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Young heart
patient
helps those
like her
Lindsey Bunch has
heart surgery, raises
money for research, too
BY EARLINE WHITE
Staff Writer
When she was two years old Lindsey Bunch
told her mom that her heart was “beeping”
too fast.
Six years later the “beeping” reached over
200 beats per minute.
This past September, at the age of eight,
Bunch became a survivor of Wolff-Parkinson
White syndrome, a
rare form of supraven
tricular tachycardia,
which affects between
0.1 and three percent of
the population.
Nearly 80 percent of
people with symptoms
have them first be
tween the ages of 11
and 50.
In February, only five months after her
heart surgery to correct the problem, Bunch
was among the top fundraisers for the Ameri
can Heart Association through Jump Rope for
Heart. ,
A condition cited in the news for causing
the sudden death »f athletes on the court or
on the field, supraventricular tachycardia or
SVT is a condition in which the electrodes of
the heart misfire and cause the heart to beat
too fast.
It caused
Bunch, an active
young girl on the
soccer and bas
ketball recre
ation leagues, to
become fatigued
even while sit
ting still.
For many the
condition is controlled by medication, and for
Bunch medication worked for a while.
But one night at home nothing seemed to
work.
Bunch’s parents remained calm as they
called the doctor and, as he instructioned,
dunked Bunch’s head in the sink filled with
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Bunch joins her class
mates in Jump Rope for
Heart fund-raiser.
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Francisco Valle, above and
right, of Capital Restoration
& Waterproofing, works to
repair leaks to the facade of
a downtown building
applying new mortar be
tween the
bricks. Valle
and co
workers with
the Edenton
based busi
ness hope to
finish their
work on the
building —
home to
Sound Feet
Shoes and
Broad Street.
Software
Group — by the end of this
week or early next week.
Sean Jackson/The Chowan Herald
OLF PROPOSAL
Officials say
airfield won’t
fly near here
Perquimans County still on i
Navy’s list, but not likely to
become airfield, some say
BY SEAN JACKSON
Staff Writer
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Local officials think Perquimans County will win its battle
to keep a Navy airfield from landing there in the wake of a
meeting in Hertford last week than drew nearly800opponents
of the plan.
While the Navy has tapped Washington County as its pre
ferred site for an outlying landing (OLF) field for its new Su
per Hornet fighter jets, Perquimans was recently put back
on the list of possibilities.
Last week’s meeting in Hertford was between Navy offi
cials and local residents, with both sides stating their cases
for or against the proposed OLE
“I personally think the Navy is head
ing straight for Washington County,”
Chowan County Manager Cliff Copeland
said.
Copeland, who attended the meeting
at Perquimans County High School, said
the Navy appears to have changed its
mind little since a similar group of plans
was released several years ago., Copeland
Richard Bunch, Edenton-Chowan Chamber of Commerce
executive director, agreed with Copeland that the Navy hasn’t
wavered from its initial plans to build the OLF near Roper in
Washington County
“I think the Navy determined the site for this OLF years
ago,”hesaid.
Edenton Town Manager Anne-Marie Knighton is taking a
similar position.
“I do get the sense that the Perquimans
site is attractive to the Navy” she said,
“as a back-up to Washington County:”
Opponents of the Washington County
site say the airfield would harm nearby
Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge.
The refuge is home to thousands of wa
terfowl each winter
Bunch also attended the March 21 meet
ing in Hertford, as well as a similar public hearing in Windsor
the night before.
He thinks the Navy’s case is no stronger now than it was
several years ago.
“There is no way you can build a major airport there,”
See OLF, Page A2 >
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Chowan among northeast counties enjoying steady growth
Census data show
county population
still on the rise
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BY REBECCA BUNCH
Editor
Chowan County added 545
new residents between 2000
and 2006.
That increase, reflected in a
recent U.S. Census release,
boosted the county’s overall
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population to 14,695, for a 3.9
percent increase.
With several planned resi
dential developments in the
works, Edenton Town Man
ager Anne-Marie Knighton
and County Manager Cliff
Copeland predicted those
numbers will only continue to
climb.
“The U.S. Census report con
firms what our studies have
been projecting, a steady in
crease in population in Eden
ton and Chowan County,” she
said.
“Obviously, this 3.9 percent
increase is very good news for
us,” Copeland said. He added
that he believes the actual
number of new residents is
probably higher than what cen
sus figures reflect.
Knighton and Copeland both
said that local officials con
tinue to plan carefully in order
to make the- transition a
smooth one.
“Every day we are all work
ing hard to make sure that as
we grow, we will provide the
citizens of our community
with high quality services,”
she said.
“I often wondered about the
fact that Edenton’s population
has basically stayed the same
for generations. That is going
to change over the next 10
years,” Knighton observed.
Copeland added that the in
frastructure here, including
Chowan Hospital and the wide
range of services it offers, will
surely complement opportuni
ties for continued growth.
The news was also good for
Camden, Perquimans and
Pasquotank counties, which
all demonstrated steady
growth.
Camden’s population rose to
an estimated 9,271, increasing
by 2,386 people, making it the
second fastest growing county
in the state since the 2000 cen
sus.
In Pasquotank, the popula
See GROWTH, Page A2 >
Growth by the j
Numbers
Population increases in
local counties
between 2000-2006
Camden 2,386
Chowan 545
Pasquotank 4,694
Perquimans 969
INDEX
A Local
Land Transfers.A5
Opinion.. A7
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B Sports/School
Recreation News...... B1
NASCAR.............. B2
School....B3,4
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C Community News
Upcoming Events.C2
Obituaries...C6
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Church
C7.8
D Classifieds
Buy/Sell/Trade.D1
Service Directory.D2
Employment.D3
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