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Davie County Enterprise Record 12262024
USPS 149-160 Number 52 Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024 20 Pages 75¢ Senior2Senior Program becoming more popular for both age groups 89076 3821260Page B6 Restaurant Grades See which had lowest score after latest tests Page 4 By Mike BarnhardtEnterprise Record It took almost 30 minutes for a Davie EMS crew to be dispatched to a scene where a man died after a fight in late October.And the county’s response to an apparent error by an E911 telecommunicator - or lack there-of - is drawing fire from a former telecommunicator and at least one officer from a local fire de-partment.Sherri Kiestler, a former Da-vie E911 employee, took her concerns to county commission-ers earlier this month, stating the problems start at the top, men-tioning the director and the assis-tant director.Kiestler told commissioners she was speaking on behalf of former telecommunicators and other county residents.The incident in question was on late evening on Oct. 26, when a fight at gathering left a man - Shane Crotts - unconscious. He was later pronounced dead at the scene. Joel Johnson was charged with his murder.“This was a tragic loss of life due to a critical error in our 911 system,” Kiestler told commis-sioners. “It took 29 minutes to get help on the scene ... as a daughter watched her dad die in front of her as she begged for help. They reassured that help was on the way when it wasn’t.”Kiestler said it was difficult to listen to the entire 911 call, which included instructions from the dispatcher on how to help the By Jim BuiceEnterprise Record BERMUDA RUN - It’s the holiday season, but that doesn’t trans-late into the best of times for residents in Bermuda Run East waiting to receive packages through the U.S. Postal Service.During the town council meeting, Andrew Meadwell, town man-ager, commented “on a continuing issue with parcels and packages 1047 Yadkinville Road, Mocksville • 336-751-3747 Great Prices on New, Used, Vintage, and Estate Diamond and Gemstone Jewelry 64 th YearExpert Jewelry Repair Merry Christmas! We Buy Gold! USPS packages piling up in Bermuda Run being delivered to the Bermuda Run East package room. These de-livered are unlike any of our other neighborhoods in our town where if the postal service delivers a parcel, if they don’t fit into a parcel locker, they are taken to the residents’ home.”That’s the case at Bermuda Run West and Kinderton Village, ac-cording to Meadwell, but not so at the small building about a half Please See Packages - Page 5 911 under fire 29-minute response time caused by error Please See 911 - Page 5 By KC SmithCooleemee Correspondent Despite the low valleys, reach-ing a peak only to fall down into the valley again and again, a man’s deep love for the Lord kept him focused on his goal to save lives. New Beginnings Church, 1007 Farmington Road, Mocks-ville, opened its doors just over a month ago, and Pastor Brent Spry couldn’t be happier. He says it's just a building and what we do on the outside of the church to profess our faith of Christ’s love is even greater.The member count may be low, but what they have to offer proves a dedication to reach out to many looking to be part of car-ing people while learning the sim-ple truths of God’s word.Sunday nights at 6:30, King-dom Kids, 2 year olds-fifth grad- Pastor Brent Spry and Rhonda Gupton sing praises to the Lord at a recent service at New Beginnings Church. - Photos by KC SmithA new beginning It’s been a long journey for local pastor and church Some of the members of New Beginnings Church pose outside the new building on Farmington Road. ers, have 30 minutes of worship, then 30 minutess of learning scripture, closing with game time and snacks.Tuesday nights at 6:30 the church has worship through sing-ing and prayer in small groups.Wednesdays at 6:30 is Re-stored Youth for 6th-12 graders. Occasionally, Parents Night Out is offered from 6-10. The children are fed dinner and have a fun activities.On Jan. 4, members welcome all to join in celebrating the New Year with hot chicken stew.A “Deep Dive” is offered at several member homes for small groups to get deep into the word. Various outreaches in the community throughout the year is to be expected. Metabolic Ef-fects, an exercise/dietary classes is held on Monday, Wednesday Families are choosing New Beginnings.Please See New - Page 4 2 ‑ DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024Editorial Page USPS 149-160 171 S. Main St., P.O. Box 99, Mocksville, NC 27028 (336) 751-2120 Published weekly by Salisbury Newsmedia LLC John Carr.....................................Publisher Mike Barnhardt............................Managing Editor Ray Tutterow...............................Advertising Director Brian Pitts....................................Sports Editor Mocksville Enterprise 1916-1958 Davie Record 1899-1958 Periodicals Postage Paid in Mocksville, NC 27028Subscription RatesSingle Copy, 75 Cents$32.03 Per Year In Davie CountyPOSTMASTERSend Address Changes to:Davie County Enterprise RecordP.O. Box 99, Mocksville, NC 27028 Cooleemee Journal 1901-1971 The Literary Corner: Renegade Writer’s Guild The Big TableBy Linda H. BarnetteWhen I was growing up, it was customary for my parents and me to go to the grandparents’ homes for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Mother’s Day, and other celebrations and special occa-sions. Mother had 6 siblings, so there would generally be a crowd at the Smith house on any given holiday.Mama Smith had a large dining room table where all of the men used to sit and eat their meal while the women worked in the kitchen keeping the food warm, serving second helpings, and pouring coffee. Mother and my aunts all brought various dishes so that my grandmother did not have to do all of the work. After the men fin-ished dining, they headed to the living room, front porch, or outside to smoke while the ladies had their meal at the dining table.My cousins and I ate at card tables on the back porch, and our conversations always turned to the subject of when or if we would ever get promoted to the big table. It was a noble goal.As it all turned out, we never graduated to it. We grew up, moved way, got married, and had our own families. People in the family died, things changed, and we did not gather as we once did.Yet in my memory I see Papa, Slick, Smit, Kermit, Quen-tin, Norman, Jim, and Charlie laughing and talking as they enjoyed a big meal and just being together. I wonder if they are talking in Heaven now. Hope so. Writer Linda Barnette’s Smith grandparents and their 7 children. My point here, other than nostalgia, is to enjoy and cherish your families and friends; be thankful for all of life’s gifts; and treasure your time with loved ones, for things change, and these events become just a part of our precious memories, moments in time from long ago. SantaBy: E. BishopFather Christmas, Santa Clause, Kris Kringle, St. Nick or the Man in Red - whatever you want to call him - is a legend-ary figure originating in Western Christian culture; his family tree goes way back. Back to the 4th century, in fact, when St. Nicholas was a monk in what is now Turkey. St. Nick’s generosity, kindness and secretive gift-giving helped the sick and poor immensely. This gave rise to legends of miracles he performed for the poor. St. Nicholas was canonized as the Patron Saint of children and sailors in 1446. The notion of helping the poor became more widespread during the Euro-pean Renaissance and continued on. Things have changed and evolved through the many years since then but the main focus, I believe, has always been on helping others less fortu-nate and spending time with family celebrating the reason for the season of Christmas.Did you know there is a dark story about Santa (and about a French butcher)? That sounds like a story for Halloween instead. Don’t go there. How many of you delight in looking at old photos of your children sitting on Santa’s lap - mostly scared to death or crying? Funny, yes? Have you read the poem, at least once, written by Clement Clarke Moore, writ-ten in 1832, ’Twas the Night Before Christmas’ that teaches us the importance of imagination, wonder, kindness, and re-spect. It remains popular even today, as it should, just like family gatherings for the holidays.In the past, my family had a huge gathering each Christ-mas Eve. Having seven grown children, and those having children, well, you can imagine what a crowd that could be for my parents. Then in later years, those grandchildren were bringing their children. The get together had to be moved to a party barn. Every year, secretly the search was on “who will be Santa this year?” Some were willing, some not so willing but we always had one. Usually too skinny, or too tall, no beard - had to be stuffed with pillows with fake beard. A few years, we did rope the real deal-looking Santa - Chris was perfect with real but powdered beard to match dressed in his Renassaince fes-tival outfit (no child knew who he was!); another time Mr. & Mrs. Clause (the Millers) entertained everyone (Is Mrs. Clause my PE teacher, someone asks?). The last few years were great with niece MaryAnn as the elf and her husband, Kevin, as Santa going all out wearing perfect outfits for the occasion.Presents were wrapped with each child’s name. No child was left out (even if they were in their 20’s). Sometimes that was a real challenge for the elves for sure! You know, I don’t remember any of them asking if Santa was for real. Maybe ‘who is it?” There is no such thing as being too old to believe in Santa. After all, it is the kindness and generosity that loved ones show one another that is the real deal. Those wonderful years of large gatherings and a Santa visit have passed for this family. Secret Santa, abundance of food and a smaller gathering will have to suffice. The torch has been passed on to each individual household now and may it shine bright with the wonder of the season for each. He was a good dog.No, he was the best dog. Ever.Punkin - a 6 pound force of nature and a true diva is every sense of the word- died last week. He was 20, maybe older. His daddy ran off at conception and his mother was a bitch, so nobody is sure of his exact age.He came into our lives as we were preparing to host a par-ty for my 50th birthday more than 17 years ago. It was a warm October morning, and as I washing turnip greens from the back of my pickup truck, it felt like someone was watching.I turned around, and standing in the middle of the road was a skinny, shivering little brown dog. As soon as I acknowl-eged the dog, he ran into the woods across the road.I went about my businesses, and in about five minutes he was there again, watching me from the road. I went inside and got a piece of bologna to try to lure the dog to me, but he would have none of it. I left the piece of bologna on the road. Sure enough, when I wasn’t watching, he came out and snatched it and disappeared.I didn’t think any more of him, and the party that night was a blast.As I went to the back yard a little fuzzy-headed on Sunday for clean-up duties, that little dog ran out of our outbuilding at lightning speed. The chair inside was still rocking, so I knew he had been lounging in our padded rocking chair. I also no-ticed several piles of puke in the building.Then I went outside and found that the little dog had jumped onto the outside folding table and had his fill of dredge and dip and mixes for the hushpuppies, pickles and catfish I had fried the night before.I cleaned it all up. The dog was nowhere around.On Monday morning as I was getting ready to leave for work, I forgot something and went back into the house. When I came back, that same little dog had jumped into my car. He would be in the back, and scoot to the front when I tried to catch him. We went back and forth on several attempts. I called my wife for help, and told her to bring a towel, I didn’t know if this creature will bite or not.We captured the little fellow, and my last words to my wife before leaving for work were: “Whatever you do, don’t take that dog into the house.”I got home that evening and the first things I noticed were dog water and food bowls, dog treats, dog food, dog toys.We walked the neighborhood for a week or two with the little fella (Named Punkin because he arrived in the fall) to see if someone was missing a dog. Two people told us they had left food out for him but were unable to catch him. None claimed him. I understood.It didn’t matter, because by now, he was ours - or we were his - more on that later. I went from not wanting him in the house to being ready to fight for him in about a week. He was the cutest and kindest dog ever. That was 17 years and two months ago, and the veterinarian said he was at least 2 years old at the time, and could be as old as 3 or 4.He still looked like a puppy, a Dick Clark-like look he carried beyond age 15.And he was a mess. A lovable mess.Punkin suffered from separation anxiety. He didn’t even like it if one of us was outside and the other inside. He would dance around the door, wanting me or my wife to change lo-cations. When my sister kept him for us for a couple of days as we took a little trip, she said that Punkin behaved wonder-fully. I learned later that he whined the whole time and went to the door every time he heard a noise. He also tried running away from her more than once. Now that’s a good sister; a liar, but a good sister.Punkin never came when you called him. Not even once. You could call his name and he might turn his head to look at you before going on with his own business.He would proudly walk on a leash anywhere but near our house. He was a dog that attracted people of all ages. Every-one wanted to get close to Punkin. He hit every street in Ashe-ville and Greeneville, S.C. He walked miles on trails in Cary, meeting folks along the way. He loved to walk the streets of Mocksville on a leash - until he got to the section were the veterinarian and groomer were located. He would put on the brakes. You would have to drag him or pick him up.Punkin had an open bowl, meaning dog food was there whenever he wanted. But he preferred trash. Sweep the floor and he would be there with the dust and Punkin hair looking for a piece of popcorn or whatever may have been hiding un-der the couch. It didn’t matter if there was a fresh filet mignon right there, he preferred the trash scraps.We kept our trash can in the kitchen with a lid, and would come home and trash would be scattered across the kitchen floor. But the can would still be standing with the lid still on it. Did Punkin do that? Did we have an earthquake? The best I could figure, he would jump up and pull on the tops of the trash bag that was just outside the lid - pull on that bag until the trash spilled out and then let go. We moved the garbage behind a closed door.Another time, a friend had given us a full-sized, triple Little Punkin was the best dog ever chocolate cake. We had eaten one slice each and left the rest on the kitchen table. I came home and immediately noticed that about half of that cake was gone, with crumbs every-where. It looked like a monster had gotten into it. I turned the corner and saw a pile of the darkest puke I had ever seen. Then another. Then another. Punkin was laying on the couch, not looking so good. He had jumped on the table and had his fill of triple chocolate cake.To prove his love for chocolate, he once got into a Christ-mas stocking and ate an entire double Reece’s Cup, wrapping and all. He didn’t feel so good after that episode, either.Punkin was fast. You couldn’t catch him if he didn’t want to be caught. He loved to chase rabbits, but on the few occa-sions he caught up with them, he would look around like they had disappeared - when they were right before his eyes.He would chase bigger dogs from his property. As long as they would run, he would chase. I remember once getting out of the shower and hearing a ruckus outside. A 70-pound or so dog I had never seen before had Punkin cornered under my vehicle. The big dog was going crazy trying to get at Pun-kin, who was shivering and shaking. I ran outside shoeless and yelled at the big dog, which began running away. Punkin exited from the under the vehicle and took off after that big dog at full speed. Just after reaching the road, that big dog stopped and looked back. Punkin looked up, saw that big dog had stopped and put on the brakes, flipping almost three times before coming to a rest at the end of the grass. I intervened and made the big dog run again, but when he did, Punkin would take off after him again.A chameleon, Punkin was hard to see, especially in the winter when the ground and him merged into the same color. I walked thousands of miles looking for him on our property; usually finding him at the door looking for me.Punkin was a love sponge. He would soak up all the love anyone would give him. A chihuahua mix, he would let any-one and everyone pet him. He never snipped at anyone. He never “yapped” as some of those small dogs do.And yes, he became a diva.He refused to drink from a dog bowl. It had to be a people glass; we put it on the ottoman because he didn’t like to drink from a glass on the floor, either. He could give you a quick “You disgust me” look. Yes, Punkin got over his street up-bringing. He demanded more.He obtained a distaste for any type of dog food, as well. His favorite food was bacon, and he would eat other meats as long as you made it look like you were going to eat the same thing. He was one of us, he wasn’t going back to being a dog and eating dog food. People food swept from under the couch was more dignifying to him than bowl of fresh Fresh Pet.On his plate (Yes, he ate from a plate, not a bowl.) as he passed away were some pieces of bologna - a reminder of that first day he came into our lives.I just hope we did him justice. He chose us, after all.We did our best, little buddy. Life at the Calahaln Bootan-ical Gardens will never be the same again.- Mike Barnhardt Punkin stands - or lays - guard in his backyard earlier this year. And yes, diva dogs get pillows; they don’t lay on the ground. DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024 - 3Dateline Reunions Thursday, Dec. 26Davie High Class of 1960, 11:30 a.m., Mocksville Family Restaurant, Yadkinville Road. Wednesday, Jan. 8Davie High Class of ‘61, 1 p.m., 801 Southern Kitchen & Pancake House, Bermuda Run. Religion Tuesday, Dec. 31Community Watch Night Service, 11 p.m., St. John AME Zion Church, 145 MLK Jr. Road, Mocksville. Apostle Nettye Ijames-Barber of New Jerusalem Apostolic Church will render message. Ongoing Grace Church, a new United Methodist congregation, 164 Webb Way, Advance, Sunday School, 8:45 a.m.; worship at 10 led by Rev. Renee Easter, UM Davie Emerging Commu-nity pastor. GraceChurchDa-vieCounty.org.GriefShare, Mondays, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Bear Creek Bap-tist, for those needing comfort and support after the loss of a loved one. 336-492-7456.God’s Plan Ministries, non-denominational, multi-cultural Christians, 10 a.m. every Saturday, Davie Family YMCA, Cemetery St., Mocks-ville. Everyone welcome; come as you are.Holy Cross Lutheran Church, 1913 US 601 S., Mocksville. Worship Sundays at 9 a.m. www.holycrosslu- theranmocksville.org. Special Events Second ThursdaysSenior Services @ The Bridge, 197 Main St., Cool-eemee, 10 a.m. Open to adults age 55 and older, game with prizes, program, light snacks. OngoingScout Troop 9555G, 6:30 p.m. second and fourth Tues-days of each month, Center Methodist, 1857 US 64 W.Tech Tuesdays/Thurs-days, Davie County Public Library, 371 N.Main St., Mocksville. Get assistance with tech devices, 10 a.m.