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482-4418 Wednesday, December 15, 2010 concerns "Clinic I Administrative \ fees start Jan. 1 By RITCHIE E. STARNES | Editor Tyner’s Community Care f Clinic that so often rescues I those without health insur I ance finds itself in dire finan cial straits. With the number of patients served at the clinic nearly dou ble those assisted last year, the clinic fiflds itself a victim of the same sour economy that at tributes to its growing need. A ' joint venture between Chowan and Albemarle hospitals, the foundations are experiencing a $200,000 shortfall. Consequent Shalom Parades Eden ton mmm. mmm ggm£2 =-j -4P ^ t .-Tff PHOTO BY KIP SHAW Members of the Shalom International Church practicing their performance before taking their float into Saturday’s Christmas parade in Edenton. Holiday Ball eases guardsmen’s transition STAFF PHOTO BY REBECCA BUNCH National guardsmen and their wives listen during a program Satuday night. Tax, water departments become the latest to move By RITCHIE E. STARNES Editor As of today the Chowan County office building will be closer to being empty, at least the first floor, and the Public Safety Center nearly full, * ©2009 The Chowan Herald All Rights Reserved ly, the hospital clinics in Tyner and Elizabeth City will require users to pay administrative fees effective Jan. 1. Primary care visits will cost $10 and prescriptions will require $3. “I resisted a fee for years, but we’re in a situation that we have to,” said Phil Donahue, vice president of fund develop ment at Albemarle Hospital. “Giving is down 30 percent,” he added. “With the demand going up, we’re going in oppo site directions.” Grants that previously ac counted for significant fund ing sources have evaporated among competing non-profit agencies also in need. “Grant funds are drying up,” said Jeff Sackrison, Chowan Today the tax depart ment with its collections and assessor’s offices along with the water department will be open for business while occupying the first floor of the Public Safety Center. It’s the latest move for county departments to be housed together in one and a newer facility. “We do want to make this a government com plex,” said County Man ager Paul Parker, referring to the Public Safety Center. “We don’t want county Hospital president. “You can’t sustain a clinic like this on grant funds forever.” The hospital and its employ ees have combined to help off set rising clinic costs. While the hospital absorbs the clin ic’s lab fees, employees are ear marking payroll deductions for the clinic. Employee donations represent 10 percent of the clinic’s budget, Donahue said. “Our employees have health insurance and they know the value of insurance,” said Gin ny Waff, executive director Chowan Hospital Foundation. Grants, county appropria tions along with special events account for 40 percent of the See CLINIC, 4A By REBECCA BUNCH Staff Writer Monday’s snow flurries were a wel come sight for 1st Lt. Robbie Jolley of South Mills. He said that seeing the flakes fall triggered a flood of memories of last Christmas when he and others in his unit were stationed in Iraq. Not be cause the weather was similar, but be cause it was so different. “The weather there was much dif ferent than what we are seeing,” Jolley said. “One year ago today (the unit) residents having to go any where else for government business." The county manager’s office and finance director were the first departments to relocate to the 305 W. Freemason Street facility where the Sheriffs Office, 911 Communications and Edenton Police Depart ment were already housed. Following those depart ments to the building’s second floor was planning and inspections. Also housed at the Pub lie Safety Center are the information technology di rector and the emergency management coordinator, who falls under the direc tion of Sheriff Dwayne Goodwin. While the IT department maintains a server at the new site, the county still has a server at its former location for the remaining departments. The Board of Elections is the only office remain ing on the 'Cpunty build ing’s first floor. Its antici pated move will not occur PHOTO BY RITCHIE E. STARNES Tim Madigan, a hospitalist at Chowan Hospital, exams a patient’s ear at the'Community.Care Clinic of Tyner last Wednesday. Madigan is one of two doctors that volunteer their time on alternating weeks at the clinic. was dealing with 100 degree heat and sand." Jolley, one of 22 members of Compa ny A, 690th Battalion, North Carolina National Guard recognized Saturday night during the unit’s first Holiday Ball. The ball took place at the Ameri can Legion building in Edenton. Jolley Scfi^he missed his wife, Re becca, while Tie was away and felt particularly sad for those who had left children behind. “Some of them would cry when they talked about their kids,” See GUARD, 4A until later after officials hammer out more details. Plans call for elections , to move to the agriculture building, located on the corner of Granville Street and Virginia Road. Plans call for the Depart ment of Social Services to move from the county building’s second floor to the building that currently houses the Health Depart ment. Efforts are underway to move the Health Depart ment to the county-owned and now vacant building By REBECCA BUNCH > ' Stqff Writer Edenton’s Neighbor Keeping Neighbor Warm ^ program will help some local residents heat their homes this winter, thanks to donations from their fel low citizens. Since 2006, the town — in partnership with the See HEATING, 3/f Students could get option of school By RITCHIE E. STARNES Editor Edenton-Chowan is among a district pro posed to participate in a first agriscience and biotechnology regional high school that could be housed in the Vernon James Center in Plym outh. Last week the Chow an County Board of See STUDENTS, 4A that previously housed the defunct Albemarle Mentqf Health Center. '« Edenton-Chowan Public! Schools remains on the; fourth floor, however, the Board of Education has formed a committee tp identify a new site. Efforts are also under-! way to find a new location; for the county’s Veteran’s Office. '»* County maintenance has moved from the King Street county building to $ Coke Avenue site. 'J
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