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Wednesday, June 11, 2014
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E-C Partnership extends helping hand to Walmart
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
Local economic develop
ment officials are prepared
to offer a helping hand to
Walmart — especially in
the form of information and
analysis — as the retail gi
ant mulls a possible stpre
location in Chowan County.
Following a meeting of
its board of directors last
Local group
mulls county
teacherage
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
The school board unanimously passed a motion at its
June 2 meeting to endorse a plan that could lead to the
establishment of a teacherage in Chowan County by the
Edenton-Chowan Education Foundation.
A teacherage is a residence provided for teachers at
an affordable cost But beyond that, Superintendent Al
lan Smith said, the purpose of a teacherage is to aid in
the recruitment and retention of highly qualified teach
ers.
The availability of affordable housing is the motivat
ing force behind this initiative,” he said,
j Smith said he was pleased that the board expressed
Sipport for the foundation’s interest in helping teachers
secure affordable housing in the community through
i, ajprogram sponsored by the State Employees Credit
Clion Foundation.
f ,/This is an exciting possibility, one that is greatly need
14 by our young teachers who are struggling to establish
4 -hemselves in our community,” Smith said. “Providing
j, .r\ .quality housing at an affordable cost will greatly assist
‘ ft yc^ng teachers in making the transition from college to
i a i-,'W career as a professional educator.”
i 7 Joy Denton, president of the foundation, confirmed
their interest in exploring the feasibility of creating a
local teacherage, but emphasized that the plan is in its
infancy at this point.
“We are just looking at the options right now,” she
said.
Smith said he was hopeful the details could be worked
out because of the opportunity for success it would offer
through community partnerships.
The possibility of a teacherage would truly be a com^
See TEACHERAGE 2A
Farmer’s Foods
store closing
■ Store’s closing a result of
chain going out of business
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
The Fanner’s Foods store
in Edenton is closing.
Allen Johnson, deli-bak
ery and produce director
for the Chase City, Va.-based
grocery chain, explained
Monday that the company is
going out of business due to
its owner’s retirement.
Johnson was in Edenton
Tuesday morning to break
the news to the store’s 35 or
so employees. He said the
impact on the employees
is the most difficult part of
closing the store.
“Our employees are top
notch people,” Johnson
6aid.
Johnson said the com
pany realizes that the store’s
closing will be a blow to the
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Thursday, the Edenton
Chowan Partnership is of
fering its services to Walmart
should the company wish to
take advantage of work the
partnership could do on its
behalf.
Those services could in
clude, but would not nec
essarily be limited to, pro
viding information about
demographics and about the
local permitting processes.
community to some de
gree, both for shoppers
and for employees.
Farmer’s Foods want
ed to have another store
ready to come in behind
it before closing the loca
tion, particularly so that
the employees could keep
their jobs, Johnson said.
Johnson explained that
Farmer’s Foods had tried
to sell the Edenton store
and had talked to chains
such as Piggly Wiggly and
Farm Fresh about taking
over the operation, but to
no avail.
“That didn’t pan out
so. we were left with no
choice but to close it,”
Johnson said.
The store will not close
immediately.
Instead, it will remain
open for a period as the
inventory is sold down.
The store will try to liq
uidate all of its inventory,
according to Johnson.
The store will close as
soon as it sells off its in
ventory and cleans every
thing from top to bottom,
Johnson said. Farmer’s
Foods will leave the store
See CLOSING, 2A
Frank Miglorie, executive
director of the Partnership,
said the board’s directive
regarding Walmart grew out
of a larger discussion about
building the overall retail
business in Edenton and
Chowan County. That in
cludes recruiting new stores
and food establishments to
the community, he said.
“What they really want
us to do is to grow the retail
13th Amendment visits Edenton
STAFF PHOTO BY REBECCA BUNCH
Dr. Ben Speller looks at North Carolina’s copy of the 13th Amendment at the 1767 Chowan Courthouse. More
than 200 people visited the historic site to read the words of the document abolishing slavery in the United States
and examine related exhibits. See story, additional photos, page IB.
Expanded facility celebrated
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
Vidant Chowan Hospital
held a ribbon-cutting cer
emony and open house last
Friday to celebrate the new
Outpatient Services Center,
which is slated to open on
Monday.
