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RAEFORD & HOKE COUNTY N.C.
No. 27 Vol. 107
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
County fire
ordinance
updated
Pine straw loses favor
BY CATHARIN SHEPARD
Staff writer
For the first time since 1992, the Hoke County
Board of Commissioners has approved an
updated version of the county’s fire ordinance
including several new policies that could play a
role in future development.
Fire Marshal Maj. Freddy Johnson and Assistant Director Benny Nichols wanted to take
a look at revamping the ordinance because the
existing document was outdated.
“It was over 20 years old and it was out of
code compliance,” Johnson said.
(See FIRE ORDINANCE, page 3A)
This Week
Art winners
announced
page 6A
Garden Club meets
page 1B
Calendar ...............2B
Classifieds ...............5B
Deaths ...............3A
Editorials ...............2A
Legals ...........3-4B
Sports ...............5A
Worship ...............2B
BY CATHARIN SHEPARD
Staff writer
The 2012 North Carolina Turkey Festival
got off to a wobbly start Monday night at
the official kick-off ceremony, and that’s
exactly how organizers wanted it.
“All you have to do is wobble,” executive
director Melissa Pittman told the crowd
gathered at the old Armory for the festivities.
The “wobble,” Pittman’s version of the dance
created by rapper V.I.C., is the theme for this
N. Main St.
Turlington
School
Reviewing
Stand
Harris Ave.
Frequent fliers to the North
Carolina Turkey Festival will notice
something seems backward this
year about the annual parade set for
Thursday afternoon in downtown
Raeford.
“This year we have been asked
to reverse the parade route,” festival
executive director Melissa Pittman
(See PARADE, page 6A)
The festival organizers took time to remember the many festival supporters who
passed away over the last year and in years
past, including Russell Smith, Christina
Payton, Bob Gentry, Kay Thomas, Carol
Burnett, Pat Kelly, Raz Autry, Gene Paul
Thacker and others.
“The people in Hoke County who love
this festival have given so much,” Pittman
said.
Thacker also received a special memorial
(See FESTIVAL, page 6A)
Elwood Ave.
Parade takes
new route
year’s festival. The Just Us Plus Parks and
Recreation dancers gave a demonstration,
but Pittman said she hopes to get everybody
doing the wobble during the festival.
The ceremony offered a chance to thank
the people working with the public and
behind the scenes to make the festival a success. Putting the festival together this year
has been a positive but at times “emotional”
experience, Pittman said.
“It has also been a very emotional festival
filled with many losses,” she said.
Edinborough Ave.
Sheriff’s deputies
arrested a Raeford man
Monday on charges
that he tied up his wife
and assaulted her in the
couple’s home.
Investigators arrested
Richard Alan Whitehurst, 33, of the 300 block
of McDougald Drive in
Raeford on charges of
Whitehurst
felony second-degree kidnapping and misdemeanor assault on a female. He was held under
a $30,000 bond.
Whitehurst’s wife reportedly told officers her
husband physically assaulted her, removed her
(See ASSAULT, page 4A)
But that’s a good thing, says organizers referring to the theme
Campus Ave.
Man charged
with assaulting wife
Turkey Festival off to wobbly start
Donaldson Ave.
Aut hor it ies a re
searching for a Raeford
man wanted for allegedly attempting to kill
his ex-girlfriend and one
other person by beating them with a shovel
handle.
T he Laurinburg
Police Department on
Jackson
Monday asked citizens
to be on the lookout for Willie Leon Jackson,
29, of the 800 block of Hilltop Road in Raeford.
Investigators alleged that Jackson attempted to
kill former girlfriend Cheryl Medlin, 20, and
her friend Robert McRae, 30, at McRae’s home
(See BEATINGS, page 4A)
Clockwise from above:Valerie Livingston holds her ears as the Bucks football team celebrates with excitement when it received the 2012
N.C. Turkey Bowl championship trophy, defeating Raleigh Sanderson 49-7 Friday night; Harvey Jenkins, a 70-year-old avid tennis player,
made it to the second round of the Festival tennis tournament; the Just Us Plus Dancers wobble. (Hal Nunn and Catharin Shepard photos)
Prospect Ave.
Man sought
in beatings
N. Magnolia St.
END
START
New Parade Route
Raeford soldier dead in Afghanistan helicopter crash
A Fort Bragg soldier who
recently lived in Raeford was
one of two people killed in a
helicopter crash in Afghanistan last week.
Chief Warrant Officer 2
Thalia Ramirez, 28, recently
of Raeford and Chief Warrant
Officer 2 Jose Montenegro Jr.,
31, of San Juan, Texas died
September 5 when their helicopter crashed in Logar Prov-
ince, Afghanistan. Military
Ramirez and Monteneofficials are still investigat- gro, who were stationed at
ing why the OH-58D Kiowa Fort Bragg, were assigned
Warrior helicopter crashed to the 1st Squadron, 17th
and have not released further Cavalry Regiment, 82nd
Combat Aviation Brigade of
details about the incident.
Other Stuff
BY KEN MACDONALD
My, my, how things have changed in the world of air traveling since I last
flew in February.
No more peanuts.
No, they have found a way to charge you for everything. Board the plane
early, $9; access to a private club in the airport, $50; pick a better seat at the
last moment—I didn’t look at the price.
But the most notable change was at boarding.
“We’ll start pre-boarding Early Boarders™,” the gate lady said on the P.A.
A few people who’d paid the $9 proudly walked to the scanner.
(See OTHER STUFF, page 4A)
the 82nd Airborne Division.
They were serving a yearlong
deployment to Afghanistan.
They were scheduled to
return to the United States
(See SOLDIERS, page 4A)
Imagine whirled peace
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
On September 21, Turlington
Alternative School and Don Steed
Elementary plan to take part in an
international art and literacy project,
Pinwheels for Peace, by “planting”
pinwheels with messages of peace.
Pinwheels for Peace is an art installation project started in 2005 by two
art teachers, Ann Ayers and Ellen
McMillan of Coconut Creek, Florida,
as a way for students to express their
feelings about what’s going on in
the world and in their lives. In the
first year, groups in more than 1,325
locations throughout the world were
spinning pinwheels on September 21.
There were approximately 500,000
pinwheels spinning throughout the
world. Last year, 2011, over 4 million
(See PINWHEELS, page 4A)
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THE NEWS-JOURNAL
Raeford, N.C.
Viewpoints
September 12, 2012
State legislature is again for sale
By Chris Fitzsimon
Capitol Press Association
Not too many years ago,
Republicans in North Carolina railed against what they
described as the “pay to play”
culture in Raleigh where special
interests who gave political
leaders big bundles of campaign
contributions were rewarded
with privileged access and
preferential treatment.
That was when the Republicans were in the minority in the
General Assembly and having
trouble raising as much money
as their Democratic opponents.
