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IN SPORTS: THE tokes ews Thursday, S incorporating the Danbury ReporterN and King Times News Stokes County, NC: JULY 29, 2010 Printed on 100% recycled paper 75¢ Home of Hanging Rock published every Thursday •YEAR MMX, NO. 30 www.thestokesnews.com Connecting communities with news for life Routine bicycle ride turns deadly in King Raises questions of how to prevent accidents between bicycles and vehicles By Leslie Bray Evans day. Stevens reported that Sink tentially dangerous incidents he News Editor said she never even saw the riders. has encountered on local roads. The call came in to Stokes Coun- McGee admits that he wouldn’t Tragedy befell two cyclists who ty EMS at 7:44 a.m. EMS workers, ride, e.g., on Highways 65 or 8 dur- were out for their regular bicycle along with King Fire Department, ing rush hour. He also avoids King run early on Friday morning, July responded to scene. There they and Walnut Cove as a rule, as well 23. One of them, Donald Sunday, found Sunday already deceased. as Danbury at certain times. But lost his life in a deadly accident The EMS transported Leonard to that doesn’t necessarily cramp his while the other, Barry Leonard, re- Baptist by ground in an ambu- style. mains in Wake Forest University lance. “We’ve got all these farm to mar- Baptist Medical Center in good According to a report filed by ket roads,” McGee points out that condition. WXII News Channel 12, no the county is full of country roads The morning began innocently charges have been filed against built years ago to enable farmers enough as Sunday, 62, and Sink yet. The District Attorney will to take their crops to warehouses Leonard, 49, were riding their bi- make a decision in this case short- to sell. He says these roads are cycles on Trinity Church Road in ly. prime sites for bicycling, “now that King. According to Stokes County Tony McGee of Germanton, di- the [tobacco] market is in decline.” Emergency Medical Services Di- rector of StokesCORE, is currently There are some simple things rector Monty Stevens, the two directing the building of bicycle both motorists and cyclists can do were making their routine loop trails up at Camp Sertoma in to avoid tragedy on the road. “It’s around the area. Stevens said that Westfield. He is an avid cyclist often a matter of inattention,” they rode their bikes along this himself, estimating that he has McGee pinpoints what he believes route on a regular basis for exer- ridden probably 20,000 miles on is the core reason for such acci- cise purposes. Although Sunday Stokes County roads. dents. was from Winston-Salem, he came Although he was disturbed to A starting point is for vehicle out to ride with Leonard who lives hear of this accident in King, drivers to realize that according in King. McGee insists that Stokes County to North Carolina laws, bicyclers Leslie Bray Evans/The Stokes News Linda Sink, a 51-year-old King is still a great place for bicyclers. “I have the same rights to the Stokes County is becoming a haven for bicyclists, such as these resident, was driving her Jeep think it’s one of the safest places road. “Biking is a legal use on who entered the annual bicycle race at Walnut Cove’s Walnut along the same route and hit both around,” he declares. He notes that anything other than an inter- Festival. After a cyclist was killed in King on Friday, “Share the riders a little before 8 a.m. on Fri- he can count on one hand the po- See BICYCLES, page A2 Road” safety has come to the forefront. Opium/heroin A river rescue at Moratock Park trafficking charges in Fourteen-year-old saves two grown men By Leslie Bray Evans King bring high bond News Editor By Leslie Bray Evans Fourteen-year-old Rod- News Editor ney “Dwight” Adams Jr. of King thought he was A man who was arrested simply going to a birth- after trying to have a dead day party at Moratock person’s prescription filled Park on July 17. He had is in jail on a $500,000 no idea that in a split sec- bond. ond on that stormy Sat- Bryan Jeffrey Asbury, urday, he would make a age 27, of Bowens Road in decision that would Tobaccoville, visited the change his life and two Stokes Pharmacy in King other lives forever. last week in an attempt to Before the day ended, get Hydrocodone via the Dwight would jump into deceased person’s prescrip- the Dan River and save a tion. The King Police De- Bryan Jeffrey Asbury father and son from partment was called to the drowning. pharmacy on Tuesday, July in Stokes County. July 17 dawned rainy, 20, at 2 p.m. to