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The ews Journal Hoke County’s newspaper since 1905 75^ No.3voi.113 Rae ford & Hoke County n.c. Wednesday, March 21,2018 Student’s 911 hoax prompts lockdown Authorities identify caller, school limits him to homebound ed By Catharin Shepard Staff writer A 911 call that turned out to be a child’s hoax resulted in a lockdown at West Hoke Middle School last week while authorities searched for any threat. A phone call to 911 just after 12:30 p.m. Friday claimed that a person with a gun was holding someone against their will at the middle school, according to school officials. Dispatch immediately contacted the Hoke County Sheriffs Office School Resource Officer on duty at the middle school, and the school went into lockdown, schools Public Information Director Jodie Bryant reported. “Within three minutes, both the Raeford City Police Department and the Hoke County Sheriff’s Office were on the scene. Law enforcement entered the building and checked each room, closet and corner of West Hoke Middle School. Finding no threat, law enforcement concluded that the call was a hoax and the lockdown was lifted at approximately 1:10 p.m.,” Bryant said. Once the school was cleared. Principal Mary McLeod used the school’s emergency notification system to notify all parents of the lockdown. Law enforcement officers investigated the source of the call and were able to track down the phone number used to place it and the location of the phone used in the hoax. (See HOAX, page 10) More than 100 students at SandHoke Early College High School march around the campus Wednesday in protest of fear on school campuses. (Ken MacDonald photo) ‘I want to know I’m going to be able to come home every day’ SandHoke, Hoke High students join national walkout protest after Florida shooting By Ken MacDonald Call it a sign of the times. “Protect US, not guns,” read an orange placard carried by SandHoke Early College High School student Amy Brooks. Beside her, another student, Amy Quinn, carried a sign that read, “Fear has no place in school.” The students were among roughly 120 who walked out of class at 10 a.m. Wednesday to join thousands across the nation protest ing the shooting a month ago in Parkland, Florida that left 17 high school students dead. The SandHoke students, more than a fourth of the school, trickled out of class rooms and gathered on a lawn with the Butterball turkey plant behind them. For a few minutes, they stood and milled about. Then student Abdul Hassan took a place in front, and called out, “We have to be friends to everyone. We have to spread positivity, because we will never ever, ever (See WALKOUT, page 9) Look for this symbol to find stores that sell The News-Journal Clark’s residency challenged, senator fires back Follow us on Facebook www.thenews-journal.com www.raefordnj.com By Catharin Shepard Staff writer Clark Aziz A Spring Lake elected official has challenged incumbent state Sen. Ben Clark’s eligibility to hold office or run for another term, alleging that the senator does not live in Dis trict 21, but Clark fired back that he lives in Hoke County and claimed that the challenge was a ploy to “steal” the elected office. Spring Lake Mayor pro tempore James O’Garra filed a challenge last Tuesday with the Hoke County Board of Elections questioning whether Clark, a Democrat, actually lives in his district. Clark said in a Subscriptions just $33 per year inside Hoke County! response that he resides at 603 East Lake Ridge Road in Hoke County within District 21, while the chal lenge alleges he lives in what Clark describes as a “second home” in Cumberland County. That property is located in state Senate District 19. During court-ordered (See CHALLENGE, page 6) Weekend fires bum more than 80 acres By Ken MacDonald By Catharin Shepard Staff writer Walking around Lowe’s Saturday, I turned a corner just as a family with several kids was passing. A girl who appeared to be four or five looked at me, pointed, and accusingly said, “You don’t have any green on.” Her mother interjected, “Now honey...” and I thought she was going to say something like, “Let’s be nice to strangers,” but she said, “He’s got a little green on his shirt.” “Yes!” I said to the girl, pointing to a small logo on my t-shirt, but she wasn’t buying it. She frowned at me and continued on (See OTHER STUEF, page 9) Two separate fires - one still under investigation - burned more than a com bined 80 acres of woodland in western Hoke County this weekend, according to Hoke County Ranger Robert White. White, a ranger with the North Caro lina Eorest Service, was among those who responded to Eriday’s fire off of the 6500 block of N.C. 211 in the McCain area. That fire burned about 65 acres of pri vately owned woodland, and officials are still looking into how it started. “The cause of the fire is under investi gation,” White said. The North Carolina Eorest Service and fire departments from Hoke and Moore counties converged on the woods fire. It spread quickly due to dry and windy conditions, the ranger said. Firefighters were able to save four houses that were endangered by the blaze. The fire got more attention than most woods fires thanks to the equipment on site to deal with the flames, which (See EIRES, page 9)
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