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WEDNESDAY • February 17 • 2016
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Primary election up in the air
Court rules Districts unconstitutional
Clean
By Thadd White
Bertie Ledger-Advance
WINDSOR - The fate of the
March 15 primary election is
still very much up in the air.
On Feb. 5, a three-judge pan
el ruled the First and Twelfth
N.C. Congressional Districts
are unconstitutional, and that
they were drawn to stack and
pack them with black and mi
nority voters.
The panel, representing the
Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals, ordered new dis
tricts to be drawn by Friday.
Last week. Republican
lawmakers - who drew the
districts and have argued for
their legality in court - asked
the same three-judge panel to
stay the order, but the court
refused.
The decision has now been
appealed to the U.S. Supreme
Court. Chief Justice John
Roberts is expected to make
a decision in the case, as he
oversees the Fourth Circuit. It
is not clear how or if the death
of Justice Antonin Scalia will
affect the court’s decision.
See PRIMARY, Page A3
Windsor has no
auditing issues
By Leslie Beachboard
Bertie Ledger-Advance
WINDSOR - The Windsor
Board of Commission
ers meeting was held
Thursday, Feb. 11 at the
Windsor Town Hall.
Lowell Taylor pi e-
sented the audit for the
2013/2014and2014/2016
fiscal years.
The major events over
the course of the two
fiscal years were a new
well and a new pump
station for the town.
“We had no compli
ance issues and had a
clean opinion of the re
port,” Taylor said.
The big change was
the Governmental Ac
counting Standards
Board’s statement 68.
This statement requires
governments providing
defined benefit pen
sions to recognize their
long-term obligation for
pension benefits as a li
ability for the first time,
and to more compre
hensively and compara
bly measure the annual
cost of the pension.
“We are actually
$147,000 to the good for
this,” said Taylor.
The water and sewer
See AUDIT, Page A5
OUT & ABOUT A2
OBITUARIES A2
OPINION A4
SPORTS B1
CHURCH & FAITH B4
CLASSIFIED B5
WELCOME
LESLIE BEACHBOARD / Bertie Ledger-Advance
Dr. Thomas Conway (right) is greeted by Bertie County Board of Education Vice Chair Bobby Occena.
Dr. Thomas Conway
meets Bertie County
By Leslie Beachboard
Bertie Ledger-Advance
Dr. Conway speaks about Elizabeth City State University to an inter
ested group of Bertie County citizens.
WINDSOR - Meeting members of the com-
mxmity one county at a time.
The Bertie County Elizabeth City State
University Alumni Chapter sponsored a
meet and greet with the new chancellor
of ECSU, Dr. Thomas Conway. This event
was held at the Heritage House Restau
rant on Thursday, Feb. 11.
Coimty officials, school board mem
bers, alumni, along with people from the
community were present at the event.
Bertie County Commission Chairman
See CONWAY, Page A5
Ring’s
owner
found
Warlick works
for discovery
By Leslie Beachboard
Bertie Ledger-Advance
WINDSOR - The search
is over.
An article ran in last
Wednesday’s edition of
the Bertie Ledger-Ad-
V a n c e
about a
found
class
ring
from
W i n d -
sor High
School class of 1929.
Louis Corprew Jr., a
native of Bertie County
now living in Seguin,
Texas, found the ring in
the 1950’s on the play
ground at the school.
Windsor citizen Cleo
Warlick saw the article
and immediately began
researching in hopes of
finding the ring’s own
er.
“It was like a com-
mimity thing. I called
several others and they
all helped. It only took
us about a day,” Warlick
said.
“We had a big reimion
for all of the classes of
Windsor High School.
See FOUND, Page A6
Dr. Samuel
Sears speaks
to the group-
gathered for
the annual din
ner celebrating
heart health
provided by
Vidant Bertie
Hospital.
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Annual Heart Health dinner held
By Kyra Ruivo
Bertie-Ledger Advance
COLERAIN - A lot was
learned at the annual
heart health event last
week.
On Tuesday, Feb. 9,
Vidant Bertie Hospital
held the event at Great
er Wynns Grove Baptist
Church, where speakers
Dr. Earic Bonner and Dr.
Samuel Sears spoke to
guests about the impor
tance of heart health and
leading a healthy life
style. They also spoke
about living with heart
disease and how people
cope with it.
Bonner started the
event by talking about
stress, which can lead to
heart disease.
“Stress is a state of
mental or emotional
strain or tension re
sulting from adverse
or demanding circum
stances,” Bonner said.
“When you are stressed,
your body responds as
though you are in dan
ger. It makes hormones
that speed up your heart,
make you breathe faster
ajid give you a burst of
energy.”
Bonner, a doctor of
See HEART, Page A6
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