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Charter schools sue state, countyUnion Academy demands capital fundsBY TIFFANY [email protected]

MONROEUnion Academy is su-

ing the state for a share of lottery money and corpo-rate income taxes.

North Carolina estab-lished charter schools in 1996, but limited the funds they could receive from the state. Charter schools are public, tu-ition-free schools funded by federal, state and local taxes to pay for teachers, textbooks and some oper-ational costs. Union Acad-emy’s operational costs

are about $7 million per year, according to finance officer Lynn Kroeger.

The lawsuit seeks mon-ey from the state’s capital outlay fund, which comes from two sources. The Public School Building Capital Fund receives 14 percent of the money col-lected by the N.C. Educa-tion Lottery, and about 7.25 percent of corporate income tax, although the General Assembly divert-ed the income tax contri-bution until 2011.

Union Academy head-master Raymond Rein-sant said a share of that

money could help provide a central location for all its students.

Union Academy’s goal is to move students from its lower campus on Old Charlotte Highway to its upper campus on North Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. With no capi-tal funding, though, there is no money for another building, Reinsant said.

Union County and the Union County Board of Education are named as defendants in the lawsuit. Some Union Academy

Staff photo by Ed Cottingham

Second-grader Nick Smith leaves school for the day at Union Academy. The charter school plans to add a buiding to join the gym, background left, with the media center on the right. The school is suing the state, county and local schools for capital funds.See CHARTER / 12A

Lake Park ready for fall19th annual festival set for SaturdayBY TIFFANY [email protected]

LAKE PARKIt’s a few days away, but

her kids are already talk-ing about it.

Ashley Brown’s two chil-dren, ages 4 and 8, plan to spend most of their time on the Super Slide at Lake Park’s 19th annual fall fes-tival on Saturday.

“That seems to be a big staple,” she said, and they might have to wait in line.

Brown has lived in Lake Park for eight years and has helped coordinate the festival for the past three years. “Every year, chil-dren look forward to it,” she said, but they aren’t the only ones. The festival has plenty of entertain-ment for adults and local crafts vendors alike.

“It’s a great way to ad-vertise the community,” Brown said, adding that many attendees are from Indian Trail and other surrounding towns.

Coordinator Marleen Traywick said the festival

See LAKE PARK / 12A

Ex-FOP treasurer pleads guiltyBY JASON [email protected]

MONROEA man pleaded guilty

to embezzlement, but will not face jail time if he repays the money.

Richard Taylor Davis, 40 of 6820 Sims Road in Waxhaw, pleaded guilty to embezzling more that $57,000 from the Union County Fraternal Or-

der of Police and was sentenced to six to eight months in jail. He will not

serve jail time if he pays back the full $57,148.77.

“We wanted him to pay back the money,” FOP secretary treasurer Mar-garet Derenge said. “We put our trust in him, and he broke that trust.”

Davis was charged with embezzling money from an FOP fund start-

ing in 2003; he was arrest-ed and charged Nov. 13, 2008. The Union County

Sheriff ’s Office reported that he had been under investigation since May 27, 2008.

“I hate that the whole thing happened,” said Elizabeth Cooke, who is involved with police agencies and helps orga-nize events for them. “I was just surprised that he did it. I’m glad that the FOP will get the money back.”

Derenge said she was given the impression from Davis’ family that the money had already been set aside and would be paid back. She said she was given the impression that family would like to have the felony charge dropped if he paid the money back.

The district attorney’s

Davis must repay $57,148 to police fraternity or face months in jail

House fire kills three

Richard Davis began embezzling Fraternal Order of Police funds in 2003, investigators said.

See POLICE / 9A

BY TIFFANY [email protected]

MONROEA house fire that left

three people dead this weekend might have been avoided with a simple smoke detector, officials say.

Mother and daugh-ter Edna and Belinda Starnes, along with 4-year-old Steven Brent Merritt, died Saturday morning when their home at 4605 Plyler Mill Road caught fire.

“They had no working smoke detectors,” as-sistant fire marshal Zeb Mullis said. “That’s one thing that contributed to fatalities and injuries.”

Three other adults were taken to Carolinas

Medical Center-Union. Nicole Gastavo, Gus

Gastavo, Frances Griffin and Kendall Wentz lived in the house with the Starneses. Mullis said he cannot yet release

the names of the people who were taken to CMC-Union, but confirmed that no children were hospitalized.

Five juveniles under 16, including Merritt, also

lived in the home. Eleven people were inside when the fire started in a kitch-en trash can.

“The official cause of the fire remains undeter-mined,” Mullis said, but “it’s highly probable it’s discarded smoking mate-rial.”

Although officials lack “the physical evidence to prove that it was a ciga-rette,” Mullis said all the adults in the house were smokers.

The occupants went to bed shortly before the house filled with smoke, he continued; “the fire smoldered for about an hour before it went to open flame.”

If it wasn’t for one oc-cupant who was sleeping

on the couch and smelled the smoke, everyone might have died, he said. The occupant helped oth-ers get out of the house.

The house had no smoke detectors, Mullis said, as is often the case in older homes. Records show that the house was built in 1951.

Homes were not re-quired to have smoke de-tectors until June 1999.

Many other old homes in the county are also without smoke detec-tors, Mullis said, but recommends that own-ers install them as soon as possible. Some smoke detectors cost under $10, many under $20.

Staff photo by Rick Crider

Three people, including a 4-year-old boy, died of smoke inhalation after a fire started in a trash can at 4605 Plyler Mill Road.

Mother, daughter and boy, 4, died of smoke inhalation


Three adults were taken to Carolinas Medical Center-Union to be treated for smoke inhalation. Another four adults and four children were unharmed.

See FIRE / 4A

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2A / Wednesday, October 7, 2009 Indian Trail Trader

Editor’s note: year-round schools are closed through Oct. 16. Traditional schools will be closed on Monday.

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MiddleToday: Beefy nachos, turkey deluxe on hearty roll, spicy to-mato soup, potato bites, green salad, fruited gelatin, fruitThursday: Oven fried chicken, toasted cheese, sandwich, mashed potatoes with gravy, peas, salad, fruit cup, fruit, whole wheat rollFriday: Cheese pizza, fish sandwich, baked french fries, california blend, caesar salad, fruit crisp, fruitTuesday: Cheese stix dippers, chicken fajita salad with tortilla chips, baked potato, green beans, salad, tropical fruit, fruitOct. 14: Chicken patty, sandwich, soft taco, potato bites, california blend, mexican garden, salad, gelatin, fruit

Oct. 15: Barbecued chicken, hot dog on a bun, baked beans, broccoli, creamy coleslaw, pear halves, fruit, whole wheat roll, celebration cakeOct. 16: Cheese pizza, deli roll-up, baked french fries, car-rot coins, spinach salad, peach cups, fruit

High schoolToday: Soft taco, cheese stix dippers, refried beans, corn on the cob, mexican garden, salad, strawberry cups, fruitThursday: Chicken dinner, ham and cheese, on a bun, mashed potatoes with gravy, green beans, spinach salad, fruited gelatin, fruit, poppy seed rollFriday: Cheese pizza, fish sandwich, parsley potatoes, carrot coins, pepper slaw, fresh orange, wedges, fruitTuesday: Chicken vegetable, casserole, submarine sandwich, potato smiles, glazed carrots, salad, fruit cup, fruit, muffinOct. 14: Country style steak with rice and gravy, chicken strips with honey mustard, oven roasted, potatoes, califor-nia blend, caesar salad, pear halves, fruit, sesame seed rollOct. 15: Turkey tetrazzini, chef salad, baked potato, peas, green salad, pineapple tid bits, fruit, apple muffin, saltine crackersOct. 16: Beef burrito, turkey deluxe on hearty roll, potato bites, green beans, spinach salad, blueberry cup, fruit

After schoolToday: Rice krispie treat, milkThursday: Doughnut ball, milkFriday: Cheddar sun chip, juice Monday: Doughnut ball, juice, fresh apple, milkTuesday: Scooby doo, milkOct. 14: Cheetos/baked, juice Oct. 15: Assorted breakfast cereals, milkOct. 16: Pretzels, juice

UCPS menus


MONROEThree teachers from

Porter Ridge Elementary School have been reas-signed to new schools, effective Monday. They were notified Thursday afternoon.

David Clarke, Union County Public Schools assistant superintendent for human resources, initially said five or six teachers would be moved, but the extra reassign-ments were not neces-sary because of attrition within the last week. The school system will also

hire four new teachers for overcrowded elemen-tary and middle schools.

The teachers will be assigned to New Town, Rocky River and Pop-lin elementary schools. They will not teach the same grades they cur-rently teach.

The most extreme change is for Elizabeth Clarke, who will move from fifth grade to kin-dergarten.

Clarke said a curricu-lum specialist already provided her with books to review, and Poplin Ele-mentary principal Steph-anie McManus is giving her a week to adjust.

After meeting with David Clarke, Elizabeth Clarke — no relation — said the transfer won’t be “as disruptive as I thought.” She looks at it as “a new opportunity to go to a beautiful, brand new school.”

The other two teachers were also positive, David Clarke said.

“They handled it very well.”

Students that the teachers taught at Porter Ridge will be dispersed among other classes.

Class size at the school was below average, David Clarke said, and will not be over capacity with the

transition. Each grade level’s cur-

riculum is the same, he added, and students switching classes should not fall behind.

