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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Regulator Marine's
Joan Maxwell
chosen as the BPW
Woman of the Year
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"I'm not sure
the public
will respond
well to some
Johnny
come-lately."
— Eddy
Goodwin
Democrats
consider
challenge to
unopposed
Republican
By Vernon Fueston
Contributing Writer
In a surprise move that
drew fire from the Republi
can opposition, local Demo
crats announced tentative
plans to mount an opposi
tion candidate in the sec
ond district commissioners’
race.
If the Democrats enter a
new candidate after the pri
mary elections have been
completed, he would have to
run as unaffiliated, not as a
Democrat, according to Re
becca Lowe of the county’s
elections office.
To get on the baUot, Dem
ocrats must raise a petition
signed by at least 4 percent
of the district’s 4,210 voters.
The 169 signatures re
quired would have to be
gleaned from the district’s
Democratic, Republican and
unaffiliated voters.
The new Democratic can
didate would face Repub
lican Eddy Goodwin. BiU
Gardner, Jr., a Republican,
currently holds that seat.
Gardner, a Republican,
was beaten in Chowan
County’s primary elections,
May 6, by Goodwin, 323/208.
It was the first Republican
primary held in memory.
No opposition candidate
had been named by the
Democrats to run against
Gardner before the primary
elections. Now that the dem
ocrats are facing Goodwin,
a non-incumbent, they are
See ELECTION, Page A2 >►
INDEX
A Local
Editorial .. A7
Land Transfers.A4
B Sports
Recreation News....... B1
Nascar...B2
C Community News
Upcoming Events..C2
Society. C3
Obituaries...C6
Church.....C7,8
D Classifieds
Buy/Sell/Trade J..D1
Service Directory.D2
Employment...D4
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Tom Salak, veteran of the 5th and 10th
Special Forces served in Vietnam.
Story & photos by Vernon Fueston
Contributing Writer
More than 250 people attended
the American Legion Post 40’s
annual Memorial Day Service
Monday.
The sky was clear with just
enough breeze to flutter the flags
now and then as veterans, young
and not so young, gathered to
honor the nation’s veterans.
The public was invited to sign
a register with the names of de
parted veterans. Almost every
body entered a name.
Beside the veterans memorial
two vets paused to look down
at their feet where memorial
bricks listed the names of the
county’s fallen veterans.
As they read the names, they
spoke in quiet tones.
And in attendance were veter:
ans of all ages.
Some wore baseball caps with
their unit names or simply the
branch of service in which they
served.
There were caps or insignia
from the Second World War, Ko
rea, and Vietnam. Others had
fresher memories.
They laughed, they greeted
friends, and here and there, they
paused to remember those who
The Fallen Soldier memorial on display at the ceremony.
could not attend.
Commander Ken Staab
of Edenton’s American
Legion Post 40 reminded
the crowd that regardless
of how individual Ameri
cans might feel about their
country's present conflicts,
for America’s fighting men
and women, the debate is
immaterial.
They do their job for us.
There were wreaths laid
by the Veterans of For
eign Wars, The Sons of the
American Legion, Ameri
can Legion Auxiliary, and j
Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution.
Billy Nixon read a poem,
“Uncommon Soldier,” Tra
cy Smith, associate pas
tor at Rocky Hock Baptist
Church, sang the national
anthem and Lt. Col. Cindy
Davis, USAF/Ret. made a
speech.
Then taps was played by
buglers Roy Mollendopf
and Larry Privott as the
flag was raised from half
staff to full.
New park on hold
until grant approval
By Rebecca Bunch
Staff Writer
The town’s plan to purchase land for a
proposed park located off of Hwy 32 South
will have to wait for now.
Town Manager Anne-Marie Knighton
said the town has learned that its project
was not among those selected for fund
ing by the NC Parks and Recreation Trust
Fund during its first round of picks last
Friday.
However, Knighton said, the town’s ap
plication will be reconsidered during a
second round of selections scheduled to
take place in July.
The $500,000 PARTF grant was one of
two applied for by the town to help pay
the $897,000 askiftg price for 14 1/2 acres
of land owned by Edenton Realtor John
Dowd and his brother, Tim, where the park
would be located. , j ■ •
“The (PARTF) grant requires a match,”
Knighton said. “We applied for a grant to
the NC Clean Water Trust Fund for the
match and additional funds. That grant
application totaled $684,000.”
