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RAEFORD & HOKE COUNTY N.C.
No. 23 Vol. 109
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Cape Fear hospital plans Feb. opening
BY CATHARIN SHEPARD
Staff writer
Construction of the Cape
Fear Valley Hoke hospital is on
schedule and officials anticipate it will open for patients in
February of next year.
Construction continues on the Cape Fear hospital.
“We are currently working
on the patient pavilion, the true
inpatient (hospital),” Cape Fear
Valley Health Pavilion Hoke
President Velvette Jones said.
The hospital will include 41
licensed inpatient beds, a medical and surgical unit, women’s
services and departments
like radiology. The outpatient
services opened in March 2013
and continue operating for
patients during construction of
the inpatient part of the hospital.
So far, all is going well with
the work on the inpatient part
of the facility, Jones said.
“We are on schedule. It
looks like we will complete the
construction of the hospital in
the first portion of winter of
2014 (December),” she said.
However, once the dust
settles, the work begins for
administrators, doctors, nurses
and other hospital staff before
(See HOSPITAL, page 4A)
Break-in
rash ends
1 arrested, 2 sought
Authorities with the
Hoke County Sheriff’s
Office have arrested one
suspect and are seeking
two others wanted in
connection with more
than 20 vehicle break-ins
in the county.
Authorities arrested
Rogers
Keywonous Marquis
Rogers, 18, on charges
of three counts of felony larceny from
a motor vehicle, 25 counts of felony
breaking and entering a motor vehicle,
20 counts of misdemeanor larceny from
a motor vehicle and one count of felony
larceny. Investigators are also seeking
Robert Jamell Campbell and William
Lawrence Bethea Jr., who have 15
(See ARRESTED, page 4A)
3 brothers shot
Three brothers were shot Saturday
and investigators with the Hoke County
Sheriff’s Office are seeking two suspects
wanted on multiple charges in connection
with the crime.
Authorities are seeking Jermaine Malloy of the 300 block of Stubbs Road on
charges including two counts of assault
with a deadly weapon inflicting serious
injury, one count of assault with a deadly
weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and one count of maiming/
castration without malice.
Malloy is accused of shooting brothers John Wall, Jerry Douglas and Leroy
Douglas, all of Stubbs Road in Hoke
County, according to Capt. John Kivett
of the Hoke County Sheriff’s Office. The
shooting reportedly took place at 7:21
Saturday evening.
Malloy and another unknown suspect
also wanted in connection with the case
were reportedly arguing with the three
(See SHOOTING, page 3A)
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With a sign that reads “Boiled Peanuts,” and a smile and a wave, Williams greets traffic along N.C. 211 Friday. (MacDonald photo)
Smiling at traffic, ‘Can you imagine anything better?’
BY KEN MACDONALD
Two days a week, when you reach
Ashley Heights on the Aberdeen Highway,
you’re going to see a guy waving and smiling, and if you’re like most drivers, you’re
going to have your day brightened.
He’s Treis Williams, and he’s selling
boiled peanuts, but his real job is spreading
smiles.
“People need a smile and a wave,” he
said Friday over the din of passing traffic.
“There’s so much negativity. These people
are coming down the road. They’re going
to the hospital, they’re going to the doctor,
they got so many things on their mind, and
I can see their face change when they see
me. I mean they have all kinds of different
looks, but when they see me, they brighten
up—when they see somebody smile. Most
(See SMILER, page 6A)
Baked goods, coffee, photography sold in new store
BY CATHARIN SHEPARD
Staff writer
Ramona Ramos spent 26 years
as a dental assistant, but when she
hit her 50th birthday, she decided
it was now or never to put her
longtime dreams into action.
“I’ve always loved to bake.
Everybody’s always told me, you
need to open your own bakery, or
you need to open your own pho-
tography studio. So I did both,”
she said.
Making Sweet Memories, a
combination bakery and photography studio, opened last month in
the former Leandro office at the
corner of Main Street and Donaldson Avenue in downtown Raeford.
Ramos, her sister Gina Currie and
their niece Erica Legge have been
hard at work to shine the counters,
fire up the kitchen and set out the
porch chairs for customers.
It’s been a busy few weeks.
When the bakery opened, Ramos
was still waiting on delivery of a
big double oven to make the baking go faster, and all three women
were training on the coffee-making equipment to perfect their latté
skills.
Ramos originally didn’t intend
to offer coffee at the store, but
(See BAKERY, page 4A)
Currie (left to right), Ramos and Legge
Chase ends with arrest in west Hoke
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Deputies from Scotland and Hoke counties begin a search for a robbery
suspect at Strother and Pickler roads. (MacDonald photo)
Hoke County Sheriff’s deputies
helped Scotland County deputies
find a robbery suspect who fled into
woods off Strother Road in west Hoke
following a high-speed chase.
Officers with the Scotland County
Sheriff’s Office arrested Kenny
Bowles, 30, of the 100 block of Kearns Lane in Aberdeen on charges of
speeding to elude arrest with additional charges possible. Bowles was
charged with fleeing from police in
Laurinburg after allegedly robbing a
Walmart. Scotland authorities pursued Bowles in a chase that reached
speeds of over 110 miles an hour.
The chase ended at Strother and
Pickler roads when Bowles reportedly
fled his vehicle. Officers located and
arrested him at the scene.
Sgt. Brandon Cribb of the Scotland
County Sheriff’s Office was the lead
investigator in the chase, according to
reports from law enforcement.
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Viewpoints
August 13, 2014
Teacher pay shows animosity
By Chris Fitzsimon
N.C. Policy Watch
In retrospect, it’s not a surprise
that the General Assembly approved a budget with a complicated and uneven teacher pay raise
that has caused mass confusion
across the state or that local school
systems are now struggling with
deep cuts to funding for teacher
assistants, even as legislative leaders and Governor Pat McCrory
claim that TA funding was not
reduced at all.
That disconnect was entirely
predictable when you consider
how this legislative session began, the ideology of the folks
running it and the huge political
consequences of how the decisions lawmakers made would be
perceived.
Legislative leaders and Gov.
Pat McCrory have been under
fire since the end of the 2013
session for the deep cuts to public
schools that included the slashing
of more than 5,000 teaching jobs
and more than 3,000 teacher assistant positions.
The cuts and the lack of a
teacher raise left the state ranked
46th in teacher salaries and even
closer to the bottom in per-pupil
spending and they prompted
widespread outrage from teachers
and school officials and parents—
Republicans and Democrats alike.
Legislative leaders and the
think tanks that reflexively defend them at first fought back,
challenging the credibility of the
rankings, distorting the funding
numbers, even attacking teachers
by saying they don’t work very
hard and have summers off.
That proved an ineffective
strategy, as parents simply didn’t
buy it. They saw their children’s
teachers leaving the state or taking a second job to make ends
meet. They noticed when the
teacher assistants were gone and
there weren’t enough textbooks
to go around. They wondered
why school fundraisers were being held to raise money for basic
classroom supplies that the state
should provide.
No matter how hard the rightwing propaganda mills churned
out the misinformation, the reality in schools and communities
across the state was far more
convincing.
Then the calendar changed to
2014, an election year, and not just
any election year. Not only are all
the seats in the General Assembly
up for the voters’ consideration,
House Speaker Thom Tillis is running for the U.S. Senate against
Sen. Kay Hagan in a race that
could decide which party controls
the Senate for the next two years.
