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Wednesday, February 28, 2018
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Aces fall short in tourney
The Aces made a
good showing in the
North Carolina High
School Athletic Asso
ciation 1A basketball
tournament, but it was
not meant to be. — 1B
Miss NC to visit school
In celebration of Na
tional Reading Month
this March, CITGO
Petroleum Corpora
tion is kicking off its
second annual literacy
campaign to spread
the joy of reading to
thousands of children
in schools, community
centers and hospitals
across 19 states. — 6A
Pets of the Week
Check out some of
the pets the Tri-County
Animal Shelter offers
that would love to
start the new year in
a home of their very
own. — 6B
Primary heats up
There’s been a war
of words spread across
the airwaves between
Congressman Walter
Jones Jr. and Craven
County Commission
Scott Dacey who are
vying to be the Repub
lican nominee for the
3rd District. — 7A
Town Council discusses audit revelations
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
At the request of Coun
cilman Steve Biggs, council
members spent time at then-
work session Monday night
reviewing and discussing
the findings of a January
audit report given by the
town’s new auditor Donna
Hollowell that two accounts
receivable items had been
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Located in Tyner, the Tri-County Animal Shelter is poised to expand to better meet the needs of the
communities it serves in Chowan, Gates and Perquimans counties. Chowan officials expect work to start on an
expansion project at the shelter within the next 30 days.
Expansion work to start at shelter
overstated as of June 30,
2016.
In a Feb. 23 memo to
the council, Town Manager
Anne-Marie Knighton re
minded them that Hollowell
“did not agree with the cal
culation used by the previ
ous auditor to determine
the figure used for accounts
receivable. As a result, the
Electric Fund beginning net
position was reduced by
$739,424 and the beginning
net position of the Water and
Sewer Fund was reduced by
$128,045.”
The recent audit deter
mined that those amounts
were written off around 2008
by the town’s then-auditor
but were never taken out of
the audit and continued to
get pushed forward for the
next 10 years, according to
Councilman Steve Biggs
who said Tuesday morning
he is still frustrated with the
explanation offered by town
officials and intends to con
tinue looking for answers
to how the action slipped
through the cracks and no
body noticed it.
“What bothers me is, this
went on for 10 years and we
didn’t know about it,” he
said.
Knighton acknowledged
that despite a set of checks
See COUNCIL, 3A
Author
comes
to town
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
YOUNG
Edenton in
Mark the calendar be
cause best-selling author
Paul Young is coming to
Edenton.
The New York Times
best-selling author wrote a
novel that
was turned
into the
2017 Chris
tian drama
film “The
Shack”
will be the
featured
speaker at
two events
early March.
“I have been trying to get
to Edenton/Chowan County
since 2015, because of a
friend, J Malone Gilliam,
rector of St Paul’s Episco
pal Church,” Young said.
“So when the good folks at
Restore One contacted us,
See AUTHOR, 3A
COA hosts
Black History
Month
celebration
Duo bond with art
Mother-daughter
country act The Judds
once famously sang
that “Love Can Build a
Bridge.” But in the case
of a well-known local
family it is art too that
has created a bridge
between a mother and
her daughter. — 3B
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
Chowan County officials
say, sometime within the
next 30 days, they expect
improvements to the Tri-
County Animal Shelter to
get underway.
According to County
Manager Kevin Howard,
Phase 1 of the project has
the full backing of the
county’s board of commis
sioners.
“We plan to go out to
bid in the next two to four
NC Democratic Chairman Goodwin visits Chowan County
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BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
Editor’s Note: This is the
first part, of a two-part series
that details a one-on-one in
terview with NC Democratic
Chairman Wayne -Goodwin.
Next week, the follow-up
story will reveal Goodwin’s
answers to questions about
Governor Roy Cooper’s han
dling of the Atlantic Coast
Pipeline and a myriad of
other issues.
Wayne Goodwin rolled
into a town familiar to him
not only as a campaign stop
but as a place he’s made
friends over the years.
weeks,” he said. “The com
missioners are all support
ing the project.”
Howard acknowledged
the recent departure of the
shelter’s director, Dana Go
heen, but said he did not
expect that to impact the
work going forward.
“The addition design
was based on a group dis
cussion and will move for
ward without the director,”
he said. ‘
When the entire program
of work is completed, one
of the primary goal’s is to
“Being in a smaller town,
it reminds me of how valu
able small towns are to our
entire state,” said Goodwin,
a former state Insurance
Commissioner and legislator,
Goodwin is now chairman
of the North Carolina Demo
cratic Party.
As Goodwin made his way
toward the Chowan Her
ald’s office on South Broad
Street, he crossed path with
Bill Vogedes, president of
Vogedes Insurance Com
pany.
“We spent about 10 min
utes catching up on things,”
Goodwin said. “One of things
I epjoy about Edenton is that
have a shelter that meets
current standards for such
facilities, according to
Barbara Yates of Edenton,
president of AWARE (Ani
mal Welfare of the Albe
marle Region Every Day).
“Our goal is to have a sus
tainable shelter designed
and operated by industry
standards that reflects pos
itively on our counties and
demonstrates responsible
stewardship of taxpayer
funds,” she said.
The shelter, located in
Tyner, serves Chowan,
Gates and Perquimans
counties.
Yates said, the goal for
Phase 1 is “to improve the
current shelter so that it
provides a safe and func
tional work space for
employees, a welcoming
atmosphere for the pub-
lic and volunteers, and a
healthier environment for
animals.”
She added that the proj
ect would create clearly
defined areas within the
See SHELTER, 6A
everybody knows everybody
and cares everybody. Eden
ton and other small realize
that citizens — we’re all it to
gether. The community pros
pers if everyone is working
together. Communities don’t
prosper if they are divided.”
Goodwin was not only
in town to fire-up the local
Democrats for action in this
upcoming primary and gen
eral election cycle, but to an
nounce a new initiative that
seeks to listen to, hear from,
and bring change to North
Carolina’s rural communi
ties. The Rural NC Listen-
See GOODWIN, 7A
BY VERONICA DOWNING
Correspondent
College of the Albemarle
hosted a Black History
Month program for its stu
dents and staff with the
theme being “Embracing
our Past, inspiring Our Fu
ture.”
Folks from the Chowan
County Senior Center, in at
tendance by happenstance
due to much needed reno ¬
See COA, 2A
PHOTO BY
MILES LAYTON
NC
Democratic
Chair
Wayne
Goodwin
pays the
Chowan
Herald a
visit to
talk about
politics and
more.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church & Edenton Baptist Church present
Wm. Paul Young 7 p.m. Monday, March 5 at Edenton Baptist Church
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