FOUND: Carolyn Leonard Kyles Found at Walgreens on Statesville Boulevard in Salisbury, N.C. at 4:30 p.m.

RALEIGH 12:10 AM — The N.C. Center for Missing Persons has issued a Silver Alert for a missing endangered woman, Carolyn Leonard Kyles.

Citizens are asked to be on the lookout for Carolyn Leonard Kyles, who is believed to be suffering from dementia or some other cognitive impairment.

Anyone with information about Carolyn Leonard Kyles should call Rowan Counth Sheriifs Office at the Rowan County Sheriffs Office at Deputy Ted Miller .

Name: Kyles Carolyn Leonard
(Last) (First) (Middle) (Nickname)

Gender: Female DOB: 12/09/1945 Age: 70 Race: White Height: 5′ 1″ Weight: 110 pounds

Hair Color: Black/Grey Hair Length: Short Eye Color: Brown

Reporting Law Enforcement Agency: Rowan County Sheriffs Office

Contact Information: Rowan Counth Sheriifs Office at Deputy Ted Miller

Location of Incident: Stamper Drive Salisbury, NC

Location Last Seen: Stamper Drive Salisbury, NC

Direction of Travel:

Vehicle Description:

Make: Jeep Model: Cherokee Year: 2003 Color: Grey License Plate Number: HD54045 Licensing State: NC

Todd Paris, Associate Editor and Salisbury Attorney

Below is a Freedom of Information Request (Public Information Request) sent to the Rowan-Salisbury School System:

Patti Overcash, Clerk

Rowan County School Board

overcap@rss.k12.nc.us

Rowan-Salisbury School System
500 North Main Street
Salisbury, NC 28144

Pursuant to Chapter 132 of the North Carolina General Statutes and specifically N.C. Gen. Stat. 132-1, I hereby request the following public records:

1.Any reports or documents from Operations Research and Educational Laboratory (NCSU)

2.Any written reports or documents from SfL+A’s long range facilities plan.

3.Any documents and records showing any information, including costs and expenditures, for the School Superintendent’s travels since she was hired.

4.Any emails between the County Commission and the Board of Education or Salisbury-Rowan staff concerning the possible closure of schools in Rowan County and all emails between staff and Board members concerning the same subject.

In order to help to determine my status, you should know that I am Associate Editor for the news blog “Rowan Free Press” and a known community organizer and occasional candidate for public office.

This request is made as part of news gathering and not for a commercial use.

I request a waiver of all fees for this request as such fee is not established by NC Law.

Disclosure of the requested information to me is in the public interest because it is likely to contribute significantly to public understanding of the operations or activities of the government.

Please provide this information electronically by email (usually “Word” pdf’s work well) to aid in its rapid public dissemination and to reduce the cost to tax payers.

Todd Paris
113 East Council Street
Salisbury, NC, 28144
dtp_paris@yahoo.com

Public Announcement

♦ On Wednesday April the 13th Barry Isenhour, formerly of Salisbury and now living in Virginia, will present a program “How the Virginia Flaggers Forward the Colors” in Stanback Room at the Rowan Public Library in Salisbury, N.C. This program is free and open to the public. Bring your friends and neighbors.

For more information contact Steve Poteat at 704-633-7229 or e-mail rowanscv@carolina.rr.com

High Street in Richmond 1861:

Chuck Hughes, Board of Education

♦ Mr. Paris is right. I did suggest that the board go ahead with the school closings as soon as possible by starting public comments as legally required. I did so, because I believe the board has an obligation to the entire county to conserve limited resources whenever an opportunity rises, and consolidation of six elementary schools is such an opportunity.

Fourteen full capacity schools are more economical to run than 20 under-utilized schools, and each consolidation will save the county more than $800,000. Each consolidation will mean one more school does not need to have roofing and pavement repair or replacement now or in future years. In fact, it is a disservice to the county not to combine two undeserved schools that will only continue to have decreased student enrollment over the coming years. How do we know this? The science tells us so.

The dollars invested in demographic science was a wise investment. The study enables a glance into a community’s future allowing prediction of growth or decline with a high degree of certainty. Past birthrates are documented predictors of the number of children that will be enrolled in K-5 over the coming years, even up to the number of school aged children per acre of land, as well as which school district they will attend. Because of this investment, the six schools being considered were not random choices based upon personal preference; they were chosen based upon future need or lack thereof and in such a manner that assures minimal displacement of students from their current schools.

Change is always controversial. However, if we do not embrace change when logic demands, our social and economic environment becomes static. Nostalgia is the underlying argument against most efforts to change. Although nostalgia can be a warm and comfortable pacifier, it can also be a detriment to progress and sediment that deters your children and their children from having a chance at their own nostalgia years from now. I lived through this rough time when the Brooklyn Dodgers, my team since I could pick up a baseball bat, moved to L.A. However, some other young boy grew up knowing only the L.A. Dodgers. The Brooklyn WHAT? A new era of nostalgia emerged.

The safe move for an elected official is not to suggest anything controversial if you want to be reelected. However, if you govern with this belief, you do not deserve to hold the office to begin with. The fact that this board is being forthcoming in its consideration of such a controversial issue speaks well of its integrity and that its first obligation is to what it believes will be in the best interest of the Rowan/Salisbury School System.

I urge the community to put emotions away and participate in the upcoming town hall meeting with open minds.

