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Board: Teachers don’t have to obey DNR
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
The school board unani
mously adopted a policy
Monday night stating
school personnel—includ
ing nurses at the county’s
four schools — will not be
required to honor do not
resuscitate orders.
The board adopted the
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STAFF PHOTOS BY REBECCA BUNCH
Firefighters and members of the Rocky Hock Rescue Squad work together to free a person whose foot Is stuck
during training exercises this past weekend, instructors and organizers said that learning teamwork that would
carry over into emergency situations was one of the key elements of the training that took place at CA Perry
and Son over the weekend.
First responders practice
skills for farm emergencies
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
Center Hill-Crossroads
Fire Department and other
area emergency responders
spent the weekend learning
skills that could save a life
in a farm or agribusiness
emergency.
Thirty-six area firefight
ers and emergency medi
cal technicians took part in
training exercises over the
weekend in Chowan Coun
ty at C.A. Perry and Soa
The majority of the train
ees were young firefighters
Howard sworn in at county meeting
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
St
County Manager Kevin
Howard took the oath of of
fice last week at a meeting
of the county commission
• ers that had been resched
uled because of inclement
weather.
Howard, whose first day
as Chowan’s county man
ager was March 3, had been
slated to be swom in at
the March 3 meeting of the
Chowan County Board of
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policy during its regular
monthly meeting.
Under the new policy,
responsibility for imple
menting a DNR order will
fall to emergency medical
personnel responding to
the school.
The policy states that a
student’s parent or guard
ian may provide to the
school’s principal a com
and EMTfe from Chowan
County with the Center
Hill-Crossroadg, FlcB^e
partment, EddntonFfre De
partment and Rocky Hock
Rescue Squad taking part
in the training exercises
that simulated farm-related
accidents.
Other firefighters were
from Belvidere, Elizabeth
City and Sunbury.
Elizabeth City firefight
er Walter Copeland, who
helped supervise the train
ing exercises, said that
most of the scenarios were
based on real events.
Commissioners. But a brief
episode of wintry wetrther
caused the March 3 meeting
to be rescheduled to March
5.
At the commissioners’
March 6 meeting, Howard
took the oath of office with
little ceremony shortly after
the meeting began.
Susanne Stallings, clerk
to the board of commission
ers, administered the oath
of office to Howard.
The board and staff then
went to work discussing
budget amendments, repair
projects and other county
business.
An informal reception at
the county’s Public Safety
Building on the afternoon
See HOWARD, 2A
pleted DNR order for their
child signed by a medical
doctor, or a Medical Order
for Scope of Treatment
(MOST), or both.
“In this situation the offi
cial document will be kept
on the student’s person
while under the supervi
sion of school personnel,”
the policy reads. “A team
consisting of, but not limit
“Most of the scenarios
we are practicing have hap
pened, such as the five men
who got trapped in a grain
bin in Camden County last
year,” Copeland said.
Center Hill-Crossroads
Fire Chief Mike Hamilton,
who has been a firefighter
for 25 years, said the pur
pose of the training is to
prepare firefighters — es
pecially younger, less expe
rienced ones — for dealing
effectively with real life
emergency situations they
could encounter. ’
“It gives them a sense of
ecf to, the school nurse (li
censed registered nurse),
parent/guardian, and other
appropriate school person
nel ... will create/review
the student’s individual
health care plan.”
The policy goes on to say
that the student’s health
care plan will include a
statement that the pro
vided DNR and/or MOST
Firefighters
( assist an
I injured man
in simulated
emergency
training
exercises
■ that focused
on potential
' farm-related
• accidents
I on Sunday
\ afternoon at
■ C.A. Perry
and Son.
what- they might run into,”
Hamilton said.
Hamilton added that the
sessions that began Friday
evening and continued
through Sunday afternoon
also allowed participants to
use tools they may not have
used before and to learn
the value of teamwork.
Hamilton said the week
end’s sessions began with
some classroom work fol
lowed by training sessions.
The final step, he said,
would be a written test
See TRAINING, 2A
STAFF PHOTO BY REGGIE PONDER
Susanne Stallings, clerk to the Chowan County
Board of Commissioners, administers the oath of
office to County Manager Kevin Howard during the
commissioners’ meeting on March 5.
form will not be honored
by school staff in the event
that the student is in a car
diac or pulmonary arrest
situation, “but rather pro
vided to emergency medi
cal services personnel
when they arrive on the
scene (in case of) a medi
cal emergency.”
A copy of the health care
plan will be provided to
Saturday
attendance low,
learning stays ^
on agenda
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
Attendance at the Edenton-Chowan Schools rare Sat
urday session this past weekend was predictably below
average daily attendance.
Officials with Edenton-Chowan Schools reported that
average attendance is between 90-95 percent at each
school on a daily basis.
In contrast, Saturday’s attendance was 73 percent at
White Oak, 70 percent at John A Holmes, 68 percent at
D.E Walker and 65 percent at Chowan Middle School. .■//
White Oak Elementary School managed to beat the low
attendance trend somewhat through a “psyama day” event
in celebration of Dr. Seuss’ birthday week.
“It was a really good day,” said White Oak Principal Mi
chelle White.
The school had a productive day while trying to make it
„ extra fun for the kids with a “happy Saturday dance” and
the pajama day celebration, according to White.
The school had its literacy block as usual, she said.
The school probably had better attendance than it might
have had otherwise because students were excited about
the pajama day, White said.
. Chi Friday’s “Cubby TV” broadcast at the school,
See ATTENDANCE, 4A
STAFF PHOTO BY REGGIE PONDER
Rachel Ward, who teachers freshman science at John
A. Holmes High School, goes over a lesson with student
Whitney Pierce during the last class period of the day
on Saturday.
Solar projects planned
in Perquimans County
BY PETER WILLIAMS
The Perquimans Weekly
The same company that
first proposed building a
100-acre solar power proj
ect in Perquimans County
more than three years ago
was back before the county
planning board this week to
ask for conditional use per
mits for two more.
Solar Green LLC’s original
project wasjpff U.S. 17 near
the Perquimans-Chowan
County line.
One of the ones being
reviewed was in Winfall
and the other Was a 92-acre
site near County Line Road
and south of Drinking Hole
Road.
The Winfall board held a
public hearing Monday. Ad
ditionally, the county plan
ning board met Tuesday
night
The county has already
approved three other solar
projects, including the origi
nal. Combined the five solar
projects would cover 627
acres, the largest of which
the parent or guardian, the
policy states, and a copy
will also be maintained
'in the student’s health re
cord.
School board member
Jean Bunch, a registered
nurse, assisted school per
sonnel by reviewing and
making suggestions to the
draft policy developed by
school system personnel.
being 155 acres.
Thai’s small compared to
the potential footprint of the
wind farms that have been
proposed.
The Desert Wind project
that would straddle die Per
quimans-Pasquotank coun
ty line would cover 25,000
acres. It’s been stalled and
no construction has taken
place. f
A second wind farm has
been proposed on the other
side of the county. Apex
Clean Energy, Inc. has pro
posed a 10,000-acre facility
that straddles both Perqui
mans and Chowan counties.
Eighty percent of the proj
ect is in Perquimans. That
plan has been reviewed by
Chowan County officials
but has yet to go before the
Perquimans County Com
mission. Perquimans has a
zoning ordnance that would
allow structures of that size,
while Chowan does not
At this point none of the
. renewable energy projects f
, See PROJECTS, 4A , !