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DUBLIN — Folks that need a day to unwine-d will have the opportu-nity to do it Saturday when, as of Wednesday, Lu Mil Vineyard will host its annual North Carolina Grape Festival.

“We never considered not having it,” said Lu Mil’s Denise Bridgers. “As soon as I saw the property after Hurricane Florence and that the damage was pretty much only to the back end of the property, I knew we could get it ready for the festival.”

Bridgers sees the event as an opportunity for reprieve.

“I think people are looking for something like this, just to get their mind off all the devasta-tion and the sadness from the hurricane,” she said. “It’s free to come, so we hope people will come out and have a good time.”

At least one other per-son sees the timing as fortuitous as well.

“We had a lady call about bringing her 30-foot trailer loaded with children’s clothes, all on consignment, or gently used,” Bridgers said. “She sees this as a way to give back to the community and thought the Grape Festival was a good time and place to do it. We hope people will come out and take advantage of that.”

Everything on the trailer will be $3, and clothes range from infant sizes to junior apparel.

The vendor will be just one of many who will be on site during the day. The Super Yard Sale usually sees between 70 and 80 vendors offering

items at deep discounts.Yard sale setup begins

at 6 a.m., and a pancake breakfast hosted by the Dublin Boy Scouts will be served at 7 a.m. at the General Store. The festi-val is 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Another new addi-tion this year involves a change in the music lineup.

“We’re having a type of music we’ve never tried before,” Bridgers stated. “We’re going to have a jazz band on Doc’s Deck, so we’re

excited to see how peo-ple respond to that.”

The concert will fea-ture the jazz band Three to Get Ready.

Hailed as a “grape stompin’ good time”, the festival wouldn’t be com-plete without the grape stomping competition.

“People really enjoy that,” Bridgers said. “It’s two hours, and you get to see people and their personalities in a way you wouldn’t normally get to see them. The Grape Stomp is a high-

light for a lot of people.”The winner takes

home a cash prize, and awards are handed out in both youth and adult categories. The Grape Stomp will begin at 10 a.m.

A food truck roundup, craft vendors, antique tractors, face painting and wine tastings will round out the day’s activities.

Chrysta Carroll can be reached by calling 910-862-4163 or emailing [email protected].

Grape Festival set for SaturdayAt Lu Mil, not having it was never a real option

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RALEIGH — Gov. Roy Cooper asked state legislators Wednesday for $750 million toward a proposed long-term $1.5 billion Hurricane Florence recov-ery effort, with an early focus on hous-ing, farms, business and schools.

The Democratic governor unveiled his request while providing new esti-mates for the scope of last month’s storm, which dumped more than 30 inches of rain in some areas of south-eastern North Carolina and contributed to 40 deaths in the state.

Cooper’s office calculates damage from Florence in North Carolina will

be nearly $13 billion, or about equal to the damage caused by the state’s two most devastating hurricanes of the past 20 years — Floyd in 1999 and Matthew two years ago. The request would cover what the federal government and pri-vate insurance won’t, Cooper’s budget office said, and wouldn’t require any tax increases.

“The human suffering and property damage left in the wake of Florence was like nothing we have ever seen before,” Cooper said at a news conference. “An unprecedented storm requires an unprecedented response … Rebuilding smarter and stronger isn’t just an idea, it’s an obligation.”

Hundreds of millions of dollars the governor seeks would go toward pre-emptive efforts for the next big storm — as illustrated by the fact that Coo-per revealed his proposal while giving an update on approaching Hurricane Michael.

“We know that we can expect more extreme weather events,” he said. The Republican-controlled legislature, which will have its own ideas about the pack-age’s amount and timing, will reconvene Monday to consider additional fund-ing. Spokesmen for House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger said Cooper’s request was being reviewed.

The proposal will test the recent amity between Cooper and the General Assembly after nearly two years of par-tisan rancor.

Last week, the legislature unanimous-ly approved, and Cooper signed into law, legislation setting aside $50 million for federal matching funds, and eased school calendar and voter registration rules in counties harmed most by Flor-ence.

The new package seeks additional money for technology to expand the state’s computer flood modeling, which enabled emergency officials to move residents out of harm’s way as rivers

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Bladen Journal file photoIn the Grape Stomp, competitors vie to squeeze the most juice out of vats of grapes.

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ELIZABETHToWN — FEMA opened a disaster recovery center here, then had to close it temporar-ily because of Hurriacne Michael.

Representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency will be available at the Bladen County Coopera-tive Extension Building, 450 Smith Circle Drive in Elizabethtown. This is also known as the Powell-Melvin Agricultural Center.

originally set to be open 60 days, the center closed because of Michael for Thursday and Friday, with plans to reopen on Saturday.

A news release from FEMA and the Emer-gency Management Department of Bladen County said representa-tives will be able to assist with FEMA regisstrations and the status of registra-tions. Questions should be directed to FEMA staff at the location.

The hours vary depend-ing on the day of the week, and the center is

closed on Sundays.After the closure for

Michael, the center will be open 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

on Tuesdays, the center is open 1 to 7 p.m.

A news release says homeowners, renters and businesses should register for disaster assistance before visiting a recovery center. There are several ways to register:

• Online at DisasterAs-sistance.gov.

• Use the FEMA mobile app.

• Call FEMA at 800-621-3362 anytime from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. local time seven days a week until further notice. Those who use TTY may call 800-462-7585. Multilingual operators are available.

FEMA encourages resi-dents to avoid waiting to begin cleanup and repairs. Take photos of damage, save all receipts and get the cleanup and repair process started as soon as possible.

Alan Wooten can be reached at 910-247-9132 or [email protected]. Twitter: @alanwooten19.

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crested. He also seeks gauges installed at more than 1,500 dams that would signal breaches.

And Cooper wants to expand a buyout program used after Floyd to move hog farms and their open-air waste pits off land that had never experience flooding until Florence. There would also be incentives to replace the lagoons with more expen-sive and environmentally favored storage. Grants to help repair and improve water and sewer systems that failed during the storm also are being requested.

Money to cover the $750 million request would come from the state’s almost $2 billion savings reserve and revenues that weren’t budgeted this year. The rest likely wouldn’t be considered until 2019, Cooper said.

The biggest chunk in the package — more than a half-billion dollars — address-es housing.

Cooper seeks $400 million to supple-ment anticipated federal relief funds to repair flood- and wind-damaged homes and relocate 1,000 families out of the 100-year flood plain. Another $50 million would be used to encourage affordable housing devel-opments.

“Providing safe, affordable homes is the single-most important need,” he said.

About 74,000 homes sustained water damage and 430,000 suffered wind dam-age, according to flood models by the state Division of Emergency Management. About 3,800 private-sector business and nonprofit properties had water damage and 49,000 properties had wind damage, the division said.

The governor also wants $50 million to help small businesses, downtown revitaliza-tion and business recruitment and tourism to the storm-affected regions. The package also seeks $130 million for roads to match federal funds to repair and upgrade major arteries like Interstates 40 and 95, which closed for several days because of floodwa-ters.

Another $200 million would go in direct payments to farmers already struggling to stay in business after Hurricane Matthew two years ago. State Agriculture Commis-sioner Steve Troxler, a Republican, already lobbied for the program this week, but some legislators wanted more details to ensure money isn’t wasted.

Tens of millions would go toward repair-ing government buildings, parks and public schools and universities. Damage to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington alone is estimated at $140 million, Cooper said.

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BowenBLADENBORO — Laura Beth Bowen

Allbright, 54, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018. Bladen-Gaskins Funeral Home.

OBituaries Death NOtices

GREENSBORO — Master Sergeant Jack Dowles “JD” Brown, Sr., Retired US Air Force, passed away on Friday, Oct. 5, 2018, at WhiteS-tone Masonic Eastern Star Homes in Greens-boro.

JD was an Air Force veteran of 27 years and served in World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War. After retiring from the Air Force in 1973, JD pursued a second career in public relations, retir-ing in 1995.

Funeral services were held Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018, at 3 p.m. at Jernigan-Warren Chapel. Burial followed in Lafay-ette Memorial Park with military honors. The fam-ily received friends at the funeral home from 2 p.m. until 3 p.m. on Thursday.

JD is preceded in death by his wife of 65 years, Selma.

He is survived by his sons, Jack Brown, Jr. and wife Rita and Mike Brown; daughters, Deb-bie Black and husband Dan and Terri Fogle and husband Matt; sister, Lenora Callahan; grand-children, Mike Brown, Haley Brown, Charlie Brown, Christina Brown, Robert Griffin-Brown, Heather Brown, Sarah Black, Ross Black, and Rachel Fogle; great-grandchildren, Mateo Brown, Joshua Brown, Calli Goggans, Adam Griffin, Anthony Laugh-lin, Caidance Velke and Logan Velke.

Arrangements by Jernigan-Warren Funeral Home

Jack Dowles “JD” Brown, sr.

STEDMAN — Rebecca Howard Eatman-Jackson passed away Oct. 7, 2018. She was 72.

A native of Roseboro, Rebecca called Stedman home for more than 20 years. She was a graduate of Meredith College. As sales manager for Lamar Advertising, Rebecca was active in the busi-ness communities of Sampson, Bladen and Cumberland counties.

She was the incoming president of NetWorth, an organization of women empowering one another through profes-sional support. She was the former president of the board of the Fayette-ville Museum of Art, a former member of the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce, and a member for many years of Roseboro’s Athenia Lanier Club.

Rebecca possessed boundless energy, empa-thy and style. She was a colleague, friend and mentor to many. She was a gracious caregiver to

those she loved, a proud parent and grandparent, and a passionate gar-dener.

Rebecca is survived by her husband, James

“Jimmy” Jackson; her son, Hawes Bostic (Ambriel); stepdaugh-ters Heather Edwards (Josh) and Karla Syphrit (Karry); and grandchil-dren Haddie, Bo, Alexis, Tessa, Kennedy, Jackson and Addison.

Rebecca was prede-ceased by her parents, Edward C. and Grace Watson Eatman and god-parents James and Mary-Dixie Gardener.

Family and friends will celebrate Rebecca’s mem-ory at a private memorial service at her home on Oct. 20.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Rebecca’s memory may be made to the NetWorth Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 1653, Fayetteville, N.C. 28302.

Arrangements by Butler Funeral Home of Stedman.

reBecca HowarD eatman-Jackson

Mr. Milton McLean 71, of Hallsboro, died Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018, in the VA Hospital, Fayette-ville, NC.

He was born May 14, 1947, in Bladen County, the son of the late Duncan McLean and Effie Taylor McLean.

Mr. McLean was a retired officer with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. After retire-ment he was employed with the USDA as a bea-ver trapper from which he also later retired. Mr. McLean loved the outdoors and thoroughly enjoyed his years of employment because his professions allow him to be a part of nature. He was an avid fisherman and hunter. Mr. McLean was a veteran of the U.S. Army, having served dur-ing Vietnam.

