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January 14, 2015
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Grieving on
social media
— Page 4
Volume 6, No. 32
Bewitching
store
— Page 21
North, Hough
face off
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Where Is This?
The photo at left was taken
somewhere in the Lake Norman
area. Do you know where?
Let us know by e-mailing
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Lady Titans on roll
Hopewell off to 13-1 start, sits
alone in first place.
Last week, Paul Newton, Grady
Wells, Kathie Turner, Joan
Gradus, Chris Conroy, Meg
O’Brien, Anderson Zangara,
Dan Boone, Renee Atkinson,
Nancy Whitehead, Andrew
Kehoe, Brian Freeman, Andi
Marshall, Rodney Hager, Mal
Murray, Jay Stokes, Christine
Wayne, Barbara Bryan, Keith
D’Alessandro, Donna Higinson,
Don Higinson, Tamara Dossin,
Andy White, Jill Hillman, Katie
Knox, Lynn Keating, Andy
Seligmann and Jack Stevens
identified the photo above as
a crane on the site of a the
construction project to expand
the Martin Science Building
on the campus of Davidson
College.
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Gift to remember
An unexpected meal makes
Christmas special for family.
On the cover
Senior Editor John Deem’s photo
of the newly installed, decorative
mast and cables on the I-77
overpass at Exit 28.
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News
January 14, 2015
Lake Norman Citizen Online outpouring to a holiday tragedy
Friends, family take
to Facebook to
remember Valerie
Shaak.
By John Deem
[email protected]
There are times when social media amounts to little more than an
endless trough of zombie feed.
There are other times, though,
when online information engines
chronicle the real-time drama of
everyday lives and open portals
through which the rest of us can
instantly insert ourselves into others’ experiences, be they triumphant
or tragic, momentous or mundane,
hopeful or heart wrenching.
Last month, as Christmas approached, a story encompassing all
of those characteristics — and more
— unfolded on Valerie Shaak’s Facebook page.
On Dec. 16, Shaak posted a video
on her Facebook page. Her accompanying comment succinctly
summed up her feelings about the
subject of the clip. “I have the sweetest and most amazing boyfriend
in the whole wide world!!!!!” she
gushed.
In the video, a seemingly bashful Phillip Black sits on a couch
and looks into a phone pointed toward him by an unknown operator. “Hey, Valerie. I just want to tell
you that I love you, and to wish us
a happy one-year anniversary, and
a merry Christmas to you,” he says
in a barely audible baritone. “I love
you so much, baby. I’ve been with
you for almost a year now, and I just
love you.”
Black pauses, looks down as if
trying to arrange words scattered on
the carpet, then again peers forward.
“You make me happy,” he continues.
“We make each other comfortable in
a way I can’t really explain.”
It was the last post the 22-yearold Shaak would make to Facebook.
Just three days later, as the
19-year-old Black drove a moped
with Shaak as his passenger southSEE FATALITY, PAGE 6
Valerie Shaak and Phillip Black in a photo posted on Facebook. Shaak was killed and Black seriously injured in a
pre-Christmas accident in Huntersville when their moped was struck by an impaired driver.
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January 14, 2015
FATALITY
FROM PAGE 4
bound on N.C. 115 near her alma
mater, North Mecklenburg High
School, late on a Friday night, a 2011
Infiniti, which police say was being
driven by Robert “Bo” Leahy, plowed
into the slower-moving scooter from
behind.
Black and Shaak were both
thrown from the bike, which stuck
like a skewer in the grill of Leahy’s
luxury car. Police say Leahy drove
away from the
scene, leaving
the
critically
injured couple
along the side
of the road.
Leahy
finally
pulled into the
parking lot of a
business about
a mile away, the
Leahy
scooter still protruding from the grill of his vehicle,
and fled on foot. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police used dogs and a helicopter to search for Leahy. By the
time they captured him, Shaak had
been declared dead at the scene of
the collision.
Black was transported to Carolinas Medical Center. He had surgery
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to repair a broken jaw and was treated for other injuries, but is expected
to recover.
Shaak’s family and friends, however, will take time to get over the
shock of losing a young woman, and
the lifetime of memories they had
yet to make with her.
At 7:32 the next morning, Shaak’s
sister, Kristin Bustle, posted the
tragic news on Shaak’s Facebook
page: “Heaven gained a beautiful,
loving, and caring angel last night,”
Bustle wrote. “A life gone way too
soon! We love and miss you dearly!”
With the news of Shaak’s death,
her Facebook page came alive.
Friends and family members began
posting photos of themselves with
Shaak, trying to connect with her in
the only way they could.
“I went through so many old pictures of us,” one friend posted. “I
can’t believe any of this. She always
had my back since we met. I had
her’s too. Even after I’ve moved all
over the place ... there hasn’t been a
day we didn’t talk. We were trying to
make plans so she could visit on my
birthday.
“I woke up this morning hoping
it was a nightmare,” she continued,
“but it’s a living hell. I’m destroyed by
this. I can’t talk right or know what
to say. This shouldn’t be real. I just
hope wherever you are, Val, you’re
doing okay. I know you’re watching
over us all.”
Other friends also looked heavenward.
“I knew you were an angel,” one
posted. “Now’s your time to fly. I love
you.”
On Dec. 22, Bustle posted a photo
of herself in her wedding dress, her
flowers still in her right hand and
her left cheek pressed tightly against
Shaak’s in a sisterly embrace.
Christmas wishes poured onto
Shaak’s page on Dec. 25.
“Every time around Christmas it’s
going to haunt me,” another friend
posted. “I’m still expecting your
phone calls and you always calling
me by waking me up and saying
‘merry Christmas’ or ‘happy birthday’ ... Nothing is the same without
you. I miss you like crazy.”
And so it went, and so it continues
to go, a perpetual, evolving memorial and a case study in social media at
its best, uniting friends and family in
a celebration of life and an outpouring of grief.
In the meantime, Leahy remains
in the Mecklenburg County Jail, his
combined bond topping $200,000.
He is charged with death by vehicle,
serious injury by vehicle and hit and
run, all felonies; as well as driving
while impaired and driving without
a license.
Lake Norman Citizen H’ville retreat set for Jan. 28, 30
Huntersville leaders will spend
two full days later this month setting goals and mapping out plans
to reach them at the town’s annual
planning retreat.
Huntersville
commissioners
and town administrators will meet
Wednesday, Jan. 28, and Friday, Jan.
30, at the Lee S. Dukes Jr. Water
Treatment Plant on Babe Stillwell
Road. Town Manager Greg Ferguson says sessions both days will begin at 8:30 a.m., with Wednesday’s
gathering lasting until 5 p.m. and
Friday’s meeting closing at 4. All sessions are open to the public.
This week, Ferguson said work
is under way to finalize the formal
agenda, but standard topics such
as transportation issues, economic
development and budget considerations are expected to once again
dominate discussions.
“It’s a time for us to identify priorities, see where we want to go
and work out a way to get there,”
Ferguson says. “The retreat is
where we develop the blueprint we
hope to follow on town projects for
the next 12 months, or for the next
two years based on the size of the
project and the financial commitment involved.”
A traditional achievement at the
retreat is the creation of a Top 10
list for local road improvements.
That list is updated each year
as previously prioritized, locally
funded projects are completed and
new areas of congestion or concern
— or roads and intersections where
new developments are anticipated
— merit more attention.
And this year, various aspects
related to the future of Huntersville’s downtown district promise
to be among the retreat’s hot topics. In 2014, two separate studies — one focused on all modes of
transportation needs downtown
and one examining the economic
development status of the entire
town (with the old downtown section as one of the carefully studied
districts) — were authorized by the
town. Information compiled from
those studies will be used by town
leaders to determine which municipal infrastructure enhancements
deserve the most attention.
A review of final plans and financing options for the new Veterans Park at Main & Maxwell is also
expected to be topic of discussion.
— Lee Sullivan
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January 14, 2015
NEWS
Lake Norman Citizen Masts installed, more
decorative work set
for Exit 28 bridge
By Andrew Warfield
[email protected]
Now that the shorter-than-anticipated weekend closure of the
Catawba Avenue bridge over I-77
is over and the masts and cables
intended to replicate a suspension
bridge have been installed, some
drivers in the Cornelius area have
been left to ask, “Is that all there is
to it?”
The latest round of installing the
aesthetic accoutrements intended
to enhance the new diverging diamond interchange (DDI) at Exit 28
is only the next step in converting
what was once a pedestrian — although not pedestrian-friendly —
interchange bridge into the Town
of Cornelius’ visual gateway. But it
may be the last time any such work
will result in any daytime, longterm traffic disruption across the
bridge, which serves as the town’s
primary east-west connector.
The contractor, Blythe Construction, opened the bridge last weekend
earlier than expected after completing the mast and cable installation
because it was too cold to put down
the permanent lane markings. That
work will be rescheduled when
weather permits and will result in
additional, short-term lane closures,
perhaps during the nighttime hours.
Otherwise, remaining “Phase I”
work by both the town and the contractor — lighting on the masts and
cables as well as the center walkway
and landscaping of islands and pedestrian refuges — should be completed within a month, according to
Cornelius Assistant Town Manager
Andrew Grant.
For months, converting the
bridge into a DDI snarled traffic
because of lane closures that were
necessitated largely by the installation of concrete safety barriers to
protect pedestrians from traffic in
the center walkway. As the North
Carolina Department of Transportation was developing plans for the
bridge itself, the town underwent
a design and decision process to
The decorative
masts and
cables were
installed in the
center walkway
across the Catawba Avenue
bridge at Exit
28 in Cornelius
last weekend.
More work on
the aesthetic
treatment of
the diverging diamond
interchange
is scheduled
for the coming
weeks while
the masonry
abutments
must be coordinated with
NCDOT and
Cintra Infraestructures.
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spend upwards of $2.2 million on
aesthetic treatments to provide a
sense of place to passing motorists.
The project is intended, commissioners determined at the time,
to draw traffic off the interstate and
into the town’s businesses.
The bridge was closed for several hours beginning at 12:01 a.m.
Saturday for crews to install the
masts and cables, which are only
the start of the aesthetics project.
Chief among the coming “Phase II”
aesthetic treatments are masonry
abutments designed to appear to
rise from the interstate below to
above the bridge, topped by decorative lanterns, and landscaping in
the areas between the ramps and
the interstate.
Just when that work will be
scheduled has yet to be determined. Town officials are in discussions with the NCDOT and the
private contractor for the managed
lanes widening project on I-77,
Cintra Infraestructures, in order
to coordinate when that work —
particularly the abutments — can
be done.
“We feel like we can go ahead
and construct the masonry abutments prior to Cintra working on
the lanes in this area,” says Grant.
“Those are still some of the things
we have to discuss.”
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January 14, 2015
NEWS
Lake Norman Citizen Tillis finding his
way in Washington
New senator finding
his way through the
maze of politics —
and corridors — on
Capitol Hill.
By Andrew Warfield
[email protected]
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Last
week in Washington, D.C., could
best be described as a whirlwind to
newly minted U.S. Senator Thom
Tillis. Following eight weeks of
preparation after ousting one-term
incumbent Kay Hagan in the Nov.
4 election, he finally got a chance to
get to work after officially occupying his seat on the Senate chamber
floor.
While still maintaining his
Huntersville home, the former
Cornelius commissioner, Hopewell
High School PTA president and
North Carolina Speaker of the
House found an apartment in the
nation’s capital along with his wife,
Susan, occupied temporary office
space, moved into his permanent
office in the Dirksen Senate Building, was brought up to speed on
Senate issues, received his committee assignments and began to find
his away around; all while seemingly constantly meeting, greeting
and entertaining visitors and wellwishers.
His day last Tuesday began with
greeting a contingent of campaign
supporters and others as they embarked on a tour of the Capitol
prior to the start of the swearingin ceremony. As always, Tillis
posed patiently for dozens of photos as he greeted each individual
by name.
These were his people, and he
was happy they were there.
“They are the reason why we
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A wild
ride
COURTESY JAMES PIEDAD
Thom and Susan
Tillis on the trolley
heading back to
his Senate office
building after being
sworn in at the
Capitol building
as a United States
senator. The event
marked the end of
weeks of preparation and celebration.
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TILLIS
FROM PAGE 10
won,” Tillis told the Citizen. “Their
hard work and their belief in me
and Susan allowed us to overcome
seemingly insurmountable odds to
win the race. I’m glad they came to
visit me early. I hope they will visit
me often.”
The week concluded back home
as Tillis was the featured attraction
at a meeting of the North Mecklenburg Republican Women at The
Peninsula Club in Cornelius. In the
days in between, he cast his first
votes from the Senate floor, the
first in favor of reauthorizing the
Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, followed by his first vote on a controversial measure in support of the
Keystone XL Pipeline.
On a practical basis, Tillis had
been at work in Washington for
several weeks. His biggest surprise
to date? “How
well organized
the Capitol staff
are,” he said.
“The orientation
and temporary
office set up was
amazing.
We
had our offices
furnished with
computers withTillis
in a few days after the election. Every interaction
has been very positive. I have also
been very pleased with the reception I have received from members
on both sides of the aisle.”
Among the most striking images of Tillis in his first few official
days as a Senator was of him walking alongside and speaking with
Democrat Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota. Tillis has a history as a consensus-builder across party lines,
but most Congressional observers
would suggest that it will take a
long arm to bridge that expanse of
an aisle. Tillis has said he sees consensus-building in Congress as essential, but it doesn’t supersede the
new Senate Republican majority’s
obligation to push ahead on longstagnant legislation.
“First and foremost, supporting
the leadership’s objective to return
to regular order,” Tillis said of his
priority. “We need to focus on legislation that will make government
more efficient, more effective and
more accountable. Sending the
Keystone/XL pipeline to the President within days of assuming control is a good start, but we have a
lot to do.”
As challenging as navigating the
political maze of the federal government, Tillis said, is the physical
maze between buildings in Washington. With their multiple levels
and seemingly endless corridors
“They are the reason why we won. Their hard
work and their belief in me and Susan allowed
us to overcome seemingly insurmountable
odds to win the race. I’m glad they came to visit
me early. I hope they will visit me often.”
— Thom Tillis on his supporters.
that all look the same, the Hart and
Dirksen Senate buildings are connected to the Senate wing of the
Capitol via an underground corridor that provides the option of
walking or riding on track-bound
trolley. The trolley cars can be used
by accredited members of the public and official visitors except during roll calls when senators must
quickly arrive at the Senate chamber.
Posted on Facebook last week
was a photo of Thom and Susan
Tillis shortly after being swornin on Tuesday, appearing relieved
that the next phase of Tillis’ mercurial political career had, at last, officially arrived.
“We were returning from the
Capitol back to our office,” Tillis said of the photo. “I think we
were trying to figure out how to get
there. I am proud to report that by
week’s end I am only getting lost
about one-third of the time.”
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Lake Norman Citizen Davidson College sets M.L. King Day schedule
As it does every year Davidson College will present a series of
events to commemorate Martin
Luther King Day on Monday, Jan.
19. All events are open to the public, and the schedule includes performances and talks and seminars
focused on social justice. The full
schedule follows. There is no charge
to attend any of the presentations,
all of which will take place in the
Alvarez College Union. For more
information, call 704-894-2225. • Civil Rights Cinema: 9 a.m.-3
p.m. in the Alvarez College Union
Room 313. The film White Like
Me by acclaimed anti-racist educator Tim Wise explores race and
racism in the U.S. through the lens
of whiteness and white privilege.
Wise reassesses the American ideal
of meritocracy and claims that the
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country has entered a post-racial
society. Instead, the film looks at
white entitlement programs that
built the American middle class,
and argues that our failure as a society to come to terms with the legacy
of white privilege continues to perpetuate racial inequality and racedriven political resentments today. • Dr. Martin Luther King MidDay Lecture with the Rev. Charles
L. White: 11:30 a.m. in the Alvarez College Union C. Shaw Smith
900 Room.White is national field
director of Al Sharpton’s National
Action Network. Known as a strategic thinker, coalition builder, vi-
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sionary and activist, for more than
30 years, White has worked as an
advocate for social justice with
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP).
White was the first AfricanAmerican member of the University of South Carolina Chaplains
Association and of the Clover Rotary Club. In 1993 he won a suit
against the Buffalo Room in North
Augusta, S.C., for refusing to serve
him and other NAACP officials
because of their race. The suit led
to the adoption of a strong Public
Accommodations Law by the South
Carolina Legislature. White and the
NAACP a decade later used the law
to prevail against several businesses
in Myrtle Beach, S.C., for discriminatory practices during the annual
Labor Day Black Bike Week.
• Aliens, Illegals and Terrorists: Racialized Experiences of
Immigrant Students of Color —
1:30-2:45 p.m. in the Alvarez College Union Smith 900 Room. A
panel of students will share stories
learned from their immigration
experience in the United States
and at Davidson College. They will
focus on how they and their family members learned the written
and unwritten rules of where they
fit, and how they were positioned
in the racial history, memory and
culture of their new communities
because of origin, religion, ethnicity, undocumented status, physical
features and dress.
