The
ews
IH
J ournal
Hoke Coimty^s newspaper since 1905
No.43Vol.l09
Raeford & Hoke County n.c.
Wednesday, December 31,2014
Man killed in wreck, teen in coma
By Catharin Shepard
Staff writer
A man from Raeford was
killed and a teenager left in
a coma following a head-on
crash that happened Sunday
morning on Davis Bridge
Man charged
with child sex
Depu
ties with
the Hoke
County
Sheriffs
Office
have ar
rested a
man on
allegations
Scali
that he sexually assaulted
two children.
Authorities arrested
Mauro Joseph Scali, 65, of
Hunter Mill Way in Lon
donderry, New Hampshire
and charged him with two
(See ASSAULT, page 4A)
Woman charged
with forgery
Inves
tigators
with the
Hoke
County
Sheriffs
Office
arrested
a woman
this
Williams
month for allegedly forging
checks. Officers arrested
Angela Gail Williams, 39,
(See FORGERY, page 4A)
Man charged
with break-in
Depu
ties with
the Hoke
County
Sheriffs
Office
arrested
a man
Monday
for
Beauchamp
(See BREAK-IN, page 4A)
This Week
Calendar IB
Classifieds 6B
Deaths 3 A
Editorials 2A
Sports 5 A
Worship 2B
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Road.
Alton Ray Hill, 66, of the
7200 block of Fayetteville
Road in Raeford was pro
nounced dead at the scene of
the two-vehicle wreck that
happened near the Hoke/
Robeson County line around
7 a.m. Sunday, according to
a report filed with the North
Carolina Highway Patrol.
Hill was driving south on
Davis Bridge Road in a 2008
Ford when he lost control of
the vehicle. He ran off the
road to the right, overcorrect
ed and collided head-on with
a 2006 Chrysler driven by
Rachel Lee Willis, 16, of the
9200 block of Rockfish Road
in Raeford.
Willis, a junior at Hoke
County High School, was
injured but survived and was
taken to Cape Fear Valley
Medical Center in stable con
dition, according to the High
way Patrol. However, Willis
did not regain consciousness
after the accident and was
transported to UNC
(See WRECK, page 4A)
Rachel Willis
Godwin (above) works with a student.
At left, Goolsby helps a student with
technique. (Ken MacDonald photos)
Arrows hit mark for military students
After-school program aims to relieve stress military families face
By Ken MacDonald
You wouldn’t have wanted to stand before
them with an apple on your head as students
at East Hoke Middle School tried their hands
with bows and arrows recently. As Davit
Goolsby, a Physical Ed teacher at West Hoke
Middle and one of the leaders of the after
school program, talked about the group’s prog
ress, a young lady he had been working with let
fly arrows toward a target perhaps 50 feet away
and not a single one found its mark.
The students were taking part in a program
created by the Department of the Army for
military children to give them something
worthwhile to do after school. Coordinated by
Ray Owens in Hoke County, the Army Youth
Programs in Your Neighborhood addresses a
need first targeted by the White House in 2010
to support and strengthen military families as
a top national priority: how to help 1.2 million
school-aged children who have at least one
active-duty military parent.
Those children face stresses such as high
rates of mobility, separation from parents, and
the possibility their parent may be injured or
killed. A little support from adults, academic
help, physical activity and experience in cre
ative arts got high priority.
In Hoke County, organizers came up with
three initial activities for the county’s three
middle schools and two high schools: golf, an
historical tour—and archery.
Enter Alton Godwin of Godwin Archery.
He readily accepted a request for help, Owens
says, and even provided instruction and bows,
arrows and targets, which he trucked to schools
for each of the three-week sessions. Helping
him were Lisa Dobson, a 7th grade teacher at
East Hoke, Owens and Goolsby. They super
vised the use of various bows, correct handling
(See AETER-SCHOOL, page 6A)
Beavers believed behind shutdown of Lindsay Rd.
By Catharin Shepard
Staff writer
A beaver dam, com
bined with heavy rainfall,
is likely to blame for high
water that required officials
to immediately shut down
part of Lindsay Road and
block it to all traffic.
A section of Lindsay
Road near the intersection
with Adcox Road has been
closed since Christmas and
will probably remain closed
until at least late next
week, according to North
Carolina Department of
Transportation (NCDOT)
Engineer Charles Vick. The
heavy rain washed out the
sides of the road and pos
sibly damaged the roadbed
itself
“I understand that there’s
(See ROAD, page 4A)
By Ken MacDonald
The females in the family—the guardians of tradition,
yet plotters of change—informed our family that, after
34 years of greeting Christmas morning in our house,
we were packing up and moving the festivities to the
home of the grandchildren. The announcement to me was
cautious—“Now be calm when I tell you what we’ve de
cided. ..”— but it didn’t really bother me. After all, Santa’s
gonna find ya, right? Wherever you are?
Part two of the announcement was that there ain’t
(See OTHER STUEE, page 4A)
DOT crews blocked Lindsay Road after it was washed out by flooding water Friday.The road
remains closed between Stoney Point and Adcox roads. (Ken MacDonald photo)