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The ews Journal If it hapi>ened, it s news to us Na30VoL99 Raeford & Hoke C^^riTY h.c. 50r Wednesday, October 13,2004 Voter signup breaks record Large surge experienced in Rockfish, Puppy Creek \ By VinoKiANA Summiirs Staff writer Hoke County’s board of elections staff is still counting new voter regis trations aftera massive turnout during the past three weeks from Roeklish and Puppy Creek precincts. Voter registration transact ions have soared to2,(KK)since thepri mary elec tion, including changes in addresses or party affiliations. The information is still being validated, according to Carol i ne Shook, f loke’s btxird of elec- tions director. Shook said that in Puppy Creek about 5(K) more people registered to vote, and approx i mately 200more reg istered in the Rockfish precinct. Puppy Creek took the lead in thecounty with a total of4,329 voters, fol lowed by Rock fish with 2,481. Close behind Rockfish, Raeford No. 3 precinct contains 2,163 voters, reflecting a stead) growth. As of Monday, 20,368 people were registered to vote in Hoke, Shook added. “Our voter registration has been record-breaking in those precincts, and we are up about 1.200 in new reg istered voters across the county since the primary, ’’ Shook said. “It is the heaviest pre-election registration that I have ever seen, and t here wi 11 be more added once we have finished entering the information into our computer. “I am not surprised, however, be cause there is a great deal of interest in the presidential race,” she said. “Wealsohave many military fami lies residing in Hoke w ho have regis tered to vote - particularly in eastern Hoke. Actually, we have experienced an increase in other precinct.s, too.” Shook siiid last Friday on the final day for registration that she received 322 registrations transactions. “Most of them were from people who came into the office because we only had about 50 requests mailed in to us,” Shook said. “Just in the la.st week, we had 800 registrations.” Shook said the responses might have been “huge” from the Rockfish and Puppy Creek voting precincts because of the escalating popula tion. Shook and elections clerk Sally Markham — swamped by the re sponse — have been checking all the voter regismationsalniost nightly until 10 o’clock. “As far as the political party affili ations are concerned, the Republ icans have seen the highest increase in voter registrationi, which was almost 4(X),” Shook said. “There has also been an increase of almost 3(K) people who (See REGISTRATION, page lOA) - ■ ★1 Two children from Rockfish Childcare Development Center learn how to wear firemen’s gear at Rockfish Volunteer Fire Department. See story and more photos on page 9A. Teachers petition ‘Make Sandy Grove school of choice’ By Vi('I()R(»i \n\ Si'MMi rs Staff writer III a sequel to a protest o\er the transition to a traditional calen dar for 1 loke scIkhiIs next year, Sandy (imve Hlementary teachers presented a [vtition to the 1 loke Board of liducation last night. They requested the Ixiard allow Sandy drove to revert to a year- round school calendar, according to Carolyn Pulley, a fifth grade teacher at the elementary school located in the Arabia area. The sch(K)l board ilecided that all Hoke scIkkiIs will convert to a traditional school calendar lor the 2()()5-()6 .school year. “We had 37 teachers sign the petition who were against the tra ditional calendar, requesting that we become a school of choice.” Pulley said. “Of those teachers. 28 indicated that they would seek other employment instead of teaching at Sandy Grove on a traditional calendar. “We also .sent a survey out to parent.s, and the majority of the responses were in favor of return ing to the yeai-round calendar that wc observed before.” This,afterfaculty from several Hoke sch(x)ls filled fhe scIkxiI f SVf’ PETITION, page SA) Developers keep pace in East Hoke page 8,\ 9th Grade Academy off to good start page 1B Bucks blank Pinecrest 40-1 page 6A Dog wash to be good, clean fun Piige .3A Si Births 4B Calendar ..2B Classifitxis 7-8B Deaths lOA Fxlitorials 2A Engagements 3B Legals 6B Religion 5B Schools 4-5A Socials 3-4B Sports 6-7A Weddings 3-4B IVeVe on the web at www.thenews-journal.com kRBEE PHARMACY MART M People wait in line for flu shots at a clinic at Barbee Pharmacy Friday morning. They came from miles and waited in line Response to flu vaccine shortage overwhelms local pharmacy It was Barbee Hometown Pharmacy Mart’s fou rt h year to hold a cl i n ic to adm i n- ister 111) and pneumonia vaccines. Barbee arranges the cl inic annual ly through adrug sales co-op, NC Mutual of Durham. NC Mutual contracts with a company called Maxim Health to man clinics in those drug stores that want to provide them. “Our obligation is to supply a site and (See FLU SHOT, page 7A) By Pay Allfn Wilson Editor Pharmacist Sprite Barbee described the administration of close to 320 llu shots at his drug store last Friday as “a fishes and loaves occurrence.” Clearly, those who were able to receive their vaccines were among the blessed because the flu vaccine is scarcer than hen’s teeth this year. Sandhills Community College to expand here Construction on $1.5 million building for Raeford campus to begin next summer Bv Vl(TORl \N \ SUMMI RS Staff writer SandhillsCommunity College Hoke Center is planning to build a $1.5 mil lion expansion, mirroring the design of the current academic facility l(K.'ated on U.S. 401 Business. With the addii ion of a second bu i Idi ng comprising six classrtxims, the student enrollment isex|x.‘cted to double to 500, according to college oflicials. “Hoke County is going to continue to grow, and this will be a real addition to the community,” Dr. John Dempsey, president of SandhillsCommunity Col lege. headquartered in Southern Pines, said. “We are proud to be there. Hoke wi 11 be an i ncreasi ngly i mportant part of Sandhil IsCommunity Col lege’s mission in the future. “Wc are responding to what the Hoke community needs and wants — a continuation of the things we do such as literacy work, cosmetology and criminal Justice.” A ground breaking on the second pha.se of the college, which will be funded by state bond money approved in 1999, is planned for the summer of 2(K)5. Dempsey said architectural plans, already in the works, will include a classroom designed to teach prosivet i ve employees who would be hired for new or existing businesses. “We are working closely with 1 loke’s economic developer Don Porter to ad vance the cause to recruit busines.ses to Hoke County,” Dempsey .said. “We wanted to create a classrixim in a space that is flexible enough to meet (See SANDHILLS, page HA) The News-1 Journal \ News Other stuff By Ken MacDonald General Manager In one of the latest “Zits” comic strip, a female teenager asks to borrow for a friend, the cell phone of our 15-year old hero, Jer emy. “Is hers broken?” he asks. More of a technical glitch was the reply. “Her plan gives her unlimited minute.s, but she used them up.” See? 1 told you our house is bugged. The strip’s authors, Jerry Scott and Ji m Borgman, have been listening in again. When our daughter was about to go off to college in August, I began re.searching cell phone plans. Oh, 1 knew it was going to be tough. I’d need unlimited non dial up internet access for the research, a Cray supercomputer for computations of rates, and probably astrological charts and the Hirmer’s Almanac, but by golly, this tinK* I was going to win. After all, 1 am deter mined, rca,sonably intelligent, and .some say 1 remind them of Harrison Ford. Okay, well I was determined. (See OTHER STUFF, page 4A) Conference tournament players These Hoke High tennis players went to the conference tournament in Laurinburg last night. Holly Manning (right) and Tiara Bennett (left) advanced to the regionals. Other players shown with coach Nelson James are Allison Hoffman (left to right), jasmine Poinsett, Candice Clark, and Megan Stone.
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