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Hoke County’s newspaper since 1905
RAEFORD & HOKE COUNTY N.C.
No. 21 Vol. 109
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Trench collapse kills Raeford man
BY CATHARIN SHEPARD
Staff writer
Rescuers at work. (Fort Bragg photo)
Nettles, at graduation
The Department of Occupational Health and Safety (OSHA) is
investigating a trench collapse on
Fort Bragg that killed a man from
Raeford last week.
Although authorities did not of-
ficially release the victim’s name,
Hoke County friends and family
reported that Hoke High graduate
Clyde Thomas Nettles Jr. died in
the accident. They shared the news
on their Facebook pages, posting
photos of “CJ” and outpourings of
sympathy.
Nettles was 22 years old and
engaged to be married. He played
football for the Hoke High Bucks
during his time in high school.
In messages posted online, loved
ones remembered him for his
contagious laugh, bright smile and
big heart.
The construction worker was
(See ACCIDENT, page 4A)
Neighbor hit
with 2x4
Investigators with
the Hoke County
Sheriff’s Office arrested a man Sunday
for allegedly hitting
his neighbor on the
head with a wooden
2x4, according to a
Rowsey
report.
Authorities called to the 4200 block
of Old Maxton Highway arrived to find
Garrett Locklear lying on the ground
with a laceration to the head. Suspect
Charles Junior Rowsey, 50, of the 4200
block of Old Maxton Highway was
reportedly waiting for authorities to
arrive. Rowsey confessed at the scene
that he hit Locklear on the head with
the wooden plank while the two were
arguing, officials said.
Deputies charged Rowsey with
assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury. He was held under
a $15,000 unsecured bond. Locklear
was treated for his injuries at an area
hospital.
Woman assaulted
in home invasion
Adjusting for the future
Home Food, a Raeford fixture for 96 years, is changing its emphasis from groceries to produce. Clockwise from above: P.J. McNeill drove from Moore County to
shop; Kim Hollingsworth helps customer Jodi Onachila; a rooster is free-range
or at least free to roam the feed and seed store; the oldest McNeill still has his
own seat to supervise. (Catharin Shepard photos)
Investigators with
the Hoke County
Sheriff’s Office arrested a woman last
week for allegedly
breaking into a home
and assaulting the
homeowner.
Blackmon
Officers arrested
Dejhi Blackmon, 26, of the 4700 block
of Star Rite Lane in Parkton on charges
of robbery with a dangerous weapon,
second-degree kidnapping, felony
breaking or entering, felony larceny
after breaking or entering and felony
possession of stolen goods.
(See ASSAULT, page 6A)
After nearly a century,
Home Food charts changes
BY CATHARIN SHEPARD
Staff writer
Buying a farm-fresh watermelon
at Home Food was worth the drive
all the way from Moore County for
P.J. McNeill.
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Shopping for locally grown fruits
and vegetables and fresh-caught fish
is something she and her husband
Lamont McNeill can’t do in Moore,
she said.
“Some of this stuff we have
(See HOME FOOD, page 6A)
No tax-free weekend this year in this state
BY CATHARIN SHEPARD
Staff writer
Shoppers used to buying school supplies taxfree shortly before students return to class will
have to go out of state this year if they want to
find bargains.
From 2002 to 2013, the state held a special
weekend when consumers could buy computers,
clothing and other back-to-school supplies without paying sales tax. However, citing the need to
cut costs, the state stopped the tax-free weekend
program last year. Officials also ended a similar
weekend in November that offered shoppers a
chance to buy some appliances without paying
sales tax. The state lost millions in sales tax revenue every year because of the events, officials
said.
However, if shoppers are willing and able to
pay for gas to drive out of state this weekend,
they can still find tax-free deals. South Carolina,
Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia continue offer-
Other Stuff
BY KEN MACDONALD
We started a company on
our most recent youth group
outing—Rude Awakenings
LLC. You need that limited
liability part for the kind of
company we formed, which
is one that, for a fee, offers a
wake-up service for hard-toawaken teenagers.
The Methodists, whose
conference we crashed, wanted
each group in attendance to
find a way to raise a little
money for a hunger abatement
program, and our service was
an answer to those sissy ideas
other groups came up with
like selling cupcakes and glow
sticks. Pa-lease.
(See OTHER STUFF, page 4A)
ing tax-free weekends. The tax-free weekend for
South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia is set for
Friday, Saturday and Sunday while Georgia will
hold its sales tax holiday Friday and Saturday.
As of Tuesday, the average price of gasoline
in North Carolina stood at $3.44 a gallon for
regular, while the average price of gas in South
Carolina was $3.27, according to gasbuddy.com.
Gas prices in Virginia and Georgia stood at an
average of $3.34 and $3.42, respectively. The
(See TAX-FREE, page 6A)
Walker files for school board
BY CATHARIN SHEPARD
Staff writer
Walker
Military veteran and
longtime Hoke resident Gilbert Walker announced this
week that he plans to run for
a seat on the Hoke County
Board of Education.
Walker said he decided to
run for a four-year term on
the board because he tries
to be active in the community and wants to help make
sure Hoke schools produce
graduates who are able to
compete in the workplace.
“I hear sometimes of
students graduating and not
being able to read, write in
cursive or be able to write
(See WALKER, page 6A)
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Viewpoints
Raeford, N.C.
July 30, 2014
Gas costs us more than we admit
In a previous column, I discussed what things really cost
and left energy for this column.
I have just read about the latest
findings on climate change. Even
hard deniers are softening their
positions in view of overwhelming evidence. I was watching the
HBO show VICE the other night.
This is a very informative show,
although I’m not quite sure why it
is called VICE. It investigates situations around the world including
climate change, but it is not a cop
show. There was a recent piece on
the severe drought in Texas, which
may be linked to man-induced
climate change. On the other hand,
maybe it isn’t, but can we afford
to deny the possibility? Several
groups of Christians were shown
openly praying for rain. I have
no problem with praying, but if
praying changed the weather, there
would be no droughts, no floods
and no natural disasters. Perhaps
these folks would be better off to
pray for a better understanding of
the world we live in. There was another scene in which several young
men standing beside a dried-up
reservoir were questioned about
the possible cause and the need
to address climate change. One
guy stated that he wasn’t going
to worry about it as long as he
had water to drink. He laughed
and the group seemed to agree. I
suppose this guy would be happy
playing in traffic blindfolded until
a car hit him.
Our appetite for energy is
natural as man seeks to improve
his life by whatever methods are
at his disposal. But what does
it really cost, and at what point
Frog Holler
Philosopher
Ron Huff
are we shooting ourselves in the
foot? The burning of fossil fuels
has been the most convenient
way for humans to keep warm,
cook food, produce light, produce
electricity and transport themselves. What harm does a little
smoke do? Actually, a little smoke
from a small number of humans
spread over a big planet wasn’t
very threatening. An industrial
chimney bellowing smoke was a
visual sign of progress for many
years. As our population and our
appetite for energy grew, it wasn’t
long before we in the United States
were looking beyond our shores
for sources of energy, primarily
petroleum. Some surely argued
that this would eventually get us
into trouble without even foreseeing the possible effects on climate.
We continued to consume more
and more until addicted. At that
point, we had crawled into bed
with these foreign suppliers and
our national priority shifted from
being a moral leader for good, to
being as immoral as necessary to
keep the supply lines open. Does
anyone really doubt that our policies in the Middle East have been
driven by this need?
Now let’s revisit the cost issue. We complain about the cost
of gasoline and it has increased
dramatically over the past decade.