As for the schools teachers will move to, a school can either take a certain number of stu-dents out of each class in a certain grade to form a new class, David Clarke said, or pull small groups of students from a few classes.

The school system will hire four new teach-ers, one each at Union Elementary, New Town Elementary, Sun Valley Middle and Piedmont Middle.

It is up to individual schools to post those openings, David Clarke said, to be filled “as soon as possible.”

Union County Public Schools could still be asked to give more posi-tions back to the state, he added, but there are unfilled positions on re-serve that it can give up if that is the case.

“We don’t think that the ones we’ve handed out will be needing to go back to the state,” he said. “We’re pretty confi-dent in that.”

If the state asks for fewer positions than UCPS anticipates, more people will be hired to fill reserved spots, he said.

The state will make that decision the 40th day of school, near the end of the month.

— Have a story idea about schools, students or youth activities? Educa-tion eporter Tiffany Lane can be reached at 704-261-2229 or via e-mail at [email protected].

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BY JASON [email protected]

MONROECounty commission-

ers sided with the Union County Board of Educa-tion and allowed it to keep its autonomy for building projects.

The Union County Plan-ning Board recommended that schools obtain a build-ing permit, like private de-velopers, before building new schools, but commis-sioners on Monday voted that schools maintain a “use by right” status and not require a long permit-ting process.

“We want to be as open and transparent as possi-ble,” school board Chair-man Dean Arp said after the vote, but added that a formalized permitting process would increase time and costs too much.

Members of the Plan-ning Board wanted more oversight on school con-struction projects after

members accused the schools of going for-ward with Marvin Ridge middle and high schools even though proper stormwater per-mits were not in place from the N.C. Division of Water Quality. The schools were required to correct several areas of the drainage at signifi-cant cost, spending that the Planning Board said would have been avoid-ed if it had overseen the process.

School board members and the schools’ plan-ning staff have argued that the problem arose from a misunderstanding between the schools and the DWQ. School plan-ners say that changing the school building process will force delays and un-dermine the school sys-tem’s autonomy.

Commissioner Kim Rogers, who used to be on the school board, made

the motion saying she is in favor of allowing the school board to make its own decisions.

“I’m all for a second set of eyes,” she said, but added that the elected members of school board should make decisions that affect the schools. The final vote was unani-mous, but Commission-ers Lanny Openshaw

and Tracy Kuehler said they would rather have reached a compromise.

“I think we need more eyes on the situation,” Openshaw said. “Much like we do with the pri-vate sector.”

It was clear there was going to be a voting ma-jority of Commissioners Rogers, Allan Baucom and Parker Mills before

the official vote.The Planning Board had

been discussing the issue for about two months, something Mills called a waste of time now that the Board of Commis-sioners has sided with the school board’s original recommendations.

First-term Planning Board member Jeff Ger-ber took exception to

Mills’ comment.“I totally resent the

comment that Parker Mills made that we wast-ed our time,” he said after the vote. “I thought it was extremely distasteful, disrespectful and out of line and it shows his lack of understanding of the Planning Board and his lack of understanding as a county commissioner.”

MONROEThe Union County

Board of Education will discuss the Union Coun-ty Board of Commis-sioners and Planning Board’s recent actions at its meeting tonight.

Prior to the open meet-ing, the board will be in closed session to discuss the recent lawsuit from six state charter schools,

including Union Acad-emy in Monroe.

The charter schools are suing the state for a chance at lottery money and corporate income taxes, claiming it isn’t fair to provide tradition-al public schools with capital funding with-out offering it to char-ter schools. Both Union County and the Union

County Board of Educa-tion are listed as defen-dants in the lawsuit.

North Carolina estab-lished charter schools in 1996, but provided fund-ing for only operational costs, including teacher salaries and textbooks.

Still, state law says that the General Assembly is to provide “equal oppor-tunities” to all students.

Charter school advo-cates determine that to mean an equal chance at capital funding as well.

Superintendent Ed Da-vis said Union County Public Schools is follow-ing the law as it current-ly stands, but is worried that a win for charter schools would take away money for UCPS.

— Tiffany Lane

County supports UCPS, not planning boardSchool board considers planning for future schools

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Senior volunteers save city thousandsBY ELISABETH [email protected]

MONROEThey might be retired,

but woodworkers at the Ellen Fitzgerald Senior Center are still hard at their labors.

About a year and a half ago, the city decided it needed to replace the 38 pairs of original shutters on the center, which was built in 1977 on the site of a former hospital.

Over the years, mulch around the building had been stacked too high up against the shutters, causing water to saturate the wood.

“They were rotting. They were cracking,” center director Julia Mitchell said. “They were either going to have to be repaired or replaced.”

The city shopped around for private con-tractors, and the lowest

bidder it could find asked for tens of thousands of dollars, said Paul Weber, the center’s woodwork instructor.

“The economy wasn’t so good, and I thought, ‘Well, we could do that,’” he said. Since then, par-ticipants in Weber’s class have been working on a couple of pairs of shut-ter a month. The project is about 65 percent com-plete, he said.

Mitchell said it’s the largest project the center has undertaken.

The city gave the cen-ter about $2,000 to buy additional wood, Weber said, but mostly the par-ticipants try to salvage as much of the original shutters as possible.

“There’s no sense in throwing a good piece of cypress away,” Weber said. “That’s expensive wood.”

Jim Queen, 66, of Indi-

an Trail, said the project makes him feel produc-tive post-retirement.

“I’ve been learning a lot,” he said. “It gives me something to do besides staying at home watching TV.”

Sheron Ortiz, 66, of Monroe, said she has a new respect for older buildings.

“Mr. Paul’s given us a history lesson on how they did this and why it was done this way be-fore,” she said. “When I’m riding around now, I have a tendency to look around at different houses.”

Mitchell said that per-haps the project’s greatest benefit is it provides an opportunity for seniors to work closely together.

“It’s the camaraderie that they don’t get when they’re working alone in the shop at home,” she said. “Socialization is very important.”

Woodworking class at Ellen Fitzgerald Senior Center repairs water-warped shutters


Indian Trail resident Jim Queen uses a nail gun to repair shutters in the woodshop at the Ellen Fitzgerald Senior Center in Monroe. Woodworkers at the senior center of-fered to repair the building’s water-damaged shutters.

FireContinued from 1A

“It’s the cheapest in-surance you can buy,” assistant fire marshal Wyatte McBride said.

Mullis recommends checking smoke detec-tors twice a year, sug-gesting New Year’s Day and July 4 or daylight saving time to make it easy to remember. Fresh batteries should be kept in the detectors, he added.

Not much was left from the Monroe home, Mullis said, calling it “a total loss.”

“I hope it never hap-pens again,” he said, “but I’m sure it will, somewhere it will. Un-til everyone installs (a smoke detector) in their home, it’s bound to hap-pen again.”

State bans plastic bottles in landfillsBY ELISABETH [email protected]

MONROEBefore you chuck that

water bottle into the trash can, you might want to check your calendar.

Starting Thursday, plastic bottles — as well as motor oil filters and wooden pallets — are banned from solid waste disposal in the state.

The state banned the three items to preserve space in existing landfills and to create green jobs, said Gary Hunt, direc-tor of the N.C. Division of Pollution Prevention and Environmental As-sistance.

“There’s a huge market for plastics and pallets,” he said. Wooden pallets are often ground up and

used for fuel, said Jenni-fer Nance, recycling coor-dinator for Union County public works. Plastics are often reused, and Hunt said that, because plastic is made with petroleum, it is not infinitely renew-able.

“There’s a whole lot more energy that goes into taking oil and mak-ing plastic versus recy-cling plastics,” Hunt said. “There’s a lot of energy savings.”

Hunt said oil filters were added to the banned list because oil was al-ready banned in landfills and, since the filters often contain traces of oil, it made sense to ban them as well.

Since 1989, the N.C. General Assembly has es-

tablished disposal bans on items ranging from oyster shells to televisions.

Still, the state has strug-gled meeting its recycling goals in the last couple of decades, said Elizabeth Ouzts, state director for Environment North Caro-lina, a statewide environ-mental advocacy group.

Instead of decreasing the amount of trash per person between 1991 and 2001, the total went up, from 1 ton of trash per year per person to 1.21 tons. And for every bottle that is recycled, four are thrown away, Ouzts said.

“The ban will be a good first step toward encour-aging recycling in North Carolina,” she said.

Union County residents have several options for

disposing of the three newly banned materials. The Union County land-fill and transfer stations accept plastic bottles, wooden pallets, oil and oil filters. These items will be put in a separate loca-tion and later transferred. Residents will be charged $1.50 per 100 pounds of wooden pallets and $30 per ton.

“We had to do that to meet our end,” Nance said. “We have to actually pay to have a private ven-dor come and grind the pallets up.”

Collection sites also take plastic bottles, oil and oil filters.

Monroe residents can also use the city’s curb-side recycling program to dispose of plastic bottles.

Monroe’s Operation Center, at 2401 Walkup Ave., accepts used motor oil and oil filters between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Nance acknowledged the problem of enforcing the ban.

“We don’t have the man-power to open up each in-dividual household bag,” she said. To combat that problem, some munici-palities require residents use clear plastic bags.

A large percentage of the trash that Union County residents throw away can be recycled, said Solid Waste Director Mark Tye. In a typical load of residential garbage, 22 percent is plastic, and 43 percent of all garbage is recyclable.

