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SATURDAY September 24,2011 Roxboro, North Carolina www.personcountylife.com 75 Cents Serving all of Person County since 1881 POSTPONED: Rockets Rome game vs. Spartans set for Monday night A6 NEW GUIDE: The C-Ts inaugural Hunting & Fishing Guide t Section w STORY TIME: Optimist Club member Jim Rhodes reads to students at Woodland^2 IT'S ON! Time to renew the C-T newsroomfoot ball contest^^ —lEMaE— Rae Long Allen, 85 Goldsboro Howard Thomas Clayton, 76 Roxboro Hubert Andrew Davis, 70 Roxboro Susie Mae Whitt Evans, 39 Roxboro Frances M.W. Graham, 74 Roxboro S. Glenn Morton, 86 Roxboro Luria Parks Sheets, 85 Roxboro Shelby Jean Snow, 69 Tirnberlake Edith Whitt Walker, 89 Roxboro Sherry Wells Winstead, 69 St. Augustine, Fla. See page All -][H3[- AGENDA A3 BOOKS Bl BULLHORN B3 CLASSIFIED BlO-11 COMMENTARY AS COURT B6 EDITORIAL A4 DO YOU KNOW A2 EDUCATION B2 FAITH & WORSHIP B4-5 FOOTBALL CONTEST B9 GREY MATTERS A2 HUNTING a FISHING C SECTION LEGAL NOTICES BIT LIFESTYLE B7 LOOKING BACK A2 MOVIES A2 OBITUARIES All OPINION A4 PIGSKIN PICKIN' PARTY B9 REALTY TRANSFERS B6 SPORTS A6-9 TV LISTINGS B8 Our 129th year Number 77 Three sections 40 pages Copyright 2011 The Courier-Times Inc. I rights reserved Couricr-®mejr Mayor Sam Spencer named Region K's Outstanding Municipal Elected Official BY PHYLISS BOATWRIGHT COURIER-TIMES STAFF WRITER pbootwright@roxboto-touriet.com Roxboro Mayor Samuel Spen cer was honored this week by the Kerr-Tar Regional Council of Governments. Spencer, who served as a mem ber of the city council for over 30 years before stepping up to the position of mayor last year, was named Outstanding Municipal Elected Official, Region K for the year 2011. Mayor pro-tem Merilyn Newell nominated Spencer for the award, and said Friday, “I couldn’t think of a better exclamation point for [Spencer’s] exceptional public service.” Spencer said he was surprised by the award, but pleased as well. “It made me feel good that I had touched someone to the extent that they felt I deserved some thing like that,” Spencer said. Newell said she nominated Spencer for the honor because, “He has been perhaps the fore most example of decorum, dis cretion and statesmanship that I have ever worked with. “I have learned from him,” Newell continued, “that we can disagree without being disagree able and that would serve anyone well, but especially those in gov ernment.” Newell said working with Spencer for the past 10 years had See SPENCER, Page 12 Mayor Sam Spencer r->.X-T'.l--Im',.:..ISiCityCsuncil!,, ilCi!)' t I Qua EjjESffl': PHYLISS BOATWRIGHT I COURIER-TIMES City of Roxboro municipal election signs line the lawn of the Person County Board of Elections office on Morgan Street; however, few citi zens have stopped by to take advantage of early voting prior to the non-partisan Oct. 11 elections. Turnout light during first two days of early voting for city elections BY PHYLISS BOAIKVRIGHT COURIER-TIMES STAFF WRITER pbootwright@roxboro-coutiet.com Early voting for the Roxboro mayoral and city council races began this week, and so far, turn out is light. At about 1:30 Friday afternoon, Sherry Harris, deputy director of the Person County Board of Elec tions said just 32 votes had been cast. Thursday was the first day of early, or one-stop, voting. Harris said only five Roxboro residents had voted on Friday but, “it’s always slow on rainy days.” There are 4,708 registered vot ers in the City of Roxboro, Har ris said. The early voting period for the city elections will end on Satur day, Oct. 8, at 1 p.m. Hours of operation for the re mainder of the one-stop voting period will be from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 26 through Friday, Sept. 30; from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday Oct. 3 until Friday Oct. 7; and Saturday, Oct. 8 from 8:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. The election will be Tuesday, Oct. 11. Roxboro residents who do not choose early voting may cast their votes on Oct. 11 from 6:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. at city hall, located at 105 S. Lamar St. Merilyn Newell, currently