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After a meeting with Reinsant and members of the Union Acad- emy board, Pando said he was satisfied with how the school plans to change some of its poli- cies and liked some of the curric- ulum modifications proposed. “My wife and I want to thank Mr. Reinsant and the board of directors,” Pando said. “We feel we are moving in a positive di- rection.” Reinsant will undertake a proj- ect to look at the middle school handbook too, so it outlines dis- cipline more specifically to en- sure that school administrators can handle situations more con- sistently, Union Academy board chairman Don Dixon said. The white students were is- sued one-and-a-half days of in- school suspension and two Satur- day detentions. Pando’s son was given three days of out-of-school suspension last year for fighting, the father said, and he wanted the punishments for each action to be similar. Reinsant disciplined appropri- ately according to the existing handbook, Dixon said, but that the handbook might have been too broad. Giving more specific Union Academy officials, parent find solution My wife and I want to thank Mr. Reinsant and the board of directors. We feel we are moving in a positive direction.” — John Pando, father “ School plans changes to curriculum, handbook after racism incident causes clamor Those who gave up are searching for jobs again Parkwood girls qualify for nationals See ACADEMY / 5A What do you think about the planned curriculum and rule changes? Were they appropriate, unneeded or not enough? Read this story online at enquirerjournal.com and vote in the poll found at the bottom. BY ELISABETH ARRIERO Staff Writer MONROE Lotion fetishes, N.C. state obsessions, and an expanding waistline. No mercy was spared at the roast of Wyatt Tommy Tucker Sr., Thursday night. Turning Point, a domestic vio- lence shelter for women and chil- dren, targeted the former county commissioner and candidate for the N.C. Senate for its 14th an- nual roast. “We did a survey... four out of five are in favor of his candidacy in the Senate,” M.C. Ingram Wal- ters said. “Next week we’re go- ing to survey outside of his im- mediate family.” Friend Sally Ormand recalled how Tucker rearranged her beach house that he was stay- ing in to reflect his love for N.C. State. “There was just way too much Carolina blue for him,” she said. “So when we got back, there was all this N.C. State red stuff: red pillows, red rugs, red pots and pans.” No mercy as friends, family roast politician Tucker BY JASON DEBRUYN Staff Writer MONROE Union County added more than 1,000 workers from December to Janu- ary, but its unemployment rate increased by a full percentage point as well, according to county em- ployment rates released Friday. The unemployment rate typically increases in Jan- uary because extra retail jobs during the holidays are lost, employment offi- cials say. However, the rate also typically increases because there are fewer jobs. This year, an increase in the unemployment rate coupled with an in- crease in the total number em- ployed could signal a bet- ter future, Monroe eco- nomic de- velopment director Chris Platé said. The unemployment rate went up despite hav- ing more jobs because More hired, but jobless rate rises Photo by Ed Cottingham Tommy Tucker chuckles as his daughter, Leslie, not pictured, tells jokes about the man during Turning Point’s roast of the politician Thursday night. Annual event benefits Turning Point See ROAST / 3A See JOBLESS / 3A Platé Photos by Ed Cottingham Above, Dominique Miller jumps during the team’s practice on Wednesday. At left, Kennedy Nunn is lifted by her teammates. BY TIFFANY LANE Staff Writer MONROE A fter five months of practice, Park- wood Middle School cheerleaders double-jumped their way to a state competition and qualified for nationals. They head to the Sunshine State next month. “This is the big one,” coach Connie Trowbridge said. It is the first time the school has made it to a national cheerleading competition, she said, and stands a good chance of winning it, too. Even if they don’t, she said, the girls should be proud of them- selves for making it that far. Forest Hills High cheerlead- ers also qualified for a national event, put on by a different com- pany, over several days in Myrtle Beach, coach Michelle Black said. With a tight budget, though, the girls are sitting this one out. There are 18 girls on Forest Hills’ varsity team. The na- tional event they qualified for costs $300 per girl, not including travel expenses, Black said. “It’s an honor to even place in nationals,” Parkwood seventh- grader Hannah Maynor said. 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WHO’S NEWSSC Gov gets fined, divorced
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) South Carolina Gov. Mark
Sanford has closed two chapters of his life, agree-ing to pay $74,000 in fines to resolve ethics charges brought against him after last
summer’s rev-elation of an extramarital affair, and re-ceiving word that a judge had formally ended his 20-year marriage to his wife, Jenny.
The term-limited Republi-can agreed Thursday to pay the fines to resolve dozens of ethics charges, including a taxpayer-funded rendezvous with his Argentine mistress, marking the end to a months-long saga.
Within minutes, the gover-nor’s marriage had been dis-solved by a family court judge in Charleston County, 100 miles from the state capital of Columbia.
Scrutiny of Sanford’s travel started over the summer, when the then-married gov-ernor vanished for five days after telling some staff he was going hiking on the Appala-chian Trail. He was actually in Argentina, and he returned to tearfully confess a yearlong affair with a woman he later told The Associated Press was his soul mate.
But Sanford, who is term-limited and will leave office in January, still could face criminal charges.
