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Filing opens in 2014 elections
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
Five Chowan County residents
filed as candidates for elective of
fices as the filing period opened
Monday.
Sheriff Dwayne Goodwin
was first out of the gate, filing
as soon as the period opened at
noon. Other candidates who filed
Monday were incumbent Chow
an Commissioner Jeff Smith, a
Democrat; incumbent Clerk of
Superior Court Mike McArthur, a
Democrat; incumbent state Rep.
Bob Steinburg, a Republican; and
Meader Harriss, an assistant pub
lic defender who is running in the
nonpartisan race for district court
judge.
Marvin Evans
Evans, rural
firefighting
pioneer, dies
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
Marvin Lewis Evans, the last surviv
ing charter member of the Center Hill
- Crossroads Fire Department, died last
Friday, Feb. 7 at his home. Evans was 93.
Evans served as a member of the fire
department for 45 years, a feat no other
firefighter with the department ever
achieved, according to retired Fire Chief
Louis Nixoa Nixon, who was among
those associated with the volunteer fire
department that attended Evans’ funeral
Monday afternoon, remembered Evans
as a very special man.
“Marvin was the type of person that
was always giving back to his community
and his fellow man,” Nixon said. “Like the
preacher said today at his funeral, Marvin
would give you the shirt off his back if
you needed it”
Nixon said that Evans took a lot of
pride in being a part of the fire depart
ment and worked tirelessly to help train
the firefighters there, particularly the
younger ones.
Sheriff Dwayne Goodwin, who was a
volunteer with the fire department for
more than two decades, and one of its
younger members, said he and Evans
both had November birthdays and al
ways celebrated them together at the fire
station with cupcakes.
Evans was the department’s founder
and one of its most active members,
Goodwin said.
“Even in his 90s, he was still one of the
hardest working men I ever knew,” Good
win said. “Day or night, he would come
out to help us.”
County Commissioner Jeff Smith
described Evans as a true community
See EVANS, 2A
As of presstime, no one had
filed in the 3rd District N.C. Sen
ate race. The 3rd District, which
includes Chowan and a number
of other counties, is currently
represented by Democrat Clark
"Jenkins of Edgecombe County.
Goodwin, 44, is in his second
term as sheriff.
Goodwin said when he ran the
first time he told voters he would
be “fair, firm and consistent* He
said he has continued to stress
that throughout his tenure as
sheriff, and all the deputies know
the phrase by heart
Goodwin said he also focuses
on working with children and
youth. The goal is to set young,
See FILING, 2A
Chamber banquet
STAFF PHOTOS BY REGGIE PONDER
Stella Brothers presents the 2013 Volunteer of the Year Award to William “Bro”
Bonner during the annual meeting Thursday of the Edenton-Chowan Chamber of
Commerce.
Longtime volunteer, young
banker among honorees
Eric J. Bergevln was presented the 2013
Businessperson of the Year Award by Donna
Winborne during the annual meeting Thursday of the
Edenton-Chowan Chamber of Commerce.
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
An innovative young business
man and a longtime volunteer on
behalf of student-athletes were
among the award recipients at
the Edenton-Chowan Chamber
of Commerce 2014 Annual Meet
ing and Banquet Thursday night.
William “Bro” Bonner received
the 2013 William P. “Spec” Jones
Volunteer of the Year Award and
Eric J. Bergevin of Albemarle
Bank received the 2013 John A.
Mitchener Jr. Business Person of
the Year Award.
The event was held at Chowan
Golf and Countiy Club.
Edenton Fire Chief Craig For
lines presented the 2013 Marvin
S. Barham Humanitarian of the
Year Award to firefighter Wayne
Parrish, who saved a child's life
by performing CPR while on
See AWARDS, 3A
STAFF PHOTO BY
REGGIE PONDER
Chowan County
Sheriff Dwayne
Goodwin consults
with Elections
Director Rebecca
Lowe as he fills
out election
paperwork
Monday. Goodwin
filed as a
candidate in
\ the Democratic
! Primary for sheriff
; shortly after
| the filing period
|opened at noon,
1 becoming the
I first candidate to
I file in the county.
Board mulls
fire station ’f
for southern
Chowan
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor "• *
A satellite fire station for the south
ern part of Chowan County is once
again on the front burner for the coun
ty commissioners.
Edenton Fire Chief Craig Forlines
made a presentation on the fire station
proposal during the Feb. 3 meeting of
the Chowan County Board of Com
missioners.
Although the topic of a proposed
third fire station frequently comes
up for discussion under the heading
“southern Chowan fire coverage,” the
entire county in fact is already cov
ered by fire departments. The Center
Hill-Crossroads Volunteer Fire De
partment covers much of the northern
part of the county and the Edenton
Fire Department covers the town and
the remainder of the southern part of
the county.
During his presentation to the com
missioners, Forlines emphasized that
the southern part of the county al
ready has fire coverage.
But a fire station in that part of the
county would improve homeowners’
insurance rates for residents who
would then be within the six-mile or
bit of a station, Forlines said.
The discussion about the need for a
fire station toward the southern end of
the county has been going on for sev
eral years, county officials noted.
Forlines pointed out that a new fire
station would have to be approved by
the state.
The commissioners would be re
sponsible for building the fire station
and paying the utilities, according to
Forlines. The town’s fire department
already has personnel and equipment
to cover the station, he said.
The county’s support for the Eden
ton Fire Department — the ratio of
county funding to town funding — is
based on a five-year average of the
number of calls in town and outside
town.
See FIRE STATION, 3A
School system studies do-not-resuscitate orders
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
The Edenton-Chowan
school system is working
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(Hi a draft policy to address
whether it would honor a do
not-resuscitate order involv
ing a student *
The school board heard
details of those discussions
during its Feb. 3 monthly
meeting during a presenta
tion by Karen lynch, child
nutrition/health safety direc
tor for the school system,
and Jan Smith, school nurse
at John A. Holmes High
School.
lynch said that the De
partment of Health and Hu
man Sendees is encouraging
school systems across North
Carolina to develop such
policies, lynch said at pres
ent no students for whom
do-not-resuscitate orders
have been issued are attend
ing school in Chowan Coun
ty. She said that to be valid
the orders must be signed by
a physician at the request of
parents.
“All of our school nurses
have looked at this issue,”
TVnch said.
Smith said that as discus
sions continued it became
obvious the school nurses
would have trouble carry
ing out the dictates of a DNR
order.
“We finally came to the
conclusion that we could
not ask them not to help stu
dents,” Smith said.
Thus, a recommendation
that the nursing staff not be
required to honor a DNR or
der was given to the school
board at the monthly meet
ing. lynch and Smith sug
gested that if an emergency
arose they would want to
leave obeying the DNR order
to emergency personnel that
responded to the scene.
Smith noted that there is
a precedent for the Eden
ton-Chowan board to en
dorse such a policy. She said
that the Camden and Gates
County school systems are
already declining to accept
DNR orders. Only the Eliza
beth City school district, she
said, accepts them.
“We finally came to the de
See ORDERS, 2A
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