Todd Paris, Associate Editor and Salisbury Attorney

♦ I have read Chuck Hughes’ letter-to the Editor and it leaves me puzzled.

I like Chuck. He put up a few signs for me when I ran for Salisbury City Council.  I thought he cares about “the kids.” Somehow he’s been led astray.

If you are a big architectural firm, you get paid for building new schools and/or being the managing architect for the other architects who do the work. What does one do to make more cash, particularly with a county claiming excess school capacity? How do you convince a system with excess school capacity to build more schools? They don’t need more schools, right?

Most growing counties with a properly functioning economic development commission (we lack this) crave, needs and wants excess school capacity.  If “Mr. Big Manufacturer” wants to come to town you want to be able to provide schools for his employees’ children without having to spend money and raise taxes to build more schools, correct?

It’s simple, just convince them to start school consolidation! They can “save” maintenance costs, administrative costs and employee costs by shutting down perfectly good schools and building new ones.

But wait, won’t they factor in the fact we will be borrowing tens of millions of dollars for new school construction and paying the debt back over decades? It will take years and years to recoup these costs.  Maybe we need to skip over the increased fuel and transportation expenses for longer bus routes. Let’s just tell tax-payers we’ll “look at that later.”

If an elementary school-aged child must get up at 5:00 a.m. to ride the bus–well, it’s just an “emotional attachment” to a school that has to go! If she or he gets home at after dark on the bus? Have them take a nap before they do their homework.

How does the Board of Education sell this? They just simply get a cash starved university to forecast a continuing negative economic and population trend and convince the public they need less desks and not more, all in a county where they have room to grow. “Last one out, turn out the lights.”

What if there is an up-turn?

The bonus? The savings comes from abandoning existing school property and creating “superfund slums” in these small towns. No one asks what happens to the abandoned schools and what about the clean-up costs from asbestos, lead and demolition expenses? Anyone take a look at Dunbar? Is this what Faith, Morgan and Mt. Ulla gets?

Sorry Chuck, you have been misled. Please remember that it is “all about” that 1st grader on Panther Point Trail that has to get on the bus in the dark and return in the dark and is way too tired to do their homework. It’s really “all about” those hard-working tax-payers who suddenly are upside down on their homes because they have been moved from “C” rated schools to “D” rated schools. It’s all “about folks” that will not buy property and move here because you are playing games with the most important things in their lives; their children, their property values and their way of life. Shame on you!

Telling people to check their emotions at the door is disabling a major part of their ability to know if they want or don’t want something.  Emotions and reason join together create reality testing.  Yah?

What’s up with nostalgia craziness?  Do elementary school kids wax nostalgic about long bus rides and kissing their parents goodbye in the wee hours morning when the stars are still out?

It’s not too late Chuck. Be the guy we elected and fight this. Talk to Josh Wagner and Susan Cox and stop this debacle. We know you have it in you.

Dunbar School in Ruins:

Chuck Hughes, Board of Education

It is refreshing to have an online conversation with Mr. Paris without maligning each other. Still, I will reluctantly keep my response short and point out some facts that he may have missed.

First, his comments about shutting down “perfectly good” schools:

I appreciate Todd’s nostalgia for these 1920/1930 elementary schools. Although new when he enrolled, they are now 89 years old, and it is just a matter of time before the brick and mortal give way to father-time, that is if the old man is not already surveying his stock. Clearly these schools will have to be replaced in the near future, or have money wasted on modernizing heating and air systems that eat up thousands of wasteful dollars each year. However, that is contingent on if the upgrades can actually be done on buildings not designed to accommodate modernization. And if they could, it is likely that the technical modernization would out-live the buildings themselves.

· About the removal of the old structures and asbestos when they finally die. The fact is, this issue will have to be addressed eventually despite consolidation.

· The issue of “tens of millions of dollars” for new buildings is an understatement. We will eventually need to replace many more schools and do so in a short period of time (see the other elementary schools and construction dates below.)

· At a minimum, we are looking at $60 million to $100 million in the next five years or so just to get these projects started. You can blame this on years of neglect and planning failure. The current board is trying to “catchup” and is in the process of long-term construction plan

· If the influx of industry does occur, then the county wealth will take care of all the new schools we want.

K-5 OLDER THAN 50 YEARS ORIGINAL CONTST. # OF UPGRADES LAST UPDATE

I would agree that it would be beneficial to see a plan that consolidated these older schools with a newer school. However, demographics may make this impossible. It is a question worth asking, however.

Todd Paris’s Reply to this Letter-to-the-Editor:

Todd Paris Takes Issue with Chuck Hughes about the Rowan-Salisbury Schools Plan for Consolidating Six Elementary Schools

Todd Paris, Associate Editor and Salisbury Attorney with Chuck Hughes, Board of Education

♦ Earlier this morning Chuck Hughes posted a response to Todd Paris on the Rowan Free Press and below is a “side by side” response from Todd Paris (Todd’s replies are in bold):

Chuck Hughes: It is refreshing to have an online conversation with Mr. Paris without maligning each other. Still, I will reluctantly keep my response short and point out some facts that he may have missed.

Todd Paris: I’m have no interest in “maligning” Chuck, but if he doesn’t stop this foolishness I might run against him.