• Mythbuster: Debunking Race
as Biology — 1:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
in the Alvarez College Union
Sprinkle Room, presented by Professor of Anthropology Helen Cho.
One of the most pernicious myths
in American society is that races
represent natural units of our species. While the idea that “race is
a social construct” has become a
popular academic cliché, many
struggle to explain its incongruence with racial classification that
is largely based on biological features such as skin color. Cho will
speak about ways to deconstruct
and debunk the race-as-biology
myth, which continues to perpetuate stereotypes that associate certain races with criminality, intelligence, sexual behavior, athleticism
and other behaviors.
• Dear Black Men: Love Letters
From Women of Color Who Are
Struggling With You Against Racism and Fighting Against You About
Sexism — 3-4:15 p.m. in the Alvarez
College Union Smith 900 R panel of
Davidson College students that will
explore issues within the black civil
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agendas. Panelists will use love letters to initiate a dialogue about how
to have a more inclusive movement
for black freedom.
• Material Representation of
Blackness in Professional Basketball — 3-4:15 p.m. in the Alvarez
College Union Smith Room 303.
A presentation by Davidson senior
Kassim Alani will explore how both
Nike and the National Basketball
Association portray black professional basketball players through
the exploitation of “blackness.”
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Evening Lecture — 7 p.m. in the
Alvarez College Union Smith
900 Room with Professor Marc
Lamont Hill. One of the country’s
leading hip-hop generation intellectuals, Hill will cover topics such
as culture, politics and education.
He has lectured widely, and provides regular commentary for media outlets such as NPR, Washington Post, Essence magazine, and the
New York Times. He was also a political commentator for Fox News
Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor. In
2005, Ebony magazine named him
one of America’s top 30 Black leaders under 30, and in 2011 Ebony
named him one of America’s 100
most influential black leaders.
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After more than a month of settling into its larger surroundings,
the Mecklenburg Senior Center
will hold official grand opening
ceremonies next week at its new
home in the old police station in
downtown Huntersville.
The grand opening event will
be held Thursday, Jan. 22, from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. at the new location
at 102 Gilead Road. Food and beverages, along with a ribbon cutting
ceremony and comments from local dignitaries, will be part of the
planned festivities.
Senior Center programs relocated from the Rock Church on
N.C. 115 in Huntersville to the old
police station facility late last year
as part of an agreement with the
town to share space in the building
with the Huntersville Parks & Recreation Department.
“The senior citizen population
in the Lake Norman area continues to grow and we’re growing
along with them,” Center Director Joanne Ahern said. “Our new
center evokes a warm, bright,
friendly feeling which we like to
call senior-friendly. As we celebrate
SEE NEWS BRIEFS, PAGE 13
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friendly feeling which we like to
call senior-friendly. As we celebrate
our grand opening, we’re also taking this opportunity to thank the
Town of Huntersville for providing the availability of this space for
our center. I urge all citizens from
the area to come and see our new
home and what we offer for adults
55 and older.”
Ahern said the new location,
which served as Huntersville Police
Department headquarters prior to
the department’s move to a much
larger building on Julian Clark Avenue, is completely handicapped
accessible, provides ample parking and enough space to offer even
more programs and activities.
Food for the grand opening activities will be provided by Autumn
Care of Cornelius, Bayada Home
Care, Summit Place of Mooresville
and Donna Lee of Cornelius. Normal Thursday classes, such as line
dancing, pinochle and Wii bowling,
will take place at their regular times
so visitors and guests will have the
opportunity to see the senior center
and its participants in action.
The new location is the third
home for the North Mecklenburg
Center. Previously, it was located at
the River Church in Cornelius and
then the Rock Church.
The Center charges annual fee
for participants. Classes with instructors carry individual fees while
others are free of charge. The center is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. Monday through Friday. More
information on program activities
is available by calling 704-9482486, by emailing Ahern at joanne.
[email protected]
or by visiting Charmeck.org/Mecklenburg/county.parkandrec.
Armour Street Theatre, 307 Armour St. in Davidson.
The Princess Plays, from the
book by Colleen Neuman, will be
presented Friday and Saturday, Jan.
16 and 17. Showtimes for the production, directed by Katelyn Englebert, will be 7 p.m. on Friday and 10
a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Saturday. Shakespeare for the King: A
Commedia Discord, adapted and
directed by Heather Wilson-Bowlby, will be presented Jan. 17 at 7
pm. and Sunday, Jan. 18 at 1:30
and 4:30 p.m.
Golly Gee Whiz!, by Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart and directed by Meredith Swanson, will
be presented Saturday, Jan. 24, at
1 and 4 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 25,
at 2 p.m.
The shows are appropriate for all
ages. No reservations are required,
but seating is limited so those planning to attend are advised to arrive
early. Doors open 20 minutes prior
to curtain. Performances are free,
but donations will be taken at the
door to support future youth programming.
Youth Ensemble productions
focus on the development of the
youth actor through the production process. They are purposefully
scaled back to keep the emphasis
on the process and are performed
free of charge as a culmination of
the project. For information on
upcoming youth auditions and
productions, call the box office at
704-892-7953 or visit DavidsonCommunityPlayers.org.
Davidson Community Players
is a non-profit organization established in 1965 to produce theatre
that entertains, enriches and encourages community participation
in the dramatic arts. The Connie Company is DCP’s theatre for
youth division. Both organizations
have a long standing record of
providing creative, authentic and
affordable opportunities for both
children and adults.
LNRMC seeks teen
summer volunteers
The Lake Norman Regional
Medical Center Volunteer Auxiliary is accepting student applications
to participate in the summer Junior Volunteer Program at the hospital in Mooresville. The program
is an opportunity for students to
receive first-hand exposure to the
operations of various hospital departments including imaging services, surgery, endoscopy, physical
rehabilitation and women’s services.
Applications are available online on LNRMC’s website under
the volunteer opportunities tab,
through local school guidance de-
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partments and at the visitors’ desk
at hospital at 171 Fairview Road in
Mooresville. The program is open
to rising high school juniors and
seniors. Applicants are required to
complete an essay and provide two
teacher recommendations and two
personal references.
A Volunteer Auxiliary committee will select 25 students to receive
at least 32 hours of volunteer opportunity each. An orientation will
be held at the end of May and the
program will run for eight weeks in
June and July.
“This is a competitive and rewarding program,” says Auxiliary Junior Volunteer Coordinator
Connie Farrell. “We look for students who are career-driven and
interested in working in a professional health care field.” Completed
applications must be returned to
the Junior Volunteer Coordinator
at the hospital by March 31.
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January 14, 2015
Talk of the Towns
Lake Norman Citizen Back to basics
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The reaction on social “media” was swift
and decisive as the recent news spread via
Facebook and the Twitter-verse at thumbtapping speed. One commenter called it the
“worst news” she will hear in 2015, a year,
Talkers couldn’t help but note, was a mere 11
days old. But the damage had been done and
additional carnage was soon to be swept up in
the wake of this horrific turn of events.
Terrorist killings in the offices of a French
newspaper? No, It was something apparently
much more significant.
The horrific development capturing their
attention was the recent announcement that
Target stores will soon carry a product line created by highfalutin’ women’s resort and chic
beach wear designer Lilly Pulitzer.
Target! And to add insult to injury, some
items will be available in plus sizes!
Surely, some tweeters mused, this was some
big, fat joke. But as reality set in, the Lilly-putians lashed out with comments that their designer hero would be “rolling over” in her grave
that the name Lilly Pulitzer would be found on
a rack next to the Target house brands such as
Merona, Xhiliration and Mossimo; and only
steps away from the motor oil and plungers.
And even worse, the prestige of their favorite brand will be cheapened because “basics”
will have the opportunity to wear the same
Lilly Pulitzer label as they.
Oh, the humanity.
In their constant quest for knowledge, Talkers turned to the Urban Dictionary to find a
reference to “basics,” learning, as expected, that
it was slang for someone who lacks the level of
sophistication obviously possessed by an individual of high enough stature to call someone
else a “basic.” And heaven forbid someone of
a certain socio-economic category should be
permitted to wear a brand that would otherSEE TALK, PAGE 15
TALK
FROM PAGE 14
wise remain unaffordable for them.
The worst news of 2015? Within that attitude lies no clearer indication that it’s time
for everyone to get back to basics.
TALK OF THE TOWNS
January 14, 2015 15
Horse’s Mouth
Dumb phones
Genius phones and other technological advancements have made some aspects
of life better, but they can also lead to some
awkward moments. Just this week, slaving away at the office anticipating Monday’s
super-hyped finale to the college football season, one Talker got this intriguing — and no
doubt dictated straight to a so-called “smart”
phone — text message from a long-time pal.
“Going to warm up some chicken wings
the night watch the ball game come on out
if you’d like wife out of town.”
Sometimes, Talkers admit, we suffer from
typos and every now and then take liberties
with punctuation, but if there’s a best lesson to show just how valuable a comma or
period can be, this might be it. Of course,
the good friend could have simply been emphasizing just how much disdain his wife
harbors for our company, but odds are it’s
just a matter of the machine doing just what
— and only what — the human told it to do.
Secrets in plain sight
A local blogger utilized as a columnist at
another area periodical recently lamented
that the only way the public knew about
“clandestine” meetings between a requisite
number of commissioners from each local to not constitute a quorum, held several
months ago, was because one board member
from one of the towns told him about them.
The meetings between NCDOT officials
and the local electeds were to allow for intimate question-and-answer sessions and
idea exchanges. And they weren’t secret as
they were discussed at the dais in Huntersville, and the media was informed and
reported about them in advance. Talkers
know, because they actually attend them,
that the best way to know about “secrets”
towns keep from their citizens is to actually
show up at a meeting, where this one was
discussed in open forum.
“It’s a time for us to identify priorities, see where we want to go and work
out a way to get there. The retreat is where we develop the blueprint we
hope to follow on town projects for the next 12 months, or for the next
two years based on the size of the project and the financial commitment
involved.”
— Huntersville Town Manager Greg Ferguson summarizing the primary
objectives of the town’s annual planning retreat to be held later this month.
“We feel like we can go ahead and construct the masonry
abutments prior to Cintra working on the lanes in this area.
Those are still some of the things we have to discuss.”
— Cornelius Assistant Town Manager Andrew Grant on
progress of aesthetics work on the diverging diamond
interchange at Exit 28.
“They are the reason why we won. Their hard work and their
belief in me and Susan allowed us to overcome seemingly
insurmountable odds to win the race. I’m glad they came to
visit me early. I hope they will visit me often.”
— U.S. Senator Thom Tillis of Huntersville in the throng of
visitors and well-wishers who traveled to Washington, D.C.,
last week to witness him being sworn-in.
“I’m looking for the people who are looking for me. And
when they find me, they cry, because they’ve been looking
for a long time.”
— Gabriella Tebbens, proprietress of Laughingbrook
Spellcrafting and Ancestral Arts in Huntersville, on the
clientele of her shop that supports a rather large pagan
community.
“They have a very deliberate picture painted in their head
about me, but I didn’t paint it.” — Tebbens on those critical of or uneducated about her
practice of witchcraft.
“I probably hate losing more than I like winning, to be
honest.”
— Hough High School wrestling coach Tripp Rogers, whose
team has won more than it has lost this season.
“We just need to keep grinding. Our conference is a grind.
There are no easy games.”
— Hopewell High School girls’ basketball coach Tyrelle
Anderson, whose Lady Titans started the 2014-15 basketball
season with a 13-1 record.
“I think it’ll be nine bleachers high, packed in there like
sardines. It’ll be about 96 degrees, and first place will be
on the line.”
— Hough High School boys’ basketball coach Jason Grube,
whose team plays at rival North Meck Friday. The two teams
are currently in a four-way tie for first place in the MECKA
Conference.
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Citizen’s Arrest
January 14, 2015
Cornelius
Arrests and citations as reported by
the Cornelius Police Department Dec.
31-Jan. 4.
Arrests
• Rosero, Harold (BM, 27), ForgeryBank Notes (F), 20500 Torrence Chapel
Road, 12/31.
• Colley, Travis Paul (WM, 35), Impaired
Driving-DWI (M), Open Container In Vehicle
(T), 17999 West Catawba Avenue, 1/1.
• Cooper, Jennifer Danielle (WF, 30),
Possession Of Schedule II Controlled Substance (F), 19613 Shevington Drive, 1/3.
Citations
• Billy, Jonathan Michael (WM, 33),
Driving While License Revoked, 18899
West Catawba Avenue, 12/31.
• Low, Alain Simon (OM, 53), SpeedingExcess Of 15 Miles Over, 10399 Washam
Potts Road, 12/31.
CITIZEN’S ARREST
• Isla Sosa, Juan Jose (HM, 22), No
Driver’s License, 20099 North Main
Street, 12/31.
• Brewster, Talitha (BF, 42), Exceeding Posted Speed, 20011 West Catawba
Avenue, 12/31.
• Colley, Travis Paul (WM, 35), Open
Container Of Alcohol In Vehicle, Speeding,
19099 West Catawba Avenue, 1/1.
• Hinkle, Steven Leo (WM, 26), No
Insurance, 17999 Statesville Road, 1/1.
• Piro, Karen Shapiro (WF, 40), Expired
Registration, Expired/No Inspection,
19099 West Catawba Avenue, 1/1.
• Norman, Danzell Jaquan (BM, 23),
Failure To Stop Steady Red Light, 19399
• Beam, Gary Lynn (WM, 51), Driving
While License Revoked, 20655 Catawba
Avenue, 1/1.
• Cianchetti, Domenico Robert (WM,
25), Exceeding Posted Speed, 19099 West
Catawba Avenue, 1/2.
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• Carpenter, Richard Hundley (WM, 16),
Speeding-Excess Of 15 Miles Over, 10399
Washam Potts Road, 1/2.
• Odehnal, Juliana Kendall (WF, 62),
Exceeding Posted Speed, 19699 West
• Ferrel, James Randall (WM, 54),
• Peterson, Hans Edgar (WM, 48),
Exceeding Posted Speed, Statesville Road
at Catawba Avenue, 1/2.
• Hodges, Jennifer Simpson (WF, 40),
Expired Registration, Expired/No Inspection, West Catawba Avenue at Westmoreland Road, 1/2.
• Burch, Jordan Elial (WM, 30),
• Barvoets, Barbara Ann (WF, 53),
Exceeding Posted Speed, Knox Road at
Harken Drive, 1/2.
• Sterling, Abraham (WM, 23), Speeding, 17499 Jetton Road, 1/2.
• Minton, James Logan (WM, 28),
Exceeding Posted Speed, Statesville Road
at Boathouse Court, 1/2.
• Rowse, Karen Wagner (WF, 67),
Exceeding Posted Speed, 19699 West
• Pratt, Erika Ann (WF, 35), Exceeding Posted Speed, 18899 West Catawba
Avenue, 1/3.
• Nemitz, Jared Ray (WM, 31), Flashing
Red Light, Meadow Crossing Lane at
Denae Lynn Drive, 1/3.
• Hart, Molly Colleen (WF, 40), Exceeding Posted Speed, 18899 West Catawba
Avenue, 1/3.
• Matney, Kerri Jo (WF, 32), SpeedingExcess Of 15 Miles Over, 19751 Statesville
Road, 1/3.
• Yepez-Ramos, Luis David (OM, 46),
Statesville Road, 1/3.
• Gary, Zeivon Marquise (BM, 20), Possession Of A Controlled Substance, 17599
Tuscany Lane, 1/4.
Davidson
the Davidson Police Department Dec.
29-Jan. 4.
Arrests
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• Proctor, Spencer Alan Jr. (BM, 28),
Driving While License Revoked (T), Resist/
Obstruct/Delay (M), 700 Griffith Street,
1/4.
Citations
• Varnaob, Alisa Rachelle (WF, 44), No
Driver’s License, Griffith Street, 12/29.
• Donaldson, Tina (BF, 48), Revoked
Registration Plate, Griffith Street, 12/29.
• English, Teresa Lynn (WF, 46), Speeding, North Main Street, 12/29.
• Speicher, Zachary Robert (WM, 20),
Expired Registration, Expired Inspection,
Griffith Street, 12/29.
• Harvey, Dominique Melotti (WF, 48),
No Driver’s License, Expired Registration,
Running Red Light, Griffith Street, 12/29.
• Godfrey, Kayla Renee (WF, 26),
Speeding, Concord Road, 12/31.
• Griffin, Mario Nicole (BM, 32), Speeding, East Rocky River Road, 12/31.
• Crowley, Shanice Nicole (BF, 25),
Expired Registration, Sloan Street, 12/31.
• Fisher, Amy Annette (WF, 35), Speeding, North Main Street, 12/31.
• Brookshire, Christopher Lee (WM,
50), Speeding, Concord Road, 12/31.
• Jenkins, Nathan William Herrin (WM,
16), Wrong Left Hand Turn, N.C. 73, 1/1.
• McFadden, Janet Lynn (WF, 48), Failure To Stop At Stop Sign, Ashby Drive, 1/1.