-noon and 2-5 p.m. Contact rnelson@daviecountync.gov, 336-753-6033.Free Food from Serving Our Neighbors: Thursdays, 5-5:30 p.m., 197 N. Main St., Cool-eemee; Sundays, 3-3:30 p.m., Oak Grove UMC, 1994 US 158, Mocksville;4th Monday, 6-6:30 p.m., Hillsdale Church, 5018 US 158, Advance. Meetings Monday, Jan. 6Davie County commissioners, 6 p.m., second floor, county administration building, Down-town Mocksville. Thursday, Jan. 23Davie County commissioners, 9 a.m. work session, second floor, county administration building, Downtown Mocks-ville. OngoingNAMI family support group for confidential support for families with persons with diagnosed mental illness. Via Zoom second and fourth Tues-days, 6-7:30 p.m. missjulieysl@gmail.com.Disabled American Veterans Davie Chapter 75, first Mon-day of each month, 6 p.m., DAV Building, 1958 US 601 S., Mocksville. 336-749-8347. SeniorsAll events are sponsored by Davie Senior Services. For more information or to register, call 336-753-6230. The main cam-pus at 278 Meroney St. is open Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. The health and fitness center at the Brock Recreation Center at 644 N. Main St. is open from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, and 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Fridays. Tuesday, Jan. 7Senior Writing Group, 1 p.m. with Linda Dean.Parkinson’s Support Group, 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8Advanced Care Planning Workshop, 1 p.m. with rep from Trellis Supportive Care. Crafting Extravaganza, 1 p.m. Bring project, no instruction. Jan. 9-Feb. 6Intermediate Knitting Class, Thursdays 9-11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 9Air Pollution Seminar, 10 a.m. with Sarah Coffey of Triad Air Awareness. Friday, Jan. 10Crafternoon: Resin, 2 p.m. at public library with Rachel Nelson. Make design with resin. Monday, Jan. 13Monthly movie, 1 p.m. with popcorn. Tuesday, Jan. 14Cervical Cancer Awareness Seminar, 10 a.m. with Dr. Joseph DeMari, Agrium Health WFBH gynecological oncol-ogist. Wednesday, Jan. 15Caring With Cards, noon, with social worker Tara Harp-er. Make handmade cards for homebound meals recipients. Tuesday, Jan. 21Tell Me Your Story Project, 1 p.m. with senior writing group. Will help write verbal stories into written words.Community Conversation About Suicide, 9:30 a.m. with Partners Health Management. Thursday, Jan. 23Cornhole Mixed Doubles Tournament, 1 p.m., Brock Campus. Friday, Jan. 24Bingo, 1 p.m. sponsored by Lambert Funeral Home.Crafternoon: Winter Won-derland Dioramas, 2 p.m. at public library with Rachel Nel-son. Make small winter scene. Thursday, Jan. 30Senior Expo & Shred Event, Senior Games Kickoff, 1-3 p.m., Brock Campus. Health screenings, vendors, health information, shred truck, regis-tration forms for Senior Games. OngoingBrock Senior Steppers, Brock Gym, open 8-10 each morning and other times with no pro-grams. Register and count steps for monthly and yearly prizes.Coffee & Caregiving, Second & fourth Tuesdays, 10 a.m.. Interact with other caregivers, ask staff member Kelly Sloan questions. Open to caregivers of all ages.Quilting, Tuesdays, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Bring own suppliesCrocheting, Wednesdays, 9-11 a.m. with Theresa Manak and Sara Cioffi. Bring own supplies.Woodcarving, Wednesdays, 9-noon with Tim Trudgeon, $8.75 for new students to cover initial supplies. Live Music FridaysBluegrass, 6-8 p.m., Maw-Maw’s Kitchen, 2076 US 601 S., Mocksville. Thursday, Dec. 26Joel, 6-9 p.m., Tanglewood Pizza, US 158, Bermuda Run. Saturday, Dec. 28JVC & Anna Mertson, 6-9 p.m., Tanglewood Pizza, US 158, Bermuda Run. Friday, Jan. 10Darrell Hoots, 6-9 p.m., Tan-glewood Pizza, US 158, Ber-muda Run. Friday, Jan. 17JVC, 6-9 p.m., Tanglewood Pizza, US 158, Bermuda Run. 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Bob is a proud supporter of local sports and youth organizations including being a Booster for Davie High School Football, Booster for Davie County Little League, and he sponsors five different racecars: 2 full size racecars and 3 go-cart racers. In addition Bob and his business are huge support-ers of Veterans and are members of Rolling Thunder which are united in the cause to bring full account-ability for the Prisoners Of War - Missing In Action (POW/MIA) of all wars, reminding the government, the media and the public by our watchwords: “We Will Not Forget.” So, as you are looking around your house and no-tice you need some new gutters, need to have your driveway cleaned, or the sidewalk looks kind of dirty, just call A1 Pressure Washing at 336-940-4177 for your FREE ESTIMATE. We look forward to hearing from you. A1 is bonded and insured. 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(336) 492-7439 OPEN SAT. & SUN. 10AM - 5PM 4 - DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024 Name Address Score A Full Measure Mocksville 98 Arby's of Mocksville Mocksville 98 Ashley Furniture Advance 96.5 Bixby General Store Advance 96.5 Burger King Mocksville 98 Caribou Coffee #1534 Bermuda Run 98 Comfort Inn Mocksville 97 Davie Nursing & Rehab Facility Mocksville 99 Dominos Pizza #7485 Mocksville 97.5 Dominos Pizza #8982 Advance 98 Food Lion #2677 Deli Mocksville 100 Food Lion #2677 Meat Market Mocksville 99.5 Food Lion #2677 Produce Mocksville 99.5 Hampton Inn Br Advance 97.5 Home Run Market Advance 100 Hot Diggity Dogs & Ice Cream Cooleemee 97 Johnson House Bakery & Tea Room Mocksville 100 La Furiosa Carnitas and More Advance 100 McDonalds of Advance Advance 100 Mocksville Express LLC Mocksville 100 Mocksville McDonalds #31272 Mocksville 100 Mocksville Senior Living Facility Mocksville 99 Oak Valley Golf Club Advance 95 PS Senior Living Facility Mocksville 95.5 Sheetz #594 Bermuda Run 100 Somerset Court of Mocksville Facility Mocksville 99 Subway #16284 Advance 99 Subway #3745 Mocksville 97 Subway #38713 (WM) Mocksville 99 Taco Bell Bermuda Run 96.5 Taco Bell #36258 Mocksville 99.5 Waffle House Mocksville 98 Walmart Deli Mocksville 99.5 WFBMC Davie Medical Center Facility Bermuda Run 100 All restaurant type facilities inspected by Davie Health & Human Services in November and December earned “A” gradings, with the lowest score going to the Oak Valley Golf Club restaurant, which scored a “95” out of 100. The citations: no certified food protection manager on site, raw hamburger and partially cook chicken tenders stored above ready to eat foods, better and more frequent cleaning of ice bin suggested, and multiple bags of deli meat had been kept beyond the 7-day maximum allowed.To view the scores of any establishment, visit the Davie Health & Human Services website, click on Environmental Health and then on the link for restaurant food grades. Restaurant sanitation scores Golf club gets lowest score Continued From Page 1and Friday 5:30-6 a.m. and 5:30-6 p.m. Learn more at www.nbbc-mocksville.com.Eagle Heights Church purchased the property on Farmington Road 30 years ago and planned to build but never did, instead renting a building in Mocksville. 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Elm Street, Graham, NC 27253 (336) 228-8800 342 Klumac Rd., Salisbury, NC 28144 (704) 642-0031Five Locations to Best Serve You New Beginning members worship in their new church building. New ... Pastor Brent Spry. - Photos by KC Smith lost because it was held as collateral. Another church had just started called Bethany Bap-tist, which bought Eagle Heights land. Members contacted Brent to see if he would consider a merger. Bethany had a building fund of 100,000. The two merged, and formed New Beginnings, built on the same land Eagle Heights bought years ago. “It’s been a journey but God brought it back,” Brent said. Lotis and Brent Spry with his parents and their children. Looking for fun and en-riching activities for your family? Davie County Recreation and Parks (DCRP) has a line-up of programs designed to engage children of all ages. With a focus on creativi-ty, movement, and learning through play, DCRP is a place for families to connect and grow together. 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School-age children can enjoy the Early Release Se-ries, a program designed to provide fun and creativity on Davie County School’s ear-ly release days. Parents can rest easy knowing their kids will spend the afternoon en-gaging in crafts, games, and outdoor activities in a safe, supportive setting.Keep an eye out for the next program guide in May to see what specialty camps are lined up for this summer for students.To learn more or register for any programs or athlet-ics, call DCRP at 336-753-TEAM (8326) Houses, Decks, Driveways Gutter Cleaning, Roof Wash Ready, Set, Science! Recreation & Parks offers variety of activities for children of all ages DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024 - 5 Continued From Page 1mile from the US.158 en-trance – at the roundabout – where some 750 residents/households out of about 925 in Bermuda Run East’s gat-ed community receive mail in parcel lockers from the USPS. If they don’t fit there, they are put in a small room of about 7 feet by 9 feet that is used to place all packages for pickup by residents.“As you can imagine with the number of packages that we receive, that room fills up,” Meadwell said. Mayor Mike Brannon said he and Meadwell have been working since January try-ing to get this issue resolved but to no avail, adding that the problem has been com-pounded by no longer notify-ing residents about the arrival of parcels that don’t fit in the individual boxes.“I want to be careful what I say here because I do still want to get my mail delivery,” Brannon said. “I’ve driven through all of our neighbor-hoods. I’ve taken pictures. Packages ... Continued From Page 1victim.It turns out, the incident occurred at an Advance ad-dress on NC 801 South; the dispatcher initially routed the call to NC 801 N., some 17 miles away.“Not once was the ad-dress repeated back to the caller, which is protocol.” The dispatcher got upset and told the caller she had told her multiple addresses, which she hadn’t, Kiestler said. “The telecommunicator wasn’t listening. They stated the correct address at least five times that I counted.”She said the assistant di-rector was on duty that night, and neither she or the dis-patcher used common sense.“The instructions to the caller were all over the place. The telecommunicator lost control of the call and someone died. There was ab-solutely no reason for this to happen.”She said dispatchers need to be trained to think, rather than just to read questions off of a screen.“This is a perfect example of unprofessional leadership. There is zero accountability in that building. It is essen-tial we hold individuals re-sponsible. The director and assistant director of 911 Packages in the post office for Bermuda Run East are so plentiful they can’t fit into one room. US Postal officials say the situation at Bermuda Run is one of a kind. - Photos by Jim Buice from the Miller family Trusted Service, Quality & Value for Over 44 Years Every neighborhood in our town has kiosks. You have mail that is delivered. You have postal boxes down be-low. If there are insufficient space for more boxes, they do deliver to homes. “In Bermuda Run East, we have what I call the Holiday Mount Vesuvius that starts to spill out from the package room and that in combination in the old days, parcel notes were placed into people’s mailboxes to say you have a parcel to know to come back and collect your parcel. That has now stopped. So not only do we have copious amounts of packages stacking up, we have residents who have no idea they may ever see the package, especially from someone else that is shipped to you.”The small post office build-ing that houses all of the mailboxes for Bermuda Run East residents is a U-shaped area with a bank of keyed-post office boxes along with the package room that re-mains locked except when a person contracted by the town comes to coordinate giving residents their pack-ages from 3-6 p.m. Mon-day-Friday.“Packages are not organized by the USPS,” Brannon said. “They are simply stacked in the room and the worker who arrives at 3 p.m. attempts to organize things in order to locate packages. Things are quite hectic this time of year with the volume of packages arriving every day from the USPS being simply unsus-tainable. All of us receive our Amazon, FedEx and oth-er packages directly to our door.”To try to help with the pack-age room issues, a couple of years ago Brannon said that the town invested in the in-stallation of a bank of 80 lockers for packages. “This added set of lockers did improve the issues, but with the sheer volume of packages for so many res-idents, even these lockers barely made a dent,” he said. “So, ultimately, if the town removes the package room and replaces it with yet more lockers, which we are pre-pared to do, there must be an agreement by the USPS to deliver to homes once all the lockers are filled. They sim-ply will not agree to do that.”Cheryl Burleson, who is the postmaster in Advance, later said when asked for com-ment that once the USPS es-tablishes a delivery point, it can’t be changed. “That’s how it’s set up in the book of the United States Postal Service,” she said. “Bermuda Run has gone way above me at the district level. I know that they have tried to do it every way, but the post-al service up above my level has told them that they can’t change it. I can’t go against my higher ups.”When asked about the parcel notifications no longer being included, Burleson said that would need to be addressed by her supervisor, C.J. Her-rera.“That’s something that would have to go from the higher ups at this point,” she said. “It would be the Greensboro District. That would be the method of ad-dressing it. All of this stuff was previously orchestrated through them.”“From my understanding, the person that was over it in Greensboro put it in stone whenever they had that meet-ing the last time that that was the method of delivery, and for us to negotiate back, I think would definitely justify for a meeting.”Herrera said he was aware of Bermuda Run looking into getting more lockers but added he was at another of-fice during the time, and “it seemed that the management here and the town maybe had a disagreement, a falling out at that time.”Brannon said that he and Meadwell thought they had secured an agreement with the postmaster for Advance to eliminate the package room and purchase more lockers that would be placed in that area – essential- ly eliminating the current in-person pickup. “We understood that the USPS would then deliver ex-cess packages to homes once all lockers were in place,” Brannon said. “Instead, just as we were finalizing the design and purchase of addi-tional lockers, the USPS told us that they would not deliver to homes but instead would require residents come to the Advance postal facility to re-trieve extra packages. They also said they never agreed to deliver to homes.”That pushed the town to reach out to N.C. Sen. Thom Tillis for help.“So, from a town perspec-tive, there is no way we would ever agree to spend money for new lockers – just to then require residents from Bermuda Run East to drive to the Advance post office to retrieve packages,” Brannon said. “The bottom line is we thought we had a plan for USPS to deliver to homes. The postmaster says they never agreed to that. At that point, I realized these discussions were no longer fruitful, and that's when I made the move to connect with Tillis' office as it was clear there was no path for-ward with the postmaster.” Herrera admitted that the setup in Bermuda Run East is unlike anything he and many others have ever seen, but that doesn’t mean there’s no chance for some kind of solution.“That Bermuda Run East post office is an anomaly for the Postal Service,” he said. “That’s probably the one and only in this country like that. It’s completely different. We’re working with what we’ve got.”“It‘s just a matter of getting in touch with the district and giving them the customers’ perspective on that,” Her-rera added. “In other words at this point, in my position being the supervisor here, my hands are tied. I would say in other words, it’s above my pay grade. But I do see the concern and the reason-ing and why you would want that 100 percent.” 911... communications need to be held just as accountable as the ones in the room taking the calls. These failures are due to this lack of leadership. Those two are the sources of infection for that center.”Kiestler went on to say that someone at the 911 center said a member of the Cooleemee Fire Department who had posted a complaint “had better not call for help ... We might not hear him.”Cooleemee Deputy Fire Chief Doug Arledge had made a Facebook post on Nov. 14.He wrote, in part: “Some serious mistakes were made that led to this heartbreaking loss. The telecommunicators at the Davie County 911 cen-ter failed miserably. They were told five times the cor-rect adress but sent units to the wrong location, delaying care for nearly 20 minutes. This could have made a life-or-death difference.”Arledge wrote that the assistant director “false-ly claimed” the caller had changed the address.“This negligence rais-es serious concerns about acountability and the cred-ibility of those in these po-sitions,” Arledge wrote. “In other cases ... across the country ... dispatchers have faced severe consequenc-es for errors that resulted in patient deaths. Yet here, the dispatcher involved has faced no real repercussions - just a slap on the wrist.“Shane’s family deserves justice and answers. We need to demand accountability for the mistakes that led to this tragedy and ensure that no other family has to go through this pain. The cit-izens of Davie County de-serve better,” Arledge wrote.The punishment for the dispatcher, according to Ki-estler, was a demand they work over Christmas and not be allowed to attend a state conference next year.County Manager Bri-an Barnett told WXII TV 12 News the county, in re-sponse, was enhancing maps and training.“This is well and good, if they didn’t already have access to that information on at least one of the several monitors at each console,” Kiestler said. “The county gave a very generic response to this tragic error. They state they have added an addi-tional staff member to their training team to help with training and continuing ed-ucation, ‘especially with our newer staff members.’ How-ever, the telecommunicator who made this grave mistake is not a new staff member, they have over 20 years ex-perience.