First, his comments about shutting down “perfectly good” schools:

Chuck Hughes: I appreciate Todd’s nostalgia for these 1920/1930 elementary schools. Although new when he enrolled, they are now 89 years old, and it is just a matter of time before the brick and mortal give way to father-time, that is if the old man is not already surveying his stock.

Todd Paris: Thanks, Chuck. I’m 53 years old. I bet you have neck-ties older than me. I started school in 1968. In East Rowan, you are moving Morgan kids to Rockwell and Granite which are both former High Schools before desegregation and not newer. Both elementary schools have substantial new energy efficient additions built in the last thirty years you are abandoning. My friends in Europe tell me that children there attend school in nice updated buildings, often built before the American Revolution. I note the original first building at UNC, “Old East” had its cornerstone laid on October 12, 1793, and it is still in use as a residence hall. When I attended, living there was highly prized and you had to sign-up for a lottery to get a chance to get in. According to “Wiki” “It is the oldest building originally constructed for a public university in the United States.” By the way Chuck, if you think “the rapture” is at hand, don’t waste money on new schools. For the money you are getting ready to spend you could send all of Rowan’s students for a final pilgrimage to “the holy land.”

Chuck Hughes: Clearly these schools will have to be replaced in the near future, or have money wasted on modernizing heating and air systems that eat up thousands of wasteful dollars each year. However, that is contingent on if the upgrades can actually be done on buildings not designed to accommodate modernization. And if they could, it is likely that the technical modernization would out-live the buildings themselves.

Todd Paris: This does not take into account the tens of millions wasted in new energy efficient additions we have bought and paid for since the 80’s that you will wastefully abandon. As for building life, these gabled roofed buildings have, and will far outlive the flat roofed replacements built in the 50’s and 60’s. Have you seen the pics of Dunbar in East Spencer? Ask County Chair Greg Edds about the expense of replacing the flat roof on the West End Plaza.

Chuck Hughes: About the removal of the old structures and asbestos when they finally die. The fact is, this issue will have to be addressed eventually despite consolidation.

Todd Paris: Inaccurate. We Republicans took power and changed the federal rules on asbestos a few years back. Now we don’t require removal, just “encapsulation.” In abandonment scenarios like the Dunbar, a “superfund site”, you can see the exposed asbestos in the wreck of our old school, no doubt blowing through the neighborhood like dandelions in an updraft. Most the houses surrounding Dunbar are for sale. I used to do asbestos litigation. Death by mesothelioma is not pretty and it takes just one inhaled fiber and a little bad luck.

Chuck Hughes:The issue of “tens of millions of dollars” for new buildings is an understatement. We will eventually need to replace many more schools and do so in a short period of time (see the other elementary schools and construction dates below.)

Todd Paris: Egads, Chuck! In a failing county with a non-functioning economic development commission and zero population and economic growth where do you expect to find a hundred million dollars? Are you really going to ask Judy, Jim and Greg for a 10 cent property tax increase? What about retired folks struggling on limited incomes? You need to go back to “Republican School” Remember we are supposed to be the guys for lower taxes?

Chuck Hughes: At a minimum, we are looking at $60 million to $100 million in the next five years or so just to get these projects started. You can blame this on years of neglect and planning failure. The current board is trying to “catchup” and is in the process of long-term construction plans.

Todd Paris: So you guys on the BoE have neglected these buildings for years and now want to tax the heck out of us and bus our kids day and night and spend 100 million Dollars on new schools that we do not need all because we have EXCESS school capacity? We have “EXCESS SCHOOL CAPICITY” Chuck, and you want to spend 100M on more schools?

Chuck Hughes: If the influx of industry does occur, then the county wealth will take care of all the new schools we want.

Todd Paris: Oh Dear. At least it’s clear you wrote this one yourself!

Let me make this simple, Chuck. I have a 2007 Ford 250 4X4 Super Crew pick-up with 90K miles on it. It cost me $40K new back in the day and it’s paid for. It’s having reliability issues and I keep spending about $2K a year on maintenance and repairs.

Its new replacement at the Ford place is $65K and the payments would be around $1,100 per month for years to come.

While I would save the 2K per year maintenance costs by buying the new truck that savings would be totally obliterated by over TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS per years in new debt service payments”.

Todd Paris:

Chuck Hughes:

Chuck Hughes’s Letter-to-the-Editor to which Todd Paris is Responding:

Todd Paris Takes Issue with Chuck Hughes about the Rowan-Salisbury Schools Plan for Consolidating Six Elementary Schools

Public Announcement

♦ Rowan Rural Save Our Schools will host a public and organizing meeting at the Fairgrounds Stadium on Thursday, April 14th at 7 p.m.–10 p.m.

The PTA sponsored meeting at Faith on Thursday scheduled for 7 p.m. was banned by orders from Rowan-Salisbury School System HQ.

At the Rowan Rural Save Our Schools public and organizing meeting anyone wanting to speak will be allowed to speak within time constraints.

School Board Members and RSSS Administrative staff are not invited because we simply can not provide security.

Tomorrow’s Attendees: please wear red, the color of anger and protest. You will not be asked to leave your emotions at the door!

The first scheduled Rowan-Salisbury Schools Town Hall Meeting is scheduled at West Rowan High School at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday April 28th.  Hopefully they won’t back out.

SAVE OUR LOCAL SCHOOLS NOW!

RFP Staff

♦ Angela Kay Moneymaker,32, a Gold Hill Felon, was arrested late Tuesday night in Rowan County for multiple crimes including breaking and entering and stealing a firearm.

