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Plane makes
emergency landing
Lawsuit against
Southern Bank dropped
COA to hold first
career fair April 30
Winslow
named
director
Former advisor to
lead historical
commission
By Earline White
Managing Editbr
History and its preserva
tion has always held a special
place in Becky H. Winslow’s
heart.
Having helped establish
three historic districts in
Perquimans County — Belvi
dere, Hertford and Winfall —
Winslow always had the love
of the work,
just never the
pay.
But after
coming on
board as the
new execu
tive director
of the Eden- Winslow
ton Historical
Commission, Winslow can fi
nally cash in on her passions.
“The Commission’s aim is
to make Edenton not just a
stay-over town, but a destina
tion,” Winslow said.
“We are working, closely
with the state on the Roanoke
River Lighthouse restora
tion (with Simon Rich as the
chair of the initiative) as well
as other historical preserva
tion projects to amplify what
Edenton already has to of
fer.”
“I see this venture as a
puzzle wlia each of its resi
dents holding a piece. The
Commission has presented
the final picture; now we are
looking for the pieces.
“And everyone has a piece,
including Marion Antho
ny, who cleans the Barker
House.
“We have to join together
to finish the puzzle and make
Edenton a destination on the
map.”
Winslow is aformer branch
manager with RBC in Hert
ford and former CEO of East
Carolina Bank in Hertford.
She worked in marketing
at the Albemarle Plantation
for seven years.
She and her husband John
ny live on the 100-year-old
Winslow family farm in Bel
videre.
Together they have two
sons and six grandchildren.
INDEX
A Local
Editorial ..,..........A7
Land Transfers.......A4
B Sports
Upcoming Games.B1
Nascar.B2
C Community News
Upcoming Events.C2
Society.C4
Obituaries...C6
Church.C7,8
D Classifieds
Buy/Sell/Trade.D1
Service Directory..02
Employment.....D4
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VI
Know any eligible single late, (l
asks Chowan County truck driver Wayne Goodwin, after winning a $500,000 dream home
Wayne Goodwin plans not to move into his new home in Virginia — he prefers calling Tyner home.
By Vernon Fueston
Contributing Writer
And they say no good
deed goes unpunished.
Wayne Goodwin, after
watching a telethon for St.
Jude’s Hospital, decided to
buy a $100 raffle ticket the
day after his. 62nd birthday.
“I bought the ticket on
Sunday morning at 8:30
and won the house by 9:30,”
Goodwin said.
“If I hadn’t won it, it
wouldn’t make any differ
ence. It was going to St.
Jude’s and the kids.”
The prize was a $500,000
house in East Ocean View
overlooking the Chesa
peake Bay. Arid that’s the
problem.
You might think that
Goodwin, who lives in a
2,poo square-foot brick
house on Ryland Road, is
not long for Chowan Coun
ty
“You got that wrong!”
Goodwin said. “I wouldn’t
move up there if that was
all I had to do to get it.”
Goodwin likes where
he’s living just fine, thank
you very much. He sees no
reason to move up to the
city.
He plans to sell the house
in Virginia, which is com
plete except for the land
scaping.
Goodwin is an indepen
dent trucker. He hauls sew
age from waste water treat
ment plants in Virginia.
Again, you might think
that’s one job the 62-year
old bachelor might dump,
now that he has a half
million dollars in pocket
money.
Not so, said Goodwin.
He’s going to keep on truck
ing.
Besides, it’s not really a
half million' dollars.
After taxes, Goodwin
figures he will net only
$300,000.
When asked what he
plans to do with a paltry
$300,000, Goodwin is quick
with an answer.
It’s obvious he has given
the matter some thought.
“I want to travel and
check out the wild wom
en all over these United
States,” he said.
But those taxes take a
bite — that leaves Goodwin
just $6,000 per state.
But at least he is a man
with a goal.
So, Goodwin doesn’t plan
to change much other than
the size of his wallet.
He plans to live right
where he’s been living and
keep on doing the work he’s
been doing for years.
Well, maybe everything
won’t stay the same.
“You don’t know any eli
gible single ladies, do you?”
he asked.
Plane lands m town without
aid of front landing gear
No one injured;
nose of plane
was damaged
By Rebecca Bunch
Staff Writer
A Washington, D.C.-area resident
made an emergency landing at the
Northeastern Regional Airport in
Edenton Sunday afternoon.
Phil Fox, pilot/owner of a Cessna
310, had taken off from the airport
about 4:30 p.m., according to airport
manager Harry Davis.
“Immediately after take-off from
runway 19, he heard a loud bang
when he retracted his landing gear,”
Davis said.
“He realized he had a gear problem
and reported (it) to our airport atten
dant, Earle Soper,” who was on duty
at the time.