“When is the county go-ing to start holding more people accountable? When someone else dies after it taking 29 minutes to get help.”After the initial 911 call was made at 11:43 p.m., a Davie Sheriff’s Office depu-ty arrived at the NC 801 N. address, telling dispatchers that nothing was going on there. They arrived at the correct address just after midnight, with fire depart-ment first responders right behind them.In the meantime, family members were performing CPR.Barnett said that coun-ty officials are not medical professionals, and have no idea whether the delay in repsonse led to the patient’s death.Barnett’s statement, in part, read: “Davie County 911 Communications pro-cesses roughly 70,000 calls per year. Telecommunicators are processing information taken from callers and they are typing that information into our system. Because of the process, there is the pos-sibility of a mistpye; howev-er, a vast majority are caught quickly before being dis-patched. This particular type of incident of this particular magnitude is a rarity.” DAVIE COUNTYSPORTS PHOTOS by Marnic Lewis • High School Sports • Youth Sports • Rec. League Sports Preserve your athlete’s Sports Memories! To VIEW Photos & ORDER PRINTS visit: mlewisphotography.smugmug.com 6 - DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024TOWN OFMOCKSVILLENews Update Special Events and Information of Interest for Mocksville Citizens ELECTRONIC RECYCLING Davie County offers Electronic Recycling at the Davie County Convenience Center 360 Dalton Road, Mocksville, NC 27028 8 am – 12 Noon Saturday, January 25 • Saturday, April 26 Saturday, July 26 • Saturday, October 25 You can visit the Davie County website at www.daviecountync.gov/661/Solid-Waste-Transfer-Station CHRISTMAS TREE PICKUP Christmas Trees will be picked up THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 2025 Cut trees should be placed curbside with ALL Lights and Decorations Removed. Manager’s Corner Budgeting for Mocksville’s Future I have fond memories as a young adult of saving money from my part-time jobs for things my parents could not afford. This meant giving up my dream sports car, name brand clothes, attending college away from home and other things I may have had an immediate desire to have in order to reach my goal. Back in 1984 that goal was tofind a Corporate Administrator full-time job that had a college education program that would allow me to attend at night. It took 3 1 ⁄2’5f years to obtain my B.S. Busi nes Degree and years of hard work paying the loan back. I have to admit that I had to toot my own horn for all that I had accomplished. Experiences like this one taught me that goals are within our grasp when we work hard and exercise financial discipline. The Mocksville Board of Commissioners will hold their annual budget retreat on Saturday February 15th from 8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. at the Mocksville Education Building (201 Salisbury Street, Mocksville). The meeting is open to the public. This will be the Board’s third budget retreat that embraces a Strategic Plan. Having a Strategic Plan with well-defined Mission, Vision and Goals is essential for controlled and thoughtful growth in the Town of Mocksville. It also looks beyond immediate needs and proactively positions the organization for future success. Tying the annual budget to a long term vision with goals and actions that transcend the annual budget is the way we will turn dreams of a better future into reality for Mocksville. The retreat will provide a wealth of information forthe Board of Commissioners including current and future economic development trends, revenue projections and recommended capital improvements. The Board will receive updated Objectives, Goals and Actions tied to the Strategic Plan and hear directly from Department Heads regarding needs for FY2025-26. Staff will also brief the Board on recruitment and retention strategies to attract and keep the best Town employees. The morning presentations will include viewing current equipment that needs replacing in Public Works, Parks and Grounds and Fire Department. This is only the first public meeting in the FY2025-26 budget process. The budget will be discussed at our regular monthly Board of Commissioner meetings on February 4th (Non-Profit Presentations), March 4th (1st Draft and Department Head Requests), April 1st (2nd Draft and Adjustments & Corrections), May 6th (Proposed Budget & Manager’s Message) and June 3rd (Public Hearing / Adoption of Budget Ordinance). We encourage the public to attend all of these meetings to learn more about what your government doesin the community. I wish you and your families a happy, prosperous and fulfilling 2025. Lynn Trivette Interim Town Manager Can we help you? The town hall staff continuously strives to provide better services to our customers. Are you aware your water bills may be paid in the following ways? •Online by visiting our website at mocksvillenc.org •24/7 with our automated phone service (855) 667-0931 •Bankdraft-by filling out a form with a voided check (Office or Online) •Dropbox - 24/7 located beside the front door •At the office -8am to 5pm - Monday thru Friday You can now pay your bill with PayPal Payments must reach the town hall by the 20th of the month or a penalty of $25 will be added. If you use the addressed envelope provided, please allow 5 to 7 business days for the payment to be processed. Please be advised there is a $35 reconnect fee if water is disconnected. Also available for your convenience on our Website: Under->City Services->Water/Sewer •Application for Service (Renters have a $200 deposit that would need to be paid at the Town Hall) •Leak Adjustment Forms (Only one per year) •ACH Forms (For Automatic Recurring Payments) •Pool Fill Forms (Only one per year) •Service Termination Forms AND Check out the GovDeals link on our website for surplus items sold by Town of Mocksville! Yard Waste Site The yard waste site will be open every 1st and 3rd Saturday of the months of January, February, & March The Yard Waste site hours are from 8 am to 12 Noon. Please do not throw yard waste over the fence when the gate is locked. Do not leave bags of yard waste at the compost site. Residents of the Town of Mocksville are allowed to waive the dumping fee at the yard waste site for one truckload of yard waste per month. Purchase: Mulch - $5 per scoop Leaf Compost - $5 per scoop Drop off fees: 1st load of yard waste per month - Free (Town of Mocksville Residents only) $25 Delivery Fee (if needed) Truckload of yard waste: $10 Trailer exceeding 16 ft: $20 Truck and Trailer Together: $30 Street Light Outages For your convenience, Duke Energy provides a 24-hour Customer Service Line 1-800-653-5307. Town residents may report street light outages directly to Duke Energy or you may contact Donna Lawrence at the Town Hall and she will be glad to report the outages for you. 336-753-6704. When reporting an outage, it is necessary to have the closest street address to the light. FOG Alert FATS, OILS AND GREASE ACCUMULATIONS CAN BLOCK YOUR PRIVATE PLUMBING SYSTEM AS WELL AS PUBLIC SEWERS Both residential and business customers can help prevent wastewater overflows by minimizing the amount of FOG disposed of through plumbing drains. Inside a sewer, fats, oils and grease change to a plaster-like consistency and can block the pipes, causing an overflow of untreated wastewater. At home, you can dispose of normal cooking oil and grease by putting it in a container as part of your solid waste rather than through your sink and plumbing drain. Wiping and scraping pots, pans and other utensils before washing them are important steps in proper grease disposal. If your business generates waste grease, fats or oil, you should have a grease interception system that works effectively. A company that recycles fats, oils and grease should regularly clean out the grease trap. MOCKSVILLE PUBLIC OFFICIALS Town Board Will Marklin, Mayor Rob Taylor, Mayor Pro Tem Justin Draughn Johnny Frye Carl Lambert Jenny Stevenson Planning Board Sara Johnston Clint Junker Lee Rollins Chuck Taylor Neal Cheek Matt Davidson Chris Domanski Zoning Board of Adjustment William J. Marklin Johnny Frye Justin Draughn Rob Taylor Jenny Stevenson Carl Lambert Lynn Trivette, Interim Town Manager/Finance Director/Town Clerk 336-753-6700 Emily Quance, Human Resources Director 336-753-6707 Jeannette Pitts, Community Development Director 336-753-6705 Brian Moore, Public Works 336-753-6739 Frank Carter, Fire Chief 336-751-5782 Chris Vaughn, Parks & Grounds 336-751-5500 Contracted Services Building Inspections 336-753-6050 Planning & Zoning 336-753-6050 Town of Mocksville • 171 Clement St., Mocksville • Phone (336) 753-6700 • Fax (336) 751-9187 • Web Site www.mocksvillenc.org • www.daviecounty.com (choose Town of Mocksville link)The Town of Mocksville does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, age, national origin, religion or disability in its employment opportunities, programs, services or activities. SERVICE DIRECTORY Duke Power 1-800-POWERON Water & Sewer Emergency Number 336-751-0896 (Not for billing questions) Spectrum Cable 1-888-683-1000 Century Link Telephone 1-888-723-8010 Repair service 611 Yadkin Valley Telecom 336-463-5022 Republic Services Recycle & Garbage Pickup 1-800-832-5439 Piedmont Natural Gas 1-800-752-7504 24 Hr Emergency Service 336-751-4954 Mayor’s Corner Closing Out 2024 Merry Christmas!!! I hope everyone is enjoying family and friends during the holiday season. Over the last several weeks, we have been busy in town with the parade, bed races, and many other Christmas activities. It will be nice to settle down for a few days as the year ends. As 2024 comes to a close, I would like to recognize a few folks who have been instrumental in making the year a success. Thank you to our retiring Town Manager, Ken Gamble, who has done an excellent job. Ken spearheaded the “All-Star County “ initiative and has been an integral part of the resurgence of the Mocksville Rotary Club. Ken’s leadership and organizational ability have placed the town in a much better position than we were in when he was hired. I wish him the best in retirement. Thank you to Lynn Trivette for being willing to serve as Interim Manager while the board is working to hire the new Town Manager. Lynn has helped us during transitional periods in the past and has done an excellent job as Finance Administrator for the town over the years. I appreciate her making the drive from Yadkinville each day and helping with various events as needed. She truly cares about Mocksville and our citizens. I had the opportunity this year at the town Christmas party to sit with some new employees from the town’s Public Works Department. I know there is holiday cheer flowing during this time of year, but it seems that the morale is higher than in years past. Folks were laughing and having a great time of fellowship and conversation between departments. I told the event planners that it was the best Christmas get-together I have attended since becoming Mayor. I appreciate the department heads - Brian Moore, Chris Vaughn, and Frank Carter - for making their departments productive and positive places for folks to come to work each day. We have a new company coming to town soon - all the way from Lithuania! You will be hearing more details later, but I want to take a moment and thank all of the folks who made this happen. The company management wanted to meet with various municipal departments and community leaders before deciding on Mocksville as their new location. They wanted to learn about local healthcare options, recreational amenities, educational opportunities, and more. After meeting with leaders and representatives from all of these fields, the company was blown away by all that Davie County has to offer. They could not believe what is available to the citizens here. Too often, we take for granted all of the good things right here in front of our faces. It was nice to look through the eyes of “outsiders”to realize what a great place we happen to live in. As an elected official, I hear quite a bit about what is going wrong and things we could do better. If you happen to get the chance in 2025, take a trip. Get out into the world and see how things are in other places. I don’t want us to become complacent and stop moving forward, but sometimes stepping away for a moment makes us appreciate what we already have. Merry Christmas and have a great New Year!!!! William J. Marklin, III Mayor, Town of Mocksville Davie County Arts Council BROCK PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 622 North Main Street, Mocksville, NC 27028 www.daviearts.org Box Office & Gallery Hours: Mon.-Fri., Noon-5pm BOX OFFICE: 336-751-3000 ARTS COUNCIL: 336-751-3112 Saturday, January 25, 2025 – 7:30 PM “POPS at the Brock” Internationally acclaimed Pianist Solomon Eichner will bring his talent on the Brock’s Steinway on Saturday, January 25th. The compositions he will be performing are well known to everyone by such artists as Elton John, Billy Joel, Gershwin, John Williams and many more. Solomon will be joined on the Brock’s stage by Marjorie Bagley and Dr. Ryan Graebert. Dr. Graebert is the principal cellist of the Salisbury Symphony, principal of the NC Carolina Chamber Orchestra and associate principal of the Winston-Salem Symphony. Marjorie Bagley returned to NC to be the Professor of Violin at UNC Greensboro. She has performed as soloist at the Lincoln Center, North Carolina Symphony, and with other symphonies. Saturday, February 15, 2025 – 7:30 PM “Hotter Than July” A special concert for Valentines weekend and February 15, 2025 will not disappoint! In honor of the man - Stevie Wonder - who is known as one of the most incredible and complete recording artists of all time, the “Hotter Than July” will be be a concert with his high energy. This soulful group of talented and experienced musicians is led by professional musician Gerry Williams, who is an unbounded vocalist and percussoinist. He will be performing those great Stevie Wonder hits that eveyone knows and loves such as: “Signed Sealed Delivered” to “I Wish”. This concert will bring back memories and entertain you. Tickets for both of these concerts can be purchased at the Brock’s Box Office (open Monday-Friday from 12 till 5 PM) 336-751-3000 or online at: www.daviearts.org. JANUARY AND FEBRUARY • Davie County Arts Council will have the honor of hosting an exhibit of artwork by Davie County native Emery Rosenbaum. The title of this exhibit is “Birds of a Feather” and will be featured during the months of January and February in the Brock Gallery. Gallery hours are: Monday thru Friday from 12 till 5 PM and during performances. •Artworks Photo Club meets at the Brock on the second Monday of each month in Room 205. For more information about this group call the Arts Council: 336-751-3112 WE ARE HIRING! Mocksville Fire Department is accepting applications for PART-TIME FIREFIGHTERS Apply at: https://mocksvillenc.org/job-postings/ or Town Hall The Town of Mocksville is an Equal Opportunity Employer Burning is not permitted inside the town limits. The Town of Mocksville Code of Ordinances states that it shall be unlawful to burn or set fire to or bury any garbage or any other debris. NO BURNING ALLOWED INSIDE THE CITY LIMITS Leaf collection will continue through January 3, 2025. Leaves should be raked to the curb, not into the streets. For the safety of the town crew, do not rake closer than 25 feet to an intersection and do not rake within 10 feet of a power pole. DO NOT RAKE LIMBS OR BRANCHES WITH THE LEAVES! DO NOT BAG LEAVES! Bagged leaves and yard waste such as limbs, branches, brush and grass clippings, etc. will NOT be picked up. LEAF PICKUP January - March, 2025 DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024 - 7Public Records ArrestsThe following were arrest-ed by the Davie County Sher-iff’s Office.Dec. 21: Ian Sweat, 32, of Pineville Road, Mocksville, larceny of vehicle; Davon Burns, 50, of Winston-Salem, possession of drug parapher-nalia, larceny, possession of stolen goods, habitual lar-ceny; Evin Campbell, 30, of Morganton, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia; Janelle Lynn Loeffler, 45, of NC 801 S., Mocksville, communicating threats; Brian Jordan Tay-lor, 33, of Crestview Drive, Mocksville, failure to appear in court.Dec. 20: Jimmy Harris, 43, of Calvin Lane, Mocks-ville, trespassing; Samantha Kristine Joyner, 25, of River Road, Advance, failure to ap-pear in court. Dec. 19: Osvaldo Herrera Gonzalez, 20, of Winston-Sa-lem, driving while license re-voked; Raymond Joseph Da-vis, 39, of Beauchamp Road, Advance, 2 counts animals creating a public nuisance; Trent Kyle Hawks, 33, injury to property; Matthew Todd Hutchens, 53, of Sandy Lane, Advance, domestic violence protection order violation. Dec. 18: Elizabeth Brock, 40, of Oak Tree Drive, Mocksville, trespassing; Me-lissa Davis, 48, of N. Main St., Mocksville, contributing to the deliquency of a juve-nile; Samuel Dean James, 44, of Oak Tree Drive, Mocks-ville, non-support of child; Pebbles Elizabeth Waugh, 30, of Boxwood Church Road, Mocksville, non-support of child.Dec. 17: Zachary Hin-kle, 26, of Pratt Farm Lane, Mocksville, possession with intent to sell Schedule IV controlled substance, pos-session of drug parapherna-lia; Richard Ashburn Jr., 19, of Children’s Home Road, Mocksville, trespassing; Conner Collins, 18, of Brant-ley Farm Road, Mocksville, violation of court order; Ali-cia Barnes Coleman, 42, of Deadmon Road, Mocksville, felony probation violation; Michelle Dawn Linthicum, 39, of Frank Short Road, Mocksville, failure to appear in court; Emma Elizabeth Smetana, 19, of Winston-Sa-lem, failure to appear in court.Dec. 16: Myeisha Naquae Allison, 28, of Statesville, failure to appear in court; Preston William Hemann, 24, of Statesville, communicat-ing threats; Whitley Lashay Patrick, 35, of NC 801 S., Advance, probation violation. Dec. 15: Steve Ver- non, 60, of W. Maple Ave., Mocksville, possession of stolen goods, larceny; Luis Salas-Rodriguez, 33, of Sta-cee Trail, Mocksville, pos-session of drug parapher-nalia, felony possession of cocaine; David Mullins Jr., 46, of Caravan Lane, Mocks-vile, misdemeanor crime of domestic violence; Luis Mi-guel Salas-Hernandez, 33, of Gwyn St., Mocksville, in-cest with child under age 13, first-degree statutory rape. Sherriff’s OfficeThe following are from Davie County Sheriff’s Of-fice reports.Dec. 21: suspicious ac-tivity, Cooper Creek Drive, Mocksville; disturbance, Ponderosa Road, Mocksville; suspicious activity, Daniel Road, Mocksville; larceny, Rainbow Road, Advance; domestic disturbance, Joyner St., Cooleemee; larceny, NC 801 S., Cooleemee; larceny, NC 801 N., Bermuda Run; disturbance, Graham St., Mocksville; missing person, Willhaven Drive, Mocks-ville; solicitation, US 158, Bermuda Run; harassment, Willhaven Drive, Mocks-ville; sex offense, Mount-view Drive, Mocksville; disturbance, Etchison St., Mocksville; domestic assist, Kingsmill Drive, Advance; domestic disturbance, Junc-tion Road, Mocksville; bur-glary, US 601 S., Mocksville; fraud, Meadowview Road, Mocksville; harassment, Twin Cedars Golf Road, Mocksville; fraud, Windward Circle, Mocksville; harass-ment, Thousand Trails Drive, Advance.Dec. 20: disturbance, Riv-erside Drive, Cooleemee; dis-turbance, US 601 N., Mocks-ville; disturbance, US 64 E., Advance; larceny, Buck Seaford Road, Mocksville; fraud, NC 801 N., Bermuda Run; domestic assist, US 601 N., Mocksville; larceny, Dan-iel Road, Mocksville; fraud, Gladstone Road, Mocksville; harassment, James Way, Ber-muda Run; fraud, NC 801 N., Bermuda Run; suspicious ac-tivity, NC 801 N., Advance; harassment, assault, War Ea-gle Drive, Mocksville; bur-glary, Howardtown Circle, Mocksville; suspicious activ-ity, S. Davie Drive, Mocks-ville; suspicious activity, US 601 S., Mocksville; suspi-cious activity, Swicegood St., Mocksville; suspicious activ-ity, Valley Road, Mocksville.Dec. 19: suspicious ac-tivity, Yadkinville Road, Mocksville; suspicious ac-tivity, Salisbury/Eaton roads, Mocksville; trespassing, Yadkinville Road, Mocks-ville; sex offense, Mountview Drive, Mocksville; suspi-cious activity, Godbey Road, Mocksville; disturbance, Vircasdell Lane, Mocks-ville; distrubance, Duke St., Mocksville; suspicious activity, Yadkinville Road, Mocksville; suspicious activ-ity, Leslie Court, Advance; domestic assist, Sandy Lane, Advance; suspicious activity, McDaniel Road, Advance; fraud, Government Center Drive, Mocksville; suspicious activity, William Ellis Drive, Advance; burglary, Pierce Way, Mocksville; fraud, Joe Langston Road, Mocksville; suspicious activity, Lady Bug Lane, Mocksville; suspicious activity, Legion Hut Road, Mocksville.Dec. 18: harassment, Pointe House Lane, Mocks-ville; suspicious activity, Cemetery St., Mocksville; fraud, Ben Anderson Road, Mocksville; harassment, Main St., Cooleemee; tres-passing, Brockland Drive, Advance; suspicious activi-ty, Camden Court, Advance; suspicious activity, Harper Road, Advance; suspicious activity, Clifford Farm Way, Advance; suspicious activity, US 158, Mocksville; fraud, Government Center Drive, Mocksville; sex offense, War Eagle Drive, Mocksville; sus-picious activity, NC 801 N., Bermuda Run; fraud, US 601 N., Mocksville; disturbance, Cemetery St., Mocksville; fraud, Government Center Drive, Mocksville; suspicious activity, Markland Road, Ad-vance; suspicious activity, Junction Road, Mocksville.Dec. 17: harassment, US 601 S., Mocksville; ha-rassment, Yadkinville Road, Mocksville; trespassing, Chil-dren’s Home Road, Mocks-ville; suspicious activity, US 601 N., Mocksville; missing person, NC 801 N., Advance; damage to property, US 64 W., Mocksville; harassment, Spry Lane, Mocksville; do-mestic disturbance, Juney Beauchamp Road, Advance; fraud, Carolina St., Mocks-ville; fraud, Jarvis Road, Advance; assault, Cornatzer Road, Advance; assault, Ash-ley Furniture Way, Advance; suspicious activity, Swice-good St., Mocksville; suspi-cious activity, Milling Road, Mocksville; harassment, War Eagle Drive, Mocksville; suspicious activity, Archer Drive, Bermuda Run.Dec. 16: suspicious ac-tivity, War Eagle Drive, Mocksville; domestic assist, Bridgewater Drive, Bermuda Run; noise complaint, Sun-set Drive, Mocksville; dis-turbance, Farmington Road, Mocksville; fraud, Wind-ward Circle, Mocksville; assault, War Eagle Drive, Mocksville; custody issue, Government Center Drive, Mocksville; suspicious activ-ity, S. Davie Drive, Mocks-ville; fraud, Grasslands Court, Advance; larceny, Hobson Drive, Mocksville; trespassing, Lady Bug Lane, Mocksville; larceny, I-40EB MM177, Mocksville; sus-picious activity, Southwood Drive, Mocksville; suspi-cious activity, Main Church Road, Mocksville; suspicious activity, NC 801 N., Bermuda Run; domestic disturbance, Michaels Road, Mocksville; suspicious activity, US 601 S., Mocksville.Dec. 15: suspicious activi-ty, Cemetery St., Mocksville; harassment, NC 801 S., Ber-muda Run; harassment, US 64 E., Advance; damage to property, Holman St., Mocks-ville; damage to property, MLK Jr. Road, Mocksville; domestic disturbance, Pine St., Mocksville; suspicious activity, NC 801 S., Coolee-mee. Land TransfersThe following land trans-fers were filed with the Da-vie Register of Deeds, listed by parties involved, acreage, location and deed stamps pur-chased, with $2 representing $1,000.