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Luke Merritt received honorable mention in the sen-ior biological sciences division at the NC Science andEngineering Fair over theweekend.

MORGAN WALL

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RALEIGH — Four Sur-ry County students broughthome awards from Satur-day’s NC Science and En-gineering Fair held atMeredith College.

More than 300 studentsin grades three through 12presented their scienceprojects to panels of judgeswhich included professors.They were competing formore than 70 awards fromeducation, government andbusiness partners.

Edi Nixon, a fifth-grad-

er at Mountain Park Ele-mentary School, won aSpecial Young NaturalistAward in the elementarydivision for her project on“The Greener Cleaner.”She experimented with dif-ferent products to seewhich would clean up oilspills more efficientlywithout harming the ani-mals living nearby. Shetested sawdust, hair andfeathers and determinedfeathers were the most effi-cient cleaner. Nixon saidshe had fun in her first tripto the state level competi-

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Backer: Study too ‘conservative’ TOM JOYCE

STAFF REPORTER

While calling a recent study togauge the economic impact of aproposed sports complex inMount Airy “fairly conservative,”the project’s main backer be-lieves the annual $3.7 million itdoes forecast justifies further re-view.

“Almost four million dollarsin economic impact, that’s a se-rious amount of money,” Com-missioner Todd Harris of theMount Airy Board of Commis-

sioners said Wednesday.Harris has been the chief pro-

ponent of a plan to develop anine-field sports complex on city-owned property to lure showcase,or major softball, soccer and oth-er tournaments as a way to boostthe local tourism industry.

As part of the planning, theSmall Business Center of SurryCommunity College recentlyconducted the economic-impactstudy to provide municipal offi-cials an idea of whether the rev-enues generated justify pursuingthe project.

It shows that $3.7 million per

year could be realized in the com-munity as a direct result of thesports tournaments. This includeslodging revenues; food, beverageand dining expenditures; gro-ceries; shopping expenditures;and “other” spending.

“As I look at it, I think it is afairly conservative number,” Har-ris said of the total revenues fore-cast per year. But one area hethinks might be understated is themoney that would be reaped bylocal restaurants from tournamentvisitors.

“It didn’t seem much alludedto in the study about the money

that would be spent for foodwhen you were here for anovernight situation,” Harris said.

Overall, the Small BusinessCenter estimates total food/bev-erage/dining expenses of$619,688 annually. That is basedon 18 total tournaments of at leasttwo days each, and 124 teamswith an average of 15 membersper roster.

Harris believes the figure fortournaments requiring overnightstays would actually be higher,based on people eating at leasttwo meals a day at restaurantswhile here. “It doesn’t seem to

talk much about the food moneyspent specifically for anovernight (visit),” Harris said ofthe SCC report.

In pursuing a sports complex,the goal all along has been to hosttournaments “that would facili-tate people staying here for atleast one night and maybe multi-ple nights,” Harris added.

He also thinks the studymight not fully reflect what peo-ple would fork over for inciden-tals at drug stores or departmentstores “to pick up the things you

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STAFF REPORT

Two teenagers who were sent to Wake Forest BaptistHealth Sunday with knife wounds have apparently beenreleased from the hospital.

Mount Airy residents Russell Enriq Spivey and JosephVaughn Brannock, both age 17, were hospitalized withknife wounds Sunday as a result of a confrontation withtwo other people on Shoals Road. An employee answeringthe Wake Forest Baptist Health patient information linedid not have any records Wednesday evening of patientswith those names still being treated there.

Sheriff Graham Atkinson said officers were called toNorthern Hospital of Surry County shortly after 10 p.m.Sunday when Brannock and Spivey were admitted to thehospital with knife wounds. The sheriff’s office is calledwhenever patients come in with gun shot or knife wounds.Brannock was sent to Wake Forest Baptist Health by Air-Care with a serious injury to his arm, according to Atkin-son. He said Spivey suffered knife wounds to his arm andchest and was sent to Baptist hospital by ground transport.

The sheriff said Wednesday that no charges had beenfiled in the case, though officers are still investigating todetermine what happened in the wounding incident and ifany charges should be filed.

TOM JOYCESTAFF REPORTER

DOBSON — KatieBledsoe’s life took a tragicturn at age 3 when she wasinvolved in a car accidentthat left her with chronicbrain damage.

But now a group offriends is hoping to givethe wreck victim’s story ahappier ending, through aspecial kind of construc-tion effort.

“It’s just a group offriends — seven of us —that decided to build (her)family a handicapped-ac-cessible house at no cost tothe family,” CaseyMitchell of Dobson ex-plained Wednesday.

Now a young woman,Katie is still suffering fromthe effects of that accidentyears ago, which includeda major stroke affectingthe right side of her body.She now spends most ofher time in a wheelchair.

“She basically depends

on her mom and dad(Randy and Sharon) totake care of her everyneed,” said Mitchell, whohas known the Bledsoesfor years. They now live ina mobile home in theFairview communitywhich is inadequate giventheir daughter’s situation.

The Bledsoes havemanaged as best they

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Stabbing victimsapparently released

MONDEE TILLEY

STAFF REPORTER

It’s that time of year again, when all of the hardwork put in by students in the horticulture class atNorth Surry High School pays off with the start oftheir third annual plant sale that begins this Friday.

Aaron Tompkins’ students have nurtured not onlyvegetables plants, but herbs and flowering plants.This year the students have prepared more hangingbaskets than in years past because of a new drip irri-gation system that was recently added to the green-house.

All of the money raised in the sale goes to pay for

MONDEE TILLEY/THE NEWS

(Above) Tanner Flippin, a horticulture II student atNorth Surry High School, waters plants in thegreenhouse while his fellow classmates observe, inorder to get ready for the annual plant sale that be-gins this Friday.

MONDEE TILLEY/THE NEWS

Clayton Shelton replants parsley seedlings in thegreenhouse at North Surry High School on Wednes-day morning.

New house is goalof ‘Operation Katie’

Katie Bledsoe

NORTH SURRY

PLANT SALE TO

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Students succeed atstate science fair

See FAIR, page 5

MORGAN WALL/THE NEWS

At the NC Science and Engineering Fair, MillenniumCharter Academy eighth-grader Mary Beth Brown re-ceived the divisional first-place award in technologyand engineering, the first-place Stockholm WaterWorks award, the US Navy award and the BroadcomMasters certificate and invitation.

need or forgot (to pack).”Harris said part of his

insight into spending habitscomes from attending tour-naments in various venuesacross the country. “I’velived this for probably 10years and I just got back

from doing it again withmy daughter in college.”She plays softball forWellesley College, whichjust participated in a tour-nament in Florida, whereHarris and his wife spenteight days.

Enough Attractions?Harris also referred to

another part of the studyquestioning whether MountAiry has a strong enough“visitor infrastructure” toboth attract and host large-scale tournaments.

“The Mayberry connec-tion isn’t Walt DisneyWorld by any means —nevertheless, there is an at-traction to it,” the city com-missioner said. And whencombined with other near-

by resources, such as theBlue Ridge Parkway, “wehave a lot to offer,” Harrissaid.

“I think that is one of thethings that enticed me tobegin with,” he added ofthe tournament concept,“because we have been toso many places that don’thave much to do.”

Harris specifically men-tioned Rock Hill, S.C.,which hosts major tourna-ments but lacks other visi-tor enticements with theexception of Carowinds.

Next StepStatements in the SCC

economic study, done at nocost, indicate that it wasperformed with limitedtime and other resources. It

recommends that a morethorough evaluation of therevenue potential be con-ducted, a feasibility studyand cost-benefit analysis todetermine the viability ofthe sports complex.

Harris said the issue ofwhether to seek a more in-depth analysis will be dis-cussed at the next meetingof the Mount Airy SportsDevelopment Committee, agroup created last April toexplore the project.

“I think that’s exactlywhat the committee needsto decide,” Harris said ofany additional research. Hedoes not know how muchthat would cost.

Yet in Harris’ view the$3.7 million figure, thoughconsidered conservative, is

sufficient for the concept tobe explored further.

The date of the com-mittee meeting hasn’tbeen finalized, but it willbe sometime in earlyApril. That group’s deci-sion is expected to lead toa recommendation to thecity commissioners to ei-ther continue with orscrap the sports complexidea.

It is estimated that theproposed facility wouldcost $4.8 million to $7.6million to build. This possi-bly would be financedthrough a bond referen-dum, based on previous re-ports.

Contact Tom Joyce attjoyce@mtairynews.com

or at 719-1924.

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DOBSON — The Surry County Ani-mal Control Committee will hold a pub-lic hearing tonight on a potentially dan-gerous dog.

The hearing is to discuss the fate of apit bull responsible for biting a 3-year-old in the face on March 15 at the child’sresidence on Forest Drive. The child,whose name was not released by the Sur-ry County Health and Nutrition Center,was treated at Northern Hospital of Sur-ry County. Information regarding the

severity of his wounds were not released.According to a Surry County Animal

Control report, the attack was unpro-voked. Animal control officials pickedup the dog, which belongs to John Reidof Forest Drive, the next day and the ani-mal has been quarantined since at thecounty animal shelter. The dog’s rabiesvaccinations were current and the dog isnot considered vicious, the report stated.

The hearing will be held in the Healthand Nutrition Center classroom, which islocated in the Surry County GovernmentCenter at 118 Hamby Road, Dobson.