Moneymaker was charged with breaking and entering – building (felony), larceny (felony)–committed pursuant to violation of GS 14-51, 54, larceny of a firearm (felony), obtaining property by false pretenses (felony), weapons possession by a felon prohibited (felony).

Under a secured $20,000 bond, Moneymaker is being held at the Rowan County Detention Center in Salisbury, N.C.

Angela Kay Moneymaker’s Previous Record:

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=1356908&searchLastName=Moneymaker&searchFirstName=angela&searchMiddleName=k&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

Todd Paris, Associate Editor and Salisbury Attorney

♦ “They are violent – violent I tell you!” from “Our Ant Farm at the Group Home” by Josef Lodtz

In responding to a recent Salisbury media article, I write:

If Josh Wagner and his Superintendent Lynn Moody wanted to speak to citizens, his superintendent would not have blocked the meeting at Faith School Thursday by the PTA groups and forced them to contact me for help in securing an alternative venue. They and the BoE could have spoken to citizen-taxpayers at Faith School.

Wagner’s claims of “violence” are false. He called the Fairgrounds Association and tried to convince them to take this second venue as well away from the tax-payers Wednesday afternoon. Thank goodness for Johnny Love, Randall Barger and the Fair Association and their refusal to be intimidated. There was no time to get security for the meeting and the BoE and school staff were not invited. They had their chance at Faith and by cancelling this event, waived their opportunity to speak.

They created their own problem and now Josh Wagner complains that they can’t come. This is abuse of political power in its most base and destructive way. The acts to close the venues sounds like something banana republic dictator would do. The Facebook page against the decision to close rural schools and bus students inwards now exceeds five thousand members just a few days after it’s creation. The “Salisbury Post” Poll is over 70% against this.

Spending over 100 Million dollars to build “consolidated” schools, when we have EXCESS CAPACITY is nothing short of crazy. It takes a 1 cent county-wide property tax increase to generate 1 million dollars. What about persons on fixed incomes? Let them eat cake! The “Blunder-dome” on North Main is “off the rails.”

Citizen-tax-payers have a right under the NC and US Constitution to peaceably assemble, assert their rights to free speech and organize to oppose the BoE’s bad policies. Wagner and the Superintendent, by using the political power that WE gave them to quell dissent is not American, and it violates the constitutional and civil rights of Rowan Citizens to peaceably assemble and speak. These are not “public servants”, but “public masters.” They both should resign immediately.

See you all at the Rowan County Fairgrounds Thursday at 7 p.m.!

RFP Staff

♦ Tracy Christy Heffner, 42, convicted prostitute, living at 519 Shaver Street in Salisbury and Juanita McKinney Delarosa AKA Juanita McKinney Ordonez, 42, of the streets of Salisbury and a convicted prostitute, are locked up in the Rowan County Detention Center.

Heffner, convicted Tuesday in District Court of probation violation (misdemeanor), had her probation revoked. She will serve time in the Rowan County Detention Center.

Delarosa/Ordonez was arrested Monday for failure to appear/comply (misdemeanor). Under a secured $1,500 bond, Delarosa/Ordonez waits in the Detention Center for her court date on April 25th.

Tracy Christy Heffner’s Previous Record:

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=0591546&searchLastName=heffner&searchFirstName=tracy&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

Juanita McKinney Delarosa’s Previous Record:

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=0683127&searchLastName=delarosa&searchFirstName=juanita&searchMiddleName=m&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

A Previous RFP Article about Heffner’s Prostitution Arrest at the East Innes Waffle House: “Tracy Christy Heffner Arrested for Allegedly Engaging in Prostitution at the Waffle House in Salisbury, N.C. Early Sunday”:

“Tracy Christy Heffner,41, of Salisbury was arrested early Sunday morning at the Waffle House on the 500 block of East Innes in Salisbury for allegedly engaging in prostitution.

Heffer was charged with engaging in prostitution (misdemeanor). Under a secured $500 bond, Heffner was placed in the Rowan County Detention Center and later released.

Heffner’s Previous Record:

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=0591546&searchLastName=heffner&searchFirstName=tracy&searchMiddleName=c&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

Previous article about Juanita McKinney Delarosa AKA Juanita McKinney Ordenez: “Juanita McKinney Ordonez Busted for Alleged Prostitution and Breaking and Entering at Vacant House in Salisbury, N.C. Thursday: “Juanita McKinney Ordonez Busted for Alleged Prostitution and Breaking and Entering at Vacant House in Salisbury, N.C. Thursday”

The Salisbury Police took a lick at cutting down on the city’s reputation for vice (street prostitution, narcotics, and gambling) Thursday when they entered a vacant house on the 500 block of East Lafayette Street on a trespassing call. The officers called out, “Is anyone here?” They heard “I’m here” and walked into a room where they allegedly witnessed James Moore, 57, from Spring Lake, N.C., squirming in a chair with his pants down to his ankles and big grin. “Uh oh.”

Originally the police received a complaint from a neighbor who alleged that two female squatters were in the house and doing drugs. When the police showed up, they spotted Juanita McKinney Ordonez AKA Juanita DeLarosea, 42, of the streets of Salisbury leaving the back door. When questioned if anyone else was in the house, Ordonez allegedly said, “a black mans.” Sure enough they found James Moore. When they questioned him about his state of undress, he allegedly admitted he paid Ordonez for sex.

