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Craven County’s
Family Weekly
Newspaper
Serving Askin, Bridgeton, Caton, Cove City, Dover, Epworth, Ernul, Ft. Barnwell, Jasper, New Bern, Piney Neck, Tuscarora, Vanceboro, Wilmar.
Volume 5, Number 33
Vanceboro, North Carolina
Thursday, August 19, 1982 Phone 244-0780
12 Pages
20 Cents
Elementary School To Start
Fiscal Year In New Facility
By Joy Hamilton, Staff W riter
Students in Vanceboro Farm Life Elementary
School will be starting off the year with a new school
building.
According to principal Richard W. Bowers, the new
elementary school is the result of a. merger between
Vanceboro Elementary School (K-2nd grade) and
Farm Life Elementary School (grades 3-5).
Approximately 500 students will be at the new
facility, which still has some finishing touches to be
completed. Teachers started workpn August 16th and
stude nts are scheduled to star t August 26th.
“Our main objective isto get re-organized in the new
facility. This will be a new undertaking,” said
principal Bowers. He added the school will be
completed when school starts.
Students will have no orientation day and the first
day of school on August 26th will be a full day.
Buses will have the same routes astheydid lastyear
also.
School lunches will remain thesamepriceat75cents
for a choice of two menus and 40 cents for reduced
priced lunches.
Teachers and aides for the new school include
kindergarten teachers Irene Matthews, Carolyn
Lovette, and Mary Stanforth. Aides include Adell
King, Patricia Wright, and Nell Canady. First grade
Attended
Governor’s
teachers include .lane T. Hardison, Susan Haddock,
Joyce Gehrig, and Nancy Carmon. Aides include
Shirley Wooten, Sarah Buck, Joy Wright and Alice
Clark.
Second grade teachers include Lisa Giddens,
Cynthia Johnston, and Barbara McMillion. Aides are
Essie White, Linda Nelson and Sherry Lilly. Third
grade teachers include Jean Smith, Bethany Gaskins,
and Katherine Tyson. Aides include Sharon Gaskins,
Carolyn Russell, and Sadie Lancaster.
The state requires aides for kindergarteners and in
addition requires primary reading aides for grades 1-
3.
Fourth grade teachers include Grade Dixon, Byrtle
Mitchell, and Barbara Daniels; fifth grade teachers
include Loretta Lawson, Shirley James, and Joy
Russell. Reading specialists are Peggy Anderson and
Barbara Forrest; and the librarian is Connie Mounce.
Resource teacher is Cynthia Johnson ;speech teacher
is Mary McDade; Virginia Lilly is secretary and Clara
L. Ipock is bookkeeper.
Lunchroom personnel include Paulette Smith,
manager; Betty Rose Crawford, Hattie Hardy, Ruby
Edwards, Velma McLawhorn, Essie Moye and Joan
Whitford.
Custodians include Earlie Dawson, Faye Smith,
Delores Harris,and Sarah Barfield.
School
Tommy White, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond T.
White of Cove City, Rt.l,
attended Governor’s
School West at Salem
College, Winston-Salem
this summer. He was
chosen from West Craven
High School and was one
of 16 students from
Craven County.
He is a member of Ithe
National Honor Society,
was a marshall this year.
a member of West Craven
Band, Vice-President of
the Spanish Club, a
member of West Craven
and Senior Babe Ruth
baseball teams. He was a
semi-finalist for the
North Carolina School of
Math and Science,
Durham. His name
appears in a recent
edition of Who’s Who
Among American High
School Students.
Vanceboro construction crew makes sure the
new Craven County Jail is built on solid
foundation. Pictured above is Jimmy Morris,
Drott operator; in the hole L-R: Terry Morris,
Don Lilly,Charlie Ipock.
New Bern Cable To
Make Proposal
Robert Avery, manager of New Bern Cable plan to
attend the next Vanceboro Town Board Meeting and
make a proposal for cable TV in the Vanceboro area.
Mr. Avery said by telephone conversation that his
company had made preliminary surveys of the
Vanceboro area and is ready to proceed with the
work necessary to have cable TV in Vanceboro. The
Town Board must hear the proposal and either
accept or reject it.
Mr. Avery stated he has a fine package prepared to
present to the Town Board for their consideration. If
his company proposal is accepted the work could be
completed in less than six months.
It was stated by Mr. Avery that the revenue paid to
his company stays in the area to upgrade the service
and since New Bern, Bridgeton, and other small
towns in Craven are being served by New Bern
Cable, the chances of having better services are very
high with his company.
Tommy White
Watch for our Football Tab
in next week’s issue.
Question of the Week: What do you like most about your present job?
Phillip Collins: New Bern office of
Carolina Telephone Company
I like most about my job the individual
emphasis. I get to work out my job
problems alone and I am never in one place
all the time.’’
Tony Chesson: Weyerhaeuser Project
Engineer, Streets Ferry Plant
“I like the people I work with and the
work that I am associated with. When I was
teaching I had to take my work home with
me, but my present job does not require me
to work long hours overtime without pay.”
Barbara Nipper: Vanceboro Sun
Journal Newspaper Carrier
“I like working with the friendly people
in the Vanceboro area. They have been
very nice to me since I have had this route.”
Sue Cox: Pharmacy Technician,
Vanceboro Pharmacy
‘1 feel I am helping people that need
help. If everyone enjoyed meeting people,
helping them, and loved their work as I
do, we would have some happy workers in
this world.”