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Steamers Continued From Page 1-A el*s a place to stay for the short season; and, as a consequence, introduces the players to the Edenton community with the help of their hosts. The ar rangement has obvious ben efits for the players, who would have trouble finding or afford ing housing over such a short period; but it also benefits the host families. Just ask the Boehlings. ! “It’s like you have an older brother,” both Emily, 13, and Liza, 9, say. “It’s just a lot of fun- to have the players around.” ^Steamers pitcher Billy Bbughey and catcher Austin Shiithwick stayed with the Bpehlings this summer and C^td Bawmann and Jeff Hasse stayed with them in 1998; and the Bpehlings are aching to get another pair of players for the upcoming season. , “They were great role mod els for all these kids,” Mary Boehling said. “They were all very differ ent, but they were all great,” Peter Boehling added. “All have been really family ori ented, friendly, sensitive ...There’s something about baseball that makes them dif ferent from other sports, it’s just an extension of their youth; and these guys j ust seem to live baseball.” That’s just fine for the Boehlings’ 11-year-old son Alex, who’s a big baseball fan and Little League player. Alex watches baseball games—and wrestling— on television with the Steamers players, Peter said. And not only does Alex attend most of the Steamers home games, but the Steamers players also make it a point to attend Alex’s Little League games, just like any big brother would. “We’ve got five kids going in five different directions,” Mary said, “and we still wouldn’t miss a (Steamers) game.” Alex Boehlingeven cel ebrated his birthday at a Steamers game. There’s a lot of giving on both sides of this arrangement, the Boehlings say. The Boehlings get to introduce the players to everything Edenton has to of fer: water sports, fishing, hos pitality. And the players bring, a summer camp atmosphere to the home. In fact, they’ve taken to calling the place Camp Boehling. It’s a good example of how the Steamers influence extends off the playing field. Call it the “Steamers Outreach Pro gram,” wherever the players go they make friends—and fans. If you check out one section of the wall at Snooker’s Grill in Edenton, you'll see dozens of signatures. They’re the names of Steamers players who’ve made the place their unofficial hangout while in town. The names include play ers from California, Florida, Ohio, Virginia, from all over. Wanda Westbrook of Snooker's sees the impact the players have on the kids in the town, especially her 10-year old son Joseph. “For him it’s just like having a big brother, he really gets attached,” Westbrook said. Joseph got to be the bat boy for some of the Steamers games. He’s even been involved in autograph sessions where he signs his name as “Bat Boy.” “It’s a big deal for these kids to see and talk to these college aged players,” Wanda said. “It’s like going to a pro game and getting to meet the play ers. “It’s a good family atmo sphere at the games,” she con tinued. “And you see a lot of families there.” The level of play at the Steam ers game is professional, but the atmosphere is more fan friendly than in the majors. “It’s a whole other thing with the Steamers, if you want an autograph, they’d give it to you,” Emily Boehling said. But the family atmosphere fostered by the Steamers doesn’t end with the season. Players that have stayed with the Boehlings still keep in touch through e-mails, cards and even visits. Likewise, Jo seph Westbrook keeps up a regular correspondence with the players. “Two months is long enough to make friends for life,” Peter Boehling said. “We look for ward to having the players here in a big way. And. I’ll tell you, it’s a sad day when they leave.” Community leaders earlier this fall launched an effort to ensure the Steamers keep com ing back year after year. The group organized an effort to buy the franchise for $150,000 and run the team as a nonprofit outfit benefiting youth athlet ics and activities in Chowan County. The board of the Steamers will be formed through the Edenton-Chowan Community Foundation, an already existing local non profit that agreed to be the par; ent organization for the effort: Both the Boehlings and the Westbrooks see the effort as a positive step to bring the team—and its players—even closer to the community. “That’s the security we need to keep the team here and have local control,” Boehling said. “The Steamers increase pub lic interest in baseball, and all levels of baseball benefit.” The Edenton-Chowan Com munity Foundation is trying to raise the money by the end of December in order to shore up ownership of the team. They' already. raised more than $25,000 toward the purchase, but they are still in need of additional donations. Anyone wanting to make a one-time, tax-deductible investment in the Steamers can send a check to: The Edenton-Chowan Com munity Foundation, P.O. Box 86, Edenton, NC 27932. For more information, contact Tom Howe at 252-482-4080. : Offices Continued From Page 1-A moved. The elevator shaft and the stairs now share the same area of the building, something that is hazardous in the event of a fire. “That current situation (with the elevator) is totally illegal,” Traub said. Several commissioners wanted to know if it would be less expensive and better in the long run to demolish the cur rent structure and build from scratch on the same site. Traub said this would be diffi cult because county employees would havetofindanotherplace to work while the demolition and construction took place. In Traub’s mind, there were two alternatives: build new at a dif ferent site or renovate the cur rent facility, moving offices around while the renovation and addition proceeded. Traub said if the commiss ion ers wanted to keep the offices in downtown Edenton, they would have to renovate the existing structure and rely on efficient additions. The matter now moves to the county’s finance committee, where payment options for such a project will be mapped out, Copeland said. Copeland said they need to find a final plan that will give Chowan County an office facil ity for the next 20 to 40 years. “We’ve got a big decision to make,” Commissioner James C. Dail said. Traub said such an extensive project could take up to 10 years to complete. Traub is familiar with Edenton. He’s renovated several houses in the Cotton Mill and V illage. He is currently work ing on renovating the Perquimans County Courthouse in Hertford. He said he mostly works on historic properties. In other bus iness, the Chowan County Commissioners: • Heard that the board of the Shepard-Pruden Library are preparing a recommendation for either expanding their cur rent facility on Water Street or moving to space in the old Cot ton Mill at the invitation ofPres ervation N.C. County Manager Copeland said one of the proposals bn the table calls for adding 3,000 square feet to the existing two story, 4,647-sqare-foot library, plus additional renovations. That proposal would cost about $750,000. Another option calls for mov ing the library into Edenton’s Cotton Mill. Preservation N.C. offered 12,000 square feet of the old cotton mill to house the li brary. This renovation project would cost about $1.2 to $1.3 million, Copeland said. In this scenario, the county would re tain possession of the current library building. The library board plans to review its options before mak ing a recommendation to the county commissioners. 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