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Chowan Middle School's soccer team captured the Western Division Conference champion ship. The Bulldogs, made up of 7th and 8th grade boys and girls, ended their season with a 7 - 0 - 1 record before going into the tournament. The team's success is largely due to their willingness to work as a team and their enthusiasm for the sport. Team members are: (top photo, l-r) Jared Martin, Tanner Bloom, Brandon Devers, Graham Elmore, Sarah Proctor, Luke Copeland, Laura Mills, Nathan Bass; (second row) Joshua Wells, Bethany Bonner, Jenilee Renner, Lauren Chesson, Eric Sliva, Will Williams, Sarah Rinehart, Seth Williams, Will White, Kendall Birckhead. fi» (Photos courtesy of Jenny Wells, Chowan Middle School) Call the classifieds... (252)482-4418 nrrr rtrr “Thanks” A MESSAGE TO PERDUE'S 5,200 ASSOCIATES AND I ,000 PRODUCERS IN NORTH CAROLINA. Hurricane Floyd brought previously unimaginable devastation to commu nities across Eastern North Carolina. In the worst of times, we have seen the best of the human spirit. We are proud of the self-sacrifice, courage and generosity demonstrated by our associates and producers. Despite suffering your own losses, you turned to help others. You worked hard to help us provide donations and ice to shelters and relief agencies and to meet the needs of our customers, including gro cery stores in areas hardest hit by the storm. We also appreciate the patience of our producers, who understood the delays as we battled ever-changing flood waters to find safe routes to’ and from your farms. We are proud of you — the Perdue team — and proud to call North Carolina home. JIM PERDUE, CHAIRMAN PERDUE FARMS . i i t i Hunters aid hurricane victims The general deer season is open all across the eastern part of the state now and, as usual, hunters are harvesting (read that “killing”) more deer than they actually have a use for. With our super-abundance of whitetails it has become a rather common practice to take the choicest of the cuts of venison and waste or make dog food of the less desirable cuts of meat. This year thdre’s a genuine need by a lot of Tar Heels for food due to the disas trous floods. Fresh ground venison is filling a lot of that need through a program called “North Carolina Hunters for the Hungry”. There’s been an outpouring of food, clothing and other sup plies for victims of the Hurri cane Floyd flood that is with out precedent. These needs are going to be with us for a long time and deer hunters across the state are responding with fresh venison. The deer car casses are delivered to certain meat processors that butcher the deer, mix the meat with beef fat and grind it into veni son burger. This badly needed food could go a long way to ward satisfying the needs of a lot of flood victims. Last year the Hunters for the Hungry program supplied some 80,000 meals for needy people across the state. Even Governor Hunt shows up to help pre pare these meals sup plied by hunters. Overall the program is one of the best public relations moves that hunters have made in a long time. Not many people realize it but the Hunters for the Hun gry program was not a simple cracy at work). It nearly took an act of Congress to clear veni son for distribution to the needy. There was also the matter of cost. As much as many of the meat processors would have liked to have butchered the deer for free, business is busi ness and these guys have to make a living. It cost about $30.00 per deer to have one butchered then ground into venisonburger. You can also donate portions of a deer if you want to. If you deliver the deer car cass unskinned, it costs about $10 to have it skinned. This may bring the cost per animal up to about $40. Considering that you get about 40 to 50 pounds of pro cessed venison burger per deer, this works out to a cost to the program of about a dollar a Fred Bonner pound of meat. Each donated deer will, when processed, feed about 160 meals to the needed. In most of the cases the limit ing factor in how much veni son the Hunters for,the Hungfy'pro gram could deliver to the needy was not the availability'of fhe venison, it was how itthdh money was available to pay the processors to butcher the ddef. In many cases the huriters themselves paid the process ing fee. In other cases outright (and lucrative) grants frdm various wildlife clubs sujfpl'e mented the cash needed. Outdoorsmen realized'that this program was a Godsdhd for them when so many-Ac tions are doing their best'to make hunters look bad to the public. Logistically there were'also problems. Where does' the hunter take the deer he wahts to contribute to the program and how is the carcass to’be handled once it’s at the distri bution point? Are there cool ers available and in whatsthte of being field dressed dods fhe processor want the animal when it’s delivered? Once the deer is processed, other problems arise? HWv does the venison actually get to the places where it’s needed See BONNER On Page 9-A cJTianR You ll woufd fikc to thank my Jamify and Jrlends who remembered me with many deeds oj kindness during my recent iff — ness. y\fso a speciaf thanks to aff the cosmetologists in the area who so kindfy took care oj my customers. ^\ay the fight oj Christ afways shine in your fives. 3i*tccrcfy. Cj)oi*is £|ean li\ern r— ATTENTION FLOOD VICTIMS — We at Gary Sauls Homes would like to take this opportunity to lend a hand to the people who were not as fortunate as some of us. • 0% Down to Flood Victims • No Payment for 90 Days Over 2 Million Dollars in Slock Inventory with no water damage. Ready for immediate delivery Gary Sauls Manufactured Homes, INC. WILLIAMSTON WASHINGTON 70I East Blvd • Mwy. I3-I7 Bypass 2405 VV 5th St. • llwy. 264 West 1-800-643-3498 1-800-769-4142 FLEETWOOD Homes A merica s Largest Home Builder, MASCO! MODULARS The Superior Modular Support the ACES this Friday Nov. 12 • 7:30 p.m. versus GREENE CENTRAL at John A. Holmes EES. ATTENTION HOLIDAY CHEFS For Great New Recipes See the Thanksgiving Feature in Next Week's Issue! Afi * Samples*^ <&£e! '<? Lazy Hill fj&r Farm Design! Main Street, Colerain 356-2828 New & Exciting Items! », November 20th 9 AM to 12 NOON • Saturday i
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