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C M Y K SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 2010 (252) 436-2700 www.hendersondispatch.com 50 cents Volume XCVI, No. 8 SWEEPSTAKES MACHINE TAX VOTE IN OXFORD LOCAL NEWS, PAGE 8A FINDING GOD AT ANGOLA, LA. FAITH, PAGE 1C NORTHERN WRESTLING FALLS TO CHAPEL HILL SPORTS, PAGE 1B Our Hometown 2A Business & Farm 5A Opinion 6A Light Side 7A Sports 1-4B Faith 1-4C Comics 5C Classifieds 6-8C Index Obituaries, 4A Deaths Clarksville, Va. Jackie R Terry, 53 Far Rockaway, N.Y. Charles Boben, 86 Henderson William J Arnold, 71 Edith B South, 91 Newport News, Va. Callie E Mitchell, 75 Oxford Stuart Vaughan, 73 Warrenton Sarah F Neal, 64 Washington, D.C. Bernard Bullock, 53 Wise Blanca Cervantes, 28 Details, 3A Weather SUNDAY Sunny High: 35 Low: 17 Mostly sunny High: 34 Low: 19 TODAY Pat and Juanita Currin Currins will do ‘whatever is right’ for granddaughter BY WILLIAM F. WEST DAILY DISPATCH WRITER OXFORD — Pat Currin said that for he and his wife, Juanita, testifying on the witness stand to obtain full custody of 6-year-old Haley Morris was a hard experience. But, Pat Currin said that, “We absolutely felt that we were doing what we have to do for the child. And that’s what we’re com- mitted to do, whatever is right for her.” The couple Thursday received complete respon- sibility for the child, who is the daughter of Pat Cur- rin’s slain daughter, Kelly Currin Morris. Juanita Currin is Kelly Currin Morris’ stepmother. The couple had obtained emergency custody of the child before her father, Scott Morris, was booked and jailed Nov. 17 on a Custody hearing difficult BY DAVID IRVINE DAILY DISPATCH WRITER The N.C. Division of Public Health warns that the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic is not over. In fact, it may be picking up speed. “If typical seasonal flu trends hold true this year, we can antici- pate another increase in flu cases this winter and into the spring,” State Epidemiologist Megan Davies said. “H1N1 has been any- thing but typical, so it is difficult to know how long this pandemic will last.” Supplies of vaccines, which ran short in the fall, are now available in the area, making it possible for people who missed getting vaccinated earlier to take that important step to protect their health. The Granville-Vance Area Dis- trict Health Department offers flu vaccination clinics each Friday from 1 to 4 p.m. Both H1N1 vac- cine and seasonal flu vaccine are available. The vaccinations may be obtained at either of the depart- ment’s facilities — 101 Hunt Drive in Oxford or 115 Charles D. Rollins Road in Henderson. Health Director Dr. Roddy Drake says that both vaccines are recommended for anyone 6 months of age and older. Earlier guidelines restricting vaccines to priority groups have been discontinued. The flu mist is also available for healthy individuals 2 to 49 years of age. Drake added that a person, whose schedule makes a Friday afternoon visit to the flu clinic im- possible, may come in at another time. “We don’t turn anyone away,” DAILY DISPATCH/ASHLEY STEVEN AYSCUE John R. Lowery Sr., 72, looks away as nurse practitioner Mishew Gardner administers an H1N1 shot at the Vance County Health Department Friday afternoon during a walk-in clinic. Authorities were responding to automobile wrecks as a result of icy conditions in the Tri-County area, including this accident Friday morning along US 158/Oxford Loop near the intersection of Salem Road, above The state Highway Patrol said Nora Towler was driving the 1996 Chevrolet Blazer west when she lost control and the vehicle overturned Towler, 55, of 5517 Antioch Road, Oxford, was not charged with any offense and sustained only minor injuries At right, a North Carolina Department of Transportation truck spreads a mixture of sand and salt on the road surface as it travels along Coopers Grove Road around 8:30 am Friday School was delayed for two hours after a winter storm moved through the area dropping a hint of snow and a little rain causing a few slick spots for morning travelers New supplies of flu vaccines ready at health departments Old auto dealership on Raleigh Road home to enterprise BY WILLIAM F. WEST DAILY DISPATCH WRITER A Vance County man plans to open a sports bar and lounge at 419 Raleigh Road. “This has been in the works for quite a while,” Danny Charles Finch Jr. told the Zoning Board of Adjustment in successfully obtaining a special use permit for the business, which will be at what was Alliance Supercenter. “We’re trying to make a com- munity felt place, where you can still relax, get away from the day, get away from the week,” Finch said. “It’s going to be somewhere for you to go sit back, have a beverage, have something to eat, play a couple of games, talk to people.” Finch said plans include bring- ing in national recording artists and having outdoor festivals. Standing alongside Finch was Phillip Hill, of Warren County and who additionally will be in- volved in operating the business. Finch, under questioning from the Board of Adjustment, said a former local law enforcement officer will be head of security. Additionally, Finch said he and Hill will provide security and are planning to hire at least two more security guards, each of whom would rotate in and out. On weekends and when there is potentially a packed house, all Sports bar gets permit DAILY DISPATCH/WILLIAM F. WEST DAILY DISPATCH/ASHLEY STEVEN AYSCUE Slipin’ and slidin’ through the Tri-County area FROM STAFF REPORTS The second annual Weight Loss Challenge has been an- nounced by Eat Smart, Move More (ESMM) of Granville- Vance. Participation in the program can help people with good intentions but wavering determination stay true to their New Year resolutions. The 10-week program begins with a weigh-in during the week of Jan. 11-15. It ends with a weigh-out during the week of March 22-26. To be eligible for prizes, participants must weigh in at an official site and weigh out at the same site. Registration packets may be picked up until Jan. 15 at any of the following sites: • Granville County Health Department, 101 Hunt Drive, Oxford. • Vance County Health De- partment, 115 Charles D. Rollins Road, Henderson. • Front desk, Granville Medical Center, 1010 College St., Oxford. • Front desk, South Granville Medical Center, 1614 N. Hwy. 56, Creedmoor. • Front desk, Maria Parham Medical Center, 566 Ruin Creek Road, Henderson. Eat Smart, Move More challenge begins next week PLEASE SEE CHALLENGE, PAGE 8A PLEASE SEE CUSTODY, PAGE 8A PLEASE SEE VACCINES, PAGE 4A PLEASE SEE BAR, PAGE 3A BY DISPATCH STAFF A 29-year-old Henderson man has been arrested during an in- vestigation of drug trafficking in the 400 block of John Street. According to police, after a foot chase a suspect was detained. A search of the suspect turned up an amount of heroin. In connection with the investi- gation, the Henderson Police De- partment Narcotics Unit charged Justin Rashad Williams of 1114 Washington St. with: • Possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver heroin. • Manufacture of heroin. • Assault on a government official. • Resisting, delaying and obstructing a law enforcement officer. Williams is being held in the Vance County jail in lieu of $30,000 bond, pending a hearing Feb. 15 in Vance County District Court. The investigation was initiated after citizens complained of drug activity, police said. Send comments to news@henderson- dispatchcom Arrest on drugs charges
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Currins will do‘whatever is right’for granddaughter
By WILLIAM F. WESTDaiLy DisPatch writer
OXFORD — Pat Currin said that for he and his wife, Juanita, testifying on the witness stand to obtain full custody of 6-year-old Haley Morris was a hard experience.
But, Pat Currin said that, “We absolutely felt that we were doing what we have to do for the child. And that’s what we’re com-mitted to do, whatever is right for her.”
The couple Thursday received complete respon-sibility for the child, who is the daughter of Pat Cur-rin’s slain daughter, Kelly Currin Morris. Juanita Currin is Kelly Currin Morris’ stepmother.
The couple had obtained emergency custody of the child before her father, Scott Morris, was booked and jailed Nov. 17 on a
Custodyhearingdifficult
By DAVID IRVINEDaiLy DisPatch writer
The N.C. Division of Public Health warns that the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic is not over. In fact, it may be picking up speed.
“If typical seasonal flu trends hold true this year, we can antici-pate another increase in flu cases this winter and into the spring,” State Epidemiologist Megan Davies said. “H1N1 has been any-thing but typical, so it is difficult to know how long this pandemic will last.”
Supplies of vaccines, which
ran short in the fall, are now available in the area, making it possible for people who missed getting vaccinated earlier to take that important step to protect their health.
The Granville-Vance Area Dis-trict Health Department offers flu vaccination clinics each Friday from 1 to 4 p.m. Both H1N1 vac-cine and seasonal flu vaccine are available.
The vaccinations may be obtained at either of the depart-ment’s facilities — 101 Hunt Drive in Oxford or 115 Charles D. Rollins Road in Henderson.
Health Director Dr. Roddy Drake says that both vaccines are recommended for anyone 6 months of age and older. Earlier guidelines restricting vaccines to priority groups have been discontinued. The flu mist is also available for healthy individuals 2 to 49 years of age.
Drake added that a person, whose schedule makes a Friday afternoon visit to the flu clinic im-possible, may come in at another time.
“We don’t turn anyone away,”
DaiLy DisPatch/ASHLEY STEVEN AYSCUE
John R. Lowery Sr., 72, looks away as nurse practitioner Mishew Gardner administers an H1N1 shot at the Vance County Health Department Friday afternoon during a walk-in clinic.
Authorities were responding to automobile wrecks as a result of icy conditions in the Tri-County area, including this accident Friday morning along U .S . 158/Oxford Loop near the intersection of Salem Road, above . The state Highway Patrol said Nora Towler was driving the 1996 Chevrolet Blazer west when she lost control and the vehicle overturned . Towler, 55, of 5517 Antioch Road, Oxford, was not charged with any offense and sustained only minor injuries . At right, a North Carolina Department of Transportation truck spreads a mixture of sand and salt on the road surface as it travels along Coopers Grove Road around 8:30 a .m . Friday . School was delayed for two hours after a winter storm moved through the area dropping a hint of snow and a little rain causing a few slick spots for morning travelers .
New supplies of flu vaccinesready at health departments
Old auto dealershipon Raleigh Roadhome to enterprise
By WILLIAM F. WESTDaiLy DisPatch writer
A Vance County man plans to open a sports bar and lounge at 419 Raleigh Road.
“This has been in the works for quite a while,” Danny Charles Finch Jr. told the Zoning Board of Adjustment in successfully obtaining a special use permit for the business, which will be at what was Alliance Supercenter.
“We’re trying to make a com-munity felt place, where you can still relax, get away from the day, get away from the week,” Finch said. “It’s going to be somewhere for you to go sit back, have a beverage, have something to eat, play a couple of games, talk to people.”
Finch said plans include bring-ing in national recording artists and having outdoor festivals.
Standing alongside Finch was Phillip Hill, of Warren County and who additionally will be in-volved in operating the business.
Finch, under questioning from the Board of Adjustment, said a former local law enforcement officer will be head of security. Additionally, Finch said he and Hill will provide security and are planning to hire at least two more security guards, each of whom would rotate in and out.
On weekends and when there is potentially a packed house, all
Sportsbar getspermit
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DaiLy DisPatch/ASHLEY STEVEN AYSCUE
Slipin’ and slidin’ through the Tri-County area
FRoM STAFF REPoRTS
The second annual Weight Loss Challenge has been an-nounced by Eat Smart, Move More (ESMM) of Granville-Vance. Participation in the program can help people with good intentions but wavering determination stay true to their New Year resolutions.
The 10-week program begins with a weigh-in during the week
of Jan. 11-15. It ends with a weigh-out during the week of March 22-26. To be eligible for prizes, participants must weigh in at an official site and weigh out at the same site.
Registration packets may be picked up until Jan. 15 at any of the following sites:
• Granville County Health Department, 101 Hunt Drive, Oxford.
• Vance County Health De-
partment, 115 Charles D. Rollins Road, Henderson.
• Front desk, Granville Medical Center, 1010 College St., Oxford.
• Front desk, South Granville Medical Center, 1614 N. Hwy. 56, Creedmoor.
• Front desk, Maria Parham Medical Center, 566 Ruin Creek Road, Henderson.
Eat Smart, Move More challenge begins next week
PLEASE SEE CHALLENGE, PAGE 8A
PLEASE SEE CUSTODY, PAGE 8A PLEASE SEE VACCINES, PAGE 4A
PLEASE SEE BAR, PAGE 3A
By DISPATCH STAFF
A 29-year-old Henderson man has been arrested during an in-vestigation of drug trafficking in the 400 block of John Street.
According to police, after a foot chase a suspect was detained. A search of the suspect turned up an amount of heroin.
In connection with the investi-gation, the Henderson Police De-partment Narcotics Unit charged Justin Rashad Williams of 1114 Washington St. with:
• Possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver heroin.
• Manufacture of heroin.• Assault on a government
official.• Resisting, delaying and
obstructing a law enforcement officer.
Williams is being held in the Vance County jail in lieu of $30,000 bond, pending a hearing Feb. 15 in Vance County District Court.
The investigation was initiated after citizens complained of drug activity, police said.
Send comments to news@henderson-dispatch .com .
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toDayScholarship dance — The Badd Boyz And Lady Badd Boyz
Social Club will sponsor a Dr. Martin Luther King Scholarship Dance at The Pride Of Vance Elks Lodge from 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. A donation of $10 is requested at the door. All donations go toward the scholarship fund. For more information, contact Barbara Dunston at (252) 430-6081.
Dee’s Music Barn — Dee’s Music Barn, 3101 Walters Road, Creedmoor, will be featuring Ace in the Hole with James Potreat at 7 p.m. For more information, call (919) 528-5878.
Community dance — The Epsom Country Club will sponsor a community dance starting at 7 p.m., featuring live music. For more information and directions, contact Curtis Strickland at 492-6834.
Ridgeway Opry House — Performing are Julia Morton, Jackie Turner, Joyce Chisenhall, Ronald Puett, Donnie Gillam, Matt Nelson, Evylena Norwood, Freida & Delores, Allen & Betsy Reid and The Home Folks. Guest Band: Tri-County Blue Grass. Doors open at 6 p.m. Music starts at 7 p.m.
Blood drive — The American Red Cross will sponsor a blood drive at First Baptist Church in Butner from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity — The brothers of the Rho Beta Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. of Hender-son will meet at the Western Sizzlin, 619 Ruin Creek Road, at 3 p.m. Special guest will be Betty Marrow, mother of the 2008 March of Dimes Poster Child, who is a native of Vance County and a teacher in Durham. All Alphas in the Tri-County area are invited to attend, in addition to anyone interested in the March of Dimes.
City Council — The Henderson City Council will meet at 6 p.m. in the City Council Chambers of City Hall, 134 Rose Ave.
Board of Education — The Granville County Board of Edu-cation will meet at 6 p.m. at the school district’s central office, 101 Delacroix St., Oxford.
Granville Board of Education — The Granville County Board of Education will meet in regular session at 6 p.m. at the Granville County Board of Education Administrative Offices, 101 Delacroix St., Oxford.
Vance Board of Education — The Vance County Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. in the Administrative Services Center Board Room, 1724 Graham Ave.
Recycling meeting — The Granville County Citizens’ Ad-visory Committee for Environmental Affairs will meet from 4-5 p.m. in the first floor conference room of the Tobacco Research Station, 300 Providence Road, Oxford. W.W. (Billy) Yeargin III, owner of Granville Recycling Center, will make a short presenta-tion on the operation of his metal recycling center in Oxford.
Genealogical society — The Vance County Genealogical Society will meet at 6 p.m. in the N.C. Farm Bureau Room at the H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library. Members please note the new meeting time.
Oxford City Commission — The Oxford City Commission will meet at 7 p.m. in the City Commission meeting room, 300 Williamsboro St.
Retired government employees’ meeting — The Butner chapter of the North Carolina Retired Governmental Employees’ Association (NCRGEA) will hold its semiannual meeting at 1 p.m. in the Murdoch Chapel at the Murdoch Center Campus on “C” Street in Butner. Guest speakers will be Toretta Snipes, se-nior vice president of the State Employees’ Credit Union (SECU), who will discuss reverse mortgages, and a representative from the N.C. Attorney General’s Office, who will lead a workshop and discussion on senior fraud and scams. This free meeting is open to all retired North Carolina state and local government (city/county) employees in Durham, Franklin, Granville, Nash, Orange, Person, Vance and Warren counties. Refreshments will be served.
Appearance commission — The Henderson Community Appearance Commission and the Vance County Appearance Commission will meet jointly at 3 p.m. in the City Hall confer-ence meeting room on Rose Avenue.
Mental health meeting — The Five County Mental Health Authority’s Consumer and Family Advisory Committee (CFAC) will meet at 6 p.m. at the Vance-Granville Community College, Warren campus, Building 4, Room W432, 210 W. Ridgeway St., Warrenton. Consumers can sign-up to discuss issues with the CFAC from 6:15-6:30 p.m. The committee meets monthly to as-sist in developing and revising the mental health plan that drives mental health, developmental disability and substance abuse services for the five-county area. For more information, call 430-1330, ext. 3035 and ext. 3050.
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Rev. John Miles presents a gift to Kamya Hargrove, a student at Carver Elementary School, as the school’s assistant principal, Claudette Scales, joins them prior to the Christmas holidays. Through his ministry, Miles brought gifts for several needy students at Carver to brighten their holiday season. Scales and Nekisha Williams, Carver’s guid-ance counselor, accepted the gifts from Miles. Miles’ ministry also provided gifts in mid-December for students at other local public schools.
Miles ministry brings Christmas cheer to students atCarver Elementary
My regular readers will recall that my wife and I built a house about a year ago. “We built,” of course, means that we wrote big checks to a contractor. A year later, our yard is still a big blank slate and in desperate need of landscaping.
A fellow extension agent recently warned me of the dan-gers of becoming a “plant collector.” Such a person will end up with one of everything scattered randomly about the yard with no cohesion or organization. Nonetheless, there are some “must haves” on my list that have nothing to do with sound principles of landscape design. I’ll just have to find a place to
fit them in.• First is a butterfly bush
(Buddleia davidii). These won-derful shrubs are true to their name, attracting swallowtails and other “winged flowers” like no other. Older cultivars could become monstrous in size, but plant breeders have worked hard to introduce more compact versions.
• American beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) is a wonderful native shrub with striking purple berries in the winter. Who could pass that up?
• Knockout Roses are a relative newcomer on the gardening scene. These shrub roses are nearly bullet proof, rarely bothered by black spot or bugs. Their blooming is pro-fuse and long lasting. My only fear is that they will become so popular that some pest will discover their virtues and devour them. Oh well, I will enjoy them in the meanwhile.
A variety of herbs are also necessary, though I suspect they will rarely make it to the kitchen. I’ll plant dill simply
for the green and yellow cater-pillars that devour it and then become swallowtails to visit my butterfly bush. Rosemary and sage are planted merely for their textures and scents to enjoy while weeding.
• Blueberries are a no-brainer, among the easiest of fruit crops. And while I have space enough for a small orchard, they are still an option for confined urban landscapes. Two or four can be easily incorporated into a small yard. As an added treat, their fall color is striking. A fig bush will complement, and if the birds harvest a greater measure than my wife and I, so be it.
• Although common, I have never had a hydrangea and have always desired one. The pink and blue flowers of the Hydrangea macrophylla are large and lovely. Perhaps an oakleaf (Hydrangea quercifo-lia) as well, with its striking white blossoms. Many im-proved cultivars are available for each.