What we pay is the cost of exploration, extraction, transportation
and refining; and let’s not forget
profiteering. That is not the total
cost. I don’t get paid enough to do
a lot of research for this column,
but if we spent a trillion dollars
in wars waged over the last 10
years to protect the supply of approximately five billion barrels of
crude oil from the Middle East,
what did this oil really cost? Just
add $200 to the cost of each barrel,
or four dollars to the cost of each
gallon of that oil. Now figure in
the lost and shattered lives and the
damage done to the environment
by the burning of this fuel. Don’t
forget the World Trade Center and
the other acts of terror that stem
from the hatred that is spawned
by our foreign policies. And don’t
forget the huge bureaucracy of
Homeland Security constructed
to counter these terrorists.
How about nuclear energy? It
might just be the way to go, except
for the problem of the radioactive waste that it generates and
accidents like Chernobyl and the
recent Japanese debacle.
I agree that energy independence for our country is a
worthwhile and achievable goal,
but is the answer the shortsighted
development of more and more
petroleum sources with their
resultant environmental damage? Would we not be better off
recognizing that we are already
paying much more for the use of
fossil fuels than we think we are?
Couldn’t those same resources be
directed toward conservation and
the development of renewable
sources of power and the jobs that
this would create?
More later.
We Get Letters
Why so many Hoke ambulances in Fayetteville?
To the Editor:
I am writing you this letter to
find out why do I always see Cape
Fear EMS with Hoke County on
the side in Fayetteville. I understand that they are the primary
EMS we have for the county but
why do they transfer the patients
to Cape Fear Hospital in Cumberland County, at least a 30 min drive
from Hoke County? I understand
Cape Fear ER in the county is not
completed yet. However, we still
have an ER in the county.
As a taxpayer, I feel like this is
a waste of time and money for the
residents of Hoke County.
Jason Sullivan
Raeford
Editor’s note: Our reporter
Catharin Shepard put the question
to Brian Pierce, EMS director for
Cape Fear Valley:
“We will transport patients,”
he said, “to the most appropriate
facility, the closest appropriate
facility or, within reason, the
hospital of their choice if there’s
not one more appropriate than
the other.”
Since Cape Fear Valley’s ambulance service started providing
emergency transport for Hoke
residents, the service has provided
the following transports:
266 transports or 28 percent to
FirstHealth Hoke Hospital
204 transports or 22 percent to
Cape Fear Valley Hospital
157 transports or 17 percent
to FirstHealth Moore Regional
Hospital
25 or 3 percent to Southeastern
Medical Center
8 or 1 percent to Scotland
County Hospital
6 or 1 percent to Womack
Army Hospital
2 to the Veterans Administration Hospital in Fayetteville
The remaining 273 or 29
percent of calls for ambulance
service did not transport a patient
to any hospital, either because the
call was canceled, with no one
needing to go to the hospital, or
because the patient refused to go
to the hospital.
Hoke residents might see
more than four Cape Fear Valley
ambulances in the county at one
time. Although the company was
contracted to provide four staffed
ambulances, if a call takes one
ambulance out of the county for a
long time, the service can bring in
an additional ambulance to cover
for that crew’s absence. That way,
four ambulances are always available in the county.
“We’re running four, we’ve got
some that are backed up,” Pierce
said. “Occasionally, if there’s a
long-term call or we’re taking
somebody to a doctor’s appointment, then we will bring in an
extra crew to do it.”
Here’s my opinion on 10 current issues
To the Editor:
Here are 10 truisms that North
Carolinians better face fast, and
act upon before it is too late.
1) Want a vision of the quality
of care that will come with the
Affordable Care Act? Look no
farther than the VA scandal and
its quality of care! Repeal it. Pass
workable health legislation, and
clean up the VA. Our veterans
deserve quality care.
2) Illegal immigration’s impact will be depressed wages,
increased crime rates, complex
health and education problems
with skyrocketing costs attached,
increased welfare giveaways,
larger unemployment rolls and
benefit outputs, and the subversion of America the Beautiful.
Send all illegal immigrants back
home. All!
3) State Attorney General Roy
Cooper’s refusal to defend the
N.C. Marriage Amendment ban
against same-sex marriage (overwhelmingly passed by the people)
in N.C. courts is a violation of
state’s rights and the N.C. Constitution he is sworn to uphold.
Marriage laws do not come under
federal authority—constitutionally. Retire him at the ballot box.
4) Legislators who will not
end tenure for N.C. public-school
teachers doom that system, ensuring that its 15 percent of marginal
teachers can never be fired.
5) The “Moral Monday” crowd
is fighting for reinstatement of
welfare subsidies for mostly nonworking North Carolinians, not
for equal rights and the eradication
of poverty. Don’t support them.
The real Moral Monday people
are “at work” on Mondays.
6) We must pass a Balanced
Budget Amendment on the federal
level or our indebtedness will sell
America. “He that hath the gold
makes the rules.”
7) Hoke County is sinking in
the mire of uncontrolled litter, and
illegal burnings and dumpings.
Clean it up, or lose economic
development opportunities to
cleaner counties.
8) The Cold War has been
reborn. Russia is a dangerous
aggressor, practicing Hitler-type
foreign policies. Israel is right
to defend herself. Nations who
support terrorism and start wars
can expect their citizens to suffer.
Their fault! Not Israel’s fault!
9) All citizens, you must personally embrace technology or
get left behind in the global dust!
10) We must end tax-funded
slaughter of the unborn and the
elderly. A nation that kills its own
bankrupts its future.
Barbara Richie Pond
Raeford
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Minorities now excel in once-forbidden areas
The public is surprised that
race has played such an important
part in many decisions that are
made today. In almost every election today, race or the opinions of
minorities have become a major
factor. Not only in politics, but it
seems that in every phase of our
lives race has been a major factor.
Twenty years ago, no one
would have predicted that the
most powerful country on earth
would have a minority president.
South Africa, which had the most
oppressive governments against
blacks, now has a black leader.
This shows that people of ALL
races have more in common than
we thought and are able to work
together. In most instances, we
grow stronger and advance faster
with all races and groups working
together.
Most will not admit it, but one
of the reasons that this country was
so segregated was because segregation is profitable and driven by
greed. As long as minorities were
kept in substandard housing, sold
substandard food and kept in low
paying jobs, it was profitable to
Paul Burnley
those in power. When these acts
were ruled illegal, many of these
actions were eliminated.
Years ago, all minorities were
considered inferior. The armed
services were segregated. The
sports and entertainment fields did
not admit minorities. There were
very few minority politicians. The
few were only in small poor black
areas. This was the status quo in
those days and was accepted as the
normal. The majority felt this was
right until other countries began
to move forward and surpass us
in many activities by utilizing
the assets of minorities of their
country.
Once we recognized the assets of many of our minorities
and began to utilize them, we not
only improved our world status
but surpassed other countries in
many areas. In our armed services,
a minority rose to the rank of
Joint Chief of Staff. The Navy`s
second highest ranking officer
is now a female minority. In all
fields that minorities were once
not accepted, they now excel.
Sports and entertainment,
two areas where minorities were
banned or segregated, are now
dominated by minorities. The
highest paid entertainers and
athletes are minorities. This is not
to say that minorities are better
than others but that, once given
the opportunity, they are able to
show that they are as capable as
others. Fifty years ago, no one
would have foreseen that many of
our large cities’ economy would
depend on the success of sports
and entertainment events that are
now dominated by minorities.
This shows that by all groups
working together, everyone benefits. This is proof that our system
of government can and will work
when ALL people are looked on
as equal and given an opportunity.
Paul Burnley can be reached
at [email protected].
Don’t really need to make proposed cuts
This column won’t answer any
questions, just pose them.
As you might have heard, the
state budget debate going on in
Raleigh this summer pits the livelihoods of thousands of teacher
assistants in early grades and the
Medicaid coverage of thousands
of “elderly, blind and disabled” – a
description that House Republicans like to repeat – against raises
for the state’s teachers, who make
less money than their counterparts
in most other states.
Deciding between such important priorities creates a very
difficult situation, an almost impossible choice for any legislator
with a heart to make, which is why
this debate has stretched almost
until August. Yes, Medicaid and
education make up a huge percentage of state spending. And yes,
when money needs to be found,
those areas are obvious places
to look, especially when raising
taxes probably isn’t an option
for a Republican-led legislature.