A new report from Democracy North Carolina finds that
not only have the fundraising
tables turned but also that Republicans seem to be embracing
the pay to play culture even
more than the Democrats they
constantly criticized.
The report finds that Republican legislative leaders are not
only raising more money from
special interest political action
committees than their predecessors, they are also raising
a higher percentage of their
campaign cash from the PACs
than Democrats did.
In fact, they are raising more
of their money from special
interests than disgraced former
Democratic House Speaker Jim
Black did in his heyday on Jones
Street—and that’s not an easy
bar to clear.
The General Assembly
passed new ethics and fundraising rules as a result of the
scandals that ultimately sent
Black to federal prison.
One of the new laws was
a ban on lobbyists making
contributions to legislators’
campaigns. It’s hard to believe
that was ever legal in the first
place, that the same people who
were asking legislators for votes
could also put checks in their
hands—but it was until just a
few years ago.
The Democracy NC report
finds that the law hasn’t stopped
the indirect exchange of money
for votes, it just required a
rewording of the appeals. The
report cites a recent solicitation
from the political staff of House
Speaker Thom Tillis sent to lobbyists telling them to get their
PACs to send a check before an
upcoming deadline or at least
explain when the money will
be sent.
Bob Hall with Democracy
NC calls the appeal a “shakedown, plain and ugly,” and notes
that the fundraising figures
show it appears to be working.
If that’s not enough evidence
that we have the best government
special interests can buy, consider another report issued this
week, this one from the Center
for Public Integrity. It finds that
out-of-state corporate money is
playing a major role in the governor’s race in North Carolina.
The report details how
corporations from across the
country give hundreds of thousands of dollars to groups like
the Republican Governors Association and the Democratic
Governors Association who
then run attack ads against
candidates in North Carolina.
That leads to the troubling
scenario where groups like
the Metropolitan Milwaukee
Association of Commerce is
basically funding attack ads
against Democratic gubernatorial candidate Walter Dalton. A
spokesperson for the insurance
company AFLAC, a big donor
to the Republican Governors
Association, was unaware that
the group’s donation was also
being used to attack Dalton on
television.
Maybe even more disturbing
still are the large anonymous
contributions given to another
category of political groups
who are not required to disclose
who is paying for the ads they
run against candidates in North
Carolina and elsewhere.
That makes a mockery of
the Right’s long opposition to
meaningful campaign finance
reforms like public financing
that would provide funding for
candidates without the special
interest strings attached.
Their argument used to be
that all we needed for a vibrant
democracy was full and immediate disclosure of who was
funding campaigns.
Now they seem perfectly
comfortable not only that our
elections and our government
are for sale to the highest bidders but that we often can’t
even find out who the bidders
are—at least until after the election when the legislative bodies
meet and starting providing a
return on the special interests’
investments.
Record special interest
money in pay to play Raleigh,
unlimited contributions from
Milwaukee helping determine
who will be governor in North
Carolina, and anonymous corporate money deciding who
will represent us in Raleigh and
Washington.
There’s a lot of ways to describe that system but democracy is not one of them.
We Get Letters
‘Lunch room police’ violated constitution
To the Editor:
I recently read an article
about a preschool child in
Raeford who had her “homepacked lunch” stolen by “lunch
room police” and replaced with
three pieces of meat from the
school lunchroom menu. She
must have been stuffed!
If this story is true, I am
compelled to ask, where in
the pages of the Constitution
for the United States, the Supreme Law of the Land, does it
‘specifically’ grant the Federal
government the authority to
harass preschool children in this
fashion? Does it not suggest to a
child’s not fully developed mind
that the school knows more than
mommy or daddy? Where in the
pages of the Constitution does
it grant the school the authority
to demand what a home-packed
lunch contains?
I know not what her parents
did, but I know what I would
have done. First, the person
or persons of governmentassumed authority would have
been charged with theft of a
child’s meal! That would have
been followed with a charge of
violating the 4th and the 10th
Amendments to the Constitution.
If that were my child, she
would not have set foot in that
school again until the power
hungry, dim-twitted “police
of the lunchroom” had been
discharged from the school
system entirely.
As soon as your school system discovers that the laws of
the Federal government do not
override the laws of a Sovereign
State government, this kind of
‘horse defecates’ will cease.
George E. Sexton
USAF Retired
Shepherd, Montana
Editor’s note: This story
is six months old and even
Rush Limbaugh has let it go,
but apparently word has now
reached Montana. There was
much weeping and gnashing
of teeth when a preschool student’s lunch from home lacked
an ingredient (milk) that nutritionists feel is necessary for
a balanced meal. A teacher
who noticed it, and trying to
conform to their policy, apparently inadvertently went
too far and, instead of giving
the child milk, sent her through
the line for a complete meal
(of chicken nuggets). After
state representatives and at
least two congressmen got
involved, and Rush Limbaugh
called the school people “food
Nazis,” the badgered teacher
was pressured to resign. The
policy, school officials say, is
intended to supplement kids’
lunches if teachers notice they
lack prescribed ingredients.
The nutritional guidelines for
N.C. Preschool classrooms
are part of state policy, which
applies only to children attending the state’s taxpayer-funded
subsidized pre-kindergarten
program for identified at-risk
four-year-olds. It does not apply to students attending K-12
public school. In response to the
situation, N.C. legislators introduced a state law so parents
can opt out of the supplemental
food program. It hasn’t passed
yet, however.
Today’s campaigns have roots in 1896
Are you already tired of the
presidential campaigns and the
barrage of television ads, glad
the conventions are over, and
dreading the upcoming debates?
Blame it on William Jennings
Bryan.
It used to be different. That
was before radio, television, and
airplanes. It was not so long ago
that presidential candidates did
very little personal campaigning.
Sometimes the candidate stayed
at home on his front porch and let
his supporters across the country
organize for the election.
All that changed in 1896
when William Jennings Bryan
secured the nomination of the
Democratic Party and mounted a
hard-charging national campaign.
Until that year, a presidential candidate had rarely, if ever, appeared
in North Carolina. But, as Bob
Anthony told me the other day,
Bryan whistle stopped through
North Carolina for three days in
September 1896 making more
than 20 stops in “Asheville, Black
Mountain, Old Fort, Marion,
Morganton, Hickory, Statesville,
Mooresville, Charlotte, Salisbury,
Greensboro, Burlington, Durham,
Raleigh, Selma, Goldsboro, Wilson, Rocky Mount, Whitakers,
Battleboro, Enfield, Halifax, and
Weldon. Longer stops and off the
train rallies were at Asheville,
Hickory, Charlotte, Salisbury,
Greensboro, Raleigh, Golds-
boro, Wilson, and Rocky Mount.
Briefer stops, with Bryan often
One on One
D. G. Martin
speaking from the rear of the train,
were at the other places. He arrived in Asheville from Knoxville
on Sept. 16, and his last stop was
at Weldon on his way to Virginia
during late afternoon of Sept. 18.
