? - Morrisvillc and Preston Progress. Thursday. June 26,1997
Chief Newnam may run for mayor
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“If I do decide to file, and if I file
and win, my intentions are to have
peace and harmony, and let the town
work in a very positive fashion and
for us to be as efficient and effective
as we possibly can in planning the
future of this town.”
Newnam also sees no problem
with his wife and himself both serv
ing on the board.
Mrs. Newnam wants to run again
to make use of the knowledge she
has gained in her first four years of
service.
“When I first came on the board, I
knew very little about town govern
ment, but now that I’ve been on for
three and a half years. I’ve learned a
lot. I’d like to make use of that
knowledge when I run again,
because when you first come on, it
takes a while to get your feet wet.
After you get your feet wet, you at
least need to make use of that.” She
also wants to see some projects
through that were started during her
first tenure.
“When I first decided to run, one
of the big things that I wanted to do
was to get sewer in Shiloh. We’ve
gotten some there, we’ve got to take
a little bit at a time, but we’ve got
a ways to go, too.”
She said a goal would be “getting
enough sewer and everything for the
whole town. Hopefully we’ll get
that when we get our connection
with Cary next month. Another
thing I was hoping to accomplish
was getting the streets paved, and
we’ve done that. The next big thing
that we really need to do is to get
sewer for everyone.”
Mrs. Newnam said her first four
years were not always pleasant.
“There’s been some hard times,
but there have been some really
good times, and I enjoy working
with the people of the town. We’re
up there to help the people. That’s
what I’m trying to do—^just do
what they put us there to do.
Sometimes thatt’s difficult.”
The board for the past two years has
been factional, with Mayor Margaret
Broadwell and Commissioner Mark
Silver-Smith usually taking an
opposing view and disagreeing with
the majority opinion,
Mrs. Broadwell served two years
of the unexpired term of Mayor
Ernest Lumley, who moved out of
town a little more than two years
ago and had to give up his seat.
Sauls had served as acting mayor for
several months and had run against
Mrs. Broadwell in 1995.
Mrs. Broadwell has served the
town for more than 10 years. Her
first service was as chairman of the
Board of Adjustment for two years.
She then won a four-year at-large
commissioner’s seat, and four years
later, was elected for District 2.
After eight years as commissioner,
she ran unsuccessfully against long
time mayor Ernest Lumley. But
when he moved to Wilson less than
two years later and had to give up
his seat, she ran against Mayor Pro
Tern Billy Sauls and won.
“I’m counting on having board
members who will work together so
that collectively we can come up
with what is best for this town,”
Mrs. Broadwell said. “I expect to
have two new board members to
join me in my efforts to propel this
town forward.”
Some of the things she has tried to
make happen during her two years
on the board are the formation of a
Rotary Club, the construction of a
public butterfly garden, flashing
lights at Morrisville Elementary
School and a Fourth of July celebra
tion, which the town has never had
before. She has also been involved
in an ongoing effort to establish a
public library in Morrisville.
Sauls said in the eight years he has
served on the board, “The staff has
increased tremendously, the town
has moved forward a lot. The new
police station will be completed
before too much longer. Everything
that we’ve got. I’ve been a big part
of. We got a bond issue passed that
was able to provide the funds to
secure water and sewage for the
future, that was the most critical
thing. We have developed a very
nice parks and recreation system, a
very nice community center, which I
fought for very hard.
“You can’t do anything by your
self, it’s my ability to work with the
people who helped me get, these
things done,” Sauls added.
He said he is still discussing his
options with his family.
“If the town, I feel like, needs me,
I’m going to run. It’s not an ego trip.
I have a business, I have a family,
and I spend an awful lot of time
working for the town,”he said.
He added that if he feels like the
other candidates are qualified,
“maybe I’ll step down.”
He added, “I will run a clean cam
paign, if I run.”
Guide dogs from N.C. program are successful
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One of the four dogs that the
Dodsons have raised ended in a
home from that list.
“He didn’t make it due to tempera
ment. A lack of confidence,” Sherry
said.
The second dog the Dodsons
raised was named Wrally, after
WRAL-TV. She was the publicity
dog as the Dodsons were trying to
get the organization off the ground
in North Carolina and she visited the
“Live at Noon” news about once a
month.
“Wrally turned out to be a brood.
The breeding stock is the cream of
the crop,” Sherry said.
The Dodsons got to keep her and
whelp her, to the tune of 38 puppies,
and she still lives with them, now 10
years old andtetked. .
One reasc^ Ouiding-Eyes is; so--
successful. is because they breed
most of the dogs themselves.
Ninety-five percent of the dogs are
Labrador Retrievers, but occasional
ly they use a Golden Retriever or a
German Shepherd.
“The Lab is more of an easygoing
dog,” Don said. “Anybody that
feeds them, they love them. One of
the things that the dog has to do is to
break the bond with the puppy rais
er, in order to bond with the trainer,
and then with the blind person.
Some dogs are more of a one-person
dog all their life.”
The dog spends about a year with
the puppy raiser and about five
months with a trainer before being
assigned to a blind person.