Having voters furious at Tillis and his legislative colleagues
about their cuts to public schools
simply would not do, so McCrory
and legislative leaders began talking about a teacher raise as their
priority for the year.
McCrory opened the bidding
with an increase for starting teachers, then Senate leaders passed a
budget calling for an 11-percent
increase, but only for teachers
who gave up their career status
protections, and fired thousands
of teacher assistants to pay for it.
The House countered with
five percent and vowed to protect
funding for teacher assistants too,
defending the value of TAs only a
year after firing more than 3,000
of them because they didn’t think
they were that important.
After weeks of negotiations,
they agreed on a final budget that
demolishes the teacher salary
schedule, replacing it with a plan
that gives teachers early in their
career a big increase, with some
veteran teachers barely receiving
a raise at all. The new plan raises
more questions than it answers,
ending lump sum longevity pay
and a salary supplement for teachers who earn advanced degrees.
And the final budget pays for
the raise with budget gimmicks
and by cutting education spending elsewhere, including slashing
funding for teacher assistants,
as local school systems are now
discovering.
The right-wing propaganda
outlets are swinging into action
again of course, defending the
budget at every turn and citing
the improvement in teacher salary
rankings as a result of the raise,
the same rankings they attacked
as unreliable just a year ago.
The message is clear. Legislative leaders, especially Speaker
Tillis, really care about public
schools and support the state’s
teachers. But the confusion about
the raise and realization of the cuts
made to pay for it are once again
making the claims a tough sell.
It didn’t have to be this way
of course. Lawmakers could have
simply given every teacher a five
percent raise—or more if they
canceled the next round of tax
cuts for the wealthy and corporations that take effect January 1st.
They could have avoided the cuts
to teacher assistant funding too.
But their ideology was too deep
seated to allow that. Instead they
forced the raise to fit their ideological filter, give starting teachers
more, beginning to divide teachers
into groups on the road to sketchy
merit pay schemes and the end of
career status protections.
They also could have given
the across the board raise and
set up a process to develop a
new pay structure for next year
that included public hearings
and teacher input, but instead
they rolled out a confusing plan
developed in a backroom with no
teachers having a say.
That is the real story of this
session, that legislative leaders
tried to have it both ways, give
themselves political cover by
seeming to support teachers but
never abandoning their fundamental animosity towards public
education, as a funding increase
for the private school voucher plan
makes clear.
It was not a meaningful investment in our schools but a
transparent election year ploy that
appears to be falling well short of
its cynical goals.
We Get Letters
She will be the next Heather Locklear
To the Editor:
There are not too many rising
stars among our young teens this
day and age. There are stories
or headline news about another
young life taken, fights over girlfriends or boyfriends, shoes, cars,
money, drugs, etc. My 14-year-old
daughter is an aspiring model. She
was born and raised in Raeford.
She is a Lumbee native with a
future in the modeling/television
industry. Our southern states don’t
have opportunities like NewYork,
Atlanta, Texas. Juliana, aka JuJu,
is the next Heather Locklear waiting to be discovered. It always
seems that, in order to get somewhere, you have know someone!
She has signed up with several
websites used by directors and
modeling agencies looking for
models and actors. She also has
a gofundme.com account accepting donations to get her to New
York so she can be noticed by
top agencies and photographers.
This has been a lifelong dream for
Juliana. We don’t have a whole lot
but we do what we can to see to it
that she lives her dream. Juliana
wants to make a difference and
show her generation that there is
so much more out there for our
young children.
Monikke Cummings
Raeford
Every class was something new
and eye-opening and even fun.
These classes accomplished
two important things for me. It
gave me a fresh perspective on
what it takes to be a police officer,
and it offered opportunities to get
to know our own staff. They are to
be commended for this endeavor
to connect with the people they
serve. I wish them well with the
2014 academy.
Mary Neil King
Raeford
Get children ready for new school year
To the Editor:
Another school year is fast
approaching—August 25 for
the traditional calendar students
and homeschoolers. I hope that
local students and parents are
anticipating a fantastic 2014-2015
calendar year, with many experiences that will unlock the brain
and provide opportunities for new
academic and physical growth.
Things for them for consideration before the year actually
begins:
1. Get all recommended immunizations
2. Get the supply list from
your teacher
3. Determine the dress code
4. Meet the teacher
5. Tour the school (especially
if you are going to a new school)
6. For younger students, help
them remember the appropriate
home and cell phone numbers,
the house address and parents’
or guardians’ name. If they have
a digital device, make sure it
is programmed into the device
and that the child knows how to
retrieve the information.
7. Arrange transportation,
designate a safe spot and practice
the routine.
8. If walking to school, please
walk to and from with your son/
daughter a few times; familiarize the child with the route and
routine.
9. If carpooling, introduce the
children to all the drivers.
10. If riding the school bus,
make sure to know the bus stop,
the morning arrival time and
the afternoon return time. If the
children are young, someone
must meet them at the bus stop
in the afternoons and be there in
the morning.
11. Arrange before or after
school care if necessary.
12. Plan a menu for breakfasts,
packed lunches, snacks and after
school snacks; don’t forget to go
to the grocery store! Permit the
child to help.
13. Establish a homework
station and location; begin to
learn your son/daughter’s learning style. Encourage good study
Back in my college years when
I began a deeper search for the
meaning of life, I learned that
reality is not easily defined. This
fact is borne out by the bizarre
behavior of many groups and individuals. All manner of animals
and heavenly bodies have been
worshipped faithfully. Different
people perceive the same things
in different ways. For that matter,
a sensory input can be perceived
differently by the same person
under different circumstances.
Have you ever looked for an
object in a specific place several
times before finding it right in
plain view? Surely that object was
there all along, but according to
whom? I am not qualified to get
into a deep discussion of these
phenomena, but I would like to
discuss one recurring instance of
this paranormal perception. I will
call it “The Paradox of Socks.”
Over the years, I have scorned
style and I have narrowed my sock
purchases to the bare basics. I
have found that I am happy with
only three varieties and the only
required variety is color. There
are of course many different
fabrics and patterns even within
the scope of the single colored
sock. For me, this only confuses
the issue. There is the thin type,
the thicker, subtle knit pattern
type and my favorite, the heavier
knit stretch type, lately the only
kind I buy. I like the ones with
the gold stitching in the toe area,
once a sure sign of quality but also
a help when matching. Some of
you may have noticed my lack
Frog Holler
Philosopher
Ron Huff
of sock variety for years, but not
one of you has mentioned it. My
guess is that no one really cares
as long as I don’t wear something
outrageous. Charlotte will police
that. Does each of us have our
own sock reality in which our
personal preference is right with
the world?
Based on what I have written
here, it would be logical to expect
my sock drawer (yes, there is
an entire drawer) to be nothing
but matched pairs of gold toe
stitched socks in my triumvirate
of colors—blue, brown and black.
While this is my ultimate goal,
it is part of the paradox that I
just can’t get there. You can buy
a gold toe stitched sock in the
same store as the last ones you
bought and they may not match
perfectly in color or knit style. If
not carefully held up to the light,
a mismatch goes undetected until
it is too late. Add the fact that my
old eyes don’t see too well early
in the morning in low light and I
am as likely as not to be wearing
mismatched socks.
