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Vol. LXXIj, No. 15 Wednesday, April 20, 2005 Single Copies 50£ a special section Pilgrimage weekend starts Friday BY REBECCA BUNCH The Chowan Herald Being responsibile for co chairing one of North Ca rolina’s best-known tourism draws, the Edenton Pilgrim age, has its perks. One of those enjoyed by this year’s co chairs, Mary Lou Baldi and Kay Caveney, was a personal visit with Lt. Gov. Beverly Per due, who treated them (and fel low members of the Edenton Town electric rates may rise once again By SEAN JACKSON The Chowan Herald Citing a handed-down rate hike from its power supplier, the Edenton Town Council could bump up electric rates for the second time in less than a year. The new increase — based on skyrocketing fuel costs and rising cost of coal — could be a temporary one, Town Man ager Aftne-Marie Knighton said during council’s April 12 meeting. Council approved a 1.4-percent rate increase that took effect March 1. That rise was due to a spike in wholesale Sweep proves a success Booze, drugs and cash confiscated during recent raids BY SEAN JACKSON The Chowan Herald Sometimes a routine search can yield surprising results, as evidenced by a recent sweep by INSIDE Calendar.C2 Church.C4 Classifieds.D1 -8 Editorials.A6 Learning.A7 Obituaries.C6 ' Society.C3 Sports.B7-8 On Page Ct ... Stroke Victims form support group Woman’s Club) to a private tour of the Governor’s Man sion. And in the spirit of the occasion the ladies met with Perdue dressed in period at tire. “Our dresses were very simi lar to those worn by the ladies during the first Pilgrimage in 1949,” said Mary Lou Baldi. “And it (visiting Perdue) was a great experience. We all had a wonderful time.” According to a history of the power costs from last October, an increase the town absorbed for six months. “This is not good news,” Knighton told council of the latest rate increase passed along to Edenton. “It’s unex pected.” Council did not take action on the issue, but is expected to discuss the matter at its April 25 meeting. Rising coal costs at two coal fueled power plants in Person County—and escalating costs in transporting the coal from the Appalachia-based mines to See RATES On Page 2-A local law enforcement agen cies. For the second time in less than a year, the Edenton Police See SWEEP On Page 2-A Sean Jackson Kids share a light-hearted moment at the ceremony club, first mention of an idea that today draws thousands to our community came during a November 1948 meeting of the Edenton Woman’s Club when the Fine Arts Committee out lined plans for a Home and Garden Tour of Edenton that could be carried out under the sponsorship of the North Carolna Garden Club. A scrap book documenting the club’s activities between September 1948 and June 1949 carries this “The citizens will ultimately be the big winner in having all these agencies working together. ” Anne-Marie Knighton Town Manager Chowan Herald file photo Floodwaters from Hurricane Isabel surround the current site of the Edenton Po lice Dept./911 Emergency Communications Center (at left). Funds still being sought for new law enforcement center BY SEAN JACKSON The Chowan Herald Town officials have known since Hurricane Isabel flooded its police and communications centers in September 2003 that a new law enforcement cen ter was needed. Now the question is, should the town move forward with borrowed money, or wait for grants to pay for a proposed $7 million center it could share with Chowan County. During its April 12 meeting, the Town Council was updated about pos sible plans to locate the Edenton Police Department, Chowan County Sheriff’s entry: “For the firt time in the history of Edenton, tourists will have the privilege of vis iting 23 homes, buildings and plantations.” During the first tour, held April 18-19,1949, the 23 public buildings and homes open to visitors included: the Cupola House, the James Iredell House, Beverly Hall, Green field, Hayes Plantation, and See PILGRIMAGE On 2-A Office, and the 911 Communications Center at a site behind the Chowan Life Center on Freemason Street. “Ultimately,” Town Manager Anne Marie Knighton told council, “we feel like we’ve found a good site.” The town has joined the county in applying for a loan from the U.S. Depart ment of Agriculture after Hurricane Isabel tore through the town and county The county owns a 4.5-acre site on West Freemason Street where the joint agency building could be placed, Knighton said. She said placing all three agencies See CENTER On Page 2-A Rededication held at D.F. Walker BY SEAN JACKSON The Chowan Herald With scores of members of the new Boys & Girls Club and club supporters seated in front of him, Robbie Laughton launched into a praise-filled history of the buildings now known as the old D.F. Walker School. “This facility has a long his tory of serving this county,” Laughton, director of the Edenton-Chowan Parks & Rec reation Department, said dur . Staff photo by Earline White . Tour co-chairs Mary Lou Baldi, left, and Kay Caveney Staff photo by Earline White New commercial signage maybe affected under new design standards being consid ered; existing signs such as these will not. New design standards are considered BY SEAN JACKSON The Chowan Herald Imagine future Edenton fast-food eater ies without giant golden arches and with Victorian brick facades. It’s what a town-appointed committee has envisioned, and the Town Council could slap its OK onto the proposal later this spring. During its April 12 meeting, coun cil received an update — via a PowerPoint presentation from Town Manger Anne Marie Knighton—of the architectural de sign standards committee’s report. The committee’s recommendations in clude new standards for future commercial developments. If approved by the town, the new standards would be included in the town’s Unified Development Ordinance. Knighton showed photos of a red-brick McDonald’s restaurant, a CVS pharmacy in Davidson, and a Lowe’s Home Improvement Store in Chapel Hill, all of which blended into nearby residential districts. See DESIGN On Page 2-A mg the rededication on April 14. Indeed, it was educational home to African-American students in the period of seg regated schools, and its walls housed children of all races when integration was intro duced. But its elementary school students and staff vacated the premises for new digs in 2002, heading north to Sandy Ridge Road for the new D.F. Walker Elementary School. Since then, it has been used by the Edenton - Chowan School system and College of The Albemarle, as well as by Laughton and his staff. But the latest arrivals are the 100-plus youths that ven ture through its doors every afternoon to take part in Boys & Girls Club activities. The club, which began operations in late January, also received kudos last week during the cer emony in the revamped gym. “You have some people here See WALKER On Page 2-A
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