• Slightly less common
is the Sasanqua camellia. This is the fall bloomer that can tolerate full sun. Like its cousin, the Japanese camellia, Sasanqua is available in red, pink or white. Mine will likely be a specimen, although the evergreen foliage is dense enough that it can be used for screening.
• Sweetshrub (Calycan-thus floridus) will also grace my landscape. Also known as Carolina Allspice, its deep red flowers are both striking and fragrant. It’s shameful that this native plant is not more widely planted.
Of course, I have only scratched the surface. Per-haps “one of everything” isn’t such a bad idea after all.
Paul McKenzie, horticul-ture extension agent for Vance and Warren counties, can be reached at (252) 438-8188 or (252) 257-3640.
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Frogs out of kitchen
Pet water frogs, turtles and lizards are known sources of salmonellosis. The federal Food and Drug Administra-tion (FDA) advises:
• Do not allow reptiles or amphibians to roam through the house, especially in the kitchen.
• Do not clean aquariums
or supplies in the kitchen sink. Use bleach to disinfect a tub where reptile or amphibian habitats are cleaned.
• Always wash hands thoroughly with soap after touching any reptile or am-phibian, their housing, food or anything that comes in contact with it.
By Ann Burrows,N.C. Cooperative Extension
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of the security personnel will be in place, Finch said.
“I don’t want any one person or any group of people to come in and make this a bad place,” Finch said.
“And if we have a prob-lem, I want to nip it in the bud as soon as possible and get it diminished from the site. If need be, I will not hesitate to call the po-lice department if that has to happen,” Finch said.
“We do plan to have some local bands on the weekends inside the build-ing, but it would never exceed the capacity,” Finch said.
Finch said that, given the property size of slightly more than three acres, the building would be locked when there is an outdoor festival and reopened after the conclu-sion of the festival.
Finch said that he prob-ably would have catered food for an outdoor festival and that there would be portable rest rooms.
The Board of Adjust-ment, which met Tuesday afternoon, granted the re-quest, with two conditions: That Finch have at least two security persons and allow no more than 124 patrons in the building.
The building is in a highway commercial “A” zoning district and is located across from the Coca-Cola bottling build-ing.
Auto repair shop
In other business, the Board of Adjustment granted Lynwood Brooks Sr. a special use permit to open an automobile repair facility at 1343 N. Garnett St., which is in an aging area between North Beckford Drive and the Interstate 85/Bypass U.S. 158 interchange.
The location was once
an automobile dealership and was later a tractor business before becoming the site of Coverall, which was in the business of making parking roofs for vehicles.
The location is in a highway commercial “A” zoning district.
An auto repair facility is allowed in a highway com-mercial “A” zoning district by a special use permit, but the problem has been that there is a radius of 500 feet from any house or residential district and that there is a residence behind the former Coverall building.
The City Council on Nov. 23 voted to allow auto repair facilities to obtain a special use permit with conditions, such as the radius from adjacent properties, if they are located in any business district where they are presently allowed.
Real estate agent Karen Stainback, who represents the seller of the property, told the Board of Adjust-ment that she and the buyer started on the mat-ter a year ago.
“And in that year’s period of time we have never had the first opposi-tion to what Mr. Brooks is trying to do, especially the fact that this building has been vacant for close to two years or a little over,” Stainback said, adding that the building is an eyesore.
“It’s going to be a nice-looking facility,” Stainback said.
Brooks said he does col-lision repairs, plus restora-tion and upholstery work, and will continue to have his present shop at 132 N. William St.
Therapeutic services
In another matter, the Board of Adjustment granted a special use
permit to Latez Bridges to allow Success and Beyond Global Enterprises to move to 121 Young St., which is in a retail/central business zoning district.
The location was the site of Vance County’s first library, Bridges noted. And the location is across from the county’s present administrative offices.
Success and Beyond Global Enterprises is pres-ently at 115 Young St., with Bridges saying she wants to bring more ser-vices to a central location and needs more space.
The primary focus is on mental health therapeutic services and cultural arts and educational services, as well as employment training and family-based community services for an array of people, Bridges said.
Request for sign
The Board of Adjust-ment delayed taking action on a request by Tommy Hester/Parkview Office Plaza to allow an off-premise advertising sign at 854 S. Beckford Drive and in a neighbor-hood commercial district.
The sign, as proposed, would be at Davita Dialy-sis, but would be adver-tising other businesses within the location.
Planning Director Erris Dunston told the board that although Hester was not present, the board needed to hear the case.
City Attorney John Zol-
licoffer suggested postpon-ing the request until the February board meeting. Dunston said, “Please don’t.”
Dunston told the board that she called Hester and that Hester said he did not feel like he needed to come before the board, but that Hester still wanted the board members to act.
Board Chairman Arline Richardson told Dunston, “Guess what? He needs to come. There is a public hearing. He needs to come and present his case, in case there are questions.”
And Zollicoffer noted there has to be a sworn public record.
Richardson told Dun-ston she can advise Hester if he does not come to the February board meeting, then, “We’re not going to hear it.”
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HENDERSON — Wil-liam Jeffries “Foots” Arnold, 71, of 656 Eaves Road, Henderson, died Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010, at Maria Parham Medical Center. Born in Franklin County, he was the son of the late Troy and Pearl Pendleton Arnold.
Mr. Arnold was a retired mechanic. He was a veteran of the United States Army.
Memorial services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at Flowers Funeral Cha-pel, conducted by the Rev. Bobby Murrell.
Surviving are his wife, Jane Ayscue Arnold; two daughters, Becky A. Lehue of Nashville, Tenn., and Sandy A. Leggett of South Carolina; a son, Robert Lynn Arnold of Elizabeth City; two step-daughters, Kay Long of Henderson, and Jo Ann Grapevine of Tampa, Fla.; three step-sons, Phillip White of Baltimore, Md., Dale Dunn of Henderson, and Danny Dunn of Roxboro; two sisters, Eunice Vinson of Youngsville and Diane Tilton of Louisburg; two brothers, Dan Arnold of Justice and Clifton Arnold of Zebulon; 20 grandchil-dren and 32 great- grand-children.
The family will receive friends at the home, 656 Eaves Road, Henderson.
Arrangements are by Flowers Funeral Home.
Charles Boben
FAR ROCKAWAY, N.Y. — Charles Boben, 86, of Far Rockaway, N.Y., for-merly of Warren County, N.C., died Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010, in New York.
Funeral services were conducted at 11 a.m. Friday at Boyd’s Funeral Service Chapel in Warren-ton. The Rev. Preston Wil-liams officiated and burial followed in the Union Chapel Church Cemetery in Ridgeway.
He is survived by his daughter, Gloria Boben Clark of Roanoke, Va.; his son, Raymond Boben of Long Island, N.Y.; nine grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; two sisters, Martha Ingrim of Kentucky and Doreen Shepard of New York; and a brother, Virdiar Boben of
Queens, N.Y.The body was on view
Thursday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Boyd’s Funeral Service Chapel in War-renton.
Arrangements are by Boyd’s Funeral Services of Warrenton.
Bernard Bullock
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Bernard “Duck” Bullock, 53, a native of Henderson, died Monday, Jan. 4, 2010, in Washington, D.C. He was born in Vance County and was the son of Annie Bullock and the late Eul-ysses Bullock.
He graduated in 1975 from Vance Senior High School and was a for-mer member of Spring Street Missionary Baptist Church where he was a member of the male chorus. He was a former employee of Saint Gobain Containers.
Survivors include three children, Waakiya Pitt-man, Jennelle Bullock and Bernard Bullock II, all of Maryland; his mother, Annie Bullock of District Heights, Md.; two grand-children; four sisters, Belinda Anderson, Patri-cia Bullock, Alice Bullock and Bonita Bullock, all of Maryland; and a brother, Samuel Bullock of Mary-land.
Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Monday at First Bap-tist Church of Marshall Heights, 4934 “B” Street, S.E., Washington, D.C.
Arrangements are by Taylor Funeral Home of Washington, D.C.; phone, (877) 884-0803.
Local announcements are by Davis-Royster Fu-neral Service.
Blanca Cervantes
WISE — Blanca Cer-vantes, 28, of 1466 U.S. 1, Wise, died Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010, at her residence. Funeral services are in-complete at this time, but will be announced later by Boyd’s Funeral Service of Warrenton.
Callie E. Mitchell
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Callie Evans Mitch-ell, 75, died Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010, at Riverside Hospital in Newport News. She was born in
Vance County and was the daughter of the late Victor and Mary Jessie Evans.
Survivors include a brother, Samuel “Sam” Evans of Townsville, N.C.
Funeral services will be conducted Monday at noon in the First Baptist Church, 229 N. King St., Hampton, Va.
Arrangements are by Perkins Funeral Home, 251 W. Queen St., Hamp-ton, Va.
Local announcements are by Davis-Royster Fu-neral Service.
Edith B. South
HENDERSON — Edith Baker South, 91, of 237 Willowood Drive, died Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, in a local nursing home.
A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday at North Henderson Bap-tist Church by the Rev. Brent Kasey.
The family will receive friends immediately following the service in the fellowship hall of North Henderson Baptist Church. At other times they will be at the home of Bob and Sandra Cather-wood at 237 Willowood Drive.
In lieu of flowers, me-morial contributions may be made to the North Hen-derson Baptist Church, 1211 N. Garnett St., Hen-derson, N.C. 27536.
Other arrangements will be announced by the J.M. White Funeral Home.
Jackie R. Terry
CLARKSVILLE, Va. — Jackie Ray Terry, 53, of 85 Epps Fork Road, Clarks-ville, Va., died Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, at Universal Health Care in Oxford.
The family will receive friends at the residence of Evelyn Hanks, 65 Rev. Henderson Road.
Funeral arrangements will be announced by Davis-Royster Funeral Service.
Stuart Vaughan
OXFORD — Stuart Vaughan, 73, died Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, at the Uni-
versity of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill. He was the son of the late Rufus Elmo and Frauline Jones Vaughan.
He was a member of Enon Baptist Church, where he served as deacon and chairman of the cemetery committee, and was a veteran, having served in the U.S. Army. He was a member and past master of Oxford Masonic Lodge 122 A.F. and A.M. and Oxford York Rite Bodies, Sudan Shrine Temple of New Bern and Granville County Shrine Club, where he served as secretary. He was a former partner and vice president and secretary of Gentry-Newell and Vaughan Funeral Home where he served for 45 years. He was also a member of the Kiwanis Club, Chamber of Commerce and a member
and past president of the Granville County Rescue Squad.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at Enon Baptist Church by the Rev. James C. Shelley Jr. Burial will follow in the church cem-etery.
He is survived by wife, JoAnn Adcock Vaughan.
The visitation will be held at Gentry-Newell and Vaughan Funeral Home today from 7 to 8:30 p.m. and at other times at the home.
Flowers are accepted or memorials may be made to Enon Baptist Church Cemetery Fund, c/o Buck Adcock, 2115 Tommie Daniel Road, Oxford, N.C. 27565.
Funeral arrangements are by Gentry-Newell and Vaughan Funeral Home of Oxford.
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Sarah F. Neal WARRENTON —
Sarah Ann Fuller Neal, 64, died Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010, at Duke Univer-sity Hospital. A Warren County native, she was born April 2, 1945, to the late William Louis Fuller Sr. and Mary Anna Weaver Fuller.
Her husband, Edgar “Skeeter” Neal, also preceded her in death in 2008. Mrs. Neal was em-ployed by the U.S. Postal Service for over 31 years before her retirement in 2000.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Providence United Methodist Church by the Revs. Eric Schu-bert and Dudley Neal. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
Surviving Mrs. Neal are her sons, Troy and wife Nicole, and Traig and wife Ashley; her brother, William Louis Fuller Jr. and wife Eleanor; grandchildren, Amber, Anna, Carson, Connor, Cameron, Cole-man and Casey Neal.
Flowers will be accept-ed, or donations may be made to the Providence U.M.C. Cemetery Fund, c/o Linda Carter, 1976 U.S. Highway 401 South, Warrenton, N.C. 27589.
The family will receive friends at Blaylock Fu-neral Home on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2010, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., and at other times at the home.
Funeral arrangements are by Blaylock Funeral Home of Warrenton.
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he said.Most family care physi-
cians and pharmacies in the area are again offering the flu vaccines, Drake said. They had ceased offering flu vaccinations when supplies of the vac-cines were exhausted in late fall.
Warren County Health Director Andy Smith says his department also has H1N1 vaccine avail-able but no seasonal flu vaccine. The vaccine may be received at the depart-ment’s 544 West Ridgeway St. office between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. any week day except Thursday.
The symptoms of H1N1 flu, also called swine flu, are similar to the symp-toms of seasonal flu — fever greater than 100 degrees, headache and body aches, stuffy nose, sore throat, cough, chills and fatigue.
H1N1 first made its appearance last spring. Because it was a new virus for which there was no vaccine, it caused great concern in the medical field. The vaccine became available in limited quanti-ties in the fall when, as feared, a second and more widespread outbreak of H1N1 flu occurred.
Since its arrival in April, the H1N1 flu has claimed 79 lives in North Carolina. Unlike seasonal influenza, which can be deadly for el-derly adults, H1N1 flu has disproportionately affected children and middle-aged adults.
January is usually the peak flu season, the division notes, advising residents of the state to take precautions to protect themselves from the dis-ease.
In addition to getting im-munized, medical authori-ties advise individuals to:
• Avoid close contact with people who are sick.
• Stay home when you are sick.
• Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Key currency ex-change rates Friday:
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ACS 60.35ATT 27.10Ball Corp. 52.07BankAmerica 16.78BB&T 27.34Coca-Cola 55.15CVS 34.00Duke Energy 16.84Exxon 69.52Ford 11.69General Elec. 16.60Home Depot 28.98IBM 130.85Johnson & Johnson 64.21Kennametal 28.65Krispy Kreme 3.02Louisiana Pacific 7.18Lowes 23.59Lucent Tech. 3.77Pepsico 60.77Phillip Morris 20.11Procter & Gamble 60.44Progress Energy 39.36RF Micro Dev 4.77Royal Bk Can 53.64RJR Tobacco 53.14Revlon 17.02Sprint 3.95Sun Trust 23.01Universal 49.08Verizon Comm. 31.75Vulcan 52.65Wal-Mart 53.33Wells Fargo 28.86Wendy’s 4.51Establis Delhaize 79.17
George Vital of Raleigh has been selected to serve as Area Director of USDA Rural Development in Henderson, State Director Randall Gore announced.
Vital serves as an advocate on behalf of rural communities in Vance, Granville, Franklin, Warren, Durham, Hali-fax, Alamance, Caswell and Person counties. He also helps administer the programs and services pro-vided by the USDA that can enhance the counties’ economic success.
During the past 11
years, Vital served as a business programs special-ist delivering business loan and grant programs across North Carolina.
USDA Rural Develop-ment administers and manages over 40 housing, business, telecommunica-tion, energy, community infrastructure and facility programs through a net-work of 6,100 employees located in 500 national, state and local offices.
These programs are designed to improve the economic stability of rural communities, businesses,
residents, farmers and ranchers and improve the quality of life in rural America.
Nationwide, Rural Development has an exist-ing portfolio of over $114 billion in loans and loan guarantees.
Vital can be contacted at 853 S. Beckford Drive, Suite A, Henderson or by calling (252) 438-3134 extension 4 or by calling at (919) 208-1128.
More information about USDA Rural Development can be found at www.rurdev.usda.gov.
Area Director for USDA Rural Development named
By PHILIP ELLIOTTassociaTeD press WriTer
WASHINGTON — After a disappointing new unem-ployment report, President Barack Obama pushed on Friday for an expanded government program he said would help create tens of thousands of new clean-technology jobs.
“Building a robust clean energy sector is how we will create the jobs of the future, jobs that pay well and can’t be outsourced,” Obama said at the White House.
It came as Obama sought to pivot back to the domestic economy after two weeks of being riveted to the Christ-mas Day bombing attempt. The larger-than-expected loss of 85,000 jobs in Decem-ber, reported earlier in the day by the Labor Depart-ment, put new pressure on the administration to step up job creation.
“The road to recovery is never straight,” Obama said, although he added that the trend is pointing in the right direction.
Figures released Friday showed unemployment stub-bornly stuck at 10 percent. At the same time, more people were giving up in the search for jobs.
Obama announced the awarding of $2.3 billion in tax credits to companies that manufacture wind turbines, solar panels, cutting edge
batteries and other green technologies. The money will come from last year’s $787 billion stimulus program.
He also renewed a call by former Vice President Al Gore for Congress to approve an additional $5 billion to help create more such jobs.
Obama said the tax cred-its would create some 17,000 green jobs.
Trying to paint the White House as fighting to rebuild the economy, officials said the poor jobs report under-scores the challenges the president faces.
“Building a robust clean energy sector is how we will create the jobs of the future,” Obama said in a brief late-afternoon statement. “The Recovery Act awards I am announcing today will help close the clean energy gap that has grown between
America and other nations while creating good jobs, re-ducing our carbon emissions and increasing our energy security.”
Obama announced tax credits for 183 projects to de-velop solar and wind power and energy management technologies, among others.
Meanwhile, a senior White House economist said the tanking economy is already showing signs of fresh life.
“Real recoveries come in fits and starts and November was in some sense a start and December was a little bit of a fit,” Christina Romer, chair of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, said.
She noted the new num-bers are a tenth of the job losses from a year ago and predicted real job growth before the summer.
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President Barack Obama finishes his statement to reporters Friday in the East Room of the White House in Washington about green jobs and manufacturing.
RALEIGH — The Fourth Annual Agritourism Net-working Association Winter Conference will be held Feb. 18-19 at the City Hotel and Bistro on Greenville Boule-vard in Greenville.
The conference is designed for agritourism entrepre-neurs and others who may be interested in starting an agritourism venture.
A reception will be held Feb. 18, and there will be seven workshops on Feb. 19. Keynote speaker Lynn Minges, assistant commerce secretary, will talk about “Marketing Rural Tourism in North Carolina.”
The workshops include “Planning for Success,” “Grassroots Gumption: Per-suasion and Public Policy”
and “Agritourism Farms — What Flies and Flops.”
Early registration by Feb. 1 is $65 for ANA membrs and $75 for nonmembers. The registration fee increases to $85 after Feb. 1.
For more information or a registration form, go to www.ncagr.gov/agritourism, or call Martha Glass at (919) 733-7887, extension 276.
Agritourism networking conference scheduled
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Star quality for adult-care homes
Although the state of North Carolina has been issuing “star” ratings for adult-care homes in a more complete way for the last year, 2010 promises a stron-ger, and for those families who need to find a home for a loved one, more informa-tive rating system. Tougher standards will take into account, for example, past penalties that have been imposed on homes for everything from relatively small safety standard viola-tions to outright neglect.
This is important. Last year, the star ratings didn’t take penalties into account. Now they will, and a home that has had problems will likely be penalized for them when it comes time to be rated by the state.
Lou Wilson, a lobbyist for long-term care facilities, has argued over many a legisla-tive session that the homes, most of which receive state money for taking care of the elderly and disabled, have been underpaid for doing so. She has noted the respon-sibilities are great, and as more and more people with chronic illnesses rely on the homes, it becomes an increasingly expensive and labor-intensive business. Certainly compensation is something the state has to monitor, although brutal budget times won’t offer much hope for more pay anytime soon.
The most important step for now, and the legislature has recognized it with these new rules for ratings, is making sure that family members who are looking for a place for their mother or grandmother or someone with a profound disability, can get all the informa-tion they want and all they need.
