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Habitat names interim director, celebrating 20 yearsWendy Byerly WoodAssociate Editor

As the local Habitat for Hu-manity affiliate is organizing its 20th anniversary celebration for next weekend, the group also is embracing an interim director and board members are taking on more responsibility following the recent resignation of the ex-ecutive director.

Lynn Wilkes, who had served as executive director of the

Greater Mount Airy Habitat for Humanity since July 2012, has left to take a job with the Ameri-can Red Cross, reported Sheree Rucco, finance director for Habi-tat, who works on the staff along with Robert Fritchey, ReStore manager, Alice Burgess, admin-istrative assistant, and Greg Rus-so, construction manager.

“She found another oppor-tunity for her and her family at the Red Cross, and we thank her for her five years of service

with Habitat for Humanity and wish her well,” said Jennifer Key, secretary of the Habitat Board of Directors and chairwoman of the family services committee.

Wilkes’ last day was May 31. She had been with the Mount Airy Habitat organization about five years, serving as family ser-vices coordinator for three years, interim executive director for al-most nine months and then near-ly a year as executive director.

“We’re really appreciative

of what Lynn did for Habitat, and we wish her well in her endeavors,” said David Hayes, chairman of the board of direc-tors. “I want to thank the staff and the board of directors for all they’re doing to keep us go-ing. The board members have really stepped up, too.

“For 20 years, we’ve been serv-ing the community and we hope we can keep doing that. We want to keep building more houses to serve the community,” he said.

“We’re very fortunate one of the board members, Neil Co-thren … store manager of Lowe’s Home Improvement, has gra-ciously agreed to be our interim director during our transitional period,” said Russo.

“It is an honor to have the opportunity to expand my role working with the Greater Mount Airy Habitat of Hu-manity,” Cothren said. “I look

Younger generation learns from music mastersTom JoyceStaf Reporter

A few hours before the Mount Airy fiddlers convention officially got under way Friday night, sweet music emanating from a barn-like structure on the Veterans Memo-rial Park grounds caught the at-tention of passersby.

With the strength of a magnet wielded by the Pied Piper, the un-mistakable sounds of old-time mu-sic drew the curious inside, where they were greeted by the sight of about 20 musicians playing in uni-son with banjos, fiddles, guitars and mandolins.

There weren’t trying to set a Guinness World Record for the number of people in a band (usually amounting to five to seven members), but participat-ing in an annual old-time music workshop sponsored by the Sur-ry Arts Council.

Photos by Tom Joyce | The News

Notable igures of the old-time music world and their students play together Friday afternoon during a workshop held as a prelude to the 42nd annual Bluegrass and Old-Time Fiddlers Convention in Mount Airy.

Kiara Ferrell, 8, of Cary, tries to pick up a few techniques.

City schools raise

lunch prices a dimeJessica JohnsonStaf Reporter

The Mount Airy City Board of Education this week voted to increase school lunch prices by 10 cents.

Schools Child Nutrition Director Elke Boyd told the school board the school system is required to raise school lunch prices to meet federal requirements for the free and reduced-price lunch program.

A different target is set for schools to reach each year, explained Boyd, which increases as the consumer price index goes up.

In a packet of information passed out to board members during a meeting earlier this week, Boyd said there was a “snapshot of what other counties are doing with lunch prices,” reflecting the price increases from nearby school systems.

Using a Paid Lunch Equity calculation tool she calculated the school’s current weighted average price of $2.23, which falls under the USDA’s recommendation, so the price will in-crease by 10 cents for next school year. “We should be around $2.40 at this point, but that would just be a huge impact,” said Boyd. “We are trying to take this a step at a time so it won’t be too overwhelming for families.”

The weighted average lunch price, according to Boyd, comes from the federal reimbursement for free lunch, minus the required price for paid lunch.

The price for school lunches is $2.20 for K-5 and $2.35 for

Mount Airy alterswater-qualitynotiication methodTom JoyceStaf Reporter

The good news is that the city of Mount Airy is continuing to supply safe water to its citizens.

But there might be a bit of a downside involved due to customers now en-countering a little more trouble to learn that infor-mation, which is resulting from a change in the no-tification procedure some have found confusing.

In what could be consid-ered a sign of the digital times, Mount Airy water users are being directed to a website in order to ac-

cess the city’s annual water quality report. Up to this year, written copies of it in a brochure-type format have been mailed to them.

Such reports contain im-portant information about the source and quality of the municipality’s drinking water, including details on contaminants and health risks from the Environmen-tal Protection Agency.

“We’ve done these for several years now,” city Public Services Direc-tor Jeff Boyles said of the annual water quality reports required by the

Follies show showcases local talentJessica JohnsonStaf Reporter

The Yadkin Valley Senior Games’ performing arts par-ticipants showcased their talents at the Follies Show on Thursday evening, held in the auditorium at Surry Community College.

The Master of Ceremo-nies for the show was Dr. George Sappenfield, vice president of corporate and continuing education at SCC. He kept the audi-ence captivated with his humorous commentary and interesting informa-tion about SCC.

The full house enjoyed numerous dance perfor-mances as well as singing, and comedy/drama in the form of storytelling.

Special recognition and a moment of silence was given for Leroy Adkins, a partici-pant who won a silver medal in golf and a chance to play in the state games. Adkins died soon after participat-ing in the golf competition. Watson described, through tears, how excited Adkins

Photos by Jessica Johnson | The News

Julia Schafer received the award for Best in Show at the Yadkin Valley Senior Games’ Follies Show. Schafer performed a Tai Chi dance routine. Many in the crowd were overheard saying there was no way Schafer was a senior citizen, due to her youthful appearance, but Watson told the crowd she was 56 years old.

ABOVE, first place in small group line dancing went to the Alleghany Golden Girls, for a high-step-pin’ western dance. AT LEFT, the cheerleading team Rockin’ Rockers pumped up the crowd as the first perform-ers. They were the only cheerleading group, so they auto-matically advance to state competition.

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The goal of the event is to allow convention-goers to gather in a cen-tral location with some of the top old-time mu-sicians in the area, and perhaps pick up a few pointers along the way.

Friday’s gathering includ-ed such notables as Verlon Clifton, Wes Clifton, Jim Vipperman, Chester Mc-Millian, Nick McMillian, Richard Bowman, Andy Edmonds and others.

What unfolded was part entertainment and part education, as younger musicians gath-ered ‘round to learn from the masters and join in whenever they could.

“It’s great — I really enjoy playing and being a part of this,” said An-dreas Kampouris, a smil-ing teen from the town of Clyde in Haywood County. Kampouris is attending the 42 annual Mount Airy convention for the first time with his band Productive Paranoia, a five-member group that plays both old-time and bluegrass

music and planned to compete onstage later.

“We’re just walking around and trying to listen to some jams,” the youth said of the group’s activi-ties before band competi-tion began Friday night.

Kampouris said the op-portunity to participate in the workshop/jam session featuring purveyors of the famed Round Peak style originating in Surry Coun-ty was a welcome one. “I learned a few songs.”

The seasoned per-formers who led the workshop played such tunes as “Old Joe Clark,” “Sourwood Mountain,” “Cotton-Eyed Joe,” “John Brown’s Dream” and even one called “Hell Among the Round-Peakers,” among others.

“They never play to-gether,” Surry Arts Council Executive Di-rector Tanya Jones said of those assembled. She explained that the an-nual old-time workshop was devised by N.C. Arts Council official Wayne Martin “as a way to get these folks in one place.”

In between Friday’s jam-

ming, they swapped stories about other musicians who have passed on but whose music and memories yet survive, such as Tommy Jarrell, Fred Cockerham and Benton Flippen.

Even before them was a group who perpetuated the Appalachian string music in the days leading from the Civil War to the early 20th century, Vipperman pointed out.

And hopefully, the young-er generation — such as Kampouris and others pres-ent Friday afternoon — will help keep it going. “That’s what this is all about,” Vip-perman said of the music workshop, which was held before one for dance.

During breaks in the action, the music masters talked about how long they had been playing — for many decades in some cases — and their favorite tunes. They also discussed the different techniques that can be applied to instruments, such as the bow strokes on a fiddle, as an appre-ciative audience listened.

One disclosure con-cerned Jarrell, a legend-

ary fiddler who had a unique trait. “He used a short bow,” Chester Mc-Millian informed.

Throughout the proceed-ings, an interested observer sat by holding a shiny new fiddle while taking in every-thing. Though she’ll turn 9 on Monday, Kiara Ferrell of Cary already knows that she wants

to master the instrument.“It’s interesting and

fun,” explained the youth, who is attending the Mount Airy Bluegrass and Old-Time Fiddlers Conven-tion for the first time along with her family.

But while there was plenty of conversation, Friday’s gathering was

mostly about the music, a fact not lost on longtime fan Clark Boyd of Ararat, Va., as he listened.

“It’s played the old-time way — the only way — the Round Peak style,” Boyd observed.

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Habitat

forward to continuing to serve families as executive director in the interim basis.”

Sandra Richards, past chair-woman of the board, said Co-thren will be available on an as-needed basis, while other members of the board also are taking on some of the responsi-bilities of Habitat’s operations. She said the organization is not actively seeking a fulltime re-placement at this time.

“We have a very active board. We feel that the Habitat affiliate is self-sufficient with our current staff and board in place, so we can focus on our anniversary cel-

ebrations,” Key said.

Celebration

scheduled for June 15

The first of the year’s celebra-tions of the Greater Mount Airy Habitat for Humanity’s 20th an-niversary will be held June 15 at the Habitat offices and ReStore, 813 Merita St., Mount Airy.

The event is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will in-clude games for children, fire trucks and mascots, and free hot dogs, chips and drinks. There will be three puppet shows during the event.

Door prizes will be given out at 10:20, 11:20, 12:20 and 1:20,

keeping in line with the 20th anni-versary theme. And everything in the ReStore will be 20 percent off.

The food has been donated by Central United Methodist Church, while Food Lion of Pilot Mountain is providing the cake and the Mount Airy Fire Depart-ment will have its fire trucks and mascots on hand.

“We’re having a party,” said Russo. “It is really an appre-ciation day in celebration of our 20th anniversary.”

“The community will have a chance to celebration our 20th anniversary campaign, also,” said Richards. The campaign drive is encouraging 1,000 people to give

$20 or more in donations to sup-port Habitat’s mission.

Contributions can be made on the local Habitat’s website, mountairyhabitat.org.

The ReStore can be found on Facebook and on area yard sale pages.

Other celebrations will be held throughout the year, with information being announced as they arrive.

With Mount Airy hosting the annual H.O.G. (Harley Owners Group) Rally this year, the rally organizers have declared the lo-cal Habitat organization as their Charity of Choice for the rally, Richards said.

This means the local group will have a booth set up at the rally Aug. 8-10, and all proceeds from the Aug. 8 concert at Veterans Park will benefit Mount Airy’s Habitat affiliate. The concert is open for the public to attend.

Richards added that Habitat is “always looking for qualified fami-lies to build for.” Applications can be picked up at the Habitat office and ReStore location.

The homes are not free. Fami-lies must commit to a 20-year zero-percent mortgage and work “sweat equity” hours helping build their own home and others.

Reach Wendy Byerly Wood at wbyerly-wood@civitasmedia.com or at 719-1923.

Tom Joyce | The News

Acclaimed iddler Richard Bowman of Ararat, Va., foreground, is among the musicians taking part in the workshop along with, from left, Verlon Clifton, Wes Clifton and Andy Edmonds.

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Masters

6-12th grades, according to Boyd. Students in grades 6 through 12 do receive larger portions. The adult price for lunch is $3.50.

Dr. Gregory Little, su-perintendent for Mount Airy City Schools, said they were prepared to “spread the increases out over a longer period of time, which will be better for students and parents.”

In order to increase the number of paid lunches, Boyd suggested the board consider offering more than one serving of fruits and veg-etables to students, which she said “might be a positive offering for parents” and one of the ways they could assure parents they are getting more out of the price they pay for lunch, which may lead to more paid lunches.

The board voted unani-mously to approve the price increase of ten cents.

The Healthy and Hun-ger-Free Kids Act required schools participating in the National School Lunch Pro-gram to comply with the Paid Lunch Equity section of the act by ensuring and all schools had to comply in one of two ways: by provid-ing an equivalent amount of funding from non-Federal sources for the school’s food service account or by grad-ually increasing paid school lunch prices.

Board Member Tim Mat-thews reminded everyone that regardless of the price increase, school lunch is still a bargain when compared to normal food costs.

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son@civitasmedia.com or 719-1933.

was to compete, and said he would be missed. His picture was displayed for the audience to see as a mo-ment of silence was given in his honor.

Lynn Harrell, associate director of the North Caro-lina Senior Games, was in attendance.

Harrell said this was her first time visiting the area and she was impressed by the amount of support for the Yadkin Valley Senior Games, one of 53 games held throughout North Car-olina with more than 60,000 state-wide participants.

Celena Watson, coordina-tor of the Yadkin Valley Se-nior Games, recognized the volunteers, staff, agencies, and sponsors of the events, explaining that the event was a product of the support and work that takes place nine months each year.

