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ews I ournal If it happened, it’s news to us 75f No. 2Vol. 105 Raeford & Hoke County n.c. VC'fednesday, March 24,2010 Despite arrests, no closure for attacked Seven jailed for breaking into house, attacking family, one remains at large By Jason Beck StaffWriter David Frye may never get over the sight of a gun being pushed into his three-year-old daughter’s mouth - it’s an image burned into his brain forever. However, Frye is sleeping a bit easier this week know ing that some of the suspects accused of breaking into his house, pistol-whipping him, threatening his daughter and stealing his guns are behind bars. He doesn’t know if he’ll ever recover completely. “I don’t know if my wife will ever have closure,” he said. “I don’t know if we can even stay in Raeford.” Last week, Raeford Po lice, with the help of the Fayetteville Police Depart ment, Spring Lake Police Department and Hoke County Sheriff’s Office, arrested six of eight suspects involved in the daytime robbery of Frye’s home on Wright Street. Another suspect in the case turned himself in to police on Monday, leaving only one suspect on the loose in the case. Jones Vanclief Two of the men, Brian Keith Jones, 22, and Donte Maurice Vanclief, 21, both of Fayetteville, are accused of breaking through the storm door of Frye’s home and par ticipating in the violent attack two weeks ago. (See CLOSURE, page 4A) Fire departments reaching for ethanol JSIMPIMS Fob SPBiNt Big buildings, new regs on horizon By Jason Beck StaffWriter Commercial growth is start ing to increase in Hoke County. The Walmart project is nearing completion, two hospitals are in the works and the Clean Burn Fu els ethanol plant is scheduled to The ethanol plant in Dundarrach will soon be operational. come online in about a month. However, the county’s almost entirely volunteer fire departments, charged with protecting these larger structures, aren’t expanding nearly as rapidly. Many lack the funding and manpower to handle larger structures and new insurance regulations on the horizon, said Freddy Johnson, the county’s director of emergency management. Working out of a small building on NC 20 in Dundarrach, the Stonewall Fire Department is one of the county’s smallest. The department sits nearly in the shadow of Hoke’s industrial park and the state’s first ethanol plant. Johnson said the ethanol plant pres ents a significant challenge for area departments. “The ethanol plant is considered a high hazard facility,” Johnson said. ‘ ‘The ethanol plant is safe, but accidents happen. Firefighters that respond out there have to be trained in hazardous materials at the operational level.” Ethanol burns much hotter than gasoline and often burns clear, leav ing only the thermal cloud visible to (See FIRE CHALEENGES, page 5A) Breanna McNeill (left) and Renae Larose (right) enjoy the warm sunshine and the trampoline in their back yard at Summerfield East subdivision Saturday, the first day of spring. (Hal Nunn photo) This Week k Turkey Festival theme chosen PageSA Hoke veteran to be buried at Arlington Page4A Raeford man to be on calendar Page4A Calendar 2B Classifieds 7B Court 3 A Deaths 3 A Editorials 2 A Legals 4-6B Sports 7A Worship 2B VIe’re on the web at www.thenews-joumtd.com Readby4,500 each week She oversees feeding 7,700 children each day By Jason Beck StaffWriter Every day Deborah Car penter wakes up to a chal lenge no one else in the county faces - feeding 7,700 people. As director of the child Carpenter with staff at Upchurch Elementary School. nutrition program for the Hoke County School System, Carpenter must find the right balance between student sat isfaction, healthy meals and cutting costs that keeps her program afloat. So far, she’s been so successful that she has been named president of the state school nutrition program. So how does someone go about feeding that many hungry mouths spreadacross nearly a dozen schools? By staying constantly on the run. Carpenter is always mov ing. Cell phone in one hand, she roams across the district checking the temperature of a vat of peas or making sure thousands of pounds of frozen food stay in date. Regularly she steps behind the counter and dishes out chicken nuggets or ladles full of turkey and noodles herself ‘ ‘My goal when I back out of that garage is to make sure my students are fed break fast, lunch and afternoon snack,” she said. “That it is nutritious and served with a friendly attitude... That’s what I come to work for every day - my children.” Carpenter, who was born and raised in Hoke County, has been working with the school system for 33 years. As a classroom teacher, she never thought she’d be anything else. But over the last 12 years, she’s found her real calling. “It was so much to learn,” she said. “You can work in a restaurant for 25 years and come in and not know anything about child nutri tion. There are so many (See FOOD, page 6A) Man detains thief for poliee By Ken MacDonald When I was a kid we started char coal grills with pine straw. All the cool kids. I’m sure, got to use lighter fluid, but we (read “Dad”) were pur ists, which meant while the cool kids were water-skiing, we were sailing, while they were motorcycling, we were bicycling, and while they were squirting lighter fluid, we were raking pine straw. And lots of it. We couldn’t figure out how to get the straw under the coals, so we just heaped it on top until there was no way those little bricks couldn’t catch fire. Yes, a Molotov grill - awe some. But then the ash would snuff out the fire, and we’d have to repeat the process. So naturally, when I became king of my own (cough) castle, I switched to lighter fluid. It served me well all these years until my wife informed me I was poisoning our family. That’s when Bubba, our company owner and yes that’s his name, re minded me of charcoal chimneys. (See OTHER STUFF, page 6A) Several area break-ins solved with arrest By Jason Beck StaffWriter The Raeford Police Department has put a stop to a recent rash of automobile break-ins. According to Police Chief Mike Dummett, a civilian who took mat ters into his own hands did much of the work. On Sunday, homeowner Saul Vazquez Euis, of Covington Road, called police and reported a breaking- and-entering in progress. When of ficers arrived, they found Luis had stopped the suspect from breaking in his car and detained him. Police arrested Jeffery Wayne Kindred and charged him with felony breaking and entering a motor vehicle. After an investigation, detectives learned Kindred was allegedly in volved in at least three other break-ins around town. He was charged with three more counts of breaking and enter- (See STOPS THIEF, page 8A)
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