Letters To The Editor
Firemen Given Thanks
To The Editor:
March 9 of this year was a cold
day and nature had dealt War
ren County a bitter blow. Frozen
driaale had fallen most of the day,
with an accumulation in the form
of ice. As bedtime approached in
the little community of Inez, the
mercury had risen Just enough to
turn the precipitation into rain,
which changed to ice, above
ground-level. The trees and
power lines were heavily covered
with ice, and the county quickly
became paralyzed with a blanket
of ice.
Suddenly, the members of the
Inez Volunteer Rural Fire De
partment were awakened by the
shrill cry of their fire siren.
Beepers started blaring out a
terrible message! The store of
Burwell Powell, along with the
adjoining house in which his
90-year-old mother lived, was on
fire. Duty was calling! Once out
side, the firemen realized this
would be a night never to be
forgotten.
Firefighting is a most difficult
task, but on this particular night,
the firemen also had to fight the
physical elements of nature.
Those brave firemen did not have
time to defrost the windshields of
their vehicles. One fireman said
later that he had driven to the fire
station with his truck door open
in order to see how and where to
drive.
The fire trucks slipped and
skidded on the bed of ice to their
destination. Upon their arrival,
the firemen observed that the
angry fire had engulfed the old,
historic building which had stood
for more than 200 years. Inside,
the elderly mother of five was
trapped. Her son, Burwell, had
frantically tried to rescue his
mother, but the heat was too
intense.
The firemen realized assist
ance was needed and a plea for
help went out over the radio.
Warrenton Rural firefighters and
firefighters from Afton tried to
respond, but once out of their sta
tion, their trucks slid out of con
trol and into a ditch. The Warren
County Emergency Medical Ser
vice was summoned, but its am
bulance, too, skidded into a ditch.
All the while, the Inez firefighters
continued their lone struggle, un
til their water supply was
exhausted.
By this time, the electricity
was off. The community was in
the dark? except for the raging
flr?. . -
As time passed, the CenterviUe
fire truck was able to arrive on
the scene, aided by a truck
loaded with sand, which was
spread on the icy roads in front
of their fire truck.
Darkness turned to day. The
fire cooled and the body of a
beloved mother, Susie D. Powell,
was found? but, too late.
Around 8 : 30 a.m. the following
morning, the cold, wet, ex
hausted firemen returned to their
homes and their concerned
families. They had fought a hard
battle and had lost.
These firemen deserve a lot of
praise for their work in handling
a bad situation with much
courage and determination, all
under the most adverse con
ditions.
On behalf of the citizens of the
Inez community, I would like to
say "thank you" to each of the
firemen who so diligently have
given? and will continue to give
?their time and effort to protect
our homes and property.
May God bless you!
MARY DAVIS
Inez
Writer Loves Warren County
To The Editor:
I know what I am about to say
may well shock many of my
peers, but I love Warren County.
This, however, is not to say I love
every single thing about Warren
County. I love the general air, the
atmosphere of this place.
I have known great things to
happen in Warren County, espe
cially in education. I realize that
our educational system may not
be as "developed" as those of
larger North Carolina cities, but
every year I see local students
take prizes in district/region or
state competitions. After all, my
fellow Quiz Bowlers and I recent
ly ran the snobby little Ravens
croft "rich" kids into the ground.
I have enjoyed nearly 13 years of
excellent teachers and educa
tional administrators and have
come to respect the things native
to Warren County that mean
education.
The great strife I see forthcom
ing is the non-returning of your
people. In general, my friends
say they will be so glad to get out
of Warren County. That's sad. As
for me, I plan to return. I want to
give back to this county, as a
teacher, what I have received as
a student? the simple pleasures
of simple life in a simple town.
On change in Warren County, I
am ambivalent. I would love for
our county to progress, to expand
to the point that we could see
renovation and improvement.
However, I think I might cry if
Warrenton ever lost its small
town facade, for it would surely
be a day of sorrow in the history
of rurality.
After having lived my life here
in Warrenton, I think I could
never enjoy city life. It would
depress, dishearten and dis
courage me to the utmost. I
would be uncomfortable, out of
place. If my friends do not return,
I hope they will find happiness,
but I also hope they someday
realize what they will have lost
by not coming home to Warren
County.
PAUL DICKERSON
WCHS student
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NOTICE TO
PROPERTY OWNERS
Notice is hereby given that the Warren County Board of
Equalization and Review will meet Wednesday, April
19, 1989, convening at 9:00 a.m., in the office of the Tax
Assessor, 114 W. Market Street, Warrenton, N. C. 27589.
In order to schedule an appointment, write Tax
Assessor, at the above address or call (919) 257-4158.
In the event of an earlier or later adjournment, notice to
that effect will be published in this paper.
By order of the Board of Commissioners of Warren
County, this 27th day of March, 1989.
MILDRED W.HARDY
Clerk to the Board of Equalization
and Review
Mar. ?. Apr l.lVo
Modern Kidney
Dialysis Center
Opens In Vance
A new, modern kidney dialysis
center opened last week in the
Vance Medical Arts Building
located on Ruin Creek Road in
Henderson.
Owned by REN Corporation
USA, the new center will provide
area patients with high-efficiency
dialysis, a procedure which re
quires about three hours per ses
sion and uses an "artificial
kidney" to remove certain toxic
substances and excess fluids
from the blood. The high-effi
ciency hemodialysis machines
reduce dialysis time up to 50 per
cent and treatment is more com
fortable than older methods
which can require up to five
hours per session.
"Our first and foremost con
cern in developing a dialysis
facility in Henderson was to pro
vide area patients with a conve
nient facility," Vincent W. Den
nis, chief of the Division of
Nephrology at Duke University
Meidical Center, said recently.
Prior to the opening of the new
center, dialysis patients had to
travel an hour or more to
Durham to Duke Medical Center
three times each week for their
treatments.
Mary J. Bullock (right), a dialysis patient from
Henderson, receives treatment at the new REN
Dialysis Center located in the Vance Medical Arts
Building on Ruin Creek Road in Henderson. Becky
Proctor, head nurse, is shown supervising the pro
cess. The facility, which is affiliated with Duke
University Medical Center and the Vance Medical
Arts Association, opened the week of March 22 and
is expected to save area patients up to a day each
month in travel time. The new REN Dialysis Center
has 10 patient stations, each offering high-efficiency
dialysis, a three-hour treatment, as compared to
the five hours usually required in more traditional
dialysis methods.
In addition to offering out
patient dialysis treatment, the
center will serve as a geographic
hub in providing training for
home and peritoneal dialysis and
equipment maintenance. It will
also support in-patient dialysis
services at Duke.
"This cooperative effort be
tween the REN Corporation, the
Henderson medical community
and Duke will provide our pa
tients with the most modern and
comfortable dialysis clinic avail
able," Dr. Steven J. Schwab,
Duke director of dialysis, said
last week.
REN Corporation-USA was
founded in 1986 in Nashville,
Tenn. and currently operates
dialysis centers in North Caro
lina, Florida and Tennessee.
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