Other schools use other breeds, the
Dodsons said. But “Guiding Eyes
developed their own line of dogs.
We have the oldest colony of a line
of dogs being used continuously.
The line is over 30 years old.”
The third dog the Dodsons raised
was the one they gave up to a person
on the waiting list in New York, but
the fourth dog, Liebler, still lives
with them.
“He was going to be a stud for
them. He’s a donated dog from a
breeder in the New York area, but he
ended up with a bad hip.”
The Dodsons kept him as a pel,
and a PR dog for the program.
“He is wonderfully big and won
derfully loving,” Sherry said.
Besides Wrally and Liebler, they
have another lab, a collie, three cats
and two horses.
"We kind of walk across them at
times,” Sherry said. “They give us
an immeasurable amount of love.”
When they aren’t volunteering
with Guiding Eyes, Sherry is a full
time nurse practitioner with N.C.
State. Don just retired as a lieutenant
with the Cary Police Department.
He will be devoting some time to a
marketing business he has started.
One evening a \yeek, Slwrry teach
es an obedience class at Northwoods
Animal Hospital.
“It came about because of what we
were doing with Guiding Eyes,”
Sherry said. “I was doing puppy
kindergarten classes for the guide
puppies. [Local veterinarian] Dan
Hudson asked if we could do it to
help a lot more people.”
She’s been teaching the classes for
about 5 and a half years now and the
demand is high.
Besides these activities, their roles
as area coordinators for Guiding
Eyes keep them on their toes.
“I don’t even want to guess the
number of hours we spend,” Sherry
said.
Their main duty is finding volun
teer puppy raisers, interviewing
them, keeping them educated in
between evaluations and making
sure things are going well during the
three months between when the
puppy evaluator comes.
Trying to locate sponsors is anoth
er major duty. Each puppy gets a
veterinary sponsor; there are also
food sponsors for many of the pup-
Pharmaceutical plant expanding
three buildings in Perimeter Park
totaling about 75,000 square feet.
The new building should be com-
Pharmaceutical Product
Development, Inc., will break
ground in Perimeter Park on a
100,000-square-foot building that
will consolidate the operations from
three separate buildings under one
roof, and allow room for expansion
to about 500 employees.
The company now employs
between 250 and 275 employees in
pleted by June of 1998.
PPD is a contract research organi
zation that does clinical trials for
pharmaceutical companies, biotech
nology companies and others who
develop drugs. The company is
based in Wilmington.
ptes.
“And there are also people that
maybe can’t raise the puppy but love
dogs, and they serve as puppy sit
ters, for times that the puppy raiser
needs to go away. They will take the
puppy and keep it a weekend, a
week, two weeks.”
The Dodsons also spend time at
Raleigh-Durham Airport, picking
up new puppies and sending puppies
back to headquarters. “People think
we live at the airport,” Sherry said.
The people at the airlines have
been wonderful, she added.
“We had a litter going up two or
three years ago on a beastly hot
day,” she said. “We waited until an
evening flight to get them on board,
but then there was a delay. I was just
worried to death about the puppies
in a. crate ,in the -
We went up and looked out and ^y..
had an air conditioning unit pulled
out to the plane blowing cool air into
the crate with these eight-week-old
puppies in it.
“They were being very well taken
care of without our even asking. It
was real tender and real dear to look
at these men holding this unit, blow
ing the cold air in on these puppies.
They were being very diligent to
have these puppies be comfortable,”
she said.
They send a quarterly newsletter to
about 300 people, current volunteers
and former puppy raisers, including
one that now lives in Colorado.
Strong friendships have been
formed within the organization.
“The volunteers are a great group of
people with a common interest, their
love for animals.
“We can’t tell you it’s easy to let
the dogs go, but you realize from
day one that it’s not your dog, it’s
got a higher calling, to help peo
ple...
“It’s a true labor of love,”
Sherry said. “It’s a great thing
for anybody who loves to work
with animals.
“The best way I’ve ever heard
it put, one of our puppy raisers
said, with other charities you
can give money, but with
Guiding Eyes you give your
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residents with rabies
heart, a year of your life to this
dog to benefit another person.
It truly, truly is a gift of love,
independence and mobility for
this individual.
“They open up their families, their
hearts, to these little beings. They
give them the house manners and
social experiences needed to be a
guide dog.”
North Carolina provides about 20
per year of the 400 dogs that are sent
to Guiding Eyes. Only about 250 of
those will graduate and be assigned
to a blind person.
The North Carolina program has
the highest repeat raiser rate of any
of the 29 areas. Some of the raisers
have raised seven or eight puppies.
After 10 years coordinating the
program, the Dodsons have not tired
,9f U- “We’vgenjpyed^yery program
ive’-ve.^ven,’!.She^ iaid.
iul “with any'good organization,
there can’t be just one person in
charge, one person knowing all.
We have got a great group of sup
port staff. I feel very comfortable
that if I had to step, out the pro
gram would go on,” Sherry said.
“None of us know what’s going to
happen tomorrow. We are prepared
that if something unforeseen
should happen to us, the program
goes on.”
But the Dodsons aren’t quitting.
What keeps them going?
Sherry answered, “Puppy breath.
