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From crossing guard to grand marshal John Martin earns honor in Christmas parade, one of three local holiday events this weekend. By John Deem
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It was six years ago when John Martin started looking around for a part-time job. As is the case for many retirees, his search was more about keeping him busy than it was about generating income. Martin, a Charlotte native who moved to Davidson in 1999, found an intriguing job posting on the town’s website. It was for a crossing guard near Davidson Elementary School. Despite a bad hip and knee, he applied for the position. “I figured I could handle 30 minutes of about anything,” he says of
the morning and afternoon shifts. “I told them I was reliable, and that I can be there on time.” Martin got the job. But his first day was a challenge. “I was holding on to that stop sign over there for support,” says Martin, pointing to his assigned intersection of Spring and South streets, a block north of Davidson Elementary. “Three days later, this wall was built.” Martin points to a low brick wall with a raised corner that serves as his perch between the waves of kids crossing the street. The wall is in front of the two-story brick home of former Davidson Volunteer Fire Department chief Wilson Sadler. “With this,” Martin says as he pats the UNC Tar Heels seat cushion (a gift from a community member) atop the wall, “I knew I could do it.” SEE PARADE, PAGE 6
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John Martin occupies his regular morning and afternoon post at the corner of Spring and South streets near Davidson Elementary School. This week, he’ll have the seat of honor as grand marshal of the North Meck Christmas Parade.
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PARADE FROM PAGE 4 And he has. Martin says he missed two weeks a few years ago when he had a hip replaced. And he took a Friday afternoon off recently to head to the mountains for his brother’s 80th birthday celebration. Other than that, he has an attendance record that would make any principal proud. As gaggles of students approach the intersection, Martin calls out to many by name. Parents in passing vehicles that have just pulled out of the car rider line wave and say hello. “The mamas who roll the windows down make me so happy because I can talk to the children back and forth,” he says. It’s Martin’s dedication and the personal connections he’s devel-
oped with students, parents and neighbors of Davidson Elementary over his half-dozen years on the job that will be recognized on Saturday when he serves as grand marshal of the 32nd annual North Mecklenburg Christmas Parade. When reminded that the grand marshal traditionally travels the parade route in a sweet ride, Martin scoffs. “I want a truck with my recliner in the back,” he says.
‘Getting Santa down the road’ Whatever sleigh Martin rides in, as he and other parade entries line up Saturday in staging areas on Griffith, Watson and Beaty streets, he once again will cross paths with Wilson Sadler. Just as he did as a volunteer firefighter at the very first North
versity of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., and a stint in the Army Sadler has played the same parade role every year. This year’s version will be bigger than ever, with nearly 3,000 participants. “That doesn’t include the horses,” Sadler adds in his trademark deadpan. Sadler will be at FILE Santa makes his official local debut Saturday. the intersection of Griffith, Watson and Mecklenburg Christmas Parade, Beaty streets, which serves as the Sadler will help order the bands, funnel from multiple staging areas. floats, dancers and other partici- At that point, it’s Sadler and other pants as they merge before head- organizers who put participants in ing south on N.C. 115 to begin the order. And there’s little room for error. 2.5-mile trek south to downtown “Once the convoy starts, it does not Cornelius. Except for his time at the Uni- stop,” he says.
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But while the logistics of the parade might seem complicated, the goal actually is pretty simple, says Sadler, the Davidson chief from 1998 to 2004 and still an active member of the department. “It’s just getting Santa down the road,” he says. The parade begins at 1 p.m. at the intersection of N.C. 115 and Griffith Street and ends at N.C. 115 and Catawba Avenue in downtown Cornelius. It coincides with the annual Christmas in Davidson celebration Thursday through Saturday, from 6 to 9 p.m. each day. Davidson officials expect more than 20,000 people to attend the event, which includes food, entertainment, vendors and carriage rides, and spreads across the entire downtown area. Satellite parking will be available at several locations, with continuous trolley service to and from downtown. Parking locations will be: • Homewood Suites at Griffith Street. • Davidson Commons, in the parking lot near Davidson Chocolate. • The Cotton Mill (Watson Street, near Brickhouse Tavern). • Sadler Square on Griffith Street. • Corner of Depot and Main streets. • South Main Square. • Corner of South Main and Walnut streets (at Davidson United Methodist Church). Lake Norman Christian School on South Street will offer free parking (and free hot chocolate and popcorn). For more information, go to christmasindavidson.com.
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Downtown Huntersville will become Holiday Central Saturday, Dec. 13, when it hosts the annual Huntersville Christmas from 4 to 8 p.m. The event will include a visit from Santa and his elves, and story time with Mrs. Claus. Huntersville’s Parks and Recreation Department after-school team will be at Huntersville Fire Station 1 to help children draft letters to Santa, and Town Hall will be the stage for a magic show. Two stages will offer continuous entertainment, and carolers will roam through the crowd while singing seasonal favorites. Downtown restaurants will be open, and vendors will be selling food, arts and crafts, and other items in Veterans Park at Main and Maxwell streets, next to the railroad tracks.
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Board approves incentives for Bürkert campus By Lee Sullivan
[email protected] The Town of Huntersville will provide tax reimbursements that could exceed $150,000 over a fiveyear period as part of an economic development incentive package for an international company planning to build its corporate campus off Mt. Holly-Huntersville Road. At Monday night’s Town Board meeting, by unanimous vote, Huntersville commissioners approved the financial incentive plan outlined by Town Manager Greg Ferguson that provides for paybacks to Bürkert Contromatic Corp. as it establishes its local operation. On Nov. 10, representatives of Bürkert, with a main office in Charlotte and doing business locally as Bürkert Fluid Control Systems, announced the purchase of 94 acres in Huntersville and intentions to create a long-term headquarters for its regional operations. The Germanybased company, with five current locations in Mecklenburg County and a regional workforce of 66 employees, declared its plans to invest up to $23 million over the next five years in a manufacturing and office facility that will serve as the anchor of its new headquarters and create as many as 61 new jobs.
The financial incentive package approved by commissioners stipulates that the reimbursement of tax payments to the company are dependent on Bürkert’s progress toward stated development objectives and its status as a solid corporate citizen. As Ferguson explained, the company will receive municipal tax reimbursements representing 50 percent of the amount paid for up to five years if it follows through on its development objectives. The agreement states that Bürkert must build the proposed facility, provide new jobs and pay its town and county taxes in order to qualify for the reimbursements. In providing some background information about the financial incentives, Ferguson and Commissioner Ron Julian, the Town Board’s representative on the Lake Norman Regional Economic Development Corporation (LNREDC) board, said the arrangement is good for the town and the company. Bürkert, which also received a $110,000 performance-based grant from the One North Carolina Fund, purchased privately owned property (owned by Margaret Conn Horton and Hazeline Conn Moss) previously designated as predominately agricultural. As a result, lo-
cal taxes on the property last year totaled only $335. With Bürkert’s purchase and planned improvements, Furgeson said, anticipated tax local tax revenue on the property will increase dramatically, with the town realizing about $67,000 annually in property tax revenue. And Julian pointed out that a corporate or industrial use like Bürkert, while greatly enhancing the town’s tax base, does not put the type of strain on town resources and infrastructure that is usually generated by residential developments. And yet another positive aspect of Bürkert’s plans, Ferguson said, is that the extension of water and sewer services to the company’s future campus by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities Department should enhance the possibilities for future development on approximately 300 additional acres of privately owned land surrounding the Bürkert site. On its Huntersville campus, in addition to a 120,000-square-foot main facility (and there is some speculation that the building could be even bigger) the company is planning bike and walking trails, picnic areas and other outdoor amenities for employees and their families. While salaries at the Huntersville facility will vary by positions, total annual payroll at the new
Bürkert operation is expected to be about $2.9 million.
Porches and property
In other proceedings at Monday’s meeting, commissioners held public hearings to consider a proposal to promote prominent porches to primary plane status on new houses and to take the step toward blending another acre along N.C. 115 into the overall Bryton umbrella. Commissioners also completed an extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) land swap with Charlotte and agreed to sell a sliver of long-forgotten town property surrounded by Cornelius to a private bidder. The zoning ordinance adjustment regarding porches was requested by Andrew McCoy of JW Homes. As proposed, the change would allow porches at least six feet wide that cover at least 55 percent of a house’s frontage to be considered as the front line of the house, creating new options for garages while maintaining standard setbacks from public sidewalks and roads. In the vicinity of the massive, mixed-use Bryton project bordered by N.C. 115 and Eastfield Road, LStar Management is seeking to change the zoning of one acre on the east side of N.C. 115 north of Hambright Road from Highway
Commercial to Transit Oriented Development-Residential Conditional District, the designation that already encompasses most of Bryton’s 450-acre site. LStar, already in the process of developing an apartment complex on the interior of the Bryton, is seeking the change to take advantage of the more flexible guidelines available in the TOD district. The ETJ maneuver involved 6.6 acres in the Bryton area. The rerouting of roads relating to Bryton’s development created a pocket of property — south of Dixon Farm, east of Bryton Corporate Drive and north of Eastfield — that is now a more natural fit under Huntersville’s ETJ supervision. Property south of altered roads was conveyed to Charlotte. In addition to adding the property to its ETJ area, the town also zoned the property for residential use. The land sale authorized by the board involved a .05-acre parcel at the tip of the Fidler Lane peninsula in Cornelius. The town obtained the property in the 1960s as a water intake site. Adjacent property owner Cynthia Leigh approached the town last month about purchasing the sliver for $10,000 and Monday night commissioner’s unanimously approved the sale.
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They’re a-workin’ on the railroad Workers replacing ties on HuntersvilleMooresville section of Norfolk Southern track. By John Deem
[email protected] Those railroad ties scattered like matchsticks along the railroad tracks from Huntersville to Mooresville weren’t the result of a miles-long spill from an unsteady train. Over the next several weeks, workers from Norfolk Southern Railroad will use those ties to replace the aging planks that have supported the rails for years. They also will replenish and reshape the rock that serves as ballast along the track. That will mean the temporary closing of cross-
ings, but those should be no more than a few hours each, says Norfolk Southern spokesman Robert Chapman. “It really is an assembly line process,” Chapman says. “One machine removes and replaces the ties. The next machine comes in and fastens the ties to the rails. Then a third machine comes in to take care of the ballast.” The pieces of equipment are actually Transfomer-like creations crafted by workers at Norfolk Southern’s Charlotte machine shop, Chapman says. The ballast machine certainly is a head-turner for drivers traveling along N.C. 115. It involves a worker actually maneuvering a front-loader along the top of a coal car loaded with the crushed rock that will serve as ballast. A separate crew is working ahead of the assembly line to do the more intricate work of replacSEE RAILROAD, PAGE 11
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Workers extract old ties and install new ones with the assistance of a backhoe-looking machine fitted with a clawlike tool. The entire process takes about 10 minutes per tie.
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RAILROAD FROM PAGE 10 ing ties at the joints between rails. A worker in what is essentially a backhoe with a robot-style claw instead of a bucket taps one end of the old tie to push it out the other side of the opposite rail. At that point, the claw grabs the old tie, casts it aside, then clamps on to the replacement tie, which it slides under the rails. With the help of workers on the rails, the machine’s operator makes sure the replacement tie is perfectly positioned and level. One of the workers then pulls out a tape measure, checks the distance from the left rail to the right and, when satisfied that all is in place, pulls out a pristine spike and pounds it into the new tie with a sledgehammer while another worker does the same on the other side. Then, the whole process is repeated at the next joint. And the next. And the next. On Monday in Mooresville, it took the crew about 10 minutes to remove and install each tie. Chapman said he wasn’t sure when the ties on the HuntersvilleMooresville section were last replaced. “How often that happens depends on the (train) traffic,” he says. “And that’s not a high-traffic section.”
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Cornelius board hears details of lake patrol plan By Andrew Warfield
[email protected] Cornelius commissioners had heard about it for a week, but prior to Monday night’s town board meeting, they received the official presentation from the Cornelius Police Chief Bence Hoyle about a proposed agreement to take over patrol of Mecklenburg County’s Lake Norman waters. While some fine details remain to be hammered out, the bottom line is this: Mecklenburg County will reallocate $367,000 from CharlotteMecklenburg Police Department to the CPD while Cornelius provides $207,000 for a total of $574,000 in operational expenses to patrol the lake. In exchange, Cornelius — which has the vast majority of shoreline in the county — and boaters will receive guaranteed response and a higher level of service than CMPD’s prior part-time patrol. It’s an agreement Cornelius has been attempting to secure for more than a decade, with response times and service being a source of contention since CMPD took over lake patrol in 1995. Since then, explosive growth on the lake has led to 470 boats registered per square mile in
2010, but the patrol remained parttime. “Our new county manager understands the lake has changed and it’s a lake that serves not only Cornelius but the region, and the county has been an advocate for us to make sure we get this right,” Hoyle told commissioners. “I think this is something our residents expect.” Previously, CMPD was on-duty for lake patrol 54 percent of total hours in-season and 42 percent in the off-season. To help fill the void, the CPD patrolled the town’s shoreline part-time, but had no authority in open water. “No one is providing 24-hour coverage,” Hoyle said. “We have the most density (on the lake), too.” That has led to confusion by residents and boaters alike when 911 calls often went ignored by CMPD when its lake officers were off-duty unless, by policy, there was imminent danger to life or property. “Sometimes when they are on duty there are still calls that get missed because they’re on Mountain Island Lake,” said Hoyle. He added there were no issues when CMPD was on-duty and on Lake Norman, but when they weren’t, Town Manager Anthony Roberts
added, “Our priority was never their priority.” To provide back-up and also to patrol the waters off McGuire Nuclear station, CMPD will still have a presence on the lake. To house both CPD and CMPD police boats — Cornelius purchased a new one last year — the county has agreed to pay $150,000 to expand its boathouse at Ramsey Creek Park. Hoyle added the town will have some additional capital expenses, in particular a second boat since the agreement calls for a guaranteed response, meaning at least one boat must be operational at all times. He said that and other capital costs can be offset with drug seizure funds. And while some concern was expressed by Commissioner Dave Gilroy about the $207,000 in operational expenses by the town, Hoyle said it’s the bare minimum. “This budget that I presented is the minimum that I can guarantee every call is answered,” he said. As part of the agreement, CMPD will continue to provide infrastructure protection related to McGuire, emergency management and training coordination and, in a reversal of the last 10 years or so, will support Cornelius as requested and when
available. Among the lingering details is the length of the agreement itself. Town Manager Anthony Roberts said, should the agreement be finalized, Cornelius would officially take over lake patrol beginning July 1, 2015, the start of the next fiscal year. Hiring additional officers and training would need to begin several months prior, meaning the agreement would need to be reached soon. Hoyle added the mid-summer timing is right. “On Labor Day and July 4 ... you can’t put enough (police) boats on the lake,” he added.