If this wasn’t enough to contend with, I now enter the realm
of the unknown, in which a sock
can disappear in the cycle of
laundry for undetermined periods
of time. During this absence, the
mate is left in limbo until either
the prodigal match comes home
or I give up and toss it. I am not
one to toss lightly and I can assure you that I give the abandoned
sock every benefit of the doubt.
Over time, these singles accumulate in the drawer and there are
fewer and fewer matched socks
to choose from. When this happens, I reluctantly do a drawer
inventory. This is when I find
that, while I have been unable to
easily find a certain color, there
are actually a dozen or more pair
in the drawer, including some that
have been hiding in there since
high school. This exercise also
gives me the opportunity to assign the mismatches to their true
companions, making the selection
of socks a joy for a few weeks.
Over the years I have tried to
refine my techniques, but short
of throwing every sock away
and buying a case of each color
at once, I will never whip this.
Inevitably, one sock will show
up in the dry clothes where two
entered the laundry hamper. I have
started placing the lone socks in
plain view on my dresser until the
match eventually shows up. Just
yesterday, I was poised to toss the
single when after weeks, out of the
blue (in this case it was brown),
the mate showed up.
I have similar problems with
straight blade and Phillips screwdrivers. There are always three of
the type you don’t need. Maybe
our house was built in some
mystical vortex.
More later.
Moving toward a full-time legislature
Police academy was ‘eye-opening’, ‘fun’
In a few weeks, the Raeford
Police Department will conduct
its academy. I attended last year,
and it was quite an experience! We
were given opportunities to view
or participate in most aspects of
a law enforcement department.
Socks are winning mystical battle
habits early in their school days.
14. Establish some clear routines: “getting up in the morning,
grace before meals, bedtime rituals, read book, nighttime prayers
and then lights out at 8:30 p.m.
Good rest is rejuvenation for the
brain and body!
15. Remind him/her that they
are “so loved,” a picture of the
family or write a note and place
it into their book bag/backpack/
lunch box. It will put a smile on
their face when they read it; you
smiled as you wrote it. Smiling
is contagious!
16. Celebrate, plan a special
meal; make it festive and important, set the table, use the “good
china”, prepare the favorite
foods of the “Honoree.” Laugh,
have fun, enjoy the family event.
Encourage the young person to
do well in school, put his/her
best food forward and enjoy the
academic journey.
Diane A. Mitchell, President
Hoke County Association of
Educators
The most important thing the
legislature did this year is what
it did not do.
Adjourn.
Instead of adjourning and closing down as is customary shortly
after the state’s budget has been
revised, the legislators resolved
to stay in session indefinitely,
coming back from time to time to
respond to emergencies, to vote on
various matters, and to work out a
plan to deal with Duke Energy’s
coal ash ponds.
Maybe that sounds like a reasonable plan to you.
Here is the problem. When
One on One
D. G. Martin
the legislature is still in session,
government officials and workers
spend much of their time looking
over their shoulders and wondering what will happen next. They
cannot concentrate on following
the directions the legislature has
already given them while still
wondering what the legislators
might do the next day. Until the
legislature adjourns, these government officials and other people
whose living depends on getting
the government to do something
for them will be plotting, conjuring up ways to get the legislature
to take some action that benefits
them.
Even if the body is not meeting every day, this whole mess of
people gather around the legislative building and continue to work,
not unlike what one observer said,
like pigs at feeding time.
Until 1974, the legislature met,
biennially, ordinarily for only one
session in odd numbered years. If
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August 13, 2014 Michael A. Minter
Michael Allen Minter of Raeford died Friday, August 8, 2014
in FirstHealth Moore Regional
Hospital at the age of 45.
He was born in Moore County
on January 30, 1969. He was
preceded in death by his mother,
Mary Ward Caulder, and his
brother, Kenney Minter.
He is survived by his daughter,
Hannah Minter of Fayetteville;
his brothers, Chris Huffman and
wife Robin and their son, Joshua
and daughter Candace of Raeford,
Ronnie Strickland of Raeford,
and Greg Huffman of Florida;
and his sister, Tammy Benton of
Michigan.
The funeral was held at 2 p.m.
Monday, August 11 at Crumpler
Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor
Jerry Edge officiating. Burial was
in Raeford Cemetery.
Online condolences may be
made at www.crumplerfuneralhome.com.
Pauline McNeill Bruner
Sarah Pauline McNeill Bruner,
97, of Laurinburg, formerly of
the Antioch community, Hoke
County, died Friday, August 8,
2014 at Scotland Memorial Hospital after a brief illness.
She was retired from Dundarrach Trading Company where
she worked as a bookkeeper for
many years. She was a lifelong
member of Antioch Presbyterian
Church and a former president of
the Clan McBryde. It was largely
through her efforts that a history
of the Clan McBryde was written.
She was preceded in death
by her husband, Lamon Arnie
Bruner.
She is survived by a brother,
Percy McNeill and wife Jo of
Columbia, South Carolina; a
sister, Bertha McNeill Webster
of Chester, Virginia; sister-in-law,
Betty McNeill of Antioch; two
sons, Ben Bruner and wife Molly
of Charleston, South Carolina, and
Jerry Bruner and wife Leslie of
Laurinburg; seven grandchildren,
Luke Bruner and wife Kristy and
children Rowan and Iris, Lisa
Bruner and husband Kris Jensen
and daughter Ruby, Owen Bruner,
Clay Bruner, Scott Bruner, Chase
Bruner, and Abby Bruner; and
a host of nieces, nephews and
loved ones.
An interment was held at 10:30
a.m. Tuesday, August 12 at the
Paul M. Blanton
Paul Marshall Blanton, 80,
formerly of Raeford, of St.
Matthews, South
Carolina, died
Friday, August 1,
2014.
He served in the
Army during the Korean War and
later worked and retired from
the textile industry. He was born
May, 12, 1934 in Horry County,
South Carolina to the late Vernie
Lester and Lula Gracie Blanton.
He was preceded in death
by a daughter, Jacqueline Lynn
Blanton.
Survivors include his wife,
Madaline Reynolds Blanton;
daughters, Ila Pearl Blanton of
Hartsville, South Carolina and
Suzanne Blanton (Sheldon)
Ledwell of St. Matthews; brothers; Jack (Carolyn) of Raeford
and Jimmy W. Blanton of Union
Springs, New York; sisters, Evelyn Duvall of Atlanta, Georgia
and Gracie Anne Cole of Jackson
Springs; two grandchildren and
one great-grandchild.
The funeral was held at 10:00
a.m. Monday, August 4 in DukesHarley Funeral Home Chapel
in South Carolina with the Rev.
Thomas Huggins officiating. Interment was in Carolina Baptist
Church Cemetery in Green Sea,
South Carolina.
Memorials may be made to
First Baptist Church, PO Box
348, St. Matthews, SC or the
American Cancer Society of
SC, 128 Stonemark Lane, Columbia, SC.
Linda M. McBryde
Linda Ann Maynor McBryde,
60, of Raeford died Saturday,
August 2, 2014.
Survivors include her brothers, Jerome and Ernest Maynor;
and sisters, Marie McDonald, Ernestine McDowell and Yvonne
Maynor.
The funeral was held at 1 p.m.
Friday, August 8 in Friendship
Grove FWB Church.
Myrtle Hunt Oxendine
Myrtle Hunt Oxendine, 64,
died Wednesday, August 6, 2014
after a brief illness surrounded
by her family in her home.
