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Chowan CALENDAR What's happening this week ... Thursday - 2/25 aizheimers group meets The Elizabeth City Area Alzheimer's Support Group will meet at 2 p.m. today at the First United Methodist Church, corner of Church and Road Streets, Elizabeth City. Group facilitator is Axie D. White, MSW. POWELL TO SPEAK Professor William Powell will be the guest speaker for a special Shepard-Pruden Library program (see story on page 2-A of this edition) (that will be held at the Barker House in Edenton Feb. 25 at 5:30 p.m. Friday - 2/26 TENNIS TOURNAMENT The Edenton-Chowan Recreation Dept, will host a Table Tennis Tournament on Tuesday, March 2; however, | you must sign up at the Rec. | Dept, by Friday, Feb. 26 in order to participate. For tournament times and other info, call the Rec. Dept, at 482-8595. GREEN AND GOLD BANQUET Green and Gold Scout Banquet Friday, Feb. 26 at | the American Legion Post 40 in Edenton at 7 p.m. Past Eajgles welcome. For reserva tions, Cub Scout families call LiSja at 482-5667; Boy Scout families call Hardy or Ginny at 482-4209. Saturday - 2/27 PUPPET MAKING WORKSHOPS Chowan Arts Council Executive Director Sue Clark will teach puppet-making worshops for children ages 4 7 on Feb. 27 from 9 a.m. until noon and for kids ages 2-5 on March 20, 9 a.m.-noon. Tu ition $5; materials included. Worshops will be held at Swain Auditorium Building classroom. To register, call 482-8005 two weeks before ■class begins. CHILI SUPPER The Chowan Ruritan Club will hold a Chili Supper on Saturday, Feb. 27, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4-7 p.m. For ticket info, call 221-8328. BENEFIT SUPPER There will be a Jimmy Winslow Benefit Supper on Feb. 27, 4-7 p.m., at the Jim "Catfish" Hunter Shop, Center Hill Hwy., Hertford, NC. Tickets for the pork barbe cue meal are $5 and may be purchased from Tommy's Family Restaurant in Hertford. Sunday - 2/28 LASSITER SWAMP HIKE For anyone wanting to take a long walk in the woods, this hike, which gets underway at 1 p.m. at Merchants Millpond State Park in Gatesville, NC, is for you. Participants will hike approximately six miles through the woods and fields at Merchants Millpond, hopefully getting to see some of the wildlife in the Park. Wear appropriate clothing and sturdy shoes; bring water and a snack. Meet at the AB Coleman Picnic Area. Ques tions? Call (252) 357-1191. Monday - 3/1 INDOOR SOCCER The Edenton-Chowan Recreation Dept, will hold Indoor Soccer Registration, March 1-5. Interested per sons sign up at Rec. Dept. Questions? Call 482-8595. Tuesday - 3/2 ECSU TRUSTEES MEET Elizabeth City State Uni versity Board of Trustees will hold regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday, March 2, at 2:30 p.m. in the GR Little Library Board Room. Ques tions? Call (252) 335-3594. CFSSUPPORT GROUP Anyone suffering from Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is invited to become a part of this local support group. Next meeting will be held March 2 at 7 p.m. in Chowan Hospital, Class room B, Edenton. Guest speaker, physical therapist Brenda Leggett. For more info, call 793-3969 (Plymouth) or 482-6242 (Edenton). MUSTANG CLUB MEETS The Chrome Pony Mustang Club of Elizabeth City will meet March 2 at 7 p.m., at the Marina Restaurant, Camden Causeway, Elizabeth City. Come join us and help make plans to celebrate the 35th birthday of the Mustang. Questions? Call Mark Cooper, (252) 331-1022 or (252) 264 To stay informed about upcoming events, pick up the Chowan Herald weekly! 4381, or Virgil Griffith at (252) 335-9618. Upcoming Events GIRL SCOUT COOKIE SALE Girl Scout Troop #683 will hold its annual Cookie Sale Friday, March 5, from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. at NationsBank in downtown Edenton. SCOUT FARE '99 Scout Fare '99 will be held March 6. Theme: "Scouting...A Gateway to the Future." Pack and Troop 164 will host the second annual Scouting event at the Ameri can Legion Post 40 Fair grounds in Edenton. Event free and open to the public, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call 482-4209 or 482-7740. ANTIQUE CAR SHOW The Freshwater Chapter of the Antique Automobile Club of America will host a Car Show Saturday, March 6, to benefit the Scouts of Pack/ Troop 164 in Edenton. The show will be be at the Ameri can Legion on Hwy. 17. Registration free, and all 1974 and earlier model year modified and classic cars invited to participate. Dona tions will be accepted and donated to the Scouts of Pack/Troop 164. Registration, 9-11 a.m.; Awards presented at 3 p.m. Questions? Call (252) 482-7597 or (252) 297 2033. NC YOUTH TAP ENSEMBLE Chowan Arts Council presents the North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble Friday, March 12, at 7 p.m. at Swain Auditorium in Edenton. Tickets may be purchased from the Arts Council. MASTER DANCE CLASS On Saturday, March 13, at 10 a.m. in the Swain Audito rium, Edenton, the North Carolina Youth Tap En semble will hold a master dance class which will be open to the public! For info on class fees and/or