Animal Control to holdpublic hearing on dog

students to attend region-al, state and national FFAconventions.

The students startedwith just seeds and dirt thefirst week of January, andthrough the sale, they arelearning greenhouse man-agement.

“This didn’t happenovernight. For the kids tobe able to do this, it took alot of work for theseplants to develop and to bea good product,” Tomp-kins said.

He also pointed out thatseveral of his studentscompeted in the state agri-culture sales contest andplaced first in their region.

This is student Tanner

Flippin’s third year of par-ticipating in the sale. Hesaid he enjoys growingtomato plants from thesale at home, but ends upgiving them away becausehe doesn’t eat tomatoes.

“I’ve been doing this allthree years and each year ithas improved. We’ve got awhole lot more this yearbecause of the new irriga-tion system. We don’t haveto be up here every week-end and four and five timesa day watering. Wateringtakes less time, so we get toplant more,” said Flippin.

Student Brady Paynesaid he likes working inthe greenhouse becausehe’s learning how to growplants.

This year, vegetablefour-packs are $1. Flowerfour-packs are $2. Gerani-ums, red and pink, andHyacinths in six-inch potsare $2. Hanging basketsare $10 apiece.

The sale starts this Fri-day from 3 to 5 p.m. OnSaturday, students will beselling plants from 9 a.m.to 1 p.m. The sale contin-ues on April 8, 9, 15, 16,20, 23, 24, 29 and 30. OnFridays, the sale will befrom 3 to 5 p.m. and onSaturdays from 9 a.m. to 1p.m.

Those who want to pur-chase plants should cometo the greenhouse behindthe school during the timeof the sale.

For more information,contact Aaron Tompkinsat 789-5055.

Contact Mondee Tilleyat mtilley@mtairynews.com

or at 719-1930.

PLANT:Continued from 1

KING (AP) — A den-tist in the Stokes Countytown of King is havinghis license revoked by astate panel because of areport that says he over-billed Medicaid to helpfund an opulent lifestyle.

The state Board ofDental Examiners has or-dered Sassan Bassiri tosurrender his license byApril 18, according tomedia reports.

A report by board in-vestigators claims thatBassiri sent false bills to

Medicaid to help coverpurchases including ahouse worth nearly $1million and a condo inMyrtle Beach, S.C. Thereport claims Bassiri usedincorrect Medicaid reim-bursement codes about

19,000 times between2003 and 2009.

Bassiri’s lawyer sayshis client made mistakesand plans to repay Med-icaid. Steven Shaber saysBassiri hasn’t decidedwhether to appeal.

BELTONMOUNT AIRY — El-der John D. (J.D.) Bel-ton, 79, of 123 BankSt., Mount Airy, hus-band of Mrs. Lena De-lores Jones Belton,passed away Wednes-day morning, March 30,2011, at Forsyth Med-

ical Center in Winston-Salem. He was bornJune 5, 1931, in SurryCounty to the late JohnHenry and Lelia AliceFlippin Belton. He wasa retired automobilemechanic and was aveteran of the U.S.Army having servedduring the Korean War.Elder Belton was amember of Love’sGrove Primitive BaptistChurch and waspresently serving aspastor of both Love’sGrove Primitive BaptistChurch and StuartPrimitive BaptistChurch. Surviving arehis wife, Lena (Delores)Jones Belton of thehome; a son and daugh-ter-in-law, John Keithand Katrina Belton ofTobaccoville; threegrandchildren andspouse, Kristy B. Hurstand Steven of Jack-sonville, Fla., andKameryn Belton andKatelyn Belton, both ofTobaccoville; and fourgreat-grandchildren,Shyanne Miranda andBrock Miranda, ToriHurst and Taylor Hurst.Funeral services will beheld at 2 p.m. Saturday,

April 2, 2011, conduct-ed by Elder GleasonWorrell. Burial will fol-low in Skyline MemoryGardens. Full militaryrites will be conductedat the graveside by theMemorial HonorGuard, VFW Post 2019,Mount Airy and VFWPost 9436, Pilot Moun-tain. The family will re-ceive friends from 6 to8 p.m. Friday at MoodyFuneral Home of MountAiry. In lieu of flowers,memorials may bemade to theAlzheimer’s Associa-tion, 3800 ShamrockDrive, Suite 999, Char-lotte, NC 28215-3220.Online condolencesmay be made atwww.moodyfuneralser-vices.com.

MABEMOUNT AIRY — Mrs.Maretha Belle MartinMabe, 90, of 481 WhitePines Country ClubRoad, Mount Airy,passed away Tuesday,March 29, 2011, at herhome. Mrs. Mabe wasborn Sept. 29, 1920, inSurry County, daughterof the late JamesFranklin and Mary Jane

“Polly” Bowman Mar-tin. She was a home-maker and a member ofNew Charity BaptistChurch. She is survivedby three daughters,Mary Katherine Mabeand Paula Ann Mabe,both of the home, andNancy Leverette ofSmithfield; two sons,James Beasley Mabe ofAtlanta, Ga., andThomas Wayne Mabeof Greer, S.C.; 16grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; 13 great-great-grandchildren;and a host of nieces andnephews. In addition toher parents, Mrs. Mabewas preceded in deathby her husband, PaulPersian Mabe; a son,Paul Donald Mabe Sr.;two sisters, Effie Hor-ton and Sarah Snow;and four brothers, JohnMartin, Jack Martin,Emmitt Martin andClint Martin. The funer-al service will be heldon Friday, April 1,2011, at 11 a.m. atMoody Funeral HomeChapel in Mount Airy,with the Rev. HankRobertson and the Rev.Tommy Floyd officiat-ing. Burial will follow

at Skyline MemoryGardens. The familywill receive friendsThursday from 6 to 8p.m. at the funeralhome. Flowers will beaccepted, or memorialcontributions may bemade to Mountain Val-ley Hospice and Pallia-tive Care, 401 Technol-ogy Lane, Suite 200,Mount Airy, NC 27030.The family would liketo express its sinceregratitude to the staff ofMountain Valley Hos-pice and PalliativeCare, especially TinaLeonard and WandaHolt, for their lovingcare and support duringMaretha’s illness andsince her passing. On-line condolences maybe made atwww.moodyfuneralser-vices.com.

WILSONGREER, S.C. —Martha Ann JohnsonWilson, 62, of 108 Irv-ing St., Greer, died Sun-day March 27, 2011. Anative of Surry County,N.C., daughter of thelate Robert and JuanitaReeves Johnson, shewas employed by

Michelin for 27 yearsand was a member ofNew Hope BaptistChurch, Dobson, N.C.Surviving are twodaughters, Christy Cok-er and her husband,Charlie, and Jessica Pe-tersen, both of Greer;two brothers, JohnnyJohnson of Dobson andGeorge Johnson ofMount Airy; a sister,Alma Johnson Danleyof Mount Airy; threegrandchildren; and twogreat-grandchildren.Ms. Wilson was preced-ed in death by onedaughter, Angelia John-son; one brother, JimmyJohnson; and onegranddaughter, MeganJohnson. Visitation willbe held from 6 to 8 p.m.Wednesday at TheWood Mortuary, inGreer. Funeral serviceswill be held at 2 p.m.Friday, April 1, 2011, atNew Hope BaptistChurch, Dobson, N.C.,with burial to follow inthe church cemetery.Online condolencesmay be made bywww.thewoodmortu-ary.com and also towww.moodyfuneralser-vices.com.

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Report is right: Newreport needed

A recent economic impact study by the Small BusinessCenter of Surry Community College found what it be-lieves would be roughly $3.7 million in annual economicbenefits for the region if the city were to build a sportscomplex.

The writers of the study, which more or less questionedthe wisdom behind building the complex, acknowledgedthe limitations of the findings in that the study was donewith limited time and resources, at no cost to the city, andthat Mount Airy should proceed with a more in-depth lookat what such a complex could do for the region.

City Commissioner Todd Harris, perhaps the biggestproponent of the complex, agrees, stating he would like tosee a committee appointed by the commission ask for amore formal study, even if it costs the city money.

We agree, a more detailed analysis needs to be done.Harris said he believes the $3.7 million in projected annu-al economic benefited may be lower than what wouldeventually be realized.

We’re not sure if that is correct or not, but given thefact that the free study acknowledges it gives an incom-plete picture, and even then projects the city could stillreap nearly $4 million annual benefits, the case for a paidanalysis is too strong to be ignored.

Editorial

Notable Quotes“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and

as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is

the other.”

—Francis Bacon

A dollar can make such a differenceAs many of you have

probably noticed as you areout and about, there arethese containers at manybusinesses that are there toremind you to give “Just aDollar” to the Mount AiryMuseum of Regional Histo-ry. I think the campaign is agreat idea to help keep themuseum’s programs thriv-ing.

I remember the very firsttime I went in the museumand couldn’t believe myeyes. It’s an amazing dis-play of the history of SurryCounty and surrounding ar-eas. The little saying I madeup about it all those yearsago was, “It’s like walkingoff the streets of MountAiry and into a museum orgallery in a big city.”

Over the years, I haveseen the museum’s displaysget bigger and better, likewhen they added the DonnaFargo exhibit in 2009. An-other one of my favorite ex-hibits is the display of localfire trucks in the lower lev-el. I actually got the pleas-ure of going there with afireman friend who pointedout that his father is in a pic-ture in the exhibit thatshowed the firemen in theold fire station. It was likelooking back in time.