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Hunter: ‘Strong enough to kill my grandma’


MONROEThe prosecution in the

Jamez Hunter murder trial submitted what it portrayed as a clear con-fession to a killing.

State Bureau of Inves-tigation Special Agent Brandon Blackman testi-fied that Jamez Dorjan Hunter, 27, formerly of 124 W. Union St. Marsh-ville, in a May 17, 2007, interview told him, “I’m strong enough to kill my grandma, but I’m not strong enough to kill my-self.”

Also, a letter to The En-quirer-Journal in which Hunter asks for forgive-ness for what he did, was admitted into evidence. Judge David Lee did not allow the letter on Tues-

day, but permitted it af-ter Union County jail detention officer Rachel Thompson showed a log with enough evidence for Lee to judge that Hunter wrote the letter.

“I have lost the person I loved most at the hands of myself, and I felt for a while after the incident that I don’t deserve to live,” reads part of the letter, published in the let-ters to the editor section of the May 30, 2007, The Enquirer-Journal.

Hunter is charged with

first-degree murder in the May 6, 2007, death of his grandmother, Rosia Lee Hunter, who was found stabbed to death and with a golf-club handle pro-truding from her neck.

Blackman testified that sometime between May 6, 2007, and May 17, 2007, Jamez Hunter drove his grandmother’s 1996 teal Pontiac Grand Prix, li-cense plate VTM-3516, to Lancaster, S.C., where he was taken into custody by police. Witnesses in Lan-caster saw Jamez Hunter get out of the car, Black-man testified.

SBI agents Blackman and Christie Hearne in-terviewed Hunter at the police station and took a 10-page statement from him, during which Black-man said Hunter cried. After the interview, Hunt-

er was charged with the murder.

During the interview, Blackman testified that Hunter said that he blacked out from crack cocaine in the evening of May 6, 2007. When he regained consciousness, he told them, he saw his grandmother dead.

Hunter told Blackman details about what he did after coming to, like try-ing to clean the blood off the walls and floor. “He was very specific of the events leading up to (the killing) and he was very specific about the events after (the killing),” Black-man testified.

Defense attorney Nor-man Butler argued that Hunter was under the influence of cocaine dur-ing the interview; Hunter had smoked crack co-

caine at about 1 p.m. that afternoon and the inter-view started just before midnight. Blackman said that based on his train-ing and experience with others who were under the influence of drugs, he was confident that Hunt-er was lucid during the interview. Furthermore, he said, Hunter remem-bered a time in the late 1990s when Blackman broke his nose in a bas-ketball game that Hunter attended. Both Blackman and Hunter played bas-ketball for Union County schools.

Blackman also testi-fied that Hunter told him that cuts on his hands and chest were from a strug-gle with his grandmother. Butler said Blackman’s testimony was the first he heard of an admission to

a struggle and told Lee, “I hate to be surprised on the battlefield.”

District Attorney John Snyder countered that, “Mr. Butler feigned sur-prise at the most conve-nient point,” and said the reference to a struggle should be admitted.

Butler made a motion to strike any reference to the broken nose because there was no evidence Hunter said it and also that any reference to a struggle between Hunter and his grandmother be stricken as well. Lee agreed and instructed the jury to not consider that testimony.

Snyder brought blood and fingerprint experts to the witness stand Wednesday afternoon and plans to rest his case late Thursday morning.

SBI agents, lab techs testify in 2007 murder case; defense’s case will begin todayAn SBI agent testified that Jamez Hunter offered incriminating remarks dur-ing a 2007 interview.

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Indian Trail TraderAlso serving LAKE PARK and STALLINGS

Publisher: Marvin Enderle Editor: Betsy O’Donovan [email protected] [email protected]

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Your Talk

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Thank you.Thanks to all of you who

responded to the news that I had a lump in my breast. Thanks to those of you who wrote and called, offered good wishes and prayed.

And thanks to those of you who offered your own stories and expertise as I began exploring the subject of how consumers can become their own health care advocates.

It’s comforting to know that I’m not the only one who is bewildered, amazed and frustrated by turns.

It’s slightly less comforting to find out that a lot of the people who share my feelings actually work in the health care and insurance industries.

I talked to some of them this week, and came away with useful information:

There is a lot of good news:• The cost of health care is

becoming more transparent — in theory, at least.

• Doctors — who, frankly, want to get paid — are trying to help patients manage their insurance companies’ requirements.

• The cost of health care is a lot more negotiable than you might think.

There is some bad news, too:• The quality of health

care is a lot less transparent than it should be.

• Doctors — who, frankly, don’t want to get sued — are nervous about offering cost estimates to patients (but they’re working on it).

Probably the most enlightening conversation I had this week was with Katie Robbins, the director of marketing and practice relations for Charlotte Radiology, which is where I had my diagnostic mammogram.

Katie, like everyone I’ve spoken with in the health care industry, has her own war stories about care and coverage. When I mentioned that, now that I’ve met my deductible for the year, I’m going on a spree of health care check-ups, she laughed ruefully — and knowingly.

As someone whose job is to manage how a medical practice is perceived, Katie has a front-row seat to doctor-patient relations.

One of the first things we discussed was what the maze of billing looks like from the inside.

We talked about how useful it is to know the average cost of a given treatment — something that Blue Cross Blue Shield provides to its members (but which I, an Anthem subscriber who is served by BCBS, was unable to access). We also talked about how useless that can be as patients move away from common tests — like mammograms — and into things like CT scans and MRIs, which are offered at radically different prices in hospitals and freestanding clinics, by hospitals and by private physicians.

I’ve been talking a lot about cost in these columns, and it’s important.

And, as complicated as it can be, it’s also the easiest part of this whole puzzle for a layperson to grasp. The other moving target is value: The quality of the care you’re getting for the price you pay.

So how does a person assess value?

According to Katie, BCBS and Anthem, that’s up to patients, and a lot of the time, we’re assessing the wrong things.

I was impressed that Charlotte Radiology had cookies (OK, impressed against my better judgment, but still).

But, apparently, when you’re talking about someone shooting radiation through your body, it’s worth knowing whether the technician is well-trained and whether the practice has the top accreditations. The question of “chocolate chip or oatmeal raisin” really ought to take a back burner, but ...

The problem is obvious, right? I understand chocolate chips and dollars. I don’t understand X-rays, and I don’t understand what makes one mammogram better or worse than another.

I can spot a dangling participle at 50 yards and wince at the abuse of “who” and “whom,” but I don’t know the difference between a machine that delivers an appropriate dose of radiation and one that could blast me into next week.

Bless Katie’s heart for telling me the most obvious and useful thing I’ve ever heard: That’s what the experts are for — and most of the experts have made lists to help patients advocate for themselves.

In my case, Katie said, I could have gone to the American College of Radiology Web site (www.acr.org) and found a full list of questions, including “Will a board-certified radiologist interpret my examination?” and “Is the imaging facility formally accredited to perform my examination?” Um, I didn’t exactly ask those things.

When I googled “Questions to ask your doctor” just now, I got 33,500,000 hits, led off by the American Heart Association, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), and the National Institutes of Health.

Well ... neat.For those of you whose

experiences and questions I didn’t get to tackle this week, take heart: We’re not running out of subject matter anytime soon.

— Betsy O’Donovan can be reached at [email protected].

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Ink by the Barrel

The very model of ...Mayor Quinn is a handsome

man, well dressed, pleasant to talk to, by some accounts a true gentleman. By the looks of it, he should be a good may-or for Indian Trail. At first he stumbled a bit until he became comfortable as Mayor. The first year things went smoothly, but alas something happened.

It began with the appoint-ment of Indian Trail’s rep-resentative to MUMPO, a position the Mayor wished to hold against the wisdom of the majority of Indian Trail’s Town Council. From then on the relationship continued on its downward course with the Mayor having gripes with most of the Town Council Repre-sentatives. Early this year he seemed to have lost his best supporters, two of the Town Council Representatives and one of the present candidates, - all of whom campaigned for him during his election cam-paign. What the Mayor writes on behalf of the Town is public

record, even if it is written on his private PC. The Mayor has delayed and seems to wriggle away from his responsibility. He claims the Town Council was wasting $200 an hour on attorney fees. The public could have the proof of that if hand-ed over e-mails he had sent to Family Circle Magazine. After one month to do so, he provid-ed a cut-and-paste downloaded version from a word-process-ing program instead of the

original e-mails. Anyone with a minimal computer skills knows how easily downloaded e-mails can be modified and edited. When the attorney explained that the Mayor by law had to provide the original e-mails, he picked a verbal fight with the Town attorney. He claims the Town Council is full of malice and disrespect, that they try to marginalize him, and that they credit him with false allegations. Why is it that his most ardent support-ers have turned on him? One of them he even called a liar.

I attend almost every Town Council meeting and from the Mayor’s description I don’t recognize the town. The five members of the Town Council work well together. They are of very different opinions from time to time. However, they respect each other; discuss to the heart of the matter, and in general get along very well.

Severin JacobsenIndian Trail

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Your Talk

Letter to QuinnImagine that. I open

up one of the local papers and there is another letter from John Quinn. As usual it goes “Blah, Blah, Blah, this person did this,” “moan, moan, moan, there is a conspiracy there,” “whine, whine, whine, “everybody else is wrong and I’m the only one who cares about Indian Trail,” “Mommy, no one wants to play with me.” Can’t we put a limit on the amount of BS that goes in the paper?

