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File photos by Garrett Byers/Daily CourierThe animal shelter building has received several unsatisfactory inspections from state regulators. Efforts to build a animal shelter in the county have stalled after commissioners Monday told County Manager John Condrey not to get bids on plans for a pet adoption center.

Shelter to close for repairsBy SCOTT BAUGHMANDaily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — Rutherford County’s animal shelter will be closed for a week beginning Monday so the floors can be sealed.

Re-sealing the floors are part of the county’s efforts to bring the facility up to code so it can pass state inspections.

“The building will be closed only for one week,” Sheriff Jack Conner said. “We stopped taking animals at 4 p.m. Tuesday, so there will be no animals still held in the shelter when it is closed for the floor work.”

The building has received several unsatisfactory inspections from state regulators. Efforts to build an animal shelter in the county have stalled after commissioners Monday told County Manager John Condrey not to get bids on plans for a pet adoption center.

“Part of the state requirements are that the floors need to be sealed and painted with paint that will not allow urine, fecal matter, etc. to seep into the concrete,” said Lynne Faltraco of the Community Pet Center. “The shelter will close for adoptions and rescues Friday at 2 p.m. We are working very hard to get as many of the adoptable animals that are currently here placed either in foster care, adopted or rescued.”

The shelter had about 60 dogs, cats, kittens and puppies in the facility as of

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Training focuses on drug abuseBy LARRY DALEDaily Courier Staff Writer

SPINDALE — A 15-hour training effort on prescription drug abuse is being planned in Rutherford County.

Elizabeth Flemming of Mountain Area Health Education Center introduced the program at the Community Engagement Team meeting Tuesday.

The meeting was held at Spencer Baptist Church.

The program is called FACE-IT! — Facing Addiction through Community Empowerment and Intervention Teams. It helps par-ticipants better respond to the issues of prescription drug misuse and abuse and other addictions.

The project is open to all resi-dents of western North Carolina.

Flemming said the training will provide a basic understanding of addiction. The training is an “agricultural extension approach” to bringing information to county residents and provides a way “to address the impact of addiction.”

Prescription medicines, often taken along with other medica-tions, “can be at risk of a lethal combination,” she noted.

She said, “for kids today, the drug of choice is out of the medi-cine cabinet,” not an illegal drug such as cocaine.

Flemming is hoping the FACE-IT! training will attract a well-rounded group, instead of just people from certain segments, such as social service workers, for example. “You can improve com-munity communications,” she said.

“People make choices that cause bad consequences,” Flemming said, “but we offer treatment to anyone who will take it.”

She added, though, “You can’t help until they are ready to be

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BRIDGE WORK

The state Department of Transportation is paint-ing several bridges along U.S. 74A, including this one at the Oakland Road overpass. Federal stimu-lus money is being used to repaint the bridges after lead is removed from the old paint jobs. Crew members are working on the painting projects primarily after dark or on weekends, said Scott Bailey, bridge mainte-nance supervisor.

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Absentee ballots to be mailed when ready

The shelter had about 60 dogs, cats, kittens and puppies in the facility as of Tuesday afternoon.

By JEAN GORDONDaily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — Absentee ballots for the Nov. 2 General Election will soon begin arriving in the mail, said Board of Elections director Debbie Bedford.

The ballots are ready and will mailed as soon as the state completes a ballot for the state Court of Appeals judge seat, which was vacated recently by Court of Appeals Judge Jim Wynn. The U.S. Senate recently confirmed him on the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va.

Although ballots won’t be mailed

Friday as scheduled, Bedford reminds voters they can call the elections office at 287-3090 anytime to request an absen-tee ballot.

Bedford explained because of Wynn’s recent appointment, North Carolina voters could choose his replacement in November, using a form of voting rarely seen in the United States.

State law requires voters to choose a judge in November to begin a new eight-year term. Four other seats on the Court of Appeals are also up for re-election in November.

Eight candidates have filed to run for

the seat vacated by Wynn. Voters must use instant runoff vot-

ing when so many candidates run for a vacancy close to Election Day. The voters rank their top three candidates in order of preference.

Second-place votes are counted if no one gets a majority of first-place votes. If no candidate receives a majority of the first-choice votes, election officials turn to the ballots of voters whose first-choice candidate was eliminated and count the votes for the two top vote-getters.

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Earl could force evacuations ahead of Labor DayRALEIGH (AP) — A

powerful Hurricane Earl threatened to sideswipe much of the East Coast just ahead of Labor Day, worrying countless vacationers who planned to spend the traditional last week of summer at the beach.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency warned people along the Eastern Seaboard to prepare for possible evacuations and island-ers in the Turks and Caicos hunkered down in their homes Tuesday as the Category 4 hur-ricane steamed across the Caribbean with winds of 135 mph.

Earl was expected to

remain over the open ocean before turning north and running par-allel to the East Coast, bringing high winds and heavy rain to North Carolina’s Outer Banks by late Thursday or early Friday. From there, forecasters said, it could curve away from the coast some-what as it makes it way north, perhaps hitting Massachusetts’ Cape Cod and the Maine shoreline on Friday night and Saturday.

“My guests are call-ing and they don’t know what to do and I don’t know what to tell them,” said Dave Dawson, owner of the oceanfront Cape Hatteras Motel in

Buxton. Forecasters cautioned that it was still too early to tell how close Earl might come to land. But not since Hurricane Bob in 1991 has such a power-ful storm had such a large swath of the East Coast in its sights, said Dennis Feltgen, spokes-man for the National Hurricane Center.

“A slight shift of that track to the west is going to impact a great deal of real estate with potential hurricane-force winds,” Feltgen said. Even if Earl stays well offshore, it will kick up rough surf and dangerous rip currents up and down the coast through the Labor Day weekend, a prime time

for beach vacations, forecasters said.

The approaching storm troubled many East Coast beach towns that had hoped to capi-talize on the BP oil spill and draw visitors who normally vacation on the Gulf Coast.

On Monday, Earl delivered a glancing blow to several small Caribbean islands, tearing roofs off homes and knocking out electricity to people in Anguilla, Antigua and St. Maarten. In Puerto Rico, nearly 187,000 people were without power and 60,000 without water, Gov. Luis Fortuno said. Cruise ships were diverted and flights

canceled across the region. But there were no reports of deaths or serious injuries.

On Tuesday, gusty winds from Earl’s outer fringes whipped palm fronds and whistled through doors in the Turks and Caicos Islands as tied-down boats seesawed on white-crested surf.

Islanders gathered to watch big waves pound a Grand Turk shore as the wind sent sand and salt spray flying.

“We can hear the waves crashing against the reef really serious-ly,” Kirk Graff, owner of the Captain Kirks Flamingo Cove Marina, said by telephone as he watched the darkening skies. “Anybody who hasn’t secured their boats by now is going to regret it.”

In the U.S., FEMA administrator Craig

Fugate said state and local authorities may need to order evacua-tions along the Eastern Seaboard later this week if the storm does not veer away as expected.

“Today is the day to make sure you have your plan completed and your supplies in place,” he said.

As of late Tuesday afternoon, Earl was centered about 150 miles east of Grand Turk island — and 1,000 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras — as it headed northwest at 14 mph. Close on its heels was Tropical Storm Fiona, which had weakened consid-erably and not expected to get stronger at least for a couple of days.

Carl Hanes of Newport News, Va., kept an eye on the weather report as he headed for the beach near his rented vaca-tion home in Avon. He, his wife and their two teenage children were anticipating Earl might force them to leave on Thursday, a day ahead of schedule.

“We’re trying not to let it bother us,” Hanes said before enjoying the calm surf. In Rehoboth Beach, Del., Judy Rice said she has no plans to leave the vacation home where she has spent most of the sum-mer. In fact, the Oak Hill, Va., resident plans to walk around town in the rain if it comes.

“I kind of enjoy it actually. You know, it’s battling the ele-ments,” Rice said. “I have seen the rain go sideways, and, yeah, it can be scary, but I have an old house here in Rehoboth, so it’s prob-ably more important that I am here during a storm than anywhere.”

In the Florida Panhandle, which has struggled all summer to lure back tourists scared away by the Gulf oil spill, bookings were up 12 percent over last year at the Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort. The resort is nowhere near Earl’s projected path, and spokes-woman Laurie Hobbs said she suspects the increase in reservations was partly because of a discount the hotel is offering and partly because of the hurri-cane.

A boy takes cover from a wave caused by the approaching of the Hurricane Earl in Fajardo, Puerto Rico on Monday. Earl battered some islands across the northeastern Caribbean with heavy rain and roof-ripping winds Monday, rapidly intensifying into a major storm on a path projected to menace the United States.

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Vets’ costs concern deficit co-chairRALEIGH (AP) — The system

that automatically awards dis-ability benefits to some veterans because of concerns about Agent Orange seems contrary to efforts to control federal spending, the Republican co-chairman of President Barack Obama’s deficit commission said Tuesday.

Former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson’s comments came a day after The Associated Press reported that diabetes has become the most frequently compensated ailment among Vietnam veterans, even though decades of research has failed to find more than a possible link between the defoliant Agent Orange and diabetes.

“The irony (is) that the veter-ans who saved this country are now, in a way, not helping us to save the country in this fiscal mess,” said Simpson, an Army veteran who was once chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee.

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Affairs has also allowed Vietnam veterans to get money for ail-ments such as lung cancer and prostate cancer, and the agency finalized a proposal Tuesday to grant payments for heart disease — the nation’s leading cause of death.

Simpson declined to say wheth-er the issue would become part of his work on Obama’s panel examining the nation’s debt. He looked to Congress to make a change.

Sen. Daniel Akaka, a Hawaii Democrat who currently chairs the VA committee, said Tuesday he will address the broader issue of so-called presumptive con-ditions at a hearing previously set for Sept. 23. The committee will look to “see what changes Congress and VA may need to make to existing law and policy,” Akaka said in an e-mail.

“It is our solemn responsibility to help veterans with disabilities suffered in their service to our country,” said Akaka, who served

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Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, a Democrat and Vietnam combat veteran, has also raised questions about the spending. The lead-ing Republican on the commit-tee, North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, has not responded to sev-eral requests for comment on the topic in recent months.

Because of concerns about Agent Orange, Congress set up a system in 1991 to grant auto-matic benefits to veterans who served in Vietnam at any point during a 13-year period and later got an ailment linked to the defoliant. The VA has done that with a series of ailments with strong indications of an associa-tion to Agent Orange, including Hodgkin’s disease, soft-tissue cancers and non-Hodgkin’s lym-phoma.

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina Republican candidates gearing up for legislative elections say they’ll reduce both taxes and spending if they take control of both chambers of the General Assembly.

State GOP Chairman Tom Fetzer stood sur-rounded by candidates for the House and Senate as part of a campaign kickoff event Tuesday at party headquarters in Raleigh. The House hasn’t been solely in Republican hands since 1998.

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President Barack Obama ended U.S. combat operations in Iraq Tuesday, telling the nation that

Operation Iraqi Freedom was over and that it was ‘time to turn the page.”

These steps come more than seven years after U.S. forces first entered Iraq.

It has been a costly and pain-ful seven years for our nation with 4,416 American soldiers, including Cpl. Christopher Ebert of Rutherford County, giving their lives in the fight-ing in Iraq. Thousands of other young men and women will bear the physical and emotional scars of this war for the remainder of their lives.

The shutdown of combat in Iraq is good news, but even as we mark this moment, American soldiers remain engaged in a deadly fight in Afghanistan.

War, under any circumstance, has and always will be an ugly thing. We should not celebrate the end of war. We should instead reflect solemnly on it. We should mourn the lost lives and we must remember and comfort those who bear the scars.

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We mark war’s end solemnly

Our readers’ viewsOffers some thoughts on the economy

To the editor:Tara Wright presents an inter-

esting letter showing graphs that tax increases do not destroy economic growth, but actually stabilize an economy by preserv-ing the middle class.

I looked at the graphs. In 1928, before the stock market crash, there was a wide disparity between the rich and the poor, after which a levelling off and “stability” occurred from 1944 until 2006.

Numerous things occurred during that period from 1913 to the crash. First, the creation of the Federal Reserve Board which encouraged tremendous specu-lation among investors, who wrongly assume that the “Fed” would simply pump enough cur-rency into the market to support speculative growth.

The Fed did not. A similar par-allel occurred when Alexander Hamilton was allowed to create and manage the first Bank of the United States (BUS).

However, the BUS was not funded by a purely paper cur-rency, since there was no Constitutional authority, nor common law authority, to create such legal tender.

Hamilton was astute in the study of British history, and made provisions for a specula-tive explosion by keeping reserve gold for just such a contingency.

The Fed, however, was bound to certain limitations in the form of a gold standard, and feared to abandon it, thereby refusing to print enough “money” to offset speculation.

Following that period, from

1944 to 2006, we can trace a U.S. economy that not only led the world, but from 1944 until the late 70s, was just about the only dynamic economy that hadn’t been thoroughly destroyed by World War II.

Consequently, abandoning a gold standard and following the Keynesian urging of stimulating the economy with a never ending printing press, allowed the U.S. economy to dominate, feed, fuel, and clothe the world, with little thought of competition.

When you’re the only game in town, the rules aren’t really that important. High taxation is of no importance when you can simply add the cost of tax onto products and pass that cost to the consumer, with part of the tax being re-invested into “social improvements.”

Inflation merely fuels produc-tivity, which drives down the relative cost of products. A mid-dle class emerges, and financial equality becomes the norm.

In a highly competitive econo-my, Keynesianism doesn’t work, as we are now seeing with a trillion dollar stimulus that is collapsing into a “double dip” recession.

What does work, and what has

always worked, is a free market economy in which the people decide, at their own community level, what they need, and work together to achieve it. We’re headed in that direction again, like it or not.

Ralph HaulkForest City

Says law is now “Move Over” for utility trucks

To the editor: Gov. Bev Perdue in July signed

into law a bill that requires motorists to switch lanes or slow down when passing a utility ser-vice vehicle parked on the side of the road.

The “move over” requirement was extended from a earlier law pertaining to law enforce-ment and emergency response vehicles. The provision exempts situations where moving into another travel lane is not safe.

There are many motorists that do not “move over” for law enforcement and other emer-gency personnel much less utility trucks.

Either the motorists do not know the law or they do not care.

Those that do not “move over” are putting the lives of these per-sonnel in jeopardy.

I believe that all of the media needs to take the responsibility of telling the public of the law.