• Caplanides, Christopher Robert
(WM, 38), Expired Registration, Expired
Inspection, Driving While License Revoked,
Robert Walker Drive, 1/1.
• Tangudu, Vidya (OF, 36), Speeding,
Griffith Street, 1/1.
• Minewiser, Elizabeth Cathryn (WF,
41), Speeding, Davidson-Concord Road
1/1.
• Miles, Susanna Conner (WF, 61),
Speeding, North Main Street, 1/1.
• Alegria, Jennifer Leigh (WF, 42), Texting While Driving, Griffith Street, 1/1.
• Williamson, Carlyle Rutledge (WF, 23),
Expired Registration, Griffith Street, 1/1.
• Hochman, Fred Kenneth (WM, 68),
Expired Registration, Concord Road, 1/1.
• York, Melanie Ann (WF, 44), Expired
Registration, Expired Inspection, Concord
Road, 1/1.
• Davis, Jackson Lee (WM, 18), Underage Consumption, Cotton Gin Alley, 1/1.
• Branson, Michael Stewart (WM, 19),
Underage Consumption, Cotton Gin Alley
1/1.
• Nuttle, Justin Andrew (WM, 19),
Underage Consumption, Cotton Gin Alley,
1/1.
• Erker, Ryan Michael (WM, 18), Under-
Lake Norman Citizen age Consumption, Cotton Gin Alley, 1/1.
• Farmer, Tyler Sean (WM, 19), Underage Consumption, Cotton Gin Alley, 1/1.
• Craverm, Nathaniel Lee (WM, 20),
1/1.
• Roth, Ian Christopher (WM, 18),
1/1.
• Selby, Stafford Marion (WM, 58),
Speeding, N.C. 115, 1/2.
• Grover, Calvin Robert (WM, 34),
Speeding, N.C. 115, 1/2.
• Baldwin, Kimberly (WF, 48), No
Driver’s License, Beaty Street, 1/2.
• Lane, Lauren Nichele (WF), Speeding,
Failure to Carry License, Griffith Street,
1/2.
• Saire, Joseph P (WM, 41), No Driver’s
License, Peninsula Drive, 1/2.
• Paden, Donald Jr. (BM, 41), Wrong
Side of Road, Jetton Street, 1/2.
• Tomarchio, Louis Charles (WM, 33),
No Driver’s License, Griffith Street, 1/3.
• Gross, John Phillip (WM, 63), Speeding, Griffith Street, 1/3.
• Parsons, Jessica Brown (WF, 33),
Failure To Stop At Stop Sign, Peninsula
Drive, 1/3.
• Bailey, Cathy Hager (WF, 63), Speeding, Expired Registration, North Main
Street, 1/4.
• Holland, April Burns (WF, 34), Speeding, Griffith Street, 1/4
Huntersville
the Huntersville Police Department Dec.
31-Jan. 6.
Arrests
• Houston, Robert AlJerome (BM, 29),
Driving While License Revoked (T), Speeding (T), McCoy Road, 12/31.
• Whitt, Zachary Ryan (WM, 20),
Larceny (F), Uttering Forged Instrument (F),
14215 Market Square Drive, 12/31.
• Collins, Sharla (WF, 27), Simple Assault (M), Statesville Road, 12/31.
• Frasier, Joshua Dale (WM, 24), Hit
And Run/Property Damage (T), Possession
Of Marijuana (M), 17400 Calverton Road,
12/31.
• Cook, Anna Alicia (WF, 26), Open
Container In Vehicle (T), Impaired DrivingDWI (M), Reckless Driving To Endanger
(T), Resist/Obstruct/Delay (M), 13659
Beatties Ford Road, 1/1.
• Paige, Kwamane Rashad (BM, 24),
Impaired Driving-DWI (M), 14801 Statesville Road, 1/3.
• Smith, Shanice Victoria (BF, 21),
Larceny By Employee (F), 9801 Sam Furr
Road, 1/3.
• Knox, Khristopher Michael (WM, 34),
Larceny (F), Conspiracy (M), Possession Of
Drug Paraphernalia (M), Unauthorized Use
Of Motor Vehicle (M), 11557 Hambright
Road, 1/4.
• Herron, Elijah Zachike (BM, 21), Rape
(F), Whispering Pines Lane, 1/6.
Citations
• Ward, Christopher Vernell (BM, 29),
Possession Of Marijuana, I-77 near Sam
Furr Road, 12/31.
• Greenwood, Shawn Andrew (WM,
56), Stoplight Violation, Statesville Road at
Sam Furr Road, 12/31.
• Brammer, Lindsey Jarrett (WF, 27),
Expired Registration, Stumptown Road
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CITIZEN’S ARREST
POLICE REPORTS
FROM PAGE 16
near Statesville Road, 12/31.
• Smith, Chelseanne Elizabeth (WF,
27), Expired Registration, Old Statesville
Road at McCord Road, 12/31.
• Stortz, Katherine Elizabeth (WF, 22),
Text Messages/Reading Electronic Mail
While Driving, Gilead Road at Sherwood
Drive, 12/31.
• Cooke, Nicholas Abraham (WM, 28),
Expired Registration, Gilead Road at Old
• Smith, Christopher Cody (WM, 24),
Seat Belt Law, Gilead Road at Sherwood
Drive, 12/31.
• Hettinger, Christopher (WM, 26),
Improper Registration, Statesville Road at
Sherill Estates, 12/31.
• Frasier, Joshua Dale (WM, 24), Failure
To Report Collision, Sam Furr Road at
• Trudan, Dan (M, 53), Parking In
Direction Other Than That Of Travel, 17120
Formby Road, 12/31.
• Sousa, Peter (WM, 37), Speeding 6045, Sam Furr Road at Ranger Trail, 1/1.
• Sanchez, Luis Alberto (WM, 28), No
Driver’s License, Gilead Road at McCoy
Road, 1/1.
• White, Anna Alicia (WF, 16), DWIAlcohol, Reckless Driving, Possession Of
Open Container In Vehicle, Beatties Ford
Road at Bud Henderson Road, 1/1.
• Conneh, Morris (BM, 26), No Driver’s
License-Revoked, Gilead Road at I-77, 1/1.
• Darnell, Cynthia McClure (WF, 55),
No Driver’s License, Mt. Holly-Huntersville
Road at Reese Boulevard, 1/1.
• Mendoza, Miguel Velequez (UM, 36),
No Driver’s License, Old Statesville Road
at Gilead Road, 1/1.
• Witherspoon, Rhonda Roseboro (BF,
52), Expired Registration, Statesville Road
at Corland Road, 1/1.
• Courts, Britany Marie (BF, 19), DrugsEquipment/Paraphernalia Possession,
14314 Rhiannon Lane, 1/2.
• Cullen, Vincent Depaul (WM, 29),
Exceeding Limit On Highway, Gilead Road
near I-77, 1/2.
• Leathley, Cameron Jay Charles (WM,
20), Failure To Reduce Speed, Eastfield
Road near Old Statesville Road, 1/2.
• Echevarria, Andres Alberto (UM, 38),
Speeding, Eastfield Road near Dixon Farm
Road, 1/2.
• Kane, Riley (WF, 18), Speeding 84-65,
I-77 near Gilead Road, 1/2.
• Frye, Tristen Blaine (WM, 18), Speeding, Possession Of Marijuana, I-77 North
near Mile Marker 20.6, 1/2.
• Flynn, Daniel Patrick (WM, 41),
Speeding, Sam Furr Road near Birkdale
Commons Parkway, 1/2.
• White, Stephanie Lee (WF, 27), Stoplight Violation, Sam Furr Road near West
• Spell, Frank Fulton (WM, 42), Speeding-Exceeding Safe Speed, Beatties Ford
Road near Catawba Chase Drive, 1/2.
• Swim, Calvin Allyn (WM, 25), Expired
Registration, I-77 near Mile Marker 25,
1/2.
• Deveaux, William (BM, 20), Possession Of Marijuana, 14314 Rhiannon Lane,
1/2.
• Jackson, Gail (BF, 56), PassingImproper, Statesville Road at Holly Point
Drive, 1/2.
• Minor, Harvey William (BM, 46), No
Driver’s License, Cletus Brawley Road at
Stumptown Road, 1/2.
• Federico, Jacklyn Leigh (WF, 29),
Speeding 60-45, Sam Furr Road at Knoxwood Drive, 1/2.
• Kellman, Ross Adam (WM, 43),
• Ferris, Jeremy Edward (WM, 32),
• Greene, Matthew Tyler (WM, 17),
Defective Windshield, Gilead Road at
Sherwood Drive, 1/2.
• Stone, Tony (WM, 26), Tinted Windows Violation, Gilead Road at Sherwood
Drive, 1/2.
• Best, Margaret Anne (WF, 18), Speeding 66-45, Eastfield Road at Dixon Farm
Road, 1/2.
• Parris, Cecil (BM, 48), Speeding
60-45, Eastfield Road at Dixon Farm Road,
1/2.
• Swaby, Travis Cliffton (BM, 27),
Speeding 60-45, Eastfield Road at Dixon
Farm Road, 1/2.
• Stacy, Sandra Elizabeth (WF, 54),
Farm Road, 1/2.
• Wacker, Ethan Austin (WM, 17),
Farm Road, 1/2.
• Mancuso, Nicholas Mario (WM, 25),
Tinted Windows Violation, Eastfield Road
at Dixon Farm Road, 1/2.
• Carlo, Christopher Garry (WM, 40),
• Doster, Jennifer Lynn (WF, 27), Speeding 54-45, Sam Furr Road at Knoxwood
Drive, 1/2.
• Preziosi, Danielle (WF, 28), Text Messages/Reading Electronic Mail While Driving, Gilead Road at Sherwood Drive, 1/2.
• Pugliese, Adrienne Lori (WF, 39),
Tinted Windows Violation, Gilead Road at
Sherwood Drive, 1/2.
• Scwartz, Brandon Christopher (WM,
17), Speeding 54-45, Eastfield Road at
Dixon Farm Road, 1/2.
• Pope, Samantha Michelle (WF, 25),
Speeding, Eastfield Road near Dixon Farm
Road, 1/3.
• Bradford, Lovell Anthony (BM, 42),
Expired Registration, No Driver’s License,
Eastfield Road near Old Statesville Road,
1/3.
• Jennings, Gary William (WM, 60),
Expired Registration, Eastfield Road near
Old Statesville Road, 1/3.
• Reeves, Joseph Carter (BM, 20), No
Driver’s License-Revoked, Sam Furr Road
near I-77 South Ramp, 1/3.
• Crowder, Alisha Noel Lynnette (BF,
23), Improper Turn, Sam Furr Road near
Northcross Drive, 1/3.
• Funderburk, Derrick Eugene (BM,
43), Expired Registration, Sam Furr Road
near Northcross Drive, 1/3.
• Winn, Ronald Neal (WM, 65), Improper Turn, Sam Furr Road at Northcross
Drive, 1/3.
• Steakhouse, Roslyn (BF, 52), Inspection Violation, Eastfield Road at Forest
Path Drive, 1/3.
• Prysiazniuk, Stephanie Ann (WF, 43),
Stoplight Violation, Statesville Road near
Holly Point Drive, 1/4.
• Wilson, Steven Korean (BM, 31),
Exceeding Limit On Highway, No Driver’s
License, Eastfield Road near Dixon Farm
Road, 1/4.
• Dehart, Megan Rose (WF, 30),
Expired Registration, No Driver’s LicenseRevoked, Sam Furr Road near Northcross
Road, 1/4.
• Burnett, Tyler Dean (WM, 17), Speeding, Eastfield Road near Dixon Farm Road,
1/4.
• Luckett, Beverly Ann (BF, 61), Expired
Registration, Eastfield Road near Old
• Burke, Brendan Lee (WM, 25),
Expired Registration, Sam Furr Road near
• McKinnie, Dana Karol (WF, 51), No
Liability Insurance, Sam Furr Road near
Kenton Place, 1/4.
• Dunbar, Elizabeth Marie (UF, 26),
Expired Registration, Sam Furr Road near
• Gilmore, Logan Brett (WM, 24),
Larceny, 11145 Bryton Town Center Drive,
1/4.
• Jones, Nathan Patrick (BM, 19),
Possession Of Marijuana, Gilead Road at
Rosedale Hill Avenue, 1/5.
• Tollner, Scott Andrew (WM, 24), Seat
Belt Law, Sam Furr Road at Old Statesville
Road, 1/5.
• Louden, Abbie Paige (WF, 34), Expired
Registration, I-77 near Gilead Road, 1/5.
• Trafzer, Matthew Allen (WM, 45),
Expired Registration, Gilead Road at Reese
Boulevard, 1/5.
• Kaiokoia, Peta Grace (BF, 18), Speeding 64-35, Reckless Driving, Gilead Road
at Boren Street, 1/5.
• Ledholtz, Whitney Lynn (WF, 25),
Larceny, 11145 Bryton Town Center Drive,
1/5.
• Ellis, Ashley (WF, 23), Speeding
62-45, Sam Furr Road at Knoxwood Drive,
1/5.
• Moultry, Jerrick Breon (BM, 23),
Speeding-School Zone 51-35, Old Statesville Road at Alexnderana Road, 1/5.
• Good, Cindy Nix (WF, 40), SpeedingSchool Zone 52-35, Old Statesville Road at
Eastfield Road, 1/5.
• Woolever, Derek Michael (WM, 32),
Speeding-School Zone 51-35, Old Statesville Road at Eastfield Road, 1/5.
• Baugh, Jeanna Burress (WF, 46),
Speeding-School Zone 55-35, Old Statesville Road at Eastfield Road, 1/5.
• Schroeder, Donald Bruce (WM, 66),
Speeding 44-35, Old Statesville Road at
Eastfield Road, 1/5.
• Burgess, Nicola Marie (WF, 45), Ex-
January 14, 2015 pired Registration, Ranson Road at Gilead
Road, 1/5.
• Munguia, Otoniel Gutierrez (UM, 32),
No Driver’s License, I-77 near Mile Marker
23, 1/6.
• Ambrocio, Elmerlsau (WM, 24), No
Driver’s License, Gilead Road at Statesville
Road, 1/6.
Mooresville
Arrests as reported by the Mooresville
Police Department Dec. 29-Jan. 4.
• Sears, Damian Nicholas (WM, 36),
Assault With A Deadly Weapon (M), 750
West Iredell Avenue, 12/29.
• Nazworth, Scott Anderson (WM, 16),
Possession Of Schedule VI Controlled Substance (M), 117 Clusters Circle, 12/29.
• Forbes-Jones, Ian MacKay (WM, 41),
Assault On A Female By Male (M), 201
Town Square Circle, 12/29.
• Archer, Chloe Ann (WF, 20), LarcenyShoplifting/Concealment (M), 350 West
Plaza Drive, 12/30.
• Desanti, Daniel Louis (WM, 19),
Possession Of Schedule VI Controlled
Substance (M), 966 Brawley School Road,
12/30.
• Sherrill, Joseph Truman (BM, 17),
Failure To Appear-Felony (F), 600 South
Main Street, 12/31.
• Houston, Sandtario Deray (BM, 29),
Assault On A Female By Male (M), 315 Lee
Street, 12/31.
• Jennings, Sandy Ross (WM, 32),
Larceny-Shoplifting/Concealment (M), 169
Norman Station Boulevard, 12/31.
• Stinson, Johnny Labrian (BM, 36),
Failure To Appear-Misdemeanor (M), North
Broad Street, 12/31.
• Cooper, Dexter Ray (BM, 50), Loitering/Soliciting For Money (M), 169 Norman
Station Boulevard, 12/31.
• Sloan, Franklin Fitzgerald (BM, 51),
Fugitive From Justice (M), N.C. 115 at
17 Timber Road, 1/1.
• Grimes, Riley Jordan (WM, 17), Damage To Personal Property (M), 140 Elrosa
Road, 1/1.
• Witherspoon, Chase Prentiss (WM,
16), Damage To Personal Property (M),
249 River Birch Circle, 1/1.
• Brigandi, Tailor Tre (WM, 16), Damage
To Personal Property (M), 111 Gage Drive,
1/1.
• Hudson, Amanda Michelle (WF, 30),
DWI-Alcohol (M), 100 Beaty Avenue, 1/1.
• Holden, Patrick Kevin (WM, 17),
Possession Of Schedule VI Controlled
Substance (M), 1321 Oakridge Farm
Highway, 1/1.
• Piwoski, Meghan Lofgren (WF, 30),
Drugs-Inhaling Toxic Fumes (M), 590 River
Highway, 1/2.
• Hall, William Edward (WM, 20), DWIDrugs (M), 590 River Highway, 1/2.
• Holbrook, Austin Tyler (WM, 19), Assault On A Female By Male (M), 750 West
Iredell Avenue, 1/2.
• Tate, Brenton Christopher (BM, 24),
Assault On A Female By Male (M), 131
South Sherrill Street, 1/2.
• Hamilton, Nathaniel (BM, 45),
Possession Of Schedule VI Controlled Substance (M), 399 West Plaza Drive, 1/3.
