Hospital Takes Over EMS Service

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Hospital Takes Over EMS Service
STATE CUTS ANNOUNCED
Brian Alligood, Granville
County’s manager issued a
public statement Wednesday
announcing that he had
confirmed that the North
Carolina General Assembly
has made a decision to take
away funds from the “North
Carolina Education Lottery”
which had been allocated to
the counties for school
building construction. The
General Assembly Alligood
said will now use the proceeds
from the counties in an effort
to help balance the state
budget. Based on projections
from the North Carolina
Association of County
ommissioners, Granville
ounty will lose $608,4367 in
unding. This equals
pproximately 1.6 cents on
roperty tax rate.
Alligood said he had
otified the school system that
ased on these actions by the
tate, the county would need
o look to another funding
ource for their planned school
enovation projects or defer
he projects for another year
o see if the State restores the
ottery funding as it has said
t will. The original plan was
o use some of the lottery
unds to assist in needed
enovations to existing
chools, however due to this
ut, those lottery funds will be
eeded to pay debt service on
xisting school construction
onds.
HOLIDAY CLOSING
Bob's Barbecue will be
closed July 5th to observe
Independence Day.
GREENE FILES
Bobby E. Greene filed for
one of the seats for Soil and
Water Conservation District
Supervisor on June 17, 2010
SEMIANNUAL MEETING
The Butner Chapter of
the North Carolina Retired
Government Employees'
Association (NCRGEA) will
hold it's semiannual meeting
at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July
13, 2010 in the Murdoch
Chapel at the Murdoch
Center Campus on "C" Street
in Butner.
The speaker will be
Michael Williamson, Deputy
Director of the North
Carolina Retirement System,
to discuss the safety of our
retirement system. In
addition, NCRGEA Executive
Director Ed Regan will give
an overview of the current
2010 North Carolina
Legislative Session.
This free meeting is open
to all retired North Carolina
state and local (city/county)
retirees in Durham,
Franklin, Granville, Nash,
Orange, Person, Vance and
Warren counties. The Butner
chapter meets twice a year
and the meeting is open to all
retired state and local
government employees. The
meeting is also open to nonmembers.
For further information
call: Linda Alligood at 575-
6480.
The Granville
Emergency Medical Services
has been officially
transferred from county
operation to the Granville
Health System effective July
1, 2010. Granville EMS
provides emergency rescue
and transport services in
Granville County.
The transition was first
publically announced May
3rd when Granville County
manager Brian Alligood
submitted the proposed
2010-2011 county budget
which included the
announcement of the
planned change.
It was made official
Monday June 21st by action
of the County
Commissioners.
Discussions of the
proposed change had earlier
been held privately between
County Manager Alligood
and Lee Isley, Chief
Executive Officer of
Granville Medical System,
and had been approved by
the Granville Health System
Board of Directors and by
the N.C. Office of Emergency
Medical Services.
“Both the County and
GHS are committed to
supporting the health and
safety of our community,”
said Lee Isley. “Granville
County has done a great job
managing EMS services and
providing us with the
extensive data needed in
making this transition. We
look forward to building on
our long tradition of
teamwork and commitment
to delivering quality care to
our residents.”
“Granville Health
System has been acting as
the Granville EMS
Advanced Life Support
sponsor for nearly two
decades and has worked at
developing transport
protocols with Granville
EMS during this time.”
“GHS offers the EMS
division access to
experienced medical
oversight, increased capital
resources and operational
support strengthened by an
excellent working
relationship established
over decades of service to the
community,” said Isley. “We
are pleased to have the
opportunity to build on this
relationship and welcome
our County’s paramedics
and EMTs to the health
system.”
Hospital officials will be
working with EMS Services to
evaluate improvements to the
current system. The
evaluation includes upgrading
response vehicles and the
conversion of some part-time
EMS stations to 24/7
operational facilities. GHS is
committed to ensuring the
EMS Division meeting
industry standards for premier
performance and services to
the citizens of Granville
County,’ Isley said.
Concerns Expressed
Creedmoor Commissioners
Jimmy Minor and Otha Piper
expressed the fear that the
change might mean that the
Creedmoor satellite branch
could close.
Isley said however that the
hospital had no plans to close
the Creedmoor or any of the
other locations operated by the
County and would likely
expand the operations at some
of the satellite bases.
Ronald Bracey of
Creedmoor who appeared
before a meeting of the County
Commissioners on June 21st
objected to the closed meetings
at which the details of the
change were discussed.
“This should have been
advertised as a need with a
public meeting for input and
suggestions,” Bracey
commented.
Prior to the meeting
Bracey said, “If fifty or more
people had been able to have
input you might have gotten
more bang for the buck.”
“I suggested for instance
that a GPS locator be included
as a devise inside the
ambulance units so the EMS
dispatcher could know when
the unit was returning from a
transport to the hospital so it
could possibly be dispatched
when it was close to it’s base
rather than sending a unit
from outside the area which
was farther away.
“Administrator Isley said
my idea deserved some further
investigation,” Bracy said.
He continued. “This is the
kind of input that could have
been obtained from a public
meeting on this important
change.”
“If the change from County
to hospital management is
done simply because of saving
costs then I think people would
be willing to pay more to get a
higher level of care,” he added.
EMS
“We see assuming the
management of the
Emergency Medical Service
as an extension of taking care
of the people of Granville
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Fireworks, Celebrations
Planned This Weekend
Events to celebrate
Independence Day are
The Exchange Club of South Granville held their 26th annual officer installation and awards banquet
on June 24th at Bob’s Barbecue. Officers and Board of Directors members shown above are immediate
past president Christene Emory; John Womble, President; Betty Aiken, Secretary; Barbara King,
Treasurer and Second row Diana Dudley, Vice President and James Jones, Ron Daniels and Merle
Edwards, directors. Not pictured are director Daniel Lucas and Harry Conte, who received the Exchange
Club of the Year Award.
A statue of Uncle Sam holding an American flag decorates the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ottarski
on Southerby Road in Creedmoor to celebrate July 4th. Local July 4th celebrations will start with the
Fireworks display event on July 2nd at Lake Holt and will continue with the Creedmoor Chambers
celebration at Lake Rogers on Saturday.
planned for Friday July 2nd
in Butner and Saturday July
3rd in Creedmoor.
Creedmoor Celebrates
The Creedmoor Chamber
of Commerce is sponsoring
the July 3, 2010 activities at
Lake Rogers in Creedmoor to
celebrate the Independence
Day Holiday. A day is planned
with hot dogs with all of the
trimmings and drinks.
There will be music by the
“Mule Town” band. This band
is made up of local talent.
Organizers suggest that
festival attendees bring a
lawn chair and enjoy this good
ole fashioned music.
A cake baking contest will
be held at 1:00 PM.
A prize of $50.00 is offered
for first place, $30.00 for
second place and $25.00 for
third place.
Fireworks
The City of Creedmoor
and the Town of Butner are
partnering again along with
the county commissioners
and the Town of Stem and
County which is already what
we are doing,” Lee Isley, the
others this year to plan a
Fireworks Display for
southern Granville County.
The 2010 Butner /
Creedmoor Annual 4th of July
Celebration event which is
scheduled for Friday, July 2nd
at Lake Holt, located on Old
Highway 75 in Butner.
The gates will open at 6:00
p.m. Parking and security
will be organized by officers of
Butner Public Safety, the
Creedmoor Police Dept, the
Oxford Police Dept., the
Granville County Sheriff’s
Dept., Creedmoor Fire Dept.,
Stem Fire Dept. and the
Junior Volunteer Fire Dept.
Everyone who wants to
attend must be through the
gates by 8:45, as there will be
no admittance after that time.
The fireworks show will begin
once it gets dark.
There will be a D.J. and
lots of music throughout the
evening. Concessions will be
available, offering a selection
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2a The Butner-Creedmoor News, Thursday, July 1, 2010
FAT HARRY’S
by Harry Coleman
SOAP OPERA REVIEW
by Toby Goldstein
ALL MY CHILDREN GENERAL HOSPITAL
Cooking Column Crossword Puzzle
After his adoption by Sonny lied to Alexis and
Creedmoor resident Dr. LaHoma Smith Romocki was
named earlier this year as the Country Director of Operations
of The Peace Corps for the Republic of Cameroon in the
western part of the African continent.
The country is called “Africa in miniature” because of its
geological and cultural
diversity. It includes
natural features including
beaches, mountains,
deserts, rain forests and
savannas.
Cameroon is home to
over 200 different ethnic
and linguistic groups.
Dr. Romocki has been a
resident of Creedmoor since
1991 and is married to Tim
Dr. LaHoma Romocki
Romocki, who is a former
Peace Corps volunteer.
Tim Romocki currently works as the Director of the Debt
Management Section of the NC Department of the State
Treasurer’s office in Raleigh.
They have two children, Rozalia, 17 and Moses, 14.
LaHoma was a girl scout troop leader before leaving for
Cameroon and often attended sporting events of the SGAA
where her children participated in team sport activities.
D r .
Romocki has
committed her
career to
helping to
increase
awareness of
global health
problems.
S h e
received her
undergraduate
Dr. Romocki stands by the roadside in Cameroon
degree from
next to a sign to other towns.
D u k e
University.
From 1999 to 2002, she worked as a Research Associate
while earning a PhD in Journalism and Mass Communication
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a
concentration in Health Communication. She also holds the
Master of Public Health degree (MPH) in Health Education,
also from UNC-CH.
Prior to her announcement as Country Director in January
2010, Romocki served as Chair and faculty member in the
Department of Public Health Education at North Carolina
Central University. She also had an adjunct appointment at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She led the
NCCU team as part of a successful grant from the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) to support efforts to build
partnerships with multiple stakeholders and increase health
research literacy.
Her past accomplishments including leading a team of
public health
students to
Ghana, West
Africa during
the summer
months. In
November,
2007, she
received the
President’s
Award and in
June 2008, she
was awarded
the Franklin H.
Williams Award
LaHoma meets with other Peace Corps workers
in Cameroon.
for outstanding service from Peace Corps in a ceremony at
the agency’s headquarters in Washington. Since March 2008,
Dr. Romocki has served as a consultant on the United States
Agency for International Development. Last year she traveled
to Kenya, East Africa where she assessed combination HIV
prevention programming activities. Romocki also has
extensive field experience in sub-Saharan Africa and speaks
French. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer (80-82) and
later returned to the Central African Republic (CAR) as the
Associate Director for Health Programs (84-87), serving as
the Acting Director in the absence of the Country Director.
Romocki lived in Cameroon (87-89) and consulted for a number
of non-governmental agencies as well as the National AIDS
Control Program.
She has over 25 years of experience managing programs
to advance public health objectives. Her extensive experience
includes creating strategic communication plans, developing
corporate marketing and educational materials, and designing
and implementing complex statewide, national and
international public health programs.
Dr. Romocki has developed health communication and
training programs on reproductive health and HIV/AIDS in
various contexts and settings. She led the Research Triangle
Park based Family Health International(FHI)’s efforts to
develop communication strategies for national AIDS
programs. She provided technical assistance in conducting
information and training needs assessments, developed
educational materials, and designed training curricula in
fifteen (15 countries).
Dr. Romocki served as a senior policy analyst for the White
House Office of National AIDS Policy to coordinate and provide
support on international AIDS issues.
At the North Carolina Division of HIV/AIDS, Dr. Romocki
monitored and evaluated statewide AIDS prevention activities
and services at local health departments, drug and alcohol
treatment centers, and community-based education and risk
reduction programs. She has worked closely with research
organizations to integrate and communicate findings to
service providers, policy-makers, and community stakeholders
and she served on the North Carolina Institute of Medicine
and Public Health’s Task Force on Health Literacy.
Tad was finalized, Damon
suggested that he and Liza
improve their relationship.
However, a friendly hug
turned into an unexpected
kiss by Damon, who wanted
to keep the impulsive
gesture a secret from Tad.
When Damon told Colby he
can’t go to New York with
her, she turned down the
internship but lied to
Damon that the spot was
canceled. Coming: Angie
suffers a setback in her
treatment.
AS THE WORLD
TURNS
Unaware that Barbara
is captive in the warehouse,
Henry wondered why she
didn’t interrupt his
wedding. Vienna pretended
to have a miscarriage,
which prompted Katie to
tell Henry the truth - there
never was a baby. Paul
received a postcard
indicating that Barbara is
on a cruise, but when he ran
into Will, Gwen and Hallie,
Will insisted that Barbara
hates cruises. Coming:
Barbara’s absence becomes
cause for concern.
BOLD AND
BEAUTIFUL
Bridget’s plea to Nick
not to give up on their
marriage was met with
anger and a crushing
response about their nonfuture
together. Nick then
issued a warning to Jackie
that shocked Owen and
Bridget, who crossed the
line during a private
moment with Owen.
Stunned by Steffy’s list of
demands as her price to
keep quiet about what
happened between them,
Oliver and Brooke made a
decision. Coming: Hope
believes she’s lost her
chance for happiness.
