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Page 8-A Letter To The Herald Editor ' The public should be aware that on Tuesday evening, April 13th, the Town Council will deal with the issue of whether “game parlors” (e.g., the Space Escape) should be added as permissible business oc cupants in the Downtown Commercial District as well as in outlying zoning districts. It is at least equally important that people be aware that the Space Escape, temporarily dislocated due to the remodeling of its former store for a new tenant, is now slated to be reopened on the rear of the same building (the old Hoses building) with access from the parking area. I am not writing to par take in the debate on the suitability of “game parlors” in the historic district or on the overall appropriateness of such establishments as hangouts for our young people. I am by no means anti-kid or unsympathetic with the lack of recreational facilities for the town’s youth. Moreover, lam not writing to attack John Mitchener 111. I believe that he has the town’s best interests very much at heart, and I admire ■WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWi ATTENTION LAWN | AND GARDEN LOVERS We now have all your supplies for lawn or garden including a variety of quality vegetable-flower plants. We also carry lime, fertilizer, pine bark, peat moss, grass and vegetable seeds. Just in time for Easter, we have chicks, ducks and rabbits. Stop and shop with us today! HALSEY FEED&SEED BADHAM ROAD v EDENTON, N.C. i PHON E482-2525 To be seen in J iiside Sports nationally on August 31st. J9Bl. f r—~- mhh MM Few things are as personally revealing asfce- clothing you wear. That's why Botany 500 * « is so particular about the clothing we make. Our fabrics come front the finest weavers worldwide. Our tailoring is _‘r • ndw* ‘ ..’ ■ ing value vear after tear This concern lor quality not only a reflection on ' ® More than that, it's a ref!_J® Botany ' Miih tnierna I J-HtAveituCjgjT Hr ~~ ’*' 1 * ii jl THE ELLIOTT COMPANY OF EDENTON his willingness to put his money where his mouth is. We’ll have people like John to thank if Edenton’s downtown commercial district survives and prospers while the down town areas of Windsor, Williamston, Plymouth, Elizabeth City and most other, eastern North Carolina towns go down the tubes. However, I feel that at least as important an issue as the determination of appropriate zoning areas for game parlors is the specific issue of the current plan whereby the Space Escape would occupy a rear store in the remodeled building with access from the parking lot. I don’t believe that either John Mitchener or the Space Escape operators intend to create a public nuisance, but this clearly would seem to be the inevitable result of locating the game parlor there. And, of course, if zoning regulations were to permit the Space Escape to situate there, then the potential for additional similar stores also facing the parking lot would exist. It doesn’t require much imagination to envision what the corner of the parking lot sheltered by the County Office Building and the row of Broad Street stores would become in the evenings. That area would be open air gin mill and dope den with the accompanying noise, litter, ect. No matter how well the inside of the game parlor is regulated (and I have little doubt that the Space Escape operators will continue to do their best to run an orderly establish ment), the parking lot will be a circus. That parking lot abuts a residential neighborhood. My family and I are a part of it, residing on the Courthouse Green. Having relocated from the unsavory environment of a large city to Edenton almost three years ago, we had the evidently naive expectation that we would find, a more wholesome and orderly situation here. After living through two summers in downtown Edenton, we’re sadly disillusioned. The downtown waterfront area during the warm weather months is bedlam. The summer of 1980 was bad. This past summer was just about unbearable. The unwillingness of our local police to get involved has amazed us. I have heard much about lenient laws that prevent our policemen ■ LATE SHOWS THIS I [ FRIDAY AND SATURDAY I AT 11:30 i ———. ' i CO-STARRING BRUCE LI. —THfiCHQBANfffSRAM? •** from keeping the peace. But i whether it’s due to lax laws, i a ’look-the-other-way at titude on the part of some (not all) of our police of fice's, or some combination of these factors, the peace is not kept. To add to this grim situation a magnet for unruliness in