■ • :• ■
tli ; 3
■■■ r* . - ■ ;i-:'
■sk, :> ■ '•■■■■•■■
::1fW ■ WMim
Wednesday, June 30, 2004
NCE DAY 2004
Optimists planning a 'Fabulous Fourth of July'
BY EARUNE WHITE
Staff Writer
The Chowan-Edenton Opti
mist Club is sponsoring and
coordinating this year’s 25th
anhual Fabulous Fourth of
July Festival for our area
youth. The reading of the Dec
laration of Independence cel
ebration with the Daughters
of the Am-erican Revolution
at the Hewes monument on
the courthouse green at 4 p.m.
will kick off this year’s festivi
ties.
From 4 - 10 p.m. Dr. Feel
good, a D J from Myrtle Beach,
will provide sounds and enter
tainment for kids of all ages.
“Dr. Feelgood is a hit; very
much crowd-interactive,” said
Mike McArthur of the Opti
mist Club. The DJ will be play
ing a selection of Dixieland,
Swing, Beach, classic Rock
and Roll, Jimmy Buffett,
Motown, Elvis, and classic
Country sure to please the
crowd.
At 7 p.m. there will be a trea
sure hunt sponsored by
Acoustic Coffee. Kids age ten
and under are welcome to
come and search-for the mon
Marge Soper
M. Soper
new hire
at COA
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Managing Editor
Marge Soper of Edenton has
been named Workforce and
Community Development Co
ordinator for the College of the
Albemarle Chowan campus in
Edenton.
The focus of her new posi
tion will be to provide courses
and training that will benefit
the needs of workforce indi
viduals as well as the needs of
local businesses and the com
munity at large. Soper said she
See SOPER On Page 3-A
Chowan Herald file photo by Helen Kerr Outland
What is being billed as "the largest fireworks show over the water in all of North Caro
lina" will take place on the downtown Edenton waterfront at the conclusion of the
Chowan-Edenton Optimist Club's Fabulous Fourth of July Celebration beginning around
9 p.m. Events will get underway around 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon.
etary prize at the Colonial
Park Playground.
In addition to the pony rides
for the kids from Ms.
Pickleberry, the waterfront
will be loaded with fun activi
ties. Over 15 local vendors will
be displaying and selling their
merchandise - jewelry, flags,
toys,, and trinkets. There will
be plenty of food to choose
from - Leon Nixon’s seafood,
chicken and barbeque will be
on hand, as will the local Boy
Scout troop selling snow
cones to cool the thirst. The
Edenton Kiwanis will be sell-, -
ing hot dogs.
The Chowan-Edenton Opti
mist train will be on site all
day, giving rides to all the chil
dren. The Acoustic Coffee’s
string quartet, Houseblend
Band, will lend their pleasur
able sounds to the crowd later
that evening. Be sure to check
See OPTIMISTS On Page 5-A ,
HHewes ceremony
t!
H
K.
on
On July 4 at 4 p.m. the Edenton Tea Party Chapter Daugh
ters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) will honor Joseph
Hewes, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
§ A resident of Edenton, Hewes signed this document in
Philadelphia on July 4,1776. He sacrificed his business, his s
health and finally his life in the struggle to make the United
States of America a new nation.
The program which will be held at Hewes Monument at
the foot of the old Chowan County Courthouse green, will
feature a reading of the Declaration of Independence by the
■
mmm
-5ft*
iVMj
See HEWES On Page 3-A
Main Street is asking for volunteers for a project that will
impact our community. The project is called “Picture Down
town” and asks for citizens of Chowan County to take pictures
of scenes they like or do not like in the immediate historical/
commercial district. Participants must call Jennifer Harriss,
Director of Main Street, at 482-3400 to sign up for a camera. Each
person will be given a disposable camera and asked to take 9
photos of areas they would like to see improved or ones that
fulfill what downtown needs. Volunteers will be asked to fill out
paperwork anu given a map oi me area 10
be focused on.
The photographs will be assembled at
the Main Street Visioning Session on Sep
tember 9th at First Baptist Fellowship Hall
from 7-9 p.m. The community is invited to
this session and welcome to participate in
the discussion. Attendees will be divided
into groups to discuss-certain areas that
the photographers needed addressing.
This session will help Main Street to de
velop goals for their five-year plan and give
an idea as to what sort of grants and
fundraisers need to be undertaken. Good
and bad areas alike will be discussed.
Rodney Swink, the NC Main Street Direc
tor, will be at the Visioning getting input
from the locals.
“Our goals come from community in
put. I want people to get excited about be
ing involved. Give us advice and we’ll help
to pass it on and hopefully implement new
aesthetics in our downtown area,” said
Harriss.
Shown here are two examples of potential photographs for the
"Picture Downtown” Main Street Project Visioning Session.
Suspects
sought in
shooting
, BY SEAN JACKSON
” Staff Writer
An Edenton woman was
shot early Friday morning and
police are looking for the
shooter.
Mandy Jordan told police
she was asleep on a couch in
the living room at a home at
1205 Paradise Road when two
men entered through the front
door of the residence at about
12:24 a.m., police Chief Greg
Bonner said. She was shot four
times — twice in the head, and
both in the right arm and
shoulder. She was initially
taken to Chowan Hospital but
was later transported to Pitt
County Memorial Hospital.
“None of the injuries were
life-threatening,” Bonner said :
Monday, adding that he ex
pected Jordan to be soon re
leased from the Greenville hos
* pital.
Based on shell casings
found at the scene, the shooter
is believed to have used a .22
caliber weapon, Bonner said.
Jordan provided descriptions
of the two men, he added.
“Police are still investigat
See SHOOTING On Page 5-A
BY SEAN JACKSON
p Staff Writer
m
p Edenton residents will
only see a 1-cent hike on their
bext property tax bills,
thanks to a move by Town
Council to keep the increase
a minimum.
Council unanimously pas
sed the 2004/05 fiscal year
budget Monday night, push
ng the tax rate to 43 cents per
tOO of value. The chief reason
for the Increase, town officials
have said, is the financial bur
den placed on Edenton by
Hurricane Isabel late last
summer
The 1-cent tax hike will
bring in another $25,000 in
revenue to the roughly $3,47
million budget, Town Man
ager Anne-Marie Knighton
said.
Council also decided to
r'J- TAX On Pag* 5-A
Cannon restoration completed
Mike Faircloth, left joins Barker House Administrator Beverly Kirchmier, and Tim Phelps
In admiring a newly restored Revolutionary War-era cannon. (See story on page 3-A)
INSIDE THIS WEEK
»
Joseph
Howes*
family
visits
Edenton
5-A
Seniors plan fishing
trip HiiiuHiHmMinnn10"G
2-B
Exploration Days
COA culinary program
■■■■■■»iaHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 2-C