Sometime this week, the public is
expected to find out exactly how
lawmakers decided to spend their
tax dollars for the fiscal year that
One on One
Patrick Gannon,
Capitol Press
Association
began back on July 1. Over the
weekend, the House and Senate
agreed on a budget framework,
and details are expected to be
released this week.
But aren’t there other alternatives, aside from removing teacher
assistants from classrooms or
yanking medical coverage from
the most desperate people in the
state? Aren’t there any areas of
a $21 billion budget that, with a
little creativity, can be trimmed
to help save some of the teacher
assistants, elderly, blind and disabled, while still giving teachers
reasonable raises to put them
in line with others across the
country? Isn’t there any more tax
money that can be found in a state
supposedly making a comeback?
This whole situation reminds
me of my days covering city
government, when the much less
consequential budget debates
went something like this: “Either
we have to raise taxes or we have
to fire 20 cops and close two
libraries.”
Come on. Everyone loves cops
and libraries. There was never
an option to lay off 10 underperforming garbage collectors
and 10 slack codes enforcers.
Nope, just 20 cops, leaving the
criminals to take over the city.
Guess what? The police officers
never lost their jobs and the libraries still loan books.
Which is why it’s looking
more and more like, when this
protracted budget discussion
is over, most teacher assistants
will keep their jobs and most of
the “elderly, blind and disabled”
will keep their medical benefits.
Somehow, fuzzy math will come
to the rescue and legislators will
go home heroes, having saved the
state’s education system and its
neediest residents from the brink
of disaster and death, just a few
months before Election Day.
But then there’s next year. Late
last week, the state’s financial
experts told lawmakers that the
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July 30, 2014 Deborah Miller
Deborah Miller
Deborah Ann Locklear Miller,
54, died Monday, July 28, 2014 at
Rex Hospital in Raleigh.
She was born February 19,
1960. She was preceded in death
by her father Sherman Locklear
Sr. and her brother Sherman
Locklear Jr. She was the manager
of H&R Block in Raeford. She
was the recipient of “Outstanding
Women of Hoke County” in 2014.
Survivors include her husband,
Michael R. Miller of Red Springs;
a son, Nicomma Locklear of Red
Springs; two daughters, Nicolette
Locklear of Red Springs, and
Crysti Nicole Miller of Raleigh;
her mother, Susie Mae Locklear
of Red Springs; a brother, Ricky
Locklear and wife Wanda of
Kempner, Texas; two sisters,
Carolyn Locklear of St. Pauls, and
Samantha Locklear of Pembroke;
three grandchildren, Alexis Locklear of Raeford, Nykale Locklear
of Red Springs, and James Mykah
Kennedy of Raleigh.
Visitation will be held from 7-9
1952 – 1968 — Hawk Eye
High School Classes 1952-1968
are having a reunion on September
5 from 6 p.m. – until at Hawk Eye
Elementary School. Fore more
info contact Mary Maness (910)
369-5988, Darlene Locklear (910)
369-2816, Toney Lowery (910)
875-3030 or Bonnie Goins (910)
875-5040.
1953, 1954 & 1955 — Hoke
High School Classes of 1953, 1954
and 1955 are having a joint class
reunion on September 13. Class
of 1953 contact Edith McNeill
Newton, (910) 875-3985; class of
1954 contact Bobby Conoly, (910)
875-2676; class of 1955 contact
Kermit Wood (910) 875-2689. All
members and guest are invited.
1956 — The Upchurch High
Class of 1956 committee will meet
soon. Contact Marjorie G. Hendrix
at 867-8555.
1961 — If you are interested in
attending a reunion for the 1961
Upchurch High School class, contact [email protected] or call
Myrtice Pollard (910) 843-5952
Clyde T. Nettles Jr.
Clyde Thomas Nettles Jr., 22,
of Raeford died Thursday, July
24, 2014.
Survivors include his parents,
Clyde Sr. and Anita Nettles;
fiancée, Amanda Jean Miller;
sisters, Aisha Nettles and Tracie
Nettles; brothers, Thomas Nettles
and Gary Nettles; aunt, Cynthia
Ingram; and uncles, David Butler
and Tahir Chase.
The funeral will be held at 1 p.m.
Saturday, August 2 in Cape Fear
Conference B Headquarters in Raeford. Burial will be in the McLauchlin Chapel Church Cemetery.
Public viewing will be held
Friday, August 1 in Buie Funeral
Home chapel.
Lacy J. McGee
Lacy J. McGee Jr., 65, of
Raeford died Wednesday, July
23, 2014.
The funeral will be held at 2
p.m. Wednesday, July 30 in Buie
Funeral Home chapel in Raeford.
Teceia Roper
Teceia Roper of San Diego,
California, formerly of Fayetteville, died Sunday, July 13, 2014
at the age of 29.
She is survived by her mother,
Notra McLaurin Roper; her
father, Earl Roper; sister, Trina;
grandmother, Mae Roper; uncles, Champ McLaurin, Jimmy
McLaurin, Tonny McLaurin,
Ronnie Roper and Ressalle McCallister; and aunts Annie McCallister, Ellen McLaurin and
Bertha Davis.
The funeral was held at 1 p.m.
Monday, July 28 at Lewis Chapel Missionary Baptist Church,
Fayetteville.
Memorials may be made to the
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer
Foundation, 5005 LBJ Freeway
Suite 250, Dallas, TX 75244.
Online condolences may be
made at www.crumplerfuneralhome.com.
Gloria Glover
Gloria Glover, 59, of 145
Colorado Drive died Saturday,
July 26, 2014.
Survivors include her daughter,
Sherita; sisters, Mildred Knight,
Mamie Little, Nancy Monroe and
Mable Edens; brothers, Welton Jr.
and James McPhaul; and three
grandchildren.
The funeral was held at noon
Tuesday, July 29 in Laurel Hill
MBC. Burial was in the church
cemetery.
Hattie McLaughlin
Hattie McLaughlin, 73, of 324
Birch Street died Monday, July
21, 2014.
Survivors include her sisters,
Hazel Jones, Mary Virgil, Carolyn
Easterling, Clara Graham and
Sheffie Turner; and brothers,
Jasper, Terry, Yancey and Milton.
The funeral was held at 3 p.m.
Friday, July 25 in McLauchlin
Chapel AME Zion Church. Burial
was in the church cemetery.
reunion September 5 at Hawk Eye
Elementary School from 6 p.m.
until. For more information contact Mary Maness (910 369-5988,
Darlene Locklear (910) 369-2816,
Toney Lowery (910) 875-3030 or
Bonnie Goins (910) 875-5040.
1969 — Hoke High Class of
1969’s 45th reunion will be held
October 10-12 at the Ocean Reef
Resort, 7100 N. Ocean Blvd, Myrtle
Beach, SC. Classmates need to call
the hotel for reservations. There is
a registration fee of $70 per person
with anAugust 8 deadline and can be
sent to Vincent Parker, 330 Hodgin
Rd, Red Springs, NC 28377. Make
check or money order payable to HH
Class of 1969. For more information
contact Pat Graham (910) 878-1255,
(910) 848-5142; Shirley Rush (910)
875-4357; Myrtle Quick 843-4922;
Ron Huff (910) 237-7873; Vincent
Parker (910) 224-3565.
1977 — Hoke County High
School Class of 1977 will meet
every Monday at 7 p.m. at Virgil’s
Drive-In. Any interested classmate
may call James Quick at (910)
delaying or obstructing a law
enforcement officer.
Authorities called to the 100
block of McDougal Drive just before 11 p.m. Friday searched the
scene and reportedly found Riley
hiding in the bathroom closet
in the house’s master bedroom.
The officers arrested Riley at
the scene. The home belonged to
victim Stacey Dial, according to
the Sheriff’s
Office.