Watson also recognized co-coordinator Daniel White, director of Surry County Parks and Recre-ation, as well as events co-ordinator Bradley Key.

Harrell said she was impressed with the local effort: “We really do have a strong local games, and that comes from support from the community and multiple local agencies coming together.”

Celena Watson was given a loud round of applause as well as a gift of three roses from her three senior games ambassadors and a gift card. She addressed the audience by saying that they all inspire her person-ally and she thinks every-one can learn from the participants, who show us “how we can be healthy and vibrant for our whole lives.”

“You are all wonderful models for all of us to look up to, no matter what age.”

The talent portion of the night, the Follies Show, was judged by Brack Llewellyn, Angie Smith, Paul Danley, and Wendy Smith.

Door and raffle prizes were given away through-out the evening, including birdhouses and a cornhole boards made and donated by John Wetmore.

PerformingArts winners

A cheerleading group, the Rockin’ Rockets, received an automatic first place since they were the only group en-tered in the category.

For dance, small group category, first place went to the Swingin’ Seniors, a couple who performed a two-step routine, and sec-ond place went to the New Generations dance group.

The storytelling/drama/comedy category had three entries and first place went to Terri Ingalls, second place to Keith Addis, and third place to Vicky Bird. Watson

said the three participants scores were separated by only a tenth of a point.

The line dancing, small group winners were the Alleghany Golden Girls, who delighted the crowed with a high step-pin’ western routine.

The large group dance winners were the Blue Ridge Entertainers, who performed a glowing rou-tine in the dark. Each dancer wore all-black but adorned themselves with glow-in-the-dark sticks, which cre-ated a unique effect when the lights were out.

Large group line dance winners were the Sassy Seniors, who performed

to “Boot-Scootin’ Boogie.” Second place in the catego-ry went to the Dream Danc-ers for a Christmas-themed dance and third was award-ed to Kickin’ Country, for a dance performed to “Fishin’ Hole” by Andy Griffith.

The Vocal solo winner was Larry Finney, who sang very well despite mic prob-lems. Second place went to Clyde Horworth and third went to Juanita Gillespie, who won Best in Show last year and represented the area at the state games.

Best in Show went to Ju-lia Schafer, who’s Tai Chi dance routine impressed the audience and judges alike. Schafer is from the King

area and Watson said she also won several medals in the swimming competition.

All first, second, and third place winners, as well as Best in Show, will have the chance to move on to the state senior games in Raleigh, held in September.

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Obituaries

Faye StuttsGREENSBORO — Mrs.

Faye Watson Stutts, 72, died at Alamance Regional Medical Center on Mon-day, June 3, 2013, following several months of declin-ing health. She was sur-rounded by her family. She was born in Mount Airy and graduated from North

Surry High School and the University of Maryland. She retired from Moses Cone and Randolph Hospi-tal, where she served many years as materials buyer. She was preceded in death by her late husband, Oliver Douglas Stutts; and par-ents, Dorothy and Dewey Watson. Survivors include Youvonna Westmoreland Bowman and husband Mi-chael of Burlington; son, Jim Westmoreland and wife Dawn of Burlington; brother, Bobby Watson and wife Bonnie of Mount Airy; stepmother, Martha Watson; grandsons, Josua and Chris Bowman of Bur-lington; and her sweet lov-ing dog, Dottie. A service to celebrate her life will be held on Saturday, June 8, at 11 a.m. at Friendly

Ave. Baptist Church in Greensboro by Pastor Pat Cronin. There will be visi-tation with family begin-ning at 10 a.m. prior to the service. In lieu of flowers, memorials maybe made to the Friendly Ave. Baptist Church Missions Fund, 4800 W. Friendly Ave., Greensboro NC 27410.

David BurkhartWINSTON-SALEM —

Mr. David Severn Burkhart was born Dec. 24, 1957, to Dr. Charles A. (died June 5, 2012) and Florence S. Burkhart, in Lima, Ohio. He died May 25, 2013, at Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home. David moved with his parents and two broth-ers (William Douglas died Aug. 16, 2008) and Charles A. Burkhart II to Germany

in October 1958. He trav-eled with his family for the next three years while his father completed his tour of duty. They all returned to the United States in Au-gust 1961, moving to Ft. Wayne, Ind. In 1967, they moved to Ballwin, Mo., and in 1974, they moved to Winston-Salem. David graduated from R.J. Reyn-olds High School, and at-tended Appalachian State University, graduating in 1982. Thus, his mortgage career began. He worked in Piscataway, N.J., Atlan-ta, Cornelius, Columbia, S.C., Winston-Salem and Greensboro, Laurel, Md., High Point, and Asheboro at Community One Bank. He served as assistant vice president, mortgage un-derwriter and government

specialist at Community One and attended many seminars. David is sur-vived by his mother, Flor-ence; his brother, Charles and wife Ann of Mount Airy; his niece, Dr. Rebec-ca Burkhart; his nephew, Aric and wife Karen Bur-khart, and their two chil-dren, Brittany and Jesse of Calif.; and Sue Ann Bur-khart and Alan Poindexter. The service will be at 10 a.m. at Centenary Meth-odist Church Sanctuary, 646 W. Fifth St., Winston-Salem, on June 8. In lieu of flowers, memorial con-tributions may be made to the Kate B. Reynolds Hos-pice Home, 101 Hospice Lane, Winston-Salem, NC 27103. Online condolenc-es may be made to www.frankvoglerandsons.com.

Samuel Scott Jr.PINNACLE — Mr.

Samuel William Scott Jr., 90, of Pinnacle, passed away Friday, June 7, 2013. Mr. Scott is survived by one daughter, Norma Jean Scott; four sons, Tim (San-dra) Scott, Jim (Cynthia) Scott, Stanley (Darla) Scott and Andy (Penny) Scott; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchil-dren. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday, June 9, 2013, at Fairview United Methodist Church at 6 p.m. with the Rev. David Cook officiating. Interment will follow at the church cemetery. The Scott family will receive family and friends at Fair-view United Methodist Church on Saturday, June 8, 2013, from 6 to 8 p.m.

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N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).

The difference involving the lat-est one, for 2012, stems from a rules change that is allowing the docu-ment to be posted on the Internet rather than actually distributed to affected customers. Boyles said this translates into a substantial savings for the city.

“We anticipate that’s going to save us about $4,200 in printing and mailing costs,” he said. “In past years, they’ve required them to be sent out to all customers.” Last year, 6,200 copies of the water qual-ity report were mailed.

In contrast, a brief notice regarding the latest one was included with water bills recently sent to customers. The

one-page notice directs them to a link on the city of Mount Airy’s website where the full report can be read.

But anyone wanting a hard copy of the water quality report can call F.G. Doggett Water Plant at 786-3595 and request that one be mailed to them. Boyles said copies also will be avail-able at public facilities such as the library and Municipal Building, con-tinuing a past practice.

The annual report, which is five pages long, notes almost immedi-ately that the municipality’s drinking water “meets or exceeds all federal and state drinking water standards.”

It also lists the sources of city drinking water, Stewarts Creek and Lovills Creek, and the continuous testing procedures in place to detect various contaminants.

Boyles said the bottom line is that users can trust the city water supply. One key factor involves the ability to draw from a fresh source that hasn’t been treated elsewhere, something many other communities lack.

“We continue to have excellent water quality,” the public services di-rector said. “We’re high up in the wa-tershed, so we have good raw mate-rial to start with and we consistently receive high marks from DENR — we’re very pleased.”

As far as the providing of the an-nual report to consumers, the same information is listed as in the past. “We just handled it differently this year,” Boyles added.

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Follies

Photos by Jessica Johnson | The News

ABOVE, Surry Arts Council-sponsored dance group Kickin’ Kountry performed a Mayberry-inspired line dance routine to Andy Griith’s famous tune “Fishin’ Hole.” They won third place for the routine. BELOW, a moment of silence was held in honor of Lee Roy Adams, who died in May, shortly after winning the silver medal in the local golf competition.

Traveling art show in Yadkin County

The 2013 Show Us Your Best Northwestern Regional Library Traveling Photography Exhibit will be on display at the Yadkin County Public Library during June.

The contest is sponsored by all member librar-ies of the Northwestern Regional Library.

About 60 photographs by library patrons from throughout Alleghany, Stokes, Surry and Yadkin counties are in the collection. The exhibit in-cludes a variety of photographs including color, black and white, and digitally altered entries by children, teens and adults.

A photography contest was held in February and was open to all patrons of the Northwestern Regional Library. Prizes were awarded in vari-ous age categories.

For more information, contact the Yadkin County Public Library at 336-679-8792.

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NSA spying is one more reason to distrust governmentI admit I’m not the best

“Facebook friend” in the world — in fact I fail mis-erably in that role, based on accepted social media standards.

Of course, I do maintain a Facebook account, mainly for work purposes to stay in the loop with certain events, and a proile page — albeit a skimpy one with no bells or whistles or ex-tensive bio information.

When people attempt to add me to their friends list so we can network about our activities, I try to be polite and accept in a timely manner. And I do apologize for overlooking anyone in this regard.

But let’s face it, there are lot of Facebook friends out there, and friends of friends of friends, to keep track of — and, as it turns out, Big Brother is one of them, and an unwelcome friend at that.

If you didn’t already distrust the government, a disclosure this week re-garding the National Secu-rity Agency (NSA) should be the clincher. It seems that the NSA has obtained direct access to the sys-tems of not only Facebook, but Google, Microsoft and other Internet notables, ac-cording to the Guardian, a British newspaper.

The NSA apparently is using a clandestine pro-gram called PRISM to ex-tract the content of every-one’s emails, live chats, ile transfers and search histo-ry. Which all adds up in my book as an blatant invasion of personal privacy.

Naturally, defenders of the NSA will point to all the terrorist ac-tivities over the past dozen years, less than a

handful of which have i n v o l v e d A m e r i c a n citizens, and argue that such intru-sions are n e c e s s a r y to safeguard our country. Saying some n o r m a l l y q u e s t i o n -able prac-tice should be tolerated in the inter-est of national security always seems to be the trump card.

Yet in the name of the Constitution, it just seems like a line should be drawn somewhere regarding the ability of Big Brother to delve into the minute de-tails of our lives. I’m not sure compromising the privacy of millions of In-ternet users is justiied by the possibility that there’s maybe one person out there who is correspond-ing regularly with Al-Qa-eda in some Middle East terrorist stronghold.

Sure, it’s good to protect the country — but a nation that is increasingly op-pressing its people through such tactics might deserve a little less protection, if you know what I mean.

Naturally when you use the Internet, it’s under-stood that you’re giving up rights of privacy to a cer-tain extent. For example, an Internet Protocol (IP) address is assigned to com-puters and other devices, which allows someone to know the location of a home computer.

Then when you exchange emails or information on

social media sites such as Facebook, that has basically be-come an open book, too.

This is why I don’t com-municate regu-larly on Face-book, except to wish one of my “friends” a happy birthday. I do not rely on Facebook, as some people in my social media

circle do, to provide a daily log of my every activity, thought and hope.

First of all, I don’t think my life is all that interest-ing, and second it is no-body’s business whom I have dinner with or which grocery store I shopped at last weekend or what book I’ve read. The government especially has no right to stick its big fat nose into someone’s affairs, although court decisions have up-held spying programs un-der such laws as the Pa-triot Act.

One such decision re-quires Verizon Business Network Services to regu-larly supply telephone records between the U.S. and foreign countries to the government, and also those domestically.

Yes, it’s true that NSA agents might be able to unearth terrorist activity in some of these commu-nications, but what about other personal information they encounter along the way? There is no guaran-tee it won’t somehow be misused — and in that event, we’re also probably expected to accept such consequences as necessary

for national security.What bothers me is the

bigger picture — the grad-ual erosion of our constitu-tional rights in the name of security to counter some boogeyman who might or might not exist.

It reminds me of a par-able about how to cook a frog, which equates to the process by which America is becoming an oppressive state. The frog can’t just be tossed into a kettle of boil-ing water, because it would jump to safety. So what you do is put the frog into lukewarm water at irst, which it thinks is just an amphibian hot tub.

However, you turn the heat up at different intervals so the frog doesn’t notice the temperature is rising. And in the end, he winds up being cooked without really knowing it — which parallels how our rights are systematically being taken away, one after another.

Before you know it, we are going to resemble Chi-na, where citizens are not permitted to use the inter-national versions of social media sites such as Face-book because they might actually express negative thoughts about their gov-ernment. They are allowed access to an internal type of Facebook only, which the regime controls.

I don’t know which is worse — a communist gov-ernment that doesn’t allow people to express them-selves at all, or a “free” democratic system that spies on the private com-munications of its citizens.

Tom Joyce is a staf reporter for The Mount Airy News. He can be reached at 719-1924 or tjoyce@ci-vitasmedia.com.