In three days in the state, he spoke
to crowds that collectively were
estimated to have numbered more
than 100,000 people.
If you are tired of full-time
campaigns, blame it on Bryan.
Anthony, curator of the North
Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill, has been preparing a talk
for a program on important North
Carolina political campaigns at
the Wilson Library on the UNC
campus this Friday and Saturday,
Sept. 14 and 15.
The program will examine
campaigns of North Carolinians
like William Graham, Zeb Vance,
Kerr Scott, Luther Hodges,
Jim Holshouser, and Reginald
Hawkins, and the Raleigh mayor’s campaign of Isabella Cannon.
How does William Jennings
Bryan fit into this pattern?
Anthony says that the three
day-multiple stop tour in our state
Should state pay incentives to a retailer?
By Scott Mooneyham
Capitol Press Association
When it comes to taxpayerprovided incentives for business, those provided to retailers
make the least sense.
The reason: Retailers need
consumers/taxpayers more than
consumers/taxpayers need them.
Retailers have little leeway
when building or renting stores.
They go where the demographics and transportation infrastructure suggests they will see
the most traffic.
People may do a bit of oohing
and ahhing when the hot, new
restaurant franchise or big box
retailer comes to town. That’s
still no reason to throw tax
dollars at a company to bring
relatively low-paying service
jobs to a community when it
is needed by the retailer to
expand its customer base and
revenue flow.
Distribution centers built by
retailers are a different animal,
posing trickier questions for the
government officials given the
task of handing out cash and
other inducements to lure jobs
to the state and its regions.
This entire business of business incentives is distasteful.
But let’s set aside the broader
question of whether state and
local governments should even
be handing out tax dollars to
convince businesses to build
here or there.
They have. They do. For the
foreseeable future, they will.
So, if they do and will, are
retail distribution centers the
kind of thing that state commerce officials should try to lure
with incentive dollars?
They recently did.
Gas station and convenience
store operator Sheetz Inc. will
receive up to $2.7 million from
the state over the next 12 years
if it meets employment and
other targets.
The company plans to build
a distribution center in Burlington. It is expected to employ 254
people by the end of 2018, and
the company will invest $32.8
million in building the facility.
Based in Altoona, Pa., the
company has been expanding
into North Carolina for a few
years now, with high-ceiling,
nicely-laid out stores that offer
fresh-made sandwiches.
The distribution center will
serve North Carolina, Virginia
and West Virginia.
So, perhaps the company
could have hopped further up
Interstate 85 and built in South
Hill, Va., or directly above
Burlington in Danville, Va.,
along U.S. 29. State officials
had to be concerned that was a
possibility.
Still, the decision probably
isn’t sitting too well in some
corners today.
Three large convenience
store chains are headquartered
in North Carolina -- Pantry/
Kangaroo, WilcoHess and VPS
Convenience Stores. All three
compete with Sheetz for business, and the news that the state
has furthered that competition
probably isn’t very welcome.
The jobs that will be coming
to Burlington also aren’t going
to be at the higher end of the pay
scale, like those where the state
doles out money for manufacturing or pharmaceutical jobs.
Based on the projected payroll,
those 254 jobs would average
$29,133 in annual salary.
Nonetheless, it’s hard to
say no when 254 jobs can be
plopped on this stretch of highway or one across the state line.
It becomes even more difficult in these tough economic
times, when your unemployment rate exceeds 9 percent.
was reason enough. Presidential
and gubernatorial campaigns have
never been the same in North
Carolina or the rest of the country.
But there is more. Anthony’s
talk is titled “Next to Nebraska:
North Carolina and William Jennings Bryan’s 1896 Presidential
Campaign.”
Anthony says that Bryan credited support from North Carolina
as being, next to his home state
of Nebraska, the most important
for him in securing his party’s
nomination.
Even though Bryan, at age
36, barely met the minimum age
requirement to be president, he
had several things going for him
in our state, according to Anthony.
• He was a compelling public
speaker who had previously
proved his talents with a rousing
speech at the women’s college
in Greensboro, where he gained
many admirers.
• He had made a good friend of
Josephus Daniels, the young but
influential editor of the Raleigh
News & Observer.
• He was a pro-farmer advocate who had admirers not only
among Democrats but also among
supporters of the Populist Party,
which had come to power in the
North Carolina legislature in a
cooperative or fusion effort with
the Republican Party. Many North
Carolinians, whatever their political party, agreed with Bryan’s
efforts to increase the supply of
money by coining more silver
and weakening the gold standard.
After his famous “Cross of
Gold” convention speech opened
the door, Bryan’s North Carolina
supporters were poised to help
him win the nomination.
Bryan lost the election. But
his vigorous effort won in North
Carolina and led to earthshaking changes in the state’s political power structure. Bryan’s
candidacy drew support from
Populists, thereby weakening
their fragile partnership with
Republicans. That change led
to the 1898 and 1900 White
Supremacy campaigns that destroyed the Populists, marginalized the Republicans, and froze
African-Americans from the
North Carolina political process
for most of the 20th Century.
Blame it on Bryan.
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September 12, 2012 Obituaries
Lorenzo Murchison
Lorenzo Murchison, 58, of
Raeford died Monday, September
3, 2012.
Survivors include daughters,
Sharvero, Kendra, Kendra, Kimberly and Keyonda; sons, Darian,
Lorenzo and Eric; mother, Lorraine; siblings, Cynthia, Cordella,
Cornella, Margaret, Wanda, Wakia,
Tashia, Ashley, Marcus, Barry and
Ralph; and 17 grandchildren.
The funeral was held at 11 a.m.
Saturday, September 8 in Matthew
Rouse Resource Center. Burial
was in Freedom Chapel Church
cemetery.
Frances M. FitzSimons
Frances McBryde FitzSimons,
90, died Thursday, September 6,
2012 in Open Arms Retirement
Center.
She was born in Hoke County on
September 27, 1921 to the late Ryan
and Swannie McBryde. She was
preceded in death by her husband,
Alvin R. FitzSimons, her brother,
Thomas McBryde, and her sister,
Mary Elizabeth Tovey.
Survivors include daughters,
Linda F. Humphrey and husband
Carson of Topsail Beach, and Ann
FitzSimons and husband Michael
Dietzel of Hendersonville; five
grandchildren, David Wilson, Michael Wilson, Joel Humphrey, Mary
Dietzel, and Thomas Dietzel; and
one great-granddaughter, Delaney
Wilson.
A graveside service was held at
11 a.m. Saturday, September 8 in
Raeford Cemetery with Dr. Stephen
Hannah officiating.
Memorials may be made to
Bethel Presbyterian Church, PO Box
374, Raeford, NC 28376.
Online condolences may be
made at www.crumplerfuneralhome.com.
William Green
William Green, 40, of Raeford
died Thursday, August 30, 2012.