Ordonez was charged with breaking and entering-building (misdemeanor), engaging in prostitution (misdemeanor), and possessing drug paraphernalia (misdemeanor).

Under a $1,500 secured bond, she was detained in the Rowan County Detention Center before she was released on bond.

James Moore was arrested and charged with breaking and entering-building (misdemeanor) and prostitution (procure or solicit) (misdemeanor).

Placed under a $1,500 secured bond, he remains in the Rowan County Detention Center.

The RFP June 4th article on Juanita McKinney Ordonez allegedly turning loose some sex for a ride to McDonalds and an unspecified amount of money.

Juanita McKinney Ordonez, 42, AKA Juanita Delarosa of Salisbury was arrested Sunday on the 100 block of North MLK, Jr. Avenue where she was allegedly found with a male in a car. Ordonez told the Salisbury Police the driver would take her to McDonald’s and provide money for sex.

Ordonez was charged with engaging in prostitution and released on a promise to return for court.

Juanita McKinney Ordonez AKA Juanita Delarosa’s record:

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=0683127&searchLastName=ordonez&searchFirstName=juanita&searchMiddleName

James “Chip” Moore’s Previous Record:

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=0289162&searchLastName=moore&searchFirstName=james&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=15

James “Chip” Moore:

Juanita McKinney Ordonez:

Salisbury N.C.’s Hott Pink Massage Spa’s Amy Joe Honeycutt Charged with Prostitution Today

Police Shutdown Two “Rough Trade” Massage Parlors in Salisbury, N.C.. 5 Ladies Busted for Unlicensed Massage

RFP Staff

♦ Salisbury Police arrested Malik Rashaad Jones, 21, of 200 block of Vanderford Street in Salisbury’s West End and his sidekick Devogea Daejon Monroe-Carter, 20, of Duntavin Way in Charlotte Wednesday at 8 p.m. after their Chevvy Malibu allegedly ran a stop sign. Two Salisbury Police officers traveling near South Long and East Monroe, spotted a burgundy Chevvy Malibu run a stop sign and followed the car onto East Bank Street where the officers turned on their siren and flashers. Soon the Malibu pulled to a stop on South Shaver Street.

According to police sources the driver Malik Rashaad Jones appeared glassy-eyed and slurred his speech. Jones failed to heed the officers initial commands. The officer on the opposite side of the Malibu drew his pistol when he allegedly noticed a rifle partially hidden between the front seat and the central console. The other officer drew his handgun and joined his partner in ordering the driver and the passenger out of the Malibu.

An allegedly belligerent Jones at first refused to get out of the car and had to be removed, placed on the ground, and handcuffed. At this point an AK-47 assault rifle with a 7.62×39 caliber round in the chamber and fitted with a pistol grip was seized from the vehicle. According to police sources an open bottle of Hennessy Cognac was allegedly found in the vehicle.

Jones, during his arrest, allegedly boasted that when he got out of jail, he would drive and drink again. He demanded his attorney be present during his Breathalyzer test.

Jones was charged with resist/delay/obstruct a public officer (misdemeanor), carry a concealed pistol/gun (misdemeanor), impaired driving (misdemeanor), and open container-prohibited (misdemeanor). Under a secured $20,000 bond, Jones is in the Rowan County Detention Center.

Monroe-Carter was charged with carrying a concealed pistol/gun (misdemeanor). Under a secured $1,500 bond, Monroe-Carter is in the Rowan County Detention Center.

Malik Rashaad Jones’s Previous Record:

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=1261390&searchLastName=Jones&searchFirstName=Malik&searchMiddleName=r&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

Malik Rashaad Jones:

Devogea Daejon Monroe-Carter:

AK-47:

RFP Staff

♦ Todd Paris, attorney, community organizer and creator Rural Rowan Save Our Schools Facebook page bursting with five thousand members, organized a public meeting in less than 24 hours after school Superintendent Moody blocked a meeting planned at Faith Elementary Thursday. Paris was grateful to the Rowan Fairgrounds Association and its leaders Johnny Love and Randall Barger for providing Thursday night’s venue.

The BoE Chairman Wagner’s threats of violence, meant to scare off participants, were nowhere to be seen in what was a peaceful family crowd of red shirted moms, kids, teachers, and dads.

Last evening’s floor was opened to the 150 or so cheering parents, teachers, community members, and sometimes even kindergarteners to speak. A child shall lead us! (Wasn’t little August Spencer a showstopper? And how about 6th grader Fransisco Serda? Awesome youngsters who don’t want to be bused many miles from home or line the pockets of Moody’s elite banker and real estate “friends” in Salisbury.)

The first speakers were beyond cute elementary school children who pleaded with Moody, Wagner and other BoE members not to close their school and wreck their education.  Appearances by Wagner, from the overage-soaked $9 million dollar Wallace Educational Blunder-dome showed up yesterday on a number of TV stations predicting violence and mayhem. It was a clear attempt to diminish the turnout for this emergency meeting and disparage the reputations of the tax-payers in attendance.  Of course, this was all necessitated by Superintendent Moody’s ban Wednesday of all such meetings on school property meant to quell dissent and to prevent dissention from “public servants”.