Ted CarltonRutherfordton

For the SBI, the heavy damage is already doneRALEIGH – In the case

of the State Bureau of Investigation, plenty of people will be doing plenty of crying over spilled milk for days, weeks, months and years.

Attorney General Roy Cooper can be as aggressive as he wants now.

He can replace an SBI director, as he’s done. He can name a new SBI lab director, as he’s done.

He, or his new SBI direc-tor, can suspend a blood analyst at the center of many of the botched cases handled by the agency.

He can establish new policies to ensure that the SBI lab no longer distorts or withholds evidence, as alleged in a series of stories by The News & Observer of Raleigh and in an internal report.

None of those actions will undo the damage to the SBI’s credibility and to

Cooper’s political career. It’s too late for any of that.

To Cooper’s credit, back in the spring – well before the News & Observer’s series – he commissioned an audit of the SBI to try to determine the depths of the problems at the crime lab.

But the audit only came after Greg Taylor, impris-oned for 17 years for a mur-der he didn’t commit, was exonerated when a SBI lab analyst admitted that test results never revealed dur-ing his trial showed that a substance in his car wasn’t blood.

Led by former FBI agent Chris Swecker, the audit

identified more than 230 criminal cases involving 269 defendant where SBI test results could be called into question.

The immediate result of those findings will be defense lawyers combing through cases and filing court motions. Judicial reviews will follow to see if questionable blood evidence is enough to toss out convic-tions.

Plenty of the cases won’t end up with new trials or overturned convictions.

Consider the most well-known case – the conviction of Daniel Green in the slay-

ing of James Jordan, father of basketball star Michael Jordan.

Blood evidence was just a fraction of the mountain of evidence against Green, which included a co-defen-dant’s testimony and video-tape of his dancing around flashing Michael Jordan’s NBA championship rings.

Today, Green likes to portray himself as a victim of the criminal justice sys-tem. Back in the early ‘90s, he and his partner, Larry Demery, were vicious, out-of-control criminals running around Robeson County robbing and shooting people.

When they didn’t have guns, they improvised with axes and cinderblocks.

That the SBI’s improper conduct could even lead to the scant possibility of a criminal like Green being released is a travesty.

At least as troubling is how the findings have dam-aged the SBI’s credibility going forward. For years to come, defense lawyers will challenge SBI testimony as biased and jurors will view that testimony skeptically.

Cooper responded to the report by calling the find-ings “unacceptable then and unacceptable now.”

The problem for him is that he was attorney general during eights years of that “then.”

The “now” will never be the same.

Mooneyham is executive director of the Capitol Press Association.

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At least as troubling is how the findings have damaged the SBI’s credibility going for-ward. For years to come, defense lawyers will challenge SBI testimony as biased and jurors will view that testimony skeptically.

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Obituaries

Police Notes

Dolphus HodgeDolphus Hicks Hodge,

71, of Square Hardin Road, Rutherfordton, died Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, at Hospice House in Forest City, N.C.

A native of Rutherford County, he was a son of the late Esper Hodge. He was a member of Piney Knob Baptist Church, where he served as a deacon. He was a member of the Shingle Hollow Volunteer Fire Department for 29 years and served as chief for approxi-mately 13 years. He retired from Webber Construction due to health reasons.

Survivors include his wife, Willie Hodge; a daughter, Deneen Cook of Rutherfordton; a son, Darren Hodge of Rutherfordton; his moth-er, Katherine Hodge of Rutherfordton; one sister, Rebecca Gibson of Seaford, Va.; two brothers, Lawrence Hodge and Tommy Hodge, both of Rutherfordton; and six grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 3 p.m. at Piney Knob Baptist Church with the Revs. Steven Cooper and Rick Wall offi-ciating. Burial will follow at the church cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour before the service at the church and will also

be at Hodge’s home. Memorials may be made

to Hospice of Rutherford County, P.O. Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043

McMahan’s Funeral Home and Cremation Services is in charge of arrangements.

Online condolences: www.mcma-hansfuneralhome.com

Katie Greene

Katie Irene Greene, 84, of Forest City, died Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, at Rutherford Hospital.

A native of Rutherford County, she was a daughter of the late Thomas and Katie West Edwards. She was a homemaker and a member of Spindale Church of the Brethren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Howard Glen Greene.

She is survived by three daughters, Judy Luckadoo and Janice Holland of Forest City and Jerrie Bishop of Spartanburg, S.C.; four sons, Howard Ray Greene, Dennis Greene and Gary Greene of Forest City and Larry Greene of Spindale; one sister, Margie Horne of Spindale; 15 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. at Spindale Church of the

Brethren with the Rev. Perry Jones officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Park. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the church.

Memorials may be made to Spindale Church of the Brethren.

The family will be at the home of Bill and Judy Luckadoo, 164 Knollwood Drive, Forest City.

Online condolences: www.crowemortuary.com

Ruth MeltonRuth Goode Melton,

92, of Jobe Lake Road, Rutherfordton, died Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, at her home.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Crowe’s Mortuary & Crematory.

Tommy WeaseRay Thomas “Tommy”

Wease, 52, of 2655 Harris-Henrietta Road, Henrietta, died Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, at his home.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home.

Online condolences: www.mckin-neylandrethfuneralhome.com

Editor’s note: Due to print-er issues at the Rutherford County Jail on Tuesday, the arrest report in today’s news-paper is incomplete. The arrests will be included in Thursday’s edition.

Sheriff’s Reportsn The Rutherford County

Sheriff’s Department respond-ed to 142 E-911 calls Monday.

n Claude Tew Greene reported the larceny of a bicy-cle.

n Manuel Montanex report-ed a breaking, entering and larceny.

n Shenaada Wilkie reported damage to personal property.

n David Scarbrough report-ed the larceny of two automo-biles.

Rutherfordtonn The Rutherfordton Police

Department responded to 31

E-911 calls Monday.n The Spindale Police

Department responded to 15 E-911 calls Monday.

Lake Luren Lake Lure Police

Department responded to six E-911 calls Monday.

Forest Cityn The Forest City Police

Department responded to 75 E-911 calls Monday.

n Heidi Payton reported an incident of larceny.

Arrestsn Cynthia Doster, 21, of

Greene’s Drive, Ellenboro, was arrested and served with four failure to appear war-rants; she was placed in the Rutherford County Detention Facility under a $5,000 bond. (FCPD)

n Fahim Feroz Ali, 36, of 141 St. John St.; charged with driving while license revoked; placed under a $2,000 secured bond. (RPD)

EMSn Rutherford County

Emergency Medical Services responded to 32 E-911 calls Monday.

n The Volunteer Life Saving and Rescue, Hickory Nut Gorge EMS and Rutherford County Rescue responded to five calls.

Fire Callsn Bostic, SDO and Sandy

Mush fire departments were dispatched to vehicle acci-dents Tuesday.

n Bill’s Creek and Lake Lure were dispatched to residential fire alarms and Rutherfordton Fire Dept. responded to an industrial fire alarm Tuesday.

FORT BRAGG (AP) — The mysterious deaths of two infants at the same home within three months of each other has prompted a probe into eight other unex-plained infant deaths at the Fort Bragg Army base since January 2007, the military said Tuesday.

At a news conference at the base, military leaders say they don’t suspect foul play in any of the deaths, and are conducting tests of the air, building materials and other elements at the on-base housing where the deaths occurred.

So far, though, investiga-tors have not found any link between the deaths since the probe was ordered ear-lier this summer, according to Christopher Grey, spokes-man for the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command.

“There are no commonali-ties that we’ve found thus far,” he said.

The vast base, adjacent to Fayetteville, N.C., is home to the U.S. Army Airborne and Special Forces. About 45,000 people live on the base, including about 6,200 families, according to Col. Stephen Sicinski, the garri-son commander.

The probe began after investigators noted the deaths of two infants from different families in 2009 at the same address. The first child died in April of last year. Another family moved into the home after the death, and their infant died in July.

A third infant who lived at that address died in 2007, but the death is believed to have occurred at a baby-sit-ting service off the base.

Neither the identities of the children nor the addresses where they died were disclosed by the Army. Grey said that information will remain confidential during the investigation.

The house where the two deaths occurred is vacant, and will remain unoccupied until the causes are deter-mined, according to Brig. Gen. Michael Garrett, chief of staff of the 18th Airborne Corps.

“We cannot explain two deaths of children at one address, and that’s really the problem we’re trying to solve,” Garrett said.

That anomaly, though, prompted officials at the base to order a review of

unexplained infant deaths since January 2007. The 10 deaths being examined are among infants ranging in age from two weeks to eight months. One was attributed to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, seven were ruled “undetermined” by medical examiners with the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and two remain under investigation.

All of the deaths may ulti-mately be attributable to SIDS, a rare but well-estab-lished diagnosis in cases where children younger than a year old die without any apparent cause.

But that determination can only be made after an autopsy, examination of the death scene and thorough review of the child’s medical history.

Even something as com-mon as a persistent cold can be enough to cause medical examiners to rule a death “unexplained” rather than attribute it to SIDS, said Col. Jeffrey Kingsbury, a physician and chief of pre-ventive medicine at Womack Army Medical Center, locat-ed on the base.

“If you find anything, a runny nose, then you can’t call it SIDS,” he said.

Part of the investigation aims to determine whether 10 deaths in just under four years is itself an alarming departure from the norm. That’s complicated by the fact that it’s hard to estab-lish how many infants are living on the base at any one time.

There are about 3,000 babies born every year at Womack, Sicinski said, which makes it the busi-est maternity hospital in the U.S. military. But an unknown number of babies are born elsewhere and move to Bragg with their families.

Nationally, the rate is about .5 SIDS deaths per 1,000 live births, accord-ing to the American SIDS Institute. Investigators, meanwhile, are looking to determine whether environ-mental factors could have played a role in the infants’ deaths.

Grey said the investiga-tion has considered every-thing from the presence of Chinese drywall in the homes to black mold, but has found evidence of nei-ther.

Officials probe infant deaths at Fort Bragg

S.C. lawmaker wants to expand safe-haven law

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two weeks after a South Carolina mother confessed to killing her two toddlers, a legislator wants the state’s safe haven law to include older children.

State Rep. Chip Limehouse said Tuesday he will push for a law allowing parents to safely abandon children up to 5 years old without punish-ment. The state’s so-called Daniel’s Law currently lim-its the no-penalty age to 30 days old.

Limehouse, a father of two, called it a reaction to the recent Orangeburg tragedy and a delayed response to the 1994 Susan Smith case, which he says has weighed on his mind ever since.

“If parents get up against the wall so bad that some-how their mind twists, and they believe in their twisted way that murder-ing their children is their way out of their situation, hopefully this new law would provide a pressure valve for this sort of evil behavior,” said Limehouse, R-Charleston.

Limehouse said he expanded the age to 5 because children are in kindergarten by then and interacting with other adults who could hopefully spot a family’s problems.

Under the current law, which dates to 2000, infants can be left anony-mously at a hospital, police

station, fire station, out-patient medical facility or any place of worship, as long as the child is left in an employee’s hands. Limehouse’s bill would add business hours of the Department of Social Services’ state and local offices.

Shaquan Duley, 29, is charged with suffocat-ing her 2-year-old and 18-month-old sons in an Orangeburg motel, then strapping them into their cars seats Aug. 16 and let-ting the car roll into a river to try and cover up their deaths.

Authorities say she’d argued with her own mother, whom she and her three children lived with, about her parenting abili-ties and felt she could be free without the toddlers. Duley also has a 5-year-old daughter.

Her attorney did not immediately respond Tuesday to messages.

The tragic scene of chil-dren’s bodies being pulled from a car in the water was eerily reminiscent of Smith’s 1994 case.

She is serving life in pris-on for killing her 3-year-old and 14-month-old sons by rolling her car into a lake in Union, with them strapped inside. They drowned.

“It chills you to your mar-row to read the accounts of what happened to these poor children,” said

Limehouse, who plans to prefile his bill for the legis-lative session that starts in January.

A policy adviser with a children’s advocacy group said the Orangeburg case calls for greater prevention services, such as in-home early education, but that the proposed bill needs to be studied.

“We believe this could’ve been prevented,” said David Laird of The Children’s Trust of South Carolina.

BY JEAN GORDONDaily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — The Board of Education is holding a special-called meeting Thursday at 12:30 p.m. to discuss and vote on a contract from Apple computer.

The board meets for its regular meeting Tuesday at 7 p.m., but there is a pending deadline for the contract, and the board has to vote Thursday.

Benny Hendrix, chief operating officer for Rutherford County Schools, said the con-tract approval is prepar-ing the way for the “1 To 1” learning initiative as the Master Lease agreement is approved.

The schools have made a commitment to begin the “1 to 1” initiative in the 2010-11 school year.

Board chairman John Mark Bennett and Superintendent Janet Mason said at a recent board meeting, they are committed to implement-ing the initiative in the school system this year.

In the program, each stu-dent in grades six through 12 and each teacher has a laptop, as teaching occurs through the programs via the computer.

“This is what will set Rutherford County Schools apart,” Bennett has said. “This is going to be the year that makes a differ-ence in the Rutherford County Schools.

“We can make it happen. It’s going to happen,”

The challenge of the project will be money, and the Rutherford County Schools Foundation is working to find ways to raise the money to make sure the initiative is pos-sible here.

A kick-off event for the entire community will be held in about six weeks. The public will have an opportunity to attend pre-sentations that show the differences the initiatives can make in students’ lives.

Contact Gordon via e-mail at jgordon@thedigitalcourier.com

School board plans special meeting to discuss contract

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ongoingFoothills Harvest Ministry: $5 plastic grocery bag sale, $7 tall kitchen bag sale, $9 30-gallon trash bag sale; bags can be filled with clothes and shoes.

Hospice Resale Shop: Storewide half price sale Sept. 2-4; includes clothing, collectibles, housewares, books, furniture and more; also includes selected clothing priced at 25 cents. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Yokefellow Service Center: Storewide half price sale Sept. 3-13; closed on Sundays and for Labor Day; store hours 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Silent auctions for Relay for Life: Held weekly through Sept. 10. Photos and details will be posted on the Rutherford County govern-ment website at www.rutherford-countync.gov. Items will be posted each Monday and bids end each Friday at noon. For information or to place a bid, e-mail Debra Conner, debra.conner@rutherford-countync.gov.

