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More
residents
recycle
Once-per-week7
pilot trash pickup
program becomes
a plus for Town
By Rebecca Bunch
Staff Writer
The town’s experiment
with cutting trash pick-up
to once per week is already
showing benefits, said
Town Manager Anne-Marie
Knighton.
She said that since trash
collection service has been
reduced, the town’s recy
cling program has really
picked up steam.
. “We collected a record
amount of recyclables the
first ‘ week
of our pi
lot residen
tial trash
collection
program,”
Knighton
said.
Knighton
said that the
town had gone into the pilot
program with the hope that
citizens would turn to more
recycling of items, once
their trash was only being
collected once per week.
Their participation also
represents a cost savings for
the town.
“The more people recycle,
the less trash we have to pay
to have hauled to the Bertie
landfill,!’ she said.
Unhappy people
Not everyone is so happy
with it, however.
At least one local resident,
Peggy Brabble, said she
would like to know if any
of those cost savings would
eventually be passed along
to Edentonians.
Brabble said despite
Knighton’s assertion that
many people are happy with
the new arrangement, that’s
not what she’s hearing from
friends and neighbors.
“They are angry,” Brabble
said. “I’ve tried to encour
age them to go to the council
meetings and let our elected
officials know how they feel,
but so far they haven’t.”
So, Brabble said, she is
considering mounting a pe
tition drive opposing the re
cently begun pilot program
that is scheduled to last for
six months.
Another view
Nancy Reilly, on the other
hand, said that while she
understands people are
frustrated by change, she
wishes they would give the
program a fair chance for
success.
She said she and her hus
band Mark support the pilot
single-day trash collection
program because they are
passionate about recycling.
The limited pick-up sched
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Pembroke Hall on the auction block
By Rebecca Bunch
Staff Writer
Pembroke Hall, one of
Edenton’s oldest homes, is
now on the auction block.
According to published
reports, the home is now be
ing featured online on the
Accelerated Real Estate So
lutions Web site. The asking
price is $1.4 million.
The owners, Jerry and
Sharon Smith of Sea Island,
Ga., were originally asking
$2.9 million for the prop
erty
Looking to the future
Bass Britton
Carole Bass
■ “I’m hoping thaf the
economy will be better,
that there will be more
jobs available here in the
year ahead and that better
economic times are ahead
for the whole country.”
■ “I would have to
say the economy, because
things are slow for the lo
cal businesses in our com
munity right1 now. Busi
ness was not good during
Christmas. Hopefully, it
will be much better in the
coming year.”
Charlotte Britton
■ “That the economy
improves, because that
would help everybody so
much. I think it’s at the
bottom, or close to it right
now. I don’t think it can go
much lower.”
■ “Probably the big
gest challenge I’m dealing
with personally right now
is trying to get my son mo
tivated to focus on his se
nior project at his school.
His deadline for deciding
what he wants to do it on
is today (Monday) actually,
so I’m hoping he’s figured
that part out.”
Couple hopes to raise $15,000 for inclusion on transplant list
By Rebecca Bunch
Staff Writer
Dave Cabana is a man liv
ing on borrowed time.
But the Edenton man and
his wife, Pam, are hoping
that the kindness of strang
ers may help save his life.
Pam Cabana spends her
days trying to figure out
ways to collect the $15,000
the couple will need to give
Duke University Medi
cal Center before her hus
• band’s name can be put on
a heart transplant list.
Then the wait for a donor
can begin.
In the meantime, he and
Pam, who both receive dis
ability checks, volunteer at
the Edenton-Chowan Food
Pantry when they are able
because they want to give
back to the<Goqimunjty
Without warning
Dave, now 48, consid
ered himself healthy until
Bids are to be received
through the online auction
until 6 p.m. next Friday
A woman who answered
the phone at the Smith
home declined to comment
on the sale.
Situated on two acres, the
Greek Revival mansion con
tains fivse bedrooms as well
as three full and two half
baths.
Other features include
formal dining and living
rooms, a wine cellar and
numerous Italian marble
fireplaces.
Jones ' Lolkema
Tom Jones
■ “That 2009 will be
a heckuva lot better year
than last year, and that we
see the economy start to
turn around. I’d sure like
to see more businesses
coming into the area.”
■ “I would have to say
job security, the economy,
finances. I moved away
from here once because
there was no work, and
stayed away for about 12
years. Then I came back,
because I have family
here, I’ve got a grandson.
Now the job situation is
looking bad again, but
what can you do?”
Lee Lolkema
■ "I hope we get out
of Iraq, and I hope to see
more peace in the world. I
also hope Barack Obama’s
presidency will be a suc
cessful one.”
■ “My toughest chal
lenge, I think, will be
finding enough time to
get more involved in the
community. I stay busy,
but there are causes I care
about that I’d like to play
a more active part in sup
porting.”
Volunteer Dave Cabana, pic
tured here with wife Pam, was
surprised when he learned he
had heart disease.
four years ago when he be
gan experiencing what he
thought was chronic heart
burn.
When his symptoms
didn’t go away, Cabana de
cided he’d better visit his
doctor.
The results were a shock
— Cabana learned that he
did not have heartburn,
but had instead suffered a
major heart attack that had
Jerry Smith announced
plans to sell the home dur
ing an Aug. 18 Board of Ad
justments meeting where
Smith appealed a decision
by the local Preservation
Commission denying him
a certificate of appropriate
ness.