DAYS OF OUR LIVES
Determined to unearth
the evidence EJ and Stefano
have against her, Nicole
recorded them and caught
EJ revealing that he was
behind Sydney’s
kidnapping. A triumphant
Nicole taunted EJ with her
knowledge that he had
Anna kidnap Sydney. When
Melanie slipped and told
Philip that Daniel and
Chloe are expecting a baby,
a stunned Philip realized
that he could be the father.
Coming: EJ’s whole future
is on the line.
Granville Health System
(GHS) announced that L. Lee
Isley, GHS Chief Executive
Officer, has been chosen to
help set policy for the state’s
hospital trade association.
Isley recently began a threeyear
term as an at-large
member of the board of
trustees of the North Carolina
Hospital Association.
“I am pleased to have this
opportunity to continue
working with the North
Carolina Hospital
Association,” said Isley. “It is
important that our
community and Granville
Health System have a voice
determining the direction of
health care policy in North
Carolina.”
Isley joins three other
hospital administrators and a
physician as incoming
members of the 22-person
board.
“We are delighted to have
Lee Isley joining our board
and greatly appreciate his
commitment,” said Bill Pully,
president of the organization
that represents 130 hospitals
and health systems statewide.
“Lee has demonstrated great
leadership at his hospital,
particularly on quality issues,
insisted that he didn’t order
the car bomb that could have
killed Kristina, had Johnny
not pulled her away in time.
However, Michael overheard
Sonny admit that he was
behind the attack and talked
with his father about
continuing to hide the truth.
Patrick had sex with Lisa
and was immediately
regretful. When Robin
returned home and was
ready for intimacy, Patrick
couldn’t perform. Coming:
Sonny’s romantic
adventures take a new turn.
ONE LIFE TO LIVE
Ford revealed that Eli
had sent the letter telling
him to finger Hannah for his
attack. After taking on
Hannah as his new client,
Eli questioned her about
whether she saw who
pushed Marty, and warned
her not to tell what she
knows about Marty and
Ford. The barn shootout left
Bull dead and James
injured. Cole noted Starr’s
emotional connection to
James when she received
news about his condition.
Coming: Decisions are made
about two proposals.
PRETTY LITTLE LIARS
The girls’ attempt to
ignore “A’s” messages
having failed, their secrets
started to leak out. Aria
feared that her family might
not survive the interest of
her father’s former mistress.
Hanna faced humiliation
when she had to look the
opposite of a fashionista in
order to clear her debt.
Spencer’s rash action gave
her an undeserved honor
that could be exposed at any
moment. Coming: How long
will the truth about Jenna’s
blindness stay concealed?
YOUNG AND
RESTLESS
Adam was arrested and
charged with conspiracy to
commit murder. Michael
told Owen that he has the
killer and it isn’t Nick, as
Owen and Paul learned that
Patty and Adam had been in
the mental hospital at the
same time. While Adam told
Billy to get Rafe for his
lawyer if Billy wants Adam’s
story for Restless Style,
Victoria and Paul asked
Emily to talk to Patty in
hopes of finding out the
truth. Coming: Adam still
intends to pull the strings.
Lee Isley Appointed To North
Carolina Hospital Association
Board Of Trustees
and as a former member of
the association’s Policy
Development Committee. Lee
brings valuable insights and
a wealth of experience to his
board service.”
In August of 2006, Isley
was selected as the new Chief
Executive Officer for
Granville Health System. He
has found great success in
developing physician
relationships and working
partnerships, benefiting both
Granville Health System and
the community. Working in
conjunction with an effective
board of trustees and an
exceptional medical team, he
has led the health system as
it added new service lines,
recruited medical staff and
acquired new regional health
care providers. During this
growth, GHS has had a 32%
growth rate in outpatient
services, along with
significant increases in
inpatient and surgical
services. Isley continues to
focus on developing an
engaged medical staff and
identifying growth
opportunities that set
Granville Health System
apart from other regional
health systems.
CROSSWORD
CLUES
ACROSS
1 Opera highlight
5 Israeli dances
10 Poor-box
contribution
14 In person
16 Castle defense
17 From that time on
18 Undersized
19 Anxiety
20 Con man’s aide
21 Uneven
24 In agreement
27 Yen
28 Expansive
speaker
29 Concur
soundlessly
30 Replacements for
LPs
32 Mild discomfort
36 Manipulate
37 Turn left!
38 Mimic
39 Religious woman
40 Thoughtful
42 Barnyard layer
43 Illuminated
44 Elgar’s “__ Variations”
46 Check attachment?
47 In direct confrontation
50 Barbecue spit
52 Tosses out
53 Saw socially
55 Ascend
56 Universal
61 Partly open
62 In contact
63 “Airplane” star Robert
64 Graduation group
65 Altar area
DOWN
1 Ship’s rear
2 Stadium shout
3 Hot jewelry?
4 Carbonate
5 “Stardust” composer
Carmichael
6 Switch positions
7 Working cat
8 Sleeve card
9 Sun. homily
10 Two-handled jar
11 Comic Anderson
12 Virile
13 Technique
15 Camper’s shelter
Your Week Ahead Horoscope
July 1- July 7 , 2010
by Lasha Seniuk
www.mysticstars.net
ARIES (March 21-April
19): Juggle your way to
success. You may need to
filter ideas as an
intermediary this week.
Discover the value of
creating a feedback loop
between those in the field
and those orchestrating the
proceedings.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20): If everyone gives a little,
then everyone can gain a lot.
Your ability to find ways to
achieve a compromise and
display a team spirit is
sorely needed. Focus on
cooperation during the first
part of the week.
GEMINI (May 21-June
20): Some people think they
know everything, but know
little else. You understand
your limitations and willing
to make sure you have dug
up all the facts. Work
diligently behind the scenes
in the week ahead.
CANCER (June 21-July
22): Mental exertion can be
laborious but fulfilling. You
may glean valuable
information by asking the
right questions in the week
to come. Don’t probe too
deeply or play psychoanalyst
with a mate.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
Don’t fret if your wallet
seems to shrivel up just
when you need to stretch it
further to make ends meet.
By the end of the week, your
ability to profit and to juggle
income and obligations will
improve.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Never memorize anything
you can look up. You don’t
need to waste your time and
brainpower on minor details
that are readily available on
the Internet or in the phone
book. Focus on big things
this week.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
You can’t lose the argument
if you don’t take part. Your
diplomacy and tact are
needed when a delicate
20 Like hot stuff
21 Dawn
22 Commonplace writing
23 Poet Nash
25 Honda competitor
26 Day’s march
28 City on Lake Ontario
30 Coarse cotton trousers
31 Boat lift
33 Relative by marriage
34 Connecting rooms
35 Go in
41 Irish dogs
45 Stheno’s sister
46 Site of Mohammed’s
tomb
47 Hebrew text
48 ESP board?
49 Literary composition
50 Proofreader’s notations
51 Lotto variant
54 Home of Iowa State
56 SASE, for example
57 Mountain pass
58 Flatfoot
59 Nincompoop
60 Spike or Pinky
situation rears its head. In
the week ahead don’t let
hidden tensions or stress get
the best of you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.
21): Look for the exit ramp.
You may speed along and
rush ahead at too frantic a
pace in the upcoming week.
A ticklish situation might
make you laugh but could
prove expensive, so depart
gracefully.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21): If you make it,
they can take it. On the
heels of yesterday’s eclipse,
you may feel cut off from
your ability to hang onto
income. You may be expected
to contribute in substantial
ways this week.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-
Jan. 19): A desire left
burning can cause churning.
An obsession with
something or someone can
overpower your good sense.
Efforts to have your cake
and eat it too can create
turmoil in the week ahead.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18): You know a mountain
by its peak, but remember
that the peak is the smallest
part of the mountain. Even
if you don’t reach financial
or career goals, be glad there
is something to aspire to this
week.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20): Dread not, err not. In
the week ahead you won’t
make mistakes if you control
your fears and anxieties.
Lucky for you, the part of the
brain that imagines the
worst will happen has a
short attention span.
SOLUTION

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Upcoming Events And Activities
SUMMER CAMP MEETING
Volunteers are needed at
New Life Church for a free
summer camp to be held June
14th - August 18th.
Anyone interested in
volunteering or having their
child participate in the camp,
you may attend this
informative meeting on May
10th at 6:30 p.m.
Camp highlights will be
Bible study, recreation,
educational workshops, field
trips and work studies. The
meeting will be held at New
Life Church, located at 40
Church Street, Oxford.
For more information, call
919-693-2760.
SUMMER READING
VGBN MEETING
The Vance-Granville
Business Network meets on
the 2nd and 4th Thursday of
each month from 7:30 – 8:30
am.
The Vance-Granville
Business Network was
formed in 2007. It is an area
organization of executives and
professionals working
together to network and
advance area businesses.
VGBN seeks to foster high
ethical standards, implement
networking events, and
provide mutual support and
fellowship for members who
serve their communities.
If you are a business
owner or professional who
seeks to share with other
professionals, please come to
a meeting. Guests can visit
three times, after which they
must submit an application
for membership. In order to
become a member of VGBN,
candidates must: a) promote,
sell or be involved with a line
business not currently
represented by the existing
members b) not compete with
another member’s major line
of business in such a way as
to make an existing member’s
membership less productive,
c) contribute to the growth,
community
and
productiveness of the
Network, and d) be employed
in their stated line of business
in a committed fashion.
Meetings commence with
open networking at 7:30 am,
followed by introductions,
passing of business cards, a
10-minute member
presentation, an educational
discussion, and a brief
business meeting.
Prospective visitors or
members can contact
President Eddie Dickerson at
the Masonic Home for
Children School of Graphic
Arts, phone 919-603-3910 or
e-mail edickerson@mhcoxford.org,
or contact Vice-
President Virginia Clay at
800.648.5571 e-mail
virginia.clay@smithbarney.com.
For more information,
visit the VGBN web site at
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On Saturday, June 19th, 2010, those who attended or graduated from Stem High School got together
for their annual reunion. Those attending are: Front: Mabel Allen Harris - Teacher; 1st Row: Left to
right: Lillian Ellis Poole, Ellen Jones Wilkins, Ethel O. Blalock, Marian M. Laws and John Clayton, 2nd
Row: Mary Lewis Bowling, Ludie Lunsford, Hallie Rue Oakley, Edna M. Brooks, Ann Parrott, Sarah
Newton Oakley, Nellie G. Hudgins and Hazel Roberts. 3rd Row: Jean Ellis, Frances Bullock, Mary W.
Long, Clarence Riley, Joe Gooch, Naomi E. Brogden, Steve Satterwhite, Clarence Oakley, Robert Hall
and Frances Hall.

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THE BUTNER-CREEMOOR NEWS
EDITORIAL PAGE
THURSDAY
July 1, 2010
Why do so many prisoners
who have served their time in
jail get released only to return
o jail shortly thereafter?
Part of the reason is that
here are very few resources
vailable to them to help them
ecome productive, actively
mployed citizens once they
re released.
Employers now often
onsult easily available
ebsites before they hire new
mployees to make sure the
pplicants don’t have a
riminal record. Finding one
akes the applicant an
lmost sure bet to have their
pplication thrown in the
rash can.
This reaction is not hard
o understand. The
usinesses do not need to
amble with someone who’s
ecord is tarnished with a
riminal record especially
hen there are so many
eople looking for work.
What would be a
roductive resource would be
or the state to develop a
alfway house program
hereby prisoners leaving the
tate correctional system
ould go to a regimented in
ouse program like the drug
reatment centers such as
amascus Home in
reedmoor.
At such a program those
leaving detention would not
be simply dumped on the
street with a few dollars and
little chance to earn a living
in the complicated society we
live in without returning to
old ways including the habits
that got them into prison in
the first place.
It’s hard for anyone
starting out to make a start
now-a-days even without the
extra baggage of a prison
record.
A program that offered
some structure, counciling
and job guidance would go a
long way to helping exinmates
continue to be exinmates.
There would be some investment
by a state agency in
the short run.
Adding any new programs
are a subject that is frowned
on by the hard pressed state
legislature.
In the long run however
such a program could save
much more money than it
would take to have an offender
return to prison after
failing to make it outside.
Let’s be realistic. If we
don’t give released convicts a
chance to make it on the
outside there are going to be
more crime victims.