The star rating system is now in full effect, with homes’ records taken into account and much informa-tion available on a host of Web sites.
And those who have had no experience in making this kind of decision would be smart to visit any homes they are considering and give them a careful once-over.
Stars are fine and the system is good, in other words, but families need to do some of their own “rat-ing.”
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A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all [men] know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
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“This is not a case of mistaken identity or a whodunit. For the de-fense, it’s damage control.”
Joseph Niskar, defense lawyer, on the prosecution of would-be airline bomber Farouk Abdulmutallab.
“I couldn’t ask for a better neigh-bor. We never had any problems with him.”
Glennon Meyer, on Timothy Hen-dron of Webster Groves, a St. Louis suburb. Hendron has been widely identified as the gunman in a fatal shooting spree at a St. Louis indus-trial plant.
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Take it off! Take it all off!We’re talking about those extra
pounds we may be carrying, of course.The Second Annual Eat Smart, Move
More Granville-Vance Weight Loss Challenge — a mouthful of a name for a contest, isn’t it? — is calling us to push away from the table and to push ourselves into more physical activity.
More than 1,000 participants lost a total of 4,958 pounds during the inaugural 10-week challenge last year. Nearly 300 of the individuals who participated in the event trimmed 10 pounds or more from their weigh, and 88 percent of the team members said they increased their physical activity.
The challenge, which starts with a weigh-in on Monday, is a team-oriented event open to all residents or workers in Granville and Vance. You have to be 18 or older to participate, but the sponsors — the Granville-Vance District Health Department, Maria Parham Medical Center, Granville Health System, the Henderson Family YMCA and other partners — hope that by targeting adults with the challenge they can posi-tively impact all members of a family.
The goal is to have a team of four adults lose 10 pounds per person over the 10-week period.
It’s a smart move — and a necessary one.
The N.C. Division of Public Health tells us that two-thirds of all adult North Carolinians are overweight or obese. Our state ranks fifth worst in the nation for childhood obesity.
We all should be concerned about our health and the health of our children because obesity can seriously increase the risk for medical problems and, health officials say, it’s associated with excess morbidity and mortality. Four of the 10 leading causes of death in the U.S. are related to obesity, including coronary heart disease, type II diabe-tes, stroke and several forms of cancer. Obesity can also make problems like hypertension and arthritis even worse.
That should be enough to scare us into signing up for this year’s challenge with our friends, family or co-workers. But, just in case we need more incen-tive, the event also offers prize money to be shared among teams and individu-als who meet their goals.
The best prize from the Weight Loss Challenge, of course, is a longer and healthier life — for us, our families and our friends.
There’s no time like the present to take the challenge to eat smart and move more.
An expensive lesson on gunsThe astonishing thing is
that he did it even after.Even after news broke that
he had brandished guns in the locker room of the NBA’s Washington Wizards at a Dec. 21 practice.
Even after meeting with federal prosecutors and local police investigating his viola-tion of the city’s gun laws.
Even after being criticized by the Rev. Al Sharpton, NBA legend Karl Malone, and an army of fans, sports colum-nists and TV commentators.
Even after apologizing to his team, his fans and the NBA and saying he under-stood the seriousness of the matter.
Even “after” all that, Gil-bert Arenas somehow man-aged to take a disaster and make it worse.
It happened last week in Philadelphia. Every team has its pregame rituals: some chant, some dance, some box or high five. With his career and even his freedom hanging in the balance for a misadven-ture with guns, Arenas stood at the center of his team’s huddle, made his hands into pistols, and pretended to shoot his teammates.
In a widely circulated photo of the incident, he’s laughing
and they are, too. But NBA Commissioner David Stern didn’t get the joke. Stern, who had said he would delay judgment until authorities
finished their inves-tigation, promptly handed down an “indefinite” suspension without pay. Are-nas, said the com-missioner, is “not cur-rently fit” to play.
The All-Star guard is in the midst of a contract worth $111 million. The Washington Post calculates that he will lose $147,000 for each game he sits. The speculation is that he could be sitting the rest of the season — or longer. Which will leave him plenty of time to make his court dates.
This all reportedly grows out of an incident on the team plane wherein Arenas ribbed a teammate, Javaris Critten-ton, for losing money in a card game. Crittenton took excep-tion and the argument esca-
lated with him half-jokingly threatening to shoot Arenas in the surgically repaired knee that sidelined him most of the last two years.
Two days later, Arenas hauled out four unloaded pistols, which he says he kept in his locker because he didn’t want them around his children. He placed the guns near Crittenton’s locker with a note: “Pick one.”
Arenas, a free spirit and self-described “goofball,” says this was meant as a joke. Crit-tenton didn’t laugh. According to eyewitnesses, he produced his own gun and loaded a clip. Crittenton denies it.
And here, it seems worth-while to offer a reminder: the leading cause of death for black men 15 to 34 is homi-cide, usually by gunfire, usu-ally at the hands of another black man. Arenas is 28, Crit-tenton, 22. Both are black.
Granted, stupidity knows no color. And yet ... it is dif-ficult to think of these two guys whipping out guns like something out of Dodge City and not see shadows of all the other men of the same heritage and age group who once were here but now are gone because they regarded guns in the same profoundly
unserious manner. Because they saw them not as tools of hunting or self-defense but, rather, as toys — as argument settlers and point makers, as extensions of their personal reproductive gear, as a means of demanding respect.
We have paid the price for that idiotic mindset in funerals. Funerals, an endless string.
So it is troubling to see these two boy men unable to let it go, even in the midst of lives most people would con-sider wildly successful. And it is downright appalling that Arenas could not grasp the seriousness of the matter even with his very future at stake.
A gun is not a joke. Maybe he gets that now. But look at what it cost him to learn: his livelihood, his reputation, maybe his freedom. But even at that, you could argue that Arenas is a lucky man. Some of us have seen funerals in an endless string so we know:
It could have cost him a whole lot more.
Leonard Pitts is a columnist for the Miami Herald, 1 Her-ald Plaza, Miami, Fla., 33132. Readers may contact him via e-mail at [email protected].
Terror in the skies requires action here on the ground
This country is on alert now in a way it has not been for almost nine years. Between the attempted Christmas Day terrorist attack, the bombing of the CIA headquarters in Yemen, and near-daily airport scares, we have been force-fully reminded that a real war against terror continues to be waged here at home and abroad.
And even as I applaud Americans for not letting recent events unduly disrupt their lives and thereby giving the terrorists a minor victory, I remain deeply concerned about the current state of our homeland security.
Shortly after the incident on Northwest Flight 253, Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano first insisted that “the system worked” regarding the Christmas Day attempt. This particularly bla-tant act of defensive self-pro-tection was such an obvious falsehood that Counterterror-ism Czar John Brennan has had to go from news show to news show offering a retrac-tion. This bumbling effort is not exactly the type of first re-sponse that Americans should expect from those tasked with protecting our country.
Indeed, as the days prog-ress, we are beginning to see just how great a retrac-tion was needed. American authorities knew, before he ever boarded that plane, that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had extremist views and received training from Al Qae-da. In an act of tremendous courage, Abdulmutallab’s own father apparently had report-
ed him as a person of concern to the U.S. embassy and CIA station chief. Abdulmutallab was on a government watch list. He had been spending time in a country with known terrorist activity.
With proper com-munication between security and counter-terrorism agencies and proper scrutiny, this young man would have been put on a high-prior-ity list. At the airport,
he would have been flagged, he would have been searched, and he would have been caught. Instead, it is only through the grace of God and the courage of a passenger that the lives of over 200 were saved this Christmas.
In Afghanistan, we were not so fortunate, and seven American operatives were killed.
We do not have to live in fear in order to be smart about the dangers. We do not have to be an international bully to rightfully assert our position and interests around the world. The Obama admin-istration, however, cannot seem to get a handle on the wide middle ground between “fear-mongering” and cower-ing in submission.
In many ways, this Christ-mas Day attempt is a great
opportunity for the president. With no loss of life, systemic and human errors were re-vealed and can now be fixed. And they must be fixed.
We need to move forward with a comprehensive strat-egy to connect our intelligence dots. We can already see that tremendous strides have been made since the disastrous intelligence failure of 9/11, but we learned two weeks ago that we have not come far enough. Whatever motivation or resources are required, we need to improve our intelli-gence and make full use of it, rather than letting cases like Abdulmutallab’s fall through the cracks.
It would be all too easy to blame this on poor screening at airports here and overseas, and to reactively devote all our energies to bigger and bet-ter checkpoint technologies. To some measure, some of these recommended upgrades may be appropriate. But the greatest challenge will be for the president to take a step back and look at the entire system with all its moving parts and streamline the process. In doing, he must act with the conviction that the threat is imminent and real.
It’s time to step up to the plate, Mr. President. You signed up for this job, and we can’t afford any more of your on-the-job training.
Mike Reagan, the elder son of the late President Ronald Reagan, is chairman and pres-ident of The Reagan Legacy Foundation (www.reaganlega-cyfoundation.org).
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dear abby
DEAR ABBY: I’m a 15-year-old girl whose par-ents treat me like an 8-year-old. They not only refuse to let me see any movie that isn’t G-rated, but they still cut my meat for me! Once a week we go to the park, and they still push me on the swings.
I don’t want to tell them it’s embarrassing because I’m afraid I’ll hurt their feelings. Please tell me how to convey to my parents that I’m not a child anymore. — OLD ENOUGH IN VIR-GINIA
DEAR OLD ENOUGH: Your par-ents mean well, but children who are overprotected to the extent you have been often become stunted in their development. Teens do not learn social skills and how to make appropriate choices when they are “supervised” to the extent you are.
Tell your parents that you love them, but in three years you will be 18 and an adult. Explain that you know they love you, but if you are not allowed some freedom now, then you will be behind your peers because of your inexperience when you have reached an age when you’ll be expected to make wise choices. Remind them that even children half your age are sufficiently coordinated that they can cut the food on their plates, and you would appreciate their allowing you to get some practice.
If this doesn’t help them let go, then ask another adult to help you deliver the message.
DEAR ABBY: Two family
members passed away, and because we live several states from our family, we were not informed of their deaths until many weeks after the funer-als. Whose responsibility is it to notify us of a death in the family? — LEFT IN THE
DARKDEAR LEFT IN THE
DARK: There is no desig-nated person who makes the call. Often it is a family member conveying the sad news, or a close family friend if the family is too devastated or too busy making funeral arrangements to reach out. That you were not notified until weeks after the funeral — not once but twice — im-plies that there may have been some sort of estrange-ment. And if that’s the case, you have my sympathy.
DEAR ABBY: An old
friend from high school came to visit. While she was here I couldn’t help but notice that her teeth and gums were in awful shape. Her gums were red and swollen, with dark plaque around the gum lines.
I feel terrible for her. I’d hate to see her lose her teeth. She’s only 30, but it’s clear she’ll be in trouble if she doesn’t see a dentist ASAP. How can I let her know that she really, really needs to do this? — CONCERNED IN L.A.
DEAR CONCERNED: Have a heart-to-heart talk with your friend and ask her why she hasn’t been seeing a dentist. Tell her you are worried about her because diseases of the mouth can cause problems in other areas of the body or be a sign of illness.
If her problem is a fear of dentists, she should know that there are dentists who specialize in treating patients like her who can administer anti-anxiety meds to help her. And if her problem is money, that she should contact dental schools in her state to see if she could be treated as part of their su-pervised training for dental students. You are right to be concerned about your friend, so don’t put off talking to her.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pau-line Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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the daily disPatch news From THe LIgHT sIde satUrday, JanUary 9, 2010 7A
By The AssociATed Press
Today is Saturday, Jan. 9, the ninth day of 2010. There are 356 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight:On Jan. 9, 1960, on his
47th birthday, Vice President Richard Nixon became a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.
On this date:In 1788, Connecticut be-
came the fifth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
In 1793, Frenchman Jean Pierre Blanchard, using a hot-air balloon, flew between Philadelphia and Woodbury, N.J.
In 1861, Mississippi seceded from the Union.
In 1913, Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, was born in Yorba Linda, Calif.
In 1968, the Surveyor 7 space probe made a soft land-ing on the moon, marking the end of the American series of unmanned explorations of the lunar surface.
In 1972, reclusive bil-lionaire Howard Hughes, speaking by telephone from the Bahamas to reporters in Hollywood, said a purported autobiography of him by Clif-ford Irving was a fake.
In 1995, in New York, the trial of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and 11 other defen-dants accused of conspiring to wage holy war against the United States began. (All the defendants were convicted of seditious conspiracy, except for two who reached plea agreements with the govern-ment.)
Ten years ago: The controversial “Sensa-
tion” art exhibit ended its three-month run at the Brooklyn Museum, which had gotten into a fight with New York City Mayor Ru-dolph Giuliani over what the
mayor called the exhibit’s of-fensive anti-Catholic content.
Five years ago: Mahmoud Abbas, the
No. 2 man in the Palestin-ian hierarchy during Yasser Arafat’s rule, was elected president of the Palestinian Authority by a landslide. Sudan’s vice president (Ali Osman Mohammed Taha) and the country’s main rebel leader (John Garang) signed a comprehensive peace agreement, concluding an eight-year process to stop a civil war in the south.
One year ago: The Illinois House voted
114-1 to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who defiantly insisted again that he had committed no crime. (The Illinois Senate unanimously voted to remove Blagojevich from office 20 days later.)
Today’s Birthdays: Author Judith Krantz is
82. Football Hall-of-Famer Bart Starr is 76. Sportscast-er Dick Enberg is 75. Actress K. Callan is 74. Folk singer Joan Baez is 69. Rockabilly singer Roy Head is 69. Ac-tress Susannah York is 69. Rock musician Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) is 66. Singer David Johansen (aka Buster Poindexter) is 60. Singer Crystal Gayle is 59. Actor J.K. Simmons is 55. Nobel Peace laureate and human rights activist Rigoberto Menchu is 51. Rock musi-cian Eric Erlandson is 47. Actress Joely Richardson is 45. Rock musician Carl Bell (Fuel) is 43. Rock singer Steve Harwell (Smash Mouth) is 43. Rock singer-musician Dave Matthews is 43. Actress-director Joey Lauren Adams is 42. Singer A.J. McLean (Backstreet Boys) is 32. Pop-rock musi-cian Drew Brown (OneRe-public) is 26. Rock-soul singer Paolo Nutini is 23.
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8A The Daily DispaTch LocaL News saTurDay, January 9, 2010
By WILLIAM F. WESTDaily DispaTch WriTer
OXFORD — The City Commission on Tuesday evening will be voting on a proposed privilege license fee in an effort to obtain revenue from cyber sweep-stakes machines.
The commission’s Fi-nance Committee is recom-mending a tax of $500 an-nually per machine, which was suggested earlier by Mayor Al Woodlief.
The mayor did so in response to the increasing presence of cyber sweep-stakes businesses and the presence of cyber sweep-stakes machines at a busy convenience store.
The one location catch-ing the attention of Oxford officials is the Internet cafe now open beside the entrance to the Hilltop Village shopping center off Business U.S. 158/Wil-liamsboro Street.
Finance Committee member Bob Williford said that he went to the Internet cafe and counted 15 desktop computers and four large cyber sweep-stakes machines. And Williford said he saw four or five players.
“It’s neat, very well-organized, very well-organized,” Willford said, although he expressed concern about the business becoming vulnerable to a robbery.
“But, evidentially, it’s a growing industry, very big, growing industry,” Wil-liford said.
“I’m not going to say it’s legal,” Finance Committee Chairman Danny Currin said. “It just hasn’t been proved to be illegal yet.”
City Manager Mark Donham said, “I think in that case what’s happen-ing is they’re changing the way they operate to stay ahead of the law.”
The western North Carolina city of Hender-sonville has approved an annual fee of $2,600 on businesses with on-line sweepstakes machines within that city’s boundar-ies. The town of Franklin, also in the western part of the state, approved a similar regulation.
Woodlief has said the way the machines work is a person purchases credit for telephone minutes and, rather than adding phone time, can play a cyber sweepstakes game, with cash winnings paid by the attendant on duty at the business.
State Attorney Gen-eral Roy Cooper’s spokes-woman, Noelle Talley, said there are several court orders in place temporar-ily allowing video gaming sweepstakes with cash payouts.
The Oxford City Com-mission’s Finance Commit-tee met Thursday after-noon after Woodlief made his suggestion at Monday evening’s commission agenda meeting.
City Accounting Techni-cian Phyllis Blackwell told the committee, that, in addition to the Internet cafe beside the entrance to Hilltop Village, at least two other locations in Oxford offer a person the chance to play cyber
sweepstakes games.They are the Great
Stops convenience store at the Interstate 85/N.C. 96 interchange and a cyber sweepstakes business in Oxford Plaza across from Great Stops.
Additionally, an Inter-net cafe is coming soon to the opposite side of the I-85/N.C. 96 interchange in the building of what was the Alan Vester automo-bile dealership and what more recently was I-85 Auto Center.
Blackwell told the committee that a person is looking at possibly open-ing a cyber sweepstakes business at the Granville Corners shopping center at N.C. 96 and Industry Drive.
And Blackwell said that a cyber sweepstakes business will be coming to the former law office of Ernestine Joyner at 131 Main St.
And Blackwell said she received three phone calls Wednesday and two phone calls Thursday morning from persons interested in the cyber sweepstakes businesses in Oxford.
Mayor Pro Tem and Fi-nance Committee member Howard Herring said that, “If we’re going to sanc-tion this operation, then it ought to be to the advan-tage of the city if we’re going to do that.”
“If they want it bad enough, they’ll pay the fee,” Herring added.
Herring, who doubles as chairman of the commis-sion’s Public Safety Com-mittee, said while this may involve some increased public safety issues, including probably some
overtime pay for police officers, the fee ought to be adequate enough to take care of such a situation.
City Commissioner Ron Bullock asked about what would happen to those businesses who failed to pay the $500 for any machines Oxford’s govern-ment does not know of.
Blackwell said that, among possible actions, the city could take the offender to court, garnish the offender’s state tax refunds and attach the of-fender’s bank account.
Bullock wanted to know the logic of proposing a $500 tax per machine.
Donham cited Hen-dersonville having set the $2,600 flat rate, but encountering problems in which businesses, after making large profits from the machines, began purchasing even more machines.
Donham said the think-ing is Oxford’s government is not trying to promote cyber sweepstakes, but is instead trying to keep cyber sweepstakes smaller by taxing per machine.
“No exact science went into this, but we felt that $500 would not be exces-sive, but it would bring in revenue,” Donham said, noting the income could be used to help the Police Department.
Blackwell said most of the businesses with cyber sweepstakes machines in Oxford are paying any-where between $50-$100 for a privilege license.
Commissioner Walter Cantley also was present for the committee meeting.
After approximately 20 minutes of discussion, Currin made the recom-mendation in favor of the $500 tax per machine.
No representatives of the cyber sweepstakes businesses were present for the committee meeting.
The Oxford City Commission will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the commission meeting room of City Hall, 300 Williamsboro St.
For additional informa-tion or to obtain a regis-tration packet, visit the sponsors’ web sites:
• Granville Health System — http://www.granvillemedical.com.
• Maria Parham Medi-cal Center — http://www.mphosp.org.
• Granville-Vance Dis-trict Health Department — www.gvdhd.org.
Participants should submit their completed registration forms when they weigh in.
The Weight Loss Chal-lenge is a team-oriented event that is open to all residents and workers in Granville and Vance counties who are 18 years or older. Its purpose is to encourage participants to lose weight and exercise more. Teams of four people each will compete to see if every team member can lose at least 10 pounds — about one pound per week.
