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482-4418 Wednesday, July 23, 2010 National Night Out is next Tuesday, 1B 50« Steamers facing financial peril Team needs $50,000 by Labor Day By CHIC RIEBEL Sports Editor, The Daily Advance The Edenton Steamers have a challenge for the town and the area: Show us the money. Tuesday the Steamers an nounced the “Support Our Steamers” fundraising cam paign with a goal of $50,000. If the campaign, which begins im mediately and runs through La bor Day, fails to achieve its goal, the Steamers likely will not be playing next season. While a press release announc Holmes, CMS miss AYP mark Grade schools hit targets From staff reports Half of the Edenton Chowan schools failed to meet Annual Yearly Progress targets for the 2009-10 schoolyear, according to the N.C. Depart ment of In struction’s prelimi naryreport Smith released last Wednesday. If approved by the state board, this will mark the fifth consecutive year that John A. Holmes High School failed to meet the federally mandated AYP, Superintendent Allan Smith insists, however, the high school is showing progress over years past. “John A. Holmes met all of its academic targets,” Smith said. “They made 15 out of 17 targets.” Last year, Holmes did not meet its academic goals. Where Holmes got tripped up this year lies within the various sub groups required to qualify for testing, Smith said. “We had two subgroups that did not meet the per centage of those being tested,” Smith added. “I’m disappointed that we got caught with the coding technicalities.” He explained that vari ous subgroups are counted multiple times in differ ent categories, which can translate into a greater difficulty with meeting progress targets. For ex ample, a student with eco-' nomic disadvantages who also experiences learning difficulties is likely to be categorized in several sub groups, including one for race and another for stu dent body. Such multiple subgroups inflates testing percentages. Chowan Middle School also failed to meet AYP, de spite making it last year. Although it met 19 of 21 targets, the missed goals were academic. Chowan Middle’s stumble comes in the^afne year when the school was named a School to Watch. “Interesting enough, See AYP, 3A 6 ""S 9076*44 813 ©2009 The Chowan Herald ; All Rights Reserved , * i - .1 J- - ing the campaign lacks threaten ing language, the reality is that declining revenues over the past Get ready for some football • ' :\!N : U STAFF PHOTOS BY RITCHIE E. STARNES Edenton head football Coach Wes Mattera teaches his Aces defense how to fight off a block to gain position for a tackle during drills, Monday morning. New coach kicks off Aces football By RITCHIE E. STARNES Editor It's hot and humid, but that doesn’t slow Edenton Aces new football coach Wes Mattera from bouncing from drill to drill as he prepares his players for another season on the gridiron. Between teaching offensive and defensive techniques, Mattera, 33, barks out instructions amid tough love Zing ers aimed at getting his team men tally tough. “It’s a violent game. If you're that big and soft magbe you shouttL jfipd another sporw Wes Matter^’ Aces football doach addressing player at recent practice “It’s a violent game. If you’re that big and soft - maybe you should find another sport,” Mat tera hollered toward a player la Chowan’s jobless rate ticked up in June NC’s unemployed drops 4th straight month By RITCHIE E. STARNES Editor Any rejoice from the news that the state’s unemployment rate dropped for a fourth consecutive month to 10 percent for June, quickly tempered locally as Chow an County’s jobless rate ticked up during the same period. Chowan had been keeping pace with the state’s steady pace of im i f few years has jeopardized the existence of the 13-year-old team that plays in the Coastal Plain I'H-.yyV *? a* ?* ^ ’r*^^Pi Edenton head football Coach Wes Mattera is preparing his team for a new season. zily finishing a blocking assign ment. Another one not ready for the drill was ordered to the back of the line where he’ll give his fresh man coach a set of pushups. Three other athletes eager to show their prowess stand by a fence where they only watch and hope for a chance Tuesday. The players were barred from practic ing Monday because they showed provement, but June experienced a spike when the county’s rate in creased to 10.2 percent - up from the 9.9 percent in May, according to statistics released by the N.C. Employment Security Commis sion on Friday. Ricky Coletrain, manager of the Employment Security Com mission in Chowan County, said Monday that there has been a surge in new unemployment claims here. Additionally, Cole train said others whose benefits ended have been awarded exten sions. Some of those who have V *v • • -v * League, a summer wood-bat baseball league for college play ers. up late. Away from the practice field, Mattera talks both calmly and methodically about player expec tations. He understands the fine line between boosting a kid’s con fidence and breaking his spirit. “Before you can break them down, they have to know you care,” Mattera said. “They have to See COACH, 2A fallen between the conclusion of unemployment benefits and the start of an extension filed new claims, Coletrain said. Conse quently, Chowan’s increase from last month ends a three-month string of declining unemploy ment. Statewide, the jobless rate fell from 10.4 percent in May to 10 percent in June. Chowan’s modest fluctuation' has been due to the area’s mild hiring practices. “You can’t make employers start hiring,” Coletrain said. THE DAILY ADVANCE/PHOTO Steamers fans could find themselves without a home team next season. The Steamers board of direc ts was reluctant to go public with the campaign and debated just how strongly the release should be worded. But at a board of directors meeting attended by the Daily Advance on Monday night, words like “dire,” “crisis” and “now-or-never” were used by board members to describe the seriousness of the situation. “We have to commit to the league that we will play next T See STEAMERS, 2A Pilot: Jordan died prior to impact By RITCHIE E. STARNES Editor The surviving pilot‘of the June 7 fatal plane crash at Northeastern Regional Airport believes his flight instructor probably died prior to the fiery impact. “On that particular s | takeoff he was silent. ” ' f Joseph S. Konicki Discussing a June 7 fatal plane crash Joseph S. Konicki, 48, said Monday night that William Thomas Jordan acted out of character from their earlier inter actions that evening and that he failed to take any corrective steps before the Beechcraft slammed into a wooded area adjacent to the runway. During the start of the instructional training that included other takeoffs and landings, Konicki said Jordan, 69, had been talk ative and engaging. But, when the lesson continued for the final takeoff, Jor dan’s demeanor suddenly changed, Konicki said. “On that particular take off, he was silent,” Konicki said. “He never said a word - never tried to take control of the aircraft,” Konicki recalled. Other than informing Konicki that he would han dle control of the engines on liftoff, Konicki said Jordan said nothing else. See PILOT, 2A “People are still skeptical. They don’t want to hire six or eight new employees and then layoff three. Instead, they’ll hire two or three new ones.” Often times, however, unem ployment data is misleading, particularly When unemploy-. ment benefits expire and the un employed are still unable to land work, Coletrain said. Those un- > employed workers tend to drift out of the system’s data. But, Larry Parker, spokesman See JOBLESS, 3A %.■ r
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