2012 News & Events

Bojangles' Night Kicks Off the Franklin County's Football Season
August 31, 2012

The Bojangles' Tailgate Team was out in full force at Franklin County High School's Varsity Football Home opener. The first 2,500 attendee's received a Bojangles' Promotional Gift Card. Every card was preloaded with atleast $1, multiple cards had $5, $10, $20, and one was loaded with $100. 

On top of that Bojangles' will be sponsoring the Player of the Game for the entire Varsity Season. The player of the game as voted on by the coaches from the previous week will be selected and presented with a $10 Bojangles' Gift Card while being interviewed by a Cable 12 reporter covering the game as a part of the pregame festivities.  

Bojangles' is proud to continue our support of Franklin County High Shool sports. 

It's ShowBo Time Again! 
May 11, 2012

Arrington Management Group is proud to announce that we have two restaurants that made the ShowBo Finals in the 2012 competition. 

The Marketplace Dr. Bojangles' lead by Nancy Valentino, and LakeWatch Center Drive lead by Glenda Hall will travel to Charlotte in June to represent our company at the Annual Bojangles' Franchise Business Conference. There we will learn which of the 10 finalist throughout the Bojangles' system have won the grand prize of $10,000. 

Ferrum DQ's Remodel Underway!
May 10, 2012

Our Ferrum DQ is in the process of getting a new look. This location will continue to be open during most of the construction. We will be closed for a period of 2 weeks in late June to upgrade our service areas, and kitchen.  

When we reopen, we will be a DQ Grill & Chill Restaurant with a new modern look and feel. Check back often to see the progress of the renovations. 

Teachers, supporters march for education
March 30, 2012

ROCKY MOUNT — About 30 teachers and supporters, holding signs and wearing stickers reading "Invest in Kids," marched Thursday afternoon for education funding awareness. 

The march, organized by the Franklin County Education Association, was planned to demonstrate concern about underfunding of public education, foster public awareness and support, and to demonstrate how wage stagnation for the county's largest employee group could affect the county's businesses. 

The march began at the Franklin County Government Center and headed east toward Rocky Mount to Dairy Queen and back, about half a mile round-trip, and was timed to end before the beginning of a board of supervisors workshop on the proposed 2012-13 budget. 

Marchers advocated a 60-cent tax rate, three cents higher than the proposed rate, to save 32 school staff jobs and the DARE program from cuts, along with cuts to the Department of Social Services and other county services, said Lee Ann Worley, salary and compensation chairwoman for the Franklin County Education Association. 

"It's not just about getting a raise," Worley said. "It's about the bigger picture." 

Cuts to state funding have reduced money to localities by millions in recent years, leaving more funding to be supplied by local governments. 

"We are asking our locality to stand up and shoulder the cuts made by the state," said Dave Campbell, a teacher at the Gereau Center. 

The $120 million proposed county budget would give the school system a budget of about $78 million for the 2012-13 school year, the same as this year, instead of the $82 million budget the school system requested. 

The county's proposed budget would not allow the school system to use $418,000 in fuel reserve and $1.4 million in funding from spending freezes this year toward balancing its budget, as the school board had requested. 

Using one-time money for ongoing expenses is something the supervisors have advocated against, saying it's irresponsible and can lower the county's bond rating. 

"This is one-time money and it's something we've always said we wouldn't do to balance the budget, and I have a lot of concern about that," said board of supervisors Chairman David Cundiff. 

Supervisor Bobby Thompson was the lone voice in advocating to allow the schools to use its carry-over funding in next year's budget. 

"Given where we are, I would be willing to take the risk on the one-time money... it's going to be hard to recoup if we slide backwards," Thompson said. "I think it's worth it to take that risk to make things near level." 

But the tax rate increase the teachers had hoped for was not to be. Supervisors took a unanimous vote to advertise a tax rate of 54 cents per $100 in assessed value. That's up six cents from the current rate of 48 cents per $100 in assessed value. 

The proposed budget also includes a 30-cent rate increase in personal property taxes to $2.34 per $100 in assessed value; a 10-cent increase in machinery and tools taxes to 70 cents per $100 in assessed value; a $20 per participant fee for youth athletics through the parks and recreation department; elimination of amnesty on interest on late county taxes, worth an estimated $67,000 per year; and a $5 increase in landfill fees per ton of waste to $37. 

The county is fighting a 15.5 percent drop in real estate value rates from a reassessment completed in November, leaving a gap of $6.8 million in funding at the current real estate tax rate. To completely offset that loss, the real estate tax rate would have to jump to 57 cents per $100 in assessed value. 

Supervisors can vote for a tax rate lower than advertised, but it cannot be raised higher without further public notice. 

"We are very disappointed in your vote," some teachers told supervisors as they filed out after the meeting, pointing at the photos of children on the posters they'd brought into the meeting from the march. 

The county is scheduled to adopt the budget April 24.  

Bojangles' Southern 500 Annoucement
March 15, 2012

DARLINGTON, S.C. (March 15, 2012) /PRNewswire/ — A Southern culinary staple is teaming up with the track Too Tough to Tame. Bojangles’today announced its title sponsorship of South Carolina’s only NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, the Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. The race will start at 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 12, in its traditional spot on Mother’s Day weekend.