Riley
was held
under a
$7,500 secured bond.
Officers with the Hoke County
Sheriff’s Office have arrested a
man from Raeford on multiple
drug charges.
Investigators with the sheriff’s office Special Operations
conducting a search warrant at a
home on the 500 block of Alex
Baker Road in Raeford reportedly located drugs and non-taxed
liquor on the premises.
Deputies arrested Willie Clif-
ton Kershaw, 53, of the 500 block
of Alex Baker Road on charges
of possession with intent to sell
or deliver cocaine, possession
with intent to sell or deliver
marijuana, simple possession of a
Schedule II controlled substance,
maintaining a drug dwelling, possession of drug paraphernalia and
possession of non-taxed liquor.
Kershaw was found in possession of seven grams of
suspected
cocaine, 14
baggies of
marijuana,
drug paraphernalia
and nontaxed liq u o r. H e
w a s h e l d Willie Kershaw
under a
$25,000 secured bond.
A committee is seeking community input and support to help
the local Veterans Day program
recognize and honor veterans.
The group will hold an open
meeting Thursday, August 7 at 6
p.m. at the Hoke County Public
Library. All veterans and civilian
community members who want to
take part in supporting the effort
are invited to attend. For more
information, call 919-394-4695.
Man arrested for drugs
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1969 committee will host their
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yard sale and more. The proceeds
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last year would lead to much less
revenue for the state than was
initially projected – roughly $880
million less over five years.
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breaking and entering in progress
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1962 — Information on the class
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Annie Gilchrist McLain, 487-4195;
McKinnon McKeller, 864-0772;
or Ellen Clark McNeill, 875-3237;
or email [email protected].
1964 — Upchurch High School
class of 1964 is planning for its 50th
reunion in 2014. Any classmates
that would like to attend meetings
or make any suggestions should
contact president Rebecca McNeill
(910) 875-1469 or vice-president
John McLean (910) 843-4047.
1965 — Upchurch High Class of
1965 meets monthly at the home of
Mr. Bobby and Jennie Allen. All interested parties are invited to attend.
Contact Rev. Jennie Allen at (910)
875-5026; Pastor Cora Murphy
(910) 684-0417; Mr. Paul Purcell
(910) 904-1622; Janice McDougal
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Road, Hope Mills, NC 28348.
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Raeford, N.C.
July 30, 2014
Police Blotter
Raeford Police reported the
following recent incidents:
ing, 600 block of Forrest Street,
victim Shareia Ross
of East Prospect Avenue, victim
Lakisha Hope
July 23
July 25
July 27
Larceny of a motor vehicle,
assault, 300 block of East 5th
Avenue, victim Senovio Mejia
Larceny, breaking and entering
of a motor vehicle, 500 block of
Woodcreek Village, victim Mary
Helen Roper
Larceny of a motor vehicle,
100 block of Chilton Drive, victim
Liddie Kimbrough Hand
Possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana, no
operator’s license, fleeing to elude
with motor vehicle, Turnpike
Road/Alex Baker Road, victim
State of North Carolina. Police
charged Zachary Wyatt Lopez,
18, of the 400 block of Bama
Lane in Raeford.
July 26
July 24
Damage to real property,
breaking and entering, 100 block
of South Highland Drive, victim
Corrie Toffoli
Larceny, breaking and enter-
Breaking and entering, injury
to real property, 300 block of East
5th Street, victim Tracy Dianne
Long
Communicating threats, damage to real property, 500 block
Failing to stop at a stop sign,
driving left of center, possessing
an open container, driving while
intoxicated (alcohol), Aberdeen
Road/Turnpike Road, victim State
of North Carolina. Police charged
William James Person Jr., 45, of
the 200 block of Americana Drive
in Raeford.
Larceny, 700 block of South
Bethel Road, victim Lisa Freeman
Larceny, 300 block of South
Main Street, victim Linda McNeill
Larceny, assault on a female,
600 block of Saunders Road,
victim Bertha Mae Hope
Real Estate Transfers
Recent transfers of property
in Hoke County, listed by property and grantor(s) to grantee(s),
by date recorded with the Hoke
County Register of Deeds:
July 10
•Rockfish Grove Lot 15, from
the Estate of Thomas Richard
Barnes, administered by Jared
G. and Jeffrey B. Barnes, to Jared
G. Barnes, Jeffrey B. Barnes,
Jennifer S. Barnes and Richard
L. Barnes
•Summerfield East Section
4, Lot 253, from Jeremy C. and
Shanna T. Parrish to Colin S. and
Shawnee R. O’Connell
•Towns End Lot 12 in Pembroke, from Enrique and Rosa
Cervantes to Enrique and Rosa
Cervantes
•Red Dog Properties Lot 2,
from Tammy and William Gessler
to Melinda Rogers
•The Pines at Westgate Section
3, Lot 471, from Caviness & Cates
Building and Development Co.
of Fayetteville to Lydia Michelle
Berrios-Lewis of Raeford
•Turnberry Section 1, Part 2,
Lots 120 and 121, from Floyd
Properties and Development Inc.
of Fayetteville to Caviness &
Cates Building and Development
Co. of Fayetteville
•The Maples of Westgate
Section 1, Part 1, Lot 66, from
Katherine Elizabeth and Matthew
Douglas Davis to Michelle L. and
Moises E. Bure Jr.
July 11
•Woodland Phase 5, Lot 52,
from Bank of America, N.A. of
Plano, Texas to Brookwood LLC
of Fayetteville
•1.623 Acres on Loop Road,
Raeford, from E.H. Pooled 512
LP of Austin, Texas to Richard
Earl Cummings of Fayetteville
•Turning Leaf South Lot 17,
from the Secretary of Veterans
Affairs to Luis Angle Santana of
Fort Bragg
•Turning Leaf South Lot 17,
from Amanda Ayala and Luis
Angle Santana to Amanda Ayala
and Luis Angle Santana
•Bridgeport Section 2, Lot 138,
from Christy Adams and Merritt
Thompas to Lucas and Raquel
Cammuse
July 14
•Wedgefield Phase 1B, Lot
215, from Caviness Land Development of Fayetteville to Brent
R. and Noah K. Christiansen of
Raeford
•Carolina Place Lot 1 in lieu
of foreclosure, from Reynaldo
Ortiz-Maldonado of Raeford to
Wells Fargo Bank, N.C. of Des
Moines, Iowa
•Carolina Place Lot 1, from
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. of Des
Moines, Iowa to the Secretary
of Veterans Affairs, Decatur, Ga.
•McDougald Downs Section
3, Lot 132, from Deutsche Bank
National Trust Co., aka Bankers
Trust Co. of California, Simi
Valley, Calif., trustees for the
holders of the Vendee Mortgage
Trust 2001-3, Simi Valley, Calif.,
to Enrique Cervantes of Raeford
•McDougald Downs Section 3,
Lot 132, from Enrique and Rose
Cervantes to Enrique and Rosa
Cervantes of Raeford
•Colonial Charters Section 4,
Lot 115, from Deana M. and Kirk
M. Havers of Raeford to Adam
and Christine Hoffman of Raeford
•Oakview Estates Phase 1, Lot
31, from Corey J. and Kimberly
Jill Dougherty of Fountain, Colo.
to Sharon D. Lawson Smith of
Raeford
July 15
•Summerfield Landing Section
1, Part 2, Lot 57, from Melissa and
Timothy A. Bostian II to Anna
Hope and Steven McMillan, all
of Raeford
July 16
•Planter’s Walk Section 1, from
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs,
Washington, D.C. to Casey B.
Cannan of Raeford
•Mayfield Section 1, Lot 15,
from Brian J. and Jillian Bourque
of Alexandria, Va. to Thomas F.