He is survived by his wife, Brenda Williamson McLean; a daughter, Tammie McLean Phillips and husband, Jonathan, of Goldston, N.C.; a son, Sidney McLean and wife, Lindsay, of Hallsboro; three grandchildren,

Brooks McLean, and Brady and Brett Phillips; three brothers, C.D. McLean of Lake Waccamaw, Melvin McLean of Bladenboro,

Robert McLean and wife, Ellen, of Sanford; three sisters, Joyce McLean Walters of Bladenboro, Monnie McLean Ham-monds and husband, Gary, of Bladenboro, and Glenda McLean of Shal-lotte.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a daughter, Lisa Carol McLean.

His funeral service with military honors will be 11 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018, at Hall-boro Baptist Church with Rev. Scott Lewis. Burial will be in the Lake Wac-camaw Hillcrest Cem-etery.

His family will receive friends Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018, at 6-8 p.m. at Pea-cock Funeral Home.

Online condolences may be made at Peacock Funeral Home & Crema-tory, Whiteville, N.C., funeral home and crema-tion.

milton mclean

ELIZABETH-TOWN — Maxine Bryant Woodburn, age 87, of Eliza-bethtown, passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018.

She was born on Dec. 24, 1930, to the late James Andrew Bryant and Minnie Jackson Bry-ant in Clio, S.C.

Maxine is preceded in death by her husband, Albert Benton Wood-burn; one daughter, Angela Hernandez; step-mother, Alta Coble Bryant; and five brothers, Preston, Thomas, David, Harold and Andy Bryant.

Maxine is survived by one son, David Albert Woodburn (Jann) of Florida; two daughters, Wendy Chance (Michael) of Concord, N.C., and Beverly Johnson and the late Terry Johnson of Fuquay-Varina; one brother, Levern Bryant of Hisperia, Calif.; three sisters, Martha Kornegay of Graham, N.C., Alice Jones of Climax, and Mary Barnard of Amelia, Va.; two grandchildren, Jacqueline Edwards and LeAnn Hernandez; and two great-grandchildren,

Hailey Reynolds and Channing Edwards.

She was a loving, caring mother to not only her own children but also to many others as

well. At the early age of 12, she became a care-giver and helped raise some of her younger sib-lings. Her grandchildren and great-grandchildren were the apple of her eye. Maxine was a seamstress to many in the local com-munity. She also enjoyed cooking and watching NASCAR racing. A pre-cious lady that will forev-er be remembered in the hearts of those that knew and loved her.

The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 12, 2018, at Bladen-Gaskins Funeral Home in Elizabethtown. A funeral service will be held on Saturday, Oct. 13, at 2 p.m. at Antioch United Methodist Church, 4404 N.C. 210 West in Garland, with the Rev. Tom Murray officiat-ing. Burial will follow the services in the church cemetery.

maxine Bryant wooDBurn

Obituaries and Death Notices may

also be viewed online atwww.bladenjournal.com

BryanBLADENBORO — John Perry Bryan, 86,

Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018. Bladen-Gaskins Funer-al Home.

MillerELIZABETHTOWN — Thomas Edward

Miller, 80, Monday, Oct. 8. Bladen-Gaskins Funeral Home.

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Alan Wooten | Bladen Journalelizabethtown Massage r&r recently joined the elizabethtown-White Lake area chamber of commerce and enjoyed a ribbon cutting and open house Wednesday evening. From left are Dawn Maynard, susan inman, Leslie Brown, Judith Brogdon, Wanda thomas, carrie Kelly and sylvia campbell. Brown, Brogdon, thomas and Kelly are with elizabethtown Massage r&r, Maynard is the chamber’s executive director, inman is on the chamber board and campbell is mayor of elizabethtown.

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ELIZABETHTOWN — The Bladen County commissioners have a new building on their hands, and, as of September, it’s an historic site.

Monday night at its monthly meeting, the Bladen County Board of Education discussed, as it has for the last few months, the Bladen County Youth Focus’ request to take possession of the Extended Hope building. The site is owned by the Board of Edu-cation and leased to Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy for $1,500 per month.

“I’m here to ask the Board of Education to relinquish owner-ship of Extended Hope and all property associated with it, and the 10-acre tract donated by Hattie McDowell for the training school to be built,” Bladen County Youth Focus President Minnie Price told the board.

Though the board had previ-ously discussed the possibility, a new issue presented itself Monday night. Prior to Price addressing the board, Superin-tendent Robert Taylor told the board the property had recent-ly been added to the National Registry of Historic Places.

Board of Education Attorney Gary Grady addressed the

issue.“I can’t tell you right now

whether or not we can, because this is the first time we’ve taken that direction,” he said of conveying the property.

“Once the building is on the national registry, you cannot sell it or demolish it unless you go through the National Historic Preservation office in Washington, D.C., or in Raleigh,” Price told the board.

Not everyone was on board with disposing of the property or donating or selling it.

“We beg the commissioners for money all the time, and we’re going to give away one of the few things we’re mak-ing money off of,” said board member Tim Benton. “It just doesn’t make sense.”

Benton suggested the board renegotiate the contract, quickly followed by board member Glenn McKoy mak-ing a motion to declare the property as surplus and turn it over to the county commis-sioners.

The motion was seconded by Gary Rhoda and approved by the majority of the board. Dennis Edwards and Benton voted against the measure, and Roger Carroll abstained. Berry Lewis was not present.


Board declares Extended Hope surplus


ELIZABETHTOWN — Stu-dents attending public school in Bladen County will not have to make up days missed following Hurricane Florence, but educa-tors will still get paid.

The decision was approved unanimously Monday night by the Bladen County Board of Education.

“A special session bill passed last week provided relief to counties declared a natural disaster,” Superintendent Rob-ert Taylor said.

The statute gave school dis-tricts three options: make up the days, deem as completed up to 20 days, or some combina-tion of the first two options.

“We are going to choose option two,” Taylor stated. “We missed 13 school days for stu-dents.”

One change following Flor-ence was what would happen with educator compensation. Following Hurricane Matthew, school employee pay was not addressed by the legislature, but employees who worked in shelters were eligible for pay through FEMA. This time around, the legislature specifi-cally stated employees would receive pay even for days missed.

Still, the district was faced with a dilemma. With all employees getting paid for time they didn’t technically work, many district staff members actually worked, some 80 or 90 hours a week.

“It’s like you’re doing double,” Taylor said. “We will submit a claim and hope to be reim-bursed for that from FEMA.”

The board approved counting the 13 days as completed and paying district employees for the time.

In other business, the board:• Heard a hurricane update

from Taylor and learned though no schools sustained major damage, the two high schools did experience damage to the roofs. Taylor said both will require replacing in the near future. Taylor, along with board member Alan West, commend-ed the county on its coordina-tion before, during and after the hurricane.

• Approved declaring the Extended Hope building as surplus, meaning it will be transferred to the county com-missioners. The Bladen County Youth Focus desires to obtain the building for use by Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy.


Schools forgive missed Florence days, pay workers

ELIZABETHTOWN — The Bladen County Sheriff ’s Office is requesting assistance in locating two individuals wanted for several breaking and entering.

Wesley Keith Carroll, 37, of Clarkton, and Joshua Bryan Evans, 32, of Blad-enboro, are responsible for the theft of several thousand dollars of property from local hog farming facilities. Warrants on file include breaking and entering, lar-ceny and possession of stolen goods.

Any information leading to their arrest can be kept confidential. Call 910-862-6960 or text 910-874-6850.

Duo wanted for hog farm thefts

Evans

Carroll


ELIZABETH-TOWN — An inves-tigation by the Blad-en County Sheriff ’s Office narcotics unit has led to an arrest.

Nathaniel Chris-tian Cotten, 44, of 9372

U.S. 701 North, is charged with selling and possessing con-trolled substances. He was arrested Tuesday. Bail was set at $2,500.

A news release said citizen com-

plaints led to the probe.

Drug charges filed

Cotten


ELIZABETHTOWN — As communities like Bladen County clean up after Hurricane Florence, Bladen County Sheriff Jim McVicker has a warning for residents.

“I urge you to be aware of criminals who will seize this opportunity to prey on our citizens,” he said in a news release. “Many people, especially the elderly, can become victims of scams following a natural disaster.”

After a storm, it is com-mon for scammers to show up to take advantage of citizens, because they know reputable contractors will be overwhelmed with work. There are often three dif-ferent types of fraudulent activity following a natu-ral disaster: home repair scams, price gouging and charity scams.

Recommended tips include:

• Always get the estimate in writing.

• Consider getting mul-tiple estimates. Ask for references.

• Avoid paying money up front.

• Resist all attempts that force you to make an on-

the-spot decision.• Never pay in cash.• Use local contractors,

even if this means being placed on a wait list. Make sure the contractor is insured.

Scammers often go door to door, offering to do work at low prices in exchange for a deposit. Once the deposit is obtained, the contractor never returns to complete the work.

Price gouging occurs when an individual charges excessive prices for goods or services during a state of emergency. Price gouging is prohibited by law, and civil penalties may apply to indi-viduals engaged in this type of activity.

Tips for giving to charity include:

• Donate only to chari-ties known and trusted.

• Do not give or send cash to any organization.

• Do not give out any personal or financial infor-mation.

The Department of Justice can be contacted at 877-5-NOSCAM, and a complaint can be filed online at ncdoj/gouging. The National Center for Disaster Fraud can be reached at 877-623-3423 or disaster@eAAQY.

Beware of hurricane-related scams

ELIZABETHTOWN — The Crisis Cleanup Hotline has been extended to Nov. 2, a news release from the Bladen County administrative offices says.

Property owners needing help with storm cleanup may call 800-451-1934 to register their property for help with home cleanup. As they are able, vetted relief agencies may assist property owners with cutting fallen trees, tarping roofs and removing debris, as well as with drywall, insulation, flooring, furniture and appli-ances.

All services are free, but service is not guaranteed due to overwhelming need.

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hurricane Michael delaysstate Fair opening by a day

RALEIGH — One of the country’s largest state fairs delayed its start as the rem-nants of Hurricane Michael passed through.

North Carolina State Fair manager Kent Yelverton said Wednesday the event will open today. It was originally scheduled to open Thursday.

State Agriculture Depart-ment spokeswoman Andrea Ashby said forecasts of heavy rain and high winds led to the decision.

Michael came ashore in Florida on Wednesday as a Category 4 hurricane. It is expected to pack wind gusts of 35 mph or more and dump several inches of rain in North Carolina.

unC chancellor searchesnow require confidentiality

CHAPEL HILL — The University of North Carolina system is changing the way it hires chancellors to require confidentiality and no public disclosure of candidates.

The new process also toughens background checks and no longer requires that a member of the UNC Board of Governors sit on each campus search committee.

A Raleigh lawyer who has represented media organiza-tions said in an email that the closed searches diminish public accountability and transparency. Attorney Hugh Stevens says the final two of three candidates should be vetted publicly.

The board will have more information on the can-didates and more time to review them before a vote.

The board unanimously approved the changes Wednesday. They come after chancellor searches at West-ern Carolina University and East Carolina University had problems.

Ministers want officer fired;he arrested a black teen

WINSTON-SALEM — A group of black ministers is calling for the firing of a white school resource officer who arrested a black teenage girl at her middle school.