The Challenge is sponsored by the Granville-Vance District Health De-partment, Granville Health System, Maria Parham Medical Center, and the Henderson Family YMCA. The first three organiza-tions have donated $3,000 in gift cards, which will be awarded by lottery to teams and individuals who accomplish their goals.
Team members that weigh in together, submit a complete registration form, email the captain’s name and email address and team name to one of the sponsors, and meet their weight loss goal will get an additional chance to win one of the team prizes.
The Henderson Family YMCA is offering twice weekly free exercise ses-sions in Henderson and Oxford, along with a free six-month membership to a successful participant from each county.
Additional partners in the Weight Loss Challenge are Team Care Manual and Physical Therapy, Oxford; MBMA Family Fitness Center, Hender-son; The Road to Fitness, Creedmoor; and the City of Oxford.
At the state level, Eat Smart Move More N.C. helps organizations and individuals develop strate-gies to address overweight and obesity in their communities and create policies and environments that support healthy eat-ing and physical activity.
For questions or ad-ditional information, Granville County resi-dents should call Janet Herzberg at
(919) 690-2148. Vance County residents should call David Ruggles at (252) 436-1800.
charge of first-degree murder of Kelly Currin Morris. Three days later, the custody was changed to a temporary status.
Pat Currin said hav-ing Haley Morris with the Currin family for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day was a positive.
“She kept us very busy during the holidays,” Juanita Currin added. “It’s been a good diversion, I think, for us, even though the holidays were hard.”
Juanita Currin said that for the 14 months before the remains of Kelly Currin Morris were found off Sam Moss Hayes Road, “our focus was on finding Kelly and now our focus” is in helping the two girls deal with the loss of their mother and to provide them with whatever they need to be successful in life.
Juanita Currin was referring to a 9-year-old daughter Kelly Currin Morris had by another man.
Juanita Currin said she and her husband have told Haley Morris that
her mother has gone to heaven.
Haley Morris knows that her father is in jail and that law enforce-ment officers have spoken with him about what might have happened to her mother, “but that’s the extent of what we have discussed with her,” Juanita Currin said.
Pat Currin, after he and his wife obtained tem-porary custody of Haley Morris, said they had been receiving a tremendous amount of community support.
“We’re still getting cards daily,” he said Thursday.
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Northern Vance fell to 0-2 in the Carolina 3A Conference, but for the second time this week, the final score may not have been indicative of how competitive the match was.
After dropping an 80-0 decision to Orange Wednesday, Northern fell 51-24 to Chapel Hill Friday.
The Vikings picked up four contested wins, but Chapel Hill seized control in the early stages of the meet.
“They weren’t that much better,” Vikings coach Thomas Durham said of the Tigers. “Are they a good, solid team? Yes, they are. Is that a match we should have won? Absolutely. The Chapel Hill kids wanted it more than my kids.”
The match marked the second time this week Northern was pitted against a perennial state power.
“Anytime you have those two teams in the same week, you’re in for a long week,” said Durham.
Chapel Hill started the match off with two con-secutive wins in the 189 and 215 lbs weight classes, but Geno Bullock got the Vikings on the board with an impressive win in the heavyweight division.
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Slugfest in Raleigh
By GREGG BELLap sports Writer
RENTON, Wash. — A sign with Jim Mora’s name identify-ing his prime parking spot was still in front of Seattle Seahawks headquarters Friday night.
There’s reason to believe that one with Pete Carroll’s name on it could soon take its place.
The Seahawks fired Mora after just one season earlier in the
day and speculation on Mora’s replacement immediately cen-tered on Carroll, the charismatic Southern California coach.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Seahawks chief ex-ecutive officer Tod Leiweke flew to California before firing Mora to interview Carroll for the job. The newspaper said that Seattle — with team owner Paul Allen, the
Seahawks fire Mora; USC’s Carroll in?
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Southern California football coach Pete Carroll looks on during an oct. 31 game against Oregon in Eugene, Ore. The Seattle Seahawks fired head coach Jim Mora after just one season on Friday. Carroll is reportedly interested in the vacant job.
Lady Vikings fall to Orange
By FRED GOODALLap sports Writer
TAMPA, Fla. — South Florida fired football coach Jim Leavitt after a school investigation concluded he grabbed one of his players by the throat, slapped him in the face and then lied about it.
A letter hand delivered to the coach and released along with a report on the three-week probe said the univer-sity’s findings were based on “independently corroborated statements of persons found to be in the best position to observe your conduct.”
“Coach Leavitt committed a serious violation of our stan-dards of con-duct regarding treatment of students,” university president Judy Genshaft said Friday, adding a national search for a replacement will be begin im-mediately.
Reached by telephone, the only coach in the program’s 13-year history told The As-sociated Press he was “disap-pointed” and the allegation was “absolutely false.”
Leavitt told investigators he has never struck a player and that he was trying to lift the spirits of a player who was “down” when he grabbed the player’s shoulder pads during halftime of a game against Louisville on Nov. 21.
But the letter athletic direc-tor Doug Woolard presented to Leavitt during a meeting with Genshaft stated informed the
USF fires football coach Jim Leavitt
Icy weather postpones area sporting events
By DAILy DISPATCH STAFF
Friday’s inclement weather prompted the post-ponement of several local prep competitions.
The scheduled basketball contests between Norlina Christian and Crossroads Christian, as well as the J.F. Webb at Southern Vance wrestling match and the Southern at Webb basket-ball games, were moved.
According to Crossroads coach John Anderson, Nor-lina and Crossroads have rescheduled the girls’ and boys’ basketball games for Monday, Jan. 11 at 4 and 5:30 p.m., respectively.
The Southern-Webb matchups were cancelled at the request of Granville County Schools. Southern athletic director Ed Wilson said the Raider-Warrior matches have been tenta-tively rescheduled for Feb. 3.
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By STEPHEN HAWKINSap sports Writer
ARLINGTON, Texas — Now the Dallas Cowboys have to fig-ure out how to do it again.
A week after shutting out Phil-adelphia to clinch the NFC East title and shaking some of their reputation for late-season lapses, the Cowboys (11-5) stay home for a Saturday night rematch against their division rival.
It will be the first playoff game in Jerry Jones’ new $1.2 billion showplace stadium and a chance to end the 13-year postseason winless drought that is the lon-gest in team history.
“This is when it all needs to come into place and unfold for us,” tight end Jason Witten said. “All that other stuff is great ... But I really believe that we know what’s at stake and this when we
need to play big.”Two out of three won’t be good
enough for Dallas, which after beating Philadelphia (11-5) for the second time this season last Sunday got caps and T-shirts commemorating its division title.
“We’ve gotten a couple of those shirts and hats before,” Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb
said. “If you don’t win this game, I don’t think too many people are going to remember who won the NFC East.”
The 24-0 loss last weekend kept Philadelphia, which had won six in a row, from clinching the No. 2 seed and a first-round bye. The Eagles instead are the No. 6 seed with no chance of a
home playoff game.Of course, Philadelphia made
it to the NFC championship game as the No. 6 seed last year. And the Eagles have won their first game in seven consecutive post-season appearances since Andy Reid became coach and McNabb their quarterback in 1999. They have 10 playoff victories in that span, Dallas none.
But the Cowboys are rolling, not stumbling, into the playoffs this time.
For the first time since the 1996 season, the last time they won a playoff game and a year after their last Super Bowl, the Cowboys have a winning record in games played after Dec. 1.
The three-game winning streak came after consecutive losses to start December. But
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PHILADELPHIA (11-5) at DALLAS (11-5) • Sat. • 8 p.m. EST • NBC
APSOURCE: National Football League
OFFENSE DEFENSE
NFC WILD-CARD PLAYOFF
Heated rivalry intensifies in Dallas Philly and Dallas have clashed 101 times but only three of those games were playoff matches. The Cowboys haven’t won a playoff game since 1996 but shut the Eagles out last week en route to the NFC East title.
GREEN BAY (11-5) at ARIZONA (10-6) • Sun. • 4:40 p.m. EST • FOX
APSOURCE: National Football League
OFFENSE DEFENSE
NFC WILD-CARD PLAYOFF
Rematch in the desertLast week Arizona rested its starters and were handily beaten by the Pack. In a key matchup, the Cards Larry Fitzgerald – the catalyst of last year’s Super Bowl run – will be blanketed by All-Pro CB Charles Woodson.
PHILADELPHIA (11-5) at DALLAS (11-5) • Sat. • 8 p.m. EST • NBC
APSOURCE: National Football League
OFFENSE DEFENSE
NFC WILD-CARD PLAYOFF
Heated rivalry intensifies in Dallas Philly and Dallas have clashed 101 times but only three of those games were playoff matches. The Cowboys haven’t won a playoff game since 1996 but shut the Eagles out last week en route to the NFC East title.
GREEN BAY (11-5) at ARIZONA (10-6) • Sun. • 4:40 p.m. EST • FOX
APSOURCE: National Football League
OFFENSE DEFENSE
NFC WILD-CARD PLAYOFF
Rematch in the desertLast week Arizona rested its starters and were handily beaten by the Pack. In a key matchup, the Cards Larry Fitzgerald – the catalyst of last year’s Super Bowl run – will be blanketed by All-Pro CB Charles Woodson.
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Viking grapplers tangle with Tigers
By DAILy DISPATCH STAFF
Northern Vance’s girls’ basketball team fell in their conference opener on the road at Orange, 42-20 Friday.
The Lady Vikings trailed Orange 21-13 at the half, but a big third quarter for the Panthers gave them a cushion. The Vikings were out-scored 10-3 in the period.
Northern coach Vangie Mitchell said her team needs better offensive execution in general, and they need to cut down on turnovers and be more patient on offense as conference competition continues.
“We still haven’t gotten a complete game yet,” she said.
Sekeedrah Alston led Northern with seven points, and Ciarea Thompson had five.
The Lady Vikings (3-5, 0-1) travel to Chapel Hill next Friday.
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above: northern Vance’s Trey Elam wrestles with Chapel Hill’s andrew Hotong during their 171 lbs. match at Friday’s meet. Elam won by pinfall. Below: Geno Bullock is in control during his heavyweight match with Dequan Lassiter. Bullock also won by pinfall, but northern lost the overall match.
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Big block seals win for N. Vance
By DAILy DISPATCH STAFF
Northern Vance came out on top in a Carolina 3A Conference nailbiter Friday, taking down Orange 45-43 in Hillsborough.
Orange drove to the bas-ket looking to tie in the wan-ing seconds, but Koffi Sneed came up with a game-saving block to give Northern the win.
“Orange is a tough place to play,” said Vikings coach Wilton Baskett. “A lot of teams are going to go in there and be disappointed.”
The Panthers used a 3-pointer to knot the game at 43 with 17 seconds left, but Northern’s Shawn Brown answered with two free throws to make it 45-43.
Brown led the Vikings with 15 points. Cameron Butler had 14 points and Brandon Hargrove had six points and 13 rebounds.
Northern (10-2, 1-0) faces Chapel Hill on the road Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Microsoft Corp. tycoon for whom money is no limita-tion — is believed to be offering Carroll a five-year contract worth $7 million per season to be its presi-dent and coach.
That would be a raise of more than $2 million annually on what Carroll is believed to be earning at USC.
Carroll’s agent, Gary Uberstine, did not imme-diately return phone and e-mail messages left by The Associated Press on Friday night.
“Pete’s name comes out at this time every year. In the past, he hasn’t com-mented on such reports,” USC spokesman Tim Tessa-lone said in an e-mail to The AP. “He was not expected in (Friday). ... At this point, we have nothing to report.”
A Seahawks spokesman inside the team’s headquar-ters refused to comment on Carroll. Carroll did not return a phone message left by The AP.
Leiweke did not respond to an e-mail asking about Carroll, who was 6-10 in 1994 with the New York Jets and then 27-21 while twice reaching the playoffs from ’97-99 with the New England Patriots — before he restored a dynasty at USC.
The opportunity in Seattle is unique for Carroll. The Seahawks do not have a GM in place, so Carroll could conceivably have more authority over football mat-ters, far more than he would have had filling any of the NFL coaching openings he’s been mentioned in connec-tion with in recent winters.
Seattle is also interested
in talking to Minnesota defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier but has yet to interview him for the job, according to a league source with knowledge of the situ-ation who did not want to be named because the Sea-hawks have not disclosed candidates. Per league postseason rules, Seattle would have to interview Frazier before the end of the weekend, or wait until the Vikings are eliminated from the playoffs or after the NFC title game in two weeks.
The league’s Rooney Rule requires teams to interview minority candidates, such as Frazier, for head coach-ing vacancies.
University of Washington coach Steve Sarkisian, who left his friend Carroll and the Trojans 12 months ago for his first head coaching job, chuckled when asked if he’d like to be a head coach in the same city as his mentor.
“That’d be kind of fun,” Sarkisian said.
Leiweke fired Mora dur-ing a morning meeting at team headquarters, ending a four-week internal evalu-ation the CEO conducted of his floundering franchise.
Hours later, the team confirmed the firing in a news release.
Sunday, Mora finished his only season in Seattle 5-11, after taking over his hometown team at the end of Mike Holmgren’s tenure. Wednesday, Mora had said he was charging ahead with assessing 2009 and prepar-ing for next season, saying of his future: “I’m not too worried about it. I’m just go-ing to go work until I’m told
not to work.”Mora had three years
and almost $12 million remaining on his contract.
“We’ve made a tough decision today,” Leiweke said. “It became apparent after conducting an exten-sive internal audit that a new direction was needed to provide an opportunity for the organization to be successful. Today’s deci-sion, while difficult, is part of the process in building a franchise with a new vision in 2010.”
Leiweke called Mora “truly a standup man who gave his full effort to our franchise.”
“Coach Mora will be missed,” Seattle defensive end Darryl Tapp wrote on his Twitter page.
Seattle is 9-23 since its last playoff appearance in January 2008, after four consecutive NFC West titles.
“This team, more im-portantly this community, means so much to me that it hurts not being able to see this through,” Mora said in the team statement. “I am disappointed I did not get the chance to complete my
contract. This is a tough business that sometimes demands immediate grati-fication.”
GM and president Tim Ruskell took the initial fall for the Seahawks’ flop when he was fired Dec. 3. Leiweke noted then that Mora was steward of a rocky tran-sition from Holmgren’s regime to one with a new offense, new defense and almost entirely new coach-ing staff.
Leiweke said last month he expected Mora to return for a second season.
Seattle was one of eight teams to have a new head coach and largely new staffs in 2009. Half of those teams improved their win totals: the Browns (5-11) and Seahawks each gained one win over ’08; the Chiefs (4-12) and Lions (2-14) were plus-2.
Mora’s first season fol-lowing Holmgren’s mostly glorious decade in Seattle was in sharp contrast to his rookie season as a head coach in Atlanta in 2004. That year, Mora took what had been a 5-11 Falcons team to the NFC champion-ship game.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Bills owner Ralph Wilson says the team has spoken to Bill Cowher about its coaching vacancy, but Wilson isn’t sure whether the former Steelers coach is interested.
“You’d have to ask him,” Wilson told The Associated Press in a phone interview Friday from his home in suburban Detroit.
Cowher, who works as an NFL analyst for CBS, has declined to comment about his future. Wilson did say the Bills’ search continues, and couldn’t provide a timetable as to when a hire will be made. He said the team will not rushing into deciding who will replace Dick Jauron, who was fired in November.
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RALEIGH — These numbers were drawn Friday afternoon by the North Carolina Lottery:Early Pick 3: 2-8-9Late Pick 3: 0-6-0Pick 4: 2-2-8-8Cash 5: 39-27-21-5-2
RICHMOND, Va. — These numbers were drawn Friday afternoon by the Virginia Lottery:Pick 3: 8-1-1Pick 4: 2-2-8-7Cash 5: 6-8-17-23-33
These numbers were drawn Friday night:Pick 3: 6-0-7Pick 4: 2-4-9-3Cash 5: 3-4-21-24-29Mega Mill.: 18-20-31-36-43Mega Ball: 33
Saturday, Jan. 9GOLF 9:30 a.m.n TGC — European PGA Tour, Africa Open, third round, at East London, South Africa (same-day tape) 6 p.m.n TGC — PGA Tour, SBS Cham-pionship, third round, at Kapalua, Hawaii
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL Noonn ESPN — Connecticut at Georgetownn ESPN2 — Florida at Vanderbilt 2 p.m.n ESPN — Duke at Georgia Techn ESPN2 — Kansas St. at Mis-souri 4 p.m.n ESPN2 — N. Iowa at Illinois St.n VERSUS — UNLV at New Mexico 6 p.m.n ESPN2 — Murray St. at Austin Peay 10:30 p.m.n FSN — Southern Cal at Cali-fornia
NBA BASKETBALL 8 p.m.n WGN — Minnesota at Chicago
NFL FOOTBALL 4:30 p.m.n NBC — Playoffs, Wild-card game, N.Y. Jets at Cincinnati 8 p.m.n NBC — Playoffs, Wild-card game, Philadelphia at Dallas
PREP FOOTBALL 1 p.m.n NBC — All-American Bowl, at San Antonio
RODEO 8 p.m.n VERSUS — PBR, New York City Invitational
SOCCER 7:30 a.m.n ESPN2 — Premier League, Hull City vs. Chelsea, at Hull, England
WOMEN’S COLLEGE B-BALL Noonn FSN — Kansas at Kansas St. 2 p.m.n CBS — National coverage, Ohio St. at Michigan St.n FSN — Missouri at Colorado 4 p.m.n CBS — National coverage, North Carolina at ConnecticutFSN — Oregon at Oregon St.
Saturday, Jan. 9 Basketball-Boysn Bunn at J.F. Webb 7:30 p.m.
Basketball-Girlsn Bunn at J.F. Webb 6 p.m.
College Basketballn Vance-Granville CC at Sandhills CC 2 p.m.
Wrestlingn Kerr-Vance at Greensboro Day Duals 9 a.m.n Southern Vance at Person Inv. 9 a.m.n J.F. Webb at Orange 9 a.m.
JV Basketball-Boysn Bunn at J.F. Webb 4:30 p.m.
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Register for baseball/softball classes soon
Registration will be held soon for classes at Next Level Baseball, located at 328 Red Oak Road in Henderson.
A Baseball Skills Class for two age groups will be held on Wednesdays. The 5-7 age group will meet from 6 until 7 p.m., while ages 8-15 will meet from 7 until 8 p.m. A Baseball Hitting Class will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The 6-12 age group is scheduled to meet from 6 until 7 p.m., while ages 13-18 will convene from 7 until 8 p.m.
A Softball Skills Class for ages 6-15 will be held from 5 until 6 p.m. on Wednesdays. A Softball Hit-ting Class for ages 6-18 will meet from 6 until 7 on Wednesday.
Cost for the skills classes are $95, while the hitting classes are $165. There is a registration fee of $25 if not already registered. The time for registration will be from 6 until 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 13.
Next Level will also be holding four baseball camps: a skills camp for ages 8-18 (Feb. 4 and 11, from 5-7 p.m.); a hitting camp for ages 13-18 (Feb. 1 and 8 from 5-8 p.m.); a hitting camp for ages 6-12 (March 6 from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. and March 7 from 1-4 p.m.); pitching and catching (Jan. 30, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. and Jan. 31, 1-4 p.m.).
Cost for the camps is $110. Registration for two camps is $200, and three will cost $295.
By DAILy DISPATCH STAFF
The Kerr-Vance varsity girls basketball team lost a close game at Halifax Academy in its conference opener, 47-43.