The community effort to rescue last night’s meeting did not stop Board Chairman Wagner from contacting Fair Association President Johnny Love to try to block this meeting as well. This violates citizen tax-payer’s first amendment rights to peaceably assemble and their freedom of speech once there. This is Rowan County U.S.A. not a third world dictatorship and we owe much thanks to the Fair Association for refusing to back down.

The more common themes among attendees was: We want our schools in our communities and we don’t want to bus our kids long distances or too poor performing schools. We sure don’t want our children to be lost in far larger classes. The Rowan Rural Save Our Schools folks are turned off to Moody, who helped herself to the domed castle on North Main with expensive new furniture, that is a ranking display of taxpayer waste and excessive overages.

Assisting with the meeting was Todd Paris, Andrew Poston and Michael Julian, potential candidates yet undecided about running against Chuck Hughes, Susan Cox and Josh Wagner, up for re-election this November. Mr. Poston’s rousing speech resulted in a standing ovation when he called for the defeat of these alleged “public servants.” Additional potential candidates have expressed interest as well, although not publically during the meeting.

Paris wowed the crowd when he said: “Tonight our goal is to put YOU in the driver’s seat!”

After an hour’s public comment, the group selected leaders and board members and voted to become a Political Action Committee to crush the re-election of Hughes, Wagner and Cox and to fire Superintendent Moody. Leaders were selected and the group will be moving forward in the days to come.  Many more will join in as well.

An additional speaker was Veleria Levy a community spirit and political aspirant who pledged support for community schools.

This was grass roots democracy at the fundamental level and Wagner and Moody’s efforts to stifle dissent against their plans by abusing the powers granted to them only incited attendees to greater efforts to see them removed. They know from friendly leaks in school administration that the school board has every intention to vote though the consolidations that will shove their children on buses early in the morning and have them coming home in darkness. The school board is just biding their time until after the election to cast their consolidation plans in stone. The three up for reelection need to be overwhelmed at the polls and replaced with new school board members more interested in superior education and in cutting Moody loose so she can twiddle her fingers in her new Concord manse far from “trashy Rowan”. (Have you ever heard of a school superintendent who lived in another district?)

Holler praise once again for Johnny Love, Randall Barger and the members of the Fairgrounds Association for representing the values of superior local education and the American way.

Parents, taxpayers, and teachers are only beginning to acknowledge the current schoolboard and Superintendent Moody, who walks all over them and keeps them in the dark, do not represent sound education, the taxpayers, or the teachers.  Moody and her school board takes orders from the elite real estate, banking, and construction families who laid waste to Salisbury for their own greedy betterment and who blocked economic development in the county for years.

Since Moody left the York County School District a mediocrity and was lured to Salisbury by the elite real estate and banking families who love overages and easy unobstructed money, the Rowan-Salisbury School System is recognized increasingly for badly performing schools, crime, and drugs and one of the major reasons why working class people are fleeing both Salisbury and Rowan.  Closing those local schools will only increase the outbound stampede.

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♦ Terry Scott Phillips, Jr., 37, a felon, was arrested Thursday evening on Scaley Bark Drive in Salisbury for alleged sex crimes with a child.

Phillips was charged with statutory rape/sex offense 13/14/15 years-old by a defendant 6 years older (felony), indecent liberties with a child (felony), and failure to appear/comply (misdemeanor).

Under a secured $77,000 bond, Phillips is in the Rowan County Detention Center.

Terry Scott Phillips, Jr.’s Previous Record:

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=0501123&searchLastName=phillips&searchFirstName=terry&searchMiddleName=s&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

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♦ Joseph Dominick Anderson, 27, of 1115 Barbour Street in Salisbury, died of gunshot wounds in a double-homicide gun battle along with Kevin Michael Caldwell, 27, of Patterson Street in Mooresville on Friday morning.  Both shooting victims were identified as Black males by the Davidson County Sheriff’s Department who found the bodies in black 2007 Crown Victoria Ford at the crash scene in the 4000 block of  U.S. 64 West.  The killings took place on a stretch of highway 5 miles from Lexington on the way to Mocksville.

Neighbors near the murder scene called in what they believed was an accident and the dispatch went out sometime around 6 a.m.  When Sheriff’s deputies arrived on the scene they found the Crown Victoria slammed through a large wooden storage shed, leaving it intact, before it came to rest in a smaller shed some 50 yards away on a dirt road.  Before the vehicle arrived at its final resting place, it passed through two neighbor’s front yards.

The vehicle’s deceased driver was identified as Salisbury’s Joseph Dominick Anderson. Caldwell was found slumped in the front passenger seat. The vehicle allegedly once belonged to Greensboro Police Department. This is the third time Anderson was targeted for killing. Back in November and March 2015, Anderson was fired upon.

Davidson County Sheriff’s Department investigators remained on the murder scene until 12:30 p.m. Friday. The bodies of the deceased were transported to the Medical Examiner’s Office in Raleigh for an autopsy to be performed on Saturday.

At this time no motives were released and no suspects were developed in the continuing investigation. It has not been reported if any firearms were recovered from the Crown Victoria.  Anderson is well known to Salisbury law enforcement.

If anyone has any information about this double-homicide they are requested to call the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office at 336-242-2105.  Calls can also be made to Lexington Crime Stoppers at 336-243-2400.