- Dale G. Wall and Earl Douglas Wall, Betty G. Cas-sidy, Carla G. Howard, and Cherie G. Grubbs and Donald Grubbs to Betty G. Cassidy and Dale G. Wall and Earl Douglas Wall, 23.84 acres, Calahaln Township.- Sandra Khan Starkey to Donnie Ray Chattin, tracts.- Timothy Wayne Smith to Trevor Wesley Smith, tracts.- Sharon Denise Smoot to Keystone Flips Inc., 1 acre, Jerusalem Township, $110.- Bryan E. Windsor and Robyn-Ann Windsor to Ste-phen L. Robertson and Jean P. Robertson, 1 tract, Hid-den Meadow, Shady Grove Township, $350.- Barry Phillips and Susan B. Phillips, Thomas Edward Phillips Jr., and Susan Eliza-beth Phillips to Barry Phillips and Susan B. Phillips, inter-est in 65 acres, Mocksville Township, $350.- Barry Phillips and Su-san B. Phillips, and Thomas Edward Phillips Jr. to Susan Elizabeth Phillips, interest in 4.31 acres, Mocksville Town-ship, $443.- Teresa Shuler Grooms, Kathy Ratledge Drum and Morris R. Ratledge, co-ex-ecutors of estate of Samu-el Wellman Beck to Teresa MOCKSVILLE’S SUPERHERO SPRINT Friday, November 11, 2022 5 – 7 PM (More information to follow)Town of MocksvilleCalendar of Events JANUARY Jan. 1 TOWN HALL CLOSED Jan. 2 Christmas Tree Pickup Jan. 3 Leaf Pickup Ends Jan. 3 Trash & Recycle Jan. 4 Yard Waste Site Open Jan. 7 Town Board Meeting 6pm Jan. 10 Trash Jan. 17 Trash & Recycle Jan.18 Yard Waste Site Open Jan. 20 TOWN HALL CLOSED Jan. 24 Trash Jan. 25 Electronic Recycling 8am – 12pm Jan. 25 Brock Performing Arts – “POPS at the Brock” 7:30pm Jan. 31 Trash & Recycle FEBRUARY Feb. 1 Yard Waste Site Open Feb.4 Town Board Meeting 6pm Feb. 7 Trash Feb. 14 Trash & Recycle Feb.15 Yard Waste Site Open Feb. 15 Brock Performing Arts – “Hotter Than July” 7:30pm Feb.17 TOWN HALL CLOSED – PRESIDENTS’ DAY Feb. 21 Trash Feb. 28 Trash & Recycle MARCH Mar. 1 Yard Waste Site Open Mar. 4 Town Board Meeting 6pm Mar. 7 Trash Mar. 14 Trash & Recycle Mar. 15 Yard Waste Site Open Mar. 21 Trash Mar. 21 Annual Rose Cemetery Clean Up Mar. 28 Trash & Recycle Brock Performing Arts – Art Exhibits Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday 12pm to 5pm • “Birds of a Feather” by Davie County native Emery Rosenbaum (during the months of January & February) �•Artworks Photo Club meets at the Brock on the 2nd Monday of each month Room 205 You can now go ONLINE to Rent a Shelter at Rich Park www.mocksvillenc.org The application form and your fee must be submitted to make a reservation. Please review the Reservation Calendar prior to completing the form to see whether your date and time are available. You may also contact the Mocksville Town Hall at 336-753-6700 RICH PARK SHELTER RENTAL Public Works Department offers the following precautions to help you keep the water flowing this winter. Insulate pipes or faucets in unheated areas. Pipes in unheated garages, crawl spaces, under the house, or in the attic should be wrapped with insulation before cold weather arrives. Seal access doors, air vents and cracks. Close openings where winter winds could blow over exposed pipes. Do not obstruct air vents needed by your furnace or water heater for proper combustion. Locate your meter shut off valves. If a pipe bursts anywhere in your house, use the master shutoff valve to stop the water supply. Take special precautions when temperatures are low. Leave sink cabinet doors open when temperatures drop. If you are away for several days, leave the heat on in your house while you are away. Disconnect and drain outdoor hoses. This allows water to drain and prevents the faucet or hose from bursting during a hard freeze. This is also true for backflow prevention assemblies (BPA’s). Make sure all BPA’s are properly insulated to protect them from cold air. Water & Sewer Emergency Numbers 8AM-5:00 PM 336-753-6700 AFTER HOURS AND WEEKENDS 336-751-0896 WINTER WEATHER TIPS For more information on Town of Mocksville Events visit our website: www.mocksvillenc.org Shuler Grooms, 14.31 acres, Clarksville Township.- Teresa Shuler Grooms, Kathy Ratledge Drum and Morris R. Ratledge, co-ex-ecutors of estate of Samu-el Wellman Beck to Kathy Ratledge Drum and James Bradley Drum, 44.76 acres, Clarksville Township, $316.- Teresa Shuler Grooms, Kathy Ratledge Drum, and Morris R. Ratledge (and as co-executors of estate of Samuel Wellman Beck), and James Bradley Drum, and Tracy L. Ratledge to Morris R. Ratledge and Tracy L. Rat-ledge, 28.12 acres, Clarks-ville Township.- Teresa Shuler Grooms, Kathy Ratledge Drum, and Morris R. Ratledge (and as co-executors of estate of Samuel Wellman Beck), and James Bradley Drum, and Tracy L. Ratledge to Teresa Shuler Grooms, 5.17 acres, Clarksville Township.- Teresa Shuler Grooms, Kathy Ratledge Drum, and Morris R. Ratledge (and as co-executors of estate of Samuel Wellman Beck), and James Bradley Drum, and Tracy L. Ratledge to Kathy Ratledge Drum and James Bradley Drum, 28.12 acres, Clarksville Township.- James Lee Collins and Laura Michelle Collins to Marie B. Bristiano and Nicholas A. Cristiano, 1 lot, Kinderton Village, Bermuda Run, $750.- Joshua David Chaney and Brittany Johnson Chaney to James Collins and Laura Collins, 1 tract, Clarksville Township, $850.- Kenneth Lee Cough-enour and Judy Sizemore Coughenour to Nichole Ow-ens, tract, $320.-Stillwater Homes to Ja-cob J. Adcock and Jamie Lynn Adcock, 1 lot, Arrow-head, $1,450.- Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. to Michael Peter Reklis and Kenna Ni-cole Reklis, 5.02 acres.- TLMC Investments to MRSP Homes, 1 acre, Farm-ington Township, $400.- R.W. Enterprises to Foothills Building Group, 11.06 acres, $320.- Deborah Ann Herpfer to Timothy Richard Mickey and Molly Morton Mickey, 15 acres, Farmington Township, $350.- D.R. Horton Inc. to Jo-seph Ramirez and Marlene Ramirez, 1 lot, Hudson Glen, Mocksville, $574.- Charles Howard Lunsford to Charles How-ard Lunsford, Adam Charles Lunsford, and Bridget Leigh Groce, 1 lot, Greenwood Lake, Advance, $4. - Charles Albert Essic Jr. and Barbara W. Essic to The Borrowed Compass Trust, 1 villa, Oak Valley, Advance, $1,060.- Stephen W. Cookson and Jo-Ann M. Cookson to Frank E. Zecher and Lisa Paige Zechr, 4.27 ares, Calahaln Township.- Donald W. Snyder and Bonita Snuyder, trustees to Suzanne E. Broucek, 1 lot, Country Lane Estates, $740.- Triple P Real Estate In-vestments to NC Dept. of Transportation, .04 acre, Farmington Township, $17.- Fuller Land Co. to WJH LLC, 14 lots, Hillsdale Ridge Townhomes, Farmington Township, $1,350.- Michael O’Neal White and Selvia White to Apolinar Mendez and Cipirano Chiqui-to Mendez, 1/8th acre, Neely Road, Cooleemee, $24.- Reliant Homes to Fletch-er Allen Cooper Jr. and Ron-da Jones Cooper, 1 lot, Eagles Landing, Mocksville, $95.- James Q. Gaddy and Ed-wina B. Gaddy to Duke Ener-gy Carolinas, tracts, Mocks-ville Township, $180.- D.R. Horton Inc. to Jef-frey Richard Nyquist, 1 lot, Hudson Glen, $600.- David S. Nelson to Kim Childress and Alisha Chil-dress, 1 lot, Spyglass Hill, Bermuda Run, $720.- Blue Gate Winston-Sa-lem Owner to Blue Gate Winston-Salem Owner TIC 6, interest in parcels, Juney Beauchamp Road, Advance, $692.- Blue Gate Winston-Sa-lem Owner to Blue Gate Winston-Salem Owner TIC 4, interest in parcels, Juney Beauchamp Road, Advance, $311.- Blue Gate Winston-Sa-lem Owner to Blue Gate Winston-Salem Owner TIC 5, interest in parcels, Juney Beauchamp Road, Advance, $912.Blue Gate Winston-Salem Owner to Blue Gate Win-ston-Salem Owner TIC 3, in-terest in parcels, Juney Beau-champ Road, Advance, $501.- Bermuda Run NC Con-dos to Dean Melton and Leigh Melton, 1 condomini-um, Bermuda Village, $268.- Lawrence C. Morrison to Lance Morrison, .69 acre, Jerusalem Township.- C&L Real Estate to Jef-frey Jones and Susan Har-vey-Jones, 1.07 acres, Shady Grove Township.- Brian Scott Chattin and Monette S. Chattin to Brian Scott Chattin and Monette S. Chattin, and Donnie Chattin, 1.59 acres, Swicegood St., Mocksville. 8 - DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024 These folks enjoyed a day trip to Ashe County Cheese, one of the monthly trips offered through Davie County Senior Services. By Carrie MillerDavie Senior Services Davie County Senior Ser-vices had a fantastic Novem-ber. The month kicked off with Caring with Cards on Wednesday, Nov. 6. Par-ticipants created beautiful Christmas Cards for all of the homebound Meals on Wheels recipients.The day trip for Novem-ber was to Ashe County. The seniors visited the Ashe County Cheese Factory as well as shopped and dined in restaurants in the area.The Annual Veteran’s Ap- Davie Senior Games and Davie Special Olympics athletes (above and below) show off their ribbons after playing some bocce. preciation Event was Nov. 7. Each year, Senior Services volunteer, Luther Potts, gathers donations, monetary and in-kind, to make this event one of the best of the year. Potts also leads the pro-gram. At the luncheon event, Mike Drayton led the group in a moment of silence and invocation followed by the Posting of the Colors from Clemmons VFW. Vince Dreyer led the group in the Pledge of Allegiance. At the dinner event, Tommy Bar-ney led the invocation and moment of silence, followed by the Davie County High School JROTC posting the colors. Clyde Scott Sr. led the Pledge of Allegiance. At both events, the Davie County Singing Seniors per-formed the National Anthem, the Branch of Service songs, and “This Land I Love.” The meals were catered by Miller’s Restaurant, and the entertainment was veteran, Rockie Lynne. Clemmons VFW closed both events with taps. On Nov. 14, Davie Senior Games and Special Olym-pics visited RISE Indoor Sports Complex for a fun bocce tournament.The Theatre Club enjoyed seeing the Branson Ozark Ju- bilee and enjoyed great fel-lowship together.Senior Services held a Gingerbread House Making Contest on Nov. 19 where several participants battled it out to win the cookie cutters to take home. Winner was Victoria Mardis.November’s bingo was on Friday, Nov. 22, sponsored by Sam’s Ice Cream, which also provided the snack.What’s Cooking: Foods, Fads, and Helpful Home Hacks talked about easy sheet pan dinners and made a Parmesan Crusted chicken.To learn more, call at 336-753-6230. Seniors host veterans appreciation events Victoria Mardis wins the Gingerbread House Com- petition. 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If disrup- tions arise, there will be a public notice given of any changes in operations. Davie County Courthouse Renovations RANDY MILLER& SONS 295 Miller Road • Mocksville(336) 284-2826 • We Pump Septic Tanks • SEPTIC TANK SERVICE Septic SystemsFootingsLoader Work Skid Steer WorkTrencher WorkHauling StateCertifiedInspector Get it weekly! with a subscription to the Davie County Enterprise Record Only $32.03 P./Yr. in Davie Call Today! 336-751-2120 Corbin Scott and Clyde Scott Sr with Rockie Lynne at the Veterans Appreciation Event. Michael Mock and Tommy Barney at the Veterans Appreciation Event. Obituaries DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024 - 9 Saundra Gayle Veach McMinnMrs. Saundra Gayle Veach McMinn, 64, of Kerners-ville, died Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024 at Kernersville Med-ical Center. She was born on Sept. 23, 1960 in Davie County to Eugene Veach and the late Mar-tha Gail Williams Long. Saundra was honorably re-tired from a successful career in the United States Air Force. She was an amazing mother and cook who was always eager to host family holiday gatherings. She had an outgoing personality and her love for people was evident in everything that she did. She had a gift for remembering everyone that she met and was a best friend to everyone. Her service to her country continued as she lovingly served veterans in her second career. In addition to her mother, she was preceded in death by her stepfather, Douglas Long. Survivors include: her husband, Robert Gene McMinn; 3 children, Kenneth Douglas McMinn (Dylania), Ryan Gene McMinn, Malia Kalia McMinn Mejía (Josue); and 3 grandchildren, Isaac McMinn, Henry McMinn, and Cedric McMinn. A funeral service was conducted at 3 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 22 at Eaton Funeral Chapel with Dr. Darrell Cox officiating. Interment followed in Bailey’s Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery with Military Honors con-ducted by the United States Air Force Honor Guard. The family received friends Dec. 21 at Eaton Funeral Home. Online condolences: www.eatonfuneralervice.com. Josie Lee Irvin MillerMrs. Josie Lee Irvin Miller, 88, formerly of Wandering Lane, Mocksville, died Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024, at Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home in Winston-Salem. She was born on Nov. 3, 1936 in Surry County to the late James Franklin and Ethel Ozelle Smith Irvin. Josie was a member of First United Methodist Church, where she sang in the chancel choir for 57 years. She also directed the children’s choir for many years and had served as church secre-tary. She also had served as sec-retary for Eaton Funeral Service. She was a loving mother and grandmother who loved spending time with her family and friends. She will be greatly missed.In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by: her husband, Bob Cook Miller; and a brother, Jimmy Irvin.Survivors include: her son, Johnny Miller (Charlotte) of Mocksville; 2 grandchildren, Payne Miller (Samantha) of Charlotte and Caroline Tucker (Dustin) of Winston-Sa-lem; a special niece, Debbie Williford (Willy) of Mocks-ville; and several other nieces and nephews. The family would like to say a special thanks to Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home for their care and support of Josie and her family during her final days. A memorial service will be conducted at 12 p.m., Sat-urday, Dec. 28 at First United Methodist Church with Rev. Lori Anne Bowen officiating. Inurnment will follow in Rose Cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service, at the church.In lieu of flowers, memorials may be considered for: First UMC chancel choir, 310 N. Main St., Mocksville, NC 27028; or to Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home, 101 Hospice Lane, Winston-Salem, NC 27103.Online condolences: www.eatonfuneralervice.com. George Gilbert AngellGeorge Gilbert Angell, 80 of Indian Valley, Va. joined Jesus and the ranks of Heaven’s angels on Monday, Dec. 9, 2024. Mr. Angell was born in Winston Salem, NC on Sept. 27, 1944 to the late Cashwell Jones Jr. and Mary Catherine Brown Angell and grew up in Davie County. In addition to his parents, he was also preceded in death by a sister, Patsy Angell Hege.George was a loving husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. He was also a wonderful friend to many. Mr. Angell served in the United States Army in Vietnam. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, gardening, and cooking and was an expert tool and die maker, gunsmith, and one of the most experienced in wildlife management. George was a patriot and also strived to participate in any humanitarian project he could. There wasn’t anything that he could not figure out how to do.George is survived by: his wife, Daune Daugherty An-gell; daughters, Rebekkah Angell, Amy Angell, and Vic-toria Angell; sister, Jerri Angell Cozart (Lester); mother-in-law, Sylvia Daugherty; sister-in-law, Dani Daugherty; 3 grandchildren; 3 great-grandchildren; and countless friends and church family. He also leaves behind his spe-cial fur babies, Q and Spanky.A celebration of life service will be held at a later date. In honor of George and the life he lived, please spend time with those you love, and remember: God’s way is better than any of our ways. • Death Notices •Mrs. Nancy Mae Abrams, 90, of Lexington, passed away Wednesday, Dec, 18, 2024.•Mrs. Vieva May Scott Harlow, 91, of Mocksville, passed away Dec. 17, 2024.•Mrs. Phyllis Jean Faucette Gosnell, 68, of Advance, died Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024.•Mrs. Nancy Lee Horner Moore, 82, of Bermuda Run, died Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. Notice of Davie County Tax Listing All property on hand Jan. 01, 2025, both real and personal, is subject to taxation regardless of age and sex of owner. During the normal listing period taxpayers must list any vehicle that is not licensed (doesn’t have a current registration) or that has a permanent multiyear tag as of Jan 01, 2025. Other property you must list is as follows; mobile homes, boats and motors, jet skis, aircraft, farm equipment used to produce income, tools, assets and supplies of a business, furnishings owned and rented by a landlord. Taxpayers should also report any new buildings or any improvements built on real estate, or any changes to real estate. 2025 listing forms will be mailed to taxpayers that listed personal property in 2024. If you do not receive a listing form and need to list property or report changes to real property please contact the Tax Assessor’s Office. Forms are available online. The county does provide electronic listing for business personal and individual personal property. Exclusions – must be 65 or older OR totally and permanently disabled to apply 1. Elderly and Disabled Exclusion •Income must be $37,900 or below •Must be 65 or older OR totally and permanently disabled •Reduction of $25,000 or 50% of value of home and 1 acre of land 2. Disabled Veterans Exclusion •No income cap •Must be honorably discharged •Must have a 100% service related disability •Reduction of $45,000 in value 3. Circuit Breaker •Income must not exceed $56,850 •Must be a legal North Carolina resident and have owned and occupied property as your permanent legal residence for five years If you are currently receiving an exclusion you do not need to reapply. If you would like to apply you may request an application from the Tax Assessor’s office. Applications are also online. 