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Our Life’s wedding issue helps you plan your lavish nuptials, INSIDE COA, Walker Alumni spar over site County prefers shared space By RITCHIE E. STARNES Editor Plans to consolidate the College of the Albemarle’s Edenton-Chowan campus with the former D.E Walk er High School campus has reached an impasse. COA officials and the D.E Walker Alumni Asso ciation remain at odds over how to co-exist at the site. Although county officials previously instructed both r organizations to devise a plan whereby each could share use at the campus, neither want to budge on their position. “We were here a long time before COA,” said Douglas A. Stallings, presi dent of the Alumni Asso ciation. “We’re not against progress. We just want to preserve our heritage. “We have fought for that building and we’re riot go ing to give it up,” he add ed. The Alumni Associa tion's board of directors voted unanimously against partnering with COA on sharing space. Kandi De itemeyer, COA president, is scheduled to meet with the Alumni Association Feh^Q.^... She too has been opposed to the partnership and ini tially balked at the county’s request that the two groups share use. Deitemeyer still wants COA to have control over the building that hous es the Alumni Association’s gatherings and meetings that occur thrice monthly during the evenings. She See COA, 3A ■ PHOTO BY RITCHIE 1 STARNES I College of the I Albemarle of-, 1 ficials want to I use the D.F. I WalkerAlumni | Association's I meeting area, seen here behind the > signage, as part of its fu ture campus expansion. SUBMITTED PHOTO BY JEFF KNOX Seagulls take a walk on an iced-over Edenton Bay at the town dock, Monday. Co-op lands outside Rec. Dept. By REBECCA BUNCH Staff Writer The Edenton Farmers Market Co-op has found a home at the old D.F. Walker School. The co-op will occupy space for the remainder of the winter just outside the offices of the Edenton Chowan Recreation Department. Dr. Vero Brentjens, who spear headed the effort to start the market earlier this year, said that establishing the co-op was a way that growers and vendors who sell there could still make items avail able to locals during cold weather months. “It just seemed to us like a logi cal thing to do,” Brentjens said. “I’m very glad it has worked out this way.” Brentjens said she would be tak ing orders, effective immediately, on Tuesdays and would then be at the co-op location on Saturday mornings from 9 a.m. until noon for people to pick up their items. Items that will be available in .. ■ *, '•*•*■** • % ww. , “It just seemed to us like a logical thing to do. I’m very glad it has worked out this way. ” 1, Vero Brentjens Doctor who spearheaded the effort to start the Edenton Farmers Market earlier this year dude honey, peanuts, lamb, baked goods and other items familiar to those who shopped at the market during warmer weather. Provided there is a solid re sponse from the public, Brentjens said, she expects the co-op will op erate through April. Brentjens expressed her ap preciation to Mary Sawyer of the Recreation Department and to County Manager Paul Parker for their support. “I am very grateful to them for letting us do this,” Brentjens said. The Edenton Town Council had also offered to make space avail able for the co-op at the former Municipal Building where the Chowan Arts Council currently occupies half of the building. At Monday night’s Council meeting, several councilors voiced strong support for the idea. “I think it’s great,” said Coun cilman Sambo Dixon. “I’m all in favor of it.” But moving there, even tempo rarily, would have required the co-op to purchase liability insur ance. At the county site, that will not be a requirement and a sav ings to the Farmers Market. Parker said that because the general public is involved in so See MARKET, 3A Regulator Marine set to add 15 jobs Boat builders see improvement 6y REBECCA BUNCH Staff Writer After several years of flat sales, the economy is finally beginning to turn around for at least one local boat builder. Joan Maxwell, president of Regulator Marine in Edenton, announced Mon day that her company now has openings for 15 new employees. “We’re very fortunate to have weathered the worst of it (pQor economy),” Max well said. “It’s very exciting to be where we are.” Maxwell said during the worst of the economic downturn, sometimes the plant had no boat orders to work on. In recent months, Residents could see more cable options By REBECCA BUNCH Staff Writer The town’s franchise agreement with local cable provider Mediacom won’t expire until 2014, however, there could soon be more options for local users. But at Monday night’s Town Council meeting, several council members made it clear they would not mind seeing the com pany face some competi tion for customers in the community Mayor pro tern Steve Biggs pointed out that the cable company had just raised its rates again and they have had enough or ders to produce two boats a week with existing staff. Now, they are adding a third and need to start hir ing. “I was in New York (at a boat show) last week, and it was a great experience," Maxwell said. “What is exciting is that (custom ers) are coming back, and they’re buying.” Keith Stevens, vice-presi dent of operations, said the company is accepting applications for jobs in its lamination and assembly departments. “These are not $7.50 an hour jobs we’re talk ing about,” Stevens said. “These are 40-hour a week jobs that pay $10 to $11 and $15-$16 an hour, depending on the job.” The jobs also come with See MARINE, 7A that right now satellite is the only other option for local customers. Biggs said he recently contacted Mediacom to ask why they were raising their rates again but kept getting bounced around to various people who were unable to provide him with a satisfactory answer. “What I would like to do is invite other companies to do a feasibility study and see if it can happen (interest other cable pro viders in doing business here),” Biggs said. Under FCC regulations, See CABLE, 7A Butterfield: Health care repeal effects to be huge Report shows effects in 1st District ■y WILLIAM F. WEST Staff Writer Congress' expected vote today to repeal the year-old federal health care law — should it be repeated in the U.S. Senate—would have a major impact on northeast 6 ”8 9076*4 4813B" 0 02009 The Chowan Herald All Rights Reserved . V ern North Carolina, nega tively affecting thousands of residents who are just beginning to reap the benefits of the legisla tion, U.S. Rep, G.K. Butterfield said. Citing a report pre pared by Butterfield the Demo cratic staff of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Butterfield, D-N.C., said repeal of the Patient Protection and Af fordable Care Act would V allow health insurance companies to again deny coverage to as many as 261,000 constituents in the 1st District who suffer pre existing conditions such as cancer, diabetes or heart disease. That number in cludes as many as 34,000 children, Butterfield said. The health care legisla tion, approved by the then Democratic controlled House and Senate and signed into law by Presi dent Obama in March 2010, banned insurers from de nying health care cover age based on pre-existing conditions. The law, which isp’t scheduled to be fully implemented until several years from now, expands health care coverage to more than 30 million un insured Americans, and would, for the first time, require most Americans to carry health insurance. Debate on repealing the law started Wednesday in the House, where Repub licans, who have vowed to repeal the measure, now hold the majority as a result of the November elections. The GOP repeal effort is expected to stall, however, because Demo crats still hold the major^ ity in the Senate. In addi tion, Obama has promised yt ■■■ * - to veto any bill that seeks repeal of the historic legis lation. Despitethose roadblocks, Democratic members of Congress aren’t taking any chances. They’re focusing on what the effects of re peal would mean for their constituents. In the 1st District, the effects of repeal would be dire, Butterfield said in a , press release. “Last year’s passage of the Affordable Care Act was truly historic with roots tracing back almost 100 years,” he said. “This fUll repeal would force that process, to start all over; • W- ' ■ . • ■ -. and take away many of the new health care protec tions and freedoms people are only just beginning to enjoy." Butterfield said a report about the repeal’s effect in the 1st District is based on data taken from the U.S. Census, the Centers' for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Department of Health and Human Ser vices and the Congressio nal Budget Office. According to that re- < port, repeal would remove consumer protections for ,: 295,000 1st District resb - ? : See BUTTERFIELD, 2A,
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