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* MOTHER’S DAY
; A mother’s
love passed
down
Single working
mother finds same
values as her mom
BY EARLINE WHITE
Staff Writer
In kindergarten Jennifer
Harris made her mother,
Ruby, tissue paper flowers
for Mother’s Day.
On the way home it began
to rain. She cried as she
handed the wilted flowers to
her mother.
Years
later, after
her mother
had passed
from a tragic
car accident,
Jennifer
found the
flowers
stashed
alongside
nearly ev
erything she
had ever
given her.
“I had no
idea she kept
it — I don’t
■ even remem
ber what it
was... My
mother was
the matri
arch of our
family. She
was a rock.
She had a lot
to do with
the mother I
am today,”
Harris said.
Harris, a
single, mother of two, has
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Jennifer
Harris and
her children
Jasmyn and
Christopher
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Daniel Eaves of Perquimans County High School, winder of the new car, is congratulated by Stewart
Deacon with Edenton Motors and Perquimans County High School Principal James Bunch. Holmes student
Cherelle Brown hopes and prays for luck, before the drawing.
Student rides in style
BY EARLINE WHITE
Staff Writer
Two hundred high school stu
dents stood in the rain Friday
morning hoping that it would be a
day they’d never forget.
They were waiting to hear the
name of the junior or senior who
would receive a 2007 Chevrolet
Aveo, donated by Edenton Motors,
for getting good grades this past
year
Project KEYS, a collaboration
between Communities in Schools
and Edenton Motors, was the first
ever of its kind and was respon
sible for the largest donation made
by a business in recent years.
As groups were eliminated by
last names, school and finally by
sex, the remaining students
cheered, hugged and screamed.
When Daniel Eaves’ name was
called he seemed dumbstruck. He
walked slowly up to the front of the
line and with a Cheshire grin
slowly emerging, took the keys in
hand.
Eaves, a senior at Perquimans
County High, is planning to at
tend ECSU in the fall.
He admitted that when he woke
up that morning he hadn’t put
any thought into actually win
ning the car.
“1 have to call my mom,” he
said.
Eaves will be given the car offi
cially at the Perquimans Senior
awards day ceremony on May 16.
OLF PROPOSAL
Navy may
examine
other sites
BY SEAN JACKSON
Staff Writer.
The Navy’s top official says he
might consider alternate locations to
- the three proposed jet airfield sites
in northeast North
Carolina.
But a local offi
cial says it’s a sign
that the preferred
site in nearby
Washington
County may have
lost some of its lus
ter.
“I see this as fur
ther information
that the Navy’s
quest for Wash
ington County is
in trouble,”
Edenton Town
Manager Anne
Marie Knighton
said.
Navy Secre
tary Donald Win
ter announced recently that informa
tion about other potential sites — as
is three are in this area, including the
top choice in Washington County —
would be accepted. Navy spokesman
Ted Brown said that move could open
the door for the outlying landing field
[OLF] to be built somewhere other
than northeast North Carolina.
“The Navy will consider input
about sites that would meet our sit
ing requirement,” Brown said.
Brown cautioned that a final deci
sion is still pending.
“It’s important to consider where
we are in the process,” he said.
“There has been no decision yet.”
A final decision by Navy Secretary
Knighton
Copeland
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Local named N.C.’s
teacher of the year
James Bell, CMS English teacher
hailed as top state educator
BY SEAN JACKSON
Staff Writer
James Bell’s homeroom stu
dents at Chowan Middle
School say they aren’t sur
prised he won the state’s top
teacher award last week.
Huddled around the eighth
grade English teacher yester
day morning, the students
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were chatting with Bell about
assignments, schedules, mov
ies and, yes, even the late
Tupac Shakur.
All the while, a pair of fe
male CMS students aired the
day’s announcements from a
TV screen in the front of the
room.
“Are you guys listening to
the news? Bell asked as stu
dents grabbed their seats to
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start the morning.
“No!” the students chuckled
in unison.
Within seconds, Bell had
moved on to questioning
Arenia Roulac as to whether or
not she plans to finish the book
she was reading. Precious ac
celerated reader points are at
stake, Bell pointed out.
“I am,” Roulac said. “I want
to meet my AR goal.”
Bell was named the state’s
Teacher of the Year for 2007/
08 in Cary last Tuesday.
He had already been named
the district and region’s top
teacher.
He received cash, a high-tech
interactive Smart Board for his
classroom, and a brand-new
Pontiac G6. Bell traded in his own
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Bell talks with his homeroom class about visitors coming to the school today.
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