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Chowan CALENDAR What's happening this week ... Wednesday - 12/Z9 AUDUBON BIRD COUNT Bird lovers! Choose to hike the trail or drive the roads in the count area around Lake Phelps searching for regional birds. Take this opportunity to improve your birding skills through independent observation and compilation for the Audubon Christmas Bird Count. There will be a $5 registration fee. This daylong event will start by meeting at the park office at 6:30 a.m. For directions or other info, call the Pettigrew State Park office in Creswell at (252) 797-4475. KWANZAA CELEBRATION The Edenton-Chowan Civic League will host its annual Kwanzaa Celebration tonight at 7 p.m. at the Fannie A. Parker Woman's Club build ing, 207 E. Albemarle St., Edenton. The program is open to the public and wel comes your participation. Bring your favorite non-pork dish for a potluck supper after the program. For further information, call 482 7386 after 8 p.m. Upcoming Events INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS Please join us at Unanimity Lodge #7 for Installation of Officers Jan. 2 at 7:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served after the ceremony. Ques tions? Call Bryan Bass at 482 7451. MUSTANG CLUB MEETS The Chrome Pony Mustang Club of Elizabeth City will meet Jan. 5 at 7 p.m. at the Marina Restaurant, Camden Causeway, Elizabeth City. Anyone interested in Mus tangs is welcome to attend. Come join us to make plans for 1999 to celebrate the 35th birthday of the Mustang. For details, call Mark Cooper at (252) 331-1022 or Virgil Griffith at (252) 335-9618. PAPERMAKING WORKSHOP Delight your family and friends by sending or giving them notecards made of handmade paper. Learn the papermaking and finishing process from papermaking expert Wendy Ford. The workshop will consist of two sessions, Jan. 13-14, at 11:30 a.m. at Swain Auditorium Building classroom. Small tuition fee charged. For more Woliftys! Won't You Help Others Enjoy Theirs? lenton-Chow; Food Pantry 703 McMullen Ave. P.O. Box 643 Edenton, NC 482-2504 mio ana materials list, can the Chowan Arts Council at 482-8005. The CAC requests that registration be com pleted two weeks prior to the class start date. JUGGLER TO PERFORM Juggler Tim Nolan, an Elizabeth City native, will perform at the CO A Commu nity Center Auditorium in Elizabeth City Jan. 22 begin ning at 8 p.m. For ticket info, call 335-9050 Monday through Friday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. BLUEGRASS BAND TO APPEAR The Shady Grove Bluegras Band will perform Jan. 29 at 7:30 p.m. at the COA Commu nity Center Auditorium in Elizabeth City. For ticket info, call Joy Perry at 335 9050, Monday through Fri day, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m FATIGUE SUPPORT GROUP The Fibromyalgia/Chronic Fatigue Support Group of Western Albemarle will not hold a meeting in January 1999. The next meeting will be Feb. 2 at Chowan Hospital Classroom B, at 7 p.m. For more info, call Scott at 482 6242. Ongoing Programs ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Problem with alcohol? AA meets at the Edenton United Methodist Church Mon. 8 p.m. (Open); Wed. at 8 p.m. (Closed, Big Book); and Fri. at 12:30 (Closed Discussion). For more info, call 482-3603. DRUG PROBLEMS If you think you might haw a drug problem, call Narcot ics Anonymous at 1-800-813 8191 anytime. Enter pin # 100-0022. TOPS MEETING TOPS (Take Pounds Off Sensibly) meets Tuesday nights at 6 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church in Edenton. Questions? Call 482 3157. A Sure Sign Of The Best All Around Care. Every day; we give you everything we have. Our years of experience. Our professional advice. Our personal commit ment. And you can’t get that kind of care just anywhere. We take the time to make sure you get the best possible care — from handling your medicines to answering your questions. BLOUNT'S MUTUAL DRUGS Familyn Downtown Edenton 182-2127 Care Doctors Robbie & Julie Miller Are Proud To Announce The Opening Of Miller Chiropractic Center (252) 482-4499 Monday, January 4, 1999 300J N. VIRGINIA ROAD, EDENTON CHOWAN CROSSING SHOPPING CENTER Dr. Robbie Miller Dr. Julie Miller About The Clinic The primary goal of the Miller Chiropractic Center is improving your health. We choose to educate our patients about the cause of disease as well as the treatment necessary to restore health through prop er spinal function. Weekly health seminars are offered to increase our patients' knowledge and awareness of their health and how to improve it. Educated patients provide a strong foundation for a successful doctor/patient relationship. The methods of treatment we use are gentle, low force techniques to keep the patients comfort a pri mary objective in our therapeutic considerations. Our extended hours and easy payment plans are designed to make compliance to a program relaxed. Although some may consider our advanced techniques “High Tech", nothing has been sacrificed in maintaining “high touch. ” Chiropractic is the fastest growing, health field in the world. The doctor and staff regularly attend continuing education classes to provide the optimal care possible for your condition. If you or someone you know has ever wondered about the benefits of chiropractic care, please call or visit our clinic today. Present This Coupon For A Complimentary Spinal Exam 8c 2 X-Rays* ($105,00 Value) * IF CLINICALLY INDICATED "II you decide I<> purchase additional treatment, you have the legal right to change your mind within three days and receive a refund." J WE ARE HERE TO HELP! NOW ACCEPTING APPOINTMENTS O'Connor Continued From Page 4-A