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DRIVEWAY MAKES PERFECT NESTING PLACE A pair of killdeer apparently decided that the driveway at White Oak Elementary School was the perfect place to make their nest. The birds usually^elect a rocky area so that the eggs are camouflaged. The mother bird will scurry away from the nest, feigning an injury in an attempt to tare away potential danger. The eggs incubate for about 24 days, then upon hatching,the baby birds will leave the nest as soon as they are dry. Students at the school have placed some landscape timbers around the nest in an attempt to protect it from motorist and bus drivers usinig the driveway and are hoping that no one injures the eggs before hatching. (Staff photo by Deborah Collins) * * f > * * .Helping You Is What. We Do Best. AUTO • HOMEOWNERS • LIFE 919-482-7434 Jimmy E. Stallings Agency Manager Compare Farm Bureau’s Rates and Services. 1 Kim Jones • Don Bryant Bill Gardner, Jr. Agents P.O. Box 269 • 524 Virginia Road Edenton, NC FARM BUREAU INSURANCE We'll help you sleep like a kid again. Since May is Better Sleep Month, we'd like to show you how to sleep sounder. We ll make sure your medications don't keep you awake, and offer helpful information on safe, effective sleeping aids. Come in this month and leave the rest to us. BLOUNT'S MUTUAL DRUGS Downtown Edenton 482-2127 Care FEATURED PET "Ladybug", a wire-terrier mix, approximately 4 years old, is still looking for a home. She is friendly natured dog — good with children and is pretty much housebroken. The shelter still has a part-Lab mix male, that is neutered—free to a good home and also a husky-mix female. They recently acquired a beagle that will hunt. Several cats and numerous adorable kittens, including some long-haired ones, are available. If you are interested in providing one of these animals a home call the Gates-Chowan Animal Shelter at221-8514orstopby138lcardia Road, Tyner. Pet owners are reminded to have their animals spayed or neuter-ed in order to avoid having unwanted animals. Any animal adopted from the shelter comes with a discount coupon. (Staff photo by Deborah Collins) Tanner Leggett attends ECU youth program Tanner Leggett has been se lected to'attend the Legisla tors’ School for Youth Leader ship Development to be held on the campus of East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. Nominated by his school as a student who demonstrates leadership potential, Leggett will attend the High Session, July 5-18. The program is funded by the North Carolina General Assembly and is under the di rection of the Office of School Services of the School of Edu cation, East Carolina Univer sity. During the two-week pro gram, Leggett will attend classes and participate in ac tivities designed to enhance leadership skills, all within an Tanner Leggett experience-based framework developed around the “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,” by Dr. Stephen Covey. In addition to classwork, Leggett will complete a two day outdoor challenge program and participate in a commu nity service project. Leggett will also develop an action plan which he will imple ment as part of a school or com munity service project once he returns home. BLOOD DRIVE Tues., July 14*2-7 p.m. St. Anne Catholic Church SUMMER CLEARANCE — SALE — 20% TO 40% OFF SPRING & SUMMER v FASHIONS $ANN & ANDY’S Special Bargain Racks with Bigger Discounts CHILDREN'S SHOP S. BROAD ST. 482-4777 DOWNTOWN EDENTON Beat Continued From fcage 4-A The current state of affairs teaches us that colleges and universities more and more are becoming commercial con glomerates. Some simply ex ploit their tax-exempt status and their on-campus location as major advantages over off - campus, private-sector busi nesses. One consequence is a substantial erosion of the local area base surrounding these seats of higher (l)earning. These on-campus enterprises intentionally and drastically multiply their competitive ad vantages however they can. For examj%, many colleges and universities refuse to release the list of professor-required textbooks to off-campus stores. Straight-faced, they cite “con fidentiality” and “privacy rights.” The result is higher pre-class costs for students. Democratic U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd recently wrote, “If college expenses continue to rise five percent a year, a family that has a child today...must save almost $400 a month over the next 18 years to finance four years of pri vate college. For a public school, they will have to save about $175.” A monopolistic edubusiness culture contrib utes to this problem. There can be little doubt that full and fair competition would benefit students. A recent, de tailed, national survey of stu dent textbook costs at on-cam pus and off-campus bookstores found that textbook prices for new and used textbooks can Average as much as 31 percent less than at competing off-cam pus stores. What is at stake is a lot of money - taxpayer’s money. The federal aid program for stu dents at higher-learning insti tutions involves $50 billion an nually for nine million students at 7,000 colleges and universi ties. Thus, a mere one-percent savings realized from metre competition would, in the ag gregate, be substantial - $5 0. million. While college business ad ministration professors teach their students about the evils of monopolistic practices, their university administration counterparts practice! the op posite of what they preach. In short, DOE and higher edu cation institutions should not condone, promote or permit any policy or process that un fairly protects educational in stitutions’ monopoly power. In fact, DOE should require insti tutions to facilitate and pro mote competition on a level playing field. The fundamentals of the cur rent abuses will not change without Congressional action. It’s time taxpayers, students, parents, and small businesses combine to urge Congress to end these abuses - and soon. One senior DOE policy-maker told this writer: “We serve in stitutions, not students.” This cannot be what Congress - or its constituents - want. (John-Paul de Barnardo is a Charlotte attorney. This col umn was reprinted with per mission from Clarion, the magazine of the Pope Center for Higher Education Reform, a branch of the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh.) S-T-R-E-T - C- H Your Advertising Dollars In The Chowan Herald! We can help you reach more potential customers for less! Call 482-4418 today: BRYANT GRIFFIN ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR 1st Class Work Guaranteed! INDUSTRIAL • COMMERCIAL • RESIDENTIAL (919) 482-3844 209 Nixon's Beach Rd. 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