Officer Tyler McCormick arrested 14-year-old Rock-ell Baldwin this month. Baldwin’s mother, Tamkea McLean, also called Wednes-day for McCormick’s firing.

A short clip of the arrest shared online shows McCor-mick and Baldwin on the ground in a parking lot. Baldwin is heard screaming for help while McCormick handcuffs her.

Baldwin says she was call-ing her mother and walked past McCormick, who tried to trip her. Chief Catrina Thompson says McCormick was responding to a fight when he arrested Baldwin. She says his body camera recorded the interaction. But that footage isn’t public record under state law.

Carolina professor suggestsgrad award for Blasey Ford

CHAPEL HILL — A peti-tion seeks university honors for the woman who accused Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexu-ally assaulting her in high school.

Multiple media organiza-tions report Christine Blasey Ford is being nominated for an award honoring dis-tinguished graduates of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The award honors graduates who made outstanding contributions to mankind.

Ford graduated from the country’s first public univer-sity in 1988 with a degree in psychology.

UNC English profes-sor Jennifer Ho says in a nomination letter that Blasey Ford should be honored with the award bestowed by the campus board of trustees because she set an example speaking out against sexual assault during last month’s nationally televised congres-sional hearing.

Kavanaugh denied her accusations and joined the Supreme Court on Saturday.

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We’ve had our dilemmas around Hur-ricane Florence — a balky air system finally giving out before she arrived, her rain displac-ing us after she lollygagged into our paradise otherwise known as southeastern North Caro-lina.

And displacement would be times two. She got our office and our printing facility.

Readers are loyal. They’ve not strayed, they’ve made sure we were still coming, and we’ve done our best to deliver. We’re approach-ing the end of National Newspaper Week, and on this occasion we’re here to say thanks.

The celebration has been ongoing for 78 years now. It started when newspapers includ-ing this one were in our heyday, before they said television would be our death, or the internet for that matter. Interestingly enough, some will read this on the internet.

In fact, more people read us now than ever before. There’s a solid reason, too. Journalism, in its truest form, matters more today than ever.

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We strive to be the best source of trusted news and information. We want to get it right, serving as a voice for the public good.

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We’re leaner in staff and watch our expenses more closely. We search and find ways to be more efficient; after all, we are a profitable business that wants to stay that way.

Technology changed, and we’re rolling along changing with it as well. Some things were unthinkable not so very long ago — like the ability to file a story or photo from just about anywhere, provided we have cellular reception.

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by Lynne AgressThe Baltimore Sun

Reading the news — the real, not fake news — and watching it on TV can make many of us unhappy. Famine, wars, innocent children sepa-rated from their parents, global warming with its worsening effects on the rise, people hurling insults at one another on a daily basis, a lack of respect toward respect-able people; sadly, the list goes on and on and on.

Thus, it is no wonder that many of the most popular books today are on finding happi-ness, on learning how to be happy. Specifically, there are 209 books on happiness reviewed on Goodreads.com, with “The Art of Happiness” by the Dalai Lama XIV ranked No. 1 and “The Happiness Project” by Gretchen Rubin ranked No. 2.

When I first read in New York Magazine this spring that the most popular course at Yale —

indeed the most talked-about college course in America — is called “Psychology and the Good Life” and is simply about being happy, I knew this was no joke.

Not only are college students not happy, but “neither is anyone else,” according to Adam Sternbergh, who wrote and researched the arti-cle, titled: The Cure for New York Face.

Many people have always believed, myself included, that success — usually professional — equals happiness. Sadly, however, over several days in June, we discov-ered that two highly suc-cessful people, famous designer Kate Spade and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, had committed suicide.

Nearly 45,000 people committed suicide in 2016; suicide now is con-sidered a leading cause of death along with diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. Not happy news.

So back to Yale’s hap-piness course, which, incidentally, has duplica-

tions in other colleges as well, including the University of Pennsyl-vania. The Yale course lasts four months, with guest lecturers appearing throughout, imparting all sorts of wise words of wisdom. For example, Yale Professor Hedy Kober claims that hap-piness “doesn’t look like winning the lottery.” Rather, she explains, hap-piness “looks much more like sitting quietly and noticing that your life is actually wonderful.”

Students are asked to keep a “daily grati-tude journal,” not a bad assignment. Even some-thing like getting a good parking space, especially when I am in a hurry, makes me grateful.

Certainly, we should be happy — and grateful — when we have worked hard to accomplish something, or, even more importantly, when we’ve helped someone else accomplish something.

And yet both Spade and Bourdain weren’t happy, despite their skills and accomplishments —

not everyone can prepare a mouth-watering meal and not everyone can design a distinctively attractive handbag.

Speaking of designer clothes and accessories, I know a woman who shops daily, buying only designer clothes. She has even ordered logo sweat-shirts and jackets from Harvard and Yale, even though she herself is not a college graduate. But wearing designer clothes and college shirts still doesn’t make her happy as she always seems to be frowning.

Perhaps I should reach out to her. After all, Dr. Alex Lickerman, author of “The Ten Worlds: The New Psychology of Hap-piness” wrote in a recent article in Psychology Today that the key to happiness is having true friends.

I surely can agree with that.

Lynne Agress teaches in the Odyssey Program of Johns Hopkins and is president of BWB-Business Writing At Its Best Inc.

Happiness in its truest sense

by Fabiola santiagoMiami Herald

I’m with the girl from Tennes-see.

“I always have and always will cast my vote based on which can-didate will protect and fight for the human rights I believe we all deserve in this country,” she said.

Check.“I believe in the fight for

LGBTQ rights, and that any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender is WRONG.”

Check.“I believe that the systemic rac-

ism we still see in this country towards people of color is terrify-ing, sickening and prevalent.”

Check.That’s mega star Taylor Swift

explaining to her 112 million Ins-tagram followers why, for the first time in her life, she’s publicly voic-ing her political opinions — and voting against the Republican can-didates running for Congress in her state, including the incumbent Marsha Blackburn, whose voting record on equal pay, domestic vio-lence and gay rights “appalls and terrifies me.”

Venturing deeper into uncharted waters, Swift then named the Democratic men for whom she’s voting: Phil Bredesen, the popular former governor of Tennessee who’s running for the U.S. Senate against Blackburn, and Jim Coo-per, the Harvard-educated lawyer running for Congress.

Almost 2 million people liked her post.

Republicans, however, experi-enced a meltdown.

And I’m not talking just about internet trolls. The right-wing think tank Institute for Policy Innovation (quite the misnomer) issued a statement Tuesday say-ing Swift had bought into the policy views of “lefties” because, according to them, the gender gap doesn’t exist.

And President Donald Trump’s reaction? He likes her music “25 percent less now.”

How dare she opine on big guy stuff?

Remember, the Dixie Chicks were blacklisted after singer Nata-lie Maines criticized President George W. Bush’s Iraq War at a London concert in 2003.

Brava then, and brava now.Swift took a risk, but the pop

star also struck a chord.I couldn’t have summed up

better what’s at the crux of that constant sense of outrage and fear we’ve felt during the last two years. Autocrat Donald Trump became president and Republicans sold out principle and humanity to a divisive dark money-driven, right-wing agenda that threatens everything from the environment and health care to the basic human rights we should be upholding, not discarding.

Instead of being a check on the president, Republicans have for the most part embraced the

ride to total power and domina-tion. Trump, instead of being an abomination of a Republican, has become the quintessential Repub-lican.

If you believe the political pun-dits, Republicans are re-energized by the divisive confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court — despite credible allega-tions that he sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford while drunk in high school and exposed him-self to Yale University classmate Deborah Ramirez while drunk in college. A speedy, limited and manipulated FBI investigation later, they succeeded in infecting the highest court in the land with partisanship.

Now we have one man accused by more than a dozen women of sexual misconduct in the White House — and another in the Supreme Court.

Let Republicans party on, celebrate infamy. It’s still a free country.

But if you find President Trump repugnant — and if you stand for those apple pie American values Swift has outlined — you’ve got to do the right thing for the country.

You should punish enabling Republicans — and vote Democrat down ballot.

Vote with the girl from Tennes-see.

Fabiola Santiago is a columnist for the Miami Herald.

Swift takes a risk, strikes a chord

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Jim Fixx was the person most responsible for popularizing the fit-ness benefits of jogging.

His bestselling “The Complete Book of Running,” published in 1977, got millions off their butts and couches and onto the streets. Thus, the nation was shocked when Fixx, age 52, died a few years later of a heart attack while on his morning run.

My dear friend Danny Durham suffered this same fate a few weeks ago. He too was on his daily jog, was also in his early 50s, and like Fixx, appeared fit, strong and healthy. Danny died not of a “heart attack,” however. It appeared to be “sudden xardiac rrest,” a catastrophic arrhythmia of the heart that can strike even the healthiest individual.

While you may have never heard of Danny, he was accomplished in his own right, and his influence will endure for decades to come. He was a two-time NCAA Division I-AA football national champion, playing at Georgia Southern. He coached and taught at high schools all over the state of Georgia, including my alma mater.

He was a husband, a father of three, and a mentor to thousands of students over his 30-year career. Without exaggeration, he was one of the finest men of integrity I ever knew, and it was a privilege to have been his pastor and friend.

What made Danny so special? To use a biblical phrase, he was “a man after God’s own heart,” an expres-sion first used to describe King David in the Old Testament. The

most common Christian interpreta-tion of this phrase is that there was something unique about David. He was God-like, as in God’s heart and David’s heart were similar. This view

makes David righteous, unim-peachable, altogether in sync with God’s ways; but this view doesn’t sit well with me.

David was an arrogant man at times. He had a ferocious temper. He committed adul-tery, pre-meditated murder, and his immediate family had more dysfunction than a team of therapists could have corrected. An alternative interpretation is to rendered the phrase, “a man after God’s

choosing.” It’s not that David was especially holy, but that he was given a specific assignment.

And then a third idea: Maybe it is best to interpret the phrase as an act of pursuit. A person “after God’s own heart” is chasing after all that is good, just, and true - the life of love. This person will fail, stumble and often come up short, but he or she has “chosen what is better,” a life of sacrificial service, not the shallow game of protectionism, self-centeredness or self-indulgence.

Yes, that’s what made Danny so special. Even as he fell on that track, his heart never to beat again, he was running in a divine direction, and that is the choice put to all of us. As Jesus paradoxically said, “Hold to your life and you will destroy it. But if you let it go, reckless in your love, you’ll have it forever.”

Ronnie McBrayer is a syndicated columnist, blogger, speaker and author of multiple books. His website IS ronniemcbrayer.org.

Danny, my wonderful friend,was a man after God’s own heart

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DUBLIN — A fundraiser for Darby Carroll Bordeaux is planned Oct. 20 at 6 p.m. at West Bladen High School’s gymnasium.

Darby has been diagnosed with stage 4, large B cell non-Hodgkin’s Lympho-ma. Proceeds will help offset medical

expendses.In concert will be The Mighty Echo’s,

Leap of Faith, Glorybound, Dr. Mack Roberts and Tina Purvis.

Tickets are being sold at the door and in advance for $8 each.

