TT H« lEj I*IO N A vB^ p By r«B ip? jB B 'lb ; Br ...d^Bi—H •■'.■ iW Jm' Rlß< «F A. H- ../"Jf *|BRr * B||B JB • JBB JHBBB ¥ Hk y JL 'iSrP?'/' f ~RWfr ,*¥> < -' ' '4?%#^ •?»'v ; :’ . x%r'« -- v 9KBiPf .:*■-- «««w . ''-^''^Br^mS^B LAWRENCE ACADEMY VARSITY CHEERLEADERS PLACE FIRST—The Lawrence Academy Varsity Cheerleaders won first place in the fourth annual Tarheel Independent Conference cheerleading competition. The competition was held on February 18th at Pungo Christian Academy in Belhaven before a large crowd of Warrior fans. Cheerleaders from E.C.U. judged each squad in the following area: pompom routine, chants, floor cheers with stunt, poise, enthusiasm, and appearance. Members of the Lawrence Academy varsity squad are: front row: Kris Barnes, Jan Brown - Captain, Kim Daniels - Co- Captain, Jennifer Davenport. Back row: Jennifer Jemigan, Lindley Chappell, Amy Hamilton, Beth Blackburn, Karen Gregory, Annalisa Carawan. Standing: Mrs. Joan Daniels - Sponsor. Letter To The Chowan Herald Editor Letter to Editor: Quite a lot of publicity has recently been given to the two-year-old miniature schnauzer rescued from a Bethesda, Maryland, research laboratory shortly before he was scheduled to die v tiwu»fm

S INSPECTING DRAINAGE PROJECTS-Contractor and local drainage commissioner inspect work on the Bear Swamp main channel during the early construction stages of the project. First planning, and then installing the pro jects, now the maintaining of the projects. Drainage Projects In Area In Perquimans and Chowan Counties there are three watershed drainage projects. These projects are sponsored by the Soil Conservation Ser vice, under public law 566, and local drainage districts. The first of these local pro jects constructed in 1961 was Burnt Mill Creek Watershed on the county line on US-17. It drains about 10,500 acres of land in Chowan and Per quimans counties with 9 miles of open channels. Pollock Swamp Watershed project, west of Edenton, was install ed in 1966; it drains about 15,000 acres with 28 miles of open channels. The Bear Swamp Watershed project was completed in 1981. It is east of Center Hill and drains about 13,00 acres and has 17 miles of open channels. Bear Swamp is the older of the three projects. Landowners organized in the early nine teen hundreds to perform drainage work and again in the late fourties. Each watershed district has a board of commissioners that oversees the project. These commissioners are local contacts for landowners that are within the watershed. Landowners in the water sheds are assessed foe., drainage. This is determined basically by the benefits the individual’s parcel of land receives by drainage. There is an original cost of the pro ject for which each landowner is assessed. Also there is an annual maintenance assess ment, this is used to perform priority maintenance work. This maintenance involves mowing ditch banks to remove vegetation, repairing bridges and culverts, and dip ping out sediment from the canals. An annual inspection by the Soil Conservation Service and the Drainage Commissioners is made on each project to check for any malfunctions. The Commissioners task of trying to determine where work is needed the most is not always and easy job since funds are usually limited. Landowners are urged to let their Commissioners or the Soil Conservation represen tative know when a problem arises in the watershed system. SOUDSAnNGS! | H.S. CLASS RINGS | ! $8995 H§>; w WITH THIS AD^ | PLUS up to $26 worth of custom features FREE! ■ Bring this ad to get super savings on your Art Carved Siladium* class ring. Every ring is backed by the Art Carved Full Lifetime Warranty. ■ «“ihfs offer Expires May 31.1983 and is to be used ■ only tor the purchase of Art Carved Siladium • ■ Class Rings. _______ _ L /WQIRVED I XCIASS RINGS INC ® en R’dd’ck Jewelers" ■ 1311 S. Broad St. Edenton, N.C.I %\ 482-3525 _ Class Rings Inc J-0000^0 Agriculture Meeting RALEIGH—The North Carolina Board of Agriculture met recently in Room 359 of the Agriculture Building, I West Edenton Street j Action taken during the Board of Agriculture meeting included; ‘ 1) Adoption of temporary plant regulations concerning, importation of green pepper plants. Growers importing these plants from outside the state would have to notify NCDA; NCDA would, in turn, check the out-of-state plant source to determine if disease and insect free plants are be ing offered for sale. In 1982, importation of pepper plants from outside the state which were infested with bacterial leaf spot disease caused ma jor losses in the pepper in dustry. This regulation will try to prevent this “introduc ed problem” from occurring again. 2) Approval of a loan pro posal from Northwestern Bank to fund stall construc tion for the Raleigh horse facility. It is proposed that funds in the amount of $750,000 be borrowed to con struct 5 stall buildings to house up to 500 horses. 3) Approved an amendment of the Ringling Brothers con tract which would allow the company to have the ex clusive right to sell snowcones and cotton candy during the circus. 4) Approved a motion which would grant James E. Strates Shows, carnival/rides con tractor for the State Fair, a three-year contract. This con tract would be reviewed annually.