Survivors include his wife,
Lachey; sons, Nikelo McRae and
Daquan Baker; daughters, Ne’Onna
Baker and Jequita; his father,
William; his mother, Delois; and
brothers, Roy Hailey, Christopher
and Michael.
The funeral was held at 2:30 p.m.
Thursday, September 6 in Matthew
Rouse Resource Center. Burial was
in Shady Grove Free Will Baptist
Church cemetery.
Martha J. Davidson
Martha Jane Davidson of 164
New Hope Lane died Wednesday,
September 4, 2012 in her home at
the age of 70.
She was born on July 23, 1942
in Erie County, New York.
Survivors include three sons,
Michael S. Davidson and wife Debra
of Newport News,Virginia, Mark C.
Davidson and wife Kelly of Raeford,
and Christopher A. Davidson of
Florida; two brothers, Charles M.
Canham and wife Josephine of St.
George, Utah, and Arnold A. Canham and wife Sally of Buffalo Grove,
Illinois; several grandchildren; and
several great-grandchildren.
A private memorial service will
be held later at the home.
Online condolences may be
made at www.crumplerfuneralhome.com.
Carthens Grocery .........Center Grove Ch. Rd.
China Buffet .....................................Main St.
CVS Pharmacy ............................401 Bypass
Daniels’ Exxon........................ E. Central Ave.
Edinborough Restaurant. ..............S. Main St.
Fast Shop ...........................W. Prospect. Ave.
Five Points Grocery ...................Calloway Rd.
Five Star #2 ..................................... Hwy 211
Five Star Food Mart................... Hwy. 15-501
Food Lion...............................Laurinburg Rd.
Food Lion/MiCasita .............. Fayetteville Rd.
Food Mart #4 ............................. Hwy. 211 S.
Food Stop ...........................W. Prospect Ave.
401 Lucky Stop ...............E. Central & 401 N.
401 Food Mart&Tobacco........ E. Central Ave.
401 Shop-N-Save #1 .............Harris and 401
401 Shop-N-Save #2 ............. E. Central Ave.
Happy Mart ................ Hwy 401 & Palmer St.
Hardin’s ......................Rockfish Rd., Rockfish
Hardin’s Express Stop ............... Rockfish Rd.
Michael D. McPhaul
Michael David McPhaul, 33, of
Carthage died Saturday, September
1, 2012 near Raeford.
Survivors include his wife, Doris
Ray-McPhaul; children, Diamond
and Brazier Ray; his mother, Jennie
McPhaul; his father, Edward Hamilton; his grandmother, Julia Hamilton; and sisters, Tonja McPhaul,
Lynnette Morrisey and Swanda Ray.
A memorial service was held at 1
p.m. Saturday, September 8 at J.W.
Turlington School.
Home Food Supermarket..................Main St.
Howell Drug ...................................... Teal Dr.
Howell Drug .....................................Main St.
Jay’s Food Mart ........ Hwy 211. at county line
J&L Grocery & Meats ............... Rockfish Rd.
M&A Tobacco ............................ Rockfish Rd
MP Mart ............................... Hwy. 211 South
McNeill’s Grocery ....................... Hwy. 211 S.
McPhatter’s Grocery ..... Hwy. 401 & Vass Rd.
Miller’s Store ............................. Old Wire Rd.
Muncheez Express ................ Fayetteville Rd.
The News-Journal ..................119 W. Elwood
Quality Foods ....................................McCain
Poco Shop #4 ........................ E. Central Ave.
Lucky Stop .................Hwy. 401 & Palmer St.
Short Stop #23 ..........Rockfish Rd.&401 Bus.
Short Stop #54 ....................Davis Bridge Rd.
Short Stop #64 .......................Hwy. 211 West
Short Stop #68 .......................... N. Fulton St.
Tobacco World ...................... Fayetteville Rd.
Waffle House ....................... 401 Hwy Bypass
WilcoHess ................................ Aberdeen Rd.
Yogi Mart ................................... Hwy. 211 S.
Zip N Mart ............................. Fayetteville Rd.
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Green Pines Mobile Home Park,
Raeford, driving while impaired,
Level 4, 24 days in jail, credit for
24 days served
• Lorrie DeAbbe Prevatt, 49,
614 McNair Ave., Lumberton,
misdemeanor larceny, possession
of stolen goods/property, 30 days
suspended, one year unsupervised
probation, $100 fine and court
costs, judgments consolidated
• Cassi LeSheryl Priester,
34, 6843 Bryanstone Way, Fayetteville, improper equipmentspeedometer, $25 and court costs
Sept. 5
Judge John H. Horne, presiding
• Billy Ray Cummings, 28, 156
Verbal Place, Aberdeen, misdemeanor larceny, 15 days in jail,
credit for 15 days served
• Shelton Laverne Douglas, 43,
140 Earle Franklin Drive, Hamlet,
misdemeanor larceny, six days
in jail, credit for six days served
• Candace McCall, 29, 115
Oaktree Drive, Raeford, misdemeanor violation of probation,
probation revoked, two days in
jail, active, probation to be terminated once time served.
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Assault on a female (domestic), 100 block of Campbell
Avenue, victim Jasmine Howard
Larceny, 300 block of Magnolia Street, victim Evaristo Ramirez
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Assault on a female, 100 block
of Yadkin Trail, victim Bertha
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Roscoe S. Tolar
Roscoe Steve Tolar of 120
Prince Charles Street, Red Springs
died Tuesday, September 4, 2012
in Southeastern Regional Medical
Center at the age of 65.
He was born in Robeson County
on June 3, 1947. He was preceded in
death by his father, Jasper Bunyan
Tolar.
Survivors include his mother,
Ruth T. Tyner of Red Springs; a
brother, Jack B. Tolar (Silvia Sneed)
of Hope Mills; an aunt, Margaret T.
Quick of Raeford; two nieces,Alaine
Tolar of Wilmington, and Christina
Horner and husband Chuck of San
Antonio, Texas; a nephew, Robert
Tolar and wife Rochell of Raleigh;
and one great-nephew, Robert Todd
of San Antonio.
A graveside service was held
at 11 a.m. Friday, September 7 in
Alloway Cemetery with the Rev.
Bradley Boberg officiating.
Online condolences may be
made at www.crumplerfuneralhome.com.