More information is available by call-ing 910-549-7685 or 910-876-4884.

Concert fundraiser Oct. 20

The North Carolina Baptist Men Disaster Relief is still accepting applica-tions for assistance regarding Hurricane Florence storm damage.

Assistance offered includes chainsaw work, clearing large yard debris, emer-gency roof repairs (tarping), tearing out walls or floors that were flooded or wet, and spraying for mold.

The organization is not accepting applications for rebuilding, and no build-ing material is available.

Anyone needing assistance is encour-aged to visit the operations center at Elizabethtown Baptist Church, 1800 W. Broad St.

Applications are also being accepted at Natmore Baptist Church, 4157 Nat-more Road in Kelly.

Applications are accepted Monday through Saturday, from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.

For additional assistance, call 910-874-1084.

Baptist Men still accepting applications

Oct. 12• Lumberton First Pentecostal Holi-

ness Church will be hosting a Judg-ment House through the weekend. Times are as follows: Friday, 6-10 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 3-9 p.m.

Oct. 14• The Browders will be in concert

at Kingdom Place in Lumberton at the 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. services.

• Kingdom Place in Lumberton will have Refreshing Times on Sunday through Wednesday nights with Bish-op Chris Thompson, the Rev. Matthew Browder and Pastor Bailey Weeks. The Browders will be doing a mini-concert each night. Sunday night’s service begins at 6 p.m., and all other services begin at 7 p.m.

Oct. 15-19• Oak Grove Original Free Will

Baptist Church of Bladenboro will hold its fall revival at 7:30 p.m. with guest speaker Jeff Barton. The church welcomes everyone to the service. The church is located at 1423 Oak Grove Church Road in Bladenboro.

Oct. 19• Lumberton First Pentecostal Holi-

ness Church will be hosting a Judg-ment House through the weekend. Times are as follows: Friday, 6-10 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 3-9 p.m.

Oct. 20• One Stage, One Night, One Glori-

ous Event will be held at West Bladen High School from 6-9 p.m., featuring The Mighty Echoes, Leap of Faith, Glorybound, Mack Roberts and Tina Purvis. The event is a fundraiser for Darby Carroll Bordeaux, who has been diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Tickets are $8 and will be sold at the door and in advance. For advance tickets, contact 910-549-7685 or 910-876-4884.

Oct. 21• Hickory Grove Baptist Church

invites everyone to its annual home-coming and 184th anniversary celebra-tion. The day’s services begin with

Sunday school at 10 a.m., followed by worship service at 11. A memo-rial service will be observed during worship service; guest speaker Rev. Dennis Harrell will bring the morn-ing message; and the church will enjoy special music. Lunch will be served in the Family Life Center following the worship hour, and the annual Hickory Grove Cemetery, Inc. business meeting will be held in the church sanctuary at 1:30 p.m. The church is at 6414 Center Road, Blad-enboro. For more information, call 910-863-1506.

Nov. 3• Pastor Kevin L. Joyner Sr. of

Kevin Joyner & Men of Standard and minister of music at Baldwin Branch Missionary Baptist Church will be celebrating his second anni-versary along with MOS at the Wac-camaw Association Building, 600 Pine Log Road, Whiteville. Doors open at 6 p.m., program at 7 p.m. Donations are $10. Vendors are wel-comed and should call 910-840-6786 for information. Rev. Joyner is pas-tor of River Of Life Outreach Center, Chadbourn.

April 2019• Bladen Union Baptist Church,

2224 Bladen Union Church Road, is planning its 160th anniversary cel-ebration for April 2019. Anyone with stories, history, photos or memorabilia is encouraged to contact Pastor Gary Lucas at 910-474-2373.

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ONGOING• The Baldwin Branch Missionary

Baptist Church clothes closet will be open on the last Saturday of each month (November and December dates are the third Saturday) from 8-11 a.m. The food pantry, From His Table to Yours, will be open the same day from 10 a.m. to noon. Personal transportations and identifications are required. No fee is involved in either ministry. Baldwin Branch is at 4047

N.C. 242 South in Elizabethtown.• Celebrate Recovery, a Christ-

centered 12-step recovery ministry, is held on Sundays from 6 to 8:30 p.m. (dinner served at 6 p.m.) at Windsor United Methodist Church, 12863 N.C. 242 North in Ammon. Child care pro-vided. For information, contact Amy Munn, ministry leader, at 910-990-7661.

• I Am Inc. in conjunction with God’s Garden of Paradise Inc. will offer every month free meals and free haircuts. For more information check with Glenda’s Just Desserts and Lunch Counter, 315 Martin Luther King Drive in Elizabethtown, and Barbers Inn, 410 Martin Luther King Drive in Elizabethtown.

• Dublin First Baptist Church Day School is accepting registration for

2-, 3- and 4-year-old half-day classes. Call 910-862-2277 or 910-876-0419 for more information.

• Living Springs Church holds a Women’s Fellowship every fourth Sun-day evening beginning at 6:30 p.m. The church is at 909 S. Poplar St., Elizabethtown.

• I Am Inc. will offer a free yard sale. Open day and night located in the 900 block of Peanut Plant Road, Elizabethtown.

• A Power In The Word Ministry Bible study will take place every Thursday from 8:10 to 8:30 p.m. at your location by phone. Call 605-475-4120 and join in (ID number – 3390591#). The teacher is Sis Vivian Caviness Wiggins. Corporate prayer takes place on Saturday mornings from 6:15-6:30 a.m.

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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF BLADENIN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICEDISTRICT COURT DIVISIONFILE NO: 15 CVD 742; AMENDED NO-TICE OF TAX FORECLOSURE SALECOUNTY OF BLADEN,PlaintiffvsSOLOMAN ALLEN and MAMIE ALLEN,(Owners of Land) or if deceased, all as-signees, heirs at law and divisees of SO-LOMAN ALLEN and MAMIE ALLEN,(Owners of Land) together with all theircreditors and lienholders regardless ofhow or through whom they claim and anyand all persons claiming any interest inthe estate of SOLOMAN ALLEN andMAMIE ALLEN (Owners of Land),DefendantUnder and by virtue of an Order of theClerk of Superior Court of Bladen County,North Carolina, made and entered in theaction entitled County of Bladen vs SO-L O M A N A L L E N a n d M A M I EALLEN(Owner of Land) the undersignedCommissioner will, on the 7th day ofNovember, 2018, offer for sale and sellfor cash, to the last and highest bidder atpublic sale, at the Courthouse door inBladen County, North Carolina in Eliza-bethtown, at 10:00 o'clock in the morning,the following described real estate, lyingand being in Carvers Creek Township,State and County aforesaid, and moreparticularly described in Exhibit "A" at-tached hereto and incorporated herein byreference as if set out in full herein. Thissale will be made subject to all outstand-ing taxes, assessments, and other liensnot included in the Judgment in theabove entitled action.A deposit of 10% of the successful bidwill be required.This the ____ day of October, 2018.ALLEN M. JOHNSONP.O. BOX 2212ELIZABETHTOWN, NC 28337Attorney for PlaintiffWITNESS TO POSTING:DATE:_________________________(ASST) CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURTEXHIBIT “A”Begins at Fronie Drys S.E. corner thencea direct line to Solomon or Mamie AllensN.W. corner, then as this line South 2East 8 ch and 3 links to the road or Har-ris line, then as this line North 80 West 13ch & 33 links to the road leading to FronieDrys, then as this road about N 3 E 8 chand 49 links to Fronie Drys line then asher line South 57 East to the beginningand contains TEN acres more or less.*Less and except all prior conveyances ofrecord**PLEASE NOTE: Bladen County attor-ney is NOT responsible for certifying title,verifying acreage or warranting deed andtax card information on this property. YouMUST consult an attorney.JL 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 11/2, 2018STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF BLADENIN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICEDISTRICT COURT DIVISIONFILE NO: 18 CVD 247NOTICE OF TAX FORECLOSURE SALECOUNTY OF BLADEN,PlaintiffvsTAMMIE BOWEN BANNERMAN and MI-CHAEL T. BANNERMAN,(Owners ofLand) or if deceased, all assignees, heirsat law and divisees of TAMMIE BOWENBANNERMAN and MICHAEL T. BAN-NERMAN,(Owners of Land) together withall their creditors and lienholders regard-less of how or through whom they claimand any and all persons claiming any in-terest in the estate of TAMMIE BOWENBANNERMAN and MICHAEL T. BAN-NERMAN (Owners of Land),DefendantUnder and by virtue of an Order of theClerk of Superior Court of Bladen County,North Carolina, made and entered in theaction entitled County of Bladen vs TAM-MIE BOWEN BANNERMAN and MI-CHAEL T. BANNERMAN(Owner of Land)the undersigned Commissioner will, onthe 7th day of November, 2018, offer forsale and sell for cash, to the last andhighest bidder at public sale, at theCourthouse door in Bladen County, NorthCarolina in Elizabethtown, at 10:10o'clock in the morning, the following de-scribed real estate, lying and being inTurnbull Township, State and Countyaforesaid, and more particularly de-scribed in Exhibit "A" attached hereto andincorporated herein by reference as if setout in full herein.This sale will be made subject to all out-standing taxes, assessments, and otherliens not included in the Judgment in theabove entitled action. A deposit of 10% ofthe successful bid will be required.This the 4TH day of October, 2018.ALLEN M. JOHNSONP.O. BOX 2212ELIZABETHTOWN, NC 28337Attorney for PlaintiffWITNESS TO POSTING:Althea Lesane(ASST) Clerk of Superior CourtEXHIBIT “A”BEGINNING at the Southwest corner ofthe John A. McMillan lot (deed recordedin Book 238 at Page 820, Bladen CountyRegistry) and runs thence along thenorthern edge of the sixty foot streetNorth 77 degrees and 15 minutes West,150 feet to a point in the edge of saidsixty foot street and a fifty foot street;thence North 12 degrees and 45 minutesEast along the edge of said fifty footstreet 212.73 feet to a point in the edgeof said fifty foot street, the Northwestcorner of the lot herein conveyed; thenceSouth 77 degrees 15 minutes East 150feet to the Northwest corner of the McMil-lan lot; thence South 12 degrees 45minutes West 212.73 to the point of be-ginning, and containing 0.73 acres, moreor less. This being the same propertyconveyed to Elena Walters from MinnieK. Smith in deed dated April 15, 1982,and recorded at Book 254, Page 028, ofthe Bladen County Registry.*Less and except all prior conveyances ofrecord **PLEASE NOTE: Bladen Countyattorney is NOT responsible for certifyingtitle, verifying acreage or warranting deedand tax card information on this property.You MUST consult an attorney.JL 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 11/2, 2018The Mid-Carolina Rural Planning Organ-

ization (RPO) is hosting public drop inmeetings to gather public input on trans-portation issues in all or parts of Bladen,

Cumberland, Harnett, and SampsonCounties. Maps and project informationwill be on display and planners will beavailable to discuss the projects. For

more information contact Mike Rutan at(910) 323-4191 extension 34 or

[email protected]