Vidant Community Hos
pitals President Roger Rob
ertson pointed out the new
outpatient clinic is three
times the size of the previ
ous facility, offers separate
waiting areas, and includes
an expanded chemotherapy
area that is “absolutely gor
geous, with lots of natural
light.”
Patients have better
health outcomes when they
don’t have to travel for treat
ment, Robertson said.
See HOSPITAL, 2A
Community raising $200K for Boys & Girls Club
BY REBECCA BUNCH
• Staff Writer
About 100 people‘attend
ing a Be Great Breakfast on
Thursday morning benefit
ing the Boys & Girls Club
of Edenton/Chowan County
found out firsthand why
their presence meant so
much.
The breakfast — held
at the Nothin’ Fancy Cafe
& Market — was part of a
$200,000 fundraising effort
begun in January to carry
on the work of the club and
allow it to continue to grow,
x To date, the club has raised
\in excess of $175,000. Cur
rently, 60-plus children are
in this community so that
we can draw people to this
county for shopping," Mi
glorie said. The Partnership
Board met last Thursday.
A Wal Mart spokesman
earlier this year confirmed
that the company was con
sidering Edenton as a future
store location. Things have
been mostly quiet on that
front since then.
The Partnership’s strategy
STAFF PHOTO BX REGGIE PONDER
Snipping the ribbon at the new Outpatient Services Center are (l-r) Edenton Edenton
Mayor Roland Vaughan; Chowan County Commissioner John Mithchener; Town Manager
Anne-Marie Knighton, who chairs the hospital’s Directors Council; Dr. William “Skip” '
Hope, the hospital’s chief of staff; the Rev. Thomas Biggs, the hospital’s lead chaplain;
Cindy Coker, vice president for patient care; Kristy Worrell with rehabilitation services;
Brian White, director of clinical support services; Dana Byrum, clinical nurse manager;
Vicfant Chowan Hospital President Jeffrey Sackrison; Vidant Community Hospitals
President Roger Robertson; Ginny Waff, director of the Vidant Chowan Hospital
Foundation; and Bill Schultz, chairman of the Vidant Chowan Hospital Foundation.
members.
‘ Meader Haniss, board
chair for the club, offered
some thoughts about the
club’s success over the past
10 years and its efforts to
continue to empower the
lives of children so that they
can grow into successful
adults.
Two speakers with very
different life stories but a
shared belief in what the
club can do to impact the
lives of children also ad
dressed the group.
Greenville attorney Steve
Stephenson HI, of Ward and
Smith, P.A., talked about
See BOYS & GIRLS, 2A
is to grow retail in the com
munity in a way that will
foster the development of
stores both downtown and
in non-downtown locations
such as existing plazas and
new parcels on the outskirts
of town.
Miglorie said it is not the
Partnership’s role to pick
and choose among potential
retailers. The town has a sig
nificant permitting process
and “that is a kind of vetting
process,” he said.
The group believes it
needs to focus more atten
tion on attracting more re
tail establishments to town,
according to Miglorie.
That effort needs to in
clude attracting more food
establishments to town to
serve the needs, of tour
See WALMART, 4A
iff •
STAFF PHOTO BY REBECCA BUNCH
Boys & Girls Club Director Elizabeth Spruill (third from
left) accepts a $1,000 check from Susan Nolton (right)
presented on behalf of the Edenton Woman’s Club.
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IVhp; Marcus Glenn, renowned African-American artist who did scenery and logo for 2014 Grammy Awards show.
Whati donated collage ''Blowing In the Wind-Red” for raffle by EWC and CAC. Description: 2006 15"x 20" Mixed media on paper with hand embellish
ment and relief collage. Signed lower right and annotated. From the numbered edition of 395 (45 European artist’s proofs, 45 artist’s proofs, 45 hors com
merce proofs, 10 printer's proofs, and 3 bon a tirer proof impressions also exist).
When and Where: Raffle at June 12, CAC at 4 pm. Tickets available $5 each or 3 for $10 at CAC or Jovan Dress Shop until actual drawing.
Wbyi Proceeds to beneflt^dentonV^man^ Club scholarship fund for local students and CAC^