BIRTHDAYSBest wishes are extended
to everyone who is celebrat-ing a birthday today, especial-ly Cletus Surratt, Nathan Torres, Ellie Collins, Bobby (John R.) Mills, Lela Mae Williams
Call (704) 261-2278 or e-mail [email protected] to add your names to The Enquirer-Journal birthday list.
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“Union County’s Largest Community Newspaper Network”The Enquirer-Journal • Indian Trail Trader • The Waxhaw Exchange
BY JASON deBRUYNStaff Writer
MONROEUnion Academy plans to broad-
en it’s diversity curriculum and make its handbook more spe-cific.
Last week, three white stu-dents planned to tape pictures with Ku Klux Klan images on a black student’s locker. Headmas-ter Raymond Reinsant punished the white students, but the tar-geted black student’s father, John Pando, thought the punishment was not enough.
After a meeting with Reinsant and members of the Union Acad-
emy board, Pando said he was satisfied with how the school plans to change some of its poli-cies and liked some of the curric-ulum modifications proposed.
“My wife and I want to thank Mr. Reinsant and the board of directors,” Pando said. “We feel
we are moving in a positive di-rection.”
Reinsant will undertake a proj-ect to look at the middle school handbook too, so it outlines dis-cipline more specifically to en-sure that school administrators can handle situations more con-sistently, Union Academy board chairman Don Dixon said.
The white students were is-sued one-and-a-half days of in-school suspension and two Satur-day detentions. Pando’s son was given three days of out-of-school suspension last year for fighting, the father said, and he wanted the punishments for each action
to be similar.Reinsant disciplined appropri-
ately according to the existing handbook, Dixon said, but that the handbook might have been too broad. Giving more specific
Union Academy officials, parent find solution
My wife and I want to thank Mr. Reinsant and the board of directors. We feel we are moving in a positive direction.”
— John Pando, father
“School plans changes to curriculum, handbook after racism incident causes clamor
Those who gave up are searching for jobs again
Parkwood girls qualify for nationals
See ACADeMY / 5A
What do you think about the planned curriculum and rule changes? Were
they appropriate, unneeded or not enough? Read this story online at enquirerjournal.com
and vote in the poll found at the bottom.
BY eLISABeTH ARRIeROStaff Writer
MONROELotion fetishes, N.C. state
obsessions, and an expanding waistline.
No mercy was spared at the roast of Wyatt Tommy Tucker Sr., Thursday night.
Turning Point, a domestic vio-lence shelter for women and chil-dren, targeted the former county commissioner and candidate for the N.C. Senate for its 14th an-nual roast.
“We did a survey... four out of five are in favor of his candidacy
in the Senate,” M.C. Ingram Wal-ters said. “Next week we’re go-ing to survey outside of his im-mediate family.”
Friend Sally Ormand recalled how Tucker rearranged her beach house that he was stay-ing in to reflect his love for N.C. State.
“There was just way too much Carolina blue for him,” she said. “So when we got back, there was all this N.C. State red stuff: red pillows, red rugs, red pots and pans.”
No mercy as friends, family roast politician Tucker
BY JASON DeBRUYNStaff Writer
MONROEUnion County added
more than 1,000 workers from December to Janu-ary, but its unemployment rate increased by a full percentage point as well, according to county em-ployment rates released Friday.
The unemployment rate typically increases in Jan-uary because extra retail jobs during the holidays are lost, employment offi-cials say. However, the rate also typically increases because there are fewer jobs.
This year, an increase in the unemployment rate c o u p l e d with an in-crease in the total number em-ployed could signal a bet-ter future, Monroe eco-nomic de-velopment d i r e c t o r Chris Platé said.
The unemployment rate went up despite hav-ing more jobs because
More hired, but jobless rate rises
Photo by Ed Cottingham
Tommy Tucker chuckles as his daughter, Leslie, not pictured, tells jokes about the man during Turning Point’s roast of the politician Thursday night.
Annual event benefits Turning Point
See ROAST / 3A
See JOBLeSS / 3A
Platé
Photos by Ed Cottingham
Above, Dominique Miller jumps during the team’s practice on Wednesday. At left, Kennedy Nunn is lifted by her teammates.
BY TIFFANY LANeStaff Writer
MONROE
A fter five months of practice, Park-wood Middle School cheerleaders
double-jumped their way to a state competition and qualified for nationals. They head to the Sunshine State next month.
“This is the big one,” coach Connie Trowbridge said.
It is the first time the school has made it to a national cheerleading competition, she said, and stands a good chance of winning it, too.
Even if they don’t, she said, the girls should be proud of them-
selves for making it that far.Forest Hills High cheerlead-
ers also qualified for a national event, put on by a different com-pany, over several days in Myrtle Beach, coach Michelle Black said. With a tight budget, though, the girls are sitting this one out.
There are 18 girls on Forest Hills’ varsity team. The na-tional event they qualified for costs $300 per girl, not including travel expenses, Black said.
“It’s an honor to even place in nationals,” Parkwood seventh-grader Hannah Maynor said.
Maynor is part of Carolina
JUMP!
See JUMP / 3A
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