West Craven Highlights
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VOLUME 12 NO. 16
APRIL 20,1989
VANCEBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
PHONE 244-0780 OR 946-3144
(UPSP 412-110)
25 CENTS
' SIX PAGES
Big Top,
Big Fun,
Big Time
The 1989 edition of the Clyde
Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus will
bring its Big Top to New Bern for
*W«l>erformances Friday, round
ing out its stay in Craven County.
The circus, which will finish its
run in Havelock with two per
formances today, will bring a
variety of acts to New Bern
tomorrow. Showtimes are 4:30
and 8 p.m. Friday and the same
times today at Havelock. The
new Big Top will be located at
the fairgrounds west of New
Bern near the Berne Restaurant
and Nichols department store.
Tickets are $8 for adults (age 13
to 64), $4 for children (12 and
under) and $4 for people 65 and
over. Reserved seats are$l extra.
The public is invited to the
tent-raising that begins about 7
a.m. Friday. A herd of elephants
provide power to hoist the enor
mous red, white and blue tent,
Wliieh is larger than a football
field.
Robert Morton, marketing
director, said this year’s show
has been reworked from acts to
equipment. Morton said several
new acts have been added and
crowd favorites from over the
years have been retained. The
new tent and new lighting add to
spectators' enjoyment he said.
While some circus-goers
attend the show to unwind, one
performer takes her moments
under the Big Top to tie things
up. Xochit), spotlighted in the
center ring, displays stamina and
coordination inherited from
Aztec ancestors to create a dis
play of body contortion.
Clumsy, but cuddly, Welde’s
Russian bears matcli wits with
(See CIRCUS, Page 5)
Town History
To Be Drawn
By Art Club
Vanceboro Mural To Trace
Major Events Of Community
Finding a congress of comical creatnres means the circns is in town and it will be in New
Bern for two performances Friday at 4:30 and 8 p.m. with animals, acrobats and aerial
daredevils for ebUdren of all ages to see
Leonardo Da Vinci is renowned
for his Mona Lisa, Michaelangelo
is known for painting the ceiling
of the Sistine Chapel and Picas
so’s paintings during his Cubist
period are world-famous. Maybe
some art students from West
Craven High School will become
famous for painting a wall in
Vanceboro.
The town may not be aware of
it yet, but there will soon be quite
a bit of activity down at the Van
ceboro Flea Market. Some resi
dents may have noticed the front
wall of the building housing the
flea market was painted in the
fall. The purpose of the painting
was to prime the wall for a mural.
And what will be painted on
the wall? The wall will become of
portrait of Vanceboro. The mural
already has a title although the
composition has not been com
pleted. “Then and Now — The
Town Wall’’ explains the subject
matter. The mural will be a chro
nological history of Vanceboro.
The mural will read from left to
right — past to present.
The idea for the project was ori
ginated by Lori Shepley, the art
teacher at West Craven High
School. Mrs. Shepley said she
has always dreamed of working
on a mural, especially since her
two-year stay in California where
she saw many murals used for
decoration on seawalls and sides
of buildings. The project has
been in the planning stages for
about a year. Mrs. Shepley and
her art club members have been
discussing and planning the mu
ral and the message it will tell.
Mrs. Shepley wrote a proposal
to accompany an applicatin for a
mini-grant from Craven County.
The proposal was approved and
the money appropriated for the
project.
Current art club members are
excited and eager to begin paint
ing, but cannot begin until the
composition is complete. The art
club is asking area residents to
located old photographs or
prints that may give a good visual
reference to draw from. Some
photographs have been located
but the club members feel other
appropriate material may be
stored in attics, closets and other
locations.
Anyone that thinks they may
have useful material or informa
tion concerning possible scenes
for the mural is asked to contact
Mrs. Shepley at West Craven
High School.
Recycling Solving Several Problems With Minimum Efforts
As stories of environmental
damage seem to multiply almost
daily, many people wonder what
they can do to help alleviate
some of the problems. One of the
best ways for anyone to help is
simply to become aware of how
much our typical daily activities
add to pollution, and to cut back
on those activities which pro
duce the most unnecessary
waste.