I have also enjoyed theincrease in programmingoffered there. Every year, Iwork the weekend when the

museum hosts itsWhite Liquorand Dirt Tracksexhibit, and sinceI grew up sur-rounded by rac-ing, it means alot to me to seeall they have ondisplay.

By giving justa dollar, you willhelp support pro-grams for youth,which is so im-portant becauseour young peopleneed to seewhere we camefrom to appreci-ate where they are going.One of the programs is theTar Heel Junior Historianprogram which is teachingkids to appreciate the histo-ry of Surry County. Oneday, I got to meet with themat the graveyard to learnabout our ancestors buriedin Oakdale Cemetery. Ilearned quite a bit myselfthat day. For example, manyof the early grave markerswere carved by immigrantswho came to this area towork at the granite quarry.

At The News, one of mybeats is to cover activities atthe museum, so I’m con-stantly looking forward tothe next big thing. The nextevent is the Tartan Day andScottish Tea on April 6. Af-ter that, there will be an

Easter hat andbonnet workshopfor children onApril 10.

The museumis also near anddear to my heartbecause mymother used tovolunteer there.She loved beingable to interactwith the kids. Asa retired teacher,she just wantedto find a way tocontinue helpingkids learn abouthistory. She wasalso passionate

about history and genealo-gy, which can benefit us allto know about where wecame from.

One day when I was atthe museum, I was delight-ed to learn that they haveold copies of The MountAiry News and The MountAiry Times. For some timenow, I’ve been trying to finda popular feature written bythe late newspaper reporter,R.J. Berrier called “MountAiry After Midnight.” Thatseries that ran in The Timesand featured stories fromthe nights when he wouldride around in a patrol car,then write that up for thenext weekly edition.

R.J.’s column was evenfeatured on an episode of“The Andy Griffith Show”

when Opie and one of hisfriends were actually look-ing at a copy of The Timesand his column and decidedto do a similar style news-paper and gossip column.It’s treasures such as thisthat are what keep me fasci-nated with the museum andwhy I think the communityshould try to support it inanyway it can.

Of course the big thingfor me now is trying to helpthe museum raise funds tocontinue programmingthrough their “Just a Dollar”program that ends on April18. I have put my $1 into ajar and got the sticker formy car. I have alreadyplaced it on my back wind-shield and I’m hoping to seemore of those stickers in thecoming days. I’m going tobe on the lookout. It’s likeMatt Edwards, the execu-tive director of the museum,said, if everyone in SurryCounty gave just $1, thatwould go so far to help keepmuseum programming aliveand well.

If you haven’t been tothe Mount Airy Museum ofRegional History, please go.You will be amazed at whatyou’ve been missing.

Mondee Tilley is a re-porter with The Mount AiryNews. She can be reachedat mtilley@mtairynews.comor at 719-1930.

A so-so presidental speechIf President Obama’s

address to the nation theother night was meant tokeep the American peopleup-to-date on the situationin the Middle East, itmissed its mark, leaving usin a state of confusion.

For starters, the presi-dent implicitly limitedAmerica’s proven excep-tionalism. We may be ex-ceptional, he admits, butnot in his opinion nearlyenough to maintain ourlead position as protectorsof the rights of all peopleeverywhere.

Why not? Why can’t weremain the world’s num-ber-one champion and pro-tector of all mankind’sright to be free? Why can’twe challenge leaders insuch nations as Syria,Yemen and Bahrain anddemand that they recog-nize the natural rights oftheir citizens?

Mr. Obama can’t seemto make up his mind aboutour ultimate goal in Libya.He insists that we are notseeking regime change inLibya, just that we wantGadhafi out of there. He

appears not tounderstand thatwanting to oustGadhafi frompower in Libyais the same aswanting to effectregime changethere.

We mightwonder whatwould happen if— despite allour efforts inbombing targetsin Libya andarming therebels seeking tooust him —Gadhafi man-ages to remain inpower. He’sproven prettyadept in hanging on to thereins of power in the past,and it is reasonable to askwhy we should not expecthim to do so now.

And should he do so,what would be U.S. policyin dealing with the leaderof this moderately oil-richnation? Surely we couldn’tsimply ignore his presenceas a leader of a sovereignnation in the heart of the

Middle East.Like it nor not,we would haveto find someway of co-exist-ing with him justas we co-existedwith the Sovietevil empire untilit collapsed.

U.S. planeshave beenbombing Gad-hafi’s forces. Weare giving armsto the rebelsseeking to ousthim from power,ignoring the factthat many ofthese rebels arethe same peoplewho have been

fighting and killing mem-bers of our armed forces inIraq. They are not ourfriends. They are oursworn enemies. And we’rearming them and hopingthat they will achieve pow-er in Libya despite theirproven hostility to theUnited States.

Are we nuts?None of this makes

sense. Mr. Obama’s presi-

dency thus far has been atthe very least confused, es-pecially in connection withhis Middle East policy. Hedoes not seem to grasp therealities of our situationvis-à-vis Libya. He seemsto lack any long-range un-derstanding of how ourmuddled policy there willturn out. Most disturbinghas been the apparentchange in our relationshipwith Israel, which faces awhole new set of threatssince the revolt in Egyptand the change of leader-ship there.

As I have said previous-ly, Gadhafi must go. But tomake that happen in a waythat will benefit America,President Obama needs tohave a coherent plan, andhe must be able to commu-nicate the “big picture” tothe American people.

One is forced to wonderif this nation can surviveintact for the final twoyears of his term in office.

In Latin, the word is“oremus” — it means “Letus pray.”

Oremus!

Mondee Tilley

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had a lot of fun up there.”In addition to receiving a

certificate, Nixon also gotsome ideas for next year’s sci-ence fair where she will com-pete at the middle school lev-el. There is a time set asideduring the day where contest-ants can look at other projectsand ask questions.

“I got a lot of ideas,” shesaid. “There was one thatlooked at does your cerealbox tell the truth about nutri-tion information and anotherwas about which toy wouldwin or lose in a battle.

“You learn a lot from justlooking at the projects. It’s re-ally exciting and I think a lotof people would enjoy it.”

Mary Beth Browne, aneighth-grader at MillenniumCharter Academy, walkedaway with several awards forher project on “Water for theWorld: Is Solar Distillation anEffective Means of PotableWater Production?” Herhomemade solar distiller,made from a discarded radia-tor, won first place in the tech-nology and engineering juniordivision, first place in theStockholm Water WorksAward, the US Navy/MarineCorps Award for the junior di-vision and the BroadcomMasters Certificate and Invi-tation.

“Personally I like the sci-ence fair better, I guess be-cause I’ve done it longer,”said Browne, who also com-peted in the NC StudentAcademy of Sciences re-search competition. “Theonly time I get nervous iswhen they’re calling out theawards.”

Browne, who has partici-pated in the science fair forseveral years, is excited to re-turn next year to compete inthe senior division.

“I told all the judges ‘sonext year when I do this...’ Iwill definitely do this again,”she said. “I have ideas jotteddown already. Next year I’mgoing to add polluted waterand take water from differentparts of Surry County.”

Luke Merritt, a freshmanat East Surry High School, re-ceived honorable mention inthe senior biological scienceA division for his project on“What Colors Attract Birds?”Merritt created three identical

boxes for bird seed, leavingone its natural wood color,spray painting one yellow andspray painting one dark blue.After testing the boxes fortwo weeks, one week aroundThanksgiving and one weekaround Christmas, he discov-ered the birds near his house,mostly cardinals and bluejays,preferred the yellow box.

This was the first time hehas competed on the state lev-el and admitted he was nerv-ous before the competition.He was competing againstmostly juniors and seniors.

“It was different. In a wayI was kind of nervous. Therewere all these kids there andfor half of them their wholelife is about science. Therewere titles bigger than mywhole project,” he said. “Atregionals and at the county,you just talk to one set ofjudges. At the state, you hadeight or nine judges ask youquestions and some of themwere professors. It was justdifferent.”

While science is not a hob-by, Merritt does hope to con-tinue doing projects in the fu-ture for competition. He said ajudge told him that if hewould continue this particularproject next year it wouldlook good.

“You have to know yourproject. Don’t just let yourparents do it. The questionsare all you either know it oryou don’t. They go into depthat the state level,” he said asadvice for future science fairparticipants.

Isabella Gillespie, a juniorat North Surry High School,reached the state competitionfor the fifth year with a proj-ect on “What Are the Effectsof Human Chorionic Go-nadotropin on the Growth andProductivity of Capsicum An-num and Solanum Tubero-sum?” She received theMeredith College Scholarshipin Sciences Award, a $10,000educational scholarship giveto the female students Mered-ith College would most like toinvite to attend their school.

“It was a lot of fun,” shesaid of the state level competi-tion. “The level of projectsthere is just phenomenal. Youget to meet a lot of people youwill probably work with inthe future if you go into sci-ence. And you can get ideasfor future projects.”

Because Gillespie hopes toone day be a surgeon, shewould like to go to a collegethat has a medical program.However, with the scholar-

ship, she is not ruling outMeredith as an option.

She sees the science fair asa valuable experience that hasallowed her to nurture a num-ber of skills.

