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_ X pg /c9 mil... k /c8.. * * *u i#!*****"5 27932:1864 •■V'. ;i 482-4418 Wednesday, October 22, 2014 SM GHOST WALK A HAUNTING SUCCESS STAFF PHOTO BY REBECCA BUNCH Ghost Walk guide Wil Hoggard, who Is wearing a Confederate uniform, speaks with tour-goers at Colonial Park at the waterfront, Saturday. See story on IB. McGee era reunion set Oct. 31, Nov. 1 From staff reports A big weekend is planned Oct 31 ahd Nov. 1 to honor Edenton’s ac complished football coach of 50 years ago. Coach Jerry McGee will be recog nized by Edenton town officials at the halftime of the home football game at John A Holmes High School on Oct 31, according to Dwight Flanagan, a principal organizer of the weekend’s events. A luncheon in McGee’s honor will be held Nov. 1 at Leon Nixon’s cater ing, beginning at 11 am. The public is invited to the lun cheon. There are still limited tickets available to the public for $20 each. Contact John Dowd at United Country Dowd & Forbes Really at 333-0939. Currently, 90 people plan to attend the Saturday luncheon. At the football game on Oct 31,all former players, managers, trainers and cheerleaders, and their children and grandchildren, are invited to go on the field with McGee at halftime. See REUNION, 3A Conference explores religion, science BY VERNON FUESTON Correspondent More than eighty people attended a conference on re ligion and science Saturday, hearing a discussion on cut ting-edge cancer research and pondering thought-pro voking questions posed by a scientist and theologian on common ground, or lack of it, between the two disci plines. The first annual Michael Pierce Memorial Confer ence on Religion and Sci ence, held at the First Pres byterian Church in Edenton, was an attempt to heal what 0 ©2009 The Chowan Herald All Rights Reserved 1 Coach Jerry McGee celebrates a football championship. - •• -sipsw •'% -: - ’ ':-'T PHOTO BY VERNON FUESTON ' The Rev. Doug Eddy, pastor of First Prebyterian Church, addresses the Science and Religion Conference at the church. the Rev. Doug Eddy, pastor at First Presbyterian, saw as a nit between people of faith and science. He said that rift came about through friction over issues like stem cell research; abortion; and creationism, an attempt provide an alternative evolution being taught the public schools. Eddy said the conference was inspired by the life of SS.S Michael Pierce, an elder in the church, who he de scribed as a “Renaissance man.” Pierce, a former corpo rate finance officer and trained philosopher, had both a lifelong interest in science and a deep, abid ing faith, Eddy said Hosting the conference in his honor seemed an obvious tribute. Eddy said he does not see religion and science as in conflict, but sees them as addressing differentsub | jects. He said religion seeks to find truth regarding mo rality, spirituality and the soul using faith while sci ence seeks truth about the physical world using test able means. He said both can inform each other and both need to understand each other. See CONFERENCE, 3A clawfoot tub, bar stoats, stereo, fight fixtures, folding treadmill, furniture books, home decor and MUCH MORE! State, defense each describe different roads to 2004 slaying BY REGGIE PONDER Editor Both sides in the capital murder trial of William Jo seph Moore agreed Mon day that Moore stabbed Pamela Joye Virzi to death outside her Edenton home on Aug. 17,2004 - but they disagreed sharply about the road that led to the slaying. H.P. Williams, the spe cial prosecutor retained by the N.C. Administrative Office of the Courts to try the case, told the jury in his opening statement Mon day that Moore had made repeated death threats against Virzi in the months just before the stabbing, and left Winfall for Eden ton on the afternoon of Aug. 17, 2004, with a knife at his side and telling the cab driver he planned to “sneak up” on Virzi. That is a description of premeditated, first-degree Early voting begins Thursday From staff reports Early voting in this year’s General Elec tion begins Thursday. One-stop voting hours on Thursday and Friday of this week will be 7:30 am. - 7:30 p.m. On Saturday, voting hours will be 9 am. - 1 p.m. The hours will be 7:30 am. - 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 27 and 28. On Oct. 29-31, the hours will be 7:30 am. - 6 p.m. | RELATED i ■Tillett denies defense I request for change of venue-2A t, ' . ri _.. .. ■ murder, Williams said. But Ernest “Buddy” Conner, defense counsel for Moore - while agree ing with many of the basic facts of the case as pre sented by Williams - con tended there was nothing premeditated about the killing. Conner said the slaying resulted from a sudden impulse that arose in the moment, and he argued that Moore had almost no impulse control as a result of a genetically defective brain, a chaotic .childhood home, three traumatic brain usuries and heavy consumption of alcohol and drugs. A neuro-psychologist See 2004 SLAYING, 4A The final day of one-stop voting will be Nov. 1 from 9 a.m. -1 p.m. A number of races are the ballot in this elec tion. Tim Brabble, a Repub lican who is running un affiliated, is challenging Sheriff Dwayne Goodwin. Goodwin, a Democrat, is completing his second term as sheriff. Brabble mounted an See EARLY VOTING, 3A
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