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‘Operation Peace and Quiet’ unveiled
■ Police chief pitches
idea to city council
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
Monday night during the
town council’s monthly
work session Police Chief
Jay Fortenbeiy unveiled
Operation Peace and Quiet
— an initiative developed
in response to recent citizen
complaints about nuisance
related violations of town
ordinances. <
The nuisance behaviors
included loitering, curfew
violations, loud music,
drug dealing, prostitution
and other activities that
were disturbing residents’
peaceful enjoyment of their
homes in the North Broad
and West Albemarle Street
neighborhoods.
Fortenbery said that
high visibility patrols in an
expanded target area from
“We’ve beefed up our methods of
enforcement... We want people who are
violating these ordinances to know that we’re
serious about enforcing the law.”
Jay Fortenbery
Edenton Police Chief
Park Avenue to the water
front were bringing positive
results.
Two additional police of
ficers have been authorized!
to work overtime in the eve
nings and
to specifi
cally focus
their at
tention on
nuisance
ordinance
violations.
FORTENBERY “We’ve
beefed up
our methods of enforce
ment,” Fortenbeiy said.
“We want people who are
violating these ordinances
to know that we’re serious
about enforcing the law.”;
Besides a strict enforce
ment policy and high visibil
ity patrols in the target area,
Fortenbery’s plan of action
includes officers conduct
ing foot and bike patrols,
and vehicle stops.
Officers will also take a
tougher stance with regard
to issuing tickets and citar
tions, the police chief said.
In the past, Fortenbery
See OPERATION, 4A
Herald
to begin
candidate
questions
■ To start questionnaires
in next week's edition
From staff reports
With one-stop voting in
the Nov. 5 election for Eden
ton Town Council starting
on Oct 17, the Chowan
Herald will begin running
a question-of-the-week fea
ture with council candidates
in the Sept 4 edition.
r For several weeks begin
ning Sept 4, each edition
of the Chowan Herald will
include answers from each
of this year’s council candi
dates to a question posed by
the newspaper’s staff.
One-stop voting begins
Oct 17 and ends at 1 pjn.
on Nov. 2.
Registration to vote in the
Nov. 5 election will close at
5 p.m. on Oct 11.
There are three council
seats on the Nov. 5 ballot in
Edenton.
LoriAnn Curtin and Elton
Bond Jr. are vying for the
Fourth Ward town council
See QUESTIONS, 4A
Police
investigate
restaurant
break-in
From staff reports
A popular downtown
restaurant was broken into
over the weekend.
Edenton police are in
vestigating the break-in at
Waterman’s Grill, a restau
rant located on South Broad
Street.
The break-in occurred be
tween 12:20 and 12:30 am.
Sunday, police reported.
An undisclosed amount
of cash was taken, accord
ing to police.
Police Chief Jay Forten
bery said the police are fol
lowing up on leads in the
case.
Anyone with information
about this crime is asked to
call the Edenton Police De
partment at 482-5144.
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All Rights Reserved
$ BACK TO
SCHOOL
Shala Spence, a
teacher at Chowan ;
Middle School, talks ~
to her eighth-grade -.
students Monday *
about the technology
explorations they will
be doing this year.
■ *
The message is
clear (left photo) on ~
this sign, located at
the Chowan County
Convenience Center .
on Virginia Road
(Highway 32) just
north of White Oak
and D.F. Walker
schools.
STAFF PHOTOS BY REGGIE PONDER
Layla Webster, 6, (above) Is excited
about the start of school because her
class has an incentive system that
allows students to earn an opportunity
to sit at the teacher’s, desk,
John A. Holmes High School freshmen
Jaquan Rankins (left photo, left) and
Lajarvius Thomas enjoy a lighthearted
moment after school Monday.
Literacy, technology top E-Chowan school goals
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
White Oak El
ementary School
second-grader
Demetric Bond’s interest in
reading is exactly what the
Edenton-Chowan Schools
are looking for as students
start a new academic year.
Demetric said Monday
that reading with teacher
Dorothy Bunch was one of
the most eryoyable things
he did over the summer.
And the 8-year-old said
reading is what he is look
ing forward to most about
the new school year.
, “That’s what I’m talking
about,” Kathy Capehart,
Demetric’s mother, said
excitedly when she heard
her son cite reading as his
favorite thing about school.
Capehart arrived at
school Monday morning
with Demetric and her
nine-year-old daughter,
Tamia Bond, 9, who is in
fourth grade.
Tamia was looking for
ward to social studies and
said math would probably
be the most difficult thing
about school this year.
Demetric agreed math
would be tough.
Jamie Bowers, the prin
cipal at D.F. Walker School,
and Michelle White, princi
pal at White Oak Elemen
tary School, both noted
Monday that literacy is a
central focus this year.
Bowers pointed out
that’s true every year,
WHITE
but both
agreed it
willbea
special
emphasis
this year.
Bowers
said par
ents, teach
ers and students have been
See SCHOOLS, 3A
Chowan has high cancer death rate, study finds
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STAFF PHOTO BY
REGGIE PONDER
Sheila'Pfaender,
a public health
consultant,
presents the
Chowan County
Health Assessment
last Thursday.
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
Chowan County’s cancer death
rate is 20 percent higher than the
statewide rate, according to data
in the recently completed Com
munity Health Assessment.
Sheila S. Pfaender, the public
health consultant who prepared
the assessment, presented the
findings last week in a public fo
rum at the Shepard-Pruden Me
morial Library.
Cancer is the leading cause of
death in the county among both
men and womea But the rate is
64 percent higher for men than for
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women and 17 percent higher for
blacks than for whites.
Pfaender drew attention to On
unusual finding in the assessment*
Cancer is tied for third place 9s
tjie leading cause of death among
20- to 39-year-olds in Chowan
County. \
It is uncommon to see cancer
See ASSESSMENT, 3A
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