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LESLIE BEACHBOARD / Bertie Ledger-Advance
The moderator for “The Choice Bus" explained to Bertie High School students that this cell is an accurate replica of a prison
cell Inmates share.
Good 'Choices'
BY LESLIE BEACHBOARD
Bertie Ledger-Advance
WINDSOR - Bertie High School
students received encourage
ment to stay in school and not
land behind prison bars.
“The Choice Bus” sponsored
by State Farm and The Mattie
C. Stewart Foundation made a
stop for students at Bertie High
School last Thursday.
“When students board the
Choice Bus, they get to ex
perience what life is actually
like from two different points
of view. It helps students dig
deep into thinking about their
futures based on the decisions
they will make,” said Executive
Director of the Mattie C. Stew
art Foundation Sherri Stewart.
“Connecting education to the
future lifetime earning poten
tial and career goals is what we
strive to encourage.”
The Choice Bus is one-half
school bus, one-half prison cell
See CHDICES, A9
Vidant Bertie hosts
awareness event
BY LESLIE BEACHBDARD
Bertie Ledger-Advance
WINDSDR - Celebrating the fight
and awareness of breast can
cer.
Vidant Bertie Hospital host
ed its Pink Power Dinner last
week in honor of Breast Cancer
Awareness Month at the Cashie
Convention Center.
Guests gathered, wearing
pink, for the yearly event.
The doors opened at 6 p.m.
for guests to browse booths
from different hospital depart
ments and medical specialty
groups.
“We want to celebrate to
night. We want to celebrate
breast cancer survivors and
learn about breast cancer and
celebrate the spirit of the com
munity and the people who live
here,” said Vidant Bertie and
Dr. Sheri Prentiss explains how she sur
vived cancer, losing her mother and her
job.
Chowan Hospitals Finance Con
troller Cheryl Bembry.
Statistics show one in eight
women in the United States will
develop invasive breast cancer
over their lifetime, and it is es
timated that 10,000 women will
be diagnosed with breast can
cer in North Carolina this year.
Breast cancer patients and
survivors were recognized and
received a round of applause
from the other guests at the
event.
“Thank you for being here
with us. Your courage, spirit
and journey inspires us and
we wear pink for healing and
hope,” Bembry added. “Ladies
and gentlemen this is why we
are here.”
Bembry acknowledged there
are many different cancers af
fecting women, and from this
year forward Vidant Bertie
Hospital will be making some
Falcons
rop league
contest
Sports 1 A6
Towns set
‘treat’ times
BY THADD WHITE
Bertie Ledger-Advance
Everyone is planning
for a fun time Tuesday.
That’s when little ones
and their parents will
be taking to the streets
to celebrate Halloween
with trick-or-treating.
Halloween hours in
Bertie County include:
* Windsor - 5:30-8
p.m.;
* Colerain - 5-8 p.m.;
* Aulander - 5-8 p.m.;
* Roxobel - 5-8 p.m.;
and
* Lewiston Woodville
- 5-8 p.m.
Bertie County does
not set hours for trick-
or-treating in the coun
ty, but Sheriff John
Holley suggested trick-
or-treating between 5
and 8 p.m.
As the celebrations
are planned through
out Bertie County, the
top law enforcement
officers are urging cau
tion - especially around
areas still in cleanup or
construction after re
cent flooding.
“We want Halloween
to be the typical time of
fun for the young peo
ple,” Windsor Police
Chief Todd Lane said.
“Fun needs to come
with caution, however.”
Chief Lane suggested
parents help their chil
dren pay close atten
tion to holes in the road
or sidewalk and to any
stray construction ma
terials, including nails,
which may be in the
town.
See HALLDWEEN, A3
Tillmon
sentenced
BY LANCE MARTIN
rrspin.com
Antonio Tillmon Oct.
7 faced his fiancee in a
jailhouse wedding cer
emony.
Three days later, he
faced a federal judge
in a sentencing for his
role in the Operation
Rockfish police corrup
tion case.
United States Judge
Malcolm Howard sen
tenced Tillmon to serve
15 years in prison.
Tillmon, a former Wind
sor police officer, was
the only one of the so-
called Rockfish 15 to
plead not guilty in the
corruption case. The
other defendants were
sentenced over the
course of two days this
summer.
Before his sentenc
ing in Greenville Oct.
10, in which he also
received five years of
supervised release fol
lowing his prison term,
Tillmon told Howard,
“Thank you for your
hard work.”
See TILLMDN, A3
White selected
best in Chowan
BY DEBDRAH GRIFFIN
Bertie Ledger Advance
See AWARENESS, A3
EDENTDN - Michelle
White has made the
grade in more ways
than one.
Principal of D.F. Walk
er Elementary, White
has been named the
2017-18 Edenton-Chow-
an Schools Administra
tor of the Year.
Announced last week,
it came as a complete
surprise to White.
“It was a very nice
surprise,” she said.
“This honor is espe
cially meaningful to me
because my peers se
lected me to represent
our county. 1 feel that 1
work with outstanding
See WHITE, A8
In this edition
Obituaries A2
Out & About A2
Opinion A4
Sports A6
•’ Church & Faith A9
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