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SATURDAY November 5,2011 Roxboro, North Carolina Serving all of Person County since 1881 www.personcountylife.com 75 Cents Couricr-®mejr RESURGENCE: Keys to the success of the Person High School tennis team this season A6 40 YEARS: Mighty Har- monaires setfor special anniversary celebration B4 THE MAYOR: Sam Spencer is the guest football prognosticator this weekend A9 RPD'S LIST: Roxboro Police Departmentprovides this week's Most Wanted List hZ WHO'LL WIN? Personians make picks for the winner of todays UNC- NCSUgame -II DEATHS |[- Minnie Harris Grinstead, 93 Hilbhorough Samuel David Little Sr., 89 Roxboro Delano Allen Lunsford, 78 Roxboro Katie Mae McCain, 72 Roxboro Peggy Carver Whitfield, 70 Milton. See page All -mmi AGENDA A3 BOOKS Bl BULLHORN B3 CLASSIFIED B9-10 COMMENTARY AS COURT B6 DO YOU KNOW A2 EDUCATION A2 FOOTBALL CONTEST A9 FAITH & WORSHIP B4-5 LEGAL NOTICES BIO LIFESTYLE B7 MOST WANTED A3 MOVIES A2 OBITUARIES All OPINION A4 REALTY TRANSFERS B6 SPORTS A6-7 TV LISTINGS B8 WORD ON THE STREET A2 Our 129th year Number 89 Two sections 22 pages Copyright 2011 The Courier-Times Inc. I rights reserved GREY PENTECOST I COURIER-TIMES The staff of Stories Creek Elementary School pose Thursday afternoon after the school was named the North Carolina Title I Distin guished School for Closing the Achievement Gap. ‘No excuses for not making sure the job gets done’ Stories Creek named North Carolina Title I Distinguished Sehool BY GREY PENTECOST COURIER-TIMES STAEF WRITER gtevpentecost@toxboro-courier.tom Stories Creek Elementary Scliool Principal Veronica Clay made it back to school before shedding joyful tears Thursday afternoon, having just left the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction’s annual Ti tle I Conference in Greensboro where it was announced that Stories Creek had been named the North Carolina Title I Dis tinguished School for Closing the Achievement Gap. The National Title I Distin guished Schools award program honors Title I schools that have, through innovative approaches as identified by each state, im proved student achievement. As the winner of the Nation al Title I Distinguished School award. Stories Creek will re ceive a $10,000 monetary award. Clay described her feelings the moment she heard the an nouncement that Stories Creek had been selected as “over whelmed and humbled.” Clay told The Courier-Times that Stories Creek had gone through a “challenging experi ence,” as the school was close to being placed under Title I School Improvement five years See PCS, Page 10 PCC receives $2.9 million education grant The US. Department of Educa tion has awarded Piedmont Com munity College (PCC) $2.9 million in TRIO Educational Opportunity Center (EOC) program grants to provide counseling and infor mation on college admissions to qualified individuals who want to enter, or continue, a program of postsecondary education. The program also provides services to improve financial and economic literacy and to assist participants in pursuing financial aid options. PCC will receive $580,852 annu ally in grant funds over a five-year period. The funds will be used to continue EOC services in an 11-county target area that includes Alamance, Caswell, Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Or ange, Person, Rockingham, Vance and Warren counties. “The EOC program is valu able to the counties we serve be cause our focus is to reduce and eliminate barriers to educational achievement,” said Carolyn Fun derburk, EOC director. “The EOC is a catalyst to assist those per sons who desire to further their education, whether it is to obtain a GED, attend a two-year col- See PCC, Page 10 DAYLiGlir SAVING TIME NOVEMBERS NATIONAL EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM TEST SET WEDNESDAY BY IIM CHANDLER COURIER-TIMES EDITOR tclinndler@roxboto-courlet.com Next week, television and radio sta tions across the state will participate in the first nationwide test of the Emergen cy Alert System (EAS). The national test will take place Wednesday, Nov. 9 at 2 p.m. and may last up to three and a half minutes. During this period, regularly sched uled television, radio, cable and satellite shows will be interrupted as the system is being tested. “For the public, the only noticeable difference between the monthly tests that they have heard for years and the nation al EAS test, is that the message itself may be slightly longer,” Doug Hoell, director of the North Carolina Emergency Man agement Division, said. See EAS, Page 10 County’s ESA voting underway BY TIM CHANDLER COURIER-TIMES EDITOR tchandler@roxboro-coutleF.com The 2011 United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) County Committee elec tions have started in Person County Rob Satterfield, executive director of the FSA in Person County, said ballots were being mailed to eligible voters in the Cunningham, Woodsdale and Holloway townships Friday. Completed ballots must be returned to the Person County FSA office at 304 S. Morgan St., Room 115, Roxboro, N.C. 27573 no later than Dec. 5. “The FSA county committee system is unique among government agencies be cause it allows producers to make impor tant decisions concerning the local ad ministration of federal farm programs,” Satterfield said. “I urge all eligible farm ers and landowners, especially minori ties and women, to get involved and make a real difference in their communities by See FSA, Page 10 h m articipate in BY GREY PENTECOST COURIER-TIMES STAFF WRITER gteypentecost@roxboro-courler.com “A grown cow is going to eat about 80 to 90 pounds of feed ev ery day,” said Cooperative Exten sion Livestock Agent Kim Woods Thursday to a group of fifth-grad ers. “It’s going to drink enough water to fill a bathtub.” A cow can also produce 70 to 80 pounds of milk per day. Woods explained. Over 300 fifth-grade students heard this presentation on dairy and milk production, and presen tations on a variety of other ag riculture-related topics at the Ag ricultural Field Day held at Huck Sansbury Park and sponsored by the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service and 4-H. The event has been held for the past several years at Optimist Park, in conjunction with the Flat River Antique Engine and Tractor Club’s tractor show. This year the field day location was moved to Huck Sansbury, as the tractor club will not be hold ing its show. Groups of fifth-graders from seven local schools rotated around to the booths throughout the morning and early afternoon. They learned about soil proper ties and management from repre sentatives of the Person Soil and Water Conservation District; the various roles of foresters at the Person County forestry depart ment booth; and beekeeping from the Beekeepers Association sta tion. Horticulture Agent Carl Canta- luppi tested students’ knowledge of different vegetables, includ ing cabbage, broccoli and collard greens. “And everybody loves Brussels sprouts right?” he questioned his young audience. Students learned that a to bacco plant starts out as a tiny brown seed, smaller than a crys tal of salt, from a representative of Durham’s Duke Homestead. They learned about compost ing, growing plants, and Future Farmers of America (FFA) activ ities from Person High School’s chapter of the FFA, and about old farming tools like wool shears. SeeiUASWWt.PagelO GREY PENTECOST I COURIER-TIMES Person Soil and Water Conservation District Senior Administrative Specialist Debbie Clayton explains methods of controlling pollution in the watershed to fifth graders at Agricultural Field Day Thursday.
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