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This Message Brought To You By These Area Businesses To advertise your business on future pages like this please contact 336-751-2120 DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Dec 26, 2024 - B1Sports By Brian PittsEnterprise Record Avarie Martin snatched a re-bound and scored while getting fouled. Bailey Aderhold drilled an 18-footer. Makenzie Gentry forced a turnover that Martin turned into a breakaway layup. The Davie varsity girls basketball team was off to a great start and leading Alexander Central 7-0 in the opening stages of a home nonconfer-ence game on Dec. 17. Complications ensued. The Cougars roared to 62-47 victory in ridiculous fashion. After failing to score in the first three and By Brian PittsEnterprise Record Davie’s JV boys basketball team didn’t dazzle in the first quarter against visiting Alexander Central, an opponent that Davie blistered by 43 points three weeks earlier. But the War Eagles looked ter-rific from the second quarter on and continued their undefeated roll, 66-38, on Dec. 17. Davie was down 16-12 at the end of the first. Central’s momentum was short-lived, though. Buckets from Draeton Nance, Aiden Horton, Noah Dulin, William Martin, Ian Patton and Cam Knox produced a 20-4 run in the second. In the third, Davie extended a 32-20 lead to 51-29 as Justin Haggler, Knox and Martin provided offense. “They had a good game plan,” coach Brandon Thalasinos said. “They gave us a triangle-and-two (on Nance and Dulin) and we did not expect that. But with that being said, we definitely came out sluggish. Davie wrestling coach Josh Stan-ley has a wonderful, delicious mess when it comes to his lineup. His War Eagles were rolling along and living up to their presea-son hype ... before they received a boost with the return of Andy Davis. Last year as a sophomore, Davis became a force while going 41-6 at 138 and ripping off four victories By Brian PittsEnterprise Record It was the Ethan Driver show in the first half of the Davie varsity boys basketball team’s noncon-ference game against Alexander Central on Dec. 17. Driver had the home crowd elec-trified with 18 first-half points. The junior had his varsity career high in the bag after 16 minutes of play. Driver did not score in the second half and settled for the 18. What a slacker. All joking aside, the second half was just a formality because Driver’s 8-for-9 shooting helped Davie build an insurmountable 44-14 halftime lead. Coach Josh Pittman emptied the bench in the second half as Davie won 70-37. “We are shooting Monday and Thursday mornings,” Pittman said. “We are working and that is what is showing on the court.”Davie had a sensational 28-for-49 shooting performance, the 57 percent including a 12-of-22 showing from the 3-point line. In the first quarter, four triples between the Jackson Powers/Driver tandem got Davie off and running. Driver stole an inbounds pass, laid it in and drew a foul. Cam Owens penetrated and made a beautiful pass to Elliott Erlandsson as Davie closed the first with a 25-8 bulge. In the second quarter, Central watched Powers, Landon King, Erlandsson and Bryson Mickey bury treys. Driver knocked away a pass and outhustled the Cougar to the ball at the other end of the court. His hus-tle was rewarded with a layup. Asher Tolbert heaved a long pass to help Driver get an easy two. Mickey did the same thing moments later. Driver cut down the lane and King found him for two. Driver fired a 50-foot pass to Asher for a fast-break layup. In the first half, Driver converted six baskets in the lane to go with one triple. Five different guys knocked down seven 3s for Davie. Driver, who came in averaging 4.8 points, surpassed the 16 he had in a game last year and also came up with four steals. “The confidence has gotten bet-ter,” Pittman said. “That’s coming in in the state individual tournament. Davis missed the first 13 du-al-team matches with an injury be-fore making his season debut when Davie hosted Reagan on Dec. 19. Stanley plugged Davis in at 150 and Elliott Gould bumped up from 150 to 157. Several starter-quality guys do not crack the lineup week after week because this is a team with considerable depth in the lower and middle weights. Stephen Jacobs (113), Cayden Glass (132), Tiaj Thao (138), Jamar-ius Pelote (175), Walker Matthews (215) and Ryder Strickland (285) recorded pins as Davie bounced the Raiders 61-18. Carter Hoots (144), Davis and Gould pounded out tech falls. Jack Bost (120) won by major decision as Davie (13-1 overall, 3-0 CPC) ran its winning streak to nine. Davie breezed even though it was missing Aidan Szewczyk, who is 15-0 at 126, and Maddox Creason, who is 14-4 at 190 and 215. Notes: Davie has two unbeatens, including the 19-0 heavyweight. Strickland’s career record is now 101-37. ... Other season records: Glass is 20-1 at 132, Gould 19-2 at 150/157, Jacobs 17-2 at 113, Hoots 17-3 at 144, Pelote 17-3 at 165/175, Thao 17-4 at 138, Bost 16-4 at 120/126, Graylan Anderson 14-6 at 106, Matthews 9-8 at 215, Davis Jones 9-8 at 157/165, Dominic Ishuin 7-5 at 106, Brett Foster 5-2 at 144 and Javon Carter 4-1 at 157. Wrestling team improves with return of Davis By Brian PittsEnterprise Record Erwin upset the Ellis boys bas-ketball team in the Tri-County Conference Tournament semifinals, handing the Jaguars their only loss of the season. Unfortunately, that’s not a mis-print. The unexpected flameout was a bummer, but what a thrill ride it was for the Jaguars, who came within one win of tying the school record for victories in a season. Ellis 52, Mooresville 42 After only managing a 15-13 lead at the end of the first quarter in the final regular-season game on Dec. 9, the Jaguars kicked into high gear in the second and rolled past the visiting Red Imps. Mason Driver fueled the 18-6 run in the second that produced a comfortable halftime lead of 33-19. “We came out flat,” coach Roger Blalock said. “We stood there and didn’t know what to do. We did not want to rebound. Then we started pressing and it started working.”Driver finished with 19, meaning he averaged 18.2 over a five-game JV boys continue to dazzle Please See Dazzle - Page B5 Girls fizzle after hot start a half minutes, they made it 7-7 in a span of 41 seconds and went on a 23-3 run to grab a 23-10 lead. Yikes. The traditional power improved its season record to 6-2 and its four-year record to 71-22. The War Eagles, who were off to their best start in 10 years, stumbled to 5-3. “We’re learning,” coach Lindsey Adams said. “We’re still young, so we’re learning how to handle the highs and the lows. We had a really good week last week, beating Rea-gan and the East Forsyth, so I was trying to lock them back in mentally for a nonconference game. “They were a less skilled team than us, but they were more disci- plined and experienced. We relied on our defense and transition the last three or four games. When that did not happen for us today, we needed to adjust and score in a halfcourt set.”Davie trailed 31-16 at halftime. Martin was the only reason the margin wasn’t much worse. In the first half, she had 11 points on 4-of-7 shooting; the rest of the War Eagles missed 15 of 17 shots. Davie shot very well in the second half, hitting 11 of 22 field goals and banging 5 of 7 3-point tries. But it still trailed 49-35 at the end of the third and never got back and getting shots up in the morning, being locked in and being positive. We say attitude, energy and effort. Those are the non negotiables, and when you do that, good things happen as you saw tonight (from Driver). He finally got his basketball legs back under him and he looked like he was having fun.”Some of the most fun moments came from Powers’ long-range suc-cess. He went 5 of 7 from downtown, scored 15, pulled down 10 rebounds, handed out four assists and rejected three shots. Isaac Swisher had seven points. King had seven points and three as-sists. Mickey had five points, seven assists, zero turnovers, five rebounds and four steals as Davie (7-1) record-ed its largest win since 83-36 over East Davidson in December of 2023. “Bryson did what Bryson does,” Pittman said. “Landon and Cam played solid. Adam Brown and Ben Reid got some good minutes. What I loved about the game the most - when I subbed in the last four minutes of the game, we still played good basketball. That’s a sign of a team that is getting better.”Notes: This was a completely different game from the first meeting on Nov. 22, when the War Eagles fell behind 14-2 and trailed by one entering the fourth quarter. They finally pulled ahead and won 53-47. ... Central shot 35 percent and fell to 3-5. ... Pittman likes where his team is headed - it has a four-game winning streak - but he’s not about to relax. “I’m a perfectionist and we have a lot more to do,” he said. “We tighten up the screws and you know me, I will find something else to complain about. I want us to play better defense and I want us to have acknowledgment of the better players on the other team. In the first half, they had 14 points and No. 3 (Jayon Connor) had 13 of them. Our defensive IQ has to be better. Our effort is there; now we’ve just got to put the smarts with it.” Davie 70, Alexander Central 37 - Ethan Driver 18, Jackson Powers 15, Isaac Swisher 7, Landon King 7, Elliott Erlandsson 5, Asher Tolbert 5, Ben Reid 5, Bryson Mickey 5, Adam Brown 3. Driver puts on show in easy win for boys Please See Fizzle - Page B4 Erwin pulls shocker; beats Ellis boys in Tri-County tourney stretch. Bowman Blakley (nine) and Cam James (eight) helped Ellis (12-0) post its longest winning streak in 10 years; the 2014-15 team won 13 straight. “We shot the ball better,” Blalock said. “We did not take a lot of silly shots.”Ellis 53, C-L 26The quarterfinal round of the conference tournament on Dec. 12 marked a continuation of Ellis’ dominance. It began pulling away from visit-ing Corriher-Lipe in second quarter as Driver (15) and Peyton Fishel (14) combined for more points than the Yellow Jackets had as a team. James was third with nine as Ellis matched the longest winning streak (13) in the school’s 18-year history. Erwin 64, Ellis 48 The Jaguars handled Erwin 58-44 on Oct. 28. They were crushing opponents 56-36 on average. They were two steps from running the table. But the Eagles jumped to a 30-15 halftime lead and stunned the visit-ing Jaguars in the semifinals on Dec. Please See Shocker - Page B2 Gracie Shore speeds downcourt against Reagan. - Photos by Marnic Lewis Freshman Draeton Nance drives the lane. B2 ‑ DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Dec 26, 2024 1484 Hwy. 64 West, Mocksville, NC 336-751-3372 1328733 “Serving Davie County Since 1973” •Brakes • Tires • Batteries • Alignments • Scheduled Maintenance • Complete and Professional Auto Repair Continued From Page 116. Ellis (13-1) had to settle for the second-most wins in its history; the 2014-15 team went 14-1. Driver (10), Blakley (10) and James (eight) were the top scorers against Erwin. The top five scorers for the season were Driver (11.4), Fishel (8.7), Blakley (7.9), James (6.9) and Jordan Crow-ley (5.4). North 55, Burke 54North Davie was without Levi Morales, who missed the last three games while competing in a week-long football tournament. Jeremiah Hernandez pulled a hamstring during the game. Big man Glen Greene fouled out early in the fourth quarter. But the Wildcats pulled out a gutsy win over visiting Selma Burke on Dec. 9 be-cause Wade Ridenhour did a Superman impression in the first half, because Nolan Allen was his normal sensa-tional self and because Tannyr Carrier hit a clutch 3-pointer in the final minute. “We played the game with-out our leading rebounder and defensive enforcer (Morales), and I told the team before the game that someone was going to have to step up,” coach Caleb Davis said. Ridenhour answered the call, drilling five 3-pointers in the first half and scoring 17 points in the first 14 minutes. His amazing double-double featured a season-high 21 points and 10 rebounds.“Wade started out on fire (to lift North to a 26-19 half-time lead),” Davis said. “He was playing with great confi-dence and allowing the game to come to him.”The Bears caught North in the fourth. It was tied with under a minute to play when Carrier came to the rescue with his tiebreaking 3. North got a defensive stop and hit a free throw to make it 55-51. Selma Burke hit an inconse-quential 3 at the buzzer. “We came out with a tough win with a depleted squad,” Davis said. “I’m super proud of how everyone stepped up under adversity.”Allen matched his average with 22 points and added six rebounds. Carrier (eight) came through with his most points in nine games. Shocker ... The final days of the sea-son for Davie’s middle school girls basketball teams was mostly forgettable - the ex-ception an upset win by North Davie. Burke 34, South 22 South Davie dug a 22-6 hole in the first half at Selma Burke Dec. 5. The Tigers climbed back into contention with a red-hot third quarter that sliced the deficit to 24-16, but the Bears put South away in the fourth. Even though the Tigers lost their third in a row, coach Julie Snow saw positives af-ter losing by 35 to the Bears in the first meeting. Akiela Young and Allie Cothren led South with 8 points apiece. “They beat us 50-15 the Marketing Solutions for YOUR business Newspapers • Special Sections OurDavie.com • Digital Marketing Business Card Directory Including: SEO, SEM, Targeted Marketing, Social and Reputation Management, Website Design, AND MORE. For more information contact us at: 171 S. MAIN STREET • MOCKSVILLE, NC (336) 751-2120 By Brian PittsEnterprise Record Audrina Bledsoe showed how good she could be on the defensive end as Da-vie’s JV girls basketball team squeezed past East Forsyth, 35-31, on Dec. 13. When Davie left Kerners-ville, its overall record was a not-so-great 2-3 - but it stood 2-0 in the CPC thanks to wins over Reagan and East. “We had a game plan,” coach Lamar Russell said. “No. 24 is a real good shooter and my game plan was not to let her shoot 3s. Right after the opening tip, she hit a 3.“Audrina came to me on the sideline and said: ‘Hey coach, I want her. I said: ‘Well, she is yours.’ After that, she did not score any more (as No. 24 finished with 11 points). She was in her face frustrating her, so Audrina was a huge help for us on defense. She’s becoming more of a leader on and off the floor.”Give plenty of kudos to Zahmirah Summers, who carried Davie’s offense with 13 points. Bledsoe and Kate Nicholson added six each. Bledsoe’s defense key in win for JV girls “Zahmirah has been bat-tling sickness,” Russell said. “She came off the floor - I think she threw up - and then went back out there. So she is also a go-getter for me no matter what, if she is sick or not. She’s going to try her best to get out there on the floor and do what she needs to do. She is strong as an ox. If a girl catches an elbow from her or one of those shoulders she gives when she’s making a post move, they are probably not going to do it again. And if they do, they are just crazy.” Central 59, Davie 23Everyone knew Davie would have a hard time com-peting with visiting Alex-ander Central in a noncon-ference game on Dec. 17. The Cougars, who pounded Davie 50-13 less than a month earlier, gave Davie a 36-point thrashing. Emily Cordova (eight), Summers (five) and Lucy Portman (five) were Davie’s top scorers. Unfortunately for the home side, none of them could find the mark in the first quarter, which resulted in a 26-0 Central lead. Davie 35, E. Forsyth 31 - Zahmirah Summers 13, Audrina Bledsoe 6, Kate Nicholson 6, Lucy Portman 4, Mabyn Morris 3, Roxy Przy-bylowicz 2, Sarenity Miller 1. Alexander Central 59, Davie 23 - Emily Cordova 8, Zahmirah Summers 5, Lucy Portman 5, Audrina Bledsoe 2, Sarenity Miller 1, Roxy Przybylowicz 1, Mabyn Morris 1.North girls end losing streak with upset first time we played them,” she said. “Their most talented player scored 23 the first time. We ran a box-and-one on her and it was phenomenal. She scored 10 but it was the best game we played. We frustrat-ed their coach and their best player. They are undefeated and we got within six in the fourth quarter. Their assistant coach said she was amazed at our growth and how much we have progressed.”Burke 31, North 16 North bowed to the visit-ing Bears on Dec. 9. Callaway Spillman and Zariya Oliver paced the Wildcats with six and five points, respectively. North 40, South 34In their final game, the Wildcats rallied in the second half for a win they desperate-ly needed. They were 0-12 before erasing visiting South Davie’s 20-14 halftime lead on Dec. 10. The Wildcats, who lost the Nov. 21 meeting 33-25, came in 1-26 over two years with a 14-game losing streak. The only win during that stretch was a forfeit from North Rowan last year. The Wildcats’ on-the-court losing streak was 27, this marking the first victory since 48-28 over Millennium Charter in January of 2023 when Avarie Martin poured in 28 points. The Tigers led 11-5 af-ter the first quarter and by six at intermission, but they watched a North explosion in the third quarter. North scored 19 of the 21 points in the period to carve out a 33-22 lead. South rallied within three in the fourth, but North held on to stop a three-game losing streak in the series. Camila Sa’ and Spillman had 11 points each. Jaynie Patton (10) and Oliver (eight) helped the cause. North spoiled a 17-point effort by Cothren. Young and Sakari-ah Allison had six and five, respectively, for South. “Coach (Beth) Carter says we have a third-quarter curse because this always happens,” Snow said. “We came back in the fourth and got within three, but it was too late. Our girls have improved so much, but it sure doesn’t show in the win-loss column.”Mooresville 47, Ellis 36Ellis limped to the finish line by dropping two games to opponents that the Jaguars defeated in the first meet-ings, including a home loss to Mooresville in the regu-lar-season finale on Dec. 9. Ellis beat Mooresville in overtime in the first match-up, but the Jaguars found themselves behind 17-7 at the end of the first quarter and couldn’t recover. The top scorers for Ellis were Zoe Summers (11), Annabelle Wright (10) and Sydney Ward (eight). China Grove 43, Ellis 24After beating the Red Devils by 10 in October, the Jaguars were blown out at CG in the first round of the Tri-County Conference Tour-nament on Dec. 12. Ellis’ deficit was 12-2 after the first quarter, and that was basically all she wrote as the Jaguars closed at 7-6. Sum-mers, Wright and Layla Ha- zlip led with six points each. West Beats SouthSouth Davie’s season also ended in the first round of the tournament, losing at West Rowan on Dec. 12. The Tigers dropped seven of their last eight to finish 3-11. Selma Burke 34, S. Davie 22 - Akiela Young 8, Allie Cothren 8, Sharia Tillery 4, EG Snow 2, Kady Joyce 1. Selma Burke 31, N. Da‑vie 16 - Callaway Spillman 6, Zariya Oliver 5, Bella Bar-nette 2, Camila Sa’ 2, Jaynie Patton 1. S. Davie 34 - Allie Co-thren 17, Akiela Young 6, Sakariah Allison 5, EG Snow 2, Shania Brown 2, Zariah Allison 2. N. Davie 40 - Camila Sa’ 11, Callaway Spillman 11, Jaynie Patton 10, Zariya Oliver 8. Mooresville 47, Ellis 36 - Zoe Summers 11, Annabelle Wright 10, Sydney Ward 8, Layla Hazlip 4, Kinsley Harbour 3. China Grove 43, Ellis 24 - Zoe Summers 6, Annabelle Wright 6, Layla Hazlip 6, Kinsley Harbour 3, Sydney Ward 3. “Jeremiah went down with a hamstring pull and Glen fouled out early in the fourth,” Davis said. “Lelan Small and Charlie Oliver game us sig-nificant minutes off the bench and