Harry Coleman
The Promise Of Early College
F rom their own classroom
high school Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton, who
accounts, kids drop out of seats” no one
degree and a while in the state Senate
school for many different solution will A V IEW two-year sponsored the 2003 bill that
reasons.
ever solve the
associates or began the schools, said the
Besides the obvious d r o p o u t
F ROM technical students who enroll are looking
“poverty and lack of problem.
degree in for the motivation that a realworld,
job-focused education
educational attainment by Still, pouring
over those
all of them provides. “They eat it up,” he
R ALEIGH five years,
parents” surveys show that
most dropouts cite a lack of student surveys
or talking
By Scott The schools
tuition free. said. “They see a relevance to
motivation and a lack of
an early college.”
expectations. Roughly 30 to kids and
Mooneyham focus on
The relevance comes, in
percent of North Carolina teachers, it
career-related
areas of specialty and
part, by partnering with
industry. An early college in
teens leave school without becomes obvious that many
Wake County partners with
ever graduating.
at-risk students simply fail to are aimed at first-generation
Wake Medical Center, with
In 2009, North Carolina see the relevance of classroom college hopefuls. Besides
students gaining exposure to
reported a graduation rate of instruction to their economic earning associate degrees at
health care-related jobs.
71.7 percent. That number futures. They fail to connect community colleges, some
Dalton also heads
was better than in previous the dots between education students take those college something called the Joining
years, but the graduation rate and job.
credits and head to four-year Our Businesses and Schools,
really hasn’t changed a whole Earlier this decade, colleges.
or JOBS, Commission, which is
lot during the last couple of though, North Carolina began Today, 70 of the schools promoting more of the
decades. The needle hasn’t an effort that’s providing some operate in the state. The 15 partnerships with business.
moved despite hundreds of needed relevance.
schools that have existed State Sen. A.B. Swindell, a
millions of dollars poured into Legislation passed in long enough to have a fouryear
Nash County Democrat, is
early childhood education and 2003, along with a boost from
cohort of graduates pushing legislation to
efforts to hold schools more the Bill and Melinda Gates report a graduation rate of encourage the development of
accountable for academic Foundation, helped local 91.7 percent.
more of the schools.
achievement.
school systems establish what “Early college prepares The 70 schools may just be
Short of mandating that are called early college high you for the real world,” Drew a start, but they’re
17- and 18-year olds attend schools. The schools, most of Benbow, a Buncombe accomplishing something that
school “which really wouldn’t them operated on community County student enrolled in traditional middle and high
accomplish much except college campuses, allow one of the schools, recently schools have struggled with.
putting uninterested kids in students to earn a four-year told a legislative committee. They’re connecting the dots.
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I continued working
with my fellow members of
the House this week to pass
legislation that I believe will
improve the lives of all
North Carolina citizens. The
following information
highlights just some of the
legislation that was passed
by the House this week.
Economy
_The sunset on some
economic incentives would
be extended under a bill that
passed the House this week
(HB 1973). These economic
incentives include a credit
for constructing renewable
fuel facilities, a credit for
small business employee
health benefits, and a credit
for biodiesel producers,
among others. If enacted,
the legislation would also
provide an enhanced
incentive for jobs in high
unemployment counties.
Energy/Environment
_The Energy Policy
Councilwould be directed to
identify, study, and recommend
policies to increase
energy efficiency and
conservation under a bill
that passed the House this
week (HB 1804)
. The legislation would
also direct the Energy Policy
Council to promote renewable
energy resources and
reduce carbon emissions.
_Legislation to address
oil spill liability, response
and preparedness passed
the House this week (SB
836). Among other things,
the legislation will: (1)
clarify liability for damages
caused by the discharge of
natural gas, oil, or drilling
waste into state coastal
fishing waters or offshore
waters; (2) provide for the
review of information
related to proposed offshore
fossil fuel facilities to
determine whether they are
consistent with state
guidelines for the coastal
area; (3) direct the Coastal
Resources Commission to
review
existing
laws and
regulations
t h a t
pertain to
offshore
energy
exploration
a n d
production
in light of
the recent
British
Petroleum
( B P )
accident; (4) direct the
Department of Crime
Control and Public Safety to
immediately review and
update the oil spill
contingency plan to prepare
the state in the event that
oil discharged from the BP
leak comes to the North
Carolina coast; and (5) direct
the Depart-ment of
Environment and Natural
Resources to review
limitations on recovery by
the state for damage to
public resources and for the
cost of oil or other hazardous
substance cleanup.
_A bill that modifies the
computer equipment recycling
plan requirements
and the associated fee on
manufacturers passed the
House this week (SB 887).
The legislation also makes
further substantive,
clarifying, technical, and
conforming changes to the
laws governing the
management of discarded
computer equipment and
discarded televisions, as
recommended by the
Environmental Review
Commission. The legislation
is intended to ensure that
end-of-life computer equipment
and televisions are
responsibly recycled, to
promote conservation, and
to protect public health and
the environment. If enacted,
a comprehensive and
convenient system for
recycling and reuse of
T HE
R ALEIGH
R EPORT
By Jim
Crawford
certain
electronic
equipment
would be
established
and responsibility
would be
shared
among
manufacturers,
retailers,
consumers,
and the
state.
Miscellaneous
_Legislation that provides
an additional, safe method
for trapping coyotes and
increases the availability of
permits to remove coyotes
that threaten livestock or
poultry passed the House
this week (HB 1824). The
bill is based on the
recommendations of the
House Select Committee
on Coyote Nuisance
Removal.
_Legislation that would
modernize the North
Carolina Alcoholic
Beverage Control System
passed the House this
week (HB 1717). Among
other things, the bill would
prohibit local board
members from accepting
gifts from contractors
doing business with their
panel or stores and instruct
them to avoid conflicts of
interest that could
financially benefit
themselves or family
members.
_The North Carolina
Supreme Court would be
asked to establish
minimum standards of
domestic violence education
and training for
district court judges under
a bill passed the House this
week (HB 1762). If enacted,
the legislation would also
encourage the University
of North Carolina School of
Government to provide
domestic violence educa-
tion and training for judges
and magistrates. The
legislation is based on the
recommen-dations of the
Joint Legislative Committee
on Domestic Violence.
Notes
_Members of the House and
Senate came together on
Thursday for a joint
legislative session to honor
Coach Mike Krzyzewski and
the Duke Blue Devil on their
2010 NCAA Men’s Basketball
Championship (SJR 1456).
_On Thursday, members
of the House honored the life
and memory of former
Representative George
Milton Holmes with a House
Joint Resolution (HJR 1901).
George Holmes served for 16
terms in the North Carolina
House of Representatives
from 1975 to 1976 and from
1979 to 2008. He died on
December 31, 2009, at the age
of 80, and is survived by his
wife, Barbara Ann Ireland
Holmes; daughter and son-inlaw
and three grandchildren.
_Members of the House
honored the twentieth
anniversary of the Americans
with Disabilities Act on
Thursday with a House Joint
Resolution (HJR 2076). This
year marks the 20th
anniversary of the Americans
with Disabilities Act, landmark
legislation to protect
the civil rights of individuals
with disabilities and ensure
that more than 54 million
Americans receive the same
basic freedoms – independence,
equal access, freedom
of choice and inclusion –
afforded to every citizen in
our country.
Please remember that you
can listen to each day’s
session, committee meetings
and press conferences on the
General Assembly’s website
at www.ncleg.net. Once on
the site, select "Audio," and
then make your selection –
House Chamber, Senate
Chamber, Appropriations
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REVIVAL UNDERWAY
New Life Church is
holding a Signs And Wonders
Revival called "Declare Your
Independence" through
Friday July 2nd with
Intercessory Prayer - 6:30 PM
and Worship Service
beginning at 7:00 PM with
Bishop Garland O. Heggie,
Senior Pastor.
The program for Sunday,
July 4th will be Baptism
Service at 9:30 AM, Morning
Worship Service at 10:30 AM
and Fun Day (Cook-Out,
Games & More!!!!) at 1:00 PM.
The church is located at 40
Church Street, (corner of
Hillsboro & Church Street) in
Oxford. For more information
call 919-693-2760 or visit
www.newlifechurch nc.org.
EXCHANGE CLUB RAFFLE
The South Granville
Exchange Club will hold a
raffle with a chance to win 500
gallons of gas. All proceeds
will benefit the Exchange
Club’s community programs.
The drawing will be held
Tuesday, July 6th. You do not
have to be present to win.
DURHAM ARTS CENTER
The following events will
be presented at the Durham
Arts Center, 123 Vivian
Street, Durham: July 11,
Ringo Starr and his All Star
Band at 8 p.m.; July 14-17,
Paul Taylor Dance Company;
and July 18, Mary Chapin
Carpenter Concert , 8 p.m.
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For further information,
on these shows call 919-680-
2787.
UNION BAPTIST VBS
Union Baptist Church will
hold Vacation Bible School
July 12th-16th from 6-8 pm
for all ages.
The theme will be Saddle
Ridge Ranch which will
feature Worship Rally Valley
and the Bible Study
Bunkhouse.
The event will feature
crafts, missions, music,
recreation and snacks.
The church is located at
4024 Old Weaver Trail in
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Creedmoor.
NIFTY 90’S EVENT
The Granville County
enior Center in Oxford will
old their 4th annual Nifty 90’s
elebration on Tuesday, July
3th at the Oxford Public
orks building. There will be
catered meal and
ntertainment. This event is
pen to anyone 90 years of age
r older in Granville County.
This year they are asking
or pictures of each of our 90+
ear olds for a special part of
he program. Pictures are
eeded from childhood, adult
ife and recent years if possible.
hotos will be returned.
Admission will be free for
nyone 90 or older. There will
e a $6.00 charge for guests.
If you are 90 years of age or
lder or know someone who is,
lease call the Senior Center at
93-1930 and give them your
nformation.
CLASS REUNION
The South Granville High
School Class of 1980 will hold
their 30th Class Reunion
August 28, 2010 at the
Festival House Building at
Homestead Steakhouse in
Timberlake, N. C.
Those who have not heard
from their reunion committee
can contact Willis Herman at
herman72@juno.com.
CITIZENS POLICE
ACADEMY
The Creedmoor Police
Department would like to
invite those interested to
enroll in the Citizens Police
Academy.
This program is designed
to educate citizens about
some of the duties that law
enforcement officers have.
Some of the topics that
will be discussed are;
Criminal
Law,
Communications, Arrest
Procedures, Crime
Prevention, and Domestic
Violence.
The Academy will start on
September 9, 2010 and run
through November 4, 2010.
Classes will run once a week
from 7 pm to 8 pm.
Space is limited to 15-20
applicants, so if you are
interested please come to the
Creedmoor Police
Department and pick up an
application as soon as
possible.
If you have any questions
contact Sgt. Jon Smith.
HCCA SEASON TICKETS
AVAILABLE
The Henderson
Community Concert
Association has season tickets
available for the 2010-2011
Concert Series, which may be
purchased by contacting the
Membership Chair at 252-
430-8640 or by visiting the
website at www.hcca.cc.
Season tickets are
available at $45 for an adult,
$10 for a student, or $100 for
a family. Businesses that join
and individuals who make
donations over and above the
price of tickets will be listed
in a Special Contributors
booklet to be distributed at
each concert. Businesses and
their logos will be featured in
announcements of various
sizes, depending on the
donation amounts.
The Henderson
Community Concert
Association is a volunteer,
non-profit organization.
Concerts are held at the
Vance-Granville Community
College Civic Center
Auditorium, located off I-85 at
Exit 209. All concerts will take
place at 8:00 p. m. except for
Riders In The Sky, which will
be presented in a 2:30 Sunday
Matinee, in order to be
convenient for children to
attend.
Admission is by season
ticket only and there are no
individual tickets available at
the concerts, so you are
encouraged to plan ahead and
get your tickets now.
STEM CENTENNIAL
SCHEDULED
The town of Stem will
celebrate its centennial on
Saturday, April 9th, 2011.
There will be a parade starting
at 1:00 PM and will end at the
Stem Ruritan Club Building.
Anyone wishing to participate
in the parade, please call as
soon as possible.
The history of Stem will be
on display and will include
family history, Stem stores
history, police department, fire
department, schools,
churches, businesses and
cemeteries. Refreshments
will be provided.
Anyone wishing to donate
Stem history information or
family history information
may send to P.O. Box 65, Stem,
NC 27581 or call 919-528-
1459 for more information.
Stacy Elaine Wilkins of Rougemont, NC and Terry Lee Clayton
also of Rougemont announce their engagement. The prospective
bride’s parents are Elaine Baldwin of 1531 Olive Circle, Creedmoor
and Wayne Wilkins of 7981 Wood Hollow Trail, Liberty, NC 27298.
The prospective groom’s parents are Helen Clayton and the late
Bennie Clayton of 1575 Hwy. 15 Creedmoor, NC 27522. The couple
plan to be wed on July 31, 2010 at 3 pm at the First Baptist Church
in Butner. The prospective bride is employed at Lowe’s Foods,
Inc. in Durham as an Office Manager. The prospective groom is
employed at Bordeaux Construction in Durham as a
Superintendent. Both the bride and groom graduated from South
Granville High School.
American Red Cross Seeks Volunteers
The American Red Cross
shelters, feeds and provides
emotional support to victims
of disasters; supplies nearly
half of the nation's blood;
teaches lifesaving skills;
provides international
humanitarian aid; and
supports military members
and their families.