She was born in Scotland
County, one of 16 children, to
the late Sherman and Mable
Lowery Hunt.
She is survived by her children, Tonia Oxendine and fiancé
Ronald Brown, Lisa Jacobs and
spouse Michael, Benny Locklear
Jr. and fiancé Antonio Grif-
fin, and Derek Locklear, all of
Raeford; grandchildren, Johnny
and Joshua Jones, Talisha Brown,
Michael, Nicholas and Selina Jacobs, and Shania, Della, Daylin,
Delson and London Locklear;
brothers and their spouses, Leon
and Marty Hunt, Homer and Faye
Hunt, Thomas and Linda Hunt,
Eugene and Lynn Hunt, and
Alton and Judy Hunt; sisters and
their spouses, Naomi and Gerald
Locklear, and Candice and Kenny
Hardy; and numerous nieces and
nephews.
The funeral was held at 1 p.m.
Sunday, August 10 in HanesLineberry Vanstory chapel in
Greensboro with the Rev. Gerald
Locklear officiating. Interment
was in Lakeview Cemetery in
Greensboro.
Memorial contributions may
be made to Benny Locklear Jr., PO
Box 1293, Raeford, NC 28376.
Online condolences may be
made to haneslineberryfuneralhomes.com.
Wanda Kirk
Wanda Kirk, 76, passed away
Friday, August 8, 2014 in her
home.
She was born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania on December 17,
1937 to the late Robert and Ruth
George Kirk. Along with her
parents, she is preceded in death
by her sons, John D’Annunzio
and Ben Mosco, and a brother,
Doug Kirk.
She is survived by her partner,
Fred White of Raeford; sons, Tim
D’Annunzio and wife Colleen of
Raeford, and Robert Mosco and
wife Carol of Raeford; daughters,
Doreen Comito and husband
John of Gloucester, New Jersey,
Pamela D’Annunzio and partner
James McGeehan of Wilmington,
Ruth Greer and husband Jeff of
Middletown, Delaware and Rose
Marie Mosco of Pennsylvania;
brothers, Robert Kirk and William Kirk, both of Pennsylvania
and Donald Kirk of Cape May,
New Jersey; sisters, Joan Kirk and
Barbara Webb, both of Pennsylvania; 16 grandchildren; and 11
great-grandchildren.
The funeral was held at 10 a.m.
Tuesday, August 12 at LaFayette
Funeral Home in Fayetteville
with the Rev. Dr. Steve Castle
officiating.
Burial was at LaFayette Memorial Park West in Fayetteville.
Online condolences may be
made at www.lafayettefh.com.
Raeford Police reported the
following recent incidents:
August 5
Resisting a public officer, larceny, 100 block of Lantern Lane,
victims Sonya Finkley and State
of North Carolina
Missing persons, 400 block of
East 8th Avenue
Assault inflicting serious injury, 600 block of Health Drive,
victim Edna Daniels Weaver
August 6
Obtaining a controlled substance by fraud, 400 block of
Harris Avenue, victim Barbee
Pharmacy
Larceny, 200 block of South
Douglas also sustained a minor
injury and was released from the
hospital. Jerry Douglas was admitted and remains in the hospital.
Deputies are seeking the arrest
of Malloy and investigating the
identity of the second suspect.
Anyone with information about
their whereabouts is asked to
contact the Hoke County Sheriff’s
Office at 875-5111.
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Rainy weather forced Hoke
County Sheriff’s Office officials
to cancel last week’s National
Night Out program, but the rescheduled event will take place
this Saturday evening.
National Night Out is now
set for August 16 from 5-8 p.m.
at the Hoke County Recreation
Complex located at 3195 Red
Springs Road.
The annual event, established
over 30 years ago and presented
for over 15 years in Hoke County,
seeks to strengthen local ties between residents and emergency
workers as well as offer tips on
keeping people and property safe.
charged Willie Kershaw, 53, of
the 500 block of Alex Baker Road.
Damage to public school bus,
300 block of South Magnolia
Street, victim Hoke County Board
of Education
August 9
Trespassing, 300 block of
Birch Street, victim Willard
Purcell
Larceny, 1300 block of Fulton
Street, victim Quick Stop #2
Assault with a deadly weapon
inflicting serious injury, Saunders
Street, victim Briana Delores
Lowery
This year, the event plans to reach
out to Hoke’s senior citizens and
shine a spotlight on all they do for
the community.
National Night Out will have
many activities and entertainment
options for visitors. The event
features live entertainment, with
a skydiving presentation to start
the evening. The hosts provide
free food and drinks, and vendors
will have other items for sale.
There will be many activities
for children including games and
bounce houses, besides the park’s
playground facilities.
National Night Out is meant to
help residents take a stand against
crime in their communities while
connecting with the agencies that
work to keep them safe.
School Briefs
In honor society
Tony F. Cunningham of Raeford was selected for membership
in the National Society of High
School Scholars. Cunningham
is a senior at Hoke High School.
Student gets degree
Brandi Stokes of Raeford
earned her B.A. degree in Special
Education from Western Governors University in Salt Lake City.
Today’s homework (Notes on education)
“A system where the individual students don’t matter, where they have
no choices, where they are simply pushed through a process like toasters on an assembly line, a system, in short, that assumes that students
must be compliant and that they have no power to choose— that is an
immoral system. As invested as we may be in the students’ outcomes,
their lives are not ours to control. We absolutely need to recognize that
all students can learn. We also need to recognize that whether they will
learn or not is their choice, not ours. How far we will go to help them
choose well is our own choice, our charge, our responsibility. It’s our job.”
— “Does Reformster Character Matter?” from the blog Curmuducation
“If exercising my right as a citizen to argue that I should not have to
give up longevity pay in return for a small portion of the raise that is
being debated gets me called an “idiot teacher” by the Legislative Assistant in my North Carolina State Representative’s office, then it is no
wonder teachers are being devalued by our State Government.”
— Julia Clore-Laurich, Kings Mountain teacher after phoning State Rep.
Tim Moore’s office to complain about the teacher pay increase plan. Not
realizing she hadn’t hung up the phone, Moore’s assistant told another
staffer some “idiot teacher” had called and made her “blood boil.”
“First In Teacher Flight”
— Increasingly popular N.C. license plate playing on the state’s motto
“First In Flight”
Martin
Home Food
Feed & seed
875-3375 • 875-7566
fresh veggies
Fresh Shelled
fresh fish
every
wednesday
Main Street, victim Margie Goins
Larceny, 200 block of South
Main Street, victim Jacob Patterson
August 7
Driving while intoxicated
– alcohol and/or drugs, Harris
Avenue/South Main Street, victim
State of North Carolina. Police
charged Marqueda Lavet Morris,
30, of the 5600 block of Arabia
Road in Lumber Bridge.
August 8
Possessing stolen property,
no operator’s license, resisting,
delaying or obstructing an officer,
401 Bypass Stop and Save, victim
State of North Carolina. Police
National Night Out rescheduled
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Home Grown
Shelled or Unshelled
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brothers at a home on Stubbs Road
when Malloy allegedly got a gun
and shot them, investigators said.
“They got into a verbal confrontation with (the victims), a
physical altercation then took
place. Jermaine Malloy retrieved
a firearm and shot the three individuals,” Kivett said.
