BBQ
raises
$7,000
for victims
BY MARY BETH PHILLIPS
After working from 4:45 a.m. until
dinner time at the barbecue fund
raiser for rabies victims held at the
end of June, police officer Danny
Ennis had police chief Bruce
Newnam convinced that the chicken
pieces they were barbecuing were
all left legs.
Newnam had worked for about 24
straight hours preparing for the
fund-raiser and, like some of his
cohorts, was getting punchy.
The fund-raiser netted $7,329.58,
which will be distributed to the fam
ilies who were not covered by insur
ance and had to receive the expen
sive series of post-exposure rabies
shots.
“I’m ready to crawl up under that
Coca-Cola truck and go to sleep,”
Ennis said.
Newnam’s daughter, Leslie, said,
“I don’t want to see another piece of
chicken for a while.”
Ennis and officers Chris Rhew, E.
J. Hanks, Michael Ballard, Dean
Baldwin, and J. W. Cheek worked
all day at the fund-raiser, along with
Felicia Sykes, head of the investiga
tive division, who was in charge of
the funds. Several of the families
who had to have rabies shots helped,
along with some town officials, and
members of other area police
departments.
Enough legs and thighs to serve
1,600 people went across those
grills, and “the only time the grills
were cut off, we were switching gas
bottles,” said Randy Riley, owner of
the dog that caused 45 people to take
the shots. Riley took the day off
Morrisville and Preston Progress. Thursday. July 31. 1997 - 3
Raleigh man charged in
local sexual assault case
CHICKEN PICKIN’—Danny Ennis and Chris Rhue (left), officers in the Morrisville Police Department,
and residents Randy Riley and Danny Foss cook chickens to raise money to assist rabies victims in
paying for expensive shots. The barbeque raised more than $7,000 that will distributed to 15 families
needing financial help.
Morrisville police pressed charges
on July 15 on a case that had been
pending since July 3, 1995 in which
a man had sexually abused an eight-
year-old girl in the back room of a
bookstore in Triangle Factory Shops
Mall.
Police charged Guy Eugene
Mashburn, 35, a white male of 5606
Mail Plantation Road in Raleigh
with first degree statutory sexual
offense. He is being held under
$20,000 bond on that charge.
Marshburn had been arrested on
July 9 by the City of Raleigh on a
similar charge. Other charges may
be pending against him, said
Morrisville Police Chief Bruce
Newnam.
The child, who was not a
Morrisville resident, had been look
ing at bookmarks that had horses on
them in the back of the Publisher’s
Warehouse bookstore.
A man approached her and said
there were some more markers just
like them in the next room. She fol
lowed him into a back room adja
cent to the bookstore, where he
allegedly sexually assaulted her.
He went out' of a back door from
that room into the parking lot,
according to police reports. She went
back into the store and told her
grandmother, who then called police.
“We had been looking into the
case diligently since the arrest,”
Newnam said, “but we had pretty
much exhausted all leads. Then
Raleigh had a similar case in their
offices; we observed an article in the
newspaper and were able to open
the case back up.”
Newnam said he is unable to dis
cuss any of the evidence because it
could hinder the case.
The case was handled by officer
Danny Ennis; Felicia Sykes, head of
the investigative division, and
Newnam.
Authors scheduled to read at Wellington’s
from his usual job and was at the
Luther Green Center working from
4:45 a.m. until about 9 p.m.
Riley’s puppy. Precious, came
down with rabies. Many of the chil
dren and other neighbors in the
Riley’s Green Drive neighborhood
were exposed to the dog. He was put
to sleep on May 2, and tested posi
tive for rabies on May 6. Those who
were exposed to the dog have com
pleted the series of five shots which
lasts 28 days.
Some families who had more than
one member take the shots owe as
much as $5,000 for the shots. At
least five families owe more than
$2,000, said Mrs. Sykes.
A committee made up of private
citizens, town officials and a mem
ber of the Wake County Health
Department was to meet on
Tuesday, July 29, to distribute the
funds. Marcelle Riley helped fund
raisers identify 15 families who
need financial help.
Mrs. Sykes said the families would
be designated by number, family #1,
family #2. etc., to protect their pri
vacy and to prevent prejudice in
awarding the funds.
Emma “Tct” Walton, Billy
Hartness, and the Rev. Myron
Yandle were the citizens serving on
the committee. Mrs. Sykes and
Town Manager David Hodgkins
represented the town, and a member
of the Wake County Health
Department was invited.
“I’m glad that it turned out so suc
cessful,” Mrs. Sykes said of the
fund-raiser. About 1,100 plates were
served.
Members of other police depart
ments who helped included James
Thornton of the Fairgrounds Police
Department, Don Dodson, formerly
of the Cary Police Department,
Arlene Baker of the Durham Police
Department and Carmen Parkhurst
of the Durham Police Department.
Many of the police officers’ spous
es helped, including Monica Ennis,
Lisa Rhew, and Wendy Willard, E.J.
Hanks’ girlfriend. Tamara Moore,
Commissioner C.T. Moore’s daugh
ter helped. Mayor Margaret
Broadweli, who also received the
shots, helped serve drinks from 11 to
I, and her children Shannan and
Jarrett, stayed the rest of the after
noon to help.
Danny and Patty Foss, who had to
take the shots, and Joe Ferrell also
helped with the fund-raiser.