Over 60percent of the voters voted against him in the last election. His platform obviously did not represent the people.

Shelley DeHart was the driving force behind Indian Trail being voted one of the top 10 towns in America by Family Circle. Stop trying to take credit for it

If your own HOA, the two councilmen who supported you during your election, and all the HOA and community leaders you claim to

represent have turned their back on you, how are you the only one that can save Indian Trail from itself ?

If you are banned from the town offices, the town website, censured for trying to tape closed sessions of the Town Council, have you ever thought of looking within and changing what you

are doing other than blaming everyone else. T

here is actually one thing you can do for Indian Trail – SHUT UP.

Hugh J. LayburnIndian Trail

The right newsI’ve failed. I’ve tried

to ignore the inane post suggesting ‘Right Wing Talk Incites

Violence’...?! Duh!However, Ms. Wise-

man is clearly correct when she suggests that our ‘National Media’ (MSM) isn’t doing it’s job. It really doesn’t matter now. No think-ing person expects to get their unbiased news from print or broadcast MSM.

She’s also right about the news media being generally sorry. But Ms. Wiseman is wrong when complaining that right-wing talk hosts calling out taxpayers to vote the bums out in 2010 is inciting violence. That sort of activism is NOT violence.

If not for the Internet, ‘right wing news’ (pri-marily Fox Cable News for TV watchers)--and talk radio--there wouldn’t be any news. Right wing talk radio isn’t the prob-lem--Ms. Wiseman should worry more about the Internet effect. Perhaps Al Gore can un-invent the Internet and try to save the democrats?

Whatever. Any non brain-dead

person watching main-stream-media must conclude that only demo-crats are paying attention to the call for violence. It ain’t conservatives pull-ing down radio towers, beating and killing each other with boards (Chi-

cago gangs), and killing innocent people for fun and amusement (DC Snipers), and violently demonstrating proximal to the G-20 summit.

Think about who’s really creating violence in our society. Um-mmm...Democrats?

I toss the gauntlet! That means a challenge is in order. Let us count the perps listed in the MSM evening news and see whether they fit the profile of a conservative or progressive/liberal. This will be so easy!

The leftist greenies, urban adolescents, and animal rights move-ments (ELF, PETA, and ALF) are by far the most violent organiza-tions in this country. They are all Obama supporters. Whoever they are, they are not listening to Andrew Wilkow, Mark Levin, and Rush Limbaugh.

Let the tally begin! JR Lynch

Monroe

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ty now has the county’s first inpatient care facil-ity for hospice patients. Hospice will host an open house on Friday to un-veil its newest building, featuring six inpatient rooms and six residential rooms.

Community relations coordinator Pamela Col-lins nearly squealed with excitement when talking about the new building on Monday. “It’s gorgeous,” she said. “It’s like a high-end hotel.”

Hospice provides sup-port for terminally ill pa-tients and their families. The first building on its Monroe campus was built in 1992 as the state’s first hospice house. The sec-ond building came along in 1994. Combined, the facilities serve Union, Mecklenburg, Anson, Cabarrus and Stanly counties.

The new building, dubbed the Edward Car-lton McWhorter Hospice

House, is named after Carol Tyson’s brother-in-law, who died from cancer a couple of years ago. The care McWhorter received

at Hospice made a big im-pression on the McWhort-er family, as well as Tyson and her husband Carlton Tyson. The Tysons helped

head the capital campaign for the new facility.

“We were just very pleased with his care,” Tyson said, but noted that

having inpatient care would make the end-of-life process easier.

Offering an example, Collins said a patient might have both cancer and diabetes. Before the new building was built, that patient would live in a hospice house but be transferred to a hospital if there was a diabetic emergency.

A constant change of rooms, facilities and medical staff is “a whole lot of stress that a family at that time just doesn’t need,” she said, and “the opposite of Hospice phi-losophy.” By that stage, “people are ready for some peace and some comfort.”

The cost for residen-tial patients is $155 per day. Inpatient costs vary by need. Collins said the average stay is about two months.

“Sometimes people need to get stabilized on their medications,” she said. “Sometimes there’s not enough people at home to care for them, ... or the family is out of state. ... Sometimes pa-

tients are alone.”Hospice patients have a

variety of diseases or ter-minal illnesses, includ-ing cancer, Alzheimer’s, chronic obstructive pul-monary disease, AIDS, congestive heart failure and liver failure.

The new facility brings the total number of hos-pice rooms to 26. Hospice currently has 14 patients on its campus, but cares for 45 total, many in nurs-ing homes, their own homes or a family mem-ber’s home.

Each patient receives his or her own room and receives three home-cooked meals a day.

Two certified nurs-ing assistants and one licensed practical nurse are on staff in each house and ready to offer their services, even if it is to help brush a patient’s teeth.

A doctor will be on hand each day to make rounds to the inpatient rooms.

“This is something that Union County has needed for so long,” Tyson said. “It’s a new dimension in health care.”

Hospice opens in-patient care center


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The NCDOT awarded

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Improvements include resurfacing, grading, paving and pavement markings on 1.3 miles of Unionville-Indian Trail Road from east of Younts Road (S.R. 1519) to west of Sardis Church Road (S.R. 1515). Turn lanes to Faith Church Road will be add-ed on Unionville-Indian Trail Road, and a new signal will be installed at the intersection. The tar-geted completion date is Dec. 11.

For more information, contact the resident engi-neer at 704-289-1330.

Union Seniors to have flu clinics

MONROEThe Council on Aging’s

Union Seniors will have flu-shot clinics from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the fol-lowing dates and sites:

• Today, Walkersville Presbyterian Church

• Tuesday, Langford Chapel, 113 Johnson St., Monroe

• Oct. 26, Indian Trail United Methodist Church

• Oct. 27, Emmanuel Baptist Church and Win-gate United Methodist Church

Bring a Medicare or Medicaid card for pay-ment. Those who have a Medicare Advantage Plan will need to pay $30 at time of service.

Rabies clinic slated for Wednesday

MONROEA rabies clinics for dogs

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son Road.State law requires the

owner of every dog and cat over 4 months old to have those animals vacci-nated against rabies. The price for vaccinations will be $7, cash only. Shots will be administered by veter-inarian Brent Glenn.

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TOPS had a contest called “Feed the Hungry” in which members were to donate food equal to their weight loss. More than 900 pounds of food was collected. The food will be donated to local organizations.

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County panel favors at-large electionsBY JASON [email protected]

MONROEA county governance

committee rejected a dis-trict-only representation format.

The committee agreed to recommend that the Union County Board of Commissioners be in-creased to seven mem-bers, from its current five, but has not made a final recommendation on how those seven should be elected. The committee eliminated the possibil-ity of having no at large members, however.

The governance com-mittee is made up of rep-resentatives from each of Union’s 14 towns.

Marshville Mayor Frank Deese voted in fa-

vor of having seven dis-tricts.

“I feel like we need to have district representa-tion so that everyone can be equally represented,” he said. “Our House of Representatives is on districts, our state elec-tions house and senate are on districts. If it’s good enough for the fed-eral government and good enough for the state government why is it not good enough for us?”

Deese did not say he saw the committee’s desire for at large candidates purely as an east vs. west issue in the county, though said it plays a small part. The two towns east of Mon-roe have a combined 3,191 registered voters, while 11 towns west of Monroe

have 59,423 combined.Commissioner Tracy

Kuehler serves as a non-voting chairwoman of the governance commit-tee and said a decision on how many districts to draw will be looked at during the next meeting. Factors they will consider include allowing one dis-trict to vote in a majority. For example, if there are four districts and three at large members, four commissioners, a major-ity, could come from one district. The next meeting is scheduled for Oct. 28.

Deese was against any-thing fewer than five dis-tricts so no majority could come from one district.

“They can still stack the board,” he said.

N.C. Rep. Pryor Gib-son, D-Anson, represents

eastern Union County. “As long as whatever happens,” he said. “Accu-rately and fairly includes representation for east-ern Union County, I will support it completely.”

Because Union is af-fected by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, any changes to voting pro-cedures must be approved by the U.S. Department of Justice.

The act of 1965 declares that no one shall be de-nied a vote based on color or race and, according to department Web site, “is generally considered the most successful piece of civil rights legislation ever adopted by the Unit-ed States Congress.”

Section 5 of the act makes certain districts get approval before mak-

ing any changes to the voting procedures in-cluding “anything from moving a polling place to changing district lines in the county,” according to the Web site. Union is one of 40 North Carolina counties under Section 5. Nine entire states, includ-ing South Carolina, fall under Section 5.

The assistant attor-ney general for the Civil Rights Division rules on most change requests after a 60-day review pe-riod.

Among other things, the assistant general will have conversations with private citizens, particu-larly of a racial or lan-guage minority.

— Contact county gov-ernment reporter Jason deBruyn at 704-261-2243.

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office proceeded with the charge and Davis will have a felony embezzle-ment conviction on his permanent record.

“He just fell into temp-

tation that proved too great for him,” said Da-vis’ attorney, Harry Crow. “He has pleaded guilty to a felony and that is a significant punishment already.”

Derenge said she was concerned that the mon-ey be returned.

“It’s terribly critical

that he should pay the money back,” she said. “It will bring some clo-sure to all of us.”

The FOP is raising money for a memorial, but that money was in a separate account which Davis did not access. Still, Derenge said the FOP has not done fund-

raisers “because we were waiting and wanted this settled and wanted a higher standard put in place so this wouldn’t happen again,” she said. “I feel like he broke my trust personally. I took it very personally.”

