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Our
129th year
Number 70
Three sections
22 pages
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2011
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Council close to hiring new city manager
BY PHYLISS BOATWRIGHT
COURIER-TIMES STAEE WRITER
pbootwright@roxboto-touriet.com
Roxboro City Council is close
to hiring a new city manager.
Mayor Sam Spencer said Tues
day that he and council members
had narrowed the field of 46 can
didates down to a final few and
would likely “he able to extend
an offer to the successful candi
date” in two weeks or less.
He said the council had “com
pleted the initial interviews”
with finalists and was now “gath
ering information for a final as
sessment in selecting a new man
ager.”
Spencer said council would
meet again next week to make
that assessment, and hopeful
ly make an offer the following
week.
The mayor said council mem
bers had originally set October
as the date of hire for the new
manager, who will succeed Jon
Barlow, who left in March to
take over as Fuquay Varina town
manager.
Spencer said the month of Oc
tober was chosen as the target
date because, by the time council
had advertised for the position,
as required by statutes, allowed
time for candidates to submit ap
plications, and narrowed down
the field, the successful candidate
would need time to work a notice
in his or her current position.
Advertisements for the Rox
boro city manager position ran
from early April, shortly after
Barlow resigned, until July 15.
The city advertised in the League
of Municipalities’ newsletter.
Southern Cities, and in newspa
pers.
Spencer noted that, given the
economic situation in the state
and nation now, “There are a lot
of well-qualified people out there
looking for work.”
Since Barlow left on March 25,
Assistant City Manager Tommy
Warren has served as interim
manager. He has been on staff
See CITY, Page 10
Roxboro Mayor Sam Spencer
Person’s jobless
rate elimbs to
10.4 pereent in July
BY TIM CHANDLER
COURIER-TIMES EDITOR
tcbondletQioxboro-courier.com
After remaining just below
10 percent for two consecu
tive months. Person County’s
unemployment rate climbed
above that threshold in July,
according to numbers released
Friday by the Employment Se
curity Commission (ESC) of
North Carolina.
Person County’s jobless rate,
which had remained steady at
9.9 percent in May and June,
climbed 0.5 percent in July to
10.4 percent, according to Fri
day’s ESC numbers.
One year ago. Person Coun
ty had an unemployment rate
of 10.9 percent in July
Statewide, the unemploy
ment rate decreased in 48 of
North Carolina’s 100 counties
in July after it increased in 91
counties in June.
Jobless rates in July state
wide increased in 39 counties
and remained the same in 13.
Rates decreased in 11 of the
state’s Metropolitan Statistical
Areas, increased in two and re
mained the same in one.
Not seasonally adjusted,
government sector job loss off-
UN EMPLOYMENT, Page 10
RPDK-9 Officer Danny
receives bulletproof vest
BY GREY PENTECOST
COURIER-TIMES STAFF WRITER
gteypentecost@roxboro-courier.com
Danny works for the Rox
boro Police Department (RPD).
His job involves apprehending
criminals and working in nar
cotic detection.
Danny is also a dog, and like
his human counterparts in
the department, he sometimes
faces situations where he could
be at high risk for bodily harm.
Now Danny will have the same
protection the officers do, as
the RPD was recently granted
a bulletproof vest for Danny
through the Colorado-based
non-profit organization Kevlar
for K9s.
Roxboro Police Sgt. Daniel
Roberson thought of K-9 Danny
after the department received a
vest grant for its officers, which
was used to provide new vests
for officers whose vests were
about to expire. However, when
ordering the vests earlier this
month, he discovered that the
grant didn’t cover K-9s. Rober
son then turned to lACP Net,
an online network through the
International Association of
Chiefs of Police that the depart
ment had been a member of for
less than two weeks. In search
ing the network’s database for
grants, he found the Kevlar for
K9s Web site, put in a request
for a vest, and within the same
day the department had been
approved at no cost for a vest
worth almost $800.
According to Roxboro Po
lice Chief Todd Boycher, initial
membership into lACP Net cost
around $800, and was included
as part of the department’s
“small capital outlay” this past
year. In addition to grants,
membership with the network
allows the department access
to policies, programs and peer
communication, among other
things. With one grant, Boycher
said, the initial cost was cov
ered, and any other benefits the
department receives through
the network will be extra.
Danny’s handler. Officer
Chris Cates, is glad to have
the extra protection for his K-9
partner. He said he was grate-
See^VH.PagelO
Tyler Deion Bowes-McCoy
‘What happened to
him was so unfair’
Roxboro woman wants story of grandson’s death told
BY PHYLISS BOATWRIGHT
COURIER-TIMES STAFF WRITER
pboatwright@roxboto-courier.com
Tyler Deion Bowes-McCoy
was born prematurely on June
5, 2007. He also died prematurely,
from an apparent brutal beating.
on Oct. 4, 2009.
Last month, a jury in Pittsyl
vania County, Va. convicted a
36-year-old nurse of second de
gree murder for Tyler’s death,
and recommended a prison sen
tence of 40 years.
Stephanie Scates was dating
Tyler’s father at the time of the
child’s death. She agreed to keep
Tyler while his dad watched a
football game with friends. The
child was rushed to the hospital
later that night, with 25 head in-
See UNFAIR, Page 10
Eugene C. Hines is new CEO of PEMDC
BY GREY PENTECOST
COURIER-TIMES STAFF WRITER
gteypentecost@roxboto-couriet.com
PFMDC CEO EUGENE C. HINES
New Person Family Medical
and Dental Centers (PFMDC)
CEO Eugene C. Hines spent
32 years working in the public
health field for state and county
government, and several years
as a private consultant. Now he
is spending time getting to know
PFMDC and the Roxboro commu
nity, with the goal of improving
on the center’s commitment to
provide quality health services
to Personians.
A North Carolina native, Hines
earned a master’s degree from
the University of North Carolina
School of Public Health in 1975,
after which he took a job with the
state as a sickle cell program con
sultant in western North Caro
lina.
He had also worked with
North Carolina Memorial Hospi
tal (now UNC Hospitals). Hines
later served as director of the Lee
County Health Department, and
held similar positions in other
counties.
Hines learned about the open
ing at PFMDC while searching
for opportunities to offer con
sulting services to rural commu
nity health centers. He said his
interest in leading a community
health center was sparked fur
ther after talking with the CEO
of the North Carolina Commu
nity Health Center Association,
as well as others who had served
as CEOs of community health
centers.
He became CEO of PFMDC on
June 1.
“I feel very welcomed to the
community,” Hines said. “Every
body’s been very friendly, both in
the agency and the community
people I’ve met so far. I feel that
I’ve gotten tremendous support
from the board of directors, and
look forward to continuing work
ing with them.”
Hines said he believed it most
important that the public know
how important it is to have “reg
ular preventive care,” and that
people not wait until they are
sick to see a medical or dental
See HINES, Page 10