Wall was shot in the arm and
released from the hospital. Leroy
Raeford, N.C
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Obituaries
Antioch Presbyterian Church
Cemetery followed by a memorial
service at 11 a.m. in the church,
with visitation afterward.
Memorials may be made to
Antioch Presbyterian Church,
6583 Red Springs Road, Red
Springs, NC 28377.
Online condolences may be
made at www.crumplerfuneralhome.com.
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we still followed that custom, our
legislature would have finished its
work in 2013, gone home, and
stayed until after the fall election.
The 1974 extra session was
meant to be short, primarily to adjust the budget to take account of
unexpected changes in revenues,
not for the consideration of new
legislation. But over time, most of
the restrictions have melted away
so that North Carolina has, in
effect, two full annual legislative
sessions, rather than the pre-1974
biennial sessions.
What difference does it make?
Here are some of the advantages
of the old system of biennial
sessions as summarized by The
Conference of State Legislators:
1. There are enough laws.
Biennial sessions constitute a
safeguard against precipitate and
unseemly legislative action.
SandHoke Early College
High School
Freshmen Parents: August 11, 5:30 p.m.
Sophomores (2nd year students): August 12, 5:30 p.m.
Juniors (3rd year students): August 14, 5:30 p.m.
Seniors/Super Seniors: August 14, 5:30 p.m.
Hoke County Schools
Open
House
for 2014
Hoke High School
Freshmen: August 18, 6 p.m.
Sophomores: August 19, 6 p.m.
Juniors: August 20, 6 p.m.
Seniors: August 21, 6 p.m.
West Hoke Middle
August 20 • 2 - 6 p.m.
East Hoke Middle
August 20 • 3-7 p.m.
Sandy Grove Middle
August 20 • 4 - 7 p.m.
Elementary Schools
August 21
McLauchlin • 4-6 p.m.
Upchurch • 3-6 p.m.
West Hoke Elementary • 3-6 p.m.
Hawk Eye • 2-6 p.m.
Rockfish-Hoke • 3:30-6 p.m.
Don Steed • 4-6 p.m.
Scurlock • 3:30-6:30 p.m.
Sandy Grove • 5-7 p.m.
2. Yearly meetings of the legislature will contribute to legislative
harassment of the administration
and its agencies.
3. The interval between sessions may be put to good advantage by individual legislators and
interim study commissions, since
there is never sufficient time during a session to study proposed
legislation.
4. The biennial system affords
legislators more time to renew relations with constituents, to mend
political fences and to campaign
for reelection.
5. Annual sessions inevitably
lead to a spiraling of legislative
costs, for the legislators and other
assembly personnel are brought
together twice as often.
Having already given up these
advantages beginning in 1974,
the legislature has now taken
another important step towards
a full-time legislature, one that
never adjourns, one that will be a
permanent presence in Raleigh. A
full-time legislature will demand
full-time staffs and full-time
salaries.
Why do legislators want to be
in Raleigh for a longer time?
Former university president
Dick Spangler, responding to
questions about why the legislature stayed in session so long,
explained by asking a question,
“Why would a legislator want to
go home where he or she would
be treated like an ordinary human
being? They can stay in Raleigh
and be treated like kings and
queens. Why go home?”
The change to a full-time legislature might be gradual, as was
the shift from biennial to annual
sessions, but there will be no going back.
Mark Twain said, “No man’s
life, liberty, or property are safe
while the legislature is in session.”
In North Carolina, that is going
to mean all the time.
By establishing the precedent
of staying in session indefinitely,
this legislature’s failure to adjourn
was its most important action
this year.
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Raeford, N.C.
August 13, 2014
School board chair files for office
By Catharin Shepard
Staff writer
Incumbent chairwoman and
longtime teacher Irish Pickett has
filed to run for another four-year
term on the Hoke County Board
of Education.
Pickett, who has served two
four-year terms on the board, announced her candidacy this week.
Pickett was born and raised
in Hoke County and graduated
from Upchurch High School.
She attended Fayetteville State
University and earned a bachelor’s
degree in elementary education,
and later attended the University
of North Carolina at Pembroke to
earn a master’s degree in education administration. She worked
in Hoke schools for 36 years as
a teacher and principal before
retiring. She has previously served
on many other directing boards
including the Hoke County Social
Services board, the Raeford-Hoke
Museum board and the county
Board of Health.
Pickett said she decided to
run for another term because she
hopes to continue working on the
many projects and goals that the
existing board of education has
already begun.
“Our present board is committed to excellent academics in Hoke
County schools,” she said, citing
the board’s work to open Sandy
Grove Middle School, its award
as the school board of the year
from the North Carolina School
Board Association and other accomplishments.
“There are several major
projects in the planning stages
at this time, and I would like to
be on board to see these projects
completed and come to fruition,”
she said.
Adding a third campus to Hoke
County High School, including
new classrooms, a new gym and
an Olympic-sized swimming
pool for both students and the
community, is one of those major
projects, Pickett said.
Additionally, Pickett said that,
if she is reelected, she hopes to
continue working to make sure
schools prepare students to become 21st century professionals,
in line with the schools’ five-year
‘Into the Future’ plan. Expanding the use of technology in the
classroom is one way of doing
that, the candidate said.
“Hopefully in the future, with
those initiatives there, we would
like to expand our technology, expanding the 3D technologies and
the completion of smartboards
100 percent and to expand the use
of Google apps in the classroom,”
Pickett said.
If reelected, Pickett said the
school systems’ focus on literacy and mathematics would be
her first priority. Growing staff
members’ professional development and continuing to hire local
qualified teachers to fill vacant
administrative positions are also
top priorities, she added.
“We do this to encourage our
teachers and let them know that
we’re proud of what they do and
how they have supported the
system and reward them instead
of going out and getting someone
new,” she said.
Some of the biggest challenges
the school system is facing right
now are funding issues at the state
level and the fast growth at the
high school, Pickett said.
“That’s why it’s so important
that we can (start) up this third
campus at the high school,” she
said.
By Bill Lindau
Irish Pickett
“This strategic plan will guide
all the decisions that we make into
the future,” she said.
Pickett pointed to her experience and work on the board’s
recent projects as part of why
voters should consider voting
for her. During her years on the
board, the school system has
opened three new schools, added
tennis courts to the high school,
worked with a local nonprofit to
build and open the Echo Ridge
teacher housing apartments and
upgrade the technology in local
classrooms, she said.
Police academy returns for another class
By Catharin Shepard
Staff writer
Hoke residents don’t have to
earn their degree in law enforcement to learn how to direct traffic,
practice processing a crime scene
or see how a police dog tracks
suspects.
For the second year in a row,
the Raeford Police Department
is offering 30 people a chance
to participate in a special class
that will teach civilians about
everything from fingerprinting to
investigating crimes. The Raeford
department’s Citizen’s Police
Academy is set to induct its second
class of students this fall.
The department decided to
hold another round of classes
after last year’s academy proved
popular, assistant chief Maj. Marc
Godwin said.
“We had quite a few people
who wanted to do one this year,”
he said.
Last year’s academy had good
turnout and they have had requests
ever since to do another series of
the classes, Godwin said.
The program is mostly handson, though it does have some
classroom sections. For the most
part, students will be out in the
field working with experienced
police officers to learn more about
law enforcement work.
Among some of the things officers will teach students are how
to fill out fingerprint cards and
process fingerprints, how to direct
traffic and alternate patterns, what
happens at felony and routine
traffic stops, filling out police
forms, processing a crime scene
and more. Students will also have
the chance to take a jail tour and
see how police dogs track suspects
and search for drugs.