“I get an experience thathelps me in my career. Be-ing able to interview willbe helpful through my en-tire career,” she said. “Alsowith communication andbeing able to network. That

can help you find jobs.”All four winners agreed

that it was a long day, startingwith registration at 7 a.m. Theawards ceremony did not enduntil 6:30 p.m. and studentswere on their feet most of thattime. Still, they all agreed itwas a good experience, onethey hope to repeat next year.

Contact Morgan Wall atmwall@mtairynews.com or

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STOCK MARKETREVIEW

Sales totaled 488 head, includingcattle (444), goats (31) , sheep (9) andhogs (4) during Tuesday’s sales atMount Airy Stockyards Inc.

Animals sold on the livestock mar-ket, based on 100-pound weights,were:

� Slaughter cows: breakers, utilityand commercial, $73.50-$86.50; cut-ter and boning, $68.50-$97; cannerand low cutter, $45-$73.

� Slaughter bulls: 1,500 pounds

and up, $85-$98.50.� Stock cows: too few.� Cow/calf pairs: $610-$1,070.� Baby calves: too few.� Feeder steers and bulls: 200-300

pounds, (M1) $151-$168, (smallframe) $117-$148, (Holsteins) $104-$120; 300-400 pounds, (M1) $152-$170, (Holsteins) $108-$113; 400-500 pounds, (M1) $154.50-$158.50,(small frame) $108.50-$145; 500-600pounds, (M1) $130.50-$137, (small

frame) $97-$131; 600-700 pounds,(M1) $120-$132.50; 700 pounds andup, (M1) $117-$123.

� Feeder heifers: 300-400 pounds,(M1) $120-$138; 400-500 pounds,(M1) $128-$132.75; 500-600 pounds,(M1) $116-$130; 600-700 pounds,(M1) $108.50-$114.50; 700 poundsand up, (M1) $97-$106.50.

� Goats: kids, $32-$140; others,$60-$115; large billies, $67-$130.

Livestock Report

without asking for help in thematter. “The family didn’t cometo us with the idea,” Mitchell saidof the building project.

Its goal is to have a house con-structed right beside the family’spresent home, which will avoiduprooting the Bledsoes and sub-jecting them to a long move.

Mitchell pointed out that theidea to help the family originatedabout a year ago with a smallBible study group. “This sort ofemerged from that Bible study,”he added of the effort that hassince been dubbed “OperationKatie.”

The group has spent monthsproperly planning for the projectand now is set to generate moneyfor the house, with a goal of$125,000 in cash. “We have just alittle bit raised,” Mitchell said,adding that the plans envisiongetting a “big portion” of thebuilding materials donated.

In recent months, much timehas been devoted to trying toachieve tax-deductible status forcontributions, which Mitchellsaid finally led to partnering withthe North Carolina Baptist Menfor that purpose.

Benefit Event PlannedOrganizers hope to get a big

boost for their efforts with anevent next month at Fisher RiverPark. “Katie’s Day” will be heldon April 23 from 1 to 9 p.m. atthe amphitheater of the park lo-cated just outside Dobson.

It will include performances

by five bluegrass and gospelgroups, headlined by Junior Siskand Ramblers Choice. Its album,“Heartaches and Dreams,” heldthe No. 1 spot for four straightmonths last year on BluegrassUnlimited magazine’s NationalBluegrass Survey Chart.

“Katie’s Day” also will featurea cruise-in, silent auction, activi-ties for children including bouncehouses and food. “All proceedswill go to Operation Katie,”Mitchell said.

He added that the group offriends is hoping to get the Bled-soes’ house constructed as soon

as possible, but no target date forthat has been set at this point.

More information about “Op-eration Katie” is available fromMitchell at (704) 363-9175, JoshComer at (336) 572-2929 orWayne Ramey at 325-5641.

Persons wishing to help alsocan call 356-CARE, a voice-mailnumber for the project, or send anemail to operationkatie@hot-mail.com. A Facebook page is de-voted to the effort as well,Mitchell said.

Contact Tom Joyce attjoyce@mtairynews.com or at

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MORGAN WALL/THE NEWS

Edi Nixon won the Young Naturalist Award at the NCScience and Engineering Fair over the weekend.

MORGAN WALL/THE NEWS

Isabella Gillespie won the Meredith College Scholar-ship in Sciences Award at the NC Science and Engi-neering Fair over the weekend.

JONATHAN FAHEYAP ENERGY WRITER

NEW YORK — WhenPresident Obama called forreducing the nation’s oil im-ports by one-third by 2025in a speech Wednesday, heechoed similar goals — stillunfulfilled — set by everypresident since RichardNixon.

This time, though, itmight just work.

The reason: The countryis already well on its way tomeeting Obama’s goal.More fuel efficient cars,mandates to use biofuels,and high prices are cuttinginto gasoline demand.Meanwhile, domestic oilproduction rose in consecu-tive years after two decadesof declines thanks to newdiscoveries in shale depositsthroughout the West.

A one-third reduction inoil is not only possible, it’s

beatable, analysts say. “We could cut our im-

ports in half. It’s verydoable,” says Fadel Gheit,an analyst at Oppenheimer& Co.

In recent years the U.S.has been producing more ofits own oil while also usingless. Both trends are expect-ed to continue. Oil importshave fallen 25 percent since2005 when the nation im-ported a record 12.5 millionbarrels of oil per day.

It helps that the presidentgave himself a head start to-ward his goal — he wants aone-third reduction from2008 levels. The economiccrisis reduced demand foroil, and therefore imports.Imports have fallen 15 per-cent since 2008, from 11.1million barrels per day to9.4 million barrels per dayin 2010.

In order to reach thePresident’s goal, imports

must fall another 2 millionbarrels per day, to 7.4 mil-lion barrels per day. If hestarted with 2010 numbers,imports would have to dropto 6.3 million barrels perday.

In 2010, U.S. oil produc-tion grew for the secondyear in a row after 23 yearsof decline. That’s largely be-cause engineers have recent-ly been able to tap once-un-reachable fields of oil inshale deposits in NorthDakota, Texas, New Mexi-co, Wyoming, Californiaand other parts of the West.

These shale depositscould contribute an addi-tional 2 million barrels of oilper day by 2015, accordingto Rehan Rashid, an analystat FBR Capital markets. Ifthat comes true, the U.S.could hit Obama’s goal 10years before the deadline.

Analysts also expect oilproduction from the Gulf ofMexico to grow as drilling

resumes after a pauseprompted by the BP oil spill.

The nation is using lessgasoline because fuel econo-my of cars and truck is im-proving, prices are high andrefiners are required toblend ever more biofuelsinto gasoline.

The fuel economy of thenation’s fleet has been im-proving since 2004. That’swhen gasoline first topped$2 per gallon, the SUVcraze began to wane anddrivers switched to morefuel efficient cars. Between2004 and 2010, the averagefuel economy of the nation’sfleet improved 15 percent.

Vehicle fuel economy isexpected to improve furtherin coming years with thefirst new fuel economy stan-dards for passenger vehiclessince 1990. By the 2016model year, the nation’s carsand trucks must average35.5 miles per gallon, upfrom 27.5 mpg this year.

Obama goal to cut oilimports is well within reach

Arrests� Catherine Spainhour, 21, of 117 Idaho Lane,

Mount Airy, was arrested on March 16 and chargedwith two counts of misdemeanor child abuse after offi-cers noticed bruising on her 3-month-old child whileresponding to a domestic disturbance call. Her 19-month-old also exhibited bruising. Spainhour was ar-rested and her children were placed with the Depart-ment of Social Services.

� Dillard Deaton Hiatt, 51, of 354 Lovers Lane,Mount Airy, was arrested on March 23 and chargedwith felony burning certain buildings. Hiatt reportedlyset fire to a shed. Bond is $10,000 secured. Trial date isApril 11.

� Michell Dwayne Robertson, 38, of 477 CasperStewart Road, Lowgap, was arrested on March 26 andcharged with fugitive from justice and felony posses-sion of stolen goods or property. Bond is $100,000.Trial date is May 17.

� Jeanette Joan Hayes, 56, of 1820 Fancy GapRoad, Mount Airy, was arrested on March 26 andcharged with felony larceny of a firearm. She was re-leased on a written promise with a trial date of April11.

Incidents� Criminal damage to property was reported on

March 25 at 133 White Pines Country Club Road,Mount Airy, when suspect busted vehicle windows,causing $800 damage.

� Burglary by forcible entry was reported onMarch 25 at 834 Twin Oaks Road, Elkin, when suspectkicked door open, causing $200 damage.

� Larceny was reported on March 25 at 2516 RedBrush Road, Mount Airy, when jewelry worth a total of$5,605 was stolen.

� Criminal damage to property was reported onMarch 25 at 1706 Old Highway 601, Mount Airy, when$200 damage was done to yard.

� Larceny of a motor vehicle was reported onMarch 25 at 241 Johnny Ayers Road, Pinnacle, when$3,500 Honda Accord was stolen. A license plate alsowas reported stolen from a vehicle at the address.

� Larceny and criminal damage to property werereported on March 26 at 1070 Linville Road, MountAiry, when $10,000 AC unit was stolen from Flat RockRuritan Club.

� Unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and propertydamage were reported on March 26 at 1476 EdgewoodDrive, Mount Airy, when $800 damage was done to ve-hicle.

� Breaking and entering and larceny from a motorvehicle were reported on March 27 at 884 CopelandSchool Road, Dobson, when $100 flash drive, $150GPS and $50 cash were stolen from vehicle.

