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Shooter avenges 2-year-old shooting
Victim survives
nine shots
By RITCHIE E. STARNES
Editor
A man who was shot
two years ago avenged his
wounds by shooting his
assailant early Saturday
morning in the parking lot
of an Edenton convenience
store.
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“Bootsie”
Herrar
was shot
as many as
nine times,
including
once in
the cheek,
shortly after midnight at
the Red Apple store located
at 711 North Broad Street,
directly across from the
Sanderlin
Edenton Fire Department,
according to Edenton Po
lice Chief Jay Fortenbery.
“Once he was at the hos
pital, (Herrar) was able to ,
tell (police) who did it,”
Fortenbery said.
Herrar was airlifted to
Vidant Medical Center in
Greenville.
Investigators again
interviewed Herrar on
Monday whereby he again
identified Sanderiin as the
shooter, Fortenbery said.
Local authorities, along
with the help of the State
Bureau of Investigation,
apprehended Deshane
Sanderlin, 27, nearly 12
hours later at Elizabeth
City Manor, Fortenbery
said.
“Investigators got a tip
where he was,” he added.
Sanderlin was charged
with attempted murder
and assault with a deadly
weapon with intent to kill,
inflicting serious injury.
He remains in jail in lieu
of a $500,000 bond.
Police have not recov
ered the handgun, believed
to be a .25-caliber, Forten
bery said.
On the night of July 13,
2009 Herrar shot Sanderlin
multiple times in the leg at
the corner of Oakum and
Freemason streets. Herrar
was subsequently Charged
in the shooting and served
nearly two years in prison
for the crime, Fortenbery
said.
Saturday’s shooting is
believed to have been in re
taliation for the previous
incident.
A clerk at the store said
he heard witnesses say
Sanderlin made a state
ment toward Herrar to the
See SHOOTING, 2A
Woman
slasher
charged
From staff reports
A woman is in jail after
she slashed the throat and
abdomen of her boyfriend
with a box cutter, police
say
Eden
ton police
charged
Rashonda
Nicole
Welch, 32,
of Mexico
Road with
assault
with a deadly weapon with
intent to kill, inflicting se
rious injury, according to
police Chief Jay Forten
bery
A domestic dispute es
calated Sunday afternoon
with Welch slashing the
throat and stomach of
Shelton Lament White, 33,
Fortenbery said.
“There was a fight in
volved whereby at some
point she got her hands on
a box cutter,” Fortenbery
said.
White was airlifted to
Vidant Medical center in
Greenville where he re
mains in intensive care as
of Monday afternoon.
“They had to give him
three pints of blood be
fore they flew him out,”
Fortenbery said. The fight
occurred at 3:51 p.m. at
White’s 812 Badham Road
residence, Fortenbery said.
Welch was jailed in lieu
of a $100,000 bond, but not
before she too was treated
at Vidant Chowan Hospi
tal. *
“She also went to the hos
pital with some injuries,”
Fortenbery said.
Police recovered the
weapon used in the assault
that was witnessed by oth
ers, the. chief added.
Welch
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
PHOTO BY RITCHIE E. STARNES
Wynn McCallister, Chowan Golf & Country Club board member, stands on one of the course’s newly renovated greens.
Club volunteers helped convert all of the 18 greens from Bentgrass to Bermuda.
CGCC converts to Bermuda greens
Club celebrates
50th anniversary
By RITCHIE E. STARNES
Editor
Although the words country
club typically suggest exclu
sivity, the Chowan Golf and
Country Club isn’t what the name
implies.
"You think country club, you
think exclusiveness and that’s
not what it is,” said Tracy Burke,
club manager.
Technically, CGCC is semi
private. But, that hardly tells it
either. The Chowan Golf and
Country Club is a community
committed facility, dependent on
members and volunteers to keep
it relevant.
One might say it’s member
owned and owner-operated.
CGCC logs dedicated members,
many who frequently volunteer
to keep the club running. Volun
teerism has been a windfall in the
wake of a sour economy that has
taken a toll on Chowan County’s
only regulation golf course. Golf
courses and country clubs across
the country are weathering simi
lar economic struggles.
“This club has survived
because volunteers have stepped
up to take up the slack,” Burke
said. “We’ve been able to main
tain customer service without as
much staff.”
Volunteers and members com
prise of various committees that
ensure the club fulfills its civic
duty while providing member
ship activities.
See CGCC, 3A
Vote
rejects
zoning
Chairman blames
Arrowhead Beach
By RITCHIE E. STARNES
Editor, t
Efforts to implement
a text amendment that
would provide an avenue
for home-based businesses
to become zoning compli
ant via a special-use per
mit failed Monday night. *
In a 4-3 split vote, the
Board of Commissioners
rejected the controversial
text amendment that was
proposed in the aftermath
of divided Arrowhead
Beach neighbors over a
home-based seasonal deer
meat processing operation.
Despite Chowan County’s
prohibited use of home
based businesses, the meat
processing business has
been in operation during
hunting season for the past
two years.
Although the county
ruled that the business was
in violation and subject to
penalty, there had been no
enforcement of the coun
ty’s zoning ordinances oth
er than violation letters.
Instead, the owners of the
business, Danny and An
gela Dupraw, paid for the
introduction of the text
amendment, amid hopes
that they could finally
bring their operation into
compliance.
But, the board ruled
during Monday night’s
commissioners’ meeting
that the county’s current
zoning restrictions will re
main as is with home-based
See ZONING, 3A
Elliott files for school board
Former chairman
to face ex-principal
From staff reports
Former Edenton-Chow
an Board of Education
chairwoman Glorious El
liott has become the second
candidate to file for the at
large seat on the non-parti
san school board.
Elliott will face off
against Bill Moore, former
principal at John A. Holm
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es School,
who filed
for the seat
on June 29,
the first
day of the
filing peri
od. Moore
served as
principal
at the school from 2005
2009. They will be vying
for the seat soon to be va
cated by Win Dale, who an
nounced last month that he
would not seek re-election
after completing his first 6
year term on the board,
Elliott lives in District
1 where board member
Jean Bunch is also up for
re-election. Bunch filed for
re-election Monday after
noon.
Elliott, 61, who held both
the District 1 and at-large
seats on the board at differ
ent times during her previ
ous service on the school
board, said she decided to
run for the at-large seat
rather than the District 1
seat because she did not
want oppose Bunch.
“I feel Jean is doing a
good job on the board and
I just did not want to run
against her,” Elliott said.
And, Elliott said, hav
ing held both seats, she
wanted the opportunity to
once again serve the com
munity at large.
“I really like the idea of
representing the interests
of all the children,” Elliott j
said.
Elliott, 61, served on the
See FILING, 3A
We're First In Cotton
PHOTO BY RITCHIE t STARNES
Adrianna, 6, (l-r) Bella Cotton, 1, and GeorgiaSue Parrish, 5, show off this year's first re
ported cotton bloom at Poplar Neck Farms, last Monday. The girls, the children of Carey
and Roseanna Parrish, spotted the blooms while walking to check on the cows.
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