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To the Surry County Board of Commissioners for setting a public hear-ing on a proposal by board member Larry Phillips to consider combining the de-partment of social services and the health department. We’re not saying combining the departments is a good idea (nor are we saying it’s a bad idea), but it’s good that the public will get a chance to weigh in on the proposal and we hope all board members will approach the hearing with an open mind.

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To Kristi Horton and Kim Simmons, two local women who went to Moore, Okla., for a week to help with relief efforts there after the town was devastated by a tornado. Since returning, the two have continued inding ways they can help the victims there, and are considering a re-turn to continue working in that community.

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To the Mount Airy City School system for operating the Summer Feeding Program for kids. The program, set up at Jones Intermediate School, runs from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. each Monday through Friday (except July 4) supplying free meals to kids age 2 to 18. And it’s being run for all children in the region, not just for those re-siding in Mount Airy. This meets a critical need during the summer months, when these children and youth don’t have access to the free and reduced-price lunches in the school systems.

A new book reminds us to say thank you“Our landings in the

Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satis-factory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops.”

So wrote General Dwight Eisenhower on June 5, 1944, sixty-nine years ago this week.

According to Rick Atkin-son’s new book, “The Guns at Last Light: The War in Europe, 1944-1945,” cur-rently Number One on the New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list, Ike continued, “If any blame or fault attaches to the at-tempt it is mine alone.”

Atkinson, a graduate of East Carolina Univer-sity and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, writes that Ike misdated “the paper ‘July 5’—symptomatic of exhaustion and anxiety — he slipped it into his wal-let, for use as needed.”

If the June 6 D-Day landing at Normandy had failed, Ike was prepared to take the blame.

“The Guns at Last Light” follows the last year of World War II from the Normandy invasion until the war’s end less than one year later.

Numerous books about the war to defeat Hitler’s Germany have made us familiar with the basic outline of Atkinson’s story from the landings at Nor-mandy, the breakout from the coast, the liberation of

Paris, the push to the German border, the Battle of the Bulge, and the inal collapse of Hitler’s Reich.

Why do we need another account?

S h e l b y Foote’s Civil War books demonstrated how much good storytell-ing matters. Like Foote, At-kinson is much more than a chronicler of the bloody business of bat-tles and troop movements. He gives us character studies of the war’s players, not just the top leaders. For instance, while describing the enor-mous challenge of supplying millions of troops in Europe, with weapons, ammunition, food, clothing, medicine, and things like ofice supplies, Atkinson introduces us to a man responsible for organiz-ing and operating the supply chain, Lieutenant General John C. H. Lee, “also known as John Courthouse Lee, Jesus Christ Himself Lee, and God A’Mighty Lee…a fussy martinet who wore rank stars on both the front and back of his helmet, he was said to have a supply

sergeant’s par-simony in dol-ing out army kit ‘as if it were a personal gift,’ reward-ing friends, of whom he had few, and pun-ishing enemies, of whom he had many. He had a knack for risible self-delusion, once standing in a London theater to ac-knowledge an ovation in fact intended for Eisenhower.”

In describing the hor-ror of the war in the air, he uses the poetry of an American airman named Randall Jarrell:

“In bombers named for girls, we burned

The cities we had learned about in school —

Till our lives wore out.”Jarrell, who died in

1965, taught writing at UNC-Greensboro.

The main character of this story is Dwight Eisenhower. And the main question the book deals with is, what made him, rather than British general Bernard Montgomery or George Patton, the best person to command the al-lied effort?

Both these men, espe-

cially Montgomery, ques-tioned Eisenhower’s com-petence as a commander. Montgomery once said, “Eisenhower is quite use-less…He is completely and utterly useless.”

But Atkinson gives his readers hundreds of other answers, his own and those of people who worked with Ike that show his remark-able ability to manage and coordinate thousands of generals and millions of soldiers. The answer I like best came from an aide to General Omar Bradley who said, “There’s some-thing about the guy, the way he brushes along, the way he breaks out in a big grin, the way his voice, harsh and loud, cracks out, that disarms all within his vicinity… that’s the way he is, gay, loud, democratic, dynamic, thinking fast, acting fast, spreading con-idence.”

Eisenhower, and most of those who fought in World War II, are gone. This week’s D-Day anniversary and Atkinson’s ine new book should remind us to give special thanks to those who still with us.

D.G. Martin hosts “North Carolina Bookwatch,” which airs Sundays at noon and Thursdays at 5 p.m. on UNC-TV. For more information or to view prior programs visit the webpage at www.unctv.org/nc-bookwatch.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy add-ed 175,000 jobs in May— a steady pace that shows strength in the face of tax increases and govern-ment spending cuts if not enough to reduce still-high unemployment.

The unemployment rate rose to 7.6 percent from 7.5 percent in April, the Labor Department said Friday. The rate rose be-cause more people began looking for work, a healthy sign, but only about three-quarters found jobs.

Analysts said the less-than-robust job growth would likely lead the Feder-al Reserve to maintain the pace of its monthly bond purchases for a few more months. The bond purchas-es have been intended to ease long-term borrowing costs and lift stock prices.

Investors appeared pleased by the evidence that job growth remains steady. The Dow Jones industrial average was up about 172 points in late-afternoon trading.

Friday’s job figures pro-vided further evidence of the U.S. economy’s resil-ience. The housing market is strengthening, auto sales are up and consumer con-fidence has reached a five-year peak. Stock prices are near record highs, and the budget deficit has shrunk.

The U.S. economy’s rela-tive strength contrasts with Europe, which is gripped by recession, and Asia, where once-explosive econ-omies are now struggling.

Many analysts expect the U.S. economy to strengthen later this year.

“Today’s report has to be encouraging for growth in the second half of the year,” said Dan Greenhaus, an analyst at BTIG LLC.

Employers have added an average of 155,000 jobs the past three months. But the May gain almost ex-actly matched the average increase of the previous 12 months: 172,000.

Reflecting a trend in re-cent months, many of the jobs added in May were lower-paying ones. That means they aren’t likely to fuel as much consumer spending and economic growth as higher-paying jobs that have disappeared.

Yet Americans appear to be more optimistic about their job prospects: 420,000 people started looking for work in May. As a result, the percentage of Americans 16 and older

either working or looking for work rose to 63.4 per-cent from a 34-year low of 63.3 percent in April.

This is called the labor force participation rate. Higher participation can boost the unemployment rate. That’s because once people without a job start looking for one, they’re counted as unemployed.

Labor force participa-tion has been falling since peaking at 67.3 percent in 2000. That’s partly the result of baby boomers re-tiring and dropping out of the work force.

Joseph LaVorgna, chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank Securi-ties, thinks an improving job market will encour-

age more Americans to look for jobs. He pre-dicts that the participa-tion rate will level off at around 63.5 percent.

The unemployment rate is derived from a survey of households. This survey found that more people started looking for work in May. Since some didn’t find jobs right away, the num-ber of unemployed rose 101,000 to 11.7 million.

The job gain for the month is calculated from a separate survey of employ-ers.

Some signs in the report suggested that the govern-ment spending cuts, which began taking effect in March, and weak growth in much of the rest of the

world are weighing on the U.S. job market. Weakness overseas has slowed de-mand for U.S. exports.

Manufacturers cut 8,000 jobs. The federal govern-ment, which is carrying out deep spending cuts in domestic and defense pro-grams, shed 14,000. Both were the third straight month of cuts for those industries. Over the past three months, the fed-eral government has cut 45,000 jobs.

The number of tem-porary jobs rose about 26,000. The economy has now added temporary jobs for eight straight months. That suggests that em-ployers are responding to more demand but aren’t

confident enough to hire permanent workers.

Industries that rely di-rectly on consumer spend-ing hired at a healthy pace — a sign of confidence that consumers will keep spending. Retailers added 28,000 jobs. Restaurants

and hotels added 33,000.These categories include

many lower-paying occu-pations. By contrast, the recession sharply cut jobs in higher-paying industries such as manufacturing, construction and finance, which have yet to recover.

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growth in hiring last month sent the stock market sharply higher Friday.

U.S. employers added 175,000 jobs in May, slightly more than the 170,000 forecast by econo-mists, according to data provider FactSet. More people also began looking for work, another en-couraging sign.

The report gave a boost to stock market bulls, who expect the Fed to keep up its stimulus program as the U.S. economy continues to recover moderately. That combination pushed the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor’s 500 index to record highs last month.

Federal Reserve policy mak-ers are now all but certain to refrain from easing back on their stimulus program at the next two-day policy meeting, which starts June 18, said Phil Orlando, chief equity strategist at Federated Investors.

“This was, in our view, very much a ‘Goldilocks’ number,” said Orlando. “There is zero chance that the Federal Reserve is going to start tapering mon-etary policy.”

The central bank is buy-ing $85 billion of bond every month to keep interest rates low and encourage borrow-ing and spending. Low inter-est rates also keep bond prices high and push up demand for riskier assets like stocks.

Stocks rose strongly in the morning, then eased slightly in the early afternoon. The gains accelerated in the final hour of trading.

The Dow Jones Industrial average had its best day in five months. It rose 207 points, or 1.4 percent, to close at 15,248.12. That gain was sur-passed this year only by its 2.4 percent rise Jan. 2.

Boeing led the index higher with a gain of $2.73, or 2.7 percent, to $102.49. Indus-trial conglomerate 3M gained $2.44, or 2.2 percent, to $111.11. Twenty-six of the 30 stocks in the Dow rose.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 in-dex rose 20.82 points, or 1.3 per-cent, to 1,643.38. The Nasdaq composite rose 45.16 points, or 1.3 percent, to 3,469.22.

Nine of the 10 industry groups in the S&P 500 index rose, led by consumer discre-tionary stocks, which stand to benefit more than other sectors if the economy picks up. Indus-trial companies and banks also posted strong gains.

The only S&P 500 industry group that fell was telecom-munications, a so-called defen-sive sector that investors favor when they are seeking safety and high dividends.

Stocks slumped on Tuesday and Wednesday after disappoint-ing reports on private-sector hir-ing and manufacturing. The S&P

500 index lost 1.9 percent over those two days. Friday’s gain erased the S&P’s loss for the week. The S&P gained 0.8 per-cent since last Friday.

Financial markets have turned volatile over the past two weeks as traders parse comments from Fed officials for hints about when the central bank will cut back on its support. When it happens, the wind-down will help nudge interest rates higher.

For investors who expect the Fed to stay the course, “these types of slow economic growth reports speak to that,” said Kev-in Mahn, chief investment officer at Hennion & Walsh Asset Man-agement. “It keeps interest rates at record lows and it keeps the equity markets humming.”

The S&P 500 index is down 1.6 percent since reaching a re-cord high on May 21. The next day, Fed Chairman Ben Bernan-ke said the Fed could ease up on its economic stimulus program in one of its next few meetings.

In government bond trad-ing, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.18 percent from 2.08 percent late Thursday as investors moved out of safer assets.

The Labor Department’s monthly survey of employment is one of the most important gauges of the U.S. economy and receives close scrutiny from investors. It can frequently cause big moves in financial markets, especially if the

report shows that employment is stronger or weaker than econo-mists were expecting.

On May 3, the government reported not only a strong pickup in hiring in April but it also revised sharply upward its estimates for job growth in Feb-ruary and March. That sent the Dow Jones industrial average past 15,000 for the first time, while the S&P 500 index broke through 1,600.

In the weeks following that report, bond yields rose from 1.63 percent as high as 2.20 percent May 31. That meant investors thought the economy was strengthening, dampening the appeal of low-risk assets like bonds. It also meant investors believed the Fed would act soon-er than previously thought to curtail its bond-buying program.

Investors are still keeping an eye on interest rates because of the impact that they have on the economy. For example, higher borrowing costs will push up mortgage rates and curb demand for housing. The recovery in the housing market has also boosted stock prices this year.

“Interest rates have really gone up in quite dramatically from a month ago,” said Paul Hogan, the manager of the FAM Equity-Income Fund. “If they continue to rise, the market will be a little more bit choppy.”

The improving economy has also helped support the dollar this year.

The U.S. currency rose against the euro and the yen Friday.

The price of gold fell $32.80, or 2.3 percent, to $1,383 an ounce. Gold has fallen sharply this year as a rising stock market and a strengthening dollar have diminished its appeal as an alter-native investment.

In other commodities trading, the price of oil rose $1.27, or 1.3 percent, to $96.03 a barrel.

Among other stocks making big moves:

— Gap rose $1.11, or 2.7 per-cent, to $42.09. The San Fran-cisco-based clothing store chain reported late Thursday that its sales jumped 7 percent in May, more than expected, helped by strong results at its namesake Gap and Old Navy stores.

— TiVo plunged $2.61, or 19 percent, to $11.10 after the com-pany settled patent disputes with several technology companies in-cluding Cisco and Motorola Mo-bility but received far less than what most investors inspected. TiVo has posted annual losses in nearly all of the past 10 years.

— Thor Industries rose $4.92, or 11.9 percent, to $46.16 after the company reported a 6 per-cent increase in income. The results beat market expectations on stronger sales of RVs and a lower tax rate.

