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SATURDAY October 1,2011 Roxboro, North Carolina www.personcountylife.com 75 Cents Serving all of Person County since 1881 Couricr-®mejr WEEK 7: Find out how the Rockets fared against highly- ranked Hillside A6 • Bethel Hill High School Class of 1961 holds reunion B2 FAREWELL: Phyliss Boatwright says goodbye after 12 years at The Courier-Times A2 PICK ^EM: Pick the winners for next week's college football games A9 POT SEIZED: Deputies seize 14pounds of marijuana this week A3 MEET 'EM: Biographical sketches of the candidates for Roxboro City Council -]| DEATHS i[- Lauren Joy Chandler, 22 Burlington Edward Holbrook, 57 Gretna, Va. Clifton Eugene Ross, 40 Prospect Hill -IDME- AGENDA A3 BOATWRIGHT A2 CLASSIFIED C SECTION COMMENTARY AS COURT B6 DO YOU KNOW A2 EDUCATION B2 EAITH & WORSHIP B4-5 FOOTBALL CONTEST A9 LEGAL NOTICES C3 LIEESTYLE B3 MOVIES A2 OBITUARIES All OPINION A4 REALTY TRANSEERS B6 SPORTS A6-8 TV LISTINGS B7 Our 129th year Number 79 Three sections 24 pages Copyright 201 ] The Courier-Times Int. All rights reserved Progress Energy’s loeal faeilities not affeeted by ongoing elosures BY TIM CHANDLER COURIER-TIMES EDITOR tchtintller@roxboto-toutlet.com Progress Energy’s two plants in Person County will not be among coal-fired facilities to be retired by the company under the utility’s fleet-modernization program. A Progress Energy spokesper son confirmed this week that the coal-fired Progress Energy facili ties at Hyco Lake and Mayo Lake in Person County would remain operational. “As part of the fleet modern ization plan, the company has invested more than $1 billion in technology to reduce emissions dramatically at the Roxboro and Mayo plants in Person County and the Asheville Plant in Bun combe County,” a Progress Ener gy release read. “Progress Ener gy will continue to operate those coal-fired facilities after the oth ers are retired.” Progress Energy will close the WH. Weatherspoon coal-fired plant near Lumberton today The Weatherspoon Plant was the first major construction proj ect in the company’s post-World War II expansion. Two more coal-fired units were added in the 1950s, bringing the plant’s total coal generating capacity to 177 megawatts (MW). Four peaking units at the site, fueled by natu ral gas and oil, were added in the 1970s and will continue to oper ate as needed to meet customer demand. “For 62 years, the Weather spoon Plant has been a key part of our ability to meet the electric ity demands of our customers around the clock,” said Bill John son, chairman, president and CEO of Progress Energy. “The hundreds of employees who have worked at Weatherspoon over the years have been closely tied to Robeson County and the region, and the plant’s long and produc tive life has been a testament to their outstanding dedication to safety, efficiency and reliable ser vice.” In 2009, Progress Energy an- CHANDLERI COURIER-TIMES CLOSURES, Page 12 Progress Energy’s Roxboro facility at Hyco Lake. Ist-year PCS teacher dies in crash Wednesday BY TIM CHANDLER COURIER-TIMES EDITOR tchandlet@toxboro-coutier.com A first-year Person County Schools (PCS) teacher died Wednesday as a result of injuries she sustained in a two-vehicle ac cident in Caswell County. Lauren Joy Chandler, 22, of Burlington died when the ve hicle she was operating was struck by another vehicle at an intersection in Caswell County. The scene of the wreck was 12.8 miles south of Yanceyville at the intersection of Dave Smith Road and Corbett Ridge Road. According to a preliminary re port from North Carolina High way Patrol Trooper J.W Boozer, Chandler was driving on Dave Smith Road and pulled into the path of another vehicle that was traveling on Corbett Ridge Road. The accident occurred shortly after 5:30 p.m. Chandler, originally from Cas well County, was a fifth-grade teacher at Helena Elementary School. She received a bach elor’s degree in education from Greensboro College earlier this year and had been teaching in Person County since August. PCS Supt. Dr. Larry W. Cart- ner said counselors were on hand Thursday at Helena to as sist students and faculty. “Lauren was an outstanding first-year teacher,” Cartner said. “Even in a brief time, she had such a positive impact on stu dents and colleagues alike.” Chandler had recently posted on her Facebook site how much she enjoyed teaching and she would “do this job for free.” “When someone loves this job with a passion and writes they would ‘do this job for free,’ you know you have a very special person,” Cartner said. “I ask our greater community to honor Lauren’s memory and service by supporting the Helena Elemen tary family and Lauren’s family in these very difficult days.” SUBMITTED Pepsi Roxboro President and CEO Brantiey Burnett (ieft) accepts Pepsi Lifetime Achievement Award from Mario Mercurio, SVP/GM of Pepsi-Cola North America Beverages Franchise Busi ness Unit. Brantley Burnett reeeives Pepsi-Cola’s Lifetime Aehievement award BY PHYLISS BOATWRIGHT C-T STAFF WRITER pboatwtight@roxboto-courlet.com Brantley Burnett, president and CEO of Pepsi-Cola Bot tling of Roxboro, the nation’s oldest family-run Pepsi fran chise, was honored this week by Pepsi-cola North America Beverages with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Burnett is also president of Carolina Canners in Cheraw, S.C. Hunt Fitzgerald, Burnett’s grandson, said Friday, “We are all very, very proud of him. This is a crowning achieve ment for him.” Fitzgerald said the entire family was proud of Burnett and grateful that he was re warded for all the hard work he has done “for Pepsi and his family all his life. It’s nice for the children and grand children to get to be proud of him, instead of the other way around,” Fitzgerald added. “We’re all tickled to death.” According to a press re lease from Pepsi-Cola North America Beverages, (PCNAB) “Burnett’s significant accom plishments and ongoing dedi cation to the industry were recognized during Pepsi-Cola’s Donald M. Kendall Bottler of the Year Awards ceremony.” Mario Mercurio, general manager of PCNAB said, “Brantley is synonymous with Pepsi bottling — fiercely in dependent and innovative to SeelMMOi.PagelP Toddler in critical condition following accident BYGREYPENTECOSI C-T STAFF WRITER greypentetost@roxboro-coutier.com A one-year-old child was injured Thursday in what the Person County Sheriff’s Office is calling an accident. Carson David Harris was last reported by the Person County Sheriff’s Office in critical condition Friday after receiv ing injuries as a result of being run over by a vehicle Thursday afternoon. The Person County Sheriff’s Office is currently investigating the accident that occurred on a private drive at 983 Cavel-Chub Lake Rd. According to a sheriff’s office report, the victim, Carson David Harris, along with his mother and older brother, were being dropped off at the Cavel-Chub Lake residence by a person driv ing a Ford Ranger. As stated in the report, the driver ran over the child with the vehicle when leaving the driveway. The mother of the child stated that she did not see the accident occur, according to the report. The child was reportedly air lifted to Duke Hospital because of severe head and leg injuries. Deputy Chief A1 Rhew stated that, as told to him by a family member of the victim, Harris was still at Duke in critical con dition as of 2 p.m. Friday. Rhew said the family mem ber reported that the child had shown signs of improvement since being admitted to the hospital. ‘Dust has finally settled’ for Partnership for Children BY PHYLISS BOATWRIGHT COURIER-TIMES STAFF WRITER pbootwrigbt@roxboto-coutlet.com Early childhood education programs in Person County, and across the state, have taken deep hits in funding, but “the dust has finally settled,” according to the director of the Person County Partnership for Children. Judy Batten said this week that there would likely be more challenges ahead, but for now, she said, “at least we know the state policy and budget changes that impact our programs and we have made the needed adjust ments.” She said the budget for Smart Start, North Carolina’s early childhood education initiative, was cut 21.8 percent for the ser vices provided by the Partnership for Children. Because of budget cuts, two “very strong programs” had to be eliminated in Person County, according to Batten. “Our board did not have the flexibility to continue funding for our Dancing With Diversity project, which addressed Person County’s very high childhood obesity rates,” Batten explained, “nor could we continue to fund the Early Childhood Scholarship which helped individuals pursu ing an early childhood associate See FUNDING, Page 12
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