Lewin of Raeford
•Robbins Heights Lot 22, from
Paula Perez Rivera and Jesus Jose
Rivera of Aberdeen to Columba
Hernandez Bernabe and Joel
Monter Guzman of Raeford
•288 Lover’s Lane, Raeford,
from Sharlene Jackson to Kevin
and Sharlene Jackson of Raeford
•4.54 acres near Phillipi
Church Road, Raeford, from
Edwin, Larry and Pamela Best
James and Charles and Melissa
Best Staley to Courtney Scott
Williams of Raeford
•Heartland Lot 14, from the
Secretary of Veterans Affairs,
Washington D.C. to Zak Moore
of Fayetteville
•Lots 3 and 4 on Fairway
Lane, Raeford, Slide 4-40, Map
003, from Upland Partners LLC
of Shannon to Kidd Construction
Co., Inc. of Fayetteville
•Eagles Ridge Phase 1, Lot 16,
from K&O Investments LLC of
Fayetteville to Kidd Construction
Co., Inc. of Fayetteville
•121 Dudley St., Raeford, from
Donald L. and Ruby Burrow to
Michael Raymond Burrow
July 17
•The Maples of Westgate
Section 2, Part 1, Lot 432, from
Westgate of Hoke LLC of Fayetteville to H&H Constructors
Inc. of Fayetteville
•The Maples of Westgate Section 4, Lot 931, from Westgate
of Hoke LLC of Fayetteville to
Caviness & Cates Building and
Development Co. of Fayetteville
•Wedgefield Phase 1B, Lot
32, from H&H Constructors
Inc. of Fayetteville to Brigida
Amos-Long and David L. Long
of Raeford
•Lot 68 Somerset Section 5,
from Aaron and Breeann Kyle
of Morrison, Ga. to Amanda
T. Mokhaizeem and Salem
Mokhaizeem of Raeford.
Marriage Licenses
Marriages recorded in Hoke
County, by date of event, from the
Hoke County Register of Deeds:
June 3
•Carlos Gutierrez and Yaseny
Olibet Gonzalez, both of St. Pauls,
married in Robeson County
June 7
•Thomas Ray Davis and Patricia Novembre, both of Raeford,
married in Hoke County
June 10
•Osvaldo Hernandez of Fort
Campbell, Ky. and Kristen Nicole
Holmgren of Raeford, married in
Hoke County
June 12
•Joshua Lloyd English and
Stacey Juliendia Gaillard, both
of Raeford, married in Durham
County
June 14
•David Lionel Beamon and Patricia Ann Davis, both of Raeford,
married in Hoke County
June 24
•Michael Maurice Monroe
and Carolene Bullard, both of
Raeford, married in Hoke County
June 29
•Gary Segal Hutchinson and
Jasmine Nasha Hemry, both of
Fayetteville, married in Hoke
County
July 2
•Leroy Smith Jr. and Alicia
Shonte McPhatter of Raeford,
married in Hoke County
July 6
•Kevin Shameek Valdes and
Danyle Renise Williams, both of
Raeford, married in Hoke County
July 7
•Douglas B. Dewitt-Dick of
Manvel, Texas and Alice I. Van
Dyke of Raeford, married in
Hoke County
•Taylor Robert Hohstadt of
Niceville, Fla. and Brandalyn
Nicole Wolfe of Jeannette, Penn.,
married in Hoke County
July 12
•Eric Godwin of Raeford and
Shauna Willette Arnold of Hope
Mills, married in Bladen County
•David Ramirez Solorzano and
Marbely Mendoza Brion, both
of Hoffman, married in Moore
County
•Thurman Franklin Carroll and
Pauline Sterling, both of Raeford,
married in Hoke County
•Ezz Hassan Abdelfattah and
Carla Jeanine Jackson, both of
Charlotte, married in Cumberland
County
July 14
•Nicolas Mark Fowler and
Kayleigh Marie Berounsky, both
of Raeford, married in Cumberland County
•William Edward Patterson Jr.
and Stephanie Nicole Vincent,
both of Red Springs, married in
Hoke County
•John Robert McPitee and
Jennifer Louise Blanton, both of
Raeford, married in Hoke County
July 15
•Francisco Olan Sesa and
Flor Hernandez Perez, both of
Raeford, married in Hoke County
July 18
•Mario Catalan and Carolina
Hernandez, both of Bladenboro,
married in Hoke County
•Russell Seratelli of Fort Bragg
and Yenoy Lopez of Miami, Fla.,
married in Cumberland County
•Eddie Ray Bullard and Erlinda Maricela Dominguez, both of
Parkton, married in Hoke County.
Accident
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connecting drainage pipes in a
trench on Fort Bragg around 11
a.m. Thursday when the accident
happened, according to Fort Bragg
spokesman Adam Luther.
“What they thought happened
was a large rock or a clump of dirt
made the walls break loose, and
subsequently fell in and buried him,”
Luther said.
Although rescuers arrived within
minutes, the trench was unstable and
crews could not use heavy equipment to dig Nettles out in case they
made the situation worse.
The rescue efforts turned into a
recovery mission at 1 p.m. Thursday. Emergency officials believed
that Nettles could not have survived
beyond that point due to the length
of time he had been buried and the
amount of weight pressing down
on him.
Rescuers recovered Nettles’
body from the 15-foot-deep trench
shortly before 6 p.m. Friday afternoon after a day-and-a-half of
working to uncover him. Rain and
the dangerous environment made
Other stuff
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The way this worked was that
for $15 we’d come to the room of
your choice any time after 6:15
a.m. and get a sleepy teenager up,
money-back-guaranteed. For $20
we’d add a guitar to the service;
and for $25 we’d throw in water,
figuratively and literally.
We got exactly one customer,
a 14-year-old-ish boy who wanted
us to arrive as early as possible
and get his buddy out of bed, and
he wanted the whole package. We
got his cell number, his adult advisor’s permission, nay, blessing,
and all but the GPS coordinates
of his room.
After several days of sleeping
on the floor and enduring noise
until the wee hours, getting up early
enough to carry out our mission was
a sacrifice for me, but you gotta do
what you gotta do.
I first had a cup of coffee, then
woke my two teenage suitemates—
Breakfast
Buffet
7:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Will and Ramon—at 6:12 (don’t
want to get there too early) and we
trudged off into the early dawn light
in search of Room 16. We found
our customer, but he told us he was
counting on an accomplice to open
the victim’s door so we could get in,
and this accomplice seemed to be
asleep. He wasn’t answering texts.
“I’ll just give you the $25 for your
trouble,” he said.
“No way,” we said. “Knock on
the victim’s door. He’ll have to get
up to answer the knock, and then
he’s getting the full treatment.”
The full treatment was actually
devised 40 years ago by Raeford’s
own Stephen Poole on one of our
youth group outings to Montreat.
We all gathered guitars one morning and went room-to-room yelling
and strumming roughly in the key
of E, “Wake up, wake up, wash
your ugly face!” Even all these
years later, words have never been
added, because we’d always get
attacked with pillows and the song
would be cut short. I have added my
own variation to the routine, which
involves pulling the victim, sheets
or sleeping bags and all, off the bed
and onto the floor—and sometimes
out the door. Never has the complete
package failed to awaken the teenager. Or the neighbors.
So with me holding the guitar,
Ramon a cup of water, and the
14-year-old a camera, Will knocked
on the door.
Never expected the teenager
who cracked the door to be bigger
than the four of us put together,
but he wasn’t expecting us at all,
so with my foot I pushed the door
wide open, we began strumming
and yelling, and Ramon poured
water down his back.
All in the name of alleviating
hunger.