The Red Cross is a
charitable organization - not a
government agency - and
depends on volunteers and the
generosity of the American
public to perform its mission.
The Central North Carolina
Chapter is seeking volunteers
in Granville and Vance
Counties. Volunteers are
needed at local blood drives and
disaster volunteers are needed
to respond to disasters in our
area which includes home fires.
For more information,
please visit cncc.redcross.org
contact Blanche Hudon,
Director of Volunteer Services
at 919-419-1849, ext. 376, or
hudonb@usa.redcross.org.
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Falls Lake Public Meeting
World Wide Outreach Fellowship Ministries, Inc. & Working Faith
Ministries will hold an Installation Service for Nathaniel Davis, III
(Trey) to the Episcopal Office of Pastor on Sunday, July 11th, at
4:00 pm. Working Faith Ministries is located at 307 Central Avenue
in Butner. Pastor Nathaniel (Trey) Davis III is the son of Nathaniel
and Cathy Davis Jr. Pastor Davis is married to Nicole Green Davis.
They have four children: Nathaniel (Tyler) IV -14, Lotreya - 11,
Christian - 6, and Trinity - 5. Pastor Davis was raised in Granville
County where he was educated in the public school system. He
furthered his education at the UNC-Charlotte and NCCU, and at
the age of 20 began his law enforcement career. Pastor Davis has
continued to serve in local government, and now functions as a
"Sergeant" level supervisor for the Greensboro Police Department.
The Environmental
Management Commission, or
EMC, has scheduled two
hearings to gather public
input on proposed rules to
reduce nutrient pollution in
the Falls Lake Reservoir.
The public comment
period is open until Aug. 16.
Falls Lake Reservoir, the
primary drinking water
source for Raleigh and several
nearby communities, is
impaired for excessive
amounts of chlorophyll a, an
indicator of high levels of
nutrients. Nutrients,
specifically nitrogen and
phosphorus, can be carried by
stormwater runoff into Falls
Lake and the watershed
streams that feed it. While
nutrients are beneficial to
aquatic plant and animal life
in the proper quantities,
excessive levels can cause
algae blooms that impair
aquatic habitat and may lead
to fishkills, increase the cost
of treatment for drinking
water and affect recreational
activities. In 2005, the N.C.
General Assembly passed
legislation which requires the
EMC to adopt a nutrient
strategy for Falls Lake.
In 2008, stakeholders
from local governments,
agriculture, environmental
groups and other concerns
began work with the N.C.
Division of Water Quality to
formulate a nutrient
management strategy. The
stakeholders used three years
of lake watershed data and
subsequent modeling to help
form the nutrient
management strategy. The
draft rules were approved for
public comment by the EMC
in March 2010.
The rules address
reduction of nutrients from
several sources including
agriculture,
new
development, existing
development and wastewater
treatment plants. The twostage
approach is spread over
25 years and includes
opportunities for evaluating
progress towards the nitrogen
and phosphorus reduction goals
and adjusting requirements
appropriately. The projected
maximum cost for implementing
the rules is approximately $1.5
billion. However, emerging
technologies and management
efficiencies may reduce that cost
significantly. Copies of the draft
rules and other helpful
information are available on the
N.C. Division of Water Quality’s
website at: http://
portal.ncdenr.org/web/wq/ps/
nps/fallslake.
The hearing schedule is:
· 7 p.m. June 30 at Neal
Middle School, 201 Baptist
Church Road, Durham;
· 7 p.m. July 1 at Campbell
Lodge, Durant Nature Park,
3237 Spottswood St., Raleigh.
Registration for those who
wish to speak at the hearings
will begin at 6:30 p.m. Time
for presentations may be
limited to allow time for all
registered speakers.
Therefore, it is requested that
printed copies be provided for
remarks that are longer than
three minutes. Written
comments may also be
submitted at the hearings or
by mailing them to: John
Huisman, DWQ Planning,
1617 Mail Service Center,
Raleigh, N.C. 27699-1617 or
john.huisman@ncdenr.gov.
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Health Care Reform Bill Questions
BY WAYNE GOODWIN
N. C. INSURANCE COMMISSIONER
Many consumers across
North Carolina have questions
about what the Patient Protection
and Affordable Care Ace of 2009,
or so called Health Care Reform
Bill, means to their lives and their
specific circumstances.
While the N. C. Department
of Insurance and other involved
Area Deaths
J.G. "DICK" CASH
J.G. “Dick” Cash, 83, a
resident of 2038 Gate #2
Road, Creedmoor, died
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at
his home.
A native of Granville
County, he was the son of the
late Edgar and Mae Estes
Cash, a member and a deacon
of Living Word Baptist
Church, a Navy veteran of
WWII, and retired after 42
years with Mt. Hope
Finishing Company.
Funeral services was
conducted at 11:00 AM,
Friday, June 25, 2010 in the
Eakes Funeral Chapel in
Creedmoor by Rev. Wesley
Holder and Dr. Terry Hall.
Burial followed in Carolina
Memorial Gardens.
Surviving are his wife of
62 years, Mary Grace Currin
Cash of the home, two
daughters, Deborah Cash
Ellington of Chapel Hill, Pam
Cash Smoak (Tony), of
Butner, one sister, Mary Lou
Lloyd of Raleigh, three
grandchildren, Kevin Smoak
(Patty), Stephanie Cash,
Jeffrey Cash, one great
grandson, Isaac Smoak. A
son, Marty Cash preceded
him in death.
Flowers accepted or
memorials may be made to
the building fund of Living
Word Baptist Church, PO Box
1172, Creedmoor, NC 27522.
The family received
visitation from 6:30 to 8:30
PM, Thursday evening, June
24, 2010, at the Eakes
Funeral Home in Creedmoor
and other times at the home.
Online condolences may
be sent to www.eakesfuneral
home. Select obits.
Eakes Funeral Home in
agencies are making headway in
sorting through the countless
details and interpretations
included in the Health Care
Reform Bill, there are still a lot
of unknowns.
Wayne Goodwin, N. C.
Commissioner of Insurance said,
“I wanted to tackle some of the
most frequently asked questions
that my staff in the Consumer
Creedmoor assisted the Cash
family.
CHARLES B. AUTREY
Charles B. Autrey 85, a
resident of 3655 Windsor
Drive, Creedmoor, died
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at
Granville Medical Center.
He was a native of Mitchell
County and the son of the late
George W. and Nell Smith
Autrey. He attended the
Penticostal Church and retired
from the pulpwood business.
Funeral services was
conducted at 11:00 AM,
Saturday, June 26, 2010 in the
Eakes Funeral Chapel in
Creedmoor by Rev. Don
Wadford. Burial followed in
Creedmoor cemetery.
Surviving are seven
daughters, Barbara
Manriguez, Linda Verdin,
Teresa Autrey and Georgia
Rodriguez all of Franklinton,
Doris Autrey and Donna
Snead both of Oxford, Lisa
Vargas of Spring Hope, two
sisters, Lillian Franklin of
Spruce Pine, Kate Norwood of
Durham, two brothers, Paul
Autrey and Franklin D.
Autrey, both of Creedmoor, 48
grandchildren and 42 great
grandchildren. He was
preceded in death by his wife,
Georgia Lyons Autrey and two
sons, Charles Edward Autrey
and Allen Lane Autrey.
The family received
visitation from 7:00 to 8:30
PM, Friday evening, June 25,
2010, at the Eakes Funeral
Home in Creedmoor and other
times at the home.
Online condolences may be
submitted to www.eakes
funeralhome. Select obits.
Eakes Funeral Home in
Creedmoor assisted the Autrey
family.
Services Division has received
and provide the answers that we
know right now. In many cases,
the most asked about issues are
also the most immediate changes
to be implemented.”
“The most common inquiry
my office receives is about the
bill's complete elimination of preexisting
conditions for all plans.
For children under 19, this
change will go into effect for plan
years beginning on or after Sept.
23, which is six months after
enactment. For adults, final
implementation won't occur until
2014, but the reform bill
established immediate access to
health insurance through the
establishment of health
insurance high risk pools; states
must launch these insurance
pools within 90 days.”
“ In North Carolina, we
already have a health insurance
high risk pool called Inclusive
Health that offers coverage to
North Carolinians who have
medical conditions that prevent
them from finding affordable
insurance coverage through the
traditional market. If you have a
pre-existing condition and don't
have health insurance or if you
have questions about the high
risk pools, call Inclusive Health
for more information, 1-866-665-
2117 or visit their website,
www.inclusivehealth.org”
“We've also heard that
consumers are worried they will
be forced to give up their existing
health insurance plan. This is not
the case; if you are satisfied with
the coverage you currently have,
you do not have to switch plans
or make any changes."
“Another common question
focuses on the extension of adult
dependent coverage, which also
goes into effect for plan years
beginning on or after Sept. 23.
Right now, we know that
dependent adult children age 26
or younger can be added to their
parents' group plan, as long as the
existing plan allows for
dependent coverage. There is still
some guidance needed from the
federal government on who
exactly qualifies as a dependent
and the definition of "plan year"
for individual policies.”
“Unfortunately, we've also
heard of increased health
insurance scams, some that were
problems before health care
reform and some that are new.
Consumers need to be on alert so
they don't fall victim to
unscrupulous scam artists or buy
insurance products that they
don't understand. Be on the
lookout for these red flags:
• “Unlicensed agents going
door-to-door selling "ObamaCare"
insurance policies or claiming
there is a limited open-enrollment
period to buy health insurance.
Some of these scam artists have
even set up bogus toll-free
numbers to sell policies. While the
reform bill is making a lot of
changes, there are no changes
that require your immediate
action and no immediate
deadlines or limited enrollment
periods to follow.
• “Health care discount cards -
these discount cards are not
insurance and generally do not do
process or pay medical claims.
Instead, card holders are
responsible for paying their
health care providers, supposedly
being entitled to a discount off of
the providers' regular fees.
Discount plans often exaggerate
the potential savings, and not all
providers accept or honor these
cards.
• “Fake insurance companies
that are not licensed by the N.C.
Department of Insurance will
collect premiums and then close
down without paying claims.
Fake health insurance is typically
sold at unusually low rates by
companies that do not have the
funds or intent to pay all
"covered" claims. These
fraudulent schemes are often
advertised and marketed through
Web sites, telemarketing calls
and unsolicited "blast faxes.
• “Required membership
associations offer their members
various insurance benefits,
including health insurance.
Unfortunately, some associations
may appear legitimate but exist
mainly to profit (by collecting
membership dues) from
consumers who need health
insurance. A consumer shopping
for individual insurance might
actually be required to join an
association while applying for the
insurance. Sometimes the dues
and premiums are charged
separately; however, sometimes
the dues and health insurance
premiums are bundled into a
single lump-sum "membership
cost." This makes it difficult to
know how much you're paying for
the insurance versus the
association membership.”
Other questions an-swered by
the commis-sioner include the
follow-ing:
“A good rule of thumb when
purchasing any type of insurance
is to confirm that the insurance
company, agent and product are
licensed or approved through the
N.C. Department of Insurance
and in good standing; you should
also read all materials carefully
before you buy. A quick call to our
Consumer Helpline can save you
a lot of time, trouble and money!
To confirm your insurance before
you buy, call 1-800-546-5664),”
Goodwin said.
“There are many changes
that will be im-plemented in the
coming months and years, but
con-sumers need to realize that no
changes made by the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care
Act of 2009 will require
immediate action or changes on
their part. If you have any questions
about the health care reform
bill or you encounter suspicious
or potentially fraudulent activity,
I encourage you to call the
Department of Insurance’s
Consumer Helpline at 1-800-546-
5664. You can also visit the
Department’s website,
www.ncdoi.com for insurance
information and ongoing updates
about the Health Care Reform
Bill.”
“Fully implementing the
health care reform bill will take
several years, and I want you to
know I will make consumer education
and public aware-ness a
priority as more information and
updates are available,” the
Commissioner concluded.
N ATHAN M. G ARREN
A TTORNEY AT L AW
2557 Capitol Drive • Creedmoor, NC 27522
(919) 528-8200
Fax: (919) 528-8300 Residence: (919) 528-6428
The Granville County
Crime Stoppers needs your
help! By calling (919) 693-
3100 with information that
leads to the solving of a
crime, Granville County
Crime Stoppers can pay up
to $1,000.00 for information
that leads to the arrest and
conviction of a person or
persons involved in an
unsolved crime you DO NOT
have to give your name when
calling.
NEW CRIMES
On Sunday night, June
20, 2010 between 1900 hrs
and 2200 hrs an unknown
person or person forcibly
entered a private residence
on Pope Road, Creedmoor
causing property damage and
removed prescription drugs.
If you have any information
regarding this incidence
please contact the Granville
County Sheriff’s Office at
(919) 693-3213 or call Crime
Stoppers at (919)693-3100.
The Granville County
Sheriffís Office is
investigating several
incidents of copper theft from
central air conditioning units
in the Brassfield community.