Raeford, N.C
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Raeford Police reported these
incidents recently:
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Damage to property (vandalism), 200 block of Cole Avenue,
victim Goody’s Department Store
Larceny from motor vehicle,
700 block of Palmer Road, victim
Bell Repo
Damage to personal property,
1300 block of Fulton Street, vic-
tim Short Stop Number 68
False representation as a
cardholder, larceny of a financial
transaction card, 600 block of
Prospect Avenue, victim Michael
David Wright
September 6
Unauthorized use of a motor
vehicle, 300 block of Laurinburg
Road, victim Cameron Justin
Locklear
Indecent liberties with a child,
400 block of East 7th Avenue,
victim’s name withheld in accordance with News-Journal policy
Larceny, breaking and entering, larceny of a dog, 500 block
of John Roper Avenue, victims
Sean McCarthy and Kaine Levert
Jenkins
September 7
Domestic, assault on a female,
100 block of Yadkin Trail, victim
Amber Sheree Jacobs
Injury to personal property,
100 block of Lantern Lane, victim
Lantern Lane Apartments
Resisting an officer, assault on
a female, unauthorized use of a
motor vehicle, 500 block of Aberdeen Road, victims Constance
Rogers Locklear, State of North
Carolina
Assault inflicting serious
injury, 700 block of South Main
Street, victim Cody Emanuel
Maynor
September 8
Contributing to the delinquency of a minor, breaking and
entering, 500 block of South
Bethel Road, victim Hoke County
High School
Larceny, 200 block of South
Main Street, victim Maxway
September 9
Communicating threats, 100
block of Yadkin Trail, victim Dell
Michael Gay
September 10
Larceny, 500 block of John
Roper Avenue, victim Vernice
Lee Leach
Communicating threats, 100
block of Yadkin Trail, victim
Amber Sheree Jacobs
Injury to personal property,
communicating threats, 200
block of Reaves Street, victims
Cedrix Maurince Headen and
Effie Headen Morrison
Fire ordinance
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Firefighter representatives joined
Johnson and Nichols during the
regular board meeting September
3 in presenting the county commissioners with a proposed update of the
county’s fire prevention ordinance.
The ordinance overseeing local fire
codes, permits, inspections, fees
and fines, open burning, violations
and penalties, haunted houses and
hydrant regulations passed a unanimous vote.
One of the biggest changes in
the ordinance bans developers and
property owners from landscaping
the edges of multi-family dwellings
and commercial buildings with especially flammable materials such
as pine straw.
“The fire official shall have the
authority to prohibit the use of pine
straw or any other landscape cover
material with a fire rate of spread
more than 24 inches per minute.
Combustible Landscaping Material
shall not be placed, kept, or stored
within 16 feet of buildings with
combustible exterior construction
including, but not limited to, vinyl,
aluminum, masonite, or wood siding,” page 37 of the ordinance states.
There are exceptions to the rule.
Detached single-family homes that
aren’t used as an in-home daycare
or residential care home are exempt
from the policy, and existing pine
straw may remain in place, according to the ordinance. However, future
violations that aren’t abated within
seven days of a written notice will
earn the property owner a $250 fine
per day.
Another major change governs
the placement of fire hydrants in the
county. Under the new ordinance,
“closely built” areas such as subdivisions must have a fire hydrant every
500 feet. More rural areas must space
fire hydrants at least every 1,000 feet.
“The maximum distance between hydrants shall not exceed
1,000 feet rural areas. In closely built
areas: subdivisions, townhouses,
commercial/industrial with lot
frontage 100 feet or less than 500
feet or less will be the maximum
distant between hydrants. Hydrants
should be located as close to the
street and intersections as possible.
Hydrants that must be located in
areas subject to heavy traffic need
protection against damage from
collision,” according to page 35 of
the ordinance.
Deputy Chief Johnny Joseph of
Puppy Creek Fire Department, the
largest fire department in the county,
said he supported and actually suggested some of the new changes.
Hoke County commercial and
residential development is affecting
the way the department nearest the
growth boom approaches its work,
he said.
“We are moving into the next,
I guess, next agenda. More commercial growth and now getting into
areas of multi-family dwellings,”
Joseph said. “We at the fire department have taken a lot of additional
training, had the state fire marshal’s
office come in and actually develop
a course for us.”
The Puppy Creek department is
also working with Fayetteville firefighters who can share experiences
of fighting multi-family dwelling
structure fires, he added.
Joseph specifically asked the fire
marshal to include the ban on pine
straw as landscaping material.
“This is something I called and
talked to Freddy about, and asked
him to put in the ordinance, which
he did,” Joseph said. “This is actually
aimed at your multi-family dwellings but also at commercial areas
and things. Basically it’s to prevent
from putting things like pine straw
as landscape materials in areas up
close to residences and especially
in multi-family dwellings.”
Landscaping material that burns
fast can cause fire to spread up the
side of a building much more quickly
than it would otherwise, raising the
danger to occupants and firefighters,
Joseph explained.
“You as commissioners, there’s
no way you can pass enough laws
that can combat dealing with one
person’s carelessness, but in these
multi-family homes, one person’s
carelessness can affect as many
as 140 families,” he said. “This
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ordinance, just the way it’s written,
basically makes the material harder
to burn.”
Commissioner Jean Powell
confirmed with Joseph that the ban
would not apply to individual homes
unless they were a certain kind of
in-home daycare or residential care
facility.
Code inspectors will incorporate
the landscaping issue into the inspection process in dealing with future
development, officials said.
The fire hydrant placement was
not only a safety issue, it also affects
homeowners’ wallets, the deputy
chief said. Fire hydrant placement is
a factor in determining a fire department’s rating, which in turn affects
homeowners’ insurance rates.
“Depending on what your rating is, it depends on how much
homeowners’ insurance you pay,”
Joseph said. Several fire districts
in the county, including the Puppy
Creek, have the lowest homeowners’
insurance rate because of the fire
departments’ rating, he said.
David Willis of the Hoke County
Fire and Rescue Association also
spoke in favor of the ordinance.
“The fire chiefs of the organization strongly support this ordinance
and request that y’all would pass
it,” he said.
The board members passed the
ordinance as it was presented. The
full 70-page ordinance is available
to view on the county’s website.
Ordinance and development
The newly-passed fire ordinance immediately clashed with
a proposed housing development
that was next on the meeting agenda. The Jura Estates subdivision
proposed for Rockfish Road near
the U.S. 401 Business intersection
would not be able to provide the
appropriate fire hydrant placement because of a state regulation,
County Planner Conrad Garrison
said. The state requires that fire
hydrants use a six-inch water line,
but the water lines in the development area are only four inches in
diameter, Garrison said.
A proposed solution, approved
by the Fire Marshal, would be to
require the developer to build interior
fire-extinguishing sprinkler systems
into all of the 58 homes proposed for
the Jura Estates, the county planner
said. The systems cost about $1,000
to install per home.
Commissioner James Leach
questioned Garrison about why the
plan was up for approval when it
didn’t meet the county’s new fire
prevention ordinance requirements.
“We just approved an ordinance,
we just did, and the fire department
just stood and told us how many
feet they would like for those fire
hydrants for the protection of our
citizens,” Leach said. “So what
you’re asking us to do is to break
what we just approved?”
“You can approve it or not approve it,” Garrison said.
“No, no, no, your recommendation was to approve it,” Leach said.
“Right, along with the recommendation of the fire marshal,”
Garrison said.
