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Ervin is new Historical Commission director
From staff reports
The Edenton Historical
Commission has identified
Mike Ervin as its new ex
ecutive director.
Mike Ervin originally
moved to Edenton with his
family in 1962, and has al
ways coasidered Edenton
home, even when he has
lived elsewhere. He began
Itis work at the Penelope
Barker House Welcome
Center on Monday
Ervin follows
Gregg Nathan, who
has served as execu
tive director for the
past six years.
Sally Francis Ke
hayes, chairman
of the Edenton
| of the Commission’s
historic preserva
tion and education
efforts on behalf of
Edenton and Chow
an County. He has
years of experience
in the community
Historical commis
sion, said, “We hate
ERVIN
college system ana
in nonprofit and
to lose Gregg but think we
have found an equally quali
fied successor.”
Ervin will be responsible
for continuing the growth
governmental agencies. He
holds bachelor of science
and master of business ad
ministration degrees from
East Carolina University.
In addition, he Ls com
pleting the nonprofit man
agement program through
Duke University. As an ac
tive volunteer with many or
ganizations such as the Boy
Scouts of America, Habitat
for Humanity and the East
ern North Carolina Food
Bank, Ervin understands
the value of volunteers to
the Penelope Barker House.
“I’m happy to begin work
at the Edenton Historical
Commission,” Ervin said.
“I will er\joy working with
a large and diverse team
to reach a common goal of
preserving, and sharing, our
valued history.”
Nathan is relocating to
Florida
“We are grateful for the
years of leadership Gregg
Nathan has provided to the
Commission and the Penel
ope Barker House,” Kehayes
said. “During Iris tenure the
organization has expanded
services to our community
and to visitors from around
the world; saved the light
house; opened the Penelope
Barker House seven full days
a week; and maintained our
fiscal responsibility to our
stakeholders and donors.”
The public is invited to
wish Gregg Nathan good
bye and welcome Mike
Ervin on Sunday, Feb. 28
from 4 A (3 pm at the Penel
ope Barker House Welcome
Center, 505 South Broad
Street, Edenton.
Ag museum group plans heritage event
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
'Hie nonprofit working on an agri
cultural heritage museum for north
eastern North Carolina is planning to
hold a traditional fanning demonstra- j
tion on a site in rural Chowan County i
in October.
With that event on the horizon, the
Chowan County Board of Commis
sioners has received a request from
the Northeastern North Carolina Ru
ral Heritage Museum Inc. to use three
acres off Virginia Road near the Boys
and Girls Club center for the heritage
demonstrations.
During the public comment period
at the boards Jan. 4 meeting, Ron
Cummings said museum organizers
would like to use a three-acre plot the
county owns near the site of the Boys
and Girls Club of Edent on-Chowan for
the museum organization’s Heritage
Days event in October.
Cummings, who Ls running as a Re
publican candidate for the 1st District
county commissioner seat currently
held by Commissioner Emmett Win
borne, also updated the board on the
progress toward establishing the mu
seum.
C onumssioner (ueg Bonner said he
would like to see the commissioners
do what they can to bring the Rural
Heritage Museum to the county.
Bob I hurt'll has been collecting
early 20th Century farm equipment
for two decades. Harrells collection
includes horse-drawn plows, cultiva
tors, planters, mowing machines, disc
plows, carts and wagons, peanut pick
ers, hay balers and tractors.
“He has been diligent, over the past
two years, in organizing a group of lo
cal citizens to assist with the location
of a site on wlvich a suitable museum
building could be constructed for the
purpose of housing this equipment
and providing a wide range of appro
priate educational programs,” accord
ing to a document Cummings distrib
uted to the county commissioners as
part of lus presentation. “Central to
program activity will be demonstra
tions on how fanning has progressed
from horse and mule days to our mod
em age.”
Plans also include incorporating the
lustory of forest products ;md com
mercial fishing for shad and herring.
Longer tenn plans for the museum
ctill for at least -i‘> acres and a full-time
manager.
STAFF PHOTOS-BY REGGIE PONDER
Bob Harrell (above) stands beside an
old-time pea picker — one of many
pieces of farm equipment he has
collected during the past two decades.
Harrell describes this mule
operated hay baler (left) as “my
most prized possession.”
Byrum acquitted of
voluntary manslaughter
BY WILLIAM F. WEST
The Daily Advance
A Chowan County jury last 1
week acquitted a Chowan 1
Beach man charged with vol- . '
untary manslaughter in the fatal r
shooting of a man at his home |
two years ago.
Jurors deliberated just under
an hour before returning with a not
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guilty verdict Jan. 26
against Josh Byrum.
Byrum, 23, had been
on trial in Chowan Su
perior Court this week
for the fatal shooting
of 21-year-old Dylan
Burton at Bynun’s
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home on Dec. 22,
20 hi.
Byrurn, who appeared stunned
when the verdict was announced,
declined to comment as he left the
Chowan County Courthouse.
Byrum’s defense attorney, Andy
Gay of Zebulon, said following the
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Trillium gives $300K for playground
From staff reports
A new, accessible playground
;i( the Northern Chowan Com
munity Center will be built in the
coming year, funded by a grant
from Trillium Health Resources.
Chowan officials received
$300,000 on Jan. 19 after apply
ing for the agency’s Flay Togeth
er Construction Grant for Acces
sible Playgrounds.
The county is one of 28 lo
cations receiving playground
grants fro Trillium, a local gov
ernment agency that manages
mental health, substance abuse
and developmental disability ser
vices in a ‘24-county area of east
ern North Carolina
Funding for the Play Together
grants is a result of savings from
operating as a, Medicaid 1915
(b](c) waiver site.
“At die heart of our mission is
making a difference in the lives
of those we serve, and investing
in our communities is a critical
part of that mission,” said Amy
Corbitt, Trillium’s project manag
er in research and development.
“Trillium Is able to reinvest sav
ings in innovative' programs and
services for supports for the bet
terment of our communities.”
Reinvestment dollars were
allocated to help communities
across Trillium’s service area
develop accessible playgrounds
that allow people of all abilities
to come together.
“We strive to provide services
to the individuals in our com
munities and our communities at
large that help create productive,
meaningful lives,” Corbitt said.
"These playgrounds will bring
our communities’ children and
parents together without many
of the difficulties they face in
their lives every day.”
Additional grants have been
awarded in the Town of Dover,
New Hanover County, Town
of Nags Head, Pender County,
Carteret County, Havelock, On
slow County, Wrightsville Beach,
Pamlico County, Brunswick
County, Washington County,
Northampton County, Ayden and
Swans boro.
In September, during the
agency’s first phase of Play To
gether Construction Grant for
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