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Farmers: !nd energy
PROJECT GOOD FOR FARM
Williams Monds points to
the location of his farm on
this map of the proposed
Timbermill Wind Project.
Editor’s note: This story looks at the impact of the proposed Timbermill
Wind Project from the point of view offarmers in the area who support,
the project The second part, to run next week, uriU look at nearby resi
dents who oppose the project. This is the first of two parts to this story.
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
Center Hill farmer William Monds said
this week that leasing a portion
of his land for the proposed
Timbermill Wind Project provides a
little bit of stability in an up-and
uuwn uusmess.
“Of all the things I have
read in the paper the thing
that has bothered me most
is people talking about the
greedy farmers,’” Monds
said Monday in an inter
view at the shop on his
farm on Center Hill Road.
“I’m not greedy. Farmers
are not greedy.”
Instead, Monds said, a
land lease such as Apex
Clean Energy has offered
through the Timbemiill Wind
Project gives farmers a little bit
of stability in a very risky busi
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their families and set aside money for
retirement
Monds noted he doesn’t have a job with a re
tirement program. He has to set aside money himself,
and that can be hard to do when he’s putting everything he has every year
into putting a crop into the ground and then praying for a good crop, he
said.
Joining Monds Monday were fellow farmers Tim White and Gene
Jordan. All three said they had looked at the pros and cons of the wind
energy project and concluded it would be good for the community.
See WIND, 4A
STAFF
PHOTOS
BY
REGGIE
PONDER
Gene Jordan
listens as fellow
farmers William
Monds and Tim
White discuss
the proposed
Timbermill Wind
Project.
During an interview Monday at William Monds’ farm
shop on Center Hill Road, (l-r) Monds listens as Tim
White talks about his thoughts on the proposed
Timbermill Wind Project.
Deitemeyer resigns COA for Central Piedmont CC
BY WILLIAM F. WEST
The Daily Advance
College of The Albemarle
President Kandi Deitemeyer
will become the new presi
dent of Central Piedmont
Community College next
year.
In a closed session with
the executive committee
of COA trustees on Fri
day morning, Deitemeyer
submitted her resignation,
which will take effect on
Dec. 31.
News of the upcoming
change came quickly, with
a Central Piedmont spokes
man, just before the end of
the COA closed session,
emailing a reporter a press
release announcing the hir
ing of Deitemeyer.
The COA executive com
mittee met privately with
Deitemeyer for approxi
mately 40 minutes
before reopening the
doors to the public
and announcing her
intention to leave
COA to take charge
of the Charlotte-area
based Central Pied
mont
Deitemeyer, 47,
has been CO As president
since April 2010. She was
one of five finalists national
ly seeking to succeed Tony
Zeiss, 70, who is retiring af
ter 24 years as president of
Central Piedmont.
At the start of 2017, Deite
meyer will be taking charge
of a community college
that is the second largest
in North Carolina, behind
Wake Technical Community
College in the Research Tri
angle Region.
After the COA trustees
executive committee meet
DEITEMEYER
ing Friday morning
was reopened to the
public, Deitemeyer
spoke briefly about
the privilege of hav
ing served as COA’s
president.
“I would not have
the opportunity to
go and be the new
president at Central Pied
mont Community College
beginning Jan. 1, 2017, had I
not been given this amazing
opportunity to lead COA for
the last 6 years,” she said.
“I am so grateful to this
board for your confidence
in me, for your incompara
ble support and to the lead
ership team and the tremen
dous faculty and staff at this
institution. It has been excit
ing, amazing fun,” she said.
Deitemeyer recalled the
hiring process when she
was being considered as a
possible successor to retir
ing COA President Lynne
Bunch.
Deitemeyer said when
she was interviewed and
also in remarks in a submit
ted video - she made clear
she wanted to do great
things but at the same made
clear if she could not have a
bit of fun, she did not want
to come to COA.
To tire COA trustees pres
ent on Friday morning, De
itemeyer told them, “Thank
you for your friendship and
your support.”
COA Trustees Chair
man Paul O’Neal said the
executive committee will
need Deitemeyer to obtain
information from the state
college board and the N.C.
Community Colleges office
regarding the steps to begin
See DEITEMEYER, 2A
Trustee proud
of Deitemeyer’s
accomplishments
From staff reports
A Chowan County resi
dent who serves on the
Board of Trustees at Col
lege of The Albemarle
expressed pride Monday
in COA President Kandi
Deitemeyer’s selection as
president of Central Pied
mont Community College.
SallyFrancis Kehayes
has worked closely with
Deitemeyer in promoting
and interpreting the col
lege’s mission to Chowan
residents.
I am so proud for
our region served by
the College of the Albe
marle,” Kehayes said.
“Our president has been
recognized as leading an
excellent educational
institution. So much so
that she has been of- j
fered, and has accepted,
a position at a much
larger college.”
Deitemeyer, 47, has j
been president of COA
since April 2010.
See KEHAYES, 4A
Chowan Fair gates open Tuesday
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
A mix of old favorites
and new attractions will fill
the American Legion Fair
grounds starting this week
end as the Chowan County
Fair gears up for another
fun-filled week.
Exhibit entries will start
making their way into the ex
hibit halls at the fairgrounds
this Saturday through Sun
day with judging of the en
tries set for Monday morn
ing. The entries reflect a
wide range of talents from
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photography to raising all
things green. Children and
adults participate.
Then, on Tuesday, Sept
27, at 4 p.m. the gates and
exhibits will officially open
to the public starting with
the community’s
children. Elementary and
middle school students will
be admitted free of charge
when accompanied by a
paying adult, fair officials
said.
On Wednesday, students
in grades K-12 will be admit
ted to the fair at half price.
On Thursday, entry to the
fair will be free for adults
age 60 and up (rides not in
cluded). Students K-12 will
be admitted at half price.
Saturday will be Military
Day at the Fair with a half
See FAIR, 5B
CHOWAN HERALD FILE PHOTO
The merry go round remains a perennial favorite with
children attending the Chowan County Fair. This year's
fair will get underway Sept. 27 and ends on Oct 1 at
the American Legion Fairgrounds in Edenton.
Copeland charged
in shooting death
From staff reports
The suspect in a Satur
day morning fatal shoot
ing has been arrested and
placed in the Chowan
County Jail.
According to Edenton
police, at around 11 am.
Saturday, suspect Darian
Copeland met investiga
tors at the Edenton Police
Department and admitted
to accidentally shooting
Malik Etheridge.
Copeland, 21, told inves
tigators that he was a back
seat passenger in a vehicle
when his .357 Magnum pis
tol accidentally discharged,
the bullet striking the vehi
cle’s driver, 19-year-old Ma
| lik Etheridge, in the head,
according
to police.
Copeland
has been
charged
with in
voluntary
COPELAND slaugh
ter and
was placed in the Chow
an County Jail under a
$100,000 bond.
At 12:16 a.m. Saturday,
Edenton police officers
responded to a shooting
that occurred in the park
ing lot of Wedgewood
Apartments, located at 726
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Blvd., in Edentoa
See SHOOTING, 4A
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