10/16/18 – Bladen4:00-7:00

White Lake Municipal Building1879 White Lake Dr,

White Lake, NC 28337(May have to enter it as Elizabethtown

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IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICEOF NORTH CAROLINA, SUPERIORCOURT DIVISION, BLADEN COUNTY18SP65 IN THE MATTER OF THEFORECLOSURE OF A DEED OFTRUST EXECUTED BY JAMES TERRYCARTER AND JERRY KAREN CARTERDATED MARCH 29, 2007 AND RECOR-DED IN BOOK 00610 AT PAGE 0480 INTHE BLADEN COUNTY PUBLIC RE-GISTRY, NORTH CAROLINANOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue ofthe power and authority contained in theabove-referenced deed of trust and be-cause of default in the payment of the se-cured indebtedness and failure to per-form the stipulation and agreementstherein contained and, pursuant to de-mand of the owner and holder of the se-cured debt, the undersigned substitutetrustee will expose for sale at public auc-tion to the highest bidder for cash at theusual place of sale at the county court-house of said county at 10:00AM on Oc-tober 26, 2018 the following describedreal estate and any other improvementswhich may be situated thereon, in BladenCounty, North Carolina, and being moreparticularly described as follows: BEGIN-NING at a stake on the western right-of-way of State Road No. 1104, a corner ofthe Edward Carroll property, and runningthence with Edward Carroll's line andditch South 52 degrees 40 minutes West378.8 feet to the James Pait corner;thence with the Pait line South 39 de-grees 29 minutes East 120 feet to a stakein the James Pait line; thence North 52degrees 37 minutes East 364.67 feet to astake in the western right-of-way of StateRoad No. 1104; thence with the right-of-way of State Road No. 1104 North 32 de-grees 44 minutes West 120 feet to thepoint of beginning, containing 1.02 acres,more or less. The above 1.02 acre tract isdescribed according to a survey by Clar-ence Hall, Jr. Registered Surveyor, onJanuary 30, 1985, entitled "Map forSteven Warren Evers", of recorded inDeed Book 270, Page 611, BladenCounty Registry, which is hereby incor-porated for a more complete descriptionof the property hereby conveyed. Thisbeing the same property described in aDeed dated October 15, 1993 from SteveWarren Evers and his wife, Linda Dow-less Evers to Wade D. Pait and his wife,Rosella D. Pait, as recorded in Book 333,Page 835, Bladen County Registry. AndBeing more commonly known as: 547Evers Rd, Bladenboro, NC 28320. Therecord owner(s) of the property, as reflec-ted on the records of the Register ofDeeds, is/are James Terry Carter. Theproperty to be offered pursuant to this no-tice of sale is being offered for sale,transfer and conveyance "AS IS, WHEREIS." Neither the Trustee nor the holder ofthe note secured by the deed of trust, be-ing foreclosed, nor the officers, directors,attorneys, employees, agents or author-ized representative of either Trustee orthe holder of the note make any repres-entation or warranty relating to the title orany physical, environmental, health orsafety conditions existing in, on, at or re-lating to the property being offered forsale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilit-ies arising out of or in any way relating toany such condition expressly are dis-claimed. This sale is made subject to allprior liens and encumbrances, and un-paid taxes and assessments includingbut not limited to any transfer tax associ-ated with the foreclosure. A deposit offive percent (5%) of the amount of the bidor seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00),whichever is greater, is required andmust be tendered in the form of certifiedfunds at the time of the sale. This salewill be held open ten days for upset bidsas required by law. Following the expira-tion of the statutory upset period, all re-maining amounts are IMMEDIATELYDUE AND OWING. Failure to remit fundsin a timely manner will result in a Declar-ation of Default and any deposit will befrozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reas-on, the Purchaser at the sale shall be en-titled only to a return of the deposit paid.The Purchaser shall have no further re-course against the Mortgagor, the Mort-gagee, the Substitute Trustee or the at-torney of any of the foregoing.SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLDTENANTS: If you are a tenant residing inthe property, be advised that an Order forPossession of the property may be is-sued in favor of the purchaser. Also, ifyour lease began or was renewed on orafter October 1, 2007, be advised thatyou may terminate the rental agreementupon written notice to the landlord, to beeffective on a date stated in the noticethat is at least 10 days, but no more than90 days, after the sale date contained inthe notice of sale, provided that the mort-gagor has not cured the default at thetime notice of termination is provided.You may be liable for rent due under theagreement prorated to the effective dateof the termination. The date of this No-tice is October 1, 2018.Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. EllsSubstitute Trustee, 18-10025610130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107http://shapiroattorneys.com/nc/Posted: __________________By: __________________SI 10/12, 10/19, 2018

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF BLADENIN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICEDISTRICT COURT DIVISIONFILE NO.: 18 CVD 312; NOTICE OFSERVICE BY PUBLICATIONCOUNTY OF BLADENPlaintiffVSEDGE INVESTMENT PROPERTIES,LLC..,(Owner of Land) or if deceased, allassignees, heirs at law and divisees ofEDGE INVESTMENT PROPERTIES,LLC.., (Owner of Land) together with alltheir creditors and lienholders regardlessof how or through whom they claim andany and all persons claiming any interestin the estate of EDGE INVESTMENTPROPERTIES, LLC.. (Owner of Land),Defendants.TO: EDGE INVESTMENT PROPER-TIES, LLC..,(Owner of Land) or if de-ceased, all assignees, heirs at law anddivisees of EDGE INVESTMENT PROP-ERTIES, LLC..,(Owner of Land) togetherwith all their creditors and lienholders re-gardless of how or through whom theyclaim and any and allpersons claimingany interest in the estate of EDGE IN-VESTMENT PROPERTIES, LLC.. (Own-er of Land),TAKE NOTICE that a pleading seekingrelief against you has been filed in theabove entitled action, and notice of ser-vice of process by publication began onthe 12th day of October, 2018. Thenature of the relief being sought is as fol-lows: Foreclosure sale to satisfy unpaidproperty taxes on your interest in theproperty in Frenches Creek Township,containing .20 acres more or less. Thisbeing the same property recorded inDeed Book 658, Page 413, BladenCounty Registry.PLAINTIFF SEEKS TO EXTINGUISHANY AND ALL CLAIM OR INTERESTTHAT YOU MAY HAVE IN THE PROP-ERTY.You are required to make defense tosuch pleading not later than forty (40)days after the date of the first publicationof notice stated above, exclusive of suchdate, being forty days after the 12th dayof October, 2018, or by the 21st day ofNovember, 2018, and upon your failure todo so, the party seeking service againstyou will apply to the Court for the reliefsought.This the 1st day of October, 2018ALLEN M. JOHNSONATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFFP.O. BOX 2212ELIZABETHTOWN, NC 28337(910) 862-2252JL 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 2018

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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF BLADENIN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICEDISTRICT COURT DIVISIONFILE NO.: 18 CVD 312; NOTICE OFSERVICE BY PUBLICATIONCOUNTY OF BLADENPlaintiffVSEDGE INVESTMENT PROPERTIES,LLC..,(Owner of Land) or if deceased, allassignees, heirs at law and divisees ofEDGE INVESTMENT PROPERTIES,LLC.., (Owner of Land) together with alltheir creditors and lienholders regardlessof how or through whom they claim andany and all persons claiming any interestin the estate of EDGE INVESTMENTPROPERTIES, LLC.. (Owner of Land),Defendants.TO: EDGE INVESTMENT PROPER-TIES, LLC..,(Owner of Land) or if de-ceased, all assignees, heirs at law anddivisees of EDGE INVESTMENT PROP-ERTIES, LLC..,(Owner of Land) togetherwith all their creditors and lienholders re-gardless of how or through whom theyclaim and any and allpersons claimingany interest in the estate of EDGE IN-VESTMENT PROPERTIES, LLC.. (Own-er of Land),TAKE NOTICE that a pleading seekingrelief against you has been filed in theabove entitled action, and notice of ser-vice of process by publication began onthe 12th day of October, 2018. Thenature of the relief being sought is as fol-lows: Foreclosure sale to satisfy unpaidproperty taxes on your interest in theproperty in Frenches Creek Township,containing .20 acres more or less. Thisbeing the same property recorded inDeed Book 658, Page 413, BladenCounty Registry.PLAINTIFF SEEKS TO EXTINGUISHANY AND ALL CLAIM OR INTERESTTHAT YOU MAY HAVE IN THE PROP-ERTY.You are required to make defense tosuch pleading not later than forty (40)days after the date of the first publicationof notice stated above, exclusive of suchdate, being forty days after the 12th dayof October, 2018, or by the 21st day ofNovember, 2018, and upon your failure todo so, the party seeking service againstyou will apply to the Court for the reliefsought.This the 1st day of October, 2018ALLEN M. JOHNSONATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFFP.O. BOX 2212ELIZABETHTOWN, NC 28337(910) 862-2252JL 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 2018NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S

SALE OF REAL ESTATEUNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF the powerand authority contained in that certainDeed of Trust executed and delivered byTerry C. Tew and Wife, Ginger J. Tewdated September 30, 2003, and recor-ded October 1, 2003, in the Office of theRegister of Deeds for Bladen County,North Carolina, in Book 0529 at Page0897, and Loan Modification Agreementin Book 715, Page 637 securing anAmerican General Home Equity Line ofCredit Agreement in the original principalamount of $59,500.00, and because ofdefault in the payment of the indebted-ness thereby secured and failure to carryout and perform the stipulations andagreements therein contained and, pur-suant to demand of the owner and hold-er of the indebtedness secured by saidDeed of Trust, the undersigned Substi-tute Trustee will expose for sale at publicauction to the highest bidder for cash atthe usual place of sale in the CountyCourthouse of Bladen County, in the Cityof Elizabethtown, North Carolina, on Oc-tober 25, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. oʼclock, allthat certain parcel of land secured by theabove-described Deed of Trust recordedin Book 0529 at Page 0897 and LoanModification Agreement in Book 715,Page 637, situated in Bladen County,North Carolina, as more particularly de-scribed therein, which legal description ismade a part hereof and incorporatedherein by reference as if fully set forthherein and briefly described as Northw-est One-Half (1/2) of Lots No. 20, 21, 22,23 and 24, resubdivision of Grey MossBeach, Map Bk 5, Pg 57.ADDRESS SHOWN AS SECURITY ONTHE NOTE AND DEED OF TRUST: 4Bladen Street, White Lake, NC 28402.PRESENT RECORD OWNERS as re-flected on the records of the Register ofDeeds not more than 10 days prior toposting the notice is/are: Terry C. Tewand Wife, Ginger J. Tew.In the event the property which is thesubject of this Notice of Sale is residen-tial real property with less than fifteen(15) rental units, an order for possessionof the property may be issued pursuant toN.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the pur-chaser and against the party or parties inpossession by the Clerk of SuperiorCourt of the county in which the propertyis sold. Any person who occupies theproperty pursuant to a rental agreemententered into or renewed on or after Octo-ber 1, 2007, may, after receiving the no-tice of sale, terminate the rental agree-ment by providing written notice of ter-mination to the landlord, to be effectiveon a date stated in the notice that is atleast 10 days, but no more than 90 days,after the sale date contained in the no-tice of sale, provided that the mortgagorhas not cured the default at the time thetenant provides the notice of termination.The notice shall also state upon termina-tion of a rental agreement, the tenant is li-able for rent due under the rental agree-ment prorated to the effective date of thetermination. Should the property be pur-chased by a third party, that person mustpay the tax of forty-five cents per OneHundred Dollars ($100.00) required byNCGS 7A-308 (a)(1), up to a maximum ofFive Hundred Dollars ($500.00). Theproperty is being sold “as is and where is”with no representations or warranties ofany type or kind being given or to be con-strued as being given or made; and, notitle certification of any type or kind is be-ing made or is to be construed as beingmade. The terms of the sale are that thereal property hereinabove described willbe sold for cash to the highest bidder andthat the undersigned will require the suc-cessful bidder at the sale to immediatelydeposit cash or certified check in theamount of the greater of five percent(5%) of the amount of the bid or sevenhundred and fifty dollars ($750.00),whichever is greater. The real propertyhereinabove described will be sold sub-ject to any unpaid taxes, prior encum-brances, if any, and special assess-ments. The sale will be held open for ten(10) days for upset bids as by law re-quired and will also be subject to a ten(10) day right of redemption or to the fil-ing of a bankruptcy petition. In the eventof an upset bid, redemption or the filing ofa bankruptcy petition, or any other reas-on that the Substitute Trustee deems ne-cessary to redo the sale, the bid depositwill be returned and no other remedieswill be assertable. 18-SP-74This 27th day of September, 2018./s/ Frances S. WhiteFrances S. White or Rick D. Lail, eitherone of whom may act, Substitute TrusteeP.O. Box 30081Charlotte, N.C. 28230-0081(704) 817-8134; RDL 10/12, 10/19, 2018