Other business During the meeting, Hoyle presented this year’s CPD Life Saving Award to Officer William Browne, who on May 1 used his on-board portable automated external defibrillator (AED) to save the life of Cornelius resident and Lake Norman Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram owner Jack Salzman. Until now, these awards were given during separate ceremonies at CPD headquarters, but Hoyle also introduced Sgt. George Brinzey and Officer Joseph Squashic, both of whom also employed AEDs, as previous award
winners. “We wanted to have this one before the board because we wanted to recognize these officers more publicly,” Hoyle said. “These officers are not (emergency medical technicians) ... and they are really put in a very intense situation (in life-saving scenarios).” • Assistant Town Manager Andrew Grant told commissioners he submitted a request to the North Carolina Department of Transportation to avoid installing the masts and cables aesthetic treatment on the Catawba Avenue bridge during the holiday shopping season and during Charlotte Restaurant Week in January. He is awaiting response. • Both presumed candidates to fill the unexpired term of John Bradford, Bruce Trimbur and Michael Miltich, spoke to commissioners and others spoke on their behalf. Trimbur filled the unexpired term of Lynette Rinker in 2013 and Miltich was the first runner-up during the last election. Bradford will be sworn in to the North Carolina House of Representatives during the town board’s meeting on Monday, Dec. 15, when commissioners are expected to name his replacement.
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Buy cookies and fight kids’ cancer Birkdale Village in Huntersville will be among the places this Saturday where folks craving cookies can also contribute to the ongoing battle against childhood cancers. The seventh annual Cookies for Kids’ Cancer Citywide Bake Sale, featuring six participating locations throughout the greater Charlotte region, will take place all day Saturday, Dec. 6. At Birkdale Village, cookies will be sold from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. At the cookie sale, supporters can pick up goodies including homemade baked goods and treats donated from nearly 100 sweet shops in the area. All proceeds from the event will benefit Cookies for Kids’ Cancer, a national 501(c) (3) non-profit organization committed to funding the development of less toxic, more effective treatments for children battling cancer. This massive event was first inspired by a local boy, Grier, who bravely battled cancer for more than six years. Many local children in the area are now the inspiration every year. His mother, Amy, answered a call to action by Cookies for Kids’ Cancer in 2008, and her front yard bake sale quickly turned into a citywide event with the help of Lesa Helbein. Friends and family help organize this event each year, raising nearly $700,000 for childhood cancer research. Proceeds from this event are matched dollar-for-dollar through a generous grant from Bank of America. Direct donations to the Charlotte event can be made at charlottegoodcookies.supportcookiesforkidscancer.org. For more information about this event, or if you are interested in getting involved with Cookies for Kids’ Cancer, contact Erica Madden at
[email protected]. Through the concept of local events and online cookie sales, Cookies for Kids’ Cancer inspires individuals, organizations and businesses to join in the fight against pediatric cancer by raising funds and awareness. Since Cookies for Kids’ Cancer launched in 2008, there have been more than 5,500 events in all 50 states and 16 countries ranging from big to small organized by Good Cookies of all ages.
Seasonal concert at Mt. Zion UMC The Cornelius Concert Series, sponsored by Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, will present the Mt. Zion Hand Bells, Chancel Choir and Chamber Orchestra in concert on Sunday, Dec. 14, at 11
News Briefs a.m. and 2 p.m. in the sanctuary of the church at 19600 Zion St. in Cornelius. This is Mt. Zion’s yearly Christmas program for the Lake Norman community. The Hand Bell Ringers will ring pieces by Sondra Tucker, D. Linda McKechnie, Timothy Waugh and Matthew Prins. The Chancel Choir and Chamber Orchestra will perform “Love Came Down at Christmas” by Joel Raney. There will be a free will offering taken at the 2 p.m. concert to support the Cornelius Concert Series.
Davidson re-earns CALEA status The Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) recently reaccredited the Davidson Police Department by verifying it meets the commission’s professional standards. “We are really proud of Chief Jeanne Miller and the entire police department,” said Davidson Town Manager Leamon Brice. “They have a high degree of professionalism, ethics, accountability and teamwork in the way they serve our citizens.” The DPD was initially awarded full accreditation by CALEA in July 2011, and seeks renewal every three years. CALEA was created in 1979 as a credentialing authority through the joint efforts of law enforce-
December 3, 2014 ment’s major executive associations: The International Association of Chiefs of Police, National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, National Sheriff ’s Association and Police Executive Research Forum. The purpose of CALEA’s accreditation program is to improve the delivery of public safety services, primarily by maintaining a body of standards developed by public safety practitioners that cover a wide range of up-to-date public safety initiatives, establishing and administering an accreditation process, and recognizing professional excellence.
Davidson PD and FD have an ‘Angel Tree’ The Davidson police and fire departments have teamed up to create an “Angel Tree” to support
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families in need in Davidson and the surrounding area this holiday season. The tree is filled with ornaments listing a holiday wish list gift item. Local residents are encouraged to sign up by Friday, Dec. 5, to make someone’s wish come true this holiday by selecting an ornament from the tree. The tree will be on display in the town hall lobby during regular business hours (Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.). Unwrapped gifts should be returned to the Davidson Police Department by Friday, Dec. 12. Donated items will be delivered by the departments before Christmas. For more information on the Angel Tree, call 704-892-5131 or visit townofdavidson.org/angeltree.
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Thirteen good excuses? Since 1984, PNC Financial Services Group has put a price tag on what it would cost a “true love” to buy every item listed in The Twelve Days of Christmas lyrics. While it’s good fun to kill a few minutes at work picking apart the $116,000 whack to the wallet for 2014, something occurred to us. Talkers have observed some labor inequality in the mix. First off, let it be known that Talkers know virtually nothing about maids who milk. Let it also be known that at least one of us knows nothing about women who dance. In that dearth of expertise, let’s just base this analysis on a per-capita performance. If eight maids-a-milking will cost $58 this year, that’s only $7.25 a pop. Compare that to nine ladies dancing for $7,552.84, or $839.20 each, and someone’s got some explaining to do. What that tells us is that someone’s supposed better half is just fine with paying only the federal minimum wage to help bring lifegiving sustenance to market, but that same true love is willing to shell out about $840 (plus a tip, or so we’re told) for a “lady” to, um, dance. This Talker wants dancing lessons for Christmas.
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Talkers remember an exercise in grade school when the teacher would whisper a secret to Sally in the front right corner of the room and tell her to pass it on to Judy, who sits behind her, and so on. By the time it got to Billy in the back left corner of the room, it would be an entirely different story. Social media is a lot like that, but because the story is passed on to dozens, hundreds or even thousands at one time rather than beSEE TALK, PAGE 15
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TALK FROM PAGE 14 ing exchanged by 26 pre-adolescents one by one, the phenomenon is multiplied exponentially. And so is its impact. In a world where it seems everyone believes that because it’s on the Internet that it’s true (“That’s my blind date. He’s a French model”) — except for that with which they prefer not to accept as fact because it doesn’t fall in line with their own personal narrative — opinions and even beliefs are formulated based on what someone else said about someone else’s thoughts regarding what someone else says about something they really didn’t read but posted, tweeted or blogged about anyway. For example, recently someone posted on an activist Facebook group page that they are anti-Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce because it endorsed certain candidates who believed a certain way. The Chamber, in fact, endorses no candidates. Still, others jumped on the bandwagon and that which is fiction becomes fact by virtue of it being repeated enough times that it must be true. Talkers also noted Facebook comments about a recent printed opinion piece — comments made by people who, based on interpretations of what was posted, had obviously never read the piece themselves. Still, they rendered judgment on it and, as is seemingly always the case, the string quickly veered off topic into ranting, name-calling, foot-stomping and threats. “Psst ... Johnny wrote that the state is planning new toll lanes on I-77. Pass it on.” “Psst ... Johnny wrote that local politicians are forcing the state to put in toll lanes. Pass it on.” “Psst ... Johnny loves toll lanes on I-77. Pass it on.” “Psst ... Johnny is being paid by the state to support toll lanes. Pass it on.” “Psst ... Johnny writes for a newspaper that is owned by an important politician who loves toll lanes. Pass it on.” No matter the subject or political orientation, compared to the average circle of social media advocates, a room full of 26 pre-adolescents is better behaved.
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Horse’s Mouth “There’s a lot of hoopla out there on Facebook and the internet about how Exit 28 is great, but I think we ought to be sure folks know Exit 23 and Exit 25 are not bad, either.” — Huntersville Commissioner Danny Phillips, a long-time promoter of “shop local” campaigns, saying an ongoing effort to advertise businesses around the recently completed diverging diamond intersection in Cornelius shouldn’t come at the expense of other local businesses.
“You’d have to tether me just to get me in a 5K.” — Huntersville Mayor Jill Swain, responding to Commissioner Jeff Neely’s explanation that during the Huntersville Half Marathon and 5K on Saturday, Dec. 13, an attempt will be made to break the world record for tethered runners in a 5K. “This goes back longer than anyone else here, except me.” — Huntersville Town Attorney Bob Blythe, who was honored earlier this year for 50 years of service to the town, explaining to commissioners how the town came to own a sliver of land along Fidler Lane in Cornelius. “It’s a great read.” — Matt Braswell of accounting firm Martin-Starnes & Associates on his 140-page report on the Town of Cornelius’ financial audit. “The Town of Cornelius is a beautiful town.” — Braswell to commissioners. “Come back anytime and spend some money.” — Cornelius Mayor Chuck Travis to Braswell. “I just had my second child, so I’m broke.” — Braswell to Travis.
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“I got one word for you, ‘Ladowski.’” — Hough High School football coach Miles Aldridge on the performance of Lake Norman High quarterback Josh Ladowski last Friday night. “Character, quickness, speed, desire, the will to win. ... We watched film of them and every one was the same. He is a true football player. Our whole game plan was to stop Ladowski. As you can see, we couldn’t do it. He’s the best player in the Charlotte area.” — Aldridge, adding many more words to the subject. “We came a long way this season. I’m proud of what we accomplished. I don’t have to be happy with the end result. But I’m proud of this team.” — Aldridge, who led Hough to a 10-4 record and the first two state playoff victories in school history. “He’s good enough to put a team on his back and carry it, but he’s smart enough to know he can’t win anything without the other 10 guys. ... Those guys fight – for him.” — Lake Norman coach Rob McNeely on his star quarterback.
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Arrests and citations as reported by the Cornelius Police Department Nov. 17-22.
Arrests
• Foster, Tondrez Silasio-Yemane (BM, 39), Order For Arrest/Fishing Without License (M), 20659 Catawba Avenue, 11/19. • Brandon, Willie Manolito (BM, 44), Possession Of A Controlled Substance (F), 19810 North Ferry Street, 11/20. • Dukes, Omarr Javince (BM, 32), Possession Of A Controlled Substance (M), 19810 North Ferry Street, 11/20. • Rivens, Walter Edell (BM, 55), Possession Of Drug Paraphernalia (M), Larceny (M), 19810 North Ferry Street, 11/20. • Campbell, Kenneth Lee (WM, 35), Simple Assault (M), Assault On A Female (M), Larceny (M), 20727 Pointe Regatta Drive, 11/20.
Citations
• Nason, Amy Keir (WF, 49), Unsafe Passing Yellow Line, 9799 Washam Potts Road, 11/17. • Early, Donna Lee (WF, 53), Unsafe Passing Yellow Line, 9799 Washam Potts Road, 11/17. • Mahone, Eric Vaughn (BM, 55), Speeding-Excess Of 15 Miles Over, 20011 West Catawba Avenue, 11/17.
CITIZEN’S ARREST
• Cheney, David Ross (WM, 32), Speeding-Excess Of 15 Miles Over, 19401 Statesville Road, 11/17. • Garciaromero, Nalleli (HF, 25), Allow Unlicensed To Drive, 19800 Beard Street, 11/17. • Halsey, Taylor Cynthia (WF, 17), Carrying Concealed Weapon, Possession Of Drug Paraphernalia, 12420 Bailey Road, 11/18. • Carr, Rubin Eugene (BM, 26), Expired Registration, 20823 Catawba Avenue, 11/18. • Winfrey, Jacob Marvin (WM, 27), Exceeding Posted Speed, 19899 West Catawba Avenue, 11/18. • Givens, Dina Lynne (WF, 45), Speeding-Excess Of 15 Miles Over, 20011 West Catawba Avenue, 11/18. • Johnson, Laura Collins (WF, 35), Exceeding Posted Speed, 19899 West Catawba Avenue, 11/18. • Marcus-Mayes, Audrey Evita (BF, 47), Speeding-Excess Of 15 Miles Over, 19899 West Catawba Avenue, 11/18. • Babcock, Sara Anne (WF, 25), Exceeding Posted Speed, 18899 West Catawba Avenue, 11/18. • Lantz, Jeremy Chad (WM, 38), Exceeding Posted Speed, 18899 West Catawba Avenue, 11/18. • Hamblin, Elizabeth Louise (WF, 30), Speeding-Excess Of 15 Miles Over, 18899 West Catawba Avenue, 11/18.
• Patrick, Daniel James (WM, 68), Speeding-Excess Of 15 Miles Over, 18899 West Catawba Avenue, 11/18. • Varner, Amy Christine (WF, 37), Exceeding Posted Speed, 18899 West Catawba Avenue, 11/18. • Orr, Lisa Murphy (WF, 49), Exceeding Posted Speed, 18899 West Catawba Avenue, 11/18. • Grover, Calvin Robert (WM, 32), Speeding-Excess Of 15 Miles Over, 10117 Bailey Road, 11/18. • Decesare, Tammy Lynn (WF, 40), Speeding-Excess Of 15 Miles Over, 11900 Bailey Road, 11/18. • Garrett, Julian Delane (WM, 29), Failure To Stop For Stopped Bus, 17499 Jetton Road, 11/18. • Pecoraro, Anna Marie (WF, 62), Exceeding Posted Speed, 17499 Jetton Road, 11/18. • Benz, Megan Riordan (WF, 46), Exceeding Posted Speed, 17499 Jetton Road, 11/18. • Oakley, William Joseph (WM, 57), Exceeding Posted Speed, 17499 Jetton Road, 11/18. • Riefner, Elizabeth Davidson (WF, 43), Exceeding Posted Speed, 19899 West Catawba Avenue, 11/18. • Carlyle, Lisa Marshall (WF, 33), Exceeding Posted Speed, 20011 West Catawba Avenue, 11/18. • Elliott, David Michael (WM, 44), Exceeding Posted Speed, 20011 West Catawba Avenue, 11/18.
