Vol. LXXI, No. 45
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Single Copies 50#
Farm-City
Banquet
Thursday
This year’s Farm City Ban
quet, hosted by the NC Coop
erative Extension Advisory
Council, will be held at 7 p.m.
on Tuesday evening, Novem
ber 23, at the American Legion
Post 40 in Edenton. This an
nual event recognizes the close
ties between the agricultural
and business community that
is so important to the eco
nomic well being of communi
ties across the nation and par
ticularly here in northeastern
North Carolina.
me l'arrn City Banquet is
also a time to recognize
achievement in the commu
nity This year we will recog
nize the 2003 Champion Peanut
Producer for Chowan County,
the 2004 Woman in Agricul
ture, the 2004 Outstanding
Young Farmer, and the 2004
Outstanding Youth. In addi
tion, Richard Lichtenwalner,
local resident and NCSU Ex
tension Beef Specialist,will
speak about the experience of
raising a family in our local,
rural setting.
The Farm City Banquet is
supported by business and
civic organizations in Chowan
County and is open to all. For
reservations, please call the
Extension office (482-6585) by
November 19 with your plans
to attend. We will look forward
to seeing you for some good
food, a good message and
plenty of door prizes.
INSIDE
Calendar..A2
Church.C5
Classifieds..,Dt-6
Editorials.....A6
Football Forecast.. B6
Learning....C3
Obituaries..... C 7
Society...C2
Sports.. Bl-6
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Let’s Talk Turkey!\
Holiday recipes
Winn-Dixie staying put...at least for now
BY SEAN JACKSON
Staff Writer
You can keep shopping at an
Edenton supermarket through
the holidays. The Edenton
Winn-Dixie is not one of the
stores the Jacksonville, Fla.
based chain has slated to close
Dec. 2.
According to a Winn-Dixie
spokesman, officials have con
firmed the store isn’t one of 10
closing in three weeks.
“(Winn-Dixie senior director
of communications Kathy
Lussier) has confirmed that
the Edenton store ... is not one
of the stores closing on (Dec.
2),” Dennis Wortham, the
company’s communications
manager, said in an email to
The Chowan Herald Tuesday.
DAY OF REMEMBRANCE
Staff photo by Earline White
Dave L. Bond (left) who served in the US Army and Lionel Hope (right) of the US Navy stand
in prayer during the Benediction at the Veterans' Day ceremony November 11, 2004.
Ceremony honors vets'
service
BY EARLINE WHITE
Staff Writer
“Eighty-six years ago on
this day at this very hour and
minute, the guns of the west
ern front went silent in
“It remains one of the stores
we announced in April that
Winn-Dixie will need to sell or
close by the end of April 2005,”
Wortham stated.
The Elizabeth City Winn
Dixie is one of the nine stores
in North Carolina closing Dec.
2. Food Lion has announced it
will open a store at the Hal
stead Boulevard location cur
rently occupied by Winn-Dixie.
Food Lion is also opening
stores in Dunn, Elizabethtown
and Havelock, N.C., and
Clarksville, Danville, Farm
ville, Martinsville, South Hill
and Stanleytown, Va. — all cur
rently Winn-Dixie locations
slated to close.
Winn-Dixie officials have
not said whjch chain would
reopen at their Edenton site.
France. That horrific war, the
Great War, was referred to as
the war to end all wars. Armi
stice Day was established ex
actly one year later and now
called Veterans’ Day,” Peter
Rascoe said in his welcoming
America's Supermarket
Chowan Herald file photo by Earline White
Winn-Dixie will keep its Edenton store open for now, as it
continues to seek a buyer. Unlike the Edenton location, the Winn
Dixie in Elizabeth City will close Dec. 2. Food Lion has pur
chased its location and employees are hoping to keep their jobs.
as the master of ceremonies
at the 14th annual Veterans’
Day Ceremony. “It is for those
who risk their lives every day,
and for those who have given
See SERVICE On Page 5-A
Plans for
BoysIGirls
Club progress
BY SEAN JACKSON
Staff Writer
With $400,000 dollars in its coffers, the
Edenton-Chowan Community Foundation
plans to make its dream of bringing a Boys &
Girls Club here a reality.
