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School board adopts 100% tobacco free policy
Promises
to also look
at tougher
drug plan
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Editor
The Edenton-Chowan Board
of Education Monday night
adopted a 100 percent tobacco
free policy containing the fol
lowing provisions:
• Students, employees,
guests and visitors may not
possess, display, or use ally to
bacco product at any time on
any school-owned or managed
property This prohibition also
applies to students and any
Woman
disputes
danger
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Editor
An Edenton woman says
Chowan Animal Control per
sonnel acted too hastily in
euthanizing two family pets
picked up at her home after she
reported finding a dead rac
coon in her yard. She also dis
putes that any disturbance
took place between her two
dogs and the dead animal.
In written comments sub
mitted to The Chowan Herald,
Sylvia Pritchett says this is
what happened Monday,
March 3.
“I woke utf (and) let my dogs
out like every morning, out my
back yard that is fenced in,”
she wrote. “They might have
stayed out for about 20 min
utes.” Pritchett said she then
got dressed and ready to go to
Elizabeth City where she in
tended to purchase additional
fencing to put at the bottom of
the old fence in her yard “be
cause my two dogs every now
and then (would decide) to
crawl under and then go
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adults serving in a supervisory
capacity for Edenton-Chowan
Schools in school-sponsored
activities held off-campus.
• The possession, display, or
use of tobacco products will be
prohibited in all vehicles
owned, operated, or main
tained by the school system or
private vehicles used to trans
port students.
• Persons or organizations
not affiliated with Edenton
Chowan Schools who rent,
lease, or otherwise tempo
rarily occupy any school prop
erty — including school ve
hicles — are prohibited from
displaying or using tobacco
products during that period of
use.
The board also agreed, as
part of what board member
Tom Abbott characterized as a
“compassionate policy,” to
make tobacco-free support pro
grams available to teachers
and students in the local
schools.
According to materials dis
tributed by Abbott at the meet
ing, Jean Bunch, RN, the
Albemarle Region Tobacco
Education Coordinator, will
initially teach these classes.
Student programs to be offered
include “Alternative to Sus
pension” (ATS) and “Not on
Tobacco” (NOT). She is also
certified to teach “Freedom
from Smoking”, a smoking ces
sation program for adults of
fered by the American Lung
Association.
“Costs of these cessation
programs are covered by exist
ing grants-and will be provided
free of charge to students and
adult employees,” the handout
states. “A mini-grant may
cover the cost of lunches for
students and adults if noon
Second man faces charges
One person’s charges on
felony arrest charges were re
duced during Chowan County
Superior Court last Tuesday
for a shooting incident that
occurred last October, while
another individual sought in
that case was arrested Sunday.
Jamel Rhysheim Boyce, age
20, of Edenton, was charged by
grand jury indictment with
three counts of assault with a
deadly weapon with intent to
commit serious bodily harm,
and discharging a weapon into
an occupied vehicle. Boyce as
saulted two officers sent to ar
rest him, and one officer was
treated and released from
Chowan Hospital in connec
tion with the incident. As a re
sult, Boyce faces additional
charges of assault on the offic
ers. He is scheduled to appear
Spring sunshine
Beautiful flowers are one of the first signs that Spring has finally arrived. Recently,
Edenton photographer Blair Currie found Freddie the Frog and his girlfriend relaxing
among the daffodils in Evelyn Harmon’s garden.
time programs re established.”
Following a presentation by
local tobacco farmer Joseph
Goodwin, however, board
members decided that the
school system’s drug use pre
vention policy also needs a sec
ond look.
“I am appearing before you
to share my concerns over the
board’s decision to target to
bacco without, what appears to
me, (to be) as much concern
over the possession, sale and
use of illegal substances at our
schools,” Goodwin said during
the public dialogue portion of
the board meeting. “My con
cern comes from knowing that
the sheriff’s department is not
allowed to perform random,
unannounced drug checks us
ing their drug dog — a re
source that is already paid for
and available for use in fight
ing drug abuse.” He also ques
tioned whether student ath
letes at our schools are sub
jected to random drug tests,
which he noted has been ruled
permissible by the courts.