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JEFF LINVILLESTAFF REPORTER

Mount Airy dominatedthe first four matches onits way to a commanding8-1 tennis victory overSouth Stokes Tuesday.

The Bears won all sixsingles matches and twoof three doubles matches.

In the first four seeds,the Bears won all eightsets by a combined scoreof 48-7.

Top seed Matt Kesslerblanked Brent Morse 6-0,6-0. Mitch Kessler won 6-2, 6-2 over Matt Childers.

Third-seed Eric Beltonwon 6-1, 6-0, whilefourth-seed Jordan Law-son won 6-0, 6-2.

While those fourmatches were important,Coach Jim Reeves said hewas most pleased with thewins posted by the othertwo starters. RobertBlizard and Blake Hens-ley have worked hard thepast few weeks to im-prove their games, hesaid.

Blizard won the fifth-seed match with a strongthird-set tiebreaker. Hewon the first set 6-4, but JEFF LINVILLE/THE NEWS

Mount Airy’s Matt Kessler pounces on a volley during doubles play with Eric Belton. South Stokes’ Ephraim Harrell is seen in the back-ground.

Bears dominate tennis with South Stokes

See BEARS, page 7

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Mount Airy High School recently received a check from the Mount Airy Youth Foundation. John Moore,right, a member of the foundation board, hands Athletic Director Donald Price the $10,000 check fromproceeds raised from season ticket sales.

STAFF REPORT

DOBSON — SurryCommunity College tookthree of four baseballgames over a weekendhome stand to improve itsseason mark to 21-7.

The Knights swept adoubleheader with DanvilleCommunity College onSaturday, then split withWake Technical College onSunday.

The three wins came bya combined score of 17-3,while the lone loss was aslim 3-2 game where thehome team almost pulledout a victory in the last at-bat.

The loss snapped a six-game winning streak andeight of nine since drop-ping two games to CatawbaValley College on March12.

The Knights were just 3-3 in Region X play, but thehome stand improves thatmark to 6-4.

SaturdaySCC won both games

with Danville, going 5-1 inthe first and 7-0 in thenightcap.

Former Surry Centralstandout Austin McLambimproved his record to 2-1by holding Danville to onerun in five innings beforeNick Rhodes came in topitch the sixth and seventhinnings.

Blain Turner and WesleyMaynor each had two hits,and Maynor scored twice.Shane Johnson went 1-3with an RBI.

In the second game, itwas Taylor Hull (2-1) giv-ing the Knights a strongpitching performance. Heshut out Danville into thefifth inning before givingway to relievers RobertBalsley and Tyler Howard.

Brandon Harrison was3-4 with a run and RBI.Daniel Whitecavage was 2-3 with three RBIs.

SCC baseballimproves to21-7 on season

See SCC, page 7

STAFF REPORT

GREENVILLE — A baseballpitcher with ties to the area hasbroken his college’s all-time saverecord.

Seth Simmons of Winston-Salem is the grandson of Mount

Airy residents Bill and LuveinaSimmons and Evelyn Nowlin. OnMarch 19, the 5-foot-9righthander recorded his 24thsave for East Carolina University.

As of Monday, ECU was lead-ing all Division I teams in earnedrun average at 1.67, just ahead ofTexas A&M and UCLA. Seth has

been a big part of that, keepingrunners from scoring while rack-ing up strikeouts.

The senior is on pace to set an-other career mark for higheststrikeout ratio.

For his first three seasons,Seth was striking out more thanone batter per inning. Figured out

over a nine-inning game, his ca-reer average was 10.82 strikeoutsper game — better than MLBlegend Randy Johnson. Thatranked him third all-time behind10.93 K’s by Hal Baird and GregBunn.

This season, Simmons hasbeen even better. As of this week,

he had racked up 20 strikeouts in12 2/3 innings (a whopping 14.2average), which has lifted himinto first place for his career.

By comparison, Trevor Hoff-man has the highest strikeout ra-tio of any relief pitcher in MLB

ECU pitcher Simmons breaks school save record

CHRIS SWEDA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE/MCT

Virginia Commonwealth head coach Shaka Smart, middle, has a laugh with histeam during a timeout while playing Georgetown in the NCAA Tournament. VCU isthis year’s Cinderella team of the Final Four.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

When Shaka Smart found out his socialstudies teacher was also a basketballcoach, the seventh-grader would hangaround his desk every day, talking aboutMagic Johnson or the latest move he wasperfecting on the playground.

“He was this effervescent, bubbly,bouncy, chattery little guy,” Kevin Baveryremembered Tuesday. “He was clearly dif-ferent and driven and passionate.”

Still is.By taking VCU, a team many didn’t

even think belonged in the NCAA tourna-ment, to the Final Four at just 33, Smarthas become the coach of the moment, theprospect at the top of everyone’s wish list.

There is substance behind that stylishname, however — a maturity, perspectiveand vision that are trademarks of thegame’s greatest coaches.

If Smart and Butler’s Brad Stevens arethe cornerstones of the future, their genera-tion’s Dean Smiths or Coach Ks, Smart’sfriends and mentors say the game will bein good hands. The young coaches faceeach other Saturday night, when VCUplays Butler in the most unlikely of nation-al semifinals, a matchup of mid-majors ina game usually reserved for powerhouses.

“Shaka and Brad are two young guyswho were given an opportunity, andthey’ve absolutely ran with it,” Michigan

Smart’s rise no shock tothose who know him best

See ECU, page 7

See SMART, page 7

State coach Tom Izzo said.“I think it’s good for ourgame because they’re goodguys who are good coach-es.”

Smart grew up in Ore-gon, Wis., a village of few-er than 10,000 people about10 miles south of Madison.His father, who named himafter 19th-century Africanwarrior Shaka Zulu, left thefamily early, and he wasraised by his mother. Shedidn’t have many rules, buther sons knew better thanto bring home a bad grade.

“And sometimes a badgrade was as high as a B,”Smart recalled. “So I had toexcel in the classroom. Ididn’t really have achoice.”

Smart’s love for basket-ball began with his grand-father, Walter King, wholived in Chicago and wouldsend Smart packages ofbasketball-related articles.King died early Tuesday at90.

A standout point guard— he set the Oregon recordwith 458 career assistsfrom 1991-95 — Smartdreamed of playing Divi-sion I basketball, maybegetting a shot at the NBA.After a few trips to all-starshootouts in Chicago, how-ever, he realized he likelywould get very little play-ing time, and would proba-bly be better off at a Divi-sion III program.

Accepted at Harvard,Yale and Brown, Smart in-stead chose to take an aca-demic scholarship at Keny-on College, a small privateschool in Gambier, Ohio,and play for Bill Brown.

“Bill Brown is probablythe closest I had, definitelythe closest I had to a fatherfigure in my life,” Smartsaid. “Going to Kenyonwas an easy decision.”

Academically, Smart didso well at Kenyon — hegraduated magna cumlaude — that his advisersuggested he pursue aPh.D. But Brown, who leftafter Smart’s freshman

year, had told Smart therewould always be a job openon his staff, and Smartcouldn’t pass up the oppor-tunity. After graduatingfrom Kenyon, Smart joinedBrown as an assistant atCalifornia (Pa.) University.

“I believe he sees coach-ing as the way I see teach-ing, which is a way to reachkids and to make a differ-ence in their lives,” saidPeter Rutkoff, an Americanstudies professor at Keny-on who served as Smart’sadviser and directed hissenior honors project. “Thecoaching thing reallygrabbed him in a way thatwas undeniable.”

That was no surprise toBavery, the social studiesteacher who would coachSmart at Oregon HighSchool.

His former players oftenworked his youth camps.When they used their

breaks to get water, eatlunch or even just rest for afew minutes, Smart wouldstay out on the court, work-ing on his game, and thecampers would soon joinhim.

“Pretty soon, you’d lit-erally see the entire gym,35 to 40 campers chasinghim all over the gym,”Bavery said. “It was likethe Pied Piper. That waswhere you could really seehis high-level passion forthe game.”

Smart spent two years atCalifornia, working campsin his free time. It was atone of those camps that hecaught the eye of Daytoncoach Oliver Purnell, whooffered him a job as direc-tor of basketball opera-tions.

Two years later, Smartwas hired as an assistant atAkron by Keith Dambrot,LeBron James’ high schoolcoach.

On Smart’s first day,Dambrot put him in chargeof James’ workout — nosmall task considering thatwas the summer James gotdrafted.

Matt Chilton came backto edge him out in thesecond 7-6. In the thirdset, Blizard won easily10-2.

Hensley clinched thefinal singles match with a6-4, 6-1 win over ZaneWashburn.

Because his matchwent so long, Blizard hadlittle time to recover be-fore starting doubles play.He and Hensley werebeaten 4-8 by Chilton andWashburn.

Matt Kessler and EricBelton won their doublesmatch over Morse andHarrell 8-2. They wereleading just 5-2 whenthey ran off the last threegames for the win.

Mitch Kessler andLawson jumped onChilders and Marshallquickly and were leading7-0. The South Stokescoach called the playersover and gave them a peptalk. Childers and Mar-shall responded and won

three straight games be-fore losing 8-3.

The Bears are sched-

uled to host West Stokesthis afternoon, weatherpermitting. Next week,the Bears travel to NorthSurry on Tuesday and hostBishop McGuinness thefollowing Thursday.