Davis has 30 days to re-pay the money.

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Jose Maria, a singer/songwriter, emigrated from Mexico. He per-formed at a Latin music concert to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, along with oboe player Javier Perez, who is originally from Caracas, Venezuela, and is now musical director for Hispanic Calvary Church in Pineville.

Concierto Latino at Monroe High School


MONROEHunters found a human

femur Saturday morning, a discovery that had in-vestigators combing the Williams family farm.

Sally Williams’ nephew was setting up a hunting stand on the 90-acre farm between Monroe and Win-gate near the Sheriff ’s Office when he found the bone near a creek bed. Deputies combed the area for much of the morning, but found no other human remains.

The bone was taken to a medical examiner’s office in Mecklenburg County.

Union Medical Exam-iner Carolyn Gordon said she could confirm only that it was a human fe-mur, but could not say if it belonged to a male or fe-

male, and only that it was an adult bone.

“I come to no conclu-sions,” she said, and said her office will conduct a full examination.

Sally Williams said the discovery was unsettling.

“You’re just kind of like, ‘Ew,’” she said.

The Union County Sheriff ’s Office and its ca-daver dogs continued the search Monday for more evidence

“We haven’t found any-thing yet,” Sheriff Eddie Cathey said, adding that other remains could have been carried away by ani-mals.

The bone shows mark-ings that seem to indicate a hip replacement, leading officials to think it was an older adult.

— Jason deBruyn can be reached at 704-261-2243 or [email protected].

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Quilt show supports church’s missionBY TIFFANY [email protected]

WAXHAWValerie Fox loves her

horses, but simply can’t allow them in the barn this weekend – not when there are quilts to display.

Fox Farms in Waxhaw will host its seventh an-nual Barnful of Quilts on Saturday. Money raised through admissions dona-tions will go to missions and outreach at Waxhaw Presbyterian Church.

“It’s a celebration of quilting and fiber arts,” Fox said. “The whole barn is just given over to the quilts.”

The event raised $7,000 last year.

Barnful of Quilts will feature several quilters, including Fletcher Mc-Neil of Lenoir. McNeil be-gan quilting at the age of 65. Now 84, she will have several of her own quilts on display.

The event also includes a bake sale, yarn vendors, embroiderers’ guild, lace makers’ guild, silent auc-tion and raffle. A quilt historian will be on hand to date antique quilts and discuss the history be-hind their patterns. Some quilts are for show, and some are for sale.

While many of the contributing quilters are from Charlotte and oth-ers from Lancaster, S.C., several are from Union County.

Karen McWhorter is part of UCo Quilters, a group of five Union Coun-ty women who meet week-ly in McWhorter’s “bonus room” above the garage. Two are from Waxhaw and three are from Mon-roe.

McWhorter, retired from Bell South, began quilting in 1983 while she was pregnant with her

son. “I became a nester. I

had to have a project,” she said. Her first quilt was done by hand and took a year. She now uses a sewing machine and can make some quilts within a week.

UCo Quilters makes quilts for a number of charities through Habitat for Humanity, local hospi-tals and the Union Coun-ty Animal Shelter. The group also designed the quilt that will be raffled off this weekend.

Unlike other quilt shows that show only a handful of quilts, Fox said, Barnful of Quilts has dozens on display.

“Each of the stalls be-comes a boutique,” she said, and each artist will be there to talk about his or her work.

“The tradition of quilt-ing has been around for so long that people in the last number of years have been taking it to such new heights,” she said. “It’s such an art form now. It used to be Sunbonnet Susan, … but now people are incorporating new ideas.”

Saturday’s show will re-flect that movement with examples of both tradi-

tional and contemporary designs.

“There will be a lot of ladies, but we welcome the guys, too,” McWhort-er said. “They will love the barn.”

Money raised in the past has helped fund a satellite dish in Africa, where mis-sion groups are able to communicate with others back home in translating the Bible. Waxhaw Pres-byterian also supports young missionaries, as well as Glasses for Mis-sions, an outreach project to provide glasses at little expense. A volunteer from that mission will be at Barnful of Quilts to share his own artwork.

Church members have also worked with the Cri-sis Pregnancy Center of Monroe and Hospice of Union County.

Fox Farms is located at 7505 Sims Road in Wax-haw. The event will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ad-mission is a $5 donation, which also goes to Wax-haw Presbyterian mis-sions.

People under 18 and over 80 get in free.

For more information, visit www.foxfamilyfarm.com.

‘Barnful of Quilts’ returns for seventh year in Waxhaw

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This quilt will be raffled off at the Barnful of Quilts event on Saturday.

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Valerie Fox, owner of Fox Farm, and quilters Judy Jewell, Joyce Walker, Karen McWhorter and Rose Giacchetta look over quilts and discuss entries in the 2009 Barn-ful of Quilts benefit, which will Saturday at Fox Farm in Waxhaw.

Upcoming ReunionsCounty files suit over local rodeo Reece and Susie

Starnes familyWAXHAW

Descendants of Reece and Susie Starnes will have their 60th family reunion at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at Bethlehem United Methodist Church, 5300 Nesbit Road in Waxhaw. Bring a well-filled basket and drink. For information, Carolyn Starnes at 704-843-2843.

Ellis Rushing family

MONROEThe annual Ellis

Rushing family reunion will be at 1 p.m. Oct. 11 at Hope Second Advent Christian Church, N.C. Highway 200 North.

Cornelius and Sophronia Thomas family

MARSHVILLEDescendants of the late

Cornelius and Sophronia Pierce Thomas will have their annual family reunion at 5 p.m. Oct. 17 in the Hamilton Cross Roads Baptist Church fellowship hall, 6133 Old Goldmine Road. Bring a well-filled picnic basket. Call Brenda Lee at 704-624-6533.

Sun Valley High School Classes of 1979 and 1980

MONROEThe Sun Valley High

School combined classes of 1979 and 1980 will have a reunion at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 17 at Rolling Hills Country Club. Cost is $50 per person. Call Lisa Carroll Flippin 704-849-6320.

Birmingham familyNEW SALEM

The annual Birmingham reunion will be Oct. 18 at 1 p.m. in the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church fellowship building. Bring a well-

filled basket. Call Peggy A. Baucom at 704-385-9716.

Ned Richardson, Sam Parker families

MONROEThe Ned Richardson

and Sam Parker family reunion will be Oct. 25 at 1 p.m. at Prospect United Methodist Church.

ATI Allvac retireesMONROE

ATI Allvac retirees will have their semi-annual lunch at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 27 at Quincy’s Family Steakhouse. Spouses and guests are welcome. Call Linda Nash at 704-289-4475.

Monroe City Schools employees

MONROEFormer employees of

Monroe City Schools and their guests will have a reunion Nov. 8 from 4

p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Union County Agricultural Services Center. Casual dress. Cost is $17 per person. RSVP by Oct. 16 and make checks payable to Monroe City Schools Reunion. Mail checks to Margaret Batchelor, 1701 Lakeview Drive, Monroe, NC 28112. Call Sue Marks at 704-289-2045 or Margaret Batchelor at 704-283-8232.

Monroe High School Class of 1999

MONROEThe Monroe High

School Class of 1999 is looking for classmates for a tentatively schedule reunion during fall homecoming. Send contact information, including address, phone number and e-mail address to [email protected]. Once the list is complete, information about the final plans and dates will be sent out.


MONROEUnion County officials

have taken legal action to shut down Plaza de Toros Rio Grande.

Thomas “Pinky” Marsh has repeatedly and admit-tedly bucked county of-ficials and held rodeos at his farm in Marshville.

In May 2007, Marsh was granted a special-use per-mit to conduct “special events/rodeo type activi-ties” according to a court file. He was limited to four one-day events per year.

In September 2007, county land use admin-istrator Lee Jensen ruled that Marsh had violated the special use permit and issued a citation for two violations on Oct. 12, 2007. On Oct. 25, 2007, the Board of Adjustment re-voked Marsh’s special use

permit.Marsh maintains he is

not subject to local regu-lations because state law allows agribusinesses to operate without local oversight. He has filed lawsuits and appeals, and has continued operating his events, including one on June 26 and June 27 called “Bull Fights and Dirt Bikes,” according to the court file.

The county has sought a permanent injunction from the court that would bar Marsh from conduct-ing events on his property including: “Bull riding, calf scrambles, horse rop-ing, horse racing, petting zoos, motorcross events, selling prepared foods and alcohol, broadcasting amplified music and other disc jockey type events to the public, and other simi-lar type activities.”

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Elsie RaginINDIAN TRAIL

Elsie Lee Ragin, 74, died Saturday (Oct. 3, 2009) at Presbyterian Hospital in Matthews.

Funeral will be 1 p.m. Thursday at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Wit-nesses in Indian Trail, with burial in Hillcrest Cemetery in Monroe.

Born March 15, 1935, in Blythewood, S.C., she was a daughter of the late James and Sadie Green Piller.

Survivors include one daughter, Renaa Coving-ton of Indian Trail; seven grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.

Public viewing will be from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. today at Grier Funeral Service. Visitation will be form noon to 1 p.m. Thursday at the church.

Gene StegallMATTHEWS — Gene

Stegall, 65, died Sunday (Oct. 4, 2009) at home.

Born Jan. 25, 1944, in Mecklenburg County, he was a son of the late Luis and Roseleen Stegall.