Occasionally this may involve
some personal inconvenience or
change in habit, but there is one
very positive step many of us can
take that is not hard at all: recycl
ing. In fact, recycling programs
^^^**filuminum, glass and paper
have been started in several
towns in eastern North Carolina
(including Washington, Green
ville and Kinston) and many
other towns have private recycl
ing centers where people can
turn in recyclables on their own.
Recycling provides a wide
range of benefits, with the most
recognizable advantage for a
given community probably
Analysis
being the space saved in the local
laiidflil. Every city in North Caro
lina has a responsibility to dis
pose of the trash of its citizens,
and most cities use landfills to do
so. This requires buying a large
tract of suitable land for the land
fill site, to which collected trash
is hauled, dumped and covered
with layers of dirt.
But this method of handling
trash not only has a rather li
mited life expectancy, its en
vironmental soundness is also
questionable in view of the many
toxic household chemicals that
go out with tile garbage every
day and wind up in landfills.
Underground leaching of these
chemicals into the water table
and fires that produce toxic
smeke are just two of the poten
tial environmental hazards of
landfills. Combined with the in-
evitahle limitation of space they
give us strong incentive for mini
mizing landflll use.
Recycling can offer flirther be
nefit directly to the community if
a recycling center is located in
the town. A recycler provides
jobs in an industry that is en
vironmentally positive and puts
little strain on community ser
vices.
Also, while few cities have a
curbside collection program for
recyclables, the expense of such
a program is not as prohibitive as
many believe. Some estimates
show that, after factoring in the
money earned for selling recycl
ables, it costs about $25 a ton to
collect recyclables, while the
cost of hauling and landfilling
trash runs about $50 a ton and the
cost of hauling and incinerating
trash is about $100 a ton.
Of more importance than eco
nomics, however, is the general
principle of resource conserva
tion that is promoted by recycl
ing. Whether a resource is renew
able or not, plentiful or not, any
stress we can take off any re
source these days is good.
Paper, for example, is of course
generally made of “virgin pulp-
wood” from trees. While pine cut
for this pulpwood can be re
established fairly quickly, the
same is not true of the tropical
rainforests whose trees provide
huge amounts of paper for im
porting countries like the United
States.
The United States imports
nearly 800 million pounds
(400,000 tons) of paper a year
from Brazil, most of it made fiem
rainforest trees, despite the fact
that at present rates of destruc
tion rainforests worldwide may
be eradicated by the year 2050.
Yet for every ton of paper we
recyele — about one garbage
dumpster’s worth — we save 17
trees. If the paper used in print
ing one Sunday edition of the
New York Times were recycled
we could save 75,000 trees (that
would be nearly four million
trees a year).
In addition, making reeycled
paper uses only half the energy
and produces only a quarter of
the pollution generated in mak
ing paper from virgin pulp. When
we think of the air cleansing and
habitat retention provided by
this, we ean understand more
clearly the longer-range benefits
of recycling.
Similar statistics can be ap
plied to aluminum and glass.
Aluminum is made from bauxite
ore, a non-renewable resource
which the United States must
import to meet current needs.
Yet we throw away enough alu
minum every three months to re
build our entire commercial air
fleet. Recycling aluminum also
uses 95 percent less energy than
making aluminum from bauxite,
and it ^uces our need to import
the ore as well.
As for glass, estimates are that
Americans throw away enough
glass containers every two weeks
to fill both World Trade Towers.
While the resources needed to
make glass are plentiftil, recycl
ing glass saves landfill space and
requires less energy and pre
serves habitat that would be de
Mariners’ Rally Hands
West Craven 7-6 Setback
jpr the second game in a row.
Vest Craven’s baseball and soft-
ball teams were swept by Coastal
Conference foes. Last week
Havelock's Rams swept the
Eagles. This week the Eagles
were sunk by the Mariners of
East Carteret
Havelock remained unbeaten
and in sole possession of first
place of the Coastal Conference
softball lead Tuesday night while
North Lenoir moved into second
and East Carteret ended a two-
game losing streak.