Meeting with club officials, the Edenton
Chowan school board, Edenton Town Council,
and Chowan County Board of Commissioners,
foundation members said they expect to have
the funding needed to operate the club for three
years. Chet Emerson, executive director of the
Staff photo by Sean Jac kson
Robbie Laughton, director of Parks and Rec
reation, talks about plans for a new Boys and
Girls Club here.
club’s Southeastern Virginia branch, said a
three-year guarantee is needed to open a new
club.
Club official Todd McFarlane said a survey
passed out to 1,200 Chowan schoolchildren last
See CLUB On Page 3-A
Town Council okays
new residential
parking ordinance
BY SEAN JACKSON
Staff Writer
A recently passed town ordi
nance prohibits some resi
dents and their visitors from
parking multiple vehicles in
their front and side yards:
According to jthe ordinance
passed by the Edenton Town
Council, persons who violate
or “permit the violation” of
the new parking code will be
subject to a fine.
The ordinance prohibits:
• “(Parking) between the
curb or edge of the pavement
of a street and the front build
ing line of a single family de
tached, duplex, triplex, or
quadraplex dwelling” in a side
yard area “other than com
pletely upon an improved
driveway or improved parking
pad.” (“Impiroved” surfaces
means those surfaced with
concrete, asphalt, gravel, or
any other material typically
Used for parking areas.)
• Parking on grass or dirt is
Suspect arrested on
fraud, related charges
BY SEAN JACKSON
Staff Writer
Police have arrested an
Edenton man charged with
selling drugs and fake identi
fications.
Arturo Calzada “Bronco”
Baeza, 34, of 314 W. Church St.
was arrested Nov. 5, the same
day police raided his home.
The Chowan Herald errone
ously reported Nov. 10 that
Baeza had yet to be arrested.
During the raid, Police
seized more than one pound of
marijuana, cocaine, two illegal
firearms, and hundreds of
forged Social Security cards,
resident alien cards, and fake
IDs. Investigators also seized a
large amount of equipment
used in making fake IDs, the
press release stated.
He was charged with posses
sion with intent to sell and de
liver marijuana, manufactur
Local business leaders have
said they haven’t been told
which, if any, supermarket
chains are interested in leas
ing the space.
Lowe’s Foods, which oper
ates a store in Ahoskie, has
told The Chowan Herald their
company is not interested in
the site.
In late April the company
announced it would cut 10,000
jobs and close or sell 156 stores
and other operations over the
next year — including its
Edenton location.
The company suffered finan
cial woes in the months lead
ing up to that decision.
“While sales continued to
decline, this quarter’s break
See STAYING On Page 3-A
prohibited.
• Improved parking spaces
shall not cover more than 30
percent of any front yard.
' • Improved parking areas for
two-family homes shall not
cover more than 40 percent of
any front yard.
• Parking and storage of “ve
hicles, boats, trailers, campers
and the like shall not be per
mitted within any front and/
or side yard area except as pro
vided by” the ordinance.
The following exceptions
were included in the ordi
nance:
• Parking on unimproved
surfaces is allowed “where
parking is not permitted on ad
jacent streets surrounding the
property” and if the front of
the dwelling is less than 20 feet
from the curb or “the lot width
of the front building line is less
than 20 feet.”
• Special events “involving
family or social gatherings”
are exempt, unless they occur
more than once a week.
Arturo "Bronco" Baeza
ing marijuana, maintaining a
vehicle and dwelling for the
storage of a controlled sub
stance, possession of drug
paraphernalia, felony posses
sion of cocaine, and manufac
turing cocaine.
On Nov. 9, Baeza was
charged with financial identi
fication fraud, and trafficking
stolen identities, a police offi
See FRAUD On Page 3-A
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