Survivors include his wife, Louise Stegall of Matthews; one son, Mark Stegall of Charlotte; and one daughter, Pam Comer of Indian Trail.

Heritage Funeral Home of Indian Trail is in charge. Online condo-lences may be left at www.heritagefuneral.net.

Martha GulledgeMONROE

Martha Bowles Gulledge, 81, died Sunday (Oct. 4, 2009) at home.

Funeral will 2 p.m. to-day at McEwen Funeral Home, with burial in Lakeland Memorial Park.

Born Nov. 10, 1927, in Mecklenburg County, she was a daughter of the late Lonnie Sanford and Tes-sie Belk Bowles and was

married to the late Jerry C. Gulledge. She was the retired owner of a day care center.

Survivors include two sons, Jerry Dwight Gulledge of Monroe, Da-vid Michael Gulledge of Gainesville, Fla.; three daughters: Wanda Carter of Sherrills Ford, San-dra Shumpert of Mon-roe, Sheryl Harmon of Matthews; eight grand-children; and one great-grandson.

Memorials may be made to Hospice & Pallia-tive Care, 1420 E. Seventh St., Charlotte NC 28204; or to National Spasmodic As-sociation, 300 Park Boule-vard, Suite 301, Itasca, IL 60143.

Lois FowlerMONROE

Lois Mullis Fowler, 89, died Thursday (Oct. 1, 2009) at home.

Memorial service was Sunday at Heritage Fu-neral Home of Indian Trail.

Born in Union County, she was a daughter of the late Thomas and Fannie Smith Mullis.

Survivors include her husband Needham Fowl-er of the home; one son, Ray Fowler; two sisters, Kate Williams of Indian Trail, Doris Tomberlin of Monroe; two grand-children; and two great-grandchildren.

Online condolences may be left at www.heri-tagefuneral.net.

Nancy StarnesMINERAL SPRINGS

Nancy Winchester Starnes, 98, died Thurs-day (Oct. 1, 2009) at Hos-pice of Union County in Monroe.

Funeral was Saturday at Heritage Funeral Home of Weddington, with buri-al in Lakeland Memorial Park in Monroe.

Born Aug. 25, 1911, she was a daughter of the late George T. and Rilla H. Winchester.

Survivors include two daughters, Myra Starnes Helms of Indian Trail, Anne Starnes Howell of Charlotte; three grand-children; and seven great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to Union County Council on Aging or Hospice of Union County or to the charity of one’s choice. Online condolences may be left at www.heritagefu-neral.net.

Mary JonesMARSHVIILLE

Mary Elizabeth Jones, 84, died Friday (Oct. 2, 2009) at Hospice House in Monroe.

Funeral was Monday at Centerview Baptist Church, with burial in the church cemetery.

Born June 1, 1925, in Union County, she was a daughter of the late Craw-ford L. and Ila Mae Helms Austin.

Survivors include her husband, John C. Jones; one daughter, Marsha

Ann Ray of Winston Sa-lem; two brothers, Varon Austin of Indian Trail, Thomas Dolan Austin of Columbia, S.C.; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to Centerview Bap-tist Church Music Fund, 2711 Old Pageland-Marsh-ville Road, Marshville, NC 28103.

Gordon Funeral Service of Monroe is in charge. Online condolences may be made at www.gordon-funeralservice.com.

Nickolus Yacyszyn Jr.

CONCORD — Nickolus Yacyszyn Jr., 50, died Sept. 22, 2009, at home.

Funeral will be private.Born Oct. 16, 1958, in

Oberlin, Ohio, he was a son of the late Nickolus and Wilma Hartman Ya-cyszyn Sr. He was a veter-an and was self-employed in metal recycling.

Survivors include one son, Nate Yacyszyn of Concord.

Good Shepherd Funer-al Home of Indian Trail is in charge. Online con-dolences may be left at www.goodshepherdfuner-alhome.net.

Valerie JonesMONROE

Valerie Ruth Fox Jones, 44, died Sept. 29, 2009 at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte.

Funeral was Saturday at Back to Bethel Baptist Church.

Born April 8, 1956, she was a daughter of James C. (J.C.) Fox of Monroe and the late Una Mae Ballew Fox. She was the owner of Val’s Account-ing Service.

Survivors include her Gregory Jones of the home; two sons, Trenton Gregory Jones, Joseph Allen Jones, both of the home; one daughter,

Mary Joanna Jones of the home; two sisters, Pa-mela Langston, Elizabeth Stilwell, both of Indian Trail; and three brothers, Allen Fox, David Fox and Mark Fox, all of Monroe.

Memorials and dona-tions may be made to the Jones family, c/o Back to Bethel Baptist Church.

Heritage Funeral Ser-vice of Indian Trail is in charge. Online condo-lences may be left at www.heritagefuneral.net.

Theresa DennisINDIAN TRAIL

Theresa Hedrick Den-nis, 81, died Sept. 27, 2009, at Gaston Memorial Hos-pital.

Funeral will be at a lat-er date.

She was retired from food service at Carolinas Medical Center-Union.

Heritage Funeral Home is in charge.

ObituariesObituary policyObituaries are published weekly and include name, age, address, place of death, occupation, military service, spouse, parents, childre, immediate family survivors, number of grand-childre and great-grandchildren, funeral arrangements and memorials. Obituaries containing additional information may be purchased. Obituaries, whether free or paid, are accepted only from funeral homes.

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parents are listed as plain-tiffs.

Six other North Caro-lina charter schools are parties in the lawsuit, listing their own coun-ties and school boards as defendants. The suit was filed in Mecklenburg County.

Ed Davis, superinten-dent for Union County Public Schools, said North Carolina law has no provision for charter schools to receive capi-tal funding, although the wording could be more explicit.

“We certainly are fol-lowing the law as the law currently exists,” he said.

According to North Carolina law, the General Assembly “shall provide ... for a general and uni-form system of free pub-lic schools, ... wherein equal opportunities shall be provided for all stu-dents.”

References to “uni-form” and “equal” edu-cation are at the center of the dispute as charter

schools say that should mean funding for every public school, including charters.

“The question is a point of clarity,” Reinsant said.

The Union County school board has yet to discuss the issue in depth, Davis said, but will talk about it in closed session at Tuesday’s meeting.

If charter schools win the case, he said, “It could be significant. It could take money that we have used for our building pro-gram and upkeep on our facilities.”

Attorneys Robert Orr and Jason Kay with the N.C. Institute for Con-stitutional Law are rep-resenting the charter schools. The institute is a nonprofit organization and does not charge for its services.

“It doesn’t mean any particular charter school will get capital funding,” Orr said, “but at least they can be considered.” Capi-tal funding would help provide new facilities and renovations for the state’s 98 charter schools.

Orr added that some charter schools rely on private benefactors for funding or local govern-ments to lease unused school facilities to them, but the schools still flip the bill for new construc-tion and renovations.

“Parents want their children treated equally,” Reinsant said. “As taxpay-ers, they are looking for the benefits that come from taxes; for instance, education. ... Charter schools shouldn’t be left out of it.”

Still, after reverting

thousands of dollars to the state this year, some UCPS officials are wor-ried about having even less money.

Orr said many school systems are behind in capital projects, but it is a challenge for everyone, not just traditional public schools.

“It’s not us versus them,” Orr said. “These are all public school students. If there was no charter school, they would be over in the tradi-tional public school right now.”

Why is the lawsuit coming up 13 years after charter schools were es-tablished?

Orr said the N.C. Insti-tute for Constitutional Law has existed for only five years and some peo-ple are just realizing that it is there to help with such disputes.

“Charter schools are relatively new,” Reinsant said, and still trying to “create a place for them-selves ... as a public alter-native.”

Union Academy opened in 1999, three years after the charter school law was put in place.

Charter schools suing the stateUnion Academy, MonroeSocrates Academy, MatthewsSugar Creek Charter School, CharlotteMetrolina Regional Scholars’ Academy, CharlotteCommunity Charter School, CharlotteRocky Mount Preparatory School, Rocky MountThomas Jefferson Classical Academy, Mooresboro

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draws between 3,000 and 4,000 people each year.

“We try to make ours very family oriented, very economical,” Tray-wick said, emphasizing the last part. Saturday’s events are free except for carnival rides, and a por-tion of proceeds will go to the Christmas Bureau of Union County.

Brown said that is what she likes most about this year’s festival; it’s impor-tant to “give to the greater community.”

The Christmas Bureau provides gifts to local, low-income families each sea-son and expects to reach more than 2,000 families this Christmas.

The most popular rides have been the Super Slide and spinner, Traywick said, but other rides will be introduced this year to avoid redundancy.

The festival will also in-clude two bike raffles, mu-sic, dancing, face paint-ing, pumpkin painting, baked goods and festival foods. Traywick said there was a shortage of pump-kins to paint last year, but there should be plenty to go around this time.

Live entertainment will be provided by the Porter

Ridge Middle School cheer-leaders, Central Academy of Lake Park choir and Good Time Cloggers of Monroe, as well as Indian Trail’s Sports and Fine Arts Center gymnasts, Masterpiece Dance and Arts Studios and Peaceful Warrior Marshal Arts.

Carolinas Medical Cen-ter-Union will host kids’ activities from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

“I just like seeing the festival come to fruition,” Traywick said. Planning began in February.

