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Our 129th Year — No. 19
Roxboro, North Carolina
Two Sections — 24 Pages
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Work begins on Farmers' Market
structure on Madison Boulevard
PHYLISS BOATWRIGHT
C-T Staff Writer
pboatwright@roxboro-courier.com
Work began this week on the Person
County Farmers’ Market structure on
Madison Boulevard.
Mick Clayton of Mick Clayton’s
Butler Buildings in Hurdle Mills was
pouring concrete for footings Friday
morning in front of Person Industries,
at 601 N. Madison Blvd., where the
market will be located.
The facility, which was first dubbed
the Roxboro Farmers’ Market, will now
be titled the Person County Farmers’
Market in order to distinguish itself
from the farmers’ market that has oper
ated in the City of Roxboro parking lot
near Long Memorial United Methodist
Church.
Thenewfarmers’ market grand open
ing was originally scheduled for last
summer. Complications with a former
contractor forced the date of the grand
opening back, however.
The market did operate last year, on
Wednesdays and Saturdays, but vendors
sold their products from temporary
tents in the parking lot.
Person County Extension Director
Derek Day told county commissioners
at a recent meeting that the original
contractor for the proj ect had been fired
and that Clayton would now construct
the building.
Day said the opening date for the mar
ket this year had been set for April 30.
The grand opening. Day continued,
will likely be held the second Saturday
in June.
“This will become a destination, not
an afterthought,” Day told commission
ers, adding that consumers will be guar
anteed of the “integrity of the product”
they purchase.
“Everything there will be locally
grown, within 75 miles,” Day added.
The farmers’ market structure will be
a 100-foot long by 45-foot wide building.
The building will hold 10 spaces, each of
which will be 10 feet long, where growers
can sell their products.
When the market opens this year,
operating hours will be 8 a.m. to noon
on Saturdays and 3 to 7 p.m. on Wednes
days.
Phyliss Boatwright / C-T
FINALLY — Progress can finally be seen at the location for the Person
County Farmers' Market on Madison Boulevard. Crews began pouring
footings for the structure Friday morning.
State port authority
aids in search for man
missing at Mayo Lake
By TIM CHANDLER
Courier-Times Editor
tchandler@roxboro-courier.com
Tim Chandler / C-T
STILL SEARCHING — Person County Sheriff Dewey Jones and other state and area authorities continued
their search of Mayo Lake for the body of Chad Napier this week. Napier was reported missing on Jan. 31.
Rescue crews continued their recov
ery effort for the body of Chad Napier in
earnest this week at Mayo Lake.
Person County Sheriff Dewey Jones,
reached via cell phone Friday afternoon
aboard a boat at Mayo Lake, said Fri
day’s search by the sheriff’s office was
being aided by the North Carolina Port
Authority and the Mecklenburg County
(Va.) Sheriff’s Office.
As part of Friday’s recovery effort,
Jones said rescuers were using a robotic
camera and had been, “running that all
over the bottom of the lake.”
Also Thursday and Friday, crews were
using sonar above the water and under
the water, according to Jones.
The state port authority has been aid
ing the search for the past three days and
Mecklenburg County has been at Mayo
Lake to assist in the search throughout
the week.
Multiple local, state and regional
agencies have searched for Napier since
he was reported missing shortly after
noon on Jan. 31. As of Monday, total
man hours spent on the search was
nearly 1,700.
Napier, 32, of 275 Crystal Springs
Rd. in Timberlake had reportedly gone
out for a canoe ride in the early morn
ing hours of Jan. 31. He was reported
missing by Alan Brent Foushee, 40,
of 163 Anderbrock Dr. Foushee 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.
Jones said earlier this week that with
the exception of “a couple of days”
when the weather would not permit a
search, crews have been on the water
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'Chad isn't loss in
the eyes of God'
Friends and family gather Thursday night
at Mayo Lake for candlelight vigil for Napier
By GREY PENTECOST
C-T Staff Writer
greypentecost@roxboro-courier.com
A large group gathered at the Mayo
Lake boat landing Thursday night for a
candlelight vigil held for Chad Napier,
who was reported missing on Jan. 31.
The crowd huddled close to a lighted
picnic area, where there was music,
prayer and a time when family and
friends of Napier shared memories and
condolences.
As people assembled around 8 p.m.,
Napier’s mother, Linda Napier, thanked
everyone for coming out. The Rev.
Norman Talley then led the group in
prayer.
“Chad isn’t lost in the eyes of God,”
Talley said before praying. He added,
“Nothing in the universe will give you
the hope that Jesus has.”
Napier’s brother, Allen Napier, was
among those to speak.
He said, “I want to start off by telling
everybody [who’s] here tonight, from the
bottom of my heart, I really appreciate
you being here.”
Allen said that one thing a lot of
people didn’t know about his brother
was that he “had a heart of gold” and
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Grey Pentecost / C-T
NOTE TO CHAD — An attendee at the candlelight vigil held for Chad
Napier Thursday night signs the guestbook on a table set up by the
boat ramp at Mayo Lake. Napier was reported missing on Jan. 31.
Farmers facing dry conditions as planting season starts
By PHYLISS BOATWRIGHT
C-T Staff Writer
pboatwright@roxboro-courier.com
Recent rains have been “nice,” but,
according to Person County Cooperative
Extension Director Derek Day, “we’re
still very dry”
Rains this week brought from a half
inch to eight-tenths of an inch of pre
cipitation to Person County fields, Day
said, which “was OK,” but not enough
to recover from a deficit created by an
unusually dry winter.
He said the first week of March should
not present the dry conditions farmers
are now facing.
“Ponds are down,” Day said of water
levels, and “it is rare when water evapo
rates in winter.”
Although the county had received
higher than average snowfall this winter.
Day said that it takes 10 inches of snow
to equal one inch of rainfall.
This week’s rain “freshened every
thing up,” said Day, but didn’t wet fields
enough to keep farmers from plowing
and fertilizing.
He added that tobacco growers had
finished seeding in greenhouses and
would start to work on tobacco fields
next week.
Farmers in the county are also busy
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By GREY PENTECOST
C-T Staff Writer
greypentecost@roxboro-courier.com
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The night of Wednesday, Jan. 26 was a
cold, drizzly one in Roxboro. At around
10:30 p.m., a time when most people are
settling down at home, volunteers in
Roxboro and in towns across the country
were out searching for those who had no
place to call “home.”
The volunteers were participating
in the annual “point in time” count ad
ministered according to the guidelines
of the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD).
The count has to be conducted each
year in order for a county to receive fund
ing from HUD. Person County has been
participating for the past three years
and now for the first time will be able
to provide HUD-funded rental subsidies
to homeless persons with disabilities
through the Orange Person Chatham
Area Authority (OPC). The assistance
falls under the Shelter Care Plus pro
gram, which requires clients to stay in
a treatment program and pay 30 percent
of their income toward rent and utilities
anywhere in the county that will accept
HUD subsidies. OPC sees that the rest
of the housing expenses are paid with
the grant money.
Person County received seven vouch-
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