• Mullins, John Michael (WM, 27),
Unauthorized Use Of Motor Vehicle (M),
1968 Charlotte Highway, 1/3.
• Caldwell, Leon Develda (BM, 55),
Assault On Law Enforcement Officer/Employee (M), 274 North Main Street, 1/3.
• Hill, Timothy Joseph (WM, 18),
Possession Of Schedule VI Controlled Substance (M), 110 Steam Engine Drive, 1/4.
• Murphy, Morgan James (WM, 31),
Damage To Personal Property (M), 118
Town Loop, 1/4.
• Carrera, Anthony Joseph (WM, 22),
Breaking Or Entering Of Building (F), 233
College Street, 1/4.
Schools
18 January 14, 2015
Lake Norman Citizen
CSD hosts annual ‘Fresh Take’
education conference Jan. 23
Community School of Davidson
will host the fourth annual “Fresh
Take: Strategies for Student Success” education conference Friday,
Jan. 23, at the CSD high school
campus, 404 Armour St., in Davidson.
The event, which has grown every year and earn accolades from
a wide range of education professionals, will begin at 8 a.m. and
continue until 8 p.m. Praised by
a leading state educator as “by far
the best teacher’s conference I have
ever attended,” the Fresh Take program is designed as a way to unite
exceptional educators and provide
a forum to share ideas about best
practices and new approaches to
help students. The keynote speaker for this
year’s conference will be Michelle
Icard, an author and educator
who helps students, parents and
teachers navigate the tricky middle
school social world. Icard’s book,
Middle School Makeover: Improving The Way You And Your Child
Experience The Middle School
Years, received a starred review
from Publisher’s Weekly for being outstanding in its genre. Her
work has also been featured in The
Washington Post, A Mighty Girl,
The Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor and Your
Teen Magazine, and highlighted on
Parents.com, Fox News Good Day
Carolinas, The Charlotte Today
Show and the Huffington Post. The conference is for educators of all levels and those already
registered for this year’s event
include administrators, college
students majoring in education,
coaches, home school parents and
educators from throughout the
South. Online registration is available at the CSD website, CSDspartans.org, and at squareup.com/
community-school-of-davidson.
The registration fee for the confer-
ence, which will include 60 workshops, roundtable discussions,
various seminars, three meals and
take-home materials, is $75.
Comedy production
coming to Hopewell
The drama department at
Hopewell High School in Huntersville will present several performances of Duck Hunter Shoots
Angel starting this weekend.
This endearing story, written
by Mitch Albom, has been hailed
as a rare comedy with a surprisingly heartfelt lesson. Albom, a
long-time newspaper columnist
and noted writer, is responsible for
several critically acclaimed novels
including Tuesdays with Morrie
and The Five People You Meet in
Heaven. The play, Albom’s first not
based on one of his books, follows
the intersecting paths of two guiltridden duck hunters who believe
Frozen-themed fundraiser at L.N. Charter
The Interact Club at Lake Norman Charter School will host a “Parents
Night Out”benefitting the Guatemalan Stove Project Saturday, Jan. 17
from 6 to 10 p.m. Parents can drop off children ($20 for the first child,
$10 for siblings) to enjoy a fun, Frozen-themed evening complete with
games and snacks. To register, visit goo.gl/cqYDUM. LNC officials have
also issued a reminder that the deadline for the school’s next lottery is
Jan. 31. Visit lncharter.org for application information.
they shot an angel, a depressed
tabloid journalist, his reluctant
photographer, their crazed boss, a
shopgirl at a local Gasmart, a halfman/half-alligator and a ghost.
The themes of redemption, race,
media and North vs. South are all
explored in comedic fashion, and
the play features a surprise ending
that few playgoers see coming.
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SCHOOL NOTES
FROM PAGE 18
The school’s drama department
students, the Hopewell Headliners, have been hard at work preparing for this production under
the watchful eye of Director Carey
Kugler, who has supervised the
Headliners in creating award-winning productions for more than 14
years.
Performances are open to the
public and will be presented in the
auditorium at Hopewell, 11530 Beatties Ford Road. The play will be
presented on four nights — Friday,
Jan. 16; Saturday, Jan. 17; Tuesday,
Jan. 20; and Wednesday, Jan. 21
— with curtain time for all performances set for 7 p.m.
Tickets can be purchased at the
door for $5 and the production is
rated PG due to mild profanity.
Local schools unite
to help EC programs
In a cooperative effort to create unity and raise awareness for
children with special needs, two
elementary schools in Huntersville
are teaming up to sponsor a fun
and fund-raising activity in late
March.
The third annual Torrence
Creek Elementary and Grand Oak
Elementary 5k/Kids Fun Run/
Walk will be held Saturday March
28, at Bradley Middle School with
all proceeds going directly to the
exceptional children’s departments
at Torrence Creek and Grand Oak
to use for much-needed educational supplies. An exceptional
child is any child with a disability,
disorder,delay, behavior, sensory or
attention problem; or any other issue that hinders learning. This is a
fundraiser that will directly impact
the children and families at these
schools.
Registration for the event is now
under way at queencitytiming.com.
On race day, the 5K will begin at 8
a.m. and the one-mile fun run will
follow at 9:15. Activities at Bradley
Middle, 13345 Beatties Ford Road,
will be held rain or shine.
In addition to recruiting participants for the runs and walks
(last year, more than 500 runners
participated and organizers are
expecting even more this year),
the schools are also seeking sponsors to support the event and help
the exceptional children’s departments. For a $100 contribution,
a sponsor will be able to support
the programs and receive publicity with a race shirt logo acknowledgement and other materials distributed at the event. Sponsorship
information is available by contacting either school.
Fees for participating are $25
for the 5K and $15 for the Kids
Fun Run. Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Schools faculty members get a reduced rate of $20 for the 5K. Registration on race day will be available for an additional $5.
Awards will be presented for
top performers in age groups and
overall categories and all those registered by March 1 are guaranteed
a T-shirt.
Open house set
at Trillium Springs
Trillium Springs Montessori
School in Huntersville will host an
open house/school tour program
on Thursday, Jan. 22, starting at 9
a.m. It will be the final open house
at Trillium Springs prior to the
close of the application period for
the First School Options Lottery
on Jan. 26.
All prospective parents are invited to take part in the program and
to visit the Trillium Springs page
on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Schools website, cms.k12.nc.us.
Trillium Springs, in its first year, is
a CMS Montessori School at 9213
Beatties Ford Road.
Tours, other events
set at J.V. Washam
Parents of prospective students
are invited to visit J.V. Washam Elementary School in Cornelius for
tours starting this month. Tours
begin at 10 a.m. and will be on the
following Thursdays: Jan. 15 and
29; Feb. 12 and 26; March 19 and
26; April 16 and 30; and May 7 and
21.
Reservations are encouraged but
not required and can be made by
calling the school at 980-343-1071.
Tour participants must bring a
January 14, 2015
driver’s license and check in at the
front office prior to the tour to receive a visitor’s badge. Parents are
encouraged to attend tours without children so they can concentrate on the information being presented. Prospective kindergartners
will have an opportunity to visit the
school on Beginners Day, April 22.
This month, an additional look
at the school will be offered during
an open house program on Thursday, Jan. 22. That event will begin
at 9:30 a.m. and will include a
brief presentation and a questionand-answer session with Principal
Paula Rao.
Parents are also reminded that
kindergarten enrollment has begunfor the 2015-16 school year.
To be eligible for kindergarten,
students must be 5 years old on or
before Aug. 31, 2015. For an enrollment packet, visit cms.k12.nc.us
and search J.V. Washam link.
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Talon Challenge
finale this Friday
Lincoln Charter School is once
again partnering with Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy (TJCA)
near Rutherfordton to support
the efforts of the V Foundation for
Cancer Research. The sixth annual Talon Challenge, a cooperative fundraising effort by the two
schools, will feature an assortment
of activities this week highlighted
by an afternoon and evening full
of basketball games on Friday, Jan.
16.
Lincoln Charter is hosting several events at its Denver and Lincolnton campuses and TJCA is
doing the same. Both schools are
hosting blood drives, along with
T-shirt sales and other fundraisers,
with all the proceeds going to the V
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20 January 14, 2015
SCHOOL NOTES
FROM PAGE 19
Foundation.
In the first five years of the project, the schools have combined to
raise $32,414 for the V Foundation and collected several hundred
pints of blood for the American
Red Cross. One of the main fundraising
ventures affiliated with the Talon
SCHOOLS
Challenge is a game ball run between the campuses, which serves
to raise awareness of the event and
for the V Foundation. This distance
is more than 60 miles — with students from both schools physically running the game ball from
the non-host school to the host
school. Weather permitting, this
year’s game ball run will begin at
Lincoln Charter’s Denver campus
on Wednesday, Jan. 14, just a little
after 8 a.m. and arrive at the Lin-
Hope you have an Incredible 2015!
coln Charter Lincolnton campus
around 11:30 a.m. The runners
will then meet with TJCA representatives and local officials at the
Lincoln County Courthouse for the
ceremonial hand off.
On Friday, the middle school
basketball games, featuring boys
and girls contest, start at 4 p.m.
followed by the varsity high school
games that evening. All games are
to be played at the Spindale House
in Spindale, and activities will include the final leg of the game ball
run, a video montage (featuring
Jim Valvano’s famous “Never Give
Up” speech), and tributes to members of both schools whose lives
have been touched by cancer. Schoolhouse hosts
open house next week
Huntersville Square 102 N Statesville Rd, #B6, Huntersville, NC
Weekdays: 10-8 Saturdays: 9-3 (704) 875-3213
The Children’s Schoolhouse, at
17616 Caldwell Station Road in
Huntersville, will host an open
house Saturday, Jan. 24, from
10 a.m. to noon. Families of preschoolers ages 3-5 are encouraged
to visit and speak with the school
admissions coordinator, take a
tour and find out more about the
Schoolhouse.
The deadline to submit applications for the 2015-16 school year
Lake Norman Citizen
is Feb. 13. A lottery will be held
on Feb. 14 if the number of applications surpasses available openings. For more information, visit
thechildrensschoolhouse.com/
admission-process/ or e-mail Meredith Siefert at admissionscsh@
gmail.com.
The Children’s Schoolhouse is a
nonprofit, cooperative preschool
for 3- to 5-year-olds and has been
a part of the Lake Norman community for more than 40 years.
Housed in the historic Caldwell
Station School in Huntersville, The
Children’s Schoolhouse is operated
by the parents of the children who
attend. Families are involved on a
daily basis in and out of the classroom, from building maintenance
to assisting in the classroom, organizing field trips to fundraising.
The curriculum is based on the
Open Door School prototype program, which offers a child-directed,
multi-age learning environment.
Company renews
sports camp offer
Energy United, along with
North Carolina’s Touchstone Energy cooperatives, are partnering
with North Carolina State University and the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill to offer educational and athletic opportunities for rising sixth through eighth
graders this summer.
Middle-school students in Energy United’s service territory are encouraged to apply for all-expenses
paid scholarships to attend basketball camp: boys may apply for the
Roy Williams camp at UNC and
girls may apply for the Wes Moore
Wolfpack Women’s Basketball
Camp at NCSU. Energy United
will award scholarships to two local
students, one for each camp.
Applications for both camps
will be accepted through March
31. Applicants will be judged on
their academic records, extracurricular activities and an essay
that must be submitted with the
application. Interested students
should e-mail maureen.moore@
energyunited.com or call Lindsey
Listrom at 1-800-662-8835, ext.
3214. Students can also download
applications at energyunited.com.
sportscamp.
Scholarship recipients will attend either the camp in Raleigh
June 14-17 or the camp in Chapel
Hill June 20-24 and must provide
their own transportation.
— Compiled by Lee Sullivan
January 14, 2015 High note
— Page 23
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Royal rip-off
— Page 26
Spellbinding shop finds a home in Huntersville
By Lori Helms
[email protected]
“100-year-old nails. $2 each or 3
for $5,” reads the label on a small
glass jar.
It sits nestled amongst the dried
sage, spellcasting sugars, handmade jewelry from Ireland and a
container of sliced cow femurs.
Dried sage for cleansing a space
of its bad juju after a whopper of a
fight with your spouse; spell sugars to drop in the sweet tea of said
spouse to sweeten their future disposition; and handmade jewelry
because, well, the pieces are gorgeous.
So really only one question remained.
“What does one do with
100-year-old nails?” I asked.
Without missing a beat, Gabriella Tebbens, proprietress of Laughingbrook Spellcrafting and Ancestral Arts in Huntersville, handed
me what was likely my first homework assignment since college.
“That’s a great question,” she
says. “What would someone do
with those?”
She smiles impishly and continues on her tour of the shop.
It was essentially the only question she didn’t answer at Laughingbrook earlier this week. It’s the
imp in her that sent me on a bit of
a research project, not her reluctance to talk, answer and guide.
Anyone entering her shop on
Old Statesville Road in the heart
of old Huntersville is immediately
greeted like an old friend with
many a shared story, whether you
know Tebbens or not.
And while she’s ready to hear
yours, she has quite her own story
to tell leading up to Laughingbrook’s opening just a few months
ago.
She’s from Massachusetts, and
before landing in Huntersville in
2002 she also lived in California.
She holds a few degrees, culminating with a master’s degree in
social justice in education.
She has four “deliciously beautiful children” ages 17, 15, 13 and
“oops” (we learn later that Oops is
two years old).
Oh, and one more thing.
“Well, I’m a witch,” she says matter-of-factly in describing herself.
To those not fluent in conversational paganism, that’s a jarring
declaration. It doesn’t flow through
the regular course of introductions
one is accustomed to in modern,
Western, Judeo-Christian-steeped
culture — especially in the suburban South.
But for Tebbens, a practicing
LORI HELMS
Gabriella Tebbens (right), owner of Laughingbrook Spellcrafting and Ancestral Arts in Huntersville, and Thorn
Mooney provide a variety of resources to the pagan community, as well as “Drop-In Divination” Mondays, when
Tebbens and Mooney are available to provide Tarot, stone and rune readings for walk-in customers.
witch for more than 25 years, she
references her calling as someone
else would recite a resume.
And it’s that calling that led her
to open her spellcrafting and ancestral arts shop last September.
It might have also been the need
to get out of the house again. Teb-
bens once owned a botanicals shop
in California and had plans a few
SEE LAUGHINGBROOK, PAGE 22
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January 14, 2015
LAUGHINGBROOK
FROM PAGE 21
years ago to open a tea and spice
shop in Davidson, but then Oops
arrived and, as she describes it,
slightly “derailed” those plans.
But the desire never left to provide a marketplace for her fellow
pagans.
“I have too many degrees to stay
home without hurting someone,”
she says. “It just didn’t speak to my
natural witchy tendencies.”
So she found a space on Old
Statesville Road near Lupie’s Café,
completely upfitting an old coffee shop and creamery to create
a wonderful wrinkle in place and
time. It starts at the threshold of
a stunning wooden door and just
gets better from there.
“There’s so much of this market
that has been highly neglected,”
Tebbens says of the rather large
pagan community in the Carolinas that her shop now supports.
She says there are things that can
be found on the Internet for pagan practitioners, but much of it is
cheaply made or not even made in
this country.
Tebbens says the demand has
been here for a shop offering quality ritual resources, and she’s coupled that with works from local artists centered on art forms practiced
for hundreds — if not thousands —
of years.
Alongside the crystals, stones,
Tarot decks and hand-rolled incense, one can find beeswax candles, wood burnings, taxidermy,
even collectibles from a third-generation broom maker.
From carved drinking horns
made in the Carolinas (“They hold
a full bottle of wine,” Tebbens says
with her signature grin) to Celtic
pendants, the tiny, welcoming shop
is a feast for virtually every sense —
and just about any sensibility.
One need not be a practicing pagan to appreciate Laughingbrook’s
wares. Tebbens says she truly has
no typical clientele, describing her
demographic as “huge” — everyone from little girls shopping with
their moms, to practicing witches,
to fifth generation Huntersvillians,
to someone looking for a Tarot
reading on “Drop-In Divination”
Mondays.
Just as resources for pagan culture and rituals cover nearly every
surface of the shop, the walls are
festooned with all manner of art.
As Tebbens says, if it’s “gorgeous,”
it’s in — pagan-centric or not.
“When you offer quality art, it
doesn’t matter if you’re not a practitioner,” she says. But it has mattered to some of the artists themselves. She says there are some
whose works became popular
through her shop, giving them a
shot at making a living doing what
they love.
“I had no idea what it meant to
them,” she says about helping them
advance their careers. “It amazes
me. I never dreamed that this
would happen.”
It’s likely that several locals also
never dreamed there would be a
Lake Norman Citizen Tebbens’ reflection is
caught in the mirror
above the Community
Altar. Drop-in customers and clientele from
all walks of life and
all ages have left
personal items on the
altar, presided over by
stone figures “Mike and
Ike.” The altar holds
everything from a crow
feather to a child’s
small plush toy, and
is intended to provide
those leaving a personal item with a sense
of communal energy
and support.
witchcraft shop in Huntersville,
but Tebbens says her reception has
been “unilaterally positive and supportive.”