Then we had to get a couple of
our own teenagers up, but we did
that for free.v
Court
Breaking and entering, larceny, 7300 block
of Laurinburg Road
Breaking and entering, larceny, 3400 block
of Reservation Road
Larceny, 100 block of Van Buren Drive
Assault on a female, 200 block of Springer
Drive
Assault on a handicapped person, 600 block
of McGilvery Lane
Arrest: Robert Major, 300 block of Purvis
Court, assault on a female, unauthorized use of
a motor vehicle, larceny
July 20
Assault on a female, 200 block of Springer
Drive
Breaking and entering, larceny, 4800 block
of Arabia Road
Breaking and entering, 200 block of
Springer Drive
Simple assault, 200 block of Windlock
Drive
Injury to personal property, 300 block of
Cockman Hill Road
Second-degree trespassing, illegal dumping, 100 block of Sorrell Court
Communicating threats, 100 block of
Bow Lane
Assault on a female, 100 block of Bahia
Lane
Arrests: Dominque Tyler, 100 block of
Pepper Tree Lane, assault inflicting serious
injury; Jerod McNeil, 100 block of Gardenias
Drive, assault inflicting serious injury; Kevin
Washington, 1600 block of Lombardy Village
Road, assault inflicting serious injury
July 21
Larceny, 2700 block of Highway 401
Business
Communicating threats, 100 block of
Young Lane
Breaking and entering, larceny from a motor
vehicle, 100 block of Bent Oak Court
Breaking and entering, 1800 block of
Highway 401 Business
Communicating threats, 100 block of
Himalaya Court
Communicating threats, 6300 block of
Arabia Road
Simple assault, 400 block of Fletch
McPhaul Road
Injury to real property, 200 block of
Covington Road
Larceny, 7300 block of Rockfish Road
Breaking and entering, larceny, 4000 block
of Turnpike Road
Breaking and entering, larceny of a motor
vehicle, 400 block of Bristol Oaks Drive
Injury to real property, 100 block of Lark
Court
Assault on a female, 100 block of Mill
Park Drive
Breaking and entering of a motor vehicle,
larceny, 100 block of Jefferson Drive
Domestic violence order violation, harassment, 100 block of Spencer Drive
Breaking and entering, domestic criminal
trespassing, 200 block of South Hoke Street
Felonious larceny, 200 block of Bent
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occupational safety investigations
in the state, except for those taking
place on government property and
maritime accidents.
Fort Bragg officials are also
conducting their own investigation
into what happened, according to
authorities.
Records show Tekton Construction had previously won several
contracts to do various projects on
Fort Bragg.
An obituary reported that the
family will hold a public viewing
Friday,August 1 in the Buie Funeral
Home chapel. A funeral for Nettles
will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, August 2 in the Cape Fear Conference
B Headquarters in Raeford. Burial
will be in the McLauchlin Chapel
Church cemetery.
Nettles is survived by his parents, Clyde Sr. and Anita Nettles;
fiancée, Amanda Jean Miller;
sisters, Aisha Nettles and Tracie
Nettles; brothers, Thomas Nettles
and Gary Nettles; aunt, Cynthia
Ingram; and uncles, David Butler
and Tahir Chase.
Sheriff Blotter
The Hoke Sheriff’s Department reported
the following recent incidents:
July 18
Breaking and entering a motor vehicle,
larceny, 200 block of Wilshire Lane
Phone harassment, 300 block ofAllegiance
Street
Malicious conduct by prisoner, 100 block
of East Edinborough Avenue
Breaking and entering, larceny, 1100 block
of Chason Road
Assault on a female, 200 block of Timber
Ridge Lane
Domestic dispute, 1000 block of South
Parker Church Road
Assault on a female, simple assault, 9300
block of Rockfish Road
Larceny, 9300 block of Rockfish Road
Illegal dumping, 200 block ofAntigua Drive
Trespassing, 500 block of Indian Lane
Arrests: Ronnie Locklear, 400 block of
Murph McLaughlin Road, order for arrest;
Donald Collins, 2300 block of North Hilltop
Road, order for arrest; Patrick Owen Clyde
Geagan, 9300 block of Rockfish Road, assault
on a female; Heather Kristina Rivera, 9300
block of Rockfish Road, simple assault; Juanita
Locklear, 300 block of Branch Road, assault
with a deadly weapon/communicating threats
July 19
Unauthorized use of a motor vehicle,
injury to personal property, larceny, 300 block
of Purvis Court
Breaking and entering, larceny from a motor vehicle, 2000 block of McNeil Farm Road
Communicating threats, breaking and
entering, injury to real property, 5300 block of
Stonegate Drive
Assault on a female, 100 block of Celena
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said. The rescuers were forced to
use buckets and hand shovels to
move the dirt.
“The walls were very unstable,
so for their safety, they needed to
shore up the walls, actually get in
there and remove the dirt,” Luther
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the bucket-of-an-excavator wide;
it’s only a couple of feet wide.“
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into what happened on the base.
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opened an investigation into the
situation,” he said.
Nettles was working for civilian
construction company Tekton Construction at the time of the accident,
Williams said.
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July 30, 2014 District Court
Recent cases disposed of in
Hoke County District Criminal
Court, Judge Regina M. Joe presiding on both days listed:
July 22
•Rodney Blue, 22, 141 Shady
Lane, Raeford, assault on a female,
30 days in jail, credit for two days
served; injury to personal property,
voluntary dismissal
•Daylen Jamar Brewington,
16, 984 Loop Road, Raeford, disorderly conduct at school, simple
affray, seven days suspended, 12
months unsupervised probation,
court costs, community service
and pay fee, judgments consolidated; injury to personal property,
voluntary dismissal; resisting a
public officer, voluntary dismissal
•Glenn Cummings, 62, 602
Haire Road, Raeford, shoplifting
by concealment of goods, seven
days suspended, pay $37.50 restitution jointly and severally with
co-defendant, court costs, community service and pay fee, not to
go on or about the premises of the
prosecuting business
•Darren Keith Day, 46, 155
Longleaf Drive, New Bern, driving
while license revoked, 20 days in
jail, credit for 20 days served
•Eshana Kanisha D. Malloy,
22, 5524 Brown St., Hope Mills,
misdemeanor larceny, 10 days suspended, 12 months unsupervised
probation, court costs, attorney
and court-appointment fees, not
to go on or about the premises of
the prosecuting business
•Steven Morrell McBryde,
17, 3471 Old Maxton Road,
Red Springs, disorderly conduct
at school, simple affray, seven
days suspended, 12 months unsupervised probation, court costs,
community service and pay fee,
judgments consolidated; injury
to personal property, voluntary
dismissal; resisting a public officer,
voluntary dismissal
•Phillip Lee Oxendine, 43, 101
Barber Shop Road, Lumberton,
misdemeanor larceny (two counts),
120 days in prison, active, per
count, credit for 13 days served for
one count; sentences to be served
consecutively
•Jessica Lynn Ramsburg, 23,
602 Haire Road, Raeford, shoplifting by concealment of goods, seven
days suspended, 12 months unsupervised probation, pay $37.50
restitution jointly and severally
with co-defendant, court costs,
community service and pay fee,
not to go on or about the premises
of the prosecuting business
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•Nicholas Swarl, 20, 84 Cliffdale St., Cameron, domestic criminal trespass, 14 days in jail, credit
for 14 days served; cyberstalking,
voluntary dismissal
•Candice Nicole Vaimaona, 31,
5549 Old Lowery Road, Shannon,
improper equipment—speedometer, court costs
•Takiya Adeen Williams, 38,
316 Beagle Drive, Raeford, communicating threats, second-degree
trespass, 30 days in jail, active,
judgments consolidated; driving
while license revoked, 30 days
in jail, active, to be served at the
expiration of above sentence
July 24
•Thelma Davis Barbour, 64,
2367 U.S. 401 Business, Raeford,
improper equipment—speedometer, $15 fine and court costs
•Dominic Andrew Basile Jr.,
22, 2325 Cumberland Gap Drive,
Fayetteville, improper equipment—speedometer, $15 fine and
court costs
•Gilbert Adam Briceno, 26,
409 Buckeye Drive, Raeford, improper equipment—speedometer,
court costs
•Lapia Nicole Campbell, 27,
126 Meadow Lane, Raeford, improper equipment—speedometer,
$50 fine and court costs
•Patrick Henry Chance, 31, 106
Charlie Drive, Shannon, driving
while license revoked, 20 days suspended, 12 months unsupervised
probation, $100 fine and court costs
•Darrell Chavis, 40, 442 McQueen Road, Shannon, failure to
wear seat belt by driver, $25.50 fine
and court costs; expired registration
card or tag, voluntary dismissal
•David John Coates, 31, 909
Greenleaf Drive, Fayetteville, improper equipment—speedometer,
$25 fine and court costs
•Milton Nahum Jimenez Flores,
36, 695 S. Old Wire Road, Red
Springs, no operator’s license,
prayer for judgment, court costs
•Michael Steven Gipson, 32,
131 Windsor Lane, Raeford, failure
to wear seat belt by driver, $25.50
fine and court costs; no operator’s
license, voluntary dismissal
•Camilo Gueta, 73, 198 Wallace
Glenn Road, Raeford, failure to
yield for private driveway, prayer
for judgment, court costs; failure
to report accident, voluntary dismissal
•Eric Daquan Harrington, 20,
724 W. New York Ave., Southern
Pines, unsealed wine or liquor in
passenger area, court costs
•Angelica LeAnn Harris, 31,
126 Owl Court, Raeford, no operator’s license, two days suspended,
six months unsupervised probation, $50 fine and court costs
•Michael Tyrone Ledford, 49,
116 Purple Marten Place, Fayetteville, improper equipment—speedometer, $75 fine and court costs
•Benjamin Chase Lewis, 29,
2109 Elvira St., Fayetteville, improper equipment—speedometer,
$25 fine and court costs
•Roger Dean Lowery, 31, 1671
Hall Road, Shannon, speeding 64
miles per hour in a 55-mph zone,
$50 fine and court costs
•Jimmy Ray Maynor, 64, 519 S.