Little roly-poly puppies, and meet
ing all the great people that we’ve
come in contact with. It’s been a true
blessing in our life.
“One of these days we’d like to
raise another puppy. Our lives have
to slow up a little bit. This program
takes a great deal of time. That’s
why we’ve not raised any more than
the four.”
But the Dodsons have raised about
130 dogs vicariously.
“We know all of them, we know
the raisers, we know the dogs. We
feel a very strong bond with them. I
cry each time a dog leaves to go up
to Guiding Eyes,” Sherry said.“We
get attached. And we feel a great
deal of pride when one of them
makes it.”
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More than 1,000 tickets have
been sold in advance for a barbe
cue fund-raiser to be held this
Friday at the Luther Green Center
to benefit rabies victims.
Barbecue chicken plates will sell
for $6 per person. The plates will
include cole slaw, baked beans and
a dinner roll, Pepsi, Mt. Dew or
Diet Pepsi. They will be available
from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Advance tickets are available at
the Morrisville Town Hall, the
Morrisville Police Department, the
Morrisville Chamber of
Commerce and the Morrisville
Community Center.
Police Chief Bruce Newnam is
heading up the event, and most of
the volunteers will come from his
department. The event is not spon
sored by the Town of Morrisville.
“We’re a community-oriented
police department,” Newnam said.
“We have always tried to do for
the community.”
TTie police department put on
two barbecues for the local cham
ber of commerce in 1991 and in
1992.
About 45 Morrisville residents
had to receive shots after a puppy
that belonged to Randy and
Marcelle Riley of Green Drive
was diagnosed with rabies. The
series of shots range from about
$2,000 to $2,500, and are not cov
ered under any insurance policies.
Six large grills have been lined
up and tents have been borrowed
from the N.C. National Guard for
people to sit under in case of rain.
Area businesses who have
already donated money for the
fund-raiser include DeHaven’s
Transfer and Storage on Airport
Boulevard, Bryant Industrial
Contractors, Inc. of Chapel Hill
Road, J.F. Wilkerson Co. of
Chapel Hill Road, Triangle Mini
Mart and Grill of Chapel Hill
Road, and Southport Business
Park of Aviation Parkway. The
businesses have donated more
than $1,000 to get the event start
ed.
“We are hoping to clear in excess
of $10,000 after expenses,”
Newnam said.
Town manager David Hodgkins
agreed to help Newnam find assis
tance from the Wake County
Health Department in disburse
ment of the funds.
“They are used to determining
eligibility,” Hodgkins said, “and
they are a disinterested third
party.”
Marcelle Riley is compiling a list
of her neighbors who received
shots and the amount of money
each one paid. The list will be used
to help determine how the money
will be disbursed.
—By Mary Beth Phillips
Golf course on tap for Morrisville
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The site for the course is the north
ern most part of a 188-acre tract
between Weston and the Cedar Fork
soccer field. The site has 700 feet of
road fi-ontage along N.C. 54.
The request was made so that the
Wake County Erosion Control could
begin assessments in the preparation
for grading.
The project at Lumley Park was
awarded to Willow Run Enterprises
for a cost not to exceed $15,000.
Webster bid $10,600 for the project,
which would Ml m die soccer-fielti
in the lower part of the park.
Two members of the public works
department attended the meeting to
request that the board consider the
bid from Willow Run. Willow Run
did the grading for the new police
department building.
Willow Run bid $100 an hour, fig
uring 50 hours a week, approxi
mately three weeks, for a total not to
exceed $15,000.
The motion, made by C.T. Moore,
stipulates that at least 8,050 cubic
yards of dirt will be crowned and
seeded to make the new field.
Already, between 5,000 and 8,000
cubic yards of dirt have been donat
ed from construction sites around
the area. Willow Run will crown
and seed the new topsoil to elevate
the field surface so it will drain
property.
In other business at the June 23
board meeting:
Bids will be opened July 31 at 2
p.m. for the long-awaited Shiloh
sewer project, which will extend
lines past Shiloh Baptist Church as
far as Barbee Road along Church
Street and north of the Metro Center
along N.C. 54.
A rezoning request that would
allow for a 310-unit apartment com
plex was sent to the Planning Board.
Three-story, brick buildings are pro
posed with siding and porches, if the
residential management zoning is
granted. Each building would have a
garage. The 28.47 acres of land,
across from Treybrooke Apartments
and the Cary Montessori School on
Church Street, is currently zoned
industrial management.
Awarded a contract to the low bid
der, Jerry Welker, for $34,500, to
replace a sewer line off Boxford
Road in the Huntington Woods sub
division. The line, which was con
structed before town standards were
upgraded from PVC pipe to ductile
iron pipe, has failed.
Sent the zoning classification of
Village Core back to the Planning
Board for study. “It’s just not work
ing,” said Commissioner Phyllis
Nevmian in making the motion.
Asked the Parks and Recreation
Department to install a
volleyball/badminton net at the
Shiloh Park for youth to enjoy.
“These are our future mayors, com
missioners and taxpayers,” said
Commissioner Leavy Barbee in
making the motion to have the net
installed.
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