both played great.”South 49, North 38After struggling mightily for over a month, South Da-vie prevailed at North Davie in the Tigers’ final game on Dec. 10. Ty Cozart was a big reason why. He scored eight of his game-high 15 points in the fourth quarter, when South outscored the hosts 20-9 to bust open a game that was tied going into the fourth. Dreighton Lunnerman (10) and James Martin (10) helped the Tigers avenge a 46-41 loss in November and end a four-game losing streak. After dropping seven of eight, the Tigers, who failed to qualify for the tournament, finished 5-8. “It was almost a carbon copy of (the Selma Burke game), except we came out on the wrong side at the end this time,” Davis said. Carrier led North with a season-high 12. Ridenhour had 10, but South held Allen to seven. Greene had four points and 10 rebounds. “Jeremiah’s hamstring was still bothering him, so Lelan got the start and did a great job handling the respon-sibility,” Davis said. “Wade got his fifth foul about a min-ute into the fourth quarter, and the wheels fell off defensively with Levi still out. “Tannyr did great in his second straight start. Glen did everything he could as our only true big, but South’s size and athleticism was too much for us in the fourth.”Erwin 58, North 52 (OT)The Wildcats played yet another barnburner in the tournament quarterfinals at Erwin on Dec. 12. They sent the game to overtime in dra-matic fashion, erasing deficits of 32-22 at halftime and 40-33 at the end of the third. They fought their hearts out, but had nothing left in the tank in OT. “We came back out fo-cused and regained our com-posure in the second half,” Davis said. “But we had a few costly turnovers (in OT) and couldn’t recover.” Allen produced another gem for his sparkling resume, recording 27 points, six re-bounds and three assists. It was his fourth game with 27-plus. Carrier had eight points. Hernandez had six. Greene had six points and nine boards. Ridenhour had five points. The Wildcats, who lost twice in OT this season, fin-ished 6-8 by riding Allen’s 20.7 average. It’s North’s highest average in eight years (James Wilkins scored 23.6 per game in 2016-17). Riden-hour was second at 8.3. “Nolan had another stand-out performance, but the entire team played their hearts out,” Davis said. “This is a great group of kids who always gave their all and did anything we asked of them as coaches. We were depleted and had to play guys out of their natural positions and roles, and they took on the challenge and did their best. We’re gonna miss this group of young men.”Ellis 52, Mooresville 42 - Mason Driver 19, Bowman Blakley 9, Cam James 8, Jor-dan Crowley 4, Peyton Fishel 4, Henry Migliarese 4, Ben Bost 2, Graham Weaver 2. Ellis 53, Corriher‑Lipe 26 - Mason Driver 15, Pey-ton Fishel 14, Cam James 9, Henry Migliarese 4, Graham Weaver 4, Jordan Crowley 4, Ben Bost 3. Erwin 64, Ellis 48 - Ma-son Driver 10, Bowman Blak-ley 10, Cam James 8, Wade Hefner 5, Graham Weaver 4, Ryan Richardson 3, Peyton Fishel 2, Jordan Crowley 2. N. Davie 55, Selma Burke 54 - Nolan Allen 22, Wade Ridenhour 21, Tannyr Carrier 8, Jeremiah Hernan-dez 2, Glen Greene 2. S. Davie 49 - Ty Cozart 15, Dreighton Lunnerman 10, James Martin 10, Jared Vaughters 6, Anderson Bra-nham 5, Wyatt Tucker 2, Colson Dulin 1. N. 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Center St. Lexington, NC 27292 336-248-6222 ptmlawfirm.com B4 - DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Dec 26, 2024 Continued From Page B1into the game because it was trading buckets. Central hit 13 of 25 in the second half. Davie was burned by 5-11 junior Meredith Wike, who rolled up 27 points. “She’s good,” Adams said. “She’s a silent assassin. She is averaging 20 points a game, but I don’t think she has a huge recruiting radar. She’s not on a big AAU team, so she stays under the radar. She is hard to defend.”Martin played big in de-feat, finishing with 22 points, drilling four 3s and adding four rebounds, two steals and two blocked shots. The sophomore’s varsity career high before this was 20 in a game last year. She raised her team-high average from 12.8 to 14. “At halftime I told the team that Avarie is carrying us,” Adams said. “She’s the only reason we were semi-close the whole game. She did not have enough help on offense tonight.”After a scoreless first half, Emmie Burris came alive, hit-ting five straight shots during one stretch and finishing with 11 points, five rebounds, two assists and two steals. Gracie Shore had seven points and six rebounds. Gentry had three points, four rebounds, four steals and three assists. But Davie was a banged-up team as its winning streak ended at three. While Vivian Vaughters missed her second game with an injury, Londyn McDowell was unavailable with a sprained ankle. “Londyn sprained her an-kle yesterday in practice,” Adams said. “I’m hoping for her to be back on Friday (at Watauga in a game that was snowed out), but we’ll see.”Notes: Central has a weird loss on its record. It fell 49-44 to North Iredell on Dec. 6. Interestingly enough, Davie blasted N. Iredell 68-18 on Nov. 26. ... Two of Davie’s three losses are to Central. Alexander Central 62, Davie 47 - Avarie Martin 22, Emmie Burris 11, Gracie Shore 7, Bailey Aderhold 4, Makenzie Gentry 3. Fizzle ... Bailey Aderhold (3) and Makenzie Gentry hit the deck. Gentry was limped off with a turned ankle but returned to the game. Two Raiders defend Emmie Burris. Gentry makes a move. Londyn McDowell drives around a Reagan player. Shooting for the War Eagles, from left: Aderhold, Avarie Martin and Lexi Mickey. - Photos by Marnic Lewis DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Dec 26, 2024 - B5 Continued From Page B1“Between quarters we drew it up on the sideline a way to attack the trian-gle-and-two. We said: ‘Our two front sets will still work against this. Just because we haven’t seen it, don’t panic.’ We talked about feeding the low post and feeding the cor-ners to break them out of that. And then we were able to go back to applying pressure and do what we do best.”Horton (15 points), Mar-tin (12) and Nance (11) led a balanced attack as Davie (8-0) posted its fifth victory by 21-plus margins. Martin got his season-high total by converting 6 of 8 field goals. “(Martin) as always been a big rebounder, defensive guy,” Thalasinos said. “He’s a guy who will do the dirty stuff for you, fight for boards, all those things. We don’t look for him to have to be a scorer, but he was fighting down low.”Knox and Dulin had eight each. Haggler had six. Patton had two points, six rebounds and two steals. This was the second straight energetic effort from Knox. “Cam’s been my sixth man; him and Jayce Bentley switch in and out of that role,” he said. “Cam brings a spark off the bench. He’s an up-tem-po, fly-all-over-the-court kind of guy. He was creating turn-overs and getting transition points. He was driving in the lane.”While the War Eagles’ av-erage margin of victory is 25, Thalasinos is taking nothing for granted. “Yes, we are 8-0, but we can’t afford to keep getting off to slow starts because a team in the CPC is going to make us pay for it,” he said. Davie 66, Alexander Central 38 - Aiden Hor-ton 15, William Martin 12, Draeton Nance 11, Cam Knox 8, Noah Dulin 8, Justin Hag-gler 6, Ian Patton 2, Weston Barefoot 2, Paxton Lewis 2.. Dazzle ... COUPON Valid at Mocksville N.C.Location Only thru 12.31.24 12 Days of Christmas$1200 Enrollment Fee Mocksville Town Commons191 Cooper Creek Drive Ste 101Mocksville, NC 27028 (336) 753-0555 workoutanytime.com/mocksville/ Get a HEAD START on 2025 for Christmas this year! Join Now! Cam Knox draws a foul. Aiden Horton lets an outside shot fly. At right, Horton battles a Cougar for the ball. - Photos by Marnic Lewis Shooting for the War Eagles are Noah Dulin (left) and Paxton Lewis. Jayce Bentley handles the ball. Davie winners in the first annual Piedmont Friday Night Lights Awards, from left: Gavin Reese (de- fensive back of the year), Elijah Chaffin (linebacker of the year), Ethan Driver (wide receiver of the year) and Sadie Link (scholar athlete of the year). William Martin shoots in the lane for the JV boys. Friday Night Lights Awards B6 - DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024 Sell it quickly! in the classifieds 704-797-4220 By Carrie MillerDavie Senior Services Davie County Senior Services and Mrs. Snider’s English IV classes at Davie High School combined this fall to create the second in-stallation of the Senior2Se-nior Project. There were 54 students from Davie High along with more than 35 seniors from Senior Services who com-pleted the pen pal project. They wrote to each other four times throughout the semester.On Tuesday, Dec. 10, the pen pals met for the first time. At the beginning of the program, Senior Services Program Coordinator Carrie Miller kicked off the pro-gram inviting the high school students to meander around the room and find their se-nior. Once everyone was seat-ed, the groups watched a vid-eo titled “How Old Is Old” to break and re-define the aging stereotypes. Mrs. Snider then spoke about the true meaning of this project and how spe-cial it is to her.Throughout the semester, the pen pals learned about each other, they shared sto-ries and goals, and many of them exchanged Christmas gifts with one another when they met in person. From hearing the conver-sations, it was just an excep-tional way to bring together Senior2Senior Davie High class teams with senior center for special event generations and to learn from one another. In some instances throughout the project, the students and seniors cried when reading the letters from one another. They felt instant connections and many of them hope to remain lifelong friends. The third installation of Senior2Senior will be brought to life again this coming February. To reg-ister, stop by either Senior Services campus to pick up a form. For more information, contact Senior Services at 336-753-6230. DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024 - B7 Sign up for the Enterprise Record weekly email newsletter and receive discounted offers on digital subscriptions www.ourdavie.com Click on Services The Farmington Center (TFC) hosted the Third An-nual Piedmont Disc Golf Classic (PDGC) Tournament in November at the Davie Disc Golf Course. With a field of 70 en-trants, the tournament drew players from as far away as Dayton, Ohio and Pikesville, NC.Among the winners was a South Davie Middle School eighth grader named Jack Oldham, who won the Mixed Amateur 2 division. As a youth, he is qualified to play at the Junior tier, but his skill level places him in the adult division.“This sport is something I love and want to give 100 percent in,” Jack said. “Also, with Davie Disc Golf Course being my home course, it Mocksville disc golfer Jack Oldham with his awards from the Piedmont Disc Golf Clas- sic held in Farmington. Preparing to tee off at Farmington: Matthew King, Garret Alewine, Holt Whit- ted and Crocket Maxey. South 8th grader wins disc golf title felt great to come out with a win.” His father, Jason Oldham, said: “Jack’s disc golf skills passed me up a long time ago. To see his joy and passion for the game is something to be-hold. His mom and I are very proud parents.” The Oldhams serve on the Davie Disc Golf Club board of directors.A youth amateur from Cornelius, Holt Whitted, placed second in the Mixed Amateur 1 division. Whitted said: “This is not a beginner course, it’s tight and wood-ed and definitely challenges your skill level.”Disc golf continues to explode in a populari-ty boost resulting from the COVID-19 shutdown of team sports. Membership in the PDGA has doubled since 2016 to more than 150,000 members, not counting rec-reational players who are not members of a league or offi-cial group. Unlike ball golf, disc golf has low equipment costs and most courses (89%) are free to play. The 20-hole Davie Disc Golf Course at The Farmington Center is one of those free-to-play cours-es, and offers two holes that are ADA compliant for those with mobility challenges. An added feature of the Davie Disc Golf course is the Bangin’Chainz disc golf store, open Saturday and Sunday. Located just yards from the first tee, play-ers can shop for new (and used) equipment ranging from discs and backpacks to wheeled carriers.The Davie Disc Golf Club, chaired by Bryan Ha-den, includes players of all ages, who participate rec-reationally most Saturday mornings and compete in league tournaments through-out the Piedmont Triad, many of which are sanc-tioned by the PDGA.“We are glad to support a fantastic competitive disc golf course that anyone can play at any time – it is open from dawn to dusk every day of the year,” Haden said. Allyson Sawtelle, TFC event coordinator and a founder of the course, added: “We couldn’t do it without our Davie Disc Golf Club volunteers, who work many, many hours without pay to maintain the course. As a non-profit, we rely on vol-unteers to keep our costs low so we can continue keep the course open for free play.”The Davie Disc Golf Course is at 1723 Farming-ton Road, Mocksville.The original grounds of The Farmington Center opened in 1921 as a Davie County school, operating un-til 1970. In 1971, the county deeded the property to the newly created Farmington Community Association. Land deeded to FCA in 2006 was developed into the Nature Park, enlarging the complex to 67 acres, the largest recreational center in the county. Governed by an elected board of directors, the center is certified on the National Registry of Historic Places and hosts outdoor rec- reation sites, social and edu-cation programs, along with four venues for event rental. The Nature Park housing the Davie Disc Golf Course and trails for hiking and bik-ing, a walking circuit, pick-leball courts, and playground are open daily, dawn to dusk, at no cost to visitors. The board continually seeks sustainability and ways to leverage the amenities of the complex for the better-ment of the community and the county, Sawtelle said.Funding partners: Ber-muda Run Tourism Devel-opment, Davie Community Foundation, Davie Chamber of Commerce, Davie Coun-ty Recreation & Parks, and Mocksville Tourism Devel-opment. Visit www.farming-toncc.org. The Cognition Chal-lenge is getting closer to its goal of $100,000 by the end of the year.As of Monday, it stood at 492,592. If the goal is met, the Davie Com-munity Foundation and the Mebane Charitable Foundation will each add $25,000.The goal is to allow Cognition to hire an ex-ecutive director with business experience and a vision for the future, with-out the responsibility of raising money to keep the doors open from Day 1.“If you believe as we do that Cognition adds value to our community and has the potential to expand its offerings, we invite you to help them finish the challenge by do-nating by Dec. 31,” said Jane Simpson, president of the Davie Community Foundation. “Together, we can en-sure Cognition has the resources it needs to fos-ter creativity and critical thinking through educa-tional play and STEAM learning for all ages,” said Larry C. Colbourne, pres-ident of the Meband Char-itable Foundation.Visit cognitiondavie.org to make a gift or to keep up with progress. Cognition needs push to reach goal The year was 1934, and the Christmas tree was decorated with balls of cotton, candy canes and strings of popcorn. Holiday traditions were different back then, as some young children in Cooleemee learned recently during a program by the Cooleemee Historical Association. Above right, member Lynn Vogler tells the children a story; while at left, Sandra Ferrell helps a child place a candy cane on the cedar tree. - Photos by KC Smith Christmas, 1934 Style B8 - DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024 HOW TO PLAY: Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9 only once. Each 3x3 box is outlined with a darker line. You already have a few numbers to get you started. Remember: you must not repeat the numbers 1 through 9 in the same line, column or 3x3 box. HOW TO PLAY: Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9 only once. Each 3x3 box is outlined with a darker line. You already have a few numbers to get you started. Remember: you must not repeat the numbers 1 through 9 in the same line, column or 3x3 box. HOW TO PLAY: Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9 only once. Each 3x3 box is outlined with a darker line. You already have a few numbers to get you started. Remember: you must not repeat the numbers 1 through 9 in the same line, column or 3x3 box. HOW TO PLAY: Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9 only once. Each 3x3 box is outlined with a darker line. You already have a few numbers to get you started. Remember: you must not repeat the numbers 1 through 9 in the same line, column or 3x3 box. 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Hen-drix has expertise in strategic planning, customer-centric solutions, and technical sales that will be instrumental in enhancing the dealer direct program’s service offerings and client success.“We are thrilled to wel-come J.C. to the dealer direct team,” said Steve Wilcoxon, president of the dealer direct program. “His impressive track record in leadership, innovative sales strategies, and industry experience align perfectly with our com-mitment to delivering out-standing value to our deal-er network and customers. J.C.’s insights will be an in-valuable asset as we contin-ue to expand and elevate the dealer direct program.”Hendrix expressed his enthusiasm for joining First Community Bank and the opportunities ahead. “I am honored to join a team so dedicated to com-munity and client success,” Hendrix said. “I look for-ward to leveraging my indus-try experience to support our dealers and grow the dealer direct program. Together, we will drive success for our partners and continue First Community Bank’s tradition of excellence in service.”With Hendrix’s addi-tion, First Community Bank strengthens its commitment to advancing its dealer direct program and fostering long-term client relationships in the financial services sector.First Community Bank’s dealer direct program offers special financing for man-ufacturers, including floor plans and retail financing. Since the program’s start in 2005, it has grown to service thousands of retail dealers nationwide by providing in-stallment loans from $1,500 to $30,000 for tractors (up to 75hp), trailers, boats, power sports, motorcycles, lawn equipment, and farm equip-ment.For more information about First Community Bank, call 870-612-3400 or visit www.firstcommunity.net. Hendrix joins First Community J.C. Hendrix Davie County Recreation and Parks (DCRP) announc-es the 2025-2026 cycle of the Community Recreation Agency Grant program. The grants focus on sup-plemental funding for qual-ified agencies in Davie in-terested in partnership with DCRP to promote recreation-al fitness, health, wellness and quality of life. It is the intent of this grant to be for minor capital improvements and community based pro-gram activities that increase recreational opportunities. Eligibility requirements, application standards and the grant application will be posted and available (online only) through the DCRP website. Only those grant applications completed and submitted online are re-viewed. The grant policy and application may accessed at: http://www.daviecountync.gov/DCRPGrant. Signed ap-plications must be received online no later than Feb. 14, 2025. Applications will be eval-uated in a three-phased pro-cess including: Recreation and Parks Team and County Attorney; Recreation and Parks Advisory Board; and Davie Board of Commis-sioners. Commissioners will determine final approval of the grant awards with all organizations being notified via e-mail in July 2025.DCRP will be providing an online educational train-ing video that will navigate through each section of the grant application. The train-ing video will appear as an additional link in the grant webpage. Applicants are en-couraged to watch the video.For information about the grant cycle, contact the DCRP Team at 336-753-TEAM (8326) or at RecTe-am@daviecountync.gov.