Luminaria sale and can food drive: Relay for Life Rutherford County is selling luminarias, which will be lighted Sept. 10 at Relay for Life, for $10; luminarias may be purchased online at www.relayforlife.org/rutherfordnc or by calling Gail Strickland, 245-2156 or 233-1735. In addition, canned foods will be used to weigh down the luminarias. After Relay, the canned foods will be donated to Communities in Schools and Grace of God Rescue Mission; cans should be 11 to 15 ounces to best fit in the luminarias.

Washburn Community Outreach Center: Entire store apparel half-price; hours Thursday and Friday, noon to 6 p.m., Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.; contact the cen-ter regarding the GED program offered by ICC at 245-5603.

Celebration of the Arts applica-tions: Will be accepted through Sept. 8 at the Rutherford County Visual Arts Center, 160 N. Main St., Rutherfordton; guidelines and information available at www.rcvag.com.

Tuesday, aug. 31Homemade ice cream sale: 11 a.m. until, State Employees Credit Union, Rutherfordton branch; pro-ceeds benefit Relay for Life.

Alanon meetings: Lake Lure Alanon Family Group meets every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., at Lake Lure Mountains Branch Library, 150 Bills Creek Road, Lake Lure; call 625-0456 for additional informa-tion.

Wednesday, Sept. 1Lunch club: noon, first Wednesday of the month, Carolina Event and Conference Center; the event serves as a fundraiser for Hospice of Rutherford County and proceeds will go to the care of home care hospice patients; cost is $10 and includes an entree, vegetable, des-sert and tea (please call for menu selection for the month); to reserve a space, please call 245-0095; res-ervations must be made no later than one week before the event.

Thursday, Sept. 2Relay for Life fundraiser: Between 11 a.m. and 9 p.m., 10 per-cent of total sales at Tuscany Italian Grille will be donated to Relay for Life of Rutherford County.

American Legion Post 74 meet-ing: 6 p.m., National Guard Armory; meal followed by meeting.

Friday, Sept. 3Rutherford County Animal Control: The facility will close today at 2 p.m. for repairs and reopen at noon Sept. 13. Officers will be available for law enforce-ment issues only; no animals will be taken into the facility during this time. The Community Pet Center will also be closed.

Rutherford 912 Group meet-ing: 6:30 p.m., N.C. Cooperative Extension Center on Callahan Koon Road; for more information, call Jennifer Naskov, 288-8058, or visit rutherford912.org.

Saturday, Sept. 4Kids’ Computer Corner: Every Saturday, 10 a.m. to noon, Union Mills Learning Center; free to the public and geared toward children preschool through third grade who may not have access to a computer or the Internet at home; education-al software and adult-supervised access to the Internet.

Fundraiser: 11 a.m. until, Carver parking lot, sponsored by Unionville Lodge No. 729; fish and rib plates, $8 each (includes drink and dessert), fish sandwich $4, can soda, $1 and bottled water $1.

Tuesday, Sept. 7GRACE: For anyone caring for a loved one, held the first Tuesday of each month from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at Rutherford Life Services; hosted by Hospice of Rutherford County.

helped.” A handout from Flemming said, “Nearly seven million Americans abuse prescription drugs, accord-ing to the Drug Enforcement Administration. The number increased 80 percent from 2000 to 2006, with more people abusing legal drugs than cocaine, heroin, halluci-nogens, ecstasy and inhalants com-bined.”

An important part of the training, Flemming said, is to reduce the stig-ma of people admitting that they have a drug abuse problem.

Faye Hassell, executive director of United Way of Rutherford County, said the program “Let’s us be proac-tive, instead of always reactive. We can’t put our heads in the sand.”

The Appalachian Regional Commission is funding FACE-IT!, planned Oct. 20-22.

For more information about the FACE-IT! training, call Flemming at (828) 257-4466 or e-mail Elizabeth.

Flemming@mahec.netIn other business, the Weed and

Seed grant sought for the county has not come through because President Obama currently is revamping the entire program, Hassell said.

Weed and Seed is a community-based strategy sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Hassell hopes the revised program will be “ready to roll out this fall, and we will reapply.”

She said she is encouraged because, “Our grant proposal had scored high enough to be funded. We’re keeping our fingers crossed.”

In conjunction with the Weed and Seed effort, a neighborhood cleanup is planned Oct. 23.

Hassell hopes groups from the high schools, the community college and the faith-based community will par-ticipate. “We need to market this well to get people involved,” she said.

The day selected for the cleanup is National Make a Difference Day.

Hassell said law officers will be going into the targeted Weed and Seed zones to gain community sup-port for the cleanup effort. She said

the cleanup will help “instill pride in neighborhoods” being cleaned up.

Also at the meeting,n Hassell said United Way received

a $30,000 planning grant from the N.C. Coalition Initiative to support substance abuse prevention work. “This will let us look for opportunities and look for gaps, and let us identify places we need to put the focus.”n A Behavioral Health Public

Forum will be held Sept. 23 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Senior Center in Spindale.n Various agencies offered updates

on their work. The gains of the Forest City Housing after-school program were cited, for example.

About 25 people from various agen-cies attended the CET meeting.

The next meeting is scheduled for Sept. 27. An afternoon meeting is planned.

The Community Engagement Team is an initiative of the United Way of Rutherford County.

Contact Dale via e-mail at ldale@thedigi-talcourier.com

Tuesday afternoon. Animals are held for 72 hours before they are consid-ered for termination. Any animals still in the shelter by Friday at 2 p.m. will be put down.

“We understand that the adoption center project has been taken off of the table,” Faltraco said. “We have always advocated for a animal shelter not an adoption center. Rutherford County’s animal shelter is a public

facility, and it really is the county’s responsibility to build an animal shel-ter.”

In state inspection reports from Sept. 1, 2009, inspector Shelley Swain wrote about violations involv-ing euthanasia at the facility. Swain points out that euthanasia for animals took anywhere from a few seconds to 45 minutes. She also observed feral cats being injected with lethal chemi-cals and then hanging on the side of their communal cage until they died and fell off.

Swain warned employees against destroying animals before they could

be scanned for owner-embedded identification microchips. She said only one dog was tested to make sure it was deceased before 10 animals were loaded into a pickup and taken to the county landfill. The animals were dumped before rigor mortis had set in, Swain said.

Swain said she saw three cats stuffed into a plastic trash bag by an employee before being verified for death.

Conner said many of those reported violations have been fixed, including having a separate room for euthana-sia now.

Those choices are added to the orig-inal counts of the two leaders. The candidate with the most combined votes is the winner.

Bedford also reminds voters the last day to register to vote in the at

the Board of Elections office for the General Election is Oct. 8

One Stop voting will be Oct. 14 to 30 at the Rutherford County Board of Elections, Fairground Road, Spindale and Rutherford County Annex on N. Main Street in Rutherfordton. Residents will have an opportunity to register to vote at the One Stop voting places.

Rutherford County voters will elect the sheriff, county commissioners, Board of Education members, N.C. House. N.C .Senate, U.S. House and U.S. Senate, clerk of court, and soil and water conservation supervisors, as well as a number of judgeships.

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ellenboro man named to USda postBy JEAN GORDONDaily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — An Ellenboro man has been named area director for U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development. Warren C. Smith, who has owned a home in Ellenboro since 2000, was appointed by state director Randall Gore.

In his new role, Smith will be an advocate for rural communities and residents in Rutherford and eight other counties, and will administer the Rural Development programs and services provided by USDA that can enhance economic success.

USDA achieves its mission by help-ing rural people, communities and businesses obtain the financial and technical assistance needed to address their diverse and unique needs, Smith said, adding that he oversees a multi-million dollar budget to assist with rural and community development.

USDA programs include provid-ing loans and grants for single-family housing, multi-family housing, com-munity facilities loans and grants, community and economic develop-ment programs, grants and loans for small businesses, cooperative grants, fire protection, water, sewer and storm drainage grants.

Smith oversees the state’s newly created region, Area 9. When Gore received his appointment by President Obama, Gore decided to reorganize

the state’s eight regions and devel-oped the ninth region to encompass nine counties, including Rutherford. Previously, Rutherford was in a 19-county area.

In addition to Rutherford, Smith and his Cleveland County office staff of seven will also serve Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Polk. Beginning Oct. 1, he will also serve Catawba, Iredell, McDowell and Mecklenburg counties.

Among his priorities, Smith said, is to help low-income people become homeowners through applying for grants and loans.

Thursday, he attended the Regional Housing conference sponsored by Isothermal Planning Development Commission, held at Isothermal Community College. Smith described the conference as “absolutely over-whelming” with about 40 people attending to receive information.

“There was good input with small groups and we got a lot of feed back on the issues centered on housing, economy and jobs. It was very well-orchestrated with good results,” he said. Smith formerly served as Virginia State Director of Housing and Community Development in Richmond and Director of Housing and Economic Development in Augusta-Richmond County, Ga. He has held similar positions at local, state and federal levels over his 30-year career. He most recently served as deputy housing officer with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

in Cherokee.Anyone with questions or needing

more information on housing issues, call Smith by calling (704) 471-0235 Ext. 4 at USDA Rural Development, 844 Wallace Grove Road, Shelby, NC 28150.

Contact Gordon via e-mail at jgordon@thedigitalcourier.com

Contributed photoWarren C. Smith, who has owned a home in Ellenboro since 2000, has been appointed area director for U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development.

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Cavaliers .run .hard . . .in .Hendersonville

HENDERSONVILLE — The East Rutherford Cross Country team had a strong showing at their first meet this past Saturday as they traveled to Hendersonville to compete in the Western North Carolina Cross Country Carnival.

In the invite race the top three finishers for East were: Cody Danner with a time of 19:34, Hayden Trull 20:13 and Mason Jolley with a time of 20:50.

In the open race the top three male finishers were: C. J. Sappenfield 24:21, Alan Toney 24:26 and Kyle Maynard with a time of 25:12.

The girls also finished strong in the invite race this past Saturday. Rebekah Hunt fin-ished with a time of 27:14 and Susan Dodson following with a time of 27:50.

Cavaliers .seeking .support .for .rings

FOREST CITY — The East Rutherford Cavaliers baseball team, which claimed the 2010 2A NCHSAA Baseball State Championship, is looking for support from local business to purchase rings for the players.

The Cavaliers are making 2010 championship posters, which will feature glossy color photos, team pictures and indi-vidual stats.

Businesses interested in tak-ing part and supporting the Cavaliers can contact either Bobby Reynolds at (828) 748-0074 or Preston Allen at (828) 429-1145.

Panthers .WR .Wright .lost .for .season

CHARLOTTE (AP) — The Panthers have placed Wallace Wright on season-ending injured reserve with a shoulder injury that requires, surgery, a blow for Carolina’s shaky receiver unit and special teams.

The Panthers on Tuesday also placed linebacker Thomas Davis on the reserve-physically unable to perform list, waived receivers Dexter Jackson and Oliver Young and placed defensive end Hilee Taylor on injured reserve with a knee injury to get to the NFL limit of 75 players.

Wright was signed in the offseason from New York Jets mainly in hopes of boosting Carolina’s struggling special teams. But Wright had spent some time working with the starters at receiver. He was injured in Saturday’s win over Tennessee, further complicat-ing the Panthers’ efforts to find a No. 2 receiver.

SOCCER6 .p .m . .West .Henderson .at .East .Rutherford6 .p .m . .R-S .Central .at .Hunter .Huss6 .p .m . .East .Burke .at .Chase

Noon (ESPN) Basketball FIBA World Championship: Iran vs. United States. 1 p.m. (ESPN2) Tennis U.S. Open, Men’s First Round and Women’s Second Round. 2 p.m. (WGN-A) MLB Base-ball Pittsburgh Pirates at Chicago Cubs. 6:30 p.m. (FSCR) College Volleyball Louisville at Ken-tucky. 7 p.m. (ESPN) MLB Baseball Teams TBA. 7 p.m. (ESPN2) Tennis U.S. Open, Men’s First Round and Women’s Second Round.

Associated PressNorth Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue, left, and Quail Hollow Club president John Harris, center, applaud as they listen to the PGA’s Joe Steranka, right, during a news conference at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, Tuesday. The PGA announced the club will host the 2017 PGA Championship golf tournament.

Life is just a Fantasy Football draftIt’s Mike Gavin’s fault.Many will recall that Gavin was, at

one time, the managing editor of The Daily Courier. Gavin moved on to Isothermal Community College and became the director of marketing and public relations.

Before he left, though, Gavin got me hooked on Fantasy Football.

My first season, I won a fantasy championship. The following year, I won again. It would have been so much easier to quit if I had been humbled over those first two seasons.

Instead, I now have the fantasy bug.This year, I put out the call on

Facebook for local folks to join the Courier Football League (CFL, for short). I wanted to have a fantasy league that was more localized, with more people that I actually knew.

After all, it’s hard to talk smack to some guy sitting in Terre Haute, IN., when I can talk smack with friends, co-workers and people I know.

So, I grabbed Daily Courier Executive Editor Steve Parham for the league, along with News Editor John Trump. Parham and Trump have both played fantasy football

before, so little explanation was need-ed with either of them.

Daily Courier sports stringers, Kevin Carver and Jacob Conley also joined the league giving us five DC folks in the mix.

The rest of the league is local folks.There’s Kevin Ash, a 7th grade

teacher at Chase Middle. The league includes former WAGY Friday Night Football color commentator Tim Mathis (who is also my wife’s cousin) and Mathis’ friend Robert Vess.

I wrangled Forest City Owls pitch-ing coach Mike Ranson into the league along with Ranson’s girlfriend, Kelly Henley.

So, those are the 10 that will be competing for the title.

Now what I need to do is make up an actual trophy or cup that can be

awarded to the winner. If I win a third straight title, I’m pushing for it to be called the Bowers Bowl.

The Courier Cup has a nice ring to it, though.

Hmm, I’ll need to think on that one.

Podlogar hangs’em upFormer Daily Courier Sports Editor

Alex Podlogar has left the Sanford Herald after six years on the beat as sports editor. Podlogar will fol-low in Gavin’s footsteps and work at Fayetteville State University as the school’s assistant sports information director. I wish him well.

She’s a beauty, well, sort ofThe Womenless Beauty Pageant was

held this past weekend at ICC. The 2009 winner Kiki LeFreak,

also known as Keith Ezell, handed over his, er, her, oh whatever, crown to the 2010 winner.

Forest City golf pro Terry Osteen and WCAB’s Jim Bishop took part in the competition and I hear they were just lovely.