And for those who would question what she’s up to and are critical of her offerings, with that same
calming and contagious grin she
takes it all in stride.
“They have a very deliberate picture painted in their head about
me,” she says, “but I didn’t paint it.”
She says the images and stories of
Satan and the devil are constructs
of Christianity, and insists they
have no place in paganism. In fact, her mother
LORI HELMS
once told her that she
is the most Christian woman she
knew, which Tebbens took as a profound compliment.
For her, the message of paganism is remarkably simple.
“Walk your path, be who you
are,” says Tebbens. “I’m looking for
the people who are looking for me.
And when they find me, they cry,
because they’ve been looking for a
long time.”
Apparently, a lot of folks have
been looking, and have definitely
found her. She says sales over the
winter holidays were through the
roof, and she’s very optimistic
about what she’s built in Huntersville.
Speaking of building, if you still
want to know what to do with a
100-year-old nail, my limited research shows you can use it in a
“classic witch bottle” combined
with pieces of broken glass, a pinch
of dried rosemary and some vinegar to protect your home.
Like a beaming grade schooler
turning in her first book report, I
told Tebbens what I discovered.
And like a kind teacher, she complimented my work but asked me
to look at it more metaphorically.
“If you consider what a nail is
crafted to do (hold pieces together),” she says, “you can begin to see
the applications: hold the boundaries of my home, hold my family
together, bind my house together
by my fierce love for my children …
get it?”
Why, yes. Again, remarkably
simple.
Sit for a spell
Visit Laughingbrook
Spellcrafting and Ancestral Arts at the intersection
of Old Statesville and Gilead roads in Huntersville.
January 14, 2015 23
Residential sales end month, year on the upswing
The Charlotte Regional Realtor Association has issued its
preliminary report on December
residential real estate sales for the
area, based on data from the Carolina Multiple Listing Service.
The reports shows December and
2014 overall ending on a positive
note, with prospects expected to
remain on the upside heading into
2015.
Officials with CRRA say December sales increased 15.7 percent
over last year, with 3,050 properties sold last month compared with
2,635 properties sold in December
2013. Closed sales for all of 2014
totaled 36,191, an increase of nearly five percent over the number of
closings in all of 2013 (34,525).
Both the median and average
sales prices were higher in December, marking nearly three years of
year-over-year price gains. The
median sales price ($180,000)
was up 4.3 percent over December
2013 ($172,500), and the average sales price ($229,437) was up
2.4 percent over December 2013
($224,014).
The average list price in December 2014 ($241,087) increased
3.3 percent over December 2013
($233,389), bringing the original
list price received measure for December 2014 to 93.8 percent, an
increase of 0.6 percent when compared to the same period in 2013.
Preliminary pending sales counts
for December totaled 2,430, an
increase of 28.5 percent over the
previous period, when contracts
totaled 1,891. Pending contracts
for all of 2014 totaled 36,819, up
7.3 percent compared to all of
2013 (34,320).
“At the beginning of 2014 inventory was pinched and buyers were
facing new mortgage rules, but
that did not put a damper on last
year’s sales,” said CRRA President
Maren Brisson-Kuester in the
latest data release. “Though low
inventory, seller confidence and
higher mortgage rates could be
factors in 2015, demand continues to be strong while price gains
continue to moderate. With more
financing options and programs
available to first-time home buyers, along with rising rents and a
strengthening local economy, we
expect to see more buyers come to
the market.”
New residential listings in December totaled 2,661, rising slightly by 3.8 percent over December
2013, and listings for all of 2014
totaled 52,660, only a 0.6 percent
gain over the previous year’s total
(52,341). December 2014’s inven-
Business
Briefcase
tory declined 14.2 percent compared to December 2013, leaving
the CarolinaMLS region with a
4.1-month supply of homes for
sale. Foreclosures and short sales
have continued to decline. In December the share of closed sales
that were lender-mediated was
5.6 percent compared to 9 percent
of closed sales in December 2013.
For all of 2014, distressed proper-
ties only accounted for 6.7 percent
of closed sales compared with 10.9
percent for all of 2013.
The Lake Norman area saw sales
close at a bit of a healthier clip than
the overall Charlotte region. In December, closed sales rose nearly 19
percent over December 2013, and
gained 10.3 percent at year’s end
compared with the previous year.
Data on the area’s average sales
price was more of a mixed bag,
with December 2014 coming in
at $444,002, a 3.1 percent decline
over December 2013. Year-to-date
average sales price, however, rose
slightly to $454,415, or 4.5 percent.
Homes in the Lake Norman
area spent far less time on the
market in 2014 than in 2013, drop-
ping 14.6 percent to an average of
99 days, compared to 116 days the
prior year. And in December 2014,
there were fewer of those homes
on the market, with inventory declining by 14.8 percent over December 2013, dropping back to a
six-month supply.
View the full report at carolinahome.com under the “Market
Data” tab.
Mixed-use project
opening Phase II
LangTree Lake Norman has
announced pre-leasing activity for
the second phase of its mixed-use
waterfront community in Mooresville at Exit 31.
We can help you
take control of your finances
Adding to the existing retail, office, apartments, condominiums
and clubhouse fronting Lake Norman, Phase II will offer more than
72,000 square feet of first-floor retail space as well as spots designed
with dental, chiropractic, accounting or wealth management practices in mind. The initial spaces
could be available as early as this
summer.
When complete, LangTree Lake
Norman will include a DoubleTree
by Hilton hotel, a 20,000-squarefoot conference center, a state-ofthe-art aquatic center and lakefront home communities. Learn
more at langtreelkn.com.
SEE BRIEFCASE, PAGE 25
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Lake Norman Citizen Kindred wins Davidson grant
LOCAL
BUSINESS
DIRECTORY
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AUTOMOTIVE
A & B Automotive
Lake Norman Chrysler
Jeep Dodge Ram
BAKERY / CAFE
Maddy’s Fatty’s Bakery & Cafe
DENTAL
Carolina Oral and Facial Surgery
J.C. Duncan, DDS
Lake Norman Implant Dentistry
Tate Langdon, DDS
EVENT VENUES
Beaver Dam, Armin’s Catering
Peninsula Yacht Club
FINANCIAL
Aquesta Bank
GCG Wealth Management
Mikeworth Financial
Missy Carlson / Edward Jones
HEALTH & FITNESS
Bel Corpo Spa
Carolina Woman
FURNITURE
Stickley-Audi. Co.
HOME DECOR
Burgess Supply Co.
ITALIAN SPECIALTIES
Ferrucci’s Italian Market
LEGAL
Adkins Law Firm
MEDICAL
Allergy & Asthma Center of LKN
Ballas Chiropractic
Carolina Foot & Ankle
Friedman Eye Care
Lakeside Dermatology
Piedmont HealthCare
PETS
Camp Wagging Tails
Lakecross Veterinary
REAL ESTATE
Allen Tate Realtors
Carlyle Properties
Al Strickland / Jim Grywalski
Christy Walker & Associates
Jennifer Stewart - Allen Tate
Susan Johnson & Associates
RECREATION
Cornelius PARC
Freedom Boat Club
Huntersvile Parks & Recreation
Lake Norman Power Sports
Lake Norman Miniature Golf
Lake Norman Tennis Association
Rural Hill
RESTAURANT
Kilwin’s Chocolate & Ice Cream
Rusty Rudder
Showmars
Jack’s Corner Tap
Verde Grill
RETAIL
The Town of Davidson last summer offered a $10,000 Main Street
Solutions grant, accepting applications from businesses in the historic district along Main Street.
As it turned out, only one business
submitted a complete application.
Town staff told commissioners last
week that the planned Kindred
restaurant won the grant, and is
using the money for a new storefront, exterior windows and exterior doors at 131 N. Main St. Davidson residents Katy and
Joe Kindred signed a 15-year lease
on the 8,000-square-foot building last summer, and since then
have been transforming the former Tom Clark Museum — which
displayed and sold the local artist’s
collectible gnome figurines — into
a restaurant.
Katy Kindred says they have
tried to preserve the historic feel
of the building through attention
to detail, using solid hardwood for
the floors and real marble for the
bar. Money from the town will help
them “give the outside of the building a full restoration to bring it
back to its original glory,” she says.
“To know our town is
behind us and helping
carry some of that financial burden is just incredible,” she says.
Kindred says she and
her husband plan to
open their restaurant in
early February.
Downtown Manager
Kim Fleming says the
town had reached out
to other local businesses
through e-mails, personal visits and Facebook
posts since the grant was
announced July 1, but
only Kindred took the
bait.
The conditions of the
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grant limited the sort
Kindred restaurant will open soon on Davidof improvements that son’s North Main Street.
would qualify for funding
from the town. The improvements the grant aims to “provide direct
had to be permanent (no tables or financial benefit to small busichairs), and had to take place in a nesses, retain and create jobs in
business with a storefront down- association with small businesses,
town. It was a 2:1 matching grant, and to spur private investment in
which meant that Kindred had to association with small businesses
spend $20,000 on improvements located in our local historic disin order to qualify for the $10,000 trict.”
from the town. “It wasn’t just free
Fleming said the grant may be
money,” Fleming says.
offered again next year, depending
According to the town website, on commissioners’ approval.
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Discount site
changes hands
Tammi Murphy, owner of Blarney Stone Marketing & Design in
Cornelius, has purchased LKNSavings.com from Diana Howard.
For the past 18 months, Murphy
managed the social media, website
and e-mail marketing for LKNSavings.com under the direction of
Howard.
The business
transaction took
place in December 2014.
“Tammi was
a natural fit for
LKN
Savings,
she was already
familiar
with
the operations.
Howard
I couldn’t have
hand picked a better, more qualified predecessor to take over the
business,” says Howard, who sold
LKNSavings.com to work full time
as an independent financial advisor with Lake Norman Financial
Group in Cornelius.
LKNSavings.com is a community resource where consumers find
deals and discounts at hundreds of
area businesses. The site includes
an events calendar and community
information for kids, families and,
coming soon, senior specials. Murphy has unveiled a new logo design
and plans to launch a mobile app for
the site in mid-January.
The purchase of LKNSavings.
com is the second acquisition for
Blarney Stone Marketing & Design
in two years. Blarney Stone specializes in website design, social media
marketing, marketing consulting
and logo design.
Popular burger bar
opens in Mooresville
Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar has
opened in Mooresville Town Square
on Williamson Road, making it the
popular restaurant’s fifth location in
the greater Charlotte area, and its
second locale for Lake Norman diners (the other is in Birkdale Village in
Huntersville).
Owner Frank Scibelli says he’s interested in continuing to grow the
brand, possibly expanding to new
locations in Gastonia or Fort Mill as
well as farther afield in Raleigh. The
restaurant is also being franchised as
far away as Colorado.
The new 4,400-square-foot Bad
Daddy’s is at 279 Williamson Road
in Mooresville.
Kitchen changes
at Port City Club
Nick Lyssikatos, owner of Port
City Club in Cornelius and BrickHouse Tavern in Davidson, has
announced he has taken over chef
duties at his waterfront Cornelius
restaurant, replacing Port City’s original chef, Tim Schafer.
Lyssikatos has been the head chef
at BrickHouse Tavern for 13 years,
and says he has decided to develop
his own menu at Port City Club
“based on a wide variety of quality
food and affordability.”
Schafer says he has landed at
Queen’s Landing in Mooresville.
“It’s a wonderful facility,” Schafer
says, adding that he will use his talents there to help “get it straightened
out” while also keeping an eye open
for opportunities at smaller venues
in the Mooresville area.
Pull up a chair
to this year’s Feast
The winter 2015 installment of
the semiannual Queen’s Feast Charlotte Restaurant Week will run Friday, Jan. 16, through Sunday, Jan.
25, featuring more than 120 upscale
restaurants in the metro Charlotte
area offering $30 prix fixe menus of
three courses or more at dinner (not
including tax and gratuity). Diners
January 14, 2015 can visit CharlotteRestaurantWeek.
com to peruse participating restaurants’ prix fixe menus and make reservations. The January promotion includes restaurants in eight counties, with participants located across
Charlotte and beyond into Concord,
Belmont, Gastonia, Waxhaw, the
Lake Norman area, Statesville, Denver, Hickory and Fort Mill, S.C.
The January and July 2014 Charlotte Restaurant Week promotions
generated approximately 300,000
dinners and an estimated economic
impact of more than $14 million.
“It’s wonderful to see Queen’s
Feast continue to grow in both participating restaurants and diners,”
says Bruce Hensley of Hensley
Fontana Public Relations and
Marketing, which owns the event. Reservations during Queen’s
Feast are strongly recommended.
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Reservation links and contact information for all participating restaurants can be found at CharlotteRestaurantWeek.com. Participating local restaurants
in the Winter 2015 Charlotte Restaurant Week are 131 Main-Lake
Norman, The 220 Café, Alton’s
Kitchen & Cocktails, BRAVO!
Cucina Italiana-Northlake, Campania Café, Chillfire Bar & Grill,
Dressler’s-Birkdale, Epic Chophouse, Firebirds Wood Fired
Grill-Northlake, Jeffrey’s Restaurant, Kabuto Japanese Steak
House & Sushi-Lake Norman,
The Melting Pot-Lake Norman,
Mickey & Mooch-Lake Norman,
North Harbor Club, Red Rocks
Café-Birkdale, Trattoria Al Gusto
and Twisted Oak American Bar &
Grill.
— Compiled by Lori Helms
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January 14, 2015
Lake Norman Citizen Life of a princess not all it’s cracked up to be
Most of us don’t get to choose our
parents. And while we’re usually
grateful for the ones we have, we’ve
also dreamed of lives that might
have been.
What little girl hasn’t dreamed
of growing up a princess, living in
a palace, riding in a horse-drawn
carriage, wearing a tiara? And don’t
forget marrying a handsome prince.
Infanta Cristina de Borbon,
Duchess of Palma de Mallorca, is
the brother of Spain’s King Felipe
VI and sixth in line to the Monarquía Hispánica. The Infanta grew
up in the Royal Palace of Madrid,
where she probably logged a ride or
two in a carriage. And yes, she wore
her mother’s diamond-crusted floral tiara at her wedding.
But she chose a thoroughly modern career, graduating from college,
earning a master’s degree in international relations at New York University and working for UNESCO
It’s Your
Money
in Paris. Today she’s a working mom
of four children. She’s also — if you
believe Spanish judge Jose Castro
— a tax cheat, named in a corruption scandal that’s rocking Spanish
society.
Cristina’s husband, Iñaki Urdangarin, isn’t a prince. But he’s
a former pro handball player and
Olympian. (That’s close, right?)
Urdangarin, who was named Duke
of Mallorca upon his marriage,
is accused of embezzling €6 million ($7.4 million) in public funds
through the Instituto Nóos, a charitable foundation he ran.
Prosecutors say that he organized
a series of sporting events for the re-
gional governments of the Balearic
Islands and Valencia — and hugely
overcharged them.
Cristina hasn’t been accused of
participating directly in the fraud.
However, she and her husband coowned a company called Aizoon
that received €1 million from the
sports foundation, money that she
and her husband used for personal
expenses such as furniture for their
house in Barcelona, salsa lessons
and pricey hotel stays. Naturally,
there were no taxes paid on those
funds.
The judge says, “There are many
indications that Cristina profited
from illegal funds on her own behalf, and also helped her husband
to do so, through silent cooperation and a 50 percent stake in his
business.” The judge also says that
letting Cristina off the hook “would
leave the question open and discredit the notion that justice is
Cristina de Borbon, Duchess of
Palma de Mallorca.
equal for all.”
So now Cristina faces charges of
failing to pay her taxes — quite a
comedown for a member of a royal
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CCG
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CSL Carolina Trust Bank
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CQB
Coca-Cola Bottling COKE Duke Energy Corporation
DUK Enpro Industries
NPO FairPoint Communications
FRP
Family Dollar Stores
FDO Kewaunee Scientific
KEQU Lowes Companies Incorporated
LOW Nucor
NUE Park Sterling Bank
PSTB
Piedmont Natural Gas PNY Polypore International Incorporated
PPO Snyder S. Lance Incorporated LNCE Sonic Automotive SAH Speedway Motorsports TRK SPX Corporation
SPW The Cato Corporation
CATO
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family that used to collect them
rather than pay them. If she’s convicted, she could spend the next few
years in considerably “common”
quarters — no palace, no carriage
and certainly no tiaras. (Of course,
that’s less punishment than a misbehaving royal might have gotten
a few hundred years ago. Britain’s
Henry VIII never bothered imprisoning his ex-wives, he just beheaded them.)
Spain’s monarchy has already
suffered a series of PR hits after
Cristina’s father, King Juan Carlos,
took a lavish trip to hunt elephants
in Botswana at a time when Spanish unemployment was topping 25
percent.
So what do they think of all this?
Well, back in 2011, when the scandal first broke, they gave the Duke
the royal boot from official events.