KVA (2-9) was down 10 at the half, but battled back to tie the score late in Friday’s Eastern Plains Independent Conference game.
Shameka Valentine led the Spartans with 12 points. Anna Macon-Wemyss had 11 points, Amanda Wilson had eight and Emily Atkins had seven.
KVA plays host to Light-house Christian Monday at 6 p.m.
The Spartan boys rolled
to a 76-31 win at Halifax Academy in its Eastern Plains Independent Con-ference opener.
Coach David Car-rier said it was his team’s “most complete game of the year.”
“We kept our intensity for 32 minutes. It was a great team win,” he said.
Tyler Overby, Cameron Capell and Tyler Bolton each had 13 points for KVA and Ric Davis had 12.
The Spartans (5-6) face Lighthouse Christian Mon-day at home at 7:30 p.m.
JV Spartan boys win with buzzer-beater
The Kerr-Vance junior varsity basketball team won their first Eastern
Plains Independent Con-ference game of the season Friday — a 48-46 nailbiter at Halifax Academy.
Hayes Griggs made the game-winning shot with no time left on the clock off a breakaway assist from George Hoyle.
The Spartans (5-5) trailed by as many as 19, and were down 10 with 5:38 left, but clawed their way back into the game.
Daniel Burnette was the leading scorer with 18 points. Hayes Griggs added 16, followed by Dallas Smith and Tyson Carrier, who each had seven points.
The team will play its last non-conference game on Monday.
KVA JV girls lose a close one
The Kerr-Vance Acad-emy junior varsity girls basketball team lost 18-17 in an intense game against Halifax Academy.
Halifax went on a 9-1 run to open the game, but KVA began to fight back.
However, the team’s comeback fell just short, as Rebecca Ross made a layup at the end of the game, but it fell through just after the clock hit zero.
Hannah Abbott led Kerr-Vance with seven points. Price Wester added four points in the loss.
The team returns home on Monday for an afternoon game against Lighthouse.
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Ginyard out again Sunday for No. 9 Tar Heels
CHAPEL HILL (AP) — Ninth-ranked North Caro-lina will be short-handed again for Sunday’s Atlantic Coast Conference opener against Virginia Tech.
Coach Roy Williams says fifth-year senior Marcus Ginyard will miss his fourth straight game with a sprained right ankle. In addition, junior Will Graves and freshman Leslie McDonald are questionable with right ankle sprains.
Ginyard was hurt in practice the day after Christ-mas. Graves was hurt in last week’s win against Albany and missed Monday’s loss at College of Charles-ton. McDonald was hurt in that game and played through it, but Williams said Friday that McDonald had significant swelling afterward.
The injuries deplete a thin perimeter for the defend-ing national champions.
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By JOEDy MCCREARyap sporTs WriTer
RALEIGH — Ray Whit-ney scored two goals and the Carolina Hurricanes claimed a chippy 2-1 vic-tory against the Colorado Avalanche on Friday night.
Cam Ward finished with 29 saves and took a bid for his 13th career shutout into the final minute, and Matt Cullen added two assists. The NHL’s worst team has won three of five.
Brandon Yip scored with 15.5 seconds left, and Peter Budaj made 18 saves for the Avalanche, who have lost two straight in regula-tion for the first time since mid-November.
The teams combined for 58 penalty minutes, with the violence starting early when Colorado’s Darcy Tucker and Carolina’s Tuomo Ruutu traded punches — apparently re-taliating for Ruutu’s hit on Tucker in the teams’ last meeting. On Oct. 23, Ruutu sent Tucker into the boards and, eventually, off the ice on a backboard, leaving behind a pool of blood on
the ice.Ward, who made his
11th straight start, flirted with his first shutout since a 9-0 victory over the New York Islanders on April 7. Carolina, which has picked up seven points in its last six games, entered with
29 points — 10 behind Toronto, the second-worst team in the East.
Whitney made it a two-goal game 37 seconds into the second period, skating down the right side, faking a slap shot and instead sneaking a wrist shot past
Budaj for his 13th goal. That gave him his third multigoal game of the season and first since Dec. 12, when he scored twice in a 4-2 loss to Ottawa.
This time, his first goal came 5 1/2 minutes in and capped off one of the team’s best individual efforts of the season. Just 29 seconds into a charging penalty on Cody McLeod, Whitney took a pass from Matt Cullen, skated by a turned-around Ryan Wilson between the hash marks and slipped a backhand past Budaj.
That came after things got off to a chippy start when Tucker and Ruutu dropped their gloves roughly 4 minutes in. This time, it was Ruutu who wound up hurt; he didn’t return after sustaining an upper-body injury.
Each player received a fighting major for their latest brouhaha, the first in a series of dustups between the teams and one of the highlights of a whistle-filled opening period in which there were a com-bined 42 penalty minutes.
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Carolina’s Rod Brind'Amour and Colorado’s Kyle Quincey battle during the second period of Friday’s game.
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By JOE KAyap sporTs WriTer
CINCINNATI — Line-backer Brandon Johnson was trimming some of his Cincinnati Bengals teammates’ hair after a frigid practice, getting them ready to look good for their next big moment. They couldn’t look any worse than they did in their last one.
Jets 37, Bengals 0.The Jets dominated
them in every way at the Meadowlands last Sunday, earning a playoff berth while drubbing the AFC North champs, who had little on the line and played like it. Even in their worst times, the Bengals (10-6) have never been beaten more soundly.
Days later, they didn’t sound like a beaten-down team. A group of them gathered for a little grooming, joking and laughing, turning the locker room into a raucous barber shop. They were confident the return of a few key players — and the much higher stakes — will close that 37-point gap in their wild-card rematch on Saturday at Paul Brown Stadium.
“Come Saturday, you’ll see an energetic, enthu-siastic, rambunctious Bengals team,” offensive lineman Bobbie Williams said. “I like our odds this time.”
Given what’s happened, the Jets (9-7) like theirs even more.
New York won five of its last six games to reach the playoffs for the sixth time in the last 12 years. The Jets finished the regular season with the league’s top-ranked
running game and its best defense, but were installed as the biggest long shot among the playoff teams. One reason: Mark Sanchez is a rookie quarterback.
The oddsmakers’ as-sessment doesn’t sit well with coach Rex Ryan.
“I wasn’t aware of that,” he said, “but to me, we should be favorites, so that’s fine.”
Favorites to win it all, he meant. First, the Jets have to pull off a rare back-to-back sweep of the same team.
Since 1991, when the current playoff format was adopted, teams have ended the regular season and then faced each other in the wild-card round nine times. The Jets were involved in one of those, beating Oakland to end the 2001 regular season, then losing to the Raid-ers six days later. Four of those nine teams managed to sweep.
It’s a little unusual for everyone involved.
“I think this is good for us,” said Jets corner-back Darrelle Revis, who shut out receiver Chad Ochocinco last weekend. “We just played these guys. We’re so familiar with them. It’s a good thing to go back and play them again for a double-header. It’s almost like an
NBA playoff series. We’ll be ready.”
Bengals coach Marvin Lewis held running back Cedric Benson out last Sunday and told his co-ordinators not to give too much away because they could face the Jets again. Defensive tackle Domata Peko, defensive end Rob-ert Geathers and safety Chris Crocker were given another week to heal from injuries.
The Jets ran for 257 yards against the depleted and uninspired defense, which had been one of the league’s best at stop-ping the run. Peko, one of Cincinnati’s best run stoppers, hasn’t played since surgery on Dec. 7 to clean out his right knee. The Bengals gave up more than 100 yards rushing in three of their last four games without him.
Peko will face Pro Bowl center Nick Mangold in one of the game’s pivotal matchups.
“We have been bat-tling ever since college,” Peko said. “He played at Ohio State and I played at Michigan State, so he knows a little bit about me and I know a little bit about him. It will be a great battle. I’m looking forward to it.”
The teams use the same old-fashioned approach: run the ball, play tough
defense and win close games. It’s a style built for cold weather, and they’ll have plenty of that on Sat-urday, with temperatures expected in the teens at kickoff.
So far, the Jets have been a little better at the grind-it-out style. The Bengals have a much more experienced quar-terback in Carson Palmer, although his only playoff game ended after one pass. Pittsburgh’s Kimo von Oelhoffen hit his lower leg, tearing up his left knee during the Steel-ers’ playoff win in 2005.
The Bengals’ strategy will be to stop New York’s running game and force a rookie quarterback who has thrown 20 intercep-tions — second most in the league — to win a playoff game on the road. Cincinnati would seem to have the home-field ad-vantage there, but that’s not necessarily the case.
Bengals fans accus-tomed to a wide-open offense have chafed at the run-first style imple-mented this season, often booing the play selection — even when their team was winning. Cincinnati was 6-2 at home.
Asked what he would like from the fans on Saturday, Palmer said, “Hopefully no boos. That would be nice for once this season. Boos do not help us win football games.”
The Jets will be trying to win a playoff game for the first time since the 2004 season and show they deserve consider-ation as a team capable of winning it all, as Ryan suggested. The 37-0 win didn’t earn them many points that way.
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N.Y. JETS (9-7) at CINCINNATI (10-6) • Sat. • 4:30 p.m. EST • NBC
APSOURCE: National Football League
OFFENSE DEFENSE
AFC WILD-CARD PLAYOFF
Playing for different stakesFor the second straight week, the AFC North champion Bengals will face a mauling offensive line and the top defense in the league as they host the Jets. Cincinnati was blown out 37-0 in the regular-season finale.
BALTIMORE (9-7) at NEW ENGLAND (10-6) • Sun. • 1 p.m. EST • CBS
APSOURCE: National Football League
OFFENSE DEFENSE
AFC WILD-CARD PLAYOFF
Brady missing favorite target After losing Wes Welker to a knee injury last week against Houston, Tom Brady and the Patriots find themselves without one of their top offensive threats as they host the Baltimore Ravens Sunday.
N.Y. JETS (9-7) at CINCINNATI (10-6) • Sat. • 4:30 p.m. EST • NBC
APSOURCE: National Football League
OFFENSE DEFENSE
AFC WILD-CARD PLAYOFF
Playing for different stakesFor the second straight week, the AFC North champion Bengals will face a mauling offensive line and the top defense in the league as they host the Jets. Cincinnati was blown out 37-0 in the regular-season finale.
BALTIMORE (9-7) at NEW ENGLAND (10-6) • Sun. • 1 p.m. EST • CBS
APSOURCE: National Football League
OFFENSE DEFENSE
AFC WILD-CARD PLAYOFF
Brady missing favorite target After losing Wes Welker to a knee injury last week against Houston, Tom Brady and the Patriots find themselves without one of their top offensive threats as they host the Baltimore Ravens Sunday.
Dallas won 24-17 at high-scoring and undefeated New Or-leans before the first consecutive shutouts in the team’s 50-season history.
“Obviously you gain confidence from the suc-cess we’ve had,” line-backer Keith Brooking said.
“But that’s over. This is a new season for us and we’re looking at it that way. Obviously everything is at stake right now.”
The Eagles certainly want a do-over after be-ing held scoreless with a season-low 228 total yards Sunday. Philadel-phia had scored a fran-chise-record 429 points and averaged 31 points during a six-game win-ning streak coming into last weekend.
“We definitely got embarrassed and we have to come back this week and make differ-ent arrangements,” said Eagles Pro Bowl re-ceiver DeSean Jackson, who made his feelings known in different In-ternet posts.
Jackson (63 catches for 1,167 yards and nine touchdowns) has only five catches for 76 yards with no scores in two games against Dallas,
and Philadelphia has only one TD in 21 of-fensive drives. Rookie Jeremy Maclin, another big-play threat, has been held to six recep-tions for 91 yards.
McNabb overthrew Jackson on an early deep pass that could have tied Sunday’s game and later fumbled away a low snap inside the 20. Jackson and Maclin both dropped passes.
“There were some missed opportunities, a lot of miscues,” said McNabb, whose nine playoff victories are surpassed only by five Hall of Fame quarter-backs and Super Bowl champions Tom Brady and Brett Favre.
“Now we have an-other opportunity. We just have to clean things up and just go out and play football.”
Philadelphia-Dallas is one of three games this weekend that is a rematch from last week, but is the only one that is also the teams’ third meeting of the season. There have been 78 other times when NFL teams met three times in a season, with only 18 teams winning each game, according to STATS LLC.
PLAYOFFS, from page 1B
riod to take a 10-5 lead and never let him out of his grasp, earning a pin with 56 seconds left in a hard-fought battle.
Jonathan Norton was in position to put Northern ahead, but Norton suf-fered an arm injury while leading 3-0 in the second period. The injury forfeit gave the Tigers a 15-6 lead.
“That killed us,” Dur-ham said. “After that, our kids were hanging their heads, just demoralized when we should have won. And then to have to give up six points like that is tough.”
Chapel Hill reeled off wins in the next four matches to take a 36-6 lead before Cordarris Wright gave the Vikings life with a pin in the sec-ond period.
“Geno and then Cordarris at 135, I wasn’t expecting that out of either one of them. Both of them stepped up to the plate and got the job done,” said Durham.
Raymond West got Northern’s third win of the night with a pin in the 152 lbs. class to make it 45-18. West went down early in the first, but built a 9-3 lead before pinning his opponent late in the third period.
Trey Elam closed out
the match with an impres-sive victory in the 171 lbs. class. Elam needed only one period to pin Andrew Hotong for the win.
“Trey did what was expected of him. Even as a freshman, he’s stepping up as a leader,” Durham said.
Northern wrestles tomorrow at Greensboro Grimsley and returns to conference action Jan. 20 at Cardinal Gibbons.
ResultsCHAPEL HILL 51, N. VANCE 24
n 189 lbs. — CH’s Matt Hoge def. Davey Rivera by decision (3-0)n 215 — CH’s Alex Colson def. Preston Ellis by pinfall with 1:14 left in second (9-0)n Heavyweight — NV’s Geno Bullock def. Dequan Lassiter by pinfall with 56 seconds left in third period (9-6)n 103 — CH’s Aaron Fienberg def. Jonathan Norton by injury forfeit in second period (15-6)n 112 — CH’s Brian Smith def. Dishon Cobbins by pinfall with 40 seconds left in third (21-6)n 119 — CH’s Ryan Munger def. Travis Heath by pinfall with 1:37 left in first period (27-6)n 125 — CH’s Nick Stefanadis won by forfeit (33-6)n 130 — CH’s Peter Dreher def. Zach Orr by decision, 8-6 (36-6)n 135 — NV’s Cordarris Wright def. Austin Craig by pinfall with 1:02 left in second (36-12)n 140 — CH’s Brett Goldbach def. Travon Scott by pinfall with 43 seconds left in second (42-12)n 145 — CH’s Bobby Nelson def. JDarius Alston by decision, 9-4 (45-12)n 152 — NV’s Raymond West def. Christ Mowanzda by pinfall with 28 seconds left in third (45-18)n 160 — CH’s Roscoe Burnett def. Austin Reams by pinfall with 1:52 left in third (51-18)n 171 — NV’s Trey Elam def. Andrew Hotong by pinfall with 36 seconds left in first (51-24)
coach “your description of your conduct toward the student athlete in question was consistently uncorroborated by credible witnesses.”
The school also con-cluded Leavitt interfered with the investigation by having “direct contact with material witnesses ... at a time you knew or should have known was critical to the review process.”
Leavitt, who was 95-57, just completed the second season of a seven-year, $12.6 million contract.
“I truly wish there had been another outcome to this situation,” Woolard said during a news confer-ence.
AOL FanHouse first re-ported the firing. Genshaft and Woolard launched the investigation last month after a FanHouse report said Leavitt had grabbed sophomore Joel Miller and hit him in the face twice
during halftime of the Louisville game.
Miller was penalized for an illegal block in the first half, and he also was on the field when Louis-ville returned a punt for a touchdown.
“I’m very disappointed. The allegations as reported are absolutely false,” Leavitt said Friday. “I’m going to respond in time.”
Citing Miller’s father, high school coach and five USF players who were not identified, FanHouse initially reported Leavitt struck Miller because he was upset about a mistake Miller made on special teams.
Miller’s father later backtracked, telling report-ers Leavitt did not strike his son but rather grabbed him by the shoulder pads while trying to motivate the sophomore walk-on.
Neither Genshaft nor Woolard took ques-
tions and specifics about Leavitt’s were not dis-cussed during the press conference.
Investigators talked to several players, who were not identified by name and who either witnessed the alleged incident or were told of it by a player referred to in the report as “Student A.”
The report said during an initial interview with investigators that “Student A” tried to play down the incident, saying the coach grabbed his shoulder pads and “didn’t touch me in any malicious way.”
The investigation con-cluded differently.
In his letter to Leavitt, Woolard said the athlete’s statements after the probe began “are unpersuasive because they were con-tradicted by the same student athlete in his conversations with credible witnesses made close in
time to when that conduct occurred.”
Leavitt was hired in De-cember 1995 and launched USF’s program from scratch, operating out of trailers on campus in the early years while guiding the Bulls’ swift progression from Division I-AA to BCS conference member.
USF joined the Big East in 2005 and has played in a bowl game every year since joining the league. The Bulls were ranked as high as No. 2 in the nation in 2007 before a mid-season conference slide dropped them out of the Top 25.
Similar collapses in con-ference play followed 5-0 starts each of the past two years. The Bulls finished 8-5 this season.
———Associated Press writer
Mitch Stacy in Tampa, Fla., contributed to this report.
LEAVITT, from page 1B
NBAStandings
EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division
W L Pct GBBoston 25 9 .735 —Toronto 19 18 .514 7 1/2New York 15 20 .429 10 1/2Philadelphia 10 25 .286 15 1/2New Jersey 3 33 .083 23
Friday’s GamesToronto 108, Philadelphia 106Washington 104, Orlando 97Atlanta 93, Boston 85Memphis 91, Utah 89Minnesota 116, Indiana 109New Orleans 103, New Jersey 99Dallas at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.Chicago at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m.Miami at Phoenix, 9 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Portland, 10 p.m.Sacramento at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.Cleveland at Denver, 10:30 p.m.
Saturday’s GamesMemphis at Charlotte, 7 p.m.Atlanta at Orlando, 7 p.m.Philadelphia at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.Indiana at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.Minnesota at Chicago, 8 p.m.New York at Houston, 8:30 p.m.Utah at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.Denver at Sacramento, 10 p.m.
MIDWESTButler 77, Wright St. 65Cornell 71, South Dakota 65Detroit 77, Valparaiso 67
FAR WESTMontana 79, E. Washington 66Montana St. 77, Portland St. 71Washington St. 78, Arizona 76
Friday’s Sports TransactionsBy The Associated Press
BASEBALLCOMMISSIONER’S OFFICE—Suspended N.Y. Yankees minor league P Rony Bautista, L.A. Angels minor league RHP Roberto Toribio and Chicago White Sox minor league OF Miguel Negron 50 games for testing positive for substances in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.n American LeagueCLEVELAND INDIANS—Named Joe Kessler strength and conditioning coach.KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Agreed to terms with OF Scott Podsednik on a one-year contract.MINNESOTA TWINS—Agreed to terms with LHP Mike Maroth on a minor league contract.OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Designated 1B Tommy Everidge for assignment.SEATTLE MARINERS—Agreed to terms with OF Franklin Gutierrez on a four-year contract extension.n National LeagueHOUSTON ASTROS—Agreed to terms with C J.R. Towles and INF Chris Johnson on one-year contracts and RHP Josh Banks on a minor league contract. Released RHP Ryan Sadowski from his minor league contract and has agreed to terms with a Korean Baseball League club for the 2010 season.NEW YORK METS—Claimed LHP Jay Marshall off waivers from Oakland.WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Assigned LHP Victor Garate outright to Syracuse (IL).