These thefts are done by
dismantling the full unit and
stripping the copper wiring
from same. If you have any
information concerning these
incidents please contact the
Granville County Sheriffís
Office 919-693-3213, or call
Crime Stoppers 919-693-
3100.
On 06/09/10, an
unidentified male entered
Triangle D. Foodmart in
Stem and demanded money.
The male was wearing a dark
in color ski-mask, gloves, and
a hooded coat. The suspect
fled on foot, but an eyewitness
stated that a dark
colored SUV was seen
leaving the area at a high
rate of speed.
The Granville County
Sheriff’s Office is
investigating an incident of
breaking, entering, larceny
and property damage at a
residence on Carolyn Court,
Stem. This incident occurred
sometime between Thursday,
June 10, 2010 and Sunday,
June 13, 2010. Stolen was a
gold diamond bracelet.
If you have any
information regarding this
incidence please contact the
Granville County Sheriff’s
Office at (919) 693-3213 or
call Crime Stoppers at (919)
693-3100.
The Granville County
Sheriff’s Office is
investigating two recent
Breaking, Entering &
Larcenies with property
damage having been
sustained to both residences
on Belltown Road, Oxford on
April 27th and April 29th.
Items stolen included several
TVs, a Gateway laptop
computer, a Sony laptop
computer, cash and a large
selection of genuine and
cosmetic jewelry. Also, a
great deal of items in one
residence was maliciously
damaged. If you have any
information regarding this
incidence please contact the
Granville County Sheriff’s
Office at (919) 693-3213 or
call Crime Stoppers (919)
693-3100.
An unknown person or
persons unlawfully entered a
barn on Harold O’Brien Road
and removed a red 2004
Honda dirt bike, Model
#XR25DR4.
If you have any
information pertaining to
this incident please contact
the Granville County
Sheriff’s Office, 919-693-
3213 or call Crime Stoppers
(919) 693-3100.
The Granville County
Sheriff’s Office is
investigating an incident
which occurred sometime
between April 20th and
April 22nd. An unknown
person or persons, without
permission, removed a gold
diamond ring, a sapphire
ring with diamonds and a
yellow gold opal ring (milky
white on top) from a private
residence located on Our
Road. If you have any
information pertaining to
this incident please contact
the Granville County
Sheriff’s Office, 919-693-
3213 or call Crime Stoppers
(919) 693-3100.
An unknown person or
persons unlawfully cut
pasture fence in several
places located on personal
property of a resident
residing on W. Thollie Green
Road. If you have any
information pertaining to
this incident please contact
the Granville County
Sheriff’s Office, 919-693-
3213 or call Crime Stoppers
(919) 693-3100.
Sometime between April
1st and April 24th an
unknown person or persons
damaged the lock on a single
wide mobile home used
as a wood shop, located on
East Thollie Green Road,
Stem, but was unable to obtain
entrance. At the same
location several radiators
were stolen from disabled
vehicles being stored at the
site. If you have any
information pertaining to
this incident please contact
the Granville County
Sheriff’s Office, 919-693-
3213 or call Crime Stoppers
(919) 693-3100.
An unknown person or
persons entered a rental
house on Moss Hayes Road
and removed a stove, a
refrigerator and a 40 gallon
water heater without
permission. If you have any
information pertaining to
this incident please contact
the Granville County
Sheriff’s Office, 919-693-
3213 or call Crime Stoppers
(919) 693-3100.
An unknown person or
persons removed without
permission a copper bus bar
from the Verizon Wireless
location at 4166 Belltown
Road. If you have any
information pertaining to
this incident please contact
the Granville County
Sheriff’s Office, 919-693-
3213 or call Crime Stoppers
(919) 693-3100.
During the week of April
19 through 23 an unknown
per-son or persons
unlawfully removed several
rolls of copper and a large
amount of scrap copper from
a business located on W. B.
Clark Road, Creedmoor,
NC. If you have any information
concerning this
incident please contact the
Granville County Sheriff’s
Office 919-693-3213 or call
Crime Stoppers 919-693-
3100.
If you have any
information on any of these
crimes, please call the
Granville County Crimestoppers
in Oxford at 919-
693-3100. Remember all
information is confidential
and you do not need to give
your name.

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10a The Butner-Creedmoor News, Thursday, July 1, 2010
Gatewood Awarded “Man Of The Year 2010”
On Friday, June 18th,
Rev. Curtis Everette
Gatewood, an Anson County
native, was awarded “Man of
the Year 2010” in the category
of “Human and Civil Rights”
by “Spectacular Magazine”.
Gatewood who is an
Oxford, NC resident, is
currently serving his 4th
term as 2nd Vice President of
the North Carolina State
Conference of the NAACP,
and “Grassroots Mobilization
Chairman” for HK on J. He
is also Founder of Save Our
Little Ones (SOLO), a group
of volunteers organized to
provide workshops for
parents and in other ways
"save" at-risk youth.
After eliminating a host of
nominees from the Raleigh/
Durham-Triangle, and
surrounding counties, twentyfour
African American men in
eight categories were selected
by the NC Juneteenth
Celebration Planning
Committee as Semi-Finalists
for the Spectacular Magazine
Awards.
After several weeks of
allowing the public to have
their say by voting online for
the semi-finalists in seven
categories, with the exception
of the “Community Service”
category where two men were
chosen, one man from each
remaining category received
the title “Man of the Year”.
The categories were as
follows: Lifetime
Achievement, Business and
Economic Development,
Human and Civil Rights,
Community Service,
Corporate Leader, Education,
Emerging Leader, and
Health.
Gatewood said, “I am
extremely grateful to Phyllis
Coley and Spectacular
Magazine. While I was very
pleased to have been
bestowed this esteemed
honor, I will keep things in
perspective and give God the
glory for all of my
accomplishments”. Gatewood
also went on to say there
were so many others that
contributed to both his
accomplishments and ability
to serve that he could not
fully take credit.
I have been “blessed” with
the best family on earth
Gatewood said. “I was
blessed with Odessa, the
world’s most beautiful,
supportive, and dedicated
wife; Desmera, our smart and
beautiful daughter, and
Anthony, our exemplary and
Pay Attention To ID Theft
BY ATTORNEY GENERAL
ROY COOPER
More than three million
People, including nearly
100,000 North Carolinians,
recently had their personal
information stolen from a
Minnesota company that
insures student loans.
Fortunately, it looks like the
data has been recovered
without being misused, but
this should still Serve as a
wake- up call for young
adults who typically don’t
worry much about identity
theft.
Unfortunately, everyone
needs to be concerned about
identity theft, no matter their
age. Even children can
become victims if their
personal information falls
into the wrong hands. Young
People who are just starting
to use credit and handle
financial matters may be
especially at risk.
According to a recent
survey by a California
research firm, people ages
18-24 are more likely to be
banned by identity theft
because they don’t tend to
monitor their finances closely
and are slower to spot fraud.
The longer it takes You to
figure out you’ve been hit by
an ID thief, the more damage
that thief can do-damage that
will cost you time and money
to repair.
People in their late teens
and twenties also tend to be
active users of the Internet.
More than ninety percent of
young adults ages 18-29 are
online, compared to
seventy-five percent of all
adults, according to the Pew
Internet & American Life
Project. If you spend a lot of
time online, shopping or
sharing information through
social networking sites, you
need to take extra precautions
to protect your personal
information.
Here arc some identity
theft tips that can be helpful
at any age, but particularly
for young adults:
• Check your account
statements regularly. If You
see any activity you don’t
recognize, contact your bank
or credit card company right
away. Catching suspicious
activity early can prevent
larger problems down the
road.
• Keep an eye on your
credit report. Even if you
haven’t established much of a
credit history yet, it’s still
important to check your credit
report regularly. You are
entitled to one free credit
report each year from each
nationwide credit bureau. To
get your free report, go to
www.annualcreditreport.com
or call 1-877-322-8228.
• Get free security
freezes. Security freezes are
the ultimate in ID theft
protection because they
prevent anyone from opening
new credit in your name.
North Carolinians can
request free security freezes
by visiting the three major
credit bureaus’ secure
websites. Links are available
at www.ncdoj.gov, along with
detailed information about
how to sign up for security
freezes and how to lift one
when you need to take out
credit.
• Opt out of
pre-approved credit
offers. This is especially
important if you move
frequently. An ID thief can use
a credit card offer to open an
account and ring up charges
in your name. Call
1-888-567-8688
(1-888-5-OPT-OUT) or opt out
online
at
www.optoutprescreen.com.
• Guard your gadgets.
Create a password to keep
Wear Bike Helmets
Summer has arrived and
families are gearing up to enjoy
the outdoors on their bikes.
While inflating the tires and
checking the brakes are
important – a helmet is
essential. Safe Kids Wake
County urges parents,
caregivers, and children to use
their helmet each time they ride
their bike – no matter how long
or short the distance traveled.
A helmet should be labeled
to indicate that it meets the
standards set by the U.S.
Consumer Product Safety
Commission. “As long as it’s
certified, let kids pick out their
helmets” Ms. Scholl says. “If
they think a helmet looks cool,
they’ll be more likely to wear it
when you’re not around.”
Safe Kids Wake County also
reminds parents and caregivers to:
• Make sure the helmet fits
and your kids know how to put
it on correctly. A helmet should
sit on top of the head in a level
position, and should not rock
forward and backward or side to
side. The helmet straps must
always be buckled, but not too
tightly. Safe Kids recommends
the “Eyes, Ears and Mouth” test:
• EYES: Position the helmet
on your head. Look up and you
should see the bottom rim of the
helmet. The rim should be one
to two finger-widths above the
eyebrows.
• EARS: Make sure the
straps of the helmet form a “V”
under your ears when buckled.
The strap should be snug but
comfortable.
• MOUTH: Open your mouth
as wide as you can. Do you feel
the helmet hug your head? If
not, tighten those straps and
make sure the buckle is flat
against your skin.
Make sure the bike is the
right size for the child. There
should be about 1-inch of
clearance between the bike
frame and the child’s groin when
the child’s feet are flat on the
ground. Also, make sure the bike
is in good repair — reflectors are
secure, brakes work properly,
gears shift smoothly, and tires
are tightly secured and properly
inflated.
Remember, bike helmets
are for biking. Kids should not
wear bike helmets on the
playground (where the straps
can get caught on equipment
and cause injury) or for
activities that require
specialized helmets (such as
skiing or football).
Model and teach proper
bicyclist behavior. Ride on the
right side of the road, with
traffic, not against it. Stay as far
to the right as possible. Use
appropriate hand signals and
respect traffic signals, stopping
at all stop signs and stop lights.
When in doubt, get help.
The sales staff at any bicycle
shop or outdoor recreation store
should be able to provide expert
advice on fitting and adjusting
bikes and helmets.
others from being able to
access files and other personal
financial information that
may be stored on your cell
phone or laptop. Keep antivirus
and spyware software
updated.
• Shop safely online. Shop
at familiar websites and
research unknown sellers.
Find out the seller’s physical
location and contact
information in case you have
problems with the product.
Make sure the website is
secure before you place your
order (look for https in the
address), and use one low
limit credit card for online
purchases to limit your
liability if your information
gets stolen.
• Verify online sellers. If
you’re buying something from
an individual online, ask for
the seller’s name, street
address, telephone number,
and email address and verify
what they tell you. If they
won’t give you this
information, don’t buy from
them.
• Sign out of applications
and websites that may store
your personal information,
such as Facebook, online
banking and shopping sites,
and email.
• Set privacy settings on
social networking sites. Avoid
sharing personal details such
as your entire birth date, your
mother’s maiden name and
your pet’s name, and keep
your mobile and home phone
numbers, email address, and
home address private.
• Don’t fall for phishing.
If you get an email or text
message asking for your
personal financial
information, don’t answer it,
even if the message claims to
come from your bank or
another company you know.
Legitimate companies with
which you do business will not
ask for your personal
information this way.
Wilton High School Class of 1960 celebrated its 50th reunion on May 22, 2010 at Cracker Barrel at 9:00
AM for breakfast. Then they met at The Silo for a meal at 5:00 PM for breakfast. There were seven
classmates and their spouses and a friend. The members in attendance were Jimmy Moss, Billy Cash,
Guy Tunstall, Joan Perry Bass, Ann Montague Woodlief, Julia Dorsey Palmer, Montie Bridgers Wilson.