I wanted to attend, but my eyesight is bad enough as it is.

Duke looks to get stalled running game going

By JOEDY McCREARYAP Sports Writer

WINSTON-SALEM — Ted Stachitas doesn’t want to be known only for the quarterbacks he’s replaced. That’s not easy when one of them is Tim Tebow.

After taking over for Tebow in high school, Stachitas now is poised to suc-ceed record-breaking Riley Skinner as the man under center for Wake Forest.

“I’m used to everyone’s expectations .... and all the questions, the doubts,” Stachitas said Tuesday.

So instead of merely being recog-nized as somebody’s replacement, the redshirt sophomore is looking to cre-ate an identity of his own — start-ing Thursday night when the Demon Deacons open against Presbyterian.

That will mark his first start since he was at Nease High School in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., in 2007, the year after he inherited Tebow’s job. He led Nease to consecutive Florida Class 4A

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Tebow’s prep successor taking Riley’s spot at Wake

Wake Forest’s former QB Riley Skinner will be replaced by Ted Stachitas. Stachitas replaced Tim Tebow in high school.

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DURHAM (AP) — David Cutcliffe sounds confident about entrusting Sean Renfree with Duke’s pass-heavy offense. He’d just like to see the talented — but unproven — quarterback get a lit-tle help on the ground, too.

While the five-win Blue Devils finished with their best win total in 15 years, they ranked last among Bowl Subdivision teams in rushing yards per game.

That continued a long-running trend that has seen the Blue Devils fail to average even 100 yards as a team in four of the past six sea-sons.

Cutcliffe, entering his third sea-son, is mindful of those strug-gles. When asked what to expect from this year’s running game in Saturday’s opener against Elon, he was quick to respond, “Let’s hope there is one.”

“I don’t think I’d call what we were a year ago a running game, so the first thing is to see it,” Cutcliffe said Tuesday.

Duke averaged about 64 yards per game on the ground last sea-son, putting the burden of the offense entirely on the shoulders of Thad Lewis.

Now the job belongs to Renfree, a sophomore whom Cutcliffe has been high on since his arrival in Durham. While the coach calls Renfree a “big, strong, prostyle quarterback,” he probably doesn’t want to have to rely on him to make every play just yet.

“When you have that balanced running game, it’s hard to sit on a pass or at least know it’s a pass,” Renfree said. “We’ll have a play-action game this year, which is important.”

After .long .wait, .Charlotte .gets .PGA .ChampionshipBy MIKE CRANSTONAP Sports Writer

CHARLOTTE — North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue remembers sitting with Johnny Harris in 1993 as the Quail Hollow Club president gushed about his ambitious plans.

“He said, ’Bev, we’re going to make us a prize. We’re bringing in a great golf designer and we’re going to change this course,”’ Perdue recalled. “He said, ’We’re going to have us an international tournament here.”’

Two redesigns and 17 years later, Perdue sat next to Harris on the same stage Tuesday with PGA of America CEO Joe Steranka, who announced the 2017 PGA Championship will be played at the old-style, private course.

“Charlotte deserves this,” Steranka said. “Quail Hollow deserves it.”

It will mark the third time the PGA will be in North Carolina, and the first for the state’s largest city. The event will

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BASEBALLNational League

East Division W L Pct GBAtlanta 76 55 .580 —Philadelphia 73 58 .557 3Florida 65 65 .500 10 1/2New York 65 66 .496 11Washington 57 75 .432 19 1/2

Central Division W L Pct GBCincinnati 76 55 .580 —St. Louis 69 60 .535 6Milwaukee 62 69 .473 14Houston 60 71 .458 16Chicago 56 76 .424 20 1/2Pittsburgh 43 88 .328 33

West Division W L Pct GBSan Diego 76 54 .585 —San Francisco 72 60 .545 5Colorado 69 61 .531 7Los Angeles 68 64 .515 9Arizona 53 79 .402 24

Monday’s GamesCincinnati 5, Milwaukee 4, 10 inningsAtlanta 9, N.Y. Mets 3Washington 9, Florida 3Chicago Cubs 14, Pittsburgh 2Houston 3, St. Louis 0Arizona 7, San Diego 2L.A. Dodgers 3, Philadelphia 0Colorado 2, San Francisco 1Tuesday’s GamesMilwaukee at Cincinnati, lateAtlanta 9, N.Y. Mets 2Washington at Florida, latePittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, lateSt. Louis at Houston, lateSan Diego at Arizona, latePhiladelphia at L.A. Dodgers, lateColorado at San Francisco, lateWednesday’s GamesSt. Louis (Suppan 1-6) at Houston (Figueroa 3-2), 2:05 p.m.Pittsburgh (Ja.McDonald 2-4) at Chicago Cubs (Gorzelanny 7-8), 2:20 p.m.Philadelphia (Oswalt 9-13) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 11-8), 3:10 p.m.San Diego (Latos 13-5) at Arizona (Enright 5-2), 6:10 p.m.Milwaukee (Narveson 10-7) at Cincinnati (Cueto 12-4), 7:10 p.m.N.Y. Mets (Pelfrey 13-7) at Atlanta (Hanson 8-10), 7:10 p.m.Washington (Olsen 3-7) at Florida (Volstad 8-9), 7:10 p.m.Colorado (Jimenez 17-5) at San Francisco (Lincecum 11-9), 9:15 p.m.Thursday’s GamesN.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.Philadelphia at Colorado, 7:10 p.m.

American League

East Division W L Pct GBNew York 81 50 .618 —Tampa Bay 81 50 .618 —Boston 74 57 .565 7Toronto 68 63 .519 13Baltimore 48 83 .366 33

Central Division W L Pct GBMinnesota 75 56 .573 —Chicago 71 60 .542 4Detroit 65 66 .496 10Kansas City 55 76 .420 20Cleveland 53 78 .405 22

West Division W L Pct GBTexas 74 57 .565 —Oakland 65 65 .500 8 1/2Los Angeles 64 68 .485 10 1/2Seattle 51 80 .389 23

Monday’s GamesChicago White Sox 10, Cleveland 6, 11 inningsN.Y. Yankees 11, Oakland 5Tampa Bay 6, Toronto 2Texas 3, Kansas City 0L.A. Angels 5, Seattle 3Tuesday’s GamesBoston at Baltimore, lateChicago White Sox 4, Cleveland 3Oakland at N.Y. Yankees, lateToronto at Tampa Bay, lateDetroit at Minnesota, lateTexas at Kansas City, lateL.A. Angels at Seattle, lateWednesday’s GamesChicago White Sox (F.Garcia 11-5) at Cleveland (Tomlin 2-3), 12:05 p.m.Boston (Lester 14-8) at Baltimore (Arrieta 4-6), 7:05 p.m.Oakland (Bre.Anderson 3-5) at N.Y. Yankees (A.J.Burnett 9-12), 7:05 p.m.Toronto (Marcum 11-7) at Tampa Bay (Price 15-6), 7:10 p.m.

Detroit (Scherzer 10-9) at Minnesota (Liriano 12-7), 8:10 p.m.Texas (Tom.Hunter 11-2) at Kansas City (Bullington 1-3), 8:10 p.m.L.A. Angels (T.Bell 1-4) at Seattle (J.Vargas 9-7), 10:10 p.m.Thursday’s GamesOakland at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m.Boston at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.Detroit at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.Cleveland at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

FOOTBALLNational Football League

AMERICAN CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PABuffalo 2 1 0 .667 86 83Miami 2 1 0 .667 43 49New England 2 1 0 .667 90 70N.Y. Jets 1 2 0 .333 36 50

South W L T Pct PF PAHouston 1 2 0 .333 59 64Jacksonville 1 2 0 .333 72 68Tennessee 1 2 0 .333 49 45Indianapolis 0 3 0 .000 62 130

North W L T Pct PF PABaltimore 3 0 0 1.000 64 25Pittsburgh 2 1 0 .667 64 58Cincinnati 2 2 0 .500 82 84Cleveland 1 2 0 .333 71 78

West W L T Pct PF PAOakland 2 1 0 .667 73 54Denver 1 2 0 .333 78 75San Diego 1 2 0 .333 60 62Kansas City 0 3 0 .000 42 60

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PAPhiladelphia 2 1 0 .667 57 66Washington 2 1 0 .667 61 51Dallas 2 2 0 .500 48 61N.Y. Giants 1 2 0 .333 58 64

South W L T Pct PF PAAtlanta 2 1 0 .667 46 44New Orleans 2 1 0 .667 98 68Carolina 1 2 0 .333 30 33Tampa Bay 1 2 0 .333 40 44

North W L T Pct PF PAGreen Bay 2 1 0 .667 110 75Minnesota 2 1 0 .667 62 35Detroit 2 1 0 .667 67 70Chicago 0 3 0 .000 36 71

West W L T Pct PF PASan Francisco 3 0 0 1.000 80 51Arizona 2 1 0 .667 43 49St. Louis 2 1 0 .667 62 80Seattle 1 2 0 .333 57 69

Thursday’s GamesSt. Louis 36, New England 35Green Bay 59, Indianapolis 24Friday’s GamesAtlanta 16, Miami 6Washington 16, N.Y. Jets 11New Orleans 36, San Diego 21Philadelphia 20, Kansas City 17Saturday’s GamesDetroit 35, Cleveland 27Buffalo 35, Cincinnati 20Baltimore 24, N.Y. Giants 10Jacksonville 19, Tampa Bay 13Houston 23, Dallas 7Carolina 15, Tennessee 7Minnesota 24, Seattle 13Arizona 14, Chicago 9San Francisco 28, Oakland 24Sunday’s GamesDenver 34, Pittsburgh 17Thursday, Sept. 2Buffalo at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.Cincinnati at Indianapolis, 7 p.m.New England at N.Y. Giants, 7 p.m.Carolina at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.Atlanta at Jacksonville, 7:30 p.m.N.Y. Jets at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.Miami at Dallas, 8 p.m.New Orleans at Tennessee, 8 p.m.Baltimore at St. Louis, 8 p.m.Tampa Bay at Houston, 8 p.m.Chicago at Cleveland, 8 p.m.Green Bay at Kansas City, 8 p.m.Denver at Minnesota, 8 p.m.San Diego at San Francisco, 10 p.m.Seattle at Oakland, 10 p.m.Washington at Arizona, 10 p.m.

TRANSACTIONSTuesday’s Sports Transactions

BASEBALL

American LeagueBOSTON RED SOX_Traded RHP Manny Delcarmen and cash considerations to Colorado for RHP Chris Balcom-Miller who was assigned to Greenville (SAL).

American AssociationEL PASO DIABLOS_Exercised the 2011 option on RHP Kris Jiggitts.WICHITA WINGNUTS_Exercised the 2011 option on LHP Kevin Angelle, RHP Adam Cowart, RHP Cephas Howard, RHP Jae Jung, RHP Brandon Mathes, RHP Gabe Medina, RHP Bubba O’Donnell, RHP Sean Teague, RHP Jacob Wiley, C Jeff Christy, C John C. Martin, INF Mike Bell, INF Jorge Delgado, INF Josh Horn, INF Carlos A. Rivera, INF Joe Spiers, INF Cesar Suarez, OF Jorge Cortes, OF Raul Gonzalez and OF Ryan Patterson.

Southern LeagueCAROLINA MUDCATS_Announced INF Kris Negron was promoted to Louisville (IL). Recalled INF Miguel Rojas from Lynchburg (Carolina).

FOOTBALLNational Football League

NFL_Suspended Tampa Bay CB Aqib Talib one game for violating the league’s personal con-duct policy. Fined Cleveland NT Shaun Rogers one-game check for violating the league’s per-sonal conduct policy.CAROLINA PANTHERS_Placed WR Wallace Wright and DE Hilee Taylor on injured reserve and LB Thomas Davis on the reserve-physi-cally unable to perform list. Waived WR Dexter Jackson and WR Oliver Young.DETROIT LIONS_Released OT Tyler Polumbus. Placed CB Jack Williams on the physically unable to perform list.JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS_Released CB Josh Gordy, C Cecil Newton, WR Roren Thomas and DE Julius Williams. Signed C Bradley Vierling. Placed DT D’Anthony Smith and C John Estes on injured reserve.NEW YORK GIANTS_Placed QB Jim Sorgi, WR Sinorice Moss and LB Adrian Tracy on injured reserve. Transferred OL Kevin Boothe to the reserve-physically-unable-to-perform list.NEW YORK JETS_Waived QB Kevin O’Connell.PHILADELPHIA EAGLES_Claimed DE Pannel Egboh off waivers from Houston. Placed DE Ricky Sapp on injured reserve.PITTSBURGH STEELERS_Waived LB Andre Frazier from the injured reserve list. Placed G Chris Scott on the physically unable to per-form list. Released G Adrian Jones, CB David Pittman, LB Brandon Renkart and FB Dwayne Wright.TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS_Released RB Derrick Ward and WR Terrence Nunn. Placed LB Jon Alston on injured reserve.TENNESSEE TITANS_Activated DT Tony Brown from the physically unable to perform list.WASHINGTON REDSKINS_Placed WR Malcolm Kelly on injured reserve.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

NHL_Named Charles Coplin executive vice president of content.CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS_Signed C Brandon Pirri to a three-year contract.DETROIT RED WINGS_Announced the retire-ment of D Chris Chelios and named his as an adviser to hockey operations.NASHVILLE PREDATORS_Signed D Aaron Johnson to a one-year contract.NEW YORK ISLANDERS_Agreed to terms with C Doug Weight on a one-year contract.ST. LOUIS BLUES_Named Dan Brooks assis-tant coach and Evan Levy strength and condi-tioning coach for Peoria (AHL).TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING_Named Steve Griggs chief operating officer.

ECHLREADING ROYALS_Signed F Andrew Sarauer.

SOCCERMajor League Soccer

KANSAS CITY WIZARDS_Signed G Jon Kempin.PHILADELPHIA UNION_Signed D-MF Sheanon Williams.

COLLEGEARKANSAS STATE_Named Richard Williams men’s assistant basketball coach.BRIDGEPORT_Named Leah Dunagan associ-ate athletic trainer.FORDHAM_Named Jack Eisenmann women’s assistant basketball coach.KING, TENN._Named Jackie Stiles women’s assistant wrestling coach.LE MOYNE_Named Karyn Rafalke women’s tennis coach.MINNESOTA_Suspended S Kyle Theret and OL Dom Alford for one game for a violation of team rules.NOTRE DAME_Announced sophomore WR Shaquelle Evans has left the football team and will transfer to another school.TENNESSEE_Announced freshman WR Justin Hunter has been cleared by the NCAA to play. WALDORF_Named Denny Gilbertson softball coach.