Wellington’s Books announces
free events during the month of
August. On Aug.7, Tim McLaurin
will read from his new novel, “The
Last Great Snake Show”. On Aug.
14, The Artist’s Way Workshop will
be led by Jane Cook, MSW, CCSW
and Jean Costa, MSW. They will
discuss the group process of con
necting with the creative energy of
the universe. On Aug. 19, Dan
Gearino will read from his second
novel, “Counting Coup”.
Events take place at 7:30 p.m. at
the store in Maynard Crossing
Shopping Center.
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Town race drawing little interest
BY MARY BETH PHILLIPS
Whether due to lack of interest, or
waiting until the last minute, filing
for general elections has been light
thus far.
At this point, it looks like the only
race will be for the mayor’s seat.
Police Chief Bruce Newnam has
filed to run against incumbent
Mayor Margaret Broadweli.
With less than a week left in the
filing period, one commissioner is
running unopposed, and another
commissioner's seat is vacant.
The District 9 school board seat is
unopposed so far with incumbent
Bill Fletcher seeking to keep his
seat.
Filing ends August 1.
Morrisville Mayor Pro Tern Billy
Sauls, who has an at-large seat on
the board, had not filed to keep his
seat as of press time. He said he has
three options, running for his seat,
running for mayor, or not running,
“I don't know what to tell you at
this point, because I really don’t
know what I am going to do,” he
said.
There are rumors that other
Morrisville residents may be eyeing
Sauls’ seat, but so far no one has
come forward.
Phyllis Newnam, who holds the
District 2 seat on the board, filed as
expected on the first day.
Mrs. Newnam said she wants to
see some projects through that were
begun in her first tenure, and to
make use of the knowledge she has
gained in four years serving the
town.
Sauls has served eight years as
commissioner, with a short stint as
acting mayor after longtime mayor
Ernest Lumley moved out of town.
Mrs. Broadweli has also served
eight years as commissioner, and ran
against Sauls to fill the unexpired
term of Lumley in 1995. She has
been mayor for two years. She also
had a term on the Board of
Adjustment before serving as com
missioner.
Newnam filed because he said he
loves the town and has seen it grown
from about 250 people to almost
2,500, He came to the Morrisville
Police Department in 1984 as the
town’s only officer, also serving as
part-time water meter reader, grass
cutter and sewer plant operator. In
13 years, he has seen his department
increase to 21 employees and a bud
get of almost $600,000.
Town commissioners unhappy
with contractor’s work on station
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BY MARY BETH PHILLIPS
The Morrisville Board of
Commissioners is unhappy with the
work done thus far on the $685,000
police station, but agreed earlier this
month to a schedule that will extend
the contract until October 17.
John Hitch of Smith Sinnett, the
firm who is overseeing the construc
tion, said the building should be
completed by October 17, and the
firm will be charged $500 per day if
that schedule is not met. The origi
nal contract was to be completed
Sept, 23.
Board members complained that
the quality of the work was not
acceptable, and the contractor is
behind schedule. There were ques
tions about the levelness of the con
crete slab, which will provide the
foundation for the building, and the
framing materials the contractor
originally used, which were later
torn down.
The slab will have to be leveled
before framing can begin. The con
tractor also started to put up spruce
framing material, and later tore it
down.
Commissioner Mark Silver-Smith
asked if there was a “clerk of the
works,” a full time person to oversee
construction, but Hitch replied that
on such a small project, they do not
use a full time overseer.
Commissioner Phyllis Newnam
asked if he was sure the contractor
knew what he was doing.
Hitch replied, “Not at all times.”
Webster Environmental was the
low bidder for the general contract,
but had not done work for the town
before. The total price for the police
station is $685,000.
Originally they were behind
because of the weather, but there
were also some delays that can’t be
blamed on weather, town officials
said.
‘All problems are
correctable and are
being corrected. ’
—David Hodgkins,
Town Manager.
Earl Martin, superintendent for the
job for Webster, said because of the
storms in the spring, “We couldn’t
get a dozer on the lot until March.”
Then, he said, his company had to
wait nine weeks for the town to give
its approval on the cement pad.
They also ran into more rock than
expected as they were clearing the
lot, which was more costly and time
consuming to remove. The town
earlier approved two change orders
to pay for the removal of the rock.
Martin said that the pad has a few
problems with levelness, but it is no
different than any other slab on any
other construction site. He said
adding self-leveling concrete after a
slab is poured is a normal part of a
job.
He said putting up the spruce
framing material was an oversight
on his part, because he did not see
the type of board specified on the
plan. He said the spruce boards were
just as strong as the boards he is now
using.
Webster officials have discussed
the new schedule with Smith
Sinnett, and said it was “doable.”
Commissioner Phyllis Newnam
said she thought the schedule would
be impossible to keep. It doesn’t
allow for bad weather days, she
said, and people will be working on
top of each other at the end of the
project.
“I know the schedule is ambi
tious,” Hitch said. “I hope to see
people working on top of one anoth
er.
“They have to proceed further with
no false steps,” he said.
Martin said, “If the weather calms
down, we should have no problem
being finished by the deadline. We
are doing everything we can do. If
we have to work seven days a week,
we will do that—whatever it takes
to stay on schedule.”"
Town Manager David Hodgkins
said later that “all problems are cor
rectable and are being corrected.”
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