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SATURDAY August 13,2011 Roxboro, North Carolina www.personcountylife.com 75 Cents ^1. > TOP BOOKS! Library director recommends back- to-schoolbooks. B1 SCRIMMAGE: Rocket volleyball squad squares off against Orange in preseason play. A6 BLENDED: PHS teachers learn about blended courses with virtual public schools. B2 HOT SHEET: Person County Sheriff's Office adds new names to Most Wanted List. A3 WHO'S#!?: Word on the Street finds out favorite football teams of Personians. A2 -]| DEATHS i[- Terry Ellen Watson Jones, 66 Roxboro Jimmie Lee McClure, 75 Roxboro Deborah Briggs Wrenn, 59 Roxboro See page A9 -iiMir- AGENDA A3 BOAT WRITES A2 BOOKS Bl CLASSIFIED BlO-11 COMMENTARY AS COURT B8 DO YOU KNOW A3 EDUCATION B2 FAITH & WORSHIP B4-5 LEGAL NOTICES Bll LIFESTYLE B3 LOOKING BACK A2 MOVIES A3 NASCAR A8 OBITUARIES A9 OPINION A4 REALTY TRANSFERS B8 SPORTS A6-7 TV LISTINGS B9 Our 129th year Number 66 Two sections 22 pages Copyright 2011 The Courier-Times Inc. I rights reserved Serving all of Person County since 1881 Couricr-®meji Public hearings on VIPER tower slated Monday BY TIM CHANDLER COURIER-TIMES EDITOR tchnniller@roxboco-courler.com The Person Board of County Commissioners will hold a pair of public hearings regarding the erection of a VIPER (Voice In teroperability Plan for Emergen cy Responders) communications tower when it meets in regular session Monday morning. The meeting will be held at 9 a.m. in the commissioners’ boardroom on the second floor of the Person County Office Build ing. Earlier this month, commis sioners agreed to move forward with allowing the North Carolina State Highway Patrol (NCSHP) to construct the tower on county- owned land off of Critcher-Wilk- erson Road. Prior to construction, howev er, a public hearing is required. The public hearings set for Mon day are to consider amending the county’s telecommunications fa cilities ordinance and planning ordinance and to consider an amendment to the county’s wire less telecommunications facili ties ordinance. The proposed VIPER tower would be 480 feet tall and would require a lOO-by-lOO-foot plat of land. The site being considered for the tower is beside Roxboro Christian Academy at the corner of Critcher-Wilkerson and Wes leyan roads. The tower and the entire plat would be secured by a fence with access available to NCSHP and necessary county personnel. The construction of the tower would be fully funded with feder al grant funds, requiring no local contribution and no requirement by the county to transition to the VIPER system. Also Monday, commissioners will hold a public hearing regard ing secondary road construction for the county in 2011-2012. Commissioners will also hear from Adam Moore, who is re questing permission to erect a Korean War monument at the Person County Courthouse as part of his Eagle Scout Leader ship Service project. Moore is the son of Herbert Moore Jr. and grandson of Mary Sue Moore. His core support committee includes them as well as Dan Whitfield Jr. and Howard Jones. BOE tables decision on lottery fnnds BY GREY PENTECOST COURIER-TIMES STAFE WRITER gteypentecost@toxboto-courier.com The Person Board of County Commissioners’ informal re quest for the transfer of Per son County Schools’ lottery funds to the county to pay on the school system’s debt was tabled Thursday night by the board of education until more information about a planned building project for the school system is received. The commissioners’ request to the school board to pay on the debt to the county with be tween $250,000 and $300,000 in lottery funds had been made during a conversation between members of the two boards: school board chair Gordon Powell and vice-chair Jimmy Wilkins, and commissioners’ chair Jimmy Clayton and vice chair Kyle Puryear. Clayton, being present at Thursday’s school board meet ing, explained to the board members the reasoning behind the request. He said that while looking over the school system’s bud get proposal, commissioners noticed that there was $1.7 mil lion in the lottery fund, which they realized the school had planned on using to relocate the Person County Learning Academy (PCLA). The commis sioners also knew, said Clayton, See BOE, Page 10 -■ -iW 3 \ GREY PENTECOST I COURIER-TIMES Eugene C. Hines Jr., CEO of Person Family Medical and Dental Center (PFMDC), addresses PFMDC employees and community leaders during a ceremony held to commemorate this week’s National Com munity Health Center Week. NATIONAL HEALTH CENTER WEEK BY GREY PENTECOST COURIER-TIMES STAFF WRITFR gteypentetost@roxboro-tourler.tom Person Family Medical and Dental Center (PFMDC) celebrat ed National Community Health Center Week (Aug. 7-13) Thursday with a luncheon and ceremony in which several state and local lead ers offered words of appreciation for the center’s work. PFMDC Outreach Coordina tor Susan Burnette shared that PFMDC was established in 1990 and was initially housed in a dou blewide trailer behind what is now Person Industries. Staff con sisted of one lab tech, one nurse. See^\mi.,Page 10 \ GREY PENTECOST I COURIER-TIMES Hall of firmer Bethel Hill Charter School Principal John Betterton was named last week to the N.C. Alliance for Public Charter Schools Hall of Fame. Betterton was one of the founding members of the alliance and the organization’s first chairman. He said he was nominated by a fel low charter school principal out of Durham. Other North Carolina charter school principals and the alliance board members voted, as a result of which Betterton was one of four selected for the honor. “To me the big honor,” said Betterton, is to be recognized by your peers, and your peers being, really, statewide.” Police presence in Cavel Village likely headed to a new level BY PHYLISS BOATWRIGHT COURIER-TIMES STAFF WRITER pboafwtight@roxboto-couriet.tom Soon, a Roxboro Police De partment officer will likely reside in Cavel Village, at a re duced rental rate. Police Chief Todd Boycher told Roxboro City Council mem bers and Mayor Samuel Spen cer this week that two officers had expressed an interest in living in a house that had been rehabilitated with funds from a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) that the city was awarded three years ago. The Cavel Village Commu nity Revitalization effort has resulted in several rehabilitated homes in what was once a run down area. The Cavel Village Neighbor hood Community Watch Group identified several concerns in Cavel Village, including shots being fired, vandalism, drug ac tivity and speeding. In part and in response to those concerns, the city purchased a house, in accordance with CDBG grant guidelines, and began rehabili tating it for the purpose of hous ing a low to moderate income police officer there at a reduced rental rate. The $930,000 CDBG grant included an “innovative activi ties” clause, according to Rox boro Planning Director Julie Maybee. Placing a police officer in the neighborhood fits that clause, she said, and will also hopefully reduce or eliminate criminal activities and encour age investment in the commu nity in Cavel Village. City council members ap proved the lease agreement in March. This week, during the regular August meeting of coun cil, Maybee asked that council members approve a rate of $300 per month for the rental price. Chief Boycher said the offi cer who rented the house would not be on call 24 hours a day, but would act as “a big brother-type protector” for the neighbor hood. The officer will also be ex pected to be a “really close point of contact in the community,” Boycher added. He said the officer would be allowed to drive an RPD vehicle See POLICE, Page 10 City Council approves new, more costly streetlights for Uptown Roxboro BY PHYLISS BOATWRIGHT COURIER-TIMES STAFF WRITER o-tourler.tom Roxboro City Council mem bers this week agreed to replace the streetlights in the Uptown business district. Progress Energy will re place the lights at no additional charge, but the monthly fee for the lighting will increase by a total of $537. The city contacted Progress Energy about the condition of the current streetlights last spring. At the April city coun cil meeting, a committee was formed that included repre sentatives from Roxboro Devel opment Group and the city’s Beautification Committee. The committee looked at the options available, and consulted Uptown merchants to determine which kind of lighting would be most appropriate. Currently, there are two types of lights in the Uptown area. One is a shoebox pole light and the other is a teardrop post light. There are 14 shoebox pole lights and 24 teardrop post lights in the area. See comm., Page W
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