In 2013, they cut Cristina off from
the household budget and excised
the Duke’s biography from their official website.
Most recently, after learning
of the indictment, they declared
their “complete respect for the independence” of Spain’s judiciary.
You’d like to believe the royals are
too classy to throw someone under
something as plebian as a bus, per
se, but that sure sounds like what’s
happening.
Stories about princesses always
end with a moral, and this one is
pretty simple. Being a princess isn’t
all it’s cracked up to be, and there
isn’t always a happy ending. So if
you want to pay less tax, do it right
and call your tax advisor for a plan.
Provided by Laura M. Mikeworth, CPA, PA, in Cornelius. She
can be reached at 704-894-9991 or
at [email protected].
Normanopolis
January 14, 2015 27
Hugh Torance House
repairs completed
The board of directors of the
Hugh Torance House & Store, at
8231 Gilead Road in Huntersville,
has announced completion of repairs funded by a Special Projects
Grant from the National Society,
Daughters of the American Revolution. The grant was sponsored by
the local Alexandriana Chapter of
the NSDAR.
The Hugh Torance House &
Store is one of the few remaining
18th-century structures in Mecklenburg County, and is the oldest
standing store in North Carolina. The structure was built in the
1770s by Hugh Torance, a Revolutionary War veteran. Torance
(1743-1816) immigrated to the
American colonies from Ireland
in 1763 and came to Mecklenburg
County in the 1770s. He became a
successful merchant and planter.
His son, James Torance, opened
a store in the original log portion
of the house in 1805. The Torance
Store was an integral part of Mecklenburg County backcountry society.
The Hugh Torance House &
Store was salvaged and restored
in the 1980s by a group of historic-minded local citizens. Today
it is a small non-profit 501(c)(3)
organization operated entirely by
volunteers. It is open to the public
and serves as an educational field
trip for school tours, scouts, senior
groups and historical and genealogical associations. As a result of a recent inspection by Andrew Roby General
Contractors, it was discovered
that structural support repairs,
because of failure of the main support beam and piers, were needed
along with chimney flashing, floor
repairs and electrical wiring repairs. Thanks to the DAR Special
Projects Grant, the contractor has
completed the work, and went
beyond the scope of the project
to provide historically sensitive
repairs that will keep this historic
landmark open to the public far
into the future.
“I recently had the opportunity
to lead a tour of special needs adults
through the home, after the repair
work was completed, and they
were awestruck by their return to
a simpler colonial time in our history,” says Hugh Torance House &
Store Chairman of the Board Bill
Russell. “We simply could not have
had the house ready without the
COURTESY BILL RUSSELL
The Hugh Torance House & Store on Gilead Road in Huntersville is among the most historically significant structures in North Carolina. With restorations completed, it is open for tours.
support of the DAR and the Town
of Huntersville, who continue their
strong support of our history and
cultural heritage.”
For more information about the
store, visit hughtorancehouseandstore.com. Group tours are available by calling Russell at the Lake
Norman Chamber of Commerce at
704-892-1922.
SEE EVENTS, PAGE 28
28
January 14, 2015
EVENTS
FROM PAGE 27
Garden symposium
to focus on infill niche
For the past 30 years, the Davidson Garden Club has hosted an
annual horticultural symposium
on the campus of Davidson College. Horticulturists who are well
known throughout the country
come to speak and hold workshops
on a gardening theme. This year, the club has decided
to address challenges faced by
gardeners, from interesting ways
to handle large open spaces ecologically to creating small jewels
of gardens around condominiums.
The latter is viewed as particularly
important as Davidson, Cornelius
and Huntersville begin to fill in
with niche communities.
NORMANOPOLIS
This year’s program, “Planting
Outside the Lines,” is limited to
400 participants and has sold out
the past two years. The symposium
will be held Tuesday, March 3, at
the Knobloch Campus Center from
7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Cost is $89,
which includes lunch. Speakers
and workshops include:
• Margie Ruddick, Smithsonian
Cooper-Hewitt National Design
Award winner, “Wild by Design.”
• Sandra Clinton, Landscape
Design Award winner from the
American Horticultural Society,
“Gardens Transformed.”
• Carol Reese, University of Tennessee’s Ornamental Horticultural
Specialist for West Tennessee, “Sex
and the Single Pistil” and “Just Do
It!”
• Evelyn Hadden, author of
Beautiful No-Mow Yards and Hellstrip Gardening, “Beautiful NoMow Lawns and Alterntives.”
• C. Colston Burrell, author of
many books and a curator of the
U.S. National Arboretum, “Winter
Garden Magic.”
For more information about the
symposium and to register, visit
davidsonsymposium.org.
Live birds visit
Mooresville Library
Lake Norman Wildlife Conservationists will host feathered
friends from the Carolina Raptor
Center of Huntersville at their next
free nature program Thursday, Jan.
15, at 7 p.m. in the Youth Room at
Mooresville Public Library, 304 S.
Main St.
Raptors are birds of prey such
as hawks, owls and eagles. Participants will learn about the beauty
and value of raptors in nature, and
how to help protect them. Lake
Norman Wildlife Conservationists
is a chapter of the North Carolina
Wildlife Federation. For more information, contact Sid Smith at
704-895-5686.
Soup on Sunday
for Hospice
The 15th annual Soup on Sunday benefit for Hospice & Palliative
Care Charlotte Region will be held
Sunday, Jan. 25, from 11 a.m. to 2
p.m. at Central Piedmont Community College Culiary Arts Center at
Lake Norman Citizen 425 N. Kings Dr. in Charlotte, at
the corner of Kings Drive and Seventh street.
Patrons may enjoy soups made
in the kitchens of some of the
Charlotte area’s finest restaurants;
purchase pottery made specifically
for the event by local potters and
sample the talents of culiary art
students from CPCC, Johnson &
Wales and The Art Institute.
Prices include Soup Lover’s Special for $40, including food, beverages and hand-made pottery bowl;
general admission for $30, which
includes food and beverages; and
children’s admission for ages 7-12
at $10. Children ages 6 and younger will be admitted free of charge.
Visit souponsunday.org to view
a list of participating restaurants.
Order your tickets online or by
phone at 704-335-4312. Admission may also be purchased at the
door the morning of the event.
DCP registering
for spring ensembles
Registration is under way for
Davidson Community Players’
spring youth ensembles. The ensembles are educational in nature
with an emphasis on developing
the student actor’s knowledge of
and experience with the production process. This spring, DCP will
offer more classes, including a new
musical theater ensemble.
Junior (ages 8-11) and senior
(ages 12-16) ensembles are back
and meet twice a week with a professional instructor to learn a wide
range of theatrical skills such as acting, script reading, costuming, stage
make-up, set design and construction. Junior ensembles are designed
for actors ages 8-11. The classes
culminate with three performances
of a production developed that are
offered free of charge to the public.
These ensembles are perfect for the
beginner or returning performer.
Also returning this spring is the
mini ensemble. This class allows
aspiring actors ages 4-7 to investigate all aspects of theater from acting to behind the scenes. Through
exploration of sets, costumes,
props and lights, students develop
their imagination while inventing
new worlds and characters. Using
theater games and acting exercises,
the program focuses on freeing the
creative spirit of each child while
building a dynamic ensemble of
actors. Friends and family will be
invited to a final sharing on the last
day of class.
New this spring is a musical
theater ensemble for the budding
musical theater performers ages
9-15. The ensemble will meet twice
a week with a professional instructor and will culminate with three
performances of a production de-
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veloped, offered free of charge to
the public. This class will focus on
beginning techniques to develop
the voice for theater, ensemble
dancing and performing music for
the stage.
Classes begin Feb. 2. Financial
aid is available. For more details and
pricing, visit davidsoncommunityplayers.org or call 704-892-7953. Spring Little League
registration begins
Lake Norman Little League’s
Spring 2015 baseball registration is
open through Feb. 15 for youth ages
4-12 in Cornelius, Davidson and
Huntersville. Spring games will begin in mid-March with opening day
scheduled for March 21.
Lake Norman Little League was
formed in fall 2011 to offer children
and families of the Lake Norman
area a safe, fundamentally sound
option to learn the game of baseball. Starting with about 80, the
program this year expects more
than 400 participants.
Lake Norman Little League
is an official chartered league af-
filiated with Little League Baseball
International, headquartered in
Williamsport, Pa. For more information and to register online, visit
lakenormanlittleleague.org. Registrations are limited.
A Hard Day’s Night
with Studio C
It will be A Hard Day’s Night
at Studio-C Cinema at the Cornelius Arts Center in the Oak Street
Mill Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 24
and 25, as the Art House Films series screens the 50th anniversary
digital restoration of The Beatles’
iconic film.
In A Hard Day’s Night, the wildly popular lads from Great Britain
play wily, exuberant versions of
themselves, capturing the moment
when they officially became the
singular, irreverent idols of their
generation and changed music forever. Directed with raucous, anything-goes verve by Richard Lester
and featuring several iconic pop
anthems including the title track,
“Can’t Buy Me Love,” “I Should
Have Known Better,” and “If I Fell,”
A Hard Day’s Night, which re-conceived the movie musical and exerted an incalculable influence on
the music video, is regarded as one
of the most deliriously entertaining
movies of all time.
This restoration of the 1964
movie is a recent 4K Digital conversion from the original 35mm
film by Lester. The sound track
was restored and remixed in 5.1
surround sound. This is the only
screening currently scheduled for
the Charlotte area.
The show begins at 7 p.m. both
nights. Doors open at 6:15 for a
complimentary wine and cheese
reception. Admission costs $9 per
person for Cornelius residents,
$10 for all others. Purchase tickets
in advance at studioccinema.com
or, if any remain, at the door. Oak
Street Mill is at 19725 Oak St. in
downtown Cornelius.
NAMI offers
family support class
The National Alliance for Mental Illness offers a Family-to-Family support class series beginning
Monday, Jan. 19, and continuing
for 12 weeks at the Lowes YMCA
in Mooresville. The free course is
offered to families, partners and
friends of individuals with mental
illness taught by trained NAMI family members and caregivers of individuals living with mental illness.
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understand mental illness and how
to help the suffering individual. It
also helps the family overcome the
difficulties of living with severe
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disorder, major depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and panic
disorder. The program has been attended by more than 3,200 people
across North Carolina.
Register by e-mail to [email protected] or by calling
Duane Carpenter at 704-2362264. Class size is limited. The
Lowes YMCA is at 170 Joe V. Knox
Ave. in Mooresville.
LNTA holds
tennis expo
Lake Norman Tennis Association
will host its first Tennis Expo Friday,
Jan. 30, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at
The Peninsula Club in Cornelius.
The event is the first of its kind in
The Lake Norman Citizen
wants to share news of your
event. Please send your information by fax at 704-948-3349, by
mail to The Lake Norman Citizen,
P.O. Box 3534, Huntersville, NC
28070 or by e-mail to andreww@
lakenormancitizen.com.
“We are excited to add this expo
to the growing list of activities we
provide in Huntersville, Davidson,
Cornelius and Mooresville,” says
LNTA President JD Weber.
The event will provide an overview of all the area’s tennis activities
and player opportunities. Vendors
will include equipment manufacturers, apparel retailers and United
States Tennis Association (USTA)
tennis professionals. A tennis fash-
ion show, talks by college coaches
and athletic training sessions are
planned as well.
For more information about
sponsorship or vendor opportunities, call Rochelle Dearman at 704402-3059.
Bridge games,
classes offered
The Lake Norman Bridge Center
holds ACBL-sanctioned duplicate
bridge games on Tuesdays at 9:30
a.m. and Thursdays at 12:30 p.m.
at Cornelius Town Hall, 21443 Catawba Ave. Bridge lessons are also
offered regularly. January classes
include Beginning Bridge and
Slam Bidding. For more information, contact John or Marlene
Smith at 704-992-1260 or e-mail
[email protected]. The club’s
website is lnbc.stevelee.name.
Lake Norman Citizen Obituaries
Christopher Scott Moeller
Mr. Moeller, 47, of Huntersville died
Wednesday, Dec. 31, at Carolinas Medical
Center in Charlotte after a long battle with
ALS. He was born in Plainfield, N.J., to Sue
Ann Moeller of Cornelius and the late H.
Walter Moeller. He was employed by Film
Roman in Hollywood, Calif., as an animator
for The Simpsons television show and a director of the animated show King of the Hill.
In addition to his mother, he is survived
by his brother, Jeffrey, of Denver. The
family wishes to thank caregiver Barbara
Matthews and her family; Melissa Lynch;
and the doctors and staff at the ALS Clinic
in Charlotte.
A memorial service was held Friday,
Jan. 9, at Raymer-Kepner Funeral Home.
Memorials may be made to The ALS Association, Jim “Catfish” Hunter Chapter, 4
North Blount Street, Raleigh, NC 27601;
or ALS-MDA Clinic, 1010 Edgehill Road
North, Charlotte, NC 28207. Raymer-Keper
Funeral Home of Huntersville is serving
the family.
Janice Crystal
Jackson Murphy
Mrs. Murphy, 76, of Huntersville died
Wednesday, Dec. 31, at Carolinas Medical
Center-University. She was born on Aug.
23, 1938, in Tacoma, Wash.
She is survived by her daughter, Alisa
Pagels; and three grandchildren. Services
were private. James Funeral Home of
Huntersville is serving the family.
Annie Mae Freeland Hill
Mrs. Hill, 89, of Mooresville died Thursday, Jan. 1, following a lengthy illness. She
was born Oct. 12, 1925, in Iredell County
to the late Thomas and Frances Freeland.
She is survived by her children, Brenda
Holmes and husband, Bob, of Mocksville,
Karen Stewart and husband, Terry, of
Mooresville, Ann Davis and Avery Hill and
wife, Amy, of Mooresville; sister, Marie Freeland, of Mooresville; brothers, Henry and
Clyde Freeland, both of Mooresville; eight
grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
In addition to her parents, she was
preceded in death by her husband, Bill;
granddaughter, Shannon Holmes; sister,
Irene Goins; and brothers, Jim and Carl
Freeland.
A funeral service was held Monday,
Jan. 5, at Cavin-Cook Funeral Home with
the Rev. Robert Hupp officiating. Burial
followed at Glenwood Memorial Park.
Memorials may be made to the Iredell
County VFW, 263 Spring Shore Road,
Statesville, NC 28677; or Vanderburg
United Methodist Church, 1809 Charlotte
Highway, Mooresville, NC 28115. CavinCook Funeral Home of Mooresville is
serving the family.
E. Houston Venters
Mr. Venters, 41, of Denver died unexpectedly Thursday, Jan. 1. He was born
March 24, 1973, in Richmond, Ky., to Mary
McIntosh and the late Donald Venters. He
was church administrator at Lake Norman
Baptist Church in Huntersville.
In addition to his mother, he is survived
by his wife of 15 years, Janelle Venters;
daughters, Bailey and Tori Venters; son,
Mason Venters; step-father, Dennis McIntosh; and sister, Dawn Turner.
A funeral service was held Monday,
Jan. 5, at Lake Norman Baptist Church
with the Rev. Robert Blanton officiating. A
graveside service was held Tuesday, Jan. 6,
at Freedom Cemetery in Kentucky with the
Rev. Bill Newman officiating. Memorials
may be made to Lake Norman Baptist
Church, 7921 Sam Furr Road, Huntersville,
NC 28078. Raymer-Keper Funeral Home of
Hon H. Ko
Mr. Ko, 66, of Huntersville died Friday,
Jan. 2, at Levine & Dickson Hospice House
of Huntersville. He was born Oct. 31, 1948,
in Hong Kong, China.
He is survived by his wife, Sui Ying
Leung; stepson, Siu Cheung Yip and wife,
Joey, of Huntersville; and two grandchildren.
Private burial was to be at Northlake
Memorial Gardens at a later date. James
the family.
Bettie Jetton Liffrig
Mrs. Liffrig, 96, of Davidson died Friday,
Jan. 2, at The Pines at Davidson. She was
born Feb. 15, 1918, in Mecklenburg Coun-
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ty to Francis and Bettie Jetton. She was a
Lake Norman Power Squadron member,
a member of the Carolina Airstream
Club and Bethel Knitting Club, and was a
life-long member of Bethel Presbyterian
Church in Cornelius.
She is survived by her daughters,
Catherine Blevins and husband, Patrick,
Theresa Gillespie and husband, Larry,
Barbara Williamson and husband, Jim,
and Ruth Oliver and husband, Ken, all of
Cornelius; eight grandchildren; and four
great-grandchildren. She was preceded
in death by her husband, Cyril. The family
offers thanks to the staff at The Pines of
Davidson for their care.
A service to celebrate her life was held
Monday, Jan. 5, at Bethel Presbyterian
Church. Interment was at the Davidson College Cemetery. Memorials may be made to
the The Pines Residents’ Assistance Fund,
400 Avinger Lane, Davidson, NC 28036.
James Funeral Home of Huntersville is
serving the family.
Lillie Rose
Shepard Holman
Mrs. Holman, 69, of Mooresville died
Saturday, Jan. 3, at the Tucker Hospice
House in Kannapolis. She was born June
29, 1945, in Ashe County to the late Luther and Leabelle Perry Shepard Stamper.