Spouses were Ron Bass, Larry Palmer, Marion Moss, Sandra Tunstall, Ben Wilson and a friend of
Billy. At the 5:00 PM meal were fifteen members of the class out of seven-teen, two Mascot and one
teacher. All classmates were still living. Those in attendance of the classmates were Guy Tunstall,
Jimmy Moss, Bobby Hayes, Billy Cash, Ted Moss, Ann Montague Woodlief, Joan Perry Bass, Julia
Dorsey Palmer, Joyce May Stanley, Patsy O'Neal Douglass, Margaret Sparks DeMent, Sheila Clark
Phelps, Sara Whitfield Black, Edna Adcock Preddy, Montie Bridgers Wilson. The teacher was Mable
Harris. The two Mascots, Larry Mitchell and Teresa Bennett Pratt. The two that could not come were
Wade Goss and Carolyn Munn Foy-Gentry. Classmates talked about old times and what took place
from the time they graduated to now. Shown on the back row are Jimmy Moss and Ted Moss. Third
row Edna Adcock Preddy, Joyce May Stanley, Bobby Hayes, Second row are Julia Dorsey Palmer,
Joan Perry Bass, Ann Montague Woodlief, Sheila Clark Phelps, Billy cash, Larry Mitchell (Mascot) Guy
Tunstall, First row are Montie Bridgers Wilson, Patsy O'Neal Douglass, Mrs. Mable Harris (Teacher),
Teresa Bennett Pratt (Mascot), Sara Whitfield Black, Margaret Sparks DeMent.
hardworking son; my siblings
have served as great role
models, and additionally I
had the luxury of being
raised and loved by the
world’s best parents, to whom
much is given, much is
required.” Gatewood’s wife,
Odessa Burnette Gatewood is
a native of Warren County.
At the ceremony on
Friday, Gatewood was
accompanied by his wife,
daughter, and his brother
Leon. Curtis is the 12th child
of 14 children. He dedicated
the award to his father, the
late Rev. Dr. Wade H.
Gatewood who passed in
April of this year. “If I am one
fraction of the man my father
was, that is what would make
me worthy of such a
prestigious award”,
Gatewood said.
Over the years, Gatewood
has received numerous
similar awards from a wide
array of major community
observers which include, but
not limited to the News and
Observer's “Tar Heel of the
Week Award”; “Neighborhood
Heroes Certificate of Merit”
Award by WTVD 11 ABC
News; “NAACP President of
the Year Award” from the NC
NAACP; “Courageous
Leadership, Steadfast
Service, Bold Vision,
A GAPE
C ORNER
By
Barbara Morton
A wonderful thing
happened in 1920, Inez
Elizabeth Mann was born on
June 28 to Stephen and
Corinna Ann Neal Mann in
Bertie County. Her family left
Bertie County and settled in
Franklin County. She
attended school in
Franklinton but did not
complete high school. Life on
the farm as a sharecropper
soon proved that a change
must come.
She married Doc Clemon Neal(deceased) and ironically,
just as “Mrs Neal” experienced the death of a sister as an
infant, she was faced with the death of a daughter at infancy.
“Mrs. Neal” worked as a cook and housekeeper This was
a period of serious ambivalence for her. She was essentially
raising the children of an intact family while her children
were left in the care of her mother. Although the children
were in a secure environment, well loved and cared for, it
was not the life she desired.
Therefore change came when she and her family relocated
to Granville County to achieve a better standard of living for
her children.
She was employed at The Rehabilitation Center for the
Blind in Butner.
Being a single mom she struggled to achieve and maintain
a comfortable living for her children. Nevertheless, she
enrolled both daughters into A and T University at
Greensboro, N.C. during the unstable and somewhat chaotic
sixties.
On Saturday June 26th her family “rose up and called
her blessed” and celebrated her 90th Birthday. One daughter
stated that her mother has to be reminded that she is a senior
citizen. A neice brought greetings from “Mrs Neal’s 100 year
old sister. A lifelong friend,Mattie Simmons, presented the
“Top Ten Hymns For People Our Age” from a greeting card.
Two songs mentioned wereAmazing Grace (considering my
age.) and Guide Me O Thou Great
Jehovah (I’ve forgotten where I
parked).
Volunteerism has been the
honoree’s life and she extended
her services over three counties
and accomplishments included :
-Faithful Member Mitchiner
Grove Baptist Church in
Franklinton
-Assistant in the care of her
severely challenged grandson, Xavier
Statewide Honors” Award from
the late Senator Jeanne H.
Lucas, NC General Assembly
13th District; “Proclamation
Honoring Minister Gatewood”
and “Curtis E. Gatewood Day”
from the City of Durham;
“News Maker of the Year”
Award from the Triangle
Tribune newspaper; and “Wall
of Tolerance in Montgomery,
Alabama” Award from the
Southern Poverty Law Center.
Gatewood was also
featured in a documentary,
“What’s Going On” by the
British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC), as one of
the first African Americans to
publicly oppose President
George W. Bush’s proposed
“War on Terror” following the
“9/11 attacks” in September of
2001.
Rev. Curtis Everette Gatewood
Inez Neal
-Former Butner Planning and Zoning Advisory Council
-Member of Butner Chamber of Commerce
-Treasurer of the Community Resource Council at Umstead
Correctional Center
-Attended Durham Technical Community College
-Duke Medical Center Eye Center Volunteer of the year 4
times
-Invited by Famous Poets’ Society to Poetry reading
convention in California
-Member of the Royal Jewels Chapter of the Red Hat Society
Recognitions included a letter from the honorable Beverly
Perdue, a Proclammation from the Granville County Board
of Commission presented by Commissioner Ronald Alligood,
and Special Presentation by the honorable Tom Lane, Mayor,
Town of Butner and many others.
Aaron McCoy, Saxaphonist serenated the honoree and the
participants with the sound of Wind beneath my Wings.
Paula her granddaughter read from a poem written in
honor of her grandmother. Excerts from the poem are written
below:
She is a woman of God,
Who is joint-heir with son,
She has served ever so diligently,
To hear God say, “well done”.
She is a woman of beauty,
Who loves with such great might,
That darkness is forced to bown down,
and give way to her glorious light.
This woman whom I speak of,
The image of compassion and grace,
has loved, laughed and lived for ninety years’
And made the world a better place!

The Butner-Creedmoor News, Thursday, July 1, 2010 11a
Wilton Elementary School Honor Rolls
Wilton Elementary
School has released a
list of students who
made the A or A/B Honor
Roll for the 4th nine
weeks and for the year.
They are listed below.
A Honor Roll
For the Year
3rd Grade
Alex Bare, Hadley
Blalock, Hannah Bonini,
Cora Brown, Justin
Bullock, Gracie Coffey,
Jason Corbett, Makayla
DePinto, Brittany Dixon,
Masin Donald, Ally Foster,
Ashlynn Garrett, Brennan
Henry, Dameon Hunter,
Ethan Hykes, Allison
Keever, Nicholas Kilduff,
Briana Lehman, Leah
Lunsford, Rebecca
Middleton, Nicholas
Mitchell, Caroline Puca,
Jake Rodgers, Phoebe
Rutter, Samuel Sevilla,
Jonathan Smith, Nadia
Springer, Kerragan
Stewart, Sydney
Strickland, Sydney
Tippett, Robert Torrance
IV, Quinn Walker, and
Emily Wright.
4th Grade
Heather Amis,
Samantha Bizzell, Karlee
Bjurstrom, Rebecca
Brown, Tucker Brown,
Sarah Campbell, Emily
DeBell, Christian
Fitzgerald, Kayley Floyd,
Rachel Kelley, Alexis
EMS
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director of Granville Health
System stated.
Isley said the hospital
plans to continue to use all
the seven bases currently in
use in the county and that the
plans are to extend the time
open at the Oak Hill and
Wilton bases with the EMS-5
base in Oxford open 3 to 4
days per week.
The other stations are
located in Butner, Creedmoor,
Oxford and Stovall.
“All the paramedics will
continue to be employed by
the hospital with pay and
benefits provided as
seamlessly as possible to a
one to one match,” Isley
reported.
He said some benefits
such as life insurance and
family coverage will actually
be better under the hospital’s
management and that the
county had volunteered to
grandfather under their
system some employees who
will be eligible to retire before
the age of 65 so that those
employees would not lose
benefits.
Isley clarified that the
County’s 911 service would
not be changed and that the
county would continue to
dispatch EMS providers.
The County EMS System
has employed 46 full-time
Medical Technicians and
Paramedics who operate the
system 7 days a week 24
hours a day according to
information on the EMS
website. This level of service
will not change under the new
management, Isley stated.
A paramedic will be
assigned to every rescue call
and it will be that paramedic
who is charged with the
responsibility to make the
decision of the nearest
appropriate hospital facility
to transport the patient to in
order to provide the most
appropriate level of care.
Requests from patients
and their families for
transport to a specific
hospital will continue to be
honored, the director said.
The EMS System is
currently and will continue to
use and send wireless
transmission of the 12 lead
EKG results to Granville
Medical, Duke and other
hospitals to utilize the most
appropriate level of care. Lee
Isley said it was helpful in the
talks in the negioating
Murray, Brian Restrepo,
Hannah Rich, Alyssa
Watson, Matthew
Williams, and Mya Wilson.
5th Grade
Joshua Bullock, Gavin
Hardin, Ryan Sharp,
Benjamin Treible, Clay
Walters, and Stephen
Whitt.
A/B Honor Roll
For the Year
3rd Grade
Nazaria Arrington,
Melissa Avery, Shon Bauer,
David Becker, Olivia
Burrell, Chloe Carpenter,
Agustin Cazares, Wesley
Clark, Makayla Coleman,
Joshua Coll, Shelby
Cooper, Garret Deane,
Abigail Dickerson, Samuel
Dietrich, Matthew Egypt,
Sarah Frizzle, Alyssa
Garry, Kayla Green,
Dominic Greene, Taylor
Hammett, Logan
Hattenbrun, Zaida Holden,
Preston Holman Jr., Itzel
Ibarra-Pineda, Nicholas
Ingram, Seth Jusino,
Madison Kelley,
A/B Honor Roll
For the Year
Sarah Knight, Domenic
LaFrance, Savanna
Lohrey, Elli Meyer, Lillian
O’Brien, Frank
Oliver,Janese Pleasants,
Matlyn Redmond, Anthony
Riley, Grace Roberts,
Robert Runyon IV, Jessica
process that led up to the
change that both he and
county manager Brian
Alligood are both certified as
EMT’s.
“It helped that we both
understood the standards and
technology and the terms
used in patient care,” he
added. The Granville Health
System has experienced
unprecedented growth over
the last three years with over
a 20 percent increase in the
emergency department and a
double digit increase in
surgical services. This
occurred despite the fact that
there was a serious economic
downturn during this time.
The Health System has
experienced a strong,
unprecedented financial
status and it has been able to
pay down its debt, increase
reserves and increase its
investment in new technology,
staff development and
physician recruitment while
keeping a positive
relationship within the
Granville County community.
Upgrade Begun
The Health System has
recently begun a new 20
million dollar upgrade to the
hospital which is the first
major expansion and upgrade
since 1998.
The new improvements
are designed to expand the
current 3,200 square foot
emergency department which
will increase from five beds to
14 beds plus there will now be
four additional observation
beds. The present emergency
room was built in 1985 and
then designed for an 8,500
patient per year work load but
that number has averaged
14,000 to 18,000 over the last
three years making the
expansion necessary.
QRV’s Use?
Ronald Bracy also
questioned the use of multiple
units of the Quick Response
Vehicles (QRV) which is said
to cost as much as $85,000 per
unit. Bracy said he thought
that it would be better for
EMS to go ahead and invest
in a full ambulance.
Isley said that the Health
System did plan to put the
QRV’s into service and that he
believed that they would be
the most appropriate vehicles
to deliver the best and fastest
care to patients and that they
would be used in addition to
and not instead of dispatching
an ambulance.
QRV’s
Quick Response Vehicles
can help emergency medical
organizations use their
resources efficiently, sending
Steed, Caroline Stein,
Jacob Sutton, Haydn
Taylor, Victoria Wall,
Christopher Weiss Jr.,
Michael Weiss, and Tamya
Wilson.
4th Grade
Tessa Bowie, Chloe
Bowman, Lucas Breedlove,
Dallas Brock, Nathan
Brogden, Rebecca Brown,
Jessica Burney, Kaleb
Cahoon, Christyn
Campbell, Carolina
Carraway, Raul Castanon,
Makayla Chavis, Austin
Daily, Madison Davis,
Dawson Dement, Samuel
Deskus, Sean Deuger,
Andrew Dickerson, Sarah
Dickerson, Evan Dixon,
William Farrell, Shauna
Fauer, Mary Megan
Ferguson, Chase Fritz,
Stefan Godel, Kory
Hammett, Tyler Houghton,
Courtney Hults, Taylor
Longmire, Maria Lopez-
Garcia, Sierra McAroy,
Savannah Morgan, Milena
Nelsen, Gadiel Ogaz-
Urueta, Jacob Oliver, Malia
Olson-Thornburg, Kendall
Panciera, Hannah Parrott,
Denis Pendergrass, Alyssa
Perry, Kayla Romig, Logan
Skiff, Destiny Steed,
Haleigh Tester, Carson
Thompson, Tyrese
Thompson, and Shannon
Wynn.