The Lake Park Hom-eowner’s Association hosts the festival. A wrist band for unlimited carni-val rides is $6 or $5 with a canned good for the Christmas Bureau. Rides for children under 3 are free.

For more information, visit www.lakeparknc.com.

Fall festivalevent schedule

10 a.m. to 6 p.m.: Festival vendors, activities and rides10 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Classic car show and awards; registration at 9 a.m.4 p.m. to 8 p.m.: Concert featuring Right Turn Clyde8 p.m. to 10 p.m.: Movie in the park, “Monsters vs. Aliens”; free popcorn and glow bracelets

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THURSDAY,OCTOBER 29, 2009 | 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.Rolling Hills Country Club, Monroe | $30 General Admission

Featuring comedy performances by “The Southern Fried Chicks”

By DaviD SentenDreySports Correspondent

INDIAN TRAILSun Valley got 134 rush-

ing yards from sophomore Jadarrius Williams and a 67-yard interception return from junior cor-nerback Aaron Hancock to improve to 5-1 on the season with a 38-16 home win over Bessemer City on Friday.

BC had more first downs, rushing yards and passing yards – but the Spartans took care of the football with zero turn-overs and capitalized on two Bessemer turnovers, including Hancock’s re-turn.

Sun Valley spent most of the first half pinned in front of their own end zone, and both teams started slow offensively; Bessemer led 8-7 at half-time.

“We felt that early in the ball game field position was horrible and just had to keep surviving that,” SV coach Scott Stein said. “The thing that people don’t realize is that we’re extremely young, but I’ll tell you what – we’ve been tested.”

Exiting the half, better field position helped the Spartans put up 21 third-quarter points – includ-ing two touchdown passes from sophomore quarter-back Ryan Smith.

The first-year starter only threw for 82 yards, but was efficient and took care of the ball.

“I think we put him in a bad situation in the first half,” Stein said. “We were in the shadow of our own goal line for the first half.

“He’s grown up leaps and bounds, he doesn’t get rattled by everything that people are trying to throw at him.

“They look on our roster and see that he’s a sopho-more so they throw weird stuff at him and try to get some different people com-ing off the corner – and once again, he didn’t turn the ball over.”

Williams carried 22 times and scored two touchdowns.

“They are a fairly physi-cal, fairly big defense,” Stein said. “They were giv-ing us some stuff and we weren’t really taking ad-vantage of it early … but our linemen did a good job at putting a body on a body and Jadarrius [Williams] did a good job of seeing the holes.”

Bessemer ran mostly a dive-option offense with quarterback Xavier Logan leading the team with 99 yards rushing.

Besides two defensive breakdowns, where Logan picked up gains of 44 and 25, the Spartan defense controlled the run.

Bessemer fullback Jhalen Adams was held to 25 yards on nine carries.

“We have to do a better job at tackling in space, and that’s the same at ev-ery high school in the state of North Carolina,” Stein said.

“But overall I thought we did a good job …”

Sun Valley begins play in the Southern Carolina 3A/4A Conference next week, traveling to face An-son County.

“Every ball game we’ve been down, a lot of them at half and have had to come back out and win some ball games,” Stein said. “Our kids kind of didn’t panic about it and we knew that we had some opportuni-ties that were going to arise – we just had to play our game.”

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TRADER SportsWednesday, October 7, 2009 Covering SUN VALLEY and PORTER RIDGE

Kills carry Warriors to 3-0 victoryDespite strong effort, Porter Ridge falls in straight setsBy DaviD SentenDreySports Correspondent

INDIAN TRAILThe Weddington High

volleyball team cruised past Porter Ridge 3-0 on Thursday.

The Warriors improved to 13-2 on the season and 8-0 in the Southern Caro-lina 3A/4A Conference.

Allison Rickher record-ed 16 kills, while Amy Schwartz added 12. Alex Kachulis led the team in digs with 25 and setter Taylor Linton handed

out 41 assists. First-year starter Kaitlyn Duck-worth added eight kills and three blocks.

In the first set, the War-riors followed a 2-0 Porter Ridge start with a 12-1 run on way to a 25-11 victory.

Weddington carried the momentum from the first set towards the second, shutting down the Pirates 25-5 with two of Porter Ridge’s scores coming off Warrior serving errors.

Weddington did an excellent job passing

through the first two sets and getting the ball to their big hitters to knock down kills.

“The passing was good which always leads into your kills,” WHS coach Carrie Powell said. “We didn’t have that many bad passes, which made Tay-lor Linton’s job easier, the setter’s job easier, so that she could get [the ball] and get that set up.”

The Pirates came out strong during the third set leading 10-2, but a 15-1

Warrior run left no room for a Porter Ridge come-back as the set was decid-ed 25-13.

While Kachulis, a senior, has provided the Warriors with plenty of solid defense all season, the Warriors are in good hands for the future with sophomore Lauren Martin.

Martin had 12 digs against Porter Ridge with eight coming in the third set when Weddington was


Weddington’s Amy Schwartz (15) follows through on a spike during Thursday’s match at Porter Ridge.

We’ve reached the midway point of the regular

season for football in Union County. Here’s a look ahead at the second half and some of the critical matchups when it comes to playoff aspirations.

Two Union County teams have already locked up postseason bids — Mon-roe and Marvin Ridge are both 6-0, and five wins seems to be the magic number since the playoff field was doubled in 2002.

Some teams will reach the playoffs with four wins, but five guarantees it.

So who else can count on postseason participation?

Forest Hills and Sun Valley are safe bets.

The Yellow Jackets are 4-2 and still have a couple guaranteed wins on the schedule.

The Jackets should be 8-2 on Nov. 6 when they travel to face archrival Monroe in what is shaping up as the championship game for the Rocky River Conference. FH is at home Friday against West Stanly (2-3).

Sun Valley is 4-1 de-spite playing one of the county’s tougher pre-conference schedules and has a chance to clinch a playoff berth at home Friday against Besse-mer City, which is in the same situation at 4-1.

The Spartans are among the six schools in the new-ly-formed Southern Caro-lina 3A/4A Conference, and all six teams are legiti-mate playoff contenders.

But one of the six might have to stay home.

Anson County has to be considered among the fa-vorites. The Bearcats have three defensive players with major college offers, including senior defen-sive tackle Tre Thomas, junior linebacker Ste-phone Anthony and junior safety Brandon Ellerbe.

According to Rivals.com, Thomas (6-2, 275) has five major college offers, including Clemson, Duke, East Carolina, Marshall

My View

Jerry SnowSports Editor

Union teams poised for ‘09 playoffs

Spartans rally to win

Photo by Jamie Belk

Sun Valley senior Dustin Cook (3) caught a 31-yard touchdown pass in Friday’s win over Bessemer City. The Spar-tans improved to 5-1.

Sun Valley beats Rebels, 2-1By eric rapeSports Correspondent

INDIAN TRAILSun Valley took home

a 2-1 win over Parkwood Thursday night in a phys-ical matchup that went down to the wire.

With the game tied and running under two minutes, it looked as if it might go into overtime until Drew Gallowitch

found the back of the net in a scrum in front of the Parkwood goal. His goal was a rebound shot after a ball bounced off a Park-wood defender’s face.

Gallowitch now has 12 goals and eight assists on the year, both team-highs.

The first half was dead even, with both teams get-ting three shots on goal. The only difference was

a goal by the Spartans’ Ameth Barrera, who scored in the 19th minute off a flick pass from Leo Corbalan.

Sun Valley led 1-0 at halftime.

Parkwood had only two shots on goal in the sec-ond half, and the second tied the game at 1-all as Barrett Phaneuf pounded in a rebound in a jumble of bodies with 4:03 left in

the game.The Rebels’ senior cap-

tain, Cory Adams, was ex-cused from the game with his second yellow card of the night just 30 seconds later after a brief discus-sion with the center ref-eree.

The Rebels had a final chance to tie the game with a free kick from in-side the 40-yard line with three seconds left, but the

shot was unsuccessful.Adam Hatchel had four

saves for the Spartans in goal, while David Hoch-stetler had four saves for the Rebels.

“This rivalry goes back before I went here,” said Sun Valley coach Steve Hancock. “We play each other well every year and we never won when I went here so it’s kind of nice as a coach.”

Gallowitch scores critical goal in final two minutes of rivals’ match

Sun Valley junior Robert Vieheyer caught a 2-yard touchdown pass during the Spartans’ critical 21-point rally in the third quarter.Photo by Jamie Belk

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2B / Wednesday, October 7, 2009 Indian Trail Trader

BY JUSTIN MURDOCKE-J Sports Writer

MONROESun Valley quarterback

Ryan Smith is just in his first year as a starting quarterback at the varsity level, but he’s got a chance to enter Union County’s record books by season’s end.

Smith is on pace to be-come the first sophomore in the history of Union County football to pass for more than 2,000 yards in a single season.

Through the Spartans’ first five games, Smith is 77-of-122 for 935 yards with eight touchdowns and three interceptions.

If Smith can keep up his county-leading average of 187.0 passing yards per game over Sun Valley’s last six contests, he would finish with 2,057 yards for the regular season.

Only four other play-ers in the history of the county have surpassed 2,000 passing yards in a season.

Former Sun Valley standout Andy Capone is the only player to do it twice.

Capone passed for 2,137 yards in 2008 after throw-ing for 2,008 yards the year before. In 2005, Monroe’s Antwone Clyburn threw for 2,278 yards, which cur-rently stands as the UC record for the regular sea-son.

