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Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Smart Start, Chowan CARES seek $100K for school readiness
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
The local coalition on early
childhood education is looking
for $100,000 a year that advocates
say is necessary to maintain the
current momentum in improving
school readiness among the coun
ty’s children.
Early childhood advocates as
sociated with Chowan/Perqui
mans Smart Start Partnership and
Chowan CAR.E.S. (Children’s
Alliance to Realize Educational
Success) have identified these
programs as critical to the effort;
Reach Out and Read - $5,000 -
distribution of books for children
through pediatricians’ practices
BAB.Y. (Birth and Beginning
Years) - $4,500 - training for par
ents in how to work with infants
and young children to boost their
learning and prepare them for kin
dergarten
Child Care health consultant
-$44,000
School readiness coordinator
-$46,500.
The programs were part of the
Transformation Zone Grant that
funded improvement efforts in
early childhood education and
three other counties.
“We need some help,” Susan
Nixon of Chowan/Perquimans
Smart Start Partnership told the
Chowan County Board of Com
missioners at its meeting last
week.
Nixon said she was afraid to see
The goal established by Smart Start and Chowan
C.A.R.ES. is for half of the county's children to be
school-ready when they enter kindergarten by 2018. The
current rate is 31 percent, up from 21 percent in 2014.
what would happen in the future tional recognition,
without additional funding. The “I’m very passionate about the
grant funding ended late last year, work that we’ve done,” Nixon
Nixon pointed out the work in said.
Chowan through the Transforma
tion Zone Grant had gained na
See CARES, 4A
Regional Fair sweeps state awards
From staff reports
The Chowan County Regional
Fair swept the six awards for
fairs with less than 15,000 in
attendance at the recent convention
of the N.C. Association of Agricul
tural Fairs.
“The Chowan County Regional
Fair would like to thank the com
munity for their continued support
in making us an award-winning fair,”
the Chowan County Regional Fair
Board stated last week.
This year’s fair will be held Sept
26 - 30. The 2017 fair theme is “Coun
try Nights and Fair Lights.”
The six awards were:
Agriculture Award — Given to
the fair that best showcases agricul
ture and the agricultural heritage of
the area served. Agricultural prod
ucts including new and antique ag
ricultural machinery and equipment
are displayed and farm-related dem
onstrations are ongoing. livestock
and poultry exhibits and/or livestock
shows are representative of the area
served. Agricultural-related contests
and entertainment are carried out to
further showcase agriculture.
Image Award — The prestigious
Image Award is given annually to
the fair that truly represents what
a N.C. Agricultural Fair should be.
The Image Award cannot be won
by the same fair two years in a row;
however, the fair can compete for
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Members of the Chowan County Regional Fair Board celebrate the fair’s sweep of the six awards In its
category at the recent convention of the North Carolina Association of Agricultural Fairs.
the Agriculture and Youth Awards.
Customers attending the fair are
provided with a safe environment
and friendly, inviting atmosphere.
The fair will be very progressive and
making improvements based on
available resources.
Media Award — The Media
Award is given to the fair that has
the best overall advertising and
public relations campaigns.
Youth Award — The Youth
Award is given annually to the fair
that best showcases youth and youth
activities of the area served. Since
youth are the future of Agricultural
Fairs, the winning fairs recognize the
importance of youth participation
and involvement and strive to
See FAIR, 4A
Locals at Inaugural Balls, Women’s March
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
Chowan County residents were
among those participating in two
momentous events that took place
in the nation’s capital over the
weekend - the inauguration of the
country’s 45th president, Donald
Trump, and the Women’s March on
Washington.
Among those who got a first
hand look and the chance to wel
come dignitaries attending the
Jan. 20 inauguration was Edenton
native Allison “Allie” Farless Mills,
who is a congressional aide for U.S.
Congressman Scott DesJariais of
Tennessee. She is the daughter of
Charles and Shari Thompson Far
less of Edenton.
Mills, who handles scheduling
for the congressman, was among
the 400 congressional aides who
volunteered to greet and direct ev
eryone from former presidents and
first ladies to members of the U.S.
Supreme Court and members of
Congress.
Mills said she was among the
greeters at the “law door” near
the old Supreme Court cham
bers. Among those she welcomed
were former vice president Dick
Cheney and his wife Lynn, former
vice president Dan Quayle, former
president George W. Bush and his
wife, Laura, former President Bill
Clinton and his wife, former Sec
retary of State Hillary Clinton, and
the Trump grandchildren.