• Brooks, Elyshia Darnetta (BF, 42), No Driver’s License, 8599 Westmoreland Road, 11/18. • Martinez-Cortes, Luis Albert (WM, 28), No Driver’s License, 19399 Jetton Road, 11/19. • Brewer, Craig Skogsberg (WM, 56), Exceeding Posted Speed, 20011 West Catawba Avenue, 11/19. • Blanchette, Caroline Martin (WF, 45), Exceeding Posted Speed, 19899 West Catawba Avenue, 11/19. • Guevara, Maynor Josue Regaldo (HM, 27), Speeding, No Driver’s License, 19399 West Catawba Avenue, 11/19. • Lovullo, Joseph Angelo (WM, 55), Speeding-Excess Of 15 Miles Over, 19829 West Catawba Avenue, 11/19. • Krombolz, Stephen Harris (WM, 43), Exceeding Posted Speed, 18899 West Catawba Avenue, 11/19. • Anthony, Domique Renae (BF, 27), Speeding, 18731 West Catawba Avenue, 11/19. • Lamperski, Christopher Robert (WM, 32), Speeding-Excess Of 15 Miles Over, 18899 West Catawba Avenue, 11/19. • Oliveira, Geralda Aparecida D. (OF, 36), Exceeding Posted Speed, No Driver’s License, 18899 West Catawba Avenue, 11/19. • McCormick, John Francis (WM, 60), Speeding, 18899 West Catawba Avenue, 11/19.
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• Newsome, Jason Dirk (WM, 46), Exceeding Posted Speed, 18899 West Catawba Avenue, 11/19. • Ferren, Sydney Ruth (WF, 16), Speeding-Excess Of 15 Miles Over, 12110 Bailey Road, 11/19. • Robinson, Katrina Christine (BF, 42), Exceeding Posted Speed, 19749 West Catawba Avenue, 11/19. • Clapp, Michael Steven (WM, 38), Unsafe Passing Yellow Line, Bailey Road at Baileys Glen, 11/20. • Gallimore, Justin Dewayne (WM, 29), Assault-Simple, 20073 Walter Henderson Road, 11/20. • Kalos, Authur Christofer (WM, 40), Speeding-Excess Of 15 Miles Over, West Catawba Avenue at One Norman Boulevard, 11/21. • Terry, Judy Lynn (BF, 59), Reckless Driving-Wanton Disregard, 20673 Catawba Avenue, 11/21. • Love, Darren Andrew (WM, 38), Driving While License Revoked, Failure To Exhibit/Surrender/Fictious Information, 20011 West Catawba Avenue, 11/21. • Ramirez, Jhonatan Ramirez (HM, 22), No Driver’s License, 20655 Catawba Avenue, 11/21. • Steele, Roberta Landis (WF, 76), Failure To Reduce Speed, 17919 Old Statesville Road, 11/21. • Arellano, Juan Carlos (WM, 24), No Driver’s License, 20899 Catawba Avenue, 11/21. • Opuku, Nina Abena (BF, 25), Expired Registration, Failure To Stop Steady Red Light, No Driver’s License, 20655 Catawba Avenue, 11/22. Arrests and citations as reported by the Davidson Police Department Nov. 18-23.
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Citations
• Wallace, Karyn Denean (WF, 43), Expired Registration, Expired Inspection, Potts Street, 11/18. • Rhoden, Charles Butler III (WM, 19), Seat Belt Violation, Davidson Gateway Drive, 11/18. • MacKenzie, Nathaniel (WM, 18), Possession Of Marijuana, Griffith Street, 11/19. • Wilson, Theadore (WM, 19), Possession Of Paraphernalia, Griffith Street, 11/19. • Tinkler, David Knox (WM, 58), Speeding, North Main Street, 11/20. • Williams, Tamara Shaw (WF, 51), Speeding, Beaty Street, 11/20. • Rivera, Herbert Gabriel (BM, 21), Failure To Stop At Red Light, N.C. 73, 11/20. • Hellem, Daniel Joseph (WM, 20), Speeding, N.C. 115, 11/20. • Share, Gahazi Alldi Chaz al (UM, 21), Improper Passing, Griffith Street, SEE POLICE REPORTS, PAGE 17
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POLICE REPORTS FROM PAGE 16 11/21. • Leister, Richard James Jr. (WM, 23), Speeding, Griffith Street, 11/21. • Dejkoska, Eliseveta (WF, 25), Speeding, Griffith Street, 11/21. • Uszenski, Ronald Thomas Jr. (WM, 16), Speeding, Robert Walker Drive, 11/21. • Corneau, Kelli-Ayn Marie (WF, 17), Speeding, Robert Walker Drive, 11/21. • Michalski, Jared Gregory (WM, 27), Speeding, Robert Walker Drive, 11/21. • Foil, Sydney Hamilton (WF, 19), Speeding, East Rocky River Road, 11/21. • Simpson, Garrett Zachariah (WM, 39), Speeding, East Rocky River Road, 11/21. • Warshawsky, Marc Lance (WM, 39), Speeding, East Rocky River Road, 11/22. • Badhiwela, Tirthna Savajibha (UF, 19), Speeding, Griffith Street, 11/22. • Masturzo, Joseph (WM, 35), Fictitious Tag, Griffith Street, 11/22. • Ortiz, Eusebio Munos (WM, 31), No Driver’s License, I-77, 11/22. • Schaaf, Mark Andrew (WM, 19), Failure To Signal For Turn, Griffith Street, 11/22. • Aycock, Christopher (WM, 30), Driving Left of Center, Failure to Stop at Scene of Accident, Possession Of Marijuana, DWI, Davidson-Concord Road, 11/22. • Harris, Troy Harvey (WM, 46), Speeding, East Rocky River Road, 11/22. • Ingle, Chelsie Renee (WF, 16), Improper Passing, North Main Street, 11/23
proper Turn, Gilead Road at Statesville Road, 11/19. • Bliven, Shawn Michael (WM, 45), Improper Turn, Gilead Road at Statesville Road, 11/19. • Leed, Janelle Nakia (BF, 27), Improper Turn, Gilead Road at Statesville Road, 11/19. • Lyall, Kable James Dane (WM, 25), Speeding 80-65, I-77 near Gilead Road, 11/19. • Dalton, Gashulia Gashell (BF, 36), Speeding 54-45, Eastfield Road at Dixon Farm Road, 11/19. • Henderson, Wilfred (BM, 46), Speeding 60-45, Eastfield Road near Dixon Farm Road, 11/19. • Szot, Peggy Leanne (WF, 45), Speeding, Eastfield Road near Dixon Farm Road, 11/19. • Fite, Dalton Webb (WM, 16), Signal/Movement Violation, Statesville Road near Verhoeff Drive, 11/19. • Brandon, Tuanda Lorene (BF, 49), Speeding 60-45, Eastfield Road near Bryton Town Center Drive, 11/19.
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Arrests
• Shaw, John Thomas (WM, 43), Expired Registration, Ramah Church Road near Freedom Valley Drive, 11/19. • Zima, Cheryl Lynn (WF, 34), Im-
11/23. • Hernandez, Jose Manuel Rosado (UM, 36), No Driver’s License, Statesville Road near Alexanderana Road, 11/24. • James, Myles Alexander (BM, 20), No Driver’s License, April Mist Trail at Beatties Ford Road, 11/24. • Newton, Brendon Edward (WM, 18), Stop Sign Violation, Sam Furr Road near Statesville Road, 11/24. • Marshall, Christine Danielle (WF, 40), Expired Registration, Sam Furr Road near Statesville Road, 11/24. • Downer, Elizabeth Mary (WF, 45), Expired Registration, Statesville Road near Northdowns Lane, 11/24. • Ridley, Kimberly Cassandra (BF, 44), Improper Turn, Gilead Road at Reese Boulevard, 11/25. • Brandon, Willie Manolito (BM, 45), Speeding 60-45, Eastfield Road at Dixon Farm Road, 11/25. • Luzius, Gregory Dean (WM, 28), Tinted Windows Violation, Eastfield Road at Dixon Farm Road, 11/25.
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• Smith, Michael Emmanuel (BM, 48), Speeding 63-45, Eastfield Road near Dixon Farm Road, 11/21. • Lewis, Marshall Alfredo (WM, 17), Seat Belt Law, Gilead Road at Sherwood Drive, 11/21. • Murphy, Cain Akil (BM, 17), Underage Beverage Consumption, 11530 Beatties Ford Road, 11/21. • Drayton, Kendra Latoya (BF, 25), Larceny, 11145 Bryton Town Center Drive, 11/22. • Neal, Alisha Rontae (BF, 27), Larceny, 11145 Bryton Town Center Drive, 11/22. • Petersen, Gabrielle Marie (WF, 20), Stop Sign Violation, McCoy Road near Hambright Road, 11/22. • Marsh, Elena Joy (BF, 59), Expired Registration, Statesville Road near Gilead Road, 11/22. • Cerna, Monica (WF, 27), Stop Sign Violation, Tuscaloosa Road near Detroiter Drive, 11/23. • Howard, Kenya (BF, 30), Speeding 80-65, I-77 near Sam Furr Road,
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Arrests and citations as reported by the Huntersville Police Department Nov. 19-25. • Szot, Peggy Leanne (WF, 45), Impaired Driving-DWI (M), Speeding 73-45 (T), 10230 Eastfield Road, 11/19. • Carter, Vardary Lee (BM, 31), Possession of Marijuana (M), 10527 Madison Park Drive, 11/20. • Atkinson, Jacob Michael (WM, 36), Extradition/Fugitive Other State (F), 9400 Spring Lake Avenue, 11/22. • Cerna, Monica (WF, 27), No Driver’s License-Revoked/Impaired Based (T), 9118 LaCross Drive, 11/23. • Humes, Tristan Thomas (WM, 18), Breaking Or Entering Motor Vehicle (3 counts), (F), Larceny (M), 8705 Pinnacle Cross Drive, 11/24. • Wood, Chavar Danielle (BM, 31), DWI-Alcohol, Keith Hill Road near Everette Keith Road, 11/25.
• Garcia, Jose Daniel Avaiss (UM, 26), Speeding 61-45, Eastfield Road near Old Statesville Road, 11/19. • Henson, Andrew Cole (WM, 19), Speeding 67-45, Mt. Holly-Huntersville Road near Reese Boulevard, 11/19. • Dankp, Miyana Odesey (BF, 16), Speeding 63-45, Eastfield Road near Dixon Farm Road, 11/19. • Brooks, Aaron Christopher (WM, 23), Improper Passing, Beatties Ford Road near Bud Henderson Road, 11/19. • Craighead, Blake Houston (WM, 43), Handicapped Parking Violation, 16600 Redcliff Drive, 11/19. • Riggan, Rick Ernest (WM, 24), No Liability Insurance, Sam Furr Road near Statesville Road, 11/21. • Ragland, Katherine Elizabeth (WF, 27), Expired Registration, Eastfield Road near Old Statesville Road, 11/21. • Froelich, Gavin Alexander (WM, 21), Seat Belt Law, Sam Furr Road near Statesville Road, 11/21.
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Turkey day trot
More than 550 trotters started their Thanksgiving Day last week participating in the annual Soon To Be Stuffed 5K at Birkdale Village. The event, organized by the grassroots team fitness group Strong & Focused, raised $3,000 and more than 500 pounds of food that was given to Angels & Sparrows Soup Kitchen of Huntersville. Top, the pace gorilla gets set to lead the trotters along the course. Right, trotters gather outside Fleet Feet Sports in Birkdale Village before the start. Far right, Scott McConnell is the big turkey clowning with a participant.
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HES earns two ‘Bright Ideas’ grants for classrooms Two teachers at Huntersville Elementary School are among the latest recipients of Energy United “Bright Ideas” grants to fund innovative classroom projects. Sabrina Walters, the talent development instructor at HES, will use a $1,973.63 Bright Ideas grant to help finance implementation of a new robotics program as part of the focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education. And Linda Williams, a fourth grade teacher, will use a $1,972.57 grant to purchase a new classroom projection system to enhance technology lessons and exercise balls that will replace some standard classroom chairs. Throughout its service area, Energy United is awarding 27 teachers with nearly $40,000 in Bright Ideas education grants this month to fund innovative classroom learning projects. More than 1,000 students at schools in Mecklenburg, Iredell, Alexander, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Guildford, Randolph and Rowan counties will participate in Bright Ideas projects funded by the company this year. “The Bright Ideas grant program helps teachers finance creative projects to benefit North Carolina’s youth,” says Maureen Moore, communications manager
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Joined by some of their students, Huntersville Elementary teachers Sabrina Walters (left) and Linda Williams celebrate classroom project grants.
of Energy United. “Teachers have so many great ideas, and we’re pleased to help these grant winners bring their ideas to life in the classroom. Energy United is committed to bettering the communities we serve, and we believe there is no better way than through the education of our youth.” Energy United and other cooperatives in the Touchstone Energy family will award teachers statewide nearly $600,000 in Bright Ideas Education grants this year. Since the Bright Ideas grant program began in 1994, Energy Unit-
ed has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to local teachers and North Carolina’s 26 electric cooperatives collectively have awarded more than $9.1 million to teachers across the state. The Bright Ideas program has reached more than 1.6 million North Carolina students and sponsored more than 8,800 projects in all subjects including math, reading, science and technology, history, music and the arts. Bright Ideas grant applications are collected each year through mid-September, and winning pro-
posals are selected in a competitive evaluation process by a panel of judges. The application process will reopen for interested teachers in April 2015. For more about the Bright Ideas grant program, visit energyunited. com or ncbrightideas.com.
LNC’s Padgett a state finalist Elizabeth Padgett, a sixth grade science teacher at Lake Norman Charter School, has advanced to the final stage of competition for
recognition as North Carolina’s 2015 Charter School Teacher of the Year. Padgett, who was selected as Lake Norman Charter Middle School’s 2014-15 Teacher of the Padgett Year, successfully moved through various levels of state competition and is now one SEE SCHOOL NOTES, PAGE 20
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SCHOOL NOTES FROM PAGE 19 of two finalists for the state honors. The Charter School Teacher of the Year selection team visited the LNC campus in Huntersville this week to interview Padgett. During their tour of of the school, members of the selection team also spent time with other faculty members, administrators and parents.