BASKETBALLn National Basketball AssociationMEMPHIS GRIZZLIES—Claimed G Lester Hudson off waivers.OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER—Recalled F D.J. White from Tulsa (NBADL).
FOOTBALLn National Football LeagueNFL—Fined New England DB James Sanders $7,500 for unnecessary roughness against Houston WR David Anderson, Arizona LB Chike Okeafor $7,500 for a facemask penalty on Green Bay QB Matt Flynn, and St. Louis DE Chris Long $7,500 for a head-butt of San Francisco OT Chris Patrick during games on Sunday.KANSAS CITY CHIEFS—Named Charlie Weis offensive coordinator.MIAMI DOLPHINS—Signed RB Tristan Davis, G Ray Feinga, WR Ryan Grice-Mullen, WR Taurus Johnson, DE Brian Johnston, TE John Nalbone, S Nate Ness and WR Julius Pruit.NEW YORK JETS—Signed WR S.J. Green and DB Bo Smith to futures contracts.SEATTLE SEAHAWKS—Fired coach Jim Mora.
HOCKEYn National Hockey LeagueBOSTON BRUINS—Recalled C Trent Whitfield from Providence (AHL). Reassigned LW Matt Marquardt from Reading (ECHL) to Providence (AHL).NASHVILLE PREDATORS—Recalled C Cal O’Reilly from Milwaukee (AHL). Reassigned F Mike Santorelli to Milwaukee.OTTAWA SENATORS—Recalled F Zack Smith and F Martin St. Pierre from Binghamton (AHL).PHOENIX COYOTES—Re-assigned F Kevin Porter to San Antonio (AHL).SAN JOSE SHARKS—Recalled F John McCarthy from Worcester (AHL) and D Jason Demers from Stockton (ECHL). Assigned F Jamie McGinn to Worcester.VANCOUVER CANUCKS—Recalled D Evan Oberg from Manitoba (AHL).
TENNISTENNIS INTEGRITY UNIT—Announced Ekaterina Bychkova has been fined $5,000 and is ineligible to play for 30 days for failing to report an offer to influence the outcome of a tennis match.
StandingsEASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GANew Jersey 41 30 10 1 61 122 89Pittsburgh 45 27 17 1 55 142 125N.Y. Rangers 44 21 17 6 48 117 121Philadelphia 43 21 19 3 45 130 124N.Y. Islanders 45 18 19 8 44 113 140
Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GASan Jose 44 28 9 7 63 146 113Phoenix 45 26 15 4 56 116 107Los Angeles 44 25 16 3 53 131 124Dallas 44 19 14 11 49 128 139Anaheim 44 18 19 7 43 123 140
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
Friday’s GamesCarolina 2, Colorado 1Tampa Bay at New Jersey, ppd., power failureBuffalo 3, Toronto 2Dallas 4, N.Y. Islanders 3Columbus at Calgary, 9 p.m.
Saturday’s GamesN.Y. Rangers at Boston, 1 p.m.Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.New Jersey at Montreal, 7 p.m.Florida at Ottawa, 7 p.m.Colorado at Buffalo, 7 p.m.Washington at Atlanta, 7 p.m.Pittsburgh at Toronto, 7 p.m.Anaheim at Nashville, 8 p.m.Chicago at Minnesota, 8 p.m.N.Y. Islanders at Phoenix, 8 p.m.Calgary at Vancouver, 10 p.m.Detroit at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.St. Louis at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
Sunday’s GamesOttawa at Carolina, 5 p.m.Anaheim at Chicago, 7 p.m.Dallas at Columbus, 7 p.m.
TRANSACTIONS
4 SPORTS
4B The Daily DispaTch SportS saTurDay, January 9, 2010
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Saturday, January 9Virginia at NC State, Raycom, NoonDuke at Georgia Tech, ESPN, 2 p.m.Boston College at Clemson, Raycom, 4 p.m.Wake Forest at Miami, ESPNU, 6 p.m.
Sunday, January 10Florida State at Maryland, FSN, 5:30 p.m.Virginia Tech at North Carolina, FSN, 7:45 p.m.
Tuesday, January 12NC State at Florida State, RSN, 7 p.m.Maryland at Wake Forest, Raycom, 8 p.m.
Wednesday, January 13Boston College at Duke, ESPN, 7 p.m.Miami at Virginia Tech, TheACC.com, 7 p.m.Georgia Tech at Virginia, TheACC.com, 7 p.m.North Carolina at Clemson, ESPN, 9 p.m.
Saturday, January 16Clemson at NC State, Raycom, NoonGeorgia Tech at North Carolina, ESPN, 2 p.m.Maryland at Boston College, Raycom, 4 p.m.Virginia Tech at Florida State, RSN, 6 p.m.Miami at Virginia, ESPNU, 8 p.m.
Sunday, January 17Wake Forest at Duke, FSN, 8 p.m.
Monday, January 18North Carolina Central at Virginia Tech, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, January 19Clemson at Georgia Tech, ESPN2, 7 p.m.Longwood at Maryland, CSN+, 8 p.m.Boston College at Miami, RSN, 9 p.m.
Wednesday, January 20Wake Forest at North Carolina, ESPN, 7 p.m.Duke at NC State, Raycom, 9 p.m.
Saturday, January 23Boston College at Virginia Tech, Raycom, 1:30 p.m.Virginia at Wake Forest, Raycom, 4 p.m.NC State at Maryland, ESPN2, 6 p.m.Duke at Clemson (Game Day), ESPN, 9 p.m.
Sunday, January 24Georgia Tech at Florida State, Raycom, Noon
Tuesday, January 26Clemson at Boston College, ESPN2, 7 p.m.Miami at Maryland, ESPNU, 7 p.m.North Carolina at NC State, Raycom, 9 p.m.
Wednesday, January 27Florida State at Duke, ESPN, 9 p.m.
Thursday, January 28Wake Forest at Georgia Tech, RSN, 7 p.m.Virginia Tech at Virginia, CSN, 7 p.m.
Saturday, January 30Kentucky State at Georgia Tech, 1 p.m.Duke at Georgetown, CBS, 1 p.m.North Carolina Central at NC State, 2 p.m.
Florida State at Boston College, Raycom, 3 p.m.
Sunday, January 31Virginia Tech at Miami, Raycom, 1 p.m.Maryland at Clemson, FSN, 5:30 p.m.Virginia at North Carolina, FSN, 7:45 p.m.
Tuesday, February 2Miami at Wake Forest, ESPN2, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, February 3NC State at Virginia, ESPNU, 7 p.m.
Thursday, February 4Georgia Tech at Duke, ESPN or ESPN2, 7 p.m.Maryland at Florida State, *Raycom, 9 p.m.North Carolina at Virginia Tech, *Raycom, 9 p.m.
Saturday, February 6Wake Forest at Virginia, Raycom, NoonDuke at Boston College, ESPN, 2 p.m.NC State at Georgia Tech, *Raycom, 4 p.m.Clemson at Virginia Tech, *Raycom, 4 p.m.Miami at Florida State, ESPNU, 8 p.m.
Sunday, February 7North Carolina at Maryland, FSN, 2 p.m.
Tuesday, February 9Boston College at Wake Forest, RSN, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, February 10Florida State at Clemson, ESPN2, 7 p.m.Virginia at Maryland, ESPNU, 7 p.m.Georgia Tech at Miami, TheACC.com, 7 p.m.Virginia Tech at NC State, ESPNU, 9 p.m.
Duke at North Carolina, Raycom/ESPN, 9 p.m.
Saturday, February 13Miami at Clemson, RSN, NoonMaryland at Duke, CBS, 1 p.m.NC State at North Carolina, ESPN, 4 p.m.Virginia at Virginia Tech, *Raycom, 8 p.m.Georgia Tech at Wake Forest, *Raycom, 8 p.m.
Sunday, February 14Boston College at Florida State, FSN, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, February 16Wake Forest at Virginia Tech, ESPN2, 7 p.m.North Carolina at Georgia Tech, Raycom, 9 p.m.
Wednesday, February 17Florida State at Virginia, ESPNU, 7 p.m.Duke at Miami, ESPN, 7 p.m.Maryland at NC State, RSN, 9 p.m.
Saturday, February 20North Carolina at Boston College, CBS, NoonGeorgia Tech at Maryland, *Raycom, 2 p.m.Wake Forest at NC State, *Raycom, 2 p.m.Virginia at Clemson, RSN, 4 p.m.
Sunday, February 21Virginia Tech at Duke, FSN, 7:45 p.m.
Tuesday, February 23Virginia at Miami, RSN, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, February 24Virginia Tech at Boston College, ESPNU, 7 p.m.Florida State at North Carolina, ESPN, 7 p.m.
Clemson at Maryland, Raycom, 9 p.m.
Thursday, February 25Tulsa at Duke, ESPN or ESPN2, 7 p.m.
Saturday, February 27Boston College at Georgia Tech, RSN, NoonNorth Carolina at Wake Forest, CBS, 2 p.m.NC State at Miami, *Raycom, 4 p.m.Maryland at Virginia Tech, *Raycom, 4 p.m.
Sunday, February 28Clemson at Florida State, FSN, 5 p.m.Duke at Virginia, FSN, 7:45 p.m.
Tuesday, March 2Georgia Tech at Clemson, *Raycom, 8 p.m.Miami at North Carolina, *Raycom, 8 p.m.
Wednesday, March 3Wake Forest at Florida State, ESPN2, 7 p.m.Virginia at Boston College, ESPNU, 9 p.m.Duke at Maryland, ESPN, 9 p.m.NC State at Virginia Tech, TheACC.com, 7 p.m.
Saturday, March 6Florida State at Miami, ESPN2, NoonMaryland at Virginia, Raycom, 1:30 p.m.Virginia Tech at Georgia Tech, Raycom, 4 p.m.North Carolina at Duke, (Game Day) ESPN, 9 p.m.
Sunday, March 7Boston College at NC State, Raycom, 2 p.m.
Clemson at Wake Forest, FSN, 6 p.m.
57th Annual ACC TournamentGreensboro Coliseum
First Round - Thursday, March 11Game 1 (#8 vs #9), Raycom, NoonGame 2 (#5 vs #12), Raycom, 2 p.m.Game 3 (#7 vs #10), ESPN2, 7 p.m.Game 4 (#6 vs #11), Raycom, 9 p.m.
Quarterfinals - Friday, March 12Game 5 (#1 vs 8/9 winner), Raycom/ESPN2, NoonGame 6 (#4 vs 5/12 winner), Raycom/ESPN2, 2 p.m. Game 7 (#2 vs 7/10 winner), Raycom/ESPN2, 7 p.m.Game 8 (#3 vs 6/11 winner), Raycom/ESPN2, 9 p.m.
Finals - Sunday, March 14Game 11 (championship), Raycom/ESPN, 1 p.m.
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By BRyAN STRICKLANDThe heralD sun
DURHAM — One time downcourt, Duke senior Lance Thomas serves as the point man on a fullcourt trap, assigned the duty of disrupting the opponent’s primary ball handler.
The next time down, Thomas is pounding away in the paint, trying to keep the opponent’s biggest player from getting the ball.
Thomas, at 6-8, is one of the most versatile defend-ers the Blue Devils have featured in a long time, but even he can’t be in two places at one time.
After limiting big men Trevor Booker of Clemson and then Craig Brackins of Iowa State to their second-lowest scoring games of the season, Thomas and the No. 5 Blue Devils will face a team today that basi-cally has both Booker and Brackins.
No. 20 Georgia Tech is led by veteran big man Gani Lawal and freshman post phenom Derrick Fa-vors, a one-two punch that could pose double trouble.
"It will be a tough one," Thomas said. "Double-teaming will be pretty tough because both of them are kind of their go-to guys. Lawal and Favors, those
are two really, really good players.
"We’ll have to be ready for a fight against them. I’ll be ready, whoever I’m on. I don’t want to give them open looks."
The Blue Devils (13-1, 1-0 ACC) have been tough on Georgia Tech (11-3, 0-1) of late heading into today’s game at Alexander Memorial Coliseum (2 p.m., ESPN), having won 24 of the last 26 meetings and 11 of 12 in Atlanta.
They’ve also been tough on ranked opponents this season, holding Connecti-cut, Gonzaga and Clemson to an average of 51 points.
This isn’t, however, the same Georgia Tech team that finished last in the ACC a year ago. The young Yellow Jackets still are trying to figure out some things — they faltered at Georgia on Tuesday — but with Lawal and Favors combining for more than 27 points and 18 rebounds a game, the learning curve isn’t that long.
"They’ve worked very well together," Georgia Tech coach Paul Hewitt said. "They’re a little bit different. Derrick is a little bit more skilled out on the perimeter. He’s got the ability to shoot the ball from 15 to 18 feet, and we’re trying to encour-age him to take that shot
more — I think he’s a little reluctant.
"He’s the better ball han-dler and passer, whereas Gani has really asserted himself around the basket, rebounding and getting post position."
It seems that Thomas’ defensive skill set might match up better with Fa-vors, but he’s clearly ready for all comers.
"I embrace that, trying to guard the other team’s best player. That’s some-thing I think I’m really good at," said Thomas, who also has hit 7 of 10 field goals over his past three games. "I like the challenge of shutting down somebody who is highly touted. I get a rush after a game knowing that a person didn’t have as good a game as they usually have and aren’t as big a factor as they have in.
"That’s something I take pride in, and it’s some-thing I’m putting myself in position to do, night in and night out."
Thomas obviously will need help against Georgia Tech, something he’s had in previous games but that could be spread thin by the Yellow Jackets.
With veterans Thomas and Brian Zoubek, as well as brothers Miles and Ma-son Plumlee along the front line, the Blue Devils are as equipped to tangle with tall
teams as they’ve been in a long time.
Still, it might take more against Georgia Tech, which also gets 10.0 points and 4.6 rebounds off the bench from senior Zach-ery Peacock. The answer could be one that Duke has leaned on in defend-ing bigger teams in the past — make it difficult on the guards to get the ball to their big men in the first place.
Georgia Tech is one of just three ACC teams with more turnovers (232) than assists (206). The recent return of point guard Iman Shumpert from a knee in-jury helps, but many of the Jackets’ backcourt minutes are going to inexperienced players.
"I think it’s a function of us playing as many young guys as we’ve played," Hewitt said. "It seems like especially our perimeter guys are going a little bit fast.
"Getting Iman back kind of settles it down a little bit."
Duke isn’t the kind of team that makes it easy to settle down, especially with the way Thomas is playing on the defensive end.
"We’re ready for the challenge," Thomas said. "We have a lot of veterans on our team, so we’re ready for it."
Duke’s Thomas may have tough test vs. Tech
By BETH RUCKERap sporTs WriTer
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl dismissed forward Tyler Smith from the team on Friday, a week after his arrest with three other players on misdemeanor gun and drug charges.
Pearl had indefinitely suspended Smith, guard Cameron Tatum, center Brian Williams and point guard Melvin Goins follow-ing the Jan. 1 arrest.
“I am deeply troubled and saddened,” Pearl said. “Playing basketball at the University of Tennessee is a privilege, and where conduct is displayed that is detrimental to the team and the university this discipline is required. Tyler has accomplished a great deal, and we are all disap-pointed his playing career at the University of Ten-nessee will end this way.”
The other three play-ers will continue to serve their suspensions when No. 16 Tennessee hosts No. 1 Kansas on Sunday.
Police pulled over the vehicle the four were in for speeding and said they smelled marijuana coming from the car and found a handgun with an altered serial number, a bag of marijuana and an open container of alcohol. Tatum was driving the car, which was a rental borrowed from one of the player’s friends, and is also charged with violating Tennessee’s open container law.
“I am truly sorry for my actions in the recent case that everyone is familiar with,” Smith said in a statement released by Tennessee. “From the beginning I have accepted responsibility for my ac-tions and what I have been charged with, and I am very sorry decisions have
affected Brian, Cam and Melvin.”
Pearl said he made the decision to dismiss Smith, a two-time All-Southeastern Conference player, after gathering more informa-tion about the case, though he said he could not discuss specifics. Smith’s lawyer, Knoxville attorney Don Bosch, said, “I hope and be-lieve that the misdemeanor cases against him will be resolved quickly and con-sistent with the thousands of other true first offenders in Knox County.”
The four are sched-uled to be arraigned on Thursday. The Pulaski, Tenn., native acted as the Volunteers’ leader on the court, averaging a team-high 17.4 points last season and helping to drum up en-ergy when his teammates struggled with their play. Smith started 12 games this season, averaging 11.7 points and 4.7 rebounds per game. He led the team with 44 assists and had 17 steals.
Smith, who played at Iowa as a freshman but transferred to Tennessee to be closer to his ill father, considered skipping his final year of eligibility to enter the NBA draft in June but decided against it when analysts failed to project him as a first-round pick. Both Pearl and Smith expressed hope that the senior would return to Tennessee to complete his degree, though Smith will be subjected to a student disciplinary hearing at the university because of his arrest.
“One day soon I hope I can finish the 12 classes that I need for my degree,” Smith said. “My recent actions do not reflect who I am, and I can only hope that what I do in the future can make everyone believe in me again.”
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Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl directs players during an basketball practice at Thompson Boling Arena on Friday in Knoxville, Tenn. Pearl dismissed forward Tyler Smith from the team on Friday, a week after his arrest with three other players on misdemeanor gun and drug charges.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Charlie Weis is back in the NFL.
Barely a month after getting fired at Notre Dame, Weis signed on Fri-day as offensive coordina-tor with the Kansas City Chiefs, where he’ll join two old friends in trying to revive a flagging franchise that’s won only 10 games in three years.
“This marriage seemed very, very simple,” Weis said. “I’m very excited to be a part of a growing pro-cess that has been started here in the last year.”
In an interview on Wednesday, Weis virtu-ally confirmed that he was coming to Kansas City to rejoin head coach Todd Haley and general man-ager Scott Pioli.
Pioli was a front office executive in New England when Weis was offen-sive coordinator for the Patriots’ four Super Bowl teams, and Weis shared a small office with Haley for three years when they were assistants with the
New York Jets.“My relationship with
Todd and my relationship with Scott and several other persons in the orga-nization made Kansas City look like a fine landing spot for me,” Weis said. “I couldn’t be more pleased.”
Weis, 53, indicated that other NFL teams have expressed interest. Although his five-year record of 16-21 at Notre Dame did not pass muster with the Fighting Irish, his credentials as an offensive coordinator were never questioned while helping the Patriots win three Super Bowls.
“There were plenty of places that were out there that were opportunities,” he said. “Right from the start, Kansas City was a place that intrigued me. Knowing Todd and Scott, and the players on the team, there were just so many things that intrigued me.”
He and Haley spent much of last week together after the Chiefs beat Den-ver in the regular-season finale to finish 4-12 in Haley’s first season.
“Charlie brings with him a terrific, a tremen-dous resume of having success coaching offense and running offenses,” Haley said. “This, to me, is as perfect a fit as we could have here.”
Weis and Haley both are strong-minded men and in one of those interesting career twists that happen in all professions, the old boss has become the new underling.
When they first shared an office, Weis was the Jets’ receivers coach and Haley was his assistant. Then Weis became of-fensive coordinator and Haley became his receivers coach.
