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Brew-pub proposal gets public support
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
About 30 local residents spoke
at a public hearing Monday night
designed to seek citizens’ com
ments about the future of the for
mer Northeast Commission build
ing
The hearing was held at a town
council work session moved to
Swain Auditorium due to an ex
pected larger than normal atten
dance at the session.
Most of those who spoke
— many of them young people
— said they favored the establish
ment of a microbrewery and pub
at the site. That proposal was put
forth by John Conger Glover of
Raleigh.
A competing proposal offered
by David Aland of Williamson
County Investments that pro
posed establishing restaurant and
retail space in the building did not
draw much support
Other ideas floated during the
hearing were the establishment
of a Smart Start office at that lo
cation on the waterfront, which is
adjacent to a park where children
play, and making more use of rec
reational opportunities.
“We look forward to hearing
what you have to say,” Mayor Ro
land Vaughan told the audience as
he opened the public hearing. “We
take very seriously the thoughts
and ideas you bring to us.”
And for the next several hours,
the council did just that.
Local artist Cam Waff was
among the young people who
voiced support for Glover’s pro
posal. He said that for citizens his
age or for those who visit some
times there isn’t much to do in the
See BREW-PUB, 4A
Heritage museum
AMONG IDEAS AT WALKER FORUM
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
The idea of using at
least part of the two
story former D.F.
Walker Sehool building
as some kind of museum
or cultural center drew
broad support at a forum
Monday on the building's
future.
The local Racial Rec
onciliation Group and
the D.F. Walker Alumni
Association co-sponsored
the forum, which was held
at the Shepard-Pruden
Memorial Library.
The school educated
generations of black
students in the Edenton
community in the years
before the local schools
were integrated.
The Chowan County
Board of Commissioners
recently formed a task
force to explore the pos
sibility of preserving the
historic Walker School
building, which is located
on the Edenton-Chowan
' V.mpus of ('ollogo of the
Albemarle.
“D.F. Walker means
everything to me and
to all of us," said Roger
Hathaway, a graduate of
the school who recently
retired from NASA. “We’re
all in this together.”
Hathaway said that
as he thought about
the school and the ac
complishments of its
graduates he had begun to
wonder how it might Live
on as a historic, cultural
center. He said he also had
thought about the cost of
preserving the building.
As he thought about all
those things he realized
that the Walker Building
See FORUM, 4A
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STAFF PHOTOS
BY REGGIE PONDER
Carolyn Anthony
(photo No. 1) of the
D.F. Walker Alumni
Association, speaks at
a forum held Monday
to discuss the future of
the former D.F. Walker
School building.
Roger Hathaway
(photo No. 2), an
Edenton native who
recently retired, and
Ben Speller (photo No.
3) speak at Monday's
forum, which was held
at the Shepard-Pruden
Memorial Library.
Algae could prompt citizen monitoring Man, 63, dies in crash
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
Citizen environmental monitoring such as that pioneered
hy Chow;m residents in their battle against Hydrilla could
help state environmental officials come to terms with the
blue-green algae that plagued the area around Edenton last
siunnier.
The Chow;ui Edenton Environmental Croup presented a
forum Saturday on water quiility in the Chowan River. While
a session earlier this year focused on Hydrilla, tin invasive
water weed, Saturday’s forum dealt with algae and other wa
ter quality issues.
(’EEC’s Colleen Karl told the forum at First IVesbyterian
See GREEN ALGAE, 2A
STAFF PHOTO BY REGGIE PONDER
Elizabeth Fensin of the N.C. Division of Environmental
Quality, discusses algae in the Chowan River and Albemarle
Sound during a water quality forum held Saturday.
Wellness fair to offer free vision tests for kids
From staff reports
Free vision screenings for
children six months to six
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years of age will lx* offertnl
at a Wellness F;iir in Edenton
on March 5. 'Hie screenings
will take place at St, Anne's
Hall, 207 N. Broad St., Eden
ton from 10 a.m. through 2:30
p.m.. Young ctiildren will be
screened in a separate room
in St. Anne’s 1 lall near the en
trance.
“We encourage families to
bring their children in for a
free vision screening," said
Diana Ryan, a member of
the wellness fair committee.
“The actual screening takes
less th<m a minute, but the
benefits can last a lifetime.”
More than 12 million
school-age children in the
United Stab's have some
form of vision problem,
yet only one in three have
received eye care services
before age six. Many vi
sion problems run the risk
of becoming permanent if
not corrected by age seven,
when the eye reaches full
maturity. Vision also plays an
important role in education.
According to educational ex
perts, 80 percent of learning
is visual.
See WELLNESS, 4A
From staff reports
A Chowan County iittin was killed inasingle-veliicle
crash on Feb. 1G when the truck he w;ls driving nut off
the road in ;t sharp curve on a mod road.
FATALITY
■ Lloyd Littlejohn, 63, of 442
Drummond's Point Road, was
pronounced dead at Vidant
Chowan Hospital, according
to the N.C. Highway Patrol.
Uoyd utuejohn, txi, or
442 Drummond's Point
Road, was prounred dead
a! Vidant Chowan Hospi
tal after lieing transported
there by Chowan County
EMS, acc< >rding to lYooper
Kevin Briggs of die N.C.
liigliway Patrol.
Briggs stud UttJejolm
was driving a 2014 Nissan Frontier pickup truck to
ward Haughton Road on Yeopim Road around 9:20
p.m. on Feb. 1(3 when he lost control of the vehicle in
die curve in front of Edenton Dance Stars and ran off
the road on the right 'Hu* truck traveled over a ditch
and collided head-on with a tree, Briggs said.
Speed appeared to be a factor in the crash, Biiggs
said. The preliminary investigation indicates the truck
was traveling about 75 mph, he said.
Biiggs noted the Department of TYansportation has
marked die curve with 35 mph warning signs ahead of
the curve in each direction.
At the time of die crash, die truck had just passed a
slower-moving vehicle, Briggs said. The driver of die
other vehicle witnessed die crash and reported it, ac
cording to Briggs.
Iitdejohn apjiarendy was not wearing a seatbelt at
the t ime of die accident, Briggs said.
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