recent years, he’s been court ing the Christian Right, even though he has never had a repu tation as a hard-right pal. He’s best known, in that regard, as chief champion of expanded charter schools. The majority leader is alsp in a good position to raise cam paign money. He could have collected enough chits from lobbyists in the upcpming 1999 session to raise a sizable war chest next summer. In the job, he will have some visibility - about as much as little-known Jim Black got as he led House Democrats for the last four years. He can run the bills that his primary con stituents want, he just won’t be able to get them passed. At least he’ll appear to be working for them. And he won’t have to work as much. Minority leaders can skip out of Raleigh and cam paign a bit. So, that‘s an advan tage over being majority leader. But Daughtry will also face what is certain to be a contentious caucus. Almost all Republicans are conservative, but they have different definitions of that philosophy, and there is a huge fight going on right now to es tablish one definition over an other. Daughtry will be in the middle of this. He will also be in the middle of a party heading off in differ ent directions in its definition of “Loyal Opposition.” Some will want to work with Demo crats to influence bills, others will want to wage holy partisan war. They’ll be ineffective in both without solid leadership and unity. So Daughtry will be running for governor while he tries to keep the peace at home. He’ll be in the news, which is good. But that news might also be damaging and embarrassing if it is all about Republican disar ray - and that appears to be where the party is right now. Coffey Continued From Page 4-A way, any days such as Christ mas.” Violators could be fined, imprisoned or whipped. No church was allowed to hold ser vices on a day other than the Sabbath; pork and roast beef were outlawed as “supersti tious meats.” Preparing a mince pie was “high Parliamen tary treason,” for the elabo rate dish was both pagan and papist. Filled with diced meat > and poultry, eggs and butter, the minced pie was served at ancient Celtic celebrations of the harvest. After serving in the Near East during the Cru sades, British soldiers returned with exotic spices and stories of the birth of Christ. These spices were added to the minced pie, and the stories to Catholic doctrine. The dish became associated with Ca tholicism, wrote James A. Cox in Colonial Williamsburg Magazine, Winter 1990-1991. 3 The Puritans were not the only people to oppose Christ mas; the Presbyterians, Meth odists, Baptists, Congregation alists, Mennonites, Amish and Quakers also disapproved of the celebrations which had be come associated with Christ mas. But outside the direct in fluence of the Puritans, Christ mas became a holiday very early in the history of coloniza 1 tion of our nation. Christmas in the 18th cen tury was a holiday for adults, not children, “a convenient sea son for the gathering of family and friends,” Cox wrote. “There was more emphasis on partying than on gift-giving, although children might re ceive such small luxuries as confections, gloves, and coins.” The generous host would pro vide turkey, venison, a whole pig, ducks, chickens, and “all the fruits of the land and the sea, especially oysters in boun teous quantities, prepared in numerous ways.” The old “was sail” custom was continued, but, in addition to warm ale, there was good wine, punch and eggnog. Christmas has always been associated with bells ringing, but this, too, was a combina tion of religious and pagan tra ditions: the bells, chimes, guns, and fireworks on Christmas Day were to scare off evil spir its. Santa Claus arrived in New Amsterdam with the first Dutch settlers in 1624. The Puritans sent Saint Nicholas or Sinter Claes, into obscurity, but he emerged after the Ameri can Revolution, when British traditions were out of fashion and New Yorkers revived their Dutch heritage. In the early 1800s,.Clement Moore’s poem, “A Visit From Saint Nicholas,” Read the Herald weekly and stay informed! and Thomas Nast’s drawings of a jolly old man gave rise to the familiar image of Santa Claus. The Germans, too, made a substantial contribution to the American Christmas: they brought the “Christmas pyra mid,” featuring evergreens decorated with candles, the forerunner of the Christmas tree. By the end of the 19th cen tury, Christmas in America had become “a festival sacred to domestic enjoyments,” wrote I Stephen Nissenbaum in The Battle for Christmas. Drink ing and merrymaking gave way to rituals centered on children. The highlight, of course, was Santa Claus bringing gifts for all the little ones. Newspaper editorials encouraged gift giv ing, and retailers promoted their wares by advertising in those newspapers. Santa Claus became a familiar figure, not only through poems and sto ries, but in ads. And the Ameri can public responded just as merchants and retailers hoped. 1 We Help People Achieve Their Country Dreams Do it Now! Call and list your real estate now to have it considered for the next edition of the internationally-known United Country Catalog With more than 1,000,000 readers around the world. Cindy Twiddy Small Colonial Real Estate Co. Office (252) 482-4224 Home (252) 482-8618 No One Knows The Country Like We Do® Borrowers Wanted. Inquire Within. Call and ask us about our unbelievably low consumer loan rates, or stop by one of our 43 locations in eastern North Carolina. With today’s interest rates, there has never been a better time to borrow money. Call your local Southern Bank today! MEMBER FDIC SouthemBank
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