the County Office Building parking lot would be a kick in the face to the residents of downtown Edenton. There are other more suitable, more public and more easily supervised locations for a game parlor than the one presently contemplated, and the citizens of downtown Edenton have the right to a peacable environment, day and night. My hope and prayer is that the Town Council will defend the downtown area from further disruption and that it will deal with the problems that contribute to the creeping deterioration in the quality of life in the downtown residential area. A step in the right direction would be to pervent the operation of a “game parlor” in the retail parking lot. I would urge all con cerned citizens to make their opinions known prior to the April 13th meeting. Very truly yours, John Donovan Card Os Thanks I would like to thank the staff of Chowan Hospital and Chowan Nursing Facility, Unit C, for their excellent care during my recent stay. A special thanks to Dr. Wright for his sincere concern and highly professional treatment. I thank my family, my Pastor, and all my friends. God Bless you all. Florence Lassiter chg. ' i . i 4 i . i . Junior Livestock Show And Sale Slated The 1982 Chowan County , Junior Livestock Show and - Sale will be held April 13 at ! the American Legion Fair - Grounds. This year the show > will start 2 P.M. with the i sale slated for 7:30 that night. i Nine trophies will be of fered by local Businessmen as follows: Edenton Shell; ; Mitchener’s Pharmacy; i Hollowell & Blount Rexall, i Drugs; Bdenton Savings & Loans; Albemarle Production Credit i Association; Albemarle Cooperative Association; Peoples Bank and Trust Company; Chowan Farm i Bureau; and J. H. Conger & Son. Kindergarten Registration Set Kindergarten registration for students living in the Edenton school district will be held April 15, from 9 A.M. to 1 P.M. in the gymnasium at D. F. Walker School. All children who will be five years old on or before October 16, will be eligible to attend kindergarten when school opens next Fall. Parents are required to present a copy of the child’s birth certificate, which may be kept by the school. Parents are also required to present the child’s im munization records. These can usually be obtained from the Health Depart Fun Run Planned For May Bth . The Perquimans County Parks and Recreation Dept, and Band Boosters will sponsor a 5K (3.1 mile) run anda Fun Run on May 8. The race will begin at 10 A.M. at Hertford Grammar School. Registration will begin at 8:30 A.M. Cost of the 5K run is $5 for entries postmarked by May inf==imrr." inr=a Front Disc Brake Specials • Disc Pads • Turn Rotors • Installed iZ “Lifetime Guaranteed” Mufflers Domestic Cars & Trucks *4t:oo installed Lube, Oil And Filter Change Up To 5 QTS. Prem. Oil Complete Chasis Lubrication, Oil Change And A Parts Plus Oil Filter Special *1 4 95 Albemarle Auto Parts 482-3384 or 482-4454 bt==.: zißi : jUbel.' 1 ibi.::.' '~:iar=~' 'ibg •••=»-ibcz =s ■-jbc^s I FOR SALE I Purebred Duroc Boars, service age validated. Qualified herd. Contact: SELBY SCOTT PHONE 335-4508 L RE-OPENING FULL TIME STARTING FRIDAY M [II [■] PHONE 482-2312 OR 793-2185 ANYTIME FOR HBHmrmBMMbII— complete movie info; ! STARTS FRIDAY PLAYS THROUGH THURSDAY ] i _ GEORGE C. SCOTT i TIMOTHY HUTTON - ) ) 4} . ■ Our auctioneer will be Wallace Evans of Parker and Evans Hardware. Wallace has been our auctioneer for a very long time and always does a superb job. The judge this year is an area Livestock Specialist from the southeastern part of the state, Robert Swain. He has worked in counties for sometime and should be an able judge. Chowan, Ryland and Cape ' Colony Ruritan Clubs have sold advertisements for the Livestock Show Program. Advance Ruritan Club will be in charge of making arrangements. Ryland ment or private physician. Unless parents so desire, it is not necessary to bring the potential kindergarten child to registration. However, a play area supervised by volunteers will be available while parents complete the registration process. To ensure a smooth registration, trained volunteers and Health Department nurses will be at several stations to help parents during registration. Kindergarten registration for students in the White Oak School district will be held on April 29. 