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championship games in both years as the starter despite what he said was a prevailing opinion that “people didn’t really think we could duplicate what he did with the team.”

Meanwhile, down the road in Gainesville, Tebow blossomed into one of the sport’s most heralded fig-ures while winning two national championships, two Southeastern Conference titles and a Heisman Trophy.

Nobody’s expecting that kind of production from Stachitas, who has a different style than Tebow but a similar habit — a knack for tucking the ball and running when he needs a yard or two.

That skill could make Stachitas, who rushed for 845 yards and 15 touchdowns as a high school senior, a valuable weapon for a Wake Forest team looking to re-establish its ground game after the Skinner-led offense wound up throwing more

often than coach Jim Grobe perhaps was comfortable with.

Teammates say they have some-thing else in common: Intangibles.

They describe Stachitas as more soft-spoken and not as reliant on rah-rah techniques as Tebow is. But they insist he still shows just as much leadership.

“Tim and Ted were similar in the fact that, if they ... didn’t find a wide receiver, they were able to run the ball,” said Wake Forest linebacker Hunter Haynes, a teammate of both at Nease. “Tim was a little bit dif-ferent — he was more of a fullback running the ball, and Ted was faster. You do see a little bit of influence from Tim on Ted.”

Skinner may have thrown for 9,762 yards and 60 touchdowns in his career, but Stachitas has his eye on another of his marks — his 32 victo-ries as a starter.

“I’m not worried about any of Riley’s records or what he’s done here,” Stachitas said. “He did great, but I’m worried about getting wins for our team.”

draw about 50,000 a people a day, millions of television viewers world-wide and tens of millions of dollars in economic impact.

No wonder Harris was smiling at an event that included numerous state dignitaries, Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson and Charlotte Bobcats president Fred Whitfield.

“We wanted to have a golf course that could host a major champi-onship,” said Harris, a real estate developer and member of Augusta National. “Everything we’ve done has been done to improve the experience of players and patrons.”

The PGA of America was drawn to Quail Hollow after watching its success as one of the top non-majors since its return to the PGA Tour in 2003.

It came after famed designer Tom Fazio made major renovations to the course starting in the late 1990s

which added length and new greens, but kept much of the natural land-scape.

“Their commitment to the two renovations that Tom did and their support of doing additional things that would improve Quail Hollow as a championship venue is what we looked for,” said Steranka, who first discussed bringing the tournament here two years ago.

There could be several changes, however, by the time the first ball is struck in August 2017. Harris hinted the PGA Tour event could end once the sponsorship deal with Wells Fargo & Co. expires after the 2014 tournament.

“I’m saying I have a contract that runs through 2014,” Harris said. “I haven’t been contacted by anyone that suggested anything different than that.”

Harris added there certainly won’t be a PGA Tour event in 2016-17 as the course transitions from playing in overseeded rye for a May event to Bermuda grass for the heat of the midsummer.

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Chase downs BurnsLAWNDALE — The Lady Trojans’ volleyball

team swept through Lawndale Tuesday and came away with a 3-0 conference opening win over the Burns Bulldogs.

“We had those two early losses to South Point, but we just told the girls it was time to settle down and get serious,” said Chase Head Coach Ashley Buchanan. “It’s time for them to work hard and I’m proud of the way they responded and the way they played.”

Chase used scores of 27-25, 25-22 and 25-18 to earn the win.

R-S Central 3, Freedom 1MORGANTON — The Lady Hilltoppers took

down the Freedom Lady Patriots Tueday in volley-ball action, 3-1.

Central’s JV squad won 2-0.

NASCAR on BET? Drive for Diversity goes reality TV

NEW YORK (AP) — Jessica Brunelli is a fan of “Jersey Shore” and “The Real World,” so the 17-year-old race car driver knows just how addic-tive reality TV can be.

Addictive enough to draw in viewers who don’t know Jeff Gordon from Jeff Burton? That’s the gamble behind “Changing Lanes,” a new show that airs not on a sports network but BET.

Yes, BET. Where better to reach a completely new audience? “Changing Lanes” chronicles 10 young female and minority racers in NASCAR’s Drive for Diversity program as they compete for four spots on a team.

“I’ve got friends here who don’t know about rac-ing, and they’re going to watch it and I think give it a lot more respect,” said 16-year-old driver Darrell Wallace Jr.

It’s got all the staples of reality TV: contestants living in a house together and getting eliminated one by one. Well, not all the staples — Brunelli is relieved the show sticks to the drama on the track and in the drivers’ back stories.

Rapper/actor Ludacris narrates the eight-epi-sode series, which premieres Wednesday night.

The show is the brainchild of Max Siegel, who spent two seasons running Dale Earnhardt Inc. until the team merged with Chip Ganassi Racing. His sports marketing agency now runs the Drive for Diversity program, which has struggled to pro-duce racers for NASCAR’s top series.

Siegel’s team, Revolution Racing, fields cars for the contestants on the show.

Stephen Strasburg set for Tommy John surgery Friday

MIAMI (AP) — Washington Nationals rookie ace Stephen Strasburg will have Tommy John sur-gery on Friday to rebuild his injured right elbow, an operation that is expected to sideline him for 12 to 18 months.

The ligament replacement surgery will be in Los Angeles and performed by Dr. Lewis Yocum, with Nationals team doctor Dr. Wiemi Douoguih assisting.

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Jankovic rallies to avoid early US Open upset

NEW YORK (AP) — Jelena Jankovic needed a comeback to hold off an 18-year-old and Svetlana Kuznetsova had to go three sets to edge out an oppo-nent nearing 40. Both did their job to avoid upsets Tuesday in the sweltering first round of the U.S. Open.

The fourth-seeded Jankovic, a finalist at Flushing Meadows in 2008, overcame a late break in the third set to defeat Simona Halep of Romania 4-6, 6-4, 7-5.

Earlier, 11th-seeded Kuznetsova defeated 39-year-old Kimiko Date Krumm of Japan 6-2, 4-6, 6-1. Krumm, who turns 40 on Sept. 28, was trying to become the third-oldest woman to win a U.S. Open match since the Open era began in 1968.

Jankovic and Kuznetsova both overcame their opponents and hot, humid, blustery weather, with temperatures reaching into the 90s. Tournament officials put their extreme weather policy in place for women’s singles, mean-ing players can ask for a 10-min-ute break after they split sets.

“The conditions were tough,” Jankovic said. “But I didn’t want to think about that. I just wanted to focus as much as I could on the match and play each point one point at a time.”

Halep was serving for the match ahead 5-4 in the third set but Jankovic broke her en route to the final three games. Ranked fifth in the world coming into the U.S. Open, Jankovic could overtake Serena Williams at No. 1 by win-ning it all this year. She’ll need to clean things up, after making 48 unforced errors in a match that went 2 hours, 20 minutes.

Next up for Jankovic is a second-round match against Mirjana Lucic, who defeated Alicia Molik 7-6 (5), 6-1.

Lucic was an up-and-coming star in the ’90s, winning her first

tournament as a pro at age 15. Family issues and money prob-lems forced her out of the game and she is now on the comeback, playing at her first U.S. Open since 2003.

“My dream never died and never went away,” she said. “I was just waiting for an opportunity.”

Other winners Tuesday includ-ed ninth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska, No. 18 Aravane Rezai and No. 15 Yanina Wickmayer, a semifinalist at last year’s U.S. Open.

On the men’s side, No. 23 Feliciano Lopez advanced, while 16th-seeded Marcos Baghdatis fell 6-3, 2-6, 1-6, 6-4, 7-5 to Arnaud Clement of France.

Slated to play later Tuesday were Maria Sharapova and both top seeds — Rafael Nadal and Caroline Wozniacki, who will headline the evening action at

Arthur Ashe Stadium.Both will have to come up with

something very special to top the shot Roger Federer hit during his 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 victory over Brian Dabul on Monday night. Running backward to chase down a lob and running out of room behind the baseline, Federer hit a clean win-ner through his legs.

It was the shot of the day — maybe of the tournament — and it nearly duplicated a shot he hit last year in a semifinal win against Novak Djokovic.

“This one was incredible again,” Federer said. “I turned around and couldn’t believe the shot land-ed in the corner.”

Federer is seeking his seventh straight trip to the final and sixth title at the U.S. Open, while Nadal needs a victory at Flushing Meadows to complete the career Grand Slam.

Clemson Head Football Coach Dabo Swinney.

CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Dabo Swinney has heard too often how the Clemson offense this season can’t possibly be as good without tailback C.J. Spiller and several oth-er standouts.

Now, Swinney is ready to see his new guys prove everybody wrong.

“College football, to me, that’s what’s awe-some about it. Every four years, somebody’s leaving,” Swinney said Tuesday. “You got to take what you’ve got and play with them. All I can tell you is, I like our players.”

The Tigers get to show off several new potential playmakers when they open the season against North Texas at Death Valley on Saturday. Few are expecting the produc-tion that made Spiller one of Clemson’s all-time greats.

Spiller accounted for 21 touchdowns — he was the only Division I player to score in every game last year — and 2,680 yards on the way to Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year.

“C.J. is going to be in the Ring of Honor” at Clemson’s Memorial Stadium, left tackle Chris Hairston said. “A guy like that leaves your team, it’s an event, something that you worry about and lose a little sleep over.”

Clemson’s attack in 2009 also featured wide received Jacoby Ford and tight end Michael Palmer.

Ford was considered the fasted player in college football — he had a 4.28-second 40-yard dash at last February’s NFL com-bine — and backed that up with a team high 55 catches last fall.

Swinney ready to prove skeptics wrong

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram will miss No. 1 Alabama’s season opener against San Jose State after injuring his left knee during practice.

He was hurt Monday and coach Nick Saban said in a statement the star tailback had an arthroscopic procedure Tuesday. The coach says Ingram should make a full recov-ery in a “relatively short time.”

“Mark will definitely be out for this week’s game against San Jose State and we will manage this on a week to week basis beyond this week,” Saban said.

San Jose State went 2-10 last season, but the Crimson Tide face a much stiffer test in the second week of the season. No. 19 Penn State visits Tuscaloosa on Sept. 11.

Alabama does have a talented backup in sophomore Trent Richardson, who ran for 751 yards and scored eight touchdowns last season, including 109 yards and a 49-yard touchdown against Texas in the BCS game.

Ingram became Alabama’s first Heisman winner as a sophomore after rushing for a school-record 1,658 yards and catching 32 passes. He’s the first running back since Pittsburgh’s Tony Dorsett in 1976 to win both a Heisman and a national title in the same season.

Alabama’s Ingram to miss opener

By RALPH D. RUSSOAP College Football Writer

The season starts Thursday, so what better time to jump ahead five months and predict what teams will play in the Bowl Championship Series and who wins it all. Remember, it’s no fun to pick the obvious:

Rose Bowl: TCU (at-large) vs. Oregon (Pac-

10 champion). The Pac-10 might be the toughest conference in the country to forecast. The Ducks won’t miss quarterback Jeremiah Masoli all that much and they make it two straight Rose Bowl appearances. The Horned Frogs become the first team from a non-automatic qualifying conference to play in the Rose Bowl.

Fiesta Bowl.:Oklahoma (Big 12 champion)

vs. Connecticut (Big East). The

Sooners bounce back from a messy 8-5 season to reclaim the Big 12 and earn a chance to snap their BCS losing streak at three games. The second-toughest con-ference to predict is the Big East. The experienced and well-coached Huskies earn their first BCS bid.

Orange Bowl: Miami (ACC champion) vs.

Nebraska (at-large). The rebirth of Miami and Nebraska as elite pro-grams leads to an Orange Bowl matchup that has decided nation-al championships in the past. Soon we might see the Hurricanes and Cornhuskers playing each other for national titles again.

Sugar Bowl: Alabama (at-large) vs. Ohio

State (at-large). The preseason favorites to reach the BCS title game will both be relegated to second-best in their conferences. The Buckeyes get yet another

postseason opportunity to show they can keep pace with the SEC.

BCS championship:Florida (SEC champion) vs.

Wisconsin (Big Ten champion). The Gators have more than enough talent to make another run at the national champion-ship. The only thing they lack is experience. And even if they lose to Alabama in Tuscaloosa on Oct. 2, they will get another shot at the Tide in Atlanta for the SEC title in December. The Badgers clear the only major hurdles on a manageable schedule by beating Ohio State at home and Iowa on the road in consecutive October weekends and play for their first national title.

BCS champion: Make it five straight for the SEC

and three championships in five seasons for Urban Meyer and the Gators.

Pick 6: Forecasting the BCS winners

CLEVELAND (AP) — Manny Ramirez is not in the starting lineup for his first game with the Chicago White Sox.

A little late but with all his hair, Ramirez finally joined his new team Tuesday. The White Sox were playing at Cleveland a few hours later.

The White Sox claimed the 12-time All-Star slug-ger on waivers this week to help their AL playoff push. He arrived at Progressive Field at 3:15 p.m.,

entering from the Indians players’ parking lot, where he used to park during his eight seasons with the Indians. His dreadlocked hair was at its usual length, but could soon be shorter.

The White Sox have an appearance policy, and they expect Ramirez to conform to it and get his dread-locks trimmed.

A barber was set up in a room adjacent to Cleveland’s clubhouse.

Manny joins White Sox, not in Tuesday’s lineup

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Associated PressPresident Barack Obama greets members of the military at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, Tuesday. In a speech at the fort and on national television Tuesday night, President Obama ceremonially ended U.S. combat operations in Iraq.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared an end to the U.S. combat role in Iraq after more than seven years of war, saying the country’s future now is up to its own people. “It is time to turn the page,” said the president, who opposed the war from the start.

Obama is keeping up to 50,000 troops in Iraq for support and coun-terterrorism training, and the final forces aren’t to be out until late next year. But he sought to mark Aug. 31, 2010, as a milestone in one of the defining chapters in recent American history.

“Ending this war is not only in Iraq’s interest — it is in our own,” Obama said in advance excerpts of a prime-time address he was to deliver from the Oval Office. “The United States has paid a huge price to put the future of Iraq in the hands of its people.”