Smith had requested the
certificate so that he could
begin construction of two
houses on the grounds of
Pembroke Hall, which have
been subdivided.
The board denied his re
quest, saying that it found
Marquitz Owens
Bill Marquitz
■ “My hope for the new
year is that the stock mar
ket gets back up there so
seniors won’t have to be so
stressed about retirement.
Back in January, I put all
my investments into CD’s
so my money is safe. I lost
money whclt. things went
sour in 2001 and I learned
to be a lot more proactive
when it came to keeping
s my money secure. Lots of
retirees have lost so much
money in the stock mar
ket, they are having to go
back to work.”
■ “I think my biggest
challenge is that I’m teach
ing remedial Algebra at a
community college where
a lot of the students are
adults in their 40’s and 50’s
who don’t think they have
very good math skills. So
I’m having to do a lot of
confidence-building, and
encouraging them to be
lieve in themselves.”
Shirley Owens
■ “I’m hoping for a bet
ter year, and a better econ
omy, in 2009. I’d like to see
the war come to an end,
more jobs, nobody losing
destroyed 80 percent of his
heart muscle.
“Doctors say I’m a rare
case,” Cabana said. “I
was asymptomatic, which
means I didn’t get the nor
mal signs that somebody
would of having heart dis
ease.”
But over the last few
years that has changed.
Cabana now suffers from
congestive heart failure. He
spends his days hooked up
to oxygen and sleeping in a
hospital bed.
“I can only sleep about
two hours at a time each
night because of the diuret
ics they’ve got me on,” Ca
bana said.
“I can barely remember
what a good night’s sleep
was like.”
His hands are noticeably
cool, the result of poor cir
culation.
Still, he tries to remain
active. A good day for the
couple is one where they
no errors after reviewing
the earlier ryling by the
commission?
Anne Rowe until recently
owned Wessington, located
across the street from Pem
broke Hall. Her home sold
for $1.6 million.
Rowe said it was her fa
ther, John Graham, who
suggested to his cousin,
Gertrude Rosevear, that she
consider purchasing Pem
broke Hall.
Rosevear, an Edenton na
tive, fell in love with the
house. She and her hus
Residents share the
hopes and challenges
they face in 2009
Powell White
their homes, and more
people turning to God and
asking for His help right
now because we sure need
for things to turn around
in this country.”
■ “I think the biggest
challenge for me person
ally will fee dealing with
the economy.”
Evelyn Powell
■ “I hope our new
president will be a bless
ing for us, and I think we
all need to pray for him,
that he will seb his dreams
for America come true. I
am praying for our county
and town, too, that things
will turn around here as
well.”
■ ‘‘I think my chal
lenge this year will be to
keep my faith strong as
I ask God to bring good
health to all the members
of my family, and to keep
them safe.”
Dean White
■ “My hope is that the
economy will get better.”
■ “I think my biggest
challenge will be dealing
with this bad economy
that we’ve got right now.”
both feel up to going fishing
for a little while, enjoying
the sunshine and fresh air.
Challenges ahead
“For the most part, we
are homebound because
Dave’s condition is no lon
ger stable,” Pam said. “His
doctors have told us, with
out a transplant he won’t
survive.”
And it isn’t as if she
doesn’t have troubles of
her own.
“I have degenerative disc
disease,” she said, shak
ing her head, “and I’ve had
a couple of surgeries al
ready.
“Right now, I need to have
knee replacement surgery
but that will have to wait. I
have to make sure Dave is
okay first.”
Best friends
Things weren’t always
like this.
Pam Cabana can remem
band, William, bought it in
1947.
They restored the house,
built in 1850, and gave it the
name Pembroke Hall.
Gertrude Rosevear died
15 years ago; her husband
in 1979.
Another Edentonian,
Richard Elliott, remembers
playing there as a child
when the house was owned
by his grandmother, Addie
Elliott, who died in 1943.
She and her husband, Os
car, who died in 1931, had
See PEMBROKE, Page A2
County
dismissal
policy
amended
By Vernon Fueston
Staff Writer
Chowan’s, commission
ers amended the county’s
employment policy Monday
night, allowing for the dis
missal of employees without
•its standard 30-day notice if
the commission declares a
financial emergency.
The policy, recommended
by the county’s attorney,
is designed to provide the
county immediate relief in
the event it finds itself un
able to meet its payroll, lay
ing off employees without
what otherwise might be
weeks of hearings and no
tice to workers.
The subject of the policy
change was not on the evev
ning’s agenda as released to
the public. A motion to add
it and five other items was
voted on by the commission
ers at the start of the meet
ings
In explaining the propos
al, County Manager Peter
Rascoe said the county had
a very detailed process now
for reducing its work force.
Rascoe said such mea
sures would only be taken if
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ber a time, not so long ago;
when her husband worked
as a plumber. She had a
bookkeeping job.
“We’ve been best friends
for 40 years, and married
for just under 30,” Pam
said, glancing affectionate
ly at her husband.
“Actually, I was five, and
he was six when we met. He
threw a rock at me that day,
and said, ‘I love you,’ and
we’ve been together pretty
much ever since.”
The holidays havebeen
tough this year, she §aitk ;
“I had a bad time at
Christmas,” Pam said,
tearing up. “I would look at
him and think about hoW
this might be our last one
together. It just breaks my
heart.” ;
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The Cabanas don’t have
any immediate family ifl
the area. Their three chil;
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