“As a matter of fact, that was one of the first issues we had to get settled,” Weis said. “Ten years ago, it was a different situation. The last time we worked together was 1999. A long time has passed.
“At this situation right
now, it’s Todd’s ship and I just want to be there to help him guide it. Our face-to-face meeting was very, very important to make sure we felt comfort-able, and especially that he felt comfortable being he’s the boss.”
Haley, two weeks before the season began, fired offensive coordinator Chan Gailey and assumed the position himself. He has admitted it was quite a load for a rookie head coach, and he hinted ever since Weis was fired on Nov. 30 that he might try to bring him on board.
“Our knowledge of each other, the relationship we had prior to this hiring will ultimately make for a seamless transition for us and, most importantly, for the team,” Haley said.
Haley said he wanted all along to have both offensive and defensive coordinators and will have no trouble turning over the play-calling.
“I would think I’ll have a hand in it,” he said. “We’re bringing another brilliant offensive mind into the pic-ture, which always helps.”
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ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Jerome Derricks says he heard God’s call early. He only wishes he’d answered sooner. By the time he did, he was serving a life sentence for murder in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly known as Angola.
“I ran from my calling all my life,” said Derricks, 44. “But I like to put it like this: God finds people wherever they go.”
At Angola, God has been finding men regularly. So far about 150 of them have earned Bachelor of Arts degrees from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and another 100 are on track to graduate. Derricks was a member of the first group of graduates, getting his degree in 2005.
“It was an idea that just grew and has kept on growing,” said Norris C. Grubbs, the seminary professor that oversees the Angola program. “It’s not easy. They’re tak-ing the same program our students at the seminary take: 126 hours and the require-ments for passing are the same.”
Since starting the program at Angola, the Baptist seminary has begun similar ones in the Mississippi and Georgia prisons. Angola and seminary officials believe they are the only full-time, college-accredited programs for ministers in the nation’s prisons.
Such programs are not tracked overall in state prisons. Federal prisons have nothing comparable, a spokeswoman said.
There are about 5,200 men at Angola, an 18,000-acre former plantation. About 90 percent of them will die there because of the length of their sentences, and many will be buried in the bleak Point Lookout Cemetery on the grounds. It’s the price Louisiana extracts for its most violent crimes, like murder, rape, kidnapping and armed rob-beries.
For years Angola was the bloodiest prison in the country. In 1951, to protest the brutal conditions, 31 prisoners sliced their Achilles tendons so they couldn’t be sent to work.
In 1995 — the year Burl Cain became the warden — there were 799 reported inmate attacks, and another 192 attacks on guards.
“It was bad,” Cain said. “We had mur-ders, we had attacks, we had suicides, and it was all because of a lack of hope.”
The dire fate of some of the prison’s inmates is highlighted by Gerald Bordelon, who was scheduled to be executed Thursday for killing his 12-year-old stepdaughter. The execution would be Louisiana’s first since 2002.
Looking for ways to restore hope for men who had little to look forward to, Cain instituted a number of programs and clubs — there are art clubs, a Dale Carnegie self-improvement program, crafts clubs — aimed at helping the prisoners develop skills and interests.
But Cain, a man of strong religious beliefs, believed faith-based programs and what he calls moral rehabilitation were the best answer. When a federal Pell Grant
that funded a previous general education program ended, the prison reached out to the Baptist seminary.
At Angola, everyone has a job. For some it’s working in the fields or in the prison hospice program. For those enrolled in the seminary, it’s going to school.
Every weekday, the students crowd into classrooms to study toward a college degree that is accredited the same as any four-year university.
“It is not easy,” said Charles Varnado, 65, who has been at Angola for 37 years for murder. “You have math, and languages and science and you have to work and learn them or else.”
Prisoners for the course are selected on a number of criteria, prison officials said. Religious affiliation is not one of them, Cain said. He points out that a Muslim prisoner completed the course and received his degree.
The American Civil Liberties Union has gone to court several times over religious matters at Angola, but the seminary pro-gram is not one of them.
“We are certainly not opposed to the offering of educational opportunities,’” said Marjorie Esman, executive director of the ACLU of Louisiana. “The problem is if it is limited to a specific group.”
Graduates of the seminary now officiate at the prison’s 18 inmate churches and also
do one-on-one ministry and grief counseling.The prison has 23 graduates of the
seminary who act as missionaries in eight satellite prisons in Louisiana.
Derricks’ church is at the prison recep-tion center, where new prisoners are first held, and he ministers to the 98 men on death row.
“Not every preacher that comes here knows how to reach men here,” Derricks said, referring to a minister who told death row inmates that they “should get right with God before they got the bug juice squirted in their veins.”
“When I talk to them, they know I’m for real because of what I went through to reach this point,” he said.
The program costs about $50,000 a year, Cain said. It is financed by the seminary, the Louisiana Baptist Convention and private donations.
At Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Miss., there 75 students enrolled and 35 have already graduated from the associate degree program.
At Georgia State Prison the first associ-ate degrees were awarded in December.
“We made mistakes and we ended up here,” said Paul Will, 36, a New Jersey man serving a life sentence at Angola for ag-gravated kidnapping. “But our lives haven’t ended. We can still do some good in this world.”
Finding god at angolaLouisiana prison offers ministry degree to inmates
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inmates seated in the pews to the right of a chapel located at the Louisiana State Penitentiary are in the program for a Bachelor of Arts degree from the new orleans Baptist theological Seminary. Pastor Sidney deloch, left, speaks. Below, Warden Burl Cain stands at the gate in front of Graham chapel at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La.
Why do they still hate us?
After 9/11, the question was asked, “Why do they hate us?” Is it because of our foreign policies? Is it because of low morals and values in our society? Is it because of our wealth and wasteful lifestyles? Is it because of our ideals of democ-racy and freedom? There seemed to be no clear answer. Almost a decade later, they still hate us. We have been attacked three times in just the past two months. Instead of the “shoe bomber,” now we have the “underwear bomber.”
It would seem that the major changes in America would have made things better. After all, we have a new government with a different ideology and foreign policy. It was promised that if America were to change its image before the world, we would gain friends. That hasn’t worked. As to our lavish lifestyles, the U.S. economy has tak-en a hard knock in the past two years. Thousands upon thousands of Americans have lost their jobs. The world saw that these were not characters out of Hollywood mov-ies but ordinary people just like them. That still didn’t seem to be enough.
Those who bring up our foreign policies and low morals as a reason for hating us need to examine themselves first. Some of them need to stop supporting terrorists in their own neighboring countries. Second, America surely has her moral problems for which we need to repent before God. But so do many other nations. That is plain hypocrisy. So why do they really hate us?
Could it be that there is a feel-ing of jealousy against the United States? In less than 250 years, we have accomplished much more than nations who are thousands of years old. We come in all shades and backgrounds but share the same American spirit. Even 9/11 could not destroy us as a people. We are still the land of freedoms and opportunities. The poor in America seem to live far better than the majority of the people in the world. According to a recent Gallup poll, about 165 million peo-ple would love to move to America in spite of the economic crisis. Con-trary to what is often portrayed, most people love and admire the United States. Still there are those who would love to see us fall.
Could it be that it’s because their holy book commands them to kill the infidels? Recently, I was on a local flight from Raleigh-Durham to New Jersey. Next to me sat a well-dressed, middle-aged businesswoman. She seemed to be fairly informed about the current issues facing America. At one point she remarked, “I have often thought about these people who hate America. If I could just invite them over and just talk with them over a cup of coffee, I think I can get them to change their minds.” Although I admire her spirit, I doubt that it is that simple. America was built on Biblical val-ues. Even if some Americans don’t understand their Christian roots, the terrorists definitely see them and want to pull America up by its roots. Any attempt to reason will fail because it is not the mind that has to change but the heart.
The only thing that will change the heart is the gospel of Jesus Christ. The only thing that will change the mind is a strong military. As Theodore Roosevelt said on more than one occasion: “I have always been fond of the West African proverb: ‘Speak softly and carry a big stick.’ ”
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Music program
A music program will be held at Oxford Community Center on Orange Street in Oxford on Jan. 23. Doors open at 5 p.m. and the program starts at 6 p.m. The cost is $5 at the door; free, children under 12. Featured will be: The Spiritual Message, The Gospel Miracles, The Li’l Soulful Singers, Visionaires, Soul Seek-ers, The Chavis Family, Gospel Harmonaires of Warrenton, Leroy Greene and The Roadway QC’s of Henderson, Third Generation, Steven Gregory and The Remis-sionAires, The Gospel Disciples, Amen, Reunited of Durham, Cal-vin Williams and Creative Souls, Gloriaires of Townsville, and oth-ers. Larry Downey will emcee this event. Three cash prizes will be given away. Food, drinks, water, etc., will be available for purchase. For more information, call George “Pee Wee” Davis at (252) 492-6215 or (252) 492-5733.
Gospel sing
The Roadway Q.C.‘s will have a pre-recording gospel sing program at Crusade Pentecostal Deliver-
ance Church at 6 p.m. Jan. 24. Arnita Miles will emcee this event. Featured will be Leroy Greene and the Roadway Q.C.’s of Henderson, The Little Soulful Singers of Oxford,
Third Generation of Henderson, The Carolina Kings of Henderson, The Gospel Miracles of Oxford, solo-ist Angela Williams of Henderson, The Gospel Disciples of Henderson,
and others. The doors will open at 5 p.m. For more information, call Leroy at (252) 767-8884; Tommy at (252) 436-7667; or A&M at (252) 432-5224.
Victory Baptist
Victory Baptist Church will have one of Southern gospel music’s top songwriters in performance Sunday during the 6 p.m. service. Ricky Atkinson from Sylvester, Ga., will be singing. Along with being a songwriter, he is also a producer, arranger, publisher and president of two recording labels for Resting Place Music. Everyone is invited to attend. You can find out more about Ricky Atkinson at his web site www.rickyatkinson.com.
All the Way Gospel Singers
The All the Way Gospel Singers of Henderson will be celebrating Part I of their 11th anniversary at the Tabernacle of Witness and Wor-ship, 505 Bobbitt St. in Henderson, at 5 p.m. today. Music will be provided by The Christland Singers of Louisburg, Brother A.L. Harrison and The Gospel Tones of Manson, The Third Generation of Hender-son, The Pilgrim Harmonaires of Henderson, and The Gospel Su-premes of Seaboard. Tressia Daniels of Henderson will emcee the event. For more information, call Linda Yancey at (252) 9492-5640.
Cotton Memorial
Cotton Memorial Presbyte-rian Church, 511 Chestnut St., will have its 14th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Gospel and Praise Celebration at 4 p.m. Jan. 16. Music will be provided by the Kittrell Job Corps Gospel Choir, School of Math and Science Gos-pel Choir, Sandra and Naomi Dixon, Angela Neil, David Richardson and Gift, Total In-spiration, Jordan Chapel Men’s
Choir, Spring Street Men’s Choir, Gospel Heralds, James Martin and Harmony, and The Mighty Pilgrim Harmonaires. There will also be poetry and liturgical dance.
First Baptist/Oxford
The First Baptist Church on the corners of Granville and West Spring streets will hold a Civil Rights Service on Sunday at 11 a.m. U. S. Representative G. K. Butterfield will be the
guest speaker. Prior to be-
ing elected to Congress in a special election on July 24, 2004, Butterfield had a distinguished legal career. After working in private practice, he was elected as Superior Court Judge in 1988 and appointed to the North Carolina Supreme Court in 2001. After an election defeat, he was again appointed
as Superior Court judge.Butterfield serves on the
powerful House Committee on Energy and Commerce Commit-tee, and serves as vice chairman of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee. He is serving his second term as Chief Deputy Whip after being appointed to the leadership post by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the 110th Congress.
Butterfield also serves as a member of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct
and as a member of the Helsinki Committee.
Congressman Butterfield is a lifelong member of Jackson Chapel First Missionary Baptist Church in Wilson, N.C. He is a veteran of the U.S. Army and the proud father of two adult daughters, Valeisha and Lenai.
Immediately following the morning service, Butterfield will conduct a question-and-answer session in the fellowship hall of the church. The public is invited to attend.
Greater Refuge
Greater Refuge Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of Apostolic Faith, 235 Booth Ave., will have its “Pack-A-Pew” building fund celebration at 4 p.m. Jan. 17. The guest speaker will be Elder David Morton of Refuge Temple in Burlington. Singing will be provided by The Voices of Praise of Oxford, The Echoes of Praise of Henderson, Greater Love Gospel Choir of Henderson, and Refuge Temple Gospel Choir of Burlington.
St. Paul’s Lutheran
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church will host a special Discovery Weekend Jan. 15-17. Friday’s activities include a meeting with congregational members in the first focus group at approxi-mately 3 p.m.; a meeting with other congregational members in the second focus group will
be held at 4:45 p.m. A meeting with congregational leaders will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday’s activities will include a meeting with other congregational mem-bers in the third focus group at 9 a.m., with the team meeting to process its report and prepare for Sunday. On Sunday, there will not be an 8:30 a.m. worship service. However, Sunday school and one combined adult Bible class will be held starting at 9:45 a.m. Also, the communion worship service with a service of confession, repentance, and ab-solution, in addition to a sermon by a team member will begin at 11 a.m.
Ordination services will be held for Deacon-Elect Clarence Cook Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Greater Hayes Grove Baptist Church. Carolyn Cook will also be consecrated as a deaconess in the same service. Music will be provided by the Spiritual Dis-ciples of South Hill, Va. Refresh-ments will be served following
the service in the fellowship hall. The public is invited to attend.
I Believe God Outreach
I Believe God Outreach, 90 Thomas Road (Williamsboro) will hold Friday night services on Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. The speaker will be Bishop Garland Haggai of Oxford.
Mt. Zion UCC
Mount Zion United Church of Christ will hold its annual La-bours of Love Celebration Jan. 31 at 3 p.m. This musical pro-gram will honor individuals who work diligently in the church and community. Minister Roy Burroughs will be the emcee.
Progressive Harvest
Bishop Garland Heggie, pastor of New Life Church in Oxford, will be speaking at
Progressive Harvest on Williams Street in Henderson Thursday at 7 p.m. Everyone is invited to come.
Full Gospel Faith
Full Gospel Faith Ministries, 104 College St., Warrenton, will hold its “The Trinity ” service on Jan. 31 at 4 p.m. The guest speaker will be Pastor Anthony Q. Alston from Jones Chapel along with his choir. The public is invited.
Living Word Crusade
Pastor Nell Smith-Spells (a.k.a. Little Nell Smith) will present the Living Word Crusade on Jan. 28-29 at The Ambassador’s Inn & Suites, 197 Parham Road, off of Interstate 85, exit 215. The Jan. 28 service will begin at 7 p.m., with Smith-Spells as the speaker. On Jan. 29, a noon service will feature
the Rev. Mary Branch as the guest speaker and another ser-vice at 7 p.m. will feature Smith-Spells speaking. Music will be provided by the Rev. Roy Bur-roughs and Work In Progress, Oak Level Pastor’s Choir, The McShaws, Union Grove United Church of Christ and others. For more information, call (919) 924-1945 or e-mail [email protected].
Clearview Baptist
Clearview Baptist Church in-vites the community to a Prayer Revival Jan.31 and Feb. 1. The Rev. Dr. Chris Schofield, direc-tor of the Prayer Team at the N.C. State Baptist Convention, will be sharing about prayer in the believer’s personal llife on Jan. 31 at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. and on Feb 1 at 7 p.m. Clearview Baptist is located on 250 Red Oak Road behind Boyd’s Chevro-let. Call (252) 432-7757 for more information.
Rainbow pageant
A Nehemiah Rainbow Pag-eant will be held at West Oxford Elementary School on Ivy Day Road in Oxford on Feb. 13. Doors open at 4 p.m. and the program starts at 5 p.m. The theme for this event is “Forever Onward.” There will be gospel singing, food, a St. James Missionary Baptist Church Nehemi-ah education event, and a pre-colle-giate banquet/concert/pageant. The keynote speaker will be the Rev. Dr. Alvin Augustus Jones. In concert will be The Spiritual Entertainers of Oxford, The Gospel Harmoneers of Warrenton, and the gospel mimes. Tickets are $15 in advance; $20 at the door; $5, children under eight years old. For ticket information, call St. James Missionary Baptist Church at (252) 492-8500 or Minnie Toliver at (252) 492-7861. This is a semi-formal affair.
Free food/clothing giveaway
The food and clothing ministry of Davis Chapel Church, 742 N. Chestnut St., will have a free food and clothing giveaway for those who are in need today from 1-4 p.m. in the church fellowship hall. If you are in need or know someone in need of help, come by the church. For more informa-tion, call Barbara Bennett at (252) 430-0518.
Bus trip
There will be a bus trip on May 29-30 to the 25th-year celebration of the Mississippi Burning in Bates-ville, Miss. Featured will be Lee Williams and The Spiritual QC’s, Harvey Watkins Jr. and the Canton Spirituals, Doc McKenzie and the Hi-Lites, and others. The cost per
person for a two-night stay with two people to a room (doubles) is $270 for the bus ride, hotel and ticket. The deposit to reserve a seat is $135 and is due by March 20. The bal-ance is to be paid by April 30. There will be no refunds unless the trip is canceled. The bus will depart from the Roses parking lot on Norlina Road at 11:30 p.m. May 28 and will return May 31. Call Arnita Miles at (252) 432-5224 for more informa-tion.
Seminar
Televangelist Pastor Melvin O. Jiggetts from The Rock Church in South Hill, Va., and TV host of “The Walk” will hold a seminar at Awesome God Bookstore, 130 S. Main St., Warrenton, on Jan 15 at 7 p.m. Jiggetts and his team will be teaching on divine healing and other topics. This is a free seminar but only 30 seats are
available. To register at Awe-some God Bookstore, call (252) 257-1840 or visit www.melvinojig-getts.com.
Youth Rally
The “Keeping It Real” program of St. James Missionary Baptist Church is hosting a youth rally for youth up to age 18 today from 1-3 p.m. The guest speaker will be Captain Lattimore Wright, Jr. of the Henderson Fire Depart-ment. The rally will be held at the church, 3005 Old Oxford Road, Henderson. For more information, please call the church at (252) 492-8500.
Food pantry
The children’s church at New Bethel Baptist Church, Hwy. 39 North in Epsom, has started a food pantry. Doors will be open
starting on Jan. 16 and then every third Saturday of each month from 9-11 a.m. for food pickup. The pantry is open to the community.
Covenant Cafe
Hargrove’s Covenant Cafe will be serving free soup and desserts on Jan. 16 from noon to 4 p.m. Please come out and join us for free food, games and family fun at Hargrove Chapel United Methodist Church, 90 Twisdale Road, Townsville. The church is located off of Tungsten Mine Road. For more information, call (252) 430-0194.
Clothing closet
Full Gospel Faith Ministries, 104 College St., Warrenton, will open its “God’s Blessings” Clothing Closet Jan. 23 from 10 a.m. to noon. The public is invited.
The local launch of God’s Plan for Sharing (GPS) will take place at Central Baptist Church at 6 p.m. on Sunday. Member churches of the Cullom Baptist Association are especially en-couraged to send representatives to this event.
GPS is a recently developed initiative of the North American Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention. GPS is a strategic
and intentional plan, beginning in 2010, for every believer to share and every person in North America to hear the Gospel by year-end 2020.
GPS is guided by the four biblical principles of:• Praying: Every church must be
praying for those in the commu-nity who do not have a personal relationship with Jesus.