‘Queen City’ event next up for debaters The North Mecklenburg High School Debate and Speech Team finished seventh in a 31-team event at the “Cougar Classic” tournament held late last month at Asheville High School. In a field of more than 600 students representing schools from four states, the 35 members of the North Meck squad finished just a few points out of the top five, while earning high honors in several competition categories. North’s Student Congress entry, led by James Haberburger, finished first in varsity competition, with Jonathan Johnson finishing second in junior varsity Congress, just
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ahead of teammate Marco Wertheimer. Other North Meck standouts included June Yom, second in Dramatic Interpretation; Jack Watson, sixth in Original Oratory; Erik Thorsheim and Nick Macri, fifth in team Public Forum Debate; and Aneesha Raj and Halynna Snyder also putting in a top performance in the Public Forum Debate category. The team’s next events are the Charlotte Catholic “Queen City Invitational” Dec. 6 and the Northwest Guilford “Guilford Challenge” Dec. 13.
Week-long food drive at Grand Oak Grand Oak Elementary School in Huntersville is coordinating a holiday season food drive next week to support a local agency that helps area residents. The school will participate in the Loaves & Fishes Pantry Food Drive the week of Dec. 8-12. Students, parents, faculty members and residents of the community areaencouraged to bring in canned fruit, cereal, 100 percent juices, canned pasta and canned meat. The pantry is asking that no items be in glass containers. For additional information about the col-
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Open house Tues. at Trillium Springs Trillium Springs Montessori School in Huntersville will hold the first of two scheduled open house
and school tour programs for prospective parents next week. The event will be held Tuesday, Dec. 9, at 9 a.m. Participants are urged to arrive a little early to be registered. Trillium Springs is a CharlotteMecklenburg Schools facility that opened this fall in the old Long Creek Elementary School building
on Beatties Ford Road. In addition to Tuesday’s program, a second open house is planned Wednesday, Jan. 7, starting at 5:30 p.m. For more information, visit the Trillium Springs Montessori page at cms.k12.nc.us.
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Simple ingredients for a perfect holiday recipe
All you need is a phone, reservations (or not), a credit card and, of course, Jingle Juice. by Lori Helms I’ve never quite figured out what it is about this time of year that makes me think I’m finally going to find my inner foodie, but it never fails. I’ll get that annual holiday issue of Food & Wine in the mail and immediately have delusions of grand cuisine. I mean, look at that cover shot. Yeah, it’s a platter of deliciousness garnished with something that resembles the twigs and greens in our birdbath that hasn’t been cleaned out since 2005, but that’s just to make it artsy-looking. It’s really just a delicious, simply roasted turkey. A thawed bird, some
butter (okay, a lot of butter), salt and pepper, and some Stove Top stuffing jammed in there for good measure. How hard could it be? I smugly take a swallow of Jingle Juice (you’re gonna love this, the recipe’s on Page B4), savoring the culinary coup I’m about to stage for a holiday dinner and thumb over to the recipe. But wait, it gets better. It’s actually a turkey —gasp!!— wrapped in bacon then thrown on a smoker. If my husband wasn’t already convinced of my downright irresistibility after all these years, just let me saunter up to the table with this little number. (Let’s be hon-
est here, just between us girls. We all know the promise of bacon’s gonna get it done long before the boudoir shots.) That heady mix of happy husband, highly impressed family and friends and the heavenly aromas of smoked meat and bacon, all swirled together in a kitchen warmed from baking apple pies made with the Macintosh apples I’ll have shipped down from my favorite orchard in Vermont, my grateful adult son who adores my home cooking cheerfully standing by with clean dishtowels ready to be pressed into service … … Let the delusions begin.
Thinking that THIS was going to be the year that I truly make the leap from just cutting out the recipe to actually cooking it, I take another Jingle Juice sip and grab for one of the 15 pairs of readers stashed around the house to get a little more up close and personal with the ingredients. Let me just start by saying that any recipe requiring subsections, footnotes and up to 20 hours of brining is probably not going to happen in my kitchen. The list of ingredients had exactly 37 items including ground coriander (barf) and a spray bottle filled with See INGREDIENTS page B7
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Asiana Fusion Sushi 20601-107 Torrence Chapel Rd Cornelius, 28031 704-896-8827
El Paraiso 20700 N. Main St. Cornelius, 28031 704-896-6064 www.paraisorestaurant.com
Bellacino’s Pizza & Grinders 20129 North Main Street Cornelius, 28031 704-987-9060
El Toro 20930 Torrence Chapel Rd Cornelius, 28031 704-997-2534
Fork! 20517 N. Main Street Cornelius, 28031 704-655-7465 www.forkrestaurantcornelius.com Fresh Chef Kitchen 20609 Torrence Chapel Rd. Cornelius, 28031 704-896-4999 www.freshchefkitchen.com Galway Hooker Irish Pub 17044 Kenton Drive Cornelius, 28031 704-895-1782 www.galwayhookerpub.com Harvey’s 19707 Liverpool Pkwy. Cornelius, 28031, 704-892-1001 www.harveyslkn.com Honey Baked Ham Co. & Café 20609 Torrence Chapel Road Cornelius, 28031 704-892-9592 www.honeybaked.com
Hot Diggitee Dogz 19733 Statesville Road Cornelius, 28031 704-892-7762
Milano’s Pizza 18059 W Catawba Ave Cornelius, 28031 704-896-7033
Irish Cue 19501 West Catawba Avenue Cornelius, 28031 704-892-6904 www.facebook.com/irishcue
Mojo’s Grill and Pub 19901 Holiday Lane Cornelius, 28031 704-438-9777 www.mojosgrillandpub.com
Jack’s Corner Tap 8301-1 Magnolia Estates Dr. Cornelius, 28031, 704-892-4433 www.jackscornertaplkn.com
Peninsula China Bistro 19906 N. Cove Road Cornelius, 28031 704-987-2299 www.peninsulachinabistronc. com
Mac’s Speed Shop 19601 Liverpool Pkwy. Cornelius, 28031 704-892-3554 www. macspeedshop.com Mama’s Pizza Express 19741 S. Main Street Cornelius, 28031 704-892-3305 www. mamaspizzaexpress.com
Port City Club 18665 Harborside Dr. Cornelius, 28031 704-765-1565 www.portcityclub.com
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Armin’s Cajun Crab Dip
Hot Sausage & Cheese Puffs INGREDIENTS 1 pound hot or sweet italian sausage 1 pound sharp cheddar cheese, shredded 3 cups biscuit baking mix 3/4 cup water DIRECTIONS Remove sausage from casings; cook in large skillet, breaking up the meat with a fork, until no longer pink, about 8 - 10 minutes. Drain off fat; spoon sausage into large bowl; cool completely. Add cheese, biscuit mix and water; mix with a fork just until blended.
Serve (Hot or cold) INGREDIENTS 1 Can Claw Crab Meat (Imitation Crab can be used) 1/3 cup soft cream cheese 1/3 cup sour cream 1 tbsp. hot sauce 1/2 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce 1/2 tbsp. Cajun seasoning 1/2 cup shredded White cheddar cheese 1 bunch green onion, thinly sliced 1/2 tsp. garlic powder 1/2 tsp. Italian seasoning
DIRECTIONS Mix cream cheese, sour cream, hot sauce, Worcestershire Sauce, Cajun Seasoning, garlic and Italian Seasoning in processor or with electric mixer. Gently fold in cheddar cheese, onions and crab Refrigerate at least 2 hours and adjust seasonings as desired To Serve: Warm bake in a oven proof bowl for 25 minutes at 350’ served with crisp flat breads or pita toast .
INGREDIENTS 1 large onion, minced Minced Garlic 3 cups fresh corn kernels, scraped from the cob, or frozen 1 cup rottelle, drained 3 cups whole milk 1 pound red skin or baking potatoes, peeled and diced 1 tsp. salt 1/2 cup whipping cream 1 cup roasted, peeled and chopped mild green New Mexican, Anaheim, or Poblano chiles Fresh ground black pepper 2 tbsp. fresh chives, minced
DIRECTIONS Sear the onion, garlic and butter cook until the onion is soft and translucent, about 5 minutes. Puree 1 cup of corn with 1 cup of milk in a blender. Pour the mixture into the pan and add the remaining milk and corn along with the potatoes and 1 teaspoon of salt. Reduce the heat to mediumlow and cook 10 to 15 minutes, or until the potatoes are forktender. Stir in the cream and the green chile. Add salt and pepper, to taste. Ladle the chowder into bowls, garnish with chives and serve.
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To reheat: Arrange in single on large cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes.
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Roll into 1 inch balls; place on large cookie sheets 2 inches apart.
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2014 HOLIDAY Dining Directory DIRECTORY from B2 Rusty Rudder 20210 Henderson Road Cornelius, 28031 704-892-9195 www.therustyrudder.net Tenders Fresh Food 18341 Statesville Road Cornelius, 28031 704-895-6017 www.tendersfreshfood.com The Galway Hooker 17044 Kenton Drive Cornelius, 28031 704-895-1782 www.galwayhookerpub.com
DAVIDSON A Tasteful Solution 1827 Shearers Road Davidson, 28036 704-412-8755 Brickhouse Tavern 209 Delburg Street Davidson, 28036, 704-987-2022 www.brickhousetavern.com Carrburritos 445 S. Main Street Davidson, 28036 704-237-3040 www.carrburritos.com Campagnia Café & Trattoria 416 S. Main Street Davidson, 28036
704-987-5111 www.campaniacafe.com Char-Grill 624 Jetton Street Davidson, 28036 704-896-8710 www.chargrilldavidson.com Flatiron Kitchen + Taphouse 215 S Main Street Davidson, 28036 (704) 237-3246 www.flatirononmain.com Lake Norman Cottage 200-A North Harbor Place Davidson, 28036 704-237-3629 www.lakenormancottage.com
North Harbor Club 100 N. Harbor Place Drive Davidson, 28036, 704-896-5559 www.northharborclub.com Restaurant X 408 S. Main St. Davidson, 28036 704-892-9369 www.restaurantx-davidson.com Sabi Asian Bistro 130 Harbour Place Drive Davidson, 28036 704-895-5707 www.ilovesabi.com
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Jingle Juice INGREDIENTS 5 cups orange juice 1 cup vodka 1/3 cup orange liqueur 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice 1/2 cup maraschino cherry juice GARNISHES Fruit-flavored candy cane sticks Cherries with stems Orange and lemon slices
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DIRECTIONS 1. Stir together orange juice and next 4 ingredients; serve over ice. Garnish, if desired. Rudolph’s Spritzer: Omit vodka and orange liqueur. Add 2 cups chilled lemon-lime soft drink. Proceed as directed. Note: If you don’t have orange liqueur, such as Triple Sec, substitute an equal amount of orange juice.
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2014 HOLIDAY Dining Directory DIRECTORY from B2 The Cabin 200 North Harbor Place Davidson, 28036 704-237-3629 www.lakenormancottage.com The Pickled Peach 202 S. Main Street Davidson, 28036 704-765-2190 www.thepickledpeach.com Toast Café 101 N. Main Street Davidson, 28036, 704-655-2778 www.toastcafeonline.com DENVER Chillfire Bar & Grill 121-A Cross Center Road Denver, 28037 704-827-2121 www.chillfiregrill.com Sports Page Food & Spirits 179 Cross Center Drive Denver, 28037 704-827-6283 www. sportspagenc.com HUNTERSVILLE Armin’s Sunshine Cafe’ at Blythe Landing 15901 NC 73 Highway Huntersville, 28078 704-947-1670 Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar 8625-A Lindholm Dr. Huntersville, 28078 704-237-4055 Bagel Bin and Deli 9815-I Sam Furr Road Huntersville, 28078 704-895-1455 Baja Soul Taqueria 8625-C Lindholm Drive Huntersville, 28078 704-895-4373 Bonefish Grill 8805 Townley Road Huntersville, 28078 704-892-3385 www.bonefishgrill.com Brixx Pizza 16915 Birkdale Commons Pkwy. Huntersville, 28078
704-894-0044 www.brixxpizza.com Café 100 100 Huntersville-Concord Road, Huntersville, 28078 704-274-5932 www.thecafe100.com Chipotle 8830 Lindholm Drive Huntersville, 28078 704-765-3613 www.chipotle.com Dressler’s 8630-1A Lindholm Drive Huntersville, 28078 704-987-1779 www.dresslersrestaurant.com
Duckworth’s Grill & Taphouse 16609 Statesville Road Huntersville, 28078 704-237-4387 www.duckworthsgrillandbar.com eez Fusion 16925 Birkdale Commons Pkwy. Huntersville, 27078 704-892-4242 www.eezfusion.com Fox & Hound Bar & Grill 8711 Lindholm Dr. Huntersville, 28078 704-895-4504 www.foxandhound.com See DIRECTORY page B6
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2014 HOLIDAY Dining Directory DIRECTORY from B4 Groucho’s Deli 9931 Rose Commons Drive Huntersville, 28078 704-948-4545 Harvey’s 13812 Cinnabar Place Huntersville, 28078 704-947-5080 www.thehickorytavern.com
Huntersville Family Restaurant 105-J Statesville Rd. (Hwy. 21 at Gilead Rd.) Huntersville, 28078 704-875-6038
Lancaster’s Barbeque 9230 Beatties Ford Rd. Huntersville, 28078 704-394-1464 lancasters-bbq.com
Ice Martini Bar 9525 Birkdale Crossing Drive Huntersville, 28078 704-655-2411 www.icemartini.com
Mama Mia’s Two The Holbrook House 101 Maxwell Ave. Huntersville, 28078 704-875-0575 mamamiatwo.com
Hawthorne’s New York Pizza 14205 Reese Blvd. Huntersville, 28078 704-992-1661
Jet’s Pizza 14316 Reese Blvd. Huntersville, 28078 704-992-2221 www.jetspizza.com
Hickory Tavern 9526 Birkdale Crossings Drive Huntersville, 28078 704-897-8490 www.thehickorytavern.com
Killington’s 10010 Rose Commons Drive Huntersville, 28078 704-948-3770 www.killingtons.com
Hotshots Sports Bar & Grill 247 E Plaza Dr. Mooresville, 28115 704-799-0748 www.hotshotsnet.com
La Unica 16203 NorthCross Drive Huntersville, 28078 704-895-5378 www.launicahuntersville.com
Mama’s Pizza Express 500 S. Old Statesville Road Huntersville, 28078 704-947-3223 www.mamaspizzaexpress.com NY Bagel 9810 Gilead Road Huntersville, 28078 704-948-7668 www.theoriginalnewyorkbagels. com Pinky’s Westside Grill 9818 Gilead Rd. Ste B-101 Huntersville, NC 28078
Red Rocks Cafe 8712 Lindholm Dr. Huntersville, 28078 704-892-9999 www.redrockscafe.com
MOORESVILLE Big Daddy’s of Lake Norman Inc. 1162 River Hwy. Mooresville, 28117 704-663-4242 www.bigdaddysoflakenorman. com
Showmars 9605 Sherrill Estates Rd. (at Hwy. 21) Huntersville, 28078 704-895-6199 showmars.com
Blu-Star Grill 120-A Market Place Avenue Mooresville, 28117 704-660-5577 www.blustargrill.com
The Vinyl Pi 15906 Old Statesville Road Huntersville, 28078 704-992-1781 www.thevinylpi.com
Caruso’s Fine Dining 631 Brawley School Road Mooresville, 28117 704-658-1000 www.carusosfinedining.com
Verde Urban Mexican Grill & Cantina 9818 Gilead Road Huntersville, 28078 704-274-9192
Chipotle 643 River Highway Mooresville, 28117 704-664-0940 www.chipotle.com
704.727.0142 www.eatatpinkys.com
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2014 HOLIDAY Dining Directory Mooresville, 28115 704-799-0068 • www.jjwasabis.com
DIRECTORY from B6 Duckworth’s Grill & Taphouse 560 River Highway Mooresville, 28117 704-799-2881 www.duckworthsgrillandbar.com Eddie’s Seafood and Raw Bar 643 Williamson Road Mooresville, 28117 704-799-2090 www.eddiesrawbar.com
Jeffrey’s Restaurant 117 Trade Court Mooresville, NC 28117 (704) 799-1110 www.jeffreyslkn.com Jet’s Pizza 123-D Trade Court Mooresville, 28117 704-660-0905 • www.jetspizza.com
J.J. Wasabi’s Grill & Bar 183 N. Main Street
Pisces Sushi Bar & Lounge 591-A River Hwy.
