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Our 129th Year — No. 18
Roxboro, North Carolina
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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-
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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.
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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
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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-
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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.
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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
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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.