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(tratitn^auntg West Craven Highlights Neu>$ From Along The Banks Of The Neuse ' " k MUIQNM MWIMHII .MaOOAIKM APRIL, 21, 1988 VANCEBORO, NORTH CAROLINA PHONE 244 0780 OR 046 2144 (UPSP 412-1101 25 CENTS SIX PAGES Strawberries Set To Rule 1988 Festival Fun, Frivolity Comes To Town For Annual Celebration May 21 By MIKE VOSS Editor What has fine food, a precision parade, melodious music and strawberries fixed any way you can imagine? That's right. It will soon be time again for the annual Straw berry Festival-Rescue Day in Vanceboro. It’s the one day a year where strawberries are king, lovely women serve as queens and al-day fun is the court jester. Crowds are expected back again for this year’s festival The Strawberry Festival, although a community event, is put on by the Vanceboro Junior Woman’s Club. The festival this year will be May 21. The Junior Woman's Club met recently at the home of Cindy Mills to dis cuss plans for the festival and the Strawberry Run, also sponsored by the Junior Woman's Club. The festival features barbe cued dinners served by the Van ceboro Rescue Squad, carnival rides, musical entertainment during the day, gospel singing, arts and crafts fair and booths selling strawberry ice cream, strawberry shortcake and choco late-covered strawberries. The Strawberry Run is a 5K race. The course has been certi fied by The Athletic Congress. (See FESTIVAL, Page 5) Nelle Hayes Draws Interest In Reading By TERRI JAMIESON Stair Writer This is the third year Nelle Hayes has served as artist Cor the state’s Summer Reading Com mittee. The committee, appointed by the North Carolina Department of Cultural Re sources’ Division of Libraries, meets in May of each year to dis cuss and select a theme for the next year’s summer reading program. Ms. Hayes designs and then illustrates the program materials that are to be used in the summer reading program. They are pre sented and final work is done in September and October meet ings of the committee. Posters, bookmarks, reading records, clip art, buttons, certifi cates, stickers and black-and- white designs used to produce thermal silk screens are the types of material Ms. Hayes designs. In 1986 the theme for the sum mer reading program was “We The People,” relating to the re furbishing of the Statue of Liber ty and the celebration of the 20&th birthday of the U.S. Con stitution. Last year’s theme was “Soar Into Reading.” Soar is an acronym for Summer Of Adven turous Reading. fSee HAYES, Page S) 5^ Pine Wood Derby Winner Brandon Garris was the ftrst-place winner in Pack 58's recent Pine Wood Derby. Brandon is the son of Brandtly and Barbara Garris of Rt. 2, Vanceboro. Competitors in the Pine Wood Derby make their cars out of blocks of pine wood and have to meet specific guidelines before their cars qualify. Havelock Turns 3 Hits Into Win Over Eagles HAVELOCK — Right-hander David Seaton scattered six hits and the Rams made the most of three hits to defeat West Craven &1 in a Coastal Conference base ball game Saturday night. Seaton went the distance in picking up his third victory with out a loss. In addition to 10 strike outs and four walks, he allowed five singles and a double in notching a complete game. West Craven outhit Havelock 6-3, but the Rams used a single and a two-run homer by Shane Kensey (his first of the season) to grab a 4-0 lead in the third inning. Kensey also had an RBI single. Brian Kelly had one RBI on an infleld groundnut. Eagle left-hander John Dizon, Sample of artwork for reading program by Mrs. Hayes who had an eamed-run average of 0.70 going into the game, was uncharacteristically wild, un leashing two wild pitches (one re sulted in a run) and hitting a bat ter. Three of the six Havelock runs were unearned as the Rams were helped by four West Craven errors. David McDonald and Steve Daub shared the two other Have lock hits as the Rams improved to 2-1 in the Coastal Conference and 8-4 overall. Dizon and Janathan Taylor each had two hits for West Craven, who fell to 1-2 in the league and 5-4 overall. ’^e Eagles scored their only run in the top of the seventh. WMtCnfM MINI l~l ■miKt III III 1-1 Texasgulf Explaining Changes Officials of Texasgulf Chemic als Co. are traveling the state in an attempt to inform the public about planned changes in the way the company affects the en vironment. J. Randolph “Rann" Carpen ter, vice president in charge of government affairs and public relations, said the company wants to show changes that will come as a result of a new draft permit for discharge into the Pamlico River. Carpenter, Operations Vice President Thomas Regan, Opera tions Manager Guy Whitaker and Environmental Affairs Manager William Schimming met with representatives of the Daily News Thursday as the first step in the effort. The discharge permit, admi nistered by the state Division of Environmental Management, governs the way the company disposes of the enormous amounts of water that it pumps ftom the ground. Regan noted that the proposed permit resulted fVom collabora tion between state officials and company representatives. He said data the company had col lected on water quality over the last 20 years and information on how the company functions were used as bases for designing the permit If approved, Regan said of the permit "it will require us to do our business with respect to wa ter in a way that we have never done it before.” Currently, Texasgulf dumps 25 to 60 million gallons of water ftom its mining process in the Pamlico River each day. Most of this water, which does not con tain any impurities or nutrients added by Texasgulf, would con tinue to be dumped, Regan said. He said that the change would come in the way the company handled water used to slurry ore and to cool machinery. This wa ter, which is now discharged in (See Tg, Page 5) Something To Crow About Maybe the crow’s nest is not the best place to be on a sailing ship, but it sure can give its occupant a bird’s-eye view of the area. This crow's nest, seen from the deck below it, has a little bit of history 17-Week Program In Schools behind it. To find out more about the history of this ship and the history that caused it to be built, turn to page 6 and erxjoy a living history lesson. (Mike Voss photo) Students Are Given A DARE To Overcome Drug Pressures By TERRI JAMIESU.N SlafT Writer Fifth- and sixth-grade students througout Craven County are being exposed to a 17-week anti- dmg program called DARE. The program. Drug Abuse Resist ance Education, is aimed at edu cating students about the dan gers of dmg use. The students are being in- stmcted by Deputy Terry Regis ter of the Craven County Sher iffs Department. The program was officially unveiled Monday night in New Bern. Register himself has been in- stmcted through extensive train ing and has been qualified to im plement the DARE program in Craven County. The program provides information about drugs and alcohol, teaches and reinforces decision-making skills, builds self esteem and offers ways to resist negative peer pressure. It also suggests alternatives to drug use. Each student receives a work book and at the end of the year there is a graduation party. Reg ister comes to Farm Life Elementary School in Vance boro each 'Tuesday. The DARE program was started in 1983 as a pilot program in Los Angeles. The purpose of DARE is to help students realize that they are at risk to drugs ev eryday and to teach them methods of coping with the risk. An important part of the prog ram is the fact that it not only emphasizes the negative parts of drugs, but it also focuses on the positive side of life, say program olflcials. Only a trained, uniform officer is allowed to teach the program. The officers interact with the stu dents and strive to maintain a high profile at the school (See DARE, Page 5)
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