INGREDIENTS from B1 apple juice (kinda kinky, and speaking of kinky, I haven’t had apple juice in my house since the Clinton administration). It also required SOMEONE (no way was it gonna be me) to cut up the turkey neck and chop the giblets. Oh, yeah, then that same unfortunate soul — again, not me — was going to have to violate the bird’s neck and body cavity with a hand-applied mix of vegetable oil
Mooresville, 28117 704-662-0062 www.piscessushi.com Pomodoro’s 168 Norman Station Blvd. Mooresville, 28115 704-663-6686 www.pomodoros.com Queen’s Landing 1459 River Hwy. Mooresville, 28117 704-663-2628 www.queenslanding.com
and spice rub. If a recipe requires that level of intimacy with the main ingredient, I’m probably gonna need a drink first, but there wasn’t a drop of wine, beer or even cooking sherry on the list. And I was pretty sure not even the pleasantly potent Jingle Juice was going to cut it, either. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and with the delusion mercifully coming to an end, I close the magazine,
Sauza’s Mexican Restaurant 835 Williamson Road Mooresville, 28117 704-658-0212 Shoal’s Grill 1098 Brawley School Road Mooresville, 28117 704-660-1211 www.shoalsgrill.com Showmars 138 Williamson Rd. Mooresville, 281177 704-662-3383 • www.showmars.com
add it to the stack of holiday issues dating back to before Seinfeld was in perpetual re-run and reach for my phone. No, not to call my mom for some menu recommendations or for Aunt Violet’s beet aspic salad recipe (who doesn’t love a purplish root vegetable suspended in lemon Jell-O?). Nope, it was to search through my contacts list for the number to a favorite nearby restaurant of mine. I’ve heard it said that discretion is the
The Prickly Pear 637 Williamson Road Mooresville, 28117 704-799-0875 twww.pricklypear.net Trattoria Al Gusto 761 N Main St Mooresville, 28115 704-660-1066 www.trattoriaalgusto.com/ Vantastic’s All Day Cafe & Grill 427 E Statesville Aveenue Mooresville, NC 28115 (704) 799-8720 www.vantasticscafe.com
better part of valor, and just as I’ve done several times before, this year I will once again put my sanity and the digestive health of my family and friends before my clouded vision of culinary conquests. The ingredients for that recipe are merely a phone call for reservations and a credit card that hasn’t been maxed out yet by Christmas shopping. And maybe one more glass of Jingle Juice.
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MI-Connection will air Letters to Santa Customers of MI-Connection in Cornelius, Davidson and Mooresville will have the chance to make a special connection with Santa Claus, thanks to a holiday offering from the locally owned communications system. Children (or those paying for said children’s MI-Connection cable bill) can write a letter to Santa and watch the jolly old elf himself read the letters during one of two half-hour shows aired exclusively on the company’s Channel 4. Claus The letters can be dropped off at the MI-Connection office at 435 S. Broad St. in Mooresville or children can simply send Santa a letter by e-mail to
[email protected]. Letters can also be handed to Santa in person during Downtown Mooresville’s holiday events Dec. 5, 12 and 19, from 6 to 8 p.m. The first half-hour Letters to
Business Briefcase Santa show will air Thursday, Dec. 11, through Wednesday, Dec. 17, at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m; the second will air Thursday, Dec. 18, through Wednesday, Dec. 24, at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Channel 4 is on MI-Connection’s basic level of service. Anyone with MI-Connection video service will be able to see the Letters to Santa program.
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Gifts from the greenhouses Most of the retail world may consider the Friday after Thanksgiving as the start of the holiday season, but at the massive Metrolina Greenhouses in Huntersville, efforts to make the holidays more colorful and festive began way back in early summer. Poinsettias were planted in parts of Metrolina’s 165-plus acres of greenhouse space months ago, in preparation for the holiday season push that began in mid-November and will continue until just a few days before Christmas. From Metrolina’s headquarters off Huntersville-Concord Road, daily departures of up to 60 tractor-trailers — with some of the trucks hauling up to 3,000 poinsettias — are ongoing as hundreds of Metrolina employees work to make sure up to 3.5 million of the traditional plants make it to retail shelves in the eastern one-third of the U.S. Metrolina poinsettias are featured at Lowes, Walmart and Home Depot locations as well as at retail operations in a service area that covers the state and extends more than 500 miles north, south and west from Huntersville.
Name change coming for popular restaurant As it continues to grow its menu of Charlotte-area locations, Huntersville-born Toast Café has announced it will change its name to Famous Toastery. Now a briskly growing franchise, the rebranded restaurant popular SEE BRIEFCASE, PAGE 22
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BRIEFCASE FROM PAGE 21 for its abundant breakfast offerings will have more than 10 locations in the region by the end of the year, founder Robert Maynard tells the Charlotte Business Journal. A Mooresville location is set to open next year.
Chamber to host health care cost talks The Lincoln County Chamber of Commerce is looking for Lake Norman-area businesses to participate in a round table discussion regarding the reduction of health care costs. The discussion will be held Thursday, Dec. 11, at Verdict
Ridge Country Club (7332 Kidville Road in Denver), from 8:30 a.m. to noon. For more information or to register, contact Nancy Stokes at 704-735-3096.
Tickets on sale for awards gala The Mooresville-South Iredell Chamber of Commerce will host its 2015 “Celebrate Business” and annual community excellence awards luncheon on Monday, Jan. 26. The event will be held at The Cove Church (197 Langtree Road) in Mooresville. The keynote speaker will be Edsel B. Ford II, the only son of Henry Ford II and a great-grandson of Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford. Networking begins at 10:30 a.m., followed by seating at 11 and
commencement of the program at 11:30. Catering will be provided by Bistro Catering & Events, and will include chicken or vegetarian menu options. Early bird seating price is $60 per person for chamber members if purchased by Monday, Dec. 15. Seats cost $75 after that, or $125 for non-members. Table sponsorships (eight seats with on-site marketing) are also available for $1,000. Honors will be awarded for Businessperson of the Year, Citizen of the Year, Duke Energy Service Award, Women in Leadership, Ambassador of the Year and Entrepreneurial Award. For more details, call the Chamber at 704-664-3898.
Overcoming obstacles to job search success Helping Others Help Themselves (HOHT) will sponsor a free job search seminar on Wednesday, Dec. 17, beginning at 7 p.m. at the Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce in Cornelius (19900 W. Catawba Ave.). The topic, facilitated by Stephanie Butler, will focus on how to identify and overcome obstacles to job search success. HOHT is a free Lake Norman-area job directory for employers and job seekers. Learn more at lknjobsearch.com.
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How do frazzled business owners let their hair down after a long day? Joe and Terri Carbon, co-owners of Good OldFashioned Auto Repair in Mooresville know how to relax after a busy day caring for clients. They are regulars on the local entertainment scene, and their hairband tribute, Mane Alloy, will be the opening act at the next Open Mic Nite on Thursday, Dec. 4, at Oak Street Mill in Cornelius (19725 Oak St.). Doors open at 7:30 p.m., show starts at 8. Seating is limited so plan to arrive early. Cover charge is $5.
OrthoCarolina adds Mooresville location
Publix hiring for Cornelius store
Northshore Orthopedics & Sports Medicine in Mooresville has joined OrthoCarolina, expanding the practice to more than 140 physicians at 34 locations across the state. There are now two OrthoCarolina locations in Mooresville — 150 Fairview Road and 124 Welton Way.
A hiring event is under way at Publix to staff its new Cornelius location at Magnolia Place (8315 Magnolia Estates Dr.). Publix management will accept applications for all departments from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily through Sunday, Dec. 7, at a storefront near its current Huntersville store (14311 Reese Blvd.). Walk-ins are welcome, but appointments may also be scheduled by registering at publixsupermarkets.fullslate.com.
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“How To IdenTIfy And overcome obsTAcles To your Job seArcH success” A free educational seminar with special speaker Stephanie Butler, PhD.
wednesday, december 17, 2014 7:00-8:30 Pm Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce, Randy Marion Conference Room, 19900 W. Catawba Ave., Cornelius
“FOR THE NEXT IN A SERIES OF SEMINARS DESIGNED TO HELP YOU GET BACK TO WORK!” Each seminar will begin from 7:00-7:15 PM with “Managing the Emotions of Job Change” with Susan Park
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Visit Lake Norman (VLN) is now accepting applications for its annual Making Waves Hotel Awards Program. Nominations are sought for hoteliers in Cornelius, Davidson and Huntersville who make Lake Norman stand out as a destination. Award categories are in guest services, sales and management. Nominations will be accepted through the end of December, and self-nominations will not be accepted. Award winners will be determined based on a combination of the number of nominations received and the written justifications for the award. Winners will be announced at VLN’s annual awards and holiday reception. Last year’s winners were Joy Penninger of Davidson Village Inn (guest services), Cristal Moncur with Homewood Suites in Davidson (sales) and Ernest Massey with Sleep Inn & Suites in Huntersville (management). More information is available on VLN’s website at visitlakenorman. org. — Compiled by Lori Helms
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Good news: ‘12 Days’ price list stays flat. Bad news: Did you say $360 goose eggs? Reflecting a mere one-percent increase over last year, shopping the famous The Twelve Days of Christmas song gift list for your true love really won’t set you back much more than it did in 2013. That is, if you don’t mind shelling out six figures again this year. For 2014, the combined 364 items (counting all the repetitions in the song) on the list cost $116,273.06. The cost for just one set of each gift item is a mere $27,673.21. That’s according to data compiled by PNC Financial Services Group each year for its Christmas Price Index. Costs for Christmas 2014 shopping rose the least amount since 1986, just two years after PNC began tracking the Twelve Days data in 1984. The index has had some wild swings since its $12,673.56 benchmark 30 years ago. Between 1994 and 1995, it plummeted nearly 22 percent, then after years of gradually increases the index did a lordlike leap of 16 percent from 2002 to 2003. While prices for eight of the items on the list this year remained the same as in 2013, it’s giving feathered friends as gifts that reflected the most significant increases. The cost of one partridge in its perch hopped almost four percent to a little more than $207, and three French Hens will now set you back $544 — a 10 percent increase. But it’s the price of six nesting geese that really laid an egg — rising more than 70 percent from $1,260 to $2,160. Here’s a look at the whole list:
• 1 Partridge in a Pear Tree: $207.68 • 2 Turtle Doves: $125 • 3 French Hens: $181.50 • 4 Calling Birds: $599.96 • 5 Golden Rings: $750 • 6 Geese-a-Laying: $360 • 7 Swans-a-Swimming: $7,000 • 8 Maids-a-Milking: $58 • 9 Ladies Dancing: $7,552.84 • 10 Lords-a-Leaping: $5,348.24 • 11 Pipers Piping: $2,635.20 • 12 Drummers Drumming: $2,854.80
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Four ways to stay cool under pressure and succeed Athlete and surgeon shares tips for becoming a ‘super performer.’ We all ask ourselves the same desperate question from time to time: How am I going to make this work? “No matter how well we’ve done laying the groundwork for everything to run smoothly — becoming educated, choosing the right spouse, treating others well — we all face situations that challenge us,” says Dr. Robert J. Cerfolio, a worldrenowned cardiothoracic surgeon known as “the Michael Jordan of lung surgery.” “If we can keep our cool and adhere to some basic principles, we can not only meet any challenge, we can perform with excellence.”
