Library wants to make list of fave books
The Friends of the Librm-y book
club will meet Tuesday, D4c. 18, at
. 3:30 pm. at the-library, notxburs
day as erroneously listed last week.
Mea culpa. The featured book will
be.The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve.
The steady stream of "the best
of” lists as we enter the year MM
has prompted the staff here to so
. licit favorite books from you for a
■ list of our own. This list will serve
as an advisory for our library pa
trons. We’d like to make a "book of
books” for National Library Week
as a way to share our personal trea
sures with our friends and neigh-'
bors.
Dean Koontz strikes again with
False Memory, the story of a woman
suffering from a bizarre psycho
logical disease called autophobia,
the fear of oneself. As her condi
tion worsens, her husband tries to
determine the reason for the onset
of her episodes and uncovers clues
that point to mind control rather
than psychosis.
The Love Knot by Elizabeth
Chadwick is set in England during
the twelth century. The widow
Catrin is
studying the
healing arts
when she
meets Oliver,
whose wife
has recently
died in child
birth. Oliver
is also seek
ing to regain
family lands Rosalie Boyd
confiscated
in the civil war that is raging
throughout the land.
When a ruthless Cape Cod real
estate developer is killed, the chief
of police turns to a boy ht >od friend,
nowr a monk at Faith Abbey, for
help. Brother Bartholomew and
Police Chief Burke team up in this
.debut mystery, ,4 Matter of Roses,
by David Manuel.
The Candidate's W ife believes
her family has nothing to hide as
her husband's campaign for Pres i
dent of the-'United States is
launched. But adolescent
children's pitfalls and rumors
about her husband become issues
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The success of Tom Brokaw':
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with a videotape produced by NBC
News. An audiotape entitled 77a
Greatest Generation Speaks: Lette)
and Reflections is read by.Brokav
and the writers of many of the let
ters he received in response to tin
first Greatest Generation book.
If you want to incorporate
antiquing into your next road trip
look before you leave at a new ref
erence book, Leggetts' Antique<
Alias East. Organized alphabet!
tally by state and their by town
Edenton Aces pull out 61-50
victory over Camden County
The Erientun Aces,(3-4) held
'Camden County (5-5) to just seven
points in the third quarter of
. Wednesday's Daily Advance Four
County Classic consolation game
to pul! a,way in the second half for
a 61-50 victory.
Camden cut the lead to three
points midway through the fourth
quarter, bur the Aces got six points
from‘Kevin Downing and a clutch
3-pi >inter ft om .Jti.-imont-Grtffin in
the filial minutes to seal the vie
Do rattlesnakes really need protection in state?
J like snakes. Ask any old-timer
in the small eastern North Carolina
town where' ! grew up and they'll
ten .you usually went around
with a pocket full of the reptiles, I
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Where noteworthy; B&B’s and lo
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tory.for Edenton.
Griffin finished the game with
15 points. The Aces also got 11
points from'Jamie Beasley and 10
points from Jermain Jackson.
Marquiche Hughes led the way
for Camden with 12 points. .
At presstime, Edenton was
scheduled to return to action Tues
day with a Northeastern
Albemarle Conference game at
home against Manteo.
Lady Aces stomp
Pirates in match-up
BY KEN PANKO
Cox NC Publications
BARCO, NC - Hard tackling.
Wild elbows. Grappling on the
floor. What do they all add up to?
You guessed it: A night of high
school girls basketball.
Extremely physical play was
the rule as Edenton’s Lady Aces
(7-0) stomped Perquimans
County63-35 to reclaim The Daily
Advance Four-County Classic
championship from the Lady Pi
rates (6-4) Wednesday evening.
“It got a little out of control at
both ends and it turned into a
-football game instead of a basket
bail game,” said Eerquimans
coach Bob Turner.
It probably would have taken a
team of all-star linebackers to
stop the Lady ACes’ Courtney
Bass, whose smothering defense
and 21-point offensive explosion
easily earned her tournament
MVP honors.
“Courtney generally makes
real good decisions for us," said
Edenton coach Fred White.
“Sometimes she gets over anx
ious on defense, but she also gets
the ball to the proper people at
the proper time.”
Bass scored 11 of her 21 points
in the second quarter, often off of
turnovers that she created on
defense. That put Edenton up 31
15 at the half.
“I asked the girls at halftime
that if anyone has seen the Lady
Pirates, to let me know, because
that’s not the team I know,” said
Turner.
Perquimans could never get its
offense to respond. Things really
degenerated in the later stages of
the game as the Lady Pirates sent
Edenton to the line 22 times in
the fourth quarter. On a more
positive note for Perquimans,
Ashley Copeland and Ashley
Sessoms both scored in double
d igits, throwing in 13 points each.
Dana Bembry had a double
double for the Lady Aces with 10
points and 11 rebounds. Tameeka
Griffin also had 10 points for
Edenton.
“I was pleased with our mental
preparation,” said White. “We’re
starting to understand what it
takes to get ready for a basketball
game. Against good teams you
re1 eased
them in and
around the
house where I
grew up and I
kept. them, for
pets.
I’ve also
been known
to stop my car
and get out to
take a stick
and move a
rattlesnake onto the shoulder of the
road where it would not be ran over.
To me theyje fascinating animals
that pijayafi important role in our
environment. There are, however,
limits as to how far one should go to
protect snakes, particidarly poison
ous ones.
Fletcher Sanders, a well known
Fred Bonner
outdoorsman from Zebulon, re
cently called regarding the rattle
snake protection question and
brought up an interesting point.
“I’ve known many farmers who
caught black or king snakes and
released them in their corn cribs to
control rodents,” he said, “but
I’ve never yet known of anyone
who released rattlesnakes in their
corn cribs for that purpose." That’s
a very valid point.
'[’here are some species of snakes
that are, no matter how you look at
it, dangerous to man. I’m not afraid
ofthese snakes but I do respect them
and handle them with care. I surely
wouldn’t turn them loose in or
Wound my home.
This proposed North Carolina
law that would give endangered
species status to some' species of
rattlesnakes and the coral snake is
the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever
heard of. If the North Carolina Wild
life Resources Commission
(NCWRC) does give such legal pro
tection to these snakes it will prob
ably be the death sentence for these
animals.
The public hearing having to do
with making several species of
rattlesnakes and the eastern coral
snake protected will take place in
the Archdale Building, 512 North
Salisbury Street in Raleigh on
Thursday, February 17, 2000. The
hearing will be in Room 332 and
will convene at 10 a.m.
The Archdale Building is one of
those tall new state office build
ings that’s located across from
Peace .College on Peace Street. Ar
rive early to get a parking space.
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