Vol. LXXII,
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
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BY SEAN JACKSON
The Chowan Herald
Chowan County Manager
Cliff Copeland isn’t sure how
a nearby U.S. Navy jet base’s
" unstable future will affect
plans to site a training airfield
for pilots in Washington and
Beaufort counties but like ev
eryone else in the region, he’s
watching the
situation un
fold with great
interest.
“It’s a wait
and-see game
at this point,”
Copeland said
in reference to
the national
Defense Base
Realignment
and Closure
Commission’s orders that
Oceana Naval Air Station com
ply with its orders or face pos
sible closure.
The BRAC Commission has
threated to shut down Oceana,
located in Virginia Beach, Va.,
unless the state of Virginia
pnd Hampton Roads cities
eliminate homes, shopping
centers, and other develop
ment surrounding the Atlantic
Seaboard’s master jet base.
Residents around the base
have haggled with Navy offi
cials over noise from jets. Resi
dential growth has been al
lowed by the City of Virginia
Beach to encroach upon the
base. Oceana has been tapped
to received two of 10 squad
rons of Super Hornet fighter
jets that would use the pro
posed outlying landing field in
northeast North Carolina.
“It was a classic case of hav
ing your cake and wanting to
eat it, too,” Copeland said of
Virginia Beach’s apparent
moves to have both the eco
nomic benefits of a large air
base and exploding residential
and commercial growth
within the same area.
“Virginia Beach did this to
themselves,” added Copeland,
who is a member of a local
committee of government offi
cials established to formally
oppose the siting of the OLF
near Roper.
Copeland said that commit
tee has no plans to meet in the
near future, while federal and
Navy officials wrangle over
Oceana’s future. Copeland said
it could be March before the
federal government deter
mines if Virginia officials
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Football Forecast..B6
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closed Monday for Labor
Day.. Deadline for
submissions will be
Thursday at 5 p.m
Town to put the brakes on illegal left turns
Making streets
downtown safer
BY SEAN JACKSON
The Chowan Herald
Seeking to put the brakes on
motorists crossing double-yel
low lines to park in downtown
Edenton, the Town Council is
revving up plans to create an
ordinance banning such left
hand turns.
The town has received com
plaints in recent months
about near vehicle accidents
on South Broad in the busi
ness district. During its meet
APPETITE FOR LEARNING
Contributed photo by Glenda Jakubowski/Edenton-Chowan Schools
D.F. Walker Elementary School students Adrian Arellano, left, and Matthew Collins, right, en
joy the first school lunch of the year. Nearly 2,500 students and 400 Edenton-Chowan Schools
employees greeted the new school year Thursday.
New treatment is proving beneficial
Stimulating
nerves speeds
patient recovery
BY EARLINE WHITE
The Chowan Herald
“I woke up about 6 weeks
ago, went to the bathroom to
shave, looked into the mirror
and said ‘Oh my God, I must
have suffered a stroke,” Sam
Garrin said as he sat in
Chowan Hospital’s Outpatient
Rehab Wednesday morning
undergoing a procedure to
stimulate weakened facial
Roulac facing felony
charges in shooting
By SEAN JACKSON
The Chowan Herald
And Edenton man cleared of
a 2003 murder here nearly a
year ago was charged in con
nection with a shooting in Suf
folk, VA on Saturday night.
Leon Roulac III, 23, of the
100 block of Oakdale Drive,
was charged with aggravated
malicious wounding, use of a
firearm in the commission of
a felony, felony eluding police,
and reckless handling of a fire
arm. He is being held without
ing on Aug. 22, council di
rected police Chief Greg
Bonner and Town Manager
Anne-Marie Knight-on to
draft an ordinance that would
allow police to issue tickets to
drivers who cross the solid
yellow lines.
Councilman Jimmy Stal
lings applauded the efforts to
make the streets of Edenton
safer.
“Not only is this behavior
dangerous to pedestrians and
other drivers,” Stallings said
during council’s meeting last
week, “but it is also seen as
‘jumping ahead or breaking in
line’ of other drivers who cor
rectly drive to the monument
nerves.
