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Two incumbents will file, one veteran bows out
■ Quinn, Simpson to seek
reelection to council seats
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
Two relative newcomers
to the town council, Bob
Quinn and Norma Simp
son, have announced that
they will seek to retain their
seats.
Simpson represents the
Third Ward while Quinn
holds the at-large position
on the council.
Quinn is finishing his
first elected four-year term
Demolition
request to
be heard
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
The Edenton Preserva
tion Commission on Mon
day will hear Chowan Coun- .
ty’s request for a demolition
permit for the former Hotel
Hinton building.
The hearing on the coun
ty’s application for a demo
lition permit will be held at
1:15 p.m. in the Town Coun
cil Chambers.
But County Manager Zee
Lamb insisted Monday that
the county only is keeping
the door open to possible
demolition down the road
while working to find a buy
er for the historic structure,
f “It’s not the intent of the
county commissioners to1’
tear down that building,”
Lamb said. “It is their intent
to sell it and preserve it”
Lamb said the county has
believed it necessary to be
gin the demolition permit
application process since
that process can take a year
and a half. The Preservation
Commission could choose
at Monday’s meeting to de
lay action for six months,
and then at the end of that
six-month period the demo
lition could be delayed for a
year, he explained.
The county is currently
in intense negotiations with
a buyer and also has t^o. Q£
three other potential buyers
that have expressed interest
in the property, Lamb said.
Despite county officials’
assurances that the county
only is keeping its options
open, Edenton Town Coun
cilman Bob Quinn is ex
tremely wary of the demoli
tion permit application.
“I want to do everything I
can to fight this demolition,”
Quinn said Monday.
Quinn said the Hotel Hin
ton structure is of immea
surable importance to the
town.
“It would just be a vital
ization, a shot in the arm for
downtown,” Quinn said.
Quinn said the town
needs additional rooms for
visitors.
“We do not have adequate
space for people to come
here,” Quinn said.
The 34,000-square-foot
historic building would be
? .* a perfect place to provide
. rooms, he said.
"In my estimation, 'that
building with a considerable
number of available rooms
would be a commodity that
would completely change
the destiny of Edenton,"
' : Quinn said.
; See DEMOLITION, 4A
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All Rights Reserved
SIMPSON
on the
council;
Simpson
was sworn
in on Feb.
14 to finish
the unex
pired term
of Coun
cilwoman
Phyllis Britton, who died in
December.
“I am going to run,” Quinn
confirmed Monday morn
ing. “There are so many
things I am working on that
aren’t finished and I want to
see those through.”
Quinn said those projects
Making a House a Home
PHOTOS CQURTESY JOHN SAMS
This “after” photo shows Habitat for Humanity volunteers hard at work on the outside of the home at 115 North Oakum Street. The chapter’s
volunteers have spent months working on the residence and hope to have it finished in the near future.
This “before* photo shows the home at 115 North Oakum Street
in Edenton prior to Its purchase by the local Habitat for Humanity
chapter.
Boys & Giris Club gamers Golden LEAF grant
- BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
The Boys & Girls Club
of Edenton/Chowan will
receive $160,000 in fund
ing from the Golden LEAF
Foundation to help support
it’s Making the Grades proj
ect
The club had requested
$264,700 from the founda
tion this spring as the foun
eyes crime
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
Police Chief Jay Forten
bery presented draft copies
of proposed guidelines for
a crime-free rental housing
included
a focus on
enforcing
the Demoli
tion by Ne-.
gleet and
Minimum
Housing
Standards.
Quinn add
ed that he wanted to con
tinue to be a voice for the
community through his ser
vice on the council. Tour
ism remains the town’s best
opportunity for economic
opportunity, he said.
See REELECTION, 4A
QUINN
elation considered funding
$2 million in community
projects. The project was
deferred for later consider
ation.
Stephenie McLean, the
club’s director, said the goal
of the program was to work
with fifth through eighth
graders to encourage good
study habits and academic
performance. The program
is intended to lay a solid
program at the town coun
cil’s June 24 work session
Fortenbery emphasized
that the information and
format he presented are
just preliminary in nature.
are only draft
■ Veteran councilman
won’t seek reelection
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
After 33 years on the
Edenton Town Council,
Willis Privott is calling it
quits.
Privott, 81, represents
the Fourth Ward. He said
that he has served on the
council since 1980 when
he was appointed to fill
the unexpired term of an
other council member,
Harry Spruill.
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
howan-Perquimans Habitat
V—/ have spent months rehab
bing a house on North Oakum
Street that will soon be turned back
into a home.
The three-bedroom, one-and-a
half-bath residence will soon be the
new home of Daphne Dillard and
her two teen-aged children. Habitat
officials said that Dillard has done
an outstanding job in completing
the “sweat equity” required of new
Habitat homeowners.
Dillard, who works at Chowan
River Nursirq’jn Edenton, said she’s
had a lot of assistance from friends,
her children and their friends too, in
helping her complete the required
275 hours. As of last week; sire had
333 hours to her credit
for Humanity volunteers
founda
tion for
students
as they
approach
the ninth
.grade
— con
sidered
a criti
cal time as students enter
high school and prepare for
post-secondary education,
MCLEAN
copies," he said.
The guidelines are being
developed as part of a new
initiative for a crime-free
community being devel
oped by the council
Fortenbery said he had
“There
just ccunes
a time
when it’s
time to
step aside
and let
PRIVOTT
someone
else have
a turn,”
Privott said. “I think for
me that time is now.”
Privott, who admits to
being “scared to death”
when he was named to fill
Spruill’s unexpired term,
said he had found it a very
rewarding experience.
“I have thoroughly en
she said.
“We also want to offer
work-related experiences
(during high school), so
they understand the world
of work," McLean said.
A third component of
the program will be taking
students to visit college
campuses and/or arranging
for them to have job shad
owing opportunities or
summer jobs at local busi
patterned the guidelines
after ones developed and
used in Mesa, Arizona and
Washington State. He em
phasized that whatever
guidelines are adopted by
the council would be for
4
joyed my time serving on
the town council,” Privott
said.
Privott said that al
though he was nervous in
the beginning about serv
ing he had developed a
strategy that worked for
him.
“I decided I was going to
make it work,” Privott said.
“I made up my mind to be
a good listener and a good
learner and that’s what has
carried me through to the
end of my watch.”
Privott said that among
See PRIVOTT, 4A
“I appreciate all of them coming
out and working with me to help
me make my hours,” Dillard said.
Jim Robison, project leader,
noted that this would be the first
time the local Habitat chapter had
rehabbed rather than building a
new house. Built in 1940, Robison
said, the house was in foreclosure
when Habitat bid on it
“We were tire only ones that bid,
so we got it,” Robison said.
Robison said that due to the age
and condition of the house, much
of the interior had to be gutted and
wiring replaced.
“It’s a lot more work (to rehab)
than it would be to construct a new
house,” Robison said. “And I think
it’s going to turn out to cost jut as
much as building a hew house.”
When asked if he thought the
See HABITAT, 3A
nesses, she said.
McLean praised Rob
Boyce, a retired assistant
superintendent of the
Edenton-Chowan school
system, for his work in pre
paring the successful grant
proposal for Making the
Grades. Boyce serves on
the club’s Resource Devel- j
opment Committee. •
See GRANT, 2A *
the voluntary use of land
lords.
Tenants, too, will be en
couraged to participate and
follow the guidelines.
See RENTAL, 2A
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