Extras! $11K OBO. Call: 919-775-7789

280RVs/Campers

97 Honda Recon 250Manual Shift, $1200Call: 919-498-5671

275ATVs

96 HD Electra Glide Clas-sic. Fully Customized. Must See To Appreciate! Asking

$8000 OBO. Call: 919-775-3140

07 Suzuki Boulevard S-83 (1400 CC). Original Own-er. Perfect Cond. All Extras.

22,000 Miles. $4500 Firm. 919-777-2853

270Motorcycles

CLASSIFIED DEAD-LINE: 2:00 PMDAY BEFORE

PUBLICATION. (2:00 pm Friday for

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

fied Dept.,718-1201 or

718-1204

2003 Nissan Murano SL AWD, Leather, Sunroof,

Heated Seats, Great Condition, $12,500.Call: 919-356-5602

255Sport Utilities

Tow-Dolly For Rentwith Winch $50/day

919-777-6674

For Rent- Cars$39.95 per dayCall: 777-6674

Automobile Policy: Threedifferent automobile ads perhousehold per year at the

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

“Business Rate”.

Affordable Auto Sales498-9891 SALE! Clean

used cars. No credit check financing. Low down pay-ments starting at $500 dn.

•98 Dodge IntrepidExtre Clean $3600

•06 VW Convertible Must See!

Terry 919-343-8211

95 Chevy Lumina58K Miles, $3000 OBOCall: 919-498-2960 or

770-3860

240Cars - General

Paying the top price for Junk Vehicals

No Title/Keys No ProblemOld Batteries Paying. $2-$15 842-1606

210Vehicles Wanted

200Transportation

Yard SaleSaturday, 7am-11am1517 Westfall Circle

(West Landing)HH Items, Air Hockey Ta-

ble, Clothing, Etc.

Yard Sale Saturday June 26th 7:30-11:30. 2

Families 1708 Elm StreetTools, Drill Bits, & Etc

HH Items and Etc

Yard SaleSaturday 8-12

24 Red Holly DriveOff Of Valley Road

Girls & Boys Clothes Sizes 12 & Up, Tons of Books,

Other Misc.

Yard SaleSaturday 7-Until

2229 Woodland AvenueToo Many Items To List!

Yard SaleSaturday 7-12

1402 Winterlocken Drive.Children’s Clothes, Games

& Houshold Goods

Yard Sale5000 Simpson Dr.

7-11. Clothes, Shoes, Pock-etbooks, Household Items, Books, and Queen Bed-

room Furniture Set

190Yard Sales

B11CLASSIFIEDS

simpson, inc.

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

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

Jane Baker ..............774-4802EQUAL HOUSINGOPPORTUNITY

We Work For You!Call one oF our agents todaY!

Country Living. This is a wonderful home for a family that loves to have animals with this nice fenced backyard. Features 3BR, 2BA, dining room and living room with fireplace. Nice large deck for cooking out this Spring. Has a lot of road frontage. Priced to Sell. Only $94,900

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

3 Acres on 421 N. inside Chatham County line, with over 300 feet of road frontage. Commercial Property, good investment. Buy Now.

Pickard Road - Land available approx. 14.5 acres of wooded land. Has been perked andhad a well. Idea homesite if you have enough land to build a pasture for cows and horses.

Located on Melba Dr.Drastically Reduced from $12,000 per acre to $8,000 per acre.

Investment or ready to Build on Beautiful wooded lot in Quail Ridge. 340 feet of road frontage, perk tested, and city water meter in place. A perfect home site. Only $27,900 for 1.59 acre. #81097

, $17,500 Downs, Only $59,900

Great Family Home. Formal areas. 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, full basement with garage and large rec room..Owner/Broker #83525

Ready To Move In Newly renovated brick ranch, 3BR, 1Ba. new bath fixtures, completely painted, absolutely perfect. Single car garage, fenced backyard. Call

financing. #81096 Priced $82,900

Deep River. Nice home on an acre North of Sanford, close to Hwy. 1, Raleigh, Cary & Apex. Features 3BR, living room, dining room, large office, freshly painted inside and out, very private, wonderful place to live. Priced to sell. Only $109,900.

- Lower Moncure Road. 1.9 Acres is the setting for this large doublewide with fireplace, great room3 BR/2BA, separate laundry, stg. building, must see,

B12CLASSIFIEDS

5 tons of screenedtop soil

delivered $100

Larger and Loads Available

Crush and Run also Available

(919) 777-8012 (919) 258-0572Cell: (919) 842-2974

UniversalPressure Washing

Residential/Commercial

PRESSURE WASHINGRepair Service

The Handy-Man

Repair Service

Bath RemodelingWill Terhune

919-770-7226

DOZER SERVICEDOZER FOR HIRE

No Job Too SmallStructure DemolitionLandscaping, Ponds, LotClearing, PropertyLine/Fence Clearing

Affordable Rates CallBent Tree Grading

Fully Insured Free Estimates

356-2470

Used Tractors19 thru 40 HP

2 & 4 Wheel DriveDiesel 3-Point Hitch

Front Loaders

Carpenter Saw & Mower

919-774-6820919-352-2410

LETT’S TREE REMOVAL SERVICE

Remove trees, Trim and top Trees, Lot clearing, stump

grinding, backhoe work, hauling, bush hogging, plus we buy tracts of

timber. We accept

Visa and Mastercard. Free estimates and

we are insured.

