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Plans for Walker building focus on education
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BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
Chowan County officials
have temporarily suspend
ed the study committee on
the future of the former D.F.
Walker High School building
but say they are very inter
ested in using the building
for educational purposes.
The study committee
has been suspended while
county officials clarify what
is possible under the terms
of the county’s lease agree
ment with College of The
Albemarle. The county is
studying legal issues as they
study legal issues and fund
ing questions.
Chowan County Commis
sioner Emmett Winbome,
who co-chairs the study
committee with COA Presi
dent Kandi Deitemeyer, said
last week that the commit
tee has not been disbanded.
The county commissioners
simply decided to sit back
and wait on answers to
basic questions about the
lease agreement - and other
questions such as the col
lege’s plans for the building
- before resuming the work
of the committee, according
to Winbome.
“There are a lot of un
answered questions,” Win
bome said. “We’re not doing
with the committee but just
suspending it for the time
being.”
Winbome made the mo
tion to suspend the study
committee at the county
commissioners’ March 7
meeting.
The county commission
ers convened the study com
mittee last fall, appointing
representatives from COA,
Edenton-Chowan Schools
and the D.E Walker Alumni
Association. The committee
discussed a wide range of
options for the future of the
two-story Walker building
on CO As Edenton-Chowan
Campus.
The current move by the
commissioners represents
a kind of pulling back from
that wide-ranging discus
sion to focus more narrowly
on using the building for
educational purposes.
Winbome said the com
missioners understand the
See WALKER, 4A

| STAFF PHOTOS BY REGGIE PONDER
Children (above) from Little Goose Nest hunt
for Easter Eggs during an egg hunt Tuesday
morning at the Cupola House garden.
Holden Fuller, 4, runs back to home base' with
a handful of Easter Eggs during Tuesday s egg
hunt at the Cupola House garden. His mother,
Leslie Fuller, trails behind.
Town OKs agreement
, with local Habitat
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
Tlte town council has
given its approval to a pro
posed memorandum of
understanding with Chow
an-Perquintans Habitat for
Humanity focusing on hous
ing iit need of repairs in two
local redevelopment zones
The council unanimously
agreed at its March 8 month
ly meeting to okay the
agreement with Habitat that
will be signed at a later date,
according to local Habitat
chapter president Sally Hol
loway.
Town Manager Anne-Ma
rie Knighton said in a memo
Bto the council that the ac
tion resulted from work be
ing done by Town Planner
Sam Barrow prior to his de
ployment overseas with the
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National Guard.
“Previous to Sam Bar
row’s deployment he was
working closely with Habi
tat for Humanity regarding
possible partnerships be
tween the Town and Habitat
as part of tire neighborhood
redevelopment plaits for the
Oakum Street Redevelop
ment Zone and the Mose
ley Street Redevelopment
Zone,” she said.
Knighton noted that in
Barrow’s absence she had
continued to have conver
sations with Habitat leader
ship. Holloway said that the
memorandum was a result
of of these continued talks.
“Habitat initiated the
(memorandum) with the
Town because we saw that
our mission, in particular
the new Edenton Initiative,
which focuses on Edenton’s
neighborhood revitalization,
complements the Town’s
Redevelopment Plan,” Hol
loway said. “Also, the Re
development Plan cites
See AGREEMENT, 4A
About 300 seek 40 Food Lion jobs
' STAFF PHOTO BY REGGIE PONDER
Job seekers stand in line at the Food Lion job fair Thursday at the Hampton Inn in Edenton.
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
A Food Lion job fair
Thursday saw some 300 lo
cal people speak with com
pany representatives about
available positions at the
new store that’s opening
April 6 at Chowan Cross
ing.
Food Lion officials have
said they plan to hire about
40 additional employees for
the new store.
Around 10:45 ant. there
See JOB FAIR, 4A
White happy with win in Dem Primary
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
James “Jill" White said he was
happy to have prevailed in Tues
day’s Democratic Primary contest in
Chowan County’s 1st Commissioner
District.
The political newcomer edged out
incumbent Commissioner Emmett
Winbome for the opportunity to face
Republican Ron Cummings in No
vember. The final un
official vote count in
the Primary was 266
vote for White and
266 for Winborhe.
Although there art*
nearly a dozen pro
visional ballots in
the district, White is
confident he will be
the winner when all the votes are ac
counted for in next week’s canvass.
WHITE
WINBORNt
Winbome, who is
currently serving his
fourth term on the
board, was stoic as
he reflected on the
outcome in Tuesday’s
Primary.
“The people have
spoken and I’m going
to move forward,”
See DEM PRIMARY, 4A
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