In a telling sign of the domestic troubles weighing on his own nation, Obama reserved part of a war address to campaign for his efforts to revitalize the U.S. economy. On a night focused on his role as com-mander in chief, he said his “central responsibility as president” was to get people back to work.

“Our most urgent task is to restore our economy,” Obama said.

The ending of the combat mission on this date had been known for 18 months. Yet given the stakes, the toll in American lives and dollars and the long consuming debate, Obama sought to explain it to the country.

“Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country,” Obama said. He made sure to remind the nation that he

had promised to meet this goal and shrink U.S. involvement by now, “and that is what we have done.”

Obama’s rise to the presidency was built in part on his fierce opposition to the war, an American-led endeav-or that lost public support as it rolled on and American casualties rose. Obama has long held that the war inflamed anti-American sentiments abroad and stole resources from the fight in Afghanistan.

In a defense of his foreign policy, Obama said capping the combat mission in Iraq would send a mes-sage to the world that the U.S. “intends to sustain and strengthen our leadership.”

Obama sought to close a divisive chapter without declaring victory.

His opposition to the war pre-sented him with a tricky moment — standing firm in his position without disparaging the sacrifice and cour-age of those who fought.

On Tuesday he was intent on assur-ing the nation and the stretched mil-itary that all the work and bloodshed in Iraq was not in vain, declaring that because of it “America is more secure.”

Though the U.S. commitment in Iraq is winding down, Obama is sending more troops to Afghanistan, the home base of the Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaida terrorists, where Americans have been fighting for nearly nine years.

“It is going to be a tough slog,” Obama said of Afghanistan in remarks earlier Tuesday to sol-diers at Fort Bliss, Texas. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said success in Afghanistan was possible but “is not inevitable.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI probe of two men arrested in Amsterdam after suspicious items turned up in one of the men’s lug-gage is finding they were probably not on a test run for a future terror attack, a U.S. official said Tuesday, casting doubt on earlier suggestions even as Dutch authorities held the pair on suspicion of conspiring to commit a terrorist act.

The U.S. does not expect to charge the men, a law enforcement offi-cial said. The two men arrested in Amsterdam — both traveling to Yemen — did not know each other and were not traveling together, a U.S. government official said.

The Amsterdam arrests came at a time of heightened alert less than two weeks before the ninth anni-versary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. Before officials began cast-

ing doubt on the test run theory, FBI agents were chasing down leads in Detroit, Birmingham, Ala.; and Memphis, Tenn., a law enforcement official said.

Earlier, U.S. officials said they were investigating whether the two men had been conducting a dry run for a potential terrorist attack. But as the probe evolved, officials said that appeared unlikely.

Both of the detained men missed flights to Dulles International Airport from Chicago, and United Airlines then booked them on the same flight to Amsterdam, the U.S. government official said. The men were sitting near each other on the flight, but not together.

The men were not on any U.S. terror watch lists, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told CNN Tuesday.

Texas man slits throat in court after sentencing

DALLAS (AP) — A suburban Dallas man used a thin blade from a safety razor to slit his throat in an apparent suicide attempt Tuesday in the courtroom where a judge had just sentenced him to 40 years in prison.

Marcial Anguiano, 47, of Duncanville, who was talking as he was carried out, was hospitalized in stable condition. The blade cut into muscle but did not strike an artery.

Anguiano took the stand Tuesday and said he hoped to be sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to aggravated assault for cutting his niece with a butcher knife. But the judge, influenced by the defendant’s five previous prison stints, instead sentenced him to 40 years.

“He looked up at me kind of quizzically and said, ’40 years?”’ Mitchell told The Associated Press “And I said, ’Yes, 40 years.”’

Anguiano immediately pulled out the razor blade and “put it to his throat hard, and blood started gushing out,” Mitchell said.

Zoo will be inspected after rattlesnake escape

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia wild-life officials will inspect an Atlanta zoo after a venomous rattlesnake was able to escape and slither around a city neighborhood.

Zoo staff noticed the female tiger rattlesnake was missing during a routine check late Friday. The snake was found dead Monday after a nearby property owner killed it.

Georgia Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman Lauren Curry said Tuesday that an inspec-tion team will be sent to Zoo Atlanta to investigate. Zoo officials have said a staff member did not properly secure a cage door.

Panel recommends 3 for further investigation

WASHINGTON (AP) — House investigators have recommended that three lawmakers be further investigated to determine wheth-er political contributions were improperly linked to votes on the huge financial overhaul bill.

The independent House Office of Congressional Ethics recommended that the member-run House ethics committee pursue potential rules violations by Republicans John Campbell of California and Tom Price of Georgia and Democrat Joseph Crowley of New York.

The ethics office recommended no further investigation of five other lawmakers in the same probe: Democratic Reps. Earl Pomeroy of North Dakota and Mel Watt of North Carolina, and Republicans Jeb Hensarling of Texas, Chris Lee of New York, and Frank Lucas of Oklahoma.

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Business/finance

NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market ended its worst August since 2001 with mea-ger gains Tuesday after min-utes from the latest Federal Reserve meeting showed offi-cials’ increasing concern about the economy.

Stock indexes gave up most of their gains in mid-afternoon after the release of minutes from the Fed’s Aug. 10 meeting. Fed officials said during their discussions that they recognized that the economy might need further stimulus beyond the pur-chases of government debt the central bank announced that day. Some of the officials acknowledged that economy had softened more than they had anticipated.

The Dow Jones industrial average ended with a gain of 5 points, having been up 64 fol-lowing a reading on consumer confidence in August that came in stronger than expect-ed. Stocks fell sharply for much of August after a series of reports suggested that the recovery has weakened.

The S&P 500, the measure used most by stock market professionals, finished August with a loss of 4.7 percent. It was the S&P 500’s worst showing for the month since August 2001, when it lost 6.4 percent as the dot-com bubble collapsed. Year-to-date, the S&P 500 is down 5.9 percent.

Some traders said there was disappointment that the Fed wasn’t pessimistic enough to consider quicker steps to stim-ulate that economy.

Dan Cook at IG Markets, said the minutes gave a pic-

ture of a cautious and con-servative Fed. While officials acknowledged the economy’s problems, they chose to take only small, initial steps. Traders who have hoped the Fed would be more aggressive to stimulate the economy soon aren’t so sure now that the central bank will act.

“People are thinking maybe we need more of a downturn before the Fed will jump in,” Cook said. Unlike traders, he said, “the Fed moves like a glacier.”

The Dow rose 4.99, or 0.05 percent, to close at 10,014.72.

Broader indexes were mixed. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index edged up 0.41, or 0.04 percent, to 1,049.33. The Nasdaq composite index fell 5.94, or 0.3 percent, to 2,114.03.

Other market indicators also had dismal performances in August, having surged ahead in July on a series of strong earnings reports. The Dow lost 4.3 percent in August, while the Nasdaq lost 6.2 per-cent.

Rising stocks outpaced fall-ing ones by about 4 to 3 on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 1.4 bil-lion shares.

Volume has been very light in recent days, which can exaggerate movements.

Treasury prices rose, sending their yields lower, as cautious investors put money back into bonds. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which helps set interest rates on mortgages and other kinds of loans, fell to 2.47 percent from 2.53 percent late Monday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans’ confi-dence in the economy improved slightly in August, but the mood is still gloomy amid job worries, according to a monthly survey.

The Conference Board said Tuesday that its Consumer Confidence Index now stands at 53.5, up from a revised 51.0 in July. Economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters had expected 50.5. The increase comes after two straight months of declines.

It takes a reading of 90 or more to indicate a healthy economy — a level not reached since the recession began in December 2007. The index — which mea-sures how Americans feel about business conditions, the job market and the next six months — had been recovering fit-fully since hitting an all-time low of 25.3 in February 2009. But August’s reading suggests that American confidence hasn’t improved from a year ago, a bad sign for the economy and for retailers, which have been grappling with a weak start to the

back-to-school season.Economists watch confidence closely

because consumer spending accounts for about 70 percent of U.S. economic activ-ity and is critical to a strong rebound. But worries are rising the economy is growing too slowly to support sustained job growth, and some are concerned it could fall back into a recession.

Meanwhile, a widely watched home price index reported that home prices rose in June for a third straight month as now-expired tax credits inspired a burst of home buying. But prices are expected to fall through the rest of the year now that demand has faded.

The slight improvement in August’s Consumer Confidence Index was boosted by shoppers’ improved outlook over the next six months. That gauge rose to 72.5 from 67.5. The other, which measures how consumers feel now about the economy, decreased to 24.9 from 26.4.

Stocks end difficult month with uptick

Associated PressA concierge and a valet assist a shopper in loading purchases into her car at The Americana at Brand Mall Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, in Glendale, Calif. A private research group’s survey of Americans shows that consumer confidence improved slightly in August, but the mood is still gloomy amid job worries.

Consumer confidence is up

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LeggPlat 1.08 5.6 16 19.17 +.06 -6.0

Lowes .44 2.2 16 20.28 -.18 -13.3

Microsoft .52 2.2 6 23.47 -.18 -23.0

PPG 2.20 3.3 16 65.83 +.35 +12.5

ParkerHan 1.08 1.8 17 59.16 -.20 +9.8

ProgrssEn 2.48 5.8 14 42.91 +.17 +4.6

RedHat ... ... 74 34.55 +.03 +11.8

RoyalBk g 2.00 ... ... 47.81 -.40 -10.7

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11,258.01 9,252.93 Dow Industrials 10,014.72 +4.99 +.05 -3.96 +7.564,812.87 3,546.48 Dow Transportation 4,122.63 +11.50 +.28 +.56 +13.93

408.57 346.95 Dow Utilities 388.97 +1.76 +.45 -2.27 +4.927,743.74 6,355.83 NYSE Composite 6,704.15 +8.87 +.13 -6.69 +3.331,994.20 1,656.23 Amex Market Value 1,877.29 -2.84 -.15 +2.87 +12.892,535.28 1,958.04 Nasdaq Composite 2,114.03 -5.94 -.28 -6.84 +7.371,219.80 991.97 S&P 500 1,049.33 +.41 +.04 -5.90 +5.14

852.90 633.40 S&P MidCap 721.64 +.17 +.02 -.69 +12.7412,847.91 10,212.82 Wilshire 5000 11,001.12 +4.57 +.04 -4.74 +7.06

745.95 552.27 Russell 2000 602.06 +.34 +.06 -3.73 +7.88

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THE MARKET IN REVIEW

PIMCO TotRetIs CI 137,039 11.54 +1.5 +12.1/B +8.0/A NL 1,000,000Vanguard TotStIdx LB 63,566 26.08 -4.7 +5.7/B -0.5/B NL 3,000American Funds GrthAmA m LG 61,323 25.53 -4.4 +3.2/C 0.0/B 5.75 250American Funds CapIncBuA m IH 55,373 46.62 -0.8 +6.3/C +3.0/C 5.75 250Fidelity Contra LG 53,952 56.46 -2.8 +10.0/A +2.4/A NL 2,500American Funds CpWldGrIA m WS 51,442 31.34 -3.0 +2.5/D +3.4/A 5.75 250American Funds IncAmerA m MA 48,436 15.32 -1.0 +10.4/A +2.6/A 5.75 250Vanguard 500Inv LB 46,968 96.95 -4.5 +4.8/B -1.0/C NL 3,000Vanguard InstIdxI LB 46,671 96.34 -4.5 +4.9/B -0.9/C NL 5,000,000American Funds InvCoAmA m LB 45,460 23.99 -4.7 +2.6/D -0.4/B 5.75 250Dodge & Cox Stock LV 39,482 88.60 -6.0 +1.9/D -3.1/D NL 2,500American Funds EurPacGrA m FB 36,776 35.99 -3.0 +2.5/B +4.6/A 5.75 250Dodge & Cox IntlStk FV 36,687 30.25 -3.8 +2.7/A +2.9/A NL 2,500American Funds WAMutInvA m LV 36,140 23.60 -3.2 +7.1/A -0.8/B 5.75 250PIMCO TotRetAdm b CI 33,800 11.54 +1.5 +11.8/B +7.7/A NL 1,000,000FrankTemp-Franklin Income A m CA 31,232 2.04 -1.4 +13.6/A +3.5/B 4.25 1,000American Funds NewPerspA m WS 30,154 24.17 -3.2 +4.7/C +3.6/A 5.75 250American Funds FnInvA m LB 29,724 30.91 -4.1 +5.7/B +1.5/A 5.75 250Vanguard TotStIAdm LB 29,636 26.09 -4.7 +5.8/B -0.4/B NL 100,000American Funds BalA m MA 29,359 16.09 -1.9 +7.6/B +1.7/B 5.75 250Vanguard Welltn MA 28,516 28.34 -2.2 +6.7/C +3.8/A NL 10,000Vanguard 500Adml LB 28,336 96.97 -4.5 +4.9/B -0.9/C NL 100,000PIMCO TotRetA m CI 28,027 11.54 +1.4 +11.6/C +7.5/A 3.75 1,000American Funds BondA m CI 27,718 12.44 +1.4 +11.4/C +3.5/E 3.75 250Fidelity DivrIntl d FB 26,227 25.61 -3.7 -1.0/C +0.4/C NL 2,500Vanguard TotIntl d FB 26,161 13.54 -3.2 +1.9/B +2.8/B NL 3,000Fidelity GrowCo LG 25,891 66.74 -3.3 +10.3/A +3.0/A NL 2,500Vanguard InstPlus LB 25,529 96.34 -4.5 +4.9/B -0.9/C NL 200,000,000T Rowe Price EqtyInc LV 15,923 20.06 -4.9 +4.1/B -0.5/B NL 2,500Hartford CapAprA m LB 8,668 28.53 -4.5 +3.3/C +1.0/A 5.50 2,000Pioneer PioneerA m LB 4,057 33.35 -5.0 +3.8/C -0.6/B 5.75 1,000Goldman Sachs ShDuGovA m GS 1,455 10.45 +0.1 +2.6/D +4.9/B 1.50 1,000Alliance Bernstein GrowIncA m LV 1,126 2.79 -3.8 +2.7/C -3.0/D 4.25 2,500DWS-Scudder REstA m SR 486 15.80 -1.2 +33.6/B +1.3/B 5.75 1,000Hartford GrowthL m LG 174 13.80 -6.2 +1.6/D -1.7/D 4.75 0

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Five more American troops were killed in action in Afghanistan on Tuesday, ending the month with a spike in bloodshed that has claimed the lives of 19 U.S. service members in only four days.