“I think we work too hard in
planning and pass an ordinance in
planning to build smart and have
smart growth not to sit here and pass
the ordinance and then turn around
and vote against it. That just don’t
make sense to me,” Leach said.
There isn’t a procedure in place
to monitor residential fire sprinklers
and no other subdivision in the
county has sprinklers, he said. Garrison suggested the county could
put in place a way to inspect the
sprinkler system.
“We don’t need to do that, we
need to follow the ordinance,”
Leach said.
If the sprinkler plan was not
approved, the development would
not be allowed to go forward at this
point because of the problem with
the lines, Powell pointed out.
Commissioner Bobby Wright
raised the possibility of installing
county water lines to the site of the
proposed subdivision and splitting
the cost of the installation with
the Jura Estates developer. The
cost might be somewhere around
$120,000 to $150,000, and homeowners signing up for water service
would be paying the county for
water service.
The commissioners tabled the
matter and asked the developer to
return at the next scheduled meeting
with figures estimating how much it
would cost to install six-inch water
lines in the area.
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community’s
love & support
last weekend.
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Pinwheels
(Continued from page 1A)
pinwheels were spinning in over
3,500 locations, including the
United States, Europe, Asia,
Australia, Canada, the Middle
East, Africa and South America.
“This project is non-political –
peace doesn’t necessarily have to
be associated with the conflict of
war, it can be related to violence/
intolerance in our daily lives, to
peace of mind,” Karrie Detwiler,
art teacher at Turlington, said in a
statement. “To each of us, peace can
take on a different meaning, but,
in the end, it all comes down to a
September 12, 2012
simple definition: ‘a state of calm
and serenity, with no anxiety, the
absence of violence, freedom from
conflict or disagreement among
people or groups of people.’”
Turlington Alternative School
and Don Steed Elementary will
create pinwheels of all shapes and
sizes. As part of the creation process, the students will write their
thoughts about “war and peace/
tolerance/living in harmony with
others” on one side. On the other
side, they will draw, paint, collage
and more to visually express their
feelings. The students will as-
semble these pinwheels and on
International Day of Peace they
will “plant” their pinwheels as a
public statement and art exhibit/
installation.
“On September 21, keep a
lookout for the pinwheels. The
spinning of the pinwheels in the
wind will spread thoughts and
feelings about peace throughout
the country and the world,” Detwiler said.
For more information, go to
http://www.pinwheelsforpeace.
com or contact Karrie Detwiler
at 910-875-2583.
ary Medal, Global War on Terror
Service Medal, Army Service
Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon 2nd device, NATO Medal,
the Combat Action Badge and
the Army Aviator Badge.
Ramirez is survived by husband Jesse Belbeck in the U.S.
and parents Justin Ramirez and
Alexandra Moll of Kenya.
Fellow soldiers remembered
Ramirez and Montenegro Friday
at a ceremony on Bagram Airfield
in Afghanistan.
“As we finish up this deployment and return home, in some way
remember my friend Thalia,” Chief
Warrant Officer 2 Joseph Panza,
Troop F, 1-17Air Cavalry Regiment
said at the ceremony, the DOD
reported. “Whether it’s a moment
of silence, a toast, or a prayer to
whatever divine power you believe
in. Just a small gesture for someone
who made a huge sacrifice doing
what she believed in.”
Montenegro joined the U.S.
Army in 2001 as an enlisted
infantryman. He earned aviator
qualification in 2008 and passed
the Warrant Officer Basic Course
in 2009. This was Montenegro’s
third deployment.
Montenegro’s awards include
the Air Medal with Valor 4th device, Air Medal 2nd device, Purple
Heart Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Commendation
Medal with “V” device, Army
Achievement Medal with four oak
leaf clusters, Valorous Unit Award,
Army Good Conduct Medal,
National Defense Service Medal,
Afghanistan Campaign Medal with
three Campaign Stars, Global War
on Terror Expeditionary Medal,
Global War on Terror Service
Medal, Noncommissioned Officer
Professional Development Ribbon,
Army Service Ribbon, Overseas
Service Ribbon 3rd device, NATO
Medal, Combat Infantryman
Badge, Combat Action Badge and
the Army Aviator Badge.
Montenegro is survived by his
mother Reyna Torres and sister
Liliana Montenegro.
Soldiers
(Continued from page 1A)
this week.
Ramirez was originally from
Nairobi, Kenya. She joined the
United States Army in 2003 as a
water purification specialist and
then completed aviator qualifications in 2008, according to a
news release. She was serving her
second overseas deployment at the
time of the crash. She previously
lived in San Antonio, Texas.
Ramirez flew more than 270
missions and 650 hours during
her latest tour of duty, according
to the Department of Defense. She
received many awards including
the Air Medal 3rd device, the
Purple Heart Medal, Army Commendation Medal with Valor,
Army Commendation Medal,
Army Achievement Medal with
three oak leaf clusters, Valorous
Unit Award, Army Good Conduct
Medal, National Defense Service
Medal, Afghanistan Campaign
Medal with three Campaign Stars,
Global War on Terror Expedition-
Man arrested for March school bus wreck
Authorities have arrested a Parkton man wanted for hitting a loaded
Hoke County school bus while
fleeing from authorities this March.
Deputies arrested Isaac Lee
Nesby, 44, of Cold Camp Road on
26 counts of assault with a deadly
weapon, fleeing to elude arrest, drug
trafficking, assault on a female, and
failing to appear in court on multiple
prior charges including counterfeiting trademark sales and sound
recording. He was also charged
with three counts of breaking and
entering, one count of conspiracy to
commit breaking and entering and
two counts of making threatening
phone calls.
Investigators with the Robeson
County Sheriff’s Office arrested
Nesby Monday after finding him
hiding in a closet of his home, ac-
cording to a report.
Nesby was allegedly speeding to
get away from investigators around
2:39 p.m. March 14 when he lost
control of his 1998 Nissan and ran
into a school bus that was taking
children home from nearby Sandy
Grove Elementary, officials said.
The bus was stopped not far from the
elementary school to let children off
at their home when the wreck happened. Nesby was driving north on
Chason Road traveling at about 90
miles an hour when he lost control
of the vehicle and hit the stopped
bus, according to reports.
State Department of Justice
spokeswoman Jennifer Canada confirmed Nesby was under investigation by Robeson County authorities
and the State Bureau of Investigation
when the accident happened.
Bus driver Della Locklear and
four children reported pain and were
taken to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center for treatment of minor
injuries. Nesby was also injured in
the crash and transported to UNC
Chapel Hill Hospital.
According to public records,
Nesby was previously convicted of
speeding to escape police in 1994 and
again in 1996, among a slew of other
felony and misdemeanor convictions
including assault with intent to seriously injure, assault with a deadly
weapon against government officials,
assault on a female, drug possession
and driving on a revoked license. He
was most recently incarcerated from
2001-06 on a felony conviction of
second-degree kidnapping, robbery
with a dangerous weapon and other
charges.
authorities said in a press release.
