SATURDAY July 30,2011 Roxboro, North Carolina www.personcountylife.com 75 Cents Serving all of Person County since 1881 Couricr-®mejr TOUGH LOSS! Roxboro s 16 & under baseball squadfalb in state title series. A6 HOLY RIDE: Teed My Sheep' bikers aid homeless with ride from Rou- gemontUMC B4 NCSU CAMP: BHCS student attends Woljpack BasketballAcadeny courtesy of Pied mont EMC. B13 BUTCH CHAT: Personians offer opinions on UNCls firing of football coach Butch Davis this week. A2 -]| DEATHS i[- Exie Clayton Carr, 99 Roxboro Betty Gray Dienstfrei, 81 Roxboro Susan Dixon, 47 Roxboro Peggy Jane Meadows Painter, 81 Semora William Graham Thomas III, 52 West Palm Beach, Fla. Reginald Crews Yarhoro, 81 Roxboro See page All -IDMaE- AGENDA A2 BOOKS Bl CLASSIFIED Bll-12 COMMENTARY AS COURT B6 DO YOU KNOW A2 EDUCATION B2 EAITH & WORSHIP B4-5 GREY MATTERS A2 LEGAL NOTICES B12 LIEESTYLE B3 LOOKING BACK A2 MOVIES A3 MOVIES A3 OBITUARIES All OBITUARIES All OPINION A4 REALTY TRANSFERS B6 SPORTS A6-7 TV LISTINGS B8 Our 129th year Number 61 Two sections 26 pages Copyright 2011 The Courier-Times Inc. I rights reserved WALKER INSURANCE AGENCY, INC. HOME, AUTO, LIFE, COMMERCIAL EST. 1895 .y • • • • • • • • • • • TIM CHANDLER I COURIER-TIMES IT'S HOTH! Person County has been mired in a sizzling heat wave for the better part of two weeks now and Friday was no different. In the photo above, the temperature had soared to the century mark at a Madison Boulevard business by noontime. We also spotted the temperaure above the 100-degree mark at a separate business in Roxboro Friday morning prior to 11:30 a.m. In the photo at right, the temperature crept over 100 degrees earlier this week at a residence in Semora. The thermometer was located in the shade underneath a screened, covered porch. Things are likely to continue sizzling for the next few days, according to the National Weather Service. The forecast high for today is 97 degrees with a high only expected to creep slightly above 90 degrees on Sunday before roaring back near 100 degrees by early next week. VICKI BERRY I COURIER-TIMES TEACHERS TEACHING TEACHERS IN PCS BY GREY PENTECOST COURIER-TIMES STAFF WRITER greypentecost@roxboto-courler.com Person County Schools teach ers will have the opportunity to participate in professional de velopment sessions led by their fellow teachers this summer, through the new “T3 Profession al Development.” T3 (Teachers Teaching Teach ers) was developed by Paula Chandler, PCS program special ist for professional development, grant writing and public infor mation. With no funds budgeted for professional development in the coming school year, Chandler said that as professional develop ment director, she had to think about how to provide teachers with quality professional devel opment with no funding. Chandler said she began to think about the professional de velopment workshops that were most beneficial to her when she was a classroom teacher. She con cluded that the most worthwhile sessions were always the ones lead by teachers who were in the classroom at the time. Chandler added that teachers view master teachers who they see “walking in their shoes” and having success in the classroom as having a lot of “credibility.” After sending out a district wide survey asking educators if they felt they had resources or skills that could benefit other teachers. Chandler said she was pleased to get 15 responses from teachers working within a vari ety of grade levels. The sessions will be offered on Aug. 11 and 16, and teachers have been given the opportunity to register. Chandler said she chose to hold the workshops before school starts because that seems to be the time when teachers are most “motivated and excited about learning something new.” Many of the sessions, noted Chandler, revolve around the use of technology in the classroom. The Person County Board of Education recently approved a new district-level requirement in which certified personnel renew ing their licenses in June 2012 should have one CEU (10 contact hours) in technology as part of the CEUs required by the state. Starting in 2014, personnel will be required to have two CEUs in technology. The technology-based T3 ses sions, said Chandler, will allow See\%, Page 12 Occupancy tax public hearing set Monday BY PHYLISS BOATWRIGHT COURIER-TIMES STAFF WRITER pboafwright@roxboro-courler.com The Person County Board of Commissioners will hold a public hearing Monday to hear comments on whether the county should levy an ad ditional one percent room oc cupancy tax. The public hearing will be held before the regular Aug. 1 meeting begins. House Bill 518 was passed by the state legislature in June, giving the county authority to increase the occupancy tax rate for motels, hotels and bed and breakfasts in Person County. Funds raised from the ad ditional tax would go to sup port tourism and travel in the county According to the ratified bill, “Person County shall on a quarterly basis, remit the net proceeds of the occupancy tax to the Person County Tourism Development Authority” The bill goes on to state, “The Au thority shall use at least two- thirds of the funds remitted to it under this subsection to promote travel and tourism in See MEETING, Page 12 Person’s jobless rate remains at 9.9% BY TIM CHANDLER COURIER-TIMES EDITOR fchan(ller@roxboto-couriet.com For the second consecutive month. Person County’s un employment rate remained just below 10 percent in June, according to numbers released Friday by the Employment Se curity Commission (ESC) of North Carolina. After inching up by 0.1 per cent to 9.9 percent in May, Per son County’s unemployment rate held steady at 9.9 percent in June, according to Friday’s ESC numbers. One year ago. Person Coun ty had a jobless rate of 11.2 percent in the month of June. Statewide, the unemploy ment rate increased in 91 of North Carolina’s 100 counties in June after it had decreased in 40 counties one month ear lier. Jobless rates decreased statewide in six counties and remained the same in two oth er counties in addition to Per son. Unemployment rates in creased in all 14 of the state’s SeeUHmPlOmim, Page 12 PERSON COUNTY SCHOOLS Preparing siudenis for suceesi in a e/janging world New logo developed to mateh sehools’ mission statement BY GREY PENTECOST COURIER-TIMES STAFF WRITER greypenfetosf@roxboto-touriet.tori Person County Schools (PCS) is now releasing a new logo, following recent updates of its vision and mission state ments. “The mission of Person County Schools is to pre pare students for success in a changing world,” the new mis sion statement reads. PCS Program Specialist for Grant Writing, Professional Development and Public Infor mation Paula Chandler said that since the new statements “brought [PCS] into the 21®‘ century,” the system wanted to do the same with the logo. The old logo, with the ap ple (formed from the letters “PCA’) sitting on top of the book, was introduced around 1992, said Chandler. There is no evidence of a logo prior to that time, she said. In developing a new logo. See PCS, Page 12 Proposed redistricdng maps likely headed for le^ BY PHYLISS BOATWRIGHT COURIER-TIMES STAFF WRITER pboalwrigbf@toxboro-courier.com The North Carolina General Assembly approved redistricting maps this week that could change the make up of state Senate and House districts, and the US. con gressional district in which Per son County lies. State Rep. W.A. (Winkie) Wilkins, D-Person, said Friday that the changes involving his district, which now includes all of Person and a section of north ern Durham County, could put him in contention with fellow Democrat, Rep. Jim Crawford in Granville County Crawford, a (Jranville County native, has served 14 terms in the House of Representatives. The newly drawn District 2, should it survive a court chal lenge that Wilkins said would be a certainty, would have Wilkins representing all of Person and portions of southern Granville County, with the exclusion of “one little old finger that includes [Crawford’s] hometown,” Wilkins said earlier this week. According to the maps ap- Sce REDISTRICTING, Page 12 North Carolina’s proposed U.S. Congressional districts

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