Piedmont High’s Trey Lee threw for 2,128 yards in 2003 while former For-

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trailing.Martin showed off her

quick feet and aggres-siveness, diving for balls around the court and re-cording several one-hand-ed digs.

“Lauren Martin came through in that third game when we got behind 10-2 and she kept that ball up on that left side consistent-

ly so that we could come back into the game,” Pow-ell said. “Without those passes we would have nev-er of gotten the hits that brought us back.

“That defense is so im-portant and [Martin] is a big part of it right now.”

Junior Sarah Harvey contributed three blocks in that third set as well.

Leading the SCC stand-ings, the Warriors will control their own destiny in regards to a conference championship.

Marvin Ridge has just one league loss — at WHS. The rematch is Thursday at Marvin Ridge starting at 6:30 p.m.

“It’s ours to defend right now,” Powell said. “Marvin Ridge is good, they have great hitters, they get to the ball, they get it up – to me it could go either way when we meet Marvin Ridge.”

— Sports correspondent David Sentendery can be reached at 704-261-2253.

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Anthony (6-2, 220) has offers from Clemson, Georgia, Notre Dame, UNC, N.C. State, South Carolina and UCLA.

Ellerbe (6-2, 200) has given Clemson his commitment, accord-ing to Rivals.com.

With those three serving as the spine of Anson County’s defense, the Bearcats are certainly a strong contender to win the first-ever SCC title.

The Bearcats (3-2) have played a rugged schedule, with losses to powerhouses Pageland Central (27-7), and Rich-mond County (63-28).

How a defense with three major college players gives up 63 is puzzling?

If Anson doesn’t win the league, it might be Marvin Ridge. The Mav-ericks have the advan-tage of playing Anson and Sun Valley at home, and have a ridiculous defense of their own.

Marvin Ridge has a county-best three shutouts, hasn’t al-lowed more than seven points in a game and gives up an average of 2.7 points per game.

The competition will

get better after the bye week for the Mavs, starting with a trip to Porter Ridge on Oct. 9.

The Pirates are 4-2 and stand a better than 50-50 chance of making the playoffs for the first time in the school’s history.

Porter Ridge’s game at Parkwood (3-3) on Oct. 16 will have playoff implications for both.

If the Rebels win at Weddington (3-2) on Oct. 9 and then beat the Pirates the next week, they will have a playoff spot wrapped up head-ing into the most brutal part of their schedule — Sun Valley, Marvin Ridge and Anson have a combined record of 14-3.

After going 0-11 last year, the War-riors need two more wins to guarantee a trip to the playoffs.

Most of the teams

from the conference will reach the playoffs, but there isn’t a bad team in the SCC from what we’ve observed through Week 6.

The Rocky River Con-ference has some young programs, making for some lopsided scores.

Monroe and Forest Hills are playoff locks and Piedmont also has a good chance to represent the county.

The Panthers (2-4) should get past Cuthb-ertson Friday and CATA the following week.

After that, Piedmont needs at least one more win against West Stanly (Oct. 16) or North Stanly (Oct. 30). Both games are at Piedmont, and a sweep would give the Panthers a win-ning record for the first time since 2004.

The Panthers have a better than aver-age chance of mak-ing the playoffs.

They have to be considered a bubble team along with Por-ter Ridge, Wedding-ton and Parkwood.

So the county should end up with seven playoff teams, with an outside chance of eight making it.

— Sports editor Jerry Snow can be reached at 704-261-2225.

Union Co.’s 2009Yardage Leaders

Through Week 7 (out of 12)

PassingName, Yr. (School) G Com. Att. TD Int Yds YPGRyan Smith, So. (SV) 6 87 141 10 3 1,017 169.5Anthony Boone, Sr. (W) 6 48 99 10 4 878 146.3Maurice Leak, Sr. (Pw) 6 38 79 9 1 740 123.3Jalen Sowell, Jr. (Mon.) 6 38 74 14 6 719 119.8Lee McNeill, So. (PR) 6 48 108 4 5 593 98.8Tyler Chadwick, So. (Pm) 6 35 64 8 2 562 93.7

ReceivingName, Yr. (School) G Rec Yds. RPG YPGKJ Brent, Jr. (MR) 6 23 406 3.8 67.7Jamison Crowder, Jr. (M) 6 18 361 3.0 60.2Marcus Leak, Jr. (Pw) 6 14 356 2.3 59.3Cameron Leviner, Jr. (Pm) 7 14 360 2.0 51.4 Andre McManus, Sr. (SV) 6 24 276 4.0 46.0 Jody Fuller, So. (SV) 6 15 232 2.5 38.7 Cody Haverland, Jr. (W) 6 9 212 1.5 35.3Dustin Cook, Sr. (SV) 6 22 208 3.7 34.7Brian Lattimore, So. (Cuth) 7 14 236 2.0 33.7Rad Crowell, Sr. (PR) 6 13 198 2.2 33.0

RushingPlayer, Yr. (School) G A Yds YPC YPGJuanne Blount, Sr. (FH) 7 120 1,189 9.9 169.9Shamiir Hailey, Sr. (M) 6 81 824 10.2 137.3Kemp Lotharp, Sr. (Pw) 4 62 528 8.5 132.0Steven Miller, Sr. (Pm) 5 95 520 5.5 104.0Charvis Barrino, Sr. (CA) 6 114 599 5.3 99.8Brandon Little, So. (W) 5 63 467 7.4 93.4Kolly Ogar, Jr. (MR) 6 49 486 9.9 81.0M. Blackburn, So. (CA) 6 112 464 4.1 77.3Rasheed Rushing, Fr. (UA) 6 66 464 7.0 77.3Jad. Williams, So. (SV) 6 105 459 4.4 76.5

The Rocky River Conference has some young programs, making for lopsided scores.

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Offensive TDs Return TDs Special TeamsName, Yr. (School) Rush Rec K/P Int. Fum FG XP 2pt Tot.Juanne Blount, Sr. (FH) 19 2 118Shamiir Hailey, Sr. (M) 13 2 82Jamison Crowder, Jr. (M) 7 3 1 2 70Charvis Barrino, Sr. (CA) 10 3 66Steven Miller, Sr. (Pm) 8 1 50Jadarrius Williams, So. (SV) 6 2 1 50Dylan Williams, Sr. (MR) 8 48Matt Frein, Sr. (MR) 5 28 43Cameron Leviner, Jr. (Pm) 5 1 4 40Brandon Little, So. (W) 6 1 38Maurice Leak, Sr. (Pw) 6 36Kolly Ogar, Jr. (MR) 6 36Casey Lang, Sr. (W) 4 23 34Jamie Baker, Sr. (FH) 2 26 32Anthony Boone, Sr. (W) 5 30Marcus Leak, Jr. (Pw) 4 1 30Kemp Lotharp, Sr. (Pw) 5 30Orlando Ratliff, Sr. (FH) 4 1 30Christian Cruz, Sr. (M) 28 28Dylan Hunter, Sr. (Pw) 2 21 27Jalen Sowell, Jr. (M) 4 1 26M. Montgomery, Sr. (Pm) 4 13 25Bobby Blakeney, Sr. (M) 4 24KJ Brent, Jr. (MR) 4 24Tyler Chadwick, So. (MR) 4 24Qwadarius Duboise, Jr. (M) 3 1 24Deonte Hiatt, Jr. (Pw) 4 24Lee McNeill, So. (PR) 4 24Canious Sturdivant, Sr. (FH) 4 24Cameron Havey, Sr. (SV) 2 16 22Matt Wogan, Fr. (PR) 3 13 22Quon Threatt, Sr. (M) 3 1 20Jody Fuller, So. (SV) 3 18Cody Haverland, Jr. (W) 3 18Rasheed Rushing, Fr. (UA) 3 18Mike Thornton, Sr. (W) 3 18Dustin Cook, Sr. (SV) 2 1 14Donnard Covington, Sr. (M) 2 1 14Mitchell Blackburn, So. (CA) 2 12Isaac Blakeney, Sr. (M) 2 12Matt Chilton, Jr. (MR) 1 1 12Christian Glackin, Sr. (W) 1 1 12Sam Harris, Sr. (Pm) 2 12Jared Hill, So. (UA) 2 12Tyler Kirk, Sr. (PR) 2 12Chandler LeDoyen, Sr. (MR) 2 12Jamal Little, So. (FH) 2 12Devin Martin, Sr. (PR) 2 12Ryan Patty, Sr. (PR) 2 12Justin Pleasants, Jr. (W) 2 12Tyler Sierra, Sr. (PR) 2 12Ryan Smith, So. (SV) 2 12

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062 Homes for PetsFree Kittens beautiful litter

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112 Apartments

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6804 3rd Ave Indian Trail brick ranch 3br 1ba,

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6903 Oakland Ave. Ind. Trl.3br 2ba 1400sf, cent H/A, 1ac lot, $850mo. dep &ref req’d, 704-282-6417

708 Springhill Dr. Stallings3br 1ba, 1000sf, cent H/A, $700mo +dep & ref’s req’d 704-282-6417

Mineral Springs $1,200mo.house only, $1495mo w/pasture spacious 3br 3ba 2car gar. 3000sf good for horses

Monroe 3br 1.5ba $750mo.Austin Rentals (704)289-6531

Monroe, 3br 2ba 1100sf w/nice yard, stor. bldg. kennel, appliances, cent H/A, $875mo. (704)562-7746

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