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Gun found by police when UNC player arrestedDURHAM (AP) — Officers seized

a 9mm handgun and ammunition when North Carolina’s leading scor-er, P.J. Hairston, was arrested on a marijuana possession charge, accord-ing to a police report released Friday.

Durham police stopped Hairston Wednesday for a routine license check during which he was arrested. Police spokeswoman Kammie Mi-chael says the pistol was found on the ground outside the rented 2013 GMC Yukon during the search. Also seized were three cigars and two plastic baggies containing more than 1 1/2 ounces of marijuana.

Hairston, 20, and his passengers — Miykael Lael Israel Faulcon, 20, and Carlos Devone Sanford, 23, both of Durham — were each charged with possession of less than one-half ounce and released on $1,000 unse-cured bonds.

Faulcon is a basketball player at Elizabeth City State University. No occupation was listed for Sanford on

the police or arrest reports.Michael said Hairston was also

charged with driving without a li-cense, though that charge wasn’t list-ed in records on file at the Durham County courthouse.

The pistol is not listed as being re-ported stolen, but Michael would not comment on whether officers have de-termined who owns the weapon. She said police are now processing the pistol for forensic evidence, including fingerprints and ballistics tests.

Neither Hairston nor his passen-gers are 25, the age auto rental com-panies often require for the person signing for the car. Those younger can sometimes rent under special requirements. Michael said she had no information about whose name is listed on the rental agreement.

The license plate listed on the police report shows the car is regis-tered with the N.C. Division of Mo-tor Vehicles to Hertz rent-a-car at the Raleigh-Durham International Air-

port. The company on Friday adver-tised its lowest daily rate on a base GMC Yukon for that location at $130, according to its website.

UNC athletic spokesman Steve Kirschner said Tar Heel basketball coach Roy Williams and athletic direc-tor Bubba Cunningham are aware of the arrest. No decision has been announced about Hairston’s status with the team.

“We don’t have all the facts,” Kirschner said. “We will continue to monitor and gain as many facts as we can. And at the appropriate time, we’ll make an announcement when we feel we have enough facts to do so.”

Hairston was the Tar Heels’ lead-ing scorer last season, averaging 14.6 points per game. After the sophomore guard became a starter, he helped the Tar Heels (25-11) dig out of a 0-2 start in the Atlan-tic Coast Conference to reach the ACC tournament final and the third round of the NCAA tournament be-fore losing to Kansas.

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North Carolina’s P.J. Hairston (15) comes out of the game during the inal minute of play against Kansas during the NCAA Tourna-ment at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo., March 24. Hairston was arrested this week on a charge of possession of marijuana.

Nadal edges Djokovic 9-7 in 5th in French Open semisPARIS (AP) — His dramatic

and delightful French Open semifinal was 4½ hours old — and 14 games into the fifth set — when Rafael Nadal raced from the net to the baseline to retrieve Novak Djokovic’s seem-ingly unreachable lob.

Many players wouldn’t have bothered to give chase, let alone attempt what Nadal actually ac-complished: With his back to the court, he somehow sent a lob the other way by flipping the ball be-tween his legs.

Perhaps surprised the 11-stroke point was not already his, Djokovic flubbed an easy overhead smash into the net. Two games later, Nadal flicked

another, more traditional, defen-sive lob, and Djokovic sailed his response 5 feet long, the earlier mistake no doubt on his mind.

Three points later, the blink-and-you-miss-something match was over.

In a contest chock full of lengthy exchanges, moments of mastery and occasional lapses by both men, seven-time French Open champion Nadal returned to the final with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 6-7 (3), 9-7 victory over the No. 1-ranked Djokovic on Friday.

By the finish, it was not just a test of skill but also of stamina and perseverance, two qualities Nadal possesses in abundance.

“This one is a special one,” Nadal

said. “If we talk about everything that makes a match big, today we had all of these ingredients.”

Except, of course, a glistening silver cup for the winner and a runner’s-up tray for the loser. Those will be on offer Sunday, when Nadal faces David Ferrer in an all-Spanish final with a chance to become the only man with eight titles at any Grand Slam tournament.

“When you have a win and you have the trophy, it means more,” said Nadal, who will be seeking his 12th major championship overall.

The fourth-seeded Ferrer reached his first Grand Slam final by defeating France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-1, 7-6 (3), 6-2 Friday.

The 31-year-old Ferrer, previously 0-5 in major semifinals, ended Tsonga’s bid to give the host country its first male champion since Yannick Noah in 1983.

“I want to enjoy this moment,” Ferrer said.

That’s understandable, given not only that this is his 42nd ap-pearance in a Grand Slam tour-nament but also that his record against is Nadal is 4-19.

Then again, 17 of those head-to-head matches came on clay, and no one has been able to with-stand Nadal’s relentless, will-sap-ping style on that surface. Nadal is 58-1 in his French Open career; the loss came to Robin Soderling in the fourth round in 2009.

Nadal later said bad knees were partly to blame for that de-feat. On Friday, he was wearing a thick strip of white tape below his left knee, which sidelined him for about seven months until February. Since returning, Nadal is 42-2 with six titles, reaching the finals of all nine tournament’s he’s entered.

“For us, it’s really a miracle,” said Toni Nadal, Rafael’s uncle and coach.

At his best against the best of his era, Nadal is now 20-15 overall against Djokovic and 20-10 against 17-time Grand Slam champion Roger Feder-er. He is 5-0 against each at Roland Garros.

Tough times ill Williams’ French Open historyPARIS (AP) — For a decade,

the French Open has presented more problems for Serena Wil-liams than any of the other Grand Slam tournaments.

Her collection of 15 major cham-pionships includes five from Wim-bledon, five from the Australian Open, four from the U.S. Open … and one from Roland Garros.

Ever since she beat her sister in the 2002 final in Paris, starting a run of four consecutive titles at tennis’ most important events, one thing or another has prevented Wil-liams from a second French Open trophy. She’d love to change that by beating defending champion Maria Sharapova in Saturday’s final.

“It would be awesome for me,” Williams said. “I don’t think there’s anything that can describe how happy I would be.”

When asked whether she now feels comfortable on the tourna-

ment’s red clay courts, Williams replied: “Incidentally, I have al-ways felt really comfortable. I just haven’t done great.”

Her history at the tournament has been filled with tough times and earlier-than-expected departures.

In 2003, her 33-match Grand Slam winning streak ended with a three-set loss to Justine Henin in a semifinal marked by Henin’s games-manship, a mean-spirited crowd that cheered Williams’ faults, and the American’s post-match tears.

In 2004, Williams lost in three sets to Jennifer Capriati in the quar-terfinals, the same round that saw her bid adieu in 2007 (against Hen-in again), 2009 (Svetlana Kuznetso-va) and 2010 (Sam Stosur). Wil-liams lost in the third round in 2008, and missed the French Open in 2005, 2006 and 2010 with vari-ous health problems.

Last year brought the most

surprising defeat of all, against 111th-ranked Virginie Razzano of France, the only first-round exit for Williams in 51 career Grand Slam appearances.

“She was so mad,” Williams’ mother, Oracene Price, recalled Thursday.

Instead of sulking, Williams got right back to work, sticking around Paris — where she owns an apartment — and training at coach Patrick Moratouglou’s ten-nis academy. How did that work out? Well, since that Razzano match, Williams is 73-3, with titles at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, the London Olympics and the WTA Championships last season, along with a tour-leading five titles so far in 2013. At 31, she is the old-est woman to be ranked No. 1.

For the first time in 11 years, Williams is back in the French Open final.

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Serena Williams displays the winner’s trophy after defeating Maria Sharapova 4-6, 6-3, 6-0, in the women’s singles inal at the Sony Open Tennis at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne, Fla., on March 303. The duo will face of again today for the inal match of the French Open.

Familiar names highlight Day 2 of baseball drat

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Mets found a fa-miliar name during the second day of the Major League Baseball draft.

University of Connecticut infielder L.J. Mazzilli, son of Lee, was drafted by the Mets in the fourth round Friday — 40 years after the elder Mazzilli was a first-round pick of New York.

L.J. Mazzilli helped lead the Huskies to the Big East tournament title and an automatic berth to the NCAA tournament. He hit a team-best .354 with six home runs, 51 RBIs and 29 stolen bases.

The Yankees also went after famous bloodlines, draft-ing University of Michigan outfielder Michael O’Neill, nephew of Paul, in the third round.

“Congrats to my nephew Michael O’Neill,” Paul O’Neill wrote on his Twitter page. “Drafted by the Yankees today!!!”

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Marco Andretti sits in the RC Cola Chevrolet-powered car during an extended pit stop at practice for the IZOD IndyCar Series Fire-stone 550 at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas, Friday.

$30K ine for gesture surprises IndyCar’s Saavedra

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Sebastian Saavedra was prepared to accept the penalty he knew was com-ing from IndyCar after he directed an obscene gesture toward Marco Andretti.

Then Saavedra found out it was going to be a $30,000 fine for flashing both of his middle fingers, an act that was caught on live television.

“When I heard the amount, I was very, very, very mad at the series,” he said Friday.

Saavedra, angry after

at Andretti after the two made contact in Saturday’s race, wasn’t the only driver penalized by IndyCar for incidents during the series’ doubleheader in Detroit last weekend.

Will Power was placed on probation for the rest of the season for throw-ing his gloves at Sebas-tien Bourdais following an accident during Sun-day’s race. Bourdais was placed on probation for comments made toward officials on pit road after the same accident.

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County OKs road planKeith StrangeStaf Reporter

DOBSON — During its last meeting, the Surry County Board of Commissioners gave unanimous approval to a $930,000 plan for road improvements next year.

No one spoke during a public hearing on the proposal, and the plan was approved on a mo-tion by Commissioner Paul Johnson with a sec-ond by Commissioner Jimmy Miller.

The plan, which is funded through antici-pated allocations from the state Highway Fund ($400,125) and the North Carolina Tobacco Trust Fund ($530,844), totals $930,969, accord-ing to County Manager Chris Knopf.

Next year’s road improvement plan does not allocate any funding to paving any unpaved ru-ral roads, choosing instead to set aside $100,000 for “spot improvements.”

A large percentage of the anticipated funding next year is allocated to two projects:

• Widening Indian Grove Church Road from North Carolina Route 89 to State Road 1815, from 16 feet to 20 feet. The planned improve-ments also call for strengthening the pavement. This project is expected to cost $450,000.

• Maintenance functions throughout the county. These projects “may include spot sta-bilization, paved road improvements, safety improvements and the replacement of pipes on bridges as needed.” The road plan allocates $75,000 for maintenance functions.

The remainder of the funds approved for next year, totaling $305,969, will be reserved for sur-veying, right of way acquisition, road additions, contingencies, overdrafts and paving entrances to fire departments and rescue squads as needed.

Reach Keith Strange at kstrange@civitasmedia.com or 719-1929.

SCC hosts summer art exploration for youthDOBSON — Surry Community

College is providing a creative outlet for third- through fifth-graders this summer during an inaugural Youth Art Camp sponsored by the SCC Art Club.

“We are excited about invit-ing young artists to our campus where they will work in a real studio environment while gain-ing new perspectives about art,” said Anna-Olivia Sisk, SCC art instructor. “SCC’s Youth Art

Camp is going to be a hands-on art adventure where campers will experience various mediums such as painting, ceramics and pencil while learning interesting facts about the history of art.”

The camp will be held Monday through Friday at Surry’s campus in Dobson on the third floor Paint-ing/Drawing Studio of the J Build-ing. The cost is $50 per child, which includes all supplies, a daily snack,

instruction and a camp T-shirt.The campers will meet in the

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For more information, contact Sisk at 386-3479.

NC House tax overhaul plan gets tentative OKRALEIGH (AP) — The

House gave initial approval Friday to a Republican tax code overhaul that would lower personal and corpo-rate income tax rates while subjecting more services to the sales tax.

House leaders called the bill a step toward fulfilling the GOP’s pledge for tax reform this year after two decades of talk by state poli-ticians about the idea. They disagreed with Democrats who argued on the floor that the changes will result in all but the wealthiest citizens having to pay more taxes.

“The Republicans are fulfilling a promise that they made to the citizens of this state,” House Major-ity Leader Edgar Starnes, R-Caldwell, said just before the chamber gave it prelim-inary OK by a 72-32 vote. “It’s an historic day.”

The bill was supported by all Republicans voting just two days after the legisla-tion got derailed when GOP House members disagreed over the future of deduc-tions for mortgage interest and charitable giving.

With a compromise on that issue settled, all Re-publicans present for a rare Friday session backed the measure that would reduce three individual income tax brackets — including a 7.75 percent rate for the

highest wage earners — to one rate of 5.9 percent.

The corporate income tax of 6.9 percent would decrease incrementally to 5.4 percent by 2018.

The current income tax rates are the highest in the Southeast. Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, who also wants tax changes, has said he would like those rates to decrease so North Carolina can be more competitive with surrounding states to attract new business or al-low existing ones to expand.

“It does not penalize those who are trying to make more and trying to advance themselves in the economic world,” said Rep. David Lewis, R-Harnett, the bill’s chief sponsor.

