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WEDNESDAY, January 27,, 2010
Volume XCVI, No. 22
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Man arrested twice in less than a week for similar offenses By DISPATCH STAFF
Henderson police have placed charges against a city man in connection with an August 2009 breaking and entering. The arrest on Monday is the second in less than a week for Freddaire Hargrove of 507 Hillside Ave., who has been in the Vance County jail since the first arrest on Jan. 21. Police said that evidence found at the crime scene on Aug. 27, 2009, has linked Hargrove to the break-in at 200 Wester Ave. In addition to breaking and entering, the 20-yearold is charged with felony larceny and injury to real property. Bond in the second arrest was set at $50,000 secured. In the Jan. 21 arrest, Hargrove was apprehended after an anonymous caller to 911 reported that a man was seen breaking into the residence at 657 Charles St. When officers arrived, they saw a subject running down Cherry Street removPlease see BREAK-IN, page 3A
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Nurses Dana Browning, left, and Jackie Ross will be heading to Haiti this weekend to help provide medical care to those injured in the earthquake Jan. 12.
Henderson natives taking nursing skills to the hurting By AL WHELESS Daily Dispatch Writer
Jackie Ross and Dana Browning — two Henderson natives who will take their nursing skills to Haiti this weekend — know they are in for a lifetime experience. The plan to fly together took shape after Ross telephoned Browning to borrow some snow ski equipment, and learned that her niece was getting ready to go there on a medical mission. “My comment was I’d love to do that if I didn’t have kids,” Ross said Tuesday in an interview. Her three daughters are 7, 9 and 10. “The thought of doing something like this was something you see somebody else doing, but not necessarily yourself,” she explained.
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Deaths Henderson Uzziah S. Dunston, 6 days Cynthia A. Hicks, 48 Roanoke Rapids Joseph Taylor, 85 Southern Pines Vivian M. Dorsey, 83
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and an emergency department nurse at Wayne Memorial Hospital in Goldsboro. Ross, her 34-year-old aunt, is a registered nurse who works as a lactation consultant and Lamaze educator at Maria Parham Medical Center in Henderson. Employed there since 1996, Ross has also gained experience in medical surgery and ICU (intensive care unit). She graduated from Southern Vance High School in 1993. Ross got her diploma from the Watts School of Nursing in Durham two years later. Browning’s husband, Wayne, works in construction. They have no children. She said he has been helping with the flight schedules and obtaining the itinerary for Please see HAITI, page 3A
Henderson scales back Granville’s Alligood won’t stimulus funds request campaign for re-election By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer
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Asked how the decision came RDU on Feb. 10. about to occupy the seat next “I think no matter how many to Browning on the plane, Ross mission trips you’ve been on, replied: “The Lord just laid it on there’s no way to prepare yourself my heart. ‘You can be the one for the devastation we’re going to that goes.’” see,” said Browning, a 27-year-old Her husband, Marc, who is a registered nurse who works in lieutenant with the Raleigh Fire the adult emergency department Department, at Wake Med told Ross: “If Raleigh. ‘There’s no way to prepare in She you feel like graduatyou need to go, yourself for the devastation ed from Norththen go.” ern Vance High we’re going to see’ As Ross put School in 2001. it, “Two days Brownis the longest my children have ing, who lives in Princeton, been without me.” near Goldsboro, graduated from Their flight, with stops in MiEmmanuel College in Franklin ami and the Dominican Republic, Springs, near Athens, Ga. is scheduled to begin Saturday She completed the registered morning at Raleigh-Durham Innurse program at Wayne County Community College in 2006. ternational Airport, and end four Before joining Wake Med, hours later at Port-Au-Prince. Browning was a cardiac nurse They will be flying back to
The City Council agreed to request $200,000 in stimulus funding to reduce power usage at the municipal operations and service center, but deleted the third part of a three-part plan after Councilman Michael Inscoe said the federal dollars would not cover the cost of the entire project. Public Works Director Linda Leyen said the first part of the plan calls for replacing the lighting system and the second part of the plan calls for replacing the heating, ventilation and air conditioning units. Replacing high-energy lights with more efficient, fluorescent ones could result in an approxi-
mately $6,600 yearly savings, Leyen said. There are nine heating, ventilation and air conditioning units, which are mounted on the roof. Replacing the units could result in an approximately $3,200 yearly savings, Leyen said. The heating, ventilation and air conditioning units are more than 20 years old and date back to when the building, located at 900 S. Beckford Drive, was a Lowe’s Home Improvement store, Leyen said. Both of these parts of the plan are eligible for an approximately $17,000 rebate from Progress Energy to reduce power usage, with approximately $14,000 being an Please see HENDERSON, page 6A
By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer
OXFORD — Granville County Commissioner Ron Alligood will not be campaigning for another four-year term in office. “I feel like it’s time for me to start enjoying myself a little bit,” including spending quality time with family members, Alligood said Tuesday afternoon. “And that’s what’s behind it Alligood all,” Alligood said, noting he made the decision “after a lot of soul searching” and talking with his family over the weekend.
Alligood, 71, has been a commissioner since 1992. He becomes the second of three commissioners up for election to announce his intention to bow out, with Commissioner James Lumpkins saying Jan. 20 that this year would his last in nearly three decades of public service. Lumpkins, 68, has been a commissioner since 1998 and served on the County Board of Education from 1978-96. Commissioner Pete Averette said Tuesday afternoon that he has not made a decision but that “I’ll let you know when I do.” Averette, 77, has been a commissioner since 1980. The county’s seven commisPlease see ALLIGOOD, page 3A