9th St., Lake Wales, Fla., improper
equipment—speedometer, $50 fine
and court costs
•Willie Mable McLean, 61,
213 Pilgrim Mobile Home Park,
Raeford, failure to stop at a stop
sign or flashing red light, court costs
•Vincent Maurice McRae,
43, 100 Chapel Greens Place,
Aberdeen, improper equipment—
speedometer, $25 fine and court
costs
•Nathaniel Owens II, 43, 1217
Oak Ridge Plantation Road, Hephzibah, Ga., speeding 70 miles
per hour in a 55-mph zone, court
costs; reckless driving to endanger,
voluntary dismissal
•James Sterling Peterson, 46,
139 Prairie View Drive, Raeford,
improper equipment—speedometer, court costs
•Phillip Tyrone Prince, 40,
21700 Airbase Road, Wagram,
speeding 64 miles per hour in a
55-mph zone, $25 fine and court
costs
•Jeffeon Lashawn Purvis, 28,
628 McLeod St., Bennettsville,
S.C., improper equipment—speedometer, $25 fine and court costs
•Rolland Otis Raymond, 56,
3805 Champs Court, Fayetteville,
improper equipment—speedometer, $25 fine and court costs
•Kayla Bryant Shelvey, 51,
1124 Pinebluff Lake Road, Aberdeen, improper equipment—
speedometer, $25 fine and court
costs
•Dadrian Rashad Thomas, 27,
695 Pritchett Road, Fayetteville,
speeding 64 miles per hour in a 55mph zone, $25 fine and court costs
•Darell Devon Tyler, 25, 186
Oval Loop Road, Raeford, improper equipment—speedometer,
$25 fine and court costs
•Kyle Jonathan Vanderven, 19,
135 Ivy Stone Drive, Raeford, improper equipment—speedometer,
$15 fine and court costs.
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students back to school for the 2014-2015 school year
by offering four town hall meetings. These sessions are
for students and parents to attend according to the student’s grade level classification. Pertinent information
regarding your student’s school year will be presented,
and course schedules will be distributed during these sessions when a student attends with his or her parent or
guardian and completes required forms.
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Hoke football parents’ meeting Thursday
Head Football Coach Tom
Paris has called a mandatory parents’ meeting for any parent who
is expected to have a child play
football this season. The North
Carolina High School Athletic
Association requires this meeting. It will be held this Thursday,
July 31 beginning at 6 p.m. in the
Media Center on the campus of
Hoke High. For more information,
call the school at 910-875-2156.
Red Cross Run for the Red this weekend
By Hal Nunn
Sports writer
The American Red Cross
- Highlands Chapter, which
includes Hoke County, will
hold its 8th Annual Run for the
Red 10K, 5K and 1 mile walk
this Saturday, August 2 beginning at 7 a.m. in downtown
Fayetteville at Festival Park.
The Red Cross - Highlands
Chapter provides emergency
services to our neighbors
down the street, across the
nation and around the world.
The Highlands Chapter Red
Cross provides disaster relief
for more than 1,000 families
and military support for nearly
25,000 service members each
year. Sponsorship and participant information is available at
www.redcross.org/highlands.
Just Putting Around
Bayonet
The Wednesday Shootout at
Bayonet at Puppy Creek winners
were Brian Altman, Carl Casey,
Earnie Swann and Dave Wilson
with a 10-under. Second place was
Loren Beahm, Marcus Dudley,
Jamar Staggers, John Copeland
and Bob Persons with a 9-under.
Deercroft
The results from the Scotland
County Amateur held at Deercroft
Golf Course and Scotch Meadows
Country Club from July 19 are
as follows: 2014 Championship
Flight Champion –William Carter
of Raeford with a 68-75=143, 2nd
place-Tanner Horne 72-79=151,
3rd place-Travis Jackson 7184=155; First Flight: 1st placeRyan Anderson 78-77=155, 2nd
place-Sam Baker 78-78=156, 3rd
place-Dean English 79-78=157;
Second Flight: 1st place-Blake
Bathie 84-73=157, 2nd placeDavid Ganus 84-74=158, 3rd
place-Blake Caldwell 83-79=162;
Third Flight: 1st place-Jay McMillan 90-79=169, 2nd place-Joe
Williams 89-81=170, 3rd placeTerry Graves 86-84=170.
Upland Trace
Last Friday, Glenn Biggs shot
an eagle on hole #3 - a par 5. On
Saturday, Wayne Beasley shot a
round of 67 to tie the course record.
The Saturday morning group winners were Don Frykholm, Al Smith
and Art Dearing. The Saturday
“Pack” group winners were Wayne
Beasley, Greg Wyrick, Gary Cook
and Johnny Boyles. The Sunday
morning group winners were Tom
Batchelor, Steve Jumbelick and
Guy Wall. The Sunday afternoon
group winners were Ken Bullock
and Brian Stevenson.
Raeford Racing Round-Up
By Hal Nunn
Sports writer
Rockfish Speedway results
Rockfish Motorsports Speedway completed its Summer Sizzle
race last Saturday at the clay oval
off of Lindsay Road in Hoke
County. Collecting his third win
of the season and beating out Billy
“Go-Go” Gomez Jr. was Jonathan
Crooms in the Legends division.
Robert Knowles finished third.
Kurt Crosbie finished fourth and
Jody McCall finished fifth. In
the 600cc Sprint division, Jason
Brown got his second win of the
season edging out Buddy Trogden. Matt Jones finished third
and Dale Arnold finished fourth.
In the 270cc Micro Sprints, Andy
Cardinale of Pawley Island, South
Carolina got the first win of his
career, beating out Jody McCall.
Matt Carr came in third, Brittany
Trogden came in fourth and Matt
Jones came in fifth. In the Pro Go
Kart division, 72-year-old W.C.
McCall got his second win of the
season while Logan McPherson
finished second, Josh Gomez
finished third, Jake Layton fin-
ished fourth and Luke McPherson
finished fifth. In the Mini Pro Go
Karts, Dale Trogden got his fifth
win of the season ahead of Ben
McCall. Levi Brown finished third
while Timothy Hogan finished
fourth. Julian Jackson rounded
out the top five.