A final House vote is ex-pected Monday before the bill moves to the Senate, where Republican leaders back a more dramatic tax overhaul that McCrory hasn’t endorsed.

Starting in July 2014, the combined state and lo-cal sales tax people in most counties pay would be re-duced from 6.75 to 6.65 percent. But there would be some changes or addi-tions to the list of trans-actions and services that would have a sales tax.

New taxable items would include warranties and maintenance activities

and more services like car repairs. A 3 percent tax on electricity would now be taxed at the full rate.

Groceries still would be taxed at 2 percent and prescription drugs would remain exempt from the sales tax.

The package would mean $1.7 billion less for state coffers through mid-2018 compared to making no tax changes, according to an analysis from General Assembly staff.

The proposal would actu-ally increase revenues by $47 million next year but result in $580 million less revenue for the 2017-18 fiscal year than currently projected.

Republicans used par-liamentary maneuvers to deny Democrats votes on the substance of their amendments to require higher tax rates for people making the most income — a minimum of $500,000 to $1 million, depending on filing status.

Otherwise, “this is a millionaire’s tax cut bill,” said Rep. Paul Luebke, D-Durham.

Democrats, citing a study from the North Caro-lina Budget & Tax Center, said 95 percent of taxpay-ers — those making less than $169,000 — on aver-age will experience a tax increase under the current

bill, largely due to the sales tax changes.

“House Republicans shifted the tax burden in our state to the middle class and working fami-lies,” House Minority Leader Larry Hall, D-Dur-ham, said in a statement after the vote.

Tax reform, Hall added, should be about “closing special-interest loopholes and ensuring our tax code treats taxpayers fairly.”

The amendments also would have revived the state’s version of the earned income tax credit, which is set to expire next year and Democrats argue would ameliorate the sales tax expansion for low-in-come families.

Republicans offered statistics from the legisla-ture’s research staff show-ing scenarios in which the proposal would result in overall tax reductions for incomes from $20,000 (a $2 reduction for a married couple with two children) to $200,000 (a $1,161 re-duction).

The package would in-crease the current $100 per-child tax credit to $250 for most tax filers. A $50,000 business income deduction on individual returns approved in 2011 would be repealed.

NC House approves more moderate fracking billRALEIGH (AP) — A bill clear-

ing the way for oil and gas drilling in North Carolina passed the state House Friday, despite calls from Democratic lawmakers to slow down permitting.

House lawmakers backed a more moderate approach than their Senate counterparts that restores more safe-guards and adds new protections. But both versions of the bill set a March 2015 date to begin issuing permits for hydraulic fracturing and offshore drilling.

Hydraulic fracturing, known as “fracking,” involves injecting an un-derground well with chemicals, wa-ter and sand at high pressure in order to crack shale rock and release natu-ral gas. Environmentalists contend it comes with risks to water supplies and other hazards.

Democrats initially objected to taking a final vote Friday but later relented. The bill passed 70-33.

The House bill will now return to the Senate, which has to approve changes. Sponsors of the Senate ver-sion have said they oppose the House’s rewrite, indicating negotiations to set-tle differences will be needed.

Republicans control both cham-bers of the legislature, and Gov.

Pat McCrory supports fracking. He hasn’t publicly taken a position on ei-ther version of the bill, though he re-leased a statement earlier this week praising the consumer protections sought by the House.

The House bill would begin issu-ing permits for oil and gas drillers in March 2015 but would not make them effective until the legislature authorizes them. The 2012 law that directed state agencies to craft rules for oil and gas exploration by Octo-ber 2014 required the legislature to act before issuing any permits. The Senate bill would allow state agen-cies to begin issuing permits in March 2015 that could take effect without legislative approval.

DENR oficials and Senate Repub-licans have said it’s a practical impos-sibility that permits would go out be-fore rules are in place because it takes only 10 public comments on the regu-lations to prompt legislative review.

The House bill also bans the prac-tice of allowing companies to dispose of wastewater underground, creates a far larger fund to address environmen-tal disasters, requires oil company rep-resentatives to register with the state and authorizes studies protecting

landowners from fraud and exploring ways to help local governments pay for new costs to infrastructure.

Supporters of the House version argue it gives the oil and gas industry a firmer start date to prepare invest-ments while maintaining the 2012 promise that removing a fracking moratorium will take another vote in the legislature. They argue energy exploration will create an economic boon and can be safely done with the proper regulations, citing a state De-partment of Environment and Natu-ral Resources study.

Democrats have unsuccessfully tried to restore the 2012 law’s permitting rules and delay issuance of exploration rights until the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency releases a report on fracking expected in 2014. They say they want greater assurances that fracking won’t harm water supplies.

The one successful amendment on the House loor came from Rep. Mike Hager, R-Rutherford, who opposed charging a new energy council in DENR with promoting job creation. He argued giving the state regulator those duties presents a conflict of in-terest, and his amendment stripped the council of those responsibilities.

Clergy to lead sixth week of NC NAACP protests

RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP announced Friday the sixth week in a series of protests that have led to the arrests of more than 300 people.

Chapter president the Rev. William Barber said clergy from across the state will lead the group’s latest demonstration against policies of the Republi-can-controlled legislature Monday. The group’s dem-onstrations have grown in size every week since they started in April, most re-cently drawing more than 1,600 by some estimates. The the number of arrests has grown too.

The National Association for the Advancement of Col-ored People will follow up the protest with an event Wednesday to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassina-tion of civil rights activist Medgar Evers. The group will also announce details of a voter registration tour.

The NAACP and its sup-porters oppose the social, economic, voting and edu-cation policies of the Repub-lican-led General Assembly. They single out decisions to forgo Medicaid expan-

sion under federal health care reform, cut unemploy-ment insurance and end the earned income tax credit, among other policies.

“The great moral issue of our time is how do we deal with poverty, how do we deal with the sick and the unemployed,” Barber said.

The protests drew a re-buke earlier this week from Gov. Pat McCrory, who called them “unlawful” and a drain on resources. Han-dling the near-weekly dem-onstrations has forced local law enforcement to direct extra manpower to the leg-islature on Mondays.

Wake County District At-torney Colon Willoughby also weighed in earlier this week, saying the arrests clog the courts and consume his office’s time. The first wave of arrested protesters, including Barber, is due in court late this month.

Barber dismissed the criticism, calling it a deflec-tion to focus on “a symp-tom rather than a cause.”

“Maybe it’s because he can only defend this leg-islature’s actions in the echo chamber of the tea party,” he said.

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Is Big Data turning government into ‘Big Brother’?SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —

With every phone call they make and every Web excursion they take, people are leaving a digital trail of revealing data that can be tracked by profit-seeking compa-nies and terrorist-hunting gov-ernment officials.

The revelations that the Nation-al Security Agency is perusing millions of U.S. customer phone records at Verizon Communica-tions and snooping on the digital communications stored by nine major Internet services illustrate how aggressively personal data is being collected and analyzed.

Verizon is handing over so-called metadata, excerpts from millions of U.S. customer re-cords, to the NSA under an order issued by the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, according to a report in the British newspaper The Guard-ian. The report was confirmed Thursday by Sen. Dianne Fein-stein, D-Calif., who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Former NSA employee Wil-liam Binney told The Associated Press that he estimates the agen-cy collects records on 3 billion phone calls each day.

The NSA and FBI appear to be looking even wider under a clandestine program code-named “PRISM” that was re-vealed in stories posted late Thursday by The Washington Post and The Guardian.

PRISM gives the U.S. gov-ernment access to email, docu-ments, audio, video, photo-graphs and other data belonging to foreigners on foreign soil who are under investigation, accord-ing to The Washington Post. The newspaper said it reviewed a confidential roster of com-panies and services participat-ing in PRISM. The companies included AOL Inc., Apple Inc., Facebook Inc., Google Inc., Mi-crosoft Corp., Yahoo Inc., Sky-pe, YouTube and Paltalk.

In statements, Apple, Face-book, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo,

AOL and Paltalk all said they only provide the government with user data required under the law. (Google runs YouTube and Microsoft owns Skype.)

The NSA isn’t getting custom-er names or the content of phone conversations under the Verizon court order, but that doesn’t mean the information can’t be tied to other data coming in through the PRISM program to look into people’s lives, accord-ing to experts.

Like pieces of a puzzle, the bits and bytes left behind from people’s electronic interactions can be cobbled together to draw conclusions about their habits, friendships and preferences us-ing data-mining formulas and in-creasingly powerful computers.

It’s all part of a phenomenon known as “Big Data,” a catch-phrase increasingly used to de-scribe the science of analyzing the vast amount of information collect-ed through mobile devices, Web browsers and check-out stands. Analysts use powerful computers to detect trends and create digital dossiers about people.

The Obama administration and lawmakers privy to the NSA’s surveillance say the data being collected is only dissected when there is credible evidence of a terrorist plot or other rea-sons to believe that national se-curity is being threatened. The sweeping court order covers the Verizon records of every mobile and landline phone call from April 25 through July 19, accord-ing to The Guardian.

It’s likely the Verizon phone records are being matched with an even broader set of data, said Forrester Research analyst Fate-meh Khatibloo.

“My sense is they are looking for network patterns,” she said. “They are looking for who is connected to whom and wheth-er they can put any timelines together. They are also prob-ably trying to identify locations where people are calling from.”

The Verizon data includes the duration of every call. Although the court order doesn’t require it, ex-perts suspect the NSA may also be getting some kind of data that helps determine the vicinity of the calls.

The location information is particularly valuable for cloak-and-dagger operations like the one the NSA is running, said Cindy Cohn, a legal director for the Electronic Frontier Founda-tion, a digital rights group that has been fighting the govern-ment’s collection of personal phone records since 2006. The foundation is currently suing over the government’s collec-tion of U.S. citizens’ communica-tions in a case that dates back to the administration of President George W. Bush.

“It’s incredibly invasive,” Cohn said. “This is a consequence of the fact that we have so many third parties that have accumu-lated significant information about our everyday lives.”

It’s such a rich vein of infor-mation that U.S. companies and other organizations now spend more than $2 billion each year to obtain third-party data about in-dividuals, according to Forrester Research. The data helps busi-nesses target potential custom-ers. Much of this information is sold by so-called data brokers such as Acxiom Corp., a Little Rock, Ark., company that main-tains extensive files about the online and offline activities of more than 500 million consum-ers worldwide.

The digital floodgates have opened during the past decade as the convenience and allure of the Internet — and sleek smart-phones — have made it easier and more enjoyable for people to stay connected wherever they go.

“I don’t think there has been a sea change in analytical methods as much as there has been a change in the volume, velocity and variety of informa-tion and the computing power to process it all,” said Gartner

analyst Douglas Laney.In a sign of the NSA’s deter-

mination to vacuum up as much data as possible, the agency has built a data center in Bluffdale, Utah that is five times larger than the U.S. Capitol —all to sift through Big Data. The massive center has fed perceptions that some factions of the U.S. govern-ment are determined to build a database of all phone calls, Inter-net searches and emails under the guise of national security. The Washington Post’s disclo-sure that both the NSA and FBI have the ability to burrow into computers of major Internet ser-vices will likely heighten fears that U.S. government’s Big Data is creating something akin to the ever-watchful Big Brother in George Orwell’s “1984” novel.

“The fact that the government can tell all the phone carriers and Internet service providers to hand over all this data sort of gives them carte blanche to build pro-files of people they are targeting in a very different way than any company can,” Khatibloo said.

In most instances, Internet companies such as Google, Face-book and Yahoo are taking what they learn from search requests, clicks on “like” buttons, Web surf-ing activity and location tracking on mobile devices to figure out what their users like and divine where they are. It’s all in aid of showing users ads about prod-ucts likely to pique their interest at the right time. The companies defend this kind of data mining as a consumer benefit.

Google is trying to take things a step further. It is honing its data analysis and search formu-las in an attempt to anticipate what an individual might be wondering about or wanting.

Other Internet companies also use Big Data to improve their services. Video subscription ser-vice Netflix takes what it learns from each viewer’s preferences to recommend movies and TV shows. Amazon.com Inc. does

something similar when it high-lights specific products to differ-ent shoppers visiting its site.

The federal government has the potential to know even more about people because it controls the world’s biggest data bank about U.S. citizens through its collection of Social Security numbers, tax returns and health records through Medicare, said David Vladeck, a Georgetown University law professor who recently stepped down as the Federal Trade Commission’s con-sumer protection director.

Before leaving the FTC last year, Vladeck opened an inquiry into the practices of Acxiom and other data brokers because he feared that information was being misinterpreted in ways that un-fairly stereotyped people. For in-stance, someone might be classi-fied as a potential health risk just because he or she bought prod-ucts linked to increased chance of heart attack. The FTC inquiry into data brokers is still open.

“We had real concerns about the reliability of the data and unfair treatment by algorithm,” Vladeck said.

Vladeck stressed he had no reason to believe that the NSA is misinterpreting the data it collects about people. He finds some comfort in The Guardian report that said the Verizon or-der had been signed by Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Judge Roger Vinson.

