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Our
129th year
Number 87
Two sections
22 pages
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2011
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Person County’s jobless rate falls below 10%
Number of unemployed Personians deereases by 85 after also falling one month earlier
BY TIM CHANDLER
COURIER-TIMES EDITOR
tchnntller@roxboto-toutlet.com
For the second straight month,
Person County’s unemployment
rate declined, according to num
bers released Friday hy the Em
ployment Security Commission
(ESC) of North Carolina.
The latest ESC numbers re
vealed that Person County’s job
less rate in September dropped
0.6 percent to 9.6 percent. That
decrease came after a decline of
0.2 percent in August.
One year ago. Person County
had an unemployment rate of 9.5
percent in September.
Statewide, the unemployment
rate decreased in 92 of 100 coun
ties in September after it had in
creased in 47 counties in August.
Unemployment rates in Sep
tember increased in four coun
ties statewide and remained the
same in four.
Rates decreased in all 14 of
the state’s Metropolitan Statisti
cal Areas. One month earlier, the
rate increased in 10 of those ar
eas.
The September data demon
strates a decrease in the unem
ployment rate for most of North
Carolina’s counties,” ESC Chair
man Lynn R. Holmes said. “How
ever, many counties still face
See JOBLESS, Page 10
TIM CHANDLER I COURIER-TIMES
This residence on Morgan Street is festively decorated for the fall season and for Halloween and even has a hairy bystander (left)
present to greet people who will be out trick-or-treating on Halloween on Monday night.
Trick-or-treating set Monday
from 6 p.m. nntil 8 p.m.
BY TIM CHANDLER
COURIER-TIMES EDITOR
tcbancller@roxboro-courler.com
Children throughout Roxboro
and Person County will be hit
ting the streets Monday night to
take part in the annual Hallow
een trick-or-treat festivities.
Roxboro Police Chief Todd
Boycher and Person County
Sheriff Dewey Jones have an
nounced that trick-or-treating
will be observed in Roxboro and
Person County from 6 p.m. until
8 p.m. Monday.
Boycher also said he would
prefer to see the majority of
trick-or-treating completed ear
ly in the evening.
“We would love for the trick-
or-treaters to go out as early as
possible,” Boycher said. “If they
are out after dark, we would pre
fer to see them accompanied by
a responsible adult.”
Boycher said he would “cau
tion parents to know where
their children are at all times
and to stay in populated areas.”
HALLOWEEN, Page 10
PCS’ report
cards available
online
Person County Schools (PCS)
report cards of annual progress
for the 2010-2011 school year are
now available online. School of
ficials will be distributing hard
copies of their individual school’s
report card to parents in the next
couple of weeks.
The report cards, which are in
the 10“* year of publication, fea
ture a collection of information
about student performance and
attendance, class size, school safe
ty, teacher quality and classroom
technology. The School Report
Cards Web site features data from
the school, district and state levels
for the 2010-11 school year.
Schools Supt. Dr. Larry W. Cart-
ner commented, “The School Re
port Cards is a good way for the
community, parents and other
See PCS, Page 10
Operation
Medicine Drop
today at Wal-Mart
The Person County Sheriff’s
Office will participate in the Op
eration Medicine Drop Take Back
Event today from 10 a.m. until 2
p.m. at Wal-Mart on the Durham
Road.
Personians will be allowed to
bring prescription and over-the-
counter medicines to the take-
back event. Law enforcement
authorities will then destroy the
medications.
Operation Medicine Drop is a
partnership of Safe Kids North
Carolina, the Riverkeepers of
North Carolina, Community
Anti-Drug Coalitions of North
Carolina and local law enforce
ment agencies working together
to encourage the public to safely
dispose of unused and unwanted
medication.
Technology aiding
RCS in implementing
teacher training plan
BYGREYPENIECOSI
COURIER-TIMES STAFF WRITER
greypeotecost@roxboio-courler.com
Roxboro Community School
(RCS) is taking advantage of
technology to implement its man
datory professional development
training this year.
Like most school districts in
the state, RCS applied for a waiv
er, after the state added five in
structional days to the school cal
endar this summer. The waiver
option later made available was
contingent upon the days being
used for professional develop
ment instead.
Because each teacher at RCS
has his/her own laptop, said RCS
teacher Melissa Bartlett, the
school is using online modules
to complete some of the training,
and spreading the training out
over the course of the year, in
stead of conducting it in day-long
increments.
Most Thursdays, said Bartlett,
time is scheduled at the end of
the school day for teachers to
gather in the media center to re
ceive training.
Topics include the Common
Core and Essential standards that
will be implemented in schools
statewide beginning next school
See RCS, Page 10
GREY PENTECOST I COURIER-TIMES
Roxboro Community School teacher Wanda Ball introduces other teachers to a training module during
a professional development session Thursday afternoon.