It’s Your Career A high-performance athlete in high school and college, Cerfolio parlayed his talents and focus into pursuing his medical career and creating a happy family with his wife, Lorraine, and their three sons. But after battling breast cancer, Lorraine recently passed away. Cerfolio, author of Super Performing at Work and at Home: The Athleticism of Surgery and Life (superperforming.com), shares the principles that helped him through that greatest of all challenges and lesser ones along the way. “Apply these principles in work, sports and life in general, and you
can become a super performer,” he says. • Pressure equals opportunity. It’s when something matters that the pressure starts to build; this is where the rubber meets the road for sports-to-life analogies. “In sports as in life, remember your training: follow through just like you did during practice, visualize success, believe it will happen,” Cerfolio says. “With friends, for example, high-pressure moments can be those times when they need you. The best way to have great friends is to be a great friend.” • Strive to hit .400 every year. Keep your eye on the prize; write it down. “My high school gave out an award each year to the best student athlete in each grade,” he says. “I wrote down that I wanted to win the Klein Award in the ninth, 10th and 11th grades, and to win the most prestigious award at the
senior graduation, the Deetjen Award.” He accomplished most of those goals, and a key to those achievements was writing them down and placing the paper where, for four years, he could see it every night. “By writing them down, I had made my goals clear and objective.” • Lean toward a “we-centered” ego rather than a “me-centered” one. “When I traded in my baseball uniform for surgical scrubs, I noticed the importance of stripping the many layers of the ego I once had,” Cerfolio says. “This is really important. Your ego doesn’t need to be visible to everyone — or even anyone but yourself.” Being a top performer requires ego. It helps fuel self-confidence and provides some of the motivation necessary to achieve. But it should not hinder the performance of your team: your co-workers,
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friends and family. Over time, by keeping your ego to yourself, it becomes easier to enact a teamoriented ego, rather than a “meoriented” one. • Time to quit? Rub some dirt on it. In life, work is unavoidable, so embrace it, go big and appreciate the rewards. No matter how difficult the challenge you face or how much it may hurt to meet that challenge, push through and give it your all. “Yes, there’s a chance you won’t succeed, or won’t succeed to the degree you’d like. But you stand zero chance of success if you don’t meet that challenge and give it everything you’ve got,” Cerfolio says. “You owe it to yourself and your team, whether that’s your ball team, your family team or your work team. When you sign up for any team, by definition you promise your time, effort and 100 percent commitment. You have to be at every game and every practice on time and ready to go.” Provided by Ginny Grimsley of News and Experts. Robert J. Cerfolio, MD, MBA, is the James H. Estes Family Endowed Chairman of Lung Cancer Research and Full Professor Chief of Thoracic Surgery at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. He received his medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine, surgical training at the Mayo Clinic and at Cornell-Sloan Kettering hospital, and has been in practice for more than 26 years. Cerfolio was a First Team Academic All-American baseball player in college, is a worldrenowned chest surgeon and recognized as one of the busiest and best thoracic surgeons in the world.
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Local businesses in the holiday spirit Typical of our Lake Norman business community’s giving ways, many will participate in a variety of fundraisers, food and clothing drives and service projects to benefit their neighbors in need this holiday season. The Citizen will highlight those efforts in this section, and would like to know about yours. Send details to Lori Helms at
[email protected]. • The Lotta Foundation, a newly established Lake Norman charitable organization, has partnered with several local businesses for its “Lotta Toys Drive” to collect gifts for children who are patients at the Levine Children’s Hospital — a 234-bed pediatric care facility in Charlotte. Donations will be collected through
Dec. 15 at Harvey’s, KS Audio Video, the Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce and Rolle Oral & Facial Surgery in Cornelius; The Egg Café in Davidson; Harvey’s, Huntersville Family Fitness and Aquatics Center, Parks Chevrolet, Pegram Insurance and Regal Cinemas Birkdale Village in Huntersville; and multiple hhgregg and Clark Tire locations. In addition, the Vermillion community in Huntersville has adopted the Lotta Foundation as its charity of choice this year. Learn more at lottafoundation.com or follow them on Facebook. • The Bindu yoga studio in Cornelius will host a holiday bazaar to
benefit the Angels & Sparrows Soup Kitchen in Huntersville, as well as to promote local business in this gift-giving season. Called “Gifts for Good,” it will feature local vendors, crafters and practitioners. The event will be held Sunday, Dec. 7,
What Gives? from 1 to 3:30 p.m., at The Bindu (20100 Zion Ave., Cornelius). There is no cost to attend the event, and all participating vendors have pledged a $25 donation to Angels & Sparrows. Some of the features and participants of the event include chair massage by the Edmund Center, community acupuncture by Wellbeing Natural Health, yoga therapy by Sari Weston and local clay sculptor and artist Penny Overcash. For more information, visit thebindu. com or The Bindu on Facebook. • The Caldwell Banker United office in Cornelius will hold a toy drive Friday through Sunday, Dec. 5-7, in support of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Toys for Tots campaign. Caldwell Banker agents will greet anyone dropping off an unwrapped new toy for children ages 12 and younger, or sporting goods items for children 13-16. Drive-through drop-
off times will be Dec. 5, 4-7 p.m.; Dec. 6 and 7, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. The office is at 18825 W. Catawba Ave., Suite 200, at the corner of Nantz Road. • Newport Properties will sponsor a food and coat drive for the upcoming holiday season, accepting new or gently used coats as well as non-perishable food items. All items received will be donated to the Mooresville Christian Mission and Mooresville Soup Kitchen. Donations can be made at the Newport Properties office at 542-2 Williamson Road in Mooresville. For more information and for a list of immediate needs, visit TeamNewport.com. • Carolina Vein Associates in Mooresville will collect new, unwrapped toys through Thursday, Dec. 4, to distribute to families through the Mooresville/Lake Norman Christian Mission. Donations can be dropped off at 206 Joe Knox Ave., Suite H, by 5 p.m. The toy drive will support 1,500 children who may otherwise not enjoy a gift this Christmas. — Compiled by Lori Helms
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On Aug. 29, 2004, Hopewell High School and the Huntersville community suffered the loss of Ryan Disney to muscular dystrophy. Disney was a contributing member of Hopewell’s DECA Chapter, but more than that, he was a friend to many. In his memory, students from Hopewell High have teamed up with the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) to host the Race for a Reason 5K Saturday, Dec. 13, at Historic Rural Hill in Huntersville. The proceeds of the race will be donated to the Charlotte Chapter of the MDA. Registration begins at 8 a.m. and the race begins at 9. Registra-
tion through the morning of the race costs $25. Sponsorships are available for nonrunners ranging in price and benefits. Contributions go toward sending a child with muscular dystrophy to summer camp, helping fund research to find a cure for muscular dystrophy and giving families hope. “This 5K is a great way to raise awareness about the MDA,” says Morgan Howder, coordinator of the Race for a Reason 5K. “We feel it is important to get more people involved with this organization, SEE EVENTS, PAGE 27
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Polar Bear ride registration begins Road cyclists from across the Carolinas will gather in Davidson Saturday, Jan. 10, for the 17th annual Polar Bear Ride. The Rocky River Road Club sponsors the annual half and full metric century bicycle rides through the north Mecklenburg/Lake Norman area. Both rides start and finish at Ingersoll-Rand at 800 Beaty Street in Davidson. Both begin at 10 a.m., and registration opens at 8:30. ANSI- or SNELL-approved helmets are required for all riders. Cost is $25 if pre-registered, $30 on the day of the ride. Minors ride free with a parent. The entry cost includes Jersey Mike’s subs, hot soup and hot chocolate. The first 300 registered riders will receive complementary water bottles. All pre-registered riders are eligible for door prizes from sponsors such as Brickhouse Tavern and Davidson Therapeutic Massage. A snow/rain date, if needed, will be Saturday, Jan. 17. The inclement weather decision will be posted on the club website at RockyRiverRoadClub.org and Facebook. For cyclists who need support, SAG vehicles will cruise the course to support and transport weary riders back to the starting point if needed. On-site support will be provided by The Cycle Path and on-road support by Cool Breeze Cyclery. Registration, waiver, route
sheets and directions to the ride, as well as additional information, are available at the club website. Registration is also available at active. com. For more ride information, contact The Cycle Path bicycle shop at 704-896-3331.
Motorplex drives for soup kitchen A Thanksgiving tradition, GoPro Motorplex held its second annual food drive benefitting the Mooresville Soup Kitchen. During November, GoPro Motorplex discounted rental kart races for customers to $15 (normally $25) with each donation of five nonperishable food items. Through the food drive offer, GoPro Motorplex was able to donate 2,745 pounds of canned food for Mooresville families in need. “We started this idea for a food drive encouraged by discounted rates last year and it was really nice to see it grow so much this season,” says GoPro Motorplex owner Justin Marks. “We hope to continue to make this a Thanksgiving tradition and show our support for the great work the Mooresville Soup Kitchen does for our community, not only over the holidays, but all year long.” In last year’s inaugural food drive, GoPro Motorplex donated 857 pounds of food, more than tripling that number this year. The Mooresville Soup Kitchen is the first stop for many who are in need and looking for direction. It serves more than 4,000 meals monthly from its location in downtown Mooresville and provides emergency food boxes and other resources as needed. For a list of the immediate needs of the Mooresville Soup Kitchen, visit mooresvillesoupkitchen.com/immediateneeds. For more information on GoPro Motorplex, visit gopromotorplex.com. • The Mooresville Soup Kitchen was also the recipient of a large donation by the Piedmont Interclub
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the under-housed in northern Mecklenburg and southern Iredell counties. Photos with Santa will be Saturday, Dec. 6, from noon to 3:30 p.m. at the Mooresville ReStore location at 121 Norman Station Blvd. off Exit 36. Photos will cost $5 each, or three for $12. SEE EVENTS, PAGE 28
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On Saturday, Dec. 13, Breakfast With Santa will be held at Red Rocks Cafe in Birkdale Village in Huntersville. Two seatings will be at 8:30 and 9:45 a.m., and include a hot buffet breakfast and an opportunity to mingle with Santa and take photos with friends and family. Tickets to the breakfast cost $10 for ages 16 and younger, $15 for adults, and are available at ourtownshabitat.org while supplies last. Online sales end one hour prior to the start of the breakfast seating. More information about Our Towns Habitat for Humanity, including how to give alternative gifts for the holiday season, is available at ourtownshabitat.org. For more information, call 704-896-8957
Original Gloria by DUMC choir The Chancel Choir of Davidson United Methodist Church will perform Gloria Sunday, Dec. 14, during the 9:30 and 11 a.m. worship services. The performances SEE EVENTS, PAGE 29
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An annual tradition in Huntersville, the Carrington Ridge Fry Boys, a.k.a. John Decoteau and Kevin Moran, gathered the troops and solicited donations to spend the wee hours of Thanksgiving Day frying 157 turkeys to be delivered along with other food items to Charlotte and Lake Norman-area shelters, and other organizations serving those in need. A team of volunteers gathers at the pool cabana in the Carrington Ridge neighborhood to give of their time and efforts on Thanksgiving.
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EVENTS FROM PAGE 28 was commissioned specifically for the choir by composer Daniel Gawthrop. The piece will be directed by the Rev. Kevin Turner, and accompanied by Carolina Brass and Katie Ann McCarty. Gawthrop is an American composer, primarily of choral music. His resumé includes a substantial body of works from the organ as well as orchestral and instrumental works. He has been the recipient of more than 100 commissions to write original music, including Gloria. His works have been published by Dunstan House, Warner Brothers, Theodore Presser, Sacred Music Press and others. Davidson United Methodist Church is at 233 S. Main St. in Davidson.
A Wonderful Life at Armour Street Davidson Community Players will present the Christmas classic, It’s a Wonderful Life on select dates Dec. 4-21. Based on the classic film, this enduring holiday classic reminds audiences the worth each life
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Gallery of the Chambers Building. The forum is hosted by the Vann Center for Ethics and is free and open to the public. No ticket is required.
December 4 Davidson YouthMAP photo exhibit The Davidson College students of YouthMAP provide mentorship to disadvantaged youth through photography. They will hold a YouthMAP Photography Gala at 6 p.m. in the Belk Visual Arts Center Atrium. The organization teaches students how to use a camera, its value as a method for self-expression, and how to make a difference in their community with their work. The program concludes with a gala that celebrates the students’ work and emphasizes their self-driven success. The gala is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served and YouthMAP’s newest work will be available for purchase. Animal responsibility lecture A lecture about animal rights and ethics will be delivered by Lori Gruen, discussing “Our Responsibility to Animals in Captivity, as Food and in Experimentation” at 7:30 p.m. in the Lilly Family
Nativity Festival An annual tradition returns to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Huntersville with the seventh annual Community Nativity Festival held at the church. Hours are 4:30-8:30 p.m. each day with music performances nightly from 6 to 8:30. The family-friendly event is free and open to people of all faiths. On display will be more than 400 nativity sets. The church is at 7036 McIlwaine Road.
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HUMC Community Christmas Huntersville United Methodist Church will host a Community Christmas Celebration and Movie Night from 3:30 to 7 p.m. at the church. The event is open to the public. Activities include Christmas carol singing, free pizza, drinks and desserts, free games for kids and free photos with Santa. At 5 p.m. there will be a screening of the holiday classic A Christmas Story. Huntersville United Methodist Church is at 14005 Stumptown Road in Huntersville. Robin Bullock plays at St. Pat’s Internationally recognized as a master Celtic instrumentalist, Robin Bullock will
again kick off the Christmas season at Saint Patrick’s with a concert at 7 p.m. Bullock brings the music of Christmas to life with carols and hymns spanning more than 600 years, celebrating the Yuletide season with selections on guitar, cittern, mandolin and piano. A wine and cheese reception is included during intermission. Tickets are available at the door and cost $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and students. All proceeds benefit community outreach. For more information, visit saint-patricks.org or call 704-6635659. Saint Patrick’s Episcopal Church is at 201 Fairview Road in Mooresville.
More Stuff SouthLake Christmas at McGuire The SouthLake Christian Academy choir will perform fun, festive holiday songs Saturday, Dec. 20, at 1 p.m. at McGuire Nuclear Station’s EnergyExplorium. Santa will be on hand to read the classic T’was the Night Before Christmas and be available for photos. Craft stations will include holiday ornament making and Santa door hangers. Holiday cookies and refreshments will be served. The EnergyExplorium is off Highway 73 in Huntersville near the Cowans Ford dam. The event is free but space is limited. To make reservations, call 980-875-5600 or send an e-mail to
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Obituaries Maria Claudia Sanguineti Rebori
Mrs. Rebori, 89, of Huntersville died peacefully Thursday, Nov. 20, surrounded by family at Olde Knox Commons in Huntersville. She was born July 10, 1925, in Chiavari, Italy to the late Alfredo and Bianca Marre Sanguineti. She lived in Italy through World War II, meeting her late husband, Col. John Rebori, while he was visiting family in Italy. She is survived by her children, John Rebori Jr. and Anthony Rebori of Knoxville, Tenn., Anna Davis and husband, Kevin, of Cornelius and Stephen Rebori of Los Angeles, Calif., sisters, Giovanna Amadeo, Angela Amadeo and Margherita Dellepiane, of Genoa, Italy; and six grandchildren. The family would like to express gratitude to the staff of Olde Knox Commons and Hospice & Palliative Care of Lake Norman for their care. Memorials may be made to Hospice and Palliative Care, Charlotte Region, Lake Norman office, 705 Griffith Street, Davidson, NC 28036. James Funeral Home of Huntersville is serving the family.
Inez Harris Crowell
Mrs. Crowell, 87, of Cornelius died Friday, Nov. 21. She was born Aug. 31, 1927, to the late Velta and Alma Harris. She is survived by her husband, Jesse; sons, Mark and wife, Linda, of Huntersville and Lloyd and wife, Cindy, of Huntersville; daughter, Amy Biggerstaff and husband, Harold, of Mount Holly; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her son, Glen. A memorial service was held Sunday, Nov. 30, at First Baptist Church in Cornelius. Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church, 21007 Catawba Avenue, Cornelius, NC 28031; or the Robin Johnson Hospice House, 5005 Shepherds Way Drive, Dallas, NC 28034. James Funeral Home of Huntersville is serving the family.