**This article will be updated as more information arrives.**

The Late Joseph Dominick Anderson:

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♦ Salisbury Gun & Knife Show on April 16-17 at the West End Plaza on 1935 Jake Alexander Boulevard West. Saturday 9-5/Sunday 10-4:

RFP Staff/Rowan-Salisbury Schools Policy Code : 7301–Professional Standards of Conduct and Performance for Staff

♦  Superintendent Moody does not have to state directly that teachers and other school employees can’t make complaints or speak out. The RSSS has a policy that can result in non-renewal of a contract. The superintendent knows this. What she was quoted as saying in the city “newsletter” equates to saying, “I didn’t tell them not to talk. They already knew not to do so.”

Here is the policy line in question:

3. Direct complaints regarding the work environment to the appropriate supervisors and/or file formal grievances or complaints in an effort to promptly address concerns in a professional manner, instead of acting to undermine or diminish the authority of co-workers and supervisors (through informal comments, gossiping, or unproductive promulgation of rumors and negative miscommunications).

Here are some insights about how this language affects teachers’ thinking:

We are not sure when the phrase “and/or file formal grievances or complaints” was added, but many teachers will still interpret this statement as a directive not to speak negatively about the work environment.

The language that is particularly troublesome is “instead of acting to undermine or diminish the authority of co-workers and supervisors” and the terms “informal comments, gossiping, or unproductive promulgation of rumors and negative miscommunications.” This language seems out of place in what is otherwise a document with neutral language. It was added in 2012. Consider what these word choices communicate to the employee.

“[I]nstead of acting to undermine or diminish the authority of co-workers and supervisors” implies motivation intended to do harm. However, according to the US Constitution, US citizens may voice their opinions, opinions that may be critical of others or of organizations. Telling a public employee that doing so is to undermine or diminish authority of peers (co-workers) or supervisors (department chairs; principals) seems more manipulative than purposeful in this document. You might recall that many school staffs are constructed as teams, and this language is based on corporate structure or a more military chain-of-command. We must remember that educators’ supervisors may not wish to further a complaint. We must also remember that not every complaint may warrant a formal grievance.

“[I]nformal comments, gossiping, or unproductive promulgation of rumors and negative miscommunications” makes quite a few inappropriate suggestions about how voicing opinion can be viewed by the Board of Education. This language intimates that informal comments about the work environment are inappropriate and equates it to “gossiping” or “unproductive promulgation of rumors”. In addition, the phrase “negative miscommunications” is confusing in its own right, but is linked grammatically to the word “unproductive”. In typical conversation, miscommunication is caused when the speaker and the listener do not interpret an exchange in the same manner, but “unproductive promulgation of…negative miscommunications” has a different meaning that resides in the mind of the writer of this terminology. It certainly implies a negative intent, but at the same time suggests that it could be a mistake. This kind of vague language would likely not hold up in court. Was it reviewed by a lawyer?

The overall effect of the phraseology of this line in BOE policies is to communicate that the Board of Education wishes educators not to make negative comments about the work environment, which is a request for educators to refrain from practicing a right to free speech.

The bottom of the page enforces the severity with which the BOE views this line, stating that “the failure or unwillingness of employees to comply with the professional standards of conduct and performance listed herein may result in contract non-renewal, implementation of a Growth or Mandatory Improvement Plan, or other disciplinary action up to and including dismissal from employment. In all matters concerning an employee’s compliance with this policy, consideration shall be given to the impact on the education of a student or group of students and on the overall educational environment of the school.”

The result has been that many RSSS teachers have interpreted that they are not to express their opinions about the school system unless it is positive, since negative comments are often considered “complaints” in common speech.

Perhaps the board itself best solicit input from teachers and invite them to a forum on a subject. Perhaps the BoE might host for such a forum?
Here is the link to the source document:

http://policy.microscribepub.com/cgi-bin/om_isapi.dll?clientID=4217230161&depth=8&infobase=rowan_salisbury_new.nfo&record=%7B78F%7D&softpage=PL_frame

Text on that page:

Policy Code: 7301 Professional Standards of Conduct and Performance for Staff

The Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education is dedicated and committed to providing all employees with opportunities and resources to further their growth as professionals. To that end, the performance of every employee is assessed and is provided with constructive feedback through a formal evaluation and review process targeted to enhance professional growth. In addition, it is the Board’s expectation that all employees, regardless of their years of experience, are capable of and must adhere to certain minimum professional standards of conduct and performance as set forth in this policy.

Therefore, all employees of the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education shall comply with and adhere to the following professional standards of conduct and performance:

1. Adhere to the Code of Ethics for North Carolina Educators as well as ethical standards set forth in further detail in the North Carolina Educator Evaluation Process and/or the RSS Evaluation process.

2. Comply with all Board policies regarding appropriate and/or prohibited behavior with students, including electronic communications with students directly or through the internet.

3. Direct complaints regarding the work environment to the appropriate supervisors and/or file formal grievances or complaints in an effort to promptly address concerns in a professional manner, instead of acting to undermine or diminish the authority of co-workers and supervisors (through informal comments, gossiping, or unproductive promulgation of rumors and negative miscommunications).

4. Avoid unprofessional confrontations with co-workers, including but not limited to, engaging in actions or conversations which the staff knows or should know will impede a staff member’s proper performance of their daily duties or unnecessarily interfere with the regular operation of the schools.

5. Classroom teachers, administrators and instructional support staff should manage students’ classroom behavior to minimize disruption to the educational environment and refer students, when necessary, to the administration for disciplinary action.

