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PRUDEN LIBRARY Clf^wKALD 482-4418 Wednesday, May 9, 2018 75* Manning reflects Pete Manning’s life was dedicated to a noble Commission begins work on draft budget BY MILES LAYTON Editor Chowan County Commis sion’s draft budget calls for a property tax increase and more funding for various services. County Manager Kevin Howard introduced a draft copy of the 2018/19 budget on Monday to the County Commission. “This budget represents our best estimate of rev enues and expenditures for the upcoming fiscal year,” he said. “As with any bud get, during the course of the coming fiscal year, ad justments may be required to amend the adopted bud get. The Chowan County Board of Commissioners is required to approve any such budget adjustments, which increase or decrease a department’s total expen ditures during the course of the fiscal year.” To see the proposed bud get and related documents, click the associated links at the county commission’s web page that is found at chowancounty-nc.gov. Commissioners began budget discussion Tuesday so as to begin working on a final draft of the document that must be approved no later than June 30. Fiscal Year 2018-2019 budgeted revenues and expenditures for the Gen eral Fund, including the Social Services Fund, are $17,573,827 compared to the approved FY 2017-2018 budget of $17,021,728. According to budget documents, the FY 2018- 2019 budget, as proposed, is based on a $0,775 tax rate, a $.035 increase from a $0.74 tax rate for FY 2017-2018. The proposed increase to the tax rate is due to a pro jected decrease in EMS call volume resulting in a loss of revenue, an increase in employee health insurance expense, an increase in pub lic school funding, and an increase in capital expense needs. In other news, the com mission approved a change order so as to provide more rip rap to restoration efforts at Bennett’s Millpond. The project will cost around $4,500 — funds that will See BUDGET, 9A aim — publishing the Chowan Herald. — 1B Latino News Check out our La tino news Cinco de Commun: classes. - '\? J END SUMMER HUNGER Play Day Saturd; ing brous weather: tors to Me the annual community arts festival held at the Rocky Hock Commu nity Center. — 5A Deal preserves site Efforts to unravel the mysterious fate of North Carolina’s fabled Lost Colony could benefit after a preservation group took out its first-ever loan to buy a coastal tract where some colonists may have resettled hundreds of years ago. — 2B National Day of Prayer Prayer warriors gathered Thursday at the 1767 Historic Sff* Honor moms' through deeds more than candy annual National Day of v Prayer. — 7B Like us on Facebook at /THECHOWANHERALD l 89076"44813 l ©2009 The Chowan Herald All Rights Reserved 6 24% of local children qualify for free or discounted school meals. HELP US —rERRttewsiiour^ (See enclosed envelope or donate at www.afoodbank.org) Please donate NOW through June 30, 2018 to feed our community’s hungry children this summer! Your donation will be matched up to $5,000 by: ss^ ^^ SUBMITTED PHOTOS Shametria White (center) was among the forty-four Aces who were inducted into the National Honor Society on Monday at John A. Holmes High School. To earn this distinction, a student must have at least a 3.2 grade point average and be an active member of the community. Aces inducted into honor society BY MILES LAYTON Editor Forty-four of John A Hol mes’ High School’s best and brightest students were in ducted on Monday into the National Honor Society—an academic group that empha sizes service and leadership. “I am so proud of the stu dents who were inducted into the National Honor Soci ety” said Superintendent Rob Jackson, who was the key note speaker for the induc tion ceremony. “They have each clearly demonstrated scholarship, leadership, ser vice, and character (the pil lars of NHS) as students in our school system. As they signed their name into the rolls of the NHS, they pledged to continue to live out those values. I am confident that they will do just that and use their gifts to make our com munity, our state, and our country a better place.” 0 BY MILES LAYTON Editor Mother’s Day is around the corner — Sunday to he precise. Honor the women who rock the cradle and make a house a home. Three local mothers who talked about their experi ences were Jennifer Har- riss, Sandra Carrera and La- Trenya M. Wills Crutch. Worth noting, Mother’s Day traces its roots to West Virginia when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her Principal Stephen Wood shakes hands with Mikyjah White as she was being inducted into the National Honor Society. During the formal cer emony that is highlighted by a candle and recitation of the values that the NHS values. Juniors received a special pin and seniors a special multi-colored cord that they will wear at graduation. “Yes, I was so excited to get this cord,” Gezy Carrera said. “I had been waiting for a year to get this cord. I feel HARRISS CARRERA CRUTCH mother on May 12, 1907 within Andrew’s Methodist Episcopal Church. Jarvis, whose home near Grafton, W.Va, has become a muse um, then campaigned to es tablish Mother’s Day first as a U.S. national holiday and like I deserved it.” Afterward, Mikyjah White, an all-around athlete and top scholar, said she is very hon ored to be inducted into the NHS. “National Honor Society means that you’ve shown scholarship, leadership, ser vice, and character around the school and community,” she said. “I’m glad they no- then later as an in ter na tional holiday. The Interna- t i o n a 1 Mother’s Day Shrine is located in the parlor of that same church which still hosts the premier Mother’s Day celebration each year. Interesting side notes as to Jarvis. For Civil War buffs, Jarvis’ home place Seniors Savannah Yount (left) and Gezy Carrera were awarded their cords during Monday’s night National Honor Society induction ceremony. ticed my good and hard work.” A point echoed by Prin cipal Stephen Wood: “Be- See SOCIETY, 8A was used by Union General George McClellan as his first field headquarters dur ing his 1861 western Virginia campaign. That aside, Jarvis spent the rest of her life trying to dial back Mother’s Day as it had become too commer cialized. She made a strong point. “A printed card means nothing except that you are too lazy to write to the woman who has done more for you than anyone in the See MOMS, 5A SUBMITTED PHOTO Lyn Castellani says her 10 years as a successful kidney transplant recipient have allowed her the joy of seeing her grandchildren grow up and enjoying traveling to the Holy Land and other places she’d always wanted to go. Organ donations save lives BY REBECCA BUNCH Staff Writer When Lyn Castellani of Edenton received a donor kidney 10 years ago, she had just days left to live. She was one of the lucky ones. According to the National Kidney Foun dation, on average more than 3,000 new patients get added to the waiting list for transplants each month, yet 13 people die each day while awaiting the lifesaving surgery. And according to a re cent story in the Los An geles Times, only slightly more than half of all adults have signed donor cards. See DONATION, 4A Voters cast ballots in primary BY MILES LAYTON Editor Voters cast their ballots in Tuesday’s Primary elec tion that featured local candidates for the General Assembly — Republicans NC Senate candidate Bob Steinburg and NC House candidate Ed Goodwin, who races Candace Hunt er of Perquimans County. Due to Tuesday’s press deadline, results will not be published in today’s newspaper. However, please see See PRIMARY, 9A
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