“DCRP would like to thank considering agencies for your willingness to pro-vide exceptional recreational experiences to the citizens of Davie County. We look forward to receiving your agency’s grant request,” said director, Paul Moore. Apply now for grant from rec dept. DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024 ‑ B9 Public Notices No. 1918223 NORTH CAROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualied as Executor for the Es - tate of Mollie B. Sain, Mollie Belch Sain, Mollie P. Sain, Mollie Penelope Sain, late of Davie County, North Carolina, the undersigned hereby noties all persons, rms and corporations having claims against the estate of said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned at the oces of Allman Spry Leggett Crumpler & Horn, P.A., Post Oce Drawer 5129, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27113, on or before March 5, 2025, or this no- tice will be pleaded in bar of their recov- ery. All persons, rms and corporations indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. is the 5th day of December, 2024. Maurice Lee Sain, Jr., Executor Estate of Mollie B. Sain Allman Spry Leggett Crumpler & Horn, PA 380 Knollwood Street, Suite 700 Winston Salem, NC 27103 Publish: Davie Enterprise 12/5, 12/12, 12/19, 12/26, 2024 No. 1920304 NORTH CAROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS e undersigned, having qualied as Executor of the Estate of Robert Lemuel Graham, Sr. late of Cabarrus County, North Carolina, hereby noties to all persons, rms and corporations having claims against said Estate to present them to the undersigned on or before March 12, 2025, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All per- sons, rms and corporations indebted to the said Estate will please make imme- diate payment to the undersigned. is, the 12th day of December, 2024. Robert Lemuel Graham, Jr. Executor 243 Rollingwood Drive Mocksville, NC 27028 Amanda M. Reed, Esq. Attorney for Executor Reed & ompson, PLLC 204 Branchview Dr., SE Concord, NC 28025 Publish: Davie Enterprise 12/12, 12/19, 12/26, 2024 & 1/2, 2025. No. 1927704 NORTH CAROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS HAVING QUALIFIED as Executor of the Estate of MYRTLE COOK late of Da- vie County, this is to notify all persons, rms and corporations having claims against said estate to present written claim to the undersigned on or before March 26, 2025 (being three [3] months from the rst day of publication of this notice), or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, rms, and corporations indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. is the 26th day of December, 2024. Amy Jo Callahan C/O FLEMING & WILLIAMS, LLP Brian F. Williams Attorney at Law 284 South Main St. Mocksville, NC 27028 Publish: Davie Enterprise 12/26, 2024 & 1/2, 1/9, 1/16, 2025 No. 1919291 NORTH CAROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualied as Executor of the Es - tate of omas Alton Dickens, late of Davie County, NC this is to notify all persons, rms and corporations hav - ing claims against the said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before Monday, March 10, 2025 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their re- covery. All persons, rms and corpora - tions indebted to said estate are notied to make immediate payment. is is the 5th day of December, 2024. Send claims to: Wells Law, Attorney at Law 380 Knollwood Street, Suite 710 Winston Salem, NC 27103 336.793.4378 Publish: Davie Enterprise 12/5, 12/12, 12/19, 12/26, 2024 Public Notices No. 1922288 NORTH CAROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualied as the Administrator, DBN of the Estate of Ricky Wayne Sea- mon, Deceased, late of Davie County, North Carolina, this is to notify all per- sons having claims against the estate of the deceased to exhibit them to the un- dersigned on or before March 19, 2025, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their right to recover against the estate of the said deceased. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. is the 12 day of December, 2024. Bryan C. ompson Administrator, DBN of the Estate of Ricky Wayne Seamon, deceased 110 Oakwood Drive, Suite 20 Winston Salem, NC 2703 (336) 725-8323 Publish: Davie Enterprise 12/12, 12/19, 12/26, 2024 and 1/2, 2025 No. 1927692 NORTH CAROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS HAVING QUALIFIED as Co-Executors of the Estate of FRANCES M. BARNEY late of Davie County, this is to notify all persons, rms and corporations hav - ing claims against said estate to present written claim to the undersigned on or before March 26, 2025 (being three [3] months from the rst day of publica - tion of this notice), or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All per- sons, rms, and corporations indebted to said estate will please make immedi- ate payment to the undersigned. is the 26th day of December, 2024. Lanette Lagle Tena Sheets C/O FLEMING & WILLIAMS, LLP Brian Williams, Attorney at Law 284 South Main St. Mocksville, NC 27028 Publish: Davie Enterprise 12/26, 2024 & 1/2, 1/9, 1/16, 2025 No. 1925119 NORTH CAROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualied as Executor of the Es - tate of John Ronald Grayson, Deceased, late of Davie County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the deceased to ex- hibit them to the undersigned on or be- fore March 19, 2025 or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their right to recover against the estate of the said deceased. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. is the 12th day of December, 2024 Christin Grayson Reece Executor of the Estate of John Ronald Grayson c/o Brandy E. Koontz, Esq. Attorney for Christin Grayson Reece, Executor 181 South Main St. Mocksville, NC 27028 Publish: Davie Enterprise 12/19, 12/26, 2024 & 1/2, 1/9, 2025. No. 1925118 NORTH CAROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualied as Administrator of the Estate of Ella Mae Poindexter, De- ceased, late of Davie County, North Car- olina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before March 19, 2025 or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their right to recov- er against the estate of the said deceased. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. is the 12th day of December, 2024. Sharon Kay Hudson Administrator of the Estate of Ella Mae Poindexter c/o Brandy E. Koontz, Esq. Attorney for Sharon Kay Hudson Administrator 181 South Main St. Mocksville, NC 27028 Publish: Davie Enterprise 12/19, 12/26, 2024 and 1/2, 1/9, 2025 No. 1919287 NORTH CAROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS HAVING QUALIFIED as Executor of the Estate of Russell LaChapelle late of Davie County, this is to notify all per- sons, rms and corporations having claims against said Estate to present written claim to the undersigned on or before April 3, 2025, (being three [3] months from the rst day of publica - tion of this notice) or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All per- sons, rms and corporations indebted to said Estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. is the 26th day of November, 2024. Brittany Nesmith 177 Almond Road Ocala, FL 34472 Martin Van Hoy & Raisbeck, LLP Ten Court Square Mocksville, NC 27028 Attorneys for the Decedent Publish: Davie Enterprise 12/5, 12/12, 12/19, 12/26, 2024 Public Notices No.1925127AMENDED NOTICE OFFORECLOSURE SALENORTH CAROLINA, DAVIE COUNTYUnder and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Jason R Luman and Bever -ly Luman to Jennifer Grant , Trustee(s), which was dated November 25, 2014 and recorded on November 25, 2014 in Book 974 at Page 275, Davie County Registry, North Carolina.Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evi-dencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will oer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 6, 2025 at 01:00 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Davie County, North Carolina, to wit:BEING ALL of Lot 3, Phase One, of Hawks Nest Subdivision as shown in Map Book/Plat Cabinet 7, Page/Slide 15, Davie County Registry. e metes and bounds description shown thereon is in-corporated herein by reference.Conveyed herewith is also a perpetual non-exclusive easement of ingress, egress, and regress as seen in Book 322, Page 706, Davie County Registry.For back title, see DB 322, PG 704; DB 197, PG 386, DB 181, PG 379; and DB 97, PG 186, Davie County Registry. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.Said property is commonly known as 1934 Junction Rd, Mocksville, NC 27028.A certied check only (no personal checks) of ve percent (5%) of the pur -chase price, or Seven Hundred Fiy Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statu-tory upset bid period, all the remain-ing amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHAS-ERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED.Said property to be oered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being oered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” ere are no representa -tions of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being oered for sale. Substitute Trustee does not have possession of the property and cannot grant access, prior to or aer the sale, for purposes of inspection and/or apprais-al. is sale is made subject to all pri -or liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, ease-ments, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or excep-tions of record. To the best of the knowl-edge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are BEVERLY LUFFMAN AND ALL LAW-FUL HEIRS OF JASON R. LUFFMAN.An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or re-newed on or aer October 1, 2007, may, aer receiving the notice of sale, termi -nate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be eective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days aer the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provid- ed that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45- 21.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the eective date of the ter - mination. Pursuant to NCGS §45-21.25A, this sale may be subject to remote bids placed by bidders not physically present at the place of sale, which may be accepted by the person conducting the sale, or their agent”. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the ling of a bankruptcy petition prior to the conrmation of the sale and rein - statement of the loan without the knowl- edge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trust- ee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. e purchaser will have no further remedy. Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive, Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 Publish: Davie Enterprise 12/26, 2024 & 1/2, 2025 No. 1919286 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS IN THE ESTATE OF KAREN MELINDA WILLARD ESTATE FILE 24-E-403 All persons, rms and corporations havign claims against Karen Melinda Willard, deceased, are notied to ex - hibit them to John A. McMillen, Ad- ministrator of the decedent’s estate on or before March 5, 2025 at 118 North Sterling Street, Morganton, NC 28655 or be barred from the recovery. Debtors of the decedent are asked to make im- mediate payment to the above named Administrator. is the 5th day of December, 2024. John A. McMillen, Attorney e Starnes Aycock Law Firm 118 N. Sterling St. Morganton, NC 28655 Publish: Davie Enterprise 12/5, 12/12, 12/19, 12/26, 2024 No. 1927697 NORTH CAROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualied as the Executor of the Estate of Marlene H. Keiser, Deceased, late of Davie County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the deceased to ex- hibit them to the undersigned on or be- fore April 2, 2025, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their right to recover against the estate of the said deceased. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. is the 26 day of December, 2024. th Kristopher Keiser Executor of the Estate of Marlene H. Keiser, deceased ROBINSON & LAWING, LLP 110 Oakwood Drive, Suite 200 Winston-Salem, NC 27103 (336) 725-8323 Publish: Davie Enterprise 12/26, 2024 & 1/2, 1/9, 1/16, 2025 No. 1927695 NORTH CAROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS HAVING QUALIFIED as Executor of the Estate of DENE ZIMMERMAN PITTS aka LINDA DENE PITTS late of Davie County, this is to notify all persons, rms and corporations hav - ing claims against said estate to present written claim to the undersigned on or before March 26, 2025 (being three [3] months from the rst day of publica - tion of this notice), or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All per- sons, rms, and corporations indebted to said estate will please make immedi- ate payment to the undersigned. is the 26th day of December, 2024. William Marion Pitts C/O FLEMING & WILLIAMS, LLP Brian Williams, Attorney at Law 284 South Main St. Mocksville, NC 27028 Publish: Davie Enterprise 12/26, 2024 & 1/2, 1/9, 1/16, 2025 No. 1922288 NORTH CAROLINA DAVIE COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualied as the Administrator, DBN of the Estate of Ricky Wayne Sea- mon, Deceased, late of Davie County, North Carolina, this is to notify all per- sons having claims against the estate of the deceased to exhibit them to the un- dersigned on or before March 19, 2025, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their right to recover against the estate of the said deceased. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. is the 12 day of December, 2024. Bryan C. ompson Administrator, DBN of the Estate of Ricky Wayne Seamon, deceased 110 Oakwood Drive, Suite 20 Winston Salem, NC 2703 (336) 725-8323 Publish: Davie Enterprise 12/12, 12/19, 12/26, 2024 and 1/2, 2025 Public Notices No.1925127 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, DAVIE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Jason R Luman and Bever - ly Luman to Jennifer Grant , Trustee(s), which was dated November 25, 2014 and recorded on November 25, 2014 in Book 974 at Page 275, Davie County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evi- dencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will oer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 6, 2025 at 01:00 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Davie County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING ALL of Lot 3, Phase One, of Hawks Nest Subdivision as shown in Map Book/Plat Cabinet 7, Page/Slide 15, Davie County Registry. e metes and bounds description shown thereon is in- corporated herein by reference. Conveyed herewith is also a perpetual non-exclusive easement of ingress, egress, and regress as seen in Book 322, Page 706, Davie County Registry. For back title, see DB 322, PG 704; DB 197, PG 386, DB 181, PG 379; and DB 97, PG 186, Davie County Registry. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 1934 Junction Rd, Mocksville, NC 27028. A certied check only (no personal checks) of ve percent (5%) of the pur - chase price, or Seven Hundred Fiy Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statu- tory upset bid period, all the remain- ing amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHAS- ERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be oered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being oered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” ere are no representa - tions of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being oered for sale. Substitute Trustee does not have possession of the property and cannot grant access, prior to or aer the sale, for purposes of inspection and/or apprais- al. is sale is made subject to all pri - or liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, ease- ments, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or excep- tions of record. To the best of the knowl- edge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are BEVERLY LUFFMAN AND ALL LAW- FUL HEIRS OF JASON R. LUFFMAN. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or re- newed on or aer October 1, 2007, may, aer receiving the notice of sale, termi - nate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be eective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days aer the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provid- ed that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45- 21.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the eective date of the ter - mination. Pursuant to NCGS §45-21.25A, this sale may be subject to remote bids placed by bidders not physically present at the place of sale, which may be accepted by the person conducting the sale, or their agent”. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the ling of a bankruptcy petition prior to the conrmation of the sale and rein - statement of the loan without the knowl- edge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trust- ee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. e purchaser will have no further remedy. Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive, Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 Publish: Davie Enterprise 12/26, 2024 & 1/2, 2025 Public Notices No.1925128 24-SP-86 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE DAVIE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINAUNDER AND BY VIRTUE of the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by RANDY D. GOBBLE to E. Edward Vogler, Jr., P.A., as Trust-ee, in favor of Warren Darnell Gobble, as beneciary, recorded on December 11, 2007 in Book 739 at Page 511 in the Davie County Registry; default having been made in the payment of the indebt-edness thereby secured by said Deed of Trust; and the undersigned Fides LLC having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Oce of the Reg -ister of Deeds of Davie County, North Carolina; and pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the indebted-ness secured by said Deed of Trust, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will oer for sale at the usual place of sale at the Davie County Courthouse, in the city of Mocksville, North Carolina at 10:00 AM on January 3, 2025 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash all that cer-tain parcel of land, together with all the improvements erected on the property, situated, lying and being in the County of Davie, State of North Carolina, and more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at a common corner of the Ronald Neil Garcia lands (as seen in DB 731, Pg 961) and the hereinaer described tract; said beginning corner being a buggy axle and being the North- ernmost point of the hereinaer de - scribed tract and running the following courses and distances: South 31 deg. 27 min. 19 sec. East 504.93 feet to a rebar found in Garcia’s title line; thence run- ning from said rebar along a deep gap South 31 deg. 27 min. 19 sec. East 25.98 feet to a placed iron found in the line of Rodney D. Chunn (as seen in Pl. Bk. 6, Pg. 172 for Lot 3 Rosebud Valley); thence running with the Chunn line South 33 deg. 45 min. 32 sec. West 135.03 feet to a rebar; thence South 53 deg. 30 min. 31 sec. West 230.88 feet to a rebar; thence South 70 deg. 34 min. 46 sec. West 79.20 feet to a placed iron found 12.4’ North of an Existing Pin; said point being parallel to NC Hwy 64; thence running along said roadway North 55 deg. 22 min. 55 sec. West 723.02 feet to a placed iron found 6.3’ North of an Existing Pin; said placed iron also being tied into a rebar found North 61 deg. 16 min. 02 sec. West 24.59 feet; thence from said placed iron running along the Garcia line (as seen in DB 731, PG 961) North 64 deg. 02 min. 32 sec. East 511.00 feet to an existing iron; thence North 64 deg. 02 min. 32 sec. East 215.61 feet to the POINT AND PLACE OF BEGINNING containing 8.129 acres more or less as depicted on a survey done by Grady L. Tutterow, RLS, entitled “Randy Gobble” dated November 12, 2007, and listed as drawing number 20007-3. Said tract being taken from the John T. Tutterow property (as seen in DB 157, Pg. 239) and lying in Calahaln Township, Davie County, North Carolina. Tax Map Ref: H-3, Parcel 57. Property Address: None. Brief Description: 8.129 acres Hwy 64 West, Davie County, NC. Present Record Owner(s): Randy D. Gobble. Parcel Number: H300000057. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23. e highest bidder shall be required to make a cash deposit in the amount of ve percent (5%) of the amount of the bid, or $750.00, whichev- er is greater, with the remaining balance of the bid amount to be paid on the day following the expiration of the applicable ten (10) day upset bid period. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the tax of Forty-Five cents (.45) per One Hundred dollars ($100.00), or major fraction thereof, of the nal sale price required by NCGS § 7A-308(a)(1). e real property herein - above described is being oered for sale “AS IS, WHERE IS”. Neither the under- signed Substitute Trustee, nor the holder of the note secured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed, nor the ocers, di - rectors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representatives of either the undersigned Substitute Trustee or the holder of the note, make any represen- tations or warranties relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being oered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way re- lating to any such condition are express- ly disclaimed. is property is being sold subject to all prior liens, taxes, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, restrictive covenants, and encumbrances of record, including prior deeds of trust. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. If for any reason the undersigned Substi- tute Trustee is unable to convey the title to this property or the sale is set aside, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Furthermore, if the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the undersigned Substitute Trust- ee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. In either event the purchaser will have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Mortgagee’s attorney or the under- signed Substitute Trustee. Additional Notice for Residential Real Property With Less an 15 Rental Units: An or - der for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to NCGS 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the Clerk of Superior Court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or re- newed on or aer October 1, 2007, may, aer receiving the notice of sale, termi - nate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be eective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, aer the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the de- fault at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the eective date of the ter - mination. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a bona de lease or tenancy may have additional rights under North Carolina law pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.33A. Refer to the Davie County court le for additional informa - tion. Fides LLC, Substitute Trustee, Trent M. Grissom, Attorney for Fides, LLC, 7300 Carmel Executive Park Drive, Suite 300, Charlotte, NC 28226 PHONE: (800) 481-2180 FAX: (800) 962-7158 PUBLISH: December 19, 2024 and De- cember 26, 2024 No.1925127 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, DAVIE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Jason R Luman and Bever - ly Luman to Jennifer Grant , Trustee(s), which was dated November 25, 2014 and recorded on November 25, 2014 in Book 974 at Page 275, Davie County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evi- dencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will oer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 6, 2025 at 01:00 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Davie County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING ALL of Lot 3, Phase One, of Hawks Nest Subdivision as shown in Map Book/Plat Cabinet 7, Page/Slide 15, Davie County Registry. e metes and bounds description shown thereon is in- corporated herein by reference. Conveyed herewith is also a perpetual non-exclusive easement of ingress, egress, and regress as seen in Book 322, Page 706, Davie County Registry. For back title, see DB 322, PG 704; DB 197, PG 386, DB 181, PG 379; and DB 97, PG 186, Davie County Registry. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 1934 Junction Rd, Mocksville, NC 27028. A certied check only (no personal checks) of ve percent (5%) of the pur - chase price, or Seven Hundred Fiy Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statu- tory upset bid period, all the remain- ing amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHAS- ERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be oered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being oered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” ere are no representa - tions of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being oered for sale. Substitute Trustee does not have possession of the property and cannot grant access, prior to or aer the sale, for purposes of inspection and/or apprais- al. is sale is made subject to all pri - or liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, ease- ments, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or excep- tions of record. To the best of the knowl- edge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are BEVERLY LUFFMAN AND ALL LAW- FUL HEIRS OF JASON R. LUFFMAN. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or re- newed on or aer October 1, 2007, may, aer receiving the notice of sale, termi - nate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be eective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days aer the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provid- ed that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45- 21.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the eective date of the ter - mination. Pursuant to NCGS §45-21.25A, this sale may be subject to remote bids placed by bidders not physically present at the place of sale, which may be accepted by the person conducting the sale, or their agent”. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the ling of a bankruptcy petition prior to the conrmation of the sale and rein - statement of the loan without the knowl- edge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trust- ee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. e purchaser will have no further remedy. Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive, Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 Publish: Davie Enterprise 12/26, 2024 & 1/2, 2025 Merchandise Deals & Bargains 7 ft Prelit Christmas Tree $35.00 704-213-6201 Barbie Doll Christmas Stocking 1995/Mattel, trimmed in green, never used, A+ condition, a rare collection, $25, 336-766-5096 Drill, Like New $20, 704-213-6201 Firewood, Dry Oak $50 long bed, 704-450-0943 Free Our State Magazines Call 704-856-8403 before 6pm. Convertible Futon converts into bunk beds, wood & rought iron, bunk bed still in box, $200, 336-408-3822 Golf Cart Cover Fits short top, $60, 704-213-6201 Michelin Tire P22565R17, $95, 704-213-6201 Osprey Metal Frame Backpack Used once, Excellent condition, Flight cover included. $100, 704-798-2313 Great Gift! Picnic Basket Rattan made, 8”hx15”w, natural color, lined w/ cloth, never used, perfect condi- tion, $25, 336-766-5096 Wooden Crank Telephone Details Call 704-278-2294 9a-5p Leave Message. $225.OBO Wood Lathe Shopsmith 510, sander, table saw, lathe, drill press $400.00 704-213-1992 Public Notices Public Notices No.1925128 24-SP-86 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE DAVIE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by RANDY D. GOBBLE to E. Edward Vogler, Jr., P.A., as Trust- ee, in favor of Warren Darnell Gobble, as beneciary, recorded on December 11, 2007 in Book 739 at Page 511 in the Davie County Registry; default having been made in the payment of the indebt- edness thereby secured by said Deed of Trust; and the undersigned Fides LLC having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Oce of the Reg - ister of Deeds of Davie County, North Carolina; and pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the indebted- ness secured by said Deed of Trust, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will oer for sale at the usual place of sale at the Davie County Courthouse, in the city of Mocksville, North Carolina at 10:00 AM on January 3, 2025 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash all that cer- tain parcel of land, together with all the improvements erected on the property, situated, lying and being in the County of Davie, State of North Carolina, and more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at a common corner of the Ronald Neil Garcia lands (as seen in DB 731, Pg 961) and the hereinaer described tract; said beginning corner being a buggy axle and being the North- ernmost point of the hereinaer de - scribed tract and running the following courses and distances: South 31 deg. 27 min. 19 sec. East 504.93 feet to a rebar found in Garcia’s title line; thence run- ning from said rebar along a deep gap South 31 deg. 27 min. 19 sec. East 25.98 feet to a placed iron found in the line of Rodney D. Chunn (as seen in Pl. Bk. 6, Pg. 172 for Lot 3 Rosebud Valley); thence running with the Chunn line South 33 deg. 45 min. 32 sec. West 135.03 feet to a rebar; thence South 53 deg. 30 min. 31 sec. West 230.88 feet to a rebar; thence South 70 deg. 34 min. 46 sec. West 79.20 feet to a placed iron found 12.4’ North of an Existing Pin; said point being parallel to NC Hwy 64; thence running along said roadway North 55 deg. 22 min. 55 sec. West 723.02 feet to a placed iron found 6.3’ North of an Existing Pin; said placed iron also being tied into a rebar found North 61 deg. 16 min. 02 sec. West 24.59 feet; thence from said placed iron running along the Garcia line (as seen in DB 731, PG 961) North 64 deg. 02 min. 32 sec. East 511.00 feet to an existing iron; thence North 64 deg. 02 min. 32 sec. East 215.61 feet to the POINT AND PLACE OF BEGINNING containing 8.129 acres more or less as depicted on a survey done by Grady L. Tutterow, RLS, entitled “Randy Gobble” dated November 12, 2007, and listed as drawing number 20007-3. Said tract being taken from the John T. Tutterow property (as seen in DB 157, Pg. 239) and lying in Calahaln Township, Davie County, North Carolina. Tax Map Ref: H-3, Parcel 57. Property Address: None. Brief Description: 8.129 acres Hwy 64 West, Davie County, NC. Present Record Owner(s): Randy D. Gobble. Parcel Number: H300000057. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23. e highest bidder shall be required to make a cash deposit in the amount of ve percent (5%) of the amount of the bid, or $750.00, whichev- er is greater, with the remaining balance of the bid amount to be paid on the day following the expiration of the applicable ten (10) day upset bid period. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the tax of Forty-Five cents (.45) per One Hundred dollars ($100.00), or major fraction thereof, of the nal sale price required by NCGS § 7A-308(a)(1). e real property herein - above described is being oered for sale “AS IS, WHERE IS”. Neither the under- signed Substitute Trustee, nor the holder of the note secured by the Deed of Trust being foreclosed, nor the ocers, di - rectors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representatives of either the undersigned Substitute Trustee or the holder of the note, make any represen- tations or warranties relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being oered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way re- lating to any such condition are express- ly disclaimed. is property is being sold subject to all prior liens, taxes, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, restrictive covenants, and encumbrances of record, including prior deeds of trust. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. If for any reason the undersigned Substi- tute Trustee is unable to convey the title to this property or the sale is set aside, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Furthermore, if the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the undersigned Substitute Trust- ee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. In either event the purchaser will have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Mortgagee’s attorney or the under- signed Substitute Trustee. Additional Notice for Residential Real Property With Less an 15 Rental Units: An or - der for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to NCGS 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the Clerk of Superior Court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or re- newed on or aer October 1, 2007, may, aer receiving the notice of sale, termi - nate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be eective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, aer the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the de- fault at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the eective date of the ter - mination. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a bona de lease or tenancy may have additional rights under North Carolina law pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.33A. Refer to the Davie County court le for additional informa - tion. Fides LLC, Substitute Trustee, Trent M. Grissom, Attorney for Fides, LLC, 7300 Carmel Executive Park Drive, Suite 300, Charlotte, NC 28226 PHONE: (800) 481-2180 FAX: (800) 962-7158 PUBLISH: December 19, 2024 and De- cember 26, 2024 $65/year • Unlimited access to site, 24/7, along with e-Edition • Mail delivery of all print edition • Less ads, no surveys, faster site! •Full access to archives. Call 336-751-2120 or ourdavie.com/subscriptions B10 - DAVIE COUNTY ENTERPRISE RECORD, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024 Sheffield-Calahaln By Brenda ThompsonSheffield-CalahalnCorrespondent Birthday wishes to: Mike Stratton on Dec. 30; Anna Swisher on Dec. 31; and Alan Spry and Bailey Vaughn on Jan. 2. Happy anniversary to Johnny and Hilda Keaton on Dec. 28. If you would like a birthday or anniversary list-ed, please let me know.A bingo fundraiser will be hyeld at the Sheffield-Cala-haln Community Center on Friday, Feb. 21. Hotdogs will be available. If there is a good turnout, the bingo fundraisers will continue. The center will hold its next community meeting on Jan. 21 at 7 p.m.Worship service and Ju-nior church class for children is held each Sunday at 10:45 a.m. at Community Covenant Church. Evangelistic service is on Sundays at 6 and Prayer meeting and Bible study is on Wednesdays at 7. A time of prayer is held at Liberty Wesleyan Church each Sunday at 9:30 a.m., fol-lowed by Sunday School at 10 and Worship at 11. Choir practice is each Wednesday at 7. The children at New Union Church performed the Christmas play “No Time for Christmas” on Wednesday The children at New Union put on a special play by singing Christ- mas songs, while Harper Dyson, Julia and Jackson Powell did a school skit. night, Dec. 18. Afterwards, everyone enjoyed cookies and cider or hot chocolate. At this busy time of year, this play was an eye opener to the real reason for this season of Christmas.New Union welcomes ev-eryone to Sunday School at 9 a.m. and worship service at 10 each week. Pastor Tim Lowery invites you. The Kids and Youth ministry is held each Wednesday eve-ning from 6:30-7:30.The Chime Choir per-formed Christmas music at Ijames Baptist on Sunday, Dec. 15. Their beautiful voic-es put everyone in the true spirit of Christmas.Sunday School at Ijames Baptist is a 9:30 a.m., fol-lowed by the worship service at 10:30. Pastor Kestler Ruth invites you each week.Sheffield-Calahaln VFD’s Chief Matthew Mills wel-comes everyone interested in becoming a firefighter and serving the community to come by the department or call 336-492-5791. Center Fire Department is looking for volunteers to help serve the community. If in-terested in being a volunteer firefighter, stop by the station at 2265 US 64 W. any Thurs-day night at 7 or call 336-492-7649.Wesley Chapel UMC in-vites everyone to their break-fast fundraiser on the 3rd Saturday of each month. Call Kathy at 336-830-5123 for more information.Jam sessions are held each The Chimes Choir performs Sunday at Ijames Baptist Church. New Union Pastor Tim Lowery thanks all the children and their parents for an evening of Christmas joy. Children perform at church Christmas programs week on Mondays at Eddie’s Place in Cool Springs from 6-9:30 p.m. Prayer requests contin-ue for Bryan Swain, Hazel Smoot, Tim Keller, Junior Dunn, Betty Dameron, Tam- my Keller, Charles England, Lincoln Dyson, Chester Reeves, Yvonne Ijames, Bon-nie Gunter, Ed Livengood, Geraldine Lambert, Betty Beck, Sue Gobble, Helen Bulla, Paul Beck, Juanita Keaton, Emily Brown, Brian Jacobs, Mary Teague, Eddie Porter, Janie Williams, Ma-ria Knight, Violet Coursey, Clyde Jordan, Jack Seaford, Sue Seaford, Fred Beck, Mi-chael Collier, Michele Dyson, Hilda Keaton, Taylor Thomp-son and Terry Dyson. Please submit all news to me at brfbailey@msn.com, message me on Facebook or call me at 336-837-8122 no later than Friday. By Shirley ThorneCounty Line Correspondent County Liners have been busy with Christmas church programs, family gatherings, and shopping.Calvary Baptist Church will host "Anointed Grace" for a program of music at the 11 a.m. worship Sunday, Dec. 29. Church members in-vite everyone to this service followed by a covered-dish dinner.The V-Point Ruritans will not sponsor a breakfast in January. They look forward to seeing you in February.Our community extends sympathy to family of Lisa Beeson McBroom, who died Monday of last week at Maple Leaf Healthcare after a brief illness and hospitalization. She was born in 1957 in For-syth County to Frances Evans Beeson and the late Kelly Beeson. She had worked as manager of children's educa-tion at Iredell Public Library since 1976 and was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church of Statesville. A celebration of life will be at a later date.Rose Marie Johnson re-mains in the therapeutic unit of Cone Medical Center of Greensboro. Michele Dyson remains in rehab at Shepherds Center in Atlanta. Caleb Wil-liams has been at Ronald Mc-Donald House since Monday afternoon of last week and continues to gain strength.Join us in prayer for the Lord's divine healing upon Rose Marie, Michele, Ca- leb, and other residents who are having health problems. Pray for the Lord's comfort and support upon the fam-ily of Lisa as they miss her. Remember in prayer those residents in assisted-living centers and in nursing centers during this holiday season. .Here's wishing each of you a safe and happy New Year's Day celebration. May you join me in trying to live more in the image of Jesus Christ in year 2025. Reach your audience wherever they are:on desktops/laptops, tablets & smartphones. Put your message in front of your potential customers today! Call 336.751.2120to learn more! 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