Before the undersigned, a Notary Public of Dallas
County, Texas, duly commissioned and authorized to
administer oaths, affirmations, etc., personally
appeared Tara Pennington, who being duly sworn or
affirmed, according to law, doth depose and say that he
or she is Accounts Receivable Specialist of the News &
Observer Publishing Company, a corporation organized
and doing business under the Laws of the State of North
Carolina, and publishing a newspaper known as The
News & Observer, Wake and State aforesaid, the said
newspaper in which such notice, paper, document, or
legal advertisement was published was, at the time of
each and every such publication, a newspaper meeting
all of the requirements and qualifications of Section 1-
597 of the General Statutes of North Carolina and was a
qualified newspaper within the meaning of Section 1-597
of the General Statutes of North Carolina, and that as
such he or she makes this affidavit; and is familiar with
the books, files and business of said corporation and by
reference to the files of said publication the attached
advertisement for TOWN OF APEX was inserted in the
aforesaid newspaper on dates as follows: