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Parents contacted about large number of flu outbreaks in school
BY EARLINE WHITE
Staff Writer
Talk that a flu epidemic
was sweeping through the
local elementary schools last
week was exaggerated, but
not entirely baseless.
Nearly 80 students, or eight
percent of the elementary
school population, many suf
fering from flu-like symp
toms, did not show up for
class on Thursday.
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BY EARUNE WHITE
Staff Writer
They are wanted on a va
riety of felony charges —
anything from passing a bad
check to possession of nar
cotics.
The majority of them are
. men in their 20s and 30s who
' are from Edenton. The few
Who are not native are on the
list for crimes committed lo
cally. .
Some of them are repeat
offenders. And a few of them
have been under investiga
tion for several years.
Police chief Greg Bonner
said that there are no real
common threads linking the
persons on Edenton’s most
. waatjjd-ljgt ^ther than that
—■ they are5 at large and
wanted.
This is the first
publically-released wanted
list from the police depart-|
ment in many years.
• Typically a generic list of
those locally-wanted per
sons is posted in local law
enforcement offices.
But Bonner hopes that by
releasing the information
that residents will help lead
police to those on the list.
Jan Maurice Bonner, 26,
129 Thick Neck Road, is cur
rently Edenton’s most
wanted man.
He was indicted by a
grand jury recently on
charges of felony inciting to
riot, possession of a stolen
firearm, possession of co
caine, carrying a concealed
gun, resisting a police of
ficer and assault on a police
The numbers had been
fluctuating for a few days
prior, between 50 - 60 per day,
school representatives said.
By Monday the numbers
were back down in the 60s.
According to school nurse
Angie Layton, several of the
children were reported to
have influenza B, in addition
to a variety of other ill
nesses.
Typically student absences
range from 7.- 30.
This year’s absences re
The following persons are
ranked by police officials
according to the severity of f
their crimes, beginning
with Edenton’s second most
Wanted.
Derrick Darnell Harrell,
29, is wanted on charges of
assault with a deadly
weapon with intent to kill,
inflicting serious body in
jury and discharging a fire- •
arm into occupied property.
Shakir Laquan Archer, 16,
•1023 B Badham Road, isj
wanted on a charge of
felony inciting to riot. ■ !
? Napoleon Moore, 31,12121
N. Oakum St., ie-wanted on
a charge of felony inciting''
to riot. ■ , .. a
Randy Stephen Lanier, 50,
1491 US. 70 Hwy, Carner, is
wanted for an o in rain mg
t property by false pretenses!!
charge. -
' David Bryan Worrell, 27,
408 A St„ Goldsboro, is
wanted for a larceny of a I
motor vehicle charge.
Thomas Ray Twine, 24,
103 E. Carteret St., was
wanted on charges of com-1
mon law robbery. He was ap
prehended Monday and f
made his first appearance in
court yesterday |
Thelma Leary, 24, is
wanted on a charge of ob- |
tpining property by false |
pretenses.
Travis Lee Simpson, 26,1
202 Drummond’s Point f
Road, is wanted on a charge I
of forgery and uttering.
Cassandra Banks, not pic
tured, 24,202 Edenton Road
St., is wanted on charges of
forgery and uttering (pass
ing a bad check).
main quite low compared to
five years ago when there
were a large amount of flu
and bronchitis cases in the
elementary schools, Layton
noted.
Pasquotank and Perquimans
counties also saw a large
number of students, mainly
in the lower grades, calling
in sick last week, due to flu
like symptoms, officials with
the local health system said.
But officials denied any sort
of “outbreak” in the area.
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Alvarez
cooking up
a storm at
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Edenton springs into color
Staff photo
As signs of warmer weather emerge along with the crocuses in the Cu
pola House gardens, residents gear up for a Spring calendar full of events,
including the biennial Pilgrimage set for mid-April.
“The bad thing about this
is that a lot of kids don’t get
the flu shot,” Layton said.
“Vaccinations are recom
mended for asthmatics, dia
betics, and seniors, not for
healthy kids. And because
the flu is a respiratory virus
spread through the air, it
spreads quickly.”
For those students left in
Chowan elementary
schools, many of them en
joyed videos featuring “Dr.
Coughs A Lot” and his
Byrum Hardware
honored for role in
downtown
revitalization
Inside, A6
quick-witted messages of
health safety — coughing
into the elbow and washing
one’s hands often.
The teachers also took
precautions to ensure the
health of their students by
disinfecting the classrooms.
Letters were also sent
home to parents.
The rise in local absences
happened one day after an
outbreak in Hyde County
that closed three of the
county’s schools after 20 per
Local Vietnam
veterans share
their stories for
Holmes' play
Community, C1
cent of their students fell
ill.
National reports said last
year, 47 children under age
18 died from influenza
around the country. In 2003
2004, the worst recent flu
season, 153 children died.
According to the Center
for Disease Control ap
proximately 36,000 people
die from the flu each year.
But so far federal health
officials have considered
this year a mild one.
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