2A THE CHOWAN HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19,2017
Pets of the Week
Sandy, a Bloodhound mix, is a sweet,
loving female available now for adoption.
She could easily become a Velcro dog,
she loves being close to people. Sandy
is healthy but heartworm positive. She is
eligible for a Heart Healthy Scholarship
from AWARE, which will pay for a portion
of her treatments. Scholarship details
are available at the shelter.
Striped Dozer is a young male Gray
Tabby that has become accustomed to
lounging around waiting for visitors to
admire him. Extra friendly Dozer has also
achieved talents in purring and flirting.
Young Cooper’s coat is a series of dark
rich coffee colors. Cooper, a Lab mix, is
full of energy and intelligence. He is ready
to learn and please his very own human.
Curiosity has this cat waiting to see what’s
next! Young “Ever” is a female Gray Tabby
with beautiful sea green eyes and a bob
tail. Ever’s adoption fee includes spaying,
basic shots and a micro chip.
The Tri-County Animal Shelter and Adoption Center is on Icaria Road in Tyner and can be reached at 221-8514.
Crimewatch
EDENTON POLICE
DEPARTMENT
ARRESTS
■ April 11 — Douglas
Densmond Moore, 37, of
Hertford, was charged with
one misdemeanor count of
consuming alcohol on/off
premises of establishment.
■ April 8 — Tracy Grego
ry Lewis,.35, of Wedgewood
Apartments, was charged
with one misdemeanor
count of assault inflicting
serious injury and two mis
demeanor counts of assault
on a female.
■ April 7 — Kemondre
De’Jon Gregory, 22, of Bad
ham Road, was charged with
one misdemeanor count of
assault on a female.
INCIDENTS
■ April 10 — Hit and run
on Virginia Road.
■ April 9 — Discharging
a firearm inside the town
limits on Paradise Road.
■ April 7 — Assault with
a deadly weapon, discharg
ing a firearm into an occu
pied dwelling and injury to
real property on Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. Avenue.
■ April 7 — Hit and run
on Peanut Drive.
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be referred to the House
Rules Committee and will
not be heard.”
Steinburg said though 61
percent of the votes cast in
support of a constitutional
amendment in 2012 seeking
to ban same-sex marriage,
the Supreme Court had
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the final word on the mat
ter. He said his views are
in line with the more than
70 percent of the people in
the northeastern end of the
state who voted in favor of
the amendment. Steinburg
said while his faith guides
him to support marriage be
tween a man and woman,
he supports same-sex civil
unions.
Steinburg said this issue
hits particularly close to
home because his younger
brother, who is gay, mar
ried his longtime partner
about two years ago in
New York.
“This is a very sensitive
issue,” he said. “I saw it up
and closer and personal
with my brother and his
partner. Even though I sup
port the marriage amend
ment, I never stopped lov
ing my brother and spouse.
I’m not a zealot nor am I
homophobic, but I am a
believer in traditional mar
riage. But that in no way im
pacts my relationship with
my brother or gay people
who I consider friends.”
In other news, the Leg
islature is considering pro
posals that may change
where legal notices are
published.
One proposal — House
Bill 432/Senate BUI 343
— seeks to require gov
ernments to publish legal
notices to their websites.
Instead of spending the
money on newspaper ad
vertising, the savings would
be used to partiaUy fund
teacher supplements.
Steinburg said though
he understands lawmakers
rationale for bringing up
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this legislation every year,
he doesn’t support this pro
posal because not everyone
has access to the Internet.
“I’m a staunch supporter
of keeping the system the
way it is,” he said. “Unlike
urban areas that have In
ternet access, we are in a
different situation in the
northeastern part of the
state where access may be
limited — not everyone is
connected.”
One of the bill’s spon
sors, Senator Trudy Wade,
R-Guilford, explained why
she supports this legisla
tion
“We all share the goal
of making sure the public
is better informed about
what their government is
doing. When the current
( system was developed in
the early 1900s, the best
way to achieve that goal
was newspaper ads — but
in 2017, it’s the internet,”
Wade posted on her web-
site. “Instead of subsidizing
for-profit news corpora
tions, this bill helps save
local tax dollars and gen
erates new revenue to pay
our public school teachers
more.”