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IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICEOF NORTH CAROLINA, SUPERIORCOURT DIVISION, BLADEN COUNTY18sp39 IN THE MATTER OF THEFORECLOSURE OF A DEED OFT R U S T E X E C U T E D B Y K E V I NHOLLINGSWORTH AND BRENDAHOLLINGSWORTH DATED JANUARY18, 2012 AND RECORDED IN BOOK685 AT PAGE 382 AND MODIFIED BYAGREEMENT RECORDED ON AU-GUST 14, 2017 IN BOOK 764 ANDPAGE 1027 IN THE BLADEN COUNTYPUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CARO-LINANOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue ofthe power and authority contained in theabove-referenced deed of trust and be-cause of default in the payment of the se-cured indebtedness and failure to per-form the stipulation and agreementstherein contained and, pursuant to de-mand of the owner and holder of the se-cured debt, the undersigned substitutetrustee will expose for sale at public auc-tion to the highest bidder for cash at theusual place of sale at the county court-house of said county at 1:00PM on Octo-ber 15, 2018 the following described realestate and any other improvementswhich may be situated thereon, in BladenCounty, North Carolina, and being moreparticularly described as follows: ALLTHAT PARCEL OF LAND IN BLADENCOUNTY, STATE OF NORTH CARO-LINA, BEING KNOWN AND DESIG-NATED AS THAT LOT OF LAND CON-TAINING 0.300 ACRES OF LAND,MORE OR LESS, AS SHOWN ON SUR-VEY FOR ELIZABETH R THIGPEN,DATED JANUARY 10, 1991, BY STU-ART GOODEN, REGISTERED SUR-VEYOR, AND BEING ORE PARTICU-LARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BE-GINNING AT A NAIL AT THE POINT OFINTERSECTION OF CENTERLINES OFNC HIGHWAY 242 AND SR 1145 ANDRUNS THENCE THE FOLLOWINGCHORD DISTANCES, NORTH 88 DE-GREES 34 MINUTES 33 SECONDSWEST 312.60 FEET TO A P.K. NAIL;THENCE SOUTH 83 DEGREES 31MINUTES 58 SECONDS WEST 308.57FEET TO A P.K. NAIL; THENCE SOUTH7 6 D E G R E E S 2 7 M I N U T E S 00SECONDS WEST 260.83 FEET, THEBEGINNING CORNER OF THE TRACTHEREIN DESCRIBED; THENCE FROMSAID BEGINNING POINT AS THE CEN-TER OF NC HIGHWAY 242 A CHORDOF SOUTH 71 DEGREES 37 MINUTES05 SECONDS WEST 104.97 FEET TO AP.K. NAIL, THENCE NORTH 10 DE-GREES 12 MINUTES 54 SECONDSWEST 155.46 FEET TO AN EXISTINGIRON STAKE; THENCE NORTH 71 DE-GREES 10 MINUTES EAST 105.0 FEETTO A SET IRON PIPE; THENCE SOUTH1 0 D E G R E E S 1 2 M I N U T E S 57SECONDS EAST 155.68 FEET TO THEPOINT OF BEGINNING. COMMONLYKNOWN AS: 3138 HWY 242 S, ELIZA-BETHTOWN, NC-28337. BY FEESIMPLE DEED FROM ELIZABETH R.THIGPEN, WIDOWED AS SET FORTHIN BOOK 383, PAGE 392 DATED0 1 / 0 3 / 1 9 9 7 A N D R E C O R D E D01/17/1997, BLADEN COUNTY RE-CORDS, STATE OF NORTH CARO-LINA. And Being more commonly knownas: 3138 NC Highway 242 South, Eliza-bethtown, NC 28337The record owner(s) of the property, asreflected on the records of the Register ofDeeds, is/are Kevin Hollingsworth andBrenda Hollingsworth. The property to beoffered pursuant to this notice of sale isbeing offered for sale, transfer and con-veyance "AS IS, WHERE IS." Neither theTrustee nor the holder of the note se-cured by the deed of trust, being fore-closed, nor the officers, directors, attor-neys, employees, agents or authorizedrepresentative of either Trustee or theholder of the note make any representa-tion or warranty relating to the title or anyphysical, environmental, health or safetyconditions existing in, on, at or relating tothe property being offered for sale. Anyand all responsibilities or liabilities arisingout of or in any way relating to any suchcondition expressly are disclaimed. Thissale is made subject to all prior liens andencumbrances, and unpaid taxes and as-sessments including but not limited toany transfer tax associated with the fore-closure. A deposit of five percent (5%) ofthe amount of the bid or seven hundredfifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is great-er, is required and must be tendered inthe form of certified funds at the time ofthe sale. This sale will be held open tendays for upset bids as required by law.Following the expiration of the statutoryupset period, all remaining amounts areIMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Fail-ure to remit funds in a timely manner willresult in a Declaration of Default and anydeposit will be frozen pending the out-come of any re-sale. If the sale is setaside for any reason, the Purchaser atthe sale shall be entitled only to a returnof the deposit paid. The Purchaser shallhave no further recourse against theMortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substi-tute Trustee or the attorney of any of theforegoing. SPECIAL NOTICE FORLEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are atenant residing in the property, be ad-vised that an Order for Possession of theproperty may be issued in favor of thepurchaser. Also, if your lease began orwas renewed on or after October 1, 2007,be advised that you may terminate therental agreement upon written notice tothe landlord, to be effective on a datestated in the notice that is at least 10days, but no more than 90 days, after thesale date contained in the notice of sale,provided that the mortgagor has notcured the default at the time notice of ter-mination is provided. You may be liablefor rent due under the agreement pro-rated to the effective date of the termina-tion. The date of this Notice is Septem-ber 11, 2018.Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. EllsSubstitute Trustee, 18-09861010130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107http://shapiroattorneys.com/nc/Posted: __________________By: __________________SI 10/5, 10/12, 2018

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IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICEOF NORTH CAROLINA, SUPERIORCOURT DIVISION, BLADEN COUNTY18sp39 IN THE MATTER OF THEFORECLOSURE OF A DEED OFT R U S T E X E C U T E D B Y K E V I NHOLLINGSWORTH AND BRENDAHOLLINGSWORTH DATED JANUARY18, 2012 AND RECORDED IN BOOK685 AT PAGE 382 AND MODIFIED BYAGREEMENT RECORDED ON AU-GUST 14, 2017 IN BOOK 764 ANDPAGE 1027 IN THE BLADEN COUNTYPUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CARO-LINANOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue ofthe power and authority contained in theabove-referenced deed of trust and be-cause of default in the payment of the se-cured indebtedness and failure to per-form the stipulation and agreementstherein contained and, pursuant to de-mand of the owner and holder of the se-cured debt, the undersigned substitutetrustee will expose for sale at public auc-tion to the highest bidder for cash at theusual place of sale at the county court-house of said county at 1:00PM on Octo-ber 15, 2018 the following described realestate and any other improvementswhich may be situated thereon, in BladenCounty, North Carolina, and being moreparticularly described as follows: ALLTHAT PARCEL OF LAND IN BLADENCOUNTY, STATE OF NORTH CARO-LINA, BEING KNOWN AND DESIG-NATED AS THAT LOT OF LAND CON-TAINING 0.300 ACRES OF LAND,MORE OR LESS, AS SHOWN ON SUR-VEY FOR ELIZABETH R THIGPEN,DATED JANUARY 10, 1991, BY STU-ART GOODEN, REGISTERED SUR-VEYOR, AND BEING ORE PARTICU-LARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BE-GINNING AT A NAIL AT THE POINT OFINTERSECTION OF CENTERLINES OFNC HIGHWAY 242 AND SR 1145 ANDRUNS THENCE THE FOLLOWINGCHORD DISTANCES, NORTH 88 DE-GREES 34 MINUTES 33 SECONDSWEST 312.60 FEET TO A P.K. NAIL;THENCE SOUTH 83 DEGREES 31MINUTES 58 SECONDS WEST 308.57FEET TO A P.K. NAIL; THENCE SOUTH7 6 D E G R E E S 2 7 M I N U T E S 0 0SECONDS WEST 260.83 FEET, THEBEGINNING CORNER OF THE TRACTHEREIN DESCRIBED; THENCE FROMSAID BEGINNING POINT AS THE CEN-TER OF NC HIGHWAY 242 A CHORDOF SOUTH 71 DEGREES 37 MINUTES05 SECONDS WEST 104.97 FEET TO AP.K. NAIL, THENCE NORTH 10 DE-GREES 12 MINUTES 54 SECONDSWEST 155.46 FEET TO AN EXISTINGIRON STAKE; THENCE NORTH 71 DE-GREES 10 MINUTES EAST 105.0 FEETTO A SET IRON PIPE; THENCE SOUTH1 0 D E G R E E S 1 2 M I N U T E S 5 7SECONDS EAST 155.68 FEET TO THEPOINT OF BEGINNING. COMMONLYKNOWN AS: 3138 HWY 242 S, ELIZA-BETHTOWN, NC-28337. BY FEESIMPLE DEED FROM ELIZABETH R.THIGPEN, WIDOWED AS SET FORTHIN BOOK 383, PAGE 392 DATED0 1 / 0 3 / 1 9 9 7 A N D R E C O R D E D01/17/1997, BLADEN COUNTY RE-CORDS, STATE OF NORTH CARO-LINA. And Being more commonly knownas: 3138 NC Highway 242 South, Eliza-bethtown, NC 28337The record owner(s) of the property, asreflected on the records of the Register ofDeeds, is/are Kevin Hollingsworth andBrenda Hollingsworth. The property to beoffered pursuant to this notice of sale isbeing offered for sale, transfer and con-veyance "AS IS, WHERE IS." Neither theTrustee nor the holder of the note se-cured by the deed of trust, being fore-closed, nor the officers, directors, attor-neys, employees, agents or authorizedrepresentative of either Trustee or theholder of the note make any representa-tion or warranty relating to the title or anyphysical, environmental, health or safetyconditions existing in, on, at or relating tothe property being offered for sale. Anyand all responsibilities or liabilities arisingout of or in any way relating to any suchcondition expressly are disclaimed. Thissale is made subject to all prior liens andencumbrances, and unpaid taxes and as-sessments including but not limited toany transfer tax associated with the fore-closure. A deposit of five percent (5%) ofthe amount of the bid or seven hundredfifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is great-er, is required and must be tendered inthe form of certified funds at the time ofthe sale. This sale will be held open tendays for upset bids as required by law.Following the expiration of the statutoryupset period, all remaining amounts areIMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Fail-ure to remit funds in a timely manner willresult in a Declaration of Default and anydeposit will be frozen pending the out-come of any re-sale. If the sale is setaside for any reason, the Purchaser atthe sale shall be entitled only to a returnof the deposit paid. The Purchaser shallhave no further recourse against theMortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substi-tute Trustee or the attorney of any of theforegoing. SPECIAL NOTICE FORLEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are atenant residing in the property, be ad-vised that an Order for Possession of theproperty may be issued in favor of thepurchaser. Also, if your lease began orwas renewed on or after October 1, 2007,be advised that you may terminate therental agreement upon written notice tothe landlord, to be effective on a datestated in the notice that is at least 10days, but no more than 90 days, after thesale date contained in the notice of sale,provided that the mortgagor has notcured the default at the time notice of ter-mination is provided. You may be liablefor rent due under the agreement pro-rated to the effective date of the termina-tion. The date of this Notice is Septem-ber 11, 2018.Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. EllsSubstitute Trustee, 18-09861010130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107http://shapiroattorneys.com/nc/Posted: __________________By: __________________SI 10/5, 10/12, 2018