She attended Wiggins Road Baptist Church
in Mooresville.
She is survived by her husband of 54
years, Wendell Holman; children, Regina
Jackson and husband, Les, of Harrisburg,
Edwina Champion and husband, Steve, of
Belmont, Cindy Horton and husband, Jerry,
of Cleveland, Selina Pryor and husband,
Tommy, of Alma, Ga.; sisters, Louellen
Fleming, Edna Johnson, Mary Barr, Anita
Severt and Lisa Richardson; brothers,
Dennis Stamper, Donnie Stamper and
Danny Stamper; 11 grandchildren; and
11 great-grandchildren. In addition to her
parents, she was preceded in death by her
step-father, Worth Stamper; and sisters,
Ethel Jones and Virginia Shepard.
A graveside service was held Tuesday,
Jan. 6, at Bethany Cemetery in West Jefferson. Memorials may be made to Tucker
Hospice House, 5003 Hospice Lane, Kannapolis, NC 28081. Cavin-Cook Funeral
Home of Mooresville is serving the family.
Bobby McLaughlin Crabb
Mr. Crabb, 84, of Mooresville died
Monday, Jan. 5. He served in the U.S. Army
and was a member of Southside Baptist
Church.
He is survived by his sons; Mike Crabb
of Brunswick, Ga., and Mark and Gina
Crabb of Richmond Hill, Ga.; sister, Helen
Pope of Mooresville; brother, Mack of
Mooresville; six grandchildren; and six
great-grandchildren.
A funeral service was held Saturday,
Jan. 10, at Southside Baptist. Interment followed at Willow Valley Cemetery in Mooresville. Ingram Funeral Home of Mooresville
is serving the family.
Michael Wolfe
Mrs. Wolfe, 40, of Huntersville died
Monday, Jan. 5. She was born April 24,
1974, in Mexico City to Luis Miguel Niño
de Rivera and Araceli Garduño. She was
a teacher at the Community School of
Davidson.
In addition to her parents, she is
survived by her husband, Walter Wolfe;
son, Hank; daughter, Michaela; stepfather,
Mario; stepmother, Diana; siblings, Vania,
Cathy, Saskia, Marius and Luis David; and
grandmothers, Maria Luisa Taracena and
Carmen Garduño.
A funeral service was held Thursday,
Jan. 8, at James Funeral Home with the
Rev. Jack Homesley officiating. A funeral
mass was held Friday, Jan. 9, at St. Mark
Catholic Church in Huntersville. Memorials may be made to Community School of
Davidson Capital Campaign, 565 Griffith
Street, Davidson, NC 28036. James
the family.
Richard Harry Callan
Mr. Callan, 68, of Davidson died Monday, Jan. 5, at his residence. He was born
Aug. 23, 1946, in Mercer County, N.J., to
the late Charles and Sylvia Rubright Callan.
He had a 30-year career with the Department of Defense, the last 24 for the Army
Material Command. He moved to Davidson
upon his wife’s retirement in 2006. He was
a member of Community in Christ Church,
where he was an elder, played the organ,
sang in the choir and provided ministry. He
sang in the North Mecklenburg Community
Chorus.
He is survived by his wife, Karen Callan;
daughters, Christy Wood and husband,
James, of Davidson, and Jennifer Lowe of
Mooresville; brothers, Dennis Callan and
Thomas Callan; nine grandchildren; and
one great-grandchild.
A funeral service was held Saturday,
Jan. 10, at James Funeral Home. Burial followed at Mt. Zion Community Cemetery in
Cornelius. Memorials can be made to the
American Cancer Society or the Diabetes
Foundation. James Funeral Home of Huntersville is serving the family.
Gayle Allred Gunter
Mrs. Gunter of Cornelius died Monday,
Jan. 5. She is survived by her daughter, Renee Whitley of Huntersville; step-daughter,
Lynn Gainey of Huntersville; mother, Betty
Wilson of Greensboro; brothers, Tom Allred
of Charlotte and Bill Allred of Greensboro;
two grandchildren; and four step-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her
husband, Richard Gunter; father, Robert
Allred; brother, Robert Allred Jr. and step-
daughter, Patricia Whitman.
A memorial service was held Thursday,
Jan. 8, at James Funeral Home with the
Rev. Bill Cain officiating. Memorials may
be made to the Levine & Dickson Hospice
House, 11900 Vanstory Drive, Huntersville, NC 28078. James Funeral Home of
Joseph I. Keller
Mr. Keller, 90, of Mooresville died Monday, Jan. 5, at his residence. He was born
June 1, 1924, in Newark, N.J., to the late
Karl and Carrie Smith Keller. He served in
the U.S. Army Air Corps, was a member of
the China-Burma-India Veterans Association, and was a member of St. Therese
Catholic Church in Mooresville.
He is survived by his wife of 67 years,
Gertrude Keller; daughters, Carolyn
Jenkins and Susan Friscia and husband,
Frank; two grandchildren; and three greatgrandchildren.
A memorial mass was held Friday,
Jan. 9, at St. Therese Catholic Church.
Burial with full military honors followed at
Salisbury National Cemetery. Cavin-Cook
Funeral Home of Mooresville is serving
the family.
January 14, 2015 Mooresville. He was born May 7, 1928, in
Long Creek to the late Robert and Cora
Lawing Luckey. He served in the U.S. Navy,
was president of the Moore’s Park Civitan
Club, treasurer of the Wilkinson Boulevard
Volunteer Fire Department and was a
member of Cook’s Memorial Presbyterian
Church.
He is survived by his children, Michael
Luckey and wife, Patricia, R. Stephen
Luckey and wife, Janice, Cathy Johnson
and K. Patrick Luckey and wife, Wanda;
six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his
wife of 65 years, Margaret Luckey, sisters,
Isabelle and Crosby; and brothers, Robert,
Arnold and Basil. The family wishes to
thank the staff of Summit Place of Mooresville for their care.
A graveside service was held Friday, Jan.
9, at Forest Lawn West in Charlotte with
the Rev. Rick Felts officiating. Memorials
may be made to Hospice of Lake Norman,
705 Griffith Street, Suite 203, Davidson,
NC 28036.
Dwight Shaw Cross Jr.
Mr. Cross, 84, of Huntersville died
Wednesday, Jan. 7, at his home. He was
31 born Feb. 3, 1930, in Mecklenburg County
to the late Dwight Sr. and Edna Beasley
Cross. He was a pilot in the U.S. Air Force
from 1951 to 1956 and was a 1st Lieutenant in the 437th fighter group in Oxnard,
Calif. Following military service, he worked
with his father at Cross Chevrolet, which
he later owned before retiring in 1999. He
was a former member of the Huntersville Community Council, coached youth
baseball for 13 years, and was a former
member of the Huntersville Town Board of
Commissioners
He is survived by his wife, Hazel Cross;
sons, Dwight Cross III and wife, Angela
Todd, and Thomas Cross of Huntersville;
sister, Jo Cross of Flat Rock; and three
grandchildren.
A funeral service was held Sunday, Jan.
11, at Huntersville Presbyterian Church
with the Rev. David Brown and the Rev. J.E.
Wayland Jr. officiating. Burial followed in
the church cemetery. Memorials may be
made to Oak Ridge Military Academy, 2317
Oak Ridge Road, Oak Ridge, NC 27310; or
Novant Health Hospice, P.O. Box 33549,
Charlotte, NC 28233. James Funeral
Home of Huntersville is serving the family.
Phyllis DeSandre
Mrs. DeSandre, 61, of Davidson died
Tuesday, Jan. 6, at Carolinas Medical
Center-Northeast. She was born March
20, 1953, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to the late
Salvatore and Millie Vivolo.
She is survived by her husband, Robert
DeSandre; son, Michael Bonelli and wife,
Kelly, of Davidson; daughter, Jaclyn Felsenfeld and husband, Eric, of Potomac, Md.;
and three grandchildren.
A funeral service was held Monday, Jan.
12, at St. Mark Catholic Church in Huntersville with burial following at Northlake
Memorial Gardens in Huntersville. Memorials may be made to the American Breast
Cancer Foundation, 1220 B East Joppa
Road, Suite 332, Towson, MD 21286.
James Funeral Home of Huntersville is
serving the family.
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Lake Norman Citizen Hough, North fight for first place Friday
Luke Maye and the Hough Huskies are 11-4 this year.
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Five games into the MECKA Conference
boys’ basketball season, it’s already a tight race.
Just like always.
Four teams are tied for first place, and two
of them meet Friday when Hough visits North
Meck. The rivals’ highly anticipated game will
tip at approximately 7:30 p.m.
“I think it’ll be nine bleachers high, packed
in there like sardines,” says Hough coach Jason
Grube. “It’ll be about 96 degrees, and first place
will be on the line.”
Hough, North, Robinson and West Charlotte
are all 4-1, and the four are responsible for each
other’s losses. On Dec. 16, North knocked off
West Charlotte 76-69, and Hough beat Robinson 69-59.
Robinson handed North its first loss of the
season by a score of 61-57 Jan. 6, while West
Charlotte gave Hough its first league defeat last
Friday.
The Lions were dominant in an 80-56 win in
Cornelius, scoring 30 first-quarter points and
building a 48-25 lead by the half.
It was a setback for the Huskies to be sure, but
Grube says his team has time to improve.
“The bottom line is we have to get better, have
to learn to play in environments like that,” he
says.
North bounced back from its Robinson loss
with a 75-55 win at Vance.
It’s exam week in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Schools system, so teams were idle Tuesday.
West Charlotte travels to A.L. Brown Friday,
and Robinson hosts Mallard Creek.
— Justin Parker
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Taj Middleton and the North Meck Vikings are 14-1 overall.
Balanced Lady Titans out front in MECKA race
Hopewell 5-0 in the
conference, coming
off win in first-place
game with Robinson.
By Justin Parker
[email protected]
By the time Hopewell High’s
Tyrelle Anderson walks into the
locker room for a halftime or postgame chat, his basketball players
are already talking.
He likes that.
“They know what they’re doing and what they haven’t done,”
says Anderson, in his third year
as Lady Titans head coach. “They
know what they need to do to be in
every particular game.”
Anderson’s Titans have been in
all of them and won 13 of 14 games
this season, including all five in
MECKA 4A Conference play, and
a particularly notable win came
Friday, when the Titans topped
Robinson 54-48 to take over sole
possession of first place. Both
teams entered with 4-0 MECKA
records, and now Hopewell has a
one game lead on Robinson and
a two-game lead on Hough and
Mallard Creek.
“This group has really come a
long way,” says Anderson. “This
year, they’ve really bought into
each other.”
Being out front in a league race
is nothing new for Hopewell,
which last year emerged from
a tight MECKA pack to win its
fourth regular season title in five
years. And while they’re on the
right track to win another, it’s still
early.
“We just need to keep grinding,”
says Anderson. “Our conference is
a grind. There are no easy games.”
Hopewell built a double-digit
lead in the second quarter Friday,
led 32-21 at the intermission, and
kept the Bulldogs at bay most of
the second half, until Robinson
scored seven of the game’s final
eight points. The Bulldogs struggled at the foul line, though, converting 7-of-23 at the stripe.
Robinson features an inside
threat in George Washington University recruit Kelsi Mahoney, who
scored 20, but Anderson says his
team’s defensive effort, especially
against her, was the key in the win.
“The girls did a great job trusting each other and rotating,” he
says.
That kind of team approach has
been paying off for the Titans all
season, on both ends of the floor.
Junior forward Ineesha Hankerson leads the team in scoring,
averaging 9.5 points per game.
Senior forward Rhema Francis is
next with 9.1 points, while senior
guard Katie Dillon, who led the
way with 14 points against Robin-
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Katie Dillon and the Lady Titans are 13-1.
son, averages 8.3. Anderson likes
the offensive balance.
“There’s no one person who
dominates the team,” says Dillon.
“It’s a different person each game.”
Anderson says there’s not a po-
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January 14, 2015 Oh, Maya: Caldwell
stars for Lady Pats
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BEN COON
Davidson Day’s Maya Caldwell scored her 1,000th point Dec. 17.
larizing personality on the team,
the players get along and have the
kind of court chemistry that develops when players bond.
“Knowing our teammates is
what helps us,” says Francis.
The Titans’ lone loss came Dec.
29 against 3A Weddington, by
a 53-38 score on the second day
of East Lincoln’s holiday tournament. Anderson says his players
learned from the loss and have
moved on.
“They come out and compete,”
he says. “That’s all I’m asking for.”
It’s exam week, so MECKA
teams were idle Tuesday. Play resumes Friday, and Hopewell will
be at home against Vance.
The Titans will close out the
first half of the MECKA season
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Maya Caldwell started her first
varsity basketball game as an eighth
grader and has led Davidson Day in
scoring ever since.
It took the 6-foot guard 55 games
to reach the 1,000-point mark, and
the Patriots’ sophomore did it on a
night when she thought she hadn’t
played that well and scored about 20
points. Actually, she had poured in
a career-high 40 against York Prep
to become the first Lady Patriot to
reach the milestone.
“I am truly honored,” Caldwell
said following a 66-41 win over First
Assembly Monday. “It was amazing.
I didn’t know how to feel. It was just
a rush.”
Caldwell, who just turned 16,
didn’t know she was close to the scoring mark. She was presented with a
game ball during Davidson Day’s 6754 win over Wesleyan Christian last
Friday and noticed the date of her
scoring breakthrough. It was Dec. 17,
her mother’s birthday.
“That made it even better,” said
Caldwell, who is averaging 24.6
points and 9.8 rebounds per game.
Caldwell averaged about 18 points
to reach the 1,000-point mark in
a little more than two seasons. She
was the SPAA Player of the Year as
an eighth grader, PACIS all-conference last season, is a two-time allstate pick and is already attracting
Division I college recruiting attention. She’s been known to call coach
Zakia Vanhoose at 5 a.m. so she can
get some shots up in the school gym.
She loves the game.
“I’m having so much fun,” said
Caldwell, also an all-conference tennis player.
Vanhoose knew early on that
Caldwell was something special and
wanted her to get experience on the
varsity team as an eighth grader.
Caldwell ended up in the starting
lineup by the season opener.
Caldwell had seen varsity games
the previous year and was ready.
“At first, I was a little nervous, but
I wasn’t really scared,” she said. “I felt
like I could play with them.”
She’s been progressing — and surprising her coach — ever since.
“She’s intentional about her game
now,” said Vanhoose. “It has clicked.”
But Vanhoose is quick to note that
Caldwell’s play is only part of what
makes her shine.
“She carries herself like a young
lady,” said Vanhoose. “She’s well-spoken. Everybody respects her.”
Caldwell had 25 points, 16 re-
bounds, six assists and six blocks in
Monday’s win. And what makes the
Patriots even more dangerous is that
she doesn’t work alone. Players such
as freshman guard Courtney Meadows and junior guard Alexas Bradford produce as well, and sophomore
forward Parker Thompkins, who averages 15 points and 12.9 rebounds,
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Two boys’ basketball teams are
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tied with Lincoln Charter for first
in the Southern Piedmont 1A Conference races.
The CSD girls won nine games
all of last year, but were 11-2 as of
Tuesday. The CSD boys were 7-5.
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Lake Norman Charter and Ashbrook are both 5-0 in conference
play, and the Knights will pay the
Green Wave a visit to determine
sole possession of first place.
“We’ll find out what we’re really
made of Friday,” says LNC coach
Aaron Reeves. “They’re hungry to
play for first place. It’s what they
want to do. I don’t think it’ll be a
problem keeping them focused.”
The Knights (9-4) have won
three straight games and seven of
their last eight, with the only loss in
that stretch a 75-63 defeat to East
Lincoln in the final of the Mus-
Lady Huskies in third
The Hough girls enter Friday’s
game at North Meck tied with Mallard Creek for third in the MECKA
standings.
Hough is 10-3 overall and 3-2 in
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Stat Sheet
High School Basketball
Boys Scores
Jan. 6
LN Charter 77, Hunter Huss 54
LN Charter 18 25 20 14 — 77
19 12 17 6 — 54
Hunter Huss
LNC: McCormick 19, B. Hancock 15, Fairbairn
13, Worthy 12, Hickert 7, Cracknell 6, J. Hancock 4, Penner 1.
Huss: McCluney 25, Black 12, Barnett 11,
Potts 3, Nixon 2.
Jan. 9
LN Charter 74, South Point 62
South Point 14 11 17 20 — 62
14 17 21 22 — 74
LN Charter
South Point: Reeves 20, Williams 13, Zieske 9,
Muse 8, Starr 8, Neyen 2, Julen 2.
LNC: Worthy 21, McCormick 18, Cracknell 13, B.
Hancock 11, Hickert 7, Fairbairn 3, J. Hancock 1.
West Charlotte 80, Hough 56
West Charlotte 30 18 14 18 — 80
11 14 18 13 — 56
Hough
West Charlotte: Rivers 16, Massey 14,
BEN COON
Senior Jordan Thompson won five matches Saturday to improve to 33-0.