The NSA “differs from a com-mercial enterprise in the sense that there are checks in the ju-dicial system and in Congress,” Vladeck said. “If you believe in the way our government is sup-posed to work, then you should have some faith that those checks are meaningful. If you are skepti-cal about government, then you probably don’t think that kind of oversight means anything.”

Texas woman charged in Obama ricin threatTEXARKANA, Texas

(AP) — A pregnant Texas actress who told FBI agents her husband had sent ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was charged Friday with threatening the president.

Shannon Guess Richard-son was charged in Texar-kana, Texas, with mailing a threatening communica-tion to the president. She could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

Richardson was ar-rested earlier in the day for mailing the ricin-laced letters last month, U.S. attorney’s office spokes-woman Davilyn Walston said. It wasn’t immedi-ately clear if Richardson, 36, had an attorney.

FBI agents wearing hazardous material suits were seen going in and out of Richardson’s house on Wednesday in New Boston, about 150 miles

northeast of Dallas near the Oklahoma and Arkansas borders. Offi-cials have said the search was initiated after R i c h a r d s o n contacted the FBI and impli-cated her hus-band, Nathaniel Richard-son.

John Delk, who rep-resents Nathaniel Rich-ardson, told the AP on Thursday that his client had filed for divorce and may have been set up by his wife. He said his client was cooperating with au-thorities investigating the letters, which were sent last month to Bloomberg, his Washington gun-con-trol group and the White House threatening vio-lence against gun-control advocates.

“There are a lot of fac-tors I’m aware of that in-dicate (Nathaniel Richard-

son) was set up in this deal by her,” Delk said.

Delk said his client, a 33-year-old Army vet-eran, came to him to discuss a potential di-vorce a year ago and fi-nally hired him on May 6, weeks before the ricin incident came to light. Delk didn’t immediately return messages Friday following the arrest.

Bloomberg issued a statement Friday thank-ing local and federal law enforcement agencies “for their outstanding work in apprehending a suspect,” saying they worked col-laboratively from the out-set “and will continue to do so as the investigation continues.”

Shannon Richardson’s resume on the Internet movie database IMDb said she has had small televi-sion roles in “The Vampire Diaries” and “The Walking Dead.” She had a minor role in the movie “The Blind Side” and appeared in an Avis commercial, ac-cording to the resume.

Delk said the Richard-

sons were ex-pecting their first child in October. Shan-non Richardson also has five children rang-ing in age from 4 to 19 from other relation-ships, four of

whom had been living with the couple in the New Boston home, the at-torney said.

The FBI is investigat-ing at least three cases over the past two months in which ricin was mailed to Obama and other pub-lic figures. Ricin has been sent to officials sporadi-cally over the years, but experts say that there seems to be a recent up-tick and that copycat at-tacks — made possible by the relative ease of extracting the poison — may be the reason.

If inhaled, ricin can cause respiratory failure, among other symptoms. If swallowed, it can shut down the liver and other organs, resulting in death. The amount of ricin that can fit on the head of a pin is said to be enough to kill an adult if properly prepared. No antidote is available, though researchers are trying to develop one.

‘There are a lot of factors I’m aware of that indicate (Nathaniel Richardson) was set up in this deal by her.’

— John DelkNathaniel Richardson representative

Obama, Xi to dispense with

formalitiesRANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — Dispens-

ing with diplomatic formalities, President Barack Obama and Chinese leader Xi Jinping planned a casual “shirt-sleeves” summit at a sprawling Cali-fornia estate Friday, aiming for closer personal ties and progress on high-stakes issues including cybersecurity and North Korea’s nuclear threats.

However, Obama’s urging of Xi to stop report-ed Chinese hacking against the U.S. could be overshadowed by new revelations that Obama’s own administration has been secretly collecting information about phone and Internet use. The actions of both China and the U.S. underscore the vast technological powers that governments can tap to gather information covertly from indi-viduals, companies and other governments.

Obama, seeking to keep the matter from trail-ing him through two days of China meetings, ad-dressed the surveillance programs for the first time Friday morning. He said the efforts strike “the right balance” between security and civil liberties as the U.S. combats terrorism.

“You can’t have 100 percent security and then also have 100 percent privacy and zero incon-venience. We’re going to have to make some choices as a society,” he said during a health care event in Northern California.

Obama was to arrive late in the day at the 200-acre Sunnylands estate on the edge of the Mojave desert. Xi arrived in California Thursday follow-ing a trip to Latin America, a region where China is seeking to expand its trade and influence.

The two leaders planned to hold a private meeting in the evening and then take questions from the media. They were also scheduled to hold a private working dinner and resume talks Saturday morning.

Obama told donors at a Democratic fundrais-er Thursday that he understands the concerns many Americans have about the potential threat China’s rapid rise poses to the U.S.

“The transformation that’s taking place in China is extraordinary. And never in the history of humanity have we seen so many people move out of poverty so rapidly,” he said. “And yet, when you look at the challenges they face and you look at the challenges we face, I’ll take our challenges any day of the week.”

U.S. officials see Xi, who took office in March, as a potentially new kind of Chinese leader. He has deeper ties to the U.S. than many of his predeces-sors and appears more comfortable in public than the last president, Hu Jintao, with whom Obama never developed a strong personal rapport.

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LEGALS

13 SP 48NOTICE OF

FORECLOSURE SALE

NORTH CAROLINA,SURRY COUNTY

Under and by virtue of a Powerof Sale contained in that cer-tain Deed of Trust executed byWilliam Avery Brown Jr. andHolly Tennille Brown to KarenDelserone, Trustee(s), whichwas dated September 2, 2005and recorded on September 6,2005 in Book 1093 at Page255, Surry County Registry,North Carolina.

Default having been made ofthe note thereby secured bythe said Deed of Trust and theundersigned, Trustee Servicesof Carolina, LLC, having beensubstituted as Trustee in saidDeed of Trust, and the holderof the note evidencing said de-fault having directed that theDeed of Trust be foreclosed,the undersigned SubstituteTrustee will offer for sale at thecourthouse door of the countycourthouse where the propertyis located, or the usual and

agreement upon 10 days闇 writ-

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courthouse door of the countycourthouse where the propertyis located, or the usual andcustomary location at thecounty courthouse for conduct-ing the sale on June 12, 2013at 11:30AM, and will sell to thehighest bidder for cash the fol-lowing described property situ-ated in Surry County, NorthCarolina, to wit:

BEGINNING at a driven steelaxle situate in the northwestright of way line of paved RoadNo. 2081, a new corner;thence with the line of otherproperty of grantors North 31degrees 30 minutes West249.20 feet to a driven steelaxle; thence North 45 degrees40 minutes East 139.70 feet toa steel axle; thence South 45degrees 19 minutes East257.00 feet to a driven axlesituate in the northwest right ofway line of paved Road No.2081; thence with the northw-est right of way line of saidroad, South 42 degrees 40minutes West 100.40 feet;thence continuing with thenorthwest right of way line ofsaid road, South 52 degrees40 minutes West 100.40 feet to

agreement upon 10 days闇 writ-

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northwest right of way line ofsaid road, South 52 degrees40 minutes West 100.40 feet tothe point of Beginning, contain-ing one acre, more or less, assurveyed and platted by RalphL. Marsh, April 22, 1968.

Save and except any releases,deeds of release or prior con-veyances of record.

Said property is commonlyknown as 506 Hardy Road,Siloam, NC 27047.

Third party purchasers mustpay the excise tax, and thecourt costs of Forty-Five Cents(45¢) per One Hundred Dol-lars ($100.00) pursuant toNCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cashdeposit (no personal checks)of five percent (5%) of the pur-chase price, or Seven Hun-dred Fifty Dollars ($750.00),whichever is greater, will be re-quired at the time of the sale.Following the expiration of thestatutory upset bid period, allthe remaining amounts are im-mediately due and owing.

Said property to be offeredpursuant to this Notice of Saleis being offered for sale, trans-fer and conveyance “AS ISWHERE IS.” There are no rep-resentations of warranty relat-ing to the title or any physical,environmental, health or safetyconditions existing in, on, at, orrelating to the property beingoffered for sale. This sale ismade subject to all prior liens,unpaid taxes, any unpaid landtransfer taxes, special assess-ments, easements, rights ofway, deeds of release, and anyother encumbrances or excep-tions of record. To the best ofthe knowledge and belief of theundersigned, the current own-er(s) of the property is/are Wil-liam Avery Brown, Jr. and wife,Holly Tennille Brown.

An Order for possession of theproperty may be issued pursu-ant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor ofthe purchaser and against theparty or parties in possessionby the clerk of superior court ofthe county in which the prop-

agreement upon 10 days闇 writ-

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party or parties in possessionby the clerk of superior court ofthe county in which the prop-erty is sold. Any person whooccupies the property pursu-ant to a rental agreemententered into or renewed on orafter October 1, 2007, may,after receiving the notice ofsale, terminate the rentalagreement upon 10 days闇 writ-ten notice to the landlord. Thenotice shall also state thatupon termination of a rentalagreement, the tenant is liablefor rent due under the rentalagreement prorated to the ef-fective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to con-vey title to this property for anyreason, the sole remedy of thepurchaser is the return of thedeposit. Reasons of such inab-ility to convey include, but arenot limited to, the filing of abankruptcy petition prior to theconfirmation of the sale and re-instatement of the loan withoutthe knowledge of the trustee. Ifthe validity of the sale is chal-lenged by any party, the trust-ee, in their sole discretion, ifthey believe the challenge tohave merit, may request thecourt to declare the sale to bevoid and return the deposit.The purchaser will have no fur-ther remedy.

Trustee Services of Carolina,LLCSubstitute TrusteeBrock & Scott, PLLCAttorneys for Trustee Servicesof Carolina, LLC5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200Wilmington, NC 28403PHONE: (910) 392-4988FAX: (910) 392-8587

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Yard Sale

MULTI FAMILY YARD SALE

Sat. June 8, 7am-12pm1917 Turkey Ford Road

Furniture, TV, Toolsand much more.

Multiple Family Yard Sale

Sat, June 8, 7am-12pm,Wake Forrest Foothills

910 Worth StreetLots of different items!

YARD SALESat, June 8, 9am until,

203 Windsor Park Drive,Dobson,

Multiple Household itemsand antiques.

YARD SALESat, June 8,7am-1pm,

326 S Main Street. Mt Airy,Furniture, clothes, books,

toys and more

SERVICES

Automotive

We buy Junk Cars for$300-$325 complete

336-401-0401

Automotive

Will buy junk cars.351-5223

Home Improvements

Hiatts Home Improvement.Carpentry, Vinyl siding, Paint-

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Remodeling, Additions,New Construction,

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Lawn Service

Will mow & trim YardFree Estimates 356-8268

FINANCIAL SERVICES

EMPLOYMENT

Clerical

Two Customer Servicepositions available. Sometelephone and customer

service experience preferred.Apply in person atEagle Carports,

Cana, VA 24317.

Drivers & Delivery

Help Wanted General

CNA needed 30hrs./wk. inDobson area. CNA's needed

in Danbury, Sandy Ridge,Lawsonville, Walnut Cove &

King areas. FT/PT shiftsavailable working with

children or adult clients.1st & 2nd shifts. Call to

inquire. Senior Quality Care368-4430

Shipping/Receiving/order picker:

Growing company seeksmotivated person to managewarehouse, pull orders andmaintain inventory records.Must have forklift exp., minHS Diploma and computer

exp. Ability to workunsupervised is a must.Send resume with salary

requirements tomountairycustomerservice@gmail.com

Medical / Health

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Nursing Administrative Assistant

Responsibilities include dataentry and staff scheduling forthe Nursing Dept. in a skilled

nursing facility. Computerskill required. Full time, M-F.Benefits after probationary

period. Apply in person:1287 Newsome Street,Mt. Airy, NC. EOE/H

EDUCATION

REAL ESTATE SALES

Cemetery Plots

2 burial plots, Side by side,valued $3200 sell for $1600,

Skyline Memory,320-2572/276-251-1986

Condominiums

1/2 price Condos for sale onPkwy., Fancy Gap Va. Start

$16K for studio 336-416-2573

Lots

1 acre+ plot w/well & septic.Single Wide welcome. Stokes

Cty. 351-3635 Must leave msg.

REAL ESTATE RENTALS

Apartments/Townhouses

1BR stv/ref & water furn $325NO PETS 786-8452/710-9579

1BR/1BA apt. accross fromthe college in Dobson

276-733-6538 276-733-6820

2BR/ 1 BAMayberry Apartments

Spacious 2BR Apt.Homes Available w/W/D Connections.

Select Apartment Homesfeature private

entrances. Wonderfullocation & great pricing.

Located on Mayberry Av.Neari & Associates

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2BR/1BA NO PETS $430/$350789-7555 Day 789-3387 Night

2BR/1BA Twin Oaks Apt Pilot $450 336-325-0978

Commercial

OFFICE SPACE FOR RENTA-#1 space for a small

business with 4-5 offices andkitchen/break room.