Lois Little Benfield
Mrs. Benfield, 83, of Mooresville died Friday, Nov. 21, at her residence surround by her family. She was born April 22, 1931, in Mooresville to the late Horace and Connie Howard Little. She was a member of Vanderburg United Methodist Church, where she served on many committees and sang in the church choir. She is survived by her children, Debbie Compton and husband, Robert, Billy Benfield, Rusty Benfield and wife, Terrie, Cindy Rodden and husband, Chauncey, and Gay Rodriquez and husband, David; brothers,
Howard Little and Jerry Little; nine grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, William Benfield; and son, William Benfield Jr. A funeral service was held Tuesday, Nov. 25, at Vanderburg United Methodist Church with the Rev. Tommy Conder and the Rev. Joe Parker officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery. Memorials may be made to Vanderburg UMC Benfield Scholarship Fund, 1809 Charlotte Highway, Mooresville, NC 28115; or Hospice & Palliative Care of Iredell County, 2347 Simonton Road, Statesville, NC 28625. Cavin-Cook Funeral Home of Mooresville is serving the family.
Marion Phipps Dobbin
Mrs. Dobbin, 98, of Davidson died Saturday, Nov. 22, in her sleep. She was born June 21, 1916, in Indianapolis, Ind., to the late Mark Phipps and Mary Brown. After she and her late husband, Robert, retired they became original residents of The Pines at Davidson when it opened in 1988, where she lived for 26 years. She is survived by her daughter, Lynn Kopf and husband, Peter, of Davidson; two grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by sister, Catherine Jessup. A memorial service was held Wednesday, Dec. 3, at Davidson College Presbyterian Church. Memorials may be made to The Pines Residence Fund, 400 Avinger Lane, Davidson, NC 28036. RaymerKepner Funeral Home of Huntersville is serving the family.
Aileene Alexander Baker
Mrs. Baker, 85, of Huntersville died peacefully Sunday, Nov. 23, at Olde Knox Commons in Huntersville surrounded by her family. She was born Oct. 14, 1929, in Mecklenburg County to the late Roddie and Aleise Welch Alexander. She was a member of Williams Memorial Presbyterian Church and a homemaker. She is survived by her sons, Stephen Baker and wife, Debbie, of Denver and Jeffrey Baker and wife, Marianne, of Huntersville; sister, Brenda Armstrong; four grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, William Baker; and brothers, Carl, Willis and Jack Alexander. The family extends thanks to the doctors and staff of Olde Knox Commons for their care. A funeral service was held Saturday, Nov. 29, at Williams Memorial Presbyterian Church. Burial followed in the church cemetery. Memorials may be made to Williams Memorial Presbyterian Church Perpetual Cemetery Fund, 4700 Beatties Ford Road, Charlotte, NC 28216. RaymerKepner Funeral Home of Huntersville is serving the family.
December 3, 2014 Manhard, Marion Forsman, Arlene Pfeiffer and Shirley McGovern; and three grandchildren. Burial was at Northlake Memorial Gardens in Huntersville. A memorial mass will be held in the spring at Holy Spirit Catholic Church. James Funeral Home of Huntersville is serving the family.
Billy Leazer
Mr. Leazer, 84, of Mooresville died Sunday, Nov. 23, at the V.A. Medical Center in Salisbury. He was born Jan. 4, 1930, in Rowan County to the late Marshall and Mammie Karriker Leazer. He served in the U.S. Army. He is survived by his children, Robin Knox and husband, Joe, and Larry Leazer and wife, Dana; and five grandchildren. A graveside service was held Wednesday, Nov. 26, at Concordia Lutheran Church Cemetery with the Rev. John Milholland officiat-
ing. Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, 3800 Shamrock Drive, Charlotte, NC 28215. Cavin-Cook Funeral Home of Mooresville is serving the family.
Charles Bowman Mick
Mr. Mick, 77, of Huntersville died Tuesday, Nov. 25. He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Betty; daughters, Kim Callier and husband, Jeff, of Columbia, S.C., Pati Lash and husband, Tim, of Jacksonville, Fla.; son, Steve Mick of Delaware, Ohio; sister, Donna French of Delaware, Ohio; and three grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, Florence and Charles Mick; and sister, Sue Fehler. A memorial service was held Sunday, Nov. 30, at A Mighty Fortress Church in Charlotte. Memorials may be made to A Mighty Fortress Church. James Funeral Home of Huntersville is serving the family.
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The North Meck High basketball teams won the second annual Leroy Holden Classic championships on their home floor, Leroy Holden Court, Nov. 28-29. C.J. Bryce, right, earned tournament MVP honors. He had 25 points and eight rebounds in a 103-76 win over Mooresville and then 24 points and five boards in the 74-50 win over Lake Norman Charter in the final. North’s ShaNiya Lester (10) was also named tournament MVP. She scored 15 in a 61-36 win over Mooresville and a career-high 22 in the 67-38 finals win against Lake Norman Charter. West Brunswick, led by former Hopewell coach Eric Davis, won the second four-team boys’ bracket.
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Ladowski, Lake Norman end Hough’s run Huskies unable to repeat early-season win over Wildcats. By Denny Seitz
[email protected] MOORESVILLE — For threeand-a-half quarters last Friday night, the third-round 4AA state playoff game between the Hough Huskies and the host Lake Norman Wildcats had all the makings of a last-man-standing prize fight. Then came a pair of knockout plays by the Wildcats, who erupted for 24 straight fourth-quarter points to pull away for a 52-42 victory. With the score tied at 35, junior linebacker Jarett Schott intercepted back-to-back Will Coleman passes on consecutive fourth-quar-
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final matchup against Mallard Creek this week.
What was Ladowski’s role in the victory? Try 33 carries for 205 yards on the ground, and 7 completions in 12 passing attempts for 147 more yards. All totaled, the senior accounted for five Lake Norman touchdowns, breaking the hearts and the spirit of the Huskies, who were hoping to repeat their performance from earlier in the season when they rallied for a close victory against the Wildcats. Instead, it was Lake Norman (13-1) that avenged its only loss of the season. “I got one word for you,” said Hough coach Miles Aldridge. “Ladowski.” “Character, quickness, speed, desire, the will to win. ... We watched film of them and every one was the same,” Aldridge continued. “He is a true football player. Our whole
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PLAYOFFS FROM PAGE 32 game plan was to stop Ladowski. As you can see, we couldn’t do it. He’s the best player in the Charlotte area.” Lake Norman coach Rob McNeely agreed. But McNeely added that what makes Ladowski a true superstar is that he is 100 percent committed to the team and cares little about personal accolades. “Here’s the thing,” McNeely said. “He’s good enough to put a team on his back and carry it, but he’s smart enough to know he can’t win anything without the other 10 guys. He has such great character. Those guys fight — for him.” Friday night’s game was tied at 7, 14, 21, 28 and 35. While Hough’s defense struggled to stop Ladowski, Lake Norman didn’t have an
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answer for Hough running back Bishop Ford, who finished with 27 carries for 218 yards. Ladowski’s touchdown run with 11 minutes left in the game tied the score at 35. Then came the two huge plays by Schott, whose first interception led to a 3-yard scoring run by Ladowski. His second pickoff culminated with a 23-yard field goal by Simon Wilding with 3:44 remaining. After Hough turned the ball over on downs on the next drive, Austin Vaselniuck (14 carries, 103 yards) burst through the line for an 18yard touchdown and a 52-35 lead. It was the knockout punch. “We came a long way this season,” said Aldridge, whose first year at Hough ends with a 10-4 record. “I’m proud of what we accomplished. I don’t have to be happy with the end result. But I’m proud of this team.”
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Hough rode a six-game win streak into Lake Norman, and the Huskies had won eight of their
previous nine, with the lone loss in that stretch a 37-30 defeat to Mallard Creek on Oct. 10. Now 35-24 in five seasons, Hough closed with 10 wins for the second straight year and has won 29 games in the last three years. After taking first-round playoff losses in 2012 and 2013, the Huskies, with this year’s wins over West Forsyth and Independence, are now 2-3 in the postseason.
Vikings were close The 3-8 final record doesn’t show it, but North Meck had its chances this year against teams that reached the third round or beyond. North lost to Lake Norman and Vance, which is still alive in the 4A bracket, by seven points each and fell to Hough by two in a back-andforth game.
Coaching ties David Johnson, who coached Hopewell in 2011 and 2012, will lead his second Cuthbertson High team into the 3AA semifinals Friday at home against rival Weddington. Cuthbertson (11-3) is the No. 2 seed and beat Weddington 42-38 in a Southern Carolina Conference game on Oct. 17. Johnson’s team is averaging 35 points per game. Glen Padgett, North Meck’s coach from 2002 to 2009, led Concord to another successful season,
Nearby Just across the county line to the west, East Lincoln continues its pursuit of a perfect season in the 2AA playoffs. The top-seeded Mustangs are 14-0 after a thirdround victory over rival Lincolnton and will host No. 2 Franklin Friday. The Mustangs won the 2A title in 2012 and are winning by an average margin of 45-19. And Pine Lake Prep had its best season yet, finishing 7-5 in coach Brett Hayford’s first year. The Pride defeated Cherokee 38-21 in the first round of the 1A playoffs before falling to Thomas Jefferson 35-0 in the second.
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Hough played its first 2014 football game on a sweltering August afternoon at Charlotte’s Memorial Stadium, in the kind of heat and humidity that made Hough’s husky mascot long for the chill of winter. It was more favorable husky weather last Friday when Hough closed the season with a 52-42 third-round 4AA state playoff loss at Lake Norman, but regardless of the playing conditions this season, running back Bishop Ford was Hough’s constant. The senior, who moved from Gastonia’s Forestview High to Hough too late to join the football team last year, was a relative unknown to those outside the program. But he quickly made a name for himself by turning in a 193-yard, four-score performance in the 34-20 season-opening win over Sun Valley. Then, with 13 100yard games in 14 outings, he never let up. Small and elusive at 5-foot-6 and 165 pounds, Ford finished the year with a 218-yard, two-touchdown night against Lake Norman. He accounted for nearly half of Hough’s offense with 2,241 rushing yards and 28 total scores. Ford is being recruited by Division I and Division II college programs.
but the Spiders saw their unbeaten season come to a close in the second round of the 3A playoffs. The Spiders (12-1) beat Tuscola 49-7 in the first round, but finished with a 37-21 defeat to South Point, which will play top-seeded Crest this week. Padgett’s Spiders, who averaged 36 points per game, lost to Havelock in the previous two state championship games. F o r m e r Hough coach Bobby Collins (2010-2013) led his first LancastJohnson er (S.C) team to an 8-4 record. The Bruins beat Chapman 26-20 in the first round of the 3A playoffs, then lost 41-7 to Flora in the second round on Nov. 14.
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Stat Sheet Football
Nov. 28 Lake Norman 52, Hough 42 Hough Lake Norman
7 14 14 7 — 42 7 14 7 24 — 52
Scoring Summary
LN — Joyner 48 pass from Ladowski (Wilding kick) H — V. Smith 7 run (Stearns kick) LN — Ladowski 4 run (Wilding kick) H — Ford 20 run (Stearns kick) LN — Joyner 19 pass from Ladowski (Wilding kick) H — Sutton 14 pass from Coleman (Stearns kick) H — Ford 23 run (Stearns kick) LN — Vaseleniuck 29 run (Wilding kick) H — Bell 10 pass from Coleman (Stearns kick) LN — Ladowski 10 run (Wilding kick) LN — Ladowski 3 run (Wilding kick) LN — Wilding 23 FG LN — Vaseleniuck 18 run (Wilding kick) H — Bell 10 pass from Coleman (Stearns kick)
Stat leaders
Rushing Hough: Ford 27-218, 2TD. Lake Norman: Ladowski 33-205, 3TD; Vaseleniuck 13-108, 2TD. Passing Hough: Coleman 16-26, 213, 3TD, 2INT. Lake Norman: Ladowski 7-12, 147, 2TD. Receiving Hough: Sutton 3-74, TD; Tucker 3-35. Lake Norman: Joyner 2-68, 2TD; Galbo 4-62.
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LN Charter 68, Independence 42
LN Charter 19 11 25 13 — 68 Independence 8 7 12 15 — 42 LNC: McCormick 18, B. Hancock 15, Lilly 9, Cracknell 8, Hickert 8, Worthy 6, Queen 2, Reynolds 2. Independence: Statile 13, Thomas 12, Allen 5, Harry 5, Mobley 3, Taylor 2, Bonar 2.
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North Meck 74, LN Charter 50
LN Charter 8 20 13 9 — 50 18 15 18 23 — 74 North Meck LNC: B. Hancock 16, McCormick 9, Hickert 9, Worthy 5, Cracknell 4, Lilly 3, J. Hancock 2. North Meck: Bryce 24, Mintz 16, McManus 13, Wacker 11, Middleton 4, Beasley 4, Coles 2.
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SouthLake 72, Cannon 37
Cannon 8 9 10 10 — 37 SouthLake 19 16 16 21 — 72 Cannon: Cosic 9, McKenzie 6, Patterson 6, Dahan 5, Hendrix 5, Saarinen 2, Battle 2, Devaux 2. SouthLake: Ma. Monroe 17, My. Monroe 12, Wharton-Price 12, Carter 8, Smith 6, Hartman 5, Robinson 4, Falls 3, Lowery 3, Yuminami 2.
Men’s College Basketball Nov. 26
Davidson 95, UCF 69
Boys Scores
Davidson 45 50 — 95 UCF 38 31 — 69 Davidson: Gibbs 37, Kalinoski 25, Ekwu 11, Barham 8, Sullivan 4, Aldridge 4, Belford 2, Michelsen 2, McAuliffe 2. UCF: Walker 15, Henriquez 14, Wilson 13, Goodwin 7, Davis 7, Karell 5, Taylor 4, Blair 4.
CSD 73, Stuart Cramer 52
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High School Basketball Nov. 25
Stuart Cramer 13 14 13 12 — 52 CSD 22 23 11 17 — 73 Stuart Cramer: Stowe 16, Sithisari 13, Hopkins 7, Sherrill 6, Smith 4, Johnson 3, Lovelace 2, Foust 1. CSD: Daily 16, McAfee 15, McKibbin 13, Brown 11, Windley 6, McMahan 4, Gomilla 2, Hare 2, Yascur 2, McKenzie 2.