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Bike/Trike. Has Trike kit on it.Mint condition, must sell due tohealth. Perfect for ladies or anolder person. Call Judy to seeand for price. 910-508-9835

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SportsThree rivers ConferenCe

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Tennis: Three Rivers Confer-ence Tournament, at East Bladen

Football: St. Pauls at East Bladen, 7:30 p.m.

Football: West Bladen at West Columbus, 7:30 p.m.

oCT. 13Soccer: West Bladen at East

Columbus, 11 a.m.OCT. 15Volleyball: East Columbus at

West Bladen, 4:30 p.m.Soccer: East Bladen at West

Columbus, 6 p.m.Soccer: West Bladen at St.

Pauls, 6 p.m.Cross country: East Bladen at

Three Rivers Conference cham-pionship, Whiteville Country Club, 4 p.m.

oCT. 16Volleyball: East Bladen at

West Bladen, 4:30 p.m.Football: West Bladen at East

Columbus, 7 p.m.

oCT. 17Volleyball: Fairmont at West

Bladen, 4:30 p.m.Soccer: Whiteville at East

Bladen, 6 p.m.Soccer: East Columbus at

West Bladen, 6 p.m.

oCT. 18Volleyball: West Bladen at

Red Springs, 4:30 p.m.Soccer: West Bladen at White-

ville, 6 p.m.

oCT. 19Football: East Columbus at

East Bladen, 7:30 p.m.Football: St. Pauls at West

Bladen, 7:30 p.m.


ELIZABETHTOWN — Never easy, often less than crisp execution, rivalry matches still elicit the best of emotions when West Bladen clashes with East Bladen.

Monday evening was the resched-uled volleyball tilt caused by Hurricane Florence. West Bladen was challenged throughout, but closed each set and escaped the Lady Eagles 25-20, 26-24, 25-19.

“It’s amazing,” said junior Jordan Ben-son, who had nine assists, an ace and two service points. “It’s so exciting to beat your rival.”

Benson delivered key sets for 6-foot-1 senior Raegan Davis late in the middle set of the match, when West Bladen rallied from a 24-22 deficit. The lead had cata-pulted back and forth, with Davis at one point serving up five straight points and an 18-14 lead.

The hosts bolted back with six of the next eight points to tie at 20. Both teams had an unforced error — the tension of the rivalry perhaps — before sophomore Kayleigh Raynor’s ace into the right cor-ner gave the Lady Eagles their last two-point edge of the set.

Senior Caroline Davis calmly played a winner off the basketball goal overhead to regain service back to senior teammate Alana King. The final three points went through Benson and Raegan Davis at the net.

“Raegan is a good player, and when they

were in trouble, that’s who they went to,” said Danielle Hatcher, who shares coach-ing duties at East Balden with Sara Ward.

The Lady Knights roared from a 12-12 deadlock the first set to lead 22-12, punc-tuated by Raegan Davis setting up junior Mikayla Meadows. Sophomore Shelby Pharr converted junior Tatiana Hunt’s set for a 24-19 edge, quelling a furious East Bladen rally.

Pharr was at it again in the final set, on the service line for the final nine points as the Lady Knights wiped out a 19-16 Lady Eagles’ lead. Raegan Davis had a block and a kill among the final three points.

“We played as a team,” Benson said of her team’s key to victory. “We had good communication.”

Sophomroe Katie Evans and her team-mates were left to lament missed oppor-tunities. East Bladen (3-12, 2-10 Three Rivers) also led 11-6 in the final set.

“We could have played better,” said the Lady Eagles’ setter. “We’ve got to work harder, and not get down. We need to stay positive and anticipate what the other team is going to do.

“We always want to beat them, but they definitely outplayed us today.”

Hatcher and Ward are hopeful of positive trends despite a grueling stretch against the league’s top teams coming up next.

“I just want to see them pull together as a team,” Hatcher said. “I want to see if they can push themselves to take some sets. I think they are capable.”

Rivalry leans WestAlan Wooten | Bladen Journal

West Bladen’s Jordan Benson prepares to set as teammates Caroline Davis (1), shelby Pharr (12), sidnee Walters and raegan Davis (12) anticipate.

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ELIZABETHTOWN — Only three hours of play could be completed before rain interrupted the Three Rivers Conference tennis tournament at East Bladen on Wednesday.

The tournament skipped Thursday due to Hurricane Michael and was scheduled to resume Friday morning at 10 a.m. If needed, it would finish Mon-day.

The top four singles and top four doubles teams will advance to the N.C. High School Athletic Association indi-vidual championships, with regionals scheduled Oct. 19-20.

In regular season play, teams have six singles players and three doubles teams. In the league tournament and NCHSAA postseason, teams can enter two singles players and two doubles teams.

When play was halted, top-seeded senior Savannah Lee of West Bladen was playing East Bladen senior Sarah Meares, who defeated St. Pauls’ Melissa

Cantor 6-3, 6-3.West Bladen senior Haleigh Dunn fell

to fourth-seeded vanessa Faulk of South Columbus 6-1, 6-1.

East Bladen sophomore Sammi Jiang was defeated by Ashton Turner 6-3, 6-1.

In doubles, West Bladen juniors Autumn Brisson and Alyssa Bell are top-seeded and yet to complete a match.

East Bladen seniors Ting Lin and Ashley Hardin are seeded fourth and defeated Alexandra Macias-Francisca Meneses of Red Springs 6-0, 6-6 (7-4) in their opener.

West Bladen’s senior Mireya Sando-val-junior Alyssa Smith were seeded 12th and defeated Fairmont’s fifth-seed-ed Ashlyn Turner-Kiley Oxendine 6-0, 6-0 in their opener.

East Bladen’s senior Anna Kate White and sophomore Lily Lin, seeded 11th, won their opener 6-0, 6-1 over Fairmont’s Mikiyah Hunt-Eve Karolie, the sixth seed.


Rain halts Three Rivers tourneyPreP Tennis


Friday’s assignment moved to Wednesday, then back to Friday.

Then there’s Tuesday and a rescheduled game.

West Bladen, like its opponents, is maneuvering through a high school football season unlike few others. The Knights are scheduled to visit West Columbus on Friday, having hopped dates this week because of the fore-cast with Hurricane Michael.

They’ll go to East Columbus on Tuesday to make up a game postponed last month by Hurricane Flor-ence.

Across the county, East Bladen finally plays in Lenon Fisher Stadium for the first time since a pulsating win over Whiteville on Sept. 7. It is homecoming for the Eagles as St. Pauls visit.

Both Three Rivers Conference tilts have 7:30 p.m. kickoffs.

“The quarterback and running back are really athletic,” second-year West Bladen head coach Kris Williams says of the vikings (0-3 Three Rivers, 1-4 overall). “They like to run them a lot, too. They’re hungry for wins, just like we are. I also know that the weather is driv-ing them crazy as much as it is us.”

West Bladen (1-4, 1-2 Three Riv-ers) is coming off a 48-0 loss at Whiteville.

“I think we were able to put that behind us,” Williams said. “We’ve been working to eliminate mistakes, learn from our mistakes and move on. Just like I told them, we’re going to put that one in the trash, learn from our mistakes and go. That’s been our goal every day this week.”

West Columbus lost 24 straight games before winning 27-0 over Creek Bridge of Marion, South Carolina, in the second week of the season. It has not won a home game since 2015.

Senior Shawn Tyson has rushed for 456 yards for the vikings and thrown for another 257. He’s rushed for five touchdowns and thrown for three.

The Knights challenge him up front with junior Christopher Bai-ley, sophomore Kai Belle and Mark Flores. The linebackers are junior Tra’shawn Ballard, sophomore Ken-dall Johnson and freshman Jaylen Newkirk.

Junior quarterback Tyre Boykin was held without a touchdown run-ning or throwing last week for the first time this season. He’s got 13.

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He will work behind the line of junior center Cameron Collins, junior Nathan Landreth and sophomore Xzavion Morrison at guards and junior Lucas Nance and Belle at the tackles.

West Bladen is likely to be without senior Kerron Washington. Questionable to play are sophomore Malaci Oxendine and freshman Ricky Brisson.

At East Bladen, the festivities of homecoming will present their usual distractions but seventh-year head coach Robby Priest has a simple mes-sage to his team.

“Our end of the homecoming deal is to win the football game,” he said.

St. Pauls is in its first year under Mike Setzer and has won two of three in the Three Rivers and four of five overall.

“They’ve always got the athletes,” Priest said. “They probably have got 150 to 200 more stu-dents than we do. Every year, they’ve got good-looking athletes. Coach Setzer has them going in the right direction. They look good on film. I like to watch them play.”

Marqueise Coleman has run for nine touch-downs and 832 yards on his 76 carries. Hunter Bryant completes 51 percent of his passes and has thrown for 487 yards and three scores.