Furnished. Conventient todowntown Mt Airy. $700 permonth. Call 336-783-0300 or

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House For Rent

2BR house in city limit,$525M+D 336-382-0288

3BR/1BA city utilities, stove/reffurnished $700M+D, Lease re-quired. Shown by appointment

only Call 336-789-4025

Ararat, VA, 3BR/2BA,A/C + Major appl. $650M+D.

336-325-8761

Rental home wanted:Professional relocating toMount Airy area. Looking

for a nice, clean 2-3 BR houseto rent. Pets must be allowed.

Must have central airand storage. Contact

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2BR/1BA, $380M+D CA,336-786-8410

2BR/2BA like new Mobil Hm,Mt Airy area, private lot

$450M+D 336-648-9957

Mobile Homes for RentSurry Co. 336-648-5146Stokes Co 336-648-4468

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Sales

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ANIMALS

Pets

2M-Chihuahua puppies$200ea Cash only 789-9364

AGRICULTURE

Garden & Produce

Country Road StrawberriesNow open $7.00 a gallon we

pick/ $7.00 you pick. Mon - Fri7:30am - 6:30pm Sat 7am -until. From Mt. Airy Hwy 52

South to exit 129 Pinnacle exitturn rt follow signs. 618 Mt.

Zion Rd. Pinnacle, NC 27043please call ahead for you pick

field or to place an order336-325-3331. www.

countryroadstrawberries.com

Hay/ Feed/ Seed/ Grain

6 acre pasture to be mowed forfree hay 336-648-0681

AUTOMOTIVE

Autos for Sale

1965 Ford Falcon Futura.4Dr. Orig 289 Engine, Auto-matic, Garage kept, No Rust.

$3900 336-345-2185

What Do You Want?Pawn & Gun

Over 150 Guns To Choose From

We Buy Gold, Unwanted Jewelry And Silver Coins * Must Bring In For Prices *

642 N. Andy Griffi th Pkwy. Past Mall &

Patterson Toyota, on right before light.

BIG SALE!336-789-8300

Motorcycles

2010 Harley-DavidsonStreet Glide, 2800 milesBlack, Like New $16,500

336-351-4686

Trucks/SUVs/Vans

1972 Chevy Truck, short bedC10, Orig 6 cylinder, 3 speed,Pwr steering & brakes $3750

336-345-2185

MERCHANDSE FOR SALE

Miscellaneous

Dirt-16 ton $65 Delivered Alsogravel, mulch, grading &clearing 336-756-1444

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BLONDIE Dean Young/Denis Lebrun

BEETLE BAILEY Mort Walker

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE Chris Browne

HI & LOIS Brian and Greg Walker

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Saturday, June 8, 2013:

This year a new beginning becomes possible that will have big impact on your life. You easily connect with oth-ers. If you are single, there is a strong chance that your status will change. You even could meet your soul mate. If you are attached, you will rekindle your romance and start acting like newly-weds. Whether your concern is financial or emotional, you will have a chance to head in a new direction. A fellow GEMINI echoes many of your thoughts.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult

ARIES (March 21-April 19)HHHH A new beginning involving a

close associate could become possible, which will affect the way you commu-nicate with this person. You might feel as if you have everything under control, until an event or misunderstanding points out that you don’t! Stay calm. Tonight: Hang out.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)HHH Be aware of what is going on

with your finances. You might want to adjust your budget or vary some of your ground rules about funds. Focus on the positive instead of the negative regard-ing this situation. Remember, you only need to answer to yourself. Tonight: Your treat.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)HHHH Your innate magnetism

attracts many different types of people. Hopefully your plans don’t come across as too exclusive, as you will want to ask one or two more people to join you. A misunderstanding could be quite sur-prising and also very upsetting. Tonight: Where the action is.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)HHH You could choose not to dis-

cuss so much with others. Honor a change that is happening within you. You might not be as sure of a situation as you would like to be. You will know when the time is right for a conversa-tion. Tonight: Head to bed early, and get a good night’s sleep.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)HHH You will become full of energy

when you think about your friends and your desire to join them. When making plans, make sure that you know where, how and when. You won’t want to have everyone feeling scattered. Tonight: You are the ringmaster of your personal life.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

HHH While others joyfully seem to go off and enjoy themselves, you feel saddled with responsibilities. You are the grease that makes everything work, and you need to recognize your impor-tance. Know that others will catch on eventually. Tonight: Out and about.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)HHHH You’ll be more in tune with

a situation than you might want to be. Sometimes when you empathize you become too involved. Know that just because you understand a person, it doesn’t mean that he or she is morally correct. Tonight: Opt for a different type of experience.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)HHHH You have the unique abil-

ity to relate to others on a one-on-one level. Though you always appreciate a nice and easy pace, you also enjoy the excitement of some chaos. As the afternoon becomes the evening, it is unlikely that you will be bored. Tonight: Get physical.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)HHH Defer to others, and know full

well what direction you need to head. Maintain a sense of humor, as others seem to have very different ideas from you. You might want to be open to trying a new hobby. Let go of prejudg-ments. Tonight: At least you have great company!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)HHHH You could be overtired and

withdrawn. You also might not under-stand why you need to proceed in the same direction you have been. Fatigue plays a strong role in your decision-making process; perhaps you’ll want to incorporate a nap at some point. Tonight: At a favorite spot.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)HHHH Once you start to let go, you

could have difficulty reeling yourself back in. Use care if plans change or if you experience an upset, as suddenly you could go way overboard and spend too much. Recognize that you need to deal with this issue. Tonight: Put on your dancing shoes.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)HHH You could be taken aback by

a problem. You’ll see a matter very dif-ferently because of new information that comes in. Your reaction might be over the top. Take a deep breath, and realize that you will be able to sort through this issue. Tonight: Entertain loved ones at home.

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Bounty "Practice Makes Perfect"

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Leverage "The Snow Job" A guardsman wants justice from a construction firm.

Rules of Engagement

Rules of Engage. "Poaching Timmy"

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"Adrenaline" IndyCar Auto Racing Firestone 550 Site: Texas Motor Speedway -- Fort Worth, Texas (L) CSI:Miami "Hurricane Anthony" People

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Restoration Road Athletes With Purpose

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CBS Saturday Evening News

Triad Home Shopping

Jeopardy! Weekend

CSI "Karma to Burn" The team races to find D.B. Russell's granddaughter.

48 Hours "A Fatal Attraction" 48 Hours A young beauty school student is found dead.

WFMY News 2 at 11:00pm

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WGHP 8 10 Fox 8 News at 6 p.m. MLB Baseball Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim vs. Boston Red Sox Site: Fenway Park -- Boston, Mass. (L) Fox 8 News :45 Fox 8 Sports

Saturday Hell's Kitchen Chef Ramsay tests the teams' communication skills.

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WXII 12 11 5:00 Horse Racing The Belmont Stakes (L)

Paid Program Paid Program NHL Hockey Stanley Cup Playoffs Los Angeles Kings vs. Chicago Blackhawks Western Conference Final Game 5 Site: United Center -- Chicago, Ill. (L)

WXII 12 News at 11 p.m.

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WMYV 6 15 Two and Half "A Lungful of Alan"

Two 1/2... "Zejdz Zmoich Wlosow"

MILB Baseball (L) The Big Bang Theory

BBang "The Large Hadron Collision"

The Browns "Meet My Fair Tanya"

House of Payne The Browns "Meet the Stand-Up"

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WGPX 9 16 Monk "Mr. Monk's Favorite Show" Monk Monk investigates the murder of

a maid. Monk "Mr. Monk and the UFO" A woman is found dead in the desert.

Psych A mummy goes missing from the National History Museum.

Psych "Ghosts" Psych 16

FAM 18 5:00 < Gnomeo and Juliet ++++ :55 < Monsters, Inc. +++ ('01) Voices of Billy Crystal, John Goodman. < Monsters, Inc. +++ ('01) Voices of Billy Crystal, Mary Gibbs, John Goodman. < The Blind Side +++ 180 311

HSN 20 Wolfgang Puck Signature Club A By Adrienne Signature Club A By Adrienne Wolfgang Puck Wolfgang Puck Signature Club A By Adrienne 222 240

QVC 21 5:00 Joan Rivers Classics Collection Orthaheel Footwear Computers and Tablets Carolyn Pollack Sterling Jewelry WEN by Chaz Dean 226 408

CNBC 23 Paid Program Paid Program Ultimate Factories "UPS" American Greed: Scam Suze Orman "The Dangers of Free" Debt do Us Part Debt do Us Part American Greed: Scam 208 355

NICK 24 < The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie ++ Tom Kenny. SpongeBob Sam & Cat (N) Marvin Marvin Big Time Rush Wendell & Vinnie The Nanny The Nanny Friends :35 Friends 170 299

CNN 25 The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer CNN Newsroom Anderson Cooper Special Report Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown Anderson Cooper Special Report 200 202

LIFE 26 < A Sister's Revenge (2013) Ashley Jones, Tim Rozon, Brooke Burns. < The Good Mother +++ ('88) Liam Neeson, Jason Robards, Diane Keaton. < Adopting Terror (2011, Drama) Samaire Armstrong, Brendan Fehr, Sean Astin. 108 252

A&E 27 Storage Wars: NY Storage Wars: NY Storage Wars Storage Wars Storage Wars Storage Wars Storage Wars Storage Wars Shipping Wars Shipping Wars Shipping Wars Shipping Wars 118 265

DISC 29 Deadliest C. "Kicking Off With a Bang" Buying Alaska Buying Alaska Buying Alaska Buying Alaska Buying Alaska Buying Alaska Buying Alaska Buying Alaska Buying Alaska Buying Alaska 182 278

TBS 30 King of Queens King of Queens Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Men at Work Last Laugh? 139 247

BET 31 4:30 < The Best Man ++ Taye Diggs. < Kingdom Come ++ ('01) LL Cool J, Jada Pinkett Smith, Whoopi Goldberg. < Big Momma's House 2 ++ (2006, Comedy) Nia Long, Martin Lawrence. < Rebound + 124 329

ESPN2 32 4:00 NCAA Baseball NCAA Baseball Division I Tournament Louisiana State University vs. Oklahoma Super Regionals Site: Alex Box Stadium (L) NCAA Baseball Division I Tournament Cal-Fullerton vs UCLA Super Regionals (L) 144 209

ESPN 33 SportsCenter NASCAR Count. NASCAR Auto Racing Dupont Pioneer 250 Nationwide Series Site: Iowa Speedway (L) SportsCenter 140 206

BRAV 34 Wives NJ "Garden State Emergency" < Gangs of New York +++ ('02) Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Leonardo DiCaprio. A young man seeks to avenge his father's murder. < Gangs of New York +++ ('02) Leonardo DiCaprio. 129 273

AMC 35 5:00 < Kingdom of Heaven +++ (2005, Action) Liam Neeson, Jeremy Irons, Orlando Bloom. A blacksmith fights during the wars for the Holy Land.

< King Kong ++ (2005, Action) Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody. An ambitious movie producer captures a giant ape. 130 254

USA 36 Law & Order: S.V.U. "Perfect" Law & Order: S.V.U. "Hate" Law & Order: S.V.U. "Silence" Law & Order: S.V.U. "Scavenger" Law & Order: S.V.U. "Charisma" CSI: Crime Scene "Shock Waves" 105 242

CMT 37 4:30 < Days of Thunder ++ Cops Cops Redneck Island Redneck Island (N) Dog & Beth: On the Hunt < Days of Thunder ++ Tom Cruise. 166 327

COM 38 5:25 < Waiting ++ ('05, Com) Justin Long, Ryan Reynolds. < Dumb and Dumber ++ (1994, Comedy) Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Jim Carrey. < The Ringer ++ (2005, Comedy) Luis Avalos, Johnny Knoxville. 107 249

VH1 39 :15 I'm Married to a... "Stripper Wives and Sex Cam Star" Stevie TV Hit the Floor "Game On" Atlanta "N.Y. State of Mind" < Boyz 'N the Hood ++++ ('91) Cuba Gooding Jr., Laurence Fishburne. 162 335

MTV 40 Show With Vinny Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness 160 331

CSPAN 41 2:00 WA Week Communicators Washington This Week 210 350

SYFY 42 5:00 < Age of the Dragons < Land of the Lost ++ ('09, Adventure) Anna Friel, Jorma Taccone, Will Ferrell. Sinbad "Pilot" (P) (N) Primeval "The New World" (P) (N) < Rise of the Dinosaurs Colin Nemic. 122 244

NICKJR 44 Franklin/ Friend Mike the Knight Bubble Guppies Bubble Guppies Team Umizoomi Team Umizoomi How to Rock Dora the Explorer Go, Diego, Go! Go, Diego, Go! Ni Hao, Kai-lan Ni Hao, Kai-lan 169 298

FXSS 46 Courtside Jones Game Time Boxing Golden Boy Diaz vs. Cuevas Jr. FS Salutes Troops Braves Pre-game MLB Baseball Atlanta Braves vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (L) 420 646

SPIKE 47 :05 < Kick-Ass +++ ('10) Clark Duke, Aaron Johnson. A high school student decides to be a super-hero. < Batman Begins +++ ('05, Act) Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Christian Bale. A young Bruce Wayne becomes Batman. 168 262

TLC 48 Lottery "Streetsweeper Millionaires" Untold Stories "Rottweiler in the ER" Untold Stories "Pipe in the Head" Untold Stories "Diagnose Me!" Untold Stories "Frat Boy Blues" Untold Stories "Pipe in the Head" 183 280

TNT 49 5:00 < Gladiator +++ ('00) Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Russell Crowe. < The Book of Eli +++ (2009, Adventure) Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Denzel Washington. < Clash of the Titans ++ ('10) Sam Worthington. 138 245

MSNBC 50 Caught on Camera "Extreme Rescues" Caught on Camera "Fireball!" Hitman "You Only Get One Shot" Lockup "Santa Rosa: Warriors" Lockup Lockup 209 356

HIST 51 Mountain Men "Lost" Mountain Men "Miles From Home" Mountain Men "Surviving Winter" Mountain Men "Show Me the Money" Mountain Men "The Final Stand" Mountain Men "This Is the End" 120 269

TCM 57 :15 < Springfield Rifle ++ (1952, Western) Phyllis Thaxter, Lon Chaney, Gary Cooper. A man accused of cowardice joins an undercover mission.