“Fox then requested personnel on
the ground to report his gear status
when he flew by on a low pass over
the runway,” Davis added.
“The ground personnel reported
his main gear down and his nose gear
up.”
At that point, Davis said, Fox begin
conducting “in-flight aircraft emer
gency gear extension procedures” in
an attempt to correct the situation. '
Those efforts were unsuccessful.
Soper then contacted Davis to re
port the situation and alerted local
emergency personnel, asking them to
stand by at the scene..
Patty Madry
A landing such as this has not been done
at the airport in nearly a decade.
However, thanks to what both Soper
and Davis called “some very profes
sional flying,” Fox was able to set the
plane down at 5:15 p.m. with no injury
to himself or damage to the runway
The nose of the plane reportedly
sustained some damage.
“He has a lot of experience in fly
ing that airplane, and I think that re
ally helped him,” Soper said.
“His wife Mary has family at Snug
Harbor so they are flying in and out
of this airport a lot, so he’s very fa
miliar with it.”
Soper added that he has worked at
the Edenton airport for about eight
years and that this was the first land
ing of this kind he’d seen made at the
site.
Davis said that FAA representatives
are scheduled to visit the airport on
April 28 to inspect the plane, which is
currently housed in a hangar there.
He praised the “timely and profes
sional response” by Soper and the
standby emergency personnel at the
scene.
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COA to hold fair
Career Fair to be held April
30 in response to economy
By Rebecca Bunch
Staff Writer
With jobless rates high, and the econom
ic news looking bleak, some might be pes
simistic.
But Lynn Hurdle-Winslow, dean of the
COA campus in Edenton, prefers to look at
the situation as an opportunity
That opportunity, she says, is to show
that education holds the key to a better job
and a more solid future for area residents.
“We want to show people in the area
just what we have to offer,” she said. So, on
April 30, the college will hold its first-ever
Career Fair here.
“We have been part of several Job Fairs
here over the years in response to layoffs
and things like that,” Hurdle-Winslow
said.
“But this is something completely dif
ferent.”
The COA Career Fair will be held at the
former D.E Walker School from 1-4 p.m.
An Open House is also planned.
The community, from high school stu
dents to adults, is encouraged to come to
the school, walk through the classrooms
and talk with instructors about particular
programs offered here.
“We want your questions,” Hurdle-Win
slow said.
"We are always looking for better ways
to serve the communities where we are
located.”
Partnering with COA for the event will
be the Edenton-Chowan Schools, the lo
cal Employment Security Commission/
JobLink Center, the WIA Program, the
See FAIR, Page A2 >
Condos on
Chowan
River in
near future
InstaHation to
begin in May on
Rocky Hock Creek
By Connie Sage
Contributing Writer
Work will begin May 1 on
the 48-unit Cypress Landing
Marina condominium proj
ect on the Chowan River.
A dozen units already have
been pre-sold for the project,
located on a natural harbor
at the mouth of Rocky Hock
Creek, according to devel
oper Max Busby, an Edenton
attorney.
Deeded boat slips will be
included with all but eight
of the three-bedroom, two
bath units, he said.
At build-out, three build
ings will be constructed on
one acre of the 24-acre prop
erty, Busby said. Each build
ing will be three stories with
parking underneath. One
building will have 12 condos
and the other two will have
18 units in each.
The county approved the
project last June and all
the necessary permits have
been obtained, said Busby,
who has owned the property
since 1978.
The modular unit condos
will be built by Profession
al Building Systems in Mt.
Gilead, N.C., Busby said.
Twiddy Construction is the
general contractor.
Each three-bedroom, two
bath unit, delivered with all
appliances, will be set into
place by crane, Busby said.
It will take about a week to
install the units and 30-to-45
days to finish them, he said.
First-floor units come
with a 12-foot wide, 30-foot
See CONDOS, Page A2 >
Southern Bank
project clears
another hurdle
By Connie Sage
Contributing Writer
A lawsuit challenging
the proposed expansion of
Southern Bank at Broad and
Queen streets has been dis
missed.
In a document filed Tues
day in Superior Court, Mi
chael Montanaro voluntari
ly dismissed the suit he had
filed against the town Oct.
10.
In an attempt to stop the
demolition of the Furlough
building, where Snookers
restaurant was located,
Montanaro had challenged
the town’s decision to issue
permits to the bank.
With the lawsuit dropped,
Southern Bank is free to
move forward with its ex
pansion, said Town Attor
ney Hood Ellis.
Charles Britton, city ex
ecutive for Southern Bank,
said he is not certain when
work will begin, but said it
likely will be before the end
of the year.
Montanaro, a Connecti
cut dentist, owns the Taylor
See BANK, Page A2 >
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