Medlin and McRae sustained
multiple head injuries and were
transported to the hospital. They
were listed in serious but stable
condition.
Jackson is wanted on two
counts of attempted first-degree
murder and two counts of assault
with a deadly weapon. A magistrate Monday issued the warrants
for Jackson’s arrest.
Anyone with information
about Jackson’s whereabouts is
asked to contact the Laurinburg
Police Department at 910-2763211.
Beatings
(Continued from page 1A)
September 9. Medlin and McRae
were at McRae’s residence on
Morgan Circle in Laurinburg
when Jackson reportedly went to
the house and beat both victims
with the handle from a shovel,
Assault
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clothing and took her into the
bathroom, where he allegedly
threw her into the bathtub and
bound her wrists and ankles
together with zip-ties. The Sheriff’s Office reported that after 15
minutes of abuse, Whitehurst cut
the victim loose and she clothed
herself and ran out of the house,
where she called for her mother
to pick her up.
Dr. John Mark Griffies
Retired Military
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The victim called 911 around
5:30 a.m. Monday, officials said.
Detectives with the Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene and
discovered physical evidence
supporting probable cause to
arrest Whitehurst, according to
a press release. The victim was
also granted a domestic violence
protection order against the defendant.
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New beginning
New Beginningz Bible Institute Bible College President Bishop William Robert McPhaul Sr., instructors, family members and friends gathered Saturday at the ribbon cutting for the institute
on Harris Avenue in Raeford. The new Bible College, part of the Bible Institutes of America,
offers classes on topics including the Old Testament, New Testament, church history, leadership
skills and more. For more information, call 476-0653.
Library Friends hold book sale
The Friends of the Hoke
County Public Library will
hold book sales this week at
two North Carolina Turkey
Festival events.
The first book sale will take
place inside the library Thursday
afternoon during the parade from
2:30-6 p.m. The second sale will
take place Saturday on the patio
in front of the library during
the Super Saturday events from
12-4 p.m.
Book prices are 50 cents for
medium/small books, slightly
damaged books and paperbacks,
$1 for hardcover books, $2 for
oversized books, $5 for a collection bag of books and 10 cents
for magazines.
The Hoke County Public Library is located at 334 N. Main
St. in downtown Raeford. For
more information, call the library
at 875-2502.
The Friends of the Library is a
non-profit organization helping to
support the library. Membership
dues are $15 for individuals and
$20 for families per year. The next
meeting will be held September 24
at 6:30 p.m. in the history room
of the library.
Woodmen rep completes course
Woodmen of the World representative Eugene “Tre” Smith
III has earned the professional
designation of Fraternal Insurance
Counselor (FIC).
The designation, conferred
by the Fraternal Field Managers’ Association (FFMA), is
awarded to candidates who successfully complete three levels of
Makes Dean’s List
Samuel A. Pope of Raeford
insurance-related coursework and
meet other guidelines.
The basic course provides an
introduction to life underwriting
principles; the ethics course covers
ethics for the insurance professional;
the intermediate course covers total
needs planning; and the advanced
course covers a survey of advanced
sales techniques.
School Briefs
Smith III is a local representative of Woodmen of the World and
serves members in and around
the Hoke County area. The local
Woodmen of the World office
is located at 119 College Drive,
Raeford. To learn more about
Woodmen of the World, visit
woodmen.org or call your local
office at 910-875-5593.
made the Dean’s List at Missouri State University. To be
named to the list, students must
earn at least a 3.5 grade point
average. Pope made the list for
the summer term.
loser.”
That left me and another guy
who didn’t get to pre-board. You
see, if I’m going to pay an extra
$9, I want to PRE-pre-board. We
boarded.
Interestingly, they no longer
offer priority boarding to disabled
passengers or “families traveling
with small children.”
I was beside a lady who was
carrying a small child, pushing a
stroller filled with bags, and pulling a wheeled suitcase. I helped
by taking the stroller. We looked
like a young family, except I’m
not young. Maybe people thought
I was the grandfather. I was thinking, “Lady, if I was going to haul
a youngun’ onto a plane AND try
to skirt the $25 baggage fee, I’d
have paid the $9 to board first.”
But we all get ourselves in these
messes. I was flying across the
country with nary even a peanut.
One thing that hasn’t changed
is the mood at the gates. I would
call it exasperation. Or resigned
indignation. One guy must have
been on the edge, because when
the poor gate attendant announced
a 45-minute delay, he yelled “F--! I cannot take this anymore!”
I heard someone yell, “Call the
police,” and though the guy shut
up and sat there shaking, about
six officers arrived by Segway,
bicycle and on foot and hauled
him off.
Come on! Give the guy some
peanuts.
They brought him back a little
while later and he boarded. But not
in the Priority Access™ lane.v
Other stuff
(Continued from page 1A)
“We’d like to invite Platinum
Plus™ members to board,” the
lady continued. I noticed they
were being funneled to a lane
labeled “Priority Access,” which
was separated by only a pole from
the lane that read something like
“Losers and Flotsam.”
“Gold Medal™ winners may
now board.” (I may have gotten
that name wrong.)
“Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire,
Dolostone and White Chert passengers plus We Are The World
members…
“We’ll continue pre-boarding
with First Class passengers.
“Uniformed military personnel…
“Rocket scientists.
“Everyone else who’s not a
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September 24 & 25
8 am-5 pm
3395 Airport Road
Pinehurst, NC 28374
910-695-3725
www.sandhills.edu
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Sports
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Raeford, N.C
5A
Love scores four to lift Bucks
By Hal Nunn
County’s Simon Love scored all
four goals for the Bucks, two in
the last 10 minutes to secure the
win 4-2. Hoke County is 6-1 on the
season and Coach Derek Butler
feels he has a team that can play
together. “We have a good group
Sports writer
The Hoke County High School
Bucks soccer team took on the Red
Springs Red Devils Monday night
in high school soccer action. Hoke
of boys that really pull together
for each other,” Coach Butler said.
Next up for the Bucks will be the
Richmond Raiders Wednesday
night in Richmond and their next
home game will be September 19
against Scotland County.
Bucks pierce Spartans 49-7
Hunting season begins
Caleb Sutton, a Raeford native, and his buddies, Drew
Patton and Mike Varano, shot this flock of Canada geese
in Cumberland County on the first day of hunting season
- September 1.They shot a total of 30 geese and probably
could have shot their limit of 15 each if it wasn’t so hot
and they left early.
Tennis tournament
winners
Jean Roller (left) and Nelson
James (right) were the winners
of the mixed doubles division
of the 2012 N.C Turkey Festival
tennis tournament. The tennis
tournament was brought back
when the new championshipstyle courts were built at the
high school. Other winners
were Kristen Johnson-Ladies’
Singles Champ, Thaddeus Trippett-Men’s Singles Champ,Barry
Bullock and Tony WilliamsMen’s Doubles Champs, Eden
Blaine and Michaela ColvinGirls’ Doubles Champs and
Dean Crenshaw-Boys’ Singles
Champ.The tennis tournament
was a fixture at the festival for
about 15 years and then there
was a 5-year layoff. Some have
called the new tournament the
Turkey Open!
