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Cape Colony
undergoes
water main
construction
Some Cape Colony resi
dents wiU be without water
for four hours tomorrow.
The water wUl be off from
9 a.m. to 1p.m. so workers
can repair a leaking water
main on the clubhouse side
or south side of Cape Colo
ny.
The water main on Black
beard Drive has to be short
ened so that it wiU not inter
fere with new driveways in
the area.
“This is a common thing,”
said Lesa Nolen with the wa
ter department. “The pipes
in Cape Colony are old.”
Tax-free
v shopping
! this weekend
North Carolina will cel
ebrate its sixth Sales Tax
Holiday beginning Friday,
running through Sunday,.
During this three-day
exemption, created to help
consumers with back-to
school shopping, items
free from sales tax include
clothing, shoes and school
supplies, costing $100 or
less per item, and comput
ers of $3,500 or r less per
item.
Locally, Peebles, Cato’s,
Farmer’s Foods, Dollar
General, Super 10, Shoe
Show, CottonKiss, Sound
Feet Shoes, CVS and Rose’s
will be among those taking
part in the tax-free week
end.
Accessories such as jew
elry, cosmetics, protective
equipment, and wallets,
as well as furniture, items
used in a trade or business,
•tend rentals are not covered
by the exemption.
INDEX
A Local/Community
Land Transfers.. A4
Opinion...A5
Upcoming Events..A8
Society...A9
Obituaries.........A10
Church.....A14,15
B Sports
Steamers News............. B1
Nascar..B2
C Edenton Today Section
Crime...C3
0LF...C4
Services, businesses. C5.10
Real estate.C7
Man on the Street.C8,9
Movers and Shakers .. C14
iv D Classified/Legal Section
Classifieds...1)1
Service Directory..........*. D2
Legals.....D3
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All Rights Reserved
Chowan County residents recycle too little trash
The cost: $1,200,000 annually
The answer: Recycling initiative set to begin
TOP
RECYCLABLE
ITEMS:
By Sean Jackson
Staff Writer
Here’s a quick quiz: What can
you put in your blue recycling‘
bin in Edenton and Chowan
County?
The answer, says Chowan
County Manager Cliff Cope
land, is just about anything
you want.
“We take about anything ex
cept food,” Copeland said.
And there’s no need to sort it.
Paper, plastic, cans, you name
it, Copeland said, all goes in
any way you want it.
And local officials want you
to take the program seriously.
Copeland plans to launch a
re-education program in up
coming months about recy
cling.
Residents are simply throw
ing away too much stuff that
can be reused, he said.
And it’s costing the county
— and taxpayers — to the tune
of $1.2 million annually.
Council mulls plan to snuff smoking in town parks, playgrounds, ballfields
Signs would discourage smoking, create
healthier environment, official says
By Sean Jackson
Staff Writer
A local health official
wants to put an end to smok
ing in local parks and play
grounds.
Jean Bunch, smoking
cessation coordinator with
Chowan Hospital, knows a
smoking ban in public parks
isn’t possible without action
by state lawmakers.
But she has asked the
That’s the figure Copeland
put in his current budget to
pay for waste disposal.
“The town and county
are about to get serious
about recycling. ”
- Cliff Copeland,
County Manager
For every ton of recyclables,
the county nets $60. The recy
clables collected by the town
and county are taken to a recy
cling plant in Chesapeake, Va.
TFC Recycling sorts through
items, plucking virtually ev
erything out to be recycled.
Copeland said he consis
tently sees town trash cans,
those pushed to the curb by
residents, filled with items that
could be recycled.
“It’s got to stop,” he said.
Edenton Town Council to
post signs that discourage
smoking in parks, on play
grounds and sports fields.
"Playgrounds and parks,
and recreational facilities
and playing fields, should
be safe havens for our kids,”
Bunch told councilors re
cently.
Mayor Roland Vaughan
said the town could un
dertake such a project, but
should be careful how it
“The town and county are
about to get serious about re
cycling.”
The county plans to buy ads
in local newspapers and dis
tribute refrigerator magnets
to residents in an effort to spell
out what can — and should be
— recycled.
Then there’s the plan to pur
chase 30-gallon trash cans for
each town and county house
hold.
They would replace the cur
rent, smaller blue containers
town residents use for recy
cling.
The county curi'ently does
not provide recycling contain
ers.
Copeland estimates the proj
ect could, at the very least,
reduce the amount of trash
trucked ’to Bertie by 25 per
cent.
At a cost of a few thousand
dollars, he said, the money for
the new containers would be
well spent.
Anti-smok
ing advo
cate Jean
Bunch says
proposal
is a “no
brainer."
places the signs.
“You don’t want to be too
intrusive with the signs,” he
said.
The council will review
Bunch’s request at its Aug.
14 meeting.
Tyrrell, Washington and
Perquimans counties have
already adopted similar pol
icies, Bunch said.
Bunch said the signs
would help send a message
to youth that smoking is an
unhealthy habit.
She also hopes the signs
would keep smokers from
tossing butts onto the
ground in parks and on play
ing fields.
Bunch recently led a small
group of high school stu
dents who scoured the Lat
Purser soccer complex for
discarded butts.
It didn’t take long to pick
up hundreds of butts, Bunch
said.
“This is just one of the
ELECTION 2007
Waff says
Biggs has
‘conflict
of-interest’
By Sean Jackson
Staff Writer
Roughly three weeks after launching her
campaign against Councilman Steve Biggs,
challenger Terry Waff is questioning if Biggs
has a “conflict-of-interest.”
Waff said she wonders if Biggs has a con
flict in recruiting industries for Bertie County
— where he is employed as the county’s eco
nomic developer — while
helping oversee industry
growth for Edenton.
“Because of that,” Waff
said, “I feel I would do a
better job.”
Biggs, who is seeking
a fourth four-year term
in office, said he does not
have any conflict-of-inter
est issues in striving to
bring jobs to both Eden- Waff
ton and Bertie County
“What is good for
Edenton, what is good
for Chowan County, is
good for the surrounding
counties,” he said.
The issues
Both candidates for
town council’s up-for
grabs at-large seat feel
that economic growth is
a key issue for Edenton*
Both Biggs and Waff feel there’s work to be
done to create more and better-paying jobs in
Edenton.
And that’s where their top priorities end.
Both candidates spoke with The Chowan Her
ald this week about what they feel are the key
issues.
“We certainly have a lot of good people
working to try to create jobs here,” Biggs said.
“I’ve worked extremely hard for Edenton for
economic development.”
Biggs, said he has traveled — as a town of
ficial — from Canada to Florida to help lure
industry to Edenton.
Waff, a realtor, said it’s simply her time in
life to have a chance at that role.
“We need more jobs for working people,”
Waff said.
Specifically, Waff wants to work to help
bring in jobs for the younger workforce.
Young workers often leave the area to find
See ELECTION, Page A2 >
Biggs
problems,” she said, noting
that cigarette butts are not
biodegradable.
Kids often take up smok
ing because it’s seen as a
"social norm,” Bunch said.
Making public places
smoke-free would help curb
that trend, she added.
"That’s pretty much a no
brainer,” Bunch said.
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INSIDE
Bunch garners
state award for
anti-smoking ef
forts.
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