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482-4418 Wednesday, September 26, 2018 75* Northeastern overpowers Edenton — IB Chowan sends prayers, relief to hurricane victims Creating a pizza garden Strawberries, onions, summer and zucchini squash, cucumbers, peas, watermelons, eggplant, green and red peppers, tomatoes, herbs, green beans, and for the first time, corn — there was something for everyone in the Edenton Boys and Girls (B&G) Club raised bed gardens! — 3B BY REBECCA BUNCH Staff Writer A highly organized hurri cane relief effort in Chowan County is helping to provide much-needed supplies to fellow North Carolinians whose lives and homes have been impacted by Hurricane Florence. People are helping in any way they can to make the effort a success, including donating food, cleaning sup plies and cash donations among other items, accord ing to Harvey Binns. Binns and Sheila Bootwright have organized a well-run sorting and packaging volunteer operation inside the Colony Tire training center building at the corner of North Broad Street and Peanut Drive. Colony Tire owner Char lie Creighton has made the building available for use for that purpose. Each eve ning, his trucks pick up box es of disaster relief supplies from pallets in the parking lot and travel to places like Swansboro, Wilmington, New Bern, Fayetteville and Lumberton. “Charlie has played a critical role in all of this,” Binns said. “We truly could not make this happen with his generosity and commit ment to helping those who are trying to get their lives and homes back together.” Binns added that the re sponse from the commu ¬ nity’s schools, churches, clubs, businesses and citi zens has been heartening. “We are blessed,” he said. “We have a great commu nity-” Many of the boxes being used are being provided by Ricky Nixon of Nixon’s Fish ery and are wax coated fish boxes designed to keep the things from getting wet, said volunteer Frances Jordan. Buckets for the relief effort have been donated by Hal Burns of Jimbo’s Jumbos. And Bootwright has per sonally contacted emergen cy shelters in the state to find out what the needs are. “We’ve had so many See RELIEF, 3A REBECCA BUNCH/CHOWAN HERALD Harvey Binns, Frances Jordan and Colleen Kennedy stuff buckets Sunday afternoon with supplies to send to hurricane relief shelters in areas impacted by Hurricane Florence. The local relief center is located inside a Colony Tire building at the corner of North Broad Street and Peanut Drive. Signs have been posted along the way to alert motorists to where the building is located. Old Jail opens doors A celebration of the preservation and reopening of the historic 1825 Chowan County Jail took place on Thursday at the 1767 Chowan Courthouse in Edenton. — 6A Pitt sends storm aid More than 100 police officers, deputies, fire- rescue and emergency medical services per sonnel from Greenville and Pitt County spread out across eastern North Carolina to help counties battling the flooding and damage brought by Hurricane Florence. — 4B PHOTOS BY REBECCA BUNCH/CHOWAN HERALD Frances Inglis accepts good wishes from Adrian Wood, at right, and IVlissie Harrell, left, at a recepton marking the renaming of the historic Cupola House Garden in her honor following a special ceremony in 2013. Cupola House celebrates 100 years Cotillion teaches grace Young gentleman and ladies are not born so much as mentored in the ways of civility, grace and etiquette. For that, there is the Lost Colony Cotillion, a chapter of the National League of Junior Cotil lions. — 8A BY REBECCA BUNCH Staff Writer The first recorded min utes of the Cupola House Association were written by Lulie Kipps (Mrs. W.S. Sum- merell) on March 10, 1918. They describe a meeting of local citizens in attorney W.D. Pruden’s office who agreed to organize an asso ciation for the purchase and preservation of the Cupola House. Besides Pruden, those present that day who com mitted to saving the house included C.S. Vann, J.G. Wood, Mrs. Annie S. Gra ham, Mrs. Annie W. Pruden, Rev. R.B. Drane, J.N. Pruden, J.H. McMullan Jr. and Dr. Richard Dillard. That meeting, and the agreement of the group to move ahead with plans to form a nonprofit association to preserve the house, have given the Cupola House As sociation the distinction of being the first nonprofit formed in North Carolina for that purpose. The action capped years of concern about the in creasingly weather-beaten and grim appearance of the house that had been hailed as a landmark in the com munity. In 1912, its appear ance prompted a letter to the North Carolina Histori cal Commission asking if the commission could help save the house. Its chair- See CUPOLA, 4A Frances Inglis admires the plaque that commemorates the renaming of the historic Cupola House gardens as the Frances Inglis Garden. The announcement came during a special ceremony attended by family, friends and volunteer members of the Cupola House Weeders group in 2013. Group to plan school needs BY MILES LAYTON Editor A joint committee comprised of members from the Chowan County Commission and Eden ton-Chowan Board of Education met recently to discuss exploring pos sible financing options aimed at building a new high school or renovating/ repairing the 50-year-old structure. Aside from the joint committee, several people of the community, county commissioners, educa tors and school board members attended the meeting Sept. 22 at Pub lic Safety Center to hear a presentation by Neil Emory of the North Caro- See SCHOOL, 2A Farm laborers feed the nation Like us on Facebook at /THECHOWANHERALD '8907 6"4 4813 1 ©2018 The Chowan Herald All Rights Reserved 6 0 Editor’s note: The farm fields around eastern North Carolina are farmed by sea sonal laborers from other countries. Though these people live among us, they share a different culture and manner of life that may not be visible to most Amer icans. The Chowan Herald recently reached out to these visitors to learn more about the conditions of their work and lives here. This is the first in a series of articles detailing what we found. BY MILES LAYTON Editor COLERAIN — Father Carlos Arce drives deep into the interior of Bertie County to check on some of his pa rishioners. His destination is a small, one-story house far off the beaten path where five men live. All five of his parishio ners are from Mexico, and are among the more then 150,000 farm laborers either from that country or Central “Not a lot of choice but to cross the border to keep their families fed." America nations who toil in the fields of North Caroli na’s agricultural industry, tending crops like cotton and tobacco. Arce, who pastors St. Anne Catholic Church in Alphonso Aguilar Farm worker Edenton and is originally from Central America, be lieves it’s important to take God’s word to men like these who work long hours See FARM, 9A Hearing planned for trees, bike lanes BY REBECCA BUNCH Staff Writer Edenton Town Coun cil agreed during its work session Monday night to prepare for a public hear ing on two potential street beautification plans also designed to slow traffic on North Broad Street. That suggestion was made by Mayor Roland Vaughan following discus sion,by the council con cerning the pros and cons of the plans, and the costs associated with each. He said he thought it was im portant for the council to hear directly from citizens about their ideas and con cerns. “That would be my suggestion,” Vaughan said. “Then we’ll go from there.” See HEARING, 6A HERITAGE 350 T " CELEBRATIONS on SAT., OCT. 6 1767 COURTHOUSE GRECH & JOHN A. HOLMES CAMPUS
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