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For second straight year, Aces are NCC champs
STAFF PHOTO BY BRETT A. CLARK
Edenton football players celebrate after Desmond Leary (right)
blocked punt during the Aces’ 28-21 win over Northeastern,
Friday.
Claims 28-21 win
at Northeastern
By CHIC RIEBEL
Daily Advance Sports Editor
ELIZABETH CITY —
They held the state’s high
est-scoring team 32 points
below its scoring average
on its own field.
They scored two touch
downs on long interception
returns and had a third set
up by a blocked punt deep
in enemy territory
They blew a 14-point
third-quarter lead, then
mounted an epic drive in
the closing moments for
the winning touchdown.
For the second year in a
row, they are the unbeat
en, Northeastern Coastal
Conference champions.
They are the Edenton
Aces.
And after last Friday’s
stunning, 28-21 win over
Northeastern, they are
making a habit of doing
the unthinkable.
It was just last October,
also on the final night of
the regular season, that the
Aces shocked the favored,
defending 2AA state runn
erup Eagles 20-17 on a last
minute touchdown when
Friday's Game
Louisburg (5-5) at
Aces (10-0) in 2A
state playoffs first
round, 7:30 p.m.
the two conference unbeat
ens collided in Edenton.
“This one was better by
far,” Aces head coach Wes
Mattera declared when
asked to compare the two
wins as the standing-room
only crowd exited the field
at Northeastern.
“We were picked to finish
fourth in the conference.
Everybody at NCPreps.
com, everybody in The
Daily Advance, every
body around the state said
Edenton can’t win, won’t
win. Nobody believed but
the 40 guys we brought on
the bus.
“But that’s all that mat
tered and that’s why it’s
more specifd.”
“This is an amazing feel
ing,” added senior running
back Kashese Bond, who
ran for 162 yards on 16 car
ries. “The best feeling in
the world.”
Incredibly, Edenton
(10-0) and the Eagles (9-2)
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Early
voting
pace
slows
Storm may have
kept people away
By RITCHIE E. STARNES
Editor
Although Chowan Coun
ty voters are on pace to
eclipse the early voting
pace of 2008, the number
of ballots cast oyer the last
week suggests the record
might be safe.
Perhaps because of Hur
ricane Sandy churning by
or simply a steady decline
of last week’s early voting,
fewer county voters are
voting early. Opening day
(Oct. 18) for early voting
remains the busiest day
with 541 casting ballots,
according to the Board of
Elections. The first week
remained brisk, but as of
last Thursday the number
of voters (290) has waned,
compared to 378 the day
before.
Reaching Chowan’s 2008
record mark of early vot
ing at 5,052 seems to be los
ing momentum.
“I don’t think we’re go
ing to make it. I’m just not
seeing it over the last few
days,” said Rebecca Lowe,
Board of Elections direc
tor.
Hurricane Sandy clip
ping northeastern North
Carolina didn’t help the
cause.
Yesterday (Monday) and
today (Tuesday) have been
kinda slow,” Lowe added.
Lowe said the State
Board of Elections has sug
gested the possibility of
extending early voting due
to the chilling effect that
Sandy brought in the way
of inclement weather. Any
local decision to extend
one-stop voting will be left
up to local election boards,
Lowe said.
Figures show, however,
that Chowan is on pace
to break the 2008 record.
As of Oct. 26, 2,818 county
6 8 9076
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Out with the Storm
PHOTO BY REBECCA LOWE
A depleted water level in Edenton Bay leaves the 1886 Roanoke River Lighthouse suspended
over shallow water and rocks Monday afternoon.
PHOTO BY REBECCA LOWE
The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy left the Chowan River's water
level recessed, exposing numerous Cypress trees and stumps.
The nor’easter temporarily siphoned water out of the bay.
PHOTO BY DEBRA WAFF
People take advantage of the recessed water in Edenton Bay to
walk where ducks usually paddle.
Husband’s illness sidelines campaigning
Elliott remains in
school board race
By REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
At-large school board
candidate Glorious Elliott
has been forced to curb her
personal campaigning af
ter her husband of 44 years
suddenly fell ill.
Her husband James was
stricken last Thursday
with bleeding on the brain
that has affected the right
side of his body, according
to Elliott. She said that her
66-year-old husband be
came ill while exercising at
the Chowan Senior Center.
Connie Parker, who man
ages the senior center, said
that she noticed as James
Elliott left the exercise
room that
he was
sweating
profusely.
She said
hedropped
his water
bottle and
wasunable
to pick it
up with his right hand.
Parker said that she be
gan talking with him and
Elliott
found that he was disori
ented and could not lift his
arm.
‘‘He would not let me call
911,” Parker said. So she
called his wife instead.
“Glorious arrived a few
minutes later and we took
him to the emergency room
at the hospital,” Parker
said.
Later that day James
Elliott was airlifted from
Vidant Chowan Hospital
to Vidant Medical Center
in Greenville where he re
mains hospitalized with
his wife at his side.
“He comes first,” Elliott
said, speaking of her deci
sion to stop actively cam
paigning until her husband
is better even though Elec
tion Day is next Tuesday
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Quinn undergoes triple-bypass surgery
Recovery to take as
long as six weeks
By REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
When Edenton Councilman
Bob Quinn began to lack his nor
mal energy earlier this month, he
decided to see his doctor to find
out what was going on.
Now, he’s glad he did.
"I just was not feeling well,”
Quinn. 76, said. “I was feeling
tired and sluggish, and I was feel
ing pressure in
my chest.”
So on Oct. 12
Quinn, accompa
nied by his wife,
went to see his
personal physi
cian, Dr. Staf
ford Taylor of
Edenton. Taylor
referred him to the East Carolina
Heart Institute in Greenville for
evaluation and treatment.
After numerous tests a heart
catheterization was scheduled
for Quinn on Oct. 16.
Quinn
“They found (after doing the
catheterization) that I had a prob
lem a catheter and stints wouldn’t
fix,” Quinn said.
Instead he was scheduled to
undergo triple bypass surgery
on Oct. 24. With the six-hour sur
gery successfully behind Quinn
returned home Sunday afternoon
in amid a heavy dose of rainfall
and wind courtesy of Hurricane
Sandy
Quinn said he received “excel
lent care” the entire time he was
in Greenville and praised the pro
fessionalism of the staff.
In addition to his duties as a
town councilman, Quinn is also
serving as chairman of the town’s
300th anniversary planning com
mittee. Quinn said his surgeon
had told him to take it easy for the
next six weeks. Quinn said he’s
comfortable doing that because of
the high caliber of people serving
with him on the committee, and
on the town council.
“I’m just getting my strength
back,” Quinn said. “I’m on a lot
of medication , and I need a lot
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