registra tion, call the Chowan Arts Council at 482-8005. SPECIAL OLYMPICS Chowan County Special Olympics will be held April 30 at the John A. Holmes High School Athletic Com plex in Edenton. To volun teer, call Connie Peeler or Carrie Watson at 221-4078. Beat Continued From Page 4-A Tangled with this misper ception that train service equals transit is a romantic notion about trains that clouds some people's thinking. As Greensboro Mayor Carolyn Allen put it recently, "I grew up in a time when trains were the way you went from city to city. It was fun and exciting." While trains may be "fun" or "exciting," creating "exciting" travel options is hardly a valid reason for spending public money. If it were, subsidizing large ocean liners a la the Ti tanic for trans-Atlantic voy ages or offering open-cockpit biplane flights across the state would be valid things for gov ernment to do. Unfortunately, it appears that much of the proposed intr astate rail service will not fill a demonstrated need. Though the state's single existing rail service has the virtue o§ con necting the state's three*larg est cities while running through the densely populated Piedmont, the same can't t said of most of the planned < proposed new routes. It is di ficult to imagine a Charlott Wilmington line drawin enough riders to cover a sul stantial portion of its opera ing costs. The prospects mu: be regarded as bleaker still f( a route from Raleigh t Morehead City (1997 popuh tion 7,543), or from Norfoll VA to Elizabeth City, NC (po] 17,255) and Edenton (poj 5,387). Such routes disai peared several decades ag because they were money lo: ers. Every state dollar that goe to intrastate rail transportatio is a dollar that could be sper on other uses or returned t taxpayers. Within the DO! there is no lack of urgent need: The agency has found the fund in recent years to repave road only about half as often as il own guidelines hav recommded. As a result, th condition of North Carolina roads has declined markedly The state's bridges are i little better 'shape. Fully 3 percent were substandard i 1997, ranking North Carolin 45th nationally in bridge cor ie dition. And an additional $95 >r million a year is needed just to f- put North Carolina back on 2- track in road paving, g On top of these problems, the )- state's road construction plans t- are running badly behind »t schedule. The state last year ir was forced to rework its entire o road program, delaying many i- critical projects for years. The c, shortfall through 2004 is esti ). mated at $2.1 billion alone — a ). large sum indeed, but only one i- fifth the size of Tolson's rail o vision. At current funding lev »- els, the projects already on the books will take a quarter cen s tury to complete, n In a world of unlimited re it sources, intrastate rail service o might be worthwhile. But we ’, do not live in such a world. If a ». route can pay its own way, then s it should be pursued. North s Carolina, however, cannot af s ford to provide expensive ser e vices that few people will use. e (Lowrey is director of the s Center for Economic Policy at the John Locke Foundation, a n nonprofit, non-partisan re 's search institute in Raleigh, a NC.) a O'Connor Continued From Page 4-A --V— write rules and make commit tee assignments. That’s OK. It would keep them out of other mischief. Session limits carry dangers. Defenders of the status quo can use them to stall reform and the drive for quicker ac tion can lead to a concentration of power. But those potential dangers appear, after 1998, to be far less serious than the already demonstrated dangers of an Assembly that just won’t fin ish its work. Coffey Continued From Page f-\ member of the congregation. Hannibal Badham attendedthe Gale Street Baptist Church, and he built its house of worship about 1895. He also built a school on East Gale Street, where Evelina Williams Badham taught. Hannibal Badham was a trustee of the school. One of the most notable houses ascribed to Hannibal Badham is the “eclectic Queen Anne” house he built for his son, Hannibal Badham, Jr. in 1900, about the time of the younger Badham’s marriage to Janie Sawyer, Butchko specu lates. Another son, Miles Badham, was employed for many years as a carpenter for the Norfolk and Southern Rail road. The Badham men built many other houses, including homes for Miles, and for Hellen Badham Blair, and the John R. Page Lodge. There were many other Afri can-Americans whose work as craftsmen contributed to the architectural fabric of Eden ton. In an appendix to his book, Butchko identifies many of the builders, black and white, who - left a legacy in wood and brick. Effective Teacher Training focus of COA class College of the Albemarle's Continuing Education Division will offer a course in "Effec tive Teacher Training" begin ning in March. The class will be held Thurs days, 6-9 p.m., March 4 through May 13, and will meet in Room A-223 at the Elizabeth City cam pus. The cost of this class is $35. A social security number is needed to register. 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