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482-4418 Wednesday, june 29, 2011 5Q< Delays, costs confront office moves By RITCHIE E. STARNES Editor Plans to relocate county departments by year’s end could be in jeopardy and at greater costs than first pro jected. Efforts to save taxpayer money by vacating a de teriorating county office building has led to county Boy, 10, dies in SUV accident Driver lost control ofvehicleonUS 17 Fromstdff reports A 10-year-old Hertford boy was killed last Wednes day when he was ejected from a vehicle in an ac cident on U.S. 17 Bypass north of Elizabeth City. Miles Shipman of West Island Trail, Hertford, was pronounced dead at Albe marle Hospital, said Troop er J.N. Wood of the N.C. Highway Patrol. Six other people, includ ing driver Kimberly John son, 39, of Virginia Beach, Va., were taken to area hos pitals. Johnson has been charged with misdemean or death by vehicle, Wood said. Wood said Johnson was heading south on U.S. 17 Bypass in a 2000 Ford Ex plorer about 5:30 p.m. when she encountered a farm tractor in a curve. Johnson swerved to miss the tractor, then overcorrected again, Wood said. The Explorer flipped over and came to rest upside down off the roadway Also injured in the acci dent were Holly Shipman, 40, of West Island Trail, Hertford; Caitlyn Ryan, 14, of Pirate Cove Road, Hert ford; Lala Shipman, 12, of West Island Trail; Mason ' Sullivan, 2, of Keeter Barn Road, South Mills; and Dwayne Sullivan of Keeter Barn Road. Holly Shipman, Caitlin Ryan and Lala Shipman were transported to Sentara See SHIPMAN, 2A Workshop reveals human trafficking perils NC seen as prime location By REBECCA BUNCH SUrff Writer Human trafficking is hiding in plain sight in North Carolina. Charity Magnuson, di rector of NC Stop Human Trafficking, delivered the €>2009 The Chowan Herald All Rights Reserved leaders scrambling amid delays and excessive cost estimates. Just weeks af ter receiving an estimate that it would costs roughly $800,000, or $600,000 more than anticipated, to relo cate the Department of So cial Services to the former adult daycare building that currently houses the lo cal provider of Albemarle BIG RIG/BIG WIND . SUBMITTED PHOTO Suspected straight line winds lifted this big-rig’s trailer off the roadway Thursday night while at the apex of the Sound Bridge. Winds turned the tractor over on its side while slamming the empty trailer against the cement guardrails where it dangled above the Albemarle Sound. Winds lift truck trailer off Sound Bridge By RITCHIE E. STARNES Editor m driver and his tractor trailer narrowly avoided ^•plunging into the Albemar le Sound Thursday night after suspected straight-line winds lifted the big-rig while traveling on the Sound Bridge. Ray Wheeler, 66, of Edenton had reached the apex of the 3.5-mile long bridge when the winds scooped the trailer off the concrete around 7 p.m., accord ing to N.C. Highway Patrolman D.C. Tanner. “He was unloaded at the time and the trailer acted like a sail on a sailboat,” Tanner said. “The wind just picked the trailer up and then turned the cab over. The trailer then slammed down on the guardrail.” Wheeler’s empty trailer dangled off the eastside guard harsh message to approxi mately 75-area church women during a work shop Saturday morning at Edenton United Methodist Church. She said most re main unaware that hu man bondage plagues the state and few recognize the signs. Magnuson, of Char lotte, said that in terms of awareness and action being taken to combat the issue, “We’re at the level now where domestic violence was 30 years ago. 