The Courier Times Weather Outlook TODAY: Hi 62 Lo 33 THURSDAY; Hi 51 Lo 34 FRIDAY; Hi 51 Lo43 WEDNESDAY, March 1, 2011 Serving All of Person County Since 1881 Copyright The Courier-Times inc. 2011 All Rights Reserved IH Our 129th Year — No. 18 Roxboro, North Carolina Two Sections — 18 Pages www.personcountylite.com Search for Napier continues at Mayo Lake Family plans candlelight vigil Thursday night; aid sought from U.S. Navy By TIM CHANDLER Courier-Times Editor tchandler@roxboro-courier.com Chad Napier It’s been 30 days since the searchbeganforthebodyof Chad Napier at Mayo Lake. Rescue crews from multiple local, state and regional agencies immediately began searchingfor Napier when he was reported missing shortly after noon on Monday, Jan. 31. Napier, 32, of 275 Crystal Springs Rd. in Timberlake had reportedly gone out for a canoe ride in the early morning hours of Jan. 31. According to a Person County Sheriff’s Office report, Alan Brent Foushee, 40, of 163 Ander- brock Dr. told authorities Napier yelled for help from the cold waters of Mayo Lake and that he swam out to try and save him, but was unsuccessful. The water temperature of Mayo Lake on Jan. 31 was 39 degrees, according to Sheriff Dewey Jones. Since Jan. 31, rescue workers have scoured an area of Mayo Lake near Buck Street Road searching for Napier’s body As of the end of the day on Monday, the multiple rescue agencies had logged nearly 1,700 man hours in an attempt to locate Napier’s body “There has only been a couple of days that there hasn’t been someone out there on the water and those were days where the wind was so bad it was not safe, ” Jones said. “All areas of interest have been checked by divers.” Search and rescue efforts are also planned for the remainder of this week. Family members and friends of Napier have planned a candle light vigil at the Mayo Lake boat landing Thursday night. “At this point, the family needs closure and is asking the governor to call in the Navy or the Coast Guard to get this man returned to his family, so they have a proper burial,” Angela Higgins wrote in a letter pub lished in today’s edition. “The family is asking Person County citizens to come and show their support [at the vigil]. “We need to show the rest of North Carolina that we may be a small community, but we have a big heart,” Higgins added. Jones said Tuesday that at- See SEARCH back page City begins stormwater management talks Tuesday By PHYLISS BOATWRIGHT C-T Staff Writer pboatwright@roxboro-courier.com Roxboro City Council held a work session yesterday to discuss possible ways to go about implementing and paying for a storm water management program that is mandated by the state, but no formal action was taken. Josh Johnson, engineer with Alley, Williams, Carmen and King, Inc. laid out several options for funding the storm water program, which is ordered but not funded by the state. Johnson said there were three basic options for paying for the program, which include funding through taxes, charging a flat fee to utilities customers or charging a fee based on the amount of impervious area on each parcel of land in the city. The easiest option, said Johnson, would be to add a flat fee onto the water biU, but that may not be the fairest, because small landowners would pay the same amount as large commercial properties that create much more runoff If the fee is added onto the tax bill, nonprofits and governmental prop erties will have to be identified and billed. If the city were to charge according to ERU, or Equivalent Residential Unit impervious areas, property owners with larger areas would pay more. This method of billing is more costly for cit ies to set up and maintain, however. See ROXBORO back page Photo submitted by Louisiana-Pacific PARTY TIME — The Louisiana-Pacific plant in Roxboro celebrated one million safe working hours during a ceremony with employers and visitors on Monday. Louisiana-Pacific celebrates 1 million injury-free hours By GREY PENTECOST C-T Staff Writer greypentecost@roxboro-courier.com “Take pride. Today is significant and we need to recognize it as such,” said Louisiana-Pacific’s Roxhoro Plant Manager Wayne Young to LP employ ees Monday afternoon. The cause of the celebration was the Roxboro mill’s achievement of over one million hours worked without an OSHA recordable injury. LP employees and visitors gathered Monday for a special ceremony and luncheon, during which the award was presented by LP Corp. Chief Executive Officer Rick Frost. “Most companies used to talk about accumulating a million hours of safe work, and what they were talking about is a million hours since their last