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482-4418 Wednesday, May 30, 2007 50c Teen Mania encourages youth to spread the Word INSPIRATION C8 Lighthouse moved to waterfront park SEE BELOW James Bazemore can help you find anything at Byrum's INSIDE, A3 Batter Up! Steamers' season opens tonight SPORTS, B1 Sean Jackson/The Chowan Herald Patty Madry and Mary Bass prepare for up coming hurricane season with the county's new animal carriers. Shelter from the storm — now for pets too Chowan is one of five counties in state to receive trailer, supplies for pets during disasters BY SEAN JACKSON ’ . Staff Writer Mary Bass still recalls how hectic it was hous ing pets in a makeshift shelter at a former elemen tary school as Hurricane Isabel ripped through Edenton nearly four years ago. Bass, director of the Tri-County Animal Shel ter that serves Chowan County, knows it will be easier next time around. Chowan is one of five counties in the state to receive a mobile trailer fully stocked with kennels and supplies for pets to be used during a hurricane or other natural di saster. Providing shelter will be more relaxing for staff, pets, and owners, Bass says “It’s got everything,” she said. Chowan Emergency Management Director Patty Madry agreed. “It’s just amazing that we got this,” Madry said. In addition to the 200 portable kennels and copi ous supplies, the brand-new trailer also comes with a 550-watt generator. The Companion Animal Mobile Equipment Trailer [CAMET] also allows emergency officials to snooze on plywood bunk beds fastened to the front wall of the trailer. Pet owners will be required to stay with their - See PETS, Page A2 > ,mm INDEX A Local Opinion .A6,7 Land Transfers.A5 m - m B Sports Post 40 News.B4 : Nascar...................... B2 ■School ■••■•■•■•■•■•■•in* B5,6 ;1 m ! Community News Upcoming^vents S....C2 Society..C4 Obituaries..C6 Church...... C7,8 D Classifieds Buy/Sell/Trade.Dt,5 * Service Directory.. D2 Jfc. Employment............ D3 ©2006 The Chowan Herald All Rights Reserved TO HONOR REMEM Veteran’s walkway grows as families memorialize and pay tribute to local heroes ...V . BY EARLINE WHITE Staff Writer W.C. Bass may not have witnessed hand-to-hand combat during his time in the Southwest Pacific, but he knew a lot of the men who did. At 24, Bass was drafted into the Army along with several other Rocky Hock boys. Bass was sent to New Jersey, Texas, Florida, California, New Mexico, and Utah before landing in the Pacific. He was lucky he said, to be where he was, a mile away from the airfield. “We spent a lot of time in the foxholes but weren’t in any real danger It didn’t seem as real to me then as it does now,” Bass said. At 89, Bass may be the oldest surviving vet eran in Chowan County He is the oldest veteran at his church anyway With his hands at his sides, he reads over the hundreds of names at the Chowan County Vet erans Memorial. “Some of the guys had it real tough — some - became POWs. I read somewhere that 1,000 WWfi veterans die each day 1 feel really blessed to have gotten to old age and still have good health. A lot of them didn’t.” ❖ ❖ ❖ From a grassy hill surrounded by flags and colors of the U.S. armed forces, bricks honoring war veterans like WC. Bass were placed in the memorial walkway overlooking Broad Street last week. Bass is among the few who has been honored rather than memorialized at the walk. Four generations of Bass’ offspring watched as Dale Wright with the American Legion Post 40 sifted sand into the cracks around the brick that will forever hold him—WC. Bass Sgt. 5th Air Force, SW Pacific. Bass’ children sat on benches around him, his grandchildren squatted in the grass near him, his great-great grandchildren were held in their parents’ arms. ' ■">/■■*-.■*>■ +'>.+>■* w&siK*:-*!$■#$*.* -f-*■ ^ ■ *?tjfi#9ib *'•'■ .".!-;;:'V y-r 4 ■ ';cSs^#«?’' H t£| ?*■ J7^./»'Si> .’m: -■' '.v ’- ■’ ■'': , , , !**,«» ^«*V . J»* - F H f &**$& * <•.-- ***** F* '»v %i> : •.*rjr/+a*.m-. I"•’ *-*.i*-r4- # »^*-.tn-r * j ^i^ >> t.JLf* dA-fijtv ** .v i *• f. i| Earline White/The Chowan Herald Fran Phillips brushes sand from bricks dedicated to her sons, Darren and Steven Allred, . at the Chowan County Veterans Memorial. ELSEWHERE A new monument proposed to honor county war heroes. Memorial Day brings out the crowds. Page C1. ♦ ♦ ♦ Fran Phillips is proud of her two sons, Darren and Steven Allred, who chose a career of protect ing others. Darren served as a Marine and Steven in the Coast Guard. Darren now lives in Gibsonville, N.C. Steven passed away three years ago. On a sunny afternoon at the Chowan County Veterans Memorial walkway, Phillips kneels down to wipe away sand that covers their names etched in the brick. She looks sad as she does this but smiles for the camera because she is full of pride when it comes to her children and their heroic paths. That is why she chose to purchase bricks in their honor, memory. Hazel Morgan misses her husband, Army WWII veteran and Purple Heart recipient J. Ri chard Morgan, but not the nightmares he had that would wake them both. He lost his best buddy in the war, she says, as she looks down from her wheelchair onto a brick honoring his memory. He didn’t talk about the war a lot, but when he did, when he read the names of the boys who died, it would nearly make him cry. “I thought that war was bad enough,” she says, “But this one seems like it will never end." Bricks may be purchased for any area vet eran, living or dead, by contacting the Ameri can Legion at 482-4057. Roanoke River Lighthouse destined for restoration Project timeline may be similar to Court house restoration BY SEAN JACKSON Staff Writer It only took a day to relocate the Roanoke River Lighthouse, but refurbishing the 121-year old structure may take a little longer. The lighthouse, built in 1886, was moved last week from its perch on Filbert’s Creek to a new space in Colonial Park. Waff Contracting Inc. and Worth H. Hare & Son House Moving undertook that task. The state will be in charge of the upcoming restoration, said Linda Eure, site manager for the Historic Edenton Visitor Center. “It will be similar to what 4 happened with the court house," Eure said, adding that the Edenton Historic Commis sion will transfer ownership of the lighthouse to the state. It took seven years for the state to complete die renovation of the 1767 Chowan County Courthouse on East King Street. That job was completed three years ago. Eure and others hope the lighthouse repairs will move along faster than did the work on the courthouse. The light house was damaged by Hurri cane Isabel nearly four years ago, after years of neglect. During the move across Edenton Bay, the lens of the lighthouse — one of the few screwpile lighthouses left in the U.S. — was removed. Such lenses are expensive, Eure said. “It’s in pretty good shape, from what I understand,” Eure said of the lens. Standing on the pier of Colo nial Park, Eure joined scores of onlookers as a trio of tugboats pushed the barge-bound light house toward its new home. Paul Waff guided the barge be tween the pier and a Concrete breakwater. “Give me a little nudge,” Waff told a worker piloting an out board-motor boat as the barge squeezed through the pier and breakwater. Back on dry land hours later, an afternoon crowd applauded the move. Eure feels the lighthouse will be a valuable addition to the town’s historic walking tour. Lighthouses can be a popular tourist destination, she said. “That’ll bring a lot of folks in,” she said. It likely will, judging by the throngs of people drawn to the move of the weathered beacon last week. Sean JacksonlThe Chowan Herald Waff Contracting hauled the 1886 Roanoke River Light house to its current location at the Edenton waterfront.
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