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‘Free’ lunches costing county schools
BYERINWILTGEN
Staff Writer
Davidson County Board of
Education heard a report Mon
day about the amount of school
lunches that have been charged
rather than paid for.
And the number was alarm
ing.
Jay Temple, executive director
of Auxiliary Services, informed
the board that so far the school
system has accrued $32,000 in
lunch charges. If students con
tinue at this pace, Temple said,
the total wUl amount to $70,000
— a bill the system wUl have to
'The kids don't have money, so they walk to
the end of the line, get a plate of food, and say
charge it.'
— Jay Temple
DCS Director of Auxiliary Services
foot.
“Federal law says we can’t
have any of these charges, and
yet we have them,” Temple said.
“The kids don’t have money,
so they walk to the end of the
line, get a plate of food, and say
charge it.”
Essentially, the charges come
from students who aren’t en
rolled in the federal Free and
Reduced Lunch Program but
whose parents didn’t give them
money for lunch that day. Last
year, Davidson County Schools
was forced to pay $57,000 to cov
er charges parents neglected to
pay.
“We have 40 percent of stu
dents on Free and Reduced
lunch,” Temple said, clarify
ing that as of Dec. 3, 2010, 40.31
percent of the system’s stu
dents had been enrolled in the
program. “That leaves 60 per
cent that have the opportunity
where their parents walk out
of their homes and don’t give
them money to eat. It’s not that
they’re not capable. It’s that
they don’t. It’s getting out of
hand.”
On the middle and elementary
school level, the system allows
students to charge but requests
See LUNCHES, Page A6
New charges
stem from
night club raid
BY ELIOT DUKE
Staff Writer
Thomasville Police De
partment has added sev
eral new charges stem
ming from last Friday
night’s raid on a local
nightclub.
TPD released a press
statement Friday list
ing a total of 402 charges
against 17 people as a
result of a sting at La
EstreUas Night Club at
802 Midland Ave. on Dec.
3. Part of the charges in
clude 78 ABC violations
against the club itself for
what Capt. Darren Smith
said stems from drug
transactions being made
inside the establishment.
“Any new charges
that were invoked came
from the search warrant
that night,” Smith said.
“When we arrested one
of these people, if they
had drugs on them at the
time we arrested them on
their already active war
rants than that was going
See RAID, PageAG
INDEX
Weather
A2
Focus
A3
Business
A4
Opinion
A5
Obituaries
A6
Sports
B1
Classifieds
B6
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CHILI FOR CHARITY
First Presbyterian Church in Thomasville recently presented local service agencies with the proceeds from this
year's Chili Cook-off. Checks of $850 each were presented to each group. Pictured, from left, are Terri Nelson
of Fairgrove Family Resource Center, Brother Steve of His Laboring Few Ministries, the Rev. Marquis Ramsey of
St. Stephen Progressive Baptist Church, Mike Lamm and Phil Griffin of First Presbyterian Church and Aurelia
Sink of Cooperative Community Ministry.
Tracing family tree leads local man to pen trilogy
BYERINWILTGEN
Staff Writer
People have gone to great
lengths through the ages to pro
tect their family’s honor—espio
nage, theft, even murder.
Larry Morgan wrote a book,
a book to defend the reputation
of a great-grandfather he knew
little about.
It aU started years ago when
Morgan’s wife, Peggy, began re-
. searching the Morgan family his
tory, fining in blanks on a family
tree. Peggy found a discrepancy
in the records for Morgan’s
great-grandfather, Joseph, and
his wife, IsabeUe. Documents
showed that the couple’s daugh
ter was five years old when they
two married.
Further digging revealed that
Joseph had in fact been married
earlier to a woman named Ivy
Rowland, the mother of the little
BOOK SIGNING
Larry Morgan will be
available at Shoppes on
Main, 32 East Main St., for
a book signing on Saturday,
Dec. 18, from 2 to 5 p.m.
Shoppes on Main is located
behind Monkeez Brew,
girl.
But the mysteries continued.
Eventually, an anecdotal story
from Morgan’s mother about the
family dog dragging a human
limb into the house one night,
and inconsistencies between
the child’s birthday — when she
would have been conceived and
Joseph’s Absence Without Of
ficial Leave date — led Peggy to
declare Ivy had been murdered
by her husband.
“She alleged that my great
grandfather had done away with
his first wife,” said Morgan, who
resides in Davidson Coimty near
Winston-Salem. “I couldn’t let
her get away with that, so I wrote
a book to debunk all of her vi
cious attacks. The book kind of
took on a life of its own.”
Most of the story chronicled
in the novel titled “Ivy,” is strict
ly contrived, though centered
aroimd real-life characters Jo
seph Morgan and Ivy Rowland
and based in geographically ac
curate sites in North Carolina.
At the time Morgan wrote the
book, he knew little about his
great-grandfather.
“We knew that he was a very
religious man, very devout, and
he raised a large family like ev
eryone did,” Morgan said, add
ing Joseph had done a lot of hard
See TRILOGY, Page A6
Ring faces
more counts
of having sex
with students
BY ELIOT DUKE
Staff Writer
A Davidson County
Grand Jury retimned two
more true bills of indict
ment 'fhursday against
a former
Ledford
High
School
teacher
charged
with multi
ple counts
of sex of
fenses with
students.
Two true bills of indict
ment obtained from the
Davidson County Clerk
of Courts Office that
were filed on Sept. 27 on
behalf of the Sate Bureau
of Investigation Indicate
that Scott Ring, 42, of
Winston-Salem, is facing
three additional charges
of felony sex offense with
a student. Ring is now
charged with a total of
five counts of felony sex
offense with a student
dating back to 2006.
According to the docu
ments, Ring allegedly
“unlawfully and wilLfully
did engage in a sexual
act” with a male student
whOe teaching at Led
ford High School between
March, 21 and April 30,
2006. Ring also is charged
with engaging in a sexual
act with that same stu
dent between Aug. 1, 2007
and Oct. 31, 2007. NoeUe
Talley, public information
officer with the North
Carolina Department of
Justice said in an e-mail
to the Thomasville times
that “Mr. Ring was served
[Thursday] with indict
ments issued against him
in September for five ad
ditional charges, related
to his sexual encounters
with student at Ledford
High School.”
On Oct. 26, Davidson
County District Attor
ney Garry Frank said
a new victim had come
forward and a grand jury
returned two true bUls of
indictment, also issued
on Sept. 27, against Ring
for engaging in a sexual
act with a student be
tween Nov. 1 and Nov. 30,
2006, and between Nov. 1
and Dec. 31,2007.
“There were two counts
on the first victim and
three on the second,”
Frank said. “There are
a total of five pending
counts on Mr. Ring.”
Ring originally was
arrested and charged in
February with one count
of Indecent liberties with
a student and sex offense
with a student. Frank
said Friday that Ring wUl
not appear in court until
Jan. 3, 2011, at the earli
est. Ring was not re-ar
rested and he is not being
held under any addition
al bond.
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