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Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Eatery stars on TV
An Edenton eatery
that specializes in down
home-style, Southern
cooking is drawing the
lion’s share of local
interest in a segment of
North Carolina Week-
end currently airing
on the UNC-TV PBS
station. — 4B
Latino News
Check out our Latino
news section on a bish
op visit, scholarship
and an artist. — 7B
Concert raises funds
Performed before a
capacity crowd, a local
concert utilized a raffle
to help raise more than
$1,000 in donations to
help the Boys and Girls
Club meet its goal of
matching a $100,000
grant sponsored by an
Edenton native, Dr.
John Phillips. — 9A
EOG test realities
Last week, students
across the North Caro
lina took End of Grade
(EOG) tests. Adrian
Wood discusses the
realities of state EOG
testing in schools. — 7A
5Kids shine at run
Eighteen youth from
.Chowan County have
spent the last eight
weeks preparing to run
a 5K race. The 5Kids
program was coordi
nated by the Edenton-
Chowan Recreation
Department. — 2B
Students go wild
Students at White
Oak and D.F. Walker
Elementary Schools
have not just been
reading about wildlife,
they’ve been creating
homes for wildlife
right in their school-
yard. — 6A
Schools urge commission to support pay increase
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
A trio of speakers asked
the Chowan County Com
mission to support pay rais
es for nearly 150 employees
working for Edenton-Chow
an Schools.
During Monday’s meet
ing, commissioners also
approved re-valuing proper
ties within the RiverSound
development to reflect new
values.
And commissioners lis
tened to concerns about
PHOTOS BY MILES LAYTON/CHOWAN HERALD
Here come the Aces!
Pomp and circumstance ahead
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
John A. Holmes’ seniors
wore their caps and gowns
recently as they passed
through the hallowed halls
where many of them attend
ed elementary and middle
school.
These blue and gold grad
uation gowns are part of
tradition meant not only to
show Cubbies, Hornets and
Bulldogs what they are aim
ing by earning a diploma,
but to allow Aces’ seniors
to reflect on where they’ve
been. Time grows short as
these seniors will be gradu
ating and going their sepa
rate ways, whether it be to
college, military service or
to start earning a paycheck.
Saturday, these Aces will
turn their tassels, throw
their caps in the air and be
transformed into alumni.
Though commencement
starts at 7 p.m. at the foot
County celebrates its agriculture history
public safety from a delega
tion hailing from Chowan
Beach.
Commissioners are study
ing budget proposals that
include the school system’s
request for the pay increase
— the first in 10 years for
classified staff.
During Monday’s public
hearing about the proposed
budget, EC Schools’ Direc
tor of Transportation Aman
da Goodwin talked about
the classified staff who love
their job, but also need to be
able to survive financially
Aces band leaves memories wherever it goes.
ball field, most folks will be
there rather early to secure a
good seat needed to secure
and preserve a memory. The
Class of 20J8 earned more
than $6.7 million in scholar
ship opportunities.
“I’m very ready for gradu
ation,” said Emily Cross,
who will be attending East
Carolina University. “I think
day to day.
“They are the hard work
ing staff that are often behind
the scenes making sure our
buses run, our schools have
heat and water, a child who
would otherwise go without
has at least two hot meals a
day,” she said. “They are the
ones that keep our schools
clean. They are the assis
tants that offer support and
hugs and love to a child who
may not be receiving those
needs at home. Their value
to the children of our school
system is unmeasurable.”
I’ll have a mix of emotions
while I’m walking across
the stage. I’m very excited
to venture out into the
world, but also I’ll miss the
familiarity of high school
and Edenton.”
Three-sport athlete
KyVaughan Rome is a tried
and true blue Ace.
“I ready graduate and to
Goodwin continued by
saying half of classified staff
work additional jobs “just to
be able to keep their heads
above water financially.”
“This particular group
of employees has not had
a step pay increase in over
10 years,” she said. “Aren’t
they more valuable to us
as a community now with
the experience they have
obtained in those 10 years,
yet currently they are on
the pay scale that a new em
ployee would come in hired
at starting out.”
Aces’ baseball star
Harrison Powell earns a
scholarship.
test the waters. I don’t think
I’m scared, but more hyped,”
said Rome, who will be at
tending Fayetteville State
University in the fall.
Though Savannah Webb
See GRADUATION, 6A
Experience should mean
something.
“Life experiences in their
positions have given them
expertise that someone new
coming in doesn’t have,”
Goodwin said. “Trust and
friendships with their co-
workers and students have
been fostered and devel
oped over time and having a
child see that one constant
person in their life gives
them a sense of stability
because we are there ever
See COMMISSION, 2A
Budget
proposal
seeks tax
increase
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
Town Hall’s proposed
budget seeks a one and
a half cent tax increase
needed to shore up rising
costs and stagnant rev
enue growth.
“A tax increase rec
ommendation is never
submitted without a lot
of thought and study.
There’s not a lot of new
initiatives in the General
Fund to point to for the
recommended tax in
crease. Revenues are flat
and expenses have risen,”
Town Manager Anne Ma
rie Knighton wrote in the
budget report submitted
Monday to Town Council.
The Water and Sewer
Fund includes rate in
creases per the Town
Council’s ten year rate
study plan — this is year
eight.
The Electric fund’s pro
posed budget includes
a 1% increase to the
Town’s wholesale power
purchases, due to recent
increase from the Power
Agency. On the retail side,
a 1% retail rate increase is
proposed.
A public hearing for the
proposed budget will held
at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jime 12
within council chambers.
This budget message
and proposed budget will
be posted on the Town’s
web site and is available
for inspection at Town
Hall. The budget will be
presented for consider
ation for adoption at a
special meeting that will
be held June 25.
The proposed Gen
eral Fund budget for FY
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PHOTO BY JOSEPH GOODWIN
Saturday morning, White
Oak Elementary School
Principal Sheila Evans,
grandson Ty and husband
Steve of Rocky Hock Opry
fame fired up this tractor
for a jolly jaunt to John
A. Holmes High School
for the Heritage Farm
Festival. Five years ago
when Evans was JAHHS
principal, she provided
valuable assistance to
the festival by allowing
folks to use the school’s
grounds — front yard to
be exact.
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
The annual Heritage Farm Festival
held in Edenton has a well-deserved
reputation for being family-friendly
and this year’s celebration was no ex
ception. Oscar White, a board member
of the Heritage Association that puts on
the event, said that many of the events
this past weekend were particularly
planned to be kid-friendly.
“We want to make sure that children
learn to appreciate the heritage and
history of farming, cooking, machinery
and other agriculture-related skills,” he
said.
And there were kids everywhere
during the festival events on Saturday
starting with the tractor parade that
drew participants from a 60 mile radius.
The youngest tractor driver taking part
in that event was elementary school
student Hayley Cowell of Weeksville,
who. expertly maneuvered her small
green and yellow John Deere 312 lawn
tractor along the parade route.
There were also five generations
of the Ed Lassiter family of Aulander
driving tractors that included a 1951
Farmall C Tractor. The youngest mem
ber of that family at Farm Fest was an
infant, Matthew Lewis.
And first-time parade participant
See HISTORY, 3A
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