Rockfish Motorsports Speedway will be off this weekend but
will open August 9 for the End of
Summer Splash. Gates will open
at 3 p.m. with practice starting at
4 p.m. and racing at 5 p.m. For
more information, visit www.
rockfish-speedway.com.
Dixie Majors state championship run ends
By Hal Nunn
Sports writer
The Hoke County Dixie Majors All-Star team made it back
from Dunn and the state championship this weekend; however,
they didn’t bring home the title.
In the first game against West
Robeson Saturday, the boys from
Hoke fell behind early and went
on to lose 9-0. Head Coach Keith
Bryant said, “They jumped on
us early and that might have put
us back on our heels a bit.” In
the second game of the double
elimination tournament, they
played the Kannapolis All-Stars
and ended up losing 4-3 in extra
innings. “We had a couple of errors in the game; however, I will
always stand behind that group of
boys and in my opinion, it’s the
best Dixie Majors team I have seen
come out of Hoke County and I
wish them luck in the future,”
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Dixie Youth baseball has been
a fixture in Hoke County for a
while. Recently other counties
have changed over to what is
called O-Zone baseball. O-Zone
baseball is a part of Dixie Youth
baseball; however, it allows runners to lead off instead of waiting
for the pitch to cross the plate. It
also allows for different style bats
and longer baselines more similar
to middle school baseball.
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Walker
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professionally, composition. It
alarms me that sometimes students graduate and they’re not able
to compete with other counties or
with other states,” he said. “I want
to be proactive in things like that.”
As a teenager, Walker went to
work to help support his family
after his father died. He joined
the Marine Corps and served
in Vietnam before returning to
school to finish his high school
diploma. He attended Richmond
Community College to learn
technical skills and in 1995 started
his own electrician business called
Hoke Electric, which he operated
until retiring in 2008. He has also
served as a pastor for 36 years.
Walker and his wife Nancy
moved to Hoke in 1973 and raised
three children, who now have
families of their own. Walker said
he has been involved in volunteering as a chaperone with the local
schools, and one of his adult children teaches in the school system.
If elected, Walker said he
would like to focus on a number of different issues including employing highly qualified
teachers in the fields of science,
technology, engineering and
mathematics (STEM), supporting
military families and getting the
community more involved in the
schools as “stakeholders.”
“We need more businesses to
be a part of this school system,”
Walker said.
Assault
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Deputies called to the 1100
block of Athens Road in Raeford
just before 10 a.m. July 23 arrived
to find the suspect had broken into
the victim’s home while she was
asleep, according to the sheriff’s
office.
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average gas price for a gallon of
regular unleaded was $3.29 in
Tennessee.
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Helping children and teens
from military families transition
into Hoke is another important
priority for him, Walker said.
Supporting standards that can
make sure students come out of
high school “college and career
ready” is a must to be able to
help those students prosper after
graduation, he said.
“Students graduate and they
sort of get lost in the system.
They work in jobs that are not
high-paying jobs,” Walker said.
Supporting teachers, including financially, is also one of the
candidate’s goals.
“My goodness, we’re still
working to try to get our teachers a raise. Anything that I can
do to support them … I’m really
a person who believes teachers
ought to get a decent salary,” he
said. “And, of course, also the
teacher’s assistant should be paid
properly.”
Walker also said that, if elected, he would support upgrading
existing facilities and adding new
buildings where necessary. He
spoke favorably of the proposed
plan to build a third campus to
Hoke County High School.
“I want to be a part of things
like that,” he said.
Walker said he wants to work
within the board’s ethics and
framework to get things done.
He was president of the Native
American Bible College in Shannon for two years and knows
how boards work, he said. He
would also seek to develop close
relationships with the other board
members and the superintendent.
“It’s going to take a team effort and I like to work as a team
individual,” he said.
The biggest challenge for the
county schools remains getting
adequate funding, Walker said.
Hoke is one of the fastest-growing
counties in the state and needs
money to make important projects
happen.
“I don’t believe it’s our county
commissioners but just the lack of
funds that I believe is going to be
a challenge for us, but I believe
we can make it,” he said.
If elected, Walker said, his first
priority would be to look at the
student population numbers at
each school and focus on preparing for continued growth.
“Our high school is running
over capacity,” he said. “…We’re
growing in leaps and bounds,
and somehow things have to be
stretched to make things comfortable for those people who are
coming in.”
The candidate said people
should consider voting for him
because he is familiar with the
school system, is passionate about
supporting students and teachers
and is a team player.
”I’ve been in the system. I’m
fresh, I’m new, I have a great zeal
for it. I think I could make some
things happen,” Walker said.
Blackmon allegedly held
Shannon Durham at gunpoint
and took her cell phone and then
ordered her to go into the bathroom where Blackmon allegedly
assaulted her, authorities said.
The victim was told to go into
the kitchen and then noticed the
door was open. She was able to
run out of the door and escape to
a neighbor’s residence, where she
called 911.
Investigators were able to
locate Blackmon and arrest her
at her home in Parkton. She was
held under a $100,000 bond.
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under $100 per item and tablets,
computers and computer-related
accessories that cost less than
$1,000. Items such as cell phones
and televisions are not included.
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access to here, we don’t have access
to in Moore County, so we come way
down here to buy fish and some other
stuff—peas,” she said. “We have to
go, we have to get a bushel of peas,
because we don’t have anybody up
there who sells them.”
The fresh produce that’s a big
enough draw to pull in customers
from other counties is taking over
as the biggest focus at the locally
owned and operated grocery store,
David McNeill said. The grocery
items such as canned goods and
meat will be going away to make
room for more produce.
“We’re just going to kind of refocus our ideas of what we’re going
to be selling here and capitalize on
our farm-fresh produce, because we
grow a lot of our stuff and we support a lot of our local farmers here
as well,” McNeill said. “Hopefully,
we can provide more of the produce
aspect of the market and kind of more
of a variety of what we’re going to
have as well.”
The hometown grocery store has
been around for almost a century,
and includes a feed and seed section
in the adjacent building. This year
marks the 96th anniversary, and the
change in focus to solely offering
produce is a business move to make
sure Home Food is around to see its
100th birthday. The grocery store
market is “cutthroat” these days,
McNeill said.
“I hate that it’s come to this, but
this is what’s going to be the best for
the future as well,” he said.
About 80 percent of the store’s
fruit and vegetables are from local
farmers. Everything from beans to
honey comes from Hoke and surrounding counties. Fresh produce
has always been the store’s bestseller,
McNeill said.
“It’s the bread and butter,” he said.
Home Food’s takeout window
will also continue to sell sandwiches,
desserts and drinks to hungry customers who want something a little
different than typical fast food. The
store opened the grill when the How-
ell Drugstore lunch counter closed.
The old drugstore’s chicken salad
might be gone, but Home Food’s
chicken salad sandwich is on the
menu on Main Street.
That was customer Jodi Onachila’s pick for lunch Tuesday. She likes
to come to the window for lunch
after working out in an exercise
class, she said.
“I just think it’s healthy eating
and it’s convenient,” she said.
Kim Hollingsworth, who took
Onachila’s order at the window,
said the menu is fast to go but not
fast food.
“Everything’s homemade—
homemade desserts, fresh ground
burgers daily,” she said.
The grill uses local ingredients
from the grocery store in its cooking
too, Hollingsworth said.
The feed store will continue operating as usual and Home Food is
not in any danger of shutting down,
McNeill said.
“We’re definitely not going
anywhere,” he said.
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910-944-7115 | LEITHCHRYSLERDODGEJEEPRAM.COM
*Customers must finance through Chrysler Capital to qualify for advertised discount. Not all customers will qualify. See dealer for details.
Tax, tag and $398 administrative/documentary fee additional. Ram Truck Month expires 7/31/14. LMBP002413 RN 7/16,23,30.