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:45 < The Thief of Paris +++ (1967, Comedy/Drama) Geneviève Bujold, Marie Dubois, Jean-Paul Belmondo.

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FX 58 5:30 < Superbad +++ (2007, Comedy) Michael Cera, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill. < Pineapple Express +++ (2008, Comedy) James Franco, Danny McBride, Seth Rogen. < The Green Hornet +++ ('11, Act) Jay Chou, Seth Rogen. 137 248

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Dad is hurt by treatment by ex-wife after court decisionDear Annie: My wife and I

are going through a divorce af-ter 23 years of marriage. We just grew apart. We have four chil-dren, ages 12 to 21.

The problem is, my wife feels I do not deserve any of the mari-tal assets because she was the primary breadwinner. She made a nice income, but it also meant she spent a considerable amount of time away from home. She left the responsibility of rais-ing our kids to me. I never had the time to devote to a career, because I wanted to be with my children. They were active in youth sports, and I never missed a game and even coached the teams. I also made sure home-work was done and dinner was on the table every night.

I was awarded half of all mari-tal assets, and it is causing bitter-ness. My ex is upset because it means she will have to take out a substantial portion of her 401(k) and a home equity loan. Now she has shared this information with

our children and flies into a fit of rage from time to time. My kids don’t care, but my ex told her family and friends that I am tak-ing “her” money, and now they won’t speak to me. Also, my older children have asked to live with me, and this doesn’t make my ex any happier.

My ex is a good person, and we don’t fight over visi-tation. She gives me full and complete access to the kids. But how do I get her to feel less an-gry about the divi-sion of assets? She barely speaks to me. The only time she is nice is when we are at the children’s events. Should I accept a lesser percentage so she will be kind to me again? — Soon-To-Be Ex-Husband

Dear Ex: It is not uncommon for the higher-earning spouse to resent giving equal as-sets to the one who earned less, even though the lesser-earning spouse is generally the one who cares for the house and the children. Society still doesn’t give sufficient value to those contribu-tions. You are un-der no obligation to take less than the court awarded you, and there is no guarantee that do-ing so would solve

the problem. (Also, alienating friends and family members is a form of manipulation.) But if you feel strongly about it, ask the court to assign a mediator.

Dear Annie: My husband’s

behavior has been different late-ly. It’s as if his personality has changed. He throws tantrums and displays road rage. He throws things. He hasn’t hit me, but I am afraid he will. Even the dog hides behind the furniture.

I have talked to his doctor, to no avail. He does have medical issues, but I do, too. What else can I do? — Frustrated Wife

Dear Frustrated: Sudden personality changes can be an indication of a neurological problem or a severe reaction to medication. Your husband may even have had a small stroke or other trauma. Return with him to his doctor and insist on more tests. If his doctor is unwilling to consider other possibilities, it’s time to find a physician who will take your complaints seri-ously. Please don’t wait.

Dear Annie: “Not Anti-So-cial or Addicted to the Inter-net” is correct that it’s difficult for men to make new friends outside of the workplace.

Here’s my strategy: Before at-tending an event that interests me, I do some research and iden-tify nearby coffee shops and also look up similar events happening in the near future. Then I make a point of talking to several strang-ers. If anyone seems interesting, I’ll invite that person to meet at the nearby coffee shop to con-tinue the conversation. If he’s not available, I’ll ask whether he’s planning to attend the future event, because it might be fun to get together there. — Daniel

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The Bible is God’s git to every believerDear Dr.

Graham: I know I’m sup-posed to read the Bible, but I’ve never been much of a read-er and I just have a hard time getting going. Will God forgive me if I don’t read the Bible? Maybe the Bi-ble is just for preachers. — Z.F.

Dear Z.F.: C e r t a i n l y , preachers do need to read the Bible; it should be the source for their

p r e a c h i n g every week. One way you can learn more about the Bible is by l i s t e n i n g carefully to your pas-tor’s ser-mons or Bi-ble studies each week.

But the Bible isn’t only for p r e a c h e r s — not at all! The Bible

is God’s gift to every believer, and He gave it to us so we could know

what to believe and how to live. He also wants us to come to know Him and learn to walk with Him through its pages. Some people have a gift for teaching its truths, but we all have the privi-lege of opening its pages and learning what God has in store for us. We all should be able to say with the Psalmist, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path”

(Psalm 119:105).Get a Bible you can

read easily; my wife used to say that a Bible with tiny, unreadable print was one of the devil’s most clever tools! Use a modern translation also, so you don’t get bogged down in language you can’t understand.

Then set aside time daily to be alone with God, reading the Bible and praying. It may be

only a few minutes at first, but they’ll be the most important minutes of the day. Since read-ing isn’t easy for you, read your Bible in small “bites.” Select a book (such as a Gospel or Psalms) and read a para-graph or so, asking God to help you understand it and apply it to your life.

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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Obama administra-tion on Friday proposed lift-ing most of the remaining

federal protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states, a move that would end four decades of recov-

ery efforts but has been criticized by some scien-tists as premature.

With more than 6,100 wolves roaming the North-ern Rockies and western Great Lakes, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe told The Asso-ciated Press that a species persecuted to near-exter-mination last century has successfully rebounded.

But prominent scientists and dozens of lawmakers in Congress want more. They say wolves need to be shielded so they can expand beyond the portions of 10 states they now occupy.

The animal’s histori-cal range stretched across most of North America.

Government-sponsored trapping and poisoning left just one small pocket of wolves remaining, in northern Minnesota, by the time they received en-dangered species protec-tions in 1974.

In the past several years, after the Great Lakes popu-lation swelled and wolves

were reintroduced to the Northern Rockies, protec-tions were lifted in states where the vast majority of the animals now live: Mon-tana, Wyoming, Idaho, Michigan, Wisconsin, Min-nesota and portions of Ore-gon, Washington and Utah.

Under the administra-tion’s plan, federal protec-tions would remain only for a fledgling population of Mexican gray wolves in the desert Southwest. The proposal will be subject to a public comment period and a final decision made within a year.

While the wolf’s recent resurgence is likely to con-tinue at some level else-where — multiple packs roam portions of Washing-ton and Oregon, and indi-vidual wolves have been spotted in Colorado, Utah and the Northeast — Ashe indicated it’s unrealistic to think the clock can be turned back entirely.

“Science is an important part of this decision, but really the key is the policy question of when is a spe-cies recovered,” he said. “Does the wolf have to oc-cupy all the habitat that is available to it in order for it to be recovered? Our an-swer to that question is no.”

Hunters and trappers already are targeting the predators in states where protections previously were lifted. They’ve killed some 1,600 wolves in the

past several years in Mon-tana, Wyoming, Idaho, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Thousands more have been killed by government wildlife agents.

That’s been a relief for ranchers who suffer regu-lar wolf attacks that can kill dozens of livestock in a single night. Support-ers say lifting protections elsewhere will help avoid the animosity seen among many ranchers in the West, who long complained that their hands were tied by rules restricting when wolves could be killed.

Hunting groups wary of increasing wolf at-tacks on livestock and big game welcomed Fri-day’s announcement.

Yet vast additional terri-tory that researchers say is suitable for wolves remains unoccupied. That includes parts of the Pacific North-west, California, the south-ern Rocky Mountains and northern New England.

Colorado alone has enough space to support up to 1,000 wolves, according to Carlos Carroll of Cali-fornia’s Klamath Center for Conservation Research. He suggested wildlife of-ficials were bowing to po-litical pressure, exerted by elected officials across the West who pushed to limit the wolf’s range.

“They’ve tried to devise their political position first, and then cherry-pick

their science to support it,” Carroll said of the Fish and Wildlife Service.

The Center for Biologi-cal Diversity on Friday vowed to challenge the government in court if it takes the animals off the endangered species list as planned.

Ashe said Friday’s pro-posal had been reviewed by top administration of-ficials, including new In-terior Secretary Sally Jew-ell. But he dismissed any claims of interference and said the work that went into the plan was exclu-sively that of the Fish and Wildlife Service.

He said the agency wants to focus future re-covery efforts on a small number of wolves belong-ing to a subspecies, the Mexican gray wolf. Those occur in Arizona and New Mexico, where a protract-ed and costly reintroduc-tion plan has stumbled in part due to illegal killings.

The agency is calling for a tenfold increase in the territory where biologists are working to rebuild that population, which now numbers 73 animals. Law enforcement efforts to ward off poaching in the region would be bolstered.

Although wolves roam only a small portion of their historical range, it’s about 80 percent of the area they realistically could be expected to occu-py today, said David Mech, a leading wolf expert and senior scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey in St. Paul, Minn.

Even without federal protection, wolves are likely to migrate into sev-eral Western states, Mech said. The primary barrier to expansion isn’t lack of habitat or prey, but human intolerance, he said.

Although Colorado, Utah, Nevada and North-ern California might have enough habitat for wolves to thrive, Mech said that might not happen if hunt-ers kill so many Northern Rockies wolves that it reduces the number that would disperse from packs and seek new turf.

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White House: Obama adjusting cyber ofense stanceWASHINGTON (AP) — The

Obama administration is refining its use of offensive cyber opera-tions to counter evolving threats of electronic assaults against the United States.

Caitlin Hayden, spokeswoman for the National Security Coun-cil, said Friday a directive signed by President Barack Obama last year calls for government cyber tools to be “integrated with the full array of national security tools we have at our disposal.”

Hayden was responding a re-port in the British newspaper The Guardian that says Obama has ordered national security and intelligence officials to draw up a list of potential cyber tar-gets overseas.

The Guardian report comes as Obama was about to meet with

Chinese President Xi Jinping, with alleged Chinese hacking against the U.S. to be one of the main topics of discussion.

While the newspaper report offers details about Obama’s di-rective that had not been made public before, the White House released a declassified summary of the directive in January.

Moreover, the Pentagon ac-knowledged in March that it was setting up a series of cyber teams charged with carrying out offen-sive operations to combat the threat of an electronic assault on the United States.

Gen. Keith Alexander, the top of-ficer at U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, tes-tified March 12 before the Senate Armed Services Committee that the potential for an attack against

the nation’s electric grid and other essential systems is real and that the federal government needed to take more aggressive steps.

At the time, Alexander said 13 cyber teams were being formed to guard the nation against de-structive attacks in cyberspace, stressing that their role would be offensive. He also said the teams would work outside the United States, but he did not say where.

“This directive will establish principles and processes that can enable more effective plan-ning, development and use of our capabilities,” Hayden said in a statement Friday. “It enables us to be flexible, while also exercis-ing restraint in dealing with the threats we face. It continues to be our policy that we shall under-take the least action necessary to

mitigate threats and that we will prioritize network defense and law enforcement as the preferred courses of action.”

The timing of Friday’s report coincides with Obama’s two days of meetings with Xi at a California retreat. Top issues are cybersecurity and North Korea’s nuclear threats.

The Guardian’s report is the third significant leak of classi-fied information this week. Fol-lowing other revelations, the Obama administration has con-ceded that it has been secretly seizing phone records from mil-lions of Americans and scouring U.S. Internet data for evidence of potential terrorist plotting.

Obama himself weighed in Friday, defending the counterter-rorism measures and noting that

they are authorized and reviewed by Congress. He also said the In-ternet surveillance program does not apply to U.S. citizens or to people living in the United States.

“I don’t welcome leaks, be-cause there’s a reason why these programs are classified,” Obama said, before the latest Guardian report. “In our modern history, there are a whole range of pro-grams that have been classified because, when it comes to, for example, fighting terror, our goal is to stop folks from doing us harm, and if every step that we’re taking to try to prevent a terrorist act is on the front page of the newspapers or on televi-sion, then presumably the people who are trying to do us harm are going to be able to get around our preventive measures.”

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