lost time accident,” said Frost. “The million hours that we talk about here is the last time somebody got so much as a stitch or a prescription medicine from the doctor.” The Roxboro mill, a manufacturer of Oriented Strand Board, has gone almost four years with no recordable injuries. According to a press release, LP mea sures its safety performance by a higher standard than some manufacturers, using an OSHA recordable injury as its benchmark. As stated in the release, “An OSHA recordable is any occupational injury or illness that requires medical treatment See LOUISIANA back page No interim city manager named by council Tuesday By PHYLISS BOATWRIGHT C-T Staff Writer pboatwright@roxboro-courier.com During a closed session meeting Monday, Roxboro City Council mem bers took no action toward naming an interim city manager or deciding how they will begin the search for a successor to Manager Jon Barlow, who will step down March 25 to assume a similar position in Fuquay-Varina on April 1. The closed session meeting was held following a work session in which council members discussed the implementation of a new storm water management program that has been mandated by the state. Barlow later said he asked for the closed session so that he could sit down with council members as a group and discuss the transition. “This was the first chance I’d had since the announcement” that he was leaving Roxboro, said Barlow, “to sit down with [council] as a group. I want ed them to know that I want to make sure the process goes as smoothly as possible” in carrying on after he leaves, he explained. He added, “Council needs to think about this and how they are going to work through” getting a new manager in place. But in the end. Bar- low said, “I really don’t have much to do with it. It will be up to city council” to make the final decisions. Mayor Samuel Spencer was hospi- See NO backpage PCGPP completes gang assessment study By GREY PENTECOST C-T Staff Writer greypentecost@roxboro-courier.com The Person County Gang Preven tion Partnership (PCGPP) recently completed a county gang assessment and is hoping to get the community involved in strategies to prevent youth gang involvement. The report was created by a team of researchers the PCGPP was able to con tract with through the help of a grant the county received last year. Surveys were created for students, school staff, law enforcement and the community. The data was analyzed and a report generated. The partnership gave its first pre sentation of the report to the Person County Board of Education earlier this month and plans to continue sharing the findings with the community, said PCGPP Chair David Carter. INSIDE Wednesday Agenda Classified Do You Know... Entertainment. Legal Notices.. Looking Back.. Movies Sports .... A2 Boatwright . B6-7 Commentary A3 Editorial B2 Extension Notes.. B7 Lifestyle A3 Mini-Page A2 Obituaries . A6-7 TV Listings A2 AS A4 B8 ..B4-5 AS A9 B3 0 8 6 9 6 Of the 1,850 middle and high school students surveyed, nine percent in dicated that they were “currently a member of a gang.” However, partnership member Mar garet Bradsher said she was struck by the number of students who said they were not in a gang, but answered the rest of the survey questions the same as those who had admitted gang mem bership, which indicated that they were involved but just weren’t admitting it. Of the community members sur veyed, Carter said a direct correla tion was found between community awareness and credibility. Community awareness forums were held last year during which those in attendance were educated on gangs in Person County and asked to fill out a survey to assess their awareness of gang activity in the county. Several gang prevention recommen dations were included at the end of the report, and involved various community groups. Carter said he hopes funding can be generated for the efforts and that grassroots organizations will “come forward” and help assist schools in providing services to youth. The PCGPP also plans to apply for funding through state and federal grants. Carter said Person County is eli gible to receive at least $25,000 through the American Reinvestment and Recov ery Act in the upcoming fiscal year to See PCGPP back page 2-TIME STATE CHAMP! Photo by Jim Montoya STATE CHAMPION, AGAIN — Person senior heavyweight Collin Campbell (right) tangles with Riles Deven of Fayetteville Seventy-First in Campbell's state quarterfinal victory. He rolled to a second consecutive individual 4A state championship this past weekend in Greensboro. See page A6 for more on the story.

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