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SATURDAY November 19,2011 Roxboro, North Carolina www.personcountylife.com 75 Cents Serving all of Person County since 1881 Couricr-®mejr TIP TIME! Rocket basketball squad tips off new season Tuesday night at home A6 GOOD CITIZEN: RCS student Taylor Puryear receives BAR Is Good Citizen Award^l ANNIVERSARY: Deluxe Cleaners on South Main Street has been in business for 60 years B1 Earl Vernon Davis, 84 Oak Ridge, Tenn. Elder C.B. Davis Jr. Roxboro Robert W. (Bob) Fariss, 69 Roanoke, Va. Sonjie Harris Faulkner, 68 Jersey City, NJ. Robert Gilbert Hillis, 73 Rougemont Edith Singleton McKee, 82 Raleigh See page A9 -mam- AGENDA A3 BULLHORN B3 CLASSIFIED BlO-11 COMMENTARY AS COURT B6 CHRISTMAS CHEER B8 DO YOU KNOW A2 EDUCATION A2 FAITH & WORSHIP B4-5 FOOTBALL CONTEST A3 LEGAL NOTICES BIT LIFESTYLE B7 LOOKING BACK A2 MOST WANTED A3 MOVIES A2 OBITUARIES A9 OPINION A4 REALTY TRANSEERS B6 SPORTS A6-8 SPORTS A6-8 TV LISTINGS B9 WORD ON STREET A2 Our 129th year Number 93 Two sections 22 pages Copyright 2011 The Courier-Times Inc. PHS teacher arrested, released under $100,000 bond BY TIM CHANDLER COURIER-TIMES EDITOR tchon(ller@roxboto-tourler.com A Person High School (PHS) math teacher accused of inap propriate behavior with a former student was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon in Wake County on a felony charge of tak ing indecent liberties with a mi nor and a misdemeanor count of preparing obscene photographs. Megan Ellen Trainer, 24, of 321 Floyd Hicks Rd. in Timberlake, was transported to Person Coun ty from Wake County Wednesday afternoon shortly after she was released from a treatment facil ity Trainor, who has been a teach er at PHS for three years, was suspended from her job on Nov. 9 and a warrant for her arrest was issued on Nov. 11. The warrant alleges Trainor “did photograph herself in [an] obscene manner for the purpose of dissemination.” The minor Trainor is alleged to have taken indecent liberties with was 16-years-old at the time and was a PHS student. The male, now 17, is no longer a student at PHS. Trainor was released from cus tody Wednesday under a $100,000 unsecured bond, pending a Dec. See TRAINOR, Page 10 Nuisance action proceeding on Todd Road home BY TIM CHANDLER COURIER-TIMES EDITOR tchan(]ler@roxboto-courler.com Earlier this week, Superior Court Judge Osmond Smith handed down a preliminary injunction against a Todd Road residence, which has been the site of multiple illegal drug transactions in the past. Last month. District At torney Wallace Bradsher filed papers in Person County Supe rior Court seeking “action for abatement of nuisance” at 465 Todd Rd. That came after Chad Raglin, 31, of the residence was arrested on felony drug charg es as part of an undercover drug operation conducted by the Person County Sheriff’s Office, along with other local, state and federal authorities. The action sought by the dis trict attorney’s office seeks for feiture of the property. If the property is forfeited it will be- SeemiMMmW.PagelO ‘Shop Small’ on Nov. 26 to promote local stores BY GREY PENTECOST COURIER-TIMES STAFF WRITER gteypentecost@roxboro-courier.com About 62 businesses in Rox boro and surrounding areas have committed to being open from at least 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Saturdays as a part of the Shop — Eat — Enjoy Roxboro campaign. The campaign, sponsored by Roxboro Development Group, got underway about a month ago as a way to promote shop ping, dining and entertainment in Roxboro. Brochures, funded by the Tourism Development Author ity (TDA), were created and in- See RDG, Page 10 MIKE FLOYD I COURIER-TIMES Scenic sunset C-T staff writer Mike Floyd, who resides in Danville, Va., snapped this photo of a colorful sunset in the past week on his ride home in the afternoon. County-owned property on Morgan Street transitioning to green spaee BY GREY PENTECOST COURIER-TIMES STAFF WRITER gteypentecost@roxboro-courler.com GREY PENTECOST I COURIER-TIMES Person County Recreation Arts and Parks Supervisor John Hill (left) assists Rolling Hills Garden Center Manager Matt Moore (right) in instructing a group of Person County Girl Scouts and their lead ers on planting during a workday on the new South Morgan Street green space. Whether Personians want to sit outside and relax, or play a game of Frisbee, the public now has a new place to do that in the form of a “green space” on Mor gan Street, across from Huck Sansbury Park. The one acre green space/pas sive recreation area at 316 S. Mor gan St. formerly accommodated a vacant house owned by the coun ty The county sought to make the space usable and it was ultimate ly approved as a green space. The house was torn down last month and work on the grounds began right away. Person County Recreation Arts and Parks Super visor John Hill, the organizer of the green space project, went to Rolling Hills Garden Center for the plants, and worked with store manager Matt Moore on the land scape design. Moore said he created an ac cent area and gave the space a defined parameter and border. He designed entryways to welcome visitors to the space from both the Person County Office Build ing side and the Morgan Street side. The plants were selected to be low-maintenance and provide a lot of color, Moore said, and in cluded star magnolias, flowering viburnum. Knockout roses, beau- tyberry and other perennials and annuals. A lot of the work on the project has been accomplished by Person County Girl Scout troops, who chose to help in honor of the 100**' anniversary of the Girl Scouts next year. Hill noted that there would be other opportunities for groups to volunteer in the future. He said See HILL, Page 10 Piedmont Community College’s Web site earns elite reeognition PIEDMONT COMMUNirr COLLEGE I rights reserved Piedmont Community Col lege’s (PCC) new Web site has been named “Site of the Year” in a contest sponsored by software company DotNetNuke. The Web site, which debuted in August, was selected Site of the Month and then competed with other monthly winners in the Site of the Year contest, which was conducted by online voting. “PCC had some stiff inter national competition,” Bonnie Davis, PCC director of public in formation, said. “Since 2006, over 600,000 Web sites were built using the DotNetNuke content manage ment system (CMS), so we know our competition included some outstanding business, corporate, education and personal sites. “People who viewed PCC’s Web site recognized the innova tive education Web site that PCC Web site technician Kevin Ty- burski created for the college and knew that it was worthy of their contest vote,” Davis added. “1 think what makes PCC’s site so special is its ability to capture what the audience wants in the style they want to see it in,” Ty- burski said of the new PCC site’s cafeteria-style design. “As a user, you’re not bombarded with pages you have no interest in due to the research we did in planning the site. “There’s a lot more in store for PCC’s Web site in the future as well, and this is a testament to DotNetNuke’s system which allows us to customize Web site features as needed,” Tyburski added. PCC’s research included com- -rrr- ^ % \ m AM* V«tU»Ow b V KC po tact 1 vNptf fttf ftr ta CM Diy »>. OtfliEw ft CartMcMM 5i?(?INTERNET, Page 10 Piedmont Community College’s award-winning Web site.
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