serving as mayor pro-tem, is the only candidate for mayor. She has served four terms on council. Those running for reelection to city council are James Allen, currently serving his 17* term; Sandy Stigall, now on his second term; Ralph Clark, who was ap pointed to council last year; and Henry Daniel, who is serving his fourth term. Mark Phillips, who previously served three terms on council, is running for another term this year. Newcomers challenging Phil lips and the incumbents are Byrd B. Blackwell, William Davis, Den nis E. Daniels, Coleen Love and Patrick Walters. County’s jobless rate dips to 10.1% BY TIM CHANDLER COURIER-TIMES EDITOR ttbnn(ller@roxboro-couriet.com After increasing 0.4 percent in July, Person County’s un employment rate dropped 0.2 percent in August, according to numbers released Friday by the Employment Security Commission (ESC) of North Carolina. Person County’s jobless rate, which had inched up to 10.3 percent in July dipped to 10.1 percent in August, ac cording to Friday’s ESC num bers. One year ago. Person Coun ty had an unemployment rate UNEMPLOYMENT, Page 12 PCBOE is registering teen voters BY PHYLISS BOATWRIGHT COURIER-TIMES STAFF WRITER pboatwrigbt@roxboro-coutiet.com The Person County Board of Elections has been work ing to get 18-year-olds regis tered to vote, and to pre-regis ter 16- and 17-year-olds. Jacqueline Booker, chair of the elections board, said this week that the board was working with Person High School and Roxboro Com munity School to make sure teens had the opportunity to register or pre-register. See BO E, Page 12 Will Paul named 2011 Exceptional Children Teacher of Excellence BY GREY PENTECOST COURIER-TIMES STAFF WRITER gteypentecost@roxboto-courier.com Person High School (PHS) teacher Will Paul was recently named the 2011 Person County Exceptional Children (EC) Teach er of Excellence. Paul has worked in the class room with children who have spe cial needs for the past 13 years in various school systems. He is also a school system instructor for Positive Behavior Intervention and Support, and Crisis Preven tion and Intervention Support. In addition to his classroom experi ence, Paul has worked with dis abled adults, therapeutic foster care and the Special Olympics. Paul was selected for the honor by Person County Schools (PCS) Director of Exceptional Children and Student Support Melanie Hester. In her letter to the Depart ment of Public Instruction (DPI) Hester wrote, “Mr. Paul’s motto is that everyone can learn and deserves dignity and respect. He works tirelessly to maintain a classroom that addresses work jobs for each student in addition to opportunities that he creates for his students throughout the school environment.” Paul said he teaches students with a wide range of “disabilities and exceptionalities” in a self- contained classroom at PHS. One of his goals is to bring the stu dents out of the “background” and into the “forefront” by get ting them out of the classroom more often and exposing them to experiences such as eating in the cafeteria. “What I have definitely come to realize working with children with special needs,” said Paul, “is yes, they have a disahility; but just because they have a disabil ity, does not mean they’re inca pable of doing something.” Paul said he looks at the stu dents as individuals and assesses each of their strengths so that he can build upon them. After Paul first applied for a job as a teacher assistant with PCS 13 years ago, he was asked if he was interested in working with children with special needs. Paul said he had no experi ence working with exceptional children at the time, but decided to give it a shot. “It just opened my eyes to a whole different world,” he said. This is Paul’s first year work ing at PHS, and one of his teach er assistants, Michelle Nash, said she and other staff have noticed a positive change in Paul’s stu dents since he has been there. SeeVmV, Page 12 SUBMinED Will Paul, the 2011 Person County Exceptional Children Teacher of Excellence, introduces the concept of sequencing to a student using colored strips of construction paper.
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