Garrin sat against the wall
in a chair, with a cup of water
at his side. Resting on his 7th
cranial nerve near the ear (the
nerve itself branches near the
ear and spreads extensively
across the face to the eye,
cheek, upper and lower lip and
chin) and on the throat, were
sets of electrodes. Betty
Onufrak, Speech Language
Pathologist with Chowan Re
hab Services, monitored the
strength of the pulsing elec
tricity stimulating the nerves
damaged not by a stroke as
Garrin initially thought, but
by Bell’s Palsy.
bond in We
stern Tide
water Re
gional Jail.
According
to published
reports,
Roulac Roulac was
arrested af- ,
ter 20-year-old Lamont Cradle
was shot on the 200 block of
Sparrow Road in the Chuck
atuck section of Suffolk
around 9 p.m. Saturday.
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(at the end of Broad Street),
make a U-turn and find a park
ing space on their respective
side of the street.”
The police chief and town
manager are supposed to
bring a first draft of the ordi
nance to an upcoming council
meeting. Chief Bonner said
his police officers would be on
the lookout to begin issuing
warning tickets to motorists
who are making the danger
ous left-hand turns. Bonner
said that type of warning to
drivers would begin the edu
cation process for motorists
who cross solid yellow lines
See TURNS On Page A2
Bell’s Palsy, a condition that
causes facial weakness, affects
approximately 40,000 Ameri
cans every year. Like most,
Garrin had no warning of
what was to happen overnight
while he slept. In a few people
symptoms such as a dry eye or
tingling around the lips occur,
but take a few days to be rec
ognizable as Bell’s Palsy Warn
ing signs such as neck pain or
pain in or behind the ear may
also occur but are seldom rec
ognizable, especially in first
time cases.
Bell’s Palsy is best described
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Staff photo by Susan Moore, Chowan Herald Intern
Motorists making illegal left turns across double yellow lines
downtown will soon be ticketed by police.
New administrators
join school system
BY GLENDA JAKUBOWSKI
Contributing Writer
Edenton-Chowan Schools
welcomed several new admin
istrators this year to Chowan
Middle School and to John A.
Holmes High School.
New to the position, but cer
tainly not to the school is
Wendy Korbusieski, who will
serve as an assistant principal
at Chowan Middle School,
Korbusieski taught math*
and sci
Korbusieski
ence at
Chowan
for four
years
before
assum
ing her
new du
ties.
“Iam
hon
ored
and
humbled to have been chosen
to serve Chowan Middle
School as an assistant princi
pal,” Korbusieski said. “My
educational philosophy, both
personally and professionally,
is deeply rooted in learning
through experience and reach
ing the heart before even con
sidering reaching the mind. I
believe that is what Chowan
Middle School is all about.”
Kobusieski was a North
Carolina Teaching Fellow at
East Carolina University. Her
husband, Todd, is an assistant
principal at John A. Holmes
High School. They have two
children: Evan, age 8, and
Brianna, age 4.
Also joining the ranks of as
sistant principal at the middle
school is Stacy Leggett, who
taught social studies and math
at Williamston High School for
five years before joining the
Bulldog team.
“I’m excited to be a new
member of the Chowan Middle
School family,” Leggett said.
“Cho-wan has a remarkable
group of teachers, teacher* as
sistants, custodians, cafeteria
workers, clerical staff, bus
drivers, counselors, and ad
ministrators. I look forward to
working with all of them and
meeting all of our students
and their families.”
Leggett received her Master
of School Administration de
g r e e
from
East
Carolina
Univer
sity, and
her MA
in his
tory and
a BA
from
Missis
Leggett
S 1 p P 1
College. She is a pianist at Wil
liamston First Pentecostal Ho
liness Church.
“I was very fortunate to be
able to hire two very compe
tent assistant principals,” said
Chowan
Middle
School
princi
p a 1
Willie
Koonce.
“While
their re
sponsi
bilities hit ffjjfli
are dif- Lyons
ferent
(to) some degree, we all oper
ate as a team. They are great
communicators, love children
and believe that all students
can learn and be successful.”
See SCHOOL On Page A3
Shrimp
, by the
Bay
Chamber Director
Richard Bunch (stand
ing) talks with guests at
this year's Shrimp By
the Bay. Hosted by the
Edenton-Chowan
Chamjper of Commer
ce, the fundraiser was
(held on the grounds of
the Chowan Golf and
Country Club.
STAFF PHOTO BY
ASHLEY MISSERI
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