In softball, Havelock topped
D.H. Conley 8-7 in eight innings
and North Lenoir pulled out a 4-3
victory over West Carteret. East
Carteret defeated West Craven 9-
3 in the other game.
In baseball. East Carteret ral
lied with four runs in the bottom
of the seventh to edge West
Craven 7-6 while West Carteret
ended a three-game losing streak
with a 13-1 romp over North
Lenoir. Havelock blanked D.H.
Conley 5-0 in the other league tilt.
HAVELOCK — On a two-
strike pitch, pinch-hitter Denise
Elliott sacrificed Qretta Diedrich
home with one out in the bottom
of tlie eighth inning as the Lady
Rams rallied past D.H. Conley.
Diedrich had doubled to lead
off the eighth and Brenda Max
well sacrificed her to third, set
ting up the winning sequence as
Havelock emerged 4-0 in the
Coastal and 7-0 overall. Conley
fell to 0-2,4-4.
The Valkyries were down 3-0
before rallying with five runs on
three hits and three errors in the
sixth, havelock took the lead, 7-5,
with four runs in the bottom of
the sixth only to see Conley tie
the count with two in the
seventh.
Diedrich (3-for-4 with a dou
ble), Dee Godette (2-for-4 with a
double), Brenda Maxwell (2-for-
3) and Niki Griffin (triple) led the
Lady Rams. Nikki Adams and
Tracey Stancil both batted 2-for-
4 to lead Conley.
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LaGRANGE — For the second
straight game, Kim Mahone sing
led home Tabilha Cantey with
one out in the bottom of the
seventh — this time against West
Carteret — as North lAcnoir won
its third straight conference
game by beating West Carteret.
The l^dy Hawks (3-1,5-4) were
led by Cantey, who went 2-for-3,
and Tisha Jones and LaQuita
Moore, both of whom batted 2-
fur-4. Mahone added one hit for
the winners.
Shelly Brice and Marie
(See EAGLES, Page 2)
Firehouse Facelift
While fire stations are not necessarily known for
their cleanliness, most firemen take pride in keep
ing their firehouse in order. And that often means
making sure the outside is attractive to passersby.
The Vanceboro Volunteer Fire Department re
cently got a facelift of new siding to improve
appearances. With the Strawberry Festival-
Rescue Day coming up next monty, the firemen
probably decided to give the public a flesh look
when viewing the station. Hopefully, the firemen
remembered there were people on the ladders and
where the ladders were before taking the engines
out on a fire call.
(Terri Jamieson photo)
graded in obtaining the materials
needed to make “virgin” glass.
Yet for all the benefits of re
cycling, the idea is only now
starting to gain momentum in
the United States. Smaller coun
tries have had innovative and
successful recycling programs
for years, as witnessed by South
Korea’s making of 40 percent of
its paper from imported waste
paper, or Japan's 40 percent re
duction in the amount of landfill
space it now needs thanks to re
cycling.
The range of recyclable mate
rials also has expanded to in
clude iron, steel and plastic. As
with other, more easily recycled
products, these are gradually
finding more markets and be
coming more economically vi
able as recyclables.
A strong commitment to re
cycling by towns, states and even
countries could not only pre
serve natural resources and re
duce energy demands, it could
(See RECYCLE, Page 5)
Panel Asks
Label River
‘Nutrient
Sensitive’
By BETTY CRAY
Special to the
Weal Craven HigMighta
RALEIGH—Staff members of
the N.C. Division of Environ
mental Management recom
mended last week that the Pamli-
co-Tar river basin be declared
“nutrient sensitive.”
If approved, it would give the
river the same status and afford it
the same protection now
afforded to the Neuse River.
Both rivers empty into the Pam
lico Sound. Both rivers had
undergone extensive study in re-
cent years and have been
targeted by environmentalists
for protection. The Neuse re
ceived its nutrient-sensitive sta
tus about two years ago.
The recommendation was part
of a report that the staff made to
the Environmental Management
Commission’s Water Quality
Committee, which met in
Raleigh.
The committee scheduled a
hearing on the recommendation
for Thursday, June 15, at East
(See NUTRIENT, Page 5)