According to the North
Carolina Press Association
study, newspapers contin
ue to reach an overwhelm
ing amount of citizens com
pared to county websites
- in some cases as much as
3tol.
“When comparing visi
tors in print and online to
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the office. Instead, a doc
tor went to folk’s homes to
treat the sick and injured.
A set of saddlebags like
those on display as part of
the exhibit were essential
to carrying medications
and the vials needed.
Long before a byzantine
filing system and comput
ers, Dickinson used an
18th century secretary/
book case that held his
important papers. Nearby
where Dicldnson’s eye
glasses sit, there is a giant
coffee/chocolate mug sits
nearby — think Big Gulp
size only that the cup is
made out of porcelain.
An imitation bone col
lection is on display.
“Physicians of the day
would use skeletons as
references in administer
ing treatments,” Stage
said.
Speaking of bones, a
few asides from Stage’s
tour include how Dickin
son was initially buried in
1803 within that circular
area in front of the Cu
pola House. He was later
re-interred in the Eelbeck
family cemetery by Mace
donia Road. Stage said the
cemetery has fallen into
disrepair so that the fam
ily graves are now marked
plastic pipes. t
our products to that of a
government website it is
clear that citizens come to
newspapers for local in
formation and news about
their communities, includ
ing these important legal
notices,” the NCPA posted
Thursday on its website.
The House and Senate
are working on compara
ble bills that seek preserve
the requirement that gov
ernments publish legal no
tices in newspapers. Legal
notices would continue to
be published in a newspa
per of general circulation,
but they would also need
to be run online by the
newspaper’s website. The
North Carolina Press As
sociation’s website would
then carry the notice state
wide.
Lastly, the Chowan
Herald shared with Stein
burg a suggestion from
Grace Bean of Edenton
who would like to see a
pre-K program offered to
all students statewide. A
longtime teacher, Bean
noted that not everyone
qualifies for enrollment
in Chowan County’s pre-K
program.
According to the nc-
childcare.nc.gov, waiting
lists exist in counties when
funding is not sufficient to
serve all eligible children.
Steinburg said he would
like to see the pre-K pro
gram expand to include all
students.
“We want to make sure
“I’ve been out there —
it’s sad,” he said.
Stage said he was in
spired to recreate Dickin
son’s office because of his
love for medical history.
“I’m really interested in
the history of medicine,”
he said. “There are some
fascinating stories.”
Thus Stage’s tour may
include small stories of
medical history. For exam
ple, George Washington
may not have necessarily
succumbed to a cold/pneu-
monia, but instead of by
being bled to death. Stage
said soon after Washing ¬
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— regardless of a family’s
circumstances — that all
kids get an equal footing
with reading skills,” Stein
burg said. “We need to look
at how we can better ad
dress the concerns of the
education community to
see to it that when they re
ceive our children, every
body is on the same page
with the same skill sets. All
should an equal start.”
Steinburg said he has
discussed the matter with
state Rep. Craig Horn,
R-Union, co-chair of the
House’s appropriation
education committee. He
said Horn among others
may be receptive for a pro
posal to expand the pre-K
program.
Steinburg said based on
Smart Start program data,
Chowan County would be
an excellent place for a pi
lot program for expanding
pre-K statewide.
Though West Virginia is
much smaller in terms of
population and economy,
the state passed legisla
tion in 2002 requiring the
state to expand access to
preschool education pro
grams in order to make
prekindergarten avail
able to all 4-year-olds in
the state by the 2012-2013
school year according to
the W.Va. Department of
Education. The Mountain
state’s preschool pro
gram, called West Virginia
Universal Pre-K, is avail
able in all 55 counties.
ton — the nation’s first
president — contracted a
cold while working on his
farm, he was treated by
three physicians who, per
the standard of the day,
acquired more and more
blood from him.
Interestingly enough,
the exhibit has a glass jar
with a few living leeches
inside. Maybe just shake
the jar to see them move.
“He went through a lot
and probably died of med
ical treatment,” Stage said.
“There are little vignettes
like this that I think are in
teresting.”