6 - Morrisville and Preston Progress, Thursday, Sept. 25,1997
Silver-Smith asks
state agency to
investigate chief
BY MARY BETH PHILLIPS
Commissioner Mark Silver-
Smith called in a criminal justice
standards official to investigate
Police Chief Bruce Newnam after
he said the police department sec
retary directed traffic at two events,
wearing a police department vest.
“I’m concerned about the liability
of a non-trained police officer
directing traffic,” Silver-Smith said
at the early September Board of
Commissioners’ meeting.
Silver-Smith presented pictures
of the department secretary, Ann
Jaeger, directing traffic at the
Jimmy V Golf benefit and at a
bike-a-thon event.
Silver-Smith said he did not com
plain to Town Manager David
Hodgkins because Hodgkins would
not have disciplined Newnam.
Several board members accused
Silver-Smith of political motiva
tion, since Newnam is running for
mayor against Silver-Smith’s ally
Mayor Margaret Broadwell.
Silver-Smith cited general statute
14-277 “impersonating a police
officer,” in justifying his call to the
state organization.
“They would not have spoken
with him if they didn’t feel a need
for it,” Silver-Smith said.
Silver-Smith said he spoke up at
the public meeting so that Newnam
would know it was he who had
called the state organization. He
added that Newnam had fired a
temporary part-time officer after
the incident.
Ice rink complex coming in fall 1998
“I was told the man was a good
officer,” Silver-Smith said later.
“He (Newnam) did this out of vin
dictiveness, because he thought
Mr. (Bryce) Meyers had something
to do with the investigation that I
initiated.
“I did what I did because the town
manager is not willing enough to
control the police chief,” Silver-
Smith said.
“As a commissioner I’m ulti
mately responsible for what goes
on in this town. If this town gets
into a serious situation because of
one of its employees. I’m making
sure this town is not put in any
more liable position,” Silver-Smidi
said.
During the meeting, Mayor Pro
Tern Billy Sauls, who is also up for
re-election, said, “It’s unfortunate
that politics can get so dirty. He
(Newnam) has literally been cruci
fied unjustly. Setting out to destroy
people is so uncalled for, so terri
ble...”
Newnam had no comment to
make. “I would love to be able to
tell my side of the story,” he said,
“but I cannot be explicit when I
talk about personnel because of the
personnel privacy act.
“I have standard operating proce
dures that I need to follow as a
town employee,” he said. “It's frus
trating that I cannot defend
myself.”
Town Manager David Hodgkins
also had no comment, because the
issue involves personnel.
Tireman of Cary, one of the partners
in the venture. “When the Ice Caps
came several years ago, we saw an
explosion of hockey at that point,
and I believe Brian Knight from
Raleigh Youth Hockey said that last
year they put 220 kids on the ice
with Raleigh Youth Hockey, and
they expect to put over 500 this
year.”
Tireman added that he is “extreme
ly excited” about the Carolina
Hurricanes, that he went to a game
last week, and happened to catch a
hockey puck that went into the
stands. “They say hockey is not a
sport for the South, but I’m from the
Deep South, from Alabama, and I'm
extremely excited about it,” said
Tireman, who now lives in Cary.
“The Hurricanes are something to
be proud of. They are incredible.”
The Olympic-size rink at the cen
ter of the complex will be more suit
ed for figure skating, Tireman said.
Town board presents late officer’s
photographs she had taken at the
ceremony in August honoring
Godwin.
BY MARY BETH PHILLIPS
A three-rink hockey and ice-skat
ing complex will be built along
Davis Drive at the future intersec
tion with Airport Boulevard, a local
group has announced.
If plans are approved by the Cary
Town Council, construction will
begin this fall and the complex will
be finished by September of 1998, a
year before the Carolina Hurricanes
start their major league hockey
games at their new arena in west
Raleigh.
The land is in the Cary city limits,
and developers plan to submit a site
plan to Cary within the next few
weeks. It would be built on 14 acres
about six-tenths of a mile north of
Morrisville Carpenter Road. When
the Airport Boulevard connector is
built, it will be at the intersection’s
northwest comer.
“The hockey growth in Raleigh
has been phenomenal,” said Ken
Each rink would be 200 feet long.
The Olympic-sized rink would be
100 feet wide, and the narrower
rinks would be 85 feet wide.
The other two partners are Bryan
Rosenberg, a lawyer from Cary, and
Joe Fowler of Raleigh, who runs
CatJo Enterprises and has seven
years of experience administering
youth, college and adult hockey pro
grams, Tireman is a real estate
investor and financial and account
ing consultant. The three other prin
cipals involved, Tireman said, are
Cathy Fowler, Lisa Tireman and Lee
Ann Rosenberg. “They have been
heavily involved in putting this
together,” he said.
The group is known as North
Carolina Ice Tri-Plex, LLC, and can
be reached at 319-7767.
The architect for the project is Eric
Millberger, of Millberger and
Millberger out of Huntsville, Ala.
The Morrisville Board of
Commissioners presented Betty E.
Godwin, mother of the late Sgt. Earl
Godwin, with copies of her son’s
Medal of Honor, and a framed por
trait of him and canine officer Grey.
Mrs. Godwin, who had tears in her
eyes, thanked the board.
Mayor Margaret Broadwell also
presented Mrs. Godwin and three
other family members with framed
At that time, presentations were
made to Godwin’s widow, Allyson,
but the board voted at its next meet
ing to also present copies to
Godwin’s mother.
“No one loves a son like mom
does,” said Commissioner Billy Sauls
at the time. “This is appropriate.”
“We hope to attract events from
the U.S. Figure Skating Association,
and from ISIA, the international fig
ure skating organization.”
The group plans to put together
Learn to Skate classes and Learn to
Play Hockey classes, and it hopes to
be able to put a figure skating school
in the facility as well.
“We’ve noticed here, there has not
been a lot of marketing for the fam
ily-oriented skating. There are a lot
of newer residents moving into the
Triangle who grew up with ice
sports in their youth. We want to
give them an opportunity to partici
pate, and have their chil^en partici
pate in the things that these adults
did in their youth.”
The 128,000-square-foot building
would have permanent seating for
1,200 spectators, concessions, nine
locker rooms and a glassed-in obser
vation deck on the second floor
between two rinks.
mother with medal, portrait
asked that a stoplight and warning
signals be placed at the intersection.
“Eight people have lost their lives
at that intersection over a long
time,” Sauls said.
Godwin died in an automobile
crash at the comer of Church Street
and McCrimmon Parkway. He had
been on his way to a call.
Also at the Sept. 8 meeting, Sauls
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Traffic light scheduled for elementary
Flashing lights will be installed in
front of Morrisville Elementary
School, after Mayor Margaret
Broadwell pulled some strings with
the Board of Transportation.
Carolyn Grant, the representative
over the Morrisville area, told Mrs.
Broadwell she could fund the light
with discretionary funds under her
domain.
Mayor Pro Tem Billy Sauls
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projects negotiated previously with
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assured him they would not.
The town board agreed to pick up
the electric bill for the lights.
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