Just Putting Around
Upland Trace: Winners for
the Labor Day morning tournament were Don Frykholm, Dixie
Musselwhite, Huse Lowery and
Guy Wall. The Labor Day evening tournament winners were
Jerry Johnson, Ricky Ward and
Johnny Boyles.
Bayonet: The Wednesday
Shootout winners were Don Hodgin, Carl Casey, James Braden,
John Byrd and Claire Brown.
They won with a score of 5-under
par. A hole-in-one was made by
Jameel Walker using a 9 iron on
hole #3 at 160 yards.
Sports Briefs
The Hoke County Touchdown
Club supports the freshman, junior
varsity and varsity football teams at
Hoke County High School. Their
next meeting is tonight at 7 p.m. at
the Gibson Cafeteria on the campus
of Hoke High School.
The Hoke County Athletic
Department has two new ways
to support the Bucks Athletic
Department online at www.ihigh.
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By Hal Nunn
Sports writer
Like a male deer uses his
antlers to show supremacy, the
Hoke County High School Bucks
showed their muscle last Friday
night on the gridiron in the 2012
N.C. Turkey Bowl to defeat the
Sanderson Spartans of Raleigh 49-7.
You could almost feel the game was
getting out of control when, after the
Bucks scored their first touchdown
off a Detrez Newsome 2-yard run,
Sanderson fumbled the ball on its
next series and Skaikeim McGougan
picked it up and scrambled 25 yards
for the second score of the game. By
halftime, the score was 35-0 and the
final score was 49-7.
Hoke running back Detrez Newsome rushed for 207 yards on 13
carries with five touchdowns, one
coming off a punt return.After Sanderson figured out that it was probably
not a good idea to punt to Newsome,
they kicked off to the other side of
the return team and Brandon McRae
busted a 90-yard kickoff return for
a touchdown. McRae is one of the
fastest guys in the state who finished
in second place in the 4x100 meter
Tyron Miller (left) and Geoffrey Thompson (right) receive the
Sportsmanship Award from N.C. Turkey Festival committee
member Jerry Sherman (center). Each year two players in the
game are selected who showed the best sportsmanship during
the Turkey Bowl.
run for Hoke at the state championships last spring and finished third
in the 100-meter dash. Newsome
on the other hand has rushed 77
times this year for 918 yards and
15 touchdowns in four games. He
has 987 all-purpose yards so far
this season.
The Bucks will take to the road
this Friday night to take on the Colts
from Cape Fear. For those who are
not making the trip to Cape Fear, you
can listen to the game on the Bucks
Broadcast Network on AM1400
Raeford or online at www.ihigh.
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in his honor Friday night at the
Turkey Bowl football game. For
years he organized the skydiving
demonstration for the festival,
but this year the skydivers who
turned out to perform were doing so to remember the airpark
owner and skydiving legend.
Their performance and the pilot’s
Parade
(Continued from page 1A)
said.
For the last 27 years, the parade
has run from North Main Street
to South Main Street. This year,
that’s changing due to traffic
congestion problems with local
schools.
“The festival was asked by law
enforcement officers to change
the route to try to help with the
congestion caused by the floats
and participants arriving while the
buses are trying to pick up students
to go home,” Pittman said.
This year the parade will line
up on Magnolia Street starting at
the light on Harris Avenue and
stretch back to Turlington School.
Then the parade will turn left onto
Harris, then to the light on Main
Street making a left onto Main
Street. The reviewing stage will
be directly in front of the Raeford/Hoke County Chamber of
Raeford, N.C.
September 12, 2012
close flyover were an excellent
tribute to Thacker, Pittman said.
“When they buzzed the stadium, it was poetic,” she said.
Those attending held a moment of silence followed by a
song written and performed by
Patty Webb.
Pittman, festival president
Valerie Livingston and future
president Leslie Hinson presented the sponsors and supporters with plaques and framed
certificates of appreciation for
their assistance with making the
festival possible. Local businesses, governments and individuals
were among those who received
the plaques and certificates. The
festival leadership also recog-
nized the board members and
directors who helped put the
event together.
“I can’t say thank you enough,”
Livingston said.
Hinson said it was “an honor
and a privilege” to be a part of
the festival.
“Without your support, this
festival would not be possible,”
Hoke Middle School, plates $7
Saturday, Sept. 15: Super Saturday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.,
McLauchlin Park, vendors, food,
games, turkey cooking contest,
dog show, car show and more;
5K Turkey Trot/2K walk, 8 a.m.,
Hoke County High School; 8
p.m.-12 a.m. Blackwater Rhythm
and Blues band, Armory park
she said.
Upcoming festival events
Thursday, Sept. 13: Children’s Day, 9:30 a.m. at Turlington auditorium on Prospect
Avenue; Parade, 5:30 p.m., Main
Street in downtown Raeford
Friday, Sept. 14: Stuffin’ and
Stompin’ dinner, 5-8 p.m., West
Commerce directly across from
Central Avenue.
Once the parade has gone
down Main Street to Prospect, it
will make a left, then a left onto
Magnolia back to the starting
position at the light at Harris/
Magnolia, Pittman said.
The parade floats begin to line
up at 4 p.m. The parade will begin
moving down Main Street at about
5:30 p.m. with about 30 floats, five
bands, many fire trucks and walking groups and other participants.
Jean Hodges, CEO of Hodges
Associates, will serve as the parade Grand Marshal.
People participating in the
parade or dropping off those
who are participating should not
attempt to drive down Magnolia
Street, Pittman said. Participants
are asked to park on side roads
and walk to the location of their
parade unit.
Art contest winners announced
The North Carolina Turkey
Festival 2012-13 Art Contest
winners were announced last
week. Categories included the
county’s elementary, middle
and high schools and Sandhills
Community College.
Overall winner: Ashley Priest,
East Hoke Middle School
High School
1st place: Rashad Toldbert
2nd place: Hailey Johnson
3rd place: Lizzie Grimsley
Middle School
1st place: Scherita Cambridge,
East Hoke Middle School
2nd place: Ashley Priest, East
Hoke Middle School
3rd place: Emily Locklear, West
Hoke Middle School
Elementary School
1st place: Kynna Hollingsworth,
Hawk Eye Elementary
2nd place: Jiavanni Bain, Don
Steed Elementary
3rd place: Cianna Jones, Hawk
Eye Elementary
Sandhills Community College
1st place: DaJante Thomas
2nd place: Lawernce Shamberqer
3rd place: Mathew Bass
Entries in the Festival Art Contest held at the Hoke Library.Art can be viewed in the conference room. (Catharin Shepard photo)
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