5th Grade
this smaller vehicle to the
scene of an emergency call,
where they can assess an
incident’s severity (especially
where there is reason to
suspect the injury or illness
is not serious) and call in
additional help if required.
The QRV is smaller than an
ambulance so it can
maneuver to places at a
quicker pace and can be
staffed by a single medical
professional. Such vehicles
can also provide first aid
assistance for patients who
do not require hospital
treatment, and can be
treated at the scene by the
crew on site (such as cuts and
bruises to non-dangerous
body areas), which saves
conventional ambulances for
other, more urgent jobs.
Other uses for QRV’s
include work as a
“supervisor” vehicle where
an officer or supervisor
responds to various calls but
does not ride on the
ambulance to the hospital.
This principle especially
applies where the QRV is
crewed by a paramedic, who
can assist lower qualified
staff, such as emergency
medical technicians on an
ambulance, meaning fewer
people at the higher
qualification level are
required. However,
dependent on the jurisdiction
and needs of the individual
service, any level of
emergency medical provider
from first responder to doctor
can be found on these
vehicles.
Granville Health System
provides care to more than
86,000 patients a year and
has over 100 physicians
representing numerous
specialities on its medical
staff.
The main campus is
located at 1010 College
Street, Oxford, North
Carolina, 27565. For more
information about Granville
Health System, visit GHS
online
at
www.granvillemedical.com.
Billing for the ambulance
service will now be handled
by the hospital.
At the budget
consideration meeting
county manager Alligood told
the commissioners that the
change of EMS operation
could save the county
$150,000 and further savings
were possible because of
lower insurance premiums in
the future.
The EMS change in
operations is expected to be
phased in over a period of
weeks or months.
Meaghan Allen, Alexis
Baird, Justin Bare, Anibal
Berrezueta, Austin
Blackwelder, Aryanna
Bryant, Conner Bryant,
Jessica Capps, Alaric
Chavez, Brittany Daniel,
Maggie Dickerson, John
Foster, Megan Fuhr,
Amanda Hanson, Lance
Harold, Bobbi Hayes,
Madison Hen terly, Samuel
Law, Alayna Moss, Nolan
Mullens, Angelica Nonato
Montano, Jenna Pitzer,
David Restrepo, Robert
Riley III, Julia Scheurich,
Hannah Tartamella,
Rachel Tartamella,
Gregory Torrance Jr.,
Maridy Tucker and Elam
Wilson.
A Honor Roll
4th Nine Weeks
3rd Grade
Alex Bare, Hadley
Blalock, Hannah Bonini,
Cora Brown, Justin
Bullock, Jason Corbett,
Makayla DePinto, Ally
Foster, Ashlynn Garrett,
Brennan Henry, Ethan
Hykes, Allison Keever,
Nicholas Kilduff, Sarah
Knight, Briana Lehman,
Leah Lunsford, Rebecca
Middleton, Nicholas
Mitchell, Lillian OíBrien,
Caroline Puca, Jake
Rodgers, Phoebe Rutter,
Jonathan Smith, Haydn
Taylor, Sydney Tippett,
Quinn Walker, Victoria
Wall, Michael Weiss, and
Emily Wright.
A Honor Roll
4th Nine Weeks
4th Grade
Heather Amis,
Samantha Bizzell, Tucker
Brown, Sarah Campbell,
Sarah Dickerson, Evan
Dixon, Christian
Fitzgerald, Sierra McAroy,
Hannah Rich, Alyssa
Watson, and Matthew
Williams.
5th Grade
Joshua Bullock,
Brittany Daniel, Samuel
Law, Ryan Sharp, Hannah
Tartamella, Gregory
Torrance Jr. , Clay Walters
FIREWORKS
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of hot dogs, treats, and soft
drinks. No alcoholic
beverages will be allowed.
Citizens are encouraged to
bring a lawn chair or blanket
and a flashlight. Plan to sit
back, relax and enjoy the
Fireworks and 4th of July
c e l e b r a t i o n !
If the event gets rained
out, there is a “Rain Date” for
the following day, Saturday,
July 3rd.
The Company Pyrotecnico
has been hired to provide the
fireworks display.
Other events to celebrate
the July 4th holiday include
the following:
State Fairgrounds Fourth
of July, Raleigh
Presented by the City of
Raleigh Parks and Recreation
Department in collaboration
with the NC State Fair. Free
Admission! Free Parking!
Activities at No Charge!
In the event of inclement
weather, all indoor activities
will remain as scheduled and
all outdoor activities will be
cancelled. The fireworks
display will be rescheduled for
Monday, July 5th at 9:00 p.m.
This year’s activities are
provided by Raleigh Parks
and Recreation beginning at
5:00 pm and ending at 8:30
pm. Activities include sports,
Independence Day Hat-
Making activity, arts, dance
instruction, Nature Program,
Adventure Program, Taiko
Japanese drumming
performance, Holiday Express
expo, Raleigh Police & Fire
displays, Dorton Arena’s giant
obstacle course, Design a Park
activity, Wii games, contests,
scavenger hunt and bingo.
The “Got to be NC
Watermelon Cutting”
and Stephen Whitt.
A/B Honor Roll
4th Nine Weeks
3rd Grade
Nazaria Arrington,
Melissa Avery, Shon Bauer,
Chloe Carpenter, Gracie
Coffey, Makayla Coleman,
Garret Deane, Abigail
Dickerson, Samuel
Dietrich, Brittany Dixon,
Masin Donald, Sarah
Frizzle, Kayla Green,
Taylor Hammett, Ashleigh
Hedgepeth, Zaida Holden,
Preston Holman, Jr.,
Dameon Hunter, Itzel
Ibarra-Pineda, Nicholas
Ingram, Seth Jusino,
Madison Kelley, Frank
Oliver, Janese Pleasants,
Matlyn Redmond, Grace
Roberts, Samuel Sevilla,
Nadia Springer, Jessica
Steed, Caroline Stein,
Kerragan Stewart, Sydney
Strickland, Robert
Torrance IV, Christopher
Weiss Jr., and Tamya
Wilson.
4th Grade
Karlee Bjurstrom, Tessa
Bowie, Chloe Bowman,
Dallas Brock, Nathan
Brogden, Rebecca Brown,
Becky Brown, Jessica
Burney, Kaleb Cahoon,
Christyn Campbell,
Carolina Carraway,
Makayla Chavis, Austin
Daily, Madison Davis,
Emily DeBell, Samuel
Deskus, Andrew Dickerson,
William Farrell, Shauna
Fauer, Chase Fritz, Stefan
Godel, Tyler Houghton,
Maggie Johnson, Taylor
Longmire, Maria Lopez-
Thornburg, Hannah
Parrott, Alyssa Perry,
Brian Restrepo, Kayla
Romig, Destiny Steed,
Haleigh Tester, Carson
Thompson, and Mya
Wilson.
A/B Honor Roll
4th Nine Weeks
5th Grade
provided by NC Watermelon
Association will begin at 5 pm
at the July 4th Celebration
and continue while supplies
last. The grand scale
fireworks show will start at
9:15 pm.
Food vendors will be onsite.
All activities are held rain
or shine on July 4th from 5:00
pm - 8:30 pm. In the event of
inclement weather on July
4th, only the fireworks will be
held on July 5th at 9:15 pm.
The Capitol’s Fourth of
July, Raleigh Downtown
A family-oriented
Independence Day
Celebration is scheduled for
Sunday, July 4th from 12
noon to 4p.m. at Downtown
Raleigh, NC Museum of
History, the State Capitol
Grounds. The event is free of
charge. See how people in
North Carolina celebrated
the 4th of July long ago when
you take a walk over to the
Capitol’s “Old Fashioned 4th”
area. There will be musical
performances, food and
historic demonstrators. For
more information contact
(919) 733-4994.
Durham’s Fourth of July
Celebration
Celebrate Durham’s
Independence Day festivities
on Sunday, July 4.
4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Music on the Lawn
Concert at American Tobacco
featuring the Bethesda
Bluegrass Band and more.
7:05 p.m.
Durham Bulls Baseball game
- (tickets required, visit
www.durhambulls.com to
purchase tickets)
Gates open at 6:05 p.m.
(DBAP gates will open for free
admission at end of the 7th
inning if seats are available).
10 p.m.
Remarks from elected
Meaghan Allen, Justin
Bare, Austin Blackwelder,
Conner Bryant, Jessica
Capps, Alaric Chavez, Eric
Coffey, Maggie Dickerson,
Casey Dixon, Megan Fuhr,
Michael Giles, Amanda
Hanson, Gavin Hardin,
Lance Harold, Alexis
Lincoln, Angelica Nonato
Montano, Katherine
Rebilas, David Restrepo,
Robert Riley III, Julia
Scheurich, Brittney Smith,
Rachel Tartamella,
Benjamin Treible, Maridy
Tucker, Maila Tunstall,
and Elam Wilson.
BRIEFS
ORDINANCE
MEETING
A subcommittee of
the Planning Board will
meeting in the County
Commissioners Meeting
Room on Wednesday,
July 7, 2010 at 4 pm to
discuss potential Land
Garcia, Jonathan
McCraney, Savannah
Morgan, Alexis Murray,
Milena Nelsen, Gadiel
Ogaz-Urueta, Malia Olson-
Development
Ordinance horserelated
amendments.
SPECIAL SERVICE
The Agape Worship
Center will hold a
special service titled
"Financial Wisdom
Sunday on Sunday, July
4th at 10:00 AM.
The guest speaker
will be Richard Burton
of B & A Financial
Services.
He began his career
as a financial services
professional in 1988.
The Agape Worship
Center & Training
Institute is located at
2559 Capitol Drive in
Creedmoor behind
Advanced Auto.
The Pastors are
Gaddis and Jeanette
Faulcon.
OBEDIENCE CLASS
Puppy and Adult Dog
obedience classes will
begin Thursday, July 15
in the Butner/Creedmoor
area. Specializing in
training of the family dog.
Call 528-1629 for more
information.
officials, Light Up Durham
“It’s Cool To Care” Awards
Presentation, National
Anthem and Fireworks!
* Time is tentative and
depends on the actual end
time of the Durham Bulls
Baseball game.
For more information,
call the Durham Parks and
Recreation Department at
(919) 560-4355 or visit
www.DPRPlayMore.org.
31st Annual Festival for
the Eno Fourth of July,
Durham
West Point on the Eno and
City of Durham Parklands
will hold one of the regions
premiere Independence Day
Celebrations filled will live
entertainment, exhibits,
displays and 85 of the region’s
finest craft artists all on the
banks of the Eno River
beginning Saturday July 3,
Sunday, July 4th and on
Monday, July 5th - from
10a.m. to 6p.m. West Point on
the Eno City Park is located
at 5101 Roxboro Road,
Durham. The live
entertainment will include
over 80 traditional and
contemporary performers on
4 stages. Among these
performers will be African
American Dance Ensemble,
Charlie Louvin, Missy Raines
& the New Hip, Sonos,
Orquesta GarDel, Solas and
many more. The Festival for
the Eno is presented by the
Eno River Association. All
proceeds go to preserve the
land in the Eno River Basin.
To volunteer call Christy
Smith at (919) 620-9099 ext.
205 or email
volunteer@enoriver.org. To
learn more about the Festival
or tickets visit
www.EnoRiver.org.

CMYK
THURSDAY
July 1, 2010
THE BUTNER-CREEDMOOR NEWS
COMMUNITY NEWS
B A SECTION
BAGLEY GRADUATES
Army Pfc. Corey M.
Bagley has graduated from
basic combat training at Fort
Jackson, Columbia, S.C.
During the nine weeks of
raining, Bagley studied the
Army mission, history, tradition
and core values,
physical fitness, and received
instruction and practice in
basic combat skills, military
weapons, chemical warfare
and bayonet training, drill
and ceremony, marching, rifle
marksmanship, armed and
unarmed combat, map reading,
field tactics, military
courtesy, military justice
system, basic first aid, foot
marches, and field training
exercises.
Bagley is the son of Angela
Bagley of Durham, and
grandson of Diann McCrea of
Creedmoor.
He is a 2006 graduate of
outh Granville High School
n Creedmoor.
ROOKS GRADUATES
Army National Guard
Pvt. Jessica L. Rooks has
graduated from Basic Combat
Training at Fort Sill, Lawton,
Y OU
D ECIDE :
By Dr. Mike Walden
N ORTH C AROLINA C OOPERATIVE E XTENSION
Okla.
During the nine weeks of
training, Rooks studied the
Army mission and received
instruction and training
exercises in drill and
ceremonies, Army history,
core values and traditions,
military courtesy, military
justice, physical fitness, first
aid, rifle marksmanship,
weapons use, map reading
and land navigation, foot
marches, armed and
unarmed combat, and field
maneuvers and tactics.
Rooks is the daughter of
Angela Rooks of Franklinton,
and granddaughter of David
Rooks of Butner.
She graduated in 2009
from South Granville High
School, Creedmoor.