1 and $6 for all entries thereafter. Cost for the Fun Run is sl. For further information contact the Perquimans County Recreation Dept, at 426 - 5695, or write them at P. O. Box 32, Hertford, N.C. 27944. "Never cut what you can untie." Joseph Joubert Ruritan Club will be in charge of refreshments stand. Boys and girls with Steer projects are Kent Howell, David Hare, Debbie Ward, Martin Copeland, Darryl Stallings, Donna Pippins, Crystal Stallings & Mike Pippins. A steer shelter is being constructed by the American Legion and other interested people. . Four - H’ers with Market Pig projects are as follows: ~ Karen Cox, Valerie Copeland, Crystal Stallings, Jonathan Nixon, Mike Pippins, Johnny Lowe, Richard Cox, Carl ji 8 A public procession or promenade f|l (g 9 some churches have on this Wh p l—* 1 M : 10 Th# Mason that East* n cottxatod ~ ~ ** j [~| fcjJ S 1 People give these as gifts at this lime M S’"* 1 .—2 T eVSS? e'vJ-if .‘JSSSSb; tS 2 Another word for rabbit M fiifcf; 4 K 3 Something mecie with super that Wtt > > 4. A building where people go El Jw ' | 5 A container made of interwoven {§ 8 lornathing children like to paint or HaaomHMMw { \ HERITAGE / I ) REALTY' C I commercial - residential NEW LISTINGS I INCOME PRODUCING INVESTMENT Excellent 1 ■ rental property.■ brick.duplex.with 3 BR apartments. I I Good location. Great price. $26,000. I j Large MOBILE HOME LOT Just outside city 1 I limits, owner financing at 12 percent APR. I 1 WATERFRONT Elegant home in a spectacular I I setting on the Albemarle Sound, featuring: foyer, great I ■ room, 3 or 4 bedrooms, Florida room, 2 full baths and 2 I ■ half baths. Plus 3 bdrm. guest house. 1.1 acres with ■ I sandy beach. 12 per cent owner financing. I I COMMERCIAL BUILDING —On 2.6 acres with 365’ ■ I of highway frontage -12 per cent owner finan- I I ci "g $65,000 I I APARTMENT HOUSE - For Sale $38,000 ■ I COMMERCIAL BUILDING Highway frontage on ■ I 2.8 acres $39,500. I ■ DUPLEX APTS. SOLD 12 per cent owner I I financing $29,000 ■ I HISTORIC DISTRICT Charming 4BR home with 2 I ■ full baths, eat-in kitchen, formal dining room, LR, den, I ■ and utility room. Beautiful yard. Price reduced to ■ | $52,000, ■ I I REfJT —3 BR house at the edge of town. ■ ff HANDI-MAN SPECIAL 2 room house on large lot. I ■ Arrowhead Beach $12,800 ■ I CAPE COLONY Charming 2 bedroom home, 1% I I baths, eat-in kitchen, LR, Florida rm, carport, large I ■ utility rm. Beautiful, wooded setting. Many extra ■ ■ features $39,000 K 1 ARROWHEAD BEACH —On the canal, nice 2 bdrm. ■ I home with option to buy additional lot. 9 per cent ■ I assumption $35,500. I 1 CAPE COLONY Unique, custom built home on I ■ dbl. lot, 3 bdrm, 2Vz bath, rec. rm., LR, cathedral I I ceiling - balconies - decks, fireplace, 2 bay carport, I I workshop, beach and much more $60,000 I I MOBILE HOME - 1974 Double-wide, 3 bdrm. 2 l t I baths, Excellent condition Reduced to SII,BOO ■ j WATERFRONT r\ ton Chowan River with I I septic tank, count yjW electricity. 12 per cent 1 ■ owner financing Negotiable ■ ■ CHOWAN BEACH -10 x 50,2 BR mobile home. Nice I I shaded lot, beach access. (Owner financing 12 per I I cent) Make an offer 1 ■ WATERFRONT HOME - Arrowhead Beach - 3 I ■ bedroom home, 2 baths, LR with fireplace, kit., DR, 1 ■ utility rm, 1 car garage on beautiful extra large lot. H I Bulkheading and pier with spectacular view of the ■ < ■ Chowan River (Owner financing at 12 per cent) Make I ■ an offer. 1 I IN TOWN Stratford Immaculate home on a I I beautiful lot. 3 BR, ■ hardwood floors. In 9 Client condition. 7Y« assump- 1 ■ tion :. $37,500 I i VALHALLA Owner Must Sell Now! Eight year K ■ old spacious country home with over' 1750 sq. ft. in- 1 I eluding 3 bdrms., LR, DR, kit., 1% baths, utility room I ■ and studio. Situated on two. acres nortn of 1i ■ Edenton Price Reduced $34,000. I I NEAR COUNTRY CLUB —on Atnoi Lane. Lag 8 ■ cabin, rustic and beautiful, built for many years of * ■ maintenance free living. 2 bedrooms, great room with 1 ■ fireplace situated on 5 acre wooded lot. I 162 ACRES with large lake, timber and cleared land, f ■ EXCCU fi^/° r < * evelopment- Ne *°*ia w e. 12 per cent i H- ■ I Waterfront lats - Snug Harbor and Arrowhead. ' 1 1 Other LoU and Acreage For Sale I Thursday. April 8, 1982 Coston,Jr., Donna Pippins, Debbie Ward, Darryl Stallings, Dennis Cox, Danny Pippins, Anna $ Goodwin and carry ' Copeland. Everybody is invited to attend the youth event. Come if you can! Bloodmobile Continued From Pago 2-A Perry, Luci Copeland, Carl Bunch, Wayne Goodwin, Rube Blanchard, Harry ( Ward, Emmett Win borne, Frank White, Dee Stinnette, Shirley Byrum, Donna Bass, Bertha Blanchard, Barbara Smith, Eva Smith and Richard Bunch.
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