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Wheeler managed to climb out of the passenger side of the truck, said Chowan County Sheriff Dwayne Goodwin. “The straight-line winds hit at the right place at the right time,” said Goodwin, explain ing how the single-vehicle crash occurred. Tanner said witnesses re ported seeing a waterspout, but indications suggest straight-line winds were the likely cause. While Wheeler declined to comment on the crash, he de scribed the sounds of the storm as that of a “train.” Goodwin said straight-line • winds caused a similar big-rig crash a couple of years ago on the bridge that spans the Chowan River. “It’s not unusual for straight STAFF PHOTO BY REBECCA BUNCH Charity Magnuson, director of NC STOP HUMAN TRAFFICKING, speaks during a presentation at Edenton United Methodist Church on Saturday morning. “Very rarely are we talking about somebody walking the streets," has been too slow to move forward have become a fre quent topic at county com missioner meetings. But, Jerry Paries, ARHS director, said Chowan County has been void of direction. “I’m waiting for direc tion from the county,” Parks said. “I do not have a timeline or a budget.” Magnuson added. Prosti tution in such cases usu ally involves teenagers As early as February Parks expressed concern about the county’s lack of planning. “In all of my years of elected and appointed ser vice this has been the most unorthodox handling of a matter of great importance to the citizens of Chowan County that I have ever seen," Parks wrote in a Feb. line winds to pick up a trailer,” Goodwin said. Wheeler was traveling north on the bridge (N.C. 32), return ing from taking a load of cucum bers to Engelhard on behalf of Smith Brothers’ Farms, Good win said. Troopers closed the bridge for nearly five hours to investigate and remove the wreckage. Wheeler escaped serious iiyu ry, Tanner said. Only two small chunks of concrete fell from the bridge’s guardrail, he added. Built in 1990, the Sound Bridge was once the longest in the state before the construction of the 5.2-mile long Virginia Dare Me morial Bridge over the Croatan Sound. The concrete sides of the Sound Bridge are only one inch above the minimum guardrail height per federal guidelines, ac cording to the N.C. Department of Transportation. that have been abducted or forced into virtual slavery and hidden from public view. Human trafficking ^an also involve a migrant worker brought to this country illegally and forced to live in unsafe, unsanitary conditions. Or, an immigrant woman being forced to work long hours at a menial job for no pay while someone else profits. And the number of vic tims is startling. Each year between 14,000 and 18,000 people See TRAFFICKING, 2A 3 email to County Manager Paul Parker, obtained by the Chowan Herald. “To think that a project, personal or public, would proceed with arbitrary funding and ab sent proper planning and budget, is just not prudent management of the taxpay er’s dollars. I believe this See RELOCATION, 3A Chowan district remains intact Map splits Pasquotank By REGQIE PONDER Staff Writer AHOSKIE — A “correct ed” version of a proposed state House redistricting map swaps Bertie County for Northampton County, but still continues to split Pasquotank County into two districts. The new map was un veiled during a legislative redistrict ing hear ing in Ahoskie on Thurs day. Pasquo tank Coun ty Com missioner Joe Win slow was one of several 1& cal residents who attended the hearing to voice their objections to the proposed to split Pasquotank be tween two House districts! “I just want to object to the splitting of Pasquo tank County as far as vot ing,” Winslow said during an interview outside the room at Roanoke-Chowan Community College where the hearing was held. Winslow, who explained he had another meeting that he had to attend, was not able to address the ac tual hearing, which began at 3 p.m. and was slated to last until 9 p.m. Thursday. The public hearing was be ing held simultaneously across the state by video conference. Winslow • Winfall Mayor Fred Yates, Perquimans Repub lican Party Chairman Di anne Layden, and former Elizabeth City Councilman Bill Lehmann did speak at Thursday’s hearing. No one attended from Elizabeth City govern ment. State Sen. Bob Rucho, R Mecklenbburg, who chairs the Senate Redistricting Committee, hosted a hear ing in Raleigh and also hosted the video confer ence, alternating among speakers at hearing sites in Raleigh, Charlotte, Greensboro, Fayetteville, Wilmington, Greenville and Ahoskie. 1 Winslow told anyone who would listen while he was in Ahoskie that he opposes a divided Pasquo tank. He said he has talked to Democrats and Repub licans, blacks and whited, See REDISTRICT, 3£l
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