WASTE SPILL
South Granville Water
and Sewer Authority had a
waste water spill June 16,
2010 at 1917 West B Street
of approximately 1400 gallons
of untreated waste water
entering an unnamed
tributary flowing into the
Knapp of Reeds Creek in the
Neuse River Basin.
IS
CAPITALISM
UP FOR
GRABS?
More so than at any time in the last 70 years, our
fundamental economic system -- capitalism -- is being
questioned. Capitalism is a system of private ownership of
resources and private decisions about how those resources
are used. While we certainly don’t have a pure form of
capitalism -- public decisions (government) do play a major
role in our economy -- business decisions about what to
produce and what prices to set and household decisions about
where to work and what to buy are largely left in private
hands.
But some are now saying the capitalist system has failed
us. The basis for their statement is the recession. While
recessions occur with some degree of regularity, the severity
of the recession which began in late 2007 has shocked most
people. It has revived ideas that capitalism is inherently
unstable and requires more government control.
What is the intellectual basis for this claim? There are
two fundamental roots to the argument. One comes from the
English economist Keynes who believed capitalist economies
go through periods of optimism and pessimism. During the
optimistic times, consumer spending is high and investment
returns are significant. Then, something sparks a mood
change to pessimism. Investors sell, returns fall and
consumers retreat by curtailing spending and increasing
saving. These economic conditions prompt a recession.
Several factors could cause the change in attitude (“animal
spirits” in Keynes’ language). Bad weather could cause crop
failures or floods. International political tensions could
increase the chance of war. Or technological advances may
cause investors initially to over-estimate the resulting
investment returns. Then, when reality sets in, there’s an
investment pullback (a bust) and subsequent decline in the
broader economy.
In the 1970s the economist Hyman Minsky offered a
somewhat different, although related, cause for capitalism’s
instability. Minsky focused on the banking system and the
instability caused by fractional reserve banking. Fractional
reserve banking results in depositors’ total claims on banks’
reserves exceeding those reserves. For example, a bank may
have $10 million in loans but only $2 million in reserves. The
system works fine when the banks’ loans succeed. But if a
substantial number of the loans fail, the result can be a run
on the bank by depositors and collapse of the financial system.
Some observers say a “Minsky moment” occurred in the
2007-09 recession, when a drop in housing values effectively
prompted a run on the “shadow” banking system (hedge funds,
investment banks) and brought the nation -- and world -- close
to a financial calamity.
Believers in either of these two bases for capitalism’s
instability see a need for greater regulation of our economic
system, including restrictions on how financial managers are
compensated, what products financial firms can offer and
additional public funds to be used for the rescue of large (too
big to fail) companies. Some of these ideas are embodied in
legislation currently being considered by Congress.
But there is an alternative view, which says that rather
than private decision-makers making capitalism inherently
unstable, it is the actions of /public /decision-makers that are
the source of the problem. The Federal Reserve can create
economic instability by alternatively increasing and then
decreasing the availability and cost of credit. This realization
led the economist Milton Friedman to propose replacing the
Federal Reserve Board with a computer programmed to
increase the credit supply at a constant rate. Public decisionmakers
can also create instability by changing tax rules and
government spending programs.
Indeed, a strong argument can be made that the housing
market crash and 2007-2009 recession resulted from easy and
ample credit provided by the Federal Reserve in the early
2000s, a change in the tax law in the late 1990s increasing
the tax value of homeownership and the aggressive promotion
of homeownership by the quasi-governmental agencies
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
Many economic historians have argued that capitalism
has brought more prosperity to more people than any other
economic system developed. But the economic events of the
last two years have called the system into question. Each
person will have to decide the degree to which capitalism is
at fault. My own advice, as a professional economist, is to
carefully consider any changes.
The South Granville
Water and Sewer Authority
had a waste water spill on
June 16, 2010 at the East
Middleton Drive Pump
Station of approximately 1675
gallons of untreated waste
water entering Ledge Creek
flowing into the Neuse River
Basin.
The Division of Water
Quality was notified of the
event on June 17, 2010 and is
reviewing the matter.
For information, contact
South Granville Water and
Sewer Authority at 919-575-
3112.
HISTORIC ITEMS
REQUESTED
MSG Kenneth Beal at
Camp Butner Training Center
in Butner is inquiring if
anyone has any items
pertaining to Camp Butner or
to the North Carolina
National Guard (NCNG) such
as pictures, old uniforms,
mannequins, etc., tucked
away in their attic or storage
house that has been there for
years to be placed on loan to
Tax & Business
INFORMATION PROVIDED BY
Tatum & Edwards, PA
Certified Public Accountants
the Camp Butner museum.
If so MSG Beal will store it,
care for it and come pick it up
if needed. The storage van is
located at 200 West A Street
in Butner.
Contact MSG Beal at 919-
575-6320 or 919-215-2326 if
you are interested in
participating or for further
information.
SUPPORT GROUP
Families Living Violence
Free is offering a Domestic
Violence Support Group and
Sexual Assault Support
Group. If you or someone you
know has experienced
domestic violence or sexual
assault, call 693-5700 for
information. All services are
free and confidential.
RECYCLING URGED
Creedmoor Elementary
invites the community to
recycle their aluminum cans
in the big blue recycling
dumpster located on the bus
hill at the school. This not
only is good for our
environment but also helps
raise funds for the school.
Please remember this bin is
for aluminum cans only.
If you have questions,
please contact the school at
528-2313.
Add Midyear Tax Planning
To Your Summer Activities
Summer is the perfect time for fun pursuits, like
vacations, cookouts... and tax planning. Okay, maybe you
forgot to put tax planning on your summer agenda. But a
midyear review is a great way to save tax dollars and time.
Here are several suggestions you might consider.
Establish a retirement plan for your business if you don't
already have one. Examining the choices now gives you time
to select the best plan for your business and to get the
paperwork completed. Then you'll be set to make
contributions as your cash flow allows and to take the
deduction on your 2010 tax return. Another plus: You may
be able to claim a credit on this year's tax return for the
costs of establishing the plan.
Put the kids to work. Are your youngsters complaining
there's nothing to do over summer vacation? Consider hiring
them to help out in your business. Reasonable wages paid
for legitimate work is a business deduction. The cash also
offers the opportunity for your child to contribute to a
retirement account, such as an IRA.
If you have summer travel plans and the primary purpose
of your trip is business, you can deduct all the travel costs to
and from your business destination and all other businessrelated
costs even if you add on a few extra days for pleasure.
You can't deduct costs related to the pleasure portion.
Your vacation home. If you have vacation/rental property,
you might increase your tax deductions by adjusting the
number of days you use your vacation home.
Day camp. If you and your spouse work, the cost of sending
your children to a summer day camp may qualify for the
child care credit.
Business entertaining. Summer is a good time to do
business entertaining. Keep records of the cost, the date, the
attendees, and the business purpose. Your tax deduction is
limited to 50% of the cost.
A midyear tax review can help keep your 2010 taxes
under control.
Senior Center
Activities Schedule
PO Box 766, Hwy 56E. & Main Street
Creedmoor, NC 27522
Week of Mon. July 5 - Friday, July 9, 2010
Daily: 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. Walking in the Gym
9:00 - 10:00 Coffee Hour
12:00 - Lunch
For More Information - Call 528-0848
www.granvillecounty.org
Click “Senior Services”
. Monday, July 5: CLOSED - 4th July
Lunch 12:00: CLOSED - 4th July.
Tuesday, July 6: 8:45 Game Time, 10:00 Bible Study
with Mandy Moss, 12:30 Water Aerobics - YMCA, 6:30 -
Ballroom Dance Class, No Low Impact Aerobics Today!
Lunch: 12:00: Mac & Cheese, Pintos, Stewed Tomatoes,
Roll, Fruit/Juice, Milk.
Wednesday, July 7: 8:45 Game Time, 9:30 Blood
Pressure Clinic, 10:15 Bingo.
Lunch 12:00 Fish, Slaw, Baked Beans, Roll, Fruit/
Juice, Milk
Thursday, July 8: 8:45 Game Time, 10:00 Crochet
Club, 12:30 Water Aerobics-YMCA, No Low Impact Aerobics
Toady! No Stretch & Wiggle Exercise Class Today.
Lunch 12:00: Roast Pork & Gravy, Rice, Veggie Medley,
Applesauce, Roll, Milk
Friday, July 9: 8:45 Game Time, 9:00 Canvas Crafts,
10:30 Salsa Dance Exercise w/Hope Pacheco, 12:00 July
Birthday Party.
Lunch 12:00: Turkey & Dressing, Peas, Roll, Fruit/
Juice, Milk
** Milk is served with each meal - Chocolate milk and
2% low fat milk are available.**
Savvy
Senior
You ask the Senior question ~ We find the Savvy answer
Retirement Relocation: Tips and
Tools to Help You Make a Smart Move
Dear Savvy Senior,
What tips or resources can you recommend for researching
communities in the U.S.? My wife and I will both be retiring
in a few years and are interested in relocating to a smaller
house in a sunnier climate but could use some help. What
can you tell us?
Ready to Roll
Dear Ready,
For many, retiring to a new location is an exciting
adventure and a great way to start a new chapter in life. Here
are some tips to help you find and research a new community
that meets your budget, and satisfies your wants and needs.
What to Consider
While nine out of 10 U.S. retirees stay where they are
when they retire, the other 10 percent choose to relocate.
Whatever your dream retirement location may be, you need
to do your homework and learn everything you can about the
area you’re interested in. Here are some things to consider in
helping you get started:
• The three Cs: Also known as crime, climate and cost of
living. For most retirees these are high priorities in choosing
a retirement location. To research these areas go to
bestplaces.net, a fantastic Web resource that offers climate
profiles, crime statistics, a cost of living calculator and more,
and lets you compare cities side-by-side. You can also click on
the “Cost of Living” tab, plug in your annual income, and find
out how much you’ll need to maintain your current standard
of living. Also see homefair.com.
•Taxes: Some states are more tax friendly than others. If
you’re planning to move to another state when you retire,
you’ll want to research your prospective state’s personal
income taxes, sales taxes, taxes on retirement income,
property taxes and inheritance and estate taxes, which you
can do at retirementliving.com – click on “Taxes by State.”
• Healthcare: Does the community you’re considering
have good medical facilities nearby? Hospitalcompare.hhs.gov
and qualitycheck.org are two good websites to help you
research this. Also, to search for doctors in your new location
that accept Medicare, visit medicare.gov and click on
“Facilities & Doctors” or call 800-633-4227. Vitals.com is
another good resource for researching new doctors. It’s also
important to keep in mind healthcare costs as they, too, can
vary by market. Contact your insurer to research this.
• Transportation: If you plan to travel much, or expect
frequent visits from your kids or grandkids, convenient access
to an airport or train station is a nice advantage. Another
consideration is public transportation. Since most retirees give
up driving in their 80s, what services will be available? The
area aging agency (call 800-677-1116 to get the local number)
can help you with this.
• Recreation and work: Depending on your hobbies and
interests – golf, fishing, art, music, continuing education and
more – your retirement destination should meet your needs.
Or, if you’re interested in occupying your time with full time
or part time work or by volunteering, what kinds of
opportunities are available?
Test the Water
Once you find a location you’re interested in, it’s wise to
make multiple visits at different times of the year so you can
get a feel for the seasonal weather changes. It’s also prudent
to rent for a year before buying a home or making a
commitment to a retirement community. You may find that
you like the area more as a vacation spot than as a yearround
residence.
More Tools
For more help researching a location, contact the
prospective city’s chamber of commerce. Also see epodunk.com,
neighborhoodscout.com and relocateamerica.com – all
excellent resources for learning more about thousands of
locations across the country.
If you aren’t sure where you want to retire, visit
findyourspot.com and take their interactive quiz that poses
dozens of questions on your preferences such as climate,
recreation, community size and more. It then suggests possible
destinations that match your preferences, and offers detailed
reports on the suggested communities. Also, see
greatplacestoretire.com, topretirements.com and consider
getting a subscription to “Where to Retire” magazine
(wheretoretire.com; 713-974-6903).
Send your senior questions to: Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443,
Norman, OK 73070,
FINANCIAL FOCUS
CHRIS ELLIS
EDWARD JONES INVESTMENT FIRM
Declare Your Own Financial Independence Day
The Fourth of July is almost upon us. But someday, you
will also want to celebrate another type of freedom-financial
freedom. And you can help make the arrival of your own
Financial Independence Day a reality by making the right
moves.
First, contribute as much as you possibly can to your 401(k)
and increase your contributions whenever your salary goes
up. Also, try to “max out” on your IRA every year.
You’ll also boost your financial freedom by reducing your
debts. That’s easier said than done, but the smaller your
debt load, the more you’ll have available to invest.
Finally, set up an emergency fund in a liquid account. This
will help free you from dipping into long-term investments to
pay for unexpected costs, such as a major car repair.
By following these steps, you can help yourself stay on
track toward the day when you can declare your own financial
independence.