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Churchill follows calling as scholar and priest — 7B '50* State celebrates record visitor spending ■ County spending by domestic visitors increases by 3.3 percent to $18.72M From staff reports The North Carolina Division of Tourism, Film and Sports Development announced last week that domestic visitors to and within Chowan County spent $18.72 mil lion in 2013, an increase of 3.3 percent from 2012. “This increase in visitor spending shows how important the Hospitality Industry is to Chowan County and the value of collab oration and cooperation within our county to grow this industry,” said Keith Nixon, Chowan County Tourism Development Authority Chairman. “We look forward to reaching a wider audience as we continue to invite visitors to experience our rich his toric and cultural assets.” Tburism impact highlights for 2013: • The travel and tourism industry directly employs more than 140 in Chowan County. • Total payroll generated by the tourism industry in Chowan County was $2.7 mil lion. • State tax revenue generated in Chowan County totaled $890,000 through state sales and excise taxes, and taxes on personal and corporate income. Approximately $1.15 million in local taxes were generated from sales and property tax revenue from travel-generated and travel-supported busi nesses. Meanwhile, Gov. Pat McCrory and De partment of Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced recently that 95 of the state’s 100 counties saw increases in visitor spending in 2013. Data from the North Car olina Department of Commerce’s Division of Tourism, Film, and Sports Development showed that visitor spending topped $1 bil lion in Mecklenburg, Wake and Guilford counties and approached $1 billion in Dare and Buncombe. See TOURISM, 2A GRAND OPENING HELD DOWNTOWN 1 Edenton Mayor Roland Vaughan (left) presents volunteer Madison Phillips a framed copy of \ a proclamation designating him the honorary lightkeeper j for the historic 3 Roanoke River Lighthouse. STAFF PHOTOS BY REGGIE PONDER N.C. Secretary of Cultural Resources Susan Kluttz (center) cuts the ribbon at the 1886 Roanoke River Lighthouse, joined by (k) Karen Ipock, director of Historic Edenton State Historic Site; Jerry Cllmer, treasurer of the Edenton Historical Commission; Keith Hardison, director of state historic sites; Madison Phillips, a local volunteer and honorary lightkeeper; Edenton Mayor Roland Vaughan; and U.S. Coast Guard Commander Steven Fachko. Roanoke River Lighthouse opens to public Charles Boyette of the Historic Edenton State Historic Site and Wanda Lassiter of Museum of the Albemarle talk shop in front of a set of wooden trunks on the second floor of the lighthouse. BY REGGIE PONDER Editor Local and state officials Friday celebrated the restoration of the 1886 Roanoke River Light house as an educational and economic opportu nity for the community, region and state. N.C. Department of Cultural Resources Sec retary Susan Kluttz also cited the opening of the lighthouse to the public as one more example of Edenton’s commitment to historic preservation. Kluttz opened her re marks at Friday’s Grand Opening ceremony by praising the communi ty’s pursuit of historic preservation. “No one does it bet ter than you,” Kluttz said. The 1886 Roanoke River Lighthouse is “another jewel in your crown,” Kluttz said. The lighthouse has been restored and has been furnished with items donated or loaned to the Edenton Historical Commission. The Historical Commis sion has in turn placed the furnishings on loan to the Historic Edenton State Historic Site for use in the Roanoke River Lighthouse. “We were veiy lucky to receive such unique and appropriate fur nishings which help to exhibit the lighthouse as it would have been in the late 1800s,” ex plained Gregg Nathan, executive director of the Edenton Historical Commission. The items used were selected by the state curator. Kluttz told the crowd See LIGHTHOUSE, 4A Three arrested in pickup truck theft BY REGGIE PONDER Editor Three young men from Edenton have been arrested in connection with the theft of a pickup truck - and two of them have been charged in the theft and destruction of two trucks. The two pickup trucks were destroyed in a bizarre chain of events in Chowan C2009 The Chowan Herald All Rights Reserved it * £■ • • S • i County late at night on July 29 and early on the morning of July 30. Jeremy Ed ward Thomas win reported. Christopher Shaddar Walk er, 17, of 706 Cabarrus St, was ^charged with breaking Travers, 23, of | 706 Cabarrus St, - and Kelvin HARRIS TRAVERS WALKER and entering of a motor vehicle, larceny of a mo Lee Harris, 23, of 1021 N. Broad St, each were charged with two coifnts of larceny of a motor ve hicle, two counts of pos session of stolen goods, two counts of conspiring to commit felony larceny, first degree trespass, ii\juiy to personal prop erty, felony breaking and entering, felony lar ceny, and burning pen sonal property, accord ing to Sheriff Dwayne Goodwin. TVavers was placed in the Chowan County jail under $41,000 bond and Harris was placed in the Chowan County Jail un der $43,500 bond, Good tor vehicle, possession of stolen goods, conspiracy to commit felony larceny, first degree trespass, and irvjury to real property, Goodwin said. Walker was placed in the Chowan County Jail under $16,000 bond, Goodwin said “A few people came forward with informa tion “ Goodwin said. “We followed that informa tion and ended up mak ing these arrests.” Goodwin said this was a collaborative effort of the Chowan Sheriff’s Office, Edenton Police Department and N.C. Di vision of Motor Vehicles license and Theft En forcement Section. On July 29-20 a Ford pickup truck belonging to Chris Elliott was sto len and burned, and a Chevrolet truck belong ing to Simon Rich was See THEFT, 2A I 4 i Schools prepare for Aug. 25 opening BY REBECCA BUNCH Staff Writer Students in the Edenton-Chowan school system will have lots to look forward to as school opens again on Aug. 25, principals from the county’s four schools say. They’ll get a taste of what to ex pect from the new school during Open House events set for tomor row (Thursday), Aug. 21. White Oak Elementary and D.E Walker Ele mentary will hold their Open House activities from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Over at Chowan Middle School an Open House is planned' from 5 to 7 pm John A. Holmes’s Open House will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. White Oak Principal Michelle White said her school is excited about their new playground that will be installed on Sept 8. Special fea tures will include a rock wall, a new swing set, games and new soccer goals among other things. The school is also launching a new “Watch Dog" program that aims to interest dads and male role mod els to volunteer at White Oak for a day. “The goal of this program is to in crease positive male role models for children, and give dads an opportu nity to be actively involved in their child’s education,” White said. White said that her school already has “an extremely effective” PBIS (positive behavior intervention and support) that promotes positive be havior in order to cut down on nega tive behavior. “This program will feature a school wide consistent daily prog ress report for parents that high lights students’ behavior and any See OPENING, 3A Tax credit backers lose this year’s showdown ■ Steinburg: Historic preservation will be on 2015 agenda BY REGGIE PONDER Editor Backers of the state’s historic preservation tax credits program ap pear to have lost this year’s skirmish, but advocates such as Rep. Bob Steinburg and Secretary of Cultural Resources Susan Kluttz are looking to next year as an. opportunity to reinstate some kind of tax credit or other funding for historic preserva tion. Steinburg, R^Chowan, said this week he was disappointed that the General Assembly didn’t at least vote to extend the existing historic preservation tax credits through June 30,2015. The House had included the pres ervation tax credits in the budget but the Senate version of the budget See TAX CREDITS, 2A ■■ . .
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