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Edenton
fails to
get ferry
State nixes plan to
use ferry to expand
tourism efforts
By Rebecca Bunch
Staff Writer
A pontoon boat that could
have been used to enhance
local tourism efforts along
the waterfront won’t be
coming to Edenton anytime
soon.
Instead, it’s
being sold
to the high
est bidder on
eBay
Town Man
ager Anne
Marie Knigh
ton expressed
Knighton
disappointment Monday
that her efforts to have the
state Ferry Division donate
the 50-foot, 49-passenger ves
sel, The Corolla, to the Town
of Edenton did not meet
with success.
In a Sept. 14 letter to N.C.
Ferry Division Director
Jack Cahoon, Knighton
wrote about the town’s ongo
ing efforts to promote tour
ism and the recent addition
of the 1886 Roanoke River
Lighthouse to the water
front.
“Over the years, we have
been searching for ways to
acquire a boat such as the
pontoon boat you have, that
will enable us to interpret
Edenton’s rich history to
not only our visitors but our
residents as well,” she said.
“The Town of Edenton
does not have the funds to
purchase a boat. We have
not been successful in find
ing grant funds,” she added.
“We would be most grateful
if NCDOT would consider
giving the vessel to us.”
Knighton added that boat
could benefit efforts “to
achieve our vision for a wa
der-based Maritime History
tourism initiative.”
Knighton said she learned
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A Local
Opinion......A7
Land Transfers*.......... A5
B Sports
Recreation News.B1
Nascar...B2
C Community News
Upcoming Events.C2
Society.C4
Obituaries......C6
Church.........C7,8
D Classifieds
Buy/Sell/Trade.D1
Service Directory.D2
Employment......D4
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Help Us Celebrate!
Help Support Our County 4-H Program!
Learn how by calling
482-6585
EDENTON PEANUT FESTIVAL
Putting on
a show!
Above, area members
of the Red Hat Society
wave to the crowds
during the 32nd annual
Peanut Festival Parade.
Right, members of the
John A. Holmes High
School drumline keep
tempo as the band
heads downtown.
Hundreds of people
lined Virginia Road and
Broad Street Saturday
for the parade.
Sean Jackson photos
The Chowan Herald
INSIDE
See results from
the Battle of the
Bands contest.
PAGE A2
Chowan 4-H holds first-ever reunion
By Earline White
Managing Editor
Holly White has been
showing livestock for years
at the local county fair.
She stood with reins in
hand during the livestock
show and sale this fall, anx
iously waiting the judge to
look over her lamb.
This time of year, county
fairs across the nation are
a playing field for 4-Hers to
compete on.
At the 60th annual Chow
an County Regional Fair, 4-H
members entered categories
ranging from crafts to chick
ens and demonstrated skills
from baking to sewing.
This year .Razi and Riaz
Lane entered their two 60
plus pound watermelons.
Both took home ribbons,
and not the couple’s first.
“What we hope to do is
help the youth realize their
potential,” Ginger Morelock,
4-H director said. “These
young people are making a
difference in their commu
nity.”
Of the nine million 4-H
members. across America,
as few as 10 percent live on
farms..
But that doesn’t stop the
youth from learning about
life on the family farm.
Over the past 90 years,
since the creation of 4-H in
Chowan County, thousands
of young people have stepped
up and answered the call for
their community.
They’ve raised goats and
picked up trash at the el
ementary school.
And for the first time since
the local 4-H’s creation,
members came together for
a 4-H reunion Sunday.
Held at the cooperative
extension building, 20 mem
bers, former and current
leaders and proud parents
showed up to share stories
about 4-H.
Morelock is hoping to
gather the stories in time
for the national 4-H centen
nial next year.
Harry Lee Winslow joined
the 4-H during the mid-’40s.
He remembers showing
Body found
near golf
course
Officials say
corpse believed
to be Smithwick
By Jay Jenkins
Bertie Ledger-Advance
Police believe that a body found yester-‘
day morning in Chowan County is that of
Donald Bradley Smithwick, an Ahoskie
man missing since last
Thursday
Few details were
available Tuesday af
ternoon, but sources
said Smithwick’s body
was found in a remote
area off Country Club
Drive by an N.C, Wild
life officer.
Smithwickwentmiss
ing Thursday morning
after an alleged abduc
tion from his home in
Smithwick
Ahoskie and an all-out search has been on
going since.
Additional charges are expected to be
brought against two suspects already in
custody in Hertford County.
♦ ♦ ♦
One of those suspects is an Edenton
woman, Janet Denise Harrell, 33, of 235
Tynch Town Road, who was arrested Fri
day night in connection with the alleged
abduction of Smithwick and charged with
accessory after the fact of first-degree kid
napping.
She is the second person arrested and
charged in the alleged kidnapping and
alleged murder of Smithwick, who is be
lieved to have been abducted from his
home on Colony Avenue in. Ahoskie last
Thursday morning.
The first suspect arrested and charged
was Raymond Christian Jedele, a 38-year
old Kitty Hawk police officer, who is be
lieved to be Harrell’s boyfriend.
Law officials say a frantic 911 call was
placed just before 6 a.m. Oct. 4 from Smith
wick’s home.
A large amount of blood was found in
Smithwick’s driveway and in his pickup
truck, which was found abandoned several
blocks away from his house.
Police say a lone suspect, believed to be
Jedele, subdued Smithwick with a taser
gun and then bound and kidnapped him —
possibly using the victim’s truck to drive
to another vehicle.
Jedele was involved in a minor traffic ac
cident on the Chowan River Bridge shortly
after 7 a.m. Thursday, but because there
was no probable cause the trunk and inte
See BODY, Page A2 »
steer in Elizabeth City.
“We’d spend the night at
the warehouse with the ani
mals. It was nothing for the
steer to get loose during the
night,” Winslow laughed.
It is one of Winslow’s
fondest memories of 4-H, he
said.
Years later, Winslow
worked as a 4-H leader and
even encouraged his own
children to become mem
bers.
Chris Ward, the mother
of two 4-H members, echoes
a similar 4-H family senti
ment — “I want my children
to be involved in good things,
rather than bad.”
Ward’s daughter, Heather
Miller, is hoping to learn
more about Palomino quar
terhorses and maybe gain a
4-H scholarship.
She spent much of Sunday
talking with Winslow about
beef cattle — her next 4-H
project.
“I like talking with new
members,” Winslow said.
“As soon as you find out
you’re both with 4-H you
have a common, thread and
can talk forever.”
Being a 4-Her is like hav
ing a second family. There’s
always someone to help,
someone to offer and some
one to share stories with.
To share your 4-H story,
call Ginger Morelock at 482
6585.