• Engaging: Believers should be
willing to share the good news of salvation, giving a personal testimony of what the Lord Jesus has done for them.
• Sowing: Every person in North America should receive a witness of the Gospel mes-sage.
• Harvesting: Every church should see lost people saved and celebrate these decisions.The Rev. Dr. Charles Roesel,
pastor emeritus of Leesburg First Baptist Church, Leesburg, Fla., will be guest preacher for the GPS launch event at Central Baptist. Roesel served as senior pastor at Leesburg First Baptist for 30 years.
During his pastorate, over 7,000 believers were baptized. Roesel was recently called and accepted appointment to serve as presidential ambassador for the
North American Mission Board.Although GPS is a strategy
of the North American Mission Board developed for South-ern Baptists, any evangelistic church seeking to reach people with the good news of Jesus Christ is invited to attend the meeting.
Central Baptist Church is lo-cated at 2574 Ruin Creek Road, Henderson.
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Eastmen Quartet to play concert at Norlina BaptistThe Eastmen Quartet will be in concert at 6 p.m. Jan. 24 at Norlina Baptist Church. For information, call (252) 213-1735; or visit www.eastmenqt.com.
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Blessed Hope Baptist Church, 741 Dabney Road, announces its regular schedule: Sunday — 9:45 a.m., Sunday school hour; 11 a.m., worship service and chil-dren’s church (nursery provided); 5 p.m., deacon meeting, choir practice and youth Bible study; 6 p.m., evening worship and radio broadcast on WIZS. Tuesday — 7 p.m., GROW Outreach. Wednes-day — 7 p.m., prayer service, youth “Total Access,” and Team Kids. First and third Saturday — 9 a.m., visitation.
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Church will have its regular wor-ship service at 10 a.m. Sunday. Sunday school will be held at 11 a.m. The church is located at 720 Brookston Road, Henderson.
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nounces this week’s schedule: Sunday — 9:45 a.m., Sunday School; 11 a.m., worship service; no evening activities so members can attend the GPS Rally at Cen-tral Baptist Church. Wednesday — 6 p.m., Family Night dinner; 7 p.m., prayer meeting, youth and children’s activities.
<«–«Central Baptist Church, 2574
Ruin Creek Road, Henderson, announces its weekly schedule: Sunday — 9:45 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship service (nursery/pre-school children’s church provided); noon, youth soup fundraiser lunch; 5:45 p.m., AWANA; 6 p.m., evening worship/guest speaker the Rev. Dr. Charles Roesel, presidential ambassador to North American Mission Board. Tuesday — 10 a.m., ladies Bible study. Wednesday — 7 a.m., men’s Bible study; 4:15 p.m., pup-pet ministry practice; 5:30 p.m., fellowship dinner; 6 p.m., Alpha meal and program; 6:30 p.m., new adult small group Bible study be-gins, Youth One Way, pre-school and children’s choir and hand-bells; 7:45 p.m., Celebration Choir practice. Upcoming events: Jan. 17, 4:30 p.m., new evangelism training begins.
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sus, 216 Chestnut Alley, will have worship services at 11:30 a.m. Sunday. Bible study will be held Tuesday and Friday at 7:30 p.m.
<«–«Church of the Holy Innocents,
210 S. Chestnut St., Henderson, announces its schedule for Sun-day: 8 a.m., Holy Eucharist, Rite One; 10:30 a.m., Holy Eucharist, Rite Two; 12:30 p.m., La Misa Spanish service.
Church, 903 N. Garnett St., Hen-derson, announces this week’s schedule: Sunday — 9:45 a.m., Sunday school; 10 a.m., Brit-thaven Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship service with the instal-lation of officers for 2010; 3-5:30 p.m., leadership workshops at Mt. Sylvan United Methodist Church in Durham. Tuesday — 7 p.m., United Methodist Women. Wednesday — 7 p.m., Bible study. Friday — 6:30 p.m., Game Night with soup and sandwiches.
<«–«Clearview Baptist Church,
250 Red Oak Road, Henderson (behind Charles Boyd Chevrolet) announces its schedule for this week: Sunday — 9 a.m., prayer time; 9:45 a.m., Sunday School for all ages (nursery-adult); 11 a.m., worship service, children’s church; 6 p.m., evening service. Wednes-day — 6 p.m.m Praise Team prac-tice; 7 p.m., Bible study. Nursery is provided for all services. For more information, please visit www.clearviewbc.org or call (252) 431-0904.
<«–«Cokesbury United Methodist
Church, 2440 S. Cokesbury Road, announces its schedule: Sunday — 8:30 a.m., contemporary ser-vice; 8:45 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m. worship service with nursery provided; 4 p.m., Heaven’s Harvest and youth. Monday — 7 p.m. men’s Bible study. Wednesday — 6 p.m., covered dish dinner hosted by couples’ class; 7 p.m. prayer and praise. Thursday — 10 a.m., ladies Bible study; 6:30 p.m., con-temporary service practice; 6:30 p.m., ladies Bible study. Notice: New cookbooks are available.
Church, 4815 N.C. 39 South, announces this week’s schedule: Sunday — 9:45 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship service; 3 p.m., district leadership workshop at Mt. Sylvan UMC. Wednesday — noon, Lunch and Lessons (bring bag lunch); 5 p.m., community supper (London broil), $5 (all are welcome). Thursday — choir practice.
<«–«God’s Way of Deliverance
announces its schedule for this week: Sunday — 10:30 a.m., Sun-day school; 11:30 a.m., worship service. Wednesday — 7:30 p.m., Bible study and Joy Night service.
<«–«Greater Refuge Church of Our
Lord Jesus Christ of Apostolic Faith, 235 Booth Ave., announces its regular schedule: Every Sun-day — 11 a.m., morning worship service; 6 p.m., evening worship service. First Sunday — Holy Communion. Fourth Sunday — Youth Sunday. Every Wednesday — Noonday Prayer. First, third
and fifth Wednesday — 7:30 p.m., Bible study.
<«–«Guiding Star United Holy
Church, 650 Mt. Pleasant Church Road, Manson, announces this week’s schedule: Sunday – 10 a.m., Bible church school; 11 a.m., altar prayer; 11:15 a.m., praise and worship service. Mon-day — noontime prayer. Wednes-day – 7 p.m., prayer and Bible study. Next Saturday — 1 p.m., Gospel Choir rehearsal.
<«–«Harriett Baptist Church, 935
S. Carolina Ave., announces this week’s schedule: Sunday — 8:30 a.m., coffee and fellowship; 9:45 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship service with Holy Communion; 11 a.m., children’s church; 5 p.m., adult choir practice; 6 p.m., evening wor-ship; 6 p.m., youth and children activity; 7 p.m., business con-ference. Tuesday — 7:30 p.m., WOM meets in the home of Jackie Baynes. Wednesday — 6 p.m., fellowship supper; 7 p.m., Bible study and prayer service; 7 p.m., youth and children’s Bible study. Thursday — 6:30 p.m., Brother-hood meeting.
<«–«Harris Chapel United Method-
ist Church has worship services at 9:30 a.m., followed by Sunday school at 10:45 a.m., each Sun-day. The church is located at 3870 Dabney Road, Henderson.
<«–«I Believe God Outreach Cen-
ter announces its schedule for this week: Sunday — 9:30 a.m., prayer; 11 a.m., worship service. Monday — 7 p.m., children’s Bible study. Wednesday — 6 p.m., prayer; 7 p.m., adult Bible study.
<«–«Island Creek Baptist Church
announces its schedule for this week: Sunday — 10 a.m., Sun-day school; 5 p.m., Team Kids and youth. Tuesday — deacon visitation ministry. Wednesday — 6:30 p.m., adult choir; 7:30 p.m., prayer meeting/Bible study. Friday — Island Creek to assist with homeless shelter. Upcoming events: Jan. 17, church confer-ence; Jan. 20, covered dish sup-per; Jan. 22, FRBA Baptist Men’s and Women’s Missions Banquet; Jan. 24, Baptist Men’s Day.
<«–«Jireh Deliverance Ministries,
2565 U.S. 1/158 Highway, Hen-derson, announces this week’s schedule: Sunday — 10:30 a.m., Sunday school; 11:45 a.m., wor-ship service; 5 p.m., evening youth service (every 2nd Sunday). Tues-day — 7 p.m., Bible study. For more information, call Co-Pastor Thomosa Dixon at (252) 213-9000 or Tomika Brown at (252) 767-8289.
<«–«Joy Christian Center, an inter-
racial and nondenominational fellowship, holds services at 7 p.m. each Wednesday and 10 a.m. ev-ery Sunday. The church is located at 1120 SE Industry Drive, near Revlon, in Oxford. A radio ministry is broadcast at 10 a.m. Monday through Friday on both WHNC AM 890 and WCBQ AM 1340, and at 11 a.m. Sundays on WCBQ AM 1340. A new ministry broadcast also can be heard Wednesdays on WIZS AM 1450 at 6:30 p.m. Call (919) 690-8272 for more informa-tion.
<«–«Living Stones Church of God,
6096 Tabbs Creek Road, Oxford, announces its regular schedule: Sunday — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. morning worship, 6 p.m. evening service. Second and fourth Sunday — 9:30 a.m., youth services for ages 13 and up. Wednesday — 7 p.m. evening service. As part of the outreach ministries, rest home ser-vices are held at Magnolia Gardens in Warrenton at 7 p.m. Tuesdays and at Britthaven in Louisburg at 4:30 p.m. every third Friday.
<«–«Middleburg Baptist Church
announces its weekly schedule: Sunday — 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship ser-vice with guest speaker Cathy Hendrick/special music by Lisa Hammond; luncheon after service; 5 p.m., Bible study. Wednesday — 6:30 p.m., deacons’ meeting; 7 p.m., choir practice.
<«–«Ministers Outreach Taber-
nacle, 925 Lehman St., Hen-derson, announces its weekly schedule: Sunday — 9:30 a.m., Bible teaching (adult and youth); 11 a.m., worship. Wednesday — noon, prayer; 7:30 p.m., mid-week service. For more information, call 438-6543.
<«–«Mount Olive Missionary
Baptist Church, 2464 Rock Mill Road, Henderson, announces its regular schedule: Sunday — 9:45 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship service. Second, third and fourth Wednesdays — 6:45 p.m., Bible study. First Wednesdays — 6:45 p.m., Prayer and Praise service.
Church, 156 Wycoff Road, Ridge-way, announces its schedule for this week: Today — 8 a.m., male chorus practice. Sunday — 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11:15 a.m., worship service with music by male chorus. Wednesday — 5:30 p.m., junior choir practice; 7 p.m., Bible class.
<«–«Shiloh Baptist Church of
Henderson announces this week’s schedule: Sunday — 9:15 a.m., Baptist Training Union; 9:45 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship. Monday — 5:30 p.m., Adult Basic Education; 6 p.m., Missionary Cir-cle meeting. Wednesday — 6 p.m., teacher’s meeting; 7 p.m., prayer hour and Bible study. Thurs-day — noonday prayer; 6 p.m., Chancel Choir rehearsal. Friday — 5 p.m., Liturgical Dance rehearsal; 6 p.m., deacons’ meeting; 7 p.m., church conference. Next Saturday — 11 a.m., Vance County Mission-ary Union second quarter session at Brookston Baptist.
<«–«South Henderson Pentecostal
Holiness Church, 905 Ameri-cal Road, announces this week’s schedule: Sunday — 8:30 a.m., early worship; 9:50 a.m., “Way of the Master” Class; 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship service; 4:30 p.m., choir practice; 6 p.m., evening worship. Monday — 5 p.m., women’s ministry. Tuesday — 10 a.m., clothes closet; 6:30 p.m., aerobics, board meeting; 7 p.m., Helping Hands. Wednes-day — 10 a.m., morning worship service/meal; 5:30 p.m., supper; 7 p.m., “The Way of the Master” study series begins. Thursday — 6:30 p.m., aerobics; 7 p.m., SIS
meeting. Friday — 7 p.m., River of Life Recovery Fellowship, prayer service. Next Saturday — 9 a.m., puppet training; 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m., January Enrichment Day, Corner-stone Conference.
<«–«Spring Green Missionary
Baptist Church, 240 Powell Mill Road, Warrenton, announces this week’s schedule: Sunday — 9:45 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship service. Wednesday — 7 p.m., Prayer and Praise service. The International Bible Institute will resume Friday. Sunday’s reg-ular worship service is broadcast each Saturday at 11:30 a.m. on radio station WARR-1520 AM and also on the Web at www.1520.am. For prayer, call the Rev. George W. Wright at (252) 738-0651. Spring Green MBC meets all four Sun-days of the month.
<«–«St. Paul AME Zion Church,
2309 Old County Home Road, will have its regular 11 a.m. wor-ship service on Sunday. For more information, call the Rev. William Harrison at (252) 456-2923 or (252) 213-0011.
<«–«St. Paul’s Lutheran Church,
part of the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, announces this week’s schedule: Sunday — 8:30 a.m., worship service; 9:45 a.m., Sunday school and Bible classes; 11 a.m., worship service, followed by a congregational meeting. Monday — 7 p.m., Board of Christian Education and Sun-day school teachers will meet. Wednesday — 7:30 p.m., prayer time. Thursday — 9 a.m., Circuit Pastor’s Conference will be held; 7:30 p.m., Lutheran Women’s Mis-sionary League will meet. Friday — 4:30 p.m., confirmation class. Upcoming events: Jan. 15-17 — Discovery Weekend. The church is located at 114 Poplar Mount Road, Norlina. For further details or directions, call the church office at (252) 456-2747 or log on to www.splcridgeway.org.
<«–«Tabernacle United Method-
ist Church, 1725 Rock Spring Church Road, Townsville, an-nounces this week’s schedule: Sunday — 9:45 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship service. Monday — 9:30 a.m., Bible study. Thursday — 9 a.m., art class; 6 p.m., Ruth Circle meets.
<«–«United Faith Way of the Cross,
575 Horner St., announces its regular schedule: Sunday — 9:30 a.m., Sunday school; 11:30 a.m., worship; 6 p.m., worship. First and third Wednesdays — 7 p.m., Bible study. Second and fourth Wednesdays — 7 p.m., prayer and praise.
<«–«Victorious Apostolic, 188
Shocco Springs Road, Warrenton, announces this week’s schedule: Sunday — 9:30 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship service with the youth department in charge. Tuesday — 6 p.m., prayer service. Friday — 6 p.m., Bible study. For more information, call the church at (252) 257-9909.
<«–«Victory Baptist Church, 475
J.P. Taylor Road, announces its weekly schedule: Sunday — 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., morning worship (children’s church provided); 6 p.m., eve-ning service with Ricky Atkinson singing. Wednesday — 7:30 p.m., prayer, Bible study, King’s Kids, TRAC (teens) Club. Sunday morn-ing services are broadcast live on WIZS 1450 AM. Visit the church on-line at www.victorybaptistnc.com.
<«–«Warrenton Baptist Church,
226 N. Main St., Warrenton, an-nounces this week’s schedule: Sunday — 9:45 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., worship/deacon ordination and installation; 6 p.m., deacons’ meeting, deacons’/spouse dinner. Tuesday — 5:30 p.m., community supper. Wednes-day — 11 a.m., ecumenical services; 5 p.m., lectionary study group; 8 p.m., choir practice.
<«–«West End Baptist Church,
619 Dabney Dr., Henderson, announces this week’s schedule: Sunday — 9:40 a.m., Sunday School; 10:55 a.m., worship service; 6 p.m., evening service, youth group. Tuesday — 7 p.m., Katie Oakley Circle at Pat Ayscue’s home. Wednesday — 7 p.m., prayer, Bible study, youth, Chil-dren in Action, Mission Friends; 8 p.m., choir practice. Thursday — GROW Team R.
<«–«West Hills Presbyterian
Church announces its weekly schedule: Sunday — 9:30 a.m., Sunday school; 10:30 a.m., wor-ship service. Wednesday — 6:30 p.m., Fellowship of the Saints.
Church has Sunday school at 10 a.m. each week. Every first and third Sunday, worship services begin at 11 a.m. The church is located on Jacksontown Road, Drewry.
4C The Daily DispaTch Faith saTurDay, January 9, 2010
Weekly Programs and services
4 CHURCH
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You need a change of routine or scenery. Get out, join a group or get involved in a cause that moves you. Idle time is the enemy and will lead to anxious behavior and argu-ments with loved ones. 3 stars
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Negotiate your position within a group or partnership that needs to make some changes. Don’t let little setbacks slow you down when it’s important to move forward. Leave time for a romantic encounter late in the day. 3 stars
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You can develop a skill you have and find someone interested in using what you have to offer. There is money to be made but only if you are relentless in your pursuit. Don’t let anyone stifle your attempts to turn something you love to do into a lucrative pastime. 3 stars
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t leave anything to chance. You need to control the situation, not give in to someone else’s demands. Step up and take over whether you like change or not. Love is on the rise. 5 stars
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Par-ticipate in whatever changes are taking place at home or at work. It’s up to you to show your enthu-siasm if you want to be counted as one of the team. Don’t let some-one take your place or push you aside when you are truly the better person to take the lead. 2 stars
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You will have a good effect on the people you deal with and can help when it comes to serious deci-sions. Romance is in the picture and, with a couple of affectionate gestures, you can enhance your love life and make someone very happy. 4 stars
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Stay out of the line of fire. There will be plenty to disagree with but now is not the time. Avoid any interaction that may put you in a vulnerable position. Embrace change with optimism. 3 stars
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Put a little effort into your appeal. A short journey will lead to romance and change the course of your personal future. Get involved in activities that introduce you to inspirational people. 3 stars
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Take advantage of anyone offering to do things for you but don’t be ungrateful. Your ser-vices will be welcomed and will lead to an interesting financial partnership. It’s sharing with oth-ers that will advance your own dreams. 3 stars
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): If there are offers on the table, you should be considering one of them seriously. A change in your current direction will lead to an unusual source of income. A commitment to someone you care for will ensure you are on the same page. 4 stars
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Put your emotions on the backburner for now. You have to deal with each issue as it arises or you will get bogged down. Don’t let anyone convince you that you can bypass the inevi-table. 2 stars
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Love and romance are in a high cycle and will help make this day very special. Do something nice for someone you love and the response will be overwhelming. There is a gift or reward heading your way. 5 stars
The Daily DispaTch ComiCs saTurDay, January 9, 2010 5C
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garfield By Jim davis Curtis By ray Billingsley
Jump start By roBB armstrong for Better or for Worse By lynn Johnson
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zits By Jim Borgman & Jerry sCott agnes By tony CoChran
Please come be our guest at Alpha beginning Wednesday, January 13th
at 6pm. We will meet in the Central Baptist Fellowship Hall, located at 2574 Ruin Creek Rd.
What is Alpha? A “no cost” opportunity to explore the meaning of life in a relaxed, friendly setting. The Alpha course will meet once per week for 10 weeks. Each session, people enjoy a meal, laughter, and learning in a fun and friendly atmosphere where no question about life or God is seen as too simple or too hostile.
To sign up please call our church office at 252-492-4215
On this date a year ago, I lost not only my son but best friend. God called you home with Him. I often ask why knowing the answer is God had His own agenda for you. I sometimes look to see you walk through the door and hear your voice as you say something smart to get a laugh. I can still see your bright smile as if it was yesterday. Your spirit will always live on through all of us who loved and knew you. We all miss you dearly, Mont (AKA Homie). Love
Mom, Ty, Dontrel, Family and Friends
Montrel“Homie”
June 22,1980 to January 9, 2009
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