“They spread you out, get the athletes in

space, take advantage of what you give them,” Priest said. “The quarterback is a good athlete and can throw it, too. We’ll have our hands full trying to contain him, try to hem up the running game. They run it and throw it good.

“Defensively, they have big guys up front, and they have athletes in the second level that can get to the ball pretty fast. It’s going to be a challenge trying to move it on them and trying to stop them from scoring on us.”

The Eagles start senior Tyvon Townsend and sophomore RaSean McKoy at defensive ends, and senior Jordan Payton and junior Zac Hester at defensive tackles. Senior Dayveon Washing-ton and junior Kasey Price anchor the middle at linebacker.

Offensively, East Bladen has found success with sophomore Zach Meares in his first year at quarterback. Hester has produced 100-yard rush-ing efforts as the Eagles have started 3-0 in the league and 4-1 overall.

Josh Hayes, up from the junior varsity last week, is expected to get his second start at left guard alongside either senior David Alsup or sophomore Brady Hollingsworth at center and senior Tyreese McElveen at tackle. Juniors Jor-dan Stanley and Rashard Willis form the right side interior; tight ends are juniors Tayshaun Berkeley and Xavier McKoy.

“I hope we’re up for the challenge,” Priest said.


West Bladen head coach Gaye Davis was grateful to get out with a win despite a bevy of service errors. Her team is 6-6 in the league, 7-7 overall, and feeling the impact of a condensed schedule because of last month’s storm.

“We’ve played a lot of matches, and the girls are tired,” she said. “They came through in the

clutch.”She noted the play of junior hitter Lexie Cor-

rothers, Caroline Davis and Raegan Davis. Cor-rothers had eight service points and three aces, plus four kills. Caroline Davis had 16 digs, and Raegan Davis finished with 11 kills and nine assists.

In the junior varsity match, East Bladen pre-vailed 25-10, 25-12.


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DUBLIN — Senior Day at West Bladen was marked by several closely contested matches and a 9-0 tennis victory over archrival East Bladen on Monday afternoon.

The Three Rivers Conference champions concluded a 16-0 regular season in their finale before the league tournament Wednesday and Thursday at East Bladen. Head coach Billy Bryant’s squad had two matches that were not rescheduled following a season disruption by Hurri-cane Florence.

Senior Savannah Lee was a 6-0, 6-0 winner over senior Ting Lin at No. 1 singles. Senior Mireya Sandoval, at No. 4, held off senior Ashley Har-din 6-2, 4-6, (10-2) and senior Haleigh Dunn topped senior Sarah Mears 6-1, 6-1 at No. 6.

The Lady Knights’ other singles wins were by junior Autumn Brisson over senior Anna Kate White 6-2, 7-5 at No. 2, junior Alyssa Bell over sophomore Lily Lin 6-0, 6-2 at

No. 3, and junior Alyssa Smith over sophomore Sammi Jiang 6-0, 6-4 at No. 5.

In doubles, the senior tandem of Lee and Dunn clipped Ting Lin-Hardin 8-6. Sandoval and Smith remained unbeaten at No. 3, winning 8-0 over senior Carleigh DeVane and sophomore Carlie West. At No. 1, Brisson-

Bell ruled 8-2 over White-Lily Lin.

Bell and Smith finished the regular season 16-0 each in singles, with Lee and Brisson each 15-1. Sandoval is 14-2 and Dunn 13-3. Smith hasn’t lost a set, going 188-35 in games. Bell has lost just one set and won her last 27, going 164-15 in games over that stretch. The doubles team of Sandoval-Smith is 15-0, having won 120 of 133 games played. Bell-Bris-son is 14-1 and Lee-Dunn 12-3.

East Bladen’s Lily Lin is 12-3 in singles, Hardin 10-5, Jiang and Meares each 9-5, Ting Lin 8-7 and White 6-9. In doubles, Ting Lin-Hardin is 13-2, DeV-ane-West 7-6 and White-Lily Lin 7-7.

Perfect 16-0 season!

Sandoval


DUBLIN — West Bladen put league-leading South Columbus on the ropes.

A pivotal third set went the way of the guests and the Lady Knights tumbled 3-1 in Three Rivers Conference volleyball in The Castle on Wednesday night. South Columbus pre-vailed 25-20, 22-25, 25-16, 25-13, winning its fifth straight since an upset loss to East Columbus.

The Lady Stallions (14-1 Three Rivers, 18-1 overall) are tied in the loss column with Whiteville atop the league; West Bladen continues to jockey for a top-four finish after falling to 7-7 in the league and 8-8 overall.

“We fought hard,” said West Bladen senior Raegan Davis, who combined with junior Mikayla Meadows for an enter-taining and challenging duel at the net with the guests’ Sarah Faulk and Makala Wright. “The score doesn’t reflect the way we played. We put everything toward the game.”

And then some.“We were close, a ball here

and a ball there,” said head coach Gaye Davis, mother of Raegan.

The coach described the first meeting in Tabor City as not very close.

“I’m pleased with the way we played,” she said. “They came ready to play. I don’t mind los-ing if we play well.”

Missed was an opportunity to put the Lady Stallions in a two-set deficit. West Bladen charged ahead 4-0 and 9-4 in the opening set. The lead dwin-dled slowly, South Columbus

finally pushing ahead 15-14 and eventually carving out a 22-16 lead.

The second set was all West Bladen, roaring away from 4-4 to lead 8-4, 15-8 and eventu-ally 23-14. Staggered by South Columbus’ furious rally, the Lady Knights picked up the final two points, the last when junior Jordan Benson handled a return for Raegan Davis to set. Sophomore Shelby Pharr’s soft touch placement was hit out of bounds.

South Columbus gradually created a cushion in the pivotal third set, leading almost all the way.

“They’re really tough,” Mead-ows said. “It’s hard to move around their blocks, but once you do, you can get it.

“We did great. We hustled and didn’t give up.”

Davis had 10 kills and seven solo blocks; Meadows had nine kills and seven solo blocks.

Senior Caroline Davis had 22 digs and junior Tatiana Hunt 13 against the hard-hitting Lady Stallions. Junior Lexie Corrothers had eight kills and Benson 10 assists.

The teams played in honor of Nathan Nance, a junior at West Bladen with cystic fibro-sis. T-shirts were sold, a silent auction was held in the lobby and all proceeds were given to the Sanford chapter of the CF Foundation of North Carolina.

In the junior varsity match, West Bladen was a point away from victory before South Columbus rallied to win 21-25, 26-24, 15-9. Lauren Pait had 10 digs and Olivia Allen eight. Hannah Pait had 11 kills.


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Alan Wooten | Bladen JournalWest Bladen’s Mikayla Meadows outduels Makala Wright for a point Wednesday evening.

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ST. PAULS — West Bladen won a tightly-contested match with host St. Pauls 3-1 in Three Rivers Conference volleyball Tuesday.

The Lady Knights prevailed 25-20, 22-25, 25-20, 25-22. Senior Raegan Davis’ 20 kills and nine solo blocks helped West Bladen pull within a game of .500 in the league and for the season.

Junior Tatiana Hunt had 10 kills and sophomore Sidnee Walters had 13 service points. Senior Caro-line Davis had 15 digs and junior Jordan Benson added eight service points, three aces and five assists.

“Both varsity teams played hard and never gave up,” said West Bladen head coach Gaye Davis. “There were some great volleys. This is probably the best game we have played all year. St. Pauls gave it all they had. We just came out on top.”

The junior varsity Lady Knights fell 25-20, 25-15. Taylor West had four service points and three kills and Hannah Pait had four kills.

East Bladen fallsELIZABETHTOWN — East Bladen fell to

visiting East Columbus in straight sets Tuesday evening.

The Three Rivers Conference setback dropped the Lady Eagles to 2-11. They are 3-13 overall.

The Lady Gators are challenging near the top of the league and departed 9-3 in the league and overall.

Winner of a close one

PREP VOLLEYBALL

Never mind whatever the television numbers may suggest with your pig-skin and mine.

Baseball rules in October. The gridiron taste has been whet, and we’ll get back to it, kind of like a good

vegetable or warm, soft piece of bread on the Thanksgiving spread.

For now, four teams are alive, the matchups are tight and none of us will be shocked by who wins this thing. Los Angeles and Milwaukee in the National League, Boston and Houston in the American League

— all have pros and cons on why they can or should win.

Or fail, for that matter.Those who haven’t kept up with

baseball in the last two to three years might not recognize or fathom what they see. Analytics are more than a fancy and they’re not passing. The manager’s gut doesn’t make many decisions.

There are charts to position field-ers, making it look something like our games in the lot on Contentnea Street when we didn’t have a full nine a side. Since we never did, it was all the time actually. Half-field we called it, and it was always a problem with that left-handed hitting brother and the pine trees beyond where the second base-man should have been.

He just had to hit opposite field. Sorry, we’re not playing in the trees.

Back to the majors.Tendencies have always been

known; that’s what advance scouts have been doing all these years. This is a different level. Three infielders to the right of second base, outfield swung the other way — on the same batter.

Lefty-righty matchups for pitching and hitting mean even the best in the game might sit. Or, a player might hit leadoff tonight, bat eighth the next game, or not even be in the lineup.

Brock Holt of the Red Sox was 1-for-15 against the Yankees’ right-handed starter prior to Monday. His manager penciled the left-handed hit-ter seventh in the order. He became the first player to hit for the cycle in the postseason and the Red Sox won 16-1.

Tuesday night’s encore? Ian Kinsler was back at second base; Holt never left the dugout.

Baseball in the 21st century. It’s in the fast lane of the information super-highway.

One team is eight wins away from a world championship. Going to be a fun ride on that highway.

Fun ride awaits

AlanWooten

Bladen Journal

LAKE WACCAMAW — East Bladen stayed atop the Three Rivers Conference soccer race Wednes-day, routing host East Columbus 8-0.

The Eagles (8-1 Three Rivers, 12-1-2 overall) scored six times in the first half.

Senior Greyson Heustess scored four times and junior Gabe Barber twice. Senior Pierce Melvin and junior Ebrahim Algozy also scored.

Assists were by Melvin twice, senior Dan Tatum, junior Milton Estrada, and sophomores Jay McKoy and Keshaun Davis. Sophomore Jacob Priest had the shutout in goal.

On Monday night in Elizabethtown, the Eagles reclaimed first place with a 2-0 win over South Columbus coupled with Whiteville’s home loss to Red Springs.

Priest made a save and goals came from Tatum and Barber. Heustess, Melvin and sophomore Gar-rett Melvin recorded assists.

South Columbus fell to 4-4 in the Three Rivers, 4-8 overall.

West Bladen winsCERRO GORDO — West Bladen toppled host

West Columbus 5-3 in Three Rivers Conference soccer Monday night.

The Knights of head coach Phil Turnage, in climbing to 2-3 in the league and 2-7-2 overall, rallied with four second-half goals to erase a 2-1 halftime deficit. The Vikings fell to 2-5 in the Three Rivers, 2-9 overall.

Wilmer Garcia scored a pair of goals for the West Bladen. Austin Booth had all three for the hosts.

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