Mills described the experience
as “amazing” and said two in par
ticular involving Laura Bush and
Hillary Clinton stood out in her
mind.
First, she said, former first lady
Laura Bush commented on the fact
that Mills wasn’t wearing gloves and
that her hands must be cold. To her
surprise, Mills said, Laura Bush held
her hands to warm them up for her.
She said that when Bill and
Hillary Clinton approached the
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of Edenton
(center) is
flanked by a
friend from
Windsor,
Wendy
Swain
(left) and
LaLonde’s
daughter,
Destiny
Askew, at
the Women’s
March on .
Washington,
DC over the
weekend.
Town eyes
approval for
bulkhead
financing
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
Town officials are seek
ing N.C. Local Government
Commission approval for
an installment purchase to
fund the replacement of the
bulkhead at Colonial Park.
The existing bulkhead
is estimated to be over 50
years old and is in poor con
dition.
Town Manager Anne
Marie Knighton briefed the
town council on the effort
during its work session on
Monday night She is being
assisted by Jennifer Bald
win, finance officer for the
town.
“We have a $100,000
CAMA grant and will need
to borrow $240,000," Knigh
ton said. “We estimate the
annual principal and inter
est payment to be approxi
mately $16,000 per year for
15 years.”
Krugaton noted that the
LCG requires municipalities
to identify its funding sourc
es as part of the approval
process. The town is solicit
ing proposals from banks to
loan to the Town $240,000.
Request for proposals have
been sent to banks and are
due in early February, Bald
win said.
The LGC must approve
the terms of the loan.
Knighton and Baldwin rec
ommended a portion of the
funds from the land trans
fer tax monies the town
receives be used to pay
the expected annual debt
service payment. Knighton
said that the Town budgets
to receive $60,000 a year,
but in the last two years,
the Town actually received
$80,000 and is on pace to
realize that same amount
this fiscal year.
“A public hearing is
required before the ap
plication can be submit
ted to the LGC,” the town
See BULKHEAD, 3A
Property owners file second suit against Timbermill facility
BT REUGIE PONDER
Editor,
Chowan County prop
erty owners who live near
a planned wind energy facil
ity in the county have filed
a second lawsuit seeking to
overturn county decisions
that allowed the project to
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All Rights Reserved
move torward.
Patrick and Belinda Flynn
of Paradise Road in Eden
ton on Jan. 3 filed a lawsuit
against the Chowan County
Board of Commissioners,
Chowan County Board of
Adjustment, and Timbermill
Wind LLC. The Flynns live
about six-tenths of a mile
from where one of the wind
turbines is slated to be built
and Patrick Flynn represent
ed himself in opposition to
the project during hearings
last year before the Chowan
County Board of Commis
sioners on the Timbermill
Wind Project Conditional
Use Permit.
Perquimans County offi
cials denied the permit for
the portion of the facility
that was slated to be built
in Perquimans but Timber
mill officials have indicated
they plan to move forward
with the development of
the portion of the projected
that has been permitted for
Chowaa
The Flynns’ Jan. 3 action
appeals the decision of the
Chowan County Board of
Adjustment on Oct. 26 not
to reject the statement by
Elizabeth Biyant, county
zoning administrator, on the
definition of “Environmen
tal Assessment” as used in
the county’s wind energy or
dinance. Based on that inter
pretation of “Environmental
Assessment” the zoning
administrator concluded
the Timbermill Conditional
Use Permit application was
complete.
The board determined it
did not have jurisdiction in
the matter since Bryant’s
statement was not an en
forcement action.
The Jan. 3 filing also ap
peals the Aug. 22 decision
by the Chowan County
Board of Commission-'
ers during the Conditional
Use Permit hearing on the
Timbermill Wind Project in
which the commissioners
rejected a motion to stay the
CUP hearing until after the
Chowan Board of Adjust
ment had heard the appeal
of the zoning administrator’s
interpretation.
The Flynns’ petition asks
the court to revoke the Tlm
bermill Wmd Project con
ditional use permit on the
grounds that Environmental
Assessment and complete
ness issues were not com
pletely argued.
The determinations on
the Environmental Assess
ment and completeness is
sues “serve as enforcement
actions against the appel
lants because they were
confirmed with legal advice
from the county attorney,”
according to the filing.
Bryant, in an Aug. 17 let
ter to William J. Brian Jr.,
an attorney representing
opponents of the Timber
See TIMBERMILI, 4A
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