Several board members said
that they also were concerned
the school system might not be
doing all it could to prevent
drugs’ presence on school cam
puses in Chowan County One
member, Ricky Browder, said
a number of people had asked
him why the school system
wasn’t focusing on ridding the
local schools of drugs instead
of going after smokers. “Don’t
ya’ll have anything better to
do?” he said he was asked.
Dr. Allan Smith, superinten
dent of schools, said that while
he was perfectly willing to
have unnanounced drug
searches in the schools, he felt
that the drug dog that would be
used during the searches
should be brought into the
schools during an assembly
and introduced to the students
so that they would not feel in
timidated by its presence dur
ing the searches.
And, Rob Boyce of the school
administrative staff, also
pointed out that drug searches
sometimes incorrectly identi
fed students as having drugs
on them. In one such case, in
another state, he said that a fe
male student having her pe
riod was singled out by a drug
dog and later found not have
been in possession of any
drugs. The girl and her family
sued the school district.
Following a lengthy discus
sion in which board member
Gil Burroughs pressed for ac
tion, the board instructed Dr.
Smith to come up with a plan
to beef up drug enforcement
efforts for the next school year.
Pilgrimage
weekend
nearing
Martha "Marty" Badger,
chairwoman, shows off
one of the lovely signs
announcing the coming of
Pilgrimage weekend, April
25-26. The annual tour of
historic homes and public
buildings draws thousands
of visitors from across the
country. Mary Lou Baldi is
serving as vice-chair of the
event. For more details, see
next week's Chowan
Herald and its springtime
edition of the Albemarle
Magazine. (Staff photo by
Marge Soper)
in court April 22 on those
charges.
He is currently being held in
the Chowan County Jail under
a $54,000 bond, according to
Edenton Police Chief Greg
Bonner.
Another individual charged
in the shooting incident, which
took place at Chowan Court
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African-American
images to be part
of Symposium
A “picture is worth a
thousand words” is an
understatement when you
catch a glimpse of African
American life in early
photography
The forms of early photog
raphy that were introduced : J
during the mid-19th century
were the daguerreotype
(1839), ambrotype (1854),
tintype (1856), carte de viste
(1859), and the cabinet card
(1866). Of these forms of
photography the daguerreo
type was and still is consid
ered the most beautiful and
fascinating form of historic
photography that exists
today
These images hold a
photographic view of
African-American life both
real and hidden during this
era. Because very little
photographic evidence of
African-American images
exist prior to the Civil Wag
the images that have sur
vived are either in museums,
private collections, or stored
aw'ay by family members.
Even after the Civil War,
African-Americans did not
have the time, money, or
freedom for portrait sittings.
Consequently, little photo
graphic evidence remains to
bear witness to the lives of
four and a half million
Americans of African
descent.
Dennis O. Williams of
Raleigh, NC and Craig James
of Benson, NC passionately
collect these rare pieces of
photographic history. They
will display their photo
graphic image collections of
African-American life
before, during and after the
Civil War in Edenton, for the '
Harriet Jacobs Symposium.
The Symposium, which
examines the life of this
former slave who became an
author, abolitionist, and
reformer begins at 9 a.m.
April 4, at the Historic
Edenton Visitor Center and
continues through April 5.
Register by faxing your
i request to (252) 482-3366 or if
you wish you may transmit
it via e-mail to
harriet.jacobs@ncmail.net.
Grandma prays for safe
return of grandchildren
BY MARGE SOPER
Correspondent
Norma Bulls is a very proud
grandmother and she has ev
ery right to be just that. Norma
has three grandchildren and
all three are presently serving
in the military.
Norma’s granddaughter,
SSGT Tanya Everett Queiro is
a Marine and she is married to
a Marine, SSGT Jose Queiro.
They are presently stationed at
Camp LeJeune and live in
Jacksonville, NC. Tanya, since
January has been attending
special training at Patrick
Henry AFB and will be return
ing home in April. The couple
has three children and SSGT
dad has had to be both mom
and dad while Tanya has been
away When both parents are in
SSGT Tanya Everett Queiro and SSGT Jose Queiro
US Marines
Granddaughter and Grandson-in-law of Norma J. Bulls
the military this is not an un- ways loved sports and loved
usual situation. Grandma
Norma says that “Tanya al- See PRAYS On Page 3-A
NESDAYS from NOON UNTIL 12:15 PM. unto the war 11 over.
For more Information, call 481-3S11.