investigate But the drama was not threatening plans for a the strange situation. over with Asbury’s arrest. birthday party for When Asbury claimed While the investigation Dwight’s aunt. Nonethe- the prescription issued to went on inside Stokes less, Dwight’s mother, the deceased person, Sgt. Pharmacy, investigators Tammy Thomas, and oth- Brewer arrested him. The realized that there was ers decided to move for- suspect was then charged someone waiting in As- ward with the plans for with two counts of Felony bury’s nearby vehicle. That Tammy’s sister. Trafficking in person was Randy Bruce The sister, who had Opium/Heroin, Felony Pos- Moon, age 48, of Doral Dri- just moved into an apart- session with Intent to Sell ve in Tobaccoville. ment in Winston-Salem, Submitted photo and Deliver Schedule I drove up to Danbury, Dwight Adams, 14, of King, jumped into the swollen Dan River to save two adults Controlled Substances, As it turned out, Moon was a wanted man. Out- bringing with her two of from drowning. and Felony Possession her new neighbors, a man With Intent to Sell and standing warrants for him were on record for Failure and his 26-year-old son ter at Moratock Park. near the rocks below the steadily fell. Suddenly he Delivery Schedule IV Con- As the festivities con- shelter. He waded in heard screaming from out trolled Substances. to Appear. He, too, was ar- who has cerebral palsy. tinued throughout the about knee-deep and be- in the current. Magistrate Cardwell rested and issued a $1,000 There, family and friends Just before him, rapid- then issued the bond, and secured bond. His court gathered for the cook- day, Dwight meandered gan skipping rocks across Asbury’s initial court date date is set for August 24 in out/party under the shel- down to the river bank, the water as the rain See RIVER, page A2 was scheduled for July 21 Stokes County. Wreck in Westfield kills two Two more candidates Staff reports Patrol. He ran off the “The black pickup truck nounced dead on the scene. file for school board right shoulder of the road had been burnt and two They were transported to A single-vehicle accident as he traveled through a people were pinned inside, J.R. Jones Medical Center With filing for the Stokes Already, two other can- resulted in the death of two left-hand curve. the driver and a passen- in King before being taken County Board of Education didates have filed for those Westfield men Wednesday Vaughn hit two highway ger,” said Beck of what he on to Wake Forest Univer- set to close on Friday, July seats. Another incumbent, afternoon just inside the markers before hitting a found when he arrived on sity Baptist Medical Cen- 30, at noon, two more candi- Colon Moore, 42, of King, dates have filed to run. One was the first to throw his Stokes County line. tree. The vehicle continued the scene. The fire had al- ter for autopsies. Luther Clayton of the incumbents, Bill Hart, hat into the ring when fil- along the shoulder where ready been extinguished by According to Beck, the 62, of Lawsonville, will now ing opened. He, Hart and Vaughn, 61, was driving a it struck a second tree. Francisco and Westfield investigation into the black Chevrolet pickup be on the November ballot. Smith are joined in the Beck said the truck then volunteer fire departments. crash is complete for the David L. Smith, 61, of King, race by Jamie Yontz, 35, truck east on N.C. 89 at “a spun around and struck a Vaughn was wearing a most part. He is just wait- has also made official his de- from Walnut Cove who high rate of speed” around third tree before coming to seat belt. However, Roger ing on autopsy reports. sire to win one of the three filed to run as well. 2 p.m., according to Troop- a rest on the shoulder of Wilson, 53, the passenger Vaughn and Wilson lived seats that will become avail- The three seats up for er Joseph Beck with the the road facing north in the vehicle, was not. at the same residence on able on the school board af- grabs now belong to Hart, North Carolina Highway where it caught on fire. Both men were pro- N.C. 89 in Westfield. ter the November election. Moore and Steve Shelton. Quote of the Week: Inside Sports....................................B1 The bond that links Editorial................................A4 What’s Going On.................A6 your true family is Church page.........................A8 Friends andNeighbors.........A9 This not one of blood, but of respect and joy in SECU scholarships awarded New art exhibit each other's life.

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