TREE SERVICE

Call258-3594

PAINTING/CONTRACTORLarry Rice

Painting/ContractorResidential

Commercial

Fully insured.No job to small.Free estimates

919-776-7358Cell: 919-770-0796

Phil StoneTREE REMOVAL

• Full Tree Service• Stump Grinding

• Chipping• Trim & Top Trees

• Fully Insured

Sanford’s #1 ChoiceFor All Your Tree Needswww.sanfordtreeremoval.com

919-776-4678

FREE ESTIMATEOwned & Operated By

Phil Stone & Sons

24-HR SERVICE

WILL PAYCA$H

FOR YOUR USEDMOBILE HOMEWe Also Move Mobile Homes!

919-777-4379

City of SanfordCompost FacilityScreened Compost

$20.00 per pickup load

Regular Compost orWoodchips

$10.00 per pickup loadPublic Works Service Center,

located on Fifth Street across from the Lions Club Fairgrounds

Mon.-Fri. 7am-5:30 pmDelivery Available

(919) 775-8247

COMPOST/WOODCHIPS

We cover your home andsteel your heart.

We build decks and dreams.

Jim (919)935-9137

Time (919)258-3637

J & TMetal Roofing

&Deck Building

DECKS BY MIKEThe Sandhills Premiere Deck Builder

We Offer The Highest QualityBuilt Deck At An Affordable PriceOver 10 Years of Experience

FREE ESTIMATES INSURED

WE BUILD ANYTHING WOOD

PorchesScreened PorchesHandicap Ramps

Well Houses

Trellises, GazebosArbors, Pergolas

Yard BridgesBreezeways

CALL (910) 391-6057 NOW!Mon - Sat 9-7 for Estimate

8x10 $80010x12 $120010x16 $200010x20 $200012x12 $144012x16 $192016x16 $256020x20 $4000

DECKS$

WE ALSO DO REPAIRS ANDADD-ONS TO DECKSCall Danny

SOMERSET FLOORS

Sanding & Finishing

Hardwood Flooring 3 coats of poly.

MOWER REPAIR

Sloan Hill Small Engine Repair

919-258-6361 - Shop919-770-0029 -Cell

Call for your service or repair needs

Davis General Repairs LLC

919-499-9599

HARDWOOD FLOORS

HARDWOOD FLOORS

Wade Butner776-3008

Finishing & Refinishing

D.A.Y.Taxi Service(919)353-0063

SE HABLAESPANOL

154 McIver St.Sanford NC

Contact Jordan at 718-1201 classified@sanfordherald.comHolly at 718-1204 holly@sanfordherald.com or

your display advertising Sales Rep. for more information.1x2 24 Runs $125 – only $5.21 per day1x3 24 Runs $150 – only $6.25 per day

Ask us how $25 can double your coverage!

HelpingHand

Proudly Serving Lee County

AND MORE ....

Helping YOU Cut Down

On The Yard Work

Free EstimatesCommercial & Residential

Call Mike919-498-4818

Doris' Beauty Salon607 Bragg Street

June Specials 919-774-7652

Men’s Haircuts .. $5.99 Boys ......$5.99Girls Under 10 Years ....................... $7Girls Over 10 Years ......................... $9Women Cuts .................................. $10Perms Short Hair .......................... $35Highlights Short Hair .................... $35Color Short Hair ............................ $35Longer Hair - ExtraEyebrows & Chin ............................. $8

Stylist: Doris Locklear WebsterBring Ad - Parking in Rear

Since 1978

Sweet Corn isNOWReady

Spivey Farms

499-0807Mon-Sat: 8-6

Location: Hwy 87 S., turn left on Swanns Station Rd. take

immediate right on Barbecue Church Rd., go 4 miles and turn

left on McCormick Rd.

CROWNLawn Services

Mow, Sow, Weed & Feed

Serving Moore, Lee, Chatham, & Wake Counties

670 Deep River Road Sanford NC 27330

919-353-4726

HEATINGAIR CONDITIONING

SERVING: LEE, HARNETT,

CHATHAM, & MOORE COUNTIESFOR 125 YEARS

GIVE US A CALL919 776-5118

HorseQuality

Coastal Hay

HAY SERVICE

Round & SquareBales Available

Eddie & CorbittThomas Farms856 Cox Maddox RdSanford, NC 27332

(919) 258-6152(919) 353-0385

AUTO REPAIR

Jimmy Norton’sGarage

Wrecker ServiceComplete Car Repair

Same Day ServiceJimmy Norton

(919) 776-35371108 Minter School Road

Sanford. NC 27330