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Our
129th year
Number 84
Three sections
24 pages
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‘Ifitsfor the betterment of the county, kt it be’
BOE appears poised to transfer former Helena Sehool property to eommissioners
BY TIM CHANDLER
COURIER-TIMES EDITOR
tchnntller@roxboto-tourler.com
“If it’s for the betterment of
the county, let it be.”
Jimmy Willcins, vice chair
man of the Person County Board
of Education, spoke those words
Monday referencing the possible
transfer of the former Helena
School property from the school
board to the Person Board of
County Commissioners.
Ownership of the former Hel
ena School property in Timber-
lake appears as if it will soon be
transferred to commissioners.
That was the general consen
sus Monday when commission
ers met in joint session with the
board of education.
Commissioners last month
passed a resolution requesting
the board of education transfer
the Helena property to the coun
ty
Board of education members
got their first look at the resolu
tion during Monday’s meeting.
The request from commission
ers came after board of educa
tion officials recently announced
See HELENA, Page 12
Fun at Personality Festival
Chance Farmer helps Noah Blackwell tackle the slide during the annual Personality Festival this past
Saturday morning in Uptown Roxboro. For more photos of the annual two-day festival, please see page
B1 of today’s edition.
2 more arrested
on heels of recent
drug probe
BY TIM CHANDLER
COURIER-TIMES EDITOR
fchnn(ller@roxboro-courler.com
Law enforcement officials this week re
leased information on two more suspects
arrested in connection with “Operation
Peek-A-Boo,” a five-month undercover in
vestigation.
Forty people were arrested last week by
sheriff’s deputies who began their round
up on the heels of the investigation last
Wednesday
Person County Sheriff Dewey Jones
said last week that Operation Peek-A-Boo,
which began in May and continued through
September, utilized video and audio equip
ment to help document illegal drug activ
ity
The vast majority of those arrested in
connection with the investigation were
placed under secured bonds of $100,000 af
ter the District 9-A district attorney’s office
bypassed the district court level, sought in
dictments from the Person County Grand
Jury and then sought secured bonds in Per
son County Superior Court.
5(?? ARRESTED, Page 12
Jessica D. Wade
Middle schools in county
receive state recognition
BY TIM CHANDLER
COURIER-TIMES EDITOR
tthan(ller@[Oxboro-courier.com
Southern Middle School
and Northern Middle School
each earned recognition for
advances in effectively imple
menting the Positive Behavior
Intervention & Support (PBIS)
initiative.
Person County Schools (PCS)
is currently in the process of
training and implementing
PBIS system wide.
According to a PCS press
release, PBIS is a statewide ini
tiative that focuses on decreas-
See PCS, Page 10
Professional development
heightening this year
PCS teachers prepping for new state standards
BYGREYPENIECOSI
COURIER-TIMES STAFF WRITER
gteypentetost@roxbojo-tourler.tom
For Person County Schools,
along with other schools in the
state, this is the year for profes
sional development.
While professional develop
ment workshops are always a
regular aspect of the teaching
profession, a heightened and
more consistent effort by the state
and local districts is being made
in the area, in order to prepare
teachers for the new curriculum
and learning standards that will
be implemented in schools state
wide next fall.
According to a North Carolina
Department of Public Instruction
(DPI) press release, the state’s
Race to the Top grant is funding
the professional development on
the new Common Core and Es
sential Standards. The Common
Core Standards cover reading
and math, while the Essential
Standards include all other con
tent areas, such as science and
social studies.
Each school district, said PCS
Program Specialist for Grant
Writing, Professional Develop
ment and Public Information
Paula Chandler, was charged with
forming its own professional de
velopment team, which Chandler
said in Person County consists
of a mixture of representatives
from all disciplines within the
schools. The PCS team attends
training sessions led by DPI staff,
and in turn brings the required
training to the rest of the school
personnel, said Chandler.
TRAINING, Page 10
Person County Schools’ teachers work in groups during a recent professional development
Pictured, left to right, are Jim Van Farowe, Brad Bailey and John Koket.
SUBMinED
session.