The U.S. death toll for August stood at 55 — three-quarters of them in the second half of the month as the Taliban fight back against U.S. pressure in southern and eastern strongholds. American losses accounted for more than 70 percent of the 76 fatalities suffered by the entire NATO-led force.

NATO said four of the Americans were killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, while a fifth died in a gunfight with insurgents in the country’s south. No other details were released.

Until the late month spike, it appeared that the death toll for August would be well below the back-to-back monthly records of 66 in July and 60 in June.

By the middle of August only 13 Americans had been killed — in part because of greater use of heavily armored vehicles and other defenses against roadside bombs, the Taliban weapon of choice.

The reason behind the sudden spike in deaths was unclear because few details about the casual-ties are released for security reasons.

Most of the U.S. deaths occurred in the south-ern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar, long-time Taliban strongholds that are the focus of the American-led operation against the insurgents.

As the U.S. formally ends its combat role in the Iraq war, NATO and Afghan forces are ramping up operations in Afghanistan.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Texas-born fugitive known as “the Barbie” grinned Tuesday as police paraded him in handcuffs and described his alleged life of luxury and savagery — cut short when he became the third suspected drug lord to fall in Mexico in the past 10 months in a coup for President Felipe Calderon’s war on cartels.

Edgar Valdez Villarreal, is a for-mer Texas high school football player who allegedly jumped into the world of Mexican drug cartels and gradu-ally rose through the ranks.

He who got his improbable nick-name for his green eyes and fair complexion, is wanted in the U.S. for allegedly smuggling tons of cocaine. In Mexico, he is blamed for a brutal turf war that has included bodies hung from bridges, decapi-tations and shootouts as he and a rival fought for control of the divided

Beltran Leyva cartel.As he was displayed to reporters

on Tuesday, he still wore the green polo shirt in which he was captured the day before. He shifted his weight and smiled often as police described a high-flying and violent life.

Security forces had been closing in on Valdez for over a year. Their big-gest breakthrough was the death of his boss, Arturo Beltran Leyva, in a December shootout with marines, Federal Police Commissioner Facundo Rosas said at the news con-ference.

The arrest of several of Valdez’ allies, U.S. intelligence tips and other sources provided evidence that Valdez had left his home of 10 years in the resort of Acapulco — where he owned at least one posh bar that was raided in 2009 — to lead a lower-profile life in wealthy neighborhoods of Mexico City, Rosas said.

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile (AP) — The effort to save 33 Chilean men trapped deep in a mine is an unprecedented chal-lenge, mining safety experts said Tuesday. It means months of drilling, then a harrowing three-hour trip in a cage up a narrow hole carved through solid rock.

If all of that is successful, the freed men will emerge from the earth and “feel born again,” said an American miner who was

part of a group dramatically res-cued in 2002 with similar tech-niques. But that rescue pulled men from a spot only one-tenth as deep.

First, engineers must use a 31-ton drill to create a “pilot” hole from the floor of the Atacama Desert down 2,200 feet in the San Jose mine.

Then, the drill must be fitted with a larger bit to carve out a rescue chimney that will be

about 26 inches wide — a task that means guiding the drill through solid rock while keep-ing the drill rod from snapping or getting bogged down as it nears its target.

Finally, the men must be brought up one at a time inside a specially built cage — a trip that will take three hours each. Just hauling the men up will itself take more than four days — if there are no problems.

Associated PressFederal police stand guard by Texas-born kingpin Edgar Valdez Villarreal, alias “the Barbie,” center, during his presentation to the press in Mexico City Tuesday. Valdez, who was captured on Monday by federal police, faces drug trafficking charges in the U.S. and has been blamed for a vicious turf war.

Associated PressPeople sitting at a park in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said the end of American combat operations Tuesday leaves his country indepen-dent and an equal to the United States and he assured his people their own security forces will protect them.

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Distance.doesn’t.matter.in.friendship

Have you ever had a friend that no matter how long its been since you’ve seen them, it’s like you never missed a beat?

Stephen and I had the opportunity this past week-end to hang out with our friend Kevin, a Rutherford Countian who entered the Navy just a few weeks after our high school graduation in 1995 and hasn’t lived here since.

Stephen and Kevin have been best friends since fifth grade – Kevin jokes he’s the reason Stephen didn’t get beaten up more in elemen-tary school. Seeing the strap-ping man Kevin’s grown into – I feel extremely short next to his towering six foot self – I can believe it.

I entered the friendship picture when I met them both my freshman year of high school. I think Kevin and I at first became close because I had a mad crush on his best friend, but as time went on, he became a best friend for so much more than that.

When I’d had a bad day, I could always call Kevin. Not that I couldn’t call Stephen – he just didn’t really (and still doesn’t) like to talk on the phone. Kevin, on the other hand, would listen to me whine and complain and talk about whatever came to mind ..... often until 3 in the morning. And I’d reciprocate for him.

In June 1995 when he left home, I was crushed. I think I knew even then that he’d never come back to Rutherford County. The phone calls were less frequent since he was in Chicago for boot camp, but letters became more fre-quent.

And it never failed that if I woke up with Kevin on my mind, I’d have a letter in the mailbox from him that day.

As years passed, I went off to college and got mar-ried. Kevin met a girl on the West Coast and married too. But we all still kept in touch as often as possible. I used to fuss he didn’t call me enough, to which he’d reply “The phone works both ways.”

Last Thursday when he got into town, I was a little nervous. Not seeing a friend in a while can be scary – we live in completely different worlds, and what if we had nothing to talk about?

I should’ve known better. The three of us spent

Friday night hanging out not unlike we did in high school. And we talked about every-thing from our marriages and our children, to people we went to high school with, religion, politics and more.

I was happy to see that differences in geography haven’t changed any of us.

And while the miles sepa-rate us, the distance is bridged by a friendship that will last a lifetime.

Flynn is The Daily Courier’s life-styles editor. Contact her via e-mail at aflynn@thedigitalcourier.com.

With one eye on heritage and the other focused on the future, the 14 founding members of the Capt. George Dickey chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution stepped into history them-selves on Aug. 10 with the chartering of Rutherford County’s first

SAR group.Rutherford County’s links to the American Revolution

are strong in a historical sense, and the area has had a Daughters of the American Revolution chapter for many years. But the Capt. George Dickey chapter drew the

attention of national representatives from the SAR as one of a very few new chapters formed.

When the group held its charter ceremony at Hickory Log restaurant earlier this month, dignitaries from across the region arrived.

SAR officials in attendance included Tim Berly, presi-dent of the Mecklenburg chapter; Dr. Sam Powell of the North Carolina Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (NCSSAR); Paul Callahan, Foothills District vice president NCSSAR and the Rev. A. Clark Wiser, chap-lain general of the National SAR, among others.

For co-founders Jim Brewer and Robin Lattimore, the desire to start a chapter had been brewing for some time.

“Long before I retired I had wondered why there was no SAR Chapter in a county so rich in Revolutionary History,” Brewer said. “I had sent e-mails to a couple SAR Chapters but received no reply. Having no SAR chapter to vent my desire in I started researching for DAR members. After I had processed five DAR applications I was in a conversa-tion with Alice Bradley of the Old Tryon Genealogy Society when the subject of forming a chapter of the SAR was discussed, no more was said about it for some time. One day Alice called me and wanted me to meet with Robin Lattimore. I met with him and later discussed the proposal with Alice. At that point I was convinced to take on the huge task of forming a chapter. Not a decision to be made lightly.”

Lattimore also had some previous experience with the SAR, just not with a county chapter.

“For a number of years I had visited with the Blue Ridge Chapter in Hendersonville but had not completed my application for membership simply because I wanted my membership to be representative of Rutherford County’s role in the Revolutionary War,” County Historian

Lattimore said. “The guys in Hendersonville were great, but I wanted my membership in the

SAR to be a little closer to home.”Once the two men started working together, they

began putting together a list of charter members. The first 14 were: James E. Brewer, Lonnie C. Ray

Rickey M. Jay, Larry Van Lattimore, Robin S. Lattimore, Rodney S. Lattimore, John B. Taylor Jr., William S.

Wilkins, Chivous O. Bradley, Daniel Lee Wilkins, Phillip Ray, Reginald S. Horrell, the Rev. Robert Lair and Charles Eric Foster.

“I recruited two men from my previous DAR searches and the brother of one of these men to be charter members,” Brewer said. “That gave us nine applicants, counting me that was 10, which is the exact number needed to make application for chapter charter. Then we picked up one other existing SAR member to transfer in. That put us

over the top plus one. As the time for our Charter Signing approached, I recruited three other existing members as char-

ter members.”But before membership is approved, applicants must be able

to prove their lineage with a direct bloodline to a man who fought

Representatives from the Mecklenburg Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution were in attendance for the charter ceremony for the Capt. George Dickey chapter of the SAR in Rutherford County. Below, Tim Berly, president of the Mecklenburg Chapter of the NCSSAR, showcases his historically accurate reproduction of a Revolutionary War era rifle com-plete with bayonette.

Text and photos by Scott Baughman

Please see SAR, Page 8B

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The following land transactions were recently recorded at the Rutherford County Register of Deeds Office. The dollar amount is the deed stamps recorded, with $2 representing each $1,000 of property value.

Jeffrey Scott Ford exer, Augustus Eugene Ford estate by exer to John Campbell Meador, Lisa Jane Meador; Rutherfordton Township; lot 6, Ruth Levi property; $53.

Reynaldo Sanchez Gloria Sanchez to Madel Refugio E. Valazquez; Cool Springs Township; lot 41, Erlanger Mills; $3.

Jerry Lee Thomas by aif, Chad Newbold aif, Beverly A. Thomas by aif to Mac and Marcus Partners LLC; Chimney Rock Township; build-ing 5, unit 16, phase V, Fairways of the Mountains; $1.

Fall Creek Land Company Inc. to Jessica M Embleton; Golden Valley Township; lot 4, South Mountain Peaks Phase 6; $57.

Firefly Cove Development LLC to Michael Quest, Sharlin Quest; Chimney Rock Township; unit 101 Firefly Lodge; $608.

John D. Styles, Mary S. Styles to Michael Robert Ruff; Green Hill Township; 2.25 acres; $184.

Estates at Greenhill LLC to Mario L. Molina Pino, Olga Lidia Ramirez; lot 43, Estates at Greenhill; $50.

Estates at Greenhill LLC to Mario L. Molina Pino, Olga Lidia Ramirez; lot 44, Estates at Greenhill;

$50.Estates at Greenhill

LLC to Mario Del Pilar Lopez; lot 29, Estates at Greenhill; $54.

James Albert Beheler, Carol Beheler, James Jered Beheler, Julia Diane Price Dobbins by heirs to James Jered Beheler; Union Township; lot 10, Lawson Allen; $120.

Fairfield Mountains Property Owners Association Inc to Kevin Scott Johnson, Melissa Ann Johnson; Chimney Rock Township; lot 94 and 95 Quail Ridge; $60.

David H. Roach, Janet S. Roach to James R. Morgan, Sandra W. Morgan; Sulphur Springs; 14,365 acres; $240.

Neils W. Lausten, Solveig Lausten to Donald Crissey, Mary Crissey; Chimnney Rock Township; 1.00 acre; $780.

John Witcher Walker, Virginia G. Walker to Lynda W. Widener, Harold D. Widener; Rutherfordton Township; 7.24 acres; $86.

Ronald E. Jenkins, to Robert S. Smith, Chery L. Smith; Colfax Township; lot 1-8 PB 29/190’ $106.

Black Rock Land Company LLC to Mark Taylor, Laura Taylor; Green Hill Township; lot 39, phase 11, Black Rock Falls; $60.

Black Rock Land Company LLC to Mark Taylor, Laura Taylor; Green Hill Township; lot 40, phase 11, Black Rock Falls; $40.

Cliffside DG LLC to Jolu Inc.; High Shoals Township; 1.310 acres; $1,780.

Brian S. White, Linda B. White to Marcel

Akuneme, Dawne Akuneme; Cool Springs Township; 0.91 acre; $636.

JSBC Mortgage Services Inc. to CFA M INc; Rutherfordton Township; 4.4 acres; $348.

Spencer Carpenter, Karen Carpenter to Brian Krietmeyer; Logan Store Township; 1.21 acres; $10.

Ronald W. Walkup, Cynthia M. Walkup to Shanda A. Martens; Rutherfordton Township; $455.

Fall Creek Land Company Inc. to Jess V. Rivera, Rosemary Valentin; Golden Valley Township; lot 171, phase 7, South Mountain Peaks; $140.

Jerry Steve Hall, Lori H. Hall to Marvin Kent Hall; Camp Creek Township; property on w/s New Hwy. 221 and e/s Old Hwy. 221; $158.

Faye C. Johnson Hassell, Thomas S. Hassell to John D. Styles, Mary S.Styles; Green Hill Township; 1.79 acres; $4.

Faye C. Johnson Hassell, Thomas S. Hassell, Carrol Mathiew Calhoun, Moletia Calhoun to John D. Styles, Mary S. Styles; Green Hill Township; 39-4/10 acres; $156.

Bruce H. Avey, Debbie H. Avey to Brian Lee Bradley; Rutherfordton Township; lot 6-8 PB 2/66 s/s Green Street; $8.

Dan Lloyd to Christina C. Bogan, Shane L. Bogan; Rutherfordton Township; property on w/s Poors Ford Road; $282.

H&R Real Estate Investments LLC to Thomas P. Moore; High Shoals Township;

6.29 acres; $113.Black Rock Land

Co., LLC to Gregory D. Duckworth, Christine M. Duckworth; Green Hill Township; lot 4, phase 1, Black Rock Falls; $29.

Phillip G. Smith, Kay N. Smith to Glenreid Farm II LLC; Sulphur Springs Township; 64.37 acres and 2.90 acres; $1,077.

Richard J. Zaintz, Alison G. Zaintz to Manuel F. Britt, Rosemarie Britt; Chimney Rock Township; lot 10, Piney Ridge Acres; $426.

Mary Humphries Williams by AIF, Nancy Williams Lail AIF to C. Carlisle, Kathleen S. Whitlock; Green Hill Township; 23.05 acres; $300.

Alvin Ray Williams, Cathy S. Williams to D. Carlisle, Kathleen S. Whitlock; Green Hill township; 53.66 acres; $906.

William P. Mohle, Judy C. Mohle to Willaim Sterling Jr., Loreen Whitton; Chimney Rock township; lot 343, Riverbend Highlands; $60.