The citizen’s academy is meant
to help residents learn more
about police work and help both
citizens and police officers gain
insight into how they each view
police work.
“The purpose of the Citizen’s
Police Academy is to foster better
communications between citizens
and police through education,” organizers said in a statement. “The
academy will create a nucleus of
well-informed citizens who possess greater insight into police
practices and services.”
The academy consists of a
two-hour class held every week
for eight weeks. Members of the
police department and other agencies with particular expertise in
their field will teach each topic. All
classes are held at Raeford City
Hall beginning at 6 p.m.
Citizens applying to join the
class must be at least 18 years
old and a resident or employee
of Hoke County. They cannot
have any felony convictions or
misdemeanor convictions within
one year of applying.
The requirements include
a criminal history background
check. Requirements may be
waived or modified upon review
and approval of the Chief of
Police.
Application packets can be
found at the police department
or city hall. The deadline to apply is August 31. Classes start
September 18.
For more information, contact
the police department’s nonemergency line at 875-4251 during business hours.
parked at homes in subdivisions
in the county. Several items have
been recovered.
The sheriff’s office listed more
than 20 victims with the crime
dates listed as between June 5-6
and August 4-5. The thefts took
place in the Northwoods Estates,
Stonewall and Twelve Oaks subdivisions.
Campbell and Bethea’s arrests
are pending, officials said.
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outstanding felony warrants for
their arrest.
The arrest was the result of
months of investigation into a
rash of break-ins to motor vehicles
Police make multiple arrests in car break-ins
The Raeford Police Department announced officers have
made multiple arrests in the case
of several vehicle break-ins in
the city, and warned that many
of the break-ins happened to
unlocked cars.
“Recently, this agency has
taken several reports regarding
breaking and entering into unlocked motor vehicles. Due to
alarms and noises, criminals are
‘checking’ doors and targeting
those motor vehicles that are left
unlocked,” the department said in
a statement. Officials urged drivers to lock their car doors and not
leave valuables inside.
Officers arrested Darius T.
Ellerbee and Teyon Ellerbee, both
24, both of the 1500 block of Pope
Street; Rondeil D. James, 19, of
the 400 block of Fletch McPhaul
Road in Red Springs; Khaneycia
N. Bruton, 27, of the 900 block of
Pedro Drive in Fayetteville; and
are still seeking suspect Derrick
Patterson, 29, of the 100 block of
Raindrop Loop.
Darius T. Ellerbee was charged
with breaking and entering into a
motor vehicle, financial card theft,
13 counts of obtaining property by
false pretense and three counts of
felony conspiracy. Teyon Ellerbee
was charged with felony conspiracy. James was charged with two
counts of breaking and entering a
motor vehicle and two counts of
larceny. Bruton was charged with
identity theft and three counts
of obtaining property by false
pretense. Patterson is wanted on
a charge of felony conspiracy.
Ellerbee
Darius and Teyon Ellerbee
were arrested in connection with
a vehicle break-in and later use
of a Visa card belonging to victim J. D’Annunzio. D’Annunzio
reported that his card was stolen
from his vehicle and used 13 times
in the evening. Authorities tracked
the card to Darius Ellerbee and
reportedly discovered that he met
with his cousin Teyon Ellerbee
and Derrick Patterson at Waffle
House.
“These individuals conspired
with each other to utilize the stolen
Visa card and obtain items and
food throughout the evening,”
authorities stated.
Darius Ellerbee received a
$20,000 secured bond; Teyon
Ellerbee received a $5,000 unsecured bond. Officers continue
seeking information on Patterson’s whereabouts.
Darius Ellerbee was additionally charged in connection with
another break-in on July 1. A
witness reportedly saw Ellerbee
inside a vehicle belonging to
victim Caitlin Jones, according
to authorities.
In both cases, the victims’
vehicles were unlocked.
James
James was arrested in connection with break-ins to unlocked
vehicles on the Hoke High School
campus. James allegedly walked
through the parking lot during
the high school graduation, testing car doors to find cars that
were unlocked. James reportedly
entered three vehicles, including
two belonging to victims Swanda
Morrisey-Ray and Anthony C.
Southerland; a third victim declined to file a report. Authorities
reported purses, money, cigarettes
and other items were stolen
from those vehicles, which were
unlocked.
James received a $2,000 se-
cured bond.
Bruton
Bruton was arrested in connection with a case of identity theft.
Victim Dorothy Jones reported to
police that there were three unauthorized financial transactions in
her bank statement. Investigators
believe Bruton allegedly used
Jones’ checking account to pay
her cell phone bill.
Jones and Bruton reportedly
worked together at Walmart and
were involved in several verbal
and physical altercations at the
time, police said.
“There is a probability that
Mrs. Bruton, suspect, obtained
Mrs. Jones’ banking information
pursuant to a motor vehicle theft
in Fayetteville. The motor vehicle
theft took place in October of
2013 after a physical altercation between these individuals,”
authorities said in a statement.
During that time, Jones’ purse,
including her checkbook and
financial transaction cards, were
also stolen.
Bruton received a $10,000
unsecured bond.
Hospital
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the hospital can start receiving
its first patients. After the construction is finished, teams of
inspectors from the county and
the state have to take a good look
at everything and declare it safe
to open for business. It’s a long
process to meet all of the regulations and licensing requirements,
Jones said.
During that time, the hospital
will also be working to get everything set up and prepared to
work with medical companies.
Officials will be doing “a lot of
financial foundational work” to
make sure that the hospital has
submitted all applications for
insurance providers as well, the
Hoke hospital president said.
“There’s a lot that goes on
between the time the brick and
mortar is completed and the hospital (opening),” she said.
It will take six to eight weeks
for the full behind-the-scenes
work to wrap up, but Jones said she
anticipates the hospital will take
its first patient in February 2015.
The first phase of Health Pavilion Hoke started in early 2012
and construction on the inpatient
hospital portion started last year.
Job fair
In preparation for the approaching opening, Cape Fear
Valley plans to hold a job fair on
the medical campus October 9.
The hospital system is looking to
fill hundreds of positions ranging
from certified or licensed medical staff such as nurses, doctors,
respiratory therapists and others to
non-licensed staff members such
as food and nutrition service experts and environmental services
employees.
“We’re trying to seek individuals for every job position that we
will have available at this hospital,” Jones said.
The hospital system has said
all along that it hopes to employ
as many Hoke County residents
as possible in filling out its staff.
Now it’s time to find out how many
people in the county are interested
and have the skills needed to work
in the hospital.
Health board to
study telemedicine
“The job fair is going to serve
for us to understand our talent in
the community,” Jones said. “We
made a commitment to as much
as we can hire from within this
county and we will do that.”
Additionally, Cape Fear Valley’s Health Pavilion Hoke plans
to hold Hoke Community Health
Day October 18 with vendors
promoting health and wellness,
speakers offering advice, activities for children and more.
“It’s really to educate our community on preventative health and
wellness and add more exposure
to services that they can offer,”
Jones said.
Contracts for three foreign-language interpreters, a professional cleaning service and a breastfeeding program for nursing
mothers were approved by the Hoke County Board of Health
Monday evening at its first monthly meeting since June.
The board also voted to study the use of telemedicine as
a possible new program for the Hoke County Department of
Public Health.