Davidson 72, UNCW 49
UNCW 24 25 — 49 Davidson 41 31 — 72 UNCW: Spruill 17, Williams 15, Jackson 7, Gettys 4, Tally 4, Ogbodo 2. Davidson: Aldridge 17, Gibbs 13, Kalinoski 9, Barham 8, Sullivan 7, Belford 6, McAuliffe 4, Michelsen 3, Giamoukis 3, Watkins 2.
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Holden inducted at Western By Justin Parker
[email protected] Before Leroy Holden ever made a name for himself as a basketball coach and athletic director at North Meck High School, he was a football player, and a pretty good one at that. Folks noticed, too. Holden was inducted into the Western Carolina University Athletics Hall of Fame Nov. 15, having starred as a receiver from 1963 to 1966. He joined four of his teammates in the Hall. “We’ve had some great athletes,” says Holden, who is retired and lives in Cornelius. “I am so honored and privileged to be included.” In an era when teams didn’t throw as often as they do now, Holden had 78 career receptions for 1,310 yards and 10 touchdowns. In 1965, he returned a kickoff 81 yards for a touchdown against Lenoir-Rhyne, and as a senior, he caught 38 passes for 656 yards and five scores. “I can remember a lot of those games,” says Holden. “It’s funny how you can go back to certain moments, and it’s still in there.” Holden was inducted as part of Western’s 25th anniversary class,
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Leroy Holden joined the Western Carolina Athletics Hall of Fame Nov. 15.
alongside the Catamounts’ 200203 women’s golf team that reached the NCAA Tournament. The inductees were recognized on the field during Western’s home football game with VMI, which capped a weekend of festivities. “It was awesome,” says Holden. “It was something I’ll never forget.” The honor is just the latest for Holden, who was at North Meck from 1971 to 2009 and also returned to serve as interim athletic director this fall. He is a North Meck Viking Legend, a member of the North Carolina Athletic Directors Association Hall of Fame, is included on the N.C. High School Athletic Association’s 100 Coaches to Remember list and it’s his name that adorns North Meck’s gym floor, where the second annual
Leroy Holden Classic basketball tournament took place last weekend.
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Sign them up! National Signing Day was Nov. 12 and the area had many studentathletes sign National Letters of Intent. Here are a few of them.
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Lake Norman Charter signees, from left: Griffin Stechmiller (lacrosse, Queens); Steven Farkas (baseball, Longwood), John Creel (baseball, Ole Miss); Zach Queen (baseball, Catawba) and Jessica Kane (lacrosse, Lenoir-Rhyne).
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North Meck High track and field star Vincent Crisp reached for the Texas Tech hat on National Signing Day, picking the Red Raiders over the programs at Miami and LSU, among others.
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The Bailey Middle School Broncos football team went unbeaten this year and won the Northern Conference title. The Broncos were 6-0 and had three shutouts. Pictured are (front row) Isaias Rivera, Nathan Sappington, Harrison Butler, Jack Shryock, Nicholas Crumpler, Dawson Brown, Riley Morgan, Trevor Fournet, (second row) coach Tanner Chiesa, Blake Porter, Jack Mohr, Liam Donoghue, Marquise Gallman, Johny Cuningham, Cade McGahan, Bryson Whitehead, Anthony Fabian, Brandon Hill, head coach Guy Lemke, (third row) Jaylin Johnson, Dylan Beiler, Teddy Holevas, Holden McGinnis, Graham Meyers, Aaron Santiago, Keqshawn Withers, Deangelo Armstrong, (back row) coach Samuel Baez, Jack Mariner, Dylan Beal, JD Brock, Nolan Groulx, Jacob Jones, Tyus Fields, Hunter Thomas, Nate Sliney, Nathan Ledford and coach Deb Lemke. Not pictured: Josh Hickman. Submit nominations for the Team Photo of the Week to
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Happy Holidays! This time of the year can be both joyous and stressful. The question is how do you experience more joy and less stress? Here are some tips to make this season healthier and happier. Over the holidays be mindful of what you eat and drink. Drink a glass of water and have a snack that includes protein before heading to a party to prevent overeating. A bit of preparation can prevent holiday weight gain and keep you feeling energetic and de-stressed. The stress associated with extra obligations during Spinal the holidays can increase muscle tension, aggravatColumn ing pre-existing conditions. There are also a number of Dr. John Ballas common seasonal activities — entertaining, shopping, and wrapping gifts — that can lead directly to back and neck pain. Here are a few tips from the American Chiropractic Association to help you stay pain free this holiday season. • At home, or visiting a friend or relative’s home: Sit in a firm but comfortable chair and pay attention to posture while entertaining friends and family or watching television. Spending hours on too-soft sofas in poor posture can cause imbalances along the spine. Back pain is often caused by tension in the muscles around the hips and pelvis. Chronic tension and tension from physical activity or extended sitting may change the alignment of your spine and pelvis. Stretch your back and hip muscles by taking a walk. Don’t cook, clean, and talk on the phone all at once, unless you have a headset. Cradling the phone between your ear and shoulder can lead to muscle tension and neck pain. • While shopping: Make yourself comfortable. Prevent unnecessary body tension by wearing supportive shoes and non-restrictive clothing. Leave your heavy purse at home. Instead, take a small wallet containing only the essentials — credit card, driver’s license, and your gift list, of course. Don’t try to carry too much at once. Make frequent visits to your car to unload bags, if necessary. For larger items, don’t be shy and ask your sales clerk for help. • Mind your body biomechanics (how your body moves): One law of physics states that the further away a load is from your core body, the harder you have to work to carry it, and the more stress it puts on your joints. Carry your bags close to your body. Remember, shopping can be an endurance sport, so treat yourself right after a long day of shopping. Stretch your muscles and take a hot shower or bath to release tension that may have accumulated during the day. • Wrapping gifts: Wrap presents at a table. While spreading out on the floor may be fun and convenient, it encourages poor posture and tension. Whatever position that you are in for wrapping such as bending forward, give you body frequent rests and stretch in the opposite way to relieve muscle tension. Sticking to a routine of physical activity, getting adequate rest, getting regular chiropractic care and eating well will also help relieve stress and tension during the holidays. Above all, relax! It’s one of the best things you can do for yourself, your family — and your back. Ballas Chiropractic is at 9718-D Sam Furr Road in Huntersville. For information, visit ballaschiropractic.com or call 704896-8080.
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• ARIES (March 21 to April 19): Make your holiday preparations one step at a time in order to avoid being overwhelmed and leaving things undone. That confusing family situation continues to work itself out. • TAURUS (April 20 to May 20): Ease this year’s holiday money pressures by letting your thrifty side guide you as you look for those perfect gifts that typically reflect your good taste and love of beauty. • GEMINI (May 21 to June 20): You’ll have a good handle on potential holiday problems if you delegate tasks to family members, friends or co-workers — most of whom will be more than happy to help out. • CANCER (June 21 to July 22): Right now you are especially vulnerable to holiday scams that seek to take advantage of your generosity. Best advice: Check them out before you send out your checks. • LEO (July 23 to August 22): The upcoming holiday season gives the Big Cat much to purr about. Relationships grow stronger, and new opportunities loom on the horizon, just waiting to be pounced on. • VIRGO (August 23 to September 22): A changing situation brings conflicting advice about how to go forward with your holiday plans. Your best bet: Make the decision you feel most comfortable with. • LIBRA (September 23 to October 22): Holiday plans get back on track after some confusion about the direction you expected
to take. A potentially troublesome money matter needs your immediate attention. • SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21): Your holiday preparations are on track. But you need to confront a personal situation while you can still keep it from overwhelming everything else. • SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21): Tight financial matters ease a bit during this holiday season. But the sagacious Sagittarian is well-advised to keep a tight hold on the reins while shopping for gifts. • CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19): Don’t put off making decisions about this year’s holiday celebrations, despite the negative comments you’ve been getting from several quarters. Do it NOW! • AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18): The holidays will bring new friends and new opportunities. Meanwhile, be careful to use your energy wisely as you go about making holiday preparations. • PISCES (February 19 to March 20): There’s good news coming from a most unlikely source. And it could turn out to be one of the best holiday gifts you have had in years. Remember to stay positive. • BORN THIS WEEK: You are respected for your honesty and loyalty. You make friends slowly — but with rare exceptions, they’re in your life forever. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
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Well, folks, the date was Jan. 28, 1963. Most Americans alive at the time turned on their television sets to watch The Andy Griffith Show. The title of the show that night was “The Loaded Goat.” It was the first airing of that particular episode. Only God knows how many times that show has been rerun through the years. That has been true of all the episodes of that classic, abiding piece of American cinematic literature. England had her Shakespeare, western civilization had its King James Version of the Bible, and Mt. Airy, North Carolina (upon which Mayberry is loosely based) had The Andy Griffith Show. That TV show was one of the reasons God invented television. Now, just to refresh your memory, the mayor Southern of Mayberry was finaglin’ Fried Preacher to get an underpass built in town near his brother’s service station. He denied Harold Bales it but everyone knew the mayor wanted to help his brother’s business. Well, there was a lot of dynamite blasting going on in this construction project. And, to keep this story short, Mayberry citizen Cy Hudgins had a big goat named Jimmy who had a powerful appetite and would eat most anything. One day, Jimmy got loose and ate some sticks of dynamite. This, of course, created panic because of the fear that something could set off the goat and cause him to go “blooey.” Now, I won’t retell the whole story but you can watch it online. It has been voted one of the 10 favorite episodes of the entire series. There are always simple messages in the stories from Mayberry. Little lessons that even sophisticated folk can understand. They are sort of like Aesop’s famous fables, but better. Aesop didn’t have a deputy Barney Fife. But that’s a different story. Anyhow, one of the lessons from the loaded goat is that some people are like Jimmy the goat. They will swallow almost anything. And loaded with the wrong thing, they can go “blooey.” It only takes a spark to set them off! This happens in religion sometimes. Some folk will swallow almost anything if they hear it from a smooth-talking person who claims to be speaking for God. This is why it is important for us to develop the ability to discern the difference between hogwash and holy water. The loaded goat phenomenon happens in society all the time. Some folk get filled up with stereotypes about others. It is a kind of social dynamite. Think of the stuff some people carry in their minds about others who are not like themselves: “They are not my color.” “They speak with a strange accent.” “They are lazy.” “They have a different religion than mine.” “They are not patriotic.” “They enjoy weird music.” “They dress in funny clothes.” “They are not from around here.” “They want my money.” “They want to harm me.” “They are troublemakers.” When we have minds filled with social dynamite, we lose the heart’s capacity for compassion, hospitality and civilization. Almost any little spark can light a fuse and ... “blooey!” Folks, what we’ve got to do is get a better balance between our IQ — intelligence quotient — and our BQ — blooey quotient! We are a smart enough bunch, but we’ve got enough loaded goats among us to make us dangerous! The Andy Griffith Show’s story about Jimmy, the loaded goat, turned out okay in the end. I’ve watched it a dozen times and it always has a happy ending. Things in Mayberry always do. Still, we had better not take anything for granted, lest we allow everything to eventually go blooey! Harold Bales is a retired Methodist minister. For more information about him, visitTheSouthernFried-Preacher.com. Send him an e-mail at
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‘Culture of fear’ not new for CMS Wanted: Experienced chief executive with an oversized ego, tissuepaper thin skin and hair-trigger temper. Must strike fear in employees by merely entering a room ... or a building ... or a ZIP code. Communications skills optional. God complex preferred. As the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education decides its next step in finding a replacement for former Superintendent Heath Morrison, that job description might as well be its guide. Superintendents of large school systems typically are case studies in fostering the “culture of fear” described by CMS Deputy Superintendent Ann Clark in a critical report on Morrison prepared by the school system’s chief attorney, George Battle III. That report led to Morrison’s abrupt (and awkward) resignation last month. Clark attempted to step back from her comments last week. She needn’t have. The intimidation and authoritarian conduct she described is endemic in the executive offices of school systems across the country. That has certainly been the case at CMS. As a reporter, I covered CMS in the 1990s when it was run by John Murphy, a leader recognized nationally as an educational innovator. To those who worked for him at CMS and with him as elected officials who controlled the school system’s funding, though, Murphy ruffled more feathers than a down pillow factory. Like Morrison two decades later, Murphy resigned abruptly and unexpectedly. Next up was Eric Smith, who came to CMS from Newport News, Va. I also covered Smith as a reporter — until he hired me, a move I still think was more about keep-
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Final Thoughts John Deem ing me from writing about him than it was about my potential as a school system PR flak. As director of public information, I had inside access to the halls of CMS power. My office was within shouting distance of Smith’s on the fourth floor of the old Education Center on what is now Martin Luther King Boulevard in Charlotte. According to Battle’s report, when Morrison needed to talk to a staff member, he wanted it to happen now, regardless of the day or hour. Smith was no different. And once you lit Smith’s short fuse with an action whose consequences might have been big or small, real or imagined, there was little chance of ever winning back his trust. When a CMS high school student won a national contest for a play she wrote about a lesbian teen dealing with the challenges of revealing her sexuality, the Charlotte Observer called to get a comment from the school system. One of my employees offered what I thought was a thoughtful, honest and effective quote about how CMS embraced its students as individuals, regardless of sexuality or other differences, and that the school system was proud of the young woman’s accomplishment. I’d barely settled down at my desk the next day before Smith stepped into my office. This was rare. When Smith wanted you, you were summoned to his office, so I knew something was up. Smith’s face was the color of a hot burner on an electric stove, and he could barely speak through teeth clenched in obvious rage. “I don’t ever want to to see that woman (who he referred to by her last name only) quoted about anything to do with CharlotteMecklenburg Schools again,” he said with a quiet voice marinaded in contempt. He then turned and walked out. At that point, the rationale for Smith’s reaction was irrelevant.
The employee was despondent when I told her what Smith had said. She knew what it meant for her future at CMS, at least for as long as Smith was in charge. She immediately started looking for another job, and soon landed one with one of Charlotte’s banking behemoths, where she ended up running the company’s internal video
broadcasting operations before moving on to become a marketing and communications executive at Prudential in New York City. Not long after that episode, a member of Smith’s senior staff, who’d been with CMS for decades, told me tearfully that she, too, had ignited Smith’s ire over issues dealing with students and sexuality.
But she was too close to retirement to leave CMS, and would just have to wait out Smith’s tenure (which she did). A “culture of fear” certainly is nothing new at CMS, or at other big school systems across the country. Only the cultivators of that culture seem to change.
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