Would like to share with you the work on-going at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) and its connection to Rutherford County. The Center was developed in 1994 by North Carolina State University, North Carolina A&T State University and the North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services near Goldsboro, North Carolina. Located as part of the CEFS is an Organic Research Unit occu-pying 100+ acres. The Organic Research Unit works to facilitate opportunities for North Carolina agribusinesses to take advantage of expanding organic markets.

Currently, Dr. Chris Reberg-Horton, Extension Crop Science Specialist, is working on weed management in organic soybeans, introducing legume cover crops into corn- soybean-wheat rota-tions, reducing tillage in organic systems, and allelopathic cover crop systems at the Organic Unit.

Dr. Reberg-Horton works with organic field crops, particularly corn, soybeans and wheat.

Organic wholesale buyers in this state are purchasing an estimated 1 million bushels of these crops, primarily from other states. North Carolina was the leading producer

of organic eggs in 2005 and the industry continues to grow. An increasing number of farmers are trying to enter this new market and are working with N.C. State researchers and county agents to identify the production challenges across the state.

The Rutherford Extension Center will be hosting an Organic Grain Interest Meeting on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 from 5-7 pm at the Rutherford County Annex.

The program will focus on Small-Scale Organic Grain Production, Marketing Opportunities and steps towards Organic Certification and will be highlighting the North Carolina Organic Bread Flour Project. Guest speakers will be Dr. Chris Reberg-Horton, Molly Hamilton and Jennifer Lapidus from the NC Organic Bread Flour Project.

For further information and reg-istration contact the Rutherford County Extension Center at (828) 287-6011.

Jan McGuinn

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ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — Tourists hurry inside a shop here to buy books about the famed Navajo Code Talkers, warriors who used their native lan-guage as their primary weapon.

Outside, on a walk sheltered from the sun, nine of the Code Talkers sit at a table autographing the books. Each is an old man now. They wear similar caps and shirts, the scarlet and gold of the Marine Corps, and turquoise jewelry.

One of these men, who signs his name as Cpl. Chester Nez, is distinguished from the others. Below his signa-ture, he jots down why: 1st Original 29.

Before hundreds of Code Talkers were recruited from the Navajo Nation to join the elite unit, 29 Navajos were recruited to develop the code — based on the then-unwritten Navajo lan-guage — that would confound Japanese military cryptologists and help win World War II.

Of the Original 29, only three survive. Nez is one.

The Code Talkers took part in every assault the Marines conducted in the Pacific, sending thousands of mes-sages without error on Japanese troop move-ments, battlefield tac-tics and other com-munications critical to the war’s ultimate outcome.

“It’s one of the great-est parts of history that we used our own native language during World War II,” Nez said in an interview with The Associated Press. “We’re very proud of it.”

Nez tells the story succinctly. He is the last of the original group able to do so.

One can hardly speak or hear and the memo-ry of the third is severe-ly tested by Alzheimer’s disease.

The 89-year-old Nez is limited, too. He is in a wheelchair after dia-betes led to the ampu-tation of both legs. These days, he’d rather “just sit around, take it easy,” he said.

As a boy, Nez lived in a traditional Navajo home and helped his family tend to sheep in Two Wells on the eastern side of the vast 27,000 square-mile reservation.

He played with matchbox toy cars, went barefoot, and spoke only his native language. That changed when he was sent to one of the boarding schools set up by the federal gov-ernment to assimilate American Indian chil-dren into the broader culture.

At boarding school, Nez said he had his mouth washed out with soap for speak-ing Navajo — ironic indeed, considering the vital role that the unique language — and Nez — would come to play.

Nez was in 10th grade when a Marine recruiter came looking for young Navajos who were fluent in Navajo and English to serve in World War II. He jumped at the chance to defend his country, and to leave board-ing school. He kept the decision to enlist a secret from his family and lied about his age, as did many others.

“I told my roommate, ’Let’s try it out,’ and that’s what we did,” Nez said. “One reason we joined is the uniform — they were so pretty, dress uniforms.”

About 250 Navajos showed up at Fort Defiance, Ariz., then

a U.S. Army base. But only 29 were selected to join the first all-Native American unit of Marines. They were inducted in May 1942.

After basic training, the 382nd Platoon was tasked with developing the code.

There Nez met Allen Dale June and Lloyd Oliver, among the others. Using Navajo words for red soil, war chief, clan, braided hair, beads, ant and hummingbird, for example, they came up with a glossary of more than 200 terms, later expanded, and an alphabet.

At first, Nez said, the concern was whether or not the code could work. Then it proved impenetrable. “The Japanese did every-thing in their power to break the code but they never did,” he said.

Nez no longer remem-bers the code in its entirety, but easily switches from English to Navajo to repeat one instruction he deliv-ered during fighting on Guadalcanal.

“I always remember

this one,” Nez said. “’Enemy machine gun on your right flank, destroy!”’

The Navajos trained in radio communica-tions were walking cop-ies of the code. Each message read aloud by a Code Talker was immediately destroyed.

“When you’re involved in the world of cryptol-ogy, you not only have to provide informa-tion, you have to pro-

tect that,” said Patrick Weadon, curator of the National Cryptologic Museum. “And there’s no better example than the Navajo Code Talkers during World War II.”

The Code Talkers were constantly on the move, often from foxhole to foxhole. Nez had a close call in Guam with a sniper’s bullet that whizzed past his head and

struck a palm tree.Once while running

a message, Nez and his partner were mistaken for Japanese soldiers and were threatened at gunpoint until a Marine lieutenant cleared up the confu-sion, his son, Michael, said.

“Of course Dad couldn’t tell them he was a Code Talker,”

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orders not to discuss their roles — not during the war and not until their mission was declassified 23 years later.

In 2001 Nez, Dale and June traveled aboard the same plane to Washington, D.C., to receive the Congressional Gold Medal. The recogni-tion, which they didn’t receive when they returned home from

war, propelled them to a sort of celebrity status, along with the release of a movie based on the Code Talkers the following year

They appeared on tele-vision, rode on floats in parades and were asked to speak to veterans groups and students.

Nez threw the opening pitch at a 2004 Major League Baseball game and blessed the presidential campaign of John Kerry. Oliver traveled with other Code Talkers as guests of honor in the nation’s largest Veterans Day parade in New York last year.

When residents of Longmont, Colo., heard that June and his wife did not have a permanent home, they raised money to buy one for the couple.

The last three survivors of the Original 29 don’t live on the Navajo Nation, where they are celebrated with a tribal holiday. They won-

der about each other, but it’s unlikely they’ll reunite again.

After World War II, Nez volunteered to serve two more years during the Korean War and retired in 1974 after a 25-year career as a painter at the Veterans hos-pital in Albuquerque.

June, 88, has spent the past few weeks in and out of hospitals in Wyoming and Arizona, and requires round-the-clock care. His third wife, Virginia, calls herself “the charm” and the protector of an endangered species.

She’s a walking promo-tion for him and the Marine Corps, yet she’s careful of how much she says because he thinks it is unwelcome bragging.

Oliver’s wife, Lucille, echoes similar sentiments about her husband. Oliver displayed few reminders in what, until earlier this year, was his home on the Yavapai Indian reservation in Camp Verde, Ariz. — a few framed pic-tures, a Marine cap above his bedroom window and a U.S. flag above the doorway.

“He just put the past behind him, I guess,” she says.

Oliver, 87, speaks audibly but his words are difficult to understand. His hearing is impaired and he prefers not to have a hearing aid.

Both June and Oliver had brothers who later served as Code Talkers.

Nez tells the tourists seek-ing autographs in that he’s part of the Original 29, but few appear to grasp what that means.

“Most of them,” he says of the tourists, “they just thank me for what we did.”

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IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICEOF NORTH CAROLINA

SUPERIOR COURT DIVISIONRUTHERFORD COUNTY

10 sp 352 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY THEODORE W. JOHNSTON AND DEBORAH M. JOHNSTON DATED MAY 16, 2005 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 841 AT PAGE 284 IN THE RUTHERFORD COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA

NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:00 AM on September 7, 2010 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Lying and being in Camp Creek Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being the northern portion of the property described in that deed recorded in Book 409 at Page 674, Rutherford County Registry and being more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows:

Beginning at a railroad spike in the center of Centennial Road, being State Secondary Road No. 1504, also being the beginning point in the above referenced deed, and running thence South 18-04-17 East 270.00 feet to an iron pin; thence North 89-40-24 West 241.81 feet to an iron pin; thence North 11-46-16 East 254.80 feet to a railroad spike in the center of Centennial Road; thence with the center of said road as it curves South 85-41-27 53.45 feet and North 79-23-49 East 53.70 feet to the Point of Beginning.

The above legal description being the same as the last Deed of record, no boundary survey having been made at the time of this conveyance.

And Being more commonly known as: 109 Miller Hill Ln, Union Mills, NC 28167

The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Theodore W. Johnston and Deborah M. Johnston. The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the landlord. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. The date of this Notice is August 17, 2010. Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. EllsSubstitute Trustee10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400Charlotte, NC 28216(704) 333-8107http://shapiroattorneys.com/nc/10-000782

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10sp283 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY RONNIE W. SIMMONS AND JANE D. SIMMONS DATED MARCH 15, 2008 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 999 AT PAGE 828 IN THE RUTHERFORD COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA

NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:00 AM on September 7, 2010 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: The land referred to in this exhibit is located in the County of Rutherford and the State of North Carolina in Deed Book 809 at Page 48 and described as follows:

All that certain Lot or parcel of land situated in the City of Forest City, High Shoals Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows:

Situate, lying and being in High Shoals Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina and being all that Lot and parcel of land as shown as a 7.2 acre parcel on a Plat for Linda J. Simmons by Deaton Land Surveyors, Inc., dated September 30, 1997 and duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rutherford County, North Carolina in Plat Book 18 at Page 61, to which reference is hereby made for a more MI and complete description.

And Being more commonly known as: 2099 Chase High Rd, 2101 Chase High Rd, Forest City, NC 28043

The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Ronnie W. Simmons. The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or 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. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the landlord. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. The date of this Notice is August 17, 2010.

/s/___________________________ Grady I. Ingle Or Elizabeth B. EllsSubstitute Trustee10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400Charlotte, NC 28216(704) 333-8107http://shapiroattorneys.com/nc/10-004931

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF RUTHERFORD

NOTICE

The undersigned, having qualified as Executor of the Estateof Leon Buren Mauney, late of Rutherford County, NorthCarolina, this is to notify all persons having claims againstsaid estate to present them to the undersigned on or beforeDecember 1, 2010, or this Notice will be plead in bar of theirrecovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please makeimmediate payment to the undersigned. This the 1st day of September, 2010.

Patricia Mauney Craft - Executor196 Park Pointe WayHuntington, WV 25701

Elizabeth T. Miller - AttorneyPO Box 800Rutherfordton, NC 28139(828) 286-8222

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Having qualified as Executor of the estate of LIONELSCRUGGS of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is tonotify all persons having claims against the estate of the saidLIONEL SCRUGGS to present them to the undersigned on orbefore the 11th day of November, 2010 or the same will bepleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to saidestate will please make immediate payment.

This is the 11th day of August, 2010.

Barbara Bridges, Executor3336 Bridges Lake Rd.Mooresboro, NC 28114

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Having qualified as Executor of the estate of BETTY J. TATEof Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify allpersons having claims against the estate of the said BETTYJ. TATE to present them to the undersigned on or before the1st day of December, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in barof their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate willplease make immediate payment. This is the 1st day of September, 2010.

Leonard E. Tate, ExecutorPO Box 1287Ellenboro, NC 28040

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fought in the American Revolution.“Forming a new chapter is very

labor intensive and requires a lot of planning and homework,” Lattimore said. “The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution is one of the oldest and most respected lineage societies in this country. Accordingly, they require that all genealogical information is accurate and that extensive documentation (birth certificates, death certificates, Bible records, pension records, patri-ot index information, etc.) be sup-plied for each generation that links the applicant to a Patriot ancestor.”

Both co-founders have tracked their own ancestry extensively to show connections. Lattimore has deep links to the fight for American independence in the county.

“My family’s interest in becom-ing members of the SAR stems from our deep connection to Rutherford County’s Revolutionary War his-tory,” Lattimore said. “My father, twin brother and I are direct descen-dants of two Patriots who were pres-ent at the Battle of Kings Mountain – John Lattimore and Col. Andrew Hampton. Col. Hampton was the commander of the Rutherford County Troops at the Battle of Kings Mountain on Oct. 7, 1780. He was also present at the Battle of Cowpens and is documented as lending sup-port to the Relief of Charleston, S.C., in 1780. During the Revolutionary War he was elected Sheriff of Rutherford County, an office he held from 1781 until 1784.”

Brewer’s research goes far beyond the founding of the Republic. “My roots go back to 1743 in this county and I am well versed on it’s history from my ancestor’s perspec-tive,” Brewer said.

“At the time Alice approached me I was in the process of writing/rewrit-ing a book on my family and their history in the county for the third time, (third edition). A love for writ-ing and research is of the utmost importance to any project of this nature. I have established one line from 33 BC to present day.”

While the SAR is mostly a heri-tage organization, the group also is involved in service projects and edu-

cation efforts in their community.“Today much of our history is

being misdirected or deleted from our children’s education,” Brewer said. “Soon we will have no sense of who we are and how we came to be. We, therefore, must through our actions, our writings and our public events rekindle that spark that our forefathers turned into a roar-ing flame, not so long ago and not so far away. How many people realize that it was our ancestors from this very spot on earth broke the back of the mightiest military force on the face of the earth at that time and as result gave us the freedom we enjoy, the constitution and bill of rights?”

Lattimore agreed and pointed to importance of learning Revolutionary War history for all seg-ments of America. Many ethnic groups have representation in the SAR chapters, includ-ing African-American, Hispanic, French Creole and others.

“Promoting our Revolutionary War history and celebrat-ing the contribu-tions of our Patriot ancestors has always been important,” Lattimore said. “And I think that importance will never fade. Less than 5 percent of the men living in the United States today can claim direct connection to a Patriot who gave service to the cause of freedom during the Revolutionary War. While that fact is very hum-bling for men in the SAR, joining the organization is not about prestige. Joining the SAR doesn’t make a man more special than anyone else on the street. It simply means that he is willing to shoulder the responsibility of promoting our history and making new generations aware of our noble past.”

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