Two of the interpreters are already employed by the Health
Department. Both of them are fluent in Spanish, said Helene
Edwards, health director. A contract was approved Monday for
a third interpreter to work on an as-needed basis; applications
are being taken for this position, Edwards said.
The as-needed part-time interpreter will help out in the event
of a staff shortage, vacation period, long lines of patients, nonEnglish speaking children and other services, she added.
The other service contract was for Dennis Janitorial Services,
specifically for the Health Department facilities. One of these
employees has worked for the county and for the schools. The
department pays for cleaning services for the floor, restrooms and
other parts of its facility separately from the county, Edwards said.
The board approved a contract for a peer counselor for the
department’s breastfeeding program. The department works with
WIC for nursing mothers. Theresa Lloyd, a nutritionist with the
department, said a peer assistant is being sought to work more
closely with clients. She said the program wanted to increase
its caseload, send a counselor out to clients’ homes and work
with other maternal nursing issues.
The board heard Edwards discuss telemedicine and decided
to research it before the department gets a live system in place.
Interviews with patients are already being conducted via TV
monitors for psychiatry, both adult and pediatric, with hopes of
expanding into other areas, including medicine, Edwards said.
The Health Department reported $62,666 in revenues and
$379,000 in expenditures for the month of June. State funds
amounting to $89,966 as well as Medicaid assistance and other
fees were counted as expenditures, Edwards said.
Edwards also told the board of the funds approved by the
County Commissioners on August 4 for a program for the health
department in conjunction with the pharmacy of the Cape Fear
Valley Medical Center. She said there would be a time stamp for
those who go into the pharmacy, and access would be limited
to nurses, physicians and pharmacists.
Edwards said training for the staff is under way for the Patagonia Health HER Solutions program. She said more on-site
training will be conducted August 28-29.
In the public comments part of the meeting, Health Department employee Tony McLaughlin expressed his desire that his
contract be renewed. He said he has been with the department
13 years, and his contract is up for renewal this year.
A seminar for healthcare professionals on Medicaid and
healthcare reform is scheduled for Thursday, September 4 at
the Hoke County Health Department, 683 East Palmer Street
in Raeford, beginning at 6:15 p.m., following registration and
dinner. The program is titled “Healthcare Reform: Is Your Practice Ready?” This seminar will also be held in Harnett, Lee,
Montgomery, Moore, Richmond and Scotland counties. For
more information, contact Deane Bogatay at (910) 246-9806,
email dbogatay@cc-sandhills.org; or the Southern Regional
Area Health Education Center (SR-AHEC) at (910) 678-0112,
email althea.bell@sr-ahec.org.
The Hoke County Board of Health meets the second Monday
of each month at the health department building on East Palmer
Street. Its next meeting is scheduled for Monday, September 8.
Bakery
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customer demand quickly reversed that decision.
“The coffee just kind of fell
in place,” she said. “Everybody
was asking, what kind of coffee
are you going to have?”
Word spread quickly about the
shop. There’s already a growing
fan base for the store’s sweet potato muffins, Ramos said.
The bakery has a rotating menu
with updates on the store’s Facebook page. Some days, blueberry
muffins will be up for sale, while
macadamia nut cookies could be
on the counter display the next
morning. The menu includes
all sorts of cupcakes, muffins,
slices of cake, smoothies and other
treats. The store offers a variety of
coffee styles including the classic
cup of coffee, lattés, frappes and
iced coffee with coffee flavoring
syrups available, as well as tea
items like chai tea and sweet tea.
Making Sweet Memories also
takes orders for cupcakes or cakes
for birthdays, parties, weddings
and other special occasions. The
bakers can even make gluten-free
and grain-free baked goods. The
cupcakes are priced at $2 each,
muffins are $2.50 each and cookies are $1.25 each with discounts
for larger amounts ordered.
The store is also expanding
its menu to include some savory
items like sandwiches and plans to
get into offering catering services.
Making Sweet Memories offers two sitting rooms with tables
and chairs for lounging and views
of Main Street through the home’s
original glass windows. One of the
rooms is dubbed the “Owl Room,”
decorated in pink and green with
owl decorations on the walls and
over the fireplace.
“This is where you’re able to
sit and enjoy your sweet treat and
the wonderful view,” Currie said.
The bakery additionally offers
WiFi for customers.
Reactions to the shop’s opening have been positive, the owner
said. The 13 customer reviews
posted to the store’s Facebook
page gave the business five out
of five stars.
Making Sweet Memories is
located at 401 North Main Street
in downtown Raeford. The current store hours are 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Monday-Thursday and 7 a.m.-6
p.m. Fridays, with the bakery open
for special scheduled events only
on Saturdays. For more information, call 248-6219.
Marriage Licenses
Marriage licenses recorded with
the Register of Deeds in Hoke County,
by date of marriage:
July 4
· Thomas McLaughlin Jr. and Annie Frances Rogers, both of Raeford,
married in Hoke County
July 6
· James Carter Lee Martin and
Paula Joe Jennings, both of Raeford,
married in Hoke County
July 7
· Taylor Robert Hohstadt of
Niceville, Fla. and Brandalynn Nicole
Wolfe of Westmoreland, Pa., married
in Hoke County
July 12
· Eduardo Atanacio Guerrero and
Joana Morales Morales, both of St.
Pauls, married in Robeson County
July 13
· James Andrew France and Ashley
Lynn Bowden, both of Raeford, married in Bladen County
July 14
· William Edward Patterson Jr.
and Stephanie Nicole Helmick Vincent, both of Red Springs, married in
Hoke County
July 19
· Octavio Sanchez Martinez of
Fairmont and Cintya Guadalupe
Ramirez-Acosta of Dillon, S.C.,
married in Robeson County
July 20
· Fred Allen Stanley and Tanya
Shaw Haley, both of Fayetteville,
married in Hoke County
July 24
· Wesley Demond Warren and
Nakesha Shonte Cummingham, both
of Raeford, married in Hoke County
July 25
· Juan Pedro Jasso Lopez and
Marikela Vargas Linarez, both of
Raeford, married in Hoke County
July 27
· Johnny Michael Stephens and
Jennifer Lee McClendon, both of
Raeford, married in Hoke County
Aug. 1
· Zachary Callahan Quick and
Brandi Lynn Southey, both of Raeford, married in Hoke County
Aug. 2
· Welton Ray Locklear and
Malinda Sue Collins, both of Red
Springs, married in Scotland County.
Sports
Rockfish Speedway sets
Back to School Night
Rockfish Motorsports Speedway did what most others did this
past Saturday. They cancelled
their event due to the heavy rains
and weather that was in the area.
This weekend, they are already
scheduled to be off and are
sticking to that. August 23 will
be their next race and is dubbed
Back to School Night. Anyone
who brings a bag of school supplies to the track will receive a
discounted ticket to the racing
action that night. Rockfish Mo-
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torsports Speedway will donate
the collected items to the local
school district to help those kids
and families that need it. “I have
always tried to give back to the
community,” William “Brownie”
Brown said this week. “We always
look out for the less fortunate and
we will continue to do that at
Rockfish Speedway, U-Haul and
Flea Mall.” The gates will open
at 3 p.m. with practice starting at
4 p.m. and racing action starting
at 5 p.m.
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The Bucks’ offense lines up against Leesville Road High School this past Monday night during a scrimmage.