Hough continues
building for late run
Huskies lead the
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with 3-0 record.
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Hough High’s bid to win its
third straight Husky Duals didn’t
go as planned Saturday, as the
Huskies went 3-2 and finished
third in their fifth annual event.
And while that result wasn’t
what the Huskies were after — “I
probably hate losing more than I
like winning, to be honest,” said
coach Tripp Rogers — there were
positives for the host school in the
12-team event.
“It’s a wake-up call, and it’s good
to have them,” said Rogers.
Hough, now 16-2, went 3-0 in
its pool, defeating A.C. Reynolds
72-6, Weddington 48-36 and Independence 61-9. Then came a 5518 loss to Rock Hill, the defending
class AAAA South Carolina state
champion, and a 40-39 loss to
Northwest Guilford, one of the Tar
Heel State’s top 4A programs.
Rogers wasn’t pleased with his
team’s effort against Rock Hill,
which later wrapped up the Duals
title with a 49-27 win over Northwest Guilford, but he said his
team bounced back in the narrow
loss to Northwest Guilford.
Rogers wants his team to keep
the losses in perspective as they
build toward the latter part of the
season. “They’re getting better every time they step out there, which
is what you want,” he said.
Hough 182-pounder Jordan
Thompson went 5-0 Saturday to
remain unbeaten on the season.
The senior, who was the 4A state
runner-up at 170 pounds last year,
is 33-0 entering Friday’s match
at 3A power Fred T. Foard. Early
this season, many opponents were
simply forfeiting to Thompson
— “I told him to take it as a compliment and move on,” said Rogers — but he’s been getting more
matches in recent tournament
settings.
“He’s starting to get back in the
swing of things,” said Rogers. “It’s
hard to do that when you’re not on
the mat.”
Hough’s Caleb Kreitter also
went 5-0 Saturday and is 33-3 at
113 pounds. Austin Powell (120
pounds), Tony Woodward (132),
Joey DiPietro (152) and Michael
Rawlins (285) all went 4-1.
January 14, 2015 Blackmon 12, Carter 12, Boone 9, Williams 9,
Hatchett 3, Sanders 3, Huntley 2.
Hough: L. Maye 20, Sweetman 10, Whipp 9,
Murphy 6, Umstead 6, Grigg 3, Friday 2.
Girls Scores
Jan. 6
Hopewell 49, West Charlotte 38
Hopewell
7 13 11 18 — 49
Hopewell: Francis 14, Dillon 13, Hankerson 9,
Ruff-Mills 7, Haynes 3, Parks 2, Thames 1.
West Charlotte: Gaston 12, Holland 12,
Thompson 8, Nesbit 4, Donaldson 2.
Hough 45, A.L. Brown 40
Hough
10 10 10 15 — 45
3 14 9 14 — 40
A.L. Brown Hough: Alquiza 13, Crawford 10, Gianikos 9,
Cowie 4, Nyquist 2, Parker 2, Fuerst 1, Skidmore 1, Montague 1.
A.L. Brown: Alexander 15, Grant 10, Downs 5,
Howard 3, Stanback 2, Chrismon 2, McCoy 1.
Jan. 9
Hopewell 54, Robinson 48
Robinson 15 6 10 17 — 48
20 12 13 9 — 54
Hopewell
Robinson: Mahoney 20, Scott 12, Bearden 9,
Bickford 4, Jordan 3.
Hopewell: Dillon 14, Hankerson 8, Duncan 8,
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Ruff-Mills 6, Sanders 6, Thames 5, Haynes 5,
Francis 2.
Hough 53, West Charlotte 43
11 15 10 17 — 53
Hough West Charlotte: Gaston 18, Holland 11,
Thompson 7, Best 4, Donaldson 3.
Hough: Denny 16, Alquiza 13, Gianikos 7, Parker
5, Gipson 4, Cowie 4, Crawford 2, Nyquist 2.
Jan. 12
Davidson Day 66, First Assembly 41
First Assembly 7 4 14 16 — 41
Davidson Day 11 23 16 16 — 66
First Assembly: Bennett 13, Wright 8, McNeill
6, Peay 5, Francis-Robinson 3, Brooks 3, Bryant
2, Mobley 1.
Davidson Day: Caldwell 25, Tompkins 18,
Bradford 18, Rees 5.
Men’s College Basketball
Jan. 10
Davidson 89, Saint Louis 54
Saint Louis 25 29 — 54
39 50 — 89
Davidson
Saint Louis: Yarbrough 18, Roby 11, Lancona
8, Bartley 6, Yacoubou 5, Jolly 2, Gillmann 2,
McBroom 1, Crawford 1.
Davidson: Barham 21, Sullivan 18, Gibbs 12,
Kalinoski 11, Michelsen 9, Aldridge 8, McAuliffe
4, Watkins 3, Ekwu 3.
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Lake Norman Citizen
Common causes
of aging cats
‘not acting right’
As cats age, they tend to sleep more and become more sedentary. These changes are to be expected. However, changes in social
behavior, mobility, appetite and litter box habits can signal something different. These changes, along with increased vocalization,
are often signs of degenerative disease. We often refer to these
felines as NAR (not acting right) cats. If you have an NAR cat, it’s
important to have your pet examined by a veterinarian.
There are five conditions that occur commonly in aging cats,
which could explain NAR behavior:
• Dental or periodontal disease. This can be very painful
for your feline. Resorptive disease of the tooth is unique to cats.
This can cause them to stop eating and lose weight. Even though
dentistry requires anesthesia, the benefits of dental treatment for
your cat can far outweigh the
risks.
Your
• Chronic kidney disease.
As cats age, loss of kidney
Pets
function is very common and
this results in an elevation of
Dr. Tom Hemstreet chemical waste in the blood
and the inability to hold
body fluid appropriately. The toxic effect of accumulated waste
leads to diminished appetite and the loss of body fluid leads to
dehydration.
This condition affects 50 percent of all cats older than 7 years
and 75 percent of the cats older than 10. Chronic kidney disease
usually progresses slowly and your vet can help you effectively
manage this condition with diet, fluids and medications.
• Thyroid disease. This condition involves increased thyroid
hormone levels and usually affects cats older than 10. Thyroid
disease has a devastating impact on a cat’s body if not treated.
Cats with hyperthyroidism initially display increased activity and
appetite, giving the illusion of health. Over time, vomiting, diarrhea and weight loss creep into the picture. The weight loss can
be rapid and profound as the disease progresses. Heart, kidney
and liver disease are also part of the decline. The good news is that
thyroid disease can usually be cured with medications, surgery or
radioactive iodine treatment.
• Degenerative joint disease. This is very painful for a cat and
often causes irritability, loss of mobility, decreased socialization,
litter box avoidance, weight loss and excessive grooming over the
joints. As cats age, the cartilage in the joints deteriorates. This
leads to change in the underlying bone and osteophytes form
which are painful. Fortunately, there are supplements and medications for pain that can make a big difference in the quality of life
for cats with degenerative joint disease.
• Cancer. Lymphoma, mammary cancer and oral cancer are
common cancers in aging cats. Symptoms can be as vague as
diminished appetite and activity. A thorough exam, blood work
and imaging may be needed to identify this disease. Some cancers
respond well to therapy and some do not. Palliative care and hospice are sometimes the best alternative. As with any cancer, early
detection and therapy will improve outcomes.
As cats age, don’t assume that changes in behavior or decreased
activity is “just aging.” If you have a NAR cat, consult your veterinarian. There may be more going on and therapy or treatment can
make a big difference in the quality of life for your cat.
Dr. Tom Hemstreet is a veterinarian with LakeCross Veterinary
in Huntersville where he also offers radioactive iodine treatment
for cats with hyperthyroidism. The vets in the big yellow house
have been treating pets like family for 20 years. For more information, call 704-948-6300.
Salome’s Stars
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signals could create problems. Make sure
your views are presented clearly, and insist
others do the same. Don’t let an unanswered
question go by without a full explanation.
• TAURUS (April 20 to May 20): Financial
pressures ease, allowing for more budget
flexibility. But as the money-wise Bovine will
appreciate, thrift still beats out splurging. Expect news from someone special.
• GEMINI (May 21 to June 20): Getting
things done is what you do so well. But be
careful not to overtax your energy reserves.
Take time out to relax or to do something different to help keep them at optimum levels.
• CANCER (June 21 to July 22): This is a
good time to satisfy the Moon Child’s growing sense of wanderlust. Choose a really
special place to go to, with a very special
person to share it all with you.
• LEO (July 23 to August 22): You love
being in the spotlight. But be careful it
doesn’t blind you to the truth behind a seemingly wonderful opportunity. Look closer and
you might be sadly surprised at what you
find.
• VIRGO (August 23 to September 22):
Isn’t it time to take a break from your hectic
schedule? Sure it is. And the sooner you do,
the sooner you can return fresh and more
than ready to take on all those new projects.
• LIBRA (September 23 to October 22):
A recent family incident can help bring everyone closer, and there’s no one who’s bet-
ter at making that happen than you. Accept
(indeed, insist on!) help from others to get
things off and running.
• SCORPIO (October 23 to November
21): Long-held habits are often difficult to
break. But the change from how you always
did things to how you can do them now can
be liberating. So, be flexible and give it a try.
• SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21): Someone you met in your
professional world last year and thought you
would never hear from again could make a
sudden reappearance in your life, along with
an interesting job offer.
• CAPRICORN (December 22 to January
19): Once again, you delight everyone by
coming up with a solution for a problem that
actually works. On another note, it’s not too
early to get started on those travel plans.
• AQUARIUS (January 20 to February
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plans for your new project, check them over
to see if you can make some improvements
or if you can find ways to cut costs.
• PISCES (February 19 to March 20):
The Fabulous Fish might have been out of
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plunge back in. Reinforce your old friendships and be open to starting new ones.
• BORN THIS WEEK: Your creative talents help bring beauty to the world and the
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middle age. Age 50 was no big deal, nor age 60. Now I’m turning
73. I think it is the oddest one of all thus far.
Sometimes I rise in the morning now and think: I believe I’ll
drop by the Orthopedic
Clinic this morning and
Southern
have a cup of coffee with
Fried Preacher
my friends. However, most
mornings I awaken as
frisky as a colt. Everything
Harold Bales amuses me. I’m ready to
get busy. I’m feeling like
an adolescent. I’m a juvenile all over again. The big question is
whether or not I will be a delinquent today! Most of the time I’m
well-behaved.
I have learned that, while sometimes I feel my age, most of the
time I don’t think my age. I don’t really know how I am supposed
to think in a more senior-like way. I just know how to think like
me. Naturally, most of my friends are mature now. However, they
seem young to me. The women seem prettier to me than they did
decades ago when they were young. I’ll confess, some of my male
buddies have gone to pot, but so have I. (Now that’s a seniorly
comment that means something entirely different to my generation than it does to younger folk.)
One of my favorite pals on the planet, perhaps inspired by my
birthday, sent me a piece called the “Senility Prayer.” Maybe you
have heard it: “Lord, grant me the senility to forget the people I
never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do like,
and the eyesight to tell the difference.”
I got a big laugh out of that, but I don’t think I’ll use it. I can
honestly count on the fingers of one hand, the people I haven’t
liked over these 73 years. I’m a bit like Will Rogers who said he
never met a man he didn’t like. Or maybe it was said by actress
Elizabeth Taylor who had seven husbands.
Oh, I can think about lots of folk I’ve known who could give an
aspirin a headache. You know, the kind who can cause a preacher
to cuss. Sometimes on the day when you have only one nerve, that
person can get on it. I tend to be philosophical about that and
interpret him or her as a gift from God. It is given to teach us to
pray. God knows all about this because some of us can get under
the Divine skin occasionally, too.
As you know, the dictionary definition of senility is the physical and mental decline associated with old age. That’s all true,
of course. But I’m also aware of the ascendancy of some things
during the adventure of growing older. For instance the freedom
to be as cranky as I want and having it described as “colorful.”
I’ll take that with a “Hallelujah!” One thing I don’t want to be is
colorless!
I’m 73 and happy to celebrate it. Once while celebrating the
birthday of a parishioner whom I knew to be nearing 100 years
old, I whispered, “Do you mind revealing how many years old you
are?”
She smiled and replied in a whisper: “Can you keep a secret?” I
said,”Yes.” To which she said, “I can too!”
I can’t!
Harold Bales is a retired Methodist minister. For more information about him, visitTheSouthernFried-Preacher.com. Send him an
e-mail at [email protected].
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January 14, 2015 39
A Toast to a small
town Christmas story
Davidson is an idyllic place.
With a prestigious college at its
core, and through the vigilance of
town leaders and involved citizens,
it has meticulously evolved into a
model village, cherished by those
who embrace small-town values
and marveled at by those who discover its multiple charms. With
that said, it’s true that the Christmas story that follows could have
occurred anywhere, but in Davidson it seems overwhelmingly appropriate.
On Christmas Eve, Gina Fishburne of Davidson was floored
by the flu. The illness sapped her
stamina but, according to her husband Cary, sadness from the realization that she would be unable to
prepare a meal for her family exceeded the pain of her symptoms.
That afternoon, during a lastminute search for a meal-time solution, Gina called the Toast Cafe
on Main Street, where the Fishburnes had eaten a few times during their three-plus years as Davidson residents, and asked about
picking up some soup. Toast coowner Brian Burchill fielded the
call and said the restaurant was
preparing to close so employees
could go home to their families,
but potato soup would be available for pickup.
During the telephone conversation, according to Cary, Burchill
detected the discomfort in Gina’s
voice and asked how she was feeling. She summarized the situation
and the reason for her call, and
then dispatched Cary to the restaurant.
Thirty minutes later, when Cary
arrived at Toast, he knocked on the
locked door as instructed. When
it opened, he said he was there to
pick up soup and prepared for pay.
Instead, he was asked inside.
Once inside the restaurant, several employees told Cary they were
sorry his wife was sick and they
wanted to make the holiday dinner
their gift to his family. Then they
presented him with the soup, along
with a large box filled with turkey
breast, pasta, biscuits, chocolate
cake and even some quiche and
fresh fruit for Christmas morning
breakfast.
“They didn’t know me from
Adam,” Cary said later when sharing his story. “We had been there a
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few times, but we weren’t regulars.
It just blew me away.”
Cary said Burchill told him they
were happy to help, hoped his wife
would feel better soon and, again,
refused to accept any payment.
“And he wished me a merry
Christmas,” Cary said. “I felt like we
were in It’s A Wonderful Life. I just
couldn’t believe it.”
Back at home, Gina cried when
Cary told her what happened. And
then the couple and their two boys
enjoyed a traditional holiday feast,
enhanced with an extra helping of
Christmas spirit.
“It’s a Christmas story we’ll never forget,” Cary said. “I’m getting to
be an older guy (he’s only 48) so I
guess I just appreciate old-fashioned things like this a little more.
But I think this demonstrates
the true meaning of Christmas
and what a neighborhood business should be. It was kind, and
thoughtful, and completely unexpected. It had a tremendous impact on our family and is one of the
more special Christmas memories
we’ll ever have.”
And another special story about
Davidson.
Personal
responsibility
But with its many attributes, the
town also has some nagging habits.
Last week in our “Talk of the
Towns” pages, we made reference
to the fact that while motorists
bear the brunt of the responsibility, joggers and cyclists must also
do their part to avoid accidents. On
the way to the office one morning
this week, an unsettling scenario
provided the motive for another
reminder.
Around 7:15 or so Tuesday
morning, with dark, misty conditions already impacting the crowded commute, I was on Grey Road
in Davidson approaching the Davidson-Concord Road intersection.
The glaze on the windshield, not
heavy enough for full-time wipers
but steady enough for aggravation,
the distracting glow of headlights
piercing the fog and the blurry red
glare of tail lights bouncing from
the wet pavement combined to
make even the posted 20-milesper-hour speed limit seem excessive.
A few hundred feet from the
stop sign, and hugging the right
shoulder as best I could to avoid
a truck still recovering from that
awkward right-hand turn onto
Grey, I caught a glimpse of something just ahead. Out of the dark-
ness, a figure emerged, visible only
because the legs were white.
As I passed, I got a partial view
of a jogger right at the edge of the
pavement in black shorts and a
dark, long-sleeve sweatshirt. Had
he been wearing long pants, at that
time in those conditions, he would
have been, for all practical purposes, invisible.
I didn’t hit him. As best as I
could tell, neither did the cars behind me. In the rear view mirror,
I did see several sets of highlights
dart left as those drivers, just as I
had done a few seconds earlier, reacted instinctively to avert disaster.
At any speed, impact would have
been devastating. At best, the jogger would have been severely injured and the driver would have
been psychologically shattered.
Blame wouldn’t have mattered.
I can’t imagine any town that
does more to protect pedestrians,
runners and cyclists, but rules and
regulations anywhere, even in Davidson, still rely on common sense
and good decision making by those
involved.
40
January 14, 2015
Lake Norman Citizen

January 14, 2015 Issue

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