Coke Avenue bisects the two tracts of
land — one, 9 1/2 acres arid the other 5.1
acres where the park would he estab
lished.
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■ '• See PARK, Page A2 ►
Maxwell named BPW’s
woman of the year
By Rebecca Bunch
Staff Writer
Regulator Marine President and
co-owner Joan Maxwell has been
named the ‘Woman of the Year” by
the Edenton Business and Profes
sional Women’s Club.
Maxwell accepted the award from
BPW President Julia Hassell dur
ing a dinner Thursday evening.
Maxwell said the honor came as
a surprise.
Maxwell
“I was completely blown away,” she said, “and
deeply honored to have been thought worthy of this
award.”
Maxwell, a native of Fairfield, N.C., is one of four
children. She graduated from Mattamuskeet High
School and earned a degree in history from UNC
Chapel Hill.
She and her husband Owen met and married here
while they were both working for the Rich Manage
ment Co. j
In 1988, they began their own boat-building com
pany, Regulator Marine.
Ten years later, the Maxwells were named the
Edenton-Chowan Chamber of Commerce Business
persons of the Year.
That same year, Regulator Marine was named the
state’s Outstanding Small Business by the North
Carolina Business magazine.
See WOMAN, Page A2 ►
Gas, food
on the rise
Schools systems hit hardest
with increasing milk,
transporation costs statewide
. By Rebecca Bunch
Staff Writer
While motorists fret at the gas pump, those who
prepare meals for schools and senior citizens in
our community are worried too.
Karen Tynch, director of nutrition for the
Edenton-Chowan Schools, said that the cost of
food and supplies such as napkins has increased
over the last year anywhere from 5 to 35 percent
“depending on the item.”
The Edenton-Chowan school system’s Child
Nutrition Program spent $34,000 more in food and
supplies from August to December than it did dur
ing the same time period last year, Tynch said.
“When we did milk bids last summer,” she add
ed, “prices went up 35 percent. With that increase
we anticipate (we will have) spent $25,000 more .
for milk this school year than the previous year.”
As a result, the price a child pays for a meal at
school rose from $1.50 to $1.75.
Tynch said there are no plans so far to raise
prices again prior to the beginning of school
next fall, but added, “We will be watching our
expenses very closely to see if prices need to be
increased.”
Seniors holding their breath
Someone else who is watching food prices close
ly is Darlene Harrell, director of the senior nutri
tion program for the Albemarle Commission.
That program provides 450 meals every week
day to senior citizens in a six-county area that in
cludes Chowan, Camden, Currituck, Gates, Pas
quotank and Perquimans.
She said that at present the commission is near
ing the halfway mark in a two-year contract it has
with Golden Corral to prepare meals for those
counties.
Harrell said so far the restaurant chain has not
asked for an increase in the amount stipulated in
their contract for meals preparation.
“We have been very fortunate,” she said. “So
far, we have not sustained any increases with our
meals, and we have not lost any of our Meals on
Wheels volunteers due to rising fuel costs. I’m
holding my breath and hoping that continues to
be the case.”
Harrell said that voluntary donations are ac
cepted to help pay for the costs of those eating
lunch at the Chowan Senior Center and other
nutrition sites run by the commission, but that
the commission is not allowed to charge specific
amounts for meals due to the provisions of the
Older American Act passed by Congress.
So, the center must depend on state block
grants, as well as county funds and donations, to
operate its programs.
“Chowan County has been very generous” in
its support of the program, Harrell said.
On the road, or not
Motorists, on the other hand, are having to cut
costs elsewhei’e in order to pay ever higher gaso
line prices. One way they are doing that is staying
closer to home.
According to a AAA Carolinas press release,
for the second straight year no increase in holi
day travel was anticipated over the Memorial Day
weekend. AAA estimated that over 805,000 North
Carolinians — roughly the same number as last
year — were expected to travel more than 50 miles
from home during the weekend.
The press release also noted that since Easter,
the price of gasoline has jumped 51 cents a gal
lon, setting record high prices at the pump nearly
every day.
According to AAA Carolinas, since this same
time period last year the price of gasoline in
North Carolina has risen 64 cents a gallon.
Still, AAA Carolinas predicts the much-dread
ed $4 a gallon for gasoline in the state will not hap
pen.
“While upward pressures may increase gaso
line prices this summer, no one can predict the
countervailing effect of travelers motoring short
er distances and daily gasoline conservation
practices,” the release says.
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