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482-4418 Wednesday, December 20, 2006 ,if - • ■■ fr.-;'.’ & write Soldiers & Santa J Local businesses spread Holiday cheer Local youths In Section C MAKING A Christmas 1C REDDER Mom with terminal cancer creates lasting memories with her children BY SEAN JACKSON Staff Writer Nichole Hartman’s eyes shine as she talks about her love for her children. They widen as she rattles off their Christmas plans. This week, the Edenton woman and her three children plan to bake cookies, share hugs and kisses, greet friends and family. There will be mounds of food and perfectly wrapped Holiday closing j The Chowan Herald will , close Monday for Christinas. »; The deadline to place ads or submit news items/photos for next week’s newspaper will be 5 pm- tomorrow. The newspaper also plans to close Jan. 1 in observance S of New Year’s Day Christmas weather The forecast for Christ mas Day calls for a high of 57 degrees, with a chance of showers. Holiday shopping season warming up in Edenton : BY REBECCA BUNCH ! Editor I Will Santa arrive wearing Jlip-flops this year? ; People shopping for Christ mas gifts in recent days cer tainly seem to think it could happen. ! On Monday, with the tem perature a toasty 71 degrees, Shoppers said they found it hard to have much Christmas Spirit while dressed in short sleeves and sandals. ' “You don’t want to wake up at Christmastime and its 80 degrees outside,” said Anne Marie Wright of Edenton. You want to be drinking hot €>2006 The Chowan Herald All Rights Reserved presents. They’ll share the joy and promise that real happi ness brings. But they’ll also deal with the likelihood that this could be their last Christmas together. Hartman, 32, is in the final* stage of a rare, deadly cancer, synovial sarcoma. She’s been told she has about two months to live. .“It’s been very emotional,” Hartman said of the recent news from Duke University Hospital doctors that her dis ease is terminal. “We cry a lot,” she said. “We laugh a lot, too,” she added. In a difficult time, Hartman has shined a bright light on the unthinkable. She’s aware of the chance her children could long out live her. First diagnosed with cancer in May 2004, she recently suf chocolate with marshmallows, not Coca-Cola with peanuts.” Nevertheless, she and her mom, Marie Doughty, were like other shoppers — mindful that younger family members would be looking for some nice presents under the tree Christ mas Day, regardless of the weather. Doughty, dressed in a short sleeved shirt and lightweight capri pants, said that even though the weather felt more like summer than winter, kids knew the difference. “We’re planning a big family celebration with lots of pre sents for the kids,” she said. See SANTA, Page A2 > INDEX A Local Land Transfers.... Upcoming Events Society................ Church..., Obituaries........... Opinion... .. A5 .. A6 .. A7 A8.9 A10 A12 Earline White/The Chowan Herald Nichole Hartman plays with her 3-year-old daughter, Kennedy Belle Francis. Nicole Hartman has videotaped messages to her children for the important occasions in their lives. fered a collapsed lung, was told cancer had invaded her liver and lymph nodes, and spent three weeks in hospitals before being sent home with a grim diagnosis. Her children are Kennedy Belle, 3, Alyssa, 14, and son Nicholas, i2. “My family is my entire life,” Hartman said. Not everyone in Hartman’s circle of friends and family has wanted to accept the truth as it may turn out to be: Her last days could come sooner rather than later. Friend Kathy Rawls, Hart man said, deals with the issue by going deep-sea fishing on her boat. Her brother, Reg Williford, is wondering whom he’ll turn to during tough times, Hartman said. “I tell my family we have to be realistic about it,” Hart man said. “We have to be real Rebecca Bunch/The Chowan Herald Marie Doughty, left, and her daughter, Anne-Marie Wright, shopped at Byrum Hardware Monday afternoon. B Sports Recreation News...... B1 NascarB2 Coming next week istic about what’s going to happen.” Then again, Hartman hasn’t given up. People beat cancer. Hartman isn’t ruling out the possiblity she might also. “They’re going to have to take me out of this world kick ing and screaming,” she said. Nicholas Hartman, a sev enth-grader at Chowan Mid dle School, sums up his mother’s disease in two words: “Cancer sucks,” he said. But precious time together is what this family is focusing on, Nicole Hartman said. Despite its ability to cut lives short, cancer hasn’t dimmed the shine of life’s true joys, she added. It makes moments more vivid, the daily grind more en durable. A child's frowns or smiles are more important. “You love a lot harder,” Hartman said. D Classifieds Employment.D4 Service Directory...... D2 Buy/Sell/Trade.D1 The Chowan Heralds Year in Review for 2006 5 . | Season of light Hartman understands what the Duke hospital oncologists have said. It’s an uphill battle. She’s scheduled for intensive radiation treatments two days after Christmas and again on Jan. 3. In the meantime, she’s abid ing by Nicholas’ letter sent to her/while she spent two weeks at Duke University Hospital in Durham. If it’s the family’s last Christmas together, Nicholas wrote, then it will be the best they’ve ever had to gether. He also vowed that his mother would always be his best friend. And that’s all any parent wants to hear, Nicole Hartman said. “As long as my kids feel that way about me,” she said, “I can leave this earth peace fully.” Hartman has good days and County-wide zoning goes smoothly so far BY EARLINE WHITE Staff Writer When county manager Cliff Copeland first pro posed zoning he was called, among other things, a com munist. People didn’t want the government telling them what they could and couldn’t do with their land. That was the early 80’s, before the airport was zoned industrial, and be fore million-dollar subdivi sions were proposed. Now, two months after county-wide zoning has been put into effect, little opposition has been raised against it. . “There were misconcep tions about zoning at first,” Copeland said. “People thought that it would be INSIDE What if this Christmas might be your last with family, friends? Opinion, A3. bad. .... “Some days,” she said, “I just want to crawl in a hole and never come out of my room.” But she forces herself to get up and be with her children, family and friends. She’s told the oncologists at Duke that she’ll do everything she can to beat her cancer. “I’m going to kick butt,” she said. Making preparations Hartman has made videos for her children, for the impor See NICHOLE, Page A2 ► like the historic district — that the color of the houses would have to be approved. “Once people understood that they too can have input and control on the many as pects of growth that will be taking place in the future then, I believe,.they breath ed a sigh of relief.” Several community fo rums were held in the vari ous townships regarding the proposed zoning. Hundreds of citizens showed up with questions, but left peacefully with the assurance that their land would not be rezoned, that zoning would in fact protect their land and that around them. Prior to the zoning, devel See ZONING, Page A2 > ST JOHN’S CHURCI 212 W. Church Sthe4 11:00 A.M Hlj? j Holy Communidh^ ' f -— -
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