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Mount Airy’s Jordan Lawson hits a serve during doubles play with Mitch Kessler.The Bears dominated their match with South Stokes Tuesday.

SundayIn the first game

against Wake Tech, SCCtook a 2-1 lead in the sec-ond inning.

After Wake tied it inthe third, SCC went backout front with two runs inthe fifth and one in thesixth for a 5-2 win.

Seth Mahaffey (4-2)went six innings beforeKeith Prowse closed outthe seventh for his firstsave of the year.

Shane Johnson — an-

other former Golden Eagle— had a single, double andtwo runs scored. Whitecav-age had a double and washit by a pitch.

Keaton Kondor went 3-4 with two RBIs for WakeTech.

In the second game,Wake Tech put two runs upin the third inning on ZachFleshman.

SCC made it a one-rungame with a score in thefifth.

Fleshman gave way toGarrett Hickman in theseventh when Wake addedan insurance run to go up3-1.

The visitors would needthat run as the Knightsscored in the bottom of the

seventh, but couldn’t tie thegame.

Despite pitching well,Fleshman took the loss todrop to 4-2.

Jerry Skeens had a sin-gle and double in four at-bats. Hernando Roa went2-3 with an RBI.

Rafael Gonzalez had adouble, and the coachingstaff is hopeful he gets backto the hot hitting he hadearlier in the season. Afterbeing the team’s leadinghitter at one point, he hascooled off to .387.

Gonzalez still leads theteam in runs, RBIs andhomers. He also has thelowest strikeout ratio onthe team with one K forevery 25 at-bats.

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history at 9.36 (minimum 1,000 innings).According to ECU’s stats, Seth has ap-

peared in 12 games and hasn’t allowed asingle runner to score. And not just runnersscoring on hits, he hasn’t allowed a runnerhome on a wild pitch, passed ball or field-ing error.

He has given up only four hits with op-ponents batting an atrocious .100 averageagainst him. Some strikeout pitchers arewild, but Simmons has only walked sixbatters in 12 innings. That gives him a stel-lar 3.3-to-1 ratio of strikeouts to walks.

Even before this remarkable season,Simmons was on the short list of collegebaseball’s best closers.

In February, the National CollegiateBaseball Writers Association named himone of 45 relief pitchers on the watch listfor its Stopper of the Year award to be an-nounced June 18.

At the end of the regular season, theNCBWA will narrow down the 45 playersto five finalists.

Breaking ECU’s career saves markmight help get him more national attentionfor making the finals.

It is pretty commonplace in pro baseballto see a reliever get 30 saves in a year. Thatis almost impossible in college ball.

Not only are the seasons drasticallyshorter, but saves are only given out inclose games. If a team is talented and winsby large margins, no save is given out.

Simmons saved nine games in both hissophomore and junior years, which are tiedfor the fourth-most in school history. De-spite being nearly unhittable this year, his12 appearances have only resulted in foursave opportunities, and he capitalized onthem all. His latest save gave him 24 forhis career, passing Cory Scott (1999-2000).

Simmons said he primarily uses three

pitches. He has a fastball that is consistent-ly 88 to 92 mph and has hit 94 before.Then he has two variations of his slider.One is a hard slider in the low- to mid-80sthat breaks left away from righthanded hit-ters and in on the handle of lefties. Thesecond he says is more of a “slurve” in thatit is slower (mid- to upper 70s) and dropsoff like some guys’ curveballs.

The two sliders are his best options forgetting batters out, he said.

“The slider is my go-to pitch,” he said.“At any point in time, I can throw it andget guys out.”

Simmons was pretty good for his firstthree years, but his numbers this season arespectacular. Asked about the change, hesaid it has a lot to do with his mental ap-proach before and during games.

He felt like he didn’t perform as well asa junior as he did his sophomore season.He had to earn the starter’s job as a sopho-more and was worried about losing hisspot. Maybe last year he took it a little bitfor granted. So this season, he is trying tomake sure he takes advantage of every op-portunity.

The pitching coach, too, has workedwith him on improving his thoughts duringgames.

The coach said that no one at the plateis as good as the man on the mound, andSimmons has latched on to that philoso-phy.

Rather than thinking “I don’t want tomiss with this fastball,” he is thinking “I’mgoing to make this pitch.”

Before this season, Simmons said hehad been contacted by scouts from theRangers, Braves, A’s and some otherteams, but during the season they usuallyleave players alone. Right now, he said heis just worrying about playing well.

If a major-league team drafts him, hesaid he would be happy to sign a contractand go wherever they want him to go inthe minor leagues.

His parents, Suzanne and Randy Sim-mons, are just proud of all he has accom-plished.

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Rezoning Application ZCR1077: Zane Creed and Wade C. Haynes request that property identified as Tax Map ID Number 5909-01-17-8665, located on the east side of Red Brush Road, 0.25 miles north of Interstate 74, be REZONED from RA (Rural Agri-cultural) to RB (Rural Business) or a more restrictive zoning district.

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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

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Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by RON-NIE G. JESSUP AND WIFE, DEBORAH H. JESSUP to RON-ALD H DAVIS C/O WILLIAM WALT PETTIT, Trustee(s), which was dated July 2, 2003 and re-corded on July 8, 2003 in Book 955 at Page 776, Surry County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said

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Deed of Trust and the under-signed, Trustee Services of Caro-lina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evi-dencing said default having di-rected that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Sub-stitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and custom-ary location at the county court-house for conducting the sale on April 6, 2011 at 2:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Surry County, North Carolina, to wit:

TRACT: 1: Being lots numbers 24, 25, 26, 27, and 28 located on Merritt Drive in the New Granite Hill Development as platted by Bill Miller, surveyor, on April 2, 1937. A plat of same is recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Surry County, North Carolina.

See plat book 1 page 174.

Being the same property de-scribed in Deed recorded in Book 186 Page 94, Surry County Regis-try.

TRACT 2: Being Lot #23 in the New Granite Hill Development, ac-cording to a survey and plat made by Bill Miller on April 2, 1937, and the plat on the same being of re-cord in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Surry County, N.C., and to which express reference is hereby made for a particular de-scription of the within conveyed lot. Express reference is likewise made to the following deeds also recorded in the Surry County Pub-lic Registry: Deed Book 150 Page 205: Deed Book 169 Page 248; Deed Book 176 Page 36; and Deed Book 176 Page 1.

Being the same property de-scribed in Deed recorded in Book 197 Page 36, Surry County Regis-try.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior convey-ances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 170 Merritt Drive, Mount Airy, NC 27030.

Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of Forty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursu-ant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). Acash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the pur-chase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the ex-piration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing.

Said property to be offered pursu-ant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and con-veyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, ease-ments, rights of way, deeds of re-lease, and any other encum-brances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the cur-rent owner(s) of the property is/are Ronnie Gray Jessup and wife, De-brah H. Jessup.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement en-tered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after re-

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ceiving the notice of sale, termi-nate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agree-ment, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Rea-sons of such inability to convey in-clude, but are not limited to, the fil-ing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is chal-lenged 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 de-posit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

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Having qualified as Executor of the Estate of JEANETTE A. HOW-ARD, deceased, late of Surry County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said de-ceased to present them on or be-fore JULY 7TH, 2011, or this no-tice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate please make immedi-ate payments.

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Having qualified as Executor of the Estate of Theodore D. Younger, this is to notify all per-sons, firms and corporations hav-ing claims against the decedent to exhibit same duly verified to the undersigned Executor at the law office of Gardner, Gardner & Campbell, PLLC, 304 Franklin Street Mount Airy, NC 27030, at-torneys for the estate, on or be-fore June 17, 2011, or this notice will be pled in bar of recovery. All persons, firms and corporations in-debted to the estate should make prompt payment.

THIS the 17th day of March, 2011.

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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

NORTH CAROLINA, SURRYCOUNTY 10 SP 136 Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale con-tained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Joe Anna Cochrane to The Law Office of Daniel A.