6. Respond to all parent inquiries, complaints and/or concerns in a timely and professional manner.

7. Comply with all administrative directives in a timely and professional manner, including written directives regarding specific issues or behaviors.

8. Perform all assigned and/or accepted extracurricular and non-instructional duties in a timely and professional manner.

9. Participate in and complete any required professional development activities.

10. Participate in all required staff meetings and student academic meetings, including required meetings for students with special needs, in a professional manner.

11. Complete and transmit all required reports and other documents in a timely and professional manner.

12. Arrive at school each day at an appropriate time designated by the principal or supervisor ready and prepared to complete all assigned duties.

13. Employees will maintain professional decorum when discussing school issues with members of the community.

14. Employees will preserve and maintain confidentiality of information about students and employees pursuant to established standards and policies.

The failure or unwillingness of employees to comply with the professional standards of conduct and performance listed herein may result in contract non-renewal, implementation of a Growth or Mandatory Improvement Plan, or other disciplinary action up to and including dismissal from employment. In all matters concerning an employee’s compliance with this policy, consideration shall be given to the impact on the education of a student or group of students and on the overall educational environment of the school.

Legal Reference(s): G.S. 115C-47 (1), (4), (9), (12), (18); G.S. 115C-325(e)(3); 16 NCAC 6C.0601

Adoption Date: 5/21/12

Amended Date: 6/30/15

RFP Staff/Rowan-Salisbury Redistricting Preliminary Investigations

♦ Rowan-Salisbury Schools Redistricting “Research” Posted Here. Is This Research Legitimate? Does a “Conflict of Interest” Exist? A through investigation of the PDF document posted below reveals some extremely large flaws in this alleged research. The first flaw, immediately ending any claim of this being legitimate independent research, is the fact that those putting this research were hired by the school system. They are being paid by the Rowan-Salisbury Schools. Without quibbling about the pseudo-scientific name dropping, this research is exactly like the “research” and testimonials churned out by multi-level-marketing vitamin supplement companies or by scam energy-water companies touting lead or cadmium as the missing links in human health and well-being. The projection claims for Salisbury gaining human life forms and for the Southern end of the County losing people is absurd. The Southern end of the county is rapidly growing and will no doubt grow more with the coming I-85 Interchange and the county’s water/sewer plans. Salisbury is almost flat-lined in growth except for the small influx of economic underachievers. Young people and the working class are outward bound. Rapidly so.

This redistricting research appears to be a covert form of “forced annexation”–Salisbury’s last gasp at forcing people toward the Bury. The folks out in the county are not going to be forced in–they will move away to less corrupt, less crime infested, less taxed, less meth, heroin, and crack, and to school systems that care more about children and teachers than do about running up the costs of unrequired school buildings so some no bid contractors and a few school employees can line their pockets. Do I hear Mooresville? Concord? And other far more livable places.

Study this alleged redistricting research:

https://app.box.com/s/pg90a60hwgr93zrrzueractvtgfmnriq

Who Vetted Moody?  The South Carolina “Visionary”:

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♦ Sometime prior to midnight Saturday night the pap-pap-pap of semi-automatic gunfire and women screaming could be heard on Church Street after a Livingstone College party broke up at Bounce City at 120 North Church Street near Council Street in Salisbury.  The gunfire could be heard up and down Council Street all the way over to Innes Street by Saint John’s Lutheran and the County Administration building.  A short time later stillness settled over the area as the shooters fled the area.

Before long the screaming sirens of Salisbury Police vehicles were heard arriving in the area before they filled up North Church.  Car doors slammed.  Livingstone students spilled out into the streets and police investigators fanned out. Trouble in the Bury.

Several area residents, a good friend of the Editor, and Associate Editor/Salisbury Attorney Todd Paris confirmed the shooting. Paris reported hearing multiple rapid fire shots from his Council Street home.

No injuries were reported.

At this time no motives for shootings were disclosed and no suspects were yet mentioned by law enforcement.

If someone has information about the shootings please call the Salisbury Police Department at 704-638-5333 or Salisbury-Rowan Crime Stoppers at 1-866-639-5245.

Bounce City is a popular children’s bouncing venue specializing in hosting children’s parties where youngsters bounce on inflatables and party with pizza, ice cream, and other fun fare in an indoor amusement park.

**This article will be updated as more information arrives.**

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♦ On Saturday Dustin Steven Perkins, 32, from Wilkesboro, N.C. brought his act to Salisbury and allegedly got into trouble with the law.

On Saturday he allegedly battled with a woman, placing her in a headlock and punching her in the face repeatedly with his fist.  Later it is said he tried his luck at Novant Health Rowan Regional Medical Center where he allegedly gave a false social security number to evade a hospital bill for treatment.  When the Salisbury Police questioned Perkins about his identity, he allegedly gave a false name and birthdate.  Adding to his mounting woes with the law, Perkins allegedly created a public disturbance by yelling profanities at the police and Medical Center staff.

Perkins was charged with identity theft (felony), resist/delay/obstruct a public officer (misdemeanor), assault on a female (misdemeanor), and engaging in fighting in public (misdemeanor).

Under no bond, Perkins is being held at the Rowan County Detention Center. His first hearing is on Tuesday April the 19th.

Dustin Steven Perkins:

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=0834670&searchLastName=Perkins&searchFirstName=Dustin&searchMiddleName=s&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1