Hoke scrimmage cut short by lightning
By Hal Nunn
Sports writer
The Hoke County High School
Bucks’ football team traveled to
Lee County Monday night for
its first scrimmage in a jamboree
format against Lee County and
Leesville Road. The Bucks were
supposed to scrimmage Asheboro
and Lumberton also but the event
was cut short by lightning.
“We started the first scrimmage
in the rain, then it started pouring,
then lightning cut us short,” Coach
Tom Paris said Tuesday morning.
Hoke is under a new coaching
staff with a new vision and new
style of play. “We want to be a
physical and fast team and also
play what I call 53 and 6. That
means we will defend 6 athletes
within a 53-yard area, the width
of the field,” Paris said.
Three of the new coaches
used to play for Tom Paris at
other schools: Larcoy McRae,
David Jorgensen and Demonte
Terry. Coach Vernon Walworth
and Coach Quame Patterson also
coached with Paris when he was
last here at Hoke. “It’s going to
take some time for our coaching
staff to gel but I believe we are
headed in the right direction,”
Coach Paris said. One parent at
practice the other day said he
hasn’t seen this much positive
energy and effort at Hoke in a
long time.
The Bucks will only get one
more chance to scrimmage, this
Friday night, before their first
game of the season next week
at home vs. Wilmington Ash-
ley. They will head back to Lee
County and take on Coach Paris’s
last team, Southern Lee. The difference about this scrimmage is
that there will only be these two
teams there and they won’t have
to worry about switching around
with other teams. That will give
them more reps against an opposing team. “We have got to find the
right people for the right spots in
our schemes and I think this will
help us greatly,” Paris said.
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Coach Chuck Johnson talks with players at the scrimmage this
week in Lee County. Johnson, who played at Auburn University, is
one of the new head coaches; however, he also coached at East
Hoke Middle School and knows many of the kids at the high school.
Coach Samuel Grooms holds the pads from moving while two
Hoke players practice proper tackling techniques. He attended
Emmanuel College in Boston, Massachusetts.
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linemen in proper blocking techniques. He played for the East
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and Diana Misiak in second place
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Candy Glidden shot an ace
on hole #12, 93 yards with a
5-wood on August 7 at Deercroft
Golf Club. This was her first-ever
hole-in-one. The 30th Annual
Strutters Golf Tournament will
be held September 20 and 21.
The tournament is open to the
first 120 players to sign up and
pay. Details are on the website
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Upland Trace
The Saturday “Pack” group
winners were Wayne Beasley,
Greg Wyrick, Kris Taylor and
Rodney Thompson. The Sunday
morning group winners were
Don Frykholm, Steve Jumbelick,
Guy Wall and Lee Harless. The
Sunday afternoon group winners
were Chad Ham, Brian Stephens,
Jerry Johnson and Johnny Boyles.
Note: Chad Ham shot a round of
70 on Sunday.
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August 13, 2014
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of the time—I’d say 90 percent of
the time. And I’ve given somebody
a smile.”
Williams, originally from
South Carolina, now lives in
Southern Pines, but opens a
roadside stand on Thursdays and
Fridays because he loves boiled
peanuts. “I flat out refuse to eat out
of a can. But this is supposed to
be the south and this is a southern
staple. I’ve grown up with boiled
peanuts my whole life and just
could not see not having them.
And I thought people would really
want their kids to see somebody
boiling peanuts on the roadside.
Like they see at the beach or in
the mountains. This is the south!”
He can’t tolerate the job but
two days a week because he’s got
a bad back and that also limits his
selling season to warmer months.
“Because of my back— I got
so many bolts—it won’t let me
function at all in the cold. That’s
why I’m only out here two days a
week. That’s my limit. That third
day I can’t function for the rest of
the week.”
“Then how,” I asked, “can you
keep such a good attitude?”
“I like being alive,” he an-
Williams cooks peanuts at his roadside stand.
Alleged
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A man got his missing dog
back nearly a year later and Hoke
County Sheriff’s Office deputies
have charged his neighbor with
allegedly stealing the canine.
When Keith Crumpler’s dog
went missing from his home on
Mosswood Drive last August,
Crumpler informed authorities
and put up flyers trying to find his
pet. Crumpler reportedly spoke to
his neighbor at the time, Dianne
Murphy, who denied having seen
the dog.
On August 12 another neighbor reported allegedly seeing
the dog in Murphy’s back yard.
Authorities recovered the dog and
reunited the canine with Crumpler. Murphy, 62, of the 100 block
of Mosswood Drive was charged
with larceny of a dog and given a
$15,000 secured bond.
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Hoke County High School is preparing to welcome
students back to school for the 2014-2015 school year
by offering four town hall meetings. These sessions are
for students and parents to attend according to the student’s grade level classification. Pertinent information
regarding your student’s school year will be presented,
and course schedules will be distributed during these sessions when a student attends with his or her parent or
guardian and completes required forms.
This is an excellent opportunity to see what the faculty and staff of Hoke County High
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City of Raeford water customers shouldn’t worry if they see
something a little strange coming
out of their faucets in the next
few weeks.
Local fire departments are
in the process of testing the fire
hydrants as part of a regular
safety check and that might lead
to some harmless discoloration in
tap water, Raeford City Manager
Dennis Baxley said.
The city fire department is doing flow tests on the hydrants as
part of a required recertification
process. The recertification shows
that the city maintains adequate
fire protection for residents,
Baxley said. This type of testing
isn’t done very often however.
“Typically, they can go around
and just test hydrants, work them,
make sure they’re operable, but
every so often they have to do
actual flows,” Baxley said.
Customers might notice that
their water looks a little “smoky”
when they first turn on the tap, but
it’s not dangerous and the water
is safe to use, the city manager
said. The discoloration comes
from small amounts of built-up
sediment in the pipes and not
from any outside contamination.
Opening the fire hydrants up full
blast to test their flow capacity
gets the water moving fast and
furious, clearing out anything
sitting in the pipes.
“It cleans the lines out, will
blow out any sediments,” Baxley
said.
If residents see smoky-looking
water and are uneasy about it, letting the tap run for a minute should
clear it up, the city manager said.
It’s possible that no one will
even experience any discoloring
of their water, but if anyone does,
it’s likely to happen over the next
few weeks primarily on the west
side of the city. The city used the
reverse-911 call service, which
sends out an automated telephone
call to residents, to inform people
of the possible discoloration.
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swered. “I just try to be grateful
for what I have and not worry
about what I don’t have. That’s
what grandmomma always said:
‘Don’t worry about your havenots. It’ll come out in the wash.’
And it does. The bills get paid. I
have a good life and I enjoy it.
“I’ve had a rough life. I’ve
been around. I know what a bad
day is, and this ain’t it. You know
what I mean? So ‘cause I’ve got
something to smile about, ‘cause
I’m not having a bad day, and if
I can spread that, great.”
He knows he’s making a difference, because he can see it in
passing faces, and because people
have stopped to tell him.
“I have had people stop and
give me money and not even like
boiled peanuts. I had a guy stop
last year and give me a hundred
dollars. I’ve had a couple of people
stop and give me 20 bucks or five
bucks. They said, ‘You are always
out here waving and smiling and
you brighten my day. Keep doing
what you’re doing. Keep spreading smiles.’ And that is a good
thing. Can you imagine anything
better that you can possibly do?
I can’t.”
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