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Fulco, PLLC, Trustee(s), dated May 27, 2008, and recorded in Book 1247, Page 682, Surry County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby se-cured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Surry County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trus-tees will offer for sale at the Court-house Door in Surry County, North Carolina, at 10:00AM on April 13, 2011, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following de-scribed property, to wit: Lying and being in Franklin Township, Surry County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as fol-lows: Beginning at a new iron pin in common line with Robert M. Lowe, said iron lying South 84 de-grees 08 minutes 06 seconds East 122.67 feet from a found iron pin in Robert M. Lowe's corner and corner of property retained by Daniel Wayne Dollar, et al, and running thence from said begin-ning point South 84 degrees 08 minutes 06 seconds East 625.16 feet to a found iron pin; thence leaving Lowe's line and running five new lines South 03 degrees 49 minutes 49 seconds West 380.70 feet to a new iron pin; thence South 28 degrees 41 min-utes 30 seconds West 225.81 feet to a new iron pin; thence South 00 degrees 04 minutes 08 seconds East 609.64 feet to a new iron pin; thence North 83 degrees 59 min-utes 44 seconds West 145.85 feet to a new iron pin; thence North 15 degrees 32 minutes 21 seconds West 1283.10 feet to a new iron pin, the point of beginning, con-taining 10.045 acres as shown on plat by Benjamin A. Rardin, L-3200, dated February 3, 1992, and being a survey of a portion of that property described on deed recorded in Book 491, Page 1395, Surry County Registry. Also con-veyed herewith is a mutual, non-exclusive, perpetual right of way end access easement for in-gress, egress and regress, from Ramey Creek Road to the above-described property, said right of way and access easement being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point in the Northern 60 degrees right of way line for Ramey Creek Road, said point lying North 15 degrees 49 minutes 30 seconds East 15.06 feet from a found iron within said right of way, and running thence from said beginning point North 39 degrees 19 minutes 29 seconds West 71.09 feet to a point; thence North 30 degrees 30 minutes 42 seconds West 159.14 feet; thence North 26 degrees 48 minutes 20 seconds West 194.73 feet; thence North 18 degrees 58 minutes 40 seconds West 47.74 feet; thence North 3 degrees 55 minutes 34 seconds West 30.97 feet; thence North 15 degrees 22 minutes 00 seconds East 52.08 feet; thence North 21 degrees 39 minutes 48 seconds East 52.27 feet; thence North 13 degrees 38 minutes 44 seconds East 80.83 feet to a point in the Southern boundary line of the above-described 10.046 acres tract; thence running with the Southern boundary line of said tract South 83 degrees 59 minutes 44 seconds East 30.06 feet to a point; thence leaving said tract and running South 13 degrees 33 minutes 15 seconds West 86.91 feet; thence South 21 degrees 37 minutes 42 seconds West 52.79 feet; thence South 15 degrees 50 minutes 20 seconds West 45.37 feet; thence South 04 degrees 20 minutes 21 seconds East 21.93 feet; thence South 19 degrees 13 minutes 11 seconds East 41.80 feet, thence South 26 degrees 48 minutes 25 seconds East 190.76 feet, thence South 30 degrees 30 minutes 42 seconds East 159.14 feet; thence South 39 degrees 30 minutes 12 seconds East 74.94 feet to a point in the Northern 60 feet right of way line for Ramey Creek Road; thence running with said right of way line South 66 de-grees 27 minutes 21 seconds West 31.05 feet to a point, the point of beginning as shown on plat by Benjamin A. Hardin, L-3200, dated February 3, 1992. The above-described tract is all that property described on deed recorded in Book 583 at Page 704, Surry County Registry. Said property is commonly known as 246 Eagles Nest Road, Lowgap, NC 27024. Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, pursuant to N.C.G.S. 105-228.30, in the

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amount of One Dollar ($1.00) per each Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or fractional part thereof, and the Clerk of Courts fee, pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7A-308, in the amount of Forty-five Cents (45) per each One Hundred Dol-lars ($100.00) or fractional part thereof or Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), whichever is greater. Adeposit of five percent (5%) of the bid, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dol-lars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale and must be tendered in the form of certified funds. Fol-lowing the expiration of the statu-tory upset bid period, all the re-maining amounts will be immedi-ately due and owing. Said property to be offered pursuant to this No-tice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance AS IS WHERE IS. There are no repre-sentations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environ-mental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, and encumbrances of re-cord. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Joe Anna Cochrane. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the no-tice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days' written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termina-tion of a rental agreement, that tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termina-t i o n .___________________________________ Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc. Substitute Trustee 1587 Northeast Expressway At-lanta, GA 30329 (770) 234-9181 Our File No.: 432.1004460NC /LMS

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CRISTINA SILVAASSOCIATED PRESS

LAS VEGAS —Speakeasies, bootleggers,gun-wielding crime bossesand tough-guy accents payhomage to Las Vegas’ mobroots in a pair of new attrac-tions showcasing Sin City’scriminal history.

An interactive attractionfeaturing gangster memora-bilia and commentary fromfilm mobsters James Caan,Mickey Rourke and FrankVincent opens Wednesdayon the Las Vegas Strip. AndLas Vegas Mayor OscarGoodman, a former mob de-fense lawyer, plans tolaunch his Las Vegas Muse-um of Organized Crime andLaw Enforcement later thisyear.

For Las Vegas, the attrac-tions represent an unprece-dented embrace of its infa-mous founders.

“What differentiates usfrom any other city is ourhistory,” Goodman said.“This is the story of Ameri-ca.”

The desert oasis made fa-mous by scantily-clad show-girls, ubiquitous slot ma-chines and 24-hour happy

hours has long celebrated itsreputation as a haven ofvice, but its relationshipwith the mob has taken afew hits in recent years. Thecity that once proudly boast-ed of its ties to organizedcrime —Goodman playedhimself in the 1995 mobmovie “Casino”— has in-stead promoted its family-friendly restaurants andBroadway shows for thepast decade.

No more. The Tropicana casino

and hotel, a one-time hang-out for organized crime nowmore known for its bargain-counter room rates, celebrat-ed its new “Mob Experi-ence” attraction Tuesdaynight with a red carpet partyattended by “Baywatch”siren Pamela Anderson andcomedian Rita Rudner, aswell as a handful of mobheirs, including the son ofTony “The Ant” Spilotro,the inspiration for the blood-thirsty Joe Pesci character in“Casino.”

The sprawling casino at-traction features the diary ofmobster Meyer Lansky, Spi-lotro’s gun and family pho-tos and home movies fromother infamous criminals.

Visitors are greeted by life-size holograms of chattygangsters and a chance toget “made.”

The publicly-funded mobmuseum, meanwhile, is slat-ed to open in December at adowntown Las Vegas court-house where a detailed mobhearing that helped exposeorganized crime to ordinaryAmericans was held in1950.

The $42 million museumstarted as an effort to saveone of Las Vegas’ few his-toric buildings. It’s amasseda wide collection of gangsterartifacts, including the wallfrom Chicago’s St. Valen-tine’s Day massacre, theonly gun recovered at themass shooting and the bar-

ber chair where hit man Al-bert Anastasia’s life came toan end in a 1957 New Yorkmurder.

“This isn’t some lam-poon,” Goodman said. “It’snot a gimmick. This is go-ing to be a real museum.”

The museum will high-light money launderingschemes, mob violence andthe role organized crimeplayed in Las Vegas andother cities.

Both Las Vegas attrac-tions expect to lure hun-dreds of thousands of visi-tors each year driven, atleast in part, by the nation’sunquenched fascinationwith the silver screen mobbosses of “Goodfellas” and“The Godfather.”

Dear Dr.Graham: I al-ways prayed I’dbecome wealthyso I could givelots of money toour church andto missionaries,but God hasn’tlet it happen.Why do youthink He’s donethis? Doesn’tGod needwealthy peopleto support Hiswork? — G.N.

Dear G.N.:No, God doesn’t“need” wealthypeople to getHis work done,whether it’sthrough church-es or through other min-istries. Most organizations(including ours) relymainly on people who canonly give a small amountof money — but who arefaithful in their prayers.

Does that mean Godcan’t use wealthy people,or that their help isn’t im-portant in getting Hiswork done? No, of coursenot. God has entrustedsome people with signifi-cant resources, and theirgifts can make a majordifference to a project. Tothe best of our knowledge,Jesus never asked formoney (although thatdoesn’t mean it’s wrong todo so). But a number ofpeople of wealth support-ed His work, and withoutthem His ministry mighthave been hampered (seeLuke 8:3).

The Bible, however, re-peatedly warns us againstthe dangers of wealth, andurges us to be contentwith whatever God givesus. Why is this? One rea-son is because money caneasily take over the center

of our lives — aplace that be-longs only toGod. In addi-tion, greed cancreep into ourlives (even asChristians),overwhelmingus and temptingus into paths weshouldn’t fol-low. Jesuswarned, “Noone can servetwo masters....You cannotserve both Godand Money”(Matthew 6:24).

My questionto you is this:Are you servingGod with the

gifts and abilities He hasgiven you — not just withyour money, but with yourwhole life? Put Christfirst, and make it yourgoal to live for Him.

Send your queries to“My Answer,” c/o BillyGraham, Billy GrahamEvangelistic Association,1 Billy Graham Parkway,Charlotte, N.C., 28201;call 1-(877) 2-GRAHAM,or visit the Web site forthe Billy Graham Evange-listic Association:www.billygraham.org.

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Woman was right to stop husband, woman’s interactionDear Annie: I desper-

ately need someone to tellme whether or not I amcrazy.

My husband and I livein an upscale neighbor-hood. He has met most ofthe neighbors by walkingour dog. Last year, aneighbor moved out andrented his home to a cou-ple with two little childrenand two dogs. As my hus-band walked our dog, thewoman came out withhers, and the dogs playedwhile my husband and“Jennifer” got acquainted.He is 71, and she is 46.

I am recovering frombreast cancer and at thattime was so weak fromchemo and radiation that Icould barely walk to thebathroom. But I did noticethat my husband was nowwalking our dog 20 timesa day. I suspected it was tosee Jennifer, but I’m notthe jealous type and saidnothing.

When I wasready to build upmy stamina, Itold my husbandI wanted to walkwith him. I ledhim in a direc-tion that did notgo past Jen-nifer’s house,but he steeredme the otherway. She camerunning out andsaid, “Thankyou for the e-mail. It made myday.” Theytalked as if Iweren’t there,and it was appar-ent that my hus-band had a hugecrush on her. Hestarted shower-ing, putting on freshclothes and combing hishair before taking the dogfor a walk. As soon as Jen-nifer saw him, she’d comerunning out of her house,

dressed in tightminiskirts andrevealing tops.

I told myhusband thiswas too muchand that the e-mailing had tostop. His initialreaction was toopen a new, pri-vate e-mail ac-count. I finallygave him apiece of mymind, and hepromised not towalk by Jen-nifer’s houseagain. Apparent-ly, he kept hisword, becauseshe asked wherehe’s been. I toldher she was to

have no further contactand threatened to speak toher husband about it.

We have heard no morefrom her. I think I nippedsomething in the bud, but

my husband tells me I’mcrazy. My son thinks Jen-nifer was playing gameswith his father. Should Ihave handled it different-ly? — Kentucky

Dear Kentucky: Jen-nifer was flirting with yourhusband, who was flat-tered and infatuated. Itmay not have gone anyfurther, but your aggrava-tion levels would haveshot through the roof. Wethink you handled it justfine.

Dear Annie: My hus-band and I are in our 70s,retired and on an extreme-ly low fixed income. Wehave no savings. We bare-ly have enough money forfood and medicine.

Our daughter is a pro-fessional who earns morethan double what wemake. However, everymonth, we have to helpwith her utilities. In thepast, we’ve given her largesums of money that we

had to borrow. With med-ical costs going up, howcan we get her to stop rely-ing on us financially? —Drained Dry

Dear Drained: Youmust close the Bank ofMom and Dad. Tell yourdaughter you are so sorry,but you cannot afford togive her any more money.She will learn to take careof her own finances onlywhen she is forced to.There is no reward for put-ting yourselves in the poorhouse so she can remainirresponsible.

Dear Annie: I have asimple solution for “For-gotten in California,”whose co-workers forgother birthday when she re-turned from vacation. Inour office, we all taketurns with this responsibil-ity.

It works like this: Youmust get the card and cakefor the person whose birth-day falls before yours, and

then the person whosebirthday comes after yoursbrings the cake on yourbirthday. We have a chartwith everyone’s birthdaysand their “cake baker’sname” so no one has thechance to forget. It hasworked out perfectly. —Never Forgotten

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Thirteen area studentsplaced in the NC StudentAcademy of Sciences re-search paper competitionheld at the NC School ofScience and Math.

For the research portionof the competition, studentsare required to write a paperand present it using a Pow-erPoint presentation. Thisdiffers from the regular sci-ence fair where studentspresent the information ontheir experiment only on adisplay board. Students willcomplete the same projectfor the science fair portionof the competition as for theresearch paper portion, they

are just required to go morein-depth for the paper.

Isabella Gillespie, a jun-ior at North Surry HighSchool, placed second inthe senior biological sciencedivision at the researchcompetition. She presentedon her project “What Arethe Effects of HumanChorionic Gonadotropin onthe Growth and Productivi-ty of Capsicum Annum andSolanum Tuberosum?”

“If you have a sciencefair project, it’s all togetheralready,” she said of whystudents should participatein the research competitionas well. “It’s an opportunityto learn from others you’recompeting against and fromthe judges as well as profes-sors. These are people

you’ll run into later ifyou’re pursuing somethingin science.”

Millennium CharterAcademy is the homeschool of the other 12 win-ners. Rob Halpern, scienceteacher, encourages the stu-dents to participate in boththe research portion and thescience fair.

Laura Browne finishedin first place in the behav-ioral science division.Browne chose to researchwhether or not the presenceof a proctor affects stan-dardized test scores in stu-dents and in adults. Sheplaced groups of five in aclassroom both with a proc-tor who sat at a desk thewhole time and with a proc-tor who moved around theroom looking over theirshoulders and asked thesubjects to complete a mathtest and a spelling test.

Browne determined thathaving a proctor movearound the room did in-crease the stress level inadults, but that those adultsalso scored better on thetests, proving that not allstress is bad. She said therewas little difference in thestudent scores.

Browne said she wouldprefer to write a researchpaper than just do a scienceproject and present it.

“I really like it,” she saidof the competition. “I likewriting and talking and ex-plaining things. I also likebeing closer to the people

I’m presenting to.“It’s really fun. It’s not

all awful. You get to meetnew people so the awardsaren’t the only good part.The US seems to be fallingbehind in math and scienceso I think doing this helpsby doing your part a littlebit at a time.”

Ian Owens received firstplace in the technology inflight division. He testedglider designs and configu-rations on the same fuselageto measure efficiency andlongest gliding distance.According to Owens, theswept dihedral wing pro-vides the longest glidingdistance and was also themost consistent.

“I’ve been interested ingliders and flight since Iwas little. I wanted to knowwhat kept them aloft andhow they can fly so long

without thrust,” he said. “Ienjoyed (the competition)because I got to talk aboutsomething I love. It was in-credibly interesting to hearwhat other people did theirprojects on and why. Learn-ing something new is moreinteresting than sitting athome watching television.”

Janet Snow placed firstin the environmental, airand soil division with aproject on water erosion.She decided to test the abili-ty of different types of soilto erode as a continuation ofa previous erosion project.Snow discovered that soilwith smaller particleserodes less, but also hadmore problems dealing withhumidity.

“This was a continuationof a project I had run insixth grade with a few mod-ifications. I found a 20-footcliff on a creek three feetwide and wanted to knowwhat caused it,” said Snow.“It’s really fun. It was a nicetime to see what else is outthere and meet new people.It was a really fun, good ex-perience.”

Snow, Browne andOwens also were invited tothe NC Science, Math andTechnology Education Cen-ter consortium banquet inCary in April.

Peter Balogh receivedsecond place in the chem-istry division for his projectabout corrosion to deter-mine which metal will cor-rode the most in a solution.Balogh determined thatvinegar causes the most cor-rosion, followed by salt wa-ter and then tap water.

“Corrosion interests meand I really thought I couldlearn something from thisproject,” he said. “The com-petition is really fun. It’s atime when some friends arethere and you can talk andwin awards.”

Dana Erickson receivedsecond place in the environ-mental, air and soil division.Her project focused on howpollutants and run-offwould affect grass germina-tion.

“I have a lot of neighborswho are always out workingon their lawns. They saidwhen oils from cars washover their grass, it kills it,”said Erickson of the inspira-tion for her project. “Ithought it was really fun. Idon’t typically think of my-self as a science student, butI would do it again.”

Griffin Spencer, GentryWilliamson, Josh Husonand Thomas Terry teamedup to finish in third place inthe technology in flight di-vision. They worked to tryto figure out the best designfor a glider using balsawood gliders and shoeboxgliders.

“We would test themthree times and then switchthe design to somethingelse. We would measuredistance and glide slope,”

said Spencer. “It was a real-ly good experience.”

“We learned a lot fromit,” said Terry.

“It was nerve wrackingbefore, then when we gotup, it was better,” said Hu-son.

Mary Beth Browne fin-ished in third place in theenvironmental division forher project on solar distilla-tion as a viable means ofcreating a potable watersource. She built her ownsolar distiller from a dis-carded radiator.

“The research competi-tion lets you go more in-depth in your topic,” saidBrowne, who also compet-ed and placed in the NCScience and EngineeringFair with the same project.

Ian Nelson received thethird-place award for themath and computers divi-sion. He did a project basedon John Conway’s Game ofLife computer program. Tocomplete the project, hefilled in cells in a computerprogram to represent peoplein a neighborhood and thenran the program to see if lifewould continue throughoutthe program’s run or if itwould stop mid-waythrough because the peopledied.

“I hadn’t realized howrobust the program was un-til I started,” he said. “It’skind of fun. In the computerscience category, there werenot many people. The proj-ects were much more com-plex than mine. I probablywon’t do another computerscience project.”

Wesley Lima receivedthe third-place award in theenvironment, air and soil di-vision for his project on airpollution. Lima set up notecards covered in Vaselinenext to a road, in the woodsand in a backyard to seewhich would collect themost pollutants.

“I had done another proj-ect on pollution last year sothis was a follow-up,” hesaid. “I’ll probably continueit next year. It was worth it.”

Two studentsserving as officers

In addition to participat-ing in the competitions,Gillespie and Emi Cassellare now officers for the NCStudent Academy of Sci-ences.

Gillespie is the presidentof the organization for stu-dents this year and will beuntil she graduates in 2012after serving as the presi-dent-elect last year.

“What I’m hoping to dois get together a regionalcompetition,” said Gillespieof her goals while president.She noted that region 7,which includes Surry Coun-ty, is the only region in thestate that does not have a re-gional competition for theresearch projects. “Maybemore students will be a littlemore aware of the competi-tion. It’s a disadvantage forthose coming from SurryCounty. I want to help thesurrounding counties be-come more experienced inresearch so they can go tocollege more prepared.”

Cassell is the president-elect for the coming yearand will serve as presidentafter Gillespie’s term. Ittook three run-off electionsfor students to come to aconsensus on who the presi-dent-elect should be andCassell won as a write-incandidate.

She will attend boardmeetings of the NCSAS andhelp with next year’s re-search competition.

“I was excited because Ireally like the research com-petition. The experimentsare more in-depth with theresearch competition so Ithought it would be fun,”she said. “I talked aboutrunning before but I didn’tknow if I really wanted todo it. Then when I got thereit seemed like a good expe-rience so I went up on stageand introduced myself.”

Contact Morgan Wall atmwall@mtairynews.com or

719-1929.

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Millennium Charter Academy’s middle school did well at the NC Student Academyof Sciences research paper competition held over the weekend in Raleigh.

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Emi Cassell is the new president-elect of the NC Stu-dent Academy of Science.