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Rocket tennis squad
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ON THE LIST:
Sheriffs office
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DEATHS
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Dale Martin Adcack, 73
Raleigh
Barbara Estes Anderson,
73
Roxboro
Eleanar Montgomery
Bradsher, 94,
Roxboro
Horace Edward Jackson,
72
Durham
Lucille Clark Long, 84
Roxboro
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AGENDA
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EDITOR'S NOTES
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CLASSIFIED
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COMMENTARY
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DO YOU KNOW
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EDUCATION
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FAITH & WORSHIP
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LEGAL NOTICES
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LIFESTYLE
B5
LOOKING BACK
A2
MOVIES
A3
OBITUARIES
A9
OPINION
A4
REALTY TRANSFERS
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SCHOOL BUS ROUTES
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SPORTS
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TV LISTINGS
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Our
129th year
Number 67
Two sections
22 pages
Copyright
2011
The Courier-Times Inc.
Duke LifePoint, PMH trustees sign
agreement for aequisition of hospital
BY TIM CHANDLER
COURIER-TIMES EDITOR
tchnntller@roxboco-tourler.com
“This acquisition is an excit
ing development for our employ
ees, physicians, patients and
community.”
Those were the words of Rob-
by Jones, chairman of the Person
Memorial Hospital (PMH) Board
of Trustees Friday after it was
announced that Duke LifePoint
Healthcare and PMH had signed
a definitive agreement for Duke
LifePoint to acquire PMH.
Duke LifePoint Healthcare is a
joint venture of Duke University
Health System, Inc. and LifePoint
Hospitals.
Jones announced in June that
PMH and Duke LifePoint Health
care had entered into a memo
randum of understanding for the
acquisition of the hospital.
According to a Duke LifePoint
news release, Friday’s transac
tion “is expected to close within
the next 60 to 90 days, subject
to review and approval” by the
state’s attorney general’s office
“and fhe satisfaction of other
customary closing conditions.”
In June, Jones said that all cur
rent employees of PMH would be
guaranteed a job under the terms
of the acquisition. He also said
the employees may get better ben
efits than those they have now.
Terms of the agreement be
tween the PMH Board of Trust
ees and Duke LifePoint Health
care were not disclosed Friday
See PMH, Page 10
COURIER-TIMES FILE
Duke LifePoint Healthcare signed a definitive agreement Friday to
acquire Person Memorial Hospital.
Some changes
announcedfor
PCS bus routes
Former South students
attending Oak Lane or
Stories Creek will board
buses mueh earlier
BY GREY PENTECOST
COURIER-TIMES STAEF WRITER
greypentecost@roxboro-courler.com
With Person County Schools’ new
academic year beginning Thursday,
Aug. 25, students riding buses will
need to know when and where to
get on the bus.
According to PCS Transportation
Information Management System
Coordinator Carol Bowes, parents
of students in the South Elemen
tary district attending Oak Lane or
Stories Creek elementary schools
should pay special attention to bus
transportation details this year.
Because South was designated a
Title I School of Improvement this
year, students in the South district
had the option of attending either
Oak Lane or Stories Creek, the two
schools designated as choices by
the Person County Board of Educa
tion.
The children attending one of
the alternate options will be bused
directly to the school they will be
attending.
Bowes advised parents, “Their
children will be picked up on dif
ferent buses and generally much
earlier than they were used to when
their child was attending South.”
She added that parents should at
tend the school’s open house to find
out their child’s Tdus number, and
what time the bus will be arriving
at the stop, as well as speak with the
child’s bus driver.
Because multiple buses heading
to different schools may be coming
to any given stop in the South dis
trict, Bowes said parents and stu
dents should also check the sign in
the bus stairwell bearing the name
of the school the bus is going to. A
sign will be included in each of the
buses that are taking children in
the South district to one of the oth
er two choice schools. Parents may
also want to speak with the driver,
said Bowes, and make sure their
child is going to the right place.
All PCS children and their par-
See BUSES, Page 10
GREY PENTECOST I COURIER-TIMES
Cameron Bray fills out an information form in Wanda Bali’s class on the first day of school
at Roxboro Community School Wednesday.
‘OUTSTANDING’
Opening days go smoothly at RCS
BY GREY PENTECOST
COURIER-TIMES STAFE WRITER
greypentecosf@toxboro-courler.com
On Thursday afternoon Roxboro Commu
nity School principal Walter Finnigan chose
one word to describe the first two days of the
new school year at RCS: “outstanding.”
RCS welcomed students back on Wednes
day, and everything, Finnigan said, had gone
smoothly, from schedules to car lines.
Finnigan said students were busy getting
to know their classes and one another, as well
as getting used to a new routine.
Ninth-grader Alyssa Cheek said she was
both excited and nervous to be starting high
school this year. Cheek, who hopes to one day
become a doctor, said one of the things she
See RCS, Page 10
Raleigh man
dies in Monday
aeeident
BY TIM CHANDLER
COURIER-TIMES EDITOR
tclrandler@toxboro-courler.corrr
A Raleigh man, who was a Person
County native, died Monday as a re
sult of injuries he sustained when
the John Deere Gator he was operat
ing on Carl Adcock Road was struck
by a passenger vehicle.
Dale Martin Adcock, 73, died
Monday in the Duke University
Medical Center Trauma Unit. He
had been transported via medical
helicopter to Duke after initially be
ing taken by Person County EMS to
Person Memorial Hospital.
According to investigating North
Carolina Highway Patrol Trooper
B.B. Fleetwood, Adcock was driving
the John Deere Gator north on Carl
Adcock Road when he was struck by
a 2005 Chevrolet, which was driven
by David Stephens, 32, of 584 Hazel
Lawson Rd.
The accident occurred at approx
imately 12:30 p.m., 9.2 miles north
east of Roxboro.
Trooper Fleetwood said Friday
that Stephens was cited for careless
and reckless driving and driving
while license revoked.
A memorial service for Adcock
was held Friday in Raleigh.
Voter registration
will be offered
at Personality
BYPHYLISS BOATWRIGHT
COURIER-TIMES STAFF WRITER
D-tourler.tom
The Person County Board of
Elections will hold a voter registra
tion drive at the upcoming Personal
ity Festival on Saturday, Aug. 27 for
those who need to register or those
who need to update their voter in
formation.
According to Board of Elections
Director Brenda Whitlow, “In prep
aration for the upcoming Munici
pal Election, which will be held on
Gct.ll, and the 2012 May primary
the Person County Board of Elec-
.S’ee VOTE, Page 10
Amanda Weaver is eounty’s new
Children Serviees librarian
BYPHYLISSBOAIWRIGHT
COURIER-TIMES STAFF WRITER
pboatwrlght@roxboro-coutler.com
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Amanda Weaver is the new Children Services librarian for the Per
son County Public Library.
Amanda Weaver has joined the
staff of the Person County Pub
lic Library, as Children Services
librarian.
“We’re delighted to have
Amanda join the library staff as
our new children’s librarian,”
Library Director Christy Bondy
said Wednesday
Bondy, who served as chil
dren’s librarian before stepping
up as director last Gctober, said
Weaver was “settling in” quite
well in her new role.
Weaver grew up in a library
Her mother worked at the Hen
derson County Public Library for
most of Weaver’s childhood.
“Since the age of 10, I have
known that I wanted to do some
thing in the library field,” Weaver
said this week. “I